‹ E-CIPM 25-594: RALPH BUSSH, ESQUIRE ›

Holdings

He held no lands or tenements in demesne as of fee or service of the king in chief, or any other. A fine was, however, levied at Westminster on the quindene of St John the Baptist 1439 and afterwards granted and recorded on the octave of Michaelmas 1439 [CP 25/1/292/69, no. 231], shown to the jurors, before John Cotismore and his associates, king’s justices, between John Chidyok, knight , and William Combe, querents, and Thomas Brook, knight , John Hody , Ralph Bussh, esquire , John Stork , John Carent, senior , John Battescombe , John Lemman, clerk , William Taverner , Guy Phylyp , and John Pyry, deforciants, regarding the manors of Pitney and Wearne, and 2 messuages, 10 a. land, and 3 a. meadow in Pitney and Wearne, among other lands and tenements. Thomas Brook etc. [as above] recognised the manors and tenements to be the right of John Chidyok, as held by John and William Combe by grant of Thomas Brook etc. [as above]; and John Chidyok and William Combe granted the manors and tenements to Ralph, for life, with reversion to John and William, and the heirs of John. Ralph was thus seised in demesne as of free tenement and died seised of this estate. The manors and tenements are held of the king in chief by knight service.

Holdings

Findings as 594 regarding the following. Furthermore, a fine was levied at Westminster on the quindene of St John the Baptist 1439 before John Cotismore and his associates, king’s justices of the Bench, and afterwards granted and recorded on the octave of Michaelmas 1439, between John Chidyok, knight, and Katherine his wife, querents, and Thomas Brook, knight , Thomas Beauchamp, knight, John Hody , Ralph Bussh, esquire , John Carent, senior , John Stork , John Battescombe , John Lemman, clerk , William Taverner , Guy Phylyp , and John Pyry, deforciants, regarding the manors of Winterborne Houghton and Upcerne, 3 messuages, 20 a. land, and 6 a. meadow in Winterborne Houghton and Upcerne, and advowsons of the churches of Winterborne Houghton and Upcerne. Thomas Brook etc. [as above] recognised the manors, tenements, and advowsons to be the right of John Chidyok, as held by John and Katherine by grant of Thomas Brook etc. [as above]; and John and Katherine granted them to Ralph for life, to hold of John Chidyok and Katherine, and the heirs of John, by rendering a rose at Midsummer for all service; with remainder to John Carent, junior , and Joan his wife, to hold as above for the life of Joan without impeachment of waste; and with reversion to John Chidyok and Katherine, and the heirs of John. Ralph was thus seised in demesne as of free tenement, and died so seised.