Inqtiisitiones Post Mortem. 45 



CI)oma0 iaintirettiejSj gentleman. 



Inquisition taken at Marleborough, co. Wilts, 4th Septem- 

 ber, 3 Charles I [1627], before William Guydott, esquire, 

 escheator, after the death of Thomas Andrews, gentleman, by the 

 oath of Thomas Smith, gentleman, Francis Noyle, gentleman, 

 Thomas Cullerne, John Savage, Silvester Cooke, William Cooper, 

 Alexander Dismer, Robert Kindsman, Thomas Hitchcock, Thomas 

 Freeman, John Waterman, Thomas Pearce and Thomas layler, who 

 say that 



Thomas Andrews was seised of one parcel of land lying in the 

 fields of Collingbourne Kingston, co. Wilts, containing 80 acres, 

 called " Olands," and of another parcel of land in Collingbourne 

 Brunton, adjoining " Dodicrofte " on the south, and abutting upon 

 "Collingbourne Kingston's Cowe Doune," containing 16 acres, 

 with all easements and profits to the same pertaining, which 

 premises were purchased by the said Thomas Andreives of Joh?t 

 Dorringto7i, gentleman, lately deceased. 



Thomas Andrewes was also seised of the reversion of one 

 messuage, one orchard, one garden and one curtilage — after the 

 deaths of John Thurstin and John Pyle — lying in Collingbourne 

 Kingston, now or late in the tenure of Robert Nye. And of one 

 other messuage and an orchard, garden and coppice, containing 

 3 acres, called " Crooks coppice," to the same messuage belonging, 

 in Collingbourne Kingston, now or late in the tenure of Geoffrey 

 Pyke, lately purchased of Thomas Carey and Margery his wife. 

 And of one messuage, orchard, garden, and one small close of 

 pasture containing 40 rods .... and of one acre lying in the 

 field of Collingbourne Kingston and of another acre of land lying 

 in the field of Collingbourne Sunton to the same messuage belong- 

 ing, now or late in the tenure of Joan Andrewes, late the wife of the 

 said Thomas A ndrewes, and of Marmadiike Earle, and lately purchased 

 of Edward Dorrell, deceased, servant to the late Queen Elizabeth. 



Being so seised, the said Thomas Andrewes made his will on 

 18th March, 2 Charles I [1627], by which he left to his aforesaid 

 wife Joan all the said premises for life, and after her death to 

 Elizabeth Blacke, widow, her daughter, to hold till the said Elizabeth 

 should enjoy the house or houses she had lately purchased in 

 Collingbourne Brunton, and after her death to Thomas Andrewes, 

 his eldest son, and his heirs for ever. 



The 2 parcels of land containing 96 acres in Collingbourne 

 Kingston and Collingbourne Brunton are held of the King in chief 



