1366 : William de la Plocke takes part in an Inquisition post Mortem

 

Source:  Index Library xxx
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.

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