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Writ. 8 February 1445. [Bate].
LEICESTERSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Market Harborough.
20 May 1445. [
Aylesbury].
Jurors:
John
Keynsham
of Blaston;
William
Page
of Illston on the Hill;
William
Norys
of Tilton on the Hill;
Thomas
Clerk
of Marefield;
John
Mey
of Somerby;
Thomas
Boveton
of Billesdon;
William
Bateman
of Somerby;
Richard
Swan
of Great
or Little Bowden;
Robert
Gerveys
and
Robert
Graunt
of Thorpe Langton;
Walter
Coley
of Lubenham; and
John
Brette
of Rotherby.
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king in chief or or others. By charter dated at East Langton, 13 May 1443, shown to the jurors, he and Elizabeth his wife granted to
William
Smarte
of Chipping Warden (Wardon) and
Thomas
Haselynfeld
of Braybrooke, clerks, and
Richard
Willoughby
of Duston,
William
Weldon
of Great Weldon, and
Ralph
Beaufo
of Seaton, esquires, and their heirs and assigns, all their
manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and services, with appurtenant meadows, pastures, courts, wardships, marriages, reliefs, heriots, escheats, and mills in the vills and fields of Gumley, Foxton, East Langton, Smeeton Westerby, Thorpe Langton, Church Langton, ?King’s or East Norton (Norton), and elsewhere in the county, as more fully appears in the charter.
He died on 1 February last.
Nicholas
Griffon
is his kin and next heir, as the son of Nicholas, the brother of John, and was aged 18 on 5 June last.
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