The Society's MSS. Clyffe Pypard, Bupton. 483 



attorney, to Henry de Bristoll and Parnel his wife, by William de Boudon 

 their attorney, of a messuage in Marlebergh, in consideration of 20 marks. 



Feet of Fines, Wilts. File 30 (33). 



Lastly, an interesting series of fines introduce us to an Essex 

 man, apparently, dealing jointly with his wife, in certain con- 

 siderable estates in Yatesbury, Bupton and Hilperton. 



After considerable enquiries there does not seem much explana- 

 tion to offer as to the identity of John Tany or Wenthlian, his 

 wife, and how their interest in these places originated remains a 

 mystery. He figures in various classes of public records between 

 1280 and 1315, being returned as dead in 1316—7 : but there is 

 no certainty that all these references are to the same man. In 

 1292, however, a John Tany acknowledges a debt to be levied in 

 default on his lands, &c., in Wilts, Essex, and Berks, an entry 

 which links up the two sets of references, those relating to a 

 member of the very distinguished family of the name in Essex, and 

 those, fewer in number, relating to a landowner in the western 

 counties. 



Again, with regard to the parentage of his wife all enquiry 

 has so far been battled, although the inquisition taken after her 

 death, and a quantity of subsequent proceedings are in existence. 

 She died on the feast of the Assumption, 29 Edward I (15th 

 Aug., 1301), when an intricate series of investigations were required 

 to determine who were the heirs not of herself but of her previous 

 husband. 



She had been first married to one Eustace de Wrokeshale, ap- 

 parently of a Wiltshire family, but it is not with his paternal but 

 his maternal family that the inquest was concerned. He was the 

 only son of one Geoffrey de Wrokesale by Juliana, his wife, daughter 

 and coheir of Eichard le Waleys by Maud, daughter and coheir of 

 Ealph de Lanveley. Concerning all these people there is abundant 

 evidence in the records. Erom Ealph de Lanveley there had 

 descended to Juliana the moiety of his manor of Eastbury in 

 Lambourne, co. Berks, and with this moiety Eustace, by his 

 mother's consent, had dowered his wife, Wenthlian, at the church 

 door. Juliana died in 1283, but her son Eustace had pre-deceased 



