General Notes

Knight; inherited manorial estates at Somerton & Fringsford and Coggs land
in Oxfordshire from the de Gardinis family, and messuage at leisdon from
Arsic family, and manor of Ixning from the de la Haye family; in 1330
inherited the Gifford lands; 26 MAR 1338 to array 10 men at arms, 20 armed
men & 40 archers for the French War; in 1340 had license to build an oratory
in his home at Twyford; an assessor of taxes on Pxfordshire 1340; one of
knights who accompanied Edward III to France, and in King's division at the
Battle of Crecy 1346; in 1349, 1351 and 1361 commisioner of peace in
Buckinghamshire; 14 MAR 1360 a commisioner of array in Buckinghamshire for
the French War; in 1368 again a commisioner of array.