ESSEX.
Inquisition.
Brentwood.
12 May 1445. [
Grysacre].
Jurors:
William
Bette
;
John
Berden
;
John
Parker
;
William
Styward
;
John
Olyve
;
Thomas
Note
;
Richard
Lyncoln
;
Thomas
Trewe
;
George
Stonden
;
Richard
Cowper
;
John
Mors
; and
Edmund
Weld
.
She held the following in demesne as of fee.
Wormingford and ?Little Horkesley, a messuage, a virgate of land, and 3 a. meadow, annual value 20s., held of the king
in chief by knight service viz. homage and rent of 9d. to the castle of Rochester, called ‘wardesyluer’; a field containing 20 a. arable, annual value 6s. 8d., held of the king
in chief by grand serjeanty; 16 a. arable, annual value 7s., held of the king
in chief by scutage, rent of 3d. at ?Thrift Farm (Fordamforde), and 4d. to the king’s hundred of Lexden; and 24 a. arable
called
William
Lammall
’s, annual value 8s., of whom held and by what service not known.
She died on 12 March 1432.
Agnes
Waldegrave
is her kin and next heir, as the daughter of
John
Waldegrave
of Northamptonshire, ‘gentilman’, the son of Isabel, the
daughter of
Richard
Cook
(Cocus), the brother of
Adam
Cook
, father of Maud. She is
aged 12 and more.
As kin and heir she occupied the above lands and tenements and received the issues from the time of Maud’s death.
[Head:] Delivered to court on 31 May 1445.