Named as a beneficiary in his father's Will (1456)
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29 Jan 1466, Westminster
Licence for Nicholas Carewe, son and heir of Nicholas Carewe, esquire, deceased, tenant in chief, to enter freely into all manors, lands, reversions, rents, services, fees, views of frank-pledge, courts leet, knights' fees, advowsons and other possessions in England of which his father was seised, and which on the death of the latter or of Margaret his wife, deceased, came into the king's hands and should descend to the said Nicholas the son; and to receive all issues from the times of their death.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, 5 Edw. IV, p. 447
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Nicholas Carew died in 1466 seised of the manor of Great Purley leaving Margaret, his wife and joint tenant, surviving and a son and heir Nicholas, then four years old. The last-named Nicholas came of age in September 1484, but he died childless about 1485 leaving as his heirs his three sisters, Sanchea, who was married to Sir John Iwardby, Elizabeth the wife of Walter Twynho, and Anne Tropnell. 1