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- For more information on Peverels see under William "The Older" (Nottingham) Peverel in this file.
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Langton afterwards settled it upon Robert Peverel and his wife Alice with remainder to their son Edmund. (fn. 22) In 1325 the two fees in Ashby were held by Robert's widow Alice. (fn. 23) She married Thomas de Verdon with whom, in 1329, she claimed to have view of frankpledge and free warren in the manor, (fn. 24) and he was said to hold half a fee in Ashby and Grendon in 1346. (fn. 25) Alice de Verdon and her grandson John, son and heir of Edmund Peverel, both died in 1349, probably from the Black Death. The manor then included 160 acres in demesne, but was not worth more than 40s. for want of servants because of the pestilence, only six out of twenty-four bondmen surviving. (fn. 26) John son of Edmund Peverel, when 21, had demised all his lands in the county to John de Lyle of Rougemont, (fn. 27) from whom the manor passed into the possession of William de la Pole, the husband of Margaret sister and heir of John Peverel, (fn. 28) and he, in 1358, settled it on himself and his wife in tail male. (fn. 29) He was succeeded in 1366 (fn. 30) by his son Sir John de la Pole of Chrishall, Essex, who married Joan daughter of John Lord Cobham. (fn. 31)
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