E-CIPM 21-351: EDMUND MORTIMER, KNIGHT

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EDMUND MORTIMER, KNIGHT

Writ Head

351 Writ melius inquirendo 20 May 1419. [Smyth]. Teste John, duke of Bedford.

Recites findings of an inquisition taken temp. Henry IV before John Grey, then escheator of Dorset. Inquire what interest he had in the manor of Gussage St Michael and by what service he held it.

Inquisition Head

Dorset. Inquisition [indented]. Shaftesbury. 24 June. [Hody].

Jurors

Jurors: Thomas Selby ; Robert Bryce ; William Goffe ; Thomas Cosyn ; William Walkelayn ; Walter Yonge ; Richard Fraunce ; Henry Smyth ; Thomas Palyngton ; Walter Alford ; Geoffrey Dyer ; and John Aleyn .

Holdings

On the day of his forfeiture by Henry IV he held the manor of Gussage St. Michael to him and the heirs of his body by grant of his brother Roger Mortimer, late earl of March , by his indented charter [French, quoted verbatim] witnessed by Humphrey de Stafford , Stephen Derby , John Moigne , knights, John Frome , John Manyford , and dated at London, 1 Aug. 1393, hown to the jurors. Roger died and the reversion descended to his son and heir Edmund Mortimer, now earl of March. Roger's brother Edmund died without heirs of his body. The manor is held of the prior of Monkton Farleigh by service of one sparrowhawk paid at the feast of St Peter in Chains for all service.

TNA reference

C 138/43/76 mm. 1-2

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Holdings

Holdings

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Extents

Extents

No holding extent information available.

People

People

  • Smyth(Writ Clerk)

Jurors

  • Thomas Selby
  • Robert Bryce
  • William Goffe
  • Thomas Cosyn
  • William Walkelayn
  • Walter Yonge
  • Richard Fraunce
  • Henry Smyth
  • Thomas Palyngton
  • Walter Alford
  • Geoffrey Dyer
  • John Aleyn

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