564 Tropenell Memoranda. 



453.) On 2 April and 10 July, 1360, Robert de Burton, Olivre 

 Russel, John atte Mersshmull and Edmund Hussee have writs 

 as collectors of the -^ and ^ in Co. Wilts. {Ibid, pp. 53 and 104.) 

 On 5 July, 1362, there is a recognisance acknowledged in Wilts 

 by Oliver Eussell and Robert, his son (Ibid, p. 413), showing that 

 Oliver was then a married man of long standing, for his son was of 

 age. In this same year, however, Oliver Russell presents (as 

 above) to Atworth, " in right of his wife," from which we infer 

 that Robert de Burton had died at some date after July, 1360, 

 and that his colleague in the collectorship had married his widow. 



Four years later, 20th March, 1365-6, nearly sixteen years 

 after George Selyman's outlawry, a fresh writ issued directing an 

 enquiry de novo into the circumstances of it. The inquisition was 

 taken at Corsham, 2nd April, 1366. The date of the outlawry is 

 now given, and it is mentioned that George Selyman is dead; it is 

 found, correctly this time, for it agrees with the Testa, that he 

 held the manor of Atteworth of the king, as of his manor of 

 Hampstedemarchal, i.e., the caput of the earl marshal's honor ; that 

 the earl of Stafford immediately after the outlawry got possession 

 of the manor, as held of himself, and sold it to Robert de Bourton 

 and his heirs for ever, and that the earl, and Robert and Agnes 

 his wife, together with her present husband, Oliver Russell, had 

 taken all the issues and profits. 



This finding was promptly acted upon. On 16 June, 1366, 

 the king committed the manor during pleasure to Thomas 

 Spigurnell, his squire. Three years later it was Thomas Spigur- 

 nell's turn to be ousted. It will be remembered that George 

 Selyman had released only his life estate, and he was acting 

 advisedly. By an inquisition (not forthcoming) it was found that 

 George held the manor to him and the heirs of his body by virtue 

 of that very fine of 1278, so carefully inserted by Tropenell in 

 his Cartulary : for, said the jury, Richard Cotel and Isabel, his 

 wife, were dead, and Richard's sons, John and Thomas, were dead, 

 without issue, but Iseult, their sister, had issue the said George 

 and a daughter, Gilles (Egidia). George died without issue, but 

 Gilles had issue Margaret; and to John Wrenche and the said 





