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knight's service, — the manor of Gorton, also of one messuage 

 and one hundred acres of land, six acres of meadow, and one hundred 

 acres of pasture in Alkanning, and likewise of the manor of Wode- 

 land, all in "Wilts, and of the manor of Uphey [Upway], Dorset, 

 and of three hundred acres of land in Heythom in Southpederton, 

 and of twelve messuages and two hundred acres of land in North- 

 pederton, in the County of Somerset, all which manors and lands 

 descended on liis death to his three daughters and heiresses, Johanna, 

 Elizabeth, and Isabella.^ Elizabeth was married to John More, and 

 Isabella to Eobert Whiting, by whom she had three sons, George, 

 Christopher, and John, and on her death her part descended 



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session to them. They were succeeded by their son, Humphrey 

 More, of Collumpton, Devon, who died 29 Henry YIII. seised of 

 this manor and all the Clivedon lands in and about Mere, leaving 

 John More his son and heir, from whom they were purchased 

 by the Chafyns. 



It is unnecessary to pursue the descent from Chafyn to Grove, as 

 that is given in detail in the History of Modem Wilts. It may be 

 observed, however, that no notice is taken in that work of the Free 



wbich were inherited by their two daughters, Joan and Nichola, the wife of Johu 

 de Lisle, as co-heiresses. The issue of Joan failed, and thereupon the entirety 

 vested in Nichola and her descendants ( Z)e Banco Boll [16] Hillary, 14 Edw. I. 

 ' Exemplification, dated 29th of November, 24ith Hen. VII., of Inquisitions 

 and Proceedings in Chancery. 



