‹ E-CIPM 19-443: WILLIAM BLAKEMORE ›

Holdings

He held a quarter of the manor of Horton, 6 messuages, 100 a. arable, 12 a. meadow and a watermill in Horton with the advowson, 6 1/2 a. arable in Langley Marish and 12 a. meadow in Iver, and enfeoffed John, parson of Horton , Edmund Tettusworth , William Bayford and others unknown, to them and their heirs, on condition that they re-enfeoffed William, Joan his wife and their heirs, with remainder to his heirs. He died on 14 May 1390 . Before re-enfeoffment took place Edmund Tettuseworth and William Bayford died. On 12 Feb. 1387 during the life of Joan, John the parson granted the quarter manor, mill and advowson by his charter to Thomas Melreth and Godfrey atte Perye , to them and their heirs, contrary to the above condition. They have held them ever since.

Margaret Melreth is next heir to William Blakemore , being the daughter of Katherine his daughter, and aged 14 years. Katherine died on 20 Oct. 1407 .

In 1392–3 William Blakemore diverted the stream by his mill onto the king’s highway, and on the highway on the common waste of Horton built a fulling mill across the water. The tenants of Horton have common pasture of the king of his hundred of Stoke, service unknown. William Blakemore took the profits of the mill from 1389–90 to 1392–3, then Joan and Geoffrey Grygge , then her husband, held it until 1397–8, and Thomas Melreth has held it since 1397–8; annual value 13s.4d.

The stream was diverted and the mill built to the prejudice of Richard II and his heirs, and so continue. William Spelyng in 1395–6 inclosed a parcel of the common pasture of Horton to the king’s prejudice and made a field worth 12d. yearly. Thomas Melreth inclosed a parcel in 1398–9 next to the tenement called Okehyde without licence, annual value 8d.