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[Writ not required.]
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Inquisition ex officio. Newnham.
26 May 1402 [
Whityngton].
Jurors:
John
Hicokes
;
William
Boxe
;
Philip
Hoke
;
Richard
Brayn of Little Dean
;
John
Clerk
of
Blakemoor Hall
;
Nicholas
Bray
;
Richard
Norton
;
Thomas
Smyth
of
Blakeney
;
Walter
Phelpes
;
John
Hayward
;
Thomas
Norton
; and
Thomas
atte
Hyde
.
He held in his demesne as of fee 1 messuage and 1 carucate in Awre, which King John granted to
Walter
de
Aura, senior
, his ancestor, for his homage and service, by the name of 2 virgates, 6 a. and 1 meadow called ‘Hundomor’, by the service of 1 mark yearly, annual value 20s.
He died on 3 Nov. 1376. His widow Joan claimed a third part in dower and held it until she died on 26 June 1396. Maud and Joan, his daughters and next heirs, were aged 18 years and more and 17 years and more when he died.
They held two parts. Maud married
John
Felde
. John, Maud and Joan took the profits of the two parts without royal licence until 9 Feb. 1397 when Joan died without heirs.
John
Felde
and Maud then held two parts and since the death of Robert’s widow they have also held the other part, comprising 16 a. arable and 2 a. meadow. They are holding it all without royal licence, title unknown.
C 137/33/65 m. 1
E 152/8/373 m. 1 #2
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