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There is a writ (Close Roll Cal.), dated 6 October, 1374, to 

 Peter de Brugge and Nicholas Braye, ordering them to deliver to 

 the prior of Andover the goods, chattels, and stock of that priory, 

 which was in the King's hands hy reason of the war with Prance, 

 or if not the value of such goods, &c, to be levied from the goods 

 and chattells of of Thomas Spigurnell, deceased, to whom by letters 

 patent the king had committed the keeping of that priory, inasmuch 

 as the king is informed that since their livery to Spigurnell, great 

 number of such goods, chattels and stock have been eloigned. 



Thus we learn that, five years after Thomas Spigurnell had 

 acquired the fee of Cotels Atworth he died, leaving an estate with 

 claims against it. His wife Katherine, to whom jointly with 

 himself the manor had been conveyed, did not long survive him, 

 dying 15 October, 1374, as appears by the Inquisition of which 

 an abstract is appended. Her heir was her brother, and the pre- 

 sumption is that her husband also died issueless. Accordingly 

 there is nothing surprising in the sale (Wilts Mag., xxxvii., pp. 

 561—562), 30 March, 1377, of the manor of " Atteworth " to 

 Sir Philip Pitz Waryn, — presumably by direction of Thomas 

 SpigurnelPs executors. The inquisition referred to above, taken 

 after the death of Katharine Spigurnell,. is as follows: — 



" Writ 20 October, 48 Edw. 3 : inq. 28 Oct., 48 E. 3 (1874). Katherine 

 late the wife of Thomas Spigurneli held jointly enfeoffed with the said 

 Thomas late her husband likewise deceased for the term of their lives 

 of the gift and feoffment of Koger de Mortuo Mari late earl of March, 

 deceased, two parts of the manor of Worthymortymor, co. Hants, with 

 reversion thereof expectant after the death of the aforesaid Thomas 

 and Katharine to Edmund de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, son and 

 heir of the said Eoger, being of full age. The said two parts are held 

 of the king in chief by knight-service, and are worth 101. 15s. 6d. clear 

 She died 15 October last past ; Nicholas Audeleye is her brother and 

 heir of full age." 



Inq. p. mortem Chancery 1st Series. 1st Nos., No. 61. 

 (I.P.M.Edw.'lII. File 239(1.) 



West Ciialfield. 



The inadvisability of printing any notes upon the manorial 

 history of any part of this county without a preliminary search 

 through the Peet of Fines is demonstrated no less clearly by the 



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