208 Notes on the Documentary History of Zeals. 



Alexander, in tail ; remainder to the heirs of the body of the said 

 Matthew to be begotten ; remainder to John de Berkelee, Chiv., 

 and his heirs. 1 We learn from the Zeals Court Kolls that after the 

 death of Matthew he was succeeded by his widow, Joan, who held 

 a court there 9 Bichard II., and 8 Henry IY. John de Clivedon 

 appears as Lord. He succeeded to the settled estates as the 

 son of Matthew and Joan, and by charter dated at Nether Seles 

 30th April, 2 Henry IV. (1401), which was probably preliminary 

 to a settlement on his own marriage, he granted to Eichard 

 Wortford, Eobert Combe, Clerk, William Stourton, Thomas 

 Bonham, and their heirs, one moiety of the manor of Nether 

 Seles and also all lands, &c, which he held in Over Seles, Nether 

 Seles, Wolverton, Scherewton, Ambresbury, Meere, and Stourton, 

 Wilts, and in Graspore, Somerset, "which sometyme were of 

 John or Thomas Seles, and also which were of John Grrenninge, 

 which John Bonham doth there hold at my will of the new purchase 

 of Matthew, my father. Witnesses, John Bonham, Peter 

 Stanton, John Wyking, and others." He died before 29 Henry 

 VI., and his wife, Ann (who had the manor for her jointure), kept 

 the courts until 35 Henry VI., after which her daughters are styled 

 ladies of the manor. With John de Clivedon the family name 

 ended, at any rate in connection with Zeals, as he died without 

 male issue. He died seised of large estates in different counties, 

 — of the manor of Selys, which he held of John Lysse, or 

 Lysley, Kt. [Lisle 2 ], as of his manor of Chute, Wilts, by 



1 John de Berkeley was probably the son of Thomas, third Baron Berkeley. 

 He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir John Bettisthorne, Kt., of 

 Chissenbury, who was a large owner of property in Shaftesbury and Gillingham, 

 which he inherited from Margery, his mother. On his tomb in Mere Church he 

 is called the founder of the chantry there, but in fact, he only augmented the 

 ancient chantry in that Church in honour of the Virgin Mary, of which he was 

 patron, by increasing the number of chaplains from one to three, and giving 

 additional lands for their support (Inq. ad q d., 22 Ric. II., No. 96). Benefactors 

 to religious houses and societies were frequently honoured with the title of 

 founders. The connection between the Berkeleys or the Bettisthornes and the 

 Clivedon family remains to be traced. 



2 This was John de Lisle, a descendant of Michael and Avice Columbers, owners 

 of the overlordship of the manors of Chisenbury and Clive [Clyffe Pypard], 



