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ELIZABETH WIFE OF EDMUND LEUERSEGGE

Inquisition Head

GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Tetbury. 23 November 1422. [Alderley]

Jurors

Jurors: Richard Parker ; John Colet ; John Burnell ; John Newman ; John Ouerbury ; John Godestound ; Thomas Chalkeley ; John Smyth ; William Hugges ; Robert Willes ; Thomas Welsted ; and William Piers .

Holdings

She held in her demesne as of fee

a messuage and 174 a. arable in Eastleach Turville and 2s. rent from lands and tenements in Southrop at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas in equal portions, annual value 60s. because the messuage’s house is derelict and each acre of land is worth 4d. yearly. They are held of John Moine, knight , services unknown
.

She died on 30 October last. Robert Leuersegge is her son and next heir, aged 21 years on 22 July last.

TNA reference

C 139/5/37 mm.1–2

Inquisition Head

SOMERSET. Inquisition. Bruton. 13 November 1422. [Carant]

Jurors

Jurors: William P... [ms soiled] ; John Sammell ; Walter Craas ; John Bonde ; Thomas Craas ; Thomas Northlode ; Henry Nicolas ; Philip atte ?Mille ; John Clerk ; John Lammar ; W... Berdale ; and John Hyndon .

Holdings
Robert son of Pain was seised in his demesne as of fee of
the manor and hundred of Frome
. By a fine levied in 1314 between Nicholas Braunche and Roberga his wife, quer., and Robert, deforc. [oct. Hil., CP 25/1/198/17 no.1], he granted the manor and hundred to Nicholas and Roberga and the heirs of their bodies. They had issue Andrew and Eleanor. Richard de Wynslade of Gloucestershire married Eleanor and they had issue Stephen. Nicholas and Roberga died seised and Andrew entered as their son and heir by virtue of the fine and was seised in his demesne as of fee tail. By another fine levied in 1335 between the same Richard and Eleanor, quer., and the same Andrew Braunche and Joan his wife, deforc. [East. quin., CP 25/1/199/22 no.9], the deforc. granted 7 messuages, 162 a. land, 18 a. meadow, 80 a. pasture, 51 a. wood, 58s. 6 1/2d. rents and 1/3 mill, in Frome, Rodden and Marston Bigot, then members of the manor of Frome, to the quer. and the heirs of Eleanor. Richard and Eleanor were seised. Andrew had issue Thomas and died. After his death the manor and hundred, except the tenements granted to Richard and Eleanor, were seised in the hands of ‪ Edward III together with the wardship of Thomas by reason of his minority, as found before Thomas Cary, escheator of Somerset , in 1349 [CIPM IX, no. 353]. Afterwards, Richard and Eleanor died and Stephen de Wynslade entered the tenements as son and heir of Eleanor by virtue of the fine, as found before John de Sancto Laudo, escheator of Somerset , in 1355 [CIPM X, no. 232]. Afterwards, Thomas son of Andrew died a minor and without heirs of his body. Stephen de Wynslade as his kinsman and heir, being the son of Eleanor sister of Andrew father of Thomas, entered the manor and hundred, except the tenement, by writ of ‪ Edward III to deliver the lands by virtue of the fine of 1314, and also as related more fully in the inquisition held after Thomas’s death, before John de Bekyngton , then escheator of Somerset , on 14 September 1360 and returned to ‪ Edward III ’s Chancery [CIPM X, no. 611]. Afterwards, Stephen de Wynslade died seised in his demesne as of fee tail of the manor and hundred and also the lands and tenements by virtue of the fines. They then descended according to the fines to Elizabeth, named in the writ, as his daughter and heir. She died seised in her demesne as of fee tail.
Frome. Annual value of the manor and hundred, lands and tenements, £34 6s. 9 1/2d. The capital messuage in the site of the manor, with garden and dovecot adjacent, is worth nothing yearly, the houses of the messuage being derelict, the dovecot decayed and the garden unmaintained. There are assize rents from lands and tenements at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas in equal portions, worth 22 marks 6s. 8d. yearly above the rents of 58s. 6 1/2d. contained in the fine. In the manor there are 200 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. substantial timber, worth nothing yearly because within ‪the king’s forest of Selwood; and 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly. The hundred with 2 sheriff’s tourns is worth 100s. yearly; the perquisites of 2 halimotes are worth 20d. yearly. The 7 messuages, 162 a. land, etc. with the rent paid at the same feasts in equal portions, and part of the mill, are worth £8 15s.... 1/2d. [ms stained], namely each messuage 12d. yearly, each acre of land 4d. yearly, each acre of meadow 12d. yearly, each acre of pasture 4d. yearly, each acre of wood for pasturage of pigs 2d. yearly, and 1/3 mill 6s. 8d. yearly. The manor, hundred, lands and tenements are held of ‪the king in chief by knight service.

Date of death and heir as in 125.

TNA reference

C 139/5/37 mm.3–4

Holdings

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hundred, Frome, Frome, hundred
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Jurors

  • William P... [ms soiled]
  • John Sammell
  • Walter Craas
  • John Bonde
  • Thomas Craas
  • Thomas Northlode
  • Henry Nicolas
  • Philip atte ?Mille
  • John Clerk
  • John Lammar
  • W... Berdale
  • John Hyndon

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