36 • Wiltshire 



ISobert Wot, gentleman* 



Inquisition taken at Marlborough, 29th August, 2 Charles I 

 [1626], he^ore. John Foyle, esquire, escheator, after the death 

 o{ Robert Rive, gentleman, by the oath o^ Robert Hitchcock, gentle- 

 man, William Earle, gentleman, John Miller, gentleman, Thomas 

 Smyth, gentleman, William Westburne, gentleman, Simon Oaieridge, 

 Richard Sherinore, Thomas Hitchcock, Silvester Cooke, Nicholas 

 Hubberd, William Parratt, Nicholas Kjiappe, Thomas Whityeard, 

 Udivard Jones, and Thomas Trebrett, who say that 



Robert Rive was seised of a capital messuage and farm and other 

 lands and tenements to the same belonging called Hackleston 

 Farm, with appurtenances in Hackleston alias Hackston, in co. 

 Wilts. And of 2 other messuages and 2 virgates of land with 

 appurtenances there. 



And being so seised, in consideration of a marriage between 

 Thomas Clarke the younger, gent., son of Thomas Clarke, esq., 

 and Ketelbye Rive, eldest daughter of the said Robert Rive, by 

 indenture dated 2nd May, 9 James I [161 1], the said Robert con- 

 veyed the premises aforesaid to the use of himself for life, and 

 afterwards to the said Thomas Clark the younger and the said 

 Ketelbye and their heirs ; remainder to the right heirs of the said 

 Ketelbye. 



In or about July, 9 James I [161 1], the said Thomas Clarke 

 married the said Ketelbye, and afterwards had issue James Clarke 

 and Anne Clark. 



Ketelbye Clarke died in or about April, 17 James I [16 19]. 



The premises aforesaid are held of the King in chief by the 

 20th part of a knight's fee, and are worth per annum, clear, 8oj. 



Robert Rive died on the i6th April last past [1626]. James Clarke, 

 son of the aforenamed Ketelbye, and Elizabeth, another daughter 

 of the said Robert Rive, now the wife of Daniel Morgafi, are the 

 next heirs of the said Robert Rive. 



Thomas Clarke still survives. James Clarke was, at the death of 

 the said Robert, aged 8 years, and the said Elizabeth, 30 years 

 and more. 



Inq. p.m., 2 Charles I, p. i, No. 14. 



