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an infant, for four years later, we find he was only four years 

 of age. Of this Nicholas we have no further information. He 

 must have died s.p. and Margaret Fitz Wauter, his aunt, who 

 married John "Wibbery, became his heir, and John Wibbery, 

 her grandson, as Lord of the Manor, presented to the church of 

 Otterham in 1422. He married Leva, daughter and heir of 

 John Gorges, who married first John Wibberj'- of Dartmouth, 

 and died on Sunday next after the feast of the Purification of 

 the Blessed Virgin Mary (2 Feb.), 1422-3, leaving his wife great 

 with child. She was afterwards, viz. : on the feast of St. 

 Lawrence, 1424, delivered of a daughter named Johanna. 

 Previously to his death, John Wibbery had conveyed the Manors 

 of Northlegh, Oterham, Penros Burden, Cranysworth, Crock- 

 major, and Forty llegres to certain trustees. Leva, his relict, on 

 monday next after the feast of the Invention of Holy Cross, 

 1425, married Thomas Bonville, son and heir of John Bonville 

 by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Fitz Roger, and by 

 charter dated 37 Henry VI, granted all the said manors to the 

 said Thomas Bonville, and Leva, his wife, to hold jointly for the 

 term of their lives, and after their deaths remainder to Philip 

 Copleston and Ann, his wife, which Ann was the grand daughter 

 of the said Leva, and the heirs of their bodies, and in default of 

 such issue remainder to the right heirs of the aforesaid John 

 "Wibbery. The said Thomas Bonville and Leva were thereupon 

 seized of the said manors for the term of their lives, and the 

 said Leva on the 16th December following died, and the said 

 Thomas Bonville survived and held the said manors solely, and 

 the jurors say that the Manor of Oterham with its appurtenances 

 is held of the heirs of Sir William Bonville, knight, and that its 

 value per annum, beyond reprises, is £10, and they say further 

 that the aforesaid Ann, daughter of Johanna Bonville, deC' ased, 

 late wife of John Bonville, Esq., and daughter of the said Leva 

 is the nearest heir of the said Leva, and is aged 23 years and 

 more.* 



As we have seen above, Anne, daughter and heir of John 

 Bonville by his wife Johanna, daughter and heir of John 

 AVibbery, married Philip Copleston of Copleston, and conveyed 



*Inq. p.m., 1 Edward IV, No. 24. 



