1419-11-06, Westminster

Order to the escheator in the county of Nottingham ; pursuant to an inquisition taken before him showing that one John de Loudham, knight, was seised in his demesne as of fee of 30s. of yearly rent and a messuage called Whithall in Carleton in Lyndryk, and by his deed dated at Carleton in Lyndryk on the Thursday next after the Assumption, 1316, 10 Edward II, gave and granted the said rent and messuage (by name of 30s. of yearly rent in Carleton and (sic) Lyndryk receivable yearly from his free tenants in the said town together with his whole lordship in the said town, to wit, in wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, suits of court of the said tenants every three weeks, amends of the trespass of bread and ale, and all other servicesand servages of the said tenants, and the rest of the profits (appruamentis) in and without the said town pertaining to the said rent and lordship, well in mills, waters, wastes, heaths, moors, marshes, (kerris), meadows, feedings and pastures, as in all the other without any withholding), to Thomas Carleton . 305 of Carleton, clerk, and the heirs of his body, by virtue of which gift and grant the said Thomas, was seised of the said rent and messuage in his demesne as of fee tail ; and that from Thomas the right of the said rent and messuage descended to one Henry as son and heir of Thomas, and from Henry to Thomas Carleton, esquire, now deceased, as Henry's son and heir, by the form of the gift ; and that after the death of the said Thomas Carleton, clerk, and Henry the said rent and messuage descended to the said Thomas Carleton, esquire, as Henry's son and heir by the form of the gift, and he was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee tail, and held the said rent and messuage in fee tail on the day of his death ; and that the said rent and messuage are held of the king by fealty and service of 6d. a year for a pair of gilt spurs, payable to the king yearly at Michaelmas by the hands of the sheriff of the county for the time being ; and that Walter Carleton is the son and next heir of the said Thomas Carleton, esquire, and of full age ; to cause the said Walter to have full seisin of the said rent and messuage, as the king has taken his fealty.