Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
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| Surrey | The humble Peticion of Jane Emerson, the Relict and Administratrix of Tho: Emerson Esqr: her late husband deceased: |
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Sheweth That whereas your sayd Peticioners late husband, was in his lyfe tyme seysed in his demesne as of Fee, of and in the Mannor of Hadlye, with all his rights, members, and appurtenances in the Cowntye of Middlesex, The Rectorie of Burneham and Cippneham, and of diuers Lands, tenements, and heredittaments, in Great Marlowe in the Cowntye of Buckingham, and of diuers Messuagies, and Tenements, in Crowchett Fryars London, and in the Burrowgh off Southwark, in the Cownty of Surrey: And lykewyse possessed by a lease Dunham: he beinge so seised and possessed as afforesayd, in and vpon the Eighteenth day of June last past dyed, so seyzed accordingly; By and after whose decease parte of the sayd premises did disscend and come vnto Thomas Emerson, as Sonne, and heyre of your sayd Peticioners late husband, and the resydue thereof owght to come vnto your Peticioner as Administratrix of the goods, and chattells of her sayd husband:
Nowe for as much as the sayd Thomas Emerson your sayd Peticioners sonne is an infant within the age of one and twenty yeares, and that some part of the sayd premises vpon enqwirie made in the Inqueste may fall owt to be held of his Maiestie, and as therevpon his Maiestie would be entitled vnto the wardeshipp of the bodye and Lands of the sayd Thomas Emerson the sonne;
May itt therefore please this honorable Cowrt to grant vnto your Peticioner a writt of Diem clausit extremum,1 or Commission off that nature
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ix Octobr. 1624.
A writ directed to the escheator, on the death of a tenant holding in chief of the king, “to enquire of what estate he was seised, and who is next heire, and his age, and of the certainty of the land, and of what value the land is, and of whom it is holden.” For an example see p. 9, infra. The inquisition was commonly called “the office.” Rastell, Les Termes de la Ley, 125.