Part 1
Indented inquisition taken in the town of Leicester in the county of Leicester aforesaid on the eighteenth day of April in the ninth year of the reign of our Lord Charles [18 April 1633], by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc., before Henry Momfort, Esquire, the Escheator of the said Lord King for the aforesaid county, by virtue of his office, to make an enquiry following the death of Richard Dudley, deceased, on the oaths of [the jurors] John Tomson of Belgrave in the aforesaid county, Francis Pole, Edward Woodward, William Bright, William Pole, William Bate, Edward Beamont, Thomas Croson, Andrew Pick, Anthony Woodford, William Lowth, Anthony Andrews and John Farmer, honest and law-abiding men of the aforesaid county, sworn and committed upon their aforesaid oath, who say that the aforesaid Richard Dudley on the day he died was seised in his demesne as of fee of and in two messuages and twenty acres of land, meadow and pasture with their appurtenances in Swepstone in the aforesaid county, worth 20 shillings per year in all issues over and above reprises; and that those messuages and twenty acres of land, meadow and pasture with their appurtenances are held, and at the time of the death of the aforesaid Richard Dudley were held, of Charles Cockayne Esquire, as of ...
