588 Tropenell Memoranda. 



cases the John is probably the John son of Thomas, who was a 

 minor in 1362, when the prior presented. It therefore seems that 

 pedigrees Nos. I and II stand examination best. Still, if all the 

 pedigrees are short by a generation, or if the John, husband of 

 Constance, was succeeded by a nephew, son of Thomas, a brother 

 of his, pedigrees III and V would be possible subject to slight 

 alteration. In any case the evidence is not strong enough to ex- 

 clude altogether the possibility of the identity of John, son of 

 George, with the John who married Elizabeth Herterugge. 



With regard to the George and Nicholas of pedigree No. V, 

 there is a George Pershay witness to a deed 20 January, 1352-3 

 {Cart., i., p. 129), and mention of a Nicholas de Percy, of Bedwyn, 

 in a '* Minister's Account " of the year 1318. 



Of a previous marriage of Alice Percy, the heiress of the line, 

 to one Eichard Philippes alias Kous, there is mention in the 

 Cartulary (i , pp. 281, 294), while with regard to her second husband, 

 John Borne, we have quoted from the Cartulary at the beginning 

 of this note, where he is called the nephew of Kobert Andrew. 

 Just as Tropenell thrived under the protection of the house of 

 Hungerford, so Eobert Andrew seems to have attained wealth and 

 position as an agent of the Duchy of Lancaster. Of his origin 

 nothing appears. His estate in land in co. Wilts in 1428 was 

 very considerable. He held certain lands and tenements in Eton 

 (Eaton Meysey alias Castle Eaton) for the term of his life by grant 

 ol the Lord le Zouch, which Thomas de Sancto Mauro formerly 

 held, by service of half a knight's fee; he held certain other lands 

 there, by service of one-third of a knight's fee, of the earl of 

 Stafford, which William Meysy formerly held ; and he held certain 

 lands and tenements there of the said earl, by service of one 

 knight's fee, " which lately were Thomas Percy's." This, doubtless 

 is the estate — held in 1236 by service of half a knight's' fee and 

 in 1243 by service of two-thirds of a knight's fee — which had 

 descended for so long a period of time in the possession of the 

 Chaudefelds and their heirs, the Percys, of West Chalfield, The 

 " formerly Thomas Percy's " refers back in all probability to an 

 aid of 1346, for knighting the Black Prince, the returns for which, 



