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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 his death to his three daughters and heiresses, Johanna, 

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

 Isabella to Robert Whiting, by whom she had three sons, (ieorge, 

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

 to her eldest son, Greorge Whiting, and, as both he and the next 

 son, Christopher, died without issue, it came ultimately to John, 

 the youngest son. The entirety of John Cliveden's estates thus 

 belonged to John Whiting, John More, and Elizabeth his wife, and 

 Johanna Clivedon ; and in 1505 they made a partition by which 

 the manor of "Selys" was {inter alia) allotted to More and his 

 wife. Notwithstanding tliis, under the colour of an inquisition 

 taken after the death of his brother Christopher, John Whiting 

 set up a claim, as his heir to their mother's one-third part, and 

 it was seized by the Crown Escheator pendente lite. Upon the 

 complaint, however, of More and his wife the authorities were 

 satisfied that they were justly entitled to the whole, and pursuant 

 to a decree in Chancery 24 Henry VII. the Crown gave up pos- 

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

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

 this manor and aU 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 Modern Wilts. It may be 

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



which were inherited by their two daughters, Joan and Nichola, the wife of John 

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

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

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

 and Proceedings in Chancery. 



