Dorset - Southampton
This was delivered into Court on the 24th day of November in the 27th year [of Henry VI]
Inquisition taken at Cranborne and the County of Dorset on the last day of October in the twenty seventh year of the reign of the Sixth King Henry after the conquest,
Before Thomas Ryngwode and Thomas Gibbs commissioners of the Lord our King by virtue of a certain commission of our said Lord the King directed to the same and others, and shewn to this inquisition, by the corporal oath of Stephen Urene, Edward Randolf Junior, John Stirlyng, John South, William Pymbrigge, Henry Ross, William Sherwoode, Edward Randolf senior, William Simon, William Horne, William Fowler, Edward Hurst, Edward Smart and William Peynter, Jurors,
Who say, on their corporal oath, that William Horsy, specified in the said Commission, before his death, that is to say, on the Saturday next before the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the twenty sixth year of the reign of King Henry VI, by a certain Deed of Curation of his, shown in evidence to the jurors aforesaid, gave, granted and confirmed to Roger W.. [hole in document] esquire, and to Sir William Hamond, Clerke, his Manor of Byngamsworthe,
And indeed all lands and tenements, reversions, rents and services, together with all their appurtenances, in Byngamsworthe aforesaid, in the County aforesaid,
To have and to hold to the same Roger and William Hamond, their heirs and assigns,
And thereof, through a certain John Weke, their attorney, by virtue of a certain writing under the seal of the aforenamed William Horsy, made to the aforenamed John Wyke on the said day in the said month and year, he delivered seisin to the aforenamed Roger and to William Hamond under the manner and form following below, that is to say,
That if it should happen the aforenamed William Horsy to die, that then the aforenamed Roger and William Hammond should enfeoof Margaret, the wife of the aforenamed William Horsy, of the manor, lands, tenements, reversions, rents and services aforesaid, with all their appurtenances,
To have and to hold of the same Margaret the third term of her life,
And after the death of the same Margaret, to remain therefrom to the right heirs for the aforenamed William Horsy,
And if it should happen that the aforenamed feoffees should not enfeoff the aforenamed Margaret in the manner and form which are above specified then [it should be lawful] [dark patch] for the right heirs of the aforenamed William Horsy to enter into the aforesaid manor, and indeed into all the lands and tenements, reversions, rents and services aforesaid, with their appurtenances, and to hold them to themselves for ever.
And they say that… [dark patch] etc. are held of the Bishop of Salisbury, but by what service they do not know.
And further they say that a certain Henry Horsy, esquire, was seised, in his demesne, as in fee, of the manor of South … [dark patch] in the County aforesaid, and she held it of Joan, the daughter and heir of Thomas Romsey, as of his manor of Rokeborne in the county of Southampton, by service of two knights' fees, concerning which indeed … [dark patch] Joan was seised, by the hands of the aforesaid Henry, as by the hands of his free tenant,
And afterwards the aforenamed Joan died, after whose death a certain Roger Wyke, esquire, Joan, his wife, … [dark patch] of the same Joan, and the aforenamed William Horsy were seised of the fees aforesaid, as cousins and next heirs of the aforesaid Joan the daughter of Thomas,
That is to say, the aforesaid Joan the wife of Roger as the daughter of Mary, the daughter of Roger Romsey, knight, the father of Thomas, the father of Thomas, the father of the aforesaid Joan the daughter of Thomas,
And the aforesaid William Horsy as the son of Eleanor, similarly the daughter of the aforesaid Mary, the daughter of the aforesaid Walter Rumsey, knight, the father of the aforesaid Thomas, the father of the aforesaid Thomas, the father of the aforesaid Joan.
And they were seized thereof in their demesne, as in fee and right, and on possession of which the aforesaid Lord the King, by his Letters Patent of Curation aforesaid, shown in evidence upon the taking of this inquisition, pardoned all trespasses, offences and intrusions upon his possession etc.
And thus they say that the aforesaid William Horsy, together with the aforesaid Joan wife of the aforesaid Roger, still surviving, held, on the day that he died, the aforesaid two knights' fees, in the form aforesaid, in his demesne, as in fee and right, as parcel of the manor of Rokeborne aforesaid,
Which manor, indeed, is held of our Lord the King, in Chief, by military service.
And that the aforesaid two knights' fees are worth annually, when it arises, £10.
And they say further that the aforesaid William Horsy held no other lands or tenements, either in demesne or by service, on the day that he died, either of our Lord the King or of any other person in the aforesaid County,
And they say that the aforesaid William took to wife the aforesaid Margaret, daughter of a certain John gunne,
And they say further that the aforesaid William Horsey died on the first day of April last past.
And that Thomas Horsey is his son and next heir, and is of the age of seven years and more.
In witness whereof the Jurors aforesaid have affixed their seals in this Inquisition.
Given at Cranborne aforesaid on the last day of October in the 27th year abovesaid.
