Assignment of dower to
Richard
Wydevill, knight
, and Jaquetta de Luxembourg, his wife,
duchess of Bedford
, former wife of
John, duke of Bedford
, the king’s uncle, who held in chief, from all castles, lordships, vills, manors, lands, tenements, knights’ fees, advowsons of churches, annuities, franchises, liberties, possessions and hereditaments whatsoever that were of the late duke, and that are now in the king’s hand by virtue of an inquisition taken by writ diem clausit extremum and returned to Chancery, together with their issues and profits, taken from 23 March last.
[From the manor of
Bassingbourn.]
Assigned from rents and services of various tenants who hold 1/2 virgates of land, payable at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer, and Michaelmas equally, viz.,
Hugh
Parker
n240 for a messuage and 1/2 virgate, 8s. 10 1/2d.;
William
Perkyn
for the same;
William
Hobbe
for the same; from the same William for the same;
William
Lorkyn
for the same;
John
Massy
for 2 messuages and 2 half-virgates, 17s. 9d.;
Thomas
Rouse
for a messuage and 1/2 virgate, 8s. 10 1/2d.;
John
Andrew
for the same; and
John
Burdeux
for the same. Assigned from rents and services of various tenants who hold 1/4 virgates of land, payable as above, viz.,
William
Wylymot
for 1/4 virgate, 4s. 5 1/4d.;
John
Tadlowe
for the same;
William
Clerk
for the same;
Simon
Bate
for the same;
William
Halle
for the same;
Thomas
Molt
for the same;
George
Angeteyn
for the same; and
William
Hobbe
for the same. Assigned from rents and services of various tenants of land on which rent is paid (
tenentium de mollend[o]), payable as above, viz.,
John
Bolnest, senior
, for 1/2 virgate, 5s. 4 1/2d.;
Simon
Lorkyn
for the same; and from certain rent called ‘Thurberdesrent’ for 1/2 virgate, 6s. 8 1/2d.
Assigned from rents and services of various tenants who hold cottages, payable as above, viz.,
Katherine
Prentis
for a cottage in ‘le Sowthende’, 1d.;
Thomas
Molt
for a cottage called ‘Briddes’, 6d.; from the same Thomas for a cottage called ‘Chapmannes’, 2d.; from the same Thomas for a pightle, 4d.; from the same Thomas for a cottage, 12d.;
John
Knottyngle
for 2 a. land, 8d.;
William
Pynk
for 2 1/2 a. land, 8d.;
William
Havden
for a cottage formerly ‘Patons’, 12d.;
John
Knottyngle, senior
, for a cottage, formerly of
William
Dolbard
, 12d.;
John
Parlet
for a shop, 6d.;
John
Pounder
for an oghtpenyware, 2d.;
Eleanor
Taillour
for 2 a. land of ‘Brokland’, 2s.;
William
Wylwys
for 4 a. freehold land in ‘le Midelfeld’, 4d.;
John
Bateman
for a cottage, 1 1/2d.;
George
Angeteyn
for 3 a. land in ‘le Sowthlonge’, 12d.;
Simon
Bate
for a toft containing an acre of land, 16d.;
John
Gode
for a messuage containing 1 1/2 a. land, 2s.;
Edmund
Sowne
for ‘le
Hallelond’, 6d.;
John
Bentle
for a croft at ‘le Waroure’, 2s.;
William
Breton
for a corner by his tenement, 3/4d.;
Richard
Waleys
for an acre of land, 4d.; rent and service from the tenant of lands lately of
John
Pynk
for various lands and tenements in
Bassingbourn, 9s. 1 1/2d.;
John
Brewster, clerk
, for a cottage, 12d.;
John
Parlet
for land at ‘Gaywaye’, 6d.;
John
Andrew
for a cottage at ‘Chirchestele’, 5 1/2d.;
John
Orable
for a shop facing the church, 3/4d.; John ?Knottyng [ms worn and dirty], for an oghtpenyware, 2d.;
John
Dolbard
for a tenement in Meldreth, 18d.; John ?Haie [ms worn and dirty] for an acre of land, ?3d.;
Warin Lyoun for a tenement in ‘Estlanestrete’, 16d.;
John
Baille
for 40 feet of land at
‘Godforthlane’, 6d.;
John
Bentle
for land formerly of
William
Prest
, 12d.;
William
Euerard
for a cottage, 18d.;
John
Botiller
for a messuage formerly of
John
Hulcok
, 18d.;
John
Pender
for a cottage formerly of
Katherine
Dolbard
, 12d.; and
John
Bentle
for a rood of land, 2d.
Assigned from rents of capons as rents and services of various tenants, payable at Christmas, viz.,
John
Berklowe
for a cottage, 2 capons;
William
Havden
for a cottage formerly ‘Petem’, 2 capons;
John
Stanforth
for a new increment, one capon; and
John
Gamen
for a cottage at ‘Northendegrene’, one capon. Assigned from a free rent of 6s. 8d., taken yearly from the heirs of
William
Porter
for various lands and tenements in
Wimpole, and from another rent of 9d., taken yearly from
John
Smyth
for various lands in
Litlington, viz., 2s. 5 1/2d. and a third of 1/2d. that they are accustomed to receive yearly from the heirs of
William
Porter
. Assigned from lands called ‘Coldeburylond’: 106 1/2 a. land, and 1/2 rood, each acre worth 6d. yearly, of which 90 a. and 1/3 rood of land
n241 is in the tenure of the following tenants, viz., Hugh Barker, 7 1/2 a.; William Perkyn, 5 a.; William Lorkyn, 15 a.; Thomas Molt, 15 a.; John Tadlowe, 15 a.; John Burdeux, 10 a.; William Hebbe, 5 a.; William Wylymot, 10 a.; and John Dolbard, 7 1/2 a.; and the 16 1/2 a. and 1/2 rood lie unoccupied in ‘le Gretefeld’, and abuts on the heath, as bounded there.
Assigned: 80 a. land of ‘Newburylond’, each acre worth 12d. yearly, held by the following tenants, viz., William Lorkyn, 15 a.; Thomas Molt, 15 a.; John Tadlowe, 7 1/2 a.; John Burdeux, 2 1/2 a.; Hugh Parker, 10 a.; William Hebbe, 10 a.; William Wylymot, 2 1/2 a.; William Perkyn, 10 a.; John Gamen, 5 a.; and John Wylymot, 2 1/2 a.
Assigned: 20s. annual farm taken yearly from 4 1/2 a. meadow in Pepperton with pasture in Reed (Reade), in ‘Thenesis’, and other places. Assigned from £6 rent taken yearly from tenants there, viz., tallage on bond-tenants (
de tallagio bondorum), called by the tenants ‘le yelde’, 40s.
Assigned: 1/3 watermill, now demised to
William
Hebbe
for 5 marks, a third of which is 22s. 2 1/2d. and a third of 1/2d., with 1/3 of all profits and emoluments. Assigned: 1/3 of all courts baron held every three weeks, 1/3 views of frankpledge and all other courts, and 1/3 ‘Wayfys’ and ‘Strays’, with 1/3 of all fines, amercements, and profits whatsoever from the same courts, views, and ‘Wayfys’ and ‘Strays’.