[Excerpts from "Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City
of London returned into the Court of Chancery during the Tudor Period, 
Part III, 19-45 Elizabeth, 1577-1603", ed. by Edw. Alex. Fry, 1908]
[excerpted 30 Sep 2003]

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John Crane, gentleman.
Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 29 November Eliz. (1585), before Wolstan
Dixie, Mayor of the City of London, after the death of John Crane, gent., by
the oath of Robert Dickenson, Richard

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Smith, Roger Hall, John Harrison, John Jackson, John Ireland, William Povi,
George Robertes, John Bond, William Styche, William Cooke, William Harvi,
William Laire, William Crowch, Edmund Owine, Peter Noxton, John Hawkesford,
and Robert Elder, who say that

Long before the death of the said John Crane King Henry VIII was seised in 
his demesne as of fee in right of his Crown of England of 10 tenements with
the gardens thereto adjoining late in the several tenures of John Parker,
Guy Crayforde, Hugh Vaughan, Edward Brysselye, Margaret Dalton, John Barnarde,
Richard Herman, John Harroppe and Adrian Biscombe lying together with the close
and precincts of the late priory of St. Elene with the said City of London then
dissolved and late belonging to the same; also of 3 rooms late in the several
tenures of William Damarall and Emma Lawe, situate within the said close and
precinct; also of 6 rooms late in the several tenures of Richard Atkyns, Alice
Paule, Reginald Deane, Elizabeth Watson and William Crane, esq., lying together
in a certain alley within the said close of the said late priory; also all that
tenement then in the tenure of John Parker situate within the said close in the
parish of St. Andrew Undershaft there, also belonging to the said late priory.
So seised the said King by Letters Patent dated at Westminster 3 March, in the
31st year of his reign, in consideration of the faithful service which the said
William Crane, esql, had rendered to him, granted to the said William and 
Margaret hsi wife all the said premises, to hold to them and the heirs male of
the body of the said William Crane, of the King by the service of the 20th part
of a knight's fee and paying therefore yearly 34S. 8d. at the Court of 
Augmentation, by pretext whereof the said William and Margaret were seised of 
the said premises.  The said Margaret survived the said William and died 19
August, 5 and 6 Philip and Mary (1558).  After her death all the said premises
descended to the said John Crane (named in the writ) as son and heir male of
the said William Crane: which said John attained his full age and did fealty
to the Queen and had full seisin fo the said premises delivered to him by the
escheator of the said City, as by Letters Patent dated 20 November, 2 Eliz. 
(1559) more fully appears.

The said premises are held of the Queen by the said service, and are worth per
ann., clear, L15 12S

John Crane died 1 November last past; John Crane is his son and heir male, and
was aged 8 years on the 25th day of June last past.
Chan. Inq. p.m., vol. 208, No. 185.