{"id":7,"date":"2014-09-03T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chaldecott.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2014-09-03T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:49:48","slug":"william","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chaldecott.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"William to Richard II"},"content":{"rendered":"

William to Richard II<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1348 to 1484<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

William I<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Said to have been born 1348<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Date of death\u00a0 N.K<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 I have started the first of the personal profiles with this particular William, due to the fact, that he was\u00a0 the first family member of a long line of predecessors who, I can establish a direct link with the successive generations. In my researches I did discover a great number of predecessors,\u00a0 but in none of the references was there sufficient information, to construct a family lineage.\u00a0 Prior to our subject There were quite a number of\u00a0 Williams, together with numerous Richards and\u00a0 Roberts and a few Johns.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 In he is mentioned as being an escheater & taxatore\u00a0 the\u00a0 post\u00a0 of\u00a0 taxatore did in later years actually get combined, in the all in one title of\u00a0 escheater,\u00a0 a number of his predecessors, also held this post.\u00a0 I could find no mention of\u00a0 his wife\u2019s name, he appears to have owned a great deal of\u00a0 land\u00a0 in the Purbecks and elsewhere in the locality\u00a0 when he was appointed to his position his location as mentioned as being of Moreton, later this can be a little confusing since in another document it was stated that he had been appointed into the same position for East and West Morden which are two villages to the north east of Wareham. There is at least one other village with the name of Morden in the county<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0The duties of an escheater\u00a0 are a trifle vague, apparently his main occupation was to sort out\u00a0 the affairs of those who had died in testate,\u00a0 and deal with any arguments regarding, inheritance among their successors,\u00a0 this would\u00a0 I think this would\u00a0 have been quite a problem, due to the fact that not many people\u00a0 in those days, appeared not to have made wills.\u00a0 It would appear that most inheritance problems, were sorted out at inquest PM\u2019s, where all the deceased assets were itemised, and put before a jury, one of whose\u00a0 members would have been the escheater , It was from this source of reference that\u00a0 I managed to gain the fact that a number of\u00a0 generations of the family had held this post..\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the duties I have just mentioned the holders of this post, if there were no direct relatives they would seize on behalf of the crown all of the assets. of the deceased.\u00a0 There were\u00a0 also various taxes which had to be paid by land owners.\u00a0 It there fore fell upon the duties, of the escheater to check these assessments and arrange for the collection of the relevant tax. If the landowner didn’t\u00a0 pay or went\u00a0 into arrears, it fell upon the escheater\u00a0 along with the Sheriff, to seize on behalf of the Crown as much property as\u00a0 was necessary to cover the debts incurred.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Due to the foregoing, this is why at this period there, is not much information, on\u00a0 land holdings but in later years the, the full extent, of\u00a0 these has become more apparent.\u00a0 There appears not to be, much information on William in the records generally, other than when he was appointed to the post that his father had held who was also William,. and was an escheater,\u00a0 what little there is on the records regarding this William is truly enlightening and gives one an indication as to his true character.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The following account regards an incident, that occurred\u00a0 near his land at\u00a0 his land at Kimmeridge, a reference to which I discovered in the Public Records Office. It was an actual transcript of the original document\u00a0 therefore it was a trifle muddled, however I did manage to write down, a rough account outlining the sequence of events. My\u00a0 interpretation\u00a0 of this account, was later confirmed, in greater detail, in a publication by Rodney Legg, the well known, Dorset Historian, in his\u00a0 Book “Guide to Dorset Coast and\u00a0 Shipwrecks”\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Apparently\u00a0 some when in 1371 a ship named\u00a0 the “Welfare” of Dartmouth was sailing around the\u00a0 Dorset coast\u00a0 bound for London.\u00a0 but during rough weather she was driven\u00a0 ashore, upon hearing of this event, William and\u00a0 several other\u00a0 land owners in the area rushed to the scene, together with\u00a0 Thomas the Abbot of Cerne Abbey\u00a0 and two of his monks\u00a0 who Happened to be in the locality at the time, they also owned a large amount of land in the area.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 It appears that, the abbot was the leader of this bunch,\u00a0 claimed that the foreshore was the property of the Abbey,\u00a0 therefore they had the right, to the ship and its cargo,\u00a0 so instead of assisting\u00a0 the captain and crew at this, traumatic time, the mob attacked them and stole the cargo.\u00a0 By that time apparently, most of the inhabitants of the village, had gathered, and between them they\u00a0 transported all of the goods from the beach, and hid them in a barn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0The cargo from the ship consisted of a large amount of luxury goods including bales of silk and other merchandise to the estimated value of \u00a32000.\u00a0 However they didn’t\u00a0 getaway with the crime and were later brought to trial at Sherborn assizes.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was claimed that more than a hundred people were involved. The main protagonists\u00a0 were\u00a0 convicted . they\u00a0 were, William Chaldecott, John Anderbode, William wyat and his son, John Russell, John Swanland, and Thomas Gerrad.\u00a0 There appears to be no record of their punishment. The most likely outcome would have been that they would have been pardoned, this was the usual outcome of events of this nature,\u00a0 involving the gentry.\u00a0 A similar event took place involving one of\u00a0 Williams\u00a0 successors on this particular spot nearly two centuries later, which I will cover later in this account.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0William was\u00a0 also apparently involved in another legal battle. This yet again concerned the Abbot of Cerne Abbis, he owned a field that was adjacent, to another which belonged to the Abbot so in order to reach this, the Abbots man crossed Williams field and broke down hedges and fences, he seemed to<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

have had a bit of a fracas with the Abbots man, and with the aid of his own man, confiscated\u00a0 four horses and a cart. For this he was hauled\u00a0 before a court, this time the jury found in favour of William,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and\u00a0 was completely cleared, and\u00a0 it was said\u00a0 that he had acted within his rights, so the horses and the cart were duly awarded to him. I could trace the date of Williams death. He was however succeeded by another William.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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William II<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

B 1370<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This\u00a0 William replaced his father as\u00a0 escheater . he must have led a relatively dull life the only entries I have seen recorded, was in reference to him sitting on juries and odd entries in the Lay Subsidy Roles. He was succeeded by his son Richard .<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Richard<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

B 1400<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Richard appears to have broken the family tradition of\u00a0 having the first son and heir\u00a0 being\u00a0 William\u00a0 but this does not\u00a0 appear to be the case,\u00a0 he did have an older brother named William but he apparently died at Quite an early age .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Richard was also was an escheater , but in this field he appears to have spread his activities in this post over\u00a0 a wider area both in Hampshire and Dorset, it would appear that he had homes in both Wareham and Winchester,\u00a0 there is evidence in the record as having sat on juries in both counties.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 In 1442 he was elected the Member of Parliament for Wareham,\u00a0 after this however he still appears to have, carried out his duties as an escheater,\u00a0 in both counties.\u00a0 It is likely he died sometime before 1454, this is the date recorded, that his son Richard was appointed, as an escheater for\u00a0 Hampshire.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Richard II<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

B 1433<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

D 1462<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In 1455, the year after he, was appointed to the post of escheater, and like his father stood for parliament, to represent\u00a0 and\u00a0 in 1455 and was elected as member for Wareham , and also , still seemed to have carried on his job as escheater.\u00a0 It\u00a0 is believed that his wife was of the heiress of the quarel family and in doing so brought\u00a0 the house at Quarleston into the Chaldecott family\u00a0 for a number of generations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0At the time of his death he had two sons, William age 14 and Richard 12. from this time on, a different pattern began to develop, in respect to the families. history\u00a0 inheritance. I therefore think that this would be an appropriate time in my account\u00a0 to compile a summary\u00a0 of the land and property\u00a0 assets, of the family, as this will have a great bearing on the rest of\u00a0\u00a0 this account.\u00a0 These are listed in chapter 4<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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