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JOHN BLOUNT OF BITTON

Inquisition Head

SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Ilchester. 5 November 1444. [ Roger ].

Jurors

Jurors: Ralph Manston ; William Hoskyns ; Stephen Hoper ; John Gardyner ; John Chapman ; William Sparke ; Thomas Elys ; Robert Gould ; John Gylbard ; William Moleyns ; William Knappelok ; and John Irlond .

Holdings

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

He died on 4 November 1443. Edmund Blount is his son and next heir, aged 24 and more.

[Head:] Delivered to Chancery on 30 November 1444.

TNA reference

C 139/114/20b mm. 1–2

Writ Head

198 Writ. ‡ 16 February 1444. [Normanton].

Addressed to the escheator of Wiltshire and Hampshire .

Inquisition Head

WILTSHIRE. Inquisition. Chippenham. 18 June 1444. [Baynard].

[Inquisition: ms galled in places.]

Jurors

Jurors: William Besyles ; John Borne ; Thomas Crykkelade ; John Croke ; John Stere ; John Harries ; William Gerveys ; John Hethe ; Richard Irton ; William Kayuell ; John Comberwell ; and Robert Hert .

Holdings
He held the following in right of his wife Willelma who survives.
‘Barley’, the manor, held of the abbess of Shaftesbury by suit to her court twice a year. In the manor there is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a garden pertaining to the manor, worth 2s. yearly; 12 messuages parcel of the manor, each worth 4s. yearly; 60 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth ?8d. yearly; 30 a. wood, each acre worth 8s. yearly; 5s. annual assize rent, parcel of the manor; and perquisites of court worth ?10s. yearly.
Cumberwell, the manor, held of John Fastolf, knight , of his manor of Castle Combe, as one knight’s fee. In the manor there is the site, worth nothing yearly; 10 messuages, each worth ?4s. yearly; 50 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; a grove, worth 4s. yearly; perquisites of court worth 6s. 8d. yearly; and 6s. annual assize rent, parcel of the manor.
Compton Bassett, the manor, held of John Fastolf, knight , of his manor of Castle Combe, as one knight’s fee. In the manor there is a capital messuage, worth 10s. yearly; 6 messuages, each worth 4s. yearly; 10 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; 40 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 16 a. pasture, each acre worth 16d. yearly; 8s. annual assize rent, parcel of the manor; and perquisites of court, worth 10s. yearly. The following are parcel of the manor: 4 marks annual rent in Kyngeshale ; 12s. annual rent in Hyle ; and 10s. annual rent in Ditteridge.
Burton, a messuage, worth 5s. yearly; and 20 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly, held of John Fastolf, knight , of his manor of Castle Combe, service unknown.
Clapcote, a messuage, worth 4s. yearly; 60 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly; and a grove, worth 12d. yearly, held of the abbot of Glastonbury by suit to his court twice a year.
West Kington, a messuage, worth 5s. yearly; a grove, worth 2s. yearly; 80 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; and 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly, held of William Bonevyle, knight , by suit to his court twice a year.
Woodford, the manor, held of David Servyngton by suit to his court twice a year. In the manor there is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 8 messuages, each worth 2s. yearly; 12 cottages, each worth 14d. yearly; 140 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 18d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 40 a. wood, [each acre worth] 8d. yearly; 3s. annual assize rent, parcel of the manor; and perquisites of court worth 20s. yearly.
Colerne, 4 messuages, each worth 3s. yearly; and 36 a. land, each acre worth ?4d. yearly, held of the master of the college called ‘Merton College’ in Oxford by service of 5s. yearly.
Box,
a messuage, worth 6s. yearly; 20 a. land, each acre [worth] 4d. yearly; and a grove, worth 40d. yearly, held of Walter Hungerford, knight , by suit to his court;
a messuage, worth ?10s. yearly; and 20 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly, held of Robert Hungerford, esquire, lord Moleyns , by suit to his court.
Malmesbury, a messuage, worth 5s. yearly, with a close, worth 2s. yearly, and 10 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly, held of the abbess of Shaftesbury ... [ms torn].

He died on 6 February last. Edmund Blount is his son and next heir, aged 30 and more.

[Head:] Delivered to court on 14 July 1444.

TNA reference

C 139/114/20b mm. 3–4

Inquisition Head

GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inquisition. Barton Regis. 30 April 1444. [de la Ryver].

Jurors

Jurors: Nicholas Poyntz ; Thomas Poyntz ; John Kemys ; Maurice Denys ; John Bradston ; John Halle ; George Poleyn ; John Burnell ; John Weston ; Thomas Staunton ; John Cuffe ; and Thomas Broune .

Holdings
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Bitton, ½ manor, held of the king in chief as ½ knight’s fee. In the moiety there is a capital messuage worth nothing yearly; a garden and dovecot, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; and 7 messuages in the vill, each worth 10s. yearly. The following are parcel of the moiety: 10s. assize rent payable at the four usual annual terms; perquistes of court worth 3s. 4d. yearly; in Oldland, 3 messuages, each worth 4s. yearly, 10 a. land, each acre worth 8d. yearly, and 4 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and in ‘West’ Hanham, Down Hanham, Swineford, and Beach, 13 messuages, each worth 2s. yearly, 10 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly, 4 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly, and 40 a. wood, each acre worth 12d. yearly.
Mangotsfield, the manor, held of the earl of Stafford , service unknown. In the manor there is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 10 messuages, each worth 2s. yearly; 10 cottages, each worth 20d. yearly; 40 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 12 a. pasture, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 4s. 4d. annual assize rent; and perquisites of court worth 2s. yearly.
?Elmington, the manor, held of the bishop of Worcester by suit to his court of Henbury once a year. The site of the manor is worth nothing yearly. In the manor there are a close and a dovecot by the manorial site worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 6 messuages, each worth 2s. yearly; 40 a. arable, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. wood, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 10s. annual assize rent; and perquisites of court worth 2s. yearly.
South Cerney, a messuage, annual value 2s., held of the abbot of St Augustine’s, Bristol , service unknown.
Calmsden, a third of a pasture called ‘Oldegore’ containing 600 a., each acre worth 2d. yearly; and a messuage, worth 12d. yearly, and 20 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly, held of John Delamar , service unknown.
Richard Colles and Alice his wife were lately seised of the following in demesne as of fee, in right of Alice. By a fine [CP 25/1/79/87/6], shown to the jurors, in the king’s court at Westminster, 2 Henry VI [1423–4], between John Blount and Willelma his wife, querents, and Richard and Alice, deforciants , Richard and Alice acknowledged the messuage, etc., to be the right of John and that which they had granted to John and Willelma and their heirs, and quitclaimed the same. Willelma survives and holds the messuage, etc., by right of survivorship.
Woodmancote, a messuage, worth 2s. yearly; a carucate of land containing 60a., each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 2 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly, held of the abbess of Lacock , service unknown.
He held the following in demesne as of fee, in right of Willelma his wife, who survives.
‘Barley in Calmesdene’, the manor, held of John Delamar by service of 1 lb. cumin. In the manor there is a capital messuage worth nothing yearly; a garden worth 12d. yearly; 6 messuages, each worth 3s. yearly; 40 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 3s. 4d. annual assize rent; and perquisites of court, worth 2s. yearly.

Date of death and heir as 197.

[Head:] Delivered to court on 22 May 1444.

TNA reference

C 139/114/20b mm. 5–6

Holdings

Holdings

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
Barley
Total: -
Cumberwell
Total: -
Compton Bassett
Total: -
Burton
Total: -
Clapcote
Total: -
West Kington
Total: -
Woodford
Total: -
Colerne
Total: -
Box
Total: -
Malmesbury
Total: -

Extents

Extents

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
Barley
Total: -
Cumberwell
Total: -
Compton Bassett
Total: -
Woodford
Total: -

People

People

  • Normanton(Writ Clerk)

Jurors

  • William Besyles
  • John Borne
  • Thomas Crykkelade
  • John Croke
  • John Stere
  • John Harries
  • William Gerveys
  • John Hethe
  • Richard Irton
  • William Kayuell
  • John Comberwell
  • Robert Hert

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