‹ E-CIPM 21-924: ELIZABETH WIDOW OF JOHN FELTON ›

Holdings

She held the manor of West Matfen by feoffment of John Eston and Richard... to John and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies, the king's licence having been obtained, remainder to the right heirs of John. There are in the manor a capital messuage, annual value 6s. 8d., 200 a. demesne arable worth yearly 6d. an acre, 140 a. meadow worth yearly 4d. an acre, 20 husbandlands worth yearly 2s. each, 10 cottages worth yearly 8d. each, and a water-mill burnt by the Scots, annual value nil. She held for life in dower from John Felton of the inheritance of John Hastyng son and heir of Elizabeth daughter and heir of John Felton and his first wife Joan, and kinsman and heir of John Felton : lands and tenements in Nafferton, i.e. 1/3 messuage, annual value 2s., 1/3 of 4 husband- lands worth yearly 12d. each, 1/3 of 7 a. arable worth yearly 4d. an acre, 1/3 of 5 a. meadow worth yearly 2d. an acre, and 1/3 of £4 rent. The manor of West Matfen and the lands and tenements in Nafferton are held of the king in chief for 1/4 knight's fee; 1/3 certain lands and tenements in Edlingham, part of the manor of Edlingham, i.e. 1/3 messuage, annual value 12d., 1/3 mill, annual value 3s. 4d., 1/3 of 10 cottages worth yearly 12d. each, 1/3 of 3 carucates worth yearly 3s. 4d. each, 1/3 of 8 husbandlands worth yearly 16d. each, and 1/3 of 110 a. meadow in Edlingham worth yearly 4d. an acre; the following, all part of the manor of Edlingham and held of John, duke of Bedford , of his barony of Beanley by service of a sore sparrow-hawk or 6d. at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist: 1/3 certain lands and tenements in Lemmington, i.e. 1/3 of 3 cottages worth yearly 6d. each, 1/3 of 8 husbandlands, worth yearly 12d. each, and 40 a. worth yearly 1d. an acre; 1/3 of 3s. 4d. rent, 1/3 of certain lands and tenements in Newton on the Moor, i.e. 1/3 of 12d. rent, 3 bovates worth yearly 12d. each; 1/3 certain lands in Black Heddon held of Ralph, earl of Westmorland , of his barony of Bywell by knight service, i.e. 1/3 of 7 messuages worth yearly 12d. each, 1/3 of 8 bovates worth yearly 10d. each, and 1/3 of 30 a. meadow worth only 1d. an acre because wasted by the Scots; 1/3 of 40 a. pasture in Redesdale called `Southbotland', annual value nil because wasted by the Scots, and held of John, duke of Bedford , of his barony of Prudhoe by knight service; 1/3 plot called `le Steele' in Redesdale containing 120 a. pasture, annual value nil because wasted by the Scots, and held of Robert de Umfravyll, lord of Redesdale , for a peppercorn at Christmas; 1/3 of certain lands and tenements in Thirston held of Henry Percy of Atholl of his barony of Mitford for a peppercorn at Whitsun, i.e. 1/3 messuage, annual value 12d., 1/3 of 3 bovates worth yearly 16d. each, and 1/3 of 10 a. meadow worth yearly only 2d. an acre.