Inquisitiones Post Mortem. 17 



John Flower, gent., is son and next heir of the ss.\& John Flower, 

 the son. and the said Joan, and at the time of his father's death 

 was of the age of 2 years 1 1 months and 2 days. The aforesaid 

 John, Elizabeth and Constance Hayter survive. 



The said Joan Flaimr, widow of the said John, on whom the 



Inquisition is taken, survives. at- r^ 



^ Inq. p.?n.,z Charles I, p. 1, No. so- 



Inquisition taken at Marlborough, 29th August, 'z Charles I 

 [1626] before John Foj'le, esq., escheator, after the death of 

 John Gibbes, yeoman, by the oath of Robert Httchcocke, gentleman, 

 Wmiam Earle, gent., John Milks, gent., Thomas Smith, ^ent., 

 William Westburie, gent., Simon Oateridge, Richard Shermore, Thomas 

 Hitchcocke, Silvester Cooke, Nicholas Hibbard, William Parratt, 

 Nicholas Knappe, Thomas Whityeard, Edward Jones, and Thomas 

 Trebrett, jurors, who say that 



Tohn Gibbes was seised of one messuage and 3 virgates of land in 

 Badbury, within the parish of Chisseldon, co. Wilts, and died 

 seised thereof on 10th January last past (1626). The premises 

 are held of the King in chief by knight's service, but by what part of 

 a fee the jurors are ignorant ; they are worth per annum, clear, 20. 



John Gibbes, of Badbury aforesaid, yeoman, is son and heir of 

 the aforesaid John Gibbes, at whose death he was aged 30 years 



^"^ "'°''^- Inq. p.m., 2 Charles I, p. 2, No. 23. 



CDtoarti, €arl of !^ertforrj. 



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

 [I626] before Edmund Hungerjord, esq.. Hugh Crumpton, 

 esq and John Foyle, gentleman, escheator of co. Wilts, Thomas 

 Ayleffe, gentleman, feodary of the county aforesaid, commissioners 

 appointed to inquire after the death of Edward Earl of Hertjord, by 

 the oath of Richard Smyth, gentleman, John Spenser, gentleman. 

 Geor<re Mortymer, gentleman, Bartholomew Smyth, Alexander Dismer, 

 Henry Smyth, John Noys, Thomas Smythe, John Waterman, Edward 

 Dysmer, Thomas Sloper, Thomas Ayres, Thomas Freeman, Thomas 

 King, and John Lawrence, who say that 



