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JOHN, DUKE OF SOMERSET
382 Writ amotus .‡ 12 December 1445. [Bate]. Referring to an earlier writ of 18 June 1444.
STAFFORDSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. ‘Upper’ Penn (Ouer Penne). 13 January 1446. [Blount].
Jurors: Richard Sharesmyth ; John Cartwryght ; John Bocher ; Richard Eyre ; Thomas Hauryse ; John Plattes ; William Bendy ; John Walker ; John Cokkes ; John Muchale ; Roger Page ; and Richard Walker .
He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The rent was granted by letters patent of Richard II to the duke’s father, John, earl of Somerset – described as John, marquess of Dorset – and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, and descended after their deaths to the duke as son and heir by form of the grant [cf. CPR 1396–9, p. 211]. Walsall, £4 rent from the issues of the manor, which the earl of Warwick pays at the Exchequer, delivered by the sheriff.
He died on 27 May 1444. Margaret is his daughter and next heir, aged 2½. [Head:] Delivered to court on 31 January 1446.
See also 178–94 above.
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