Inquisitiones Post Mortem. i5 



Hun^erford, as of his manor of Chippenham, by fealty, suit of court, 

 and of the annual rent of 2.., and are worth per annum, clear, 20.. 

 The said 3 acres of land purchased o^ John Ely are held of Sir Giles 

 Wrou^hton, knt.. as of his manor of Cockleborough, by fealty, and 

 the rent of [— 1 and worth per annum, clear, 3^. The q acres one 

 perch of land in the forest of Chippenham, alias Pewsham. aforesaid 

 are held of the King as of his manor of East Greenwich by fealty, 

 and the annual rent of 18 J., and are worth per annum, clear, los. 

 The twelve messuages and q acres of land, meadow and pasture in 

 Calne are held of the King in chief by knight's service and the 

 annual rent of 6^. 8^., and are worth per annum, clear, [—J. Ihe 

 aforesaid 28 acres of land, meadow, etc., in Calne, are held of >>^« 

 Duckett, esq., as of his manor of Calne. by fealty and the annual 

 rent of 5^., and are worth per annum, clear, 20^. The aforesaid 

 tenement and premises in Biddeston, Slaughtenford, Hartham, and 

 North Wraxall, are held of Thomas Thynne, esq., as of his manor of 

 Biddeston, by fealty, and the annual rent of 37J. U., and are worth 

 per annum, clear, \os. 



Richard Weslfield died on the 3 ist December, 1 624.. 



William is his son and next heir, aged 28 years and more. 



Inq.p.m., i Charles I, p. 1, No. 55. 



giol)n jriotner, gentlentan. 



Inquisition taken at Marlborough, 4th April, 2 Charles I 

 [1626], before /o>^« Foyle, esquire, escheator, after the death of 

 John Floiver, gentleman, by the oath of Richard .... John Spencer, 

 George Mortimer, Bartholomew Smith, Alexander Dismer, Henry 

 Smith, John Noyse, Thomas Smith, John Waterman, Edward Dismore, 



Thomas Sloper, Thom is Eyres, Thomas Freeman King, and 



John Lawrence, who say that 



John FlffWir, gent., father of the above said John Flower, was 

 seised of one messuage and a virgate of land in Chitterne St. Mary, 

 in CO. Wilts, called Piper's, and on i6th May, 6 James I [1608], 

 granted the same to John Attwood, Laurence Attwood, and Grace 

 Attwood, sons and daughter oi John Attwod, of Chitterne, husband- 

 man, to hold to them for lives and the life of the longest liver of 

 them, at an annual rent of 1 5s. 6d. with reversion to the said John 

 Flower, the father. 



The said John Flower, the father, was also seised of one capital 



