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Asliton and la Stone, warranty against all men. Witnesses, Thomas 

 de Langeford, Peter de Testewode, Henry de Opton, John le Palmer,. 

 Thomas Bitheclyve and other. Dated at Stupel Ashton, Sunday the 

 feast of Souls, 1 1 Edward III. 



No. 16. 



William de Whibeclyve was living in the following year when 

 he occurs as witness to a release by John, brother and heir of 

 Robert le Boor, dated 4 March, 1337-8 (Tropenell Cartulary, ii., 

 p. 113) of his right in lands in Hill Deverell, Deverell Langbridge, 

 Maiden Bradley and Codford. Kobert de Whiteclyve, his father 

 presumably, occurs (ibid. p. 134) as witness to a release, undated, 

 by Ellis de Hill to the said Kobert le Boor of his right in land in 

 Hill Deverell, &c. The name does nob occur elsewhere in this 

 Cartulary. From 1338 onwards we have no further mention of 

 the name till 1358, when we reach our next document and find 

 Agnes de Whyteclive a widow. 



18. 

 Saturday, 29 Be it known that I, Henry Esturmy, lord of Fygheldene,. 

 Sept., 1358. have received from Agnes who was the wife of William 

 Whyteclive, from Robert Morsel, of Hynmdon, and 

 from Thomas Warde, of Durrynton, 10 marks in part of payment of 

 40^ in which they were bound to me, as in a certain writing obligatory 

 to me by them thereof made more fully appears. Dated at Fygheldene, 

 Saturday, the feast ol St. Michael, 32 Edward III. Seal of arms, 

 chipi^ed, three demi-lions ; in compartment at top a hugle-horn ; at 

 sides, among scroll-ivork, 2J0ssibly arms, of ermine two bars. 



No. 17. 



The interpretation of the above document would nob be at all 

 easy if we were limited to the documents in this collection, for 

 there is nowhere among them any further mention of Henry 

 Esturmy, or Sburmy, to whom the payment was to be made. It 

 happens, however, that more than two liundred years later when 

 all the various properties we are concerned with had come to the 

 hands of a family of Westley, upon the occasion of the death of 

 three several members of that family, it was found by iiu|uisitions, 

 happily preserved, that the manor of Great Whiteclive was held 

 of the heirs of Henry Sturmy. 



With this chie, we can hardly go wrong in supposing that tlie 



