‹ E-CIPM 20-495: ALEXANDER DE METHAM, KNIGHT ›

Holdings

He held a house in Southwark called ‘Bolehede at Stewes’ with cottage and garden in his demesne as of fee of the bishop of Winchester by a yearly rent of 11s. payable by equal parts at Easter and Michaelmas, annual value 6s.8d.

Holdings

He held lands and tenements in Ashton in his demesne as of fee of the duke of Bedford by knight service, annual value 5 marks.

Holdings

He held in his demesne as of fee:

Southburn, 7 messuages, 14 bovates, and Tibthorpe, 1 messuage, of the king in chief by knight service, annual value £6.

Tibthorpe, 1 messuage, 2 bovates, of John lord Roos , service unknown, annual value 20s.

North Cave, 5 messuages, 8 bovates, 3 1/2 a. meadow and … bovates … in Kettlethorpe, of St. Peter’s cathedral, York, service unknown, annual value 60s.

Drewton, 6 bovates, of Thomas de Myton , service unknown, annual value 16s.8d.

Yarm, 1 messuage, 10 bovates, of John Studhow , service unknown, annual value 16s.8d.

Naburn, 40 a., of William Palmes , service unknown, annual value 10s.

Metham, the manor, with 3 cottages, 40 a. in Greenoak, 60 messuages, 15 bovates in Howden, 5 messuages, 80 a. in Newland, 5 messuages, 70 a. in Skelton, 24 a. in Thorp, 4 messuages, 24 a. in Kilpin, all of the bishop of Durham , services unknown, annual value £20.

Yokefleet, 1 messuage … a. arable and meadow, and a fishgarth, of the prior of Finchale , service unknown, annual value …

Blacktoft, 1 messuage, 12 a., of R … H …, knight, service unknown, annual value 40d.

Balkholme, half the manor; Sandholme and ‘Lympynhyll’ 1 messuage, 20 a.; Saltmarsh, 1 messuage, 2 bovates; Eastrington, 5 messuages, 8 cottages and 20 a.; Owsthorpe, 6 cottages, 80 a.; Linton, 1 messuage, 30 a.; Brakenholme, 12 a.; and Belby, 4 messuages, 30 a., all of the bishop of Durham , service unknown, annual value £20.

Howden, 14 messuages, late of the prior of Durham , of the fee of St. Cuthbert, service unknown, annual value 20s.

Bursea, a 4th part of the manor, of the heirs of Philip Spenser , service unknown, annual value 30s.

Bellasize, 1 toft and 80 a., of the heirs of Robert de la More , service unknown, annual value 20s.

Airmyn, an enclosure of 6 a. and 20 a., moor, of the king of the honor of Pontefract of the duchy of Lancaster, service unknown, annual value 8s.

Pollington, half the manor, annual value £20, and the manors of ‘Vernoille’ in Balne, annual value 60s., Eggborough, annual value 40s., and Thorne, annual value £26, all of the king of the same honor, services unknown.

Wath in Ryedale, the manor of John de Moubray, Earl Marshal , service unknown, annual value £4.

Wombleton, 20 messuages, 24 bovates, meadow and 40 a. wood, and Muscoates and North Holme, 9 messuages, 14 bovates, 6 a. meadow, of the heirs of the earl of Kent , services unknown, annual values 100s. and 100s.

Slingsby, 1 messuage, 1 bovate, of the baron of Greystoke , service unknown, annual value 4s.

Wiganthorpe and Terrington, the manors, with the advowson of Terrington, of Geoffrey Loterell , service unknown, annual value …

Kirkby Fleetham, the manor, of the heirs of Lord Gray , service unknown, annual value 60s.

Langton on Swale, 2 messuages and 4 bovates, of Henry lord Fitzhugh , service unknown, annual value 13s.4d.

Melsonby, the manor and advowson, of the heirs of Lord Gray , service unknown, annual value 100s.

Stapleton, the manor, of Richard lord Scrope of Masham , service unknown, annual value £8.

Dalton, the manor, of the earldom of Richmond, service unknown, annual value £12.

Marr, the manor, of John Fastolf, knight, lord of Bentley , service unknown, annual value £12.

Thorp Arch, 1 messuage, 20 a. arable, and 4 a. meadow, of the Earl Marshal , service unknown, annual value 12s.

Hirst Courtney, the manor, of the king of the honor of Pontefract, service unknown, annual value nil because Thomas granted a yearly rent of £20 from this manor and the manors of Bubnell and Baslow in Derbyshire to Alexander, Elizabeth his wife and his heirs.

Widdington, the manor, extending in Widdington and Nun Monkton, of John Mowbray, Earl Marshall , service unknown, annual value nil because charged with a similar rent to Alexander and Elizabeth and his heirs by the grant of Robert Peirson of Eastrington by a deed dated at Metham on 15 June 1415.

Laxton, the manor, with a fee called ‘Graynelfe’ in Skelton, Saltmarsh and Balkholme in Howden, jointly with Elizabeth his wife, who survives him, by the gift of Thomas de Metham, knight , his father, by a charter dated at Metham on 11 April 1400, to them and the heirs of his body, with remainder to Thomas and his heirs. They are held of the bishop of Durham , service unknown, annual value £12.

Holdings

He held 8 messuages and 17 bovates in Southburn and Tibthorpe in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service, annual value 10 marks.

Thomas de Metham , his father, by his charter dated at Metham on 8 March 1403, shown to the jurors, enfeoffed Alexander, John de Aske , Thomas de Hagthorpe and Robert Peresson of the manors of Metham, Pollington, Eggborough, ‘Vernoille’, Hirst, Marr, Thornton, Wath, Wiganthorpe, Wombleton, Muscoates in Kirkdale, Kirkby Fleetham, Dalton, Melsonby, Stapleton on Tees, Widdington and Bursea, to hold to them and their heirs and assigns.