DEINCOURT 127 CO. Durham, sometime Chief Steward of the Bishopric. (^) She d. s.p., 20 or 27 July 1447. H He d. 22 Feb. 1457/8. (') His coheirs were his two sisters, who, when yet unmarried, had livery of their purparties of the inheritance, 8 Feb. 1422/3, their homages being respited, and their fealties being ordered to be taken by the Prior of Thur- garton.C^) They were (i) Alice, for whom see below. (2) Margaret, l>. 21 Sep. 1405. She m., before 3 Nov. 1423, Sir Ralph Cromwell, some- times called Lord Cromwell, of Tattershall, co. Lincoln. She d. s.p., 1 6 Sep. (*) Durham Cunitors' Records, Chancery Roll 47, m. 2. He was a yr. br. of Ralph, 2nd Earl of Westmorland. C') "Elizabetha nuper domina Deyncourt que fuit uxor Thome Nevell' militis." Writs of diem cl. ext. 19 Aug. 25 Hen. VI. Inq., cos. Warwick, Lincohi, Derby, Notts, Northants, Oxon, Monday before St. Luke [16 Oct.], Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, after SS. Simon and Jude [31 Oct., 2, 3 Nov.] 1447, Saturday before the Purification [27 Jan.] 1447/8, and 29 Oct. 1448. " Et dicunt quod dicta Elizabetha obiit die Jovis proximo post [ante — cos. IFarzvtck, Northants] festum sancti Jacobi Apostoli ultimo preteritum [anno regni domini Regis nunc vicesimo quint(5 — co. Oxon] Et quod Johannes vicecomcs Beaumont [or de Bello Monte] miles est frater et heres propinquior dicte Elizabethe et est etatis triginta annorum et amplius." She held at her death in dower the manor of Burton juxta IFolvev [Burton Hastings], CO. Warwick, " ex dotacione Ricardi Hastynges militis nuper viri sui defuncti." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Hen. VI, file 125, no. lo: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 184, no. 9). (■=) "Thomas Nevill' nuper de Braunspath miles." Writ of diem cl. ext. 24 Feb. 36 Hen. VI. Inq., co. York, 31 Oct. 1458. " Et dicunt quod predictus Thomas Nevyll' obiit xxij die Februarii ultimo preterito et quod Umfridus Nevyll' est filius et heres propinquior ejusdem Thome et est etatis xviij annorum et amplius." Writ o{ amotus 2 Dec. 37 Hen. VI. Inq., Northumberland, 30 Jan. 1458/9. Date of death, and h., aged 21 and more, as before. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Hen. VI, file 167, no. 6, file 174, no. 36). This Humphrey was born at Slingsby, co. York, in 1439. [Durham Cursitors' Records, Chancery Roll 49, m. 2 d). (■J) Fine Roll, I Hen. VI, m. g: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 129, no. 2. On 4 July 1424 the King, having taken the fealty of Ralph Cromwell chr., ordered the escheator in Northants to take the fealty of William Lovell chr., and to liberate the manor of Duston — which William, s. and h. of John Deyncourt kt., defunctus, had held of the grant of Alice, Lady Deyncourt, and others — to William Lovell and Alice in's wife, Ralph Cromwell and Margaret his wife. {Close Roll, 2 Hen. VI, m. l). On I I Aug. 1433 the King took the homage and fealty of William Lovell kt., and the fealty of Ralph Cromwell kt., and ordered the escheator in co. Lincoln to divide into two equal parts the lands [viz. the manors of Blankney and Branston, held of the King by barony], which Alice, late the wife of William Deyncourt kt. senior, defuncta, had held in dower of the dotation of the same William, and to give seizin to William Lovell and Alice, Ralph Cromwell and Margaret, of their purparties: William alone had to do homage because he had issue by his wife, whereas Ralph was childless. {Fine Roll, 1 1 Hen. VI, m. 3). William's fealty on this occasion was actually taken by the Chancellor, the Bishop of Bath. (Ch. Privy Seals, I, file 697, no. 2769). On 14 Feb. 1447 the escheators were ordered to divide into two equal parts the lands which Elizabeth, late Lady Deyncourt, had held in dower of the dotation of William, Lord Deyncourt kt. [sic], and to give seizin to William, Lord Lovell kt., and Alice his wife, and to Ralph, Lord Cromwell kt., and Margaret his wife, of their purparties. {Fine Roll, 26 Hen. VI, m. 5).
