Folio: 147. Bedfordshire. Inquisition. Place or subject: An inquisition taken by...

Folio: 147. Bedfordshire. Inquisition.

Place or subject: An inquisition taken by pretext of a certain writ of diem clausit extremum of Edward II and returned into Chancery in the tenth year of his reign, according to the tenor of a writ annexed to this inquisition. The jurors say upon their oath that Alice la Latymere held in her demesne as of fee on the day she died, in fee farm, a moiety of the vill of Corby with the hundred of the same of the king in chief, as of the ancient demesne of the king, paying at the Exchequer 100s for all service by the hands of the sheriff of Northamptonshire, namely a moiety at Easter and another moiety at Michaelmas. They say that there are there in demesne sixty-three acres of arable land which are worth 21s per annum, the price of an acre being 4d. There are there in villeinage five and a half yardlands, which pay 66s, namely 12s for each yardland, and they will not be worked, at the terms of the Christmas, Easter, the Apostles Peter and Paul, and Michaelmas equally. There are there seven cottars who pay 7s annually at those. Also divers freeholders in Carleton [East Carlton] who pay 5s 3d annually at those terms. Also a certain wood whose profits are nothing, because it is in the forest of the king of Rokyngham [Rockingham]. They say that the hundred is worth 6s 8d a year, and not more, because the sheriff of Northamptonshire receives whatever pertains to the view of frankpledge. The pleas and perquisites of courts are worth 3s 4d a year. They say that William le Latymer is the son and next heir of Alice and is aged forty years and more.

County: [Northamptonshire].

Additional people: Jurors: Hugh de Melton; Richard Comford; Roger Sydrak; Robert Penyfader; Thomas Aldewyne; Henry son of Robert; William Wyther; Walter son of Geoffrey; Peter In the Hale; Thomas Burdon; and Walter Wymond.

Dated at Corby.

8 Apr 10 Edw II.

For the original inquisition see: DL 7/1