E-CIPM 22-168: MAUD WIDOW OF JOHN LOVELL, CHEVALIER

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MAUD WIDOW OF JOHN LOVELL, CHEVALIER

Inquisition Head

DORSET. Inquisition [indented]. Shaftesbury. 5 June 1423. [Carent]

Jurors

Jurors: Thomas Hatte ; Thomas Wyse ; William Catte ; John Mercer ; Hugh Croxhale ; Thomas Bullok ; William Mathewe ; Peter Kyng ; William Morton ; William Burlegh ; John Sa...y [uncertain] ; and Walter Nyweman .

Holdings

She held no lands or tenements of the king or of another in demesne or in service.

She died on 7 May last. William Lovell, chevalier , is her kinsman and next heir as son of John Lovell, chevalier , deceased, her son, and is aged 24 years and more.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.1, 3

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Writ Head

165 [Writ: see 164 .]

Inquisition Head

SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Milborne Port. 7 June 1423. [Carent]

Jurors

Jurors: John Warderobe ; Roger Kerver ; John Dorset ; Richard Odam ; John Dussell ; Roger Sotesford ; John Abbot ; John Gay ; John Wryght of Milborne Port or Milborne Wick; William Laner...e, junior [uncertain]; Richard Sonet of Milborne Port or Milborne Wick; and John Smyth, senior .

Holdings
She held in her demesne as of fee the
advowson of the church of Loxton, annual value of the church 40s.

Date of death and heir as in 164.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.1–2

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Lincoln. 7 June 1423. [Denton]

Jurors

Jurors: John Boteler ; Richard Lusby ; Thomas atte Halle ; William Wower ; Henry Goneld ; John Rede ; Warin Assheby ; William Halyday ; Peter West ; Thomas Thurkill ; John de Karre ; and Peter Gunnyld .

Holdings
She held in her demesne as of fee the
advowson of the church of St John the Evangelist of Croxton, annual value of the church 20 marks.

Date of death and heir as in 164, except that the heir is aged 23 years and more.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.4–5

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition. Gainsborough. 18 June 1423. [Denton]

[The right margin of the ms is cropped.]

Jurors

Jurors:[not given]

Holdings
She held of the king in chief the advowson of the church of St John the Evangelist of Croxton by knight service. The church and [at least] 20 a. land pertaining to it as... of the church are worth 20 marks yearly. The church is... and occupied by John Burton , its rector, legitimately inducted and instituted in the same manner.

Date of death and heir as in 164, except that the heir is aged 26 years and more.

TNA reference

E 152/10/504

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

WILTSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Aldbourne. 7 June 1423. [Wayte]

Jurors

Jurors: William Coventre of Denford ; John Walrond of Aldbourne ; Robert Forde ; Thomas Andrew ; John Byde ; Richard Thomas ; Edmund Pommyshert ; Peter Amys ; John Canon ; John Sutton ; Nicholas Barbour ; and Richard Ronnet .

Holdings

She held the following in her demesne as of fee.

Wardour, the castle and manor, held of the abbess of Wilton , service unknown, annual value nil. Annual value of the park nil after the maintenance of its beasts and enclosure.
Bridzor, the manor, in which there are a kitchen, a grange and a cattle-shed, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot with a close, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 80 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 12 a. wood, its underwood worth nothing yearly; a water-mill with a fishery separate from the mill’s water, worth 10s. yearly; 4 messuages and 4 virgates held at will, each messuage with a virgate worth 5s. yearly; 6 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; and assize rents from free tenants of a red rose at Midsummer. The manor is held of the abbess of Shaftesbury , service unknown.
Earl’s Court, the manor, in which there are a hall, 2 chambers, a grange, and a stable with a sheepfold, worth nothing yearly; a close, worth 2s. yearly; 80 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; a parcel of pasture, worth 2s. yearly; a cottage with garden, 2 roods of arable and 1 a. meadow all held at will, worth 2s. yearly; and 5s. 6 1/2d. assize rents from free tenants at Michaelmas. The manor is held of Thomas Chaucer and others of the manor of Wanborough, service unknown.

Date of death and heir as in 164.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.6 –7

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

CITY OF LONDON. Inquisition. Guildhall. 24 June 1423. [Walderne]

Jurors

Jurors: Thomas Wenselawe ; John Horold ; John Benet ; John Brown ; Roger Duns ; Edmund Cok ; Thomas Fyssh ; John Byfold ; Thomas ...yn [ms torn]; Richard Martyn ; John Langeley ; and Ralph Bricetre .

Holdings

She held no lands or tenements in her demesne as of fee or in service of the king or of another within the liberty of the city or its suburbs. She was formerly seised in her demesne as of fee of a townhouse and 14 shops with solars built over them in the parish of St Faith of Paternoster Row in Farringdon Within ward. By a charter shown to the jurors and dated 29 January 1423, she granted these to William Lovell, knight , [her grandson] and his heirs and assigns, as is apparent more fully in the charter. William Lovell was seised and in possession, taking the profits since the feoffment and presently, such that Maud had nothing after the enfeoffment.

St Faith of Paternoster Rowin Farringdon Within ward. The townhouse and 14 shops with solars are held of the king in free burgage as the whole of the city of London is held, annual value 4 marks and no more.

Date of death and heir as in 164.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.8 –9

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

STAFFORDSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Lichfield. 26 May 1423. [Cotes]

Jurors

Jurors: William Yoxhale of Yoxall ; Roger Marreys ; Thomas Leycestre ; Roger Belchier of Dunstall ; Nicholas Baylle of Alrewas ; John Frawnceys ; Nicholas Hubert ; John Gybons of ?King’s Bromley ; John Yoxhale of Lichfield ; Henry Alwhite ; Peter Aleyn ; and William Hubert .

Holdings
She held in her demesne as of fee the
manor and advowson of Yoxall. In the manor there are the site, worth nothing yearly; 100 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 9d. yearly; a several pasture called ‘le Carr’, worth 10s. yearly; a parcel of a pasture called ‘le Newpark’, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 17 messuages and 17 virgates held at will, each messuage with a virgate worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 20 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; a water-mill, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; a several fishery in the river Trent there, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; perquisites of the view of frankpledge and other courts, worth 2s. yearly; and 20 a. wood, its underwood worth nothing yearly. The manor is held of the king of the honour of Tutbury, of the duchy of Lancaster, by knight service, amount unknown.

Date of death and heir as in 164, except that the heir was aged 23 years and more on 5 January last.

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C 139/6/51 mm.10 –11

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

LEICESTERSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Leicester. 29 May 1423. [Burgh]

Jurors

Jurors: John Nauntell of Hathern ; Thomas Petymore ; Reginald Gromley ; Simon Breton ; Robert Sadeler ; Robert Parlebien ; Robert Osbern ; John Chaumberleyn ; Robert Donam ; William Bolt ; Ralph Dalcok ; and John Lambert .

Holdings

She held the following in her demesne as of fee, annual values of the knights’ fees when they fall as shown.

Shepshed, 1/3 manor, in which there are a close, its herbage worth 8d. yearly; 30 a. arable from the demesne lands, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 10 messuages and 10 virgates of arable held at will, each messuage with virgate worth 5s. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 30 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because the underwood was felled lately and none now remains suitable for felling; a several water, the fishery worth 12d. yearly; and 5s., 2lb. pepper and 2lb. cumin assize rents at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions. She died seised in her demesne as of fee of the court of view of frankpledge held twice a year, its perquisites worth 2s. yearly. The 1/3 manor is held of the king in chief by with 1/20 knight’s fee, annual value £4 18s. 8d.
Leicester, 1/9 court called ‘Wynchestre Court’, held every three weeks, its perquisites worth 12d. yearly.
Laughton, the advowson, annual value of the church 100s.
Leicester, 6s. 8d. annual rent from a messuage, held of Queen Katherine of the honour of Leicester, service unknown; and a parcel of meadow, annual value 3s., held of the queen as before.
Charnwood, 1/3 chase thus called, part of the manor of Sheepshed, annual value nil.
Huncote, a knight’s fee, which Richard Stafford holds, 100s.
?Great Dalby and Chacombe, a knight’s fee, which the Earl Marshal holds, 100s.
Bittesby, a knight’s fee, which John Merbury holds in right of Agnes his wife, 100s.
King’s Norton and Little Stretton, a knight’s fee, which William Berford, justiciar , formerly held, 100s.
Misterton and Poultney, a knight’s fee, which John Pulteneye, chevalier , holds, 100s.
Great Glen, Carlton Curlieu and Rolleston, a knight’s fee, which Richard Stukley holds in right of Joan his wife, 100s.
Syston, 1/8 knight’s fee, which John son of Peter de Glen formerly held, 12s. 6d.
Long Whatton, 1/4 knight’s fee, which Thomas Assheby holds, 25s.
Dadlington, 1/16 knight’s fee, which John Spygurnell formerly held, 6s. 3d.
Shangton and Hardwick, 1/6 knight’s fee, which John de Willuby, knight , formerly held, 16s. [and at least] 5d.
Shepshed, 1/2 knight’s fee, which the abbot of Leicester holds, 50s.

Date of death and heir as in 164, except that the heir is aged 23 years and more.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.12, 16

E 149/128/9 m.7

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

WARWICKSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Atherstone. 14 June 1423. [Burgh]

Jurors

Jurors: Clement Aleyn ; John Atherston ; Robert Somerby ; John Besset ; John Lecok ; John Dawe ; Thomas Irelond ; Roger Wychypley ; Richard Cole ; Thomas Sergeaunt ; John Scotte ; John Hardyng ; and John Shepey .

Holdings

She held in her demesne as of fee the following knights’ fees, annual values when they fall as shown.

Wolvey, 1/4 fee, which the Master of the Knights Templar in England holds, 25s.; and 3 parts [sic] of a fee, which the abbot of Combe holds, 33s. 4d.
?Wolford, a fee, which William de Bosco formerly held, 100s.
Halford, a fee, which Robert Burdet formerly held, 100s.
Seckington, 1/6 fee, which William Martyn formerly held, 16s. 8d.
Emscote and Milverton, 1/2 fee, which John Spygurnell formerly held, 50s.

Date of death and heir as in 171.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.12 –13

E 149/128/9 m.6

Inquisition Head

DERBYSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Derby. 12 June 1423. [Goushull]

Jurors

Jurors: John Fraunceys ; John Huysse ; Thomas Fawnell ; Henry Warner ; John Forthe ; Edward Massy ; Thomas Brewode ; Henry Rolleston ; John Amysson ; Thomas Langley ; John Smyth of Allestree ; and John Cokke of Morley .

Holdings

She held the following in her demesne as of fee of the king of the honour of Tutbury of the duchy of Lancaster, service unknown.

Shallcross, 32 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly.
High Wheeldon, 8 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly.
?Earl Sterndale, 22 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly.
Foxlow, 12 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; n173_001 and 2 parcels of pasture, worth 10s. yearly.

Date of death and heir as in 171.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.14–15

Inquisition Head

OXFORDSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Deddington. 25 May 1423. [Waget]

Jurors

Jurors: Thomas Yerneman ; William Wyghthull ; Richard Verdon ; Richard Aston ; Richard Wartour ; John Goldewell ; John Archer ; William Peper ; Richard Fitzwater ; Thomas atte Mylle ; Thomas Halyngrygge ; and Thomas Clere .

Holdings

She held the following in her demesne as of fee, annual values of the knights’ fees when they fall as shown.

Ducklington, the manor with the advowson. In the site of the manor there are a sheepfold, worth nothing yearly; 97 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 10 a. wood, its underwood worth nothing yearly; 15 messuages and 15 1/4 virgates held at will, each messuage with virgate worth 5s. yearly; 8 cottages, each worth 12d yearly; a water-mill, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; a several water, its fishery worth 12d. yearly; a close, worth 2s. 6d. yearly; 6s. 10d. and 3 1/2lb. pepper assize rents of free tenants at Michaelmas and Lady Day in equal portions; and 2 views of frankpledge, worth 3s. yearly. The manor is held of Lord Talbot by service of performing suit to his hundred of Bampton.
Brize Norton, the manor, in which there are a hall, 2 chambers, a grange, a stable and a sheepfold, worth nothing yearly; 2 closes, worth 2s. yearly; 103 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 11 messuages and 11 virgates and 3 parts of a virgate all held at will, each messuage with virgate worth 5s. yearly and the 3 parts 2s. yearly; 2 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; 2s. 5 1/2d. assize rents of free tenants at the same feasts; 4 a. wood, its underwood worth nothing yearly; perquisites of the view of frankpledge and other courts worth 2s. yearly; and a parcel of several pasture, worth 2s. yearly. The manor is held of the king of his principality of Wales, service unknown.
Minster Lovell, the manor, in which there are a hall, 4 chambers, 2 granges, a stable, a cattle-shed and a sheepfold, worth nothing yearly; 52 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly; 3 closes pasture, each worth 40d. yearly; 40 a. wood, its underwood worth nothing yearly; 17 messuages and 17 virgates held at will, each messuage with virgate worth 5s. yearly; 18 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; a water-mill, worth 20s. yearly; a several water, its fishery worth 2s. yearly; perquisites of view of frankpledge and other courts there, worth 20d. yearly; and 15s. 4d. and 1lb. pepper assize rents of free tenants at Michaelmas and Lady Day in equal portions. The manor is held of the king of his duchy of Lancaster, services unknown.
Sibford Ferris or Sibford Gower, 2 views of frankpledge held each year, worth 4s. yearly.
Shipton-on-Cherwell, 2 views of frankpledge held each year, worth 2s. yearly.
Shorthampton, 1/2 virgate, held of the king of his duchy of Lancaster in socage by fealty only, worth 2s. 6d. yearly.
Wychwood, 5 a. assart from the forest, held of the king by service of 22d. rendered yearly to his exchequer by the sheriff, worth nothing yearly above this payment.
North Stoke, a knight’s fee, which Nicholas Meoles formerly held, 100s.
Chinnor, 1/3 knight’s fee, which Oliver la Souche formerly held, 33s. 4d.
Charlton-on-Otmoor, 1/2 knight’s fee, which the abbot of St Arnoult , Normandy, formerly held, 50s.
Fencot and Murcot, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Richard de la Bere formerly held, 50s.
Sibford Gower, 1/4 knight’s fee, which the Master of the Knights Templar in England formerly held, 25s.; and 1/4 knight’s fee and 1/20 knight’s fee which the abbot of Osney and the prioress of Pouilly hold, 30s.
Shipton-on-Cherwell, 1/2 knight’s fee which Maud de Penton and Roger her son formerly held, 50s.
Sibford Ferris or Sibford Gower, 1/4 of 1/2 knight’s fee, which Joan de Wodestoke formerly held, 12s. 6d.
Shipton-on-Cherwell, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Thomas de Sancto Vigore formerly held, 50s.

Date of death and heir as in 171.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.17–18

Writ Head

175 [Writ: see 174 .]

Inquisition Head

BERKSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Newbury. 3 June 1423. [Waget]

Jurors

Jurors: Henry Hille ; Roger Smyth ; Peter Grete ; Robert Croke ; John Tapener ; John Bottleye ; Robert Depenale ; John Thorp ; John Croke ; Hugh Fuller ; John Lambourne ; and Thomas Kentbury .

Holdings
She held no lands or tenements of the king or of another in demesne or in service. She held in her demesne as of fee
1/3 knight’s fee which Maud daughter of Richard de Bradesende formerly held in Westchildesley, annual value 33s. 4d. when it falls.

Date of death and heir as in 171.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.17, 19

Inquisition Head

SHROPSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inquisition [indented].

Newport. 8 June 1423. [Hord]

Jurors

Jurors: John Leyghton ; Hugh Cresset ; John Corbet ; William Coton ; William Beystan ; John Hill' ; William Henneley ; William Falke ; Thomas Faukener ; Thomas Oteley ; John Biryton ; and Thomas Dod .

Holdings

She held no lands or tenements of the king or of another in demesne or in service.

Date of death and heir as in 170.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.20–1

Inquisition Head

YORKSHIRE. Inquisition. Barnsley. 19 June 1423. [Wyntworth]

Jurors

Jurors: Ralph Stanffeld ; John Wodde ; Thomas Norththorp ; William Dethewater ; John Fournoos ; Thomas Batley ; William Cook ; Richard Graysson ; John Brook ; Thomas Gesson ; John Emmeson ; and Stephen de Copley .

Holdings

She held no lands or tenements of the king or of another in demesne or in service.

Date of death and heir as in 171.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.22–3

Inquisition Head

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Brackley. 24 May 1423. [Compworth]

Jurors

Jurors: Thomas Huntyngdon of ...ston [ms holed] ; John Brook of Astwell ; Thomas Stotusbury of Evenley ; John Stotusbury of Whitfield ; Henry Frebody of Thorpe ?Mandeville (Throp) ; William Solsbury of Moreton Pinkney ; Robert Wale of Brackley ; John Thornton of Farthinghoe ; John Bonde of Syresham ; Richard Batus of Brackley ; John Vmfray of Sulgrave ; and Robert Colyns and Thomas Swan , of Wappenham.

Holdings

She held in her demesne as of fee the manors of King’s Sutton and Halse, with the borough of Brackley which is member and parcel of the Halse manor, and view of frankpledge held twice a year in these manors, with all liberties and other franchises belonging to the Halse manor, annual value nil.

King’s Sutton. In the site of the manor there are a grange and 3 other houses of the husbandmen, with straw rooves, worth nothing yearly because derelict; a dovecot, worth 2s. yearly; 106 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 50 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 17 messuages and 17 virgates held at will, each messuage with virgate worth 8s. yearly; 12 cottages, each worth 2s. yearly; a water-mill, worth 17s. yearly; 103s. 11d., 3lb. pepper, 2lb. cumin and 8lb. wax assize rents of free tenants at Lady Day and Michaelmas in equal portions; and perquisites of the view of frankpledge and other courts of the manor, worth 2s. yearly. She died seised in her demesne as of fee of a messuage and a virgate in Astwick, parcel of the manor of King’s Sutton, worth nothing yearly because the whole vill is devastated. The manor is held of Lord de Straunge in socage.
Halse. In the site of the manor there are 2 chambers, 2 granges and a sheepfold, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth 2s. yearly; a close annexed to this manor, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; a close called ‘Hals Park’, its herbage worth 10s. yearly; 203 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 9d. yearly; 15 messuages and 15 virgates held at will, each messuage with virgate worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 6 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; 6s. 8d. assize rents of free tenants at the Candlemas, Pentecost and Michaelmas in equal portions; 2 woods called ‘Erluswode’ and ‘Wyssele’, their underwood worth nothing yearly; and perquisites of view of frankpledge and other courts, worth 2s. yearly. Assize rent of 52s. 4d. from the free burgesses in Brackley at the same feasts in equal portions, is part of the manor of Halse. The perquisites of the view of frankpledge and other courts at Brackley are worth 13s. 4d. yearly. She held in her demesne as of fee a market every Wednesday in the vill of Brackley with an annual fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of St Andrew , worth 13s. yearly. The manor of Halse with Brackley is held of the king in chief by service of rendering a sore sparrowhawk yearly to the king.
She held the following in her demesne as of fee, annual values of the knights’ fees when they fall as shown.
Sutton alias King’s Sutton, the hundred, at fee-farm, paying 6 marks yearly to the king by the hands of the sheriff, annual value above the payment, 13s. 4d.
Titchmarsh, the advowson of the church, annual value 100s.
Aldwincle All Saints, the advowson of All Saints church, annual value 5 marks.
Brackley, the advowson of the religious house and hospital of St James and St John , annual value 5 marks; and the advowson of the free chantry of Leonard at the boundary of the vill, annual value 40s.
Wadenhoe, a wood, annual value nil because devastated, held of Thomas Latymer ’s heirs, service unknown.
Yelvertoft, 3 selions of land, annual value nil because fallow and uncultivated, held of the king in chief, service unknown.
Blakesley, a knight’s fee, which William le Zowche formerly held, 100s.
Farthinghoe, a knight’s fee, which Robert Isle formerly held, 100s.
Walgrave and Nortoft, 1/4 knight’s fee, which John son of Thomas le Lord formerly held, 25s.
Maidford and Adstone, a knight’s fee, which Robert Kyne formerly held, 100s.
Haselbech and ?Pitsford, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Hugh de Scales formerly held, 50s.
Holdenby, 1/2 knight’s fee, which William de Neuille and John son of John de Haldenby formerly held, 50s.
Byfield, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Simon de Verney , Roger Costentyn and the prior of Ware formerly held, 50s.
East or West Farndon, 1/7 knight’s fee, which Michael de Faryngdon formerly held, 14s. 3 1/2 and 1/7 of 1/2d.
Yelvertoft, a knight’s fee, which Thomas Hese and his parceners formerly held, 100s.
Woodford Halse, a knight’s fee, which Ralph Basset formerly held, 100s.

Date of death and heir as in 164.

TNA reference

C 139/6/51 mm.24–5

Holdings

Holdings

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
Wardour
Total: -
Bridzor
Total: -
Earl’s Court
Total: -

Extents

Extents

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
Bridzor
Total: -
Earl’s Court
Total: -

People

People

Jurors

  • William Coventre of Denford
  • John Walrond of Aldbourne
  • Robert Forde
  • Thomas Andrew
  • John Byde
  • Richard Thomas
  • Edmund Pommyshert
  • Peter Amys
  • John Canon
  • John Sutton
  • Nicholas Barbour
  • Richard Ronnet

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