Jurors: Norman Wassheborne ; Thomas Corbet ; John Lenche ; Thomas Jonettys ; Richard Wysham ; Edmund Rudyng ; Thomas Kyngton ; Richard Rudyng ; Richard Wythe ; John Lenche of Doverdale; Thomas Conyngesby ; and Thomas Bailly of Ombersley.

He held the following in demesne as of fee tail, to himself and the heirs of his body, by grant of ‪ Henry IV [CPR 1408–13, p. 164], with remainder to the king and his heirs. He died seised of such estate without heir of his body. In the duke’s life, ‪ Henry VI granted that if Humphrey died without heir of his body, then Henry, late duke of Warwick , and the heirs of his body, should have the manor and forest, with wardships, marriages, rents, services, knights’ fees, advowsons of churches, vicarages, chapels, chantries, and other benefices, courts, ‘wayfs’, ‘straies’, parks, woods, timber, pasture, game (deductibus), waters, commons, purprestures, and renting of assarts (arentament’ assart’) therein, and with fines, amercements, chattels of felons and fugitives, and other profits. In the letters patent [CPR 1441–46, p. 286], dated 14 May 1444, shown to the jurors, Henry was described as the king’s dearest kinsman Henry, earl of Warwick . Feckenham, the manor and forest, with wardships, marriages, rents, services, knights’ fees, advowsons, courts, ‘wayf’, ‘straies’, parks, woods, timber, game, waters, commons, assarts, purprestures, and renting of assarts therein, and with fines, amercements, chattels of felons and fugitives, and other profits, annual value 40 marks [tenure not specified].

He died on 28 February 1447. The present king is his kin and next heir, of full age. Henry, late duke of Warwick , died in Humphrey’s lifetime. Anne, now countess of Warwick , is his daughter and next heir, aged 3 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 3 July 1447.

Jurors: William Stanter ; John Kaylewey ; William Knapplok ; John Willeys ; William Hawkyns ; Robert Rake ; John Assheley ; Thomas Wiseman ; John Cokyr ; Richard Devyas ; John Iward ; and Thomas Sparowe .

He held the following in demesne as of fee tail, to himself and the heirs of his body, by grant of ‪ Henry VI , with remainder to the king and his heirs. He died seised of such estate without heir of his body. In the duke’s lifetime, the king granted the remainder of the islands and their appurtenances to Henry, late duke of Warwick , and his heirs, paying to the king and his heirs a red rose at Midsummer if asked when the reversion fell in. The grant was in recompense for the reversion of the house, lordship, or manor of ‘Grouebury’ alias Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and elsewhere, which formerly pertained to certain persons, after the death of Alice, wife of the marquess of Suffolk , to the use of Henry. These persons granted the reversion to the king and his heirs, with the assent of Henry. The letters patent, dated 24 November 1445 [CPR 1441–6, pp. 400–1], were shown to the jurors. Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Herm, and Alderney, the islands, and all alien priories in the same, with their appurtenant lands, tenements, mills, fisheries, rents, services, possessions, rights, pensions, portions, tithes, knights’ fees, forfeits, wreck of sea, advowsons of abbeys, alien priories, churches, vicarages, chapels, and hospitals, franchises, liberties, reversions, and spiritual and temporal privileges, annual value £100 [tenure not specified].

Date of death, heir, and other details as 544. [Head:] Delivered to court on 3 July 1447.

Jurors: Thomas Harrys ; John Sothern ; Thomas Longe ; John Drewe ; Robert Page ; William Hayward ; John Horsham ; William Hunt ; William Rerisby ; Thomas Godeman ; John Chaumbre ; John Bellers ; Robert Forster ; and John Asshewell .

He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. By letters patent [not found] dated at Bury St Edmunds, 24 February 1447, shown to the jurors, the present king granted the castle, manor, and lordship, with appurtenant lands, tenements, rents, services, woods, meadows, and pastures, to Robert Roos, knight , and the heirs male of his body, to hold of the king and his heirs by fealty only. Robert was seised in demesne as of fee tail and received the issues from 24 February. Moor End, the castle, manor, and lordship, annual value £10, held of the king in chief by knight service. By grant of the present king, by letters patent dated 4 January 1443 [CPR 1441–6, p. 198], shown to the jurors, he held for the term of his life the keeping of the castle of Rockingham and of the lordship of Rockingham pertaining thereto, and the stewardship of the forest of Rockingham between the bridges of Stamford and the gates of Oxford, with appurtenant rights and profits, and the survey of the vert and venison in the parks and bailiwicks of the forest; and the keeping and surveying of the herbage and pannage of the park of Brigstock, and of the foreign (forinsecum) woods called ‘Brigstoke baille’ [value and tenure not specified]. The present king, by letters patent dated 19 July 1443 [CPR 1441–6, p. 198], shown to the jurors, granted to Robert Roos, knight , and the heirs male of his body, immediately after the death of Humphrey, the keeping of the castle and lordship of Rockingham, and the stewardship and surveying of the forest, as above, paying £65 10s. yearly to the king at Easter and Michaelmas, as Humphrey then paid; and the keeping, surveying, herbage, and pannage of Brigstock and ‘Brigstoke baille’, paying an additional 16 marks 10s. yearly to the king at the above feasts. Robert, immediately after the death of Humphrey, was seised in demesne as of fee tail.

The late duke died without heir of his body on 23 February last. The present king is his kin and next heir, as the son of ‪ Henry V, the brother of Humphrey, and is aged 25 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on ?22 [ms worn] November 1447.

Jurors: Thomas Bromwiche, senior ; Thomas Walweyn of Lugwardine; Robert Bromwiche ; Thomas Brugge of ?Lea; John de Eye ; Walter de Monyngton ; Richard Monyngton ; John Wynston ; Hugh Wynston ; Richard Gryme ; George Monyngton ; and William Devereux .

He held the castles and lordships of Pembroke, Tenby, Cilgerran, and Llansteffan, and the commotes of Ysterlwyf, Traean, and St Clears, in the march of Wales, with appurtenant knights’ fees, advowsons of churches, franchises, royal liberties, prises of wines, fines, amercements, and other profits, of the king in chief, by knight service, to himself and the heirs of his body, with remainder to his right heirs. ‪ Henry VI , by letters patent dated at Westminster, 27 February 1443, shown to the jurors [CPR 1441–6, p. 198], granted to his dear and faithful kinsman William de la Pole , then earl of Suffolk , and Alice his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies, of his special grace, and for good service past and to come, the name, style, title, and honour of earl of Pembroke , if Humphrey should die without heir of his body. The earl is now marquess and earl of Suffolk . Humphrey was described as the king’s dearest uncle Humphrey duke of Gloucester . By the same letters patent the king, of his abundant grace, granted to the earl and Alice, and the heirs male of their bodies, to support the burden and honour of the earldom, the remainder of the above castles, lordships, and commotes, with their appurtenances, which the duke and Eleanor his wife then held to them and the heirs of the body of the duke, if the duke should die without heir of his body, to hold of the king and his heirs by the due services, without rendering anything. Other letters patent, dated at Bury St Edmunds, 3 March 1447, and shown to the jurors [CPR 1446–52, pp. 174–5; RDP, v, 254–5] recited the above grants, and that the king had been given to understand that the duke and Eleanor held the castles, etc., to them and the heirs of the body of the duke, with remainder to the right heirs of the duke, so that the above grants were invalid. The king, on account of the good service of the marquess and Alice to the king and queen, wishing the marquess and Alice and the heirs male of their bodies to have secure and effectual estate in the above, confirmed the earlier letters patent, and granted to the earl, Alice, and the heirs male of their bodies the earldom or county (com’), castle, and lordship of Pembroke; and granted that if any right, title, reversion, or possession in the lordships, castles, commotes, or other premises, should pertain to the king by the death of the late duke, or by reason of any dower, right, or estate of Eleanor, or of any trespass or forfeiture of Eleanor, or for any other cause, then the marquess and Alice and the heirs male of their bodies should have the same, to hold of the king and his heirs, by the above services, with issues from the day of the duke’s death, without rendering anything to the king; together with appurtenent knights’ fees, advowsons of churches, franchises, royal liberties, prises of wines, reliefs, escheats, deodands, fines, issues, amercements, forfeits, and other profits, as wholly as the duke ever had them. Pembroke, the earldom or county (com’), castle, and lordship, annual value £250. Tenby, the castle and lordship, annual value £50. Cilgerran, the castle and lordship, and Ysterlwyf, Traean, and St Clears, the commotes, annual value £50. Llansteffan, the castle and lordship, annual value 20 marks.

Date of death and heir as 546, heir here aged 26 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 30 November 1447.

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Jurors: John Wolley ; Thomas Blanchard ; Thomas Hornere ; William Kyng ; John Cornysshe ; John Boneham ; Simon Champayn ; Stephen Salff ; John Heiggys ; Thomas Tyssebury ; John Whysthelop ; and John Burton .

Edmund Dauntesey, esquire , was once seised in demesne as of fee of 26 messuages, 3 mills, 949 a. land, ?53 a. meadow, 10 a. wood, £14 11s. 3d. rent, and rent of 1 lb. cumin, in Laverstock, Milford, Mumworth, Ford, ‘New’ Salisbury, Rollestone, and Alderbury. A fine [not found] was raised in the king’s court at Westminster, in the octave of Hilary, 1429, between Robert Longe , John Hody , John Stork , David Cervyngton , and Thomas Gerberd, querents (petentes), and Edmund, deforciant , by which Edmund acknowledged the tenements and rents to be the right of David, as those which David, Robert, John, John, and Thomas had by grant of Edmund, and quitclaimed them to Robert, John, John, David, Thomas, and the heirs of David. By the same fine Edmund granted to Robert, John, John, David, and Thomas the above rents, with the homages and services of the following and their heirs, for the tenements which Edmund had in the vills of Ford, ‘New’ Salisbury, Rollestone, and Laverstock: John Skyllyng , John Noble , Thomas Masyn , John Chytterne and Agnes his wife, John Skotte , the prioress of Amesbury and her successors, John Lye , John atte Bergh , Peter Duyke and Joan his wife, the prior of St John’s, Wilton and his successors, John Willy of ‘New’ Salisbury, John Crullond , William Upton , John Powlett, Nicholas Gybbes , the prior of Ivychurch and his successors, William Penyton , John Draper , and John Clerk and Joan his wife. Robert, John, John, and Thomas were seised in demesne as of free tenement, and David in demesne as of fee, to the use and profit of Richard Milborne, esquire . Afterwards David Cervyngton, by writing dated 24 June 1430, shown to the jurors, and enrolled before the king at Westminster, Michaelmas term, 1430, quitclaimed to Robert, John, John, and Thomas and their heirs and assigns – described as Robert Longe , John Hody , John Stork , and Thomas Gerberd – all the lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, rents, reversions, and services which he lately had jointly with them, in Laverstock, Milford, Mumworth, Ford, ‘New’ Salisbury, Rollestone, and Alderbury, by fine in the king’s court, by grant of Edmund Dauntesey, esquire . Robert, John, John, and Thomas were seised in demesne as of fee. Afterwards Edmund Dauntesey died. After his death Humphrey, duke of Gloucester , and Joan Stradelyng entered on the possession of Robert, John, John, and Thomas, and disseised and expelled them. Joan was the kin and heir of Edmund, as the daughter of John, the son of John, the father of Edmund. The duke died on ?23 February 1447 [ms unclear]. After his death his right in the above tenements, if he had any, descended to the present king, as kin and heir of the duke, namely the son of ‪ Henry V, the brother of the duke, because the duke died without heir of his body. Afterwards Henry VI, at the humble supplication of Richard Milborne, esquire , by letters patent [not found], dated at Bury St Edmunds, 28 February 1447, accepted that the fines [sic] had been raised as above, and that David Cervyngton by deed sufficient in law had quitclaimed the lands, etc., so that Robert Longe , John Hody , John Stork , and Thomas Gerberd were seised in demesne as of fee to the use of Richard Milborne, esquire ; and granted and gave licence to Richard, Robert, John, John, and Thomas, to enter the messuages, mills, lands, meadows, and woods, and receive the rents, homages, and services, to the use of Richard, and hold the same to them and their heirs without impediment of the king or his heirs. Richard, Robert, John, John, and Thomas entered the tenements, as in their earlier estate and possession, and were seised in demesne as of fee. Robert, John [Hody], and Thomas died seised of such estate. John Stork survived them and was seised in demesne as of fee by right of survivorship. Richard Milborne entered on his possession. John quitclaimed to Richard and his heirs and assigns, by writing dated 8 March 1447, shown to the jurors, the manor of Laverstock, and 26 messuages, 3 mills, 949 a. land, 53 a. meadow, 10 a. wood, £14 11s. 3d. rent, and rent of 1 lb. cumin in Laverstock, Milford, Mumworth, Ford, ‘New’ Salisbury, Rollestone, and Alderbury, with the homages and services of all the tenants in the manor, messuages, mills, lands, and meadows; all which he lately had with John Hody Laverstock, Milford, Mumworth, Ford, ‘New’ Salisbury, Rollestone, and Alderbury and Thomas Gerberd , now deceased, and Robert Longe and David Cervyngton , still alive [sic], by grant of Edmund Dauntesey, esquire , deceased, by fine as above. Richard was seised in demesne as of fee. Humphrey, late duke of Gloucester , held at his death all the above lands and tenements in the above form. Laverstock, a messuage, 40 a. land, and 2½ a. meadow, annual value 6s. 8d., held of the king in chief by 4 barbed arrows, payable yearly to the keeper of Clarendon on 1 August (gulam Augusti). Milford (Mulleford Richard ), a toft and a fulling mill, 48 a. land, and 4½ a. meadow, annual value 40s., held of the king in chief by 4 barbed arrows, payable yearly to the keeper of Clarendon on 1 August (gulam Augusti). Laverstock, the manor, held of the abbess of Wilton , at fee farm, by £10 yearly and suit of court. In the manor there is a site, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; a dovecot, worth 40d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, worth 10s. yearly; 600 a. demesne arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; a water-mill, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 600 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; a several water, worth 12d. yearly; a court baron, held twice a year, of which the perquisites are worth nothing beyond the fee and expenses of the steward; and assize rent of £4 15d. and 1 lb. cumin issuing from various lands and tenements of various free tenants in Laverstock, Milford, Mumworth, Ford, and Alderbury, payable at Easter and Michaelmas. Rollestone, 110s. 1d. annual rent from the manor, which John Skyllyng now holds, payable at four annual terms. ‘New’ Salisbury, 4 tenements, annual value 20s., held of the bishop of Salisbury in free burgage, by fealty and suit of court; and £4 annual rent, held of the same bishop, service unknown. Mumworth, 10 a. meadow, with a fulling mill called ‘Mommeworthesmyll’, worth 10s. yearly, held of the prior of Ivychurch , service unknown. Ford, 8 messuages, worth 10s. yearly; 262 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 300 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; and 10 a. wood, each acre worth 10s. yearly, held of the abbess of Wilton , service unknown.

[Date of death and heir given above.] [Head:] Delivered to court on 6 December 1447. [Foot:] Thus far (huc). [Dorse:] Hampshire and Wiltshire.

Jurors: John atte Mille ; Philip Welynowe ; John Brydde, junior ; William Bramden ; Stephen Bovyate ; Richard Frylond ; William Yalton ; John Dyker ; Roger Lucas ; Thomas Heryerd ; Thomas Clyve ; and John Cowdray .

He held by grant of ‪ Henry VI [cf. CPR 1441–6, p. 63], to have and occupy at the king’s will, the office of keeper of the New Forest, and of the manor and park of Lyndhurst, worth £20 yearly in fees and profits; the hundred of Redbridge, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and 40s. rent which the abbot of Reading pays in the forest, with all the liberties, privileges, rights, fees, profits, regards, and commodities pertaining to the above, excepting the animals (feris). ‪ Henry VI , by letters patent dated 28 November 1441 [CPR 1441–46, p. 63], shown to the jurors, granted the above to his dearest faithful kinsman William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk , and Alice his wife, and the heirs of the body of William, to occupy themselves or by sufficient deputy after the death of the duke, without rendering anything to the king or his heirs. Edmund Dauntesey, esquire , was once seised in demesne as of fee of 7 messuages, 6 tofts, a dovecot, 300 a. land, 26 a. meadow, 8 a. wood, 26s. 7d. rent and rent of 1 lb. cumin and a rose, 1/6 mill, and a saltworks, in Brookley, Battramsley, Pilley, Brockenhurst, Wootton, Nosted , Arnewode, Crow, Kingston, Passford, Pennington, and Christchurch ‘Malford’ [?recte Christchurch and Milford]. A fine was raised in the king’s court at Westminster, in the octave of Hilary 1429, between Robert Longe , John Hody , John Stork , David Cervyngton , and Thomas Gerberd, querents (petentes), and Edmund, deforciant [cf. CP 25/1/207/32/24, dated the morrow of Ascension 1429 , and the quindene of Easter 1430 ]. Edmund acknowledged the tenements and rents to be the right of David, as those which David, Robert, John, John, and Thomas had by grant of Edmund, and quitclaimed them to Robert, John, John, David, Thomas, and the heirs of David. By the same fine Edmund granted to Robert, John, John, David, and Thomas the above rents, with the homages and services of the following and their heirs, for the tenements which Edmund had in the above vills: John Dygon , Joan, who was the wife of Robert Clerk , William Clerk , William Ouer , John Crokker , Thomas Mannyng , Thomas atte Barre and Agnes his wife, Margaret, who was the wife of Henry Popham , John Cammell , Ralph Crokker , Richard Seman and Alice his wife, John Vaus , Stephen Doppelane and Alice his wife, William Nell , John Dollyng , Maurice Berkeley, knight , Richard atte Ferse , Joan Partrych , Hugh Short and Joan his wife, Robert Coppe , Maud Webbe , John Smyth , Christine atte Legh , Thomas atte Cove , Henry Ewgene , and Thomas Hampstede . The tenements descended as in 548 so that Richard Milborne, esquire , was seised in demesne as of fee. Humphrey, late duke of Gloucester , held at his death all the above lands and tenements, as follows. Brookley, a messuage, a carucate of land, and 5s. rent, annual value 10s., held of John Wroth, lord of Brookley , in socage by 1d. yearly. Battramsley, a toft, 40 a. land, and 28s. rent, annual value 6s., held of the earl of Devon , service unknown. Pilley, 13s. rent issuing from various tenements, held of the same earl, service unknown. Crow, 4 messuages, 24 a. land, and 16 a. meadow, annual value 16s., held of the earl of Salisbury , of his manor of Ringwood, service unknown; and 20s. rent, held by service of 10s. yearly to the manor of Ringwood. Brockenhurst, 4 tofts, 100 a. arable, and 8 a. wood, annual value 5s., held of the king in chief, of the manor of Lyndhurst, service unknown. Wootton, Nosted , and Arnewode, 2 tofts and 6 a. arable, annual value 12d., held of the king in chief, of the manor of Lyndhurst, service unknown. Kingston and Passford, 4 messuages, 1 dovecot, 140 a. arable, 12 a. meadow, and rent of 1 lb. cumin, annual value 16s., held of the earl of Salisbury , of his manor of Passford, service unknown. Pennington and Christchurch ‘Malford’ [?recte Christchurch and Milford], 1/6 mill, a saltworks (salina), rent of a rose and of 7d., and 60 a. arable, annual value 7s., held of the earl of Salisbury , service unknown.

[Date of death and heir as above.] [Head:] Delivered to court on 6 December 1447.

Jurors: John Sleghter of Penshurst ; William ?Berkenhow ; ?Richard at Well ; John ?Pall... ; Andrew ?Dous ; Robert Salman ; William Swartingrugg ; Stephen Bosegate ; Thomas ?Esh ; John ?Bocher ; Robert ?Alpher ; and Simon ?Bartlott.

He was seised of the following in demesne as of free tenement, from the inheritance of Richard Chambarleyn of ‘Cotes’ in Northamptonshire, esquire. Penshurst, the manor, with two gardens annexed thereto. In the manor there is a site, worth nothing yearly; a house with 3 water-mills attached (infixis), one for wheat, one for malt, and one for fulling cloth (panni lanei), worth ?40s. yearly; a parcel of land called ‘Maloteshawe’ containing 1 a. arable, a parcel of arable by ‘Ladle’ called ‘Iland’ containing 2 a. arable, and underwood in a close called ?‘Saureslandes’, worth 22s. 8d. yearly; a parcel of land called ‘sex acre’, a parcel of meadow called ‘Jakelinsmede’ containing 1 a., and 1 a. meadow lying in ‘Brokmede’, worth 8s. yearly; and 60s. quit-rent payable at Easter and Michaelmas by various free tenants. The advowson of the chapel of St Thomas apostle in the manor is parcel of the manor, and is filled by Gerard Spayne, chaplain . There is there a several fishery in a water called ‘M...’, worth 3s. 4d. yearly, of which the severalty extends from outside the park called ‘Asshoreparke’ to the upper part of a close called ‘Sareslandes’, lying in one part of the water, and to the upper part of other closes there, ?in another part of the same water, called ‘le Longe’ and ‘Netherleshames’. In the manor there are 4 parks commonly (vulgariter) called ‘Asshoreparke’, ‘Northparke’, ‘Northlandparke’, and ‘Ladyparke’. In ‘Northlandparke’ and ‘Ladyparke’ there are 3 crofts and 2 parcels of land. The 3 crofts, containing 26 a. pasture, are now in ‘Ladyparke’ and were enclosed at the time of the duke’s death. One of the parcels of land, called ‘le Greue’, which is enclosed (infra clausum) and contains 4 a. pasture, lies between the manor and ‘Ladyparke’, that is to the east of the 3 crofts, towards ‘le Hallfeld’. The 3 crofts and ‘le Greue’ are and were parcel of the glebe of the rector of the parish church of Penshurst; the late duke held them at his death at the will of John ? Acton, late rector . There is there ¼ of a parcel of land called ?‘Latherhames’, containing 24 a. arable, which is and long was parcel of the manor, which the said rector held at the will of the duke, at the time of the duke’s death. There are there 36 a. pasture and wood, now and at the time of the duke’s death enclosed in ‘Northlandparke’, which are and long were parcel of the glebe of the chapel of St Thomas apostle within the site of manor, which the duke held at his death at the will of Gerard Spayne , the chaplain. The 4 parks are worth nothing beyond the cost of their enclosure because they are over-burdened with animals and coneys. The manor and advowson, except 80 a. land, parcel of the land called ‘Tapnes’, described below, and now in ‘Asshoreparke’... is held in gavelkind (‘gauilkynd’) of the archbishop of Canterbury , of his manor of Otford, by fealty, 9s. yearly, and suit of court. The late duke died seised as of fee, from the above inheritance, of this 80 a. pasture, of the lands called ‘Tapnes’, lying and enclosed in ‘Asshoreparke’, and worth nothing yearly because the park is overburdened with animals and coneys, held of the earl of Stafford , of his castle of Tonbridge, by fealty and as ¼ knight’s fee. He died seised as of fee of another park pertaining to the manor of Penshurst, called ‘Southparke’, of no annual value beyond the cost of its enclosure, because it is over-burdened with animals and coneys, held in gavelkind of John... [?two names illegible], of their manors of Fawkham and Horton Kirby (Kirkeby), by fealty, 8s. yearly, and suit of court. He died seised as of fee of the manor of..., held in gavelkind of Reynold Cobham, knight , by fealty, 3s. 8d. yearly, and suit of court. In the manor there are 20 a. arable, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 4 a. meadow, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and 6s. ?½d. rent payable by free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas. He died seised as of fee of the following, from the above inheritance. Penshurst, certain parcels of land in the vill, called ‘Berelsbushes’ and ‘?Champrons’, containing 46 a. pasture, worth 40s. yearly; a parcel of pasture called ‘Blacheth’, containing 20 a., worth 8s. yearly; a parcel of arable called ‘Newland’, containing 12 a., worth 3s. yearly; and a parcel of arable called ‘Kokkarsfeld’, containing 11 a., and 1 a. wood in ‘Kokearsfeld’, worth 3s. yearly, all held in gavelkind of the earl of Stafford , of his castle of [Tonbridge], by fealty and 10s. yearly. Penshurst, 2 parcels of arable in the vill, called ‘Vpperletherhames’ and ‘Netherletherhames’, with a garden annexed thereto, containing 60 a., enclosed, and a meadow called ?‘Ambermede’, containing 8 a., worth 29s. yearly, held in gavelkind of the prior of St John of Jerusalem in England by fealty and by 7s. yearly; 2 parcels of enclosed arable in the vill, called ‘Horscrofte’ and ?‘Combes’, containing 8 a., worth 4s. yearly, held in gavelkind of the master of St Laurence Pountney, London, by fealty; and 13 a. meadow in the vill and certain parcels of meadow in places called ‘Marchehop’ and ‘Salmansmede’, worth 19s. 6d. yearly, held in gavelkind of the court called ?‘Ransleghcourt’, by ?fealty and ?5s. yearly. Ensfield, the manor, held of the earl of Stafford , of his castle of Tonbridge, as 1 knight’s fee. In the manor there is 24s. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by free tenants; and a several water for fish[ing], called ?‘Credewey’, which extends from outside the lordship of the manor to the enclosure of the said park called ?‘Asshoreparke’, which several water pertains to the manor of Ensfield and is worth 20d. yearly. 18 a. meadow, parcel of the land called ‘Tapnes’ there, and certain closes called ?‘Emmetwalles’, ‘Briggenlande’, ‘Litleheuer’, and ‘Westney’, containing 60 a. arable and 40 a. pasture, are worth £4 13s. 4d. The jurors do not know whether he held the above by virtue of letters patent granted to him by the present king, or by right and title of occupier at common law. Long before the duke had anything in the above, the said Richard Chambarleyn, esquire , was seised of the same in demesne as of fee tail. Thus seised he granted the above to John, once duke of Bedford , deceased, and his assigns, for the term of the life of ‪ Henry VI , paying a red rose at Midsummer, as appears in the charter of demise. In the indented charter, dated at Penshurst, 7 September 1428, and shown to the jurors, the above were described as the manors of Penshurst, ‘Northparke’, Leigh, Ensfield, and Hawden (Hauendencourt), with messuages, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and services in Penshurst, ‘Northparke’, Leigh, Ensfield, Hawden, Tonbridge, Bidborough, Chiddingstone, Speldhurst, Sevenoaks, and Hever. Livery of seisin was carried out according to the form of the charter, so that the duke of Bedford was seised in demesne as of free tenement for the term of his life. The duke died in the life of ‪ Henry VI . After his death Humphrey, duke of Gloucester , entered the above and was seised by right and title of occupier at common law, ?as the jurors suppose.

The duke died at Bury St Edmunds on 24 February last. The manors of Penshurst and Hawden, and various other parcels of the above manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, specified above, are and were from time without mind partible among heirs male according to the custom of gavelkind. As to these, William Chambarleyn, a minor in royal custody, and Richard Chambarleyn , brothers of the above Richard, are his heirs male after the death of the present king which God forbid (quod absit). As to the manor of Ensfield and the residue of the manors, etc., that are of free tenure and fee simple at common law, the above William, the brother of Richard, is his sole heir after the death of the present king. He is aged 20 and Richard is ?11 and more.