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JOAN WIDOW OF JOHN SON OF THOMAS BLANCHARD

532 Writ to assign dower. 22 Oct. 1400 [Gaunstede]. [CCR 1399–1402, p.220].

WILTSHIRE. Assignment of dower [indented]. 28 Nov. [Bernard]. In the presence of John Blanchard , son and heir of John and Joan, under age in the king’s ward, Nicholas Blanchard and William Heyder , attorneys and next friends of John son of John, and Walter Tylly now husband of Joan, who was granted custody of all the lands

Cutteridge: the hall and lower chamber to the south end of the same; the lower chamber east at the north end of the same hall; the east end of the kitchen, about half of the same house [i.e. kitchen ?]; the east grange on the south side of the mansion with granary under one roof, with a little stable there for two horses; a little room next to the stable; half the garden on the east side; 1 messuage with curtilage and half the dovecot called ‘Hugones’; 1 a. arable in the common field called ‘Hugonesacre’; 1 croft of arable called ‘Brodecroft’ in the common field; 1 a. arable called ‘Cokkecroft’; 1 a. arable called ‘Hugonescroft’; 1 parcel of arable called ‘Langebre…’; 1 a. meadow and 1 a. pasture called ‘Ecroftes’; 1 parcel of meadow called ‘la More’, and 1 parcel of meadow called meadow at ‘Strethende’; 1 a. meadow called ‘Cokkesmede’; 1 parcel of pasture called ‘Petresclose’; 1 parcel of pasture called ‘Southgroves’; 1 grove of wood and underwood; and rent and services from the lands which William Heyder holds at will. This is about a third part of the lands which John Blanchard her former husband held in his demesne as of fee. Also £8 17s.9d. of the farm of the manor of Barford St. Martin with the bailiwick of the forest called ‘la S…’ [torn off] in Grovely Wood which John Blanchard granted to Bernard Brocas and others, [a third part of] £26 13s.4d., the farm which John Blanchard had.

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