Reference
X27/11
Title
Inquisition Post Mortem of William Duncombe and Helen his wife, taken at Ampthill before John Darrell, escheator
Date free text
3 Nov 1603
Production date
From: 1588 To: 1603
Scope and Content
Jury: Matthew Bodell, gentleman; Richard Stocker; Richard Blythe; William Block; Abraham Smith; William Rushe; Luke Childe; John Godman; Richard Watford; Thomas Ayer; John Cranfield, Edward Deane;
William and Helen (in her own right) held the manor of Battlesden of the king for military service (unknown part of a knight’s fee); annual value £40. Also the rectory and advowson of Battlesden. Also the manor of Lovell’s Bury, 2 tenements in the occupation of [blank] Rufford, of the king as part of the dissolved monastery of St Albans, for 1/40 part of knight’s fee and annual rent of 10/-. Annual value £10. Also 20 acres of arable in Potsgrove, 2 closes called Blanks Close and Childerley, and 8 acres of arable in Potsgrove; a tenement in Potsgrove in the occupation of Edward Garland, deceased, and one tenement called Brauncefield; and 20 acres of land formerly in the occupation of [blank] Phillips; a tenement and 10 acres in the occupation of William Broune alias Jening, deceased, and 4 acres in the occupation of [blank] Holford; held of Sir Andrew Corbett, deceased, for fealty. Annual value £4..0s..12d
In 1588 a fine was levied by Sir Peter Osborne and Hugh Offley, merchant taylor, both of London, on the manors of Battlesden and Lovell’s Bury, 40 messuages, 20 cottages, 10 tofts, 2 dove cotes, 40 gardens, 20 orchards, 2,000 acres of land, 200 acres of meadow, 1,000 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, 500 acres of heath, and 10/- rent in Battlesden, Potsgrove, Milton Brian, Hockly alias Hockley in le Hole alias Hockliffe; also the advowson of Battlesden, to the use shown in an indenture of 10 May 1588 between 1) Peter Osborn and Hugh Offley, 2) William and Helen Duncombe, 3) Saunders Duncombe, one of their sons, 4) William Duncombe, another son, 5) William Howe, pastor of the church of Woburn and Henry Watts, parson of the church of Potsgrove:
William Duncombe and Edward Duncombe his son were seised of the manor of Potsgrove and the advowson of the church, jointly for life, and to the survivor, and to the heirs of Edward Duncombe, by letters patent of 2 September 1601, by virtue of which Edward is now seized of the manor
Edward Duncombe is 36 years old and more; Helen died on 9 November 1588, and William on 27 March 1603
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