298 Broughton Gifford. 
for doing what he ought to have himself done to the squires, and 
gave another pension of 600 marks to their lord. Lord Audley 
was one of those twenty-seven English barons who swore to “the 
great peace” of Bretigni. He was afterwards employed in various 
important commands by Edward III., was one of the original 
knights of the Garter, and died 1886, maximus et clarissimus miles, 
et perinde felicissimus: annum tertium et septuagesimum eacessit, 
altissima tranquillitate, pari veneratione. 
He had leased the half manor for her life to his aunt, his mo- 
ther’s sister, Eleanor de Columbers, on payment of the nominal 
rent of one rose yearly at the feast of St. John the Baptist, in lieu 
of all services.1_ The Audleys were Lancastrians, so that we may 
suppose, though it is so stated by the escheator, that the rose was 
red. She died Wednesday next before the feast of St. Nicholas, 
4th Dec. 1342.2? Nicholas 10th Lord Audley succeeded his father. 
He is summoned in the Castle Combe roils as a tenant under the 
barony in 1889, his widow (Elizabeth of Beaumoxt of Scotland) 
in 1896. He was the last of the name of Audley who -held 
Broughton. Having no children, the half manoz was sub-divided 
between his two sisters, as his coheirs, Joan aud Margaret Audley. 
The elder sister, Joan, married Sir John Tuchsi, of an old Lancas- 
trian race,’ and thus conveyed the barony of Audley‘ and one quarter 
of our manor into that family. 
1 This elegant rent was not unusual in those times. In 34 Henry VI. 1455-6, 
John Heryng died, having conveyed his interest in the manor of Draycot to 
William Ryngebourne on payment oi a rose on St. John the Baptisi’s day 
yearly. OC. E. Long’s descent of manor of Draycot Cerne. Wilis Aven. Mag, 
vol, iii. 
21 find, by calculation, the feast of St. Nicholes, 6th Dec., fell that year on a 
Friday: the Wednesday noxt defore musi therefore bo 4th Dec, I have simi- 
larly calculated in other cases the days of the month, where the ing. p. m. have 
furnished the data. 
3 Sir Roger Tuchet hac suffered with the Earl of Lancaster after Borough- 
bridge. 
4The manor and the barony (being an ancient barony in fee) were both equally 
hereditary. One as well as the other foliowed the law of corporeal heredita- 
ments. On feudal principles there was no distinction between daughters, no 
eldest daughter and heiress, all coheiresses, share and share alike. There was 
no difficulty in applying this system to the land. That was capable of division; 
but what was to be done with the barony, which, from its very nature as a 
