208 Notes on the Documentary Hutory of Zeak. 



Alexander, in tail ; remainder to the heirs of the body of the said 

 Matthew to be begotten ; remainder to John de Berkelee, Chiv., 

 and his heirs. ^ We learn from the Zeals Court Eolls that after the 

 death of Matthew he was succeeded by his widow, Joan, who held 

 a court there 9 Richard II., and 8 Henry IV. John de Clivedon 

 appears as Lord. He succeeded to the settled estates as the 

 son of Matthew and Joan, and by charter dated at Nether Seles 

 30th April, 2 Henry IV. (1401), which was probably preliminary 

 to a settlement on his own marriage, he granted to Richard 

 Wortford, Robert Combe, Clerk, "William Stourton, Thomas 

 Bonham, and their heirs, one moiety of the manor of Nether 

 Seles and also all lands, &c., which he held in O-pot- a-i-- ^"^ ' 

 Seles- Wni..-^"- " ' 



ici,iit>r ot Chute, Wilts, by 



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' John de Berkeley was probably the son of Thomas, third Baron Berkeley. 

 He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir John Bettisthorne, Kt., of 

 Chissenbury, who was a large owner of property in Shaftesbury and Gillingham, 

 which he inherited from Margery, his mother. On his tomb in Mere Church he 

 is called the founder of the chantry there, but in fact, he only augmented the 

 ancient chantry in that Church in honour of the Virgin Mary, of which he was 

 patron, by increasing the number of chaplains from one to three, and giving 

 additional lands for their support (Inq. ad qd., 22 Ric. II., No. 96). Benefactors 

 to religious houses and societies were frequently honoured with the title of 

 founders. The connection between the Berkeleys or the Bettisthornes and the 

 Clivedon family remains to be traced. 



^ This was John de Lisle, a descendant of Michael and A vice Columbers, owners 

 of the overlordship of the manors of Chisenbury and Clive [Clyffe Pypard], 



