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Which set up that these two main manors are to be held by John‘s sons
then the remainders to Margaret and her children.
In 1313 John Bluet is seen acting in concert with the porter of Lacock
Abbey, John de Menstreworth, in an action regarding land they held in Box
468
In 1315 John was appointed a Commissioner of oyer and terminer 469 along
with Henry de Scrop and John Daubernoun, to investigate
the persons who killed the late abbess at Romsey, on the
confines of the counties of Hants and Wilts 470
On 11 th May, 1315, Alice de Roffia and Margaret de Middleton, who were
nuns at Romsey, brought news to the King of the death of Abbess Alice.
They alleged that the late abbess had come to her end by foul means,
468
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 4 (1902), pp. 410-420. Deeds:
A.9301 - A.9400 URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64408
Acknowledgment by William de la Barre of Chippenham that he had received from
Sir John Bluet, lord of Lacham and John de Menstreworth, porter of the abbey of
Lacok, a moiety of all the lands, &c.as fully as they came by descent in pur party to
William de Pykewyke by the death of Walter de la Slade his uncle at La Slade in the
parish of La Boxe and elsewhere in the said parish, as appeared by their deed
(recited) whereby they granted to the said William de la Barre the lands, &c. they
had by the feoffment of George de Persy in La Slade in the said parish, to hold to
the said William, and Hawyse his wife, and the heirs of his body; with grant, for
himself and his heirs, that he held the said lands of the abbess and convent of
Lacok. Witnesses:—Sir John de Holt, Sir John de la Mare, Sir William de Cotes and
others (named). Lacok, Friday after Midsummer, 6 Edward II (Novemebr 1313)
469
http://37.1911encyclopedia.org/O/OY/OYER_AND_TERMINER.htm
OYER AND TERMINER, the Anglo-French name, meaning to hear and determine,
for one of the commissions by which a judge of assize sits …. By the commission of
oyer and terminer the commissioners (in practice the judges of assize, though
other persons are named with them in the commission) are commanded to make
diligent inquiry into all treasons, felonies and misdemeanours whatever committed
in the counties specified in the commission, and to hear and determine the same
according to law. The inquiry is by means of the grand jury; after the grand jury
has found the bills submitted to it, the commissioners proceed to hear and
determine by means of the petty jury.
470
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