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MARGARET, DUCHESS OF CLARENCE

Writ Head

383 [ Writ not required.]

Inquisition Head

KENT. Inquisition virtute officii [indented]. Washlingstone. 5 May 1446. [Germayn].

Jurors

Jurors: John Dwale ; John atte Brooke ; William Benge ; Simon Clerk ; Thomas Lorkyn ; Richard Bonsyll ; Thomas Rowe ; John Est ; John Totisham, esquire ; Richard Thurk ; Edmund Thurk ; Reynold Brewer ; John Benet ; Thomas Partrich ; Thomas Maydestone ; and Robert Partriche .

Holdings

She was seised of the following to her and the heirs of her body. The hundreds were granted among other things by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestok and the heirs of his body [cf. CFR 1319–27, p. 68; CChR, IV, 3]. After the deaths of Edmund; of Edmund, son and heir of Edmund; of John, brother and heir of Edmund son of Edmund; of Joan, late princess of Wales , sister and heir of John; of Thomas, son and heir of Joan; of Thomas, son and heir of Thomas; and of Edmund, brother and heir of Thomas son of Thomas, they descended to the kin and heirs of Thomas, father of Edmund, namely: [1.] Richard, duke of York , son and heir of Anne, one of the daughters and heirs of Eleanor, first sister and one of the heirs of Edmund, brother of Thomas; [2.] Joyce, wife of John Tiptoft, knight , another daughter and heir of Eleanor; [3.] Henry Grey, knight , son and heir of Joan, third daughter and heir of Eleanor; [4.] Margaret, late duchess of Clarence , another sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas; [5.] Alice, wife of Richard, earl of Salisbury , daughter and heir of Eleanor, the third sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas; and [6.] Ralph, earl of Westmorland , son and heir of Elizabeth, the fourth sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas. The hundreds, among other lands and tenements, wer allotted to the duchess to hold as her purparty in the allocation of lands among the co- heirs. She had issue: John, late duke of Somerset , now deceased.

Littlefield and Washlingstone, the hundreds, annual value 63s. 6d., held of the king in chief as 1/100 knight’s fee.

She died on 1 January 1440. After her death the hundreds descended to Margaret, her kin and heir, daughter and heir of the duke, aged 3 and now in royal custody.

John Metford, esquire , received the issues of the hundred from the time of her death until the day of this inquisition.

[Head:] Delivered to court on 2 June 1446.