Memorandum concerning the dowry of Elizabeth, wife of Robert Foulbery, c13th January 1496

A Memorandum that at the term of St. Hilary [1496], Elizabeth, who was the wife of Robert Foulbery, sought against Richard Foulbery, a third part of twenty messuages, and twenty carucates of land, forty acres of meadow and sixty acres of pasture in Foulbery, Caldmerton, and Chattoun, as her dowry by gift of said Robert, her late husband. On the other hand, the said Richard said that Elizabeth ought not to have dowry from said holdings, because her late husband neither on the day he married her, nor afterwards, was seised in said holdings, so that he had no power to give her dowry.