E-CIPM 24-359: CECILY WHO WAS WIFE OF JOHN HILL OF SPAXTON

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CECILY WHO WAS WIFE OF JOHN HILL OF SPAXTON

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359 Writ de dote assignanda. ‡ 14 May 1435. [Wymbyssh].

The king has commanded the abbot of Glastonbury to take the oath regarding re-marriage [CClR 1429–35, p. 332]. Endorsed by Richard Quatremayns .

Inquisition Head

BERKSHIRE. Assignment of dower [no date given].....

[Assignment of dower: top left of ms torn.]

Holdings

I assigned the following in dower, by virtue of writ, to Cecily.

Inkpen, 1/3 manor. There is a hall called ‘Newehall’, with a chamber called ‘Crossechamber’ and a parlour beneath the chamber, attached to the hall. There is a small close called ‘Orchard Fisshewere’ and a parcel of demesne land with the stank of a fishery within the same close, with all profits of the same stank; a close called ‘Newcroft’; a close called ‘Bradeway’; a meadow called ‘Magotesmede’; 21 a. arable as bounded, viz., 7 a. in a field called ‘Okefeld’, of which 4 a. lie in a furlong (furlongo) called ‘Ingelvat’ with the land of the abbot of Titchfield on both sides, one acre is called ‘Shortleyacr’, 1/2 acre lies at the head of the east of the same acre, and 1 1/2 acres are called ‘Pyketcley’; 7 a. of the 21 a. lie in field called ‘Myddelfeld’, of which 2 a., called ‘Sevelonde’, lie between the land of the abbot of Titchfield , 2 a. lie together at the head of a place called ‘Monkeshode’, and 3 a. are called ‘Ellerenstubbe’ and lie together; and 7 a. of the 21 a. lie in a field called ‘Estfeld’, of which 3 a. are called ‘Rededene’, 3 a. are called ‘Wopelonde’, lie together, and reach the mound to the south, and 1 a. lies in ‘Wylleswynesacr’. Rents and services from the following: John Byle for a messuage that he holds in the same manor in fee to him and his heirs; Nicholas Banester for a close called ‘Webbescroft’ that he holds in fee; and from Nicholas Wolcombe for a tenement and virgate that he holds in fee. Also assigned: a messuage and 1/2 virgate that Richard Crokker holds at will; a messuage and 1/2 virgate that John Say holds at will; a messuage called ‘Brouneslond’ with a close called ‘Redeford’ and a close called ‘Northcroft’ that the same John Say holds at will; 2 cottages with 2 closes that John Clerk holds at will; and 3 a. underwood lying at the western end of underwood called ‘Ryners’, as bounded. Also assigned to Cecily and her assigns: 1/3 profits of common pasture for draught- animals (affris et averiis) and sheep in fields, hills, and other places, and of year-round common pasture, according to that reasonably required for support. Cecily and her assigns should not occupy such pastures unless in quantities fitting for the third.

TNA reference

E 149/155/18 m.1 [writ]

C 139/71/36 m.6 [assignment]

n143^: No reference has been found to East Parrett, but the hundred of Andersfield was also known as West Parrett. See The Victoria County History of Somerset (University of London, 1992), volume vi, p. 4.

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Holdings

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Inkpen (Assigned Holding)
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  • Wymbyssh(Writ Clerk)

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