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esq, and JohnThuresby for poisoning Isabell, duchess 

 of Clarence, QSWarwicks, 17 Edw IV, 1477. 



10 PRO C8 1/1 392/1. See also Horrox, R, 1989, Richard 

 Iff: a study in service. 



11 Horrox, 1989, 155 cites PRO E207/21/1 6/12 

 regarding the file of returned writs carried by a servant 

 of the sheriff of Cornwall, who was waylaid by Walter 

 Hungerford and others at Warminster and had his 

 documents stolen. 



12 Rotuli Parliamentorum, 6, C3, 244-9 gives names of 

 the rebels concerned in the 1483 rebellion at 

 Newbury, Salisbury and Exeter. 



13 Horrox, 1989, 181; see also ibid. 155: 'At the 

 beginning of November . . . the king, then at Salisbury, 

 issued commissions to seize the goods of armed 

 rebels.' 



14 Horrox, 1989, 193-5. 



1 5 The whole verse, as given here, is in Proc. Somerset 

 Arch. Soc, 7, 1856-7, 97. 



1 6 Fabyan, R, 1811, The new chronicles of England and 

 France, 672. 



17 VCH Wilts, 1 1, 69-70. See also Skinner, R J, 1993, 

 'Thomas Woodshawe, "Grasious and Regicide'", The 

 Ricardian 9 (121). 



18 VCH Wilts, 11, 69. See also BL Had. MS. 433, 

 f. 138b, which records a 'Commission to Nicholas 

 Rigby, steward of the monastery and bailiff of the 

 towne of Bruton', 4 Jan 1484. 



19 Waylen, J, 1839, History of Devizes . . ., 92: '. . . 

 partisans of the exiled Queen Margaret (of Anjou) 

 were particularly numerous in the West. Her last army, 

 that namely which fought at Tewkesbury, was 

 altogether gathered from this district.' Waylen also 

 cites as authority John Britton: 'great numbers of the 



people of Wiltshire were present at the battle of 

 Tewskesbury and bore the brunt of that fateful day.' 



20 WANHS Library, Box 17: unpublished notes on 

 Berwick St John by W M Goodchild, rector, 1899- 

 1929. 



21 Skinner, 1993, 418. 



22 CPR 1485-94, 4. Berkswell is in the Staffs./Warwicks. 

 area where Woodshawe had earlier been domiciled. 



23 Skinner, 1993, 420-1. 



24 HMC Report 12 (Wells), pt 2, 189. Although dated 

 Nov 1 505 this is an extract from the chapter act book 

 commencing Sept 1486. 



25 Campbell, William (ed.) 1873, Materials for a history 

 of the reign of Henry VII, pt. 1, 32: 'Grant, for life, to 

 Roger Tocotes, kt., of the office of constable of the 

 castle of Devizes, steward of the manors and lordship 

 of Marleburgh, Devizes and Rowde, co. Wilts; steward 

 of all possessions parcel of the earldoms of Warwick, 

 Salisbury, or in anywise annexed to the said earldoms, 

 in the co. of Wilts, and steward of the lordships and 

 manors of Sudbury, Faireford, Whitington and 

 Chelworth, co. Glouc, 22 Sept 1485.' 



26 Kite, Edward, 1941, 'The two "Beauchamp" chapels 

 in the churches of St John, Devizes, and St Nicholas, 

 Bromham', WANHM 49, 283-7; Bradby, Edward, 

 1985, The book of Devizes, 32. 



27 Calendar of Fine Rolls, 1485-1509, no. 444. 



28 PRO PCC 20 Dogett, 2 Sept 1492, desires burial ' in 

 the middle aisle of Our Lady's chapel at Bromham', 

 and appoints as executors Master Walter Gudeby, Dr 

 W Gudeby, William Gill, John Lambe and Robert 

 Tocotes, with Lord St Amand and Richard Pudsey, 

 his cousins, as overseers. 



29 Kite, 1941, 285. 



