44 Wiltshire 



l^enrt T5ucfiertille^ lunatic. 



Inquisition taken at Marlborough, co. Wilts, 22nd May, 

 3 Charles I [1627], before William Guydait, esq., escheator, 

 by the oath of Thomas Buckeridge, gent., Thomas Smith, gent., Noah 

 Webb, gent., Silvester Cooke, Bartholomew Smith, Mark Fowler, John 

 Mortymer, Richard Layland, Hugh Chandler, Thomas Smith, Nicholas 

 Broivne, Henry Pettis, William Lewes, Robert Kinsman, Thomas Taylor, 

 and Christopher Cleter, who say that 



Henry Buckerville is a lunatic and incapable of managing his 

 own lands, etc., and has been so from the 27th September, 

 18 James I [1620]. At the time of taking this Inquisition he was 

 seised of one messuage and 5 virgates of land with appurtenances 

 in Compton, within the parish of Enford, co. Wilts, held of the 

 King in chief by knight's service, and worth per annum, clear, £ i^. 



The said Henry the lunatic has and will have, till Michaelmas, 

 1630, an estate in one messuage and 100 acres of land in Litlecott, 

 in the said parish of Enford, which same estate is valued by the 

 jurors at/^50. He has also goods and utensils valued as follows, 

 viz. : at Littlecote, 4 waynscot bedsteads, 20^. ; 4 bows, bs. %d. ; 

 one trunke, lid. ; one cupboard, zs.; 2 fetherbeds, 30^. ; 2 flock- 

 beds, 5^. ; one rugge, bs. 8d. ; 2 coloured coverlets and a white 

 coverlet, lo^'. ; 6 blanketts, los.; 8 sheetes, i6j. ; 2 tableclothes, 

 y. j\.d.; 12 napkins, SJ. ; 4 pillow ties, 3J. 4^.; 9 yards of white 

 cloth, 12s.; 12 pots, los.; . , . . ,6s.; — pieces of pewter, 

 iSs.; 8 casks, 10s. ; 5 redd and greene curtaynes, 6s. Sd. ; 3 feather 

 bolsters, los. ; one flock bolster, 6d. ; one little flock bed, y. ; one 

 brewing kiver, zs. ; one dowe kiver, zs. ; 3 cowles, 4J. ; one vate, 

 3^. ; one kyve, 2s. 6d. ; one powdering tub, zod. ; 2 treene 

 platters, /yi.; one fryeinge pann, 6d.; 2 tables, is.; 2 chairs, izd. ; 

 one forme, 6d. ; 2 stooles, %d. ; one tray, ^d. ; one bread grate, 2d. ; 

 229 sheep and 72 lambs, /"go; 2 cows, /'s; and 3 quarters of barley, 

 40J. He has also at Compton aforesaid 140 sheep, value /'so. 



He owes to Sir Richard Grobham, knight, £1^. for one half-year's 

 rent of the premises in Littlecot, to Sarah Lady Hastings ^os., to 

 Richard White, of Hamsted Marshall, co. Berks, £\, and to Jaiiies 

 Chesterman, of the city of Oxford, i os. 



The said Henry Buckerfield has issue three children, Henry, 

 Bartholomew and Susan. The last named Henry is his son and 

 ht-'ir apparent, and is aged 7 years and more. 



Inq. p.m., 3 Charles I, p. 3, No. 60. 



