File (Manorial) 1791. - Transcripts of inquisitions post mortem, and abstracts and notes of grants and inspeximuses,

(1A). pp. 1-20. Transcript of the sixteenth century of the Inquisition post mortem on Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk, marshal of England, taken [29 Dec.] 1306: the castle and borough of Stroigoil, with members underwritten, (308 1/3 burgages, £15.8.4); the barton near the castle; free tenants; hamlets: Viner, extent, £10.2.8; Landogin, extent, 2s.8; Talegarth, extent, 5s.10; Wrenhalock, extent, 14s.10; Henryw and Kemmeys, £1.6.3 1/2; Penhow, extent, 13s.0; Misquenyth, extent, 4s.6; Heddington & Hennenet, extent, 15s.11; Lamaghois, extent, £2.13.4 (mills at Lamaghois & Landidaghe). Sum of the whole value of the barton with the hamlets aforesaid: £35.16.2 1/2. Hamlet of Pentrith belonging to the barton, extent, £2.13.11 3/4. Hamlet of Herdwick belonging to the said barton, extent, £14.4.6 3/4. The manor of Tudenham, £53.13.4. Hamlet of Lancaut belonging to the manor of Tudenham, £53.13.4. Torrogy and Plattland, extent, £1.9.0 Total of the whole honour of the castle of Strogoil, with the borough, barton, with the hamlets to the same barton annexed, and with the manor of Tudenham, and hamlet of Lancaut belonging to the same manor, together with the tower of Torrogy and hamlet of Plattland, £165.14.1 1/2 p.a. (1B). p. 21. Extent made at Strugull, Tuesday next after the Feast of St Gregory Pope, 35 Edward I (15 March 1306/7) of knight's fees and advowsons of churches within the liberties of Strugull (names in square brackets to the left are inserted in the margin and were probably the holders of these fees at the time the transcript was made): [Nich. Kemeys, esq.] Ralphe de Mounthermer: 1 Welsh knight's fee in Lanvayre worth £10. [Tho. Hughes] Bogo de Knovill: 1 Welsh knight's fee in Matherne worth £5. [Bishop of St Davids] Roger de Seymor: 1 [Welsh] knight's fee in Penhow worth £5. [St Perre] Mathew Donebaud: 1 [Welsh] knight's fee in Portscuett and Herbertston worth £4. [Nich. Moore, esq.] William de Derneford: 1/2 [Welsh] knight's fee in Crick worth 25s. [Wm Blethyn, esq.] Andrew de Bello Campo: 1/2 [Welsh] knight's fee in Dinham worth 25s. [Nich. Kemeys, junior] Emery de Lucie: 1/2 [Welsh] knight's fee in Maesguenith worth 25s. [Edw. Morgan, esq.] Harry de Bendeuill: 1/2 [Welsh] knight's fee in Ederton worth 25s. [Jo. Walter] Leyson ap Morgan: 1/4 [Welsh] knight's fee in St Arvyn worth 13s.4. Walter de Kemeys [and Maurice de Kemeys]: 1/4 [Welsh] knight's fee in Lanmartyn worth 13s.4. Roger de Seymor and William Adam: 1/4 knight's fee in Henru worth 10s. John Blechary: 1/4 [Welsh] knight's fee in St Wormett worth 6s. Walter Walding: 1/4 [Welsh] knight's fee in Tudenham worth 25s. The advowson of the church of Lancaut worth 30s. The Abbey of Tynterne is of the foundation of the Earl's ancestors and is worth £50. The Priory of Strugull is of the like foundation and is worth £20, and the Prior shall find one of his monks to celebrate divine service in Strugull Castle 3 days every week. The chantry of the chapel of St David by Strugull Bridge worth nothing besides the service. (2). P. 21. 16 Dec. 1312. Abstract of a grant by Edward II to his brother, Thomas de Brotherton, of all the castles, boroughs, manors, snf honours sometime of Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk, marshal of England, with reversion of what Alice, his widow, holds in dower. cf. Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. 3, p. 205. (3). P. 22. 1340. Note of inspeximus to Mary, late wife of Thomas, earl of Norfolk, of letters patent of 22 June 1338 granting to her and her heirs the castle and honour of Strogoil and the town of Chepstow. cf. Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1338-40, pp. 506, 93. (4). Pp. 22-23. Inquisition post mortem [on Mary, countess of Norfolk] taken at Chepstow, 6 July 1362, reciting the grant by Edward II to his brother, Thomas de Brotherton, with the descent of the lordship of Chepstow thereafter: the castle and manor of Strugoil, the town of Chepestowe, with the hamlets; the knight's fees: Lanveir, Martherne, Penhow, Porscuet & Herberdston, Crick, Dynham, Maesgwenith, Ederton, St Arvyns, Lanmartyn, Henru, St Wormett, and Tudenham. With notes on the Abbey of Tynterne and the Priory of Strugull, the latter to find a monk to celebrate service in the castle of Strugull three days every week. The transcript of this inquisition gives a few details, e.g. the value of the knight's fees, not given in Cal. Inq. P. M., vol. 11, pp. 307, 308, 310. (5). P. 23. Inquisition post mortem on Sir Walter Manny, kt, taken at Chepstow, 12 Feb. 1371/2; Strugull Castle, with appurtenances, and Tudenham manor, with the advowson of Lancout (cf. Cal. Inq. P. M. (R. C.), vol. 2, p. 319). (6). Inquisition post mortem on Roger Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, taken at Newent, Gloucestershire, Feb. 1399/1400: castle and manor of Strogoile, with appurtenances and members, and the manor of Tudenham, with appurtenances; the knight's fees: Lanveir, Martherne, Penhow, Porscuet & Herberdston, Crick, Dynham, Maesgwenith, Ederton, St Arvyns, Lanmartyn, Henru, St Wormett, and Tudenham. cf. Cal. Inq. P. M. (R. C.), vol. 3, pp. 266-267. (7). Inquisition post mortem on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, taken at Gloucester, 13 March 1406/7; castle and manor of Strogoile, with members and appurtenances, and the manor of Tudenham, with members and appurtenances. cf. Cal. Inq. P. M. (R. C.), vol. 3, p. 312. (8). Inquisition post mortem on John, Duke of Norfolk taken at Thornbury, 20 Jan. 1427/8; the castle, manor, and borough of Strogoil, etc., and the manor of Tudenham, with appurtenances, including details of the following: £5 rent of bedelry of Strogoile due at Hockday and Michaelmas equally; mill called Wantwoodes mill in decay and worth nothing; rent of 20 hens called Woodhennes worth 1s.8; perquisites of the Great Court there, £6; perquisites of the courts called Wodespeeches, £4; hamlet of Barton, 60s., free rents payable yearly at Xmas, Easter, Inventis Crucis, nad Michaelmas equally; 4 messuages worth 4s., 60 acres of land which fell to the Lord, worth 6d.; Earl's wood, 20s., 40 acres of pasture worth 12d. per acre; demesne lands, 160 acres, worth 12d. per acre; 4 acres of mead called Piersemeade worth 12d. an acre; 7 acres of mead called Posterne worth 121/2d. per acre. The knight's fees: Lanveir, Martherne, Penhow, Porscuet & Herberdston, Crick, Dynham, Maesgwenith, Ederton, St Arvyns, Lanmartyn, Henru, St Wormett, and Tudenham, and: in Daglingworth, 1 fee which J. le Berkley held, £5; in Perisfield, tenth part of a fee by Nicholas Taylor, 10s.; 260 burgages in the borough of Strogoile at 12d. apiece, paying at Xmas, Hockday, Midsummer and Michaelmas; Pullmericks, 2 mills, one in decay and the other worth 13s.4.; prise of ale with toll of the borough, £15 p.a.; perquisites of court, £8; extent of the manor of Tudenham (cf. Inq. P. M. (R. C.), vol. 4, p. 148). (9). 3 May 1469. Confirmation to William, Earl of Pembroke of the lordship and land of Chepstow, the manor of Barton, and the manor and lordship of Tudenham, recovered before the Justices of the Bench by a writ of precipe quod reddat against John, Duke of Norfolk, and of the lordship and land of Gower, the lordship and land of Kilvey, etc., similarly recovered against others [named], Michaelmas term, 8 Edward IV. cf. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1467-77, p. 163. (10). Inquisition post mortem on William, late Earl of Pembroke, taken at Gloucester, 3 March 1469/70, seized in fee of the castle, lordship, manor, and borough of Chepstow, the manor of Barton, the lordship of Tudenham, with members, etc.: Chepstow and Barton are holden of the King in capite, but by how much service they know not, and are worth £80; a certain rent granted to Catherine, late Duchess of Norfolk, £20; the said Earl, when he died, was also seized in fee of the lordships and manors of Magor and Redwick, with appurtenances, with the castle and lordship of Caldicot, with appurtenances, worth £26, also held in capite, they do not know by what service. He also was seized of two parts of the manor of Mortymers Court, with appurtenances, in Magor, and two parts of the manor of Myles Court, with appurtenances, in Redwick, they do not know of whom they are held nor by what fee, worth 10 marks; he was also then seized in fee of the manor of Raglan, with members and appurtenances, the manors, lordships, and hamlets of Penyclauth, Methenny called Knovill's Court, Redemayne, Talvan, Landesey, Glan Olwey, and Langeven, with all rights, royalties, franchises, liberties, courts, hamlets, jurisdictions, views of frankpledge, hundreds, fairs, parks, chases, warrens, knight's fees, services, advowsons, churches, chapels, chantries ... benefices of churches belonging to the said castle and manor. The castle and lordship is held in capite by a knight's fee and is worth £40 p.a.

; he also died seised in fee of the office of steward of the lordships and manors of Uske and Caerlion, with members and appurtenances, and of the office of Constable of the Castles of Uske and Caerlion, and chief forester of Uske and Caerlion, of the chase of Trelleck, and of the parks of Uske and Caerlion; he died on Thursday next after St James the Apostle's day last (27 July 1469) and William, now Earl of Pembroke, is his next heir, being 14 years of age. cf. Inq. P. M. (R. C.), vol. 4, p. 310. (11) Note on Tudenham as a member of Chepstow (see no. 1790, item 28). The above transcripts of Inquisitions post mortem are considerably fuller than even those printed in the latest Calendars of Inq. P. M. and form a useful series of transcriptions. Compare the above notes from item 1 with Cal. Inq. P. M., vol. 4, pp. 294-295, 298-299. File, paper, 17 leaves, foolscap, stained in parts, with frayed edges, but generally legible.