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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. x. SEPT. 12, MM.

Batten in ' Historical Collections relatin to South Somersetshire,' published 1894 says : " Sir Peter D'Evercy left issue ar only daughter, Amice or Amye." Th ' Victoria County History of Hampshire, vol. v. p. 146, says " Amy."

The issue of the first marriage was thre< sons and seven daughters. The .sons' name are given in a deed (20 June, 6 Edward III. in which Sir John de Glamorgan obtain a licence to enfeoff Walter de Pevensey wit] the manor of Wolverton, with other land and rents, in the parish of Brading, I.W. with liberty to grant the aforesaid manor lands, &c., to the said John de Glamorgan and Alice for their lives, and at their death to John, " fil. ejusdem Joh'is," and the heirs of his body; and in default of such heirs then to Peter, " fratri ejusdem," and his heirs; then, if none, to Nicholas, " f ratr ejusdem Petri," and " si idem Nicholau: sine herede de corpore suo exeunti obierit,' then to the heirs male of the aforesaid John and Alice ; and if the same John de Glamorgan dies " sine herede masculo de predicta Alicia procreato," then to the right heirs of the said John.

The sisters are named in a deed relating to the division of the manor of Brooke, I.W., amongst the coheirs of Nicholas de Gla- morgan (Chanc. Inq. p.m., 36 Edw. III., part i. No. 82).

The second alliance of Sir John was with a lady named Alice, whose family name hai not been traced. From the fact that at her death, in 1340, the widow of Sir John de Glamorgan is found seised of the manor of Merston Pagham, in the parish of Arreton, it has been surmised that the lady in ques- tion, at the time when Sir John married her, may " perhaps have been the widow of John Pagham," who was seised of the manor at his death, which took place before 1336-7, leaving a daughter Mary (' Viet. County Hist.,' v. 146 ; and Wriothesley, ' Ped. from Plea B.,' 35). This is a surmise only, no documentary evidence being ad- duced in support of the conjecture.

The deed of enfeoffment already quoted establishes the fact of a second marriage. The date when this took place has not been traced, but it would seem almost certain that the marriage was consummated some years before Sir John's death in 1337 (Chanc. Inq. p.m., 11 Edw. III., 1st Nos., No. 54). Sir Peter D'Evercy died in the early part of the fourteenth century. He was living 17 Edw. II., being in that year a witness with his son-in-law, John de Glamorgan, to a

grant by the Abbey of Quarr(Madox, 'Form. Angl.,' p. 165), but must have died shortly afterwards, an inquisition after his death being held at Yeovil before the escheator. Though Sir John de Glamorgan obtained 20 Edward II. a grant of free warren over the D'Evercy estate of East Standen (' Cal. Cl. B., 1300-26,' p, 493), held by him in virtue of his alliance with the D'Evercy heiress, it is more than probable that at the time when the privilege was granted the heiress to the estates had been dead some years. The following corroborative evidence is adduced. The Close Bolls (' Cal. Cl. B., 1337-9 '), 26 Feb., 1338, give an order to the escheator, William Trussel, to deliver to Alice, late the wife of John de Glamorgan, the estates enumerated in the enfeoffment deed of 20 June, 6 Edward III. ; and entered on p. 308 of the same series is the statement that " after his [Sir John's] death in 1337, Alice, his widow, held the manor [of Motti- stone] in dower, with successive remainders to her daughters Denise and Alice, until her death in 1340 (Chanc. Inq. p.m., 25 Edw. III., 1st Nos., No. 56), when Denise and her husband, Edmund de Langford, entered int possession " (' Feudal Aids,' ii. 340). Denis died in 1362, seised of the estate. The daughters here referred to were, presumably, Sir John's issue by his second marriage.

The references adduced by AP THOI (US. ix. 476) are not helpful :

No. 1. " Eleanor, one of three daughter of Balph de Gorges (who died 17 Edw. II.) married John de Glamorgan." This is not in accordance with accepted facts. Collin- son, ' History of Somerset,' pp. 156-8, writes : ' Sir Balph de Gorges left a daughter Eleanor married to Theobald Bussel." Dugdale, The Baronage of England,' vol. iv. p. 55, states that " Sir Balph died 17 Edw. II. , eaving a son and three daughters, Elizabeth, Eleanor, and Joan and that Eleanor married Theobald Bussel of Kingston Bussel, jo. Dorset." Banks, ' Dormant and Ex- inct Baronage,' vol. i. p. 326, writes to the same effect: "Eleanor became heir to her Brother and married Theobald Bussel," &o. The latest authority, Sir Harris Nicolas, The Historic Peerage of England,' ed. Wilh'am Courthope, ed. 1857, p. 216, has, re Gorges Baron by Writ ' : "Ralph de Gorges, ob. 1323, leaving Ralph hia and h. v ....had also three daughters: (1) Eliza-

eth, who married Ashtou. (2) Eleanor, wife

f Theobald Russel, of Kingston Russel. (3) Joan, ife of Sir William Cheney." No. 2. A reference from the Patent Bolls j " licence to resettle the Glamorgan