By the Rev. J. Wilkinson. 303 
suffered on the 25th of June 1497.1 He was drawn from Newgate 
to Tower hill, dressed in his own coat of arms, painted on paper, but 
reversed and torn. His widow held the quarter manor till her 
death, 36 years afterwards. This long interval she passed in help- 
less lunacy. A domestic tragedy is connected with her name. 
There exists an inquisition taken at Warminster 17th June 1516, 
in which, after reciting that the quarter manors of Broughton and 
Ashton were settled on James and Joan Audley, the Jurors say 
that “Joan, widow of James Audley, is a lunatic and non compos, 
and that she has so been since the 27 June, 1497 (which they also 
make the day of her husband’s execution) up to the holding of this 
inquisition, and is unable to manage her own affairs, and that the 
said manors (quarter of Broughton and quarter of Ashton) are 
worth yearly beyond reprises £12 18s. and half a groat, and that 
the said Joan has received all the rents and profits for the use of 
her family and the maintenance of her boys.” She died 3rd March 
1532. Their place knows the Audleys no more. Their estates in 
Staffordshire and Wiltshire have ail been a:iensted, and the ore- 
sent representative of the family, the 23rd baron, is an exile in 
Australia. 
A quarter manor still remains to be accounted for: viz., the 
second half of the Audley moiety, arising on the failuro of male 
issue in Nicholas the 10th Lord. 
This second quarter belonged, after the death of the widowed 
Lady Audiey (Hlizabeth of Beaumont) to Margaret the younger 
sister of Joan Audley. She married Sir Roger Hillary, end solid 
her right to the reversion of the quarter manor to Sir Hugh 
de Holes or Hulse, 14 Richard iI. (June 1890-1). He, how- 
ever, leased the property to her for her life. She died “on the 
morrow of the feast of St. George,” April 24,1411. The pur- 
chaser was of an old Cheshire family, originally settled at Nor- 
bury, and doubtless a good Lancastrian. He himself was of 
Raby and a person of distinction; Chief Justice of Chester in 
1395, Judge of the King’s Bench 1388. He died “the Wednesday 
1 Two inquisitions, one on him, the other on his wife, give different dates, I 
have adopted the one on him, as nearer the event. 
