JOHN DAVENPORT 1419-1478

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John de Davenport (1419-1478)
Note 1: About John DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, pp. 824 - 825:

"III. John de DAVENPORT, esq. third Lord of Bromhale, had his writ de etate May 11, 1440, under which proof was taken,1 and his writ of livery was issued on 20 June following. By Inq. p. m. 21 Hen. VI, Joan, widow of his grandfather, Robert DAVENPORT, died seized (as of her jointure) of two messuages, and a half messuage, 93½ acres, 34s. rent, a moiety of a rent of one pound of pepper, and of two barbed arrows, in Sydenhale, Wich Malbank, Haslynton, Coule, Copenhale, Greystowe, and Whelock, which thereupon reverted to the said John as kinsman and heir of his said grandfather. He afterwards frequently occurs in the Recog. Rolls, and in an enrolled writ of ouster le main, 1443, Dec. 12, which sets forth the Inq. p. m. 21 Hen. VI of Elen, widow of Mathew del MERE, who died on the Thursday next before the Feast of SS. Simon and Jude, 21 Hen. VI, seized in fee of a moiety of 12d. rent, issuing out of Werford milne, in Weston, and a moiety of 20d. rent in Weston, and which finds the said John, son of Robert de DAVENPORT and Elen his wife, kinsman and heir to the said Elen (MERE), viz. son of Robert, son of Robert, son of Alice, sister of the said Elen, and of the age of 23 years or more. This John also occurs in the same rolls in a family feud with Isabel, wife of John Wareyn; and in 1477 he and his brother Thomas, Nicholas DAVENPORT, and Hugh his brother, were all bound over in 200 marks to keep the peace towards her. The year following he enters into a similar recognizance - Isabel and William de Tabley, clerk, being the recognizees. Several other recogs. of a like kind also occur, one being conditioned that he would appear at Chester Castle. He next occurs in the Plea Rolls, 31 Hen. VI, with Thomas de DAVENPORT of BROMEHALL, gentilmon - the latter having aided, counselled, and abetted divers felonies. He occurs in the usual commissions of the age (the last in 1474), and died Oct. 13, 1478.]

"Inq. p. m. 18 Edw. IV. John DAVENPORT of BROMHALL esq. held in demesne as of fee, lands in Sydenhall, Wich Malbank, Haslington, Vowle, Coppenhall, Grestowe, Whelock, [parcel of the barony of Wich Malbank,] and Teverton, val. £11. 17s. 6d.; and held also the manor of Bromhall, and lands in Wythington, from George Bothe and Robert [Chaunterell, not] Massey, by services unknown: Val. XL marks. [Died on Tuesday next before the Feast of S. Edward the Confessor, last.] William DAVENPORT son and heir [aged 32 years and more.

1. under which proof was taken: "Prob. aetat. 18 Hen. VI. 6 June, of John son of Robert son of Robert de DAVENPORT, taken at Macclesfield before John de Legh of Rigge, Escheator. John Pygot, aet. 60, deposes to the said John having attained the age of 21 years on the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross last, which he knows because he was in the church of Stokport and carried a lighted torch at John's baptism. John Worth, aet. 45, says the same, because he carried a basin at the baptism for the priest to wash his hands in. Hugh FYTON, aet. 50, John de Sydynton, aet. 60, and several others, also occur as deponents -

Note 2: About John DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 827: " John de DAVENPORT, esq. Lord of Bromehale, heir to his grandfather, baptized at Stokport, aet. 21, 1440, May, occurs 31 Hen. 6, ob. Oct. 1478, Inq. p. m. 18 Edw 4." Note 3: About Cecily WARREN of POYNTON, the first wife of John DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 827: " Cecily, daughter of Sir Laurence WAREYN of POYNTON, knt. marriage covenants Jan. 1435-6, married before May, 1437." Note 4: About Thomas DAVENPORT of BROMHALL, from George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882), vol. 3, p. 827:
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