Award of Lands to Sir John Lord Mordaunt
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Transcript of a Court decision made on 23rd March 1602 with respect to an Inquisition upon a commission the nature of a writ of Diem clausit extremum in Elizabeth 44.
A Diem clausit extremum is a writ by which it is determined, by the absence of legal heirs or claimants, what property should revert (escheat) to the state.
The transcript was written by William Payne. The case was heard in Bedford by Sir Edward Radcliffe and Robert Harris esq., Escheator of the Queen (Elizabeth) plus various unnamed jurors.
Following the death of John Rounds former prior of the dissolved Monastery of St. Neots, the lands of the former priory and nunnery and various lands in Turvey known as Pryorie in Turvey (otherwise known as the Monks Manor), the Court awarded the land to John Lord Mordaunt’s son.
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