1461-63 A lot and cope at Hartington and in Wirksworth Socage was farmed to John and Robert Fitzherbert for 10 years for lead smelting. [1]
1474-84 A lot and cope at Hartington and in Wirksworth Socage was farmed to John and Ralph Fitzherbert for lead smelting. [2]
1486-91 A lot and cope at Hartington and in Wirksworth Socage was farmed to John Fitzherbert and John Savage for lead smelting. [3]
1502 On 11 January, the inquisition post mortem was held for John Fitzherbert [4]:
631. John Fitzherbert, 'gentilman.' Writ 29 November, inquisition 11 January, 18 Henry VII. Henry, prior of the monastery of the Holy Trinity of Repyngdon, William Fitzherbert, John Chaunterell, clerks, Thomas Cokayn, esquire, John Porte, and Henry Fyppe, clerk, were seised of the under-mentioned manor of Assh and land, &c. in Asshe, in fee, and, being so seised, by charter enfeoffed the said John Fitzherbert by the name of John Fitzherbert, remembrancer of the king in the exchequer, and Joan, his wife, thereof, to hold to them and the heirs male of his body, with remainder in default to John Fitzherbert of Norburi, esquire, and his heirs for ever. The said John, the king's remembrancer, and Joan, were seised thereof accordingly he in fee tail and she in her demesne as of free tenement.
He was seised of the other under-mentioned land, &c. and, being so seised, by charter gave them to Walter Odeby, John Chanterell, clerk, Randal (Ranulpho) Billyngton, John Porte, John Copwode, John Yorke and John Yoman, by the name of all the lands, &c. which he then had in the towns of Etwall, &c, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns for ever, for the performance of his last will, by virtue of which feoffment they were seised thereof in fee.
By his charter indented, dated 21 May, 10 Henry VII, he sold the said lands, &c. in Etwall, Burnaston, Trusley and Hilton to the said John Porte, for 200?., to hold to him and his heirs for ever, and by the same charter willed that the said feoffees should stand enfeoffed thereof to the use of the said John Porte and of his heirs for ever ; and afterwards by certain indentures he willed and made his last will both by the same and by word of mouth (vivo vocis oraculo) publicly declared, that the said John Porte should have all the aforesaid lands, &c. to him and his heirs for ever. He died Friday, 18 November, 18 Henry VII [1502]. Eustace Fitzherbert is his cousin and heir, viz. son of Henry, his son, and was 11 years old on the feast of All Hallows last.
Research Notes:
The wife of John Fitzherbert has been named as Margaret (Joan), daughter of Robert Babington, or as Dorothy, daughter of William Babington. [5]
John Pole, of Radbourn, married Jane, daughter of John Fitzherbert, of Etwall, second son of Nicholas and Alice Fitzherbert. She afterwards became the wife of Sir John Port. [6]
[1] I. S. W. Blanchard, "Derbyshire Lead Production, 1195-1505," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 91 (1971), 119-140, at 137.
[2] I. S. W. Blanchard, "Derbyshire Lead Production, 1195-1505," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 91 (1971), 119-140, at 137.
[3] I. S. W. Blanchard, "Derbyshire Lead Production, 1195-1505," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 91 (1971), 119-140, at 137.
[4] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Vol. 2 (London: HMSO, 1915), 399, [InternetArchive].
[5] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 3, "the Hundred of Appletree and Repton and Gresley" (1877), 246, See footnote, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[6] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 3, "the Hundred of Appletree and Repton and Gresley" (1877), 246, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].