470 The Society's MSS. Chjffc Pi/pard, Bnjjton. 



Disregarding the Fishertou difficulty, to wliich attention has 

 already been called, it appears that Miles, son of Miles de Bobeton, 

 living in 1319, gave (No. 3 of the " schedule ") his estate to John 

 de Bobeton and Sarah, wife of the said John. John in 1336 by 

 feoffment, and release (No. 7) had thereon, gave his manor of 

 Bobbeton to Hugh de Bobbeton and William Winslow. Hugh 

 released (No. 8) .his riglit to William, and William being thus 

 solely seised in fee granted parcel of the manor back (No 5) to 

 John de Bobbeton and Sarah, writh remainders over. These re- 

 mainders may conceivably have been to Walter de Freney 

 and Maud his wife, to whom the said John de Bobeton grants 

 (No. 6) about the same time a messuage and rood land in 

 tail. 



In 1386, at any rate, we find (No. 9) Thomas Franie, presumably 

 a descendant of Walter and Maud, in possession of the manor 

 which he grants to John Boddton and Eobert Hobbe, by the 

 description of all his lands in " Bobbeton near Clive Pypard," 

 receiving it back, jointly with Isabel his wife, by the grant (No. 11) 

 of John de Boditon, in tail, with remainders over. There is 

 independent proof of his existence. An inquisition was taken, 

 1st October, 1381, at Wootton Bassett, touching lands at Woodhill, 

 in the parish of Clytfe Pypard, by the oath of Walter Botiller, 

 Kichard Priour, Thomas Freygnes, Thomas Quyntyn, in that order, 

 and others. 



Here the " schedule " fails us, and we must have recourse in the 

 first instance to evidence of a class that is nearly always suggestive, 

 but not infrequently inaccurate and occasionally misleading. In 

 tlie present instance, if it were not for a pedigree entered at the 

 Visitation of Wilts, in 1623, we should be very much at a loss to 

 adjust tlie evidence of the "schedule" to the other facts at our 

 disposal or to arrive at any kind of conclusion. It is a pedigree 

 of the family of Pile of Biipton, certified by Thomas, second son 

 of Sir Gabriel Pile. Considerably more extended than the majority 

 of such descents, it covers nine generations, and proffers what is 

 evidently an explanation of the original settlement of the family 

 at Bupton, as follows : — 



