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JOHN DE BERKELE, KNIGHT

Inquisition Head

DEVON. Inquisition. North Tawton 19 April 1428. [Tretherf].

Jurors

Jurors: William Monk ; John Pollard ; Hugh Sampford ; Richard Bowr ; Thomas Barry ; John Reigne ; Simon Passelew ; Geoffrey Frye ; William Clyvehangher ; William William ; John Broughton ; and John Corant .

Holdings

He held no lands or tenements in his demesne or in service of the king in chief or any other.

He died on 5 March 1428. Maurice de Berkele, knight , is his son and next heir, and aged 30 and more.

TNA reference

C 139/35/50 mm.1–2

Inquisition Head

WORCESTERSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Clifton upon Teme 6 May 1428. [Lygon].

Jurors

Jurors: William Bracy ; William Tyso ; John Walssh ; John Staple ; William Solley ; John Holyn ; Walter Fitzheir ; William Rompney ; Richard Andrewes ; Thomas Rofford ; Roger Holt ; and Richard Nycolettes .

Holdings
He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Clevelode, the manor with advowson of the church there, held in chief of the abbot of Westminster by knight service. There is pasture, worth 12d. yearly, on the manorial site; and there are 60 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly and no more as flooded by the Severn; 8 a. pasture, each acre worth 8d. yearly; a wood of 8 a. that pertains to the same manor, worth nothing yearly because the trees were sold and taken away while John was alive last year, its pasture is also worth nothing yearly; and 6 cottages and 24 a. land held by tenants-at-will, rendering 18s. at the four terms of the year by equal parts.
The advowson is of no annual value
.

Date of death and heir as 103.

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C 139/35/50 mm.3–4

Inquisition Head

HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Lymington 5 May 1428. [Veer].

Jurors

Jurors: John Stratford ; Richard Clyvedon ; Richard Parker ; Robert Pokeswell ; John Pole ; Robert Fische ; John Elyot, junior ; John Smyth ; Ralph Blaksale ; William Lowyn ; Reynold Lowyn ; and John Seman .

Holdings
He held the following by curtesy after the death of Elizabeth his wife from the inheritance of Maurice de Berkele, knight , their son and heir.
Exbury, the manor with the hamlet of Lepe and appurtenances in Hampshire and the New Forest, held of the king in chief by grand serjeanty by providing a man with a man with hauberk for 40 days at his own cost for the king in his wars against the Scots. There is the manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 10 a. meadow by the sea, each acre worth 12d. yearly and no more because flooded repeatedly; and £4 13s. 4d. assize rent from free tenants there and from Lepe, payable at Michaelmas.
Burley in the New Forest,
a messuage and a carucate, worth nothing yearly, held of the king in chief as of assarts by 19s. 6d. yearly, payable at Michaelmas and delivered by the sheriff;
and 32 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly, held of Richard Olde by 5s. 6d. yearly.
Winkton, ½ messuage, worth nothing yearly;
and Winkton and Bockhampton, 18 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly,
held of Reynold West in socage by 6d. yearly.
Arnewood, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; and curtilage and 40 a. land, worth 20s. yearly, held of Margaret Popham , lady of Buckland, in socage.
Christchurch, 2 tenements, worth nothing yearly; and 25 a. waste and 4 a. meadow pertaining to the tenements, worth 8s. yearly, held of the earl of Salisbury in socage.
Gordleton and Alkerton , a toft and 20 a. land, worth 6s. 8d. yearly, held of John Trenchard, lord of Hordle , in socage.
Fritham, 13s. 4d. rent from a toft and 24 a. land, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts, held of John Lysle, lord of South Baddesley , service unknown.n028
Okle two parts of 1/3 manor, worth nothing yearly above rents and services due to the lord.
Keodyng by Bordeforde , a messuage and 12 a. land, worth 6s. 8d. yearly, held of John Saymour in socage.
Hordle, a toft with garden, worth 12d. yearly, held of John Trenchard, lord of Hordle , service unknown.
Southampton, a messuage, worth 53s. 4d. yearly, held of the king in free burgage.
He died seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Christchurch, 2 messuages, formerly of John Warham , worth 20s., held of the earl of Salisbury in free burgage.
Crow, 6 messuages and 26 a. land, worth 18s. yearly, held of the earl of Salisbury , service unknown.
Minstead, 30 a. arable,n029 each acre worth 3d. yearly; and 30 a. timber wood, worth nothing yearly and its pasture also worth nothing yearly as common, held of the king in chief by grand serjeanty by ¼ service of providing a service of providing man with hauberk for 40 days for the king’s Scottish wars.

Date of death and heir as 103.

TNA reference

C 139/35/50 mm.5–6

Inquisition Head

WILTSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Salisbury 12 May 1428. [Veer].

Jurors

Jurors: John Gilberd ; John Stratford ; John Kuttyng ; Robert Bakham ; William Launtervale ; Walter Bruther ; John Quyk ; John ...man [hole in ms]; Richard Lye ; John Escote, junior ; Richard Amerons ; and John Dykeman, senior .

Holdings
He held the following by curtesy as 105. West Grimstead, the manor with advowson of the church there, the hamlet of Plaitford and advowson of the chapel there, and the hamlets of Bemerton, Quidhampton, More, and Farley, held of the king in chief as a knight’s fee.
West Grimstead. The manorial site is worth nothing yearly. There are 110 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly and no more as common after mowing; 67 a. pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 15s. assize rent, payable at the four terms by equal parts; 52s. rent from 10 tenants-at-will for 10 messuages and 100 a. arable held by enrolment of court, payable at the four terms; and 10 a. timber wood without underwood, worth nothing yearly.
Annual value of the advowsons of church and chapel, 100s. when they fall.
Bemerton, 36s. 10d. rent for 12 messuages and 80 a. arable from 12 tenants-at-will, payable at the four terms.
Quidhampton, 16s. 8d. rent for 8 tenements and 60 a. land and meadow from 8 tenants-at-will, payable as above.
Plaitford, a dwelling with large out-buildings, worth nothing yearly; an old dovecot, worth 2s. 2d. yearly; 70 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly when sown; 3 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; 2 views of frankpledge held yearly on Hockday and Michaelmas, worth 3s. 6d. yearly; 8 tenements and 80 a. land held by various tenants-at-will who render 53s. 4d. yearly at the four terms; and 3s. assize rent from free tenants, payable as above.
More , a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 80 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 2 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 12s. rent for 6 cottages and 60 a. land from tenants-at-will, payable as above.
East Grimstead, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land containing 100 a., each acre worth 2d. yearly, and 100 a. heath, worth nothing yearly as common, held of Brian de Stapulton, chevalier , and Stephen Popham, chevalier , as of their manor of West Dean in socage.
Abbotstone, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; 60 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly;
and advowson of the chapel there, of no annual value,
held of the abbess of Wilton , service unknown.
Wilton, 12s. 1d. assize rent from tenants from the borough, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts, held of the abbess of Wilton in free burgage.
Alderbury,
7 messuages and 2 carucates of land, demised to various tenants for £4 yearly, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts, held of the prior of Ivy Church in socage;
and 40s. assize rent for a water-mill called ‘Pynchetes Mill’ from a free tenant there, payable at the four terms.
Enford, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land containing 90 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly and no more as stony ground; 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 5s. assize rent, payable at the four terms, held of the prior of St Swithun’ s, Winchester, in socage.
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Elston, ½ manor, held of John Mautravers, chevalier , as of his manor of Sherrington, service unknown. The manorial site is worth nothing yearly. There are 160 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly and no more as hilly; 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly; 20 a. pasture, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 2 villeins who hold 2 tenements and 20 a. land for which they render 16s. 8d. at the four terms of the year by equal parts; and 30s. rent from 8 tenants-at-will for 8 cottages and 80 a. arable, payable at the four terms by equal parts.
West Wellow, a messuage and 20 a. land, annual value 6s. 8d., held of the dean and chapter of Salisbury by 6s. 8d. yearly.
He was formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Chelworth, a toft and a carucate of land, held of the king in chief as 1/40 knight’s fee.
Calcutt (Colcote), 2 tofts, a carucate of land, and 8 a. meadow, held of the king as of the duchy of Cornwall by knight service.
Long before his death, he demised the above to John Wotton , still living, for a certain term not yet aforesaid, by rent of 33s. 4d. payable at Michaelmas to John de Berkele and his heirs. He died seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Shorncote, advowson of the church pertaining to the castle and manor of Beverston in Gloucestershire, held of James de Berkele, Lord Berkeley , as of his castle and manor of Beverston, annual value 100s. when it falls.

Date of death and heir as 103.

TNA reference

C 139/35/50 mm.5, 7

Inquisition Head

SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Bruton 4 May 1428. [ Gregory ].

[Inquisition: ms is worn and galled down its right-hand side and torn away at the foot on the right.]
Jurors

Jurors: Thomas Blaneford ; John Lemyngton ; John Lyte ; Richard Arnoll ; William Chambrelayne ; John Brympton ; Walter Parsones ; Richard Saundres ; William Hoskynes ; George Rusceley ; Thomas Broun ; and Robert Bryse .

Holdings
He held the following in demesne as of fee of the king in chief.
Exton, ¼ manor with advowson of the church there as 1/20 knight’s fee. The manorial site and advowson are worth nothing yearly. There are 8 tenements, 8 curtilages, and 80 a. land held by tenants-at-will for 40s. rent, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts; 4s. rent for a water-mill because a quarter of its value pertains to the manor, payable at the four terms by equal parts; 2 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; 2d. assize rent from free tenants, payable at Michaelmas; 2 a. wood, its underwood worth 20d. yearly and farmed to John Walsshe , payable at the four terms.
He was formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Cheddar, 30 messuages, 2 carucates of land, 30 a. meadow, 20 a. pasture, 20 a. timber wood, a water-mill, and £4 rent, held of John, bishop of Bath and Wells , service unknown.
Long before his death and by deed shown to the jurors, he demised the above, described as all his lands, tenements, woods, meadows, pastures, and rents and services of all tenants, to Robert de Cheddar of Bristol, now deceased, Joan his wife, and Richard their son, both still living, for their lives, with reversion to John de Berkele and his heirs, by rent of 20 marks, payable to John de Berkele and his heirs and assigns at Michaelmas and Easter by equal parts. He thus died seised of the rent in demesne as of fee.
Barrow Gurney, the manor
with advowson of the nunnery there,
a carucate of arable containing 100 a., 10 a. meadow, 10 a. pasture, 80 a. timber wood, 30 a. underwood, 10 messuages, and 30s. rent,
held of Richard, earl of Warwick , and Isabel his wife, in right of Isabel, as of the honour of Gloucester, service unknown. Long before his death and by deed shown to the jurors, he farmed the above, with certain reservations to John de Berkele and his heirs and assigns, to Thomas Norton of Bristol, merchant, Christine his wife, and their sons, Walter and Thomas, junior , all still living, and to another of their sons, Thomas, senior , now deceased, to hold for their lives by rent of £11 yearly, payable to John de Berkele and his heirs and assigns at Hockday and Michaelmas by equal parts. Reserved were the following, of which he died seised in demesne as of fee.
Barrow Gurney, the advowson, worth nothing yearly; ½ perquisites of court, worth 20d. yearly; ½ all fines and heriots; underwood; and half each of ‘Wayf’ and ‘Straye’ falling within the lordship of the manor, or ½ profits of the same fees, worth 2s. yearly; and the timber wood of the manor, worth nothing yearly.
He held the following for life.
Sock Dennis, ½ manor, annual value £20,
with ½ advowson of the church there, of no annual value,
held of William ?Bone..., chevalier, service unknown, by virtue of a fine levied during the reign of ‪ Henry IV [on the octave of Candlemas 1411 ] and shown to the jurors [CP 25/1/201/34 no. 41]. William Stourton and Thomas Stanwell , quer., granted ½ manor and advowson to John de Berkele and Elizabeth his wife, now deceased, deforc., for their lives to hold of the chief lords of that fee by due service, with remainder to Maurice their son and the heirs male of his body in perpetuity. He was formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Low Ham by Langport, the manor with advowson of a chantry of a chapel there, held of the king in chief as ½ knight’s fee. There is a capital messuage and curtilage, worth nothing yearly; 6 tofts, each worth 2d. yearly; a ?water-mill, worth 8s. yearly; a windmill, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; a dovecot, worth nothing yearly; a garden, worth [at least] 2d. yearly; 22 tenements with 22 ferlings of land, each tenement with its ferling worth 5s. yearly; 12 cottages, each worth ?20d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; 160 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 50 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; [at least] 3d. assize rent from free tenants, payable at Michaelmas; 2 views of frankpledge held yearly at Hockday and Michaelmas, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and a court called ‘Halemote’ held every three weeks, worth 6s. 8d. yearly.
The advowson is of no annual value.
Ham Burci by Langport, the manor, held of the abbot of Glastonbury as of his manor of High Ham, service unknown. There is a toft, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth 20d. yearly; a water-mill with curtilage, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 2 cottages, each worth 6d. yearly; 100 a. arable, each acre worth ?2d. yearly; 18 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 7 tenements with 7 ferlings of land, each tenement with its ferling worth 5s. yearly; and 2s. assize rent from free tenants, payable at Michaelmas.
Beer, alias ‘Bere Ryvall’, a toft called ‘Dydehal’, worth nothing yearly; a windmill, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 10 cottages and 10 curtilages, each cottage with its curtilage worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. land, each acre worth 6d. yearly; and 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly, held of the king in chief as 1/100 knight’s fee.
Long before his death and by deed dated 1 January 1427, shown to the jurors, he granted the above to John Wotton and John Warner and to their heirs and assigns in perpetuity. The lands and tenements were described as the manor of Low Ham by Langport with buildings, lands and tenements, rents, reversions, services, free and villein, meadows, woods, pastures, ways, lanes, stanks, fishponds, mills, wards, marriages, reliefs, heriots and esheats, and all liberties, customs, and other rights and commodities pertaining to them; as all his lands and tenements in Ham Burci with meadows, pastures, rents and services, free and villein, commons, woods, mills, fishponds and stanks, wards, marriages, reliefs, heriots, and escheats; and as all his lands and tenements with woods, meadows, pastures, and rents and services, free and villein, in Beer. On 8 June 1427 by deed, shown to the jurors, John Wotton and John Warner farmed the above to John de Berkele and Margaret his wife, still living, ?for their lives [ms illegible], with reversion to the right heirs of John de Berkele . John de Berkele died thus seised and Margaret is still seised. He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Tickenham, 3 messuages, worth nothing yearly; 3 curtilages, each worth 2d. yearly; 2 cottages, each worth 4d. yearly; 50 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 15 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; and 2 a. wood, each acre worth 1d. yearly, held of Thomas de Berkele and Margaret his wife, who was daughter and heir of Edmund Saymour , in right of Margaret as of her manor of Tickenham by knight service.

Date of death and heir as 103.

TNA reference

C 139/35/50 mm.8–9

Inquisition Head

DORSET. Inquisition. Shaftesbury 27 May 1428. [ Gregory ].

Jurors

Jurors: Thomas Hody ; William Daccombe ; Thomas Hatte ; Robert Wylkyns ; John Kynmere ; Thomas Haselmere ; John Whytyng ; Richard Arnold ; William Cole ; John Fore ; Thomas Wyke ; and William Catte .

Holdings
He held the following by curtesy as 105.
Shaftesbury, ½ rent of 33s. 10d. from burgages; ½ rent of 33s. 4d. from stalls; ½ rent of 24s. from customs called ‘Stodegawyll’ and ‘Worthyngawyll’; ½ rent of 2s. called ‘Brewyngawyll’; ½ rent of 2s. called ‘Tolseld’; ½ amercements, issues and profits, and emoluments relating to goods and chattels called ‘Wayf’ and ‘Straye’, along with all other forfeitures falling in the borough; ½ amercements, and issues and profits falling from every court of law, view of frankpledge, court called ‘Pepoudrows’, and all other courts; ½ perquisites of these courts; ½ toll on all merchants and at the fair called ‘Martynfaire’ held yearly for two days from the vigil of Martinmas. The annual value of the above is 10s. and they are held of the king in free burgage as all of Shaftesbury is held.
Petersham, 3 cottages, worth nothing yearly; 3 curtilages, each worth 6d. yearly; 30 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 3 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; and 3s. assize rent from a water-mill, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts, held of Richard, duke of York , a minor in the king’s wardship, as of his manor of Cranborne, service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 103.

TNA reference

C 139/35/50 mm.8, 10

Inquisition Head

GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inquisition [indented]. Chipping Sodbury 24 April 1428. [Blount].

Jurors

Jurors: Maurice de la Ryuer ; John Kemese ; Robert Mychell ; John Neweman ; William Hulle ; John Burnell, senior ; Thomas Freman ; John Overbury ; John Bay; William Bayly ; John Chaunpeneys ; and John Lyndesey of Frampton Cotterell.

Holdings
He died seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Beverston, the castle and manor, held of James de Berkele, Lord Berkeley , by knight service, with advowson of the church of Shorncote in Wiltshire, pertaining to the same castle and manor. The castle is worth nothing yearly and the manorial site is worth nothing yearly. There is a ruinous dovecot, worth 2s. yearly; 2 carucates of arable, each carucate containing 60 a. and farmed by deed of John de Berkele to various tenants for their lives, rendering 2d. an acre, payable at Michaelmas; 24 a. meadow, farmed by deed to various tenants, rendering 16d. an acre, payable at Michaelmas; 40 a. several, enclosed pasture, farmed by deed to various tenants for their lives, rendering 4d. an acre, payable at Michaelmas; 8 a. timber wood, worth nothing yearly, its pasture worth nothing yearly as common; £8 rent from free tenants, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts; and 2 views of frankpledge held at Hockday and Martinmas, worth 4s. yearly and no more.
Tockington, the manor with advowson of the church there, held of Richard Beauchamp , earl of Warwick and Isabel his wife, in right of Isabel, as of the great court of Bristol as of the honour of Gloucester, service unknown. There is the manorial site, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of arable containing 100 a., demised in John’s time to various tenants-at-will and rendering 4d. an acre, payable at Michaelmas; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly and no more as flooded by the Severn, payable at Michaelmas; a windmill, worth 3s. 4d. yearly and no more as ruinous; £22 assize rent from free tenants, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts; 40s. rent from tenants-at-will, payable at the above terms; a new, unstocked dovecot, worth nothing yearly; a park with game, with no underwood and its pasture worth nothing yearly above maintaining animals; 6 a. timber wood, worth nothing yearly, its pasture worth nothing yearly as common; and a hundred court and view of frankpledge held twice yearly, worth 10s. yearly.
Syde, advowson of the church and 10 a. timber wood pertaining to the manor, of no annual value, held of the earl of March as of his manor of Brimpsfield by 2s. yearly.
Long before his death and by deed shown to the jurors, he leased the manor and rent in Syde, except the advowson and wood, to Robert Poyntz , still living, for life, rendering nothing yearly, with reversion to the heirs of John de Berkele .
Wotton-under-Edge, advowson of the chantry and schoolhouse, of no annual value.
Alveston, a toft, worth nothing yearly; and 10 a. arable, each acre worth 8d. yearly, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts, held of Gilbert Denys as of his manor of Alveston, service unknown.
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Over, the manor with advowson of a chantry chapel there, held of Richard, earl of Warwick , service unknown. The manorial site is worth nothing yearly. There is a carucate of arable containing 80 a., farmed by deed long before John’s death to various tenants, each acre worth 4d. yearly, payable at Michaelmas; 20 a. meadow, farmed by deed as previously, each acre worth 2s. yearly, payable at Michaelmas; a dovecot, worth 4s. yearly; £7 6s. 8d. assize rent, payable at the four terms by equal parts; a park without underwood, its herbage worth nothing yearly above maintaining game; and two views of frankpledge yearly, worth 40d. yearly. There are no tenants-at-will here.
Compton Greenfield, the manor with advowson of the chapeln030 there, held of Thomas, bishop of Worcester , by knight service. The manorial site is worth nothing yearly. There are 2 carucates of land, each carucate containing 40 a., each acre worth 2d. yearly and no more as the land is sterile and lies in salt-marsh; 180 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly and no more because the enclosures are flooded by the sea and thus farmed to tenants for terms of lives with payment at Michaelmas; an old, ramshackle dovecot, worth nothing yearly; 100 a. several pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly, farmed by deed to tenants with payment at Michaelmas; £13 10s. 6d. assize rent payable at the four terms by equal parts; and one villein who holds a messuage and 10 a. arable at will, worth 6s. 8d. yearly, payable at the above terms by equal parts.
Woodmancote, the manor, held of James de Berkele, Lord Berkeley , as of his manor of Cam, service unknown. The manorial site is worth nothing yearly. There are 2 carucates of land, each carucate containing 60 a., each acre worth 6d. yearly; 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly; and a dovecot, worth 6s. 8d. yearly. Long before his death, he farmed the land, meadow, and dovecot to Thomas Tannere for life, to hold by rent payable at Michaelmas. Also pertaining to the manor is a water-mill, farmed long before his death to John Sutton for life, to hold by rent of one red rose, payable at Midsummer; £10 assize rent in the hamlet of North Nibley, payable at the four terms by equal parts; and a wood containing 10 a. timber wood, worth nothing yearly.
Falfield, a messuage, worth nothing yearly, and a carucate of land, containing 60 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly, payable at Michaelmas; 60 a. enclosed pasture, each acre worth 6d. yearly, payable at Michaelmas; and 40s. assize rent payable at the four terms by equal parts, held of Lady Anne, countess of Stafford , as of the manor of Thornbury, service unknown.
Charfield and Cromhall, 2s. rent from 3 tenements, payable at the four terms, held of John le Veell as of his manor of Charfield in socage.
Leckhampton, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; 30 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 6 cottages, worth nothing yearly; 40 a. arable held at will by tenants of the cottages, each acre worth 4d. yearly, payable at the four terms; and 2 a. timber wood, worth nothing yearly, held of the abbot of Fécamp as of his manor of Cheltenham in socage.
Down Hatherley, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; 50 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; and 5 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly, held of the prioress of Usk as of her manor of Down Hatherley in socage. Long before his death he farmed them by deed to John Phelpus , still living, for life, to hold by rent of the said value, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts. There are also 4 a. timber wood, worth nothing yearly; and 16 a. underwood, worth nothing yearly because it was cut down, sold, and carted away last year.
Bentham, a toft, worth nothing yearly; and 40 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly, payable at Easter and Michaelmas, held of the abbot of Fécamp as of the said manor of Cheltenham in socage.
He formerly held the following in demesne as of fee.
Westonbirt, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; 30 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 5 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; and a dovecot, worth 3s. 4d. yearly,, held of Thomas Beaumond, knight , as of his manor of Westonbirt, service unknown.
They were farmed by deed long before his death to John Tylere , still living, for life, to hold by rent payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts. He was formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Kings Weston, a messuage and a carucate of land, granted by deed to John Hambrook for life, to hold by rendering one red rose yearly to John de Berkele , with reversion to the right heirs of John de Berkele ; and 100s. rent from tenants-at-will, payable at the four terms by equal parts. They are held of Maurice de Berkele, knight, lord of Stoke Gifford , as of his manor of Kings Weston by knight service

Date of death and heir as 103.

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C 139/35/50 mm.11–12

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Jurors

  • William Monk
  • John Pollard
  • Hugh Sampford
  • Richard Bowr
  • Thomas Barry
  • John Reigne
  • Simon Passelew
  • Geoffrey Frye
  • William Clyvehangher
  • William William
  • John Broughton
  • John Corant

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