‹ E-CIPM 26-581: NICHOLAS CARREWE, KNIGHT ›

Holdings

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

Holdings

Findings as 579. Sealing clause as 579.

[Head:] Delivered to court on 26 June 1447.

Holdings

He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee, which he granted by indented charter to Henry Hopkyn, chaplain , and John Eliet of Pembroke, for the term of the life of Joan, wife of Nicholas, to hold of Nicholas and his heirs by a red rose at Midsummer. In the charter, dated 14 June 1439 and shown to the jurors, the premises were described as his manors of Carew and Angle, with the advowsons of churches, homages, services, rents, reversions, suits of court (sect’ cur’), lands, and tenements pertaining to the castle, and also 5½ burgages in Tenby, 3 burgages in Pembroke, a messuage in ‘le Grene’ by Pembroke, a messuage and a bovate of land in Snailston, 10 messuages and 5 carucates of land in Romans Castle, and the other lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, homages, rents, and services which he had in the said manors and vills and elsewhere in the county; excepting the homages, services, and rents which John, earl of Huntingdon , lord of Manorbier, ought to do to Nicholas for 3 knights’ fees and 3 carucates of land in Loveston, Begelly, and Carew, which Nicholas retained and reserved to himself and his heirs. By virtue of the grant Henry and John were seised in demesne as of free tenement. Afterwards, by charter dated 6 December 1440, shown to the jurors, Henry and John granted all their estate in the above to Nicholas and Joan his wife, for the term of the life of Joan. By virtue of the grant Nicholas and Joan were jointly seised, Nicholas in demesne as of fee, and Joan in demesne as of free tenement. They continued in that estate for the whole of Nicholas’s life. At his death Nicholas thus held the following in chief jointly with Joan.