‹ E-CIPM 26-590: WILLIAM HAROUDON ›

Holdings

He held the following in demesne as of fee. Moreton Pinkney, the manor, annual value £6 13s. 4d., held of the king in chief by knight service. He held the following in service. Sulgrave, a manor therein, of no value to William, held by William of the king in chief by knight service and by 20s. yearly to the ward of Windsor castle. John Stotesbury held the manor in demesne of William. He held the following jointly with Margaret his wife, who survives. Plumpton, the manor, annual value £10 [tenure and service not specified]. He held a manor in Great Harrowden (Haroudon) called ‘Haroudonsplace’, with various lands and tenements in Little Harrowden, Orlingbury, and Finedon, annual value 66s. 8d. [tenure and service not specified]. Shortly before his death, when he was troubled by mortal illness, he held the manor of Middleton Cheney, a moiety of the manors of Stoke Bruerne and Alderton, with the advowsons of the churches of Stoke Bruerne and Alderton – except for a wood called ‘Salwode’ and a moiety of a third part of that wood, and a wood called ‘le Outewode’ in the parish of Stoke Bruerne – and various lands and tenements in the vills and fields of Old, Faxton, Shutlanger, Foscote, and Great Cransley (Craunesley), with the advowson of the church of Old. A few days before his death, gravely troubled by his illness, he feoffed therein William Forthe and John Dyve , esquires, John Aylward, clerk, rector of the church of Stoke Bruerne , Thomas Alynson, vicar of the church of Great Harrowden (Haroudon), Henry Toppyng and others, in fee. This was to expel the king and other lords by collusion from the wardship of the premises during the minority of Richard, William’s son and heir. The manors, lands, tenements, and advowsons are worth £20 yearly [tenure and service not specified].