Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe. 



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SEAL OF LOED EOBEET 

 TIBETOT — 1366. 



died possessed, SEAL 0F SIR R - sceofe, 



FIEST BAEON OF BOL- 



On tlie death of Sir Robert de Tibetot, who as well as his father 

 J ohn, had been repeatedly summoned to parliament as a baron, and 

 who died in Grascony (46 

 Edward III., 1372), the In- 

 quisitions attest that he left 

 no son, and that his three 

 daughters, Margaret, Mili- 

 cent, and Elizabeth, then 

 respectively of the ages of 

 six, four, and two years, 

 were his heirs. The extent 

 of the landed property of 

 which he 



consisting of manors in the tout — 1371. 

 counties of York, Gloucester, Notts, Suffolk, Kent, Bedford, 

 Bucks, Middlesex, Essex, Rutland, Lincoln, Leicester, and Wilts, 

 was very great, a full half of these being inherited from his 

 mother the Lady Margaret Badlesmere. In the next year but 

 one (48 Edward III.), the wardship of these infant coheiresses was 

 granted by the king for the sum of 1,000 marks to Sir Richard 

 Scrope, Lord of Bolton, then Lord Treasurer, and from that year, 

 1375, the Courts of the Manor of Castle Combe, as appears from 

 the Rolls still extant and well-preserved, were held in his name. 

 This nobleman, according to the custom of the age, lost no time in 

 securing the large estates above-mentioned in his own family, by 

 betrothing the three infant heiresses to his own three sons ; 

 Margaret to his second son, Roger (afterwards Lord Scrope of 

 Bolton) ; Milicent to his third son, Stephen, who took for his share 

 amongst other estates, the Lordship of Castle Combe ; and Eliza- 

 beth to his fourth son, Nicholas, who, however, seems to have died 

 before the marriage could be completed, and Elizabeth was conse- 

 quently betrothed in marriage by Lord Scrope to Philip le 

 Despenser. The tripartite indenture by which the " final division 

 and purparty" of the Tibetot estates was made between the three 

 heiresses and their husbands, of the date 1385, is still preserved at 

 Castle Combe. It is in Norman French, and of great length, 



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