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DOWER OF ELEANOR FITZ-JOHN. 

 In Devonshire : £ 



The Manor of Yeahnpton of the yearly vahie of 55 

 The Town of La Masse . . - - 5 

 A third of two parts of Oakford - - - 



and the advowson of its church - - 6 

 A Knight's Fee less one-tenth in Torrygge, 

 Little Modbury, Loperngge, Little Boltes- 

 himj, and Wyndcsore - - - - 2 

 In Wiltshire : 



Part of the Manor of Erlestoke - - - 20 12 2^ 

 One fifth of a Knight's Fee in Yatesbury - ? 



In Hampshire : 



The Advowson of Warblington - - - 30 6 8 

 and at a later date it ^'' found that she had received a share of the 

 manor of Warblington, the value of which is perhaps included in 

 the sum given above for the advowson, while the remainder of that 

 manor was granted for life to Eobert le Ewer.^ From the reference 

 last given it is found that Eleanor Fitz-John was still living in 

 1312, but after that date the last representative of the Erlestoke 

 brancli of the Fitz-Herbert family is lost sight of, and at her death 

 her dower lands in Wiltshire and Devonshire passed to Ralph de 

 Monthermer, the second husband of Joan of Acre, to whom 

 Edward II. had granted the manor of Erlestoke and most of the 

 other properties held by Matthew Fitz-John at the time of his 

 death. 



' Charter Soil (103), 3 Edw. II., No. 25 {vide extra membrane) ; C/ianc. 

 Inff. a. q.d.,6 Edw. II., No. 124. 



