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Fowkes lying in extremis made his will as follows: I will that the house wherein I now dwell and of which I have the fee simple shall be wholly in the use and possession of my wife for her life; and after her decease shall come to my children to be sold for their best advantage, and the money to be equally divided amongst them.

The whole messuage called the Lambe is held of the Queen in chief by knight's service, but by what part of a knight's fee the jurors know not, and it is worth per ann., clear, 33s. 4d.

Richard Fowkes died 21 April, 30 Eliz. [1588], John Fowkes is his son and next heir and was then aged 15 years and 4 months.

Chan. Inq. p. m., vol. 222, No. 55.

Roger Tyndall, Citizen and Armourer.

Inquisition

taken at the Guildhall, 23 June, 31 Eliz. [1589], before William Necton, gent., feodary, Edmund Ferraunde and Arthur Forthe, gents., commissioners, after the death of Roger Tyndall, citizen and armourer of London, by virtue of a commission to them and to Matthew Dale, esq. and Matthew Cracherode, esq., directed, by the oath of Robert Dickenson, Thomas Russell, Thomas Sewell, John Jackson, John Bond, William Cooke, Nicholas Hawkesford, James Robinson, John Dixson, Thomas Wigges, Edward Swayne, John Tompson, Peter Noxton, Nicholas Maddox, Robert Saunders and Arthur Wright, who say that

Roger Tyndall was a citizen and freeman of the City of London, and long before his death was seised in his demesne as of fee of 1 messuage and tenement late in the tenure of Edward Scysson, situate in the parish of St. Botolph without Busshoppesgate, London, which said messuage the said Roger lately purchased to him and his heirs of Edward Welshe and Simon Aynesworth of London, gents.; I other messuage and tenement late in the tenure of . . . Rycrofte, widow, in the said parish which he bought to him and his heirs of Thomas Reve of London, gentleman, John Johnson of the same, fishmonger, and Henry Heardson, of the same, skinner; I other messuage late in the tenure of Peter Crowche, situate in the said parish, which he purchased to him and his heirs of William Hulsonde of London, scrivener and William Pendred of London, founder.

So seised, the said Roger Tyndall made his will as follows [here given in English]: I give to Agnis my wife the said messuages and all other my messuages, lands, &c., for her life, and immediately after her

death I give the same to the Master and wardens and brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild of St. George of the men of the mystery of Armourers, of the City of London, and to their successors for ever, they distributing yearly amongst the poor of the parish of St. Dionise Backchurch, London, between the feasts of Christmas and Lady Day as much coal and faggots as shall be worth 50s., and to the clerk of the same parish 2s, on condition that he bring yearly to the said Master and wardens at some of their courts to be held in their common hall in London between Michaelmas and Christmas the names of all the poor people in the said parish to the intent it may be registered there what poor persons are relieved by this my request, and also to procure yearly, on the feast-day of St. George the Martyr if it be not a fish-day, and if it be a fish-day then the next Sunday or Monday after that, a godly sermon be made in the forenoon of the same day in the parish Church of St. Dionise Backchurch by a godly learned preacher of King's College in Cambridge, at which sermon the livery of the said company, or the greater part of them, to be present in their liveries, they to give the said preacher for preaching the said sermon 6s. 8d., and also to have him with them from the said Church to their common hall to dinner if he will go.

The said Master and wardens shall also pay to John Tyndall, my brother's son, £13 6s. 8d., or else shall give him yearly during his life £4.

The said Master and wardens shall have yearly allowed them out of my said lands and tenements on St. George's Day for their trouble 6s. 8d., viz., the Master 3s. 4d., and each warden 20d.; and they shall pay yearly to the wardens of the yeomanry of the same company to the use of the said yeomanry 20s. on St. George's Day, or on the day of the election of the Master, commonly called the Master's "dynner daie"; to the intent "such of the same yeomanry as goeth to the Church the same election daie with the said Mr. shall dyne and make merry togyther with the same"; and to the "bedill" of the same company yearly 3s. 4d. If the said Master and wardens do not pay such legacies, then I give the said premises to the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, and to their successors for ever, on like conditions, as by the said will, dated 27 July, 1581, more fully appears.

The messuage and tenement in the parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, late in the tenure of Edward Sysson are held of the Queen in free burgage, and are worth per ann., clear, 40s. The messuage and tenement in the said parish late in the tenure of the said . . . Rycrofte, widow, are held of the Queen by fealty only in free burgage and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, 40s. The messuage and tenement in the said parish, late in the tenure of the said Peter Crowche, are held

of the Queen in free burgage and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, £4.

The said Anna wife of the said Roger died before him, viz., 30. November, 29 Eliz. [1586].

The said Roger Tyndall died 7 February, 30 Eliz. [1588]; Robert Tyndall of London, yeoman, is his kinsman and next heir, and was then aged 43 years and more.

Chan. Inq. p. m., vol. 223, No. 70.

Roger Beckwith, Esquire.

Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, the last day of February, 31

Eliz. [1589], before Martin Calthorpp, knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of Roger Beckwith, esq., son and heir of Leonard Beckwith, knight, and Dame Elizabeth his wife, deceased, by the oath of Robert Dickenson, Thomas Sewell, William Harvy, John Bonde, John Stevens, John Jackson, William Crowche, Edmund Owen, William Cooke, Hugh Ingram, Robert Saunders, James Robinson, Nicholas Madox and John Dixon, who say that

Long before the death of the said Roger, the said Dame Elizabeth Beckwith, late the wife of the said Leonard Beckwith, knight, one of the daughters and coheirs of Roger Cholmeley, knight, deceased, was seised in her demesne as of fee of the moiety of 1 messuage lying in the street. called le old Balye, in the parish of St. Martin, within the gate of Ludgate of the City of London, late in the tenure of Robert Hodgeson, deceased; the moiety of 1 other messuage lying in the street within Ludgate in the said parish of St. Martin, late in the tenure of Richard Graundishe; the moiety of 1 messuage situate in the parish of Mervin near Croked Lane, late in the tenure of Edward Burton, deceased; the moiety of one messuage called le Blacke Bull, lying near Leaden hall in the parish of St. Peter, Cornehill, late in the tenure of Thomas Dalton, deceased; the moiety of another messuage adjoining the said messuage in the said parish of St. Peter, Cornhill, now or late in the tenure of John Mascall; 1 messuage or inn called le Crowne in the parish of St. Andrew in Holborn in co. Middlesex, now or late in the tenure of . . . Alsoppe; the moiety of the pourparty of the lands and tenements late of Roger Cholmeley, knight, deceased, situate at Shotuphill in the parish of Hampsted in co. Middlesex, now or late in the tenure of Robert North; the moiety of the pourparty of the manor of Esthamburnells and Westhamburnells in co. Essex, now or late in the tenure of Robert Stepneth;

the moiety of the pourparty of the manor of Estwestham and Plais with all rents, &c., in the parish of Estham in co. Essex, now or late in the occupation of Arden Waferer, esq.; 1 messuage lying in Stowe Ingraffe in co. Essex, now or late in the tenure of . . . Jackson; 1 pasture in Orsett called Stiden hill in co. Essex, late in the tenure of Edmund Hurt; the moiety of the pourparty of the marsh land lying in Estham in co. Essex, late in the tenure of Clement Scisley, deceased; the moiety of one farm in Wallworthe in co. Surrey, now or late in the tenure of Henry Lorde; the moiety of the part of all the lands and tenements in Wallworthe, now or late in the tenure of . . . Readinge in the said county of Surrey, sadler; the moiety of the part of 1 messuage in Wallworthe now or late in the tenure of Thomas Gwynne, late bailiff there; the manor of Newington Lucyes; and all other the lands, tenements, woods, underwoods and hereditaments in Newington, Footescraye, Chestilhurste, Okelay and Crayforde in co. Kent. So seised, the said Dame Elizabeth Beckwith married Christopher Kenne, esq., of Kenn in co. Somerset, and shortly afterwards the said Christopher and Dame Elizabeth for a certain sum of money to them paid by indenture dated 1st February, 8 Eliz. [1566], granted all the said premises to John Drewe of London, gent., and Leonard Ive of the Inner Temple, London, gent. [here given in English], for the term of 510 years, they paying therefor yearly 40s, to the said Christopher and Dame Elizabeth, and after their deceases £20 yearly to the heirs of the said Dame Elizabeth.

Afterwards, viz., on the morrow of the Purification of the Blessed Mary, 22 Eliz. [1580], for the fulfilment of certain covenants specified in the said indenture a fine was levied at Westminster between William Vavasor, esq., Joan Bradshawe, widow, William Atwoode, gent., and Ralph Hatton, plts., and Christopher Kenne, esq., and Elizabeth his wife alias Elizabeth Beckwith, deforciants, of the manors of Newington alias Nuyngton Lucys, Parva Okeley and Foutescraie and 40 messuages, 20 cottages, 1000 a. of land, 100 a. of meadow, 1000 a. of pasture, 400 a. of wood, and 300 a. of furze and heath, and 10 librates of rent in Newington, Parva Okeley, Foutzcraye and Crayfforde in co. Kent, the manors of Estham Burnelles, Westham Burnelles, Estwestham and Plais, and 30 messuages, 20 cottages, 400 a. of land, 400 a. of meadow, 100 a. of pasture, 100 a. of wood, 400 a. of furze and heath, 300 a. of moor, 400 a. of marsh and 15 librates of rent in Esthamburnelles, Westham Burnelles, Estwestham, Plaice, Estham, Westham, and Orsett in co. Essex, and 20 messuages, 20 cottages, 10 gardens, 10 orchards, 100 a. of land, 400 a. of meadow, 100 a. of pasture, 400 a. of wood and 200 a. of furze and heath in the parishes of St. Holborn, Holburne, Hornesey,

Hollowaye, Upper Holloway, Lower Highgate alias Hygate, Yseldon alias Islington, and Hampsted in co. Middlesex; 6 messuages, 3 cottages, 80 a. of land, 40 a. of meadow, 60 a. of pasture, 20 a. of wood and 20 a. of furze and heath in Wallworthe in co. Surrey, and 20 messuages, 20 gardens, and 10 orchards in the parishes of St. Peter next Leadenhall, St. Martin within Ludgate and St. Michael, near Croked Lane in City of London, whereupon the said Christopher and Elizabeth acknowledged the said premises to be the right of the said William Vavasor as those which he and the said Joan, William and Ralph have of their gift, and the same remised to them and to the heirs of the said William Vavasor for ever. For this agreement the said William and others gave to the said Christopher and Elizabeth £2020: which said fine was levied to the use of the said John Drewe and Leonard Ive for the said term of 510 years; after that term, to the use of the said Elizabeth the wife of the said Christopher Kenne alias Elizabeth Beckwith and her heirs for ever.

The said Elizabeth died 24 November, 26 Eliz. [1583], after whose death the reversion of all the said premises descended to the said Roger Beckwith, esq., as her son and heir.

The manor of Newington Luces in co. Kent is held of the Queen in chief by the 40th part of a knight's fee. Of whom or by what services the premises in Okeley in co. Kent are held the jurors know not. Of whom the premises in Chestillworth, Craiford and Foutezcraye in co. Kent are held is not known. The moiety of the messuage lying in the parish of St. Martin within Ludgate, late in the tenure of the said Richard Graundishe is held of the Queen in chief by knight's service, viz. by the 100th part of a knight's fee. Of whom the residue of the premises is held the jurors know not.

All the said premises demised by the said indenture to the said John Drew and Leonard Ive are worth per ann., clear, 40s. during the life of the said Christopher Kenne, who still survives, and after his death they will be worth per ann., clear, £20 during the said term.

Roger Beckwith died at Hardwicke in co. Nottingham, 5 September, 28 Eliz. [1586]; Frances Harvye wife of George Harvye, esq., and Frances Slyngsbye wife of Henry Slyngsbye, esq., are his next heirs, viz., the said Frances Harvye as sister and one of the coheirs of the said Roger and the said Frances Slyngsbye, daughter and heir of Elizabeth Vavasor, wife of William Vavasor, esq., as the other sister and co-heir of the said Roger Beckwith. The said Frances Harvye is now aged 39 years and more, and the said Frances Slyngsbye 25 years and more.

Immediately after the death of the said Roger Beckwith the said

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