Sir Hugh Shirley ^{2 3 4}

  General Notes:

Family and Education
b.c.1362, s. and h. of Sir Thomas Shirley of Shirley by Isabel, uterine or bastard sis. of Ralph, 3rd Lord Basset of Drayton; nephew and h. of Lord Basset. m. bef. 1390, Beatrice (c.1366-20 Apr. 1440), da. of Sir Peter Brewes (d.1377) of Wiston, Suss., sis. and event. h. of Sir John Brewes (d.1426), 1s. Sir Ralph*, 5da. Kntd. bef. June 1392.

Offices Held
Commr. of weirs, Leics., Notts. June 1398; array, Notts. Dec. 1399; oyer and terminer, Derbys. Mar., July 1401; to make proclamation of Henry IV's intention to govern well, Derbys., Leics., Warws. May 1402; of inquiry, Notts. June 1403 (Sir Hugh Annesley's estates).

J.p. Notts. 28 Nov. 1399-d., Derbys., Warws. 16 May 1401-d.

Constable of Castle Donington, Leics. 15 Mar. 1400-d.¹

Master of the King's hawks 27 Mar. 1400-d.

Master forester of Duffield Frith, Derbys. 23 Feb. 1402-d.

Chief warder of Higham Ferrers park, Northants.²

Biography
The Shirley family had held the manor of Lower Ettington in the male line since the Conquest, but derived its name from another of its manors, acquired subsequently in the 12th century. To these holdings the Shirleys added 'Houne' and other properties also in Derbyshire, and Barnham, far away in Suffolk. Sir Thomas Shirley, reputed to have fought at Crécy and Poitiers and noted for his benefactions to the college in the Newarke, Leicester, where he was buried 'in a large and stately monument', left his son and heir, Hugh, still an infant at his death, which occurred shortly before April 1362. Hugh's mother, either an illegitimate daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset (d.1343), or more likely that lord's stepdaughter, then made a widow for the fourth time, took as her fifth and sixth husbands Sir John Woodhill (d.1367) and Sir Gerard Braybrooke I* (d.1403). It was to Braybrooke that in 1372 John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, sold the wardship of the Shirley estates for a single payment of 100 marks. Hugh would appear to have come of age shortly before March 1383, when he confirmed his mother in her life tenancy of the lands of his inheritance, his own full possession being thus deferred for about ten years. The Shirley estates were to provide him with an annual income of at least £40 a year.³ But he and his son were to acquire holdings of much greater value (at least six manors in Leicestershire, two more in Sheldon, Warwickshire, and Ratcliffe-upon-Soar and Colston Basset in Nottinghamshire) through the generosity of his uncle, Lord Basset, who had no children of his own. Hugh clearly rose in his uncle's estimation as he grew older, for although in 1376 he had been mentioned no higher than fourth in succession in an entail of certain of these manors and would only have inherited them if Basset himself and three others had died without male issue, by January 1390, when Basset came to make his will, he had decided that his nephew should inherit all of the estates he held in fee simple, provided that he and his heirs adopted the surname of Basset and bore his arms. Not all of the manors so demised passed to the Shirleys in Sir Hugh's lifetime, for some were held in dower by Lord Ralph's widow until her death in 1402, and others were retained by Basset's trustees for the effective implementation of the many bequests specified in his will. Nevertheless, it was this bounty which made Shirley a landowner of considerable substance in Leicestershire, the county he was to represent in Parliament.⁴

Throughout his career Shirley served the house of Lancaster, linked by the ties of lordship forged in his youth while under the guardianship of John of Gaunt. Having been contracted on 14 Mar. 1386 as the duke's esquire to serve in his army overseas, he probably stayed with Lancaster, engaged in his wars in Spain and France, until the duke returned to England late in 1389. Duke John's high regard for him was expressed in the award of two annuities for life: the first of £20 charged on the issues of the honour of Leicester; the other, which he shared with his wife, Beatrice, of as much as 100 marks derived from the honour of Tutbury. In the 1390s Shirley was among the duke's chamber knights, while his wife also had a place in the household, as one of the Duchess Constance's closest companions. Furthermore, he also enjoyed the esteem of Gaunt's son and heir, Henry of Bolingbroke, who in 1391-2 gave him a present of some jewellery. Shirley established strong ties with other leading Lancastrian retainers, such as Sir Walter Blount*, for whom he provided securities at the Exchequer in 1392, Sir John Bussy* and Sir John Dabrichecourt*. These three all came forward on his behalf in August 1394 to offer guarantees under pain of £200 that he would keep the peace in future towards Sir Thomas Erdington†. His dispute with Erdington concerned property at Barrow-upon-Soar from which Sir Thomas had long sought to oust Lord Basset; Shirley had kept up the feud with a midnight raid on Erdington's own manor-house there at the head of a band of 200 armed men. In the spring of 1397 Sir Hugh was in London making preparations for a voyage to Bayonne, probably on Lancaster's business, and in the will John of Gaunt made on 3 Feb. 1398 he was left a bequest of 100 marks. Richard II evidently considered it worthwhile to procure Shirley's compliance following the seizure of the ducal estates by the Crown a year later: on the point of departure for Ireland on 24 May 1399 he issued orders to the duchy officials for the continued payment of his annuities.⁵ Yet there could be no question but that on Henry of Bolingbroke's return from exile two months later Shirley would go to his side; indeed, he was soon made a bachelor to the new King, Henry IV. In January 1400 he assisted in putting down the earls' rebellion in support of the deposed monarch; and royal commissioners sent to Castle Donington (previously held by the rebel earl of Kent) made him keeper of the castle for its safe governance, an appointment formally ratified by the King on 15 Mar. On the same day Shirley was granted an annuity of 40 marks for life from the issues of the lordship of Donington, and although this was subsequently reduced to 25 marks when the full amount of his other annuities was revealed, henceforth he could still expect to receive £103 6s.8d. a year from the revenues of the duchy of Lancaster, a sum not including fees paid for his official posts as master of the King's hawks (dating from that same month) and master forester of Duffield. Loyalty to the house of Lancaster had made him a wealthy man. The King could confidently rely on him to perform functions of local government in the Midlands, as a j.p. and commissioner, and sent him a personal summons to attend the great council of August 1401 as one of six commoners selected from Nottinghamshire.⁶

It was at this stage in Shirley's career that his title to the Basset estates received a serious challenge from Edmund, earl of Stafford, Lord Basset's coheir in right of blood, who having succeeded to a number of Lord Ralph's manors under the terms of entails made in the early 14th century, nevertheless considered Shirley to have usurped his interest in the rest; and Sir Hugh's failure to change his name to Basset as required by his late uncle no doubt gave him a pretext. However, in an agreement apparently made on 20 July 1403, Earl Edmund formally 'granted' Shirley the estates Lord Basset had willed to him, with reversion in default of male issue to the Staffords, which concord the earl was bound to honour under pain of £12,000. The indenture was never sealed, for on the following day both men were slain at the battle of Shrewsbury. A tradition, well established by Shakespeare's day, has it that they were two of the three knights (the other being Shirley's colleague, Blount) who, clad in royal armour in order to impersonate the King, successively encountered and fell in single combat under the victorious arm of the earl of Douglas, their deaths being avenged by a fourth champion, Prince Henry.⁷

Shirley left a widow, Beatrice, a son, Ralph (still a minor) and five unmarried daughters. Henry IV showed concern for their welfare: on 10 Sept. following he granted Beatrice custody of the Shirley estates to the value of £44 10s. a year, and on Oct. he gave her Ralph's wardship and marriage. Furthermore, when shown the unsealed agreement made between Sir Hugh and the earl of Stafford, he commanded that the accord be kept as if formally ratified by law. From 1406 Beatrice possessed a lease of four of the Basset manors (as granted her by Lord Ralph's feoffees) to hold until her son attained his majority; and following that event she formally conveyed to him the family estates in return for a regular pension.⁸ She became heir to her brother Sir John Brewes's lands (six manors in Sussex and another in Buckinghamshire) at his death in 1426, but never took possession, for Sir John's widow retained them as her jointure until she died in 1449 (whereupon they passed to Beatrice's grandson, another Ralph). Left a wealthy widow with an income of at least £92 a year, and probably much more, Beatrice outlived her husband by 37 years, dying in 1440.⁹

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
Author: L. S. Woodger

Notes
1. Somerville, Duchy, i. 573; DL42/15, f. 94.
2. DL42/15, f. 23.
3. J. Nichols, Leics. iii. 707-8, 716; VCH Warws. v. 78-79; E.P. Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana (2nd edn.), 1, 26, 28, 373; W. Dugdale, Warws. 620-2; CP, ii. 4; Reg. Gaunt, 1371-5, no. 386; Leicester Mus. Archs. Ferrers ms 26 D53, no. 342.
4.CPR, 1374-7, p. 358; CAD, v. A11357, 11372; CP, ii. 4; Shirley, 29, 376; Coll. Top. et Gen. vii. 393; Ferrers ms 26 D53, no. 1583; VCH Warws. iv. 202.
5. Shirley, 373; DL28/1/3; CPR, 1392-6, p. 98; Procs. Chancery Eliz. I ed. Caley and Bayley, i. p. vi; CCR, 1392-6, p. 367; 1396-9, pp. 473-4; Test. Vetusta ed. Nicolas, 143; Ferrers ms 26 D53, no. 2049; S.K. Walker, 'John of Gaunt and his retainers, 1361-99' (Oxf. Univ. D. Phil. thesis, 1986), 234.
6.CIMisc. vii. 44, 59; DL42/15, ff. 10d, 23, 96, 98; CPR, 1399-1401, p. 239; PPC, i. 159, 162.
7.CAD, v. A11358; Harl. 4928, f. 68d.
8. C137/12/12; CPR, 1401-5, pp. 263, 373; DL42/15, f. 157d; Shirley, 381-3, 385, 388; Ferrers ms 26 D53, no. 343.
9.Suss. Arch. Colls. v. 6, 8; xxiii. 190; liv. 156, 160, 165; C139/29/42, 101/65; Ferrers ms 26 D53, nos. 102-3; Shirley, 385-6; VCH Bucks. iii. 148; EHR, xlix. 632.

[History of Parliament 1386-1421]

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In the sixth year of Richard II. Hugh, son and heir of Sir Thomas Shirley, confirmed to Isabel his mother, then the wife of Gerard de Braybroke, knt. her jointure issuing out of the manors of Shirley, Howne, and Etyndon. (App. lxxvi.) This deed is dated, as is the case with most of his grants, at Wodhul, which originally I took to be Wedon-hill (in the parish of Amersham, in Buckinghamshire), an estate which he had acquired, with other manors in Sussex, by his marriage with Beatrix, sister and sole heir of Sir John de Braose, of Wiston, in Sussex, knt.; but which Mr. Charles Perceval has, I think, conclusively proved to be Odell in Bedfordshire, a manor at that time in dower to his mother, the wife of Sir Gerard de Braybroke, knt. and which was anciently called Wodhul. The following year Sir Hugh empowers his father-in-law, Sir Gerard de Braybroke, and John Baum, clerk, to receive his rents at Shirley, "until his return thither," providing, moreover, that they should pay his mother Isabel an annual rent-charge of ten marks, and should discharge his debts.

An indenture between Hugh de Sherley, esquier, and William Bendell and Henry Baker, archers, has been preserved, dated at London, the 13th of March, 19th Richard II. being articles of agreement, whereby the said archers bind themselves to serve the said Hugh, under the command of the renowned John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, then setting out to take possession of the Duchy of Guienne, for one half year, well and properly fitted for the wars. (App. lxxvii.) Sir Hugh Shirley was created by the same Duke Chief Constable of Higham Ferrers Park, and received a further proof of his royal favour, by a legacy of c. marks, recorded in his will, dated Feb. 3, 1397.

Sir Hugh Shirley attained the dignity of knighthood before the 17th of Richard II. as appears by a receipt of Johanna de Bretaigne, Lady de Basset (the widow of Ralph the last Baron Basset of Drayton), for 20l. sterling, part of her dower in the counties of Nottingham and Leicester, which had descended to Sir Hugh by his maternal uncle the Lord Basset's will. (App. lxxviii.)

The same year (the 17th of Richard II.) there happened a dire feud between Sir Hugh Shirley and Sir Thomas de Erdington, touching the manor of Barow upon Sore, in the county of Leicester, which was followed, according to the fashion of the time, by a hostile foray on the part of Sir Hugh, who, with two hundred men at arms "arrayed for war," and armed "with habergeons and helmets of iron, bows, arrows, swords, staves, and bucklers, came to the town of Barow about midnight, the Wednesday next after the Feast of the Trinity, and there committed divers offences against the peace, which are set forth at large in a suit in Chancery, the result of this illegal entry. (App. lxxix.)

An indenture dated April 23, 20th Richard II. has been also preserved; it is a receipt for goods, belonging to Sir Hugh Shirley, and delivered to Sir John Trarby, knt. at London, to be sent to Bayonne, and contains a curious inventory of the travelling equipment of a knight at that time. (App. lxxx.)

In the succeeding reign of Henry IV. Sir Hugh Shirley, who had been ever a faithful adherent of the red rose, and had been created by Henry, when Duke of Lancaster, Constable of Donington Castle, in the county of Leicester, was taken early into his royal master's favour, and made Grand Falconer within the kingdom of Ireland; the duties of the office being to provide the various kinds of hawks used in the princely disport of falconry, for the breed whereof Ireland has been always, and for some species exclusively, celebrated. (App. lxxxi. lxxxii.)

"Sir Hugh Shirley," says Dugdale, "in the second year of Henry IV, was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Warwick, and in the ensuing year constituted one of the Commissioners to inquire of such persons as were disturbers of the laws, and spreaders of false reports. Upon this Hugh, and the heirs male of his body, did the last Lord Basset of Drayton (his uncle by the mother's side, for he therein calls him his nephew,) in 13th Richard II. entail all his lands whereof he was seised in fee simple (as the feoffement thereupon made to Walter Skirlawe, Bishop of Duresme, and others, bearing date 16th January, manifesteth), provided that he should bear the name and arms of Basset, with remainder to W. de Stafford, brother to Ed. Earl Stafford, &c. but performing not the conditions he did not quietly enjoy them, the same Earl being found heir to the rest, through an old entail made of them by Ralph Lord Basset, his grandfather, in 13th Edward III. opposing him therein; howbeit, at length was there an agreement made between the sayd Earl and the same Sir Hugh, namely, that Sir Hugh should quietly enjoy the premises; but, both of them being slain in the battle of Shrewsbury before it could be sealed, the difference about that matter continued between their heirs, until King Henry VI. many years afterwards so decided it as that Sir Ralph Shirley, knt. son and heir to the above specified Sir Hugh, should quietly enjoy them according to the true meaning of that accord, viz. the manors of Radcliff upon Sore and Colston Basset in Nottinghamshire, Rakedale, Willowes, Radcliffe super Wreke, Barrow super Sore, and Watton, in Leicestershire, as also West Hall and East Hall in Warwickshire, many of which remain to his descendants at this day." (App. lxxxiii. lxxxiv.)

This stalwart knight, Sir Hugh Shirley, fell, as it has been observed above, fighting valliantly for his sovereign Henry IV. at the decisive battle stricken at Shrewsbury on Saturday, the 20th of July, being the eve of St. Mary Magdalen, 1403. Drayton, in his Polyolbion (XXIId Song), thus alludes to him:
" With him, his peerless son, the princely Henry came,
With the Earl of Stafford, and of gentlemen of name,
Blunt, SHYRLEY, Clifton's men, that very powerful were."

According to some of our historians, although the circumstance is not confirmed by Walsingham, Sir Hugh Shirley was one of those four knights who, clothed in the royal armour, successively encountered and fell under the victorious arm of Douglas in single combat.

To quote the words of Hall:
" This great Battaill continued the long houres with indifferent success on both partes; that at the last the King, crying Saient George, Victory, brake the arraie ane entered into the battail of his enemies and fough fiersely, and adventured so farre into the battaill that the Earle of Douglas strake him doune, and slewe Sir Walter Blounte, and three other, apparelled in ye Kynges suite and clothying, saying, I marvellto see so many Kynges so sodainly arise again."

This romantic incident is moreover immortalized by Shakespeare in Douglas's speech to the King, in the First Part of Henry IV.
"Another King! they grow like hydra's heads;
I am the Douglas, fatal to all those
That wear those colours on them. - What art thou,
That counterfeit'st the person of a King?"

And, again, in Prince Henry's speech to Douglas:
"Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like
Never to hold it up again ! the spirits
Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blount, are in my arms;
It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee;
Who never promiseth but he means to pay."

There is no account where the body of Sir Hugh Shirley was entombed, but we may conclude that it was laid, with most of the other brave knights and gentlemen who died on the field of battle, in the hallowed ground of the Dominican or St. Mary Friars at Shrewsbury.

Sir Hugh Shirley had with Beatrix Braose his wife the manors of Wistneston or Wiston, Ashurst, Chiltington, Sloghton, Hion, and Iringham in Sussex, and Wedonhill, in the parish of Amersham, in Buckinghamshire.

He had issue, besides Ralph, his son and heir, Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, Joan, married to Robert Newmarch, and Isabella, who wedded Sir John Cockayne of Ashbourne, in Derbyshire, knt. Her effigy, with that of her husband, lies on an altar-tomb of alabaster in the north transept of Ashbourne church, the sides very richly carved and panelled, and ornamented with angels bearing shields; on the sinister side of one of them can still be traced the coat of Shirley. The youngest daughter of Sir Hugh Shirley was Nicholaia, who, with Elizabeth, died unmarried.

It was found by the inquisitions on the death of Sir Hugh Shirley, that he died seised of the manors of Etindon, with its appurtenances, in the county of Warwick, Barnham in the county of Suffolk, 13s. 4d annual rent in Boney (Sutton Bonington) in the county of Notts, the manors of Shirley, Hone, and Yeavely, one messuage in Wyardeston and Cromford, and six marks of annual rent in Holington, all in the county of Derby, leaving Ralph his son and heir (the custody of whose lands the King granted to his mother Beatrix), in his thirteenth year. (App. lxxxv. lxxxvi.)

[Stemmata Shirleiana] ^{6 7}

  Events

• Manorial Estate, 1362-1403, Lower Ettington Manor, Ettington, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV35, GB. ⁸ The overlordship of the manor of LOWER ETTINGTON was held in 1086 by Henry de Ferrers. This manor was rated at 17 hides, its annual value being £20. The former owner is not recorded in Domesday Book. The Earls of Derby, descendants of Henry de Ferrers, subsequently held the overlordship, until that earldom was absorbed in the earldom of Lancaster, Ettington constituting 2/3 of a knight's fee in 1235 and a whole fee in 1242. In 1279 it is said to be held of Edmund of Langley, Earl of Lancaster, in 1403, 1466, and 1520 of the Duchy of Lancaster.

At the time of the Domesday Survey 'Saswalo' held the manor of Henry de Ferrers. He died about the time of the Survey, and was succeeded by his only son Fulcher, who died c. 1105. Fulcher's second son, another Sewallis, succeeded to the manor of Ettington; he later moved to Shirley, Derbyshire, whence he assumed the surname of Shirley. He died c. 1129, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry, who died c. 1165, when his son, a third Sewallis, inherited the manor. In 1242 this third Sewallis held one knight's fee here of Lord Ferrers. In 1247 he settled the manor of Shirley on his son James, on his marriage with Agnes de Wauton, and undertook not to sell any part of that of Ettington. James had a grant of free warren in his demesnes here in 1255. He seems to have got into financial difficulties in 1276, and made over this manor to his son Ralph, who, instead of regranting it to him for life, as he had arranged, kept it and sold the stock and movables found there. Sir James probably died in 1278, as in 1279 Ralph de Shirley was lord of Ettington, which he held of Edmund of Langley as 2 knight's fees, having there 2 ploughlands in demesne and 12 serfs. In 1316 the manor was settled on Ralph for life with remainder to Ralph son of James de Shirley and Margaret daughter of Walter Waldeshef and their issue. Two years later lands in Oxhill, Fullready, and Tysoe were settled on Ralph and Isabel de Etindon, with similar remainder. It seems probable that Isabel was Ralph's intended second wife and that the second Ralph was his grandson, son of an otherwise unrecorded James who had most likely died before attaining his majority. The elder Sir Ralph died in 1326 and the younger in 1342, when he was succeeded by his son, Sir Thomas, who died in 1362. His son Hugh was killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. Hugh's son Ralph, then aged 12, married Joan Basset and had a son Ralph, who held the manor until his death on 26 December 1466. His son John succeeded at the age of 40, and died on 18 May 1485.

• Manorial Estate, Jun 1403, Sheldon Manor, Sheldon, Birmingham, Warwickshire, B26, GB. ⁹ Meanwhile, when in 1336 the manor of Sheldon was surrendered to Henry de Sheldon he appears to have had as associate in the transaction Sir John Murdak of Compton Murdak (now Compton Verney), (fn. 37) on whom in 1337 he entailed the manor failing issue to himself and his wife Beatrice. (fn. 38) At the making of the lease to John de Peyto and his wife, Sir John Murdak reserved to himself £10 a year from the manor after the deaths, without heirs, of Henry and Beatrice de Sheldon. (fn. 39) In 1374 his son Sir Thomas Murdak (fn. 40) sold his rights in the manor to Sir Roger de Meres, (fn. 41) who appears to have been succeeded by his son John in 1375. (fn. 42) In 1385 John Meres, senior, sold his rights in the manor of East Hall to Ralph, Lord Basset of Drayton, (fn. 43) who died in 1390 seised of both East Hall and West Hall. (fn. 44) His heirs were his distant cousins Thomas, Earl of Stafford, and Alice, wife of William Chaworth, (fn. 45) but he had devised his Sheldon manors, among others, to his nephew Sir Hugh de Shirley in tail male and enfeoffed the Bishop of Durham and John Brown and others for the purpose of carrying out his bequest. (fn. 46) In June 1403 Edmund, Earl of Stafford, 'cousin and heir of Ralph Basset, lord of Drayton', undertook to deliver these manors, with others, to Sir Hugh Shirley; (fn. 47) and in 1424 one of the feoffees to the uses of Ralph Basset's will released them to Sir Ralph Shirley and his heirs. (fn. 48)

Sir Ralph is said to have held these manors in 1431\endash 2 as ¼ knight's fee. (fn. 49) By 1439\endash 40, however, they were in the possession of Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, (fn. 50) afterwards Duke of Buckingham, passing in 1460 to his grandson, Henry, Duke of Buckingham, (fn. 51) who was beheaded in 1483. (fn. 52)

Footnotes:
37. Cal. Close, 1333\endash 7, p. 686; cf. Dugd. 563 et seq.
38. Ibid. 1003; Feet of F. Warw. Hil. 11 Edw. III.
39. Dugd. 1003.
40. Ibid. 563.
41. Feet of F. Warw. Hil. 48 Edw. III.
42. Ibid. Div. Co. Mich. 49 Edw. III.
43. Ibid. Warw. Mich. 9 Ric. II.
44. G. E. C., Complete Peerage (2nd ed.), ii, 3; Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Ric. II, no. 9.
45. Ibid.
46. Dugd. 1003; G. E. C., op. cit. 4 note; Cat. Anct. D. v, A 11372 (an incomplete draft of his will: there was the provision that the said heir should assume the surname and arms of Basset, and successive remainders to William, brother of the Earl of Stafford, John, brother of Lord de Grey, and Sir William Lyle, with the same condition attached).
47. Cat. Anct. D. v, A 11358.
48. Ibid. A 11388.
49. Dugd. 1004, citing an Exch. K.R. roll.
50. Rental in the William Salt Library, Stafford.
51. Chan. Inq. p.m. 38 & 39 Hen. VI, no. 59; G. E. C., op. cit. ii, 388\endash 90.
52. Ibid. 390; Cal. Pat. 1476\endash 85, p. 453

• Inquisition: Post mortem, 28 Jul 1403. ⁵ 705 HUGH SHIRLEY, KNIGHT

Writ 28 July 1403. SUFFOLK. Inquisition. Barnham. 24 Aug. He held nothing in Suffolk. He died on 21 July 1403. Ralph his son and heir was aged 13 on 23 April last.

706 Writ 28 July 1403. NOTTINGHAM. Inquisition. Nottingham. 17 Sept. He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief a rent of 13s.4d. in Bunny, service unknown. Date of death and heir, aged 12 years and more, as above.

707 DERBY. Inquisition ex officio. Derby. 21 Aug. 1403.

He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief of the duchy of Lancaster by knight service:

Shirley, the manor, annual value £20 [sic].

Hoon, the manor, annual value 10 marks.

Date of death and heir, aged 12 years and more, as above.

Robert del Heygh of Cheshire, who adhered to Henry Percy, the traitor, held in his demesne as of fee 1 messuage in Chaddesden, now forfeited to the king, annual value 12s.4d.

John de Assheburn of Cheshire, who similarly rebelled, held in his demesne as of fee two parts of a messuage in Spondon, also forfeited, annual value 15s.

708 Writ 7 Sept. 1403. DERBY. Inquisition. Callow. 22 Sept.

He held of the king in chief of the duchy of Lancaster by knight service:

Shirley, the manor, annual value £10 [sic].

Hoon, the manor, annual value 10 marks.

Hollington, 6 marks rent, service unknown.

Wyaston, 1 messuage, service unknown, annual value 3s.

Yeaveley, the manor, service unknown, annual value 46s.8d.

Cromford, 1 messuage, service unknown, annual value 20s.

Date of death and heir, aged 12 years and more, as above.

709 Writ 28 July 1403. STAFFORD. Inquisition. Stafford. 25 Oct. He held nothing in the county. Date of death and heir, aged 15 years and more, as above.

710 Writ 28 July 1403. LEICESTER. Inquisition. Leicester. 3 Sept. He held nothing in the county. Date of death and heir, aged 12 years and more, as above.

711 WARWICK. Inquisition. Nuneaton. 15 Sept. 1403. He held the manor of Ettington in his demesne as of fee of the king of the duchy of Lancaster, service unknown, annual value 20 marks. Date of death and heir, aged 12 years on 23 April, as above.

C 137/34, no. 12

E 149/82, no. 1

E 152/390, no. 4

Hugh married Beatrice de Braose, daughter of Sir Peter de Braose and Joan Howard.¹ (Beatrice de Braose was born about 1366 and died on 20 Apr 1440.)