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The Society's MBS. — Chiseldon and Draycot. 



purposes of assessment, &c, as a hamlet of Chiseldon, to which it 

 was, so far as a bishop of Salisbury could procure, ecclesiastically 

 united, in the reign of Elizabeth. Manorially its affinities seem 

 to have been with the Ogbournes, while the chief estate, long in 

 the possession of a series of families the most distinguished in the 

 English peerage, escheated apparently to the Crown in the fifteenth 

 century. It is certain at any rate that a lease was made, 14th Feb., 

 20 Hen. VIII. (1528-9), by the King to Thomas Webbe alias 

 Eichman, of the Manor of Dray cote Foliat, parcel of " Coperceoners 

 landes," co. Wilts, for twenty-one years at 71. yearly rent, and 

 6s. Sd. increase (Cal. Letters and Papers, Hen. 8). Similarly the 

 manor of Highall, in Walthamstow, " parcel of Coopercioners 

 lands," was leased to Sir Ealph Sadleir (Pat. Roll 32 Hen. 8, 

 part 8, m. 10), and a toll within the manor or lordship of 

 Tywarnayle Tyes, co. Cornw., " parcel of lands called Coparcioners 

 lands " was leased to John Grenefeld (Pat. 32Hen. 8, part 6, m. 

 42). In vol. xii., part ii. of the calendar above referred to (No. 

 191, 6, 8) we find a more explicit allusion to "possessions of 

 Eleanor, late duchess of Somerset, now called Copercioners lands," 

 and we may venture to conclude that the " coparcioners," or joint! 

 owners, in question were the issue of the said Eleanor (see Rolls of I 

 Parlt. vi. 454. d) , or, possibly, the issue of herself, and of her sisters,! 

 the daughters of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, by his wife! 

 Elizabeth, lady de Lisle. This Elizabeth, lady de Lisle, was thel 

 heiress of Thomas, lord Berkeley, by his wife, Margaret, heiress oil 

 Warine de Lisle, grandson of another Warine de Lisle, by his wife I j 

 Alice, sister and heiress of Henry, lord Teyes, or Tyeys. 



The manor of Tywarnayle Tyes we have already heard of a ■ 

 "parcel of Coparcioners lands, and it appears by the Calenda: 

 (Record Commission) of Inquisitions Post Mortem, &c, that Henr 

 Tyeys was seised (17 Edw. 2, No. 24) of messuages and tenement 

 in Dray cote Folyot ; that Warin de Insula and Margaret (Pipard 

 his wife were seized (6 Rich. 2, No. 47) of a moiety of the mane 

 of Draycote ; that Ann, late the wife of Grerard Lisle, was seise 

 (13 Hen. 4, No. 41) of the manor of Draycote Foliot ; and, finally 

 that Eleanor, duchess of Somerset, was seised (7 Edw. 4, No. 2( 



