Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

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There was another Joan however – John‘s sister. Not much is
known of her, she only appears in three records. The earliest is in
1300, when John de Columbariis knight, acknowledges he owes to
John Bluet and Joan his sister 200 marks 514 . Then in 1302 King
Edward I acknowledged he
has taken the homage of Joan Bluet for the lands that she
holds by reason of the lands that Roger le Bigod, Earl of
Norfolk and Marshal of England lately surrendered into
the king‘s hands 515
and a week later the King granted the knight‘s fees that Joan had from
the land back to Roger le Bigod rather than keeping them for himself 516 .
In 1327 Eleanor married Sir John de Peyton 517 who was probably
appointed warden of Braydon Forest on 18th September 1358, the
record reads kings yeoman granted "the stewardship with the horn" for
life 518
de Peyton‘s Inquisition Post Mortem 519 gives glimpses of the state of
514
Calendar of Close Rolls Edw I 1296 – 1302 dated Aug 24 1300 p405
515
Calendar of Close Rolls Edw I 1296 – 1302 dated July 17th 1302 p532
516
Calendar of Close Rolls Edw I 1296 – 1302 p543
517
Jackson, LE, in a letter to Kite, written from Leigh Delamare on March 7 th
1857 (WANHS library ref 16.267). He notes that the Peytons were Suffolk
people In Victoria County History Hampshire and the Isle of Wight it is
noted that “He was in all probability her third husband although he does not
seem to be called so specifically anywhere. The same John obtained licence to
have a chapel in his manor of Lackham which formerly belonged to the Bluets
and it is probable that he was holding it in the right of Eleanor"
518
Victoria County History Wiltshire IV p435
519
Stokes, E (1914) Abstracts of Wiltshire IPM returned into the Court of
Chancery in the reign of King Edward III, AD 1327-1377. Index Library Vol 48.
British Record Society.