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 274 DESPENSER Abbey.(*) At his death any Barony, that may be supposed to have been created by the writ of 1338, became extinct. On 30 Apr. 1349 his widow had livery of her dower, and on 6 May following of the knights' fees and advowsons of her dower, which had been assigned to her by the King-C") She m., 3rdly, as 2nd wife, before 10 July i35o,(') Sir Guy de Briene, of Laugharne, co. Carmarthen, and Walwyn's Castle, co. Pembroke [Lord Briene], who d. 17 Aug. I390,('') and was bur. in Tewkesbury Abbey. She d. 30 or 31 May 1359,0 ^^ Ashley, Hants, and was bur., with her 2nd husband, in Tewkesbury Abbey.(') IV. 1357. I. Sir Edward le Despenser, nephew and h., being s. and h. of Sir Edward le Despenser, of Buckland, Bucks, Edwardus fih'us Edwardi le Despenser fratris predicti Hugonis est heres cjusdem Hugonis propinquior et est etatis xij annorum et amplius [xiij aniiorum — co. Devon]." (Ch. Inq.p. m., Edw, III, file 105: Exch. Inq.p. m., Enrolments, nos. 66, 68, 69, 74). (^)"Hugo tercius . . . decessit 6° idus Februarii sub anno domini 1348. Sepultus est apud Theok' juxta summum altare in dextera parte . . . Iste fregit Scheltram apud bellum de Scluise in marl, quia potens erat in beilo." [Chron. of Tewkabury, f. 226v). (*>) Namely, of the castles and manors of Neath, Kenfig, Llanblethian, and Talafan, the country of Rhythyn, the manor of Radyr, is'c., co. Glamorgan, the manor of Tewkesbury, the castle and manor of Hanley with Malvern Chase, some 60 knights' fees, and 7 advowsons. The manors of Rotherfield, Sherston Magna, Ashley, Ship- ton-on-Cherwell, Burford, Stanford-in-the-Vale, and Martley, which she and her husband had held jointly at his death, were liberated to her by five writs de non intromittendo, 30 Apr. {Close Roll, 23 Edw. Ill, p. I, mm. 20, 12, 10). (<=) Close Roll, 24 Edw. Ill, p. i,m. 6. (<>) Ch. Inq. p. m. (on Guy de Briene chr.), Ric. II, file 62, no. 8. See Devereux. {^) " Elizabetha que fuit uxor Hugonis le Despenser." Writs of diem cl. ext. I and 2 June 33 Edw. in England and 20 in France. Inq., cos. Gloucester, Worcester, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Berks, Oxon, 12, 13, 13, 15, 18 June, i and 2 July 1359. "Et dicunt quod predicta Elizabetha obiit penultimo die Maii [prime die Junii — CO. Sussex'] proximo preterito Et dicunt quod Edwardus le Despenser filius Edwardi le Despenser fratris predicti Hugonis etatis xxij°™™ [viginti trium — cos. TVorcester, Gloucester] annorum et amplius est consanguineus et cjusdem Hugonis heres propinquior." In ten other inquisitions, concerning the lands which she had held in dower or otherwise of the inheritance of Giles de Badlesmere, her former husband, she is stated to have died, 20 May "apud Asshelee " (co. Bucks), 30 May (cos. Herts, Sussex, Oxon), 31 May (co. Kent, city of London), I June (cos. Sussex (2), Kent), or 20 June "ut inteligunt [sic] " (co. Suffolk). There is also a writ, probably issued in error, co. Somerset, with an Inq., return nil. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 145: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 14, no. 20, and Enrolments, nos. 1 19, 121). (') " Anno domini 1359 obiit domina Elizabetha le Despencer apud Assteley [mis- printed in Monasticon] in comitatu Hamptonie, filia quondam Willelmi de Monte acuto comitis Saru', ac uxor Gwidonis de Bryene militis, et relicta Hugonis iij le Despencer, ultimo die mensis Maii, hoc est in die sancte Petronille virginis, et sepulta jacet cum nobili viro suo primo [sic] marito in tumba satis preclara cum ymaginibus de marmore albo." {Chron. of Tewkesbury, f. 226v).