578 Tropenell Memoranda. 



mention anywhere in the text of the Cartulary that West Chalfield 

 was for a couple of centuries the inheritance of a family of 

 Chaldefeld, and only one mention, in Tropenell's characteristic 

 Englisli, that Margaret, the wife of George, was its inheritrix 

 George Percy he describes (i. p. 294) as "the first lord of that 

 name of Westchaldefield." The allusion to Margaret (i. p. 405) 

 runs '• Memorandum that the seyd George Percy alias Percehay 

 and Margaret his wyf, by the wheche Margaret Lytell Chaldefeld 

 moved, hadde isseu," &c. — the '"■ moved " being presumably remi- 

 niscent of, if not allusive to, the mouvement of French law. 



The greatest caution is required in identification of persons of 

 the name of Percy, as we shall find when we come to the earlier 

 history of Great Chalfield, and it is by no means certain that a 

 younger son of that house was not also christened " George." 

 Otherwise, and always remembering the prevalence alike of both 

 the sir and the Christian name in the north, some or all of the 

 following notices refer beyond doubt to the George Percy of West 

 Chalfield. 



There is first of all a plea in Trinity term, 1297, by Nicholas- 

 Poynz, parson of Bradeford against George de Percy of carrying 

 off his goods at Atteworth Abbess. {Pleas in King's Bench, Brit. 

 Record Soc.) 



On 20 July, 1318, there is a commission of oyer and terminer 

 (Patent Poll) to John de Foxle, William de Hardenne and Walter 

 de Paveli on complaint by John^ son of George de Perci touchhig 

 the persons who had seized (rapuerunt) Elizabeth his wife at 

 Shaldefeld Parva, Co. Wilts, abducted her and carried away her 

 goods; also 10th August to the same, on complaint by George de 

 Percy that Thomas Baumond, Waiin, son of William de Louche, 

 chaplain, John de Winkalton, John I'ybesone, James Wykewane, 

 Aucher (Auquerus) de Seynbury, John le Keu, Eichard de Leuclie 

 of Elmely, '^waryner," Malcolm Musard and John, son of Ingelram 

 Berenger, with others, carried away his goods at Shaldefeld Parva, I 

 Co. Wilts. 



The party, to judge by the names, came from tlie neighbourhood ^ 

 of Feckenliam Forest, in Worcestershire, except, ^f course, John 



