And here is the translation:
Somerset
Indented inquisition taken at Weare in the county aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of August in the twenty ninth year of the reign of our Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, Queen, defender of the faith etc,
Before Alexander Ewens esquire, Escheator of our said Lady the Queen in the county aforesaid, by virtue of a writ of our said Lady the Queen of de diem clausit extremum, after the death of George Fry directed to the same Escheator and annexed to this inquisition, by the corporal oath of Edward Roo esquire, Thomas Hodges gentleman, William Huntley gentleman, Thomas Virgin gentleman, Nicholas Andrewes, Richard Councell, William Ryve, John Bulle, William Bocher, Robert Hawkyns, Richard Hardwich, Thomas Bees[?], John Hardwich, William Addams, William Butler, John Crooker, William Crooker and Thomas Shalmer,
Who say upon their corporal oath that the said George Fry named in the aforesaid writ, long before his death, was seised in his demesne, as of fee, of and in one messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances,
And of and in forty acres of land, twenty acres of meadow, one hundred acres of pasture, two acres of moor, three acres of wood and forty acres of heath and furze, with the appurtenances, in Barton within the parish of Winscombe in the county aforesaid, belonging or appertaining to the said messuage or tenement,
And he*, George* Fry, being seised of all and singular the aforesaid premises (just as is aforesaid) died seised thereof, of such his estate.
And the jurors aforesaid further say upon their corporal oath that the said messuage or tenement and all and singular the rest of the aforesaid premises, with the appurtenances, in Barton and Winscombe aforesaid, are held, and at the time of the death of the said George were held, of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Wells, as of their manor of Symbarbes in the county aforesaid, by the annual rent of six shillings and eleven pence, so much being payable at the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel,
And they are worth, clear, annually, in all their issues over and above reprises, eight pounds,
And the aforesaid jurors further say upon their corporal oath that the said George Fry named in the said writ died on the first day of February in the twenty seventh year of the reign of our said Lady Elizabeth etc,
And that Nicholas Fry is his son and next heir and is of the age, at the time of the taking of this inquisition, of eighteen years and more.
Moreover the aforesaid jurors say upon their corporal oath that the said George Fry, on the day of his death, had or held no other or further messuages, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, services or hereditaments of our said Lady the now Queen, in chief or otherwise, nor of any other person or person, in demesne, possession, reversion, remainder, service or in use, in the county aforesaid, to the notice of the aforesaid jurors.
In witness whereof to one part of this inquisition, remaining with the aforesaid jurors, the aforesaid Escheator has affixed his seal.
To the other part, indeed, of this inquisition, remaining with the aforesaid Escheator, the aforesaid jurors have affixed their seals.
Given on the day and year, and at the place, abovesaid.
*I don’t know why these are not in the nominative case in the original.