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JOHN GRIFFON

Inquisition Head

LEICESTERSHIRE. Inquisition. Market Harborough. 20 May 1445. [Aylesbury].

Jurors

Jurors: John Keynsham of Blaston; William Page of Illston on the Hill; William Norys of Tilton on the Hill; Thomas Clerk of Marefield; John Mey of Somerby; Thomas Boveton of Billesdon; William Bateman of Somerby; Richard Swan of Great or Little Bowden; Robert Gerveys and Robert Graunt of Thorpe Langton; Walter Coley of Lubenham; and John Brette of Rotherby.

Holdings

He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king in chief or or others. By charter dated at East Langton, 13 May 1443, shown to the jurors, he and Elizabeth his wife granted to William Smarte of Chipping Warden (Wardon) and Thomas Haselynfeld of Braybrooke, clerks, and Richard Willoughby of Duston, William Weldon of Great Weldon, and Ralph Beaufo of Seaton, esquires, and their heirs and assigns,

all their manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and services, with appurtenant meadows, pastures, courts, wardships, marriages, reliefs, heriots, escheats, and mills in the vills and fields of Gumley, Foxton, East Langton, Smeeton Westerby, Thorpe Langton, Church Langton, ?King’s or East Norton (Norton), and elsewhere in the county,
as more fully appears in the charter.

He died on 1 February last. Nicholas Griffon is his kin and next heir, as the son of Nicholas, the brother of John, and was aged 18 on 5 June last.

TNA reference

C 139/118/19 mm. 1–2

Writ Head

297 Writ. ‡ 29 January 1445. [Bate].

Addressed to the escheator of Northamptonshire and Rutland .

Inquisition Head

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Northampton. 4 November 1445. [Eltonhed].

Jurors

Jurors: William Sauter ; Geoffrey Baldyngton ; Richard Berby ; William Sale ; Richard Ryuell ; James Milner ; Richard Lucas ; William Lolle ; John Draper ; John ?Ha[unclear: m]ard ; John Praty ; Thomas Chalacre ; and Thomas Praty .

Holdings

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

Chipping Warden, the manor, with the advowson of the church of the vill, and the hundred of Chipping Warden, held of the king in chief by paying 75s. for the ward of Rockingham castle. The hundred is worth 20s. yearly. In the manor there is a hall, with 2 chambers annexed, with 2 granges, a bake-house, an old dovecot, and a vivary, worth nothing yearly because they are ruinous and wasted; 8 virgates of arable, each worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 4 virgates of land which lie fallow (frisc’), and are worth nothing because they are in the common lands of the manor; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; a piece of several pasture called ‘le Hay’, worth 8s. yearly; a piece of pasture called ‘Alstonemere’, not several, worth 12d. yearly; a pasture called ‘Wardondowne’ or ‘Kyngesdon’, worth nothing yearly because it lies in common; and a water-mill, worth nothing yearly because it is ruinous and wasted. In the vill of Chipping Warden there are 18 messuages, each worth 2s. yearly; 28 virgates of land, each worth 12s. yearly; 15 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; and 55s. 6¾d. assize rent, payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas.
He was seised of the following, which by charter dated 10 September 1443, shown to the jurors, he granted to Robert Roos, knight, master John Langton, clerk, William Tressham , Richard Wylowby , Thomas Byllyng , John Palmer , Robert Wesenham , William Weldon , William Austyn , and Thomas Haselyngfeld, clerk , and their heirs and assigns, to the intent that the feoffees would fulfill his will. As a result of the grant they were seised in demesne as of fee. They demised the castle, etc., to John and Elizabeth his wife for the term of their lives. John died and Elizabeth is seised by virtue of the demise.
Braybrooke, the castle and manor, and other [unspecified] lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, rents, reversions, and services in the vill and fields, true annual value £20; and the advowson of the church of the vill, of no annual value.
Denton, [unspecified] tenements, meadows, pasture, reversions, and services, in the vill and fields, true annual value 100s.
Watford, £4 6s. 8d. rent issuing from a meadow called ‘Sanfordmede’ in the fields of the vill, received from the prior of Daventry .
[Service and tenure not specified for the above.] He and Elizabeth his wife were seised of the following, which by charter dated at Weston Favell , 10 September 1438, shown to the jurors, they granted to William Babyngton, knight , Thomas Nevyll, esquire , William Babyngton, esquire , John Bowes , Richard Byngham , and John Drayton, chaplain , and their heirs and assigns, so that they were seised in demesne as of fee. Afterwards the feoffees, by charter dated at Weston Favell, 21 January 1445, shown to the jurors, granted the manor to William Tressham , Thomas Byllyng , John Palmer , Robert Wesynham , James Swetenham , Richard Willoughby , William Weldon , and Ralph Beaufo , and their heirs and assigns, so that they were seised in demesne as of fee, and still are seised.
Weston Favell, the manor, true annual value £20 [service and tenure not specified].

Date of death and heir as 296, heir here aged 19 on 5 June last.

[Head:] Delivered to court on 30 November 1445.

TNA reference

C 139/118/19 mm. 3–4

Holdings

Holdings

Holding ItemValueQuantityTotal
Gumley, Foxton, East Langton, Smeeton Westerby, Thorpe Langton, Church Langton, King’s, East Norton
Total: -

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  • Bate(Writ Clerk)

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