580 Tropenell Memoranda. 



abstract of the return to this commission has recently been issued 

 to members of the Society in Part 1, of Abstracts of the Inquisitiones 

 Post Mortem relating to Wiltshire from the Reign of King Edward 

 III., pp. 61-64, so far as it relates to Percy and Berenger, who, in 

 this abstract, are described as " attainted." To this abstract, which 

 is on the whole satisfactory, we must refer ourselves, and be grateful 

 to the accident which procured the enquiry, for here, at last, we get 

 a detailed account of the two modest estates, the one at Eton 

 Meysy, the other at [West] Chaldefeld, which we know to have been 

 descending in one and the same family for so long period of time. 

 At Chalfield it is interesting to read of the messuage and garden 

 which are only worth 2s. yearly quia plures sunt ibi domus et max- 

 ima reprisa, a lot of buildings to keep in repair. It is also pleasant 

 to be told " Item there is there the advowson of a certain chapel 

 which was founded there by the ancestors of the said Margaret 

 (George Percy's wife) for a certain chantry to be made for the souls 

 of the same ancestors and it is worth yearly 40s." The statement 

 in the abstract that the premises are charged to Eoger de Percy 

 (then lord of Great Chalfield) with two capons " for having a certain 

 chase with regard to [versics] the tenements aforesaid" seems to be 

 a rather obscure rendering, of the meaning of the original, which 

 says that the birds were delivered in acknowledgment of a right of 

 way across Eoger's land. The important genealogical information 

 contained in the original might also, to advantage, have been other- 

 wise expressed. Eighteen years previously, that is to say in 1312, 

 George Percy had enfeoffed Edmund, his son, of all lands and tene- 

 ments which he had in Atteworth (it does not say that lie and his 

 wife enfeoffed . . . therefore these lands and tenements were 

 of his own inheritance or purchase presumably) to hold to the said 

 Edmund and the heirs of his body, with remainder in default to 

 John, brother of the said Edmund and his heirs (rendered in the 

 abstract " with contingent remainder to John ") and the said John, 

 after the death of the said Edmund who died seised thereof, entered 

 on the said tenements and held them according to the form of the 

 said gift until they were taken into the king's hand. It is not very 

 material, but the form of the gift suggests that Edmund was the 





