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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ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER AND HEIR OF WALTER, LORD FITZWALTER, KNIGHT
350 Writ de etate probanda . ‡ 27 October 1444. [Bate]. Majority claimed by her husband, John Radclyf . By royal grant [CFR 1430–37, pp. 87–88], the lands and tenements from her inheritance are in the custody of Henry Grey, esquire , who is to be warned. [Dorse:] He was warned.
ESSEX. Proof of age. Great Dunmow. 2 November 1444. [Legh].
The jurors swear that she was born at Henham on 28 July 1430, was baptized in the church there, and is aged 14 and more. They recall this for the following reasons. John Warnere , aged 48 and more, was hunting the same day in the park of Henham, and shot a buck with a barbed arrow, so that it died immediately. John Everard , aged 49 and more, on the same day set out with lord Walter from Henham to the hospital of St Leonard in Newport. John Lorkyn , aged 68 and more, met lord Walter going from his manor of Henham to the church, and Walter gave him a slap with his right hand. John Wase , aged 60 and more, was retained that day by lord Walter to serve him in the office of trumpeter. John Ayleward , aged 48 and more, held a burning torch before Elizabeth when she was carried to be baptized. Thomas Pake , aged 42 and more, recalls because that day an enemy (emulus) of his took (abscidit ab ipso) a pair of knives from him in the church. Thomas Hunt , aged 50 and more, buried Margaret, his late wife, in the cemetery of the church on the same day. Thomas Hale , aged 60 and more, acquired a messuage in Chickney by charter from John Rande on the same day. Thomas Boure , aged 50 and more, recalls because Joan his wife was churched that day in the same church, of a son called Robert. William Barbour , aged 40 and more, that day assigned a third part of a messuage and of 3 a. land in Ugley to Katherine, his mother, as her dower in that vill after the death of John Barbour , her late husband, from the free tenement of John. Richard Wrigth , aged 44 and more, lost his belt in the church at the time of the baptism. Richard Sampson , aged 46 and more, that day by charter feoffed John Leventhorp, esquire , Henry Langeley, esquire , and Thomas Gace in all his lands and tenements in Debden.
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