Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Bluets</strong> 121<br />
1348) from Essex 530 (taken at Rayleigh on 23 rd January 1249) and from<br />
Wiltshire 531 (taken at Hilmarton on 1<br />
st December 1248) Margaret is not<br />
an heir as she surely would have been were she alive.<br />
It is not known if Eleanor sen. died from the plague or not, it is very<br />
likely; from her Inquisition 532 it is known she died on 28<br />
th Oct 1348<br />
533<br />
and it is known that the Black Death killed many in Silchester in that<br />
year 534 .<br />
<strong>The</strong> Black Death…. struck the county [of Hampshire] in<br />
autumn 1348 and in less than two years killed probably<br />
half the population 535<br />
and Wiltshire suffered equally badly, for example in Calstone Wellington,<br />
near Oldbury,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Black Death ….hit this community badly and in 1348 the<br />
families of one third of the tenants and 40% of the cottars<br />
were wiped out. <strong>The</strong> water mills ceased, as there was no one<br />
to run them. 536<br />
530<br />
Cal IPM vol IX Edw III (1916) no 104 pp91-93 Eleanor, late the wife of John<br />
Bluet. Peter de Cusaunce son of Margaret daughter of the said Eleanor aged 19<br />
years on the feast of the Purification last (Feb 2nd) is one of her heirs in blood and<br />
Eleanor wife of Edmund Baynard daughter of the said Eleanor Bluet aged 30 years<br />
and more is co-heir with the said Peter and another heir in blood of the said<br />
Eleanor Bluet<br />
.<br />
531<br />
Peter de Cusuance son of William de Cusaunce and Margaret his wife, is heir<br />
to Lacham and the aforesaid parcels and also of a moiety of the tenements in<br />
Beanacre. Eleanor wife of Edmund Baynard daughter of the said John and<br />
Eleanor of full age is her heir of the other moiety of the tenements of Beanacre<br />
532<br />
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem <strong>Vol</strong> IX Edw III, pp 91-93<br />
533<br />
Tuesday the feast of Saints Simon and Jude 22 Edward III” This could either<br />
be 1348 or 1349; it has to be 1348 if the Feast of Ss Simon and Jude was on the<br />
Tuesday, also the dates for the county inquisitions give a late 1348 date.<br />
534<br />
Victoria County History Hampshire and the Isle of Wight vol 2 p53<br />
535<br />
James, TB (1999) <strong>The</strong> Black Death in Hampshire Hampshire Record Office<br />
536<br />
Wiltshire Community History – Calstone Wellington at<br />
http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=45