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John's right heirs. (This settlement of Mottistone is not in accordance with the information contained in Cl. Rolls, 26 Feb., 1338, where it is said that John de Gla- morgan held the manor of Moderstone jointly with Alice his wife " as of the in- heritance of Peter, son of said John ").

The manors of Staundon, or Estaundon, and La Wode (also called elsewhere the manor of Staundonwode), which Sir John had enjoyed by the covirtesy of England ("per logem Angl.," "per curialitatem Angliae"] after the death of Amye (Amie) his wife, daughter and heiress of Peter de Evercy, had been similarly settled by him on himseli and Alice his wife ; but these two manor; were the inheritance of Peter as son of Sir John, and his heir "as of the manors oJ Staundon and La Wode," and " as son and heir of his mother Amye."

It will be noted that no lands held in chief by his father in the Isle of Wight were settled on Nicholas de Glamorgan. Nor i mention made of Broke Manor, which was the marriage portion of Isabella, Sir John's eldest'; daughter, on her marriage with Godfrey de Hunston.

The widow, Alice, after Sir John's death continued in possession of the two manors of Wolveton and Mottistone. She was also possessed in her own righ t ( ? in mari- tagium) of the manor of Merston Pagham, held by her of the lordship of the manor of Whytefeld (Ch. Inq. p. m., 25 Ed. III., No. 56). On her death on 28 Aug., 1340, Wolveton and Mottistone passed according to the limitations expressed in the recited Inq. p. m. of 19 Ed. III. Estaundon and La Wode had been previously placed in the possession of Peter de Glamorgan ; and Merston Pagham fell to Dionysia as her mother's heir.

Peter de Glamorgan did not long survive his stepmother. Having attained the age of 21 on 3 Feb., 1338, he received posses- sion of Estaundon and La Wode from the King as tenant in chief (Cl. Rolls, 12 Ed. III., pt. i. m. 34). Shortly afterwards he married a lady named Amicia, and settled on her and himself these two manors, with remainder to their lawful issue. He died, according to Ch. Inq. p. m., 25 Ed. III., No. 55, on 31 May, 17 Ed. III., possessed of these two manors " and of no other lands or tenements [in capite] in the Isle of Wight." Nor had he any estates in either Somerset or Dorset (Ch. Inq. p. m., 27 Ed. III., No. 36). His widow, Amicia, was still in possession of Estaundon and La Wode 19 Edw. III., and was still living 25 Ed. III., but had no issue by him ; and

Nicholas his brother was, by the jury of 25 Ed. III., declared his next heir.

With regard to the date of his death. 1344 the jury appear to have been mis- taken, as already on 28 Oct., 1341, Thomas Hacket had received the custody and marriage of Nicholas, brother and heir of Peter de Glamorgan. It is probable, there- fore, that Peter died 31 May, 15 Ed. III. (1341).

Nicholas, the third son of Sir John, who was found by inquisition in Chancery to be an idiot from birth, was made a ward as above in October, 1341, and was then a minor ; and at the Ch. Inq. p. m. held Sunday next after 25 March, 25 Ed. III. (1351), was declared to be 26 years old. He died on 25 Feb., 1362, in possession of the manor of Brympton in Somersetshire. From whom, did he get it ? If Amicia, Peter's widow, was still alive, he could not have had the two manors in the Isle of Wight. Of Nicholas's coheirs, Isabella, his eldest sister, was then (Ch. Inq. p. m., 36 Ed. III., pt. i., No. 82, 28 May, 1362) 40 years of age, and therefore born c. 1322, before her brother Nicholas. Consequently from this year seven or eight children were born to Sir John and Amye his wife before the latter died. It follows, then, that Sir John's marriage to Alice could not have taken place much before 1332 the date I supposed.

As to John, the eldest of the three sons and heirs of Sir John, I know no reason for thinking he died before his father. The evidence given in Inq. p. m., 25 Ed. III., No. 56, shows that Alienore was still " wife of John, son and heir of John de Glamorgan " (" uxor Johannis," and not " quae fuit uxor Johannis "), on the widow Alice's death on 28 Aug., 1340. Nor is it sufficient evidence of John's death that Nicholas is declared Peters heir in 1341. It is possible, seeing that Peter was his mother's son and heir, that John was son of an earlier wife than Amye ; and if that was so, then Nicholas, the brother of the whole -blood, was a nearer heir to Peter than John, his elder brother of the half- blood. John must have died before his brother Nicholas. AP THOMAS.

BETWEEN WINCHESTER AND LONDON (1 1 S. ix. 471 ; x. 172). Has MB. Fox read ' The Stane Street,' by Mr. Hilaire Belloc ? Mr. Edward Button's ' England of my Heart * also refers to this district.

MARGARET LAVINGTON.