Source: Index Library
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Title: Abstracts
of Inquisitiones post Mortem for Gloucestershire, returned into the Court
of Chancery during the Plantagenet Period. Part VI. 33 Edward III to 14
Henry IV, 1359-1413. Abstracted by Ethel Stokes, 1914, London, 61-61
Date: 25 January
1366-24 January 1367
Place: Gloucester
Possessions of Walter Mareschal, formerly Earl of Pembroke
Return made upon a writ to the Treasurer, Barons, and Chamberlain of the Exchequer,
directing them to search and report as to the partition of the inheritance of Walter
Mareschal, formerly Earl of Pembroke, in the time of Henry III, and the tenor of
a plea held in the Exchequer in the time of Edward I, between William
de Valenceand Joan, his wife, of the one part, and Humphrey
de Bohun, then Earl of Hereford,
of the other part, touching the right to the earldom of Pembroke. Among the copies
of extents so returned is:
Extent made by command of [King Henry III] of the lands
belonging to IV. Mareschal, formerly Earl of Pembroke, in the co. of Gloucester,
which Simon de Montfort and A. his wife hold in the vill of Beggeworth, by the oath
of Walter Durant, John Nichole, John Duyn, William de la
Plocke,
William Ingeleys, William Faket, Philip de Kingsneresbury [?], Robert Curteis, William
Geroud, Simon de Mattesdone, Gilbert de Syda, and Nicholas Sygrid, who say that
The said Simon and A. hold 3 carucates of land in demesne, worth £10 a year if put to farm; and
3 carucates in demesne, to be ploughed by the customary tenants, worth likewise £10
a year, with a park, meadow, dovecot, and garden. There are 36s. 10d. rents from
eleven free men; there are 16 virgates and two quarters of a virgate [lundinar’] of villein land, worth £15 a year. There are 22s. 4d. a year from cottars in the
same vill; the view of frankpledge is worth 15s. 6d. One man there pays 19d. for
6 geese and 10 hens; another man pays 3d. for 3 capons. The pannage is worth half
a mark yearly; the toll of ale 5s. a year according to the custom. The mill is worth
10s.
Chan. Inq. p.m., Ser. I, 40 Edward III, 2nd Nos., No. 53.
New reference, Chan.
Misc. 88, File 4, No. 70.