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William Ryvell of Skirthyngwell.
Inquisitions post mortem, Chancery, Hen. I. Writ directed to the Escheator, dated at Westminster, 27 June, 1407.
Inquisition taken at York Castle, 4 Oct., 9 Hen. IV before Thomas Egmanton, Escheator, by the oath of William Ogylsthorp, Thomas Chine, Henry de Brwehous, Richard Tomson, Robert Barker, Thomas Houghton, Henry Gowyk, Henry del Brygge, William Clerk, John Tryget, Richard Helme, and William Stanley, who say that the said William held by the law of England, after the death of his wife Agnes, 3 messuages, one waste toft, 24 acres of land, 2 and a half acres of meadow and one acre of pasture in Cawod, of the King in chief by knight service; worth 20s. a year clear. He also held by the courtesy one messuage there, held of the heirs of John Cawod. He died 6 June, 8 Hen. IV 1407. The next heir of the said Agnes is her sister Alice Aunger, aged 40 years and more at the said William's death.
Source:Yorkshire Inquisitions
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