‹ E-CIPM 25-99: REYNOLD PYMPE ›

Holdings

Stephen Betenham , John Beaufitz , Peter Colpepir , William Sybthorp, clerk , Henry Borne, clerk , William Cheyne , and Thomas Horden were formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee.

Thus seised, they granted the manors and advowsons to John Pympe, esquire , and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to Roger Isle and the heirs male of his body. The grant was made by licence of ‪ Henry IV , by letters patent dated at Westminster on 20 October 1411 [CPR 1408–13, p. 324], shown to the jurors. John Pympe was thus seised, and died seised of this estate. The manors and advowsons descended to Reynold his son and heir, and Reynold died while still a minor in the wardship of the king. ‪ Henry V, by letters patent dated at Westminster on 16 December 1421 [CFR 1413–22, p. 413], shown to the jurors, by mainprise of William Cheyne, esquire , and Alexander Cheyne, esquire , both of Kent, committed custody of all the lands and tenements, and manors that were of John Pympe , who held of ‪ Henry V in chief by knight service, and that came to the hand of ‪ Henry V owing to the death of John Pympe and the minority of Reynold, and are still in the king’s hand, to John Wylcotes, esquire , and Isabel, who was wife of John Pympe , to have from John Pympe ’s death until the majority of the heir, as more fully contained in the letters patent. ⁿ⁰⁶⁵ Reynold also died seised of the following in demesne as of fee and by hereditary right after the death of his father. The two manors are held of Humphrey, earl of Stafford , as of his lowy (ut de leucatu) of Tonbridge as 1/2 knight’s fee.