Surrey in A.D. 1400; and on his death in 1415, without issue, by an inquisition taken at Southwark 10th February, 11th Henry VI., it was found, that on the day named in the writ he was seized of the third part of certain rents, tolls, and customs in the towns of Guildford and Suthwark, with the appurtenances, in the county of Surrey; which said third part of the said rents, tolls, and customs was worth per annum, above reprises, 4l.; and that the same was held of the King in capite by knight service. And the jury found that Elizabeth Duchess of Norfolk, late wife of Sir Gerrard Ufflete, Johanna de Beauchampe, Lady Bergavenny, and Margaret wife of Roland Lenthale knight, were sisters and next heirs of the said late Earl: and that the said Elizabeth Duchess of Norfolk was of the age of forty years, Lady Bergavenny of the same age, and the said Margaret thirty-two years of age.[1]
John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, died in 1432; and by an inquisition after his death, taken at Suthwark on the 10th February, 11th Henry VI., it was found that the late duke, by letters patent dated 22nd November in the 10th year of the King's reign, gave and granted to John Alman the office of bailiff of the liberties of the said Duke John in the borough and town of Suthwark, and all the lands, tenements, rents, and services, with their appurtenances, which the said late duke had in the town and borough aforesaid, for the term of his life; and that the duke died on Sunday the 19th of October, 11th Henry V.; and that the then duke was his son and heir, and was of the age of seventeen years on the 12th September then last.[2]
By an inquisition taken at Reigate 22nd February, 29th Henry VI., after the death of Sir Roland Lenthall,[3] it was found (inter alia), that the said Roland and Margaret his wife, who was one of the sisters and heirs of Thomas late Earl of Arundel, were seized in right of the said Margaret of a third part of a third part of the tolls and customs in the town of Suthwark, in the county of Surrey, howsoever arising, and of a third part of 25s. 4d. rents of assize, annually
- ↑ Inq. post Mort. 4 Hen. V. No. 54.
- ↑ Inq. post Mort. 11 Hen. VI. No. 43.
- ↑ Sir Roland Lenthall was Yeoman of the Robes to King Henry IV. and according to Leland and Camden he fought at Agincourt, where he took many prisoners, by whose ransoms he built Hampton Court in Herefordshire. His first wife was Margaret FitzAlan, one of the sisters and coheiresses of Thomas Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, and his second, Lucy, daughter of the last Lord Grey of Codnor. He was Governor of Haverfordwest. By his first wife he had issue Edmund, who married Margaret, daughter of William Lord Zouch of Harringworth, in the county of Northampton, but died without issue; and Roland, who, as appears by the Inquisition, was his heir. He was ancestor of William Lenthall, the Speaker in the Long Parliament.
