Inquisition Head
[All jurors styled ‘of Stafford’].
John
Boghey, gentleman
Roger
Clerke
, gentleman sworn
John
Staumford, gentleman
William
Warde
, ‘
yoman’ sworn
William
Whitgreve
, ‘mercer’ sworn
Thomas
Danyell
, ‘
yoman’
John
Bradley
, ‘
yoman’ sworn
Thomas
Siche, senior
, ‘
bocher’
John
Holte
, ‘
yoman’ sworn
William
Deynteth
, ‘baker’ sworn
John
Cradoc
, ‘
yoman’ sworn
Thomas
Molot
, ‘mercer’ sworn
William
Gibbons
, ‘
yoman’ sworn
Thomas
Whitgreve
, ‘
yoman’ sworn
William
Wronkeslowe
, ‘
yoman’ sworn
John
Yonge
, ‘barker’
Richard
Yonge
, ‘
bocher’ sworn
Robert
Lichefeld
, ‘
bocher’ sworn
John
Walshale
, ‘
yoman’
Robert
Plymmer
, ‘plymmer’
Thomas
Brocher
, ‘
wever’
Thomas
Loue
, ‘
bocher’
John
Alkyn
, ‘
taillour’ the twelfth sworn [
sic].
William
Eyre
, ‘barker’
William
Walter
, ‘carpenter’
Inquisition Head
Before prior Richard,
James
Leveson
, and
Nicholas
Assheby
.
Jurors
Jurors:
Roger
Clerke
, ‘gentilman’,
William
Warde
,
William
Whitgreve
,
John
Bradley
,
John
Holte
, n118
William
Deynteth
,
John
Cradoc
,
Thomas
Molot
,
William
Gibbons
,
William
Wronkeslowe
,
Thomas
Whitgreve
,
Richard
Yong
,
Robert
Lichfeld
, and
John
Alkyn
, all of Stafford.
Holdings
Since 3 May 1419 she has continually been an idiot and incapable of governing herself or her lands, but it is not known how she became an idiot. When she became an idiot she was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Stafford, an inn called ‘le Crowne’, lately in the tenure of
John
Cradok
, annual value
66s. 8d., held of the prior of
St Thomas
the Martyr by Stafford
, in
burgage, by service of 3s. yearly; a messuage in the tenure of
Richard
Pixley
, annual value 6s.; a messuage in the tenure of
Stephen
Bechynton
, annual value 4s.; a messuage in the
tenure of
John
Smyth
, annual value 10s.; a burgage in the tenure of
Richard
Aleyn
, annual value 12s.; a burgage in the tenure of
Thomas
Grome
, annual value 6s.; a barn with a garden in the tenure of
Roger
Bromley
, annual value 5s.; a burgage in
the tenure of Lettice Serle, annual value 4s.; a burgage in the tenure of
Joan
Anglesley
, annual value 4s.; a parcel of land in the tenure of
William
Whitgreve
on which his kitchen is situated, annual value 3s.; a garden in the tenure of
John
Hadde
, annual value 6d.; a parcel of a garden in the tenure of
Richard
Orme
, annual value
6d.; a parcel of land in ‘Crowbarowe lone’ in the tenure of
Henry
Yonge
, annual value 4d.; a burgage in the tenure of
Geoffrey
Smyth
, annual value 7s.; a burgage in
the tenure of
Richard
Waller
, annual value 6s. 8d.; a burgage in the tenure of
William
Sadeler
, annual value 6s. 8d.; a burgage in the tenure of
Agnes
Royley
, annual value 4s.; a burgage in the tenure of
Richard
Birchore
, annual value 4s.; and a burgage in the tenure of
William
Whitgreve
for 6s. 8d. yearly. The following are of no annual value because they stand empty for want of tenants: a messuage lately in the tenure of
John
Fissher
for an annual rent of 5s.; a burgage lately in the tenure
of
Juliana
Forster
for an annual rent of 7s.; a burgage lately in the tenure of
John
Forest
for an annual rent of 6s.; a burgage lately farmed for 3s.; a burgage lately in the tenure of
Felice
Goldesmyth
for an annual rent of 6s. 8d.; a burgage lately in the
tenure of
Reynold
Yonge
for 6s. 8d. yearly; a burgage which used to be worth 6s.
8d. yearly; a burgage lately in the tenure of
Richard
Stubbes
for 4s. yearly; a burgage lately in the tenure of
Agnes
Royley
for an annual rent of 4s.; a burgage
lately in the tenure of
Richard
Birchore
for an annual rent of 4s.; and a burgage lately in the tenure of
John
Coke
for an annual rent of [
ms blank]. All the preceding are held of the dean of the
college of the Virgin Mary of Stafford
by the service of
6d. yearly paid to keep the great (altus) light of the college.
Foregate, a parcel of land in the fields, in the tenure of
Richard
Webbe
, annual value
2s. 6d.; a parcel of land in the fields, in the tenure of
John
Smyth
, annual value 4s.
10d.; a garden by the messuage of
William
Warde
, in the tenure of
William
Whitgreve
, annual value 6d.; a messuage lately in the tenure of the same Richard, which used to be worth 2s. yearly, now of no annual value because it stands empty
for want of tenants; a messuage in the tenure of
Richard
Webbe
, annual value 4s.; and a garden in the tenure of
Richard
Jokery
, annual value 9d., held of the
prior of
Sheen
in
socage, by service of
5s. 6d. yearly.
Forebridge, a toft in the tenure of
John
Taillour
, annual value 2s. 3d.; and a parcel of land in the tenure of
Richard
Smyth
, next to the
Augustinian Friars, annual value
4d., held of
Humphrey, earl of Stafford
in
socage by service of
19d. yearly.
Philip
Chetewynde
, her late son, occupied her lands and tenements and received the issues from the time of her idiocy until his death on 20 May last, by colour of a charter made by Thomasia in her idiocy. Hence none of the lands and tenements passed into
Philip’s possession by this charter. Eleanor, Philip’s late wife, occupied the lands and received the issues from 20 May until this inquisition, by what title it is not known.
Her next heir is her kinsman
Humphrey
Hexstall
, the son of Margaret, the daughter of William, the son of Margaret, the sister of
William
Froddesham
, Thomasia’s father.
[Head:] Delivered to court on 25 November.
TNA reference
C 139/116/36 mm. 1–5
