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Record Office WARD 7/51 no. 153
INQUISITION indented held at Newark upon Trent in the
county aforesaid the twenty sixth day of September in the year of the reign of
our lord James by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King
defender of the faith and so forth, that is to say, England France and Ireland
the fourteenth and Scotland the fiftieth [26 September 1616]
Before George Wigsall Esquire Escheator of the said lord King in the
county aforesaid by virtue of his office to an inquiry after the death of
William Ballard late of Southwell in the county aforesaid gentleman deceased
upon the oaths and so forth WHO say
upon their oaths aforesaid that the aforesaid William Ballard for a long time
before his death was seized in his demesne as of fee of and in one
capital messuage or tenement and three cottages with appurtenances situated and
being within the town of Southwell aforesaid
And of and in forty acres of land twenty acres
meadow and thirty acres of pasture with appurtenances in the town of Southwell
aforesaid and in the fields and territory of Southwell aforesaid and Upton Halam
Easthorpe and Westhorpe in the same county of Nottingham aforesaid
messuages whether being tenements or appurtenances
And that the aforesaid William Ballard
so of the aforesaid messuages or tenements and the other premises being seized
made his last will in writing bearing date the
twenty eighth day of May in the year of the Lord 1616 by which amongst
other things he wished and bequeathed the aforesaid messuages or tenements
cottages and other premises to Edward Ballard second son
of the same William to have and to hold the same to him the aforesaid
Edward his heirs and assigns for ever in these words in English following, that
is to say, And I will and bequeath unto my second sonne Edward Ballard all those
my lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever with all and singuler their
appurtenances sett lyinge and beinge in the townes feildes and territoryes of
Southwell the burgage of Southwell Easthorp Westhorp Upton and Halam in the
county of Nottingham to have and to hold all the same landes tenementes and
hereditaments with their appurtenances to the same Edward Ballard my second
sonne and to his heirs forever, As
by the same will the jurors aforesaid shown in evidence full appears and it is
evident that afterwards he the aforesaid William Ballard thus also of the
aforesaid messuages or tenements cottages and other premises being seized about
the twentieth day of June now last past of such his estate died so in
respect thereof seized And
the jurors aforesaid furthermore on their oaths aforesaid say that the aforesaid
messuages or tenements and other premises are held and at the time of the death
of the same William were held of our lord Archbishop of York of the Cathedral
Church of Saint Peter York or his Archbishopric of York as of his manor of the
Burgh of Southwell aforesaid in free soccage for fealty and suit of court common
and annual rent of nineteen shillings and two pence by the year
And by what other services the jurors aforesaid are wholly ignorant
And that the clear value by the year in all issues above the deductions
from profit is forty shillings And
that William Ballard is son and heir and the next of kin
of William the father and was aged at the time of death of his father twenty
four years and more And that
he had no other or more lands or tenements at the time of his death or held of
the said lord King nor of any other person to their knowledge.
In testimony of which thing, and so forth.