The Society s MSS. 11 



according to the need of her estate {exigenciam status sui); and further 

 in case the said John die in her lifetime, all the aforesaid lands and 

 tenements are to remain to the aforesaid Lettice for the term of her 

 life by the rents and services which to them belong ; in witness whereof 

 the parties aforesaid to the parts of that indenture have put to their 

 seals. Witnesses, Nicholas Wodhull, William Upton, John Madyngton, 

 Robert Elisaundre and other. Dated at Duryngton, Friday, the feast 

 of the Annunciation, 13 Ilichard II. 



No. 20. 



The presence of the above indenture in the collection may be 

 taken as proof that by purchase or descent William Lyveden, or 

 his son, acquired the interest in Whitecliff and elsewhere of the 

 family of Warde, and handed on the whole to their successors in 

 title. 



The accompanying pedigree is a conjectural arrangement, in. 

 accordance with the suggestions made above, of the persons men- 

 tioned in the foregoing documents. 



In the family antiquities of Gloucester and Somerset, and in a 

 less degree, of Wilts, the influence of Bristol is always present. 

 There the younger sons are apprenticed, and thence return, to 

 invest the proceeds of trade in land. Thus we find, according 

 to Collinson {vol. ii., pp. 296 — 7) Eoger Lyveden, of Bristol, 

 and Isabel, his wife (dowered 1450) buying the manor of 

 Ashton Philips, in Long Ashton, between 1421 and 1425, which 

 passed to their daughters and coheirs, Jane Wynibissli and Agnes 

 Wythiford. Slightly earlier John Lyveden occurs as party to a 

 tine whereby the manor of Claverham, with lands in Claverham 

 and YaLton, was settled on Henry and Alice Vyell and the heirs 

 of Alice. Perhaps, tlien, it was from Bristol that William Lyveden 

 came to settle at Whiteclive, though our first notice of him was 

 (No. 19) as outlawed in the county of Dorset. At Whiteclive at 

 any rate he setlliMl down. In 16 Richard [[. he witnesses a 

 charier {Tropfurll C<irt., ii., 116) dated at Hill Deverell, 4 ]\Iarclk 

 (L)92 — .")) — " these l)eing witnesses, Stephen liodenham, IJoger 

 Stui-ton, William Lyvedon, clohn Babyington, John Towke and 

 other." Our last iH)Li(M^ of him is as [)etty collector of a subsidy 

 for his own hamlet. 



