according to the need of her estate (exigenciam status sui); and further in case the said John die in her lifetime, all the aforesaid lands and tenements are to remain to the aforesaid Lettice for the term of her life by the rents and services which to them belong; in witness whereof the parties aforesaid to the parts of that indenture have put to their seals. Witnesses, Nicholas Wodhull, William Upton, John Madyngton, Robert Elisaundre and other. Dated at Duryngton, Friday, the feast of the Annunciation, 13 Richard II.

No. 20.

The presence of the above indenture in the collection may be taken as proof that by purchase or descent William Lyveden, or his son, acquired the interest in Whitecliff and elsewhere of the family of Warde, and handed on the whole to their successors in title.

The accompanying pedigree is a conjectural arrangement, in accordance with the suggestions made above, of the persons mentioned in the foregoing documents.

In the family antiquities of Gloucester and Somerset, and in a less degree, of Wilts, the influence of Bristol is always present. There the younger sons are apprenticed, and thence return, to invest the proceeds of trade in land. Thus we find, according to Collinson (vol. ii., pp. 296-7) Roger Lyveden, of Bristol, and Isabel, his wife (dowered 1450) buying the manor of Ashton Philips, in Long Ashton, between 1421 and 1425, which passed to their daughters and coheirs, Jane Wymbissh and Agnes Wythiford. Slightly earlier John Lyveden occurs as party to a fine whereby the manor of Claverham, with lands in Claverham and Yatton, was settled on Henry and Alice Vyell and the heirs of Alice. Perhaps, then, it was from Bristol that William Lyveden came to settle at Whiteclive, though our first notice of him was (No. 19) as outlawed in the county of Dorset. At Whiteclive at any rate he settled down. In 16 Richard II. he witnesses a charter (Tropenell Cart., ii., 116) dated at Hill Deverell, 4 March (1392-3)" these being witnesses, Stephen Bodenham, Roger Sturton, William Lyvedon, John Babyington, John Towke and other." Our last notice of him is as petty collector of a subsidy for his own hamlet.

Saty 3

WHITECLIFF.

22.

Receipt by John Megere, collector of the king's moneys, January, for a purparty of a fifteenth in the county of Wilts, the 1404-5. day of date, from William Lyveden, collector of the hamlet (villat') of Witclyve, of 6s. 8d. Weremynstre, Saturday, before the Epiphany, 6 Henry IV.

No. 21.

SALISBURY.

William Lyveden was presumably dead in 1432, when Robert Lyveden, doubtless his son, is described as of Brixton Deverill, in which parish of course Whitecliff was situate.

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23.

4 Nov. Grant by Agnes Langestoke, widow, of the town of Suth1432. ampton, daughter and heir of William Sexhampcote, late dyer" of the city of Salisbury, to Alice (Alesie) Wodeford, wife of Robert Lyveden, of Brygheston Deverell, co. Wilts, her cousin (cognate mee) and the heirs of Alice's body, of 4s. rent which William her father purchased of William de Bruyton, citizen of the said city, and of Agnes his wife, coming yearly from the tenement late of John Payvot which was formerly Roger atte Welle's, and which Simon Poye, mercer of the city aforesaid, now holds, situate in the city aforesaid in the high street (alto vico) called "Endelesestret," between the tenement late of the said John Payvot on the north and the tenement whieh was Roger le Plomer's on the south. Witnesses :-Walter Fetplace, mayor of Suthampton, Ralph Chaumberleyn and Robert Hevyngham, bailiffs, Robert Geffrey, steward of the same, John Estwell, William Nicoll, George Usk, and many other. Suthampton, 4 November, 11 Henry VI. Seal (apparently merchants' mark).

WHITECLIFF.

No. 22.

The feoffment which follows may have been to the use of Robert's will.

1440.

24.

Saturday, Grant by Robert Lyveden to John Janet and John Grene, 21 May, clerks, of all his land, &c., in Great (Magna) Whitclyf and Little (Parva); warranty by Robert and his heirs against all men. Witnesses, John Westebury, Roger Pyriton, Robert Bodenham, William Gyfforde, Thomas Goion, and other. Witclif aforesaid, Saturday the eve of the Holy Trinity, 18 Henry VI.

No. 23.

There are three mentions of Robert Lyveden, or Leveden, in vol. I. of the Tropenell Cartulary (pp. 237-8, 240) the two first in the will of Robert Warmwell, of Salisbury, who directs the sale by his executors of his tenement in "Scotteslane," of the said city, between the tenement of Robert Lyveden on the east and the tenement of Joan Shirley on the west, also the sale of 5s. rent arising from the said tenement of Robert Lyveden. The date of the will is 20 April, 1447. One of Warmwell's executors was John Wyly, who, 3 December, 1455, enfeoffs William Swayn, citizen of Salisbury, and Robert Sawser, "gentilman," of inter alia the tenement in "Scotterlane " between the tenement of Robert Leveden, &c., and the 5s. rent from the said tenement of Robert Leveden. On neither occasion is the tenement described as "late of Robert Lyveden "; but it is probable that Robert was dead in 1445 when John Lyveden, presumably his son, is found dealing (No. 25) with the property in Steeple Ashton, &c., and he was certainly dead in 1464 when John enfeoffs (No. 26) the rector of Kingston Deverell and another of two cottages in "Scotteslane."

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1444-5.

WEST ASHTON, RODSHAW, BRADFORD.

25.

18 March, Grant by John Lyveden to William Besyle, Walter Bayly, clerk, and Robert Symmys, of all his land, &c., in Westhaston, Rodeshawe and Bradeford; warranty by him and his heirs. Witnesses, Robert Hungerford, knight, John Sturton, knight, Richard Milbourne, Roger Piryton, Robert Bodenham, and many other. Brygh[t]eston Deverell, Thursday after St. Gregory the Pope, 23 Henry VI.

No. 24.

There are many references to John Lyveden in the pages of the Tropenell Cartulary"; in all cases, from 1453 to 1476, he is qualified as "esquire." There is in particular an interesting deposition by him of what happened on "Monday after the Nativity of Our Lady in the harvest" (Vol. ii., pp. 42—46), 1453. There is mention of his "signet" (p. 46), and (p. 81) of a deed certified under his seal. He mentions (p. 47) that Richard Page, of Warminster, was with him "at Brighston Deverell in myn owne hous."