The Society's MSS. Clyffe Pypard, Button. 471 



Tho: Fraine de Bubton in com: Wilts.= 



Thomas Horne.=Alicia filia et hser. Tho. F raine de Bubton. 



Willelmus Horne.= 



Thomas Home, Elizab. filia Wilielmi=Eichard Pile. 



filius et hseres, Horne et coheres 



ob. s.p. fratris Thomse Horne. 



"Willelmus Pile de Bubton= 

 filius et hseres. I 



Thomas Pile de Bubton in^ 

 com. Wilts fil. et hser. I 



Gabriell Pile de Bubton in com. 

 Wilts, miles. 



Such, omitting some names of wives not immediately to the 

 purpose, is the pedigree. Latent in it there is an inaccuracy of 

 the usual kind. We have evidence, which is good enough, that 

 Thomas son of William Horne, whose death without issue opened 

 the succession to Elizabeth Pile, his sister, or her issue, was born 

 in or about the year 1466. We have the strongest possible evi- 

 dence that William Horne, the son of Alice (Fraine), was of full 

 age in 1426, that is to say, his birth occurred between 1400 and 

 1405 at the latest. Now it scarcely needs to be pointed out that 

 it is not normal for a man's son and lieir to be born from sixty to 

 sixty-six years after his own birth. It is quite certain, on the 

 other hand, that the father of Thomas was called William ; it is 

 equally certain that the son and heir of Alice was called William ; 

 and the error resolves itself into the venial, or at any rate the very 

 common mistake of rolling two generations, of the same name, 



into one. 



The pedigree informs us that Thomas Fraine, of Bupton, had a 



daughter and heir, Alice. If, as is not improbable, the settlement 



