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Debtor: Henry Bodrugan, esquire [of Bodrugan in Gorran, Powder Hundred, Cornwall]...

Catalogue reference: C 131/74/4

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This record is about the Debtor: Henry Bodrugan, esquire [of Bodrugan in Gorran, Powder Hundred, Cornwall]... dating from 1465 May 9 in the series Chancery: Extents for Debts, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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C 131/74/4
Date
1465 May 9
Description

Debtor: Henry Bodrugan, esquire [of Bodrugan in Gorran, Powder Hundred, Cornwall]

Creditor: William Beoff, John Copplestone {Copleston}, John Dennis {Denys}, and John Reyny

Amount: £40.

Before whom: John Cutler {Coteler}, Mayor of the Staple of Exeter

When taken: 29/07/1457

First term: 03/02/1458

Last term: 03/02/1458

Writ to: Sheriff of Cornwall

Sent by: Chancery.

Endorsement: Alured Cornburgh, esquire, Sheriff, replies that Henry Bodrugan was not found in the bailiwick

Note
Inquisition and return: Date to be returned: .... Attached is: (a) The inquisition made at Lostwithiel on 10/06/1465 before Alexander Cornburgh, Sheriff: Henry Bodrugan had no lands or chattels in the county. (b) A writ, dated 09/05/1465, addressed to the Sheriff of Cornwall, as in the main writ above. (c) An inquisition made at Lostwithiel on 10/06/1465, as in (a) above. (d) A writ, dated 09/5/1465, to the Sheriff of Cornwall, as in the main writ above. (e) An inquisition made at Lostwithiel on 10/06/1465, as in (a) above. (f) A writ, dated 23/02/1465, addressed to the Sheriff of Devon., as in the main writ above. (g) An inquisition made at Exeter before John Arundel, esquire, Sheriff, on 27/05/1465: Henry Bodrugan was seized on the day of the recognisance of annual rents of £26 13s. 4d. in the right of his wife Joan, from the Manors of Shiewyll and Stoke Rivers in Devon. Also, he was seized of the Manor of Langleigh, worth 6s. a year; and of a tenement in Knighton, worth 8d. a year after expenses. (h) A writ to the Sheriff of Devon., dated 09/05/1465, as in the main writ above. (i) An inquisition made at Exeter before John Arundel, esquire, Sheriff, as in (g) above. (j) A writ to the Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset, dated 09/05/1465, as in the main writ above. (k) An inquisition made at Watchet in Somerset [Martock Hundred] on Fri., 07/06/1465, before Christopher Worsley, Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset. Henry Bodrugan was seized in the right of Joan his wife of: the Manors of Bradney, Elworthy [Williton Hundred], and Brompton Ralph [Williton & Free Manors Hundred], in Somerset, and a third part of the Manor of Wydecomb, of 30 messuages, 6 tofts, 300 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow, and 300 acres of pasture, worth £23 11s. 5d. (l) An inquisition made at Watchet, as in (k) above. (m) As in (k) above. (n) As in (k) above. (o) A writ to the Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset, as in the main writ above. (p) An inquisition made at Shaftesbury in Dorset on 15/06/1464: Henry Bodrugan was seized in the right of his wife Joan, of the Manor of Knighton, worth 53s. 4d., after expenses. (q) An inquisition, as in (p) above; (r) An inquisition made at Shaftesbury, as in (q). (s) As in (q). (the main writ)
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Legal status
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Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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