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Exemplification of Inquest Findings: Whitnash and Bishops Tachbrook

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Exemplification of findings of an Inquest taken at Warwick in the presence of Thomas Levinge, gent., Escheator of the King, to enquire after the death of John Eyres, deceased, by the oaths of Humphrey Crane of Warwick, gent., John Walford, John Wilson, Thomas Griffin, Robert Watts, Henry Manns, John Ashbey, Thomas Dadley, Radulph Shirley, Robert Freeman, Robert Wilson, Thomas Wall and Thomas Poorse who say that the said John Eyres, deceased, at the time of his death (20 August 1639) was seised in fee of one messuage with appurtenances situate in Whitnash then in the tenure of Sara Eyres, widow of the said John Eyres; four virgates of land, meadow and pasture in Whitnash then in the occupation of John Boddington the younger; two cottages with appurtenances in Whitnash in the separate tenure of William Boddington and --- Whitehead, widow; one messuage and two little closes to the same adjoining situate in Tachbrooke, then in the tenure of Tymothy Eyres; and land in three little closes and one meadow called by the name of Little Strites in Tachbrooke, then in the occupation of Richard Overton; and the jury swear that Daniel Eyres, clerk, was son and next heir to the said John Eyres, deceased, and at the time of his death was of full age, namely 38 years and more, and that the aforesaid Sarah Eyres is surviving and living at Whitnash and was dowable out of the premises; and the jurors on oath further say that the aforesaid messuage and other premises in Whitnash were held by the said John Eyres at the time of his death of Robert Olney, gent., as of his manor of Whitnash for rent service of two shillings and suit of court and were of the net annual value except reprises of six shillings and eightpence and that the messuage and other premises in Tachbrooke aforesaid were held at the time of the death of John Eyres of Combe Wagstaffe, esq., as of his manor of Tachbrooke for rent service of one red rose and were of the clear annual value of two shillings and sixpence.