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Slaney Culpeper, 1618 Inquisition taken at East Greenwich co. Kent 6 May, 17 Jac [1, 1619] before... escheator after death of Slany Culpeper esq. who at his death was within age of 21 & in Wardship of King, by oath of... who say that sd S. Culpeper was seised in fee tail as heir of the body of Thomas Culpeper esq. dec. by Anne his wife dec. of a messe & lands etc. containing 280 acres in Newenden co. Kent in tenure of Edmund Hamond, late parcel of manor of Lossenham; & of 125 acres in Newenden afsd & Sandherst Kent in tenure of sd E. Hamond late parcel of same manor; & of site of Priory of White Friars etc.; & a marsh, containing 18 acres. in Newenden afsd: the reversion of all sd premises belonging to John Culpeper & Alexander Culpeper esquires in fee. Sd S. Culpeper was selsed in fee tail as heir male of sd T. Culpeper by Anne his wife of manor or farm of Wigsell containing 600 acres in Saleherst, Sussex; & of 12 acres of land in S. afsd. & Bodiam, Sussex [i. e., the land which John1? of Feckenharn held in 1612] in tenure of Thomas Duncke, reversion as before. Sd messe & 280 acres in Newenden are held of King as of his county of Hertford by knights service & are worth £3 a year. Sd 125 acres in Sandherst [and Newenden] are held similarly & are worth 20s. a year. Whitefriars afsd etc. are held of King as of his manor of East Greenwich in socage & are worth 10s. a year. Manor of Wigsell & 600 acres in Salehurst are held of Thomas Pelham, Bt. as of his castle of Hastings, co. Sussex by knight service & are worth £10. Sd 12 acres in Salehurst & Bodiam are held of Ralph Bossevile, knight & Thomas Levite, gent. as of their manor of Bodiam in socage & are worth 3s. 4d. a year. Sd S. Culpeper died at Newenden co. Kent, a minor, in Wardship of King, on 12 Dec. last [1618]. John Culpeper is his only brother & heir, & heir of the body of sd Thomas Culpeper by Anne his wife, & is at taking of this Inq. under 21, viz. 18 years 9 months & 9 days & no more. Sd. S. Culpeper held no other land.
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