| Description | Comprising the manors of Weston iuxta Baldock and Weston Argentine, and messuages, lands, etc, in Weston, Clothall, Baldock, Graveley, Chesfield, Walkern and Yardley, Hertfordshire: messuages and hereditaments at St Mary Cray, "Powlyns 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 Parva, Combrook and Brookhampton, and messuages, lands, etc in Kineton Magna, Kineton 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 Asps, and rents from tenements, cottages, gardens, etc in Warwick, Saltisford, Myton, Stratford, Barford and "Swatliffe".
The Inquisition also established that his wife Jane holds York House in the Strand, Middlesex, John died on the last day of April last past, and that Thomas Puckering was his son and heir, then aged 4 years old.
Held at Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, 18 May 38 Eliz [1596].
Paper copy, comprising 25 pages, endorsed with brief title description, date and number "11.a" in ink.
[Sir John Puckering was a sergant at law, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and made Keeper of the Great Seal. He died on 30 Apr 1596.] |