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Letters patent of Edward IV, confirming at the request of Alianor [Eleanor], Duchess of Somerset, the inquisition held by John Knottesford, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, at Southwark 12 September 1455. The inquisition found that Edmund, Duke of Somerset, had no goods or chattels in Surrey at his death, but that John, Duke of Somerset, was seized of the manors of Wokkyng and Sutton and had granted them to Edmund and Alianor, his wife, and to Henry, Duke of Somerset, son and heir of Edmund, for life.
Westminster, 23 April 1466.