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was settled on Thomas Percy (ibid, pp. 588). Otherwise this fine 

 obviates the necessity of further considering Tropenell's variants 

 of the pedigree (ibid, pp. 586, 587), and greatly strengthens the 

 case for the identity of John Percy, the husband of Elizabeth 

 Hertrugge (ibid, p. 580 and pp. 582 — 586), with John Percy, the 

 son of George and Margaret. We now know that Tropenell's fifth 

 version of the pedigree (Cartulary , vol. i., p. 405) is essentially 

 correct. There were three sons surviving in 1344, George, Thomas, 

 and Nicholas, on whom and their issue the carucate and advowson 

 were entailed, while in Agnes, wife of John de Chausy, we discover, 

 possibly, the daughter of the marriage. On the other hand there 

 is no apparent need for the levying of such a fine at all if the 

 succession declared by it were normal, and the true intent of it 

 may well have been to exclude a grandson, aged six or seven, heir 

 presumptive by the mother to many manors, from his paternal 

 inheritance. 



With one slight emendation Tropenell's final account holds good 

 (Cartulary, vol. i., p. 405, and Wilts Arch. May., xxxvii., p. 587) : — 

 " Memorandum that the seyd George Percy alias Percehay and 

 Margaret his wyf, by the wheche Margaret Lytell Chaldefeld moved, 

 hadde isseu iij sones, that ys to sey George, Thomas, and Nicholas. The 

 seyd George and Nicholas deyd without isseu. Thomas hadde isseu 

 John and John hadde isseu John, and John had isseu Alise, and Alise 

 hadde isseu John Bourne that now ys lord of Littell Chaldefeld." 

 The emendation proposed is that George (son of George and 

 brother of Thomas and Nicholas), did not die without issue, bufc 

 had a son John, who married Constance, widow of Sir Henry Percy 

 of Great Chalfield, died without issue, and was succeeded by (his 

 first cousin) another John, son of Thomas. Thus there are still three 

 " Johns " but not three in direct line, father to son. Combining 

 the available facts we get the following possible pedigree : — 



B 2 



