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The Bluets 122 And, even closer to Lackham, Sheldon village was devastated by the plague and never recovered, becoming one of the many English villages that disappeared at this time. The vast numbers of deaths brought about by the Black Death is well documented. A very rough indication of the progress of the pandemic can be gained by looking at the number of tenants in chief reported dead over a year. These can be judged from the instructions to the escheators to take land into the king‘s hands, which happened when a tenant in chief died. (At this period the background number was around 30 per year (averaged over the years 1330-1345). The figures during the late 1340‘s were 537 1348 43 1349 378 1350 130 1351 53 Eleanor‘s Inquisition gives a useful idea of the holdings of the Wiltshire Bluets at this time; Eleanor had land in several counties. In Hampshire she held only Silchester 538 , no other land is recorded in the county. In 537 Compiled from data in writs in Calendar Fine Rolls vol 16 Edw III 1347 – 1356 It is noted that this only shows when a death was acted on, given the terrible conditions in the country it is likely that information from remote areas took longer than usual to be notified. The monthly figures, for what they are worth, were: 1348 1349 1350 1351 January 1 January 8 January 17 January 3 February 4 February 10 February 9 February 4 March 3 March 17 March 5 March 1 April 8 April 35 April 39 April 3 May 4 May 25 May 11 May 6 June 2 June 40 June 20 June 4 July 2 July 36 July 8 July 13 August 2 August 57 August 3 August 3 September 2 September 37 September 2 September October 7 October 48 October 10 October 5 November 7 November 48 November 5 November 6 December 1 December 17 December 1 December 5 538 Writ taken at Southampton Thursday after St Andrew (3rd December as the
The Bluets 123 Wiltshire the main holdings were the manors of Lackham and Hilmarton, but other land was held at Goatacre 539 , Beanacre 540 , Cherleswyck 541 and Notton. These were all inherited from her marriage to John Bluet, whereas other land was hers from her first husband, William de Briazanon (for example the lands held in Essex 542 – Le Lovetotes in Gt. Akering, Little Wakering, Littleshoebury, Shopelond, Leigh, Reighleigh, Gt Stanbrugge, Southchurch, Bemfleet and Stanford.) Not all of the land she held descended to her heirs as they were held in right of her first husband, William de Brianzon, for Eleanor‘s life after which they reverted to their owners. For example in Rochford the marsh of Landwick another marsh called Littleburghwerth 543 and the marshland in Gt. Stanbrugge La Pole 544 all reverted to the brother and heir of William the earl of Northampton on Eleanor‘s death and the Manor of Southfanbrugge likewise reverted to the Bishop of Ely. It is clear that Essex was a marshy county; Eleanor held other wetlands - a marsh called Bernemarsh and land called Gedybernelond William de Cusaunce had bestowed the hand of Eleanor [Bluet jnr] upon Edward (Edmund?) Baynard 545 of Dunnmow in Essex before 1348 546 . Actually it was considerably before; a 1334 record in the Badminton Estate archive 547 shows Edmund Baynard discussing lands and tenements that his feast of St Andrew is the last day of November, and this was a Monday in 1348) 539 Held from the manor of Hampstead Marshal, of the King 540 Writ taken at Hilmarton 1st December 22 Edw III (1349) 541 This is now Wick Farm, Lacock. 542 Writ taken at Reighleigh Saturday after the Epithany 22 Edw III (January 20th 1349) 543 daily inundated by the sea, held of the King 544 some 500 acres in all 545 Victoria County History Hampshire and the Isle of Wight vol 2 p53 546 The year of Eleanor senior‘s IPM, when Eleanor jnr is given as the wife of Edmund Baynard [Cal IPM vol IX Edw III (1916) no 104 pp91-93 Eleanor, late the wife of John Blue] 547 Duke of Beaufort Badminton Estate Archive DL700/NR11/1/6 dated 1334/5
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The Bluets 33 Margery in 1377 118 .
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