Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 88

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Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 88


544.	THOMAS DE STOKTON.
LEICESTER.	Inq. 20 April, 17 Edward II.
	Roteby. A plot and a virgate of land, held jointly on the day he died by the said Thomas and Maud his wife, as of purchase to them and the heirs of their bodies, of the king in chief by knight’s service; and a plot and a virgate of land held by the said Thomas of the prioress of Noneton by service of 4s. 11d. yearly.
	E. Enrolments &c. of Inq. No. 11.
545.	JOHN DE NUIOUN.
	Writ, 8 April, 18 Edward II.
NORFOLK.	Inq. 30 May, 18 Edward II.
	Salle. The manor, with lands &c. in Dallyngg, held of John son of John de Segrave as of his manor of Folkstan by knight’s service. John his son, aged 16, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (1.)
546.	JOHN DE TOTHALE.
	Writ, 12 December, 18 Edward II.
[HERTFORD.]	Inq. taken at Codicote, 10 January, 18 Edward II.
	(Unspecified.) A messuage and 160a. land, held of the heirs of Edmund de Tothale in socage by service of a clove gillyflower; and 15a. land held of John de Stebbyngg in socage by service of 1d. He held no lands of the king in chief. John his son, aged 13, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (2.)
547.	THOMAS DE LASCELS.
	Writ, 27 January, 18 Edward II.
YORK.	Inq. Monday in Whitsun week, 18 Edward II.
	Escrik. A messuage and 24a. land, held in tail to him and the heirs of his body, of Joan de Curewenne by service of 1d. yearly, with remainder to the said Joan and her heirs. He died without heir of his body.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (3.)
548.	[ (fn. 1) WILLIAM DE BUWORTH deest.
BUCKINGHAM.	Hamslape, Gothurste and Lathebury. A messuage, 100a. land and 2a. pasture.]
549.	JOHN ALDELOT THE YOUNGER, of Newsom by Frodingham.
	Writ, 6 May, 18 Edward II.
[YORK.]	Inq. 3 June, 18 Edward II.
	Neusom by Frothingham. A capital messuage, 2 bovates of land, and 1 1/2a. meadow, and the reversion of 2 bovates of land which John Aldelot the elder holds for life, held of the king in chief as of the honour of Albemarle by service of 1/96 knight’s fee. William Aldelot his brother, aged 24 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (4.)
550.	JOHN SON OF MATTHEW DE BURGH.
	Writ, 3 April, 18 Edward II.
YORK.	Inq. Friday the morrow of SS. James the Apostle, 19 Edward II.
	Burton in Lonesdale. A ruinous messuage, 10 bovates of land lying waste from the devastation of the Scots, and 20a. pasture called Groskolm destroyed by the Scots, held of John de Britannia, earl of Richemond, as of the manor of Burton in Lonesdale by homage and fealty and service of 5 1/2d. yearly. Roger de Burgh his brother, aged 40 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (5.)
551.	ADAM DES OKES alias DE OKES.
	Writ, 11 October, 18 Edward II.
WARWICK.	Inq. Thursday before SS. Simon and Jude, 18 Edward II.
	Whitteleye. A messuage and 2 virgates of land, held of the king in chief by service of rendering at the king’s exchequer by the hands of the sheriff of Warwick 1/2d. called ‘warth’ yearly for all service. He held no other lands, &c. in the bailiwick. William, son of William de Okes brother of the said Adam, aged 26 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edward II. File 88. (6.)
552.	ROBERT JULYAN of Sketlyng alias Skeftelyng.
	Writ, 6 May, 18 Edward II.
YORK.	Inq. 3 June, 18 Edward II.
	Sunthorp. 4s. rent with foreign service from free tenants for 4 bovates of land, held of the king in chief as of the honour of Albemarle by service of 1/96 knight’s fee. Skeftelyng. A messuage containing 2a., 1 3/4 bovate of land, and 3 1/2a. meadow, held of the abbot of Thornton by service of 2s. yearly. Nicholas his son, aged 30 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (7.)
553.	JOHN DE CASTRE.
	Writ, 11 October, 18 Edward II.
NOTTINGHAM.	Inq. Saturday before St. Edmund the King, 18 Edward II.
	Kyngeshagh. The manor (extent given), held jointly with Isabel his wife, who survives, as of acquisition (ut de perquisito) to them and the heirs of the said John, of the king by fealty only. William de Castre his brother, aged 50 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (8.)
554.	JOHN DE WARE.
	Writ, 27 December, 18 Edward II.
ESSEX.	Inq. 13 January, 18 Edward II.
	Heydene. A toft and 21 1/2a. land, held of the king in chief by service of 2s. yearly; and 1 1/2a. land held of Warin de Insula by service of 1d. yearly. William son of William de Suttone, brother of the said John de Ware, is his next heir and of full age.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (9.)
555.	ALAN DE ARCHES.
	Writ, 3 March, 18 Edward II.
BUCKINGHAM.	Inq. 13 April, 18 Edward II.
	Edrop and Crundewelle. Four virgates of land held for life by the demise of Richard de Arches, sometime lord of Edrope, of the king as of the inheritance of Richard son of Simon de Arches, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of a clove gillyflower, of the manor of Edrope, which is held of the king in chief by knight’s service. The said tenements are held of the honour of Wallingford. Hadenham and Codington. A messuage, 78a. land, 17a. meadow and 30s. rent, held for life of Robert de Upton, clerk, as appears by a fine levied in the king’s court, by service of a rose yearly. Cherdeslegh. A messuage and a virgate of land, held as above by the same fine, and charged in 8s. to the abbot of Tame, and 4d. to Peter Carbonel. Richard son of Geoffrey de Arches, aged 5, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (10.)
556.	ELA DE PERERS, LATE THE WIFE OF JAMES DE PERREREZ.
	Writ, 9 June, 18 Edward II.
STAFFORD.	Inq. taken at Stone on Monday after All Saints, 19 Edward II.
	Coldenorton. Two parts of the township (extent given), held without any service of the heirs of Nicholas de Audeleye, who hold the same of John de Hastang, lord of Schebeseye, by service of rendering to him when they shall do fealty 50s. and a sparrowhawk; and an assart held of the prior, &c. of Sone (sic) by service of 30s. yearly. Bettyleye. 16s. rent held of the heirs abovesaid without any service. James de Perrerez, her son, aged 11 at the feast of Easter last, is her next heir.
STAFFORD.	Inq. Wednesday the eve of St. James the Apostle. 19 Edward II.
	Astansfeld. A third part of the manor (extent given), held for life of James de Audeleye by service of rendering yearly a rose only. Longeston. A moiety of a water-mill and 60s. rents of assize, similarly held for life by service of a rose. James son of Nicholas de Audeleye, aged 12 at Christmas day last, is her heir (of the above) by reason of the reversion, and he is in the wardship of Ranulph de Kamoyse.
HEREFORD.	Inq. 13 July, 19 Edward II.
	Ledebury. A burgage held of Master Emisius de Juvensano, portionary (porcionario) in the church of Ledebury, service unspecified; and a messuage with garden and 30a. land, held of the bishopric of Hereford by service of 5s. yearly. Hatfeld. 10s. rent from 2 messuages and 30a. land, which Thomas Aubrey and Agnes his wife hold for life by the demise of the said Ela, with reversion to her heir, whereof a messuage and 20a. land are held of the abovesaid Master Emisius by service of 6s. and suit of court, and the other messuage with garden and 10a. land, are held of Master Gilbert de Middelton portionary in the church of Ledebury, by service of 4s. and suit of court. Masynton. A messuage and 12a. land, held of Walter le Chaumberleyn by service of 4s. 1d. yearly and suit of court. James de Perrers, aged 10 on Sunday next before St. Katherine in this year, is her next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (11.)
557.	RICHARD ATTE OKE.
	Writ, 4 March, 18 Edward II.
SOUTHAMPTON.	Inq. 10 April, 18 Edward II.
	Burghton. A messuage, half a carucate of land, and 3a. meadow, held of the heirs of Adam de Greville by service of 10s. 4d. yearly; a messuage, 1 1/2 carucate and a virgate of land, 4a. meadow, and 60s. rent, held of William de Harewedone, lord of Burghtone, by service of two parts of 1/2 knight’s fee, and rendering 1d. yearly to the heirs of Eleanor Cotel; and a messuage, a virgate of land, and 3a. meadow, held of the aforesaid William by service of 10s. yearly. John his son, aged 4, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (12.)
558.	WILLIAM DE AYOT.
	Writ, 5 March, 18 Edward II.
SUSSEX.	Inq. Saturday, 8 March, 18 Edward II.
	Cicestre suburb. A messuage, 2 dovecotes, 96a. land, 1a. meadow, 1a. pasture, and 15s. 2d. rents of assize, with the advowson of the church of St. Pancras, held of the king in chief by serjeanty, viz.—rendering to the king whenever he shall come by a lane called Goudestrete to make war upon the southern sea, a spindle full of raw thread for making a false cord of a crossbow. Nicholas his son, aged 34, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (13.)
559.	WILLIAM DE SLENE.
	Writ, 23 December, 18 Edward II.
LANCASTER.	Inq. Friday after the Circumcision, 18 Edward II.
	Osclef. A messuage and 12a. land, held jointly with Alice his wife, to them and the heirs of the said William, in socage of the king, as of the honour of Lancaster, by the forfeiture of Thomas late earl of Lancaster, by fealty and service of 12d. yearly. Lancaster. 20a. land lying waste, similarly held of the king in socage, by service of 5s.; and 6 messuages held, as of the inheritance of the said Alice, in socage of the king by service of 5s. yearly. Gryseheved in Asseton. A messuage and 10a. land, held of Christiana de Gynes by fealty and service of 2s. 9d. yearly, and suit at her court of Wyresdale. William his son, aged 7, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (14.)
560.	JOHN DE PARVA RYHILL SON OF HENRY DE RYHILL.
	Writ of devenerunt, 23 January, 18 Edward II.
NORTHUMBERLAND.	Inq. Thursday before St. George the Martyr, 18 Edward II.
	Little Rihill. Eight cottages, 3 carucates of land, and a third part of a water-mill, all worth nothing on account of the devastation of the Scots, came into the king’s hands after the death of the said Henry by reason of the minority of the said John his son and heir; they are held of the king in chief by service of rendering 20s. at the king’s exchequer of Newcastle upon Tyne, and 13s. 1/2d. for cornage yearly. Richard de Rihill son of the said Henry, and brother of the said John, aged 24 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (15.)
561.	ROBERT DE WESSINTON.
	Writ, 18 August, 18 Edward II.
LANCASTER.	Inq. Wednesday before SS. Simon and Jude, 18 Edward II.
	Kernesforde. A moiety of the manor (extent given), held jointly with Joan his wife who survives, by the enfeoffment of Walter de Stirkelaunde to them and the heirs of their bodies, of the king, as of the earldom of Lancaster, by homage and service of 2 1/2d. for the guard of the castle of Lancaster for 1/24 knight’s fee. Robert de Wessinton, aged 28 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (16.)
562.	ROBERT DE PUNCHARDOUN alias DE PONCHARDON.
	Writ, 3 May, 18 Edward II.
BERKS.	Inq. 8 June, 18 Edward II.
	Stanford. The manor (extent given), held jointly with Agnes his wife of the heirs of John de Someri, late lord of Doddelye [alias Duddelee], by service of 1/3 knight’s fee and suit at the two views of the manor of Bradefild. Oliver de Punchardoun, his brother, aged 36, is his next heir.
SOUTHAMPTON.	Inq. 9 June, 18 Edward II.
	Faccombe. The manor (extent given), including rent of assize of a tenement at ‘la Strete,’ held jointly with Agnes his wife of the king in chief by service of 1/2 knight’s fee. Heir as above.
	Writ of certiorari on the complaint of Agnes late the wife of the said Robert that the escheator had taken into the king’s hand the manor of Stanford which Oliver de Ponchardon granted to the said Robert and Agnes in free marriage, 4 May, 18 Edward II.
BERKS.	Inq. 7 June, 18 Edward II.
	Stanford. The manor was given to the said Robert and Agnes in 11 Edward II, by Oliver de Punchardon in free marriage, and they jointly continued their seisin of the same until the death of the said Robert; the manor is held as abovesaid.
	Similar writ of certiorari concerning the manor of Faccombe, 4 May, 18 Edward II.
SOUTHAMPTON.	Inq. 9 June, 18 Edward II.
	Faccombe. The manor was given to the said Robert and Agnes in 17 Edward II. by Stephen Baret, parson of Bryngwyn, by the king’s licence, to them and the heirs of the said Robert, and they jointly continued their seisin of the same until the death of the said Robert; the manor is held as abovesaid.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (17.)
563.	WILLIAM MARTYN.
	Writ, 8 October, 18 Edward II.
SOUTH WALES.	Inq. 23 October, 18 Edward II.
	The country (Patriam) of Kemmeys (extent given), including the castle and town of Neuport, held of the king in chief by service of 1 1/4 knight’s fee. William his son, aged 30, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (18.)
564.	JOAN DAUGHTER OF STEPHEN DE PENECESTRE.
	Writ, 17 November, 18 Edward II.
KENT.	Inq. Monday the morrow of St. Katherine, 18 Edward II.
	Boxle. 40a. land, and 6s. 8d. rent from tenants who also do suit at her court at Ouenhulle, held of the king in chief by service of finding the king in his army of Wales, a horse price 5s., a sack price 6d., and a ‘proen’ price 1/2d., and by service of aiding in repairing the bridge of Rochester when necessary. Elyntone. The manor held of Roger de Kyrkeby by service of a knight’s fee, and by him of the archbishop of Canterbury. Stephen de Cobeham, knight, her son, is her next heir and of full age.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (19.)
565.	JAMES DE LA HYDE of Great Waltham.
	Writ, 13 September, 18 Edward II.
[ESSEX.]	Inq. 10 November, 18 Edward II.
	Great Waltham. A messuage, 140a. land, 5a. meadow, 12a. wood and 4s. 8d. rent of assize, held of the manor of High Estre, which is of the honour of Maundevill, late of the earl of Hereford and now escheat in the king’s hand, by service of 1/8 knight’s fee. He died on 2 August [last]. Elizabeth his daughter, aged 6 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (20.)
566.	EMMA, LATE THE WIFE OF JAMES DE LA HYDE of Great Waltham.
	Writ to the escheator to cause her dower to be assigned to the said Emma, having received her oath not to marry without the king’s licence, 11 February, 18 Edward II.
	E. Inq. P.M. File 8 (1.)
567.	SIMON DE HOLAND.
	Writ, 15 May, 18 Edward II.
LANCASTER.	Inq. Monday after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 19 Edward II.
	Goldeburn. A messuage, 20a. arable, 15a. moss (mosci), and 10a. wood, held of the king as of the manor of Holande, now in the king’s hand, by service of 1lb. cummin for all service. Adburgham. 10a. alderwood held of Richard de Adburgham by service of 2s. 3d. yearly. Pynyngton. A wood called Brokhurst held of William Butiller, lord of Weryngton, by service of a rose. Simon his son, aged 24 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (21.)
568.	PHILIPPA, LATE THE WIFE OF JOHN DE HUNDON.
	Writ, 26 October, 18 Edward II.
LINCOLN.	Inq. 27 May, 18 Edward II.
	Grimpelthorp. A capital messuage 88a. arable, 1 1/2a. meadow, 2a. pasture called le Holm, which between 1 May and the gule of August is several, and for the residue of the year is common, and a croft lot to farm for 20d. yearly, held of the honour of Lancaster by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, rendering 5s. yearly for the guard of the castle of Lancaster, and doing suit at the ‘Retrocomitatus’ of Lincoln, and rendering 3d. to John de Nevill and 3d. to Adam Cony, yearly. Her daughters, Joan aged 13 and more, and Margaret aged 12 and more, are her next heirs.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (22.)
569.	ISABEL DE BAGGERIGGE.
	Writ, 1 April, 18 Edward II.
DORSET.	Inq. 16 April, 18 Edward II.
	Baggeriggestret. 2 messuages and 22 1/3a. land, held of the king in chief as parcel of a petty serjeanty there, by service of 12d. yearly payable at the king’s exchequer by the hands of the sheriff of Dorset. John Wyther her son, aged 26 and more, is her next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (23.)
570.	JOHN DE BENEFELD.
	Writ, 12 March (sic), 18 Edward II.
SUSSEX.	Inq. Monday the morrow of St. Matthias (sic), 18 Edward II.
	Benetfeld. A capital messuage, 127a. land, 10a. meadow, 20a. pasture, 8a. wood, 3a. moor, 22s. 7d. rent &c. held of the heir of Edmund le Botiller, a minor and in the king’s wardship, as of his manor of Shire by service of a knight’s fee; 20a. land and a windmill, held of the prior of Lewes by service of 10s. yearly at the feast of St. Pancras, on which day he ought to come to Lewes with twelve others on horseback and spend the day at the cost of the prior, who shall give him on leaving a cheese price 15d., which land and mill are not sufficient to pay that rent; and 14a. land held of Thomas de Ponynges, service unknown. Bedyngg. Two virgates of land, now in the hands of Walter Bulmer who held them of the said John by service of 11s. 3d. yearly, held of Nicholas de Hertrugge by service of 1/20 knight’s fee, suit at his court of Wodemancote, and 2d. for sheriff’s aid yearly. Henfeld. 16a. land, now in the hands of Robert atte Broke who held them by service of 2s. yearly, held of the same Nicholas by service of 1/40 knight’s fee and 2s. yearly; and 12a. land, now in the hands of the same Robert who held them by service of 3s. yearly, held of John de Wolvelegh by service of 1/160 knight’s fee, and 12d. yearly. Shorham. 18d. and 1lb. wax, price 6d., rent, held of William de Brewes without any service. Slaugham. 3s. 2d. yearly rent, service unknown. James, son of Walter son of the aforesaid John, aged 9 at the feast of All Saints last, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (24.)
571.	JOHN DE FOXLE.
	Writ, 28 November, 18 Edward II.
SOUTHAMPTON.	Inq. 9 January, 18 Edward II.
	Pambere Forest. 58a. and 3r., by the perch of 20 feet, in a plot of heath in Haysull in the bailiwick of Everesle, whereof one head abuts on a bridge called ‘Wymeresford brugg,’ and the other upon land called Herewardeslond, held jointly with Constance his wife of the king in chief by service of rendering 4s. 10 3/4d. yearly to the king by the hands of the sheriff; and a messuage and 80a. arable at Bromshulle, similarly held of the king in chief as of his manor of Odiham by service of 2s. yearly and suit of court at the said manor. Thomas his son, aged 33, is his next heir.
BUCKINGHAM.	Inq. 16 February, 18 Edward II.
	Colveredon. A messuage, a water-mill, 2 tofts, 89a. 1r. arable, 1a. meadow, 4a. pasture and 6d. rent, similarly held of the king as of his manor of King’s Rysburgh by service of suit at the king’s court of Risburgh, and rendering 33s. 9d. yearly at the said manor. Sauntresdon. 7 messuages, a water-mill, 2 virgates and 80a. of land, 4a. meadow, 20a. wood, 20s. rent, and the advowson of the church, similarly held of the king in chief as of the honour of Walingeford by homage and fealty and suit at the court of Walyngeford. Bledelaweruge. A messuage and a virgate of land is held for life by Alexander Semnour (?) of the said John and Constance, rendering 30s. yearly, tenure unknown. Heir as above.
BERKS.	Inq. 29 [December], 18 Edward II. (defaced.)
	Wyndesouer Forest. 35a., 1r., and 10 perches of land, by the perch of 21 feet, at ‘le Hurtestrete,’ Pratteshull and Halseshull, and between Halseshull and pourprestures which were sometime of Henry Wade, held jointly as above, of the king in chief by rendering 17s. 8d. yearly to the king by the hands of the sheriff; 75a., 1r. and 27 3/4 perches of land between Clenhurst and Fifhidestret in 5 plots, 2 1/2a. by Wolvele, and 21 1/2a. on the heath at Brendemulle, similarly held of the king by rendering 33s. 1 3/4d. yearly to the king by the hands of the sheriff; and 26 1/2a. and 32 1/2 perches of land in Halseshull between Fifhideslane and Greater Halseslane, between Greater and Lesser Halseslane, and between Lesser Halseslane and Wadeslane, similarly held of the king by rendering 8s. 10 3/4d. yearly at the king’s exchequer by the hands of the sheriff. Braye. 7a. land similarly held of Hugh le Despenser the younger by service of rendering 2s. yearly at the manor of Bustlesham. Waltham. 10a. land similarly held of the abbot of Certeseye by service of 2s. yearly. Braye. A messuage, 87a., 1/2r., and 135 1/4 perches and 1 butt (?) (boticium) of arable land, held by the said John of the king in chief by service of 5s. yearly at the king’s exchequer by the hands of the sheriff; and a messuage, a virgate of land containing 16a., and a grove, held of the heirs of John de Shorteford by service of 1d. yearly. Heir as above.
	C. Edw. II. File 88. (25.)
	(fn. 2) E. Enrolments, &c., of Inq. No. 13.