Calendar of the Patent Rolls,
Preserved in the
Public Record Office
Henry VI.
A.D. 1422-1429.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls,
Preserved in the
Public Record Office
Henry VI.
A.D. 1422-1429.
1425. Membrane 13d.
June 11. Westminister.
Commission to Robert Tirwhyt, John Preston and James Strangways, or any two of them, to hold inquisition in the county York, and certify the result into the chancery, relative to a petition presented by William Boynton, as follows: A certain Ingelram de Muncels by deed within the time of legal memory, gave with Alice his daughter in marriage to a certain William de Boynton, who did marry her, and to their heirs of their bodies, 2 messuages, 3 cottages, and 16 bovates of land in Boynton, co. York, by the name of 3 carucates of land in Boiunton, the whole being in the demesne except 2 bovates which Henry, son of Peter held; which 2 bovates are part of the said 3 carucates, together with a capital messuage in the said town. By virtue of which gift the said William and Alice were peaceably seised in the time of king Edward I, and from them the right of the premises successively descended to Ingelram, their son and heir, Walter, his son and heir, Thomas, his son and heir, Thomas son and heir of the said Thomas, Henry son and heir of the said Thomas son of Thomas, Thomas son and heir of the said Henry, and, the last named Thomas dying without heir of his body, to William Boynton the petitioner, his brother and heir. But the premises came into the hands of Henry IV because it was found by inquisition taken at Gysburn on 24 Juanary, 10 Henry IV, before Thomas de Santon, escheator in the county of York, that Margaret late the wife of Thomas de Boynton, knight, held in dower on the day of her death, 2 messuages, 3 cottages and 16 bovates of land in Boynton by assignment of Henry de Boynton, knight, with reversion to him and the heirs of his body; and this Henry on 10 July, 6 Henry IV, at Berwyk on Tweed, rose against his said king, for which insurrection and for holding the castle of Berwyk on Tweed against the king's power, he was adjudged to death; by which forfeiture the said messuages, cottages and bovates after the death of the said Margaret, came to the hands of Henry IV, and are still in the king's hands. Now the Henry de Boynton mentioned in the inquisition is the same person as Henry the petitioner's father, and the petitioner prays that right may be done him in the matter. By p.s.
The like commission to the same on another petition presented by the said William as follows: A certain fine was levied at Westminister in the quinzaine of Michaelmass, 14 Edward III, before John de Stonore and his fellows, then justices of the common Bench, between Thomas son of Walter de Boynton and Catherine his wife, plaintiffs, and William Moubray, clerk, deforciant, whereby the said Thomas and Catherine recognised the manor of Rouceby and the moiety of the manor of Neuton under Osenburgh, co. York, to be the right of the said William Moubray, by their gift; and the said William Moubray, in return, granted the premises to them and the heirs of their bodies; of virtue of which fine they were seised, and from them the right descended successively to Thomas their son and heir, Henry his son and heir and so forth as above. The said manor of Rouceby was granted for life to Elizabeth, late the wife of the said Henry, by letters patent of Henry IV by the name of the town of Rouceby, with the appurtenances; and after her death came into the hands of Henry V, and is in the king's hands; and the moiety of the said manor of Neuton came into the hands of Henry IV by virtue of the said inqisition before Thomas de Santon. By p.s.
The like commission on a petition by the same William Boynton relative to a messuage, a cottage and 5 bovates and 40 acres of land in Snaynton, co. York, granted by deed by William de Boiunton to Ingelram his eldest born son and Margaret his wife and the heirs of their bodies, by the name of all the land which he had in the town of Snaington in desmesne, free service, bondage and cottier service (cotagio) with all foreign tillages (forinsecis culturis) which he had in the same town, whereof the said Ingelram and Margaret were seised in the time of Edward I. From them the right descended as mentioned in the last commission but one, the land being in the king's hands by virtue of the inquisition before Thomas de Santon, already twice mentioned. By p.s.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, 1422-1429, printed for his Majesty's Stationery Office, pp. 301-302.