‹ E-CIPM 18-440: RALPH CHEYNY, KNIGHT ›

Holdings

He held by the courtesy of England in right of Joan his late wife, daughter of John Pavely, knight :

Brook, the manor, with half the profits of the hundred of Westbury, half the profits of the portmote, fair and markets there, and £6 rent from the manors of Westbury and Huntenhull, of the king in chief as half a knight’s fee, annual value £20 13s.4d.

Imber, half a messuage and 2 carucates, of the prior of Bradenstoke by a rent of 12s.6d., annual value 20s.

Hilperton, half the manor and the advowson, of the earl of March as a quarter fee; annual values, half manor 40s., advowson £10.

Ditteridge, 1 messuage and 1 carucate, of the bishop of Bath and Wells , service unknown, annual value 40s.

Holdings

He held in his demesne as of fee two parts of the manor of Cheyneys with its appurtenances in Steeple Morden, Clapton and Bassingbourn, and the reversion of the third part which Katherine widow of Edmund Cheyny, knight , the brother to whom Ralph was heir, holds in dower. The whole is held of the king of the honour of Boulogne as half a knight’s fee, annual value of the two parts £12.

Holdings

He held the manor of Tothill with the advowson in his demesne as of fee of the earl of Chester of the honour of Chester by knight service, annual value £40; also a croft in Tothill containing 40 a. pasture, of Roger Swelyngton of the manor of Castle Carlton in socage by fealty and a rent of 10 1/2d., annual value 20s.

Holdings

He held in his demesne as of fee:

Cottered, the manor called Chenyes; of which 60 a. are held of the king in chief of the honour of Boulogne as a quarter of a knight’s fee; annual value 60s.; 1 messuage and 1 croft containing 1 a. of Henry Bateman by a rent of 12d., annual value 3s.4d.; and 1 tenement and 11 a. of Andrew Bures by a rent of 21d., annual value 2s.

Reyndels and Longcroft in Cottered, 9 1/2 a., of the same William [ sic ] Bateman by a rent of 2 1/2d., annual value 18d.

Cottered, 2 a., of William FitzRauf by rent of 1 lb. of cumin, annual value 6d.; 20 a. and 1 grove of wood containing 1 1/2 a., of John Clerk by a rent of 5s., annual value 6d.

Holbrook in Cottered, 9 a., of John parson of Cottered in right of the church by a rent of 4s., annual value 6d.

Holdings

He held nothing in the county.

Holdings

He held nothing of the king in chief, but Thomas de Gorges held in his demesne as of fee the manor of Litton Cheney with the advowson, and gave it to Ralph de Gorges , Eleanor his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. They had issue Elizabeth, Eleanor and Joan, and died and their holdings were divided. This manor and advowson were allotted to Elizabeth as her share, and she had issue Robert de Asshton , and died, and they descended to him, and he died without heirs of his body. Then they descended to Maurice Russell, knight , and Ralph Cheyny, knight ; Maurice being the son of Ralph son of Eleanor, sister of Elizabeth, and Ralph being the son of Joan, the other sister of Elizabeth, mother of Robert. They divided the manor and advowson, so that Ralph Cheyny held half the manor with alternate presentations to the church when he died.

The whole is held of Richard Stucle of his manor of Chewton by knight service. In Cheyny’s half are 80 a. arable of which two parts can be sown yearly, worth 10d. an a., and after reaping nothing, and the third part is fallow and common and worth nothing; 30 a. meadow in several places from Candlemas to Lammas worth 3s. an a.; 100 a. pasture from Christmas to 8 Sept., agistment 60s.; assize rents of free tenants and villeins payable at the four principal terms, 60s.; and pleas and perquisites of the court of the half manor, 5s.