Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 26, 1442-48 Mapping The Medieval Countryside, a collaboration between the Department of History, University of Winchester, and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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 M.L. Holford (ed.), Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXVI: 21-25 Henry VI (1442-1447).Boydell & Brewer2009 2013-06-19T12:50:44.854+01:00 XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
WALTER LUCY, KNIGHT
276 Writ.‡ 12 October 1444. [Bate].
KENT. Inquisition. Rochester. 2 November 1444. [Frogenhall].
Jurors: John Cartare ; William Cartare ; Walter Weldere ; Richard Smyth ; Robert Rowe ; William Lane ; Richard Charlys ; Stephen Nevyr ; John Melite ; Stephen Bourne ; William Rolff ; and Roger Dalham .
He held no land or tenements of the king in chief or in service, but he held the following in demesne as of fee. Newington, a manor called ‘Lucyes’, annual value £6, held of Thomas Wake by a red rose payable at Midsummer; and 2 messuages with 1 a. land adjoining in the vill, annual value 10s., held of the same Thomas by 6d. payable at Christmas.
He died on 4 October last. William Lucy, knight , is his son and next heir, aged 30 and more. [Head:] Delivered to Chancery on 6 November 1444.
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277 Writ.‡ 10 October 1444. [Pemberton].
HEREFORDSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inquisition [indented]. Hereford. 2 November 1444. [Lyngeyn].
Jurors: Roger Bodenham ; Roger Amondesham ; Robert Amondesham ; Walter Monyngton ; Thomas Benette ; John ?Knyle [ms damaged] ; William Grey ; William Sebrond ; Robert Seward ; John Hunte ; John Gyfford ; and John Carles .
He and Eleanor his wife held the following in demesne as of fee, in the right of Eleanor. Richard’s Castle, the manor, annual value 40 marks, held of the king in chief by knight service.
Date of death and heir as 276. Eleanor survives.
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278 Writ.‡ 12 October 1444. [Bate].
BEDFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Leighton Buzzard. 30 October 1444. [Nowers].
Jurors: John Hauken , Thomas Hauken , and Thomas Clerk of Tilsworth; John Huwet of Stanbridge; John Terle ; William Laurans ; William Wellys ; David Whyte ; William Lauson ; William Man ; John Huwet of Eggington; Robert Ley ; and John Marham .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Woodcroft in Luton, a third part of a messuage, 80 a. arable, and 3 (tres) a. pasture, annual value 40s., and £4 assize rent payable at Easter and Michaelmas, held of the king in chief as 1/12 knight’s fee. He held the following in fee and right to himself and his heirs. ?Keeley (Gyledelewode), a view of frankpledge held yearly after Michaelmas, annual value 12d., of whom held not known.
Date of death and heir as 276, heir here aged 40 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 15 November 1444.
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279 Writ.‡ 12 October 1444. [Bate].
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Inquisition. Brackley. 28 October 1444. [Palmer].
Jurors: Richard Raulyns ; Thomas Pyghtesley ; Thomas ?Tymes [ms torn]; John Cokley ; William Henke ; William Hemfrey ; John Sprentham ; John James ; Thomas Wardon ; Nicholas Colles ; Stephen Gybons ; Thomas Flekman ; and John Perot .
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief, in demesne or in service, but he held the following in demesne as of fee. Dallington, the manor, true annual value £10, held of the abbot of Peterborough , as ¼ knight’s fee, and by 20s. payable at Michaelmas.
Date of death and heir as 278. [Head:] Delivered to court on 15 November 1444.
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280 Writ.‡ 12 October 1444. [Bate].
HERTFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. St Albans. 29 October 1444. [Legh].
Jurors: William Nowell ; Walter Grygge ; William Mylward ; William Aleyn ; John Partryche ; John Brestwyke ; John Edelyn ; Thomas Man ; William Pope ; Richard Dawvers ; William Dawebeney ; and Thomas Frebrygge .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Little Gaddesden, a messuage and 102 a. land, annual value 13s. 4d., and 33s. 4d. rent payable at Michaelmas, Christmas, Lady Day, and Midsummer, held of the rector of Ashridge as ¼ knight’s fee. Wigginton, the manor, annual value 65s. 3d., held of the king , of the honour of Berkhamsted, as ¼ knight’s fee.
Date of death and heir as 278. [Head:] Delivered to court on 15 November 1444.
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281 Writ.‡ 12 October 1444. [Bate].
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Linslade. 29 October 1444. [Nowers].
Jurors: William Emberton ; John Emberton ; Hugh Stanbrygge ; John Shepard of Hoggeston; Thomas Serd ; Robert Adam of Swanbourne; John Seybroke ; Richard Brame ; William Martyn ; John Stevenes ; John Godeman ; John Clement ; and William Stevenes .
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief, but he held the following in demesne as of fee. Cublington, the manor, annual value £10, with the advowson of the church there, of no annual value except in prayers and offerings, held of Humphrey, duke of Buckingham , of the honour of Gloucester, as 1/10 knight’s fee. Chelmscote, the manor, annual value 5 marks, held of the same duke and honour as 1/20 knight’s fee. Isabel, who was the wife of John Barton , held the following for the term of her life, without impeachment of waste. She is still alive. The reversion after her death pertained to Walter, named in the writ, John Hampden of Great Hampden, esquire , John Loughton , William Eton, clerk , and John Elys, clerk , and the heirs and assigns of Walter. By indented charter Isabel surrendered all her estate to Walter, the others named above, and the heirs and assigns of Walter, they paying her £10 yearly for the term of her life. The charter, dated at Stewkley, 15 June 1435, was shown to the jurors. As a result Walter was seised in demesne as of fee, and the others in demesne as of free tenement. He died seised of such estate jointly with the others, who survive and are seised of the manor by right of survivorship. Stewkley, the manor, of no annual value beyond the rent of £10, not held of the king in chief, but of whom held unknown.
Date of death and heir as 278. [Head:] Delivered to court on 15 November 1444.
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Styled knight in all writs and in inquisitions 276–7. Marginal note: demesne. Marginal note: demesne. Marginal note: demesne. Marginal note: demesne. Marginal note: demesne.