are held of the Queen in chief by knight's service, and are worth per ann., clear, £38 18s. 3d. Of whom or by what service the manors of Church Lauford, Church Over alias Church Waver and Swynford and other the premises there and in Wolston are held the jurors know not: they are worth per ann., clear, £57 12s. 9d. The manor of Longeborowe and other the premises there are held of the Queen in chief . . . and are worth per ann., clear, £14 12s. 10d. The lordships and manors of Bledington, Cattilsthropp alias Addelstropp and Maugesbery and other the premises there are worth per ann., clear, . . ., but of whom they are held the jurors do not know. The lordships and manors of Southlitleton, Northelitleton, and Middle Litleton are held of the Queen in chief by knight's service and are worth per ann., clear, £42 12s. 8d. Of whom the tenements in Hogeston and the tenement called the Spittell Feildes in Islington are held the jurors know not: they are worth per ann., clear, £23 6s. 8d. Of whom the lordship and manor of Lekewotton alias Crossegrange, the tithes and other the premises in Lekewotton Hill, Wotton and Woodecote, the advowson of the vicarage of Lekewotton and the tenements called Thicthorne and Grenegrove is not known they are worth per ann., clear, £16 145. 10d. Of whom or by what service the manor of Dunchurch and other the premises in Rugbie, Thurlaston, and Dunchurch are held the jurors know not: they are worth per ann., clear, £30 13s. 6d. Of whom the rent charge of 20s. is held the jurors do not know: it is worth per ann., clear, 20s. The manors of Stoneley and Ashoe and other the premises granted by the said Letters Patent are held of the Queen in the manner and form therein specified, and are worth per ann., clear, . . . Of whom the manors of Lauford, Newbolde and Colleford and other the premises there are held is not known: they are worth per ann., clear, £8 os. 8d. The manor of Flechhampsteed and other the premises there and in Stoneley lately purchased by the said Sir Thomas Leigh and Alice his wife of the said William Humberstone are held of the Queen . . . by knight's service and are worth per ann., clear, £7. Of whom the grange of Milborne and other the premises in Stoneley and Mylborne lately purchased of the said Anthony Thockemerton are held is not known: they are worth per ann., clear, £15. The premises in Cunley, Hurste, Westwoode and Cryfeld are held of the Queen as of her manor of East Greenwich in co. Kent by fealty only in free socage and not in chief and are worth per ann., clear, £17 15s. 7d. Of whom the . . . are held is not known; they are worth per ann., clear, £15.

Sir Thomas Leigh died 17 November, 14 Eliz. [1571], Rouland Leigh

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is his son and next heir, and was aged 31 years on the 6th day of March now last past.

Chan. Inq. p. m., ser. 2, vol. 161, No. 91.

Elizabeth Allen, widow, lunatic.

nquisition taken at the Guildhall, 23 November, 31 Eliz.

[1588], before William Necton, gent., feodary of the said City and Thomas Stampe, gent., by virtue of a writ to enquire as to the lunacy of Elizabeth Allen, widow, late the wife of Christopher Allen, deceased, to them and to Rowland Heyward, knight, Francis Stonard, esq., Francis Plowden, esq., James Lea, gent., and James Smyth, gent., directed, by the oath of Robert Dickinson, Thomas Russell, Roger Holle, William Harvye, John Bonde, John Stevens, William Crowche, William Povey, George Robartes, Thomas Wigges, Hugh Ingram, James Robynson, John Dixon, and Robert Saunders, who say that

Elizabeth Allen is a lunatic and is kept under restraint, and is not compos mentis, but she enjoys lucid intervals, so that she is not competent to govern herself on her lands, tenements, goods or chattels. She became a lunatic by the visitation of God: while she was in that condition she did not alienate any lands or tenements, goods or chattels : she is seised of 1 messuage in Brickenden Bury in co. Hertford and divers lands and tenements thereto belonging which are worth per ann., clear, £5, which the said Elizabeth holds for her jointure for the term of her life by the death of the said Christopher Allen, late her husband, but of whom they are held the jurors know not.

William Coyes is the brother and next heir of the said Elizabeth Allen and is now aged 22 years and more.

Chan. Inq. p. m., ser. 2, vol. 222, No. 35.

Matthew Pary or Pery, gentleman.

Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 8 May, 32 Eliz. [1590)], before

John Harte, knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of Matthew Pary, gent., by the oath of Robert Dickinson, Thomas Sewell, William Harvye, John Jackson, James Robinson, William Crouche, Edward Pillesworth, John Adlin, Hugh Ingram, Robert . . Nicholas Maddox, Thomas Wigges and Arthur Wright, who say that

Matthew Pary long before and at the time of his death was seised in

his demesne as of fee of 1 messuage or inn called the Beare late in the tenure of Edward Whitwell, citizen, and . . . of London, and now in that of William Irelond, situate in the street of West Smithfield within the City of London within the parish of St. Sepulchre, formerly belonging to the late monastery of St. Bartholomew in West Smithfield now dissolved; 1 other messuage and tenement with 1 garden thereto adjoining formerly in the tenure of John Shankes and afterwards in that of John Buggins and Henry Licheffeilde, situate in a certain lane called Charter House lane in co. Middlesex, within the said parish of St. Sepulchre formerly belonging to the late priory of the Carthusians near London, with all that aqueduct and water course running from the large aqueduct commonly called the great "Conditt" at the Charterhouse aforesaid up to the said messuage in the said lane, and with all the lead pipe by which the water runs and is brought from the said large aqueduct up to the said messuage, together with liberty from time to time of overturning and doing all things and amending and new making the said pipe 1 other messuage with a garden late in the tenure of William . . . lying in the said lane called Charterhouse lane; 1 other messuage with a garden being in the said parish and lane, formerly in the tenure of Richard Warner and late in that of William Beamonde; 1 other messuage with a garden situate in the said lane and parish late in the tenure of Thomas Launder; I other messuage and garden there late in the tenure of Robert Bowser, I other messuage and garden there formerly in the tenure of John Johnson and late in that of Richard Palmer; 2 messuages there sometime in the tenure of Robert Benson and William Taylor and Agnes his wife and late in that of John [?] Bennet and William Cele; 1 tenement and garden there formerly in the tenure of William Hornby and late in that of Robert Benson; 1 garden formerly in the tenure of Henry Clerke and late in that of John Shepheard, lying in a certain street called St. John Street, in the parish aforesaid in co. Middlesex; 1 other messuage and garden late in the tenure of William Tompson lying in Charterhouse lane aforesaid sometime belonging to the late house of the Carthusians; 4 rooms and tenements which are now divided into 4 rooms and tenements [sic] late in the tenure of Katherine White, John Repton, Joan Taylor, widow, and Margaret Penny situate in Charterhouse lane in co. Middlesex to the said House of the Carthusians formerly belonging; 1 yearly rent of 135. 4d. issuing out of a certain messuage or inn called the Bell in West Smithfield, London, sometime in the tenure of Henry Ward and Agnes his wife, late parcel of the possessions of the said late house of the Carthusians; I other yearly rent of 6s. issuing out of a certain messuage called the Fermes house in the said parish of St. Sepulchre, some

time in the tenure of William Bedelle, and lately belonging to the said late priory of St. Bartholomew.

The said Matthew Perye was also seised on the day that he died of 2 messuages lying separate in the said Charterhouse lane late in the tenure of Richard Warner and Robert Pery brother of the said Matthew Perye; 3 tenements formerly I tenement with 1 piece of arable land lying together in Highecrosse in the parish of Standon in co. Hertford now or late in the tenure of John Kynge.

The messuage or inn called the Beare and the 9 messuages and gardens in Charterhouse lane and the garden in the tenure of Henry Clerke are held of the Queen in chief by knight's service, viz., by the 40th part of I knight's fee, and are worth per ann., clear, £17 6s. 8d. The messuage and garden late in the tenure of William Tompson lying in the said lane and the said 4 rooms there are held of the Queen as of her manor of East Greenwich in co. Kent by fealty only in free socage and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, 33s. 4d. The 2 tenements lying in the said lane in the several tenures of Richard Warner and Robert Perye are held of the Queen in chief by knight's service, but by what part of a knight's fee the jurors do not know: they are worth per ann., clear, 40s. The messuage and land in Stonden in co. Hertford are held of Wall, widow, by fealty and the rent of id. and are worth per ann., clear, 46s. 8d.

Matthew Pery died 6 July, 31 Eliz. [1589], Richard Pery is his son and next heir, and was then aged 25 years and more.

Anne Pery relict of the said Matthew still survives and is dowered with a third part of all the said premises.

Chan. Inq. p. m., ser. 2, vol. 227. No. 194.

Henry Kobynson, Citizen and Cook.

Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 27 September, 25 Eliz.

[1583], before Thomas Blanke, knight, Mayor and escheator by virtue of his Office, after the death of Henry Robynson, citizen and cook of London, by the oath of Robert Dickonson, Richard Smithe, Roger Hole, Thomas Russell, John Irelande, John Jackson, Edmund Owen, George Gynne, William Povye, Henry Webbe, George Robertes, John Oldam, William Feake, Robert Peacock, John Bonde, John Richardes and Nicholas Hawksforde, who say that

Long before the death of the said Henry Robynson a certain John

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Berden, citizen and poulterer of London, was seised in his demesne as of fee of those 2 tenements commonly called The Cardinalls Hatt with all the houses, buildings, gardens and easements thereto belonging, lying in the street called Gracious streate in the parish of All Saints Gracechurche, London: of which said tenements i was late in the tenure of the said John Berden and Agnes his wife, but the, other thereto adjoining was late in the tenure of Richard Bilbroke and is now in that of Richard Tompson, cook.

And the said John being so seised, by the writing of the said John and Agnes, dated 29 May 18 Eliz. [1576], and acknowledged before Rowland Hayward, knight, alderman of the City of London, and William Fleetewoode, esq., recorder of the said City, the said Agnes, being by them examined by herself according to the custom of the said City, and enrolled in the Hustings of the pleas of land held in the Guildhall of London on Monday in the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, 18 Eliz. [1576], for a competent and reasonable sum of money paid to the said John Berden by the said Henry Robynson and by Richard Tompson and Robert Grey, citizens and cooks of London, gave the said premises to the said Henry Robynson, Richard Thompson and Robert Grey and to the heirs of the said Henry for ever; by virtue whereof they entered into the said premises and were thereof jointly seised, vis. the said Henry Robynson in his demesne as of fee and the said Richard and Robert in their demesne as of free tenement.

So seised, the said Henry Robynson made his will on the 2nd day of January, 1577, and thereby bequeathed as follows: I give to the said. [sic] Alice Tompson for her natural life my tenement lying in Gracechurch street in the parish of All Saints in Lombard street called the "Cardinall Hatt," now in the occupation of John Berden "pulter," and the tenement thereto next adjoining now in my occupation with all the shops cellars, sollars and chambers thereto belonging; and after her death I give the same to William Tompson son of the said Richard Tompson: to hold to him and his heirs for ever.

All the said premises are held of the Queen in free burgage of the said City of London, and are worth per ann., clear, £4.

Henry Robynson died 21 February, 20 Eliz. [1578], but who is his next heir the jurors know not.

The said Richard Tompson and Robert Grey survived the said Henry and are still alive, and hold themselves therein by right of accruing.

Chan. Inq. p. m., ser. 2, vol. 276, No. 517.