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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 M.L. Holford (ed.), Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXVI: 21-25 Henry VI (1442-1447).Boydell & Brewer2009 2013-06-19T12:51:04.686+01:00 XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
STEPHEN POPHAM, KNIGHT Not styled knight in inquisitions 378–9.
377 Writ.‡ 14 November 1444. [Stopyndon].
DORSET. Inquisition. Blandford Forum or Blandford St Mary. 16 October 1445. [Leyot].
Jurors: Walter Payn ; Nicholas Halle ; William Daccomb ; William Hornesbowe ; John Lovell ; William Brunsoppe ; Ralph Cokyr ; John Chetyll ; John Athelam ; Stephen Parterygge ; Philip Whirlygan ; and Robert Chaundeler .
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king or of any other.
He died on 16 November 1444. John Popham, chevalier , is his next heir [relationship not specified], aged 50 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 23 November 1445.
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378 Writ.‡ 14 November 1444. [Stopyndon].
WILTSHIRE. Inquisition. ‘New’ Salisbury. 12 October 1445. [Restwold].
Jurors: Ralph Thorp ; John atte Bergh ; John Rous ; John Sturmy ; William Botreaux ; John Gilberd ; John Estcote ; Richard Ambros ; John Pruet [ms torn] ; William Pette ; Robert Cove ; and John Boteler .
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king or of any other. Long before his death he feoffed John Lysle, knight , William Brocas , and others, and their heirs and assigns, among other things of the manors of Fisherton Anger, Steeple Langford, and Grimstead, with the advowsons of the churches pertaining to those manors. They were seised in demesne as of fee and continued their estate for the whole of Stephen’s life. The charter was shown to the jurors.
He died on 12 November 1444. His daughters and next heirs are Elizabeth, the wife of John Wadham , aged 18 and more; Margery, aged 10 and more; Elizabeth, junior , aged 6 and more; and Alice, aged 1½ and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 4 November 1445.
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379 Writ.‡ 14 November 1444. [Stopyndon].
HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition. Winchester. 9 October 1445. [Restwold].
Jurors: John Fauconer ; Edward Harryes ; John Motesfont ; John Kybbell ; Henry Kesewyk ; Edmund Upham ; Robert Pokeswell ; Thomas Tremayn ; Stephen Bovyate ; John Pole ; John Tyghale ; and John Emory .
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king or of any other. Long before his death he feoffed John Lysle, knight , William Brokas , and others, and their heirs, among other things of the manors of Popham, Farringdon, Alvington, and Binsted; and of various other lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and services in Dummer, Stockbridge, and Basingstoke. The feoffees were seised in demesne as of fee and continued their estate for the whole of Stephen’s life. Various charters were shown to the jurors.
Date of death and heirs as 378. [Head:] Delivered to court on 4 November 1445.
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380 Writ melius inquirendo .‡ 24 February 1446. [Bate]. Regarding 378–9 above. Inquire of whom the premises were held, by what services, and their value.
WILTSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Wilton. 3 May 1446. [Rokes].
Jurors: William Botreaux ; John Rous of Wilton; Ralph Thorp ; John Escote ; Richard Ambros ; John atte Bergh ; Robert Cove ; John Boteler ; William Pette ; John Pruet ; John Gilbert ; and John Sturmy .
Details as follows: Fisherton Anger, the manor, with the advowson of the church of the manor, annual value 20 marks, held of Thomas Forest, keeper of the house and church of St Cross near Winchester in Hampshire, of the manor of Winterbourne Earls in Wiltshire, by fealty and rent of 2d. Steeple Langford, the manor, with the advowson of the church of the manor, annual value 100s., held of Margaret Popham , by fealty and rent of 6d. Grimstead, the manor, annual value 5 marks, held of Maurice Berkeley, knight, of the manor of West Grimstead, by fealty and rent of 1 lb. cumin. [Advowson not mentioned].
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381 [Writ: see 380.]
HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Winchester. 6 May 1446. [Rokes]. ms: ‘Friday after the exaltation of the cross, 24 Henry VI (17 Sept. 1445)’; but the invention of the cross must be meant.
Jurors: John Mottesfont ; William Tistede, senior ; William Tistede, junior ; John Baccombe ; Edmund Upham ; William Curant ; Stephen Boveyate ; Thomas Palyngton ; William Bramden ; William Frankeleyn ; Thomas Pleystowe ; and William Bounde .
Details as follows: Popham, the manor, annual value 10 marks, held of the abbot of the house and church of St Peter, Hyde, by fealty and rent of 12d. Farringdon, the manor, annual value 100s., held of the above abbot, in right of his church, by fealty and rent of 5s. at Michaelmas. Alvington, the manor, annual value £10, held of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester , by fealty and rent of 8d. at Michaelmas. Binsted, the manor, annual value 20s., held of Henry Grey, knight , of the manor of Alton, by fealty and rent of 3s. 4d. at Michaelmas. Dummer, Stockbridge, and Basingstoke, various lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and services, annual value 40s., held of John Lysle, knight , service unknown.[Head:] Delivered to court on 20 May.
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