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Margin: Transcript by Blackwell                      Thomas Ballard

INQUISITION indented taken in the borough of Leicester in the county of Leicester aforesaid the seventh day of March in the eighteenth year of the reign of our lord James by the grace of God of England France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth and of Scotland the fifty fourth before Richard Townsend Esquire Escheator of the said lord King in the county aforesaid by virtue of a writ of the same lord King de mandamus directed to the same Escheator and joined to this inquisition to enquire after the death of Thomas Ballard gentleman deceased by the oaths and so forth.  WHO sworn and charged upon their oaths aforesaid say that Thomas Ballard named in the writ aforesaid on the day he died was seized in his demesne as of fee of and in a certain manor or capital messuage and one other messuage and three cottages with their rights members and appurtenances in Wymeswolde in the county aforesaid called or known by the name of Willoughbies manor now or lately in the several tenures or occupations of Nicholas Howlett, Richard Hackar gentleman, Edward Leake, Ralph Copeland, Thomas Grundie and John Carr  And that the same manor or capital messuage and the rest of the premises with their rights members and their appurtenances are and at the time of the death of the said Thomas Ballard were of the clear annual value in all issues over the deductions from profit thirty shillings   And are now held and at the time of the death of the same Thomas Ballard were held of the said Lord now King in chief by military service but by what part of a knight's fee the jurors aforesaid are wholly ignorant  And furthermore the jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid say that the aforesaid Thomas Ballard on the day of his death was seized in his demesne  as of fee of and in a moiety of a certain other manor or capital messuage and four cottages with their rights members and appurtenances in Wyneswolde[1] aforesaid in the county aforesaid called or known by the name of Crackhole now or lately in the several tenures or occupations of the aforesaid Richard Hackar gentleman Thomas Gill William Belton Robert Fewkes and Thomas Tyminges   And that the same moiety and the rest of the premises with their rights members and appurtenances are and at the time of the death of the said Thomas Ballard were of the clear annual value in all issues above the deductions from the profit of thirteen shillings and four pence  And are now held and at the time of death of the same Thomas Ballard were held of the said lord now King as of his honour of Leicester parcel of his Duchy of Lancaster by military service but by what part of a knight's fee the jurors aforesaid are ignorant  And furthermore the jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid say that the aforesaid Thomas Ballard on the day of his death was similarly seized in his demesne as of fee of and in one other messuage with appurtenances in Wymeswolde aforesaid in the county aforesaid called Tomlynsons now or late in the tenure of Edward Franke and of and in one other messuage and three cottages with their appurtenances in Wymeswolde aforesaid in the county aforesaid now or late in the several tenures or occupations of Andrew Wells Hugh Bosse Thomas Harryson and [blank] Wildie  And that the said messuage with appurtenances called Tomlynsons and the said other messuage and three cottages and the rest of the premises are and at the time of the death of the aforesaid Thomas Ballard were of the clear annual value in all issues above the deductions from profit of six shillings and eight pence but of whom or of what or by what service they are held or at the time of the death of the said Thomas Ballard were held the jurors aforesaid are wholly ignorant  And furthermore the jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid say that the aforesaid Thomas Ballard in the writ aforesaid so named  of all and singular the aforesaid manors messuages cottages lands tenements and premises being seized died of such his estate so in respect thereof the second day of February in the fifteenth year of the reign of James now King of England and so forth without issue of his body procreated  And that Samuel Ballard is brother and next heir of the same Thomas Ballard and at the time of the death of the said Thomas Ballard was within age, that is to say that he was aged twelve years and no more  And furthermore the jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid say that who or what issues and profits of all and singular the aforesaid manors messuages lands and premises with their appurtenances from the time of death of the aforesaid Thomas Ballard as far as the day this inquisition was taken had and received or to be had and received other than the aforesaid tenements but of the things mentioned before by what title quality or in what manner the jurors aforesaid are wholly ignorant.  In [testimony] of which thing and so forth.