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



Kev. Canon Jackson, of Leigh Delamere, to a friend : — " Amongst old desed 

 at Clyffe Pypard Manor House, I found, when on a visit to Mr. H. Nelson 

 Goddard, the following (some formal trust release, I fancy) : — 1510 Robert 

 Duket of Winterslow, quitclaimed to John Croke all right to lands in Clyffe 

 Pypard late W"\ Cobham's. (The seal has perished.)" 



That the Ducket interest here was not merely fiduciary, as 

 suggested by Canon Jackson, appears from the following fine: — 



25 June, 1530. Final concord, the morrow of S'. John the Baptist, 22 

 Henry 8, between Christopher Bussher and Richard Williames, querents, and 

 Robert Dukett and Elizabeth his wife and Richard Somner, deforciants, of a, 

 third part of the manors of Bubbeton and Barnardys, and of twelve messuages, 

 300a. land, 42a. meadow, 100a. pasture, 6a. wood, and 20.«. rent, in Bubbeton, 

 Clevepiperd, Thornhill, Cotmerssh, Brodtown, Brodhenton, Yatesbury, High 

 Swyndon, Even Swyndon and Rodborn, also of a third part of pasture for 

 76 oxen, 346 sheep, in the marshes of Thornhill, Cotmersshe, Cleveswode, 

 Wheteliill, Even Swyndon, "Westlese, and North Lese. Robert and Elizabeth, 

 and Richard Somner acknowledged the said third parts to be the right of the 

 said Richard Williames, as those which he and Christopher have by their gift, 

 and released and quitclaimed them from them, Robert and Elizabeth and 

 Richard Somner, and the heirs of Elizabeth, to the said Cristopher and 

 Richard Williames and the heirs of Richard Williames for ever ; and further 

 the said Robert and Elizabeth granted for themselves and the heirs of 

 Elizabeth that they will warrant the said third parts to the said Christopher 

 and Richard Williames and the heirs of Richard Williames against all men 

 for ever. For this acknowledgment, &c. the said Christopher and Richard 

 Williames have granted the said third parts to the said Robert and Richard 

 Somner and given them back in the same court, to hold to the said Robert 

 and Richard Somner and the heirs of Robert of the chief lords of that fee by 

 the services therefore due. 



The manor here described, curiously enougli, as "Barnardys," is 

 almost certainly that manor in Broadtown which was held in 

 1428, as we have noted above, by William Horn in right of his 

 wife, and we now find it descending, as we should expect, in com- 

 pany with the manor of Bupton. Eobert Dukett, whom we gather 

 from Canon Jackson's note immediately above, was of Winterslow 

 in this county, was possessed of a third of both manors, with ap- 

 purtenances in widely-scattered parishes, jointly with his wife 

 Elizabeth, and as it would seem, in her right, for not only is the 

 warranty against her heirs, but the whole object apparently in 

 levying the fine is to destroy her estate and to vest her inheritance 

 in Eobert and his heirs in fee. 



As in the case of Margaret Edge, we have no clue to the 



