306 Broughton Gifford. 
He was succeeded by his eldest son Francis, whom I do not see in 
the case presented to the House of Lords, but who was unquestion- 
ably the heir of his father, being mentioned in our court rolls, as a 
minor holding the quarter manor, 19th March, 1560. He died 
sometime before 1570, for then his brother John Talbot, Esq. ap- 
pears in the court rolls as one of our lords. This John Talbot and 
Catherine his wife, sold the quarter manor on the octave of St. 
Martin (Nov. 18th) 1584 to Edward Horton of Westwood, Wilts, 
for £1000. The description of the estate is, quarter manor of 
Broughton Gifford, 14 messuages, 12 cottages, 30 gardens, 30 
orchards, 200 acres of arable, 100 of meadow, 200 of pasture, 12 
of wood, 60 furze and heath, and 10s. rents. These rents doubtless 
were “rents of assize,” as they are sometimes called, i.e. fixed 
money payments by free or socage tenants to the lord. Who the 
purchaser was, we shall see by and by. 
II. The Le Srrance moiety. This went into the family 
of le Strange, in consequence of the marriage of Alianora Gif- 
ford with Fulk le Strange. This family is said to have its rise 
in Guy, a younger son of the Duke of Brittany, who coming to 
this country, in the reign of Henry I., for the purpose of attending 
a tournament held at Castle Peverill, eventually settled here. The 
stranger found a home. The elder branch is styled of Knockyn; 
our lords were of Whitchurch or of Blackmere. Whitchurch (some- 
times Blancminster) Co. Salop, was the inheritance of the mother 
of Fulk. The manor house there stood near a dark coloured lake: 
hence the designation of “Blackmere.” Our Fulk was engaged in 
the home and foreign wars of Edward I. Like John Gifford, /e rych, 
he was an adherent to the Earl of Lancaster; but, unlike him, 
managed to make his peace with the King. He is said to have 
given to the Canons of Wombrugge a half yard land and a certain 
meadow ground (beyond identification now) in Brocton. He died 
1324. His son and successor, John, was present in all the Welsh, 
Scotch, and French wars of his time, apparently never absent from 
duty “‘on urgent family affairs.” These were not, however, neg- 
lected in the short intervals of peace. He madea bon parti for his 
son Fulk, engaging that he should marry Elizabeth daughter of 
