HERTFORDSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Hertford.
19 March 1446.
[
Scargill].
Jurors:
John
Hert
;
Robert
Bolthorp
;
William
Hauer
;
John
Shelley
;
John
Dolfyn
;
Gilbert
Shelley
;
Richard
Martyn
;
John
Cowper
;
William
Wrenne
;
Richard
Wrenne
;
Robert
West, senior
; and
William
Park.
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief or of any other in demesne as of fee, in reversion, or in service. Long before his death, one
William
Kylmyngton
was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. By indented charter, shown to the jurors, he granted the manors to
Nicholas
Chivall
– described as
Nicholas
Chivall
, citizen and ‘vestement maker’ of London - and the heirs of his body. Nicholas was seised in demesne as of fee tail. He had issue: Walter, named in the writ; Joan, now the wife of
Edmund
Wykes, esquire
; and Alice, now the wife of
Thomas
Walssh, esquire
, and died seised of such estate. After his death, Walter entered the manors as son and heir by virtue of the grant. He died seised of such estate and not of any other. After his death, Joan and Alice entered as sisters and heirs by virtue of the grant.
Panshanger, the manor, annual value 5 marks, held of
John
Barre, knight
, service unknown.
Blackmore, the manor,nannual value 20s., held of the king, of the honour of Richmond, as 1/8 knight’s fee.
He died on 21 June 1434. The above Joan and Alice are his next heirs, aged 30 and more and 24 and more respectively.
Thomas
Walsh of Hertford, gentleman
(gent’), and
Edmund
Wykes
of Nackington in Kent, esquire, received the issues of the manor of
Blackmore from the day of his death, and still receive them. [Head:] Delivered to court on 31 March.