509
Writ.‡
3 April 1447. [Louth].
OXFORDSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Watlington.
26 October 1447. [
Stavyrton].
Jurors:
John
Huntyrcombe
;
John
Jaye
;
Robert
Symeon
;
Walter
Mathew
;
John
Benefeld
;
John
Felde
;
John
Helde
;
Robert
Ferrour
;
John
Dent
;
Robert
Atevyn
;
Thomas
Champe
; and
John
Towrys
.
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. But a fine [CP 25/1/191/24/43] concerning the following was raised in the court of
Richard II at Westminster, in the quindene of Martinmas, 1394, and recorded in the octave of Hilary, 1395, between
John
Thornebury, parson of the church of Crudwell
, and
Thomas
Weston of Cricklade, querents
, and
Nicholas
Chausy, senior
, and Margaret his wife, deforciants. Nicholas acknowledged the manor to be the right of John, as that which John and Thomas had by grant of Nicholas and Margaret, for which John and Thomas granted the manor to Nicholas and Margaret, for the term of their lives, with remainder to Robert, son of
John
de
Stanshawe
, and Margaret – daughter of Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas – and the heirs of their bodies; with successive remainders to the heirs of the body of Margaret, daughter of Elizabeth; and to
John
de
Stanshawe
and Isabel his wife, and the heirs of John. The fine was shown to the jurors. By virtue of the fine Nicholas and Margaret were seised in demesne as of free tenement, and they died seised of such estate. After their deaths Robert and Margaret entered the manor as in the remainder and were seised in demesne as of fee tail. Margaret died seised of such estate without heir of her body and without heir of her body and of the body of Robert. Robert survived and held the manor by right of survivorship. He married one Isabel, and they had issue:
Robert
Stanshawe
. Afterwards the above
John
Stanshawe
and Isabel his wife died. After their deaths the right of fee simple descended to the above Robert, son of John, who was then seised of the manor by virtue of the fine. Afterwards, thus seised in demesne as of fee, he feoffed the above Robert – his son – and his heirs and assigns. This Robert, who survives, was and still is seised of the manor in demesne as of fee.
Mapledurham Chazey, the manor, held of the king, of the honour of Wallingford, as 1 knight’s fee. In the manor there is a site, worth 12d. yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 18 a. meadow, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 30 a. pasture, each acre worth ½d. yearly; 30 a. wood, each acre worth 4d. yearly; and 20s. assize rent issuing from the lands and tenements of various tenants.
He died on 1 April 1447 The above Robert is his son and next heir, aged 23 and more.
[Head:] Delivered to court on 18 November 1447.
Styled esquire in writ only.
C 139/126/19 mm. 1–2