The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon. 53 
The history of these lands, and the manner in which they had come 
into the custody of the Crown, was doubtless perfectly well re- 
membered: they were leased and otherwise dealt with, distinct 
from other sources of revenue, as the ‘‘ Coparcioners lands” (vol. 
xxx., p. 40). It was not until the last year of King Edward the 
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Sixth’s reign—nearly seventy years after Henry VII. was first 
licensed to hold it ‘during pleasure,”—that Draycot was sold. Then 
_ it was bought, as parcel of a miscellaneous lot of monastic lands by 
a speculator in such wares. Chilton had long previously been 
_ assigned in dower to Queen Katharine of Aragon and subsequently 
sold outright to the Darrell family. Both transactions were, it 
would seem, wholly unjustifiable. On the death of Edmund, Lord 
Roos, certainly on King Henry the Seventh’s death, these lands 
_ ought to have reverted to Lord Roos’ heirs, as heirs of the duchess. 
—=-. 
The dates of death of Edmund lord Roos’ brethren appear to be 
unknown. He had certainly one brother, and apparently four 
sisters, who may be the “ coparcioners”’ referred to in the official 
name for these lands, though it is the duchess’ children by her 
second husband, the Duke of Somerset, and their issue, whose 
interest is, nominatim, safeguarded in the Act of restoration of 
Edmund, Lord Roos (Rolls of Parliament, V1., p. 454, a.). It is 
quite certain, however, that Edmund’s sister, Eleanor, wife of 
Robert Manners, of Etal, Co. Northumberland, alone left issue, 
and it was the claim of her great-grandson, Henry Manners, Earl 
of Rutland, to the inheritance of Eleanor, Duchess of Somerset, 
which was vindicated by the proceedings of which the following 
“ exemplification ” is the record. 
We have first the Latin text, and an epitome is appended in 
| English, copied from the margin of the document itself. Even in 
print the Latin is none too lucid, accordingly some early possessor 
of the document was at the pains to get the sum and substance of 
the matter set down in English he could understand in the margin; 
but the marginal analysis is not thorough enough to supersede the 
necessity of reference to the text itself. 
ELIZABETH([A] DEI GRACIA ANGLIE FRANCIE ET HIBERNIE 
Regina fidei defensor &e. Omnreus ad quos presentes litere pervenerint 
 salutem INsPExImUS tenorem cujusdam[recordi coram baronibus de scaccario 
