‹ E-CIPM 26-179: JOHN, DUKE OF SOMERSET ›

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He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king in chief or of others.

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He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king or of any other.

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Findings as 179.

[Head:] Delivered to court on 16 November 1444.

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He held the following in demesne as of fee. ⁿ⁰⁶⁵

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He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The fee-farm was granted among other things by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416]. After the deaths of Edmund; of Edmund, his son and heir; of John, brother and heir of Edmund; of Joan, sister and heir of John; of Thomas, son and heir of Joan; of Thomas, son and heir of Thomas; and of Edmund, brother and heir of Thomas the son of Thomas, it descended to the kin and heirs of Thomas, son and heir of Joan, namely: [1.] Richard, duke of York , son and heir of Anne, one of the daughters and heirs of Eleanor, first sister and one of the heirs of Edmund, brother of Thomas; [2.] Joyce, wife of John Tiptoft, knight , another daughter and heir of Eleanor; [3.] Henry Grey, knight , son and heir of Joan, third daughter and heir of Eleanor; [4.] John, late duke of Somerset , son and heir of Margaret, late duchess of Clarence , another sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas; [5.] Alice, wife of Richard, earl of Salisbury , daughter and heir of Eleanor, the third sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas; and [6.] Ralph, earl of Westmorland , son and heir of Elizabeth, the fourth sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas. The sum below was allotted to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty.

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He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. ⁿ⁰⁶⁷ The farm of £16 was granted by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [cf. CFR 1319–27, p. 68; CChR, IV, 3], and descended as in 182. The sum below was allotted to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty.

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He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. He died seised of the following. All the above are held of the king by service of 1d. only at Michaelmas.

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He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs of his body. The rent of £8, amongst other things, was granted by Edward III to Edmund de Wodestoke, earl of Kent , and the heirs of his body [CChR, IV, 3]. It descended as in 182 [except that John, brother of Joan, princess of Wales , is called the son, not the brother, of Edmund son of Edmund de Wodestoke ]. The 63s. 4d. descended to the duke of Somerset as one of the kin and heirs of the body of Edmund de Wodestoke , and was allotted to him to hold as his purparty. John Metford, esquire , received the rent from the day of the duke’s death until the taking of this inquisition, and still receives it.

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He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The farm, among other things, was granted by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416], and descended as in 182. Among other things, it was allotted to the duke to hold as his purparty.

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He held the following in demesne as of fee.

held of the king in socage. He held the following jointly with his wife Margaret, who survives, by grant of John Stourton, knight , William Carant , Thomas Wake , and Thomas Everyngham , esquires, Gilbert Kymer, clerk , and John Bayeux , to the duke, Margaret, and the heirs male of their bodies, with successive remainders to the heirs of the duke’s body, and to the right heirs of the duke. The duke and Margaret were seised in demesne as of fee tail. The charter was shown to the jurors.

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He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.

ⁿ⁰⁶⁸ On 12 November 1404, by letters patent shown to the jurors [CPR 1401–5, p. 477], Henry IV , of his special grace and with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the community of the realm of England then at his parliament at Coventry, granted to John, late earl of Somerset and the heirs male of his body £1000 a year to maintain him in comital status. The sum was to be received from the Exchequer, from the preceding Michaelmas and then at Michaelmas and Easter, until the king or his heirs should provide the earl or his heirs male with lands and tenements to the value of £1000 that were not parcel of the crown. The earl was seised of this sum to him and the heirs male of his body ⁿ⁰⁶⁹ until, on 25 October 1409, by letters patent shown to the jurors [CPR 1408–13, p. 147], Henry IV of his special grace granted the earl, described as the king’s dearest brother, £500 a year. The sum was granted to the earl and his heirs male in part satisfaction of the earlier £1000, and was to be received from the petty customs in the port of the city of London, delivered by the collectors, farmers or other occupiers, from the preceding Michaelmas and then at Easter and Michaelmas, notwithstanding any contrary assignments on the customs. The earl was to be satisfied at the Exchequer if the sum or any parcel of it could not be paid. Of the £1000, the earl was therefore seised in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body of £500 at the Exchequer according to the terms of the first grant. The earl had issue: John, named in the writ, and Edmund, marquess of Dorset , and died seised of such estate. The £500 descended to John as son and heir, who died seised of such estate without male heir of his body. ⁿ⁰⁷⁰ By virtue of the first letters patent, the £500 descended to Edmund, as son and heir of the earl.

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He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief or of any other.

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He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The farms, among other things, were granted by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416]. ⁿ⁰⁷² They descended as in 182. The sums below were allotted to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty.

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[The grants of 12 November 1404 and 25 October 1409 to John, earl of Somerset are described as in 188.] John, earl of Somerset was therefore seised in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body of according to the terms of the later grant. ⁿ⁰⁷³ The earl had issue: John, named in the writ, and Edmund Beaufort, marquis of Dorset , and died seised of such estate. After his death, the £500 descended to the duke as son and heir according to the later letters patent, and he died seised of such estate without male heir of his body.ⁿ⁰⁷⁴ The sum descended to Edmund, as son and heir of the late earl.

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He held the following in demesne as of fee.

He held in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body . This had been granted in letters patent of Richard II to John, late earl of Somerset and the heirs male of his body [cf. RDP, v, 115–7]. ⁿ⁰⁷⁶ He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The farms were granted by Edward ?III to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [cf. CChR, III, 416], and descended as in 182 above. They were allotted among other things to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty. ; ⁿ⁰⁷⁷ and ; held of the king in chief, service unknown. He was seised at his death of This sum was paid to the king by Thomas Radclyff, knight , and Thomas Haryngton, esquire , for two parts of the manor of Nether Wyresdale in Lancashire demised to them for a term of years, to be delivered by Thomas and Thomas or other occupiers. By letters patent dated 2 May 1438 [CPR 1436–41 , p. 161], the sum among other things, together with the reversion of the two parts of the manor, had been granted for life to the king’s dear and faithful kinsman Humphrey, earl of Stafford . By letters patent dated 25 September 1443 [ C 66/457 , mm. 18–19], ⁿ⁰⁷⁸ shown to the jurors, the king granted to John, duke of Somerset and the heirs male of his body, the reversion of the two parts of the manor and the lands, tenements, rents, farms, meadows, pastures, services, reversions, mills, vivaries, rivers, pastures, ⁿ⁰⁷⁹ parks, warrens, forests, chases, woods, mines, hundred courts, views of frankpledge, courts, bailiffs, officers, rights, free customs, castle-wards, fines, heriots, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forfeited lands and tenements, goods and chattels of outlaws, felons, fugitives and condemned, fairs, markets, liberties, franchises, knight’s fees, advowsons of churches, abbeys, priories, chapels, chantries, hospitals, ecclesiastical benefices and all other issues pertaining thereto. By the same letters patent he granted to the duke and the heirs male of his body an annual payment of 50 marks 8s. 10d., to be received from 30 March 1443 from the farm of the subsidy and ulnage of cloth for sale in Somerset at Easter and Michaelmas, delivered by the receivers or other occupiers of the subsidy and ulnage, during the term of years granted to Thomas Radclyff and Thomas Haryngton , and during the life of the earl of Stafford if he should outlive the term, as a recompense for the two parts of the manor of Nether Wyresdale which had been granted to the earl of Stafford . The reversion of the payment and of the two parts of the manor pertains to the king because the duke died without heir male of his body.

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He held the following in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body. The above were granted by royal letters patent dated at Westminster, 25 September 1443 [CPR 1441–6 , pp. 223–4], shown to the jurors. These letters patent also granted to the duke and his same heirs the following yearly payments and reversions pertaining to the king and his heirs. ; and the reversion of the herbage, of no annual value beyond the farm. [2.] ; and the reversion of the park, herbage, and pannage, annual value £13 13s. 2d. beyond the rent. [3.] ; and the reversion of the same, annual value £18 14s. 4d. beyond the rent. [4.] The reversion of two parts of the water of Kent and of the manors of Helsington, Crosthwaite, Hutton, Frosthwaite, and Strickland Ketel, which the king granted to his justice William Ayscogh for life free of rent [ CPR 1441–6, p. 131], annual value £23 12s. 10d. The reversion of all the above now pertains to the king because the duke died without heir male of his body.

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‪ Henry VI , by letters patent dated at Westminster 25 September 1443 [CPR 1441–6 , pp. 223–4], shown to the jurors, granted the following to the duke and the heirs male of his body. [1.]

to the receiver of the king’s lordship of Kendal for the custody for forty years of two parts of the manor of Thornton in Lonsdale, with the mines of ‘la lede ure’ in the lordship of the same manor; ; and the reversion of the two parts of the manor. [2.] £4 8s. 10d. paid yearly at the same terms by Christopher Boynton for the custody of two parts of the manors of Kneeton and Middleton Tyas from 29 September 1440 for twelve years; the reversion of the two parts; and the lands, tenements, rents, farms, meadows, pastures, services, reversions, mills, vivaries, waters, stanks, river- banks (ripariis), fisheries, parks, warrens, forests, chases, woods, mines, ..., offices, rights, free customs, castle-wards, fines, heriots, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forfeits of lands, goods and chattels of outlaws, felons and condemned, fairs, markets, liberties, franchises, knight’s fees, advowsons of churches, abbeys, priories, chapels, chantries, hospitals, and other benefices, profits and appurtenances of the two parts of the all the above manors. By the same letters patent, the king also granted the duke and his same heirs to hold from 30 March [?1443] during the life of [ Walter Strikland, esquire .] This was granted [in recompense for] ⁿ⁰⁸² the herbage and pannage of the king’s park of Calgarth, the king’s fishery of and in the water of Windermere, [and all the king’s lands and] tenements in the hamlets of Applethwaite and Undermillbeck, and on the south side of the water called Mill Beck in the parish of Windermere, all in Westmorland. By royal letters patent [CPR 1441–6, p. 149] shown to the jurors the keeping of the park had been granted to Walter Strikland for life, to hold himself or by sufficient deputy from 29 September 1443, together with the herbage, pannage, fishery and lands, for an annual payment of 5 marks only at Michaelmas and Easter. By virtue of these grants the duke held all these two parts (omnes predictas duas partes) at his death in the above forms. The reversions pertain to the king because he died without heir male of his body. The two parts of the manors of Thornton in Lonsdale, Kneeton, and Middleton Tyas are worth nothing beyond the above farms. He also held the following to himself and the heirs of his body. The farm was granted by ‪ Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416], and descended as in 182. The sum below was allotted to the duke to hold as his purparty when the farm was divided among the heirs.