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Brian de Insula) and others disposed of their holdings to the 

 Clares. This document has not yet, I believe, been printed, and 

 it is too long to do so here, but it is well worth perusal and some 

 day, if a detailed history of Tarrant Gunville is undertaken, it 

 will undoubtedly form an important document in that work. 



The heiress of the Mortimers, Anne, sister of Edmund, the 

 last Earl of March, married royalty in the person of Edward 

 Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge ; and their son Richard, Duke 

 of York, being heir to his mother, and father of King Edward 

 IV., brought the Manor once more into the Crown. 



One of the first acts of Edward IV. was to make provision for 

 his mother, Cecily (daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of Northum- 

 berland) and among many estates granted to her for life was that 

 of the manor of Tarrant Gunville as set forth in a Patent Roll of 

 i June, 1461. 



From this time onwards for 100 years the Manor was leased 

 out by the Crown to many individuals, amongst whom were the 

 Bayntons of Fullerdeston or Farleston, co. Wilts, then to the 

 Cheynes, then to the Nevilles, and in Henry VII. 's reign it 

 formed part of the jointure of his Queen Elizabeth, and in Henry 

 VIII. 's reign it was in the jointure of every one of his six 

 Queens, as shown in the various Acts of Parliament and Patent 

 Rolls confirming those Jointures. 



In the 6th year of Edward VI., 1552, the manor was granted 

 to Lord Clynton and Saye and Henry Herdson as trustees for the 

 King, and henceforward it seems to have been split up into three 

 undivided portions which represent, probably, the three manors 

 of Tarrant Gunville proper, Gunville Eastbury, and Bursey. 

 Among many names we find those of George Delalynd, 

 Christopher Dodington, Christopher Twynhoe, John Miller ; and 

 in 7 Edward VI., 1553, those of my ancestors Thomas Fry, 

 William Fry, and Walter Fry. Then come Thomas Devenish, 

 Thomas Philpott, and Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe, the 

 Swaynes, Harbins, and in quite recent times the Farquharsons. 

 In fact the transmission of the manor either in its entirety or its 

 sub-divisions becomes so involved that I really have not been 



