Inquisitiones Post Mortem. S 



Inquisition taken at Devizes, co. Wilts, i6th August, 

 I Charles I [1625], before Nicholas Fonge, gent., escheator, 

 after the death of Heftry Munday, yeoman, by the oath of William 

 Longe, Robert Longfo'd, Thomas Ferbury, William Wilkins, John 

 Stokts, John Tellinge, Thomas Rutty, John Davis, John Stephens, John 

 Munty, William Stileman, Daniel Dtvtrell, and Michael Gilbert, jurors, 

 who say that 



Henry Munday was seised of the messuage or tenement in which 

 he lately dwelt, together with one virgate and a half of land, to 

 the same pertaining, within the parish, hamlet and fields of Merston, 

 Berton, and Sevenhampton, in Wilts, and of 29^ acres of arable 

 land in the field of Merston, and 5 acres of meadow in the common 

 meadows of Merston, and of i\ acres of meadow or pasture in " Ryes 

 meade," and of n acres of land lately enclosed from out of [extra] 

 the marsh, and of li acres of meadow called "Home close," and 

 of a close of pasture called " Cook's close," containing by estima- 

 tion 2 acres ; which same premises lie within the said parishes, 

 hamlets, and fields of Merston, Berton, and Sevenhampton. 



The premises are held of the King in chief by knight's service, 

 but by what part of a fee the jurors are ignorant, and they are 

 worth by the year, beyond reprises, 26^. id. 



The said Hemy Munday being so seised, died on the 3rd June 

 last past [1625]. 



Henry Munday, son of the said Henry, is his next heir and was, 

 at his father's death, aged 7 years. 



Inq.p.m. V. O. i Charles I, p. 2, No. 33. 



I^ugll ^pcfee, enquire. 



Delivered into Court 22nd May, i Charles I. 



Inquisition taken at Chippenham, co. Wilts, isth March, 

 22 James I [1623-4], before Nicholas Fonge, gent., escheator, 

 after the death of Hugh Speake, esquire, by the oath of Gabriel 

 Gouldney, the elder (illegible), John Fabyan, Gabriel Gouldney the 

 younger, Stephen Orrell, Edivard Stafford, William Mesham, Anthony 

 Baldwyn, Thomas Butler, William Kytto, Michael Bollwell {?), John 

 Spencer, Edward Godby, Henry Gouldney, and (illegible), jurors who 

 say that 



