* The Society’s MSS. Chiseldon. 67 
the said alienation was made without the royal licence the sheriff was com- 
manded to summon the said Thomas Bowtell to appear in the Exchequer to 
shew why the said manor should not be seized into the Queen’s hands for the 
said alienation without licence. 
Sir John Souche the sheriff returns that he had summoned him who not 
appearing the sheriff is commanded to seize the manor into the Queen’s hands 
and to inquire of the yearly value thereof. 
Sir James Stumpe the sheriff returns that he had seized the mannor and 
that by an inquisition by him taken the 12th of January in the 34 of the same 
Queen the jury found the said manor is of the yearly value of 8'. 
The 22°. of April M'. Bowtell appeared and prayed that a certain patent 
dated in the 7th year of King Edward the 6th might be read which was 
done. by which it appears that for 414!. 8°. 44. by Edmund Mordaunt esq’. 
and Robert Langley paid the King did grant to them the mannor of Draycotte 
in Wilts to hold to them and the heirs of the said Edmund Mordaunt for ever 
‘of the King in capite by the service of the 40th part of a knight’s fee which 
being read 
Mr. Bowtell complains that the said mannor was taken into the Queen’s 
hands unjustly because long before King Edward the 6th granted the said 
mannor to the said Mordaunt and Langley as aforesaid Eleanor Dutchess of 
Somerset one of the daughters of Richard Beauchamp late earl of Warwick 
was seized of the mannor of Draycot Folliatt and held the same of John 
Bonham esq’. and being so seized had issue by Thomas Lord Roos her 
husband Thomas Lord Roos their son and heir apparent which Thomas 
had a-son Edmund Roos his son and heir apparent and that Thomas 
Lord Roos the son after the death of Thomas his father died leaving his 
mother surviving after whose death by an Act of Parliament made 
in the first year of King Edward the fourth Thomas Roos the son was 
‘disabled to hold or injoy any state or dignity whatsoever and was attainted 
of treason and forfeited all his estates to the King. 
And the said Bowtell alleges further that afterwards viz. 7? Edward 4* the 
said Eleanor died seized of the said mannor 
And that by Act of Parliament of the 1st of King Henry 7th it was enacted 
that the aforesaid Act for the atttainder of Thomas Roos the son of Lord 
Roos and the dishersion of his heirs (sic) and all his estates should be restored 
and that the said Edmund his son should injoy all his estates and so Edmund 
became intitled to the mannor of Draycot Follyatt 
And alledges an Inquisition taken at Marlborough the 3*. of April 20" 
Henry 7" before Sir Walter Hungerford S'. Edward Darrell and Richard 
Elliott the King’s Commissioners whereby t’was found that said Eleanor 
Dutchess of Somerset was seized in fee of the mannor of Draycot Folliatt and 
died so seized 4'* March 7" Edward 4 and that Edmund Roos was her heir 
viz. son of Thomas son of the said Eleanor and that on the day of taking the 
inquisicion he was 50 years old and upwards and that the said mannor was 
held of John Bonham esq' and that the Duke of Buchingham the Earl of 
Northumberland and others had entered into possession thereof and taken 
the profits of the said mannor of Draycot Folliatt but on what title they knew 
not. On which King Henry the 7. took the said mannor into his hands 
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