The Society's 3ISS. Clyffe Pyparcl, Bupton. 473 



a quarter to be taxed," an inquisition was accordingly taken, 

 Tuesday before Midsummer, 6th Henry 6 (1428), in the hundred 

 of " Canynges " to ascertain what fees, or parts of fees, in that 

 hundred were liable to be assessed. The jurors found, inter alia, 

 that : — 



Willelmus Shirle et Alicia uxor ejus tenent inmediate de episcopo Saris- 

 buriensi certa terras et tenementa in Bobuton, que nuperfuerunt Johannis 

 de Bobuton, per servicium unius feodi militis. 



This is the record referred to above as establishing that, in 1428, 

 Bupton was accounted part of the hundred of Cannings. 



The words " que nuper fuerunt Johannis de Bobuton " refer 

 back to the aid — the particulars of which, unhappily, are not now 

 forthcoming for the county of Wilts — levied for knighting the 

 King's eldest son, 20 Edward 3 (1346), at or about which date, as 

 we have learned from the " schedule," John de Bobeton and Sarah 

 his wife were actually in possession of the manor of Bupton ; and 

 although we have not been able to produce absolute proof that 

 the manor held by John de Bobeton in 1336 was the selfsame 

 manor held in 1386 by Thomas Fraine, there does not appear to 

 be any possible doubt that such was the case ; but, if this be 

 allowed, neither can there be any doubt that the lands and tene- 

 ments held in 1428 by William Shirle and Alice his wife repre- 

 sented the manor held in 1386 by Thomas Fraine. 



Granting this identification, we obtain assurance that Fraine's 

 manor of Bupton was held for a knight's fee, and additional support 

 for the theory that it represented the spare fee of Mellepleis. 



Further we discover that between June, 1426, when she levied 

 a, fine of his manor of Bupton as the widow of Thomas Home, and 

 June, 1428, the date of this inquisition, Alice, the daughter and 

 heir of Thomas Fraine, had remarried. Also it appears that, 

 unless the jurors were unaware of the transaction, the fine had 

 not, as suggested above, been so effectual as might appear in 

 divesting her of all estate in that manor. 



As for the non-mention of the Quintin fee in this inquisition 



the only mention in it of Bupton is the entry quoted above we 



are free to suppose that it had become attenuated and by sales 



