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283, the Inquisition of John Poulett, Marquis of Winchester, is out of place, and

has already been printed in Vol. II., p. 212.

ABSTRACTS

OF THE

Inquisitiones Post Mortem

RELATING TO THE

CITY OF LONDON,

RETURNED INTO THE COURT OF CHANCERY.

INQUISITIONS OF THE REIGN OF
QUEEN ELIZABETH.

John Tatton, Citizen and Clothier. Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 20 May, 19 Eliz. [1577], before

John Langley, Knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of John Tatton, citizen and clothier of London, by the oath of John Haddon, Robert Dickenson, John Harrison, John Keblewhighte, Arthur Rainscrofte, Thomas Russell, William Armesby, John Jackson, Richard Smith, William Povye, John Crowche, William Layer, John Wilde, Thomas Eliotte, John Richardes and Edward Owen, who say that

John Tatton was seised in his demesne as of fee of 1 messuage, now in the tenure of Hugh Full, and I shop also in the tenure of the said Hugh, situate in Birchenlane in the parish of St. Edmund in Lumbardstreate, London; 4 messuages lying together with shops and other buildings now or sometime parcel of the said messuages, now in the several tenures of Richard Marriatte, John Godfrey, Robert Goodwin and Alice Crasten situate in Birchen lane in the said parish; 2 messuages lying together at the corner of Birchenlane towards the highway called Cornhill in the parish of St. Michael upon Cornhill aforesaid with all shops, &c., now in the several tenures of Dorothy Tatton, widow, and John Stanley, and 2 messuages in the parish of St. Olave in Old Jewry, London, now in the tenure of Edmund Syvedale.

All the said premises in Birchenlane in the said parish of St. Edmund are held of the Queen, by fealty only, in free burgage, and not in chief,

LOND. INQ. P. M., III.

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and are worth per ann., clear, £30. The messuages at the corner of Birchenlane towards Cornhill in the parish of St. Michael are held of the Queen in free burgage, and are worth per ann., over and above 6s. 8d. paid yearly to the Dean and Chapter of the College of Westminster, £9 13s. 4d. The messuages in the said parish of St. Olave are held of the Queen in free burgage, and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, £4.

John Tatton died 7 March, 19 Eliz. [1577], Thomas Tatton, gent., is his brother and next heir, and was then aged 40 years and more. Chan. Inq. p. m., 19 Eliz., part 2, No. 32.

Alice Leighe, Widow.

Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 11 July, 19 Eliz. [1577].

before John Langley, Knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of Alice Leighe, of London, widow, by the oath of John Haddon, Robert Dickenson, John Harrison, John Kebelwhite, Robert Langwith, George Gynne, Thomas Russell, Thomas Hackett, John Jackson, Richard Smyth, William Povie, John Crowche, William Layer, Thomas Elyot, John Rickardes, Anthony Barbor and John Stodderde, who say that

Alice Leigh was seised in her demesne as of fee of 2 messuages situate in Chauncery Lane in the parish of St. Dunstan in the West, London, now in the several tenures of Thomas Scyson, salter, and William Barryngton; 2 messuages lying in the street of Fleetstreete in the said parish, now in the tenure of Thomas Modisley and Thomas Cartewrighte, and so seised, the said Alice made her will [here given in English] as follows:

I give to Elizabeth my daughter my messuage in Chauncery Lane in the parish of St. Dunstane in the West, in the suburbs of the City of London, now or late in the tenure of one Thomas Barryngton: to hold to her and the heirs of her body; for default, the same to remain to my daughters Anne, Margaret and Alice, and the heirs of their bodies; and for default, I give the same to my son Edward Leigh and his heirs for ever.

I give to Anne my said daughter the reversion of my messuage in Chauncery Lane, which I have granted to Margery Robertes, now the wife of John Robertes, by the name of Margery Nycolson for her life, she yielding yearly to me I peppercorn if demanded: which said messuage was late in the occupation of [—] Russell, and is now in that of Thomas Sysonne: to hold to her and the heirs of her body; for default, the same to remain to my said daughters Elizabeth, Margaret and Alyce

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