503
Writ.‡
19 September 1446. [Fryston].
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Tuxford.
28 October 1446. [
Babyngton].
Jurors:
Roger
Stedman
of Tuxford;
John
Drayton
of West Markham;
William
Draper
of Wellow;
Richard
Couper
of Newark-on-Trent;
John
Rowe
of Cotham;
John
Cundy
of Farndon;
William
Granby
of Shelton;
Robert
Forster
of Newark-on-Trent;
Thomas
Burnham of Langford;
John
Phelypot
of Averham;
John
Clement
of Hawton;
John
Smyth
of Rolleston; and
John
Beeston
of Holme.
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Tuxford, 11 ruinous messuages, each worth 18d. yearly, 8 bovates of land, each worth 3s. yearly, and 39 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; an enclosure (clausur’) called ‘le Parkfeld’, worth 12d. yearly; a wood, containing an estimated 9 a., worth nothing yearly; and 5d. free rent, issuing from certain lands and tenements of
Roger
Stedman
, payable at Easter and Michaelmas.
Milton, 2 messuages, each worth 2s. yearly; 6½ a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; and 7s. 2d. free rent issuing from certain lands and tenements of various tenants, payable at Easter and Michaelmas.
East Markham, 3 waste messuages, with 4 gardens, worth 3s. yearly; 118 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; and 16 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly.
East or West Drayton (
Drayton
), 4 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly. Clarborough, a messuage, worth 2s. yearly.
All the above are held of the king in chief as 1/3 of 1/3 knight’s fee.
He died on 30 July last.
John
Lassels
is his son and next heir, aged 32 and more.
[Head:] Delivered to court on 10 November 1446.
‘As 1/3 of 1/3 knight’s fee’ interlined over erasure in C 139. E 149: ‘by fealty only’.
C 139/125/14 mm. 1–2