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license from the Crown, the pasture called Barrowsham with the 

 fishing, and 20 acres and other pieces in the north Campis de 

 Wedmore, with the windmill and lands in which it stood, being 

 part of the Chantry lands. This imlicensed transfer being 

 discovered, on the 20th November, 1586, Stone was fined 10s. 

 and pardoned.* There were also some early small holdings. In 

 1413 (1 Hen. V.), Sir Walter Rodenay, Kt., held i messuages, 4 

 carucates of land and 40 acres of meadow in Congresbury and 

 Wedmore. t In 1388, Sir Thomas Broke, Kt. and Johanna, his 

 wife, were plaintiffs to recover from Ralph Perceval and Henry 

 Bokrel, some lands in Wedmore and other places in Somerset. J 

 From an inquisition in 1437, Johanna, " who had been " the wife 

 of Sir Thomas Broke, Kt., died possessed of 17 messuages, 5 

 cariicates of land, 60 acres of meadow, and 80 acres of pasture in 

 Clywere and Wedmore. § This seems to have passed to Thomas 

 Cheddar, Esq.,|l who died in 1443, his inquisition being taken at 

 Yevelchester, and then, following the course of many another 

 property, it is found, by an inquisition taken at Axbridge, as 

 owned by John Viscount Lysle, in right of his wife Johanna, f 



Besides the principal manor of Wedmore, there were in the 

 parish other smaller manors, as Blackford, Bagley, Panhorough, 

 Clewer, and also the manor of Mudsley or Mudgeley as it is now 

 called. 



After the execution of the Duke of Somerset, Sir WiUiam 

 Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, "grew great," and made many 

 purchases of land. By patent, 9th April, 1553, for a sum paid, 

 he was granted, with other properties ,all that the manor of 

 Muddesley, parcel of the possessions of the Duke of Somerset, 



* Patent 29, Eliz., part 13, Roll 1298, Membrane 41. 

 t Inquisition Post Mortem, 1 Hen. V. No. -51, 



J Pedes Finium. Divers Counties, bundle 3. No. 177. 

 § Inquisition Post Mortem, Chancery, 15 Hen. VI. No. 62. 

 II Inquisition Post Mortem, Chancery, 21 Hen. III. No. 5S. 

 IT Inquisition Post Mortem, Chancery, 32 Hen. VI, No, 38. 



