Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Notebook, Court of Wards, folio 3

Winthrop, John

			li.	s.	d.
For the scedule			0	11	0
The feodaries survey			2	5	0
The Copie of the same survey for the Auditor			6	8
Casting the rates			1	0
Fees in the livery office for the Indentures	}		2	13	4
Warrant and bonde and signing	}		2	13	4
The great seale			2	0	0
The enrolling			1	0	0
The enrolling in the eschequer and Compounding for the Homage and knowledging the releife about the meane rates 2 yeares at xx s.		}	2	6	8
			li.	s.
	Summa		12	4

The Charge of a livery upon the landes exceeding the valew of 5 C li.
	li.	s.	d.
Imprimis the tender of the Livery with the enrolling thereof	0	13	4
7
Item the Clerke of the liverie his fees	4	0	0
Item to the master of the Roules	7	0	10
To Lord great Chamberline	5	0	0
The privy seale	9	6	8
The enrolling of the Livery booke	1	0	0
To the Clerke of the Pettibagg2	4	0	0
For the great seale	2	4	4
The enrolling of Indentures and scedule	1	3	0
For the accounting the rates	0	2	0
For penning the livery booke	1	0	0
For Rewardes to the Clerke
	li.	s.	d.
Summa	35	10	2

The Charges for the Composition
	li.	s.	d.
for Geo: Adams at fine	1	6	8
rent		13	4 per annum
it was found in the office at	xi s.	8 d.
it was worthe about	x li. per annum.
To the vsher at Composition daye	0	1 s.	6 d.
To Mr. Chamberline3 due 19 s.	0	10
To Mr. Auditor
To Mr. Receiver vpon payment of the fine
To the master of the wardes for his hand to the scedule
To his secretaryes

Fo. 3 verso contains merely the docket, “Liueryes sueinge the charge of it.” Lists of charges of this nature were doubtless often drawn up by lawyers or their clerks for office use, and were also transmitted from hand to hand. B. M., MS. Harleian 1323, no. 19, fos. 189–209, a handbook of the Court of Wards and Liveries, contains “The Charge of a generall Liverie where the Lands being Rated but at Eight poundes Per Annum,” “The Charges of Sueing out a Spetiall Liverie,” and other tables of the sort.

“Clerks of the Petit bag, three officers of Chancery who record the return of all inquisitions out of every Shire, all liveries granted in the Court of Wards,” etc. N.E.D. , quoting Edward Phillips, 1658.

Sir Richard Chamberline, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1620–21.

Notebook, Court of Wards, folio 5

Winthrop, John

Docket.
Middlesex
Buckingham	Emerson	Wardship
London	1624
Surrey
Durham

Middlesex		To the right Honorable the Master and Counseyll of his Maiesties Cowrt of Wards and Lyueries:
Buckingham
London
Surrey	The humble Peticion of Jane Emerson, the Relict and Administratrix of Tho: Emerson Esqr: her late husband deceased:
Durham

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 illegible his Maiestie from, and during the tearme of one thowsand yeares or thereabouts of and in the Mannowrs of Bradburye and Hillton in the Cownty of 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 large blot

delivered xv° Julij 1624

ix Octobr. 1624. blot schedule and confession of the estate the 3: sittinge in Hillary Terme nexte.

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.