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the said alienation was made without the royal licence the sheriff was com- 

 manded to summon the said Thomas Bowtell to appear in the Exchequer to 

 shew why the said manor should not be seized into the Queen's hands for the 

 said alienation without licence. 



Sir John Souche the sheriff returns that he had summoned him who not 

 appearing the sheriff is commanded to seize the manor into the Queen's hands 

 and to inquire of the yearly value thereof. t ■ 



Sir James Stumpe the sheriff returns that he had seized the mannor and 

 that by an inquisition by him taken the 12th of January in the 3 d of the same 

 Queen the jury found the said manor is of the yearly value of 8 1 . 



The 22 d . of April M r . Bowtell appeared and prayed that a certain patent 

 dated in the 7th year of King Edward the 6th might be read which was 

 done by which it appears that for 414 1 . 8 s . 4 d . by Edmund Mordaunt esq 1 , 

 and Robert Langley paid the King did grant to them the mannor of Draycotte 

 in Wilts to hold to them and the heirs of the said Edmund Mordaunt for ever 

 of the King in capite by the service of the 40th part of a knight's fee which 

 being read 



Mr. Bowtell complains that the said mannor was taken into the Queen's 

 hands unjustly because long before King Edward the 6th granted the said 

 mannor to the said Mordaunt and Langley as aforesaid Eleanor Dutchess of 

 Somerset . one of the daughters of Richard Beauchamp late earl of Warwick 

 was seized of the mannor of Draycot Folliatt and held the same of John 

 Bonham esq r . and being so seized had issue by Thomas Lord Roos her 

 husband Thomas Lord Roos their son and heir apparent which Thomas 

 had a son Edmund Roos his son and heir apparent and that Thomas 

 Lord Roos the son after the death of Thomas his father died leaving his 

 mother surviving after whose death by an Act of Parliament made 

 in the first year of King Edward the fourth Thomas Roos the son was 

 disabled to hold or injoy any state or dignity whatsoever and was attainted 

 of treason and forfeited all his estates to the King. 



And the said Bowtell alleges further that afterwards viz. 7 th Edward 4 th the 

 said Eleanor died seized of the said mannor 



And that by Act of Parliament of the 1st of King Henry 7th it was enacted 

 that the aforesaid Act for the atttainder of Thomas Roos the son of Lord 

 Roos and the dishersion of his heirs (sic) and all his estates should be restored 

 and that the said Edmund his son should injoy all his estates and so Edmund 

 became intitled to the mannor of Draycot Follyatt 



And alledges an Inquisition taken at Marlborough the 3 d . of April 20 th 

 Henry 7 th before Sir Walter Hungerford S r . Edward Darrell and Richard 

 Elliott the King's Commissioners whereby t'was found that said Eleanor 

 Dutchess of Somerset was seized in fee of the mannor of Draycot Folliatt and 

 died so seized 4 ,h March 7 th Edward 4 th and that Edmund Roos was her heir 

 viz. son of Thomas son of the said Eleanor and that on the day of taking the 

 inquisicion he was 50 years old and upwards and that the said mannor was 

 held of John Bonham esq r and that the Duke of Buchingham the Earl of 

 Northumberland and others had entered into possession thereof and taken 

 the profits of the said mannor of Draycot Folliatt but on what title they knew 

 not. On which King Henry the 7 th took the said mannor into his hands 



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