Folios: 141-141v. Bedfordshire. Inquisition. Place or subject: Inquisition taken...

Folios: 141-141v. Bedfordshire. Inquisition.

Place or subject: Inquisition taken by pretext of a certain writ of diem clausit extremum of Henry III returned in his Chancery in 55 Hen. III, made before Master R. de Clifford, escheator of the king, to inquire how much land Christiana Ledet, who is dead, held of the king in chief on the day on which she died, and how much from others, and by what service and how much those lands are worth per annum in all issues, and who the next heir is and what age he is. Upon the extent of the manor of Wardon [Chipping Warden]. The jurors say that Christiana held on the day she died the manor of Wardon [Chipping Warden] of the king in chief and pays 20s a year to the castle of Rokingh' [Rockingham] and scutage when it falls in. And there are there in demesne three carucates of land which are worth £9 a year. Item, the service of freeholders and cottagers and burgesses, 30s a year. They also say that there are there eighteen yardlands of customary tenants, each of which is worth one mark a year. There are two watermills there worth 4 marks a year, and one dovecote 2s a year, and a garden and curtilage are worth 2s a year. The hundred is worth 20s a year. And that Henry de Braibrok [Braybrooke] married Christiana Ledet and begot Wischard as his first-born son, who succeeded him, and John Wischard begot Walter. Walter begot two daughters, who are of full age, and, as they think, are the right and next heirs of Christiana.

County: [Northamptonshire].

Additional people: Jurors: Thomas de Lichebaruue [Litchborough]; Richard de Morton [Moreton Pinkney]; Richard the miller of Everdon; Walter Hert of the same; Robert, son of Robert, of the same; Reiner Gonund of Lichebaruue; John le Dur of Newenham [Newnham]; Adam de Coleworth [Culworth]; Thomas Fraunkelein of the same; Matthew, son of Walter of the same; Thomas, son of Simon of the same; John the clerk of the same; Hugh Fraunkelein of Westhrop [Westhorp]; Robert de Surre of Morton [Moreton Pinkney]; Nicholas Blund of the same; Robert de Staverton of the same; Robert Knit of the same; William Cosin of the same; Adam Obbe of the same; Gilbert Trop of Weston; Hugh de Trop of the same; Hercelin de Wauncy of the same; William Rossel of Plumton [Plumpton]; Robert Rembaud of Staunton; Thomas le Rodman of the same; Robert, son of Humphrey of Wardon [Chipping Warden]; and Elias de Ribis of the same.

Dated at Northampton.

Friday next before the feast of Palm Sunday, 56 Hen III.