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JOHN EVERARD
286 Writ mandamus .‡ 5 November 1444. [Bate]. Regarding lands held in chief of ‪ Henry V or of ‪ Henry VI , in demesne or in service.
WILTSHIRE. Inquisition. Wilton. ?9 November 1444. [Baynard]. ms: Monday after All Saints, 23 Henry VI , i.e. 2 November 1444.
Jurors: John Turpyn ; William Kayser ; Walter Yonge ; Robert Parys ; Nicholas Crede ; Richard Preston ; John Blyke ; Simon Wytok ; Robert Flecher ; John Selke ; John Peny ; and Robert Joce .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Westcott, a messuage containing 20 feet in length and 24 feet in breadth, annual value 8d., held of ‪ Henry V in chief as 1/20 knight’s fee; and a messuage with a virgate of land, annual value 8s., held of Alice Fernham and her heirs and assigns by paying 6s. 8d. at Michaelmas and Easter.
He died on 26 July 1414. Margaret Coppyng , now the wife of Richard Coppyng , is his sister and next heir, aged 50 and more.
The following occupied the messuages and virgate and received the issues from the time of John’s death, by what title the jurors do not know: John Edyngdon, butcher , from the day of death until 19 June 1419; John Palmer of Swindon (Heyswyndon), ‘gentilman’, from then until 24 May 1434; and Richard Merifale of Langley in Berkshire, ‘yoman’, from then until the taking of this inquisition. They refuse to give the issues to the escheator, whence they are to answer to the king. [Head:] Delivered to court on 1 February 1445.
C 139/118/13 mm. 1–2