| Description | From the memoranda of the Treasurer's Remembrancer for Michaelmas Term 1430.
The priory claimed that a messuage belonging to it in St Martin's parish, Canterbury, had been unjustly taken into the king's hands because an inquisition taken at Canterbury on 11 Apr 1427 before Robert Cappes, then the king's escheator in Kent (recited), showed that Agnes hendeman, who formerly held the messuage, was an idiot and not competent to govern her lands.
Agnes had granted the messuage to John Stonestrete, who subsequently granted it to John Norys of Canterbury, baker ('pistor'), William Fullbourne of Canterbury, tailor ('Cissor') and Thomas Petyman. By a licence dated 11 Apr 1408 (recited), Henry IV gave permisssion to John Norys, William and Thomas to grant the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory 3 messuages, including Agnes's former messuage, 1 toft and 100 acres of land in the parishes of St Martin and St Mary Northgate, Canterbury, for a light in the newly-built chapel of St Mary in the nave of the cathedral. On 6 Jun they granted these lands to the priory (grant recited). Prior Thomas Chillenden, I, and Prior John Wodnesbergh, II, his sucessor, held the messuage until John Wodnesbergh was unjustly removed from it, following the inquisition.
On 12 Nov 1430 Prior William Molashe, I, through John Durem and Robert Shamele, his attornies, entered a plea concerning distraints made in the tenement by the king's escheator and the unjust expulsion of John Wodnesbergh from the tenement and seizure of it. The tenement still remained in the kings hands. John Vaumpage, on the king's behalf, had alleged that Agnes was still living and asked that she should be brought into court and examined. Agnes came into court on 6 Oct and the barons established that she was not an idiot. The prior therefore asked that the tenement should be returned to him and 27 Jan 1431 was appointed as the date to hear and determine this.
No date. [Date: latest date in original.]
Endorsed 'Prior Cantuar'' in mid 15th cent hand. |