Thomas de Praers

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1349/50.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Ormerod (3:301). The death is mentioned in the escheator's account of 1349-50 in ACOCC (p. 153).

Relationships

Father: Richard de Praers.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:301) and by Hall (p. 26).

Mother: Joan de Crewe.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:301). It is supported from evidence from the plea rolls given by Wrottesley (p. 119).

Spouse: Margery.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:301).

Children:

Elizabeth de Praers married Sir Robert de Fulleshurst.

Evidence

From the Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(page 389):

1335, Dec. 24. Thomas de [Praers], of Bertumlegh, John Griffyn, William de Praers, Robert de Becheton, and Hugh del Hogh, to the Earl of Chester, recognizance for 10l. for the relief of the said Thomas. [9 & 10 Edw. 3. m. 2 (6).]

1337. Thomas de [Praers], of Bartomlegh, licence of Edward Prince of Wales to, to alienate to Thomas de Whitynton, chaplain, the manors of Bertumlegh, Crue, near Haselynton, and Landecan, 18s. rent in Netherbebynton, the serjeanty of the fee of the Countess of Warwick and the advowsons of the churches of Bertumlegh and Wodechirche, with power to the said Thomas de Whitynton to re-enfeoff, in fee-tail, the said Thomas de Praers and Margery his wife, of the same, with the following remainders, viz., to John Griffyn and his heirs, the manors of Bertumlegh and Crue, the rent and serjeanty, and the advowson of the church of the manor of Bertumlegh, excepting 60 acres of land and 66s. 8d. rent in the said manor of Crue, which were to remain to William son of Randal de Crue and Alice his wife, and her heirs for ever; and the manor of Landecan and the advowson of Woodchurch to William de Praers, of Badylegh, and his heirs for ever. [10 & 11 Edw. 3. m. 1 d. (7.)] This enrolment is undated, but is illustrated by the following recognizances entered into for the payment of the fine on the above license.

1337, May 5. [Thomas de Praers], William de Praers, senior, John Griffyn, William Hamelyn, Ken’ Seys, John de Hulfeld, Richard de Rooper, and John son of Randal de Weston, to Henry Prince of Wales, recognizance for a fine of 40 marks, made on the foregoing alienation. [Ibid. (5), (6).]

1338, Nov. 12. Thomas de [Praers], of Bertumlegh, license to, to grant to John Gryffyn, senior, the manors of Berumlegh, Crue, near Haselynton, and Landecan, 18s. rent in Netherbebynton, the serjeanty of the fee of the Countess of Warwick, and the advowsons of the churches of the aforesaid manors of Bertumlegh and Wodechirche, held of the Earl of Chester in capite, to hold to the said John Gryffin during the life of the said Thomas, by the service of one rose yearly, with remainder on the death of the said Thomas, to his right heirs quit of the aforesaid John and his heirs for ever. [12 & 13 Edw. 3. m. 1 (3).]

(page 390):

1349, Sept. 26. Thomas de [Praers], of Bertumlegh, grant of the custody of the lands late of, to Thomas de Brerlee. [22 & 23 Edw. 3. m. 4 (6).]

1349, Sept. 26. Thomas de [Praers], of Bertumlegh, grant of the wardship and marriage of Elizabeth daughter and heir of, to Alan Cheyne. [22 & 23 Edw. 3. m. 4 (5).]

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Plea Rolls of Chester):

(p. 42):

17 Edw. 3. Praers, Thomas de, of Bertumlegh, and Margery his wife, and Thomas de Whytynton, chaplain. Fine -- manors of Bertumlegh, Landecan, and Crue, near Haselynton, 18s. rent in Netherbebynton, the serjeanty of the fee of the Countess of Warwick, and the advowsons of the churches of Bertumlegh and Wodechirche. [16 & 17 Edw. 3. m. 12.]

References

Accounts of the Chamberlains and other Officers of the County of Chester. 1301-1360. (Ronald Stewart-Brown, ed.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. LIX: 1910).

Hall, James. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester. Nantwich, 1883.

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

The Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1867).

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).

Wrottesley, G. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500.