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JOHN COPE, ESQUIRE
Inquisition Head
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Inquisition Stony Stratford 7 Jan. 1415 [Flore].
Jurors
Jurors: John fytz Jon ; John Cok senior ; William Benet ; William Godeman ; Thomas fitz Jon ; William Hathard ; Simon Stormyn ; John Smyth of Wicken ; John Haves ; Thomas Broun ; John Roffe ; and John Warde .
Holdings
He held in his demesne as of fee the site of the manor of Deanshanger and 132 a. arable, 18 a. meadow, 6 a. wood and 4s.5 1/2d. and 1 ‘brodehokyd harve’ in rents, 1 cottage and 1 1/2 a., another cottage with 1 1/2 a. in Wike, Wicken, Passenham, Stony Stratford, Puxley, Whitfield, Deanshanger and Heathencote, all of the king as a 40th part of a knight’s fee, and by his charter dated at Deanshanger on 13 Dec. 1414 granted them to John Longeville, esquire , John Warrewyke, esquire , and Robert Spenser and their heirs and assigns, without royal licence, on condition that they should enfeoff Joan his wife, who survives him, for her life with remainder to his right heirs. So they held the premises but on account of the transgression the escheator took them into the king’s hands; annual values, the site nil, garden and dovecot 3s.4d., 80 a. of the 132 a. at 4d. each, the remaining 52 at 2d. each and no more because forest land and stony, 18a, meadow at 18d. each and 6 a., 1 rood of wood nil because totally wasted.
John his son and heir is aged 18 years and more.
TNA reference
C 138/7/20 mm. 1-2
E 149/102/18
ENHANCEMENT OF TEXT: The text of this IPM which appeared in the print edition of CIPM XX has been enhanced in certain respects: see the About pages.
Holdings
No holding information available.
Extents
No holding extent information available.
People
- Clerk(Writ Clerk)
Jurors
- John fytz Jon
- John Cok senior
- William Benet
- William Godeman
- Thomas fitz Jon
- William Hathard
- Simon Stormyn
- John Smyth of Wicken
- John Haves
- Thomas Broun
- John Roffe
- John Warde
