[Excerpts from "Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to the City
of London returned into the Court of Chancery, Part I, Henry VII to Elizabeth,
1485-1561", ed. by George S. Fry, 1896]
[excerpted 29 Sep 2003]

p. 57
William Crane, esquire.
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 18 October, 38 Henry VIII (1546), before
Martin Bowes, knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of William Crane,
esq., by the oath of John Sherwyn, John Sampson, Robert (?) Molding, Reginald
Conygrave, Robert Warter, Richard Forde, Thomas Blackwall, Thomas Rideley, 
John Leylond, William Prowtryng, Richard Cade, James Crosse, William Roberts,
John Dormer (?), and Nicholas...., who say that

William Crane was seised of 10 messuages or tenements with gardens thereto 
adjoining, now in the several tenures of John Parker, James Peskyn, Edward
Payton, Thomas Colsell, John Heron, William Clarke, Stephen Martell (?), 
John Croppe (?), and Adrian Byscombe, lying together within the close or
precincts of the late Priory of St. Ellen within the city of London, now
dissolved; 3 rooms now in the tenure of William Damerall and Emma... lying
within the said close; 6 rooms late in the several tenures of Richard Atkyns,
Alice Paule, Reginald Dene, Elizabeth Watson, and the said William Crane, 
lying together in a certain alley within the said close; that tenement now 
in the tenure of John Parker situate within the close now in the parish of
St. Andrew Undershaft; and that tenement now in the tenure of Margaret Crane,
widow, late the wife of the

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said William Crane, situate within the close aforesaid: all which premises
aforesaid the King by letters patent dated 3 March, 31 Henry VIII (1540), 
granted to the said William Crane and Margaret: to have to them and to the
heirs male of the said William, to hold the same of the King by the service
of the 20th part of a knight's fee, they paying yearly 34S. 8d. : all the 
said premises are worth per ann., clear L 17 6S. 8d.

William Crane died 7 July, 37 Henry VIII (1545); Domynyke Crane is his son
and heir, and was then aged 21 years and a half.

The said Margaret survived the said William.
Inq. p.m. 38 Henry VIII, No. 120

p. 167
Margaret Crane, Widow.
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 20 October, 5 and 6 Philip and Mary 
(1558), before Thomas Curtes, knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death
of Margaret Crane, widow, by the oath of Thomas Lytton, Ralph Davis, Henry
Roberts, Thomas Warren, William Dent, Walter Mekyns, John Jackson, Thomas
Dewxell, Robert Davy, Robert Lee, Henry Calleis and Francis Kelke, who say that

Before the death of the said Margaret, King Henry VIII was seised of 10 
tenements and of all the gardens adjoining the same, in the several tenures of
John Parker, Guy Craford, Hugh Vaughan, Edward Brisley, Margaret Dalton, John
Barnard, Richard Herman, John Harrop and Adrian Biscombe, lying together within
the close and precinct of the late Priory of St. Ellen within the City of
London; 3 rooms in the several tenures of .... Damarall and Emma Lawe, situate
within the said close and precinct; 6 rooms, late in the several tenures of
Richard Atkyns, Alice Pawle, Reginald Dene, Elizabeth Watson and William Crane,
lying together in a certain alley within the said close of the said Priory; one
tenement in the said close, in the tenure of John Parker; and one tenement 
there in the tenure of William Crane.

So seised, his Majesty, by Letters Patent dated 3 March, 31 Henry VIII (1540),
in consideration of the faithful service rendered to him by William Crane, 
granted all the said premises to the said William Crane and Margaret his wife,
and to the heirs of the body of the said William, to hold by the service of the
20th part of a knight's fee and by the yearly rent of 34S. 8d.

After the death of the said William Crane the said Margaret held the said
premises as of freehold.

All the said premises are held of the King and Queen in chief by the service of
the 20th part of a knight's fee, and are worth per ann., clear L15 12S.

Margaret Crane died 19 August, 5 and 6 Philip and Mary (1558); John Crane, gent.
is her son and next heir, and was then aged 24 years and more.
Inq. p.m., 5 and 6 Philip and Mary, p. 2, No. 104.