2 Wiltshire 



and garden, and 3 acres of meadow next the said site, and the 

 four other messuages, formerly belonging to the said late prioryi 

 are held of the King in chief by the service of the 20th part o 

 a knight's fee, and are charged with an annual rent of gj. s|^. 

 payable to the Crown, and with a certain annual pension of 10s. to 

 the rector of the church of St. Peter in Marlborough. 



Of whom the said 4 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow in 

 Poulten are held, the jurors are ignorant. The 20 messuages and 

 20 gardens in Marlborough are held in free burgage of the borough 

 of Marlborough by fealty only, for all service. Of whom the 

 26 messuages and 26 gardens in Marlborough and the close in 

 Preshutt are held, the jury are ignorant. 



The jurors further say that the said premises were, during the 

 term aforesaid, worth together by the year £^ clear, beyond 

 reprises, and that after the end of that term will be worth /"13 6j. 



Thomas Broume, the father, died on 4th May, 6 James I [1608J, 

 and the said Sir Gabriel, and the others, by virtue of the said deed 

 were, and yet are, possessed of the premises, the reversion thereof 

 to Thomas Browne, the son, as son and heir of his said father, 

 which said Thomas, the son, died on 6th February last past [1624-5]. 



Robert Browne, gentleman, is brother and next heir of the said 

 Thomas, the son, aged 20 years one month and eight days. 



Frances Browne, widow of Thomas Browne, the father, survives 

 and is dowered of all the premises. 



Inq. p.m., i Charles I, p. 2, No. 40. 



gobn Cll^ott, lunatic. 



InOUlSltlOn taken at Salisbury, co. Wilts, 23rd September, 

 I Charles I [1625], before Nicholas Vonge, esquire, escheator, 

 after the lunacy of John Ellyott, by the oath of Riger Langley, 

 Giles Compton, Richard Twogood, George Acgrig^e, Jasper Bampton, 

 Jihn Bacon, William Roive, John Thomas, Henry GatmtUtt, Stephen 

 Hurst, William Penny, Edward Snow, and " Coffer" Hughes, jurors, 

 who say that 



John Ellyott is, and since of the age of 33 years has been, a 

 lunatic and incapable of managing his affairs. 



The said John is, and for long has been, seised in his demesne 

 as of free tenement, for life, at the will of the Lord, according to 

 the custom of the manor of Milford, co. Wilts, of one customary 



