S The Society's MSS. 



a,bove acquittance was given by Henry Sturmy to the executors 

 of William Whyteclive, namely his widow and very possibly his 

 sons-in-law, for part payment of the relief due to him on 

 William's death, though on what basis the actual sum was 

 assessed, or agreed, it would be difficult to determine. 



It is all the more fortunate that the tenure of Great Whiteclive 

 is stated in the inquisitions above referred to, inasmuch as the 

 only entry relating to the place printed in " Feudal Aids " (vol. v., p. 

 259) neither explains, nor is explained by any of our documents. The 

 jurors for the Hundred of " Heghtresbury " found by inquisition 

 taken at " Wermystre," Thursday after St. Barnabas, 6 Henry 

 VI (17 June, 1428) that " the heirs of William Bussell hold 

 immediately in Whiteclyve of the heirs of Henry de Huse certain 

 lands and tenements which lately were of William Bussell by the 

 fifth part of a knight's fee." The " lately " refers back to the Aid 

 of 1346, the returns for which in the case of Wiltshire are most 

 unfortunately lost. There was an inquisition taken in 1402, in 

 respect of the " Aid " for marrying the king's daughter Blanche, 

 for the hundreds of " Heyghtresbury," &c. {ihid., p. 224), the list 

 ■of the jurors being headed by " William Lyveden," the lord of 

 Whiteclive, as we shall see, but of Whiteclive itself there is no 

 mention in this return. 



In 1346, the date of the missing return, we have every reason 

 for believing that William Whyteclive was lord of Great Whyte- 

 clive, and, judging by the inquisitions after the deaths of the 

 Westleys, that he held it by service of a quarter of a knight's fee. 

 What William Bussell held in Whiteclyve at that date, according 

 to " Feudal Aids," by service of a fifth of a knight's fee, does not 

 appear. Possibly it was a manor of Little Whiteclive, within 

 which some few acres were held by the family of Whiteclyve and 

 later on by the Westleys, who held them of John Turbutt, or 

 Turebut, gentleman. 



To go back to the acquittance, it is quite certain that one of 

 William Whyteclive's heirs was his daughter Margaret. That is 

 proved by a subsequent document. It is almost certain from 

 another that Lettice, the wife of Thomas Warde, was a second 



