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RALPH BUSSH, ESQUIRE
Inquisition Head
SOMERSET. Inquisition. Ilchester. 3 November 1441. [Neuton].
Jurors
Robert Cammell ; Thomas Lyte ; John Welweton ; John Lymyngton ; Ralph Manston ; Stephen Hoper ; Robert Golde ; Richard Smyth of Knole; William Drywe ; John Oxle ; John Franke ; and William Moleyns .
Holdings
He held no lands or tenements in demesne as of fee or service of the king in chief, or any other. A fine was, however, levied at Westminster on the quindene of St John the Baptist 1439 and afterwards granted and recorded on the octave of Michaelmas 1439 [CP 25/1/292/69, no. 231], shown to the jurors, before John Cotismore and his associates, king’s justices, between John Chidyok, knight , and William Combe, querents, and Thomas Brook, knight , John Hody , Ralph Bussh, esquire , John Stork , John Carent, senior , John Battescombe , John Lemman, clerk , William Taverner , Guy Phylyp , and John Pyry, deforciants, regarding the manors of Pitney and Wearne, and 2 messuages, 10 a. land, and 3 a. meadow in Pitney and Wearne, among other lands and tenements. Thomas Brook etc. [as above] recognised the manors and tenements to be the right of John Chidyok, as held by John and William Combe by grant of Thomas Brook etc. [as above]; and John Chidyok and William Combe granted the manors and tenements to Ralph, for life, with reversion to John and William, and the heirs of John. Ralph was thus seised in demesne as of free tenement and died seised of this estate.He died on 11 July last. Robert Westbury is his next heir, as son of Elizabeth daughter of Ralph, and is aged 24 and more.
TNA reference
C 139/107/26 m. 1
Inquisition Head
DORSET. Inquisition. Sherborne. 31 October 1441. [Neuton].
Jurors
William Leweston ; John Fauntleroy ; William Straunge ; Thomas Wyseman ; John Keyleway ; Richard Rochell ; John Dene ; William Knaplok ; Robert Bryse ; Peter Pynford ; Reynold Hensham ; and John Gune .
Holdings
Findings as 594 regarding the following.Date of death and heir as 594.
[Head:] Delivered to court on 27 November.
TNA reference
C 139/107/26 m. 2
Holdings
Holding Item | Value | Quantity | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Stourton Caundle | ||||
Value | £15 | £15 (=3600d.) | ||
Total: £15 (=3600d.) | ||||
Antioch, Blakelond, Ramsbury | ||||
Value | 100s. | £5 (=1200d.) | ||
Total: £5 (=1200d.) | ||||
Stourton Caundle, Antioch, Blakelond, Ramsbury, Sherborne, Stalbridge, Stalbridge Weston, Oborne, Thornford | ||||
messuages | 5 (5 x messuages) | - | ||
land | 248 a. (248 x acre) | - | ||
meadow | 59 a. (59 x acre) | - | ||
Value | 100s. | £5 (=1200d.) | ||
Total: (=0d.) | ||||
Winterborne Houghton | ||||
messuage, grange | worth nothing | a (1 x messuage grange) | - | |
dovecot | 12d. | a (1 x dovecot) | 1s. (=12d.) | |
assize rent from various tenants-at-will | 20s. | £1 (=240d.) | ||
land | 2d. (per unit) | 140 a. (140 x acre) | £1 3s. 4d. (=280d.) | |
hilly, fallow sheep-pasture | 1d. (per unit) | 200 a. (200 x acre) | 16s. 8d. (=200d.) | |
meadow | 12d. (per unit) | 10 a. (10 x acre) | 10s. (=120d.) | |
underwood | 12d. (per unit) | 100 a. (100 x acre) | £5 (=1200d.) | |
Total: £8 11s. (=2052d.) | ||||
Upcerne | ||||
Value | £16 | £16 (=3840d.) | ||
Total: £16 (=3840d.) |
Extents
Holding Item | Value | Quantity | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Winterborne Houghton | ||||
messuage, grange | worth nothing | a (1 x messuage grange) | - | |
dovecot | 12d. | a (1 x dovecot) | 1s. (=12d.) | |
assize rent from various tenants-at-will | 20s. | £1 (=240d.) | ||
land | 2d. (per unit) | 140 a. (140 x acre) | £1 3s. 4d. (=280d.) | |
hilly, fallow sheep-pasture | 1d. (per unit) | 200 a. (200 x acre) | 16s. 8d. (=200d.) | |
meadow | 12d. (per unit) | 10 a. (10 x acre) | 10s. (=120d.) | |
underwood | 12d. (per unit) | 100 a. (100 x acre) | £5 (=1200d.) | |
Total: £8 11s. (=2052d.) |
People
- Neuton(Escheator)
Jurors
- William Leweston
- John Fauntleroy
- William Straunge
- Thomas Wyseman
- John Keyleway
- Richard Rochell
- John Dene
- William Knaplok
- Robert Bryse
- Peter Pynford
- Reynold Hensham
- John Gune