• General Notes

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  . John D'Oyly, who, v.p. viz. 4 Edw. I. (1275-6)[189] held the said manor of Pushull Nappa, co. Oxon., of Edmund Earl of Cornwall (nephew of King Henry III.), by the yearly render of a tablecloth of three shillings' value, or three shillings in lieu thereof; which manor had in the time of Henry III.[190] been held of the Crown in capite, by serjeanty, viz. by the said tenure of yielding yearly a tablecloth to the Crown at the feast of St. Michael, by Robert Napparius, in right of his wife (the heiress of the estate); but the original render for which was simply three shillings, Henry III. having commuted the render to a table cloth to accommodate Napparius; and subsequently by granting the honour of' Walingford (of which Pushull was a member) to his brother Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans, in 1230-1, constituted the Earls of Cornwall mesne tenants of the manor.[191] At the Oxfordshire Hundred inquisitions the hundredors returned that they knew not by what warrant the Earl of Cornwall received the said render; which produced the suit in 13 Edw. I. presently noticed. John D'Oyly died before 1279, for in 7 Edw. I. his representatives held Pushull, He left an only child, a daughter,

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