Grant of lands forfeited by John Wylkyn of St Albans
Grant to the king's servitor, Hugh Martyn, at fee farm, of all the lands, tenements, rents and services held in King's Walden by John Wylkyn, convicted at St Albans on 12 July of felony and treason. By inquisition taken on 12 August before Robert Basset, escheator in the county of Hertford, it was found that the said John was there seised in his demesne as of fee, of a messuage and three tofts, 164 acres of arable land (whereof 24 lie in severalty and enclosed), 7 of wood and 3 of meadow, and rents of 27s 6½d and 2 lbs. of cumin, value 3d; that each acre of land lying common is of the yearly value of 1d, and each acre in severalty 4d, each acre of wood 40d when it can be cut, viz every seventh year, the whole having been newly cut except 2½ acres and half a rood, which can be cut next year, the meadow of the yearly value of 3s 4d, the messuage 2s, and the three tofts 6d; and moreover that Elias de Kesworth was seised of 4 marks yearly rent there, and granted the same to Nicholas Aston for fifteen years, four of which had then elapsed, and afterwards granted all his lands and possessions there to John Bixen and Walter Pulter, who enfeoffed the said John Wylkyn of the same. The said Hugh is to render at the Exchequer yearly the extent of the lands and tenements, the rents of 27s 6½d and 2 lbs. of cumin, and, after the lapse of the fifteen years, 4 marks.
