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 424 PROCEEDINGS IN THE July tions of the said lands, to his disheritance, and therefore praying that as Forster was of great age and vexed with great sickness, a writ of dedimus potestatem for his examination might be issued to the mayor of Southampton and others.^ It would appear that Forster had made a second marriage and had a daughter Christine, who had married Thomas Hargrove (or Hargrave) of Hargrove near Stalbridge, Dorset. Robert Marmion was apparently successful in his suit, for he passed on his title to his son, the Peter Marmion who was in possession of NursUng in 1 47 1. Thomas Hargrove had a grant of the office ' del Oterhunt ' in 1445,^ which was renewed by Edward IV in 1461, and again in 1484 to himself and Thomas Dormer.^ Hargrove had three daughters : Elizabeth, wife of John Wells ; Joan, wife of Thomas Dormer of Nursling ; and Alice, wife of Walter Coker.* Peter Marmion the younger was a country gentleman of some importance, with estates in Oxfordshire and Berkshire as well as in Hampshire. He appears on a commission of oyer and terminer for Oxfordshire in 1464, and was on the commission of peace for Berkshire in 1464-7, for Oxfordshire in 1468 and November 1470, and for the town of Oxford in 1461 and 1471.^ During the Lancastrian restoration in 1470-1 he was employed on several commissions.® He does not appear on the commission of peace after the return of Edward IV, and on 4 June 1471 an order was issued for him to be arrested and brought before the king and council.' It thus seems clear that Marmion had taken the Lan- castrian side in 1471, whilst some slight evidence that Hargrove was Yorkist is afforded by his retention of the Otterhunt. Peter Marmion did not regard himself as bound by the release to Hargrove, for about 1481 he sold Nursling and his other Hamp- shire lands to Sir William Stonor,^ whose bailiff at Nursling, William Reynolds, was allowed 30s. for his labour by Master William Berkeley. Berkeley appears below as joining with Stonor in the recovery against Marmion.® One of Stonor's tenants at Nursling was WiUiam Clerk, who in 1482 was grievously troubled and vexed by Thomas Hardgrave (Hargrove) for the service he rendered to Stonor when possession was first taken.*® ' Early Chancery Proceedings, 26/74. The date is between 1457 and 1460. The settlement of September 13 Henry VI was made at ' a manor i-called the Grove '. This identifies Marmion's house with the Grove at Nursling. • Cal. of PaUnt Rolls, Henry VI, iv. 321. » Cal. of PaUnt Rolls, Edward IV, i. 127, iii. 601. • Early Chancery Proceedings, 236/47. • Cal. of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, i. 347, 389, 550, 570 ; u. 626-6. • Jbid. ii. 248-9, 251, 626. ' Ibid. ii. 286, 626. • Stonor Letters, ii. 153-4, 175. See also Close Rolls 21 Edw. IV, m. 3 (where the mutual recognizances of Marmion and Stonor are enrolled), and 22 Edw. IV, m. 26 (where there is the release by John, son of Peter Marmion, to Sir W. Stonor). • Below, p. 428. " Stonor Letters, ii 139, 156-6.