‹ E-CIPM 19-978: JOHN DARCY, KNIGHT ›

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He held in his demesne as of fee to himself and the heirs of his body of the king in chief by knight service 2 parts of a great waste called the forest of Cheviot with the reversion of the third part held by Elizabeth, his father’s widow, annual value nil because wasted by the Scots, and the advowson of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalen of Wooler. They were granted to John Darcy his grandfather and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies by Thomas de Swynford and John Charteray . After the deaths of John and Elizabeth they descended to Philip their son, and so to John his son. If John and Elizabeth should die without heirs the forest and advowson should remain to the king and his heirs.

He held no more because, by an indenture dated at Temple Hirst on 4 Oct. 1411 and shown to the jurors, as John Lord Darcy and Meinill he granted to Thomas Darcy of Seamer, Simon Hoton , Thomas Crathorn , John Tomson and John Ripon of Eston in Cleveland all his lands, tenements, rents and services in Hadston, Belford, Easington, Lowick and Wooler for 4 years from the preceding Michaelmas, they rendering 20 marks yearly to him John Darcy. They held; by a charter dated at Hirst on 11 Oct. 1411 John Darcy released the premises to them and to John Tomson of Tanton and Thomas Crathorn of Crathorne and their heirs and assigns with the intention that they should enfeoff Philip son of John and Eleanor, Philip’s wife, daughter of Henry Lord Fitzhugh , and the heirs of their bodies.

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He held in his demesne in fee tail the manors of Temple Hirst and Temple Newsam, except the vills of Newsam, Halton, Colton, Skelton and Osmondthorpe, parcels of the manor of Temple Newsam, which Elizabeth his father’s widow holds in dower. The two manors were granted to John Darcy, knight , his grandfather, and the heirs male of his body by Edward III with reversion to the king and his heirs. They are held of the king by knight service;

He also held in his demesne in fee tail by the grant of Thomas de Swynford, knight , and John Chartera to John his grandfather and his wife Elizabeth, and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to the king and his heirs, the manors of Yarm, Aislaby in Whitby Strand and Aldwark, and the under-mentioned knights' fee and advowsons.

By a charter dated at Knaith on 14 Jan. 1395 Philip, his father, granted to Robert de Wicliff, clerk , who survives, and John de Lincoln, clerk , John Markham , John Woderofe and Hugh Mitford , now deceased, his manors of Whorlton, Seamer, Greenhow, Eston, Hutton Rudby, Middleton and Boynton, to the use of himself for life, and to Elizabeth his wife for her dower after his death.

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He held the following in demesne as of fee:

Temple Hirst, Temple Newsam, Kelyngton, Osgotby, Caldcotes, Kelyngbek, Newton and Allerton, Balne, and Yarm, the manors, and 10 ... knights’ fees in Yarm, Kildale, Normanby, Lazenby, Nunthorpe, Ayresome, Thormanby, Ormesby, Upsall, Crathorne, Acklam, Linthorpe, Thornton, Marton, Tollesby, Roxby, Tanton, Liverton, Aislaby, Picton, Seaton, Skelton, [Tocketts], [Great Broughton], Moorsholme, Marske, Stainsby, Hemlington, Coulby, Pinchinthorpe, Boulby, Kirklevington, Lackenby, Barnaby, Ingleby Barwick, and Kilnwick, and the advowson of ½ priory of Guisborough, all held of the king in chief by knight service. The jurors do not at present know ... or if they are to answer the king.

Notton, the manor, of the king, of the duchy of Lancaster, of the honour of Pontefract, service and value unknown.

Aislaby, the manor, of the heirs of Lucia de Thwyng, service and value unknown.

Seamer, Newby, Eston, ..., Hutton Rudby, Tunstall, Middleton, Hilton, Gowton, and Aldewerk, the manors, of the archbishop of Canterbury in right of his church of Christ Church, by knight service, value unknown.

Jointly feoffed with Margaret his wife, who survives, the daughter of Henry Gray, lord of ?Wilton, he held the following, by grant of Philip, lord Darcy and lord Menyll, chivaler, to John and Margaret and the heirs male begotten between them:

Silkstone, the manor, of Robert Nevyll of Hornby, chivaler, service and value unknown.

Elizabeth, who was the wife of Philip Darcy, chivaler, father of John, held the following in dower from the inheritance of John on the day of her death, viz. 11 August last, with reversion to Philip, son and heir of John, and his heirs by hereditary descent after the death of John. John died seised of the same reversion as of fee.

Newsham, Halton, Colton, Skelton, and Osmondthorpe, the vills and hamlets, held of the king in chief by knight service, value and who is to answer the king for them, not known.

She also held the following in dower from the inheritance of John:

Wherlton, the castle, and Westlathes, Swaynby, ?Houthwayt, ?Pothowe, Tranholme, Rungton, Carleton, Magna Broghton, Orrow, Erghawe, Skudale, Heslerton, and Yhedyngham, the manors, held of the archbishop of Canterbury in right of his church by knight service, value unknown.

She held the following in dower by assignment of John after the death of Philip, reversion to Margaret, late wife of John, who survives, for term of her life, then to Philip, son and heir of John, and the heirs male of his body, remainder to the right heirs of Philip father of John, by virtue of a grant by Philip father of John, to John while he lived and Margaret and the heir male begotten between them, reversion to Philip the father and his heirs.

Boynton, the manor, held of the above archbishop in right of his church, value unknown.