128 DEINCOURT I454,(*) aged nearly 49, and was bur. in Tattershall Collegiate Church. At her death the abeyance of the Baronies of Deincourt and Grey (of Rother- field) terminated. Her husband d. s.p., 4 Jan. 1 455/6, (**) and was bur. with her. M.l. to both at Tattershall. (<^) Will dat. at Colly Weston, North- ants, 18 Dec. 1451 30 Hen. VI, pr. at Lambeth, 19 Feb. 1455/6. C^) 7. Alice Deincourt, abovenamed, b. 25 Feb. 1403/4. At the death of her sister, 16 Sep. 1454, she became sole h. to the Baronies of Deincourt and Grey (of Rotherfield). She petitioned the King that she might enter and hold all the lands whereof her sister, Margaret, wife of Ralph Cromwell kt., had died seized, and all the lands which, after the death of Ralph, ought to descend to her as her sister's heir, without any inquisitions being taken after the death of Margaret or that of Ralph, and without suing out her livery iC') this was granted by the King, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, 3 Mar. 1455/6.0 On 28 Apr. 1458 she had (") " Margareta que fuit uxor Radulphi Cromwell' militis." Writs of diem d. ext. I Oct. 33 Hen. VI, and writ of amotus (co. Warwick) 4 May 33 Hen. VI. Inq., COS. Northants, Derby, Notts, Lincoln, York, Bucks, Oxon, Warwick, the vigil of, and Monday and Tuesday after, All Saints [31 Oct., 4, 5 Nov.], 4 Nov., 20 Dec. 1454, Friday after St. Hilary [17 Jan.], 31 Jan. 1454/5, and 10 May 1455. " Et ulterius... dicunt quod eadem Margareta obiit sextodecimo die Septembris ultimo preterito sine herede de corpore suo exeunte Et quod Alicia uxor Willelmi Lovell' chivaler domini Lovell' [de Lovell' — co. Notts: de Lowell' — co. Derby] est soror ipsius Margarete et ejus heres propinquior Et quod eadem Alicia est etatis quadraginta [triginta — CO. IVarwick] annorum et amplius." (Ch. Inq. p. «., Hen. VI, file 159, no. 34: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 196, no. i). (•>) Writs oi diem. cl. ext. — to 10 escheators — 13 Jan. {Fine Roll, 34 Hen. VI, m. 24). There were no consequent inquisitions, as his coheirs obtained licence, 14 Feb. 1455/6, to enter all the lands whereof he died seized in his demesne as of fee or in fee tail, without any inquisitions being taken {Patent Roll, 34 Hen. VI, m. 21), and Alice Lovell was similarly exempted, as mentioned in the text. (■=) Printed in Dugdale's Baronage, vol. ii, p. 46: also copied in Holies' Church Notes, Harl. MSS., no. 6829, p. 184 (edit. Lincoln Rec. Soc, p. 139). In this M.I. he is said to have d. 4 Jan. 1455, and his wife 15 Sep. 1454. {^) P.C.C., 5 Stokton, f. 39-40: 2'ori Reg. (pr. "in parlore infra hospicium nostrum prope Westm'," 18 Feb. 1455/6, with a codicil, dated the Feast of St. Michael 1454, pr. — same place — 21 Feb. 1455/6), Booth, fF. 262-265 v: Lincoln Reg. (pr. "infra palacium regium Westm'," no date), vol. xx, fF. 36 v-38. " Radulphus dominus Cromwell' miles . . . corpus meum sepeliendum in medio chori ecclesie collegiate de Tatteshale quousque dicta ecclesia collcgiata de Tatteshale de novo sit edificata et constructa et tunc postea meum corpus sit rcmotum et in medio chori ecclesie collegiate de nova construende sic sepeliendum." (^) Ancient Petitions, file 28, no. 1390: docketed 19 Feb., endorsed as conceded 3 Mar. anno 34. She petitioned as " Alise that was the wyf of William Lovell' knyghte," and tendered, as was then usual, the exact text of the letters patent required: a curious but prudent custom. — " For when ye seek favours of the great, behoves ye know the very thing ye aim at." (f) Pari. Rolls, vol. v, pp. 339-340: Patent Roll, 34 Hen. VI, m. 19.
