248 The Despencers’ Estates in Wiits. 
quit-claim of the said property. Response’: If the fact was before 
the exile of the Despencers, let the process sue according to statute. 
Ibid. [‘* Henry at Hok,” means Henry who lived at Hook farm 
near Lediard Tregoz. | 
Morton Mrysry. John of Meysey complains that Hugh le 
Despencer took from him his Manor of Morton Meysey, simply 
because it was adjoining to the said Hugh’s Manor of Fasterne. 
Response: Let certain persons be assigned in the Chancery to 
enquire. Ibid. This case, which is the only one in our list couched 
in English, ends thus.—There are many petitions of this nature 
for wrongs done by Hugh Spencer father and son.” 
CutseLpon. John le Ferrour, (iron-smith), of Chiseldon, having 
lain long in the Marshalsea prison, prays deliverance on the ground 
that judgment was never given on the alleged felonies and tres- 
passes for which his enemies indicted him before the itinerant 
Justices in Wilts. Response: The Marshall and Seneschalls are 
directed by Chancery brief to take bail if the case be bailable. Ibid. 
Sueperucce. John, son of Ralph Berd of Sheperugge, prays 
recovery of a pasture called Forlesse, a meadow called Westmead, 
and a fishery in the river Loddon there, leased to the elder 
Despencer, but now in the King’s hands by forfeiture. Ibid a.v. 
1347. Sir John Blount makes a similar claim in respect of other 
lands at Sheperugge. [Sheperugge or Sheep-ridge, now spelt 
Sheep Bridge, lay in a detached part of the county, between 
Reading and Strathfieldsaye, and is now included in the County 
of Berks. | 
Many years afterwards, when parties were altogether changed, 
and Thomas le Despencer, the heir, petitioned for a reversal of 
attainder, in 1397, 21st Richard II., various documents were put 
in evidence before the King and council, to illustrate on the other 
hand, the oppressions practised by Queen Isabella’s adherents, 
while the Despencers were in exile. As some of these point to 
Wiltshire, we must needs make a further extract. 
It was now remembered, among other things, how the Earl of 
Hereford, Roger Mortimer the nephew, Roger Mortimer the uncle, 
Roger Damory, John de Mowbray, Hugh Audley the father, Hugh 
