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Court of Wards Inquisition Post Mortem

Ward7/67/6 translated from Latin.

Margin: Extracted by Blackwell                   Thomas Ballard

INQUISITION INDENTED held at the borough of Leicester in the county of Leicester on the twenty fourth day of April in year of the reign of our lord James by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland , king, defender of the faith etc, that is to say of England France and Ireland the twenty first and in Scotland the fifty sixth [1623] before Edward Chamberlayne [gentleman[1]] Escheator of the said lord King in the county aforesaid by virtue of a writ de melius inquirendam[2] of the said Lord King directed to the same Escheator and to this inquisition joined to inquire of whom or by whom and through what services one messuage with appurtenances in Wymeswould in the county aforesaid called Tomlinsons and another messuage and three cottages with appurtenances in Wymeswould aforesaid named in the aforesaid writ and mentioned to be in separate tenures or in the occupations of Andrew Welles Hugh Bosse[3] Thomas Harrison and [blank] Wildye in a certain previously taken inquisition at the borough of Leicester in the county of Leicester aforesaid on the seventh day of March in the eighteenth year of the reign of our lord James now King of England and so forth before Richard Townesend Esquire then Escheator of the said Lord King for the county aforesaid by virtue of a writ de mandamus[4] of the said lord King directed to the same then Escheator to hold an enquiry after the death of Thomas Ballard deceased and at the time of the death of the aforesaid Thomas Ballard in the same writ named held upon the oaths and so forth   WHO sworn and charged upon their oaths aforesaid say that the aforesaid messuage with appurtenances called Tomlinsons mentioned in the aforesaid former inquisition is held and at the time of the death of the aforesaid Thomas Ballard was held of the said now lord King by petty serjeanty[5] rendering annually one pair of gloves to the aforesaid lord King his heirs and successors   And that the aforesaid other messuage and one cottage with appurtenances in Wymeswold in the county aforesaid in the separate tenure of Andrew Welles and Thomas Harrison parcel of the aforesaid messuage and three cottages with appurtenances in the aforesaid former inquisition mentioned are held and at the time of the death of the aforesaid Thomas Ballard were held of the heirs of William Hacklint for fealty rendering annually a pair of golden colour spurs[6] or six shillings at the feast of Easter for all services and claims   And that the aforesaid other cottage with appurtenances in Wymeswold in the separate tenure of Hugh Bosse and [blank] Wildye in the aforesaid former inquisition mentioned is held and at the time of the death of the aforesaid Thomas Ballard was held of the said lord now King as of his honour of Leicester parcel of his Duchy of Lancaster for fealty in free and common soccage.   IN [TESTIMONY OF] WHICH things and so forth.