Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Warren of Somerton, and for the third part of the Advowson of the Church at Hawkridge and the Free Chapel of Newton-Plecy in the County of Somerset. Richard granted the said tenements and bailiwicks and advow-sons to Roger and Sibilla to hold to them and the heirs of Roger of the Lord the King. For this Roger and Sibilla gave Richard 100 marks of silver. This concord was made by precept of the king." In the above document the mention of " the third part of the advowsons of Hawkridge and the Newton-Plecy Chapelry " is certainly instructive and points to the acknowledged fact of the threefold distribution of the original de Plecy property amongst the three sisters, viz: Sabina de Plecy, who married Nicholas Pecche; Avelina, who married Thomas Durant; and Emma, who married John Heyroun, or Heron (see above). 1. Proceedings Sotn. Arch. Soc., vol. xli, p. 25. Who this Roger de Beauchamp and his wife Sibilla were is not very clear. It seems most probable that Roger was of the Somerset family which gave its second name to Hatch Beauchamp. A sketch of the Barony of Beauchamp has been given by Mr. John Batten in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society (vol. xxxvi), but no one of the name of Roger Beauchamp appears there. In Collins' " Peerage" a Roger de Beauchamp is mentioned as " Constable of the Castle of Devizes" in 1373. Also, in Kennet's "History of England" (p. 221), a passage runs thus: "In 1347 King Edward took his army into Normandy and had with him the Earls of Hereford, Arundel and the Lords Mortimer (afterwards made Earl of March)... John, Lewis and Roger Beauchamp and divers others: " and it may have been this soldier. Roger Beauchamp may have been son of John Beauchamp, who, in 1322, was custodian of the king's...