‹ E-CIPM 18-1192: WILLIAM WYKEHAM , BISHOP OF WINCHESTER ›

Holdings

William Wykeham, bishop of Winchester , died on 27 Sept. last holding quitrents of £10 11s.8d. payable at Easter and Michaelmas from the following tenements in the parish of All Hallows the Less in Dowgate ward:

The house of John Beaufort, earl of Somerset , which the king granted him after the forfeiture of John earl of Huntingdon [CPR 1399–1401 , p.546], 20s.

A tenement formerly of John Weston and now of Richard Northlode, knight , and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Alice Perers , 20s.

A tenement formerly of Robert Turk, knight , 20s.

A tenement formerly of Henry Darcy and Margery his wife in the right of Margery, and now of Richard Torell , 53s.4d.

A tenement formerly of William Enot , citizen and draper, 10s.

A tenement of John Snypston , vintner, and Joan his wife, daughter of Simon Benfeld , 26s.8d.

Also the following in the parish of All Hallows the Great in the same ward:

The tenements in Greenwich Lane of the prior of the new hospital outside Bishopsgate, 20s.

A tenement of Philip Seynclere, knight , and Margaret his wife, formerly called Coldharbour, on both sides of the lane, 26s.8d.

A tenement of Nicholas Waterton , formerly of William Leyre , 20d.

A tenement of the prior of the hospital of St. Mary Elsing Spital within Cripplegate, formerly of John Norhampton , 7s.10d.

A capital messuage of two lanes in the Ropery now held by Robert Comberton , 5s.6d., and

A tenement of Robert Parys called the ‘Castell in the Hope’ in the parish of St. Margaret Moses in Friday Street, Bread Street ward, 1 lb. pepper at Easter.

Holdings

William Wykeham, bishop of Winchester , held the manor of Piddlehinton, part of the possessions of the alien priory of Mortain, for life by the grant of Edward III [CPR 1370–4 , p.219]. It has now come into the king’s hands and belongs to the king.

There are assize rents of £11 3s. payable by equal parts at the four terms; 100 a. arable, of which 30 lie fallow and 70 at 4d. are worth 23s.4d. annually; common pasture for 300 sheep, 10s.; 2 a. meadow, herbage before harvesting 8s. but afterwards nil because common; a close anciently of the manor house, pasture 4s.; and perquisites of court 13s.4d.