Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Busy day yesterday

Yesterday was my nine monthly visit to the Dentist and I have been experimenting with cleanings half way between but just starting with that idea. Teeth nice and clean for sure but still one small decay but my teeth are getting old. Perhaps a little disappointed in that though. I will get it repaired and keep trying to get perfect checkups (I do clean them three times a day!). But teeth cleaned again for another four and a half months and I will continue with that idea. My insurance covers cleanings every nine months so I pay for the one in between but I feel it is worth it. Plus there was discussion on my stained tooth and I may be going to a specialist that does root canals. Never had one actually but will not do that before next winter as a review at the next nine month checkup. It is gradually re-adsorbing and diminishing so time will tell on that. I virtually know nothing about teeth although could read about them on websites as pretty much everything is there!

It was basically my first time out since I got groceries. That is pretty much my only times out of the house for the most part in the winter which I actually rather like as I have all that time to work on the books.

Yesterday was also cleaning day for the basement and that was all accomplished as well. Today the larger cleaning day and soon to begin (after breakfast). Last time I did the cleaning straight through without taking any breaks - vacuuming, then dusting and then scrubbing. It took about two hours instead of four for each floor and I actually think I was less tired. Interesting really but I am used to running for thirty minutes or rowing for fifteen minutes so decided to try that out. I had thought taking the breaks might be better. Always good to test the limits. 

For me this day is always a bit sad but God in His kindness reminds me that He gathers all the little ones to His bosom and so the loss of our first child on the 4th of February although still painful in remembrance at least I know the baby is safe with God. The world is such a beautiful place and we are so very lucky to have our wonderful world. Today the look outside is one of beauty with all the new soft white snow glistening in the nightlight. I will also go out and shovel out the porch and patio at some point in the day but it is wonderful to see the fresh snowfall gradually building up the depth of snow hopefully to its usual 1 or 1.5 metres standing in the backyard. Then we can be sure of sufficient moisture for the spring and into early summer. 

Good news yesterday was the tariffs being put off for another month and gives us even more time to work on the border security. The Premier of Manitoba Scott Moe explained the process that was ongoing in Saskatchewan and the funding for that will be transferred to the military to increase that spending to get to 2% sooner. So all good news there. British Columbia is having good luck with diversification of trade (that was Premier David Eby telling us that which we really do need to do). Some of the other  Premiers as well including Premier Doug Ford here keeping us up to date on our preparations for the tariff here in Ontario. Also the Maritime Provinces and I really must learn all of their names. The Border Czar position is going to be set up as well the Prime Minister said (Justin Trudeau). 

I did put eyes on the new documents looking for the specific items I wanted to find in them and did. I will try to get to their transcription today. Yesterday did rather fly by but partly I had not slept well the night before; I hate going anywhere really and do not sleep well in anticipation I guess. 

So tea is prepared and I will do my Microsoft Solitaire. It will soon be renewal time and I will have to decide on whether to do that. I purchased my first new computer in 2013 and started doing the puzzles then and have never missed up until now but that doesn't mean that I have to keep doing them. I can go back to a deck of cards. If we are going to be as successful as possible in Canadian Trade then sacrifices must be made and that would be a big one for sure


Monday, February 3, 2025

Canada

Canada as a country needs to find new markets in particular within Canada as we have many barriers between our provinces (the President of the United States is on a buy American slogan (I understand that and we will do the same breaking down the barriers between our provinces)). Countries need to purchase their own products but it is also nice to have items we can not create or grow (hence our huge purchases from the United States and if one takes out the oil then the United States has a trade surplus with Canada). So that is what will be happening over the next little while. We will diversify our market. Europe is desperate for oil and gas and we could get our surplus there since President Trump has said that the United States doesn't need our oil and gas. We can rebuild our refineries so that we do not have to buy back refined gasoline to run our cars since it is basically our oil going south being refined and sent back. We have lots of oil; we just went into NAFTA/CUSMA because we are such great friends - the drawbacks were visible and they have come to pass. Our mercantile/small appliance industry has been whittled down and eliminated and it is time to rebuild it. Our youth is unemployed and more than willing to work. We need to get them out of the offices and building with their hands and create all that industry that was lost during NAFTA/CUSMA. The computer knowledge though is essential as it turns out, my carpenter/electrician/plumber brother (yes he did do all those trades! as did my other brothers but this one was younger and into computers early on) spent time on his computer creating the needed structure or whatever to do the job. All of these skills exist in this country and we need to put them to work re-creating our lost industries.

Now a lot was said about our becoming a 51st State - we are 13 provinces/territories and would never go into a union as a single state because our representation would not be sufficient (the United States went to war in the 1770s for representation!). We are all different with different products and styles of business. Becoming a Greater United States with 63 states would be quite a shock to their Congress for sure but it would be the only way that we could consider - call it the spirit of the Patriots demanding representation and many many Canadians are descendants of those Patriots including my daughters (5th generation Canadian and 5 to 6th generation American before that and some of the lines are even closer than that to the United States and most lines are from the United States going back to the 1600s). It was my husband's 2x great grandparents Isaac Kipp and Hannah (Mead) Kipp who came to Canada in 1800 seeking land as settlers with their four boys (one left behind with his namesake Mead grandfather (a Patriot) and probably he wanted to stay and he did come later after the grandfather died). 

Sep 11, 2001 will always be a reminder why it is better to have countries that are friends around you when crisis develops. The United States closed their air space; asked us to close ours and we certainly did over Ottawa so that planes could not attack the Embassy there. We kept ours open until the last planes headed to the United States had landed here in Canada. That was no mean feat as our airports were absolutely packed by the end of it all. Gander was re-opened and equally solidly packed. Gander is out in the wilderness on an Island (Newfoundland) and it was a long way by bus to the capital city where even the hotels were overwhelmed by so many visitors. But none the less the value of us being there and independent was enormous. Plus you stayed for ten days which was fine we were glad to be able to help you; we loved having you and knowing you were safe. 

We can take a lot of pain up here; we lived through the Great Depression in the 30s when our farmers were starving in the west. We have had smaller recessions when we tightened our belts and worked hard and Canada thrived. The First Nations have always been at our side because they are Canada too (they own huge swathes of this land). We are all Canadians. We went to war in 1914 to help England and France (our mother lands for many of us) and our losses for a population of less than 20,000,000 were huge - nearly 70,000 dead and probably as many as a million injured. We went to war in 1939 for the same reason unfortunately and more dead and injured but again we picked up and carried on and we will again.

But our Prime Minister talks for us and he is not a failed Prime Minister. He has stepped down because the will of the majority wanted to move on to a new leader. That is what we do; we follow the rule of the majority which can speak at any time. But until a new leader of the Liberal Party is elected he is Leader. He speaks for us just as his father spoke for us many times. He is experienced in governing. I may not always agree with him as I hate the way Liberals throw money around. But he is our Prime Minister and did an excellent job during COVID for sure. 

Fentanyl is a scourge and we have done an enormous amount and continue doing so because we have thousands of deaths here as well. We are doing and continue doing everything possible along our border on a province basis because they know their borders and have the people who are most familiar with those borders hard at work. We also prevent people from crossing into the United States illegally. As we tighten up our immigration from outside of Canada this will continue to be rare to never instance especially now as you would freeze to death in Canada trying to cross our border on the sly this time of year. Even here where I am in a city right now it is minus 8 degrees celsius (18 degrees Fareinheit) and it has come up a long way and is much colder along the border.



Sunday, February 2, 2025

I forgot the good news from yesterday

 Three more hostages released and thank God for them being alive. Hamas should all be rounded up and put into an underground prison for at least a year and a half with no daylight. They should be fed rations; they do not deserve that good treatment as we would not threaten their lives constantly. They are satanic people who do not deserve to live amongst normal people for sure. We still do not know the fate of those two little ones. Their father was released yesterday. What barbarism to take tiny infants hostage and keep them underground and if they have not survived then Hamas is responsible for their deaths. How disgusting. 183 Palestinians released so each hostage was worth 61 people - interesting.

The Church Service today was absolutely perfect. The hymns many of my favourites. It was like being back in the Church of my youth at a Mattins Service. Thank you to the priest for such a wonderful service. Interestingly the candlesticks on the altar all bore coats of arms probably given centuries ago by families of the village. 

It rather caught my eye as that was how one distinguished one's family in olden times. Both the Blake and the Pincombe/Pinkham family do have a coat of arms that was used (there are actually many for Blake) at least in the1400s. The Calne Blake family definitely used it and I found it quite interesting that in the Hampshire Visitations the coat of arms was penciled in and not printed. Descendants of that line did use it after they moved into the London area and there it was printed in the Visitations. Interesting really and does continue to make me wonder if I am correct in believing that any connection between the Blake family of Andover and that of the Blake family of Calne  was solely in the female line. That isn't to say the crest didn't still belong in the line as at marriage the crests were combined. So interesting and I am looking forward to working on those documents tomorrow. 

Yoga finished. My run finished and it is lunch time. 

The TV is all about the tariffs and what will happen next. I look forward to our finding new markets both inside the country and outside. We liked trading with our dear neighbours/relatives/friends in the United States but if that can't work out then we have to make changes. But especially I would like to see us once again produce our own shoes (there was a marvelous shoe factory in my home city and we built all sorts of home equipment which is all imported now from the United States). We always imported vegetables from the United States from the time of the end of the crop year until late spring the next year but we also store vegetables and they are good too. Actually the mineral and vitamin value increases in storage - something to think about! Alcohol - well I seldom drink anything so not really a big deal for me. Plus we have lots of domestic alcohol and we import from all around the world. But the LCBO is the largest importer of alcohol in the world apparently so I think that might be missed since we are not going to pay a tariff on something that medicinally speaking is not actually good for you (perhaps in very little quantities there is a medicinal value - my father used to partake of a small glass of cherry brandy most evenings). However that isn't enough to have alcohol qualify as of any value other than entertainment. I do miss our excellent shoe makers though and perhaps some people will take that up and recreate that industry here. There is nothing like a good pair of shoes. I still have the last pair that I bought for work in the 1990s  ($125 at the time which was expensive for sure) but good Canadian leather and leather soles. I did have them heeled again maybe fifteen years ago so they are like new and I bring them out sometimes. But they are a dress shoe and I generally wear a flat shoe around the house. That would be exciting to have shoes made here again. So I know this will be hard for people but if it can incentivize industries that we lost during NAFTA to reappear it is worth the strain!

Lunch and then some work. 


Newsletters published and it is minus 23 degrees celsius

 The newsletters are published for this  month and on the right day. Hopefully a pattern to be completed at the end of every month. Life is returning to normal. Today is Sunday and I shall go to Church and my email tells me that it is being celebrated at St Clement, Sandwich in the Diocese of Canterbury and the service today is for the Feast of Candlemas. The theme "Jesus is the light of the world and the light in the darkness" is an eternal one in the Christian faith. I miss actually being in Church but I am 79.5 now and if life can make it possible for me to just go to Church at home that does work well.

My thought on trade was lets go back to the way it was; no trade between Canada and the United States (if we want to buy something than we just cross over buy it and pay the duty required on the return). With our new border surveillance we should catch anything, even a rabbit trying to cross the border (and especially guns and fentanyl as we do not want either of them loose in our country (the guns need to be registered in our country we are strict about that and the fentanyl destroyed)). This way our youth can re-create the industries of the past that were in Canada before they were bought up and sold so that the competition could move their products in. This time no selling of companies to anyone outside the country. We can sell to each other we are thirteen provinces and territories. That way we will all be happy like we used to be. People can still pass back and forth through the border crossings and we can smile at each other and be the two hundred year plus friends that we have always been. Supporting each other when catastrophe strikes and praying for each other when tragedy occurs. That is what friends do.

Plus Europe is desperate for gas and we could sell them gas and oil. I think that is the way it used to be; people were desperate for particular items and so a country sold it to them. That probably works better.

I bought all the ingredients for my regular chicken stew and it will have onion, potatoes, carrot, turnip, brussell sprouts, frozen broccoli, frozen peas and frozen corn all grown in this country and frozen in this country if need be along with Canadian chicken. That way we do not have to worry about trade; we have it all here.  I will miss the fresh fruit, fresh vegetables (fresh cauliflower in chicken soup is wonderful) of all kinds that came up to us (great while it lasted) but our friendship with the United States will be strong as it has always been these last two hundred plus years.

Another day in the frozen wasteland but I shall be writing and today continues to be the Pincombe-Pinkham family (another shared family with our neighbour to the south as there are many many of each of us in both countries and in our native England (and South Africa and Australia)). This book could be quite intriguing. I may publish it widely because it has less theoretical ideas other than the possibility that the Pincombe family of North Molton is descendant of the Pencombe family of Herefordshire. Life is always exciting. 

The Blake family of Andover book continues along as well and I will return on Monday working on the ancient documents for the Blake family of Calne that I ordered and have received so quickly. The contents of them may be most revealing. 

Teatime. It is Groundhog Day and it is really cloudy so at least six more weeks of winter but in this area there is always six more weeks of winter at least one hopes so. We need the snow cover. Solitaire games to be played. That will be a challenge for me as I renew in the spring with Microsoft. Oh dear how did we ever get so entwined. Perhaps I should give it up until the new administration comes in four years! I can always play it with a deck of cards!

Saturday, February 1, 2025

H11 Newsletter in the final stages

It took longer than I thought to review all the data - 499 sets of results is a lot. However I have completed that task and the subclades are all ready to go. Instead of just having unknown for people who do not know their location prior to arrival in Australia, Canada or the United States (principal areas where H11 arrived during the immigration period), I have added in their destination country to the chart. In general most went to the United States because it had open immigration whereas the British Empire tended to have a more closed emigration system. 

I am just going to do a search to see if there is anything new on H11 and then will publish the newsletter. Today I need to complete the Kip-Kipp newsletter but it will only discuss yDNA because my knowledge of the Kipp family is very limited but I did help Edward with the yDNA study. 

Tariff day it appears and the first day of our recovery from our loss of industry here over the last fourty years with many many small industries being either bought out or they closed their doors as they could not compete. It is an opportunity with unemployment at around 6.7% but it is higher in this country because of paid maternity leave with women staying out of the workforce for up to two years and I believe they are included in that total (I can always be corrected). 

Europe needs gas and we have it. We need to get in there and help with that. Yes I worry about the problems with carbon pollution but we have greened everything as much as we can and our contribution is low. Chemically speaking we should be able to do this with the lowest pollution level possible. Alberta can produce it as can the Maritimes.  There is still a lot of winter left in Europe (as there is here; it is minus 18 degrees celsius this morning at 6:15 am).

What we need is to start to produce small machines like washing machines, dish washers, stoves and all that type of appliance once again here domestically. Our dollar is low so if we ever did produce enough we could export them but the domestic market would be large and of course no tariff. Then there is furniture and parts of Ontario were powerhouses for furniture production and we need to get back to that. Young people still living at home can think about the incentive money that will be available in Ontario to do startups. 

Farming too needs to have fresh input from adventurous people who love to work in the outdoors. I can remember my great uncle (Frank Pincombe) who simply loved being on the land and he farmed to his last day. His father (Richard Pincombe) had come to Canada as a young boy with his older siblings and younger sister. This family was on the land their entire lives which included my grandfather (John Routledge Pincombe) and the Pincombe farms were all close by in Middlesex County, Ontario. We do need to do this as quickly as we can get ourselves going whilst the competition is priced out. Then hopefully we can learn to love winter (I do actually; it is this wonderful time of solitaire and working) and not sell our creations and retire to Florida!

Then there is the military and we need to build that up and our equipment. We want to get that done to do our part in NATO but also because our military is our backbone of support when tragedy strikes whether it is the rivers overflowing and swamping the land and trapping the people or ice storms or fire. We need our military and we need it to be up to number. I like the GI bill in the United States; it was a marvelous idea on their part. We need to offer free education to our retired military as many of them are still quite young when they retire and probably could not have afforded advanced education but for their service we should give them free advanced education on retirement. I really that is a must in this modern day and age. I could also be that they want to set up a business if they have been working in construction or creation within the military as not everyone wants to sit at a computer all day long where there is an opportunity for creativity and development in so many different aspects of implements that we use every day. But of course I come from a trades family where construction was very important in the installations that were done by them.

Back to work, must get the newsletter out right away after my search and will drink my tea as I work. H11 newsletter on the website is complete and on the FT DNA website. 

Need to decide on how to do my exercise now that I am adding in the rowing but at 15 minutes rather than 5. I have to adjust my cardio load. This update to FitBit is rather interesting as I appear to quite often exceed my cardio load. Whether that is good or bad is hard to say but I am trying to stay close to the top of the suggested load for the day and not exceed by too much. I am after all 79.5 years of age. 

So the Kipp newsletter is next and I am contemplating it. Then I can return to the Pencombe book and continue my reading and thinking about what I have written thus far. On Monday I return to the Blake but it is also my large cleaning day so not a lot of accomplishment but perhaps good days to read the new documents that are in my box and ready to read. Thank you to those two archives for their speediness. I of course sent them exactly what I wanted and they complied with exactly what I asked for so not involving a lot of time just work to extract and scan it for me likely. Having been at Kew where in some cases you just get a box with the particular number that you are asking for in it but it is along with quite a bit of other information in the same lot number and it is likely that these repositories have the same conditions although gradually so much is getting on line and there is so much discussion with some of the documents that are online contributed by the archivist. Great work for sure.

Friday, January 31, 2025

Tariffs due tomorrow apparently

First and foremost we need to buy Canadian and I have started to read every label so that any new businesses that start up will get our support. The shock is that we have lost so many businesses through the years that have been bought up and closed. Is it possible that these industries could find a place in Canada once again - our textiles used to be so wonderful (we do have to import cottons since we do not grow cotton). We even had a fashion industry although Montreal still does. Perhaps it will be a boost to farming for the production of wool. We used to make wonderful woolen lengths of material. Then there is the oil and we could set up manufacturing to produce materials made from synthetics. We have become very reliant on the United States but that was the danger of NAFTA as people did say at the time.

I can see the pluses in this for Canada because we have allowed ourselves to become a country that sells mostly raw materials and imports finished goods. But when I was a child there were all kinds of industries in southwestern Ontario. They could come back and that would be great for sure. It would be good for our youth to learn the trades as not all of them really enjoy sitting in an office all day. Working with their hands is such a wonderful thing - my grandfather used to do so much carpentry although he was a blacksmith by trade working for the CN. But carpentry he also learned when he was young. But then I did grow up in a trades family where my father owned his own business.

In retrospect I can remember people warning against doing NAFTA - funny sort of that it has come to pass. But we are a resilient people and will find a way to create industry here once again. American car manufacturers will have to decide if they still want to have this customer base of 41 million people and they will have to build the cars here in Canada totally to escape these tariffs. I feel especially sorry for the Jewish people with their companies as this has been a wretched year for them. 

Sad about the fresh fruit coming up especially but we are getting into green houses and this is maybe an opportunity to experiment on what can be grown here through the winter. In the Leamington area and out in BC they do have good luck with greenhouses and the little tomatoes that I buy are from Quebec. 

It is really hard to turn the clock back to what was and I am not entirely sure anyone really wants to do that. We have enjoyed having our American cousins/friends/relatives as our best trading partner but now we must internalize and eliminate any barriers between the provinces. Success will be ours I am sure.

I do feel sorry for the States that have really ramped up their production of items like dairy and vegetables along the border that we share. This will be really hard for Wisconsin as their dairy products are all over western Canada and their dairy industry has increased tremendously during NAFTA. I am sure there are other states that will also be impinged very strongly by these tariffs. 

I remember when we built the Seaway and President Eisenhower declined to be part of that enterprise so we built it ourselves. I think that was something people used to say about NAFTA. One day they will pull the plug and we will be left with no industries. So time to create those home grown industries once again and this time we will not sell them hopefully. It was too tempting to sell them to American industries south of the border and go to Florida to live. I believe in Free Enterprise for sure but we do need to keep our people working and create the industries that have disappeared. We actually had a car industry here before I was born though as I do not remember that.

With our dollar so low now our exports are much more favourable around the world so we need to get to it. Get those oil refineries built and more pipelines to tidewater to sell the oil. Our heavy bitumen is a really good oil standard. We can do this for sure. 

But it is time for our youth to get off their phones and get involved with creating companies. They can do it and so many have gone into the trades and not university so the opportunities should be really great for them to do startups. I see that Premier Ford is promising incentive money and what better incentives than to create a business from scratch in your backyard! You can buy a proper business place when you are ready. 

We do have tremendous respect for our next door neighbour and best partner. I always say that Americans can do anything; they are very hard working people. We will always be a best friend to them I am sure of that. 

The other item we really have to get up to scratch is our military spending so we need to create lots of industry to afford that.


Assignment completed

 How incredibly sad the plane-helicopter accident was in Washington. It was on the news all day as they initially tried to rescue the people on the plane and helicopter but no one found alive. Prayers for the lost and for their grieving family members continuing. God be with them.

 I now have all of the new H11 results into my database and can write the newsletter today. Twenty five new people brings the group up to nearly 500 (499 members). It is amazing really and it is one of the oldest of the H haplogroups dated around 45,000 years ago for its emergence and principally a central-eastern European haplogroup although it is found present day in Scandinavia, western Europe and the British Isles as well as the emigrant countries - namely America (members of the project are American and Canadian) and Oceania (India, Australia and New Zealand also make up some of the members). The updated version of the mt DNA haplotree (Version 17) shows no changes for this haplogroup. The number of name holders though is likely in the million but in a world of billions that is not so many.

No tariff on oil would be a good idea for sure but I still think we need to build refineries and get our surplus oil to market at full price - huge benefits for Alberta and Canada in that and the Northern Pipeline was discussed in an affirmative way.  We would  have two pipelines to tidewater and our own refineries in abundance once again. As for the auto industry, in the nineties that was pretty much decided on in order for the American companies to be able to hold on to their market here (living in the past is a mistake). In reality these cars passing back and forth across the border is meaningless because they are not finished products and should not even be considered for tariff because no one actually knows where they will end up being sold - for instance my car is made in Canada (Dodge Caravan) but likely it spent time in the United States as well being built. Trying to destroy that cross border activity will only damage the industry here in Canada in terms of sales for those companies - do they want to lose a 41 million customer base. We bought a Toyota (made in Canada) during the last debacle over the car industry. Interesting that that period of tariff being commented on at the  moment in discussions ended with the Great Depression. And who emerged from the Great Depression - some very wealthy people and most of the others poor struggling to get ahead (no one wants to repeat the Great Depression)!

I spent an extra half hour in the grocery store yesterday reading all the labels so that I am ready if tariffs go on (regretfully I will give up all American products - I do love fresh fruit and vegetables and apparently my cookies are made there (bought some lovely cookies made in Quebec yesterday just in case)). Love my American neighbours (and many of them are my cousins) but upsetting the apple cart is not a good way to do business and will wreck havoc in the business world in both countries; it isn't fair to the American consumer either as their prices will go up (unless of course all the wealthy people plan on sharing their money with all Americans). 

I said at the beginning of the discussion on the 51st State that being one large continental area is a good thought in terms of preservation of the northern part of this hemisphere. A closer economic union would give us that. Merging our federal police forces so that there is a combined group to protect this part of the continent also a good idea. But we would be the equivalent of 13 new states and that would certainly have an enormous effect on Congress if there ever was a union; that is the only way that we would combine - as 13 new states. A territory without representation as suggested by at least one of the Republican Senators doesn't work and a single state does not give us sufficient representation in the Senate. We are after all a huge land mass full of all sorts of wealthy products and potential products that would be an enormous asset providing the First Nations were on board with that.  But I think the present status quo worked very well on the 11th of September 2001 and will always work well in the future for our caretaking of this continent. One can depend on Canada to be the best neighbour as we have always been during the last two hundred plus years now. Our friendship goes back a long way.

More hostages released in Gaza yesterday including the young woman who was not released as promised the last time. It really is time for all the hostages to be released now and immediately as demanded by the ICC over a year ago now. Hamas insults the world along with Hezbollah and the Houthis and there really isn't any place for them in the Middle East. They have been tethered and it is pretty much in God's hands what will happen to them; they do not deserve any better treatment than what was meted out to the Israeli (and other) hostages this past year and a half. Perhaps that is the answer to shove them all into underground prisons until they grow up and stop their bully tactics.

A busy day ahead working on the two newsletters. I definitely do not want to receive requests for money from my party (Conservative and I have been getting them much too regularly) when there isn't any sort of a plan to handle the upcoming year here in Canada in that request. Once bitten; twice shy! We do not  need a federal election until we see what happens with the Liberal Party (and I hate the way they throw money around without careful accounting) in March. I also disagreed with prorogation of parliament but the precedent was set by - guess who, the Conservative Party. So let us get to work, check where it is made and on with the show!

I still have to say that the "Gulf of America" is not a bad name considering it is surrounded by South America, Central America and North America (Mexico is part of North America). This is the American continent so a Gulf of America sounds great actually. No problem with that. Too bad no one has taken a poll calling people in all of these countries in the Western Hemisphere. Then there is the name Turtle Island which I admit is growing on me. I wonder what part of the Continent it refers to? Perhaps I will learn that. It refers to the continent of North America apparently so that is very interesting. It comes down as an ancient story in the culture of the First Nations. I do find all of this very intriguing.

 I was sorry to see Jamie Battiste drop out of the leadership race but he is young and there is plenty of time to do that in the future. He is a member of the First Nations.

I also received my two documents already which is very much appreciated. I shall set myself to the task of transcribing them out of the Latin which will take time but for the moment H11 calls and then the Kip-Kipp newsletters awaits me. My the days are so busy.



Thursday, January 30, 2025

Busy day yesterday

 I started right away with the H11 Newsletter and discovered there were 25 new people since last year. I must keep that up through the year now that the Siderfin Book is done. It did occupy me for a very long time (well just two years). The Blake and Pincombe books I have given them four years each so will make sure that I utilize all that time so as not to feel rushed. I need to go through each one of the new members and assign them to a sub-clade in my database. I try to locate them to a country and many have given me their furtherest back known ancestor and their birthplace which is great. I discovered another match to me whose ancient ancestress was from Scotland so that was pretty interesting. He is able to trace back quite a ways. For myself I know my maternal grandmother, I know of her mother and have estimated who she might be and a note on Ancestry from a member of the family of whom I believe she is descendant and he seemed to think I was correct. He has not tested his mtDNA though so do not have that visible proof. But I will keep the thought in mind and it was nice of him to write to me. 

I will continue with the H11 Newsletter today and also begin work on the Kip-Kipp Newsletter. I sort of know what I will be writing there. 

I received my first document that I ordered and the second is in process. I think both will be handy looking at the Calne Blake family (with a four year predicted time period I suspect I will be ordering more items as the thoughts come to me or I make discoveries). That is work for later this week. But I have a couple of other items that I am working on so not a rush. The Chapter on the le Blak family of Rouen, Normandy to Wargrave, Berkshire to Calne, Wiltshire has an entire  month for its review and addition/deletion. Although at this point in time I believe I will retain the chapter as it has a lot of useful information that I have collected through the years. 

 The H11 Newsletter will take most of today and part of tomorrow to complete I think but I am pleased at some of the new additions as they continue to point to my original premise that my line was in Scotland for a very long time moving to Northern Ireland during the time of the Commonwealth as Planters and then to England in the Lancashire/Shropshire/Warwickshire area in the mid to late 1700s. Other trees have shown me that there was also a trend for this mitochondrial haplogroup (H11a2a1) to move directly from the Argyllshire/Ayrshire area of Scotland down into Cumberland and then into the Warwickshire area. But that is just one very small part of the H11 haplogroup and this newsletter will look at the 54 sub-clade groups that have emerged in the study. A number of them are fairly localized in their deep ancestry so helpful to the members of the group. There are now 499 members in the group which is a good size for a small haplogroup but I believe that FT DNA has around 5000 tested as H11. I should check on that and will do so one of these days. Time moves very fast in my little world.

I just checked the news and there had been a dreadful collision of a plane and a helicopter over Washington DC. Prayers for the souls of all those who have died and the families of the victims. May God be with the families at this time.


Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Cleaning accomplished and this must be a newsletters day

I have slotted in today as a newsletter day and will try to keep to that. I do like to have a regular schedule for the newsletters and this time there are two due - H11 and Kip-Kipp. The H11 I only produce once a year at the moment although that could change this year we will see. The Kip-Kipp is published four times a year but is a new addition since my husband passed away and I decided I should publish what I find in his records that he hasn't published or hasn't published in a way that is more permanent. 

Yesterday I worked on my ancestry matches - I do try to keep them up to date but another three months has passed since my last update into my Ancestry atDNA database. I am looking at it these days and with all the new matches in the last couple of years it had grown enormously. I am contemplating cutting out the good matches (i.e. over 25 cM - remembering that they do use TIMBER on their matches) that occur across all four of us and might be handy. On the other hand; sometimes I am the only one matching (I am the outlier in the family) and their matches do exist but are small - so I need to think about that aspect as well since these matches have been interesting. But for this set I will continue down to 21 cM for each match in terms of selecting matches for the database. There are 26 new matches with seven being over 25 cM and I am just now seeing if there is more than one chromosome length in the match. There are often trees and I can see where we are related giving further proof of the strength of my tree without actually knowing where we are related. Because I have so many other matches in databases where the match is known I can visualize where we are likely matching but in essence it doesn't matter. Surprising really and Ancestry provides such an easy way to create your tree and correspond that it is useful without the actual data. That isn't to say though that having the data is actually something I would pay an enhanced membership to have for sure. 

I had one thought whilst I was cleaning away and that was we do appreciate having the United States as our first trading partner for everything. But selling more of our oil outside of that sphere would be an enormous benefit to us especially at full price since we give the United States a discount (and other products too); we could even go back to refining oil as we did before the refineries were bought out by Americans as I recall back years ago (that would be a better use of federal monies - helping to support such a venture). I continue to dislike the way that the Liberals tend to just throw money at it and hope that it sticks. It did not work well during the pandemic and cooler heads must prevail and ensure that the money is spent in a way that benefits the economy because that is what will suffer. Canadians are resilient and can make do with what we have stored to eat this winter and local produce. The symbiotic relationship between the United States and Canada has been strong through many years now and we both have prospered. What is the aim really to upset the apple cart? Our dollar trading low means that our exports are more affordable around the world and we will increase our trade in that way. But trading as we have been  in a north - south pattern has benefited so many of the states as well as us (but has created provincial barriers which restrict our trading between the provinces/territories). We have many businesses that are Jewish that tariffs will also hurt; our Jewish community is large especially in Quebec and Ontario which would be amongst the hardest hit by tariff. Do the ultra wealthy make money on this weakness that is created; is that the reason? Sad really as they make their money on the backs of the citizens of the countries wherein they operate whether they run a company or just sit on the stock market (and they are the biggest users of the facilities of any country because they can afford it (private airplanes amongst other things like the protection offered by the federal government)). They should have more respect for the people of the country where they are making their money. It is the regular person who will be most damaged by tariff because the profits of that venture will go into the treasury and support tax cuts which are huge for the ultra rich and minimal for the lower income earners. Just my thought on a busy day. Money is what Jesus said - evil in the wrong hands and should be used to help all people in a country in a reasonable way and not taken away by restrictive measures. Because companies always seek profit they do not want to lose the customer base that they have currently and going international always increases the customer base (unless harm is done to the base by tariff). But has money become an industry in itself with crypto - interesting.

So tea is finished, solitaire puzzles to play and then breakfast.


 

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Larger cleaning day today and newsletters to plan

Cleaning the two main floors is a lot of work but worthwhile. I never have to rush around cleaning because it is always done on either Monday or Tuesday every week. Boring perhaps but it is a time of thinking and the newsletters need a lot of thinking. The Kip-Kipp Newsletters seem to have a number of readers and I know my husband corresponded with many members of his family in the United States and Canada. It is just one of those things where the possibility of land drew settlers and they moved all over the continent. We had that sort of relationship here in this part of North America. The H11 also has a lot of readers but the members of this group are heavily Eastern European surprisingly although there is a lot of H11 all over the world but I would say my little group of 300 or so is primarily Eastern European at least in their mtDNA line. Many of them now live in the United States. I generally just publish the  H11 Newsletter once a year on the 1st of February these days. Four newsletters is a lot of newsletters. It didn't start out that way. Initially I started the Blake Newsletter in hopes of encouraging more Blake yDNA  testers to join the project at FT DNA. That was way back in 2011 I think, would have to check. At least I decided to do it in 2011. I also wanted to publish my transcriptions of the Parish Registers that I had done since I was enjoying all that material especially Upper Clatford where I am related to many of the people who lived there in the latter part of the 1800s into the 1900s. A beautiful village which we visited with my second cousin Ivan Kent back in 2008 on my second trip to England (my husband's first as he didn't want to fly over the ocean but finally decided to do that). My first trip was in London primarily although we did get a train ride to Gatcombe to catch our flight home. My oldest daughter came with me on this pilgrimage to Rome (I had been invited to attend the Consecration of  the Bishop of Europe for ECUSA (Episcopalian Church of the United States of America). He was on our Anglican Listserv and just threw the invitation out to the 400 members or so. I think there were ten or twelve of us staying at the Monastery near to the Vatican (we were the only ones from Canada, a number from the United States, some from Australia and the rest from the United Kingdom). Although at that point in time I had never been on an airplane to go anywhere, I said I am going and that was May 2001. Bought the tickets in July/August 2001 and it was for the third week in November that we would be gone. It was so exciting, we were in this small airplane flying to Philadelphia and this very kind American pointed out the various cities as we passed over them (it was nighttime and I just always like to know what is there and he also pointed out the Five Lakes in upper New York that looked like a hand and in my mind I saw us as in God's hand flying over those lakes). I think he was surprised to see us taking the trip and asked where we were going. That was of course just two months after 9/11. In Philadelphia there were soldiers in the airport and we were short for time to transfer to the transcontinental flight to Rome. But we made it and off we went. I actually slept over the ocean for a few hours but awoke to the sun and the beautiful sight of the Alps beneath with their snow caps as we crossed from France into Italy on our way to Rome. Being the kind of person I am we already had our train tickets (the airport is outside the city) and subway tickets to get to the Monastery. One of the priests at the monastery helped me with that which was most kind of him. When we arrived and we were coming down the passageway from the plane we were greeted by a line of Italian soldiers with guns placed neatly across their chest as they welcomed us to Italy (they thought we were all Americans). Apparently it had never occurred to me to cancel the flight which was barely one third full (my husband did try to get us to cancel). The train ride was uneventful and quick actually. When we arrived in Rome there was a strike on the subway so we took a taxi. We had spent four months learning Italian - that is a Canadian thing one just naturally assumes that you need to learn the language when you go to a country that doesn't speak English. My daughter (already fluent in French and a couple of other languages) quickly got us into the taxi, gave the address and we were off. The taxi driver quickly started to carry on a conversation and I could tell my daughter was saying "slower, I am just learning Italian" so he asked where we were from and we said Ottawa, Canada and he said oh my brother lives in Toronto all in Italian. I was getting bits and pieces but with the exuberance of youth my daughter was chatting back and forth all the way to the monastery as he pointed out the sights along the way. Memory memory. On our way home we were flying to Pittsburgh from London, England (we had flown a British flight to London from Rome and that was fabulous flying over Europe like that). As we stood in line to be cleared an American in uniform although I do not know what kind that was asked why we were flying on an American plane so I explained quickly (and I had taken a copy of our ticket purchase) that Air Canada didn't do two stops like that in those days or something like that; I cannot remember and so we had flown American Airlines. I was in my late fifties then and he just sort of looked at us and said enjoy the flight. And we did; it was lovely flying this time the northern route and so quickly we saw Newfoundland below us as we headed towards Pittsburgh to catch our flight back to Ottawa. It was a marvelous trip and having a pilgrimage to Rome when I was still young enough to walk every where (I may still be actually) and see everything was absolutely stupendous. I did try to persuade my husband to go but he was not flying across the ocean - a boat was fine. I ponder that now in retrospect. For myself I was sort of used to people flying I guess but Edward's many American colonial lines had come to America in the 1600s from Germany, from The Netherlands, from France and dissenters from England all to the American colonies. Most of the descendants are still there although Isaac Kipp in October of 1800 arrived in southwestern Ontario to take up land that had been advertised - we have his actual application where he applied for land as a settler. You had to pay a fee which he did and he settled with his wife and four of their five children. One son, Jonathon named after his grandfather Jonathon Mead (the Cooper III of Northeast Town, Dutchess County) remained with his grandfather as you could tell by the census his older sons had moved on into the west and only a couple of daughters remained. He came later to the Oxford/Brant County area when his grandfather had passed away. He was maybe eight years old. Interesting really how interconnected the peoples of North America are. There is a deep sense of brotherhood amongst these related people I noticed when Edward got me to read some of the letters. At this time there was no thought in my mind of doing genealogy; none at all. Amazing what three years can do!

Well must get some work done. Perish the thought that I might have to garden in the summer and freeze food for the winter. I hate gardening but time will tell. I watched the Premier of Manitoba on the TV yesterday whilst he explained how the border was being maintained between Manitoba and North Dakota/Minnesota. Along with the normal border patrol the Conservation Officers will also do double duty ensuring that nothing crosses the border that they do not know about. Premier Wab Kinew is a very effective speaker and manager of Manitoba. He has really good ideas as we are getting to know him over this past period that he has been Premier. It is wonderful having people to manage who know the land and the peoples really well with his deep ancestral heritage as one of the First Nations. Too many times people have frozen to death crossing from the United States into Canada so that prevents that happening as well.

Monday, January 27, 2025

Cleaning day and two newsletters to plan

This is basement cleaning day and I have two newsletters to plan for the 1st of February. Is it even possible that the 1st of February is arriving. One month into 2025 already.

The first is for H11 Newsletter and we have a new Version of the mtDNA tree - Version 17 to review. However, there are virtually no changes in H11. It is an ancient mtDNA grouping stretching back to the Ukraina Ice Refuge during the Last Glacial Maximum when Homo sapiens retreated from the advancing ice sheets to relative safety in a number of Ice Refuges. My line of H11a2a2 appears to have advanced early on out of the Ice Refuge towards Doggerland and into what is now the Argyllshire/Ayrshire area of Scotland. Our closest relatives (with the 16265G mutation) are the larger part of this mtDNA haplogroup subclade. Primarily this particular subclade is located in the British Isles with the larger group having crossed through Europe with groups staying in various locations all over Europe actually and then some groups moving on to England, Scotland and Ireland as both sets of data can be found in the Blood of the Isles Database. This newsletter will be the yearly roundup of numbers in particular subclades that I have prepared from the accumulated members of the group. But in reality this grouping represents only about 10% of FT DNAs database of H11. Is it a good cross section? I have no idea actually but they will be coming out with a similar charting of all their members I believe. 

The second is for the Kip-Kipp Newsletter and this time I really must look at the data and see what I can come up with in regards to the deep ancestry of this line. The distinct signal of this family that settled in New Amsterdam in the late 1630s is remarkable in that there are few close matches to them - they generally stand out very well in the results as being descendant of this Kip family of New Amsterdam headed up by Hendrick Hendricksen Kip whose demographic information from Amsterdam appears to be quite complete pointing out his likely birth area in The Netherlands. At the time he was born, it is likely that the area was part of this country at that time as it is to this present day. But it is a sort of bulge in the map into Germany and I have written about that history in an earlier newsletter. All newsletters are available on the website of this project. 

Other than that I am working away on various projects as time passes quickly and I would like to keep to my schedule. There is still the thesis being scanned. My grandparents and great grandparents DNA being phased on the basis of five siblings/grandchildren/great grandchildren results in DNA over several testing companies with at least four at each of them. The number of matches is large and I am slowly getting them entered into my database. One new Buller result with a known third cousin has proven to be very interesting and helpful as I was missing information on that line to a certain extent. In reality between the five of us we all received some DNA on every chromosome from each of the four grandparents - there are no gaps which is amazing really. That has allowed me to go back to the great grandparents although that is pretty experimental at this time. But I do have quite a few third cousins which I find very helpful. In that I do not have any first cousins and very few second cousins (so many have tested), having the third cousins has worked extremely well for me especially as the five of us have inherited differently in many cases and the difference between the two that match the least - my second oldest brother and myself being the outliers is quite large actually for a full sibling. It is those differences that make it easier to do the phasing. 

I must get back to the building powerpoint presentation for Orleans United Church as I had moved away from working on that - time escaped me. But their 50th anniversary does not occur until 2028 I think - would have to look that up but Edward would have liked me to do it and offer it to them as he loved being part of that building process. They actually went in and did some of the work building including my older daughter. She was up on the roof helping to shingle when she was just thirteen years of age. She used to manage the sound room at the 11 o'clock service in her later teens until life at university became too busy. But I was a little shocked to see my baby up on the roof for sure but I never said anything as she wanted to do that. 

Well the morning is moving quickly and so must I. Yoga and then breakfast, tea finished.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Continuing Pencombe but mostly a rest day for the eyes

 Sunday and I signed up for an email to come and let me know where the Anglican Church is today and it is at St John the Evangelist Woodley in Oxford Diocese. I will join the service presently. This is the Third Sunday of Epiphany and we are approaching Ash Wednesday and Lent. But the joy of Christmas is still with us as we welcomed the Christ Child into our midst once again as an infant; He is always with us in our everyday life. 

Continued reading the Pencombe book yesterday that I have already written and a few changes here and there. It will be less difficult than the Blake book as it is a much smaller surname in terms of name holders. 

We also got snow; wonderful fluffy snow which means the temperature has gone up finally and we will likely receive another 10 to 15 cm apparently which is good news. We do need that snow cover to grow to a metre high to protect the land beneath it especially from the cold. But also we need the huge amount of melting water in the spring to wet the ground and slow down the forest fires for sure. Fires burn naturally in the forest and until the days of the green revolution we did let them burn if they were not threatening homes. The burning is good for the forests because some seeds only germinate in high heat and it clears away the brush which is useless for the most part as it doesn't even make good pulp. Pulp is something we produce in great quantities because we have lots of wood that is not fit to use for building but certainly fit to make pulp. But we have become once again a country that produces a lot of raw materials but because so many of our businesses have been bought out by American companies especially our manufacturing just isn't there anymore. The unfortunate part was they just wanted to close them down to sell their own products but they did discover that Canadians want it produced here and so there are a lot of American branch factories/businesses in Canada so that they do not lose 41 million customers. We are kind to those American  businesses and one does hope (but it is unlikely) that that counted as well in our trade between countries. It is the oil that creates the deficit because we send a lot of it south but with our pipeline to the ocean now we can sell the surplus not shipped to our American neighbours anywhere and the First Nations are starting to talk about the Northern Pipeline that has been stalled. Two pipelines to the Ocean would be wonderful and we would sell so much oil as ours is high in bitumen which isn't found everywhere. Plus we would get full price as we give our wonderful friends and neighbours in the United States a discount on that oil. 

Anyway a rest day as God commanded and we all should take a breather and think of God on this day. Again I am not very knowledgeable on the other religions of the world although I do know that Judaism, Islam and Christianity all worship the same God although on different days. This is the Christian day of Worship of our God. God bless the world.

Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Pencombe, Pincombe, Pinkham family begins again

 But first, four more hostages finally released and they are soldiers (all women). I think to myself why does it take so long to do this; they should just be released. When they are all released then Hamas and the other satanic groups supported by Iran should get out of Gaza and let these people create a society that respects their neighbour and creates a country that can produce for her people. 

Yesterday I read more of the book that I wrote last year. A few corrections here and there and this book is easier than the Blake. For one thing, it is a less frequently occurring name in the British Isles namely it is found in the Devon area although they have moved out into the London area and elsewhere. My own line left at Plymouth on the 20th November 1850 and arrived at the Port of New York on the 7th September 1851. From there they traveled to Genessee New York to spend the remaining winter months with the older brother Robert Pincomb as this was the second brother John Pincomb and his wife Elizabeth (Rew) Pincomb and their five children, John 14, William 12, Elizabeth 11, Richard 8 and Louisa 6. I always remember this information because it was my first search on Ancestry when I was taking my 42 courses in total at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies and one of our practices was to look up on an emigration database and see if we could find our emigrant ancestor. Ancestry was right at hand and I did that and discovered my John, Elizabeth etc were in that database on their website. I went to the signup immediately and they had this two week free period which I bypassed and simply paid for it on the spot. I wanted that document so very much and was immediately rewarded with the document. It was a great evening as I recall having that document looking at me from more than 150 years earlier. At that point I knew they had come; I did not know the date for sure (it was an estimate by my mother) nor did I know their port of entry (no one seemed to know that). I did not know that Robert was already in the United States with  his family (nor did I know any of his siblings at that point); all of this I would learn especially during my course work as I used my families (I reread my mother's letters to me over a 25 year period and reviewed the 50th Anniversary Book Edward edited for my parents (he did make me look up all the baptism, marriage, burials for the many English relatives that I have (three grandparents and my father born in England)) as my examples at all times. I had so many times that I already knew because my mother and paternal grandfather were both excited to share what they knew about their families (once I thought about my grandfather and read my mother's letters). Was everything correct that they told me? All except for my grandfather talking about his wife. He was hiding it from me that her mother had had an illegitimate birth because there were another four births to this mother but she married after my grandmother was born (which I discovered in the records). Other than that everything he told me has proven to be true. Interesting really; lucky that my eyes caused me to memorize absolutely everything when I was young because it gave my brain so much room to store up all the important things in life. Lots of it was way in the back of my memory for years and years but probing into the records revitalized that little strip of memory. I also had this block in memory after the knife attack for quite a while but my personal thoughts at the time were to take a job with the RCMP criminology division when I finished my degree in Chemistry. Edward wanted to get married and work on his PhD in London. Mentally speaking the better decision would probably have been to go work for the RCMP and solve why someone attacked me with a knife although that was not my intent my intent was that it should not happen to anyone but emotionally I chose London. Edward certainly facilitated my hiding from reality for a while until life moved on and I continued to just meander through life but I did acquire purposes which served well as I helped at my childrens' schools, did community work but I was a long way from where the incident had occurred and did try to feel hidden although it did become difficult once we attended Edward's church and I was volunteered to be a volunteer secretary. Now I do not care; I have not cared that anyone would know where I was for quite a while now and mentally speaking that has been good for me. Not long after my second daughter was born someone called on my phone and said they were going to kill me - I responded "go ahead" and hung up. I did surprise myself back in the early 1980s after that and continued to walk to school to help in my children's classes and did not even think about it. Amazing really. Probably that happens to most people who are attacked like that but it just took a very long time for me - maybe eighteen years or so!

I think that is part of what is driving President Trump to be honest. He was attacked, actually shot in the ear. His response was to rise up immediately and fight again and he continues and he is approaching 80. He does very well. He is going to do what he considers is best for the United States. We have to do what is needed to make ourselves the most compatible neighbour and friend in history. Premier Danielle Smith is right about that for sure. Lets get it done; get up to 5% GDP for the military; fix the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so that it is compatible with our being in the Five Eyes and become the absolute best friend in all ways for our neighbours to the south. Eliminate the border and only permit people to come into the airports or ocean ports and no one is accepted who isn't accepted by both governments. No more asylum seekers in the country until they are approved. Do we need to become a State to do that? That is the question of the moment perhaps - certainly the Republicans (some of them) are not keen unless we are a Territory - I have no idea what that means but I think it would be no representation. But I think we could  do the job that he wants done if we just set our minds to it and do it as my mind goes back to that tragic day 11th September 2001. I was sitting at my desk in the lab at the hospital and we were on emergency footing all day waiting to see if the Americans needed us to help; not one helicopter came from New York that day. There was no one for us to save, all we could do was watch as the Twin Towers fell and the streets of Manhattan were filled with thick smoke and debris. The Americans closed their air space but there were still thousands of Americans on their way home and so we kept our air space open until the last plane was landed. I believe planes also landed in Mexico, Central America and South America.

Must get some work done on the Pencombe book.


Friday, January 24, 2025

The reality is

 The reality is that we prefer to trade with the United States; we prefer to help our American neighbours when they need our help. We have a lot of natural resources and for various reasons the Americans decided to buy them (they are close after all and easy to obtain with a minimum of preparation - they do not have to strip their beautiful natural parks in order to have lumber; we have it in great surplus and the same with oil and lots of other items that we sell). It has been a symbiotic relationship for a long time. I do try to buy Canadian or American at all times for the most part but it is not always easy. Through the years we have never stopped the sale of companies in Canada to American companies (which is  the biggest problem here; as soon as a company becomes marketable and an excellent investment they get bought up and I believe in free enterprise; you cannot force people to stay in business when they have an offer they do not want to refuse!) although PM Harper did step in a few times to halt sales but generally to countries outside of North America as I recall vaguely much to his credit. Or we would provide incentives to the Canadian Company to keep them Canadian but that doesn't always work. For sure, our greatest problem is being able to create many industries but the desire to maintain them diminishes as the profits grow and people would rather just retire to Florida (it is cold here although I enjoy winter)! But if we merge ever closer economically as Premier Doug Ford has suggested so that the border effectively disappears then I think we would be a powerful union north of Mexico working together to manage the continent but maintaining our own governments because they are slightly different (we are still a Democratic Monarchy with King Charles III as our Head of State represented by our Governor General on a regular day to day basis). Since the United States and the UK are also strong allies I do not see that as a problem; we are more of a problem because of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms which I actually was never in favour of and continue in that state; it needs revision to protect us. We need to be more in line with the United States as to how we deal with terrorism so that we are once again part of the Five Eyes.

But it was a wake up call for me Oct 7 2023 when supposedly Palestinian Canadians decided that they could cheer on our streets as they marched up and down when Hamas attacked Israel. I think they should have all been kicked out of  Canada personally or at least charged with a hate crime (it is after all the law) - that was so disgusting. But it uncovered something else; within our institutions our children were being taught lies about the Palestinians and in their error tried to support them. There was no constructive reasoning at all; they simply were fed a bunch of lies and they accepted them without review or research. Any teacher teaching such information should have been fired. It was a dreadful happening of which I hope we never see a repeat. These types of things always bring back to my mind the images of the Concentration Camps on the Newsreels at the shows when I was a child just at the end of the war and into the early 1950s. Although it still stuns me as I recall them in my mind, I now think it was not such a bad thing to let children be aware of the dreadful things that were and are done in this world. It made me defensive of people's right to exist and be left alone. Which has resulted in my many posts supporting Israel and Ukraine through these past couple of years. One thing I know for sure President Trump will always protect Israel. 

But I agree with Premier Danielle Smith; it is a wait and see time. We need to listen more and not react so quickly. I was glad to hear Minister Blair say that we would be up to 2% GDP for our military in two years; I would love to hear that it would be sooner but it does take time I do realize that. 

Back to writing my books.


Continued with Blake yesterday

 I did continue with Blake yesterday and did not hear back yet from the other repository where I requested a document but they are busy places. I find them to be most helpful. 

No new thoughts on Richard le Blak found at Wargrave other than he is simply not there in records that I have looked up at the Berkshire Archives. Possibly he was there just a short time fortunately when the Pipe Rolls were taken. Since Windsor is close to Wargrave it might explain that as a Norman coming to England might for reasons of placement gravitate to this area first. I suspect he arrived along the coast and then gradually moved inward trying to decide where to settle. Choosing Wiltshire is perhaps not a surprise although I think some of his family is found in Hampshire in the areas around Andover. I am still in the mode of proving that. Not sure if I will ever have more than family lore to go on but I think that the two charts that have been produced are very interesting. Obviously this was of interest in the latter part of the 1600s  although the family that contracted to have the Blake Pedigree Chart produced by the College of Arms no longer carried the Blake surname and had been gone from the Andover area for several generations. Thomas Blake (ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales), does not in his will mention any family in London and he lived at Finkley near Andover. It is my understanding that one considers first cousins to be close family but second cousin and beyond is not quite so close (that would appear to be the British way). The Blake Family Chart held by the Blake Museum in Bridgwater was, I think, created by Edward Blake of Crewkerne but I have no proof of that but certainly he was interested in linking the Somerset family to the Blake family at Calne and probably chanced upon the Blake Pedigree at the College of Arms and noted the lovely little circle which had a John Blake as the ancestor of Robert, Lord High Admiral during the Commonwealth Period. Again there are a few problems with that section of the Blake Pedigree. The Blake Family Chart is in general a genealogical chart of the Somerset Blake family with two inserts - one the line back to Calne and two the line from the Andover Blake family back to the Calne Blake family. Neither of which really has what I would call solid proof but records of family events like marriages, births, deaths were maintained very locally and thus more difficult to prove in that early time period. 

I also started to read the Pencombe book that I am writing and today will be a Pencombe day although I have a couple of projects for Blake that I will also continue through today and tomorrow. 

Lots of excitement here in Canada with the Liberal Party now replacing PM Justin Trudeau as the leader and there are seven so should be interesting and I was happy to see Jaime Battiste enter into the leadership race. He is First Nations and I am really happy to see so many First Nations coming forward to lead our country. They bring with them the thousands of years of history that belong to this area of North America called Canada or Turtle Island (it is growing on me). 

President Trump attended the Davos Economic Forum remotely and is still not happy with Canada. That is sad actually as I do believe we are the best friend of the United States of America (as well so many Canadians are related to Americans). Although I think the idea of the 13 provinces/territories becoming 13 new states is an interesting idea; it does appear to be less interesting to the Republican party in power at the moment (I do not believe the Democratic Party or the Independents have commented on the idea). It would certainly have a huge effect on their Congress bringing in 41 million people in thirteen states and all the resultant new senators and members of the house. Together though we will protect, maintain and defend this continent (and whomever forms the next government really does need to get their act together and supply the military appropriately, enrich the value of a term of service in the military and provide free education when they retire as they are often still quite young). I still think the idea of a closer economic union between Canada and the United States is an excellent idea put forward by Premier Doug Ford of Ontario (Ontario being my province) and I would humbly suggest that our federal policing forces become more merged so that it is easier to maintain this very very large continent north of Mexico. Then we would have only water borders and intake only at the airports or oceanports and all individuals wanting to come would have to be approved by both countries. I do like that idea personally and think there is a great opportunity to really, the two countries, be a major powerhouse of economic activity. We have an enormous amount of natural resources and we ship 75% of these natural resources to the United States of everything we send to them. It is the oil that causes us to have a deficit otherwise the deficit would be the other way around as we purchase enormous amounts of food, finished products from the United States or from American companies that operate in Canada. We did have a number of automobile manufacturers long ago bought up by American companies which is one of the many reasons that cars continue to be produced right here in Canada and we buy them in great numbers. But I am avoiding politics at the moment as it reduces my thinking time for the books and that is my first priority as I move towards 79.5 years of age. I like the name "Gulf of America" actually; it suits that body of water as the whole continent is composed of North, Central and South America surrounding it. A nice legacy item for President Trump for sure. 

Breakfast time, tea drank and yoga next.


Thursday, January 23, 2025

First ordered document in process

I already heard back from South West Heritage Trust and the first document is ordered with predicted delivery date 10 to 12 weeks. That sort of blows my one month estimate out of the water  but not a problem I will just adjust that thought. I am going to go into the chapter today and work on it with the thought in mind that I did not put quite enough in when I wrote last year (hard to believe it is an entire year since I started the book as I waited for my cataract surgery). I did start reading the Pincombe book yesterday and tomorrow and Saturday will be Pincombe days. 

This first document now ordered may or may not reveal information on Robert Blake, his widow Joan and his son John. We will see. Following the money though does tend to work well. This was property being adjusted because of Joan's widowhood one might think or a son coming of age. With that in mind I shall wait patiently for the document as they mentioned they are very busy. At approaching 80 (I will soon be at 79.5 years), God has seen fit to let me stay on this earth for all this time so I do hope I am spending it in a worthwhile way. That has always been my purpose to make everyday a worthwhile day. To learn something new, to take care of my children when they were small and to just be here in case I am ever needed. Watching the young woman held hostage in Gaza collapse into her mother's arm and just sob makes every one aware that her children may always need her but raising them as God-fearing, God-loving people one knows that they will always sense my presence in their lives and they will draw on that as the years unfold. 

So it is breakfast time and I have already had my tea and first yoga and then make my breakfast. The same every day, cooked oatmeal with cranberries and raisins and milk as the liquid then add blueberries, wheat germ and wheat bran when it is finished cooking. The same kind of oats every day. I love that repetition as it means I do not have to think about what I will eat for breakfast. I am not a foodie for sure. Now that my daughter's Christmas visit is past I will slowly lose those few pounds I gained. 

Yesterday I changed up my exercise routine somewhat. I am back to running in the morning just before lunch and then in the afternoon I did a weightlifting routine that is on a CD that I have. Must look at the name of the producer as I have several of them but the weightlifting routine is really excellent and I was finding that my routine that I made up was not as adequate as it once was. I simply wasn't fatiguing the muscles and one needs to fatigue the muscle to keep them sturdy in one's old age. 

I will likely continue bouncing my thoughts off the blog as the day passes whilst I update this chapter on the le Blak family of Berkshire/Wiltshire. It just seems like a reasonable passage for Richard le Blak to be in Wargrave in the early 1300s and then gradually move towards Calne over the next few years or he could already in the late 1200s and early 1300s be on the move. The records will show me perhaps as I reread them. Being a Norman, his patent shows he was of Rouen, Normandy, it would just seem a logical path for him to take with his family. Who did he marry? I have no idea but he did have a daughter Alicia as mentioned in the Pipe Roll and likely the John also at Wargrave was his son. Hamo Blake and his son Walter at Waltham St Lawrence are very close by. Interesting really and does remind me so much of sitting and listening to my grandfather as he talked about the Blake family of Andover (although he himself was born at Upper Clatford it was his 2x great grandfather Joseph Blake who was of Andover and married Joanna King at Upper Clatford and moved there). Interestingly in the will of the father of Joanna he only mentioned his son in law Joseph Blake as taking over his farm and assets. I suspect that Joseph and Joanna were second cousins on their mother's side. 

At first I was skeptical of family lore and I still retain that skepticism but I think one has to view it from the viewpoint of the context. What was most important to my grandfather was fixing Nicholas as what was written about Nicholas Blake in many family books of that time interval towards the end of the 1800s was incorrect and that meant a lot to him. He really did not have a strong interest in the idea that they were related to the Calne Blake family he simply relayed all of these family lore stories that had been told to him as a child. I think  his interest in being a descendant of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel ranked considerably higher in his telling and in his mind. There was also the continuing theme as he grew up that his Blake family had been in the Andover area for ever which reminded me in my old age that that is exactly what the members of the First Nations say about their families. It is what you say when your history is deep in the land going back so far in the past you can not locate the beginning. For me I know exactly where my ancestral family was born back well into the 1500s for  most lines - for a couple less so but definitely/most likely (one must add that as I have Huguenot ancestry from the late 1400s) they were in the British Isles and mostly England. But given the publication of the Blake Pedigree Chart and the Blake Family Chart roughly two hundred years apart and continuing with the theme that the Andover Blake family was related to the Calne Blake family is certainly interesting and more than worthy of investigation. For myself, that investigating is occurring far from the record base and I will purchase documents that I feel are pertinent but I do realize that in the future others may contest what I have written and hopefully correct it if I am wrong. I appreciate their efforts and thank them for that work on their part (this work will be available freely to academics). This will become interesting because of Diana, Princess of Wales as she is absolutely descendant of the Calne Blake Family but I believe also descendant of the Andover Blake family (by the charts that exist this is a truth but based on a supposition that is not correct, the two charts both differ on the exact link between these two families). But I will propose a link that I believe can stand up to the records; time will tell. But the next King of England, the oldest son of Charles is next in line, carries the DNA from his mother that reaches far back into the past definitely coming down from the Calne Blake family on the maternal side and I believe likely from the Andover Blake family also on the maternal side. The Calne Blake family of Norman/Frankish origin and the Andover Blake family Western Hunter Gatherer but both on the female side intermittently mixed with male descent and hence neither the yDNA nor the mtDNA are of any value but overall the ancient DNA we carry, all of us, have markers that take us back to those interesting individuals who followed the herds of wild animals and ended up in Northern Europe and the British Isles. Fascinating really. One would have to have known my grandfather to know that there was something about him that made him so very English but his death certificate describes him as Canadian. He died in 1953. He actually had very little accent (I do find people in Hampshire do not have a strong accent) and blended into the world around him because the part of Canada in which I grew up was very "English" English as I say! But the priest who taught them gave them a well rounded education in English, French, Latin and lots of mathematics and science. He was fascinating to talk to and I missed him terribly when he died in 1953 and I was just 8 years of age. 

 Back to the le Blak Chapter. As I am looking at the work I have done thus far I suddenly feel this twinge of conscience that makes me wonder if I had sufficiently looked at the French records (and more have come up on both Ancestry and My Heritage) in this time frame and I think I will spend a little time on that today. I did not find anything new in my forays into the search. Which is fine but I really should look every once in a while just in case. 

A lot of reading today but  not a lot of writing. It is time for thinking for a bit whilst I sort through the material that I have on le Blak to make sure I include everything that I found significant. 

Rowing machine today and I am up to 13 minutes. My run was the usual 30 minutes and a 15 minute walk followed just as a cool down. This afternoon I will do calisthenics in a bit and then my exercise day is done. 



 




 



Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Finally a working day

Yesterday saw the cleaning completed and visions of the work week ahead. Today continues to be Blake; I will get back to Pincombe but my mind is very much on this month of Blake looking at the le Blak family of Berkshire found on the Pipe Rolls in 1301. Are they whom I think they are? Not sure; I have a theory that this family gradually moved towards Calne. Why did they chose Calne one might ask?  By 1353 a Robert le Blake is at Quemerford with a land exchange between two individuals. Ref: 1720/148 (Discovery, Archives UK). 

Searching on Blake in The History of Parliament website (https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/blake-john-i ) I found another interesting individual that I feel is helpful in this regard. John Blake of Winchester, Hampshire served in Parliament in 1388 and 1395. In the last couple of days I have mentioned the Blake family in this southern part of Hampshire. He was said to be a merchant in Winchester and later had a fulling mill at Priors Barton (part of modern day Winchester). There are a  number of wills for the Blake family in this area and I think they are a separate group that one can see in the Blake yDNA study but refrain from actually putting a name to that group for the moment. But they do not match the possible Blake line at Calne. To date, no one descendant of the Blake line at Calne (with a proven line) has tested in the study. But if I am correct that this is the le Blak family of Wargrave, Berkshire found on the Pipe Rolls in 1301 and Richard le Blak on this roll possibly the Richard le Blak of Rouen, Normandy who received a patent to set up a market in England in 1274. The same History of Parliament website also has a write up on John Blake II  representing Calne in 1415 (John Blake I, his father,  is mentioned d 1395 and John Blake I was from also Calne and said to be a lawyer representing Calne in 1381, 1384 and 1385). John Blake II inherited family property in 1412 at Blacklands.  This John does not appear on the Pedigree Charts for the Blake family and the History of Parliament website for Calne mentions that the John Blake II was the son of John Blake I and that likely Robert Blake was their kinsman. Looking at the list of Calne representatives on this page is this article referring to the Robert Blake who represented Calne in 1421; I suspect the answer is yes. The Blake Pedigree Charts do not list other than the eldest son it would appear. Since land passed father to eldest son; there were not enduring records from one generation to the next except locally. I did discuss this in my blog:

https://kippeeb.blogspot.com/2022/09/sorting-out-blake-records-at-calne.html

At the time of writing this article 28 Sep 2022 I did not come to any conclusion mostly because I think it comes down to place and ability to have been part of a family. Finding a Robert le Blake at Calne as early as 1334 though remains an interesting find and the reference 1720/120 on the Discovery (Archives UK) website and mentioned as item 16 in the above blog. 

Time for yoga and breakfast. I will return to this interesting discussion.  Looking again at the first image of the Blake Pedigree Chart created by the College of Arms in 1690 and the Blake Chart created in the mid 1800s:


The upper image is the original size but the lower image is cropped but both charts contain the similar time frame. The problem with the lower chart is the number of individuals between known material - there is not a sufficient time interval in the chart below between the top person in the chart Robert le Blake and the bottom person in the chart Robert Blake (married to Avis (Wallop) (Malewyn)). The top reference though to a Robert le Blake of Quemberford, Co. Silts named as juror in an Inq. Postmortem dated 22 Jan 1336 (found amongst deeds in the Hungerford Bar apparently) is interesting because it links Robert le Blake back to Hungerford which is very near the border with Berkshire. Was it that items of consequence were dealt with at Hungerford rather than Calne or Swinford for that matter? Or had he traveled back to Hungerford to deal with a family matter. Placing a Richard Blaque alias Blake as his son is very peculiar given that the earlier chart has Richard at the top. 

 

I did write a blog which looked at all of the Robert le Blake records that I located at the various repositories and created a life chart of records for this individual in as much as I was able:

https://kippeeb.blogspot.com/2024/03/looking-at-first-six-generations-of.html

This blog dated 14 Mar 2024.

The link between this Robert and the Malewayn/Malewyn family is very interesting especially given that a descendant of this Robert married Avis Wallop widow of John Malewyn. But definitely I did conclude that Richard as a son of this Robert le Blake was not really possible. So returning to the thought that Robert is the son of Richard (unknown to whom he is married) but again the three generations down to Robert Blake married to Avice (Wallop) Malewyn is simply too short a time period even for very young marriages. 

 The link with a Grant to Joan widow of Robert Blake and John her son DD/WHb/2025 (South West Heritage Trust) I have related to this being the Robert Blake present at the Inq PM in Hungerford in 1336 as his then widow and a son John is even more interesting and is this John Blake I, member of parliament for Calne and the location of the grant in Echelhampton is very close to Calne. It is this collection of material on Robert le Blake/Robert Blake that gives me the thought that this line descends from Richard le Blak. Have I proven it? I have merely established a premise that is possible. More research into the records may well reveal whether this premise stands up to a further test of the records. 

Having said that I will continue through this month into next month to attempt to establish more proof for this premise. 

On to Latin and then back to this rather interesting acquisition of data.

I think I need to purchase DD/WHb/2025 from the South West Heritage Trust. The document 1720/120 is found on the UK Archives website and located at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre but Robert le Blake is only a witness so will not learn a great deal from reading that document.  The document 1720/148 is very interesting and I will try to order a copy from the Swindon and Wiltshire Archive.

The Inquisition Postmortem at Hungerford might also be interesting but it does sound like it is a private collection. It simply gives more credence to the presence of Robert le Blake in Wiltshire quite early i.e. 1336. It generally takes a month or so for a document to come from the South West Heritage Trust although it is now a while since I ordered anything so can not be sure until I hear from them. In the meantime I need to review my chapter on the le Blak family and make some revisions. I actually do not want to go into much detail other than a possible line coming down from Richard le Blak with a rough time frame. When Robert Blake married to Avis (Wallop) Malewyn is reached then there are wills to help along the way. Plus some documentation from a very respected earlier scholar looking at the children of Robert and Avis Blake and their crests and subsequent lines. 

That will be tomorrow's work I think I may just take a peak at the Pencombe book thus far written. 

Mid-afternoon already; the days pass quickly.



Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Moving along with Blake

 I was watching the Inaugural Address that President Trump was giving and the doorbell rang. I do normally ignore it although do glance out just in case it is the water main people or something like that but it was a young woman at my door wearing a backpack. Did she have the wrong house? fortunately she followed the rule of politeness and did not ring twice as I was listening to the TV. I wanted to hear what the President was saying. I also listen quite a bit to Question Period and our Prime Minister when he speaks but the Inauguration of an American President is very very important. As the leader of the Free World and the longest lasting democracy in the world, it is good to listen to what he has to say. I feel that his being part of the negotiations for this ceasefire in Israel/Gaza was very significant. He  had already played a huge role with his son in law in the Abraham Accord in his first term. Peace in the Middle East would be so wonderful. But most importantly all of these Hostages desperately need to come home and out of the damp tunnels in Gaza. NO sunlight is so bad for people day after day. How sad to watch that young woman cry in her mother's arms when she finally reached her. It was so beautiful and so tragic - 1.5 years of her life stolen from her and all she did was go to a Music Festival (I think although she could be in one of the farms working). But the pain and joy for that family having to comfort their daughter like a child lost and hurt was so sad to watch. God be with them all. President Trump will do everything that he can to make this happen; freedom for the rest of the hostages many of them Americans. For some, sadly, it will be to have a proper burial at last (a whole year and a half later) for their loved one which is so sad as they are so young. How cruel and satanistic Hamas is.

What a beautiful day for America - their Inauguration Day. Every four years it is a splendour to watch. Thank you for letting the world in to watch it; well I guess I watched it on CNN actually. 

Finished up reading through the Calendar of Patent Rolls and collecting the ones pertinent to the Andover area which does include a number of counties since my interest is also in the Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Gloucestershire areas where family lore exists in some cases with regard to the Blake family of Calne. 

I think today it is into the wills (in between cleaning the top two floors of this little house). I think the smallness and its limited exposure during this very cold spell is a bonus really. I just have the north exposure on the front and the south exposure on the back which is excellent if it is sunny as the heat really doesn't come on too much then, the side exposures are quite limited. Although I think it came on every hour last night probably. Sunrise now and it is another clear day I think. Last night the stars were beautiful but taking out the telescope at minus 20 and more isn't going to happen for sure.  Still minus 21 degrees celsius at 7:30 a.m with a high of minus 12 degrees celsius. 

The wills that are significant to Andover in the Berkshire area I think I will review online once again through the day. I will perhaps make sure that I have found everything that I have in the Wargrave area of Berkshire looking through some old material that I collected through the years. It is the same names moving about in this area but when you are dealing with Richard la Blake and Robert le Blake and John le Blake they were common forenames used in these times. 

Teatime and solitaire puzzles and then yoga and breakfast. The day begins.


Monday, January 20, 2025

Inauguration Day for the President/Vice President in the United States

January 20 and every four years our American neighbours (and in my case also cousins) have Inauguration Day for their President (and Vice President). It is a beautiful time of ceremonial remembrance of their history already written and the history to come. Usually I do watch that on television. One doesn't have to be American to respect and love one's neighbours. 

I really do like Premier Ford's idea of a closer economic union between our countries and I would add in a closer custodial union in order to better manage this continent with intake of people from outside of the continent only at airports and at ocean ports and with a co-operative/merged federal police force (and absolutely as I have been saying for many years we need to put more money into our military to support this custodial ability for this continent). We have the same aim, all of us, to protect the continent from those who would try to attack us. Huge swathes of the Canadian portion is owned by the First Nations so we must also have buy in from them but more and more of our First Nations is becoming involved in their local and provincial/territorial government which is really great to see and one was considering a run as leader of the Liberal Party which I thought was great. He is still thinking of running so that is good news. 

Congratulations to the United States on Inauguration Day and may it be a wondrous day enjoyed by all.  A perfect day for the Inauguration and I have been watching it on CNN for the past hour or so. I think their ceremony is quite lovely. I will keep the TV tuned in all day but will try to get my usual cleaning of the basement in along with my continuing research on the Blake family.

When I took on the Blake study at the Guild of one-name studies in 2011 it followed my giving up the Siderfin Study and suddenly I had time on my hands and I had tested my brothers by then with their y-DNA, Ethnoancestry had also been used and I had tested them at several other companies so I had a pretty good picture of the yDNA for our line. I had joined the Blake yDNA study at FT DNA of which Bill Bleak is the co-ordinator and was watching as the various tests came in. We do not really have enough members in our study to make very many conclusions or suppositions beyond what Barrie Blake created when he assigned the various groups (I have made small changes but nothing large).   I have written up  articles on the yDNA through the years and will probably do a couple of articles when I complete the book with the content that would be particularly useful to the many Blake researchers involved in the yDNA project. When you look at the Calendar of Patent Rolls in the time period that I am examining which overlaps with the Emigrant's Database (1330-1550) for England, there are a lot of records all over the country but as the map showed they are concentrated in particular areas. Is that telling me that these are the "founding" areas for Blake in England? Can I safely assume that? I do think about that a lot. I have also transcribed many many wills for the Blake family in England dating back to as early as 1487. The oldest wills are from 1487 with Thomas Blake probated 29 Mar 1487 and he mentions Stanford, London Diocese in his will and the second John Blake of Beyrghelmenston (Brighton) Sussex being the next oldest probated 3 Jul 1487. 

I realized as I collected all this information (that is why I blog it so much) that I would not be able to in my lifetime study all the lines so at this moment as I head towards 80 I am working on the Andover Blake family. However, as I move through this early part I will look at the different collections in areas that concentrate on the Blake surname especially in the yDNA Study that are in this same area in England. The Irish Blake family at Galway is very well researched already and there are books published.  Many many members of the study are Americans with the Blake surname. There are also Canadians and a few from the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand.

Continuing with the survey of the Calendar of Patent Rolls with Blake in the item and it is completed on this day, a long post though.

1339 30 Oct Kennington (membrane 7)

Pardon in consideration of his service in going beyond the seas in the king's

company and staying there until the present time, to Robert le Blake of

Heyghswyndone, for a horse stolen from John le

Saucer of Wanburgh, and for a robbery committed upon him, also

for a trespass against John Martyn. By p.s.

13 Edward III, volume 4, page 338

 

 1340 18 Sep Andover (membrane 40d)

Commission of oyer and terminer to Nicholas de la Beche, John de Molyns, William de

Shareshull and James de Wodestok, on complaint by John de Mauduyt

that John de Tothale, prior of Hurlee, brothers John Baroun, John de

Helmedon and Jordan Moynne, his fellow-monks, John 'le priourescok

of Hurlee,' Edmund son of John le Cok the elder (senioris), Thomas atte

Hale, John Splint, John le Heyward, John Elys, Richard le Whelere of

Lidlewyk, William le Rypereve, Simon de Tothale, chaplain, Philip his

brother, Robert le Lasshere, Richard Gowiel, Philip de Hamslepe, chaplain,

John le Blake of Hurlee, Henry le Vicories, Roger le Blake, Walter le

Bel of Dorneye, Robert Folcorn, John le Disshere of Yatele, Robert le

Grymme, John his son, Thomas le Tylere, William his brother, and others

assaulted him at Hurlee, co. Berks, and carried away his goods. By C.

            The like, on like complaint by Richard de Byfeld. By C.

14 Edward III, volume 5, page 95

 

1343 6 May Westminster (membrane 23d)

Appointment of William Hokere and Richard Swayn of Wynchelse to

arrest wherever found and deliver to the constable of the Tower of London,

to be kept in custody until further order, Roger de Lynton, William

Pevenese of Portsmouth, John Spencer of Portsmouth, Robert Blake,

William Havyn of Favcrshain and Roger Smyth, who with others lately

plundered brother Richard de Wynkele, the king's confessor, of goods of

no small value at Portsmouth. By K.

17 Edward III, volume 6, page 87

 

1346 17 May Westminster (membrane 6d)

Commission to John Chaumbernoun, Henry Trethewy, John

Moveroun and Thomas atte Fen to make inquisition in the county

of Cornwall touching a complaint by Reyner de Mortenbek, John Retyn

and John de Loveyn, merchants of Brucelles, that whereas they freighted

a ship with 155 tuns of wine in Peyto to be brought to Brucelles in

Brabant, there to trade with for their profit, and on the voyage the said

merchants were driven by a storm into the port of Seint Ive Baye, and

there paid all customs and usual dues on the ship and cargo to Thomas

son of Henry Botiller, customer in that port, Richard Johan of Fowy,

master of la Michiel of Mighelestowe, Henry Carfur, master of la Vaal of

Poruan, John Carfur, Thomas Carfur, John Briant, Richard Michiel,

John Herdwich, Thomas Cok of Mighelestowe, Laurence William of

Bodmyn, John Triduoz of Fowy, Robert Johan of Fowy, John Kyng of

Fowy, Walter Bailli, Thomas Lewyn, Thomas Werman, Thomas Hewychs

of Fowy, Edward Bealda, John Bealda, John Carpenter of Bodmyn, the

younger, Henry Sturyn, Mark Saundre, Richard Kyng of Poruan, John

Kyng of Poruan, William Pou, William atte Haisch, Thomas Menely,

Mark Laghern, William Paget, Walter Hora, Richard Lynok, Henry

Hogekyn, Roger Hogekyn, Thomas Studela, Robert Fernhiman, Robert

Werman, John Rybyeu, John Flemmyng of Fowy, John Mayouu,

Richard Sarre of Fowy, John Bagge, Peter Stonhouse, Nicholas

Devyas, Mark Layerghet, John Hake, John Loyy, Pascasius Werman,

John Fox, Hugh Lamelyn, Reynaud de Foxle, Edward Doffa,

Andrew Godflexchers, Nicholas Mark, William Langa, Thomas Kebard,

Eustace de Bodmyn, Richard Laury, John Laury, John Blakman, John

Chivaler, William Stacy, John Botswayn, Thomas Blake, Thomas Galbard,

Nicholas Forbard, William Bata and others coming in the port

in a crayer, armed, plundered them of the ship and wine and this done,

when the servants of the merchants and master of the ship came to the

said customer to make complaint thereof, and agreement was made between

them to give the customer fifteen tuns of the wine to cause them to have

again the ship and wine and when the customer had gone to the plunderers

on this subject and a conference was had between them, the plunderers forthwith

hoisted the sail of the ship and feloniously fled to the parts of Wales

with the ship and wine and detain the same; and to find the names of

the said malefactors, and of those who afterwards knowingly received

them or lent them aid, counselor assent herein, whether the customer was

an assenting party to the doing of the said evils and all other circumstances

relating to the premises. By K. & C.

20 Edward III, volume 7, pages 115-116

 

1348 3 Apr Westminster (membrane 13)

Licence for the alienation in mortmain to the abbess and convent of

Shaftesbury, in satisfaction of 100 s. of the 10 l. yearly of land and ren

which they have the licence of the present king to acquire, of the

following:—

by Robert de Litelton of Henlegh, a messuage, 51 acres of land,

3 acres of meadow 38 acres of pasture and 5 acres of wood in

Donheved St. Mary and Donheved St. Andrew, and the reversions of

two messuages and 6 acres of land, in Donheved St. Mary, now held

for life by William de Asshurst, one messuage and 2 acres of land

there, held for life by John Randolf, one messuage, 4 acres of land

and 2 acres of pasture there, held in survivorship by Humphrey le

Blake, Margaret, his wife, and Roger, their son, a messuage there

held for life by Alice le Haghere, the like held for life by John le

Blake, a mill there, held for life by Thomas le Freond, 6 acres of

land there, held in survivorship by Roger le Peek and Isabel, his

wife, and 4 acres of land there, held in survivorship by Robert le

Taillour, and Isabel, his wife ;

all these messuages, mill, land, meadow, pasture, wood and rents are of the

clear yearly value of 41 s. as appears by inquisitions taken by Robert Russel,

escheator in the county of Wilts, and Thomas Cary, escheator in the

counties of Somerset and Dorset.

22 Edward III, volume 8, page 44

 

1348 3 Feb Westminster (membrane 35d)

Commission of oyer and terminer to Richard de Wylughby, Robert Selyman and Thomas de

Sancto Mauro, on complaint by John, archbishop of Canterbury,

Elizabeth de Monte Acuto and Edward de Monte Acuto, that Roger

Bavent, 'chivaler,' John Mauduyt of Wermynstre, 'chivaler,' William

de Lucy, ' chivaler,. William Kaynes, Richard Langeford of Wermynstre,

John Scarlet, Robert Cole, Peter Scarlet, John Mayhu, John Pampilon,

William Mossel of Hynedon, Henry le Wodeward of Southle, John

Hickes of Wycheford, Roger son of Reginald de Kyngeston, John

Upton, Simon Flory, Roger Langeford of Wilton, Robert Burton,

Thomas Mossel of Hynedon, John, his son, John Whiton, John Cok

Wesebury, John Bratton, John le Smyth of Heghtrebury, Richard

Webbe of Heghtrebury, William Stonhous, John Haym the younger

William Halle, Thomas Cole, Hugh Russel of Frome, John, his son

Thomas, brother of the same John, Thomas Passavaunt of Sutton,

Thomas Smewyn of Sutton, William Cole of Donyngton, Peter de Upton,

William de Reygny, Reginald, his son, Edward Osebern, Richard

Taillour of Heghtrebury, Robert Thornstayn, Thomas Bonham, chaplain,

Nicholas his brother, Philip de Ferne, John Mauger, Henry le Rede of

Heghtrebury, Hugh le Blake of Frome, Richard Alewayn, John, his son,

William Odonis, John Bemynstre, William de Wodeford, chaplain,

Goscelin Botiler, John Habervill of Erlestoke, William le Fox of Wilton,

'dyere,' Peter Torald of Wilton, 'goldsmyth,' Walter Colyns, Richard

son of Richard Bynetheweye, Richard Howys, Geoffrey Russel, Thomas

Dorsete, Richard Bayard, John Pentrich of Northyngton, John Knyght of

Alvedeston, Roger Plomer of Berewyk, Walter Jurdan and others, broke

their closes at Norton Skydemor, Billeye, Trowe, and Emwell, co. Wilts

drove away 20 oxen, 40 bullocks, 100 swine, and 400 sheep, worth 400 l.

felled their trees there, mowed their crops and carried away the trees and

crops. By C.

22 Edward III, volume 8, pages 65-66

 

1348 23 May Westminster (membrane 32)

Whereas the king by letters patent lately granted licence for the then

abbess and convent of Shaftesbury to acquire in mortmain 10 l. yearly

land and rent, not held in chief, and afterwards in part satisfaction of

that licence granted licence for Robert de Litelton of Henlegh to grant

to them the reversion of the following:—two messuages and 6 acres of

land in Dunheved St. Mary, which William de Asshurst holds for life, one

messuage and 2 acres of land there, which John Randolf holds for life, one

messuage, 4 acres of land and 2 acres of pasture there, which Humphrey

le Blake, Margaret, his wife, and Roger, their son, hold in survivorship,

one messuage there, which Alice le Haghere holds for life, the like

which John le Blake holds for life, a mill there, which Thomas

le Freond holds for life, 6 acres of land there, which Roger le Peek

and Isabel, his wife, hold in survivorship, and 4 acres of land there

which Robert le Taillour and Isabel, his wife, hold in survivorship; in

consideration of 20 s. which the present abbess will pay to him, he has

granted licence for each of the said tenants for life to surrender their

estate in the premises to the abbess and convent.

            And the 20 s. have been paid to the clerk of the hanaper. Wilts.

22 Edward III, volume 8, page 105

 

1348 10 Oct Westminster (membrane 32d)

Commission of oyer and terminer to Richard de Wylughby, Robert Selyman and Thomas de

Sancto Mauro, on complaint by Elizabeth de Monte Acuto and Edward

de Monte Acuto that Boger Bavent, 'chivaler,' John atte Forde of

Tissebury, Nicholas de Kyngeston, William Kaynes, Richard Langeford

of Wermynstre, Robert Cole of Donyton, John Mayhu, John Pampilon,

Henry le Wodeward of Southle, John Hickes of Wycheford, Roger son

of Reginald de Kyngeston, John Fraunkeleyn of Upton, Simon Flory,

Roger Langeford of Wilton, John le Boteler of Smalbrok, Thomas

Mossel of Hynedon, John, his son, John Whyton, John Cok of Westbury,

John Bratton, William Stonhous, John Haym the younger, William

Halle, Thomas Cole, Hugh Russel of Frome, John, his son, Thomas,

brother of the same John, William Cole of Bereford, Peter de Upton,

William de Reigny, Reginald, his son, Edward Osebern, Richard le

Taillour de Heigtrebury, Robert Thurstayn, Philip de Ferne, John

Mauger, Henry le Rede of Heightrebury, Hugh le Blake of Frome,

Richard Alwyne, John, his son, William Odonis, John Bemynstre,

William de Wodeford, chaplain, Goscelin Botiler, John Habervill of

Erlestok, William le Fox of Wilton, 'dyer,' Peter Torald of Wilton,

'goldsmyth,' Walter Colyns, Richard son of Richard Bynetheweye,

Richard Howys, Geoffrey Russel, Thomas Dorsete, Richard Bayard, John

Pentrich of Northynton, John Knyght of Alvedeston, Roger Plomer of

Berewyk and others broke their closes at Norton Skydemor, Billeye,

Trowe and Emwell, and drove away 20 oxen, 40 bullocks, 100 swine and

400 sheep, worth 400 l., felled their trees and mowed their crops there,

and carried away the trees and crops with other goods.

            By fine of 1 mark paid in the hanaper. Wilts.

22 Edward III, volume 8, pages 236-237

 

1352 26 Nov Westminster (membranes 9 and 8)

Whereas the priors and brethren of the college or fraternity of St. Peter

in the church of St. Maurice, Winchester, and of the college in the church

of St. Mary Kalender (de Kalend'), in the same city, acquired in fee two

shops in the High Street, Winchester, where fish are sold, from Eleanor

la Fuster, a corner cottage by the door of the church of St. Maurice in the

same street from Richard de Merewell, chaplain, a cottage in Sheld-

wroghtstrete, recovered at another time by a stake fixed, according to the

ancient custom of the city, for a rent of 10 d. due to them two years in

arrear, a cottage in the same street from William de Totteford, 6 d. of rent

from Thomas Godsalme out of a tenement held by the prior and convent

of St. Swithun's, Winchester, in the high street of the city, 5 s, of rent

from John Fraunceys, apothecary, out of a tenement of Roland le

Hatter in the same street, 6 d. of rent from Peter son of Luke out of

a tenement sometime of John de Temple in the same street, 9 s. 6 d.

of rent from Edward de Alwele and Agnes de Neubrigge out of a capital

tenement which John Lynedraper held in the same street, 3 d. of rent from

Nicholas Sampson out of the gate of a capital tenement late of John Fode

in Colebrokstrete, 6 d. of rent from Nicholas Dork out of a tenement of

the prioress and convent of Wynteneye in the same street, 6 d. of rent

from William le Knyght out of a place which Roger le Curreour now

holds in the same street, 6 d. of rent from Ralph de Porta out of a tene-

ment late of Nicholas le Devenissh in the same street, 6 d. of

rent from Philip le Chapeleyn out of a tenement of Laurence de

Escote in Tannerstrete, 12 d. of rent from John Hopecok out of a

tenement which the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John,

Winchester, hold in the lane between Tannerstrete and Buckestrete,

8 s. 4 d. of rent from Henry Silvestre out of a tenement which Gregory le

Noble holds in Tannerstrete, 12 d. of rent from Richard Roys out of a

tenement late of Thomas le Palmere in the same street, 12 d. of rent from

Henry de Durnegate out of a tenement late of Christina de Colbrok in

the same street, 5 d. of rent from Alice la Blake out of a tenement which

William de Trent, 'helier,' holds in Wonegarstrete, 6 d. of rent from

Walter le Blake out of a tenement of the prior and convent of Motesfount

in the same street, 2 s. of rent from Robert Shonele out of a tenement of

Adam de Morcestre in the same street, 2 s. of rent from Valentine, sometime

rector of the church of St. George, Winchester, out of a tenement of

Thomas Hardy in the same street, 12 d. of rent from Thomas le Palmere

out of a tenement of John de Froylle in Shuldewroghtstrete, 12 d. of rent

from John le Glover out of a tenement of Thomas de Thornecombe

in the same street, 12 d. of rent from Gilbert Hachemons out of four

houses late of Robert Giffard in the the lane between Shuldwroghtstrete

and Parchemenstrete, 8 d. of rent from Henry le Cordewaner out of a

curtilage of Robert le Ferrour opposite the church of St. Saviour, by the

lane leading to the north gate of the city, 6 d. of rent from Thomas de

Sancta Margareta out of a capital tenement of Sibyl de Preyslond by the

same lane, 2 s. of rent from Roger Trentmars out of a corner tenement of

Richard le Godegrom, skinner, in the lane whereby one goes from Jurystrete

to Brudenestrete, 2 s. 4 d. of rent from William Aufrey out of a tenement of

the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John on the west side of the

entering in from Garstrete, 6 d. of rent from the abbot (abbate) atte Halle

out of a tenement of John le Mut in Mynstrestrete, 12 d. of rent from

Andrew Beaublet out of cottages which the prior and convent of

St. Swithun's, Winchester, hold on the north side of the lane which leads

from Mynstrestrete to Calpestrete, 3 s. 10 d. of rent from Stephen atte

Hurne out of a tenement late of Robert de Parnefold in the constabulary

of the castle of Winchester, 6 d. of rent from Lucy Aysful out of a capital

tenement of John de Inkepenne in Wodestrete, in the suburb and liberty

of the said city, 6 d. of rent from Moyses de Sarisburia out of a tenement

of the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John, Winchester, in the

same street, suburb and liberty, 6 d. of rent from Henry le Cordewaner, out

of a curtilage of Robert de Twyford without the west gate in the suburb

and liberty of the city, 6 d. of rent from Henry Cobbe out of a house which

Thomas de Tychebourn holds in the High Street, 3 s. 4 d. of rent from

Lucy de Rupibus out of a tenement of Roger atte Horn in the same street,

12 d. of rent from Randolf Broun out of a tenement of Robert le Hatter in

the same street, 12 d. of rent from Agnes de Merewell out of a corner

tenement of the abbess and convent of St. Mary's, Winchester, in the same

street in the entering in from Buckestrete, 8 d. of rent from William de

Fryefolk out of a tenement late of John Fode in Colbrokstrete, 12 d.

of rent from Agatha Wag out of a tenement late of John de Froyl,

chaplain, in the same street, 18 d. of rent from Ralph de Porta

out of a tenement which the prioress and convent of Wynteney hold

in the same street, 12 d. of rent from Peter de Lavyngton out of a

tenement which Nicholas de Hanyngton now holds in the same street,

6 d. of rent from Patrick Kempe out of a place which the abbess and

convent of St. Mary's, Winchester, hold, enclosed behind their brewhouse

in the same street, 6 d. of rent from Gilbert le Clerc out of a tenement

which Laurence de Escote holds in Tannerstrete, 4 d. of rent from John

de Sancta Fide out of a tenement which Richard de Midhurst holds in

the same street, 6 d. of rent from Philip the Priest out of a house late of

William le Couper in the same street, 12 d. of rent from the said Roger

Silvestre out of a tenement late of John le Fuller in the same street, 12 d.

of rent from Alan de la Staple out of a tenement late of Roger de

Wodecroft in Wonegarstrete, 2 s. 6 d. of rent from Henry le Blake out of a

tenement late of Godfrey de Fulflode in the same street, 2 s. of rent from

Lucy de Rupibus out of a tenement which Walter de Bristowe holds in

the same street, 6 d. of rent from John Belemayn out of the door of a

tenement which John Malewayn holds in Shuldewroghtstrete, 2 s. of rent

from Master Valentine out of a tenement late of Richard Cory the elder in

Parchemynstrete, 6 d. of rent from Herbert Bagmere out of a tenement

pertaining to the church of St. Michael, Flesshemongerstrete, 6 d. of rent

from William de Monemuth out of a tenement of the abbot and convent of

Hyde in the same street, 6 d. of rent from Geoffrey le Baker out of a tenement

which Joan la Hore holds in Goldestrete, 6 d. of rent from William le

Brewer out of a tenement which Robert de Farnefold lately held in Mynstrestrete,

2 s. of rent from William Thurmonde out of a corner tenement in

the High Street in the entering in of Jurestrete, 12 d. of rent from Edith

Howeles out of a tenement which John Louke holds in Howeleslane by

the High Street, 2 s. of rent from Richard de Lavyngton, and Richard,

Roger and William, his brothers, out of a tenement which Robert de

Lekford sometime held in La Godebyet by the High Street, 18 d. of rent

from Gregory le Clerk from a corner tenement which the prior and convent

of St. Swithun's hold in La Godebeyit, 5 s. of rent from Andrew Shulvemel

out of a tenement which Thomas de Tichebourn holds in the High Street,

5 s. of rent from Maud la Roo (Rufa) out of a tenement sometime of John

Tyrel in the entering in of Shuldewroghtstrete by the High Street, 2 s. of

rent from Alexander de Merewell out of a corner tenement which the

abbess and convent of St. Mary's, Winchester, hold at Neubrigge in the

said High Street, 2 s. of rent from Nicholas le Tanner out of three shops

sometime of Thomas atte Brugge in the parish of St. John atte Forde, in

the High Street, 14 d. of rent from Agatha Wag out of a tenement late of

John de Froyle, chaplain, in Colbrokstrete, 12 d. of rent from John

Fode out of four cottages sometime of John Fraunceys on the south

side of the same street, 6 d. of rent from Agnes Potel out of the

tenement late of Nicholas le Devenissh in the same street, 12 d. of rent

from the same Agnes out of a tenement late of the same Nicholas

in the same street, 2 s. 8 d. of rent from Maud Cuppyng out of a

tenement of John Ware opposite La Posterne in the same street,

6 d. of rent from Adam le Milleward out of a tenement late of Hamo le

Digher in Tannerstrete, 6 d. of rent from Peter Westman out of a tenement

of Valentine le Skynner in the same street, 3 s. 4 d. of rent from John son

of Guy de Bourn out of a corner tenement, late of Robert de Bolyngdon

in the same street, 8 d. of rent from Alice de Rupibus out of a tenement

late of Alice la Werpestere in Wonegarstrete, 4 d. of rent from Maud

Norreys out of a tenement late of Richard de Culmeston in the same

street, 14 d. of rent from Peter Westman out of a tenement of the master

and brethren of the hospital of St. John in the lane between Wonegarstrete

and Shuldewroghtstrete, 2 s. of rent from William le Pyser out of a

tenement late of John atte Feld in Shuldewroghtstrete, 4 s. 2 d. of rent

from Adam de Norhampton out of a tenement of John Malewayn in the

same street, 8 s. of rent from William le Spicer (Speciar') out of a tenement

sometime of John de Tityng in the same street, adjacent to a tenement

of the said John Malewayn on the north side, 6 s. of rent from Walter

le Roo (Rufo) out of a tenement late of John de Tityng in the entering in

from Parchemynstrete on the west side, 8 s. of rent from Isabel Boket

out of a garden late of Peter de Nottele in the lane leading from

Parchemynstrete to Flesshemongerstrete, 2 s. of rent from Henry le

Bocher (Carnifice) out of a capital tenement late of John Gabriel in

Flesshemongerstrete, 12 d. of rent from Richard le Mareschal out of a

corner tenement late of John Isak at the end of Juriestrete, opposite

the city wall, 2 s. 6 d. of rent from Angokinus le Crokker out of a

tenement of Robert de Colyngbourn in the constabulary of the castle

of Winchester, opposite the cemetery of St. Swithun's, and 2 s. of

rent from Henry Prynce out of a place which John de Nottele holds, lying

on the north side of Wodestrete, in the suburb and liberty of the city;

and whereas there were bequeathed to them by Ralph Ingelard a cottage

in Colbrokstrete, by Adam, sometime parson of the church of St. Pancras,

Winchester, two cottages in Pancracelane, by John le Mympe, a cottage

in the lane between Tannerstrete and Bukstrete, by Peter son of Luke,

12 d. of rent out of a corner tenement of the abbess and convent of

St. Mary's, in the entering in from Bukstrete, in the said High street, by

Nicholas de Fossato, 12 d. of rent out of a place of the same abbess and

convent, lying enclosed behind their brewhouse in Colbrokstrete, by Philip

le Preest, 18 d. of rent out of a tenement of Laurence de Escote in

Tannerstrete, by Peter de Wormhole, 20 d. of rent out of a capital tenement

of William Edward in Flesshemongerstrete, by Robert Westman, 12 d. of

rent out of a cellar of the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John

on the east side of the entering in from Calpestrete, by John Cuppyng,

2 s. 4 d. of rent out of a tenement late of Juliana atte Asshe on the east

side in Mynsterstrete, by Juliana in la Litton, 18 d. out of a tenement late

of Maud Tabellion in the constabulary of the castle, opposite the cemetery

of the church of St. Swithun, by Robert le Sergeant, 12 d. of rent out of

a curtilage of Katharine atte Fisshe without the west gate in the suburb

and liberty of the city, by Walter le Blake, 6 d of rent out of a tenement

of the prior and convent of Motesfount in Wonegarstrete, by John le

Marker, 12 d. of rent out of a tenement of the prior and convent of

St. Swithun's in the constabulary of the castle, opposite their cemetery,

by Thomas de London, fisher, 6 s. of rent out of a tenement of the

abbot and convent of Hyde in the High Street, where fish are sold, by

Hugh Cawet, 2 s. of rent out of a tenement of Robert de Certeseye in

Calpestrete, and by Emma la Payne and Christina la Payne, 12 d. of rent

out of two cottages of two chaplains of William de Marlebergh, deceased,

in La Hidestrete on the west side, in the suburb and liberty of the city,

before the publication of the statute of mortmain: and whereas afterwards

the said priors and brethren acquired in fee a messuage in the High street

from John Cobbe, John and Henry, his brothers, and John Dyset, 15 s.

of rent in the same street from Roger de Ingepenne, William, parson of

the church of St. Mary de Kalendis, and Stephen de Mucheldevere,

executors of the will of Thomas de Mucheldevere, 7 s. 4 d.of rent in the same

street from John Edgar and Andrew Picard, a cottage in Colbrokstrete

from Geoffrey Howeles and Agnes his wife, 10 s. of rent in Parchemynstrete

from Joan late the wife of William Thormond, 1/2 acre of land in

Calpestrete from Henry Silvestre, 6 s. of rent in Goldestrete from John le

Palmere, 8 d. of rent in Shuldewroghtstrete from Nicholas de Maydenston,

a shop in the High Street from Laurence de Anne, and a cottage there

from John le Cotiller, chaplain, and there were bequeathed to them by

John de Welwe, chaplain, two cottages in the city, by Adam, late parson

of the church of St. Mary, Tannerstrete, a messuage there, by Ralph de

Wykham, 7 s. of rent in Tannerstrete, by Robert Walet, a shop, by

John le Chaundeler of Walhop, 1 acre of land in the suburb, by Roger de

Ingepenne, a cottage, and by William de Wyght, the reversion of a

messuage which William le Croucher held for life, after the publication

of the said statute, and these messuages, shops, cottages, lands and rents

are held in chief: and whereas the priors and brethren acquired in fee

1 acre of land in the suburb from Robert Dymaunde, 'baker,' 6 s.

of rent in the suburb from Simon de Stoke and Richard Rabel,

4 s of rent in the suburb from Arnulph Broun, 6 s. of rent in

the suburb from Richard Hody, and a cottage in the suburb

from John Belle, and there were bequeathed to them by Peter

Russynor a shop in the suburb, by Roger de Ingepenne a shop on

St. Giles's Hill, by Roger de la Pole, chaplain, a cottage on the same

hill, and by Thomas de Wortyng, a cottage there, which are not held in

chief; as by inquisition taken by John de Wynton, escheator in the

county of Southampton, has been found; and whereas the priors and

brethren have entered into the same without licence, and many deeds,

testaments and muniments touching the said acquisitions and bequests

have been taken away and lost in the last pestilence; the king, in consideration

of their poverty and want and for 10 l. which they will pay

him, has granted licence for the priors and brethren to retain the same acquisitions

and bequests. Furthermore he confirms all grants and

legacies to the priors and brethren and their successors of lands and

rents not held in chief made before the publication of the statute, to wit

by the abbot and convent of Hyde by Winchester, two shops on St.

Giles's Hill, in the street of the Spicers, by Walter de Donestaple a shop

on the said hill in Ingramestwychen, by Gilbert le Cok and Asselina, his

wife, a cottage in Paylardestwychen in the suburb of the city, by Robert

de Lambedon, a shop on the said hill in 'Ryngea Draperie,' and

two shops in the same Ryngea, by the abbot and convent of Hyde,

Peter le Clerke and Herbert Bienfray two shops in the cellaria on

the said hill, by the brethren of Palmeresyeld a corner cottage at

the entering in from Ingramestwychen on the same hill, by

Herbert le Glover two cottages in Ingramestwychen, by Agnes de

Goldestrete a cottage opposite la Spaynolfrewe on the said hill,

by Wymund Osbern a cottage at Westbarre on the said hill, by

Roland de Wynchestre 2 s. of rent out of shops of the abbot and convent of

Dureford in Dynantria on the said hill, by Walter Haye 8 d. of rent out of

a tenement of Thomas le Yonge and Katharine, his wife, in the parish of

St. John Uppedoune, in the suburb, by Nicholas Priour 2 s. of rent out of

a tenement sometime of John Warefoule in the same, by Edmund Granne

3 s. of rent out of a tenement of John de Hayden in the same, by

John Counseil 12 d. of rent out of a tenement sometime of Adam le Bal in

the same, by Baldwin le Chapeleyn 4 d. of rent out of a place of land lying

in la Holestrete on the east side in the same suburb, by John Dorre 6 d. of

rent out of a tenement of Robert de Certeseye in the parish of St.

Peter upon Cheshull in the same suburb, by Reynold Pulchon 12 d.

of rent out of a tenement sometime of John de Colyngham in the

same parish and suburb, by John Henry 2 s. of rent out of a tenement

lately of Roger le Quyrnemaker in the same, by Arnulph Broun

12 d. of rent out of a tenement of John de Holt and William de

Bromle by La Barre in the same, by Robert Russel and Segyn

6 d. of rent out of a tenement of Christina de Micheldevere without

Durnegate in the same suburb, by John le Tauner 16 d. of rent out

of a tenement of Peter de Wycombe, called 'Deen,' without Durnegate in

the same suburb, by Roger Grenelef 10 d. of rent out of a tenement sometime

of William de Guldeford in La Mullelond in the same suburb;

by Walter le Parchemener (Pergamenarium) 10 d. of rent out of a tenement

of Peter Brian in La Mullelond aforesaid, by Bartholomew le Chapeleyn and

John Henry 2 s. of rent out of a tenement lately bequeathed to the church

of St. John Uppedouney, which Nicholas de Lymesy lately held in

La Mullelond, by Andrew the Apparitor 4 d. of rent out of a tenement

of Thomas de Haselmere by La Steyre in La Mullelond in the same

suburb, by the abbot and convent of Hyde 4 d. of rent out of a curtilage

of William Potager by la Poleheye in the same suburb, by Adam le

Squyller 3 s. 7 d. of rent, to wit, 14 1/4 d. out of a tenement late of Edith la

Canavacere in Kynggatestreto and 2s. 4 3/4 d. out of a tenement of William de

Haywode, in the same street, in the said suburb, by William Richeman

18 d. of rent out of cottages late of Alice la Cok in the same street

and suburb, by Ellis le Gode 12 d. of rent out of cottages late of

John atte More in the same street and suburb, by Alice late the wife of

William Quyk, 20 d. of rent out of a corner tenement by Crepistrelane in

the same street and suburb, late of Richard de Pershore, by Walter

(Galtherum) Breto 20 d. of rent out of cottages late of John de Kent,

chaplain, on the west side of the said street, in the same suburb, by Adam

de Gardino 12 d. of rent out of a tenement of Agnes Basyng, in the same

street and suburb, by Humphrey Gay 4 d. of rent out of a tenement of

John le Turnour opposite the church of the Carmelite Friars, in the same

street and suburb, by William and Stephen, sons of Humphrey le Clerc,

18 d: of rent out of a tenement sometime of William de Wandlesworth,

now enclosed in the garden of the prior and convent of St. Swithun's in

Seventwychen, by the said street, by Serlo brother of Richard de

Wolveseye 4 d. of rent out of cottages of the same prior and convent

in Paylardestwychen, by the same street, by Maud la Roo (Rufam)

6 d. of rent out of cottages of the same prior and convent, late of

Joan la Cok in Paylardestwychen, by Hoyvillesgardyn, in the same

suburb, by John Cobbe 6 d. of rent out of a corner tenement

without Suthgate extending to Paylardestwychen in the same suburb,

by Martin Aysefoull 2 s. of rent out of a capital tenement of John de

Ingepenne in Wodestrete, on the south side in the same suburb, by

Richard le Mareschal 12 d. of rent out of a capital tenement of Alice

la Cok in la Hidestrete on the west side without Northgate, in the same

suburb, by Jordan le Draper (Draparium) 4 s. of rent out of a tenement of

John de Nottele in the street of St. John Uppedoune, in the same suburb,

by Robert de Cheshull, chaplain, 6 d. of rent out of a tenement of Robert

de Certeseye in the parish of St. Peter upon Cheshull in the same suburb,

by William de Waltham 12 d. of rent out of a like tenement, by Thomas

de Calce 12 d. of rent out of a croft of Richard de Wyke at La Barre in the

same parish and suburb, by Alice de la Lye 6 d. of rent out of a tenement

bequeathed to the church of St. John Uppedoune, which John Sweteman

holds, without Durnegate, by Geoffrey de Peueseye 8 d. of rent out of a

tenement of William Potager without Durnegate, by Richard le Porter

6 d. of rent out of a tenement of the prior and convent of St. Swithun's

in Pylardestwychen by Kynggatestrete, in the same suburb, by Serlo

de Wolveseye 2 d. of rent out of a like tenement, by Eustace le

Cordwainer (Alutarium) 4 d. of rent out of a tenement of John le

Tournour in the same street and suburb, by John le Chapeleyn 2 s. of

rent out of a tenement of the same prior and convent in the same, by

Richard le Chapeleyn 4 d. of rent out of a like tenement, by Mark le

Mareschal 12 d. of rent out of a corner tenement, late of Robert de

Kyngeston, towards Paylardestwychen without Suthgate in the same

suburb, by William Wolleward 16 d. of rent out of tenements late of

John de Wambergh and John Broun, on the east side of Seintjonestrete

without the east gate of the city, and by William de Wyntreshull 6 d. of

rent out of a tenement of William Bogher on the west side of the same

street; notwithstanding that many deeds, testaments and muniments

relating to these have been carried away or lost, as is more fully stated in

the inquisition; and that some of the grants and bequests are to the prior

and brethren of the college or fraternity of St. Peter in the church of

St. Maurice, Winchester, by themselves, and some are to the prior and

brethren of the college in the church of St. Mary de Kalendis by

themselves. And the 10 1. have been paid in the hanaper.

26 Edward III, volume 9, pages 368-373

 

1355 12 Nov Woodstock (membrane 12)

[Patent following witnessed by the guardian of England.]

Licence for 10 l paid to the king by Edward de Stocke for the

said Edward to enfeoff John de Neubury,chaplain, Adam Blake,

chaplain, and Thomas Hungerford citizen of Salisbury of the manor

of Rustesale co Wilts,and the advowson of the church of the said

manor, held in chief; and for them to re-grant the same to him,

Joan, his wife and the heirs of his body, with remainders to Thomas

son of Walter Hungerford,  in tail to William de Lucy, 'chivaler,' in

tail to Edmund brother of William de Lucy, in tail, to Thomas

Stocke, in tail, and to the right heirs of the said Edward.

And the 10 l have been paid in the hanaper.

29 Edward III, volume 10, pages 308-309

 

1357 21 Oct Westminster  (membrane 12)

Pardon in like terms to John Gosegh merchant of Salisbury on,

his outlawry in the county of Wilts for non-appearance to answer

touching a plea of Robert Blake, Thomas son of Walter de Hungerford

Edward Cokerel and Henry Flemyng,executors of the will of Henry

Russel, citizen of Salisbury, late executor of the will of John

Godhyne late burgess and merchant of Marlebergh that he render

to them 110 l

31 Edward III, volume 10, page 630

 

1365 18 Oct Westminster (membrane 22)

Pardon to Robert Blake, parson of the church of Westchelbergh

of his outlawry in the county of Wilts for non-appearance before the

justices of the Bench to answer John de Edyndon, knight, touching

a plea of debt of 7 l. 8 s. ; he having now surrendered to the Flete

prison, as Robert de Thorpe, chief justice, has certified.

39 Edward III, volume 13, page 168

 

1376 30 Apr Westminster (membrane 28)

Whereas Richard Cradok clerk, and Margery late the wife of William

Blake of the county of Somerset administrators of the goods of William

Blake who died intestate, have been outlawed in the husting of London

for non-appearance before the justices of the Bench to answer Benedict

de Cresby, clerk, touching a plea that they render 45 s. 8 d., and Richard

has now surrendered to the Flete prison, as Robert Bealknap, chief

justice, has certified ; the king has pardoned his outlawry.

50 Edward III, volume 16, page 260

 

1377 14 Jan Westminster (membrane 2)

Whereas Henry Doune in the court of Elizabeth, countess of Kent,

of Sheftbeare, co. Devon, according to the custom of the manor of

Sheftbeare, by writ of right demands against John Blake of Loddesford

and Joan, his wife, certain tenements of the quantity of which, or of

the mode of obtaining the writ, John and Joan have no certain

knowledge, as is said: and the said Joan,who stays in London, is so

great with child that she cannot at present toil to the county of Devon

without the greatest peril of her body; by the king's special grace

she has attorned before him her husband to gain or lose for her in all

pleas and quarrels for or against them; and at her instance the king

has granted that the said John may make other attorneys for her,

until Michaelmas. Th. de Newenham, clerk, received the attorney.

50 Edward III, volume 16, page 405

 

1377 13 Apr Westminster  (membrane 17)

Appointment, during pleasure, of John Blake as clerk of the works at

the palace of Westminster, Tower of London, castles of Wyndesore and

Berkhampstede, manors of Kenyngton, Eltham, Haveryng Shene, Biflete,

Yeshampstede, Henle, Wyndesore, Wolmere, Langeley Marreys, Childernelangeley

and Feckenham and at the lodges within the parks of Guldeford,

Foly Johan, Caldkenyngton and Feckenham, and mews for falcons by

Charryngcrouche ; with power to take stonemasons, carpenters and other

labourers therefor, to punish the refractory and to enquire touching the

removal of necessary stone, timber, and tiles, and cause the same to be

restored; with 18 d daily wages. By p.s.

1 Richard II, volume 1, page 186

 

1378 14 Apr Westminster (membrane 9)

Appointment, during pleasure, of  the king's clerk John Blake as his

clerk of the works at his palace of Westminster, Tower of London, his

castles of Wyndesore, Berkhampstede and Haddele, his manor and lodge in

Wyndsore park; his manors of Kenyngton, Eltham, Haveryng, Wodestoke,

Claryndon, Shene, Byflete, Yeshampstede, Henle, Worldham, Langeley

Marreys, Childernelangeley and Feckenham; his lodges of Hatebergh and

Brokenhurst in the New Forest; his lodges within his parks of Claryndon,

Guldeford, Foly Johan, Coldkenyngton, Eltham, Childernelangeley, Feckenham,

and Beckelee; and his mews for falcons by Charyngcrouche; with

power [as before Membrane 17], and 2 s daily wages. By p.s.

1 Richard II, volume 1, page 197

 

1378 14 Apr Westminster (membrane 9)

Appointment during pleasure, of the king's clerk William de Haunay as

controller of the said works, receiving from the said John Blake,clerk of

the works, 12 d. daily wages. By p.s.

1 Richard II, volume 1, page 197

 

1378 14 Apr Westminster (membrane 36)

Appointment of William de Hannay, king's clerk, as controller of all

purveyances, purchases and expenditure for the wages of workmen and

carriage upon the works to be executed by John Blake, clerk of the

works, at the palace of Westminster, the Tower of London, the castles of

Wyndesore and Berkhampstede, the manors of Kenyngton, Eltham,

Havering, Shene, Biflete, Yeshampstede, Henle, Wyndesore, Wolmere,

Langele Marreys, Childernelangeley and Feckenham and at the king's

lodges within his parks of Guldeford, Foly Johan, Colde Kenyngton and

Feckenham and at his mews for falcons near Charryngcrouche and, to

attest the payments made by the said John thereon, receiving for his wages

12 d. daily as long as he and the said William remain in the said offices.

By p.s.

1 Richard II, volume 1, page 210

 

1378 18 Jun Westminster  (membrane 15)

Writ of aid, during pleasure, for Thomas Harpecote, appointed to choose

masons, carpenters, and other workmen and labourers necessary for the

works ordered at Windsor Castle, the vineyards and gardens there, the park

of Lydecroft, the manor and lodge of Wychemere, together with the

fencing of Wyndesore park and repair of the pond there, the manors of

Yesthampstede, Henle, Worldeham and Langle Marreis, with the fencing

of the parks and repair of the pools and lodges within the parks of

Guldeford, Foly Johan, and Kaldekenyngton, also, to provide stone, timber,

tiles, bricks, and other necessaries therefor, and carriage of the same at the

king's charges, to be paid byJohn Blake, surveyor of the said works.

By bill of John Blake, clerk.

1 Richard II, volume 1, page 231

 

1379 7 May Westminster (membrane 15)

Writ of aid, during pleasure, for Thomas Harpecote, deputed by John

Blake, clerk of the king's works, his purveyor of works for repair of the

manor, lodge and fence of the park of Claryndon.

By bill of the said John

2 Richard II, volume 1, page 343

 

1381 10 Aug Reading (membrane 31d)

Mandate to the mayor and sheriffs of London and the sherills of Middle-

sex and Somerset to arrest and imprison Nicholas Frompton chaplain,

John Blake', scryveyn' and, Thomas Ingelby of Bruggewater, indicted

before Peter de Courtenay, Ivo Fitz Waryn and his fellow[ justices] in the

county of Somerset, of divers treasons, felonies and insurrections. By K.

5 Richard II, volume 2, page 74

 

1384 14 Jul Westminster (membrane 33d)

Commission of oyer and terminer to Edward de Courtenay, earl of

Devon, RobertTresilian, John Cary, John Strecche, knight, and James de

Chuddelegh, knight, on complaint bythe dean and chapter of St. Peter's,

Exeter, that Robert, abbot of Bukfast, Luke Holewelle, Henry Hareton,

WilliamBakere, Richard Lamport, Simon Direcomb, Nicholas Sperhauk,

and John Beghe, his fellow-monks, William Armurer of Bukfastlegh, John

Jaycok, Nicholas Brasyetter, William Bedde, John Loty, Peter Hogeman,

John Wode, John Wodenman, John atte Oke, John atte Yatte, John

Lyneger, Walter Lynedeston, John, vicar of Holme, Rebert Boulle, John

Bricche, John Monk, Richard Roke, John Paunton, John Taillour of

Bukfastlegh, John Frensshe of Bukfastlegh, Hugh de Bakhous, William

Turiouns, Richard Herre, Walter Wyke, Robert Blake, John Cornissh,

Adam Pipercorn, Thomas Sopere, Nicholas Sopere, William Wayfrank,

John Leghe, John Haredon, Walter Collyng[es], John Drake of Beueknolle,

Richard Coke of Bukfast, Hugh Coke, William Simon, John Spiryng, John

Hamelyn, Walter Clerk of Legh, John Lenton, Richard Knatton, Hugh

Brith and others came armed to the dean and chapter's manor of Staverton,

co. Devon, broke their closes, houses, and the weirs of their two mills there

and at Dertyngton, took their nets, value 20 l. at Staverton, cut them into

small pieces, felled their trees and underwood there, fished m their several

fishery, carried off fish, trees and other goods, depastured their corn and

grass, assaulted their servants, and so intimidated them that they dare not

stay on their lands, which remain uncultivated and uninhabited.

For 5 marks paid in the hanaper

8 Richard II, volume 2, pages 499-500

 

1386 12 Feb Westminster (membrane 32)

Writ of aid for Thomas Palmer and John Shalden, appointed by

William Hervy, ulnager of woollen cloths in England, his deputies in

the county of Southampton, during his pleasure.

By bill of the said William.

            The like for the following:

Cradock Phelipp[es], his deputy in the county of Gloucester.

Robert Blake and Robert Pope of Salesbury, his deputies in the

county of Somerset.

9 Richard II, volume 3, page 109

 

1386 28 Jan Westminster (membrane 39d)

Appointment of Nicholas Samburn, escheator in Wilts, John Blake,

Robert Devenessh and the sheriff of Wilts to enquire touching waste,

destruction and various defects in the alien priory of Abury, co. Wilts,

in the king's hands on account of the war with France, as well in

the church and chancel of the same as in the lands, buildings, woods,

walls, etc. belonging thereto.

9 Richard II, volume 3, page 165

 

1387 14 May Westminster (membrane 14)

Pardon to Henry Brokere of Stokecurcy for not appearing to answer John

Blake, touching a trespass. Somerset.

10 Richard II, volume 3, page 294

 

1388 13 May Westminster (membrane 11)

Appointment, during pleasure, as from Easter last, of John Kentwode.

knight, as steward of the manors, lordships, lands and tenements, late of

Robert de Veer, duke of Ireland, Robert Tresilian, knight, Robert Bealknap,

knight. John Cary, knight, and John Blake, in the counties of

Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, forfeited to the king by reason of the

judgments against them in the present Parliament, receiving therefor

what shall be reasonably agreed upon between him and the treasurer of

England. By bill of treasurer.

11 Richard II, volume 3, page 446

 

1388 4 Mar Westminster (membrane 32d)

The like of Richard Hembrigg, the king's serjeant-at-arms, to arrest

and bring before the king and council John Grilliston, John Blake ot

Comartyn, John Lenhergy and Henry Elyn.

11 Richard II, volume 3, page 464

 

1388 18 July Westminster (membrane 26)

Appointment of William Dounebruggoene, of the barons of the Exchequer,

to audit the accounts of the king's ministers in Devon, Cornwall,

Somerset and Dorset, in respect of all manors, lands and tenements in

those counties late of Robert, duke of Ireland, Robert Tresilian, Robert

Bealknap, John Cary and John Blake, forfeited in the late Parliament, so

long as they remain in the king's hands for that cause.

12 Richard II, volume 3, page 496

 

1388 10 Nov Westminster (membrane 1)

Grant, by mainprise of William Amadas of Devon, Thomas Porter of

the same county, and Thomas Mule of Bodman, co. Cornwall, to John

Sampford of the custody of the lands and tenements which were (sic)

Elizabeth Jardyn's, to hold during her minority, together with her

marriage, which lands were John Blake's, deceased, who made forfeiture

to the king; and he is to pay 60 s. therefor. Bybill of treasurer.

12 Richard II, volume 3, page 540

 

1388 12 Jul Westminster (membrane 32d)

Commission to William Rikhill and John Cassy, upon the petition

of Joan, late the wife of John Blake of Loddeforde, to enquire touching

the circumstances alleged therein, as follows: William Wayte, vicar of

Shestbeare, Richard Foldhay, Robert Maynard and Richard Chepman

by their charter lately granted to the said John and Joan and the heirs

and assigns of John, in perpetuity, all the lands and tenements, rents and

services of tenants, with reversions of such as were held for term of life

or years, in Devon, formerly the inheritance of Edmund de Horton,

and which they had by the grant and enfeoffment of the said John.

William Basset and several others similarly granted divers lands in that

county to the said John and Joan for life,  all which lands, by reason

of the judgment in Parliament against the said John, have been seized

into the king's hands, restitution whereof is now prayed. By K.

12 Richard II, volume 3, page 544

 

1389 15 Sep Clarendon Manor (membrane 13)

Appointment of Richard Frye and John Blake as controllers of the 20 l

a year granted for five years by the king's letters patent to his tenants in

Winchester from the subsidy of the ulnage of cloth in Winchester and the

county of Southampton for repairing the walls of their city. By p.s.

13 Richard II, volume 4, page 112

 

1389 15 Sep Clarendon Manor (membrane 11)

Grant for five years, to the king's tenants in Winchester who have

been impoverished by pestilences and other chance losses, of the subsidy

of cloth in that city and in the county of Southampton, to the yearly value

of 20 l for repairing the city walls, by survey and control of Richard Frye

and John Blake, but they are to account at the Exchequer for any surplus

therefrom. By p.s.

13 Richard II, volume 4, page 115

 

1389 28 Oct Westminster (membrane 3d)

Commission to William Rikhill and William Brenchesle to enquire

touching the petition of John Barlet alleging that whereas Robert

Champiaux, knight, in the time of Edward I granted, in free marriage,

to one John Barlet and Agnes his wife, daughter of the said Robert and

great-grandmother of the petitioner,  two messuages, two water mills and

a virgate of land with appurtenances in Mollond Champiaux, co.Devon,

which after the death of the said John and Agnes Barlet, Robert their

son, and Matthew son of Robert, should descend to the said petitioner,

son of the said Matthew, kinsman and heir of the said John and Agnes,

yet by reason of the forfeiture of John Blake, who was seized of the

premises at the time of his forfeiture the same are in the king's hand.

By K.

13 Richard II, volume 4, page 143

 

1390 24 Feb Westminster (membrane 31)

Grant, with the assent of the Great Council and for 20 l paid by Master

Hugh Hikelyng, clerk, Thomas Lane and John Lynley to John de

Hermesthorpe for the king's use, to the said Hugh, Thomas and John,

their heirs and assigns, from Michaelmas last, of two tenements with

wardens in Exeter, two shops, two parcels of land outside the east gate of

Exeter, one messuage or a .yearly rent of 18 s 4 d issuing from certain lands

and tenements in Great Toriton and a tenement in Merlond late of John

Blake, come into the king's hands by his forfeiture by virtue of the

judgment against him in Parliament at Westminster 11 Richard II. If

the premises or any part of them be duly recovered from the grantees,

compensation shall be made to them. By p.s.

13 Richard II, volume 4, page 223

 

1392 20 Jul Windsor (membrane 17)

Pardon,for 20 s.paid to the king byJohn Joce, to him and Edmund

Olak,Thomas Blake and John Payn, chaplain, for acquiring, in fee, from

John Inge of Fontel Giffard, co. Wilts, one toft, two carucates of land,

five acres of meadow and 20 d. of rent, with their appurtenances, called

Cnouylleslond in Shirebourne and Bromley within the forest of Pamber,

co. Southampton held in chief, and entering thereon without licence and

grant that they may hold the premises as acquired.

16 Richard II, volume 5, page 134

 

1393 10 Feb Winchester (membrane 5)

Grant to Joan, late the wife of John Popard of Alton, and executrix of

his will, of 25 l. due from Warin Lercedeaken and John Tregorrek to John

Blake under a writing obligatory found in her hands for 200 l as security

for the re- payment of a loan of 100 l. whereof the said John Blake had

received 60 l, as a loan from her said husband, as she in her petition

alleges, and of which sum of 100 l. 25 l. were repaid to the said John Blake

in his life-time and after his death 50 l. thereof to the king on account of

his forfeiture, leaving a balanceof 25 l. now asked for, and hereby granted,

but she also asks order for payment of the said 60 l. The king makes

this grant in full satisfaction of the last-named sum, and further pardons

the said Joan whatever is due to him for her concealment of the said

bond. By K.

16 Richard II, volume 5, page 223

 

1394 12 Feb Westminster (membrane 18)

William Wysbeche, draper alias citizen and merchant of London, for

not appearing to answer John Blake of Winchester, touching a

debt of 40.s.and to rendor 13 l. 16 s. to Walter Jurdan and John

Harleston, executors of the will of Henry Jurdan, citizen of

Winchester. London

17 Richard II, volume 5, page 401

 

1395 22 Jun Westminster (membrane 30)

Pardon of outlawry to Robert Broford clerk, for not appearing

before the justices of the Common Bench when sued with John Blake, clerk,

as executors of the will of Alan Wryngton,of Bristol, to

render, along with Richard Peuetrer,clerk, John Sutton and

John Cheltenam their co-executors, 100 l.to Edward Bokelond.

London.

20 Richard II, volume 5, page 672

 

1395 9 Oct Westminster (membrane 29)

Pardon of outlawry to John Blake, clerk, for not appearing

before the justices of the Common Bench when sued with Robert Breford,

clerk, as executors of the will of Alan Wryngton of, Bristol, to

render, along with Richard Peuetrer,clerk, John Sutton and

John Cheltenam their co-executors, 100 1. to Edward Bokelond.

London.

20 Richard II, volume 5, page 674

 

1397 28 Jun Westminster(membrane 34)

Grant,for a fine of 200 l. paid at the Receipt of the Exchequer, to John

Hankeford and his heirs for ever, at the yearly rent of a rose, of the

following, all in the county of Devon:- (1) the manor of Heghene, 6

messuages, 5 carucates and 6 ferlings of land and 1 shambles with their

appurtenances in Heghene, Horton Halle, Bishop's Nymet, Southmolton,

Yaddebyry, Uppecote, Langetree, Bradeworthy and Aysshemannesworthy

and 11 l. 1 d of rent and the rent of a pound and a half of wax, the

advowson of the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, Tadyport, with

appurtenances in Yaddebyry, Ruggecombe, Bradeworthy, Alfredysworthy,

Welcombe Hertilond, Aysshemannesworthy, Langetree, Petrysmerlond,

Wytherygge Heynstford Wodeton, Uppecote, Churne, Beare, Gronbeare,

Coltishorne, Stykerygge, Thorne, Wolfardysheth, Kysmeldon, Wolferdysworthy

and Bokyssh,which the said John and Joan, his wife, hold for the

term of the said Joan's life, the reversion belonging to the king by reason

of the judgement in Parliament against John Blake in the eleventh year ;

(2) the following reversions expectant, viz. a messuage and ferling of

land, upon the deaths of Ralph Smale and Joan, his wife, for which they

render 8 s. a year, a messuage and half a ferling of land, upon the death

of Thomas Inthehay, for which he renders 6.s. 4 d. a year, a messuage and

2 ferlings of land, upon the deaths of Robert Robyn, Clarice, his wife,

and John, their son, for which they render 16 s. a year, and two acres of

meadow, upon the death of Walter Person, for which he renders 6 d. a

year, with their appurtenances in Southmolton, Aysshemannesworthy,

Langetree and Doelton, all which reversions after the death of the

aforesaid Joan, wife of John Hankeford, belong to the king by reason of

the same judgement; (3) the reversion expectant of a messuage and

carucate of land in the hundred of Crydyton, upon the death of Thomas

Raymond who holds the same of the said John Blake and his heirs at

the yearly rent of 24 s. and (4) the homages and services of John Hurt,

John Gete, John Knyght, John Uppercote, Michael Bonde and Emma,

his wife, Walter Robert, parson of Crusmorchard, Thomas Wryth,

Reginald Withlegh, Walter Mander, Joan, late the wife of John Poleyn,

Lucy Hurle, Walter Beare, Giles Ayssh, William Way, John atte Wille,

Walter Willesdon, John Puteman, John Colyer, Lucy Deygh, Richard

Broun, Felicia atte Wode, Walter atte Fenne, and Elizabeth, his wife,

John Lorymere and Joan, his wife, John Adam, Robert Snook and Alice,

his wife, John Dysore and Joan, his wife, Adam Jon, and Joan his wife,

John Donneworthy and Alice his wife, Robert Yeo of Atteworthy, and

Joan his wife, Phillip Strokesworthy, John William, Richard Wylle,

John Walsch, Theobald atte Wode, John atte Worthen, and Sarah, his

wife, Reginald Sangere, John Langeman, John Loveworthy, John

Crocker, Robert Blenche, Richard Shephurd, and Margery, his wife,

Thomas Hora, John Inthehay, William Hodell, Robert Bonde, William

Raymond, John Bury, John Prodehomme, Robert Martyn and Meliora, his

wife, Thomas Jon and Joan, his wife, Roger Spycer, Ralph Chalvedon,

William Moret, David Holman, John Holand, Henry Hele, William

Hopere, Nicholas Batyn, and Agnes, his wife, Richard Nicol and Isabel,

his wife, John Wylky, John Belyetere, William Rynald, Margery Comyn,

Alice Comyn, William Coleton and Margery his wife, Thomas Rytherdon

and Christina, his wife, Walter Hurde, Lucy Taillour, Thomas Dogge,

William Lorymere and Edith, his wife, Robert Hermannesworthy, Henry

atte Forde, and Joan, his wife, and of their heirs, the said homages and

services belonging after the death of the said Joan, wife of John Hankeford,

to the king on account of the forfeiture of the said John Blake, together

with the wardships, marriages, and escheats. By p.s. [11240]

21 Richard II, volume 6, pages 167-168

 

1399 5 Nov Westminster (membrane 29)

Grant for life to the king's servant William Blake, late servant of the

king's sister the duchess of Gloucester deceased, of 4d daily at the

Exchequer.  By p.s.

1 Henry IV, volume 1, page 54

 

1402 13 Oct Westminster (membrane 22d)

Commission to ThomasWodyngfeld and Walter Long to supervise and

prepare the following ships of which the following are masters and

owners, viz., la Katerine of Salesbury of the portage of 140 tuns of

Thomas Child, John Montegewe, Thomas Bed, William Dodyng and,

John Girdeler, la Marie of Hampton of the portage of 126 tuns of

Walter Lang and Walter Schussh, le Blithe of Hampton of the portage

of 100 tuns of John Lymborne, John Montegewe and Nicholas Schagh,

la Alise of Hamell of the portage of 130 tuns of .John Pikot, John

Degell and John Clerk, le Welfare of Hoke of the portage of 74

tuns of John March, John Lasy and William atte Hele, la Margarete

of Hoke of the portage of 80 tuns of Andrew Blake and John

Aubrey and la Marie of Farram of the portage of 68 tuns of William

Smyth and William Peris, lately arrested by John Drax in the port of

Suthampton by pretext of a commission of the king and now under arrest

in the said port or other ports and places adjacent, and to take a balinger

at their discretion and mariners for the ships and balinger so that they

shall be ready in the said port on the last dayof October at latest to serve

the king at sea. By C.

4 Henry IV, volume 2, pages 196-197

 

1405 22 May Westminster (membrane 37)

Pardons of outlawry to Walter Jurdan,'marchaunt,' lately dwelling at Winchester for not

appearing to answer John Blake of Winchester touching a debt of

100 s. Southampton.

6 Henry IV, volume 2, page 448

 

1412 24 Sep Westminster (membrane 7d)

Commissionof oyer and terminer to William Hankeford,Robert

Hill, John Herle, 'chivaler,' Robert Chalons, 'chivaler,' William

Talbot, 'chivaler,' Henry Fulford,William Wynard and John

Selman, on complaint byJohn, abbot of Tavystoke, that Robert Salle,

Richard Salle, Robert Bloye, Alexander atte Beare, Richard Kyng,

William Blake, John Julle the elder, William Speare, John Mathu, John

Shyrreve, John Moys, Reginald Whyte, Walter Cook of the hundred

of Blaketoriton, John Westlake, John Strepe, Thomas Prous of

Ikesborne, Thomas Noble, Henry Westelake, John atte Wode,

Walter Charpeleyn, James Tykell, William Milforde and Richard

Milforde and others came armed to Hatherlegh, co, Devon, broke

his closes there, levelled his hedges, assaulted and ill-treated John

Roche his servant and other servants, carried off his corn in sheaves,

besieged a plot of his there called 'Monkelegh' and did not permit

his servants to go into or out of it, and threatened his servants and

tenants. For 2 marks paid in the hanaper.

13 Henry IV, volume 4, page 433

 

1419 20 Nov Westminster (membrane 25)

Robert Lovell of Rammesham co,. Dorset, alias of Claryndon,

co. Wilts, esquire, son of the lord of Lovell, for not appearing

to answer Richard Courteney, John Wade, clerk, and William

Wotton touching a debt of 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. and Hugh Burnell, knight,

touching a debt of 350 marks, to answer a plea that he render

his account of Humphrey duke of Gloucester for the time when

he was his receiver and to answer him touching a debt of 100

marks, to answer a plea that he render 14 l.to Robert Blake

and John Lynde, brother-in-law (frater in lege) of Richard

Chapman late citizen and painter of London, executors of the

will of the said Richard, and Robert Tentirden, citizen and

' iremonger' of London, and Rose his wife, late the wife of

the said Richard, their co-executrix, to answer Thomas

Ryngwode touching debts of 40 l.and 40 l.,William Hankeford,

knight, touching a debt of 210 l., William Somercotes touching

a debt of 20 marks and Thomas Dollay, citizen and mercer of

London, touching a debt of 15 l.19 s .8 d., and to answer a plea

that he render his account to Robert Thorley, esquire, for the

time when he was his receiver. London. Middlesex.

7 Henry V, volume 2, pages 229-230

 

1421 12 Jul Westminster (membrane 16d)

Commission to James Cokkes, mayor of Bristol, John June, Robert

Russell and Thomas Blount to enquire whether John Blake, prior

of the college of kalendars within the said town, was seised of 19 d.

rent from a messuage situated in the suburb of the town, parcel of

9 s. in a bill of his exhibited before the king in Chancery after the

king's last crossing to Normandy and, disseised by Mark William of

Bristol, and whether he was seised of the remaining 7 s. 6 d, rent in

such estate that he could not be disseised, or not.

8 Henry V, volume 2, page 325

 

1421 24 Apr Westminster (membrane 26)

Pardon to Richard Oward and Alice his wife, executrix of the

will of William Baily of Salisbury late 'draper,' of their outlawry

and waiver respectively in the county of Southampton for not

appearing before Richard Norton, late one of the justices of the Bench,

and his fellows to satisfy John Blake, citizen and merchant of

Winchester of, 29 l. which he recovered against them and 60 s. damages;

as they appeared in person before the said justices and were committed

to the Flete prison and when brought to the bar in the custody of

the warden of the Flete said that John after the recovery by a writing

produced in court dated the feast of St. Cecilia the Virgin, 8 Henry V,

released all actions against them and prayed a writ to the sheriff

to summon him before the justices to acknowledge or deny the writing,

which was granted, and they were brought to the bar and John on

the fourth day of the plea solemnly called did not appear, and the

sheriff returned that he summoned him, and judgement was given

that they should be quit.

9 Henry V, volume 2, page 337

 

1431 (membranes 3 to 1)

Placita copy.

A writ- of venire facias electos magne assise tested by R. de

Thorp on 4 February, 39 Edward III and returnable in the

quinzaine of Trinity following Mich. last. Roll 152. Assize:

with its endorsement bythe sheriff accompanying panel as

follows: BetweenJohn de Kirketon, 'chivaler,' plaintiff, and

Ralph de Cromwel, 'chivaler,' and Maud,  his wife, tenants.

Mainpernors of Peter Bavent, knight, sworn, John Forster,

Richard Bailly; of John deMulton, knight — William Covente,

William Gervays; of John de Osgotteby, sworn — Thomas

Petit, Ralph Bryan; of John Wyldebore — John Hervy,

William Tumour; of Sayer de Rocheford, knight, sworn -

Richard Collyng, Adam Blake; Roger de Cobeldyk is dead;

Mainpernors of John de Langeton, sworn — John Couper,

ThomasWarner; of Thomas son of Richard de Holbeche,

sworn — John Trippok, Adam Walker; of Richard Turnay,

sworn — John Symond, Roger Blybone; of Simon Huwet,

sworn — Richard Forster, Thomas Petit; of John de Crosseholm,

sworn — Adam Blake, John Freman; of William son of

Fulk de Sutton, sworn — Thomas Kempe, Alan Fouler; of

Peter Beauchampe, sworn — John Turpyn. Adam Wyot; of

Gilbert Wace of Toft, sworn — Stephen Blome and John

Wright; of William Sibry, sworn — William Hervy, John

Tannour; of Simon son of Martin de Holbeche — Richard

Hardy, Thomas Petit.

9 Henry VI, volume 2, pages 151-152

 

1442 30 Oct Westminster (membrane 26)

Pardon to the prior and canons of Bustlesham of the sum of 9 l. 9 s. 9 3/4 d

which they were charged on their goods in the county of Berks on

the occasion of the grant of a tenth, fifteenth and moiety of a tenth and

fifteenth to the king by the commonalty of England in the .Parliament

held at Westminster in the eighteenth year, to wit, 101 s. 9 3/4 d. in the town

of Bustlesham in the hundred of Bynerssh, 40 s in the town of Cokeham

in the hundred of Cokeham, 48 s. in the town of Bray in the hundred of

Bray, owing to the insufficiency of a writ of exemption directed to William

Sherman of New Wyndesore. Robert Beche of Wokyngham, John Kyrkeby

of Redyng, John Colyns of Gynge, John Colle of Beneham, Thomas

Blake of Northmorton , Richard Ryder of Hungerford, John Beremyll of

Westhanne and John Cokkes of Esthenreth, late collectors of the said

grants, and in spite of a charter of exemption granted to them by

Edward [Ill] and confirmed by the king. By K. etc.

21 Henry VI, volume 4, page 129

 

1452 16 Jun Westminster (membrane 23d)

Commission to John, earl of Shrewsburye reciting that contrary to

Westminster, the statute of 2 HenryV George Blake, master of a barge of

Portesmouth, and others therein took in the water of Colwater

by Colcestre three vessels called 'fates' full of woad (walda) worth

72 l. shipped in a ship of Robert Wodecok in the port of London by

John Ryng, merchant of Cologne in the Hanse, Halmain, to be sent to

Colcestre, and brought the same to Portesmouth and had their will

thereof, contrary to the friendship between the king and them of

the Hanse; and appointing the earl to enquire touching the premises

and to arrest George and the others and the said vessels and woad

and to make restitution thereof or of their value.

30 Henry VI, volume 5, page 579

 

Blak

1274 30 May Westminster (membrane 15)

Licence, until Michaelmas, for Walter le Aketon, merchant of Rouen, to

come to England to trade and to carry his wools and merchandise to the

usual fairs and markets by the public streets and common ways, provided

he do not carry or cause to be carried his wools or merchandise out of the

kingdom, nor deal with the Flemings or others of the power of the countess

of Flanders in the kingdom, or in any way communicate with them, during

the contention between the king and the said countess.

 

The like for the following :—

Peter de Bules, merchant of Rouen

William Burnell, merchant of Rouen

Hugh le Coynte, merchant of Rouen

Robert le Balauncer, merchant of Rouen

William de Toftes, merchant of Rouen

Matthew de Walle Richeri, merchant of Rouen

Richard le Mynnot, merchant of Rouen

William de Cryel, merchant of Rouen

Nicholas Veisin, merchant of Rouen

Antonin de Beuvays, merchant of Rouen

Nicholas de Fovill, merchant of Rouen

John de Alneto, merchant of Rouen

6 June

Richard le Vilein, merchant of Rouen

Henry Lovet, merchant of Rouen

Walter Peitevin, merchant of Rouen

Hubin de Sancto Martino, of Huy.

John Tafurnawe, of Huy, merchant of Almain.

Henry le Soriz, of Huy, merchant of Almain.

Ralph de Leges, merchant of Leges.

John Henneman, merchant of Leges.

Libert de Leges, merchant of Leges.

John Nicholas, merchant of Deu.

Herewail, merchant of Huy.

Cono Dain, merchant of Huy.

Domician Daundevale, merchant of Huy.

John Fox, of Brabant, merchant.

John Proppe, merchant of Malins.

John Perewez, of Huy, merchant of Brabant.

John Nicard, merchant of Huy.

Peter de Sauveye, merchant of Rouecestre.

Peter Cosyn, citizen of London.

Reginald de Menachato, merchant of Piacenza.

Conrad Nerbode, merchant of Almain.

Arnold de Dik, merchant of Malyns.

Nicholas Flambard, merchant of Rouen.

John de Torpmimie, merchant of Almain.

Geoffrey Aungevyn, merchant of Rouen.

William Cirurgyen, of Northampton.

William Bek, of London,

Henry Lovet, of Rouen.

Atinus Pruudalis, of Piacenza.

Hugelin Hugelinell, fellow of Nicholas Teste.

Nicholas Teste, fellow of Aldebrand Malagale.

John Winterman, merchant of Almain,

Luke de Lukes, merchant of Lucca.

Gotmar de Lubek, merchant of Almain.

Conrad de Affle, merchant of Almain.

Godschalc le Wyse, merchant of Almain.

Christopher de Munchy, merchant of Beuvays

Robert de Messegewell, merchant of Rouen.

John Donadeu, merchant of Cahors.

Everard de Duncy, merchant of Amiens

James Piket, merchant of Amiens

Warin Piket, merchant of Amiens

Warin Reinevall, merchant of Amiens.

Giles de Mundider, merchant of Amiens

Jacomin de Sancto Fuscencio, merchant of Amiens

Everard le Franceis, merchant of Amiens

Richard le Blak, merchant of Rouen.

Reyner de Furnar', merchant of Florence.

John Weremund, merchant of Caumbrey,

Alan de Sakintot, merchant of Rouen.

John Parwale, merchant of Malines.

Henry de Laghene, merchant of Malines.

Henry de Lewe, merchant of Brabant.

John de Mes, merchant of Amiens.

Walter Aketon, merchant of Rouen,

John Dunadeu, merchant of Cahors.

John de Burgundia, merchant of Amiens

Drogo Malherbe, merchant of Amiens

John Dare, merchant of Amiens

Ingelram Beremere, merchant of Amiens

Gilbert Bonnavel, merchant of Amiens

2 Edward 1, volume 1, pages 51-52

 

1315 1 Nov Clipstone (membrane 15)

Promise of repayment in the next Parliament of 750 marks to G. bishop

of London and the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, advanced by them to the

king, for the repayment of which sum a recognisance was entered into by

John de Sandale. chancellor, then holding the place of treasurer, and

Robert Baygnard and Antony Pessaigne, John de Burford, William

Combmartyn, William Trente, William Servat, William deDonecastre and

John Vanne, king's merchants. [Parl. Writs.]

The like for the following persons for the sums named:—

W. archbishop of Canterbury and the prior and chapter of the church

of the Holy Trinity, Canterbury, for 675 marks.

H. bishop of Winchester and the prior and chapter of the church of

St. Swithun, Winchester, for 600 marks.

The bishop and the dean and chapter of the church of Bangor for 600

marks.

J. bishop of Bath and Wells and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Andrew, Wells, for 500 marks.

W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and the dean and chapter of the

church of St. Chad, Lichfield, for 500 marks.

J. bishop of Chicester and the dean and chapter of the church of the

Holy Trinity, for 500 marks.

The bishop and dean and chapter of the church of Llandaff for 100

marks. Vacated because surrendered and cancelled in the year

14 Edward II. when other letters were made.

W. bishop of Worcester and the prior and chapter of the church of

St. Mary, Worcester, for 450 marks.

J. bishop of Ely and the prior and chapter of the church of St. Etheldred,

Ely, for 300 marks.

R. bishop of Salisbury and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Mary, Salisbury, for 750 marks.

J. bishop of Norwich and the prior and chapter of the church of the

Holy Trinity, Norwich, for 1,600 marks.

D. bishop of St. Davids and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Davids for 120 marks.

R. bishop of Hereford and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Ethelbert, Hereford, for 300 marks.

W. bishop of Exeter and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Peter, Essex, for 300 marks.

Th. bishop of Rochester and the prior and chapter of the church of

St. Andrew, Rochester, for 150 marks.

J. bishop of Lincoln and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Mary, Lincoln, for 2,100 marks. Vacated because surrendered

and cancelled in the year 11 Edward II. when other letters

were made.

The same bishop, dean and chapter for 900 marks, by recognisance of

William Cause, John de Blyton, Simon de Edelington, Walter de

Baiocis, Henry Bere, Gilbert le Blak, Geoffrey Thornhagh, Gilbert

de Atherby, David le Taverner, John de Novo Castro, James Berne

and Richard de Blakeden (citizens) of Lincoln. Vacated as above.

The bishop of St. Asaph and dean and chapter of the same place

for 100 marks. [Parl. Writs.]

9 Edward II, volume 2, pages 368-369

 

1316 21 Mar Langley (membrane 29)

Grant to J. bishop of Chichester and the dean and chapter of the Holy

Trinity, Chichester, that they may retain 500 marks out of the next aid to

be granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury in repayment of

the same sum, for which John de Sandale, king's clerk, then holding the

place of treasurer, Robert Baygnard and Anthony Pessaigne, John de

Bureford, William Coumartyn, William Trente, William Servat, William

de Donecastre and John Van, king's merchants, had, 17 July, 8 Edward II,

at the king's request, became sureties to the said bishop, dean and chapter.

[Parl. Writs.]

The like for the following:—

W. archbishop of Canterbury and the prior and chapter of the church

of the Holy Trinity, Canterbury, for 675 marks.

H. bishop of Winchester and the prior and chapter of the church of

St. Swithun, Winchester, for 600 marks.

The bishop of St. Asaph and the dean and chapter thereof for 100 marks.

The bishop of Bangor and the dean and chapter thereof for 60 marks.

The bishop of Bath and Wells and the dean and chapter of the church

of St. Andrew, Wells, for 500 marks.

W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and the dean and chapter of the

church of St. Chad, Lichfield, for 500 marks.

J. bishop of Chichester and the dean and chapter of the church of the

Holy Trinity, Chichester, for 500 marks.

The bishop of Llandaff and the dean and chapter thereof for 100 marks,

W. bishop of Worcester and the prior and chapter of the church of

St. Mary, Worcester, for 450 marks.

J. bishop of Ely and the prior and chapter of the church of St. Etheldreda,

Ely, for 300 marks.

R. bishop of Salisbury and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Mary, Salisbury, for 750 marks.

J. bishop of Norwich and the prior and chapter of the church of the

Holy Trinity, Norwich, for 1,600 marks. Vacated because surrendered

and cancelled in July, 11 Edward II, when other obligations

were made.

D. bishop of St. Davids and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Davids for 120 marks.

R. bishop of Hereford and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Ethelbert, Hereford, for 300 marks.

W. bishop of Exeter and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Peter, Exeter, for 300 marks.

Th. bishop of Rochester and the prior and chapter of the church of

St. Andrew, Rochester, for 150 marks.

J. bishop of Lincoln and the dean and chapter of the church of

St. Mary, Lincoln, for 2,100 marks.

Other letters patent were made to the same bishop, dean and chapter

for 900 marks by recognisance by William Cause, John de Bliton,

Simon de Edelington, Walter de Baiocis, Henry Bere, Gilbert le

Blak, Geoffrey Thornhagh, Gilbert de Atherby, David le Taverner,

John de Novo Castro, James Bern' and Richard de Blakedene of

Lincoln.

G. bishop of London and the dean and chapter of the church of St. Paul,

London, for 750 marks. [Parl. Writs.]

9 Edward II, volume 2, pages 440-441

 

1323  24 July Faxfleet (membrane 17d)

Commission of oyer and terminer to John de Scures, John Randolf and Ralph de Bereford on

complaint by Richard de Pulteneyc, merchant of Coventre, that, whereas he

freighted a ship with goods at Rouen in Normandy to take to Suthampton,

John de Shotteby, John Payn of Wynchelse, Walter Robyn, Alexander

Aleyn, Stephen le Bakere, Thomas Saudre, Andrew atte Boure, William de

Goseford, John Chaumberleyn, Roger Gise, Matthew Webbe, John Bateau,

Stephen Saundre, William Sandre, Thomas Taylour, John Shullyng, John

Snep, Peter Rog[er], John Shotteby, the younger, Robert Sauvage, John

Pye, Richard Bakere, John Pye, William Mazon, Thomas le Hunte,

Gervase Vetyr, Nicholas Ryvere, Michael Scot, Richard Tusshe, John

Tusshe, Robert de Huth and John his brother, Sirnon Sandre, John Heryng,

of Shorham, John Wornbe, William son of William de Borhunte, John

Mazon, Thomas atte Mull, Thomas le Webbe, Roger Augyr, John de

Ryhavene, John Kyppyng of Manewod, Bartholomew de Manewod, Richard

Romayn, John Fithelare, William Chesecromme, John Chesecrornme, John

Buryhyne, Elias le Bakere, William le Northren, Simon le Blak, John 'by

the Wode', Richard le Rotur, Philip le Crokere, Robert Dodde, William de

Romeseye, John Cormailes, Robert de Mallynges, Henry de Heythe, John

Lance, William de Bourhunte of Portesrnuth, William Prevete, Walter le

Sapere, Richard de Northamton, Thomas le Yonge, Thomas de Holle,

Richard Byges, Robert Bonynges of Cicestre, Simon and Roger his

brothers, John Hardyng, Robert de Irland, Richard le Nedlere, Robert le

Bulle, John le Bulle, John Corp', William Hauton of London, Richard

de Farham of Alreford, Peter le Mercere of Wynton, Stephen le Hulke,

John Aylwardbury, Roger le Nedlere of Sarum, Walter le Grangere of the

Isle (de Insula) of Wight, John Welhure, William Colet, John Aleyn,

William Norman, and Nicholas Purde, and others, entered his ship as it

was anchored in the port of Portesmuth, co. Southampton, and carried

away his goods. By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.

17 Edward II, volume 4, pages 374-375