‹ E-CIPM 18-564: ROBERT ASSHEFELDE ›

Holdings

He held in his demesne as of fee the manor of Little Haugh of the king in chief by knight service, and enfeoffed by the king’s licence [ CPR 1399–1401 , p.387, 25 Nov. 1400 ] John Ixworth , Walter Ixworth and John Berton , clerks, and others, and he took the profits before and after the enfeoffment all his life.

Roger Drury, knight , who held and still holds 1 1/2 a. of meadow in Thurston of that manor by fealty and a rent of 13d. yearly, and John Bayle of Hessett, senior , who also held and still holds certain lands and tenements by a rent of 6d. and other lands, never attorned for these services; and so Robert Asshfelde died seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor and services.

The above feoffment was made on condition of enfeoffing Robert, grandson and heir of Robert, when he became 21, thus by fraud and collusion excluding the king from the wardship and marriage of Robert. Annual value £20.

He also held in his demesne as of fee half the advowson of the priory of Ixworth and 1d. rent of the king in chief by knight service, annual value 4d.

[ Cf. CIM VII, no. 208].

Holdings

He held in his demesne as of fee:

Little Haugh, the manor, of the king in chief by knight service of the barony of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset as a twenty-fifth part of a knight’s fee, annual value £20.

Stowlangtoft, the manor and advowson, with lands and tenements in Stowlangtoft, Yoxford, Langham, Bardwell, Winston, ‘Belyngham’, Hepworth, Weston, Walsham, Hunston, Great Ashfield and Little Ashfield, of the abbot of Bury St. Edmunds by knight service, annual value £20.

Stanton, 1 tenement called ‘Mekelfeldis’ with the advowson of half the church, of the tenants of the manor of Horsford by knight service, annual value 5 marks; another tenement there called ‘Nicholis de Stanton’ and another called ‘Toroldys’ of the said abbot, service unknown, annual value 40s.

Holdings

Robert de Asshfeld of Suffolk held in his demesne as of fee the manor called ‘Dersynghamsmanere’ in the vills of Beechamwell and Barton Bendish of James Byllyngford , service unknown, annual value 10 marks; and the manor called ‘Josysmanere’ in Shingham of the earl of March of the honour of Clare, service likewise unknown, annual value 5 marks.