‹ E-CIPM 23-243: JOHN DELVES ›

Holdings

He held conjointly enfeoffed with Margaret his wife, Ralph Eggerton , and William Lee , all still living, and Edmund Basset , now deceased, the manors of Apedale, Knutton, and Hilderstone, 6 messuages, one cottage, and one toft in Audley, 3 bovates in Dimsdale, reversion of all messuages, lands, and tenements in Hilderstone, Whitmore, Dimsdale, Knutton, Betley, Audley, and Delves, and rents and services from the following free tenants. In Dimsdale.

; and ; ; ; ; and In Hanford. ; ; ; ; In Whitmore. ; ; ; ; In Little Clayton. ; John and Margaret, Ralph, Edmund, and William held the manors and reversions to them and the heirs of the body of John, with remainder to the right heirs of John, by grant of Thomas Hunt, senior , of Newcastle-under-Lyme, to hold of the chief lords of the fee by due service. John Delves had recently granted them to Thomas. Every tenant attorned to John, Margaret, Ralph, Edmund, and William Lee . The manors and reversions were described in the grant as the manors of Apedale, Knutton, Hilderstone, Whitmore, Dimsdale, Hanford, Little Clayton, Audley, and Delves; and the reversions were described as all those messuages, lands, and tenements in Hilderstone, Whitmore, and Dimsdale that John Brow and Anne his wife hold for the life of Anne; all those messuages, lands, and tenements that Roger Baban holds for life in Knutton; all those messuages, lands, and tenements that James Theknes holds for life in Knutton; all those messuages, lands, and tenements that John Holwey holds for life in Knutton; all those lands and tenements that John Bower holds for life in Betley; all those messuages, lands, and tenements that John Brenner holds for life in Audley; and all those messuages, lands, and tenements that Richard Byrkes holds for life in Delves. The manor of Apedale and the messuages, cottage, and toft in Audley are held of James, Lord Audley , service unknown. He was lately seised in demesne as of fee of He granted it, described as all his messuages, lands and tenements, rents, and services in the vill and demesne of Crakemarsh by Uttoxeter, to John Bulkeley of Word , and William Wall, chaplain, and to their heirs and assigns in perpetuity, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by due service. The grant was made by a charter shown to the jurors.