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2  SOUR S332582
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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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"Richard, son of Richard de Chaundeler of Wilts, is first mentioned in an enquiry in 9 Edward I (1280-1), regarding the lands of one Richard le Blunt, whos tenant by military serice the said Richard Chandler the younger was.  The lands of le Blunt are described as in Stotfold, which is inteded for Stoudfold or Stodfold, and adjacent to Wilcot. There can, indeed be very little doubt that the lands which Chandler held under le Blount included Oare.  Shortly after this, however, we find this branch of the family acquiring property in adjacent places. viz.:  in Etchilhampton Parish, two or three miles from Oare, in Devizes Parish, about four or five miles distant, and in the Hundred of Heytebury, about fifteen miles away.  In the few rolls in which their names are mentioned the descendants of Richard are thus described as sometimes of one place, at other times as of another. This has resulted, in the absence of Chacery Inquisitions and information from the De Banco Rolls, and certain other records, in osme cvonfusion as regards the exact relationship of those who succeed each other--whether, for instance, son or nephew.  On the other hand, the descendants did not begin to multiply very rapidly until the sixteenth century, and those who do appear in the records of their day are surely of the landholding line, i.e., the direct ancestors of the Oare branch.

"Of Richard le Chandler (or Chaundeler) the second we find considerable. On Saturday next after the Feast of St. DUnstan, 30 Edward I (1302), he was one of the jurors in an inquisition taken by John de Hertrugg, Sheriff of Wilts, at Cherleton next Uphaven, as to whether Roger la Warre shall give his manor of Rustesal to Roger de Stocke and Alic his wife, or not (Chancery Inq. ad quod damnum, file 38, no. 13).

"On 3 May, 35 Edward I (1307), an Inquisition was taken at Lyttletone Paynel (in the parish of Lavington) concerning William Paynel and the manor of Lyttletone, Richard le Chaundelyr being a juror (Chancery Inq. ad quod damnum, 35 Edward I, file 64, no. 20).

"On 29 May, 35 Edward I (1307), an Extent of the knights' fees, and other fees, of Roger le Bygod, Earl of Norfold, was made up Uphave, by Richard le Chaundler and other jurors (Chancery Inq. P.M., Ser. 1, 35 Edward I, no. 116).

"The same richard, under the designation of Richard le Chandeler, was one of the jurors in an Inquisition take at Stpellavynton, 13 Edward II (1310), after the death of John Michel (Inq. P.M., 13 Edward II, no. 1).