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THOMAS ERDYNGTON, ESQUIRE

Writ Head

181 Writ. ‡ 15 February 1434. [Bate].

Inquisition Head

DORSET. Inquisition. Shaftesbury. 10 March 1434. [Champneys].

Jurors

Jurors: William Mourton ; Thomas Hatte ; William Cole ; John [de] Mottecombe [hole in ms]; John Brice ; Richard Chaldecote ; Thomas Donge ; John Pylle ; John Mersour ; Thomas Goldsmyth ; John Selley ; and William Mathew .

Holdings

He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief in demesne or service. He held the manor of Corfe Mullen in his demesne as of fee of Edward, earl of Devon , service unknown.

Corfe Mullen, the manor. There is the capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a garden containing 2 a. land, its pasture worth 2s. yearly; 40 a. arable, worth 16s. 8d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, worth 36s. 8d. yearly; a watermill, worth 16s. yearly; 4 a. underwood, worth 16d. yearly after their enclosure; 300 a. heath, worth 25s. yearly; 8 a. pasture, worth 2s. 8d. yearly; 2s. 4d. assize rent, by the hands of free tenants at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas equally; and 18 tenements, each containing 8 a. arable and 1 rood of meadow, held by manorial tenants according to the customs of the manor, paying £4 17s. 6d. yearly usually at the same four feasts equally, each tenement thus 5s. 5d.

He died on 9 February last. Thomas Erdyngton is his son and next heir, aged 30 years and more.

[Foot:] delivered to Chancery on 24 March 1434.

TNA reference

C 139/63/23 mm.1–2

Writ Head

182 Writ. ‡ 15 February 1434. [Bate].

Addressed to the escheator of Warwickshire and Leicestershire .

[Dorse:] lands and tenements taken into the king’s hand.

Inquisition Head

WARWICKSHIRE. Inquisition. Birmingham. 23 February 1434.ⁿ⁰⁹² [Porter].

Jurors

Jurors: Henry Porter of Solihull; John Bradewall ; Thomas Hawe ; John Mersch of Birmingham; John Wareng of Solihull; John Charleton of Castle Bromwich or Little Bromwich; William Lench of Duddeston; William Squyer ; Richard Orme ; William Phelipe ; William Smyth of Solihull; and John Belle of Birmingham.

Holdings

He held the following in his demesne as of fee.

Erdington, the manor, of Joan Beauchamp, Lady Abergavenny , and Maurice de Berkeley, knight , of the castle of Weoley, service unknown. In the manor there are the site, worth nothing yearly; 4 tofts, each worth 6d. yearly; 1/2 mill, worth 20s. yearly; 40 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. wood, worth nothing yearly; and £5 assize rent, at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally.

Hunscote, a messuage and a virgate of land, worth 13s. 4d. yearly, and

Withybrook, a messuage and a virgate of land, worth 13s. 4d. yearly,

of Humphrey de Stafford of Hooke, service unknown.

Date of death and heir, here styled esquire, as in 181.

TNA reference

C 139/63/23 mm.3–4

Writ Head

183 [Writ: see 182 .]

Inquisition Head

LEICESTERSHIRE. Inquisition. Market Bosworth (Boseworth) [date and escheator’s name missing].

[Only a fragment from the left edge of the ms survives.]

Jurors

Jurors: ... de Boseworth; Thomas Hogekynson ... Thomas Harper of Coston (Couston); Robert ....

Holdings

[Findings generally unintelligible, but they do refer to ?3 separate manors, to a messuage, and to land in Barrow upon Soar.]

TNA reference

C 139/63/23 mm.3, 5

n092^: ‘Tuesday on the vigil of St Matthew (Mathei) the Apostle’: date translated as for St Mathias (Mathie).

Holdings

Holding Item	Value	Quantity	Total
Erdington
site	worth nothing		-
tofts	6d. (per unit)	4 (4 x tofts)	2s. (=24d.)
mill	20s.	1/2 (0.5 x mill)	£1 (=240d.)
land	2d. (per unit)	40 a. (40 x acre)	6s. 8d. (=80d.)
pasture	4d. (per unit)	40 a. (40 x acre)	13s. 4d. (=160d.)
meadow	12d. (per unit)	40 a. (40 x acre)	£2 (=480d.)
wood	worth nothing	100 a. (100 x acre)	-
assize rent	£5		£5 (=1200d.)
Total: £9 2s. (=2184d.)
Hunscote
messuage		a (1 x messuage)	-
land		a (1 x virgate)	-
Value	13s. 4d.		13s. 4d. (=160d.)
Total: 13s. 4d. (=160d.)
Withybrook
messuage		a (1 x messuage)	-
land		a (1 x virgate)	-
Value	13s. 4d.		13s. 4d. (=160d.)
Total: 13s. 4d. (=160d.)

Extents

Holding Item	Value	Quantity	Total
Erdington
site	worth nothing		-
tofts	6d. (per unit)	4 (4 x tofts)	2s. (=24d.)
mill	20s.	1/2 (0.5 x mill)	£1 (=240d.)
land	2d. (per unit)	40 a. (40 x acre)	6s. 8d. (=80d.)
pasture	4d. (per unit)	40 a. (40 x acre)	13s. 4d. (=160d.)
meadow	12d. (per unit)	40 a. (40 x acre)	£2 (=480d.)
wood	worth nothing	100 a. (100 x acre)	-
assize rent	£5		£5 (=1200d.)
Total: £9 2s. (=2184d.)