VOL. XX. (i) 
MISERDEN AND ITS OWNERS 
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For a very few years longer Wyshanger remained the 
property of the Order of Templars at Quenington. But on the 
suppression of that Order in 1312 it passed to the Priors of the 
Hospital of S. John of Jerusalem, though Hugh le Dispenser, 
still had some claim upon it, and probably did temporarily 
enjoy it, under his right of Free Warren, etc., at Miserden. (Cf. 
Charta a. 28 Edw. I.) 
On the fall of the Dispensers, Edward II. gave the Manor of 
Miserden, together with the Barony of Staveley, to Edmund of 
Woodstock, 1 Earl of Kent, his own ill-fated brother (beheaded 
1330). The Crown, however, allowed inheritance to his heirs. 
The only other lands of the Musard Barony which seem to 
have come to him were the Manor of Over-Siddington, with its 
hall, chamber, grange, garden, and curtilage and dovecote, 
worth £12 19s. 6|d., the farm of the Seven Hundreds at 
Cirencester, from the Abbot there (who held to the King) , and 
probably Chesterton. The honours and lands which the young 
King, Edward III., had taken were permitted to pass to a 
grandson, Edmund, who died in 1333 (January 5th), and his 
son John, Earl of Kent, succeeded to and enjoyed these until 
1352 . 
In 1331 (I.P.M.) we obtain a fairly close glimpse of what the 
estate at Miserden consisted. We have seen that the castle 
had gone. This was not rebuilt. There was then standing a 
chief mansion, however, upon another and neighbouring site, 
and some other (small) houses stood in the park. There were 
seven acres of underwood, one acre of which could be sold each 
year and was worth 12 pence. In the same park were forty 
acres of great timber (beech) and 60 acres of pasture, worth 40s. 
per annum, beyond the repairs of walls and the maintenance of 
wild animals (deer, hares, boars, etc.). In demesne were 
96 acres of pasture (worth 3d. an acre), and four acres outside 
the park. There were eight free-tenants who paid 55s. 2d. 
per acre, and four villein half-virgaters, or fifteen-acre men, 
who paid 20s., while their works and customs were worth 
13s. 4d., and three villein-fardellers, quarter-virgate men, who 
paid 8s. 6d. per annum, and whose works and customs were 
1 Cf. Close Roll a. 4 Edwd. III. ; I.P.M. a. 4 Edwd. III., No. 38 ; a. 26 Edwd. III., No. 36. 
