320
Writ.
26 November 1444. [
Stopyndon].
Addressed to the
escheator of Devon and Cornwall
.
DEVON.
Inquisition [indented].
Exeter.
20 October 1445. [
Clerk].
Jurors:
Ralph
Faryngdon
;
John
Floryer
;
John
Mirefeld
;
Nicholas
Colbroke
;
Thomas
Underdowne
;
John
Assh
;
John
Ipocras
;
Walter
?Lawer [ms torn]
;
John
Jacob
;
John
Symond
;
Robert
Wode
;
Richard
Badwordy
; and
William
Clerk
.
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief in demesne or in fee or in service. He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Wembworthy, 2/3 manor, with the advowson of the church. The manor is held of
Thomas Courtenay, earl of Devon [service not specified], except as noted below. The following knights’ fees are parcel of the manor: a fee in Honeychurch; a fee in Brixton; and a fee in Higher or Lower Gorhuish. The following knight’s fees are parcel of the manor, but are held of
John, duke of Exeter
, service unknown: a fee in Sourton; and a fee in Thrushelton, Milford, Kimworthy, Newlands, and Thorn. In the 2/3 of the manor there is a capital messuage – except a house called ‘longehous’ – worth nothing yearly; 2 customary tenures, each worth 2s. yearly; 5 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; 140 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 40 a. wood, worth nothing yearly except the crop; 48 a. heath and gorse, each acre worth ½d. yearly; 4s. assize rent, payable at Michaelmas; and 2/3 of the above fees, worth 5 marks yearly when they fall.
Brushford, 2/3 manor. The manor is held of the heirs of
John
Cobham, knight
, service unknown. In the 2/3 there is an empty site, worth nothing yearly; 2/3 of a grain mill (mol’ granar’) and of a fulling mill, worth nothing yearly; 100 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 3 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 10 a. wood, worth nothing yearly except the crop; 30 a. heath and gorse, each acre worth ½d. yearly; and 8s. assize rent, payable at Michaelmas.
Exeter, 2/3 of 6 messuages, 2/3 of each messuage worth 11d. yearly; and 2/3 of 4 a. meadow, worth 2s. 8d. yearly, held of
Edmund, bishop of Exeter
, service unknown. Winkleigh ‘Keynes’, 2/3 of a messuage, 40 a. land, 4 a. meadow, 12 a. pasture, and 53 a. heath and gorse, annual value 6s. 8d., held of
Nicholas
Keynes
, service unknown.
East Wonford, 2/3 of 2 messuages, 40 a. land, and 4 a. meadow [value not specified], held of the heirs of
William
Wonard
, service unknown.
Benley, 2/3 of a messuage, 40 a. land, 40 a. meadow, 4 a. wood, and 20 a. heath and gorse, annual value 6s., held of
William
Dobbe
, service unknown.
Bovacott and Lashbrook, 2/3 of a messuage, 30 a. land, and 20 a. heath and gorse
[value not specfied], held of the heirs of
John
Keynes
, service unknown.
He was seised in fee and right of the reversion of the third part of all the above, which Joan, wife of
Hugh
Chambernon
, holds in dower from his inheritance.
He was seised of the following in demesne.
Corstone, a messuage, worth 6s. yearly; and 120 a. land and meadow, each acre of land worth 2d. yearly and each acre of meadow worth 4d. yearly, held of the manor of Wembworthy, service unknown.
He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
?Bradham, the following, lying within the manor: 200 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; and 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly, of whom held not known. Plymouth, 3 messuages and 3 tofts, annual value 2s., held of the
prior of Plympton
, service unknown.
Robert
Wonard
and
John
Courtenay, clerk
, were seised of the following in demesne as of fee. By indented charter dated at Brampford Speke, 21 October 1416, they granted a moiety of the manor to
John
Speke
, now deceased – father of John, named in the writ – and his then wife, the above Joan – now wife of
Hugh
Chambernon
– and the heirs of the body of John by Joan. In the charter, shown to the jurors, the moiety was described as a moiety of all their messuages, lands, tenements, rents, services, and reversions in Brampford Speke. John was seised in demesne as of fee tail and Joan in demesne as of free tenement. John, named in the writ, is the son of John by the body of Joan; she survives. John
Courtenay died; afterwards Robert Wonard granted the other moiety of the manor to
John
Speke
, the father, and his heirs, so that he was seised in demesne as of fee. John the father died, and after his death John named in the writ entered this moiety. He died seised in demesne as of fee of the moiety, and of the reversion of the other moiety in fee and entailed right (iure talliato).
Brampford Speke, the manor, held of the above
earl of Devon
, service unknown. In [the moiety] there are 4 customary tenures, each worth 3s. yearly; 40 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 10 a. pasture, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 7 a. wood, worth nothing yearly except the crop; and 30 a. gorse, each acre worth ½d. yearly.
He died on 31 October 1444.
John
Speke
is his son and next heir, aged 2 and more.
[Head:] Delivered to court on 9 November.
Styled esquire in writ only.
Marginal note in E 149: for the extent (pro exten’).
Marginal note in
E 149: for the extent (pro ext’). In E 136/34/3 the two parts of all the properties in this section are extended at £6 7s. 1d.
Marginal note in E 149: how much meadow (quantum de prato)?
C 139 and
E 149: ‘He held in demesne as of fee 3 messuages and 3 tofts in Plymouth, and was seised in fee and right,... and the said two parts are worth 2s. yearly.’ E 136: ‘[The escheator] does not answer for the issues of 3 messuages and 3 tofts in Plymouth, which he held in demesne as of fee, and of which he was seised in fee and right... extended at 2s.’.
ms: Joan.
C 139 and E 149: ‘in the 2/3 of the moiety’. E 136: ‘the moiety is extended at 37s. 7d.’.
C 139/119/31 mm. 1–2
E 149/180/9
E 136/34/3 mm. 7–8