472 The Society's MSS. Clyffe Pypard, Bupton. 



of Bupton manor in 1386 on Thomas Fraine and Isabel, his wife, 

 was made on the occasion of their marriage, we may suppose that 

 this daughter Alice was born in or about that year. The fine 

 which follows, levied in 1426, forty years later, introduces us to 

 an Alice, widow of Thomas Home, lady of the manor of Bupton, 

 which by this fine she gives to one William Home, and others, 

 and the heirs of William. All this accords with the pedigree, 

 which tells us that Alice, the daughter of Thomas Fraine, did 

 marry one Thomas Home, by whom she had a son and heir 

 William. 



May-June, 1426. Final concord, the quinzaine of Trinity, 4 Henry 6, 

 between, Robert Longe, John Gyles, and William Home, querents, and, 

 Alice who was the wife of Thomas Home, deforciant, of the manor 

 of Bobetoun with its appurtenances. The said Alice acknowledged the 

 said manor to be the right of the said William, as that which the said William, 

 Eobert, and John have of her gift, and released and quitclaimed it from 

 herself and her heirs to the said Robert, John and William, and the heirs of 

 William for ever; and besides the said Alice granted for herself and her heirs 

 that they will warrant to the said Robert, John and William, and the heirs 

 of William the aforesaid manor against all men for ever. For this Robert 

 John and William gave her 100 marks. 



Feet of Fines, Wilts. File 61 (21). 



The ostensible effect of this fine was to extinguish the interest 

 of Alice Home in the manor of Bupton and to convey it to Longe, 

 Gyles, and Home, who, as soon as the transaction was complete, 

 were seised of it, the said Longe and Gyles in their demesne as of 

 free tenement, and the said Home in his demesne as of fee. The 

 difficulty and the danger, however, of deductions from this kind 

 of record is that the fine seldom if ever stood alone. To understand 

 its effect we require to know by what other instruments its use 

 was " led " or " declared." In the present instance it may have 

 been considered desirable to bar or to attempt to bar existing entails 

 by levying a fine of the manor, while the immediate cause sug- 

 gesting the precaution may have been a marriage in contemplation 

 by the heir, William Home, or remarriage by his mother, Alice. 

 There are indications that both events occurred. 



A subsidy having been granted in the last Parliament of " 6s. M. 

 on every knight's fee throughout England, no portion smaller than 



