50 Tropenell Memoranda. 



following addition, necessitated by a chance discovery, to the 

 account (Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxvii., pp. 582 — 588) of the descend- 

 ants of George Percy, by Margaret, his wife, the heiress of West 

 Chalfield. 



With the new piece of evidence before us we know that George 

 Percy, the elder, was still living in 1344, in which year he and 

 Margaret, his wife, levied a fine of a carucate of land in Great 

 Chalfield and Great Atworth with the advowson of Little (or West) 

 Chalfield to themselves for life, with remainder over, as follows : — 

 13-20 Jan., " Final concord in the quinzaine of Hilary 17 Edward III., 

 1343-4. of France the 4th, and afterwards in the quinzaine of Easter 



in the year abovesaid, between George de Percy and 

 Margaret his wife, querents, and Reynold de Berlegh, parson of the 

 chapel of Little (Parva) Chaldeteld, and John le Parker, deforciants, of 

 two messuages, a carucate of land, 24a. meadow, 12a. pasture, and 8a. 

 wood, in Great (Magna) Cildefeld and Great (Magna) Atteworth, and 

 advowson of the chapel of Little (Parva) Chaldefeld ; George and 

 Margaret acknowledged the tenements aforesaid and the advowson 

 aforesaid to be the right of him, Reynold, as those which the same 

 Reynold and John have by the gift of the said George and Margaret ; 

 for this John and Reynold granted to the said George and Margaret 

 the said tenements and the advowson and gave them back to them, to 

 hold to the same George and Margaret of the chief lords, ifcc, the whole 

 life of them, George and Margaret ; and after the decease of them 

 George and Margaret the aforesaid tenements and the advowson shall 

 remain to George son of them, George and Margaret, and the heirs of 

 his body begotten, to hold, <fec. ; and if it happen the same George, son | 

 of them George and Margaret, to die without heir of his body begotten, 

 then after the decease of the said George the said tenements and ad- 

 vowson shall remain to Thomas, brother of the same George, and the 

 heir of his body begotten, to hold, &c. ; and if it happen the same 

 Thomas to die without heir of his body begotten then after the decease 

 of the said Thomas the said tenements and advowson shall remain to 

 Nicholas brother of the same Thomas and the heirs of his body begotten, 

 to hold, &c. ; and if it happen the said Nicholas to die without heir of 

 his body begotten then after the decease of the said Nicholas the said 

 tenements and advowson shall remain entire to John de Chausy and 

 Agnes his wife and the heirs of her, Agnes, to hold, &c." 



Feet of Fines ( Wilts), Case 254. File 45 (27). 

 The manor of West Chalfield is, apparently, not dealt with by 

 the fine, and remembering that Margaret Percy, in her widowhood, 

 gave (loc. cit., p. 581) land there to a chantry, its subsequent 

 devolution was possibly prescribed by some act of hers. Similarly 

 the Percy estate at Castle Eaton is not included, and this possibly 



