| Title | PLEA in an assize of novel disseisin, to recognize whether John Savage and Margaret his wife, Sir Henry de Trafford Kt., Richard son of John de Radeclif, Adam de Tettelowe, Richard de Tettelowe and Henry Pyk did unjustly etc: disseise William son of Richard de Bulkylegh of his free tenement in CLIFTON |
| Description | PLEA in an assize of novel disseisin, to recognize whether John Savage and Margaret his wife, Sir Henry de Trafford Kt., Richard son of John de Radeclif, Adam de Tettelowe, Richard de Tettelowe and Henry Pyk did unjustly etc: disseise William son of Richard de Bulkylegh of his free tenement in CLIFTON, wherein it is complained that they disseised him of a moiety of the Manor of Clifton. The said John and Margaret say that Roger de Chedle was formerly seised of the said Manor of Clifton, the Manor of CHEDLE [Cheadle] and other premises, which descended after his death to Clemence and Agnes as heirs of the said Roger by one Joanna, and that at a partition of the premises, the said Manors were assigned to the said Clemence; that after her death, Sir John de Molyneux, formerly her husband, held the said Manors for life, after whose death the said Manor of Clifton descended to the said Margaret, wife of John, as cousin and heir of the said Clemence, viz. daughter of one Isabella, daughter of the said Clemence; and they say that the said Agnes was seised of the share assigned to her by the said partition, and that after her death it was held by Richard de Bulkylegh (father of the said William, the now complainant), formerly husband of the said Agnes, for life; that after his death, it descended to the said William, who being under age and the premises being held of the Earl of Chester in chief, the said Earl assumed his wardship. The said William says that at the time of the partition, the said Clemence was married to one William de Baggelegh and the said Agnes to Richard de Bulkylegh, and that the share of the said Agnes was not of equal value to the share assigned to the said Clemence. And the said John and Margaret did not know that the said Clemence and Agnes were married at that time, nor that Clemence's share was of more value than Agnes', and they complain that the said William did not deny that the said share was made in the form above, not that the said Margaret was in possession of the said tenements by hereditary succession, nor that the said William was in possession of the other part by hereditary succession. And a day was given etc: And the said William being of age recognised the said partition, and that he entered into the said share assigned to the said Agnes his mother, whose heir he is, and that he received the profits until his full age; and the said William takes nothing by the assize, and the said John and Margaret go sine die. Parchment. |