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RICHARD GAUGE , CITIZEN AND TAILOR OF LONDON
486 Writ mandamus .‡ 29 November 1446. [Bate]. Addressed to John Olney, mayor and escheator.
CITY OF LONDON. Inquisition. The guildhall. 19 December 1446. [Olney].
Jurors: Richard Pope ; John White ; William Blome ; Henry Hauke ; John Lambard ; John Volantyne ; Thomas Baron ; Richard Partrissh ; Thomas Partrissh ; Walter Fayreford ; Henry Goldyngton ; and William Parissh .
He was seised in demesne as of fee of a tenement called ‘le Belle on the hope’, in the parish of St Sepulchre, in the suburbs of London, in a street called ‘Rynnerstrete’, annual value 40s.; and of 3 tenements and 19 cottages in the parish of St Mary Fenchurch, annual value 63s. 4d., all held of the king in free burgage, service unknown.
He died on 19 March 1434. John Gauge , the son of Thomas Gauge , the brother of Richard, is his kin and next heir, aged 30 and more.
Alice, who was the wife of Richard, entered and occupied the above immediately after his death and received the issues for her whole life, by what title and in what way the jurors do not know. She died on 2 November 1446. Immediately after her death John Smert, ‘gentilman’, entered and occupied the above and received the issues and still has them, by what title and in what way the jurors do not know. [Head:] Delivered to court on 4 [sic] December 1446.
C 139/125/8 mm. 1–2