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Roll of the Escheator for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1392/95

1392 -1395

From: 1392 To: 1395

This appears to be the escheator's office copy, in the official copies of similar documents at the Public Record Office (E136) the separate items are run into long paragraphs. This particular roll can be dated between the deaths of Thomas Earl of Stafford, in 1392, and of Elizabeth Luttrell in 1395. There can be little doubt that it belonged to Alan de Kirketon or Kirton, escheator in 1386/87, 1391/92 and 1396/97, whose lands in Biddenham were acquired by Richard Boteler through marriage with his heiress; it is probably his own roll of 1391/92. The roll is imperfect at both ends; it should contain four sections: old escheats, Bedfordshire; old escheats, Buckinghamshire; new escheats Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire; lands, tenements, goods and chattels of outlaws, felons and fugitives, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire; an incomplete example of the last class is on the dorse of membrane 4 Dorse. The endorsement on membrane 4, "A Terrar off Kyrtons and Now in tenewr de S Wyllm Buttler in Byddynham Fyld etc." explains the terrier on membrane 1d, 2d, 3d; the first part seems to have been rewritten in the 17th century with a gum-carbon ink over a faded iron ink of the early 16th century. On membrane 4d is a copy of a Letter ?Patent of 18 February 1393 to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, exonerating escheators from accounting for the dower of Anne, widow of Thomas Earl of Stafford. The item for Whitchurch on the 4th membrane is made clear by the following pedigree:- Earls of Oxford John de Vere 7th Earl, = Maud, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere died 1360 | ________________________|________________________________ | | Thomas de Vere 8th Earl = Maud de Ufford Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl = Alice fitz died 1370 | restored 1392, died 1400 | Robert de Vere 9th Earl, = Philippa de Couci, daughter of Earl of Bedford forfeited 1388, died 1392 The dating of items on the Close and Patent Rolls is so erratic that it is hardly possible to settle the periods of the different escheators from the printed calendars. In the period to which this roll belongs, they seem to have been - John Longeville 1389/90, 1393/94 Alan Kirton 1391/92, 1396/97 [official list at Public Record Office 1385, 1390, 1395] John Craunfeld 1392/93 John Reyner 1395/96 Rolls of Alan Kirton, 14-15 Richard II, and of John Reyner, 18-19 Richard II, are preserved at the Public Record Office

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Kirketon, Alan,
Kirton, Alan

legal papers, court rolls, escheator, BEDFORDSHIRE, Buckinghamshire