1406 William Kelk the younger and Isabel his wife were married by June 25, on which date William Kelk the elder and Margaret his wife arranged for property to be held by them for life and then to remain to William Kelk the younger and Isabel, his wife, and their heirs. [1] [2]
County: Lincolnshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: The day after St John the Baptist, 7 Henry [IV] [25 June 1406].
Parties: William Kelk the elder and Margaret, his wife, querents, and John Kydale and John Grene of Benyngworth', deforciants.
Property: 4 messuages, 16 bovates and 60 acres of land and 60 acres of meadow in Gunwardby, Louthburgh' and Bynbroke.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: William and Margaret have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of John Kydale, as those which the same John and John Grene have of their gift.
For this: John and John have granted to William and Margaret the tenements and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to William and Margaret, of the chief lords for the lives of William and Margaret. And after the decease of William and Margaret the tenements shall remain to William Kelk the younger and Isabel, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to the right heirs of Margaret.
1411 In the November 1411 settlement following a loveday confrontation between William Lord Roos and Robert Tirwhit, justice of the King's Bench, and his men, it was ordered that [3]
Furthermore, the aforesaid Lord Roos, in the presence of those present, shall publicly forgive the aforesaid Robert and all the others in the abovesaid party who were assembled at the loveday and who came with the same said Robert, for all their crimes and trespasses; except only four persons, that is to say, Richard Haunsard, knight, William Kelk, Roger Berneston, and Roger Kelk, the son of the aforesaid William; which four persons we ordain that the same Robert shall bring at the direction of the aforesaid Lord Roos to his own castle, the castle of Belvoir, into his presence; so that they too can acknowledge their offence and submit themselves to the same Lord Roos, praying him for grace and mercy.
Research Notes:
The York Medieval Probate Index, 1267-1500, on FindMyPast, states that the will of William Kelk, Esquire, Lord of Barnetby, in Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire, was dated 29 Sep 1418 and proved 14 Nov 1419 in the York Prerogative & Exchequer Courts (Reg 18 (Bowet), Folio 372v-373r, held at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research. The Lincolnshire pedigree of the Kelke family states that William's will was dated on the feast of St. Mathias 1418. [4]
The probate index, on FindMyPast, states that one can order the will using the the following form: http://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/remote-services/copying/order-form/
[1] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/144/152, number 18, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[2] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, CP 25/1/144/152, number 18, [AALTImage].
[3] Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox, eds., Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 (British History Online, originally published by Boydell Press, 2005), [BritishHistoryOnline].
[4] A.R. Maddison, ed., Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Vol. 2 (London: Publications of the Harleian Society, 1903), 555, [GoogleBooks].