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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.
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To our most gracious Soueraigne Lo: the kinges Maiestie and to the M
The humble peticion of Thomasine Constable widowe
Sheweth That Marmaduke Constable Esquire your peticioners Husbande dyed three weekes since seized of A Mannor and Landes in Nvnthrope in the Countie of Yorke parte whereof is helde of his Maiestie in Cheife by knightes seruice leaving his sonne and heire within age.
Shee beinge naturall mother prayeth to be admitted to a favorable Composition for the body and Landes of the same heire and she shalbe bounde to praye etc.
dd: xxijdo Julij 1624
xij Octobris 1624.
Direccion is geven that the peticioner shall attend with a schedule and confession of thestate the 4th sittinge vpon composicions in Hillary Terme next att which time John Richardson Escheator of the County of Yorke may allsoe attend if hee thincke fitt.
Of Normanby in Cleveland, co. York; admitted to the Inner Temple, November, 1612; called to the bar, October 15, 1620.