| Description | Indenture of agreement between Sir Walter Cope, knight, Master of the King's Court of Wards and Liveries and Sir Roger Wilbraham, Surveyor of the Liveries, of the 1st part, and Sir Thomas Mildmay, baronet, on behalf of Sir Thomas Puckeringe, knight and baronet, son and heir of Sir John Puckeringe, knight, deceased, for the proper valuation of properties released from wardship, which had descended to Sir Thomas Puckeringe as son and heir of his father, containing covenants by Sir Thomas Mildmay that the valuations on the attached parchment were correct and that he would pay double one year's value for those properties which were found, on the court's inspection, to have been omitted or undervalued.
Valuation of all the manors, lands, tenements, etc, which were lately of Sir John Puckeringe, late Keeper of the Great Seal of England and member of the Privy Council, who died 30 Apr 38 Eliz [1596], and which descended to his son and heir Thomas, a minor, and were surveyed by inquisition at Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire on 18 May 38 Eli, and for which Thomas sought special livery [i.e. release from wardship] after he attained the full age of 21 on 30 Dec 10 Jas [1612].
The properties comprised: the manors, with messuages, rents, etc, of Weston alias Weston iuxta Baldock, Weston Argentine, Clothall, Baldock, Graveley, Chesfield, Walkern and Yardley, Hertfordshire: messuages and hereditaments at St Mary Cray, Cray St Paul, Orpington and Chislehurst, Kent: the manor of Kingerby, and messuages, lands, etc at Kingerby, Kirkby, Owersby and West Rasen, Lincolnshire: the manors of Kineton [Kineton] Parva, Combrook and Brookhampton, and messuages, lands, etc in Kington Magna and Parva, Combrook and Brookhampton, the rectory of Lillington, with its advowson, right to nominate vicar, lands, etc, the site of the Priory of St Sepulchre, messuages , mills, etc in the parishes of St Mary and St Nicholas, Warwick, Tachbrook and the Aspes, and rents from tenements, cottages, gardens, etc in Warwick, Saltisford, Myton, Stratford, Barford and Swacliffe. The sum total of the valuation came to £63 16 8d.
Seal: for Walter Cope, missing from tag.
Two parchment membranes: agreement in English, valuation in Latin. |