52 The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon. 
nature and the result of Lord Rutland’s suit against Darell. For 
serious students, then, it will be well to read Draycot history, as set 
out in the following document, and to interpret Chilton history by it. 
Eleanor, Duchess of Somerset, was the second daughter and 
eoheir (she had two sisters, the Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady 
Latimer, whose issue is represented at the present day) of Richard 
Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, by his first wife, Elizabeth Berkeley, 
sole heiress of the lords de L’Isle and the lords le Tyes. She in 
no way represented her father, who left male issue by a second wife, 
and the estates which came to her were all derived from her mother. 
She married, first, Thomas, Lord Roos. He died in 1481, and she 
re-married with Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. By the 
first husband she had a son and heir, Thomas, Lord Roos; by the 
second, three sons, who all died without lawful issue (the present 
Duke of Beaufort is the male descendant of a bastard son of the 
eldest of them), and five daughters, co-heirs to their father. It is 
clear, therefore, that, on the death of the duchess, her lands would, 
in normal course, have descended to her eldest son, and heir, Lord 
Roos. It so happened, however, that this son and heir died three 
or four years before her, and that, before his death (he was beheaded) 
he had been attainted. Accordingly, on her own death, all her 
lands came into the possession of the Crown. This was in 1467 or 
1468. They remained in the possession of the Crown till 1485, 
when Henry VII. came to the throne. Very shortly after this 
King’s accession the attainder of Lord Roos was annulled and his 
son, Edmund Roos, restored to his inheritance. The joy of his 
restoration, it is stated, proved too much for him, he was found to 
be incapable of managing himself, or his estate, and the custody of 
his person was committed to his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Lovell, 
K.G. It is a matter of common knowledge that King Henry VII. 
was a thrifty man. An early proof of it was a clause specially 
inserted in the Act restoring Lord Roos, whereby, “during 
pleasure,” the estates of the poor distraught lord were to remain in 
the King’s hands. Edmund, Lord Roos, died 15th October, 1508, 
the King died 21st April the year following ; but neither event led to 
the surrender by the Crown of its hold on the duchess’ inheritance: 
