E-CIPM 26-389: GILES DAUBENEY, KNIGHT

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GILES DAUBENEY, KNIGHT

Inquisition Head

LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition. Lincoln, the castle. 11 February 1446. [Seint Poule].

Jurors

Jurors: William Asshelyn of Scothern; Thomas Emson of ?Scampton (Sampton); Robert Swan and Laurence Hylle of Dunholme; John Herryson of Riseholme; Thomas Kendale ; William Reyner of Saxilby; John ?Estrek, Robert ?Gonne, and John Barton of North or South Carlton; Thomas Calton of Broxholme; Hugh Fyssher of Reepham; and John Bayon and John Bayon, junior , of Dunholme.

Holdings
He held the following in demesne as of fee. n202
‘South’ Ingleby, the manor, held of the lord Roos, of the castle of Belvoir, by knight service. There are there 84½ a. pasture in various several enclosures (clausuris) pertaining to the manor, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 66 a. meadow, now flooded by the water called Till, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. wood in ‘le Northwode’, worth nothing yearly, because they were sold by Giles in 16 Henry VI [1437–8]; 22 bovates of land in Saxilby, in the hands of various tenants at will, each worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 40 a. pasture in a field called ‘Oldehalle’ and ‘Maydenhale’, each acre worth 2d. yearly; in the parish of Broxholme, 2s. assize rent, which the abbot of Barlings pays at Michaelmas; and 30 bovates of land in the hands of various tenants at will, each worth 3s. 4d. yearly.
He was seised of the following by curtesy by hereditary right of Mary, late his wife. n203
Stubton, 2 bovates of land, annual value 3s. 4d.; and
Claypole, 2 bovates of land, annual value 3d. 4d.,
held of Robert Elys, esquire , in socage, pertaining to the manor of Cotham in Nottinghamshire.

He died on 11 January 1446. William Daubeney is his son and next heir, aged 22 and more.Joan, daughter of Giles and Mary, is the next heir of Mary as to the premises held by curtesy. She is aged 5 and more.

TNA reference

C 139/121/26 mm. 1–2

Inquisition Head

BEDFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Bedford. 4 February 1446. [Whaplode].

Jurors

Jurors: John Cok and William Hunte of Kempston; William Rycher ; William Falde ; John Fouke ; John Caldecote ; William Whitynge ; John Sturmyn ; Robert Ratell ; John Sweper ; John Vernay ; and John Marion .

Holdings
He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. n204
Kempston, 1/3 manor, called ‘Daubeney maner’, held of the king in chief, of the honour of Huntingdon, as a third part of a moiety of a knight’s fee. The manor contains 12 messuages and 17½ virgates of arable adjoining them in parcels (parcellatim), each messuage with its adjoining land worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 5 measures (mola molorum) of arable, each measure (mola) worth 12d. yearly; 15 cottages, each worth 6d. yearly; 225 a. arable demesne land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 17 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 30 a. wood and underwood, worth nothing because it was cut and sold in 22 and 23 Henry VI [1443–4 and 1444–5]; and assize rent of 55s. and 2 lb. pepper from tenants, at Easter, Midsummer, Michaelmas, and Christmas.
Giles granted to William Clerk , for his good service, 40s. at the above feasts from the third part of the manor, for the term of 60 years, as appears by a charter dated 8 July 1425.

Date of death as 389. William Daubeney is his son and next heir, aged 22 and more.

TNA reference

C 139/121/26 mm. 3–4

Inquisition Head

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Newark-on-Trent. 9 February 1446. [Babyngton].

Jurors

Jurors: John Byngham of Car Colston; Thomas Prengest , Richard Herryson , and William Wyllyngham of Newark-on-Trent; Robert Lewyn of Balderton; John Dovve of Farndon; Robert Wright of Elston; John Moke of Farndon; Hugh Padley , John Baynbrigge , and John Walwyn of Newark-on-Trent; Robert Lane of Coddington; and Richard Smyth of ?Burton Joyce.

Holdings
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Broadholme, a pasture thereby called ‘Southdike’, containing 40 a., each acre worth 2d. yearly; a meadow called ‘Burton Inge’, containing 80 a., each acre worth 3d. yearly; a wood thereby called ‘Southwode’, containing 50 a., worth nothing because it was sold by Giles in 19 Henry VI [1440–1]; and 13s. 4d. assize rent payable by the prioress and convent of Broadholme at Easter and Michaelmas. The above are parcel of the manor of ‘South’ Ingleby in Lincolnshire and are held of the lord Roos, of the castle of Belvoir, by knight service.
He was seised of the following by curtesy in right of Mary, late his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Simon Leke, esquire .
Cotham, the manor, annual value 10 marks, held of Ralph, lord Cromwell , and Margaret his wife, in right of Margaret, of the manor of Granby, as 1 knight’s fee.
Hawton, the manor, annual value £3; and
Newark-on-Trent, certain tenements, annual value 4 marks,
held of the bishop of Lincoln in socage.
Date of death and heirs as 389.
TNA reference

C 139/121/26 mm. 5–6

Inquisition Head

SOMERSET. Inquisition. Yeovil. 26 January 1446. [Champneys].

Jurors

Jurors: Robert Golde ; Thomas Lyte ; Ralph Hille ; Ralph Manston ; William Mountagu ; John Wydecombe ; Thomas Berd ; Nicholas Caas ; John Bisshop ; Thomas Sympson ; John Milborn ; and John Caas .

Holdings
He held the following in demesne as of fee, of the king in chief, by knight service. n205
South Petherton, the manor, with its members, the hamlets of Barrington, Donyatt, Chillington, Over Stratton (Parva Stratton), South Harp (Southyngton alias dict’ Souththorp), Bridge, Drayton, Compton Durvill (Compton), ‘Little’ Lopen (Lytellopynmore), and Rydon; with the hundred of South Petherton and the view of frankpledge there, held twice a year, annual value £6 13s. 4d.; and with the advowson of the chantry of St John the Baptist in South Petherton, worth nothing yearly. In the manor there is a capital messuage, with many buildings, curtilages, gardens, and stanks annexed, worth nothing yearly; a water-mill, worth 5s. yearly; a dovecot, worth 4s. yearly; 2 a. arable, worth 2s. yearly; 100 a. pasture, in a park where wild beasts (bestie) are pastured, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 1200 a. wood, lying in the king’s forest called Neroche, worth nothing yearly, because the trees there cannot be sold (non sunt vendibiles); a common pasture in the forest and in a place called ‘Westmore’ by the forest, for those dwelling at (pro resident’ apud) Barrington, worth 8d. yearly; a court, pertaining to the manor, held at various times of the year, of which the perquisites and profits are worth £4 yearly; assize rent of £17 4s. and a rose, from various free tenants, payable at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer, and Michaelmas; £60 6s. 8d. rent from various tenants at will, according to the custom of the manor, payable at the same terms; £31 10s. 6d. rent from various tenants of barton land at the will of the lord, payable at the same terms; and a market held every Thursday, of which the issues – with the issues of a bakehouse (furnus) there – are worth £4 6s. yearly.
In the manor there are the following, which John Peny and Agnes his wife hold for the term of their lives by grant of Giles, without paying anything:
a tenement called ‘Shetheresplace’, containing 20 a. land and 3 a. meadow;
a tenement called ‘Lowesplace’;
6 a. land and ½ a. meadow; a cottage in ‘Chepestrete’; and
5 a. pasture at ‘Hammes’
. Royal licence was obtained and shown to the jurors [cf. CPR 1441–6, p. 190]. The reversion pertains to Giles and his heirs.

Date of death and heir as 390, heir here aged 21 on 11 June last. At his death Giles had a wife Alice, who survives.

[Head:] Delivered to court on 15 February 1446.

TNA reference

C 139/121/26 m. 7–8

Holdings

Holdings

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
‘South’ Ingleby
Total: -
Stubton, Cotham
Total: -
Claypole, Cotham
Total: -

Extents

Extents

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
‘South’ Ingleby
Total: -

People

People

  • Louth(Writ Clerk)

Jurors

  • William Asshelyn of Scothern
  • Thomas Emson of ?Scampton (Sampton)
  • Robert Swan
  • Laurence Hylle
  • John Herryson of Riseholme
  • Thomas Kendale
  • William Reyner of Saxilby
  • John ?Estrek
  • Robert ?Gonne
  • John Barton
  • Thomas Calton of Broxholme
  • Hugh Fyssher of Reepham
  • John Bayon
  • John Bayon, junior

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