ABSTRACTS 



OF THE 



g)nquisitione0 jBos^t fl^ortem 



RELATING TO 



THE COUNTY OF WILTS, 



Returfied into tJie High Court of Chancery in tlie Reign of 

 King Charles the First. 



Cl)oma0 OBrotone, gentleman* 



Inquisition taken at Marlborough, co. Wilts, 4.th June, 

 I Charles I [1625], h&'iox?^ Nicholas Yonge, gentleman, escheator, 

 after the death of Thomas Browne, gentleman, by the oath of Robert 

 Kingsman, Nicholas (?) Webb, Edivard Gillmore, Thomas Stephens, 

 Thomas Sloper, Hugh Chaundler, Henry Watts, Thomas Hide, Thomas 

 Freeman, Thomas Knackstone, Thomas Grange otherwise Stephens, 

 Richard Parr, and fohn Waterman, jurors, who say that 



Thomas Were otherwise Browne, gentleman, father of the said 

 Thomas Browne, was seised of the site of the house or priory of 

 the White Friars next the borough of Marlborough, and of the 

 church, belfry, and cemetery thereof; one messuage, one dovecot, 

 one garden, and 3 acres of meadow in Marlborough, formerly in 

 the several tenures of Edith Walker, widow, Thomas Fox, Martin 

 Morris, and Thomas Cooke, formerly belonging to the said priory ; 

 20 other messuages and gardens in Marlborough ; 4 acres of land 

 and 2 acres of meadow in Poulten ; 26 messuages and gardens 

 in Marlborough ; one close, containing one acre of meadow, in 

 Preshutt near Marlborough. 



Thomas Browne, the father, being so seised, by deed of 27th April, 

 6 James I [1608], between himself of the one part, and Sir Gabriel 

 Pyle, knight, Richard Browne, R'bert Shaa, and Thomas WM, gentle- 

 man, of°the other part, for the affection he bore toward Robert 

 Browne, his younger son, and Katherine Browne his daughter, 

 granted to the said Sir Gabriel, Richard, Robert, and Thomas, the 

 aforesaid premises, and to their executors and assigns immediately 

 after his death for 18 years, at a yearly rent of if 3. 



The said site, belfry, and cemetery, messuage, dovecote, orchard. 



