Public Record Office

Chancery Inquisition Post Mortem

C142/767 no. 106

LINCOLN

Inquisition indented taken at Swinshead[1] in the said county of Lincoln the twenty first day of November in the twentieth year of the reign of our lord James by the grace of God of England France and Ireland King defender of the faith and of Scotland the fifty sixth [21 November 1622] Before Thomas Welby Esquire Escheator of the said lord king in the county aforesaid by virtue of a writ of de diem clausit extremum directed to the same Escheator and annexed to this Inquisition to enquire after the death of Henry Ballard gentleman deceased upon the oaths of Nicholas Tompson of Wigtoft, William Stawson, James Scochey, William Allison, William Everett, Robert East, William Briggs, John Ellis, George Sharpe, Thomas Storer, Thomas Howdell, Edward Still and Henry Mylles upright and lawful men of the county aforesaid who say upon their oaths aforesaid that Henry on the day on which he died was seized in his demesne as of fee of and in one manor of Saxleby[2] called Bassites manor with appurtenances in the county aforesaid  And furthermore the jurors aforesaid say upon their oaths aforesaid that the aforesaid manor in Saxleby is held and the time of the death of the aforesaid Henry Ballard was held of the reverend father in Christ John Bishop of Lincoln in soccage and the clear value by the year in all issues above the deductions from profit is thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence  And furthermore they say upon their oaths aforesaid that the aforesaid Henry Ballard of such estate as previously mentioned died seized in respect thereof the fourteenth day of January last past and that Thomas Ballard is the son and next heir of the aforesaid Henry and was aged at the time of the death of the aforesaid Henry Ballard twenty one years and more  And that the aforesaid Henry Ballard on the day that he died did not have  nor hold any other or more lands tenements or hereditaments in demesne or reversion in the county aforesaid nor any other to our knowledge  In testimony of which thing to one part of this inquisition the aforesaid Escheator remaining in the possession of the aforesaid jurors has placed his seal  To the other true part remaining in the possession of the aforesaid Escheator the jurors have affixed their seals the day and year abovesaid.

 

[signature] Tho[mas] Welby Escheator.



[1] Swinstead, Lincoln.

[2] Saxilby.