The Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483; ed. for the Royal historical society, from the origial documents in the Public record office, by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

ABSTRACT. Draft of the award made by Sir Edmond Rede on "dyvers contravercyes and variaunces . . . had and moved betwen Thomas Stonor of Stonor in the Counte of Oxon, esquyer, garden . . . of all the manors, landes, and tenementes of John Cotesmore, son and heyre of John Cotesmore, duryng the nounage of the seid John Cotes|more on the oon party, and Olyver Whitonstall and Margaret, his wyff, late the wyff of John Cotesmore, the fader of the seid John, on the other parte," touching the possession and profits of all the manors etc. of the said John Cotesmore in the Isle of Wight, and in the counties of Oxford, Berks, and Bucks. First: "the same Olyver and Margaret shall have and pesibely possede and resceyve all the issues, profites, and revenues of the Manor of Dourton in the Counte Buks" and 4l. yearly rent from Holcome, Oxon, during the nonage of John Cotesmore. Thomas Stonor is to let to farm to them all manors etc. in the Isle of Wight during the nonage of John Cotesmore; they paying to Stonor, or his executors, 38l. 13s. 4d. Stonor is to have the issues of all other lands, the Manor of Mylton, Oxfordshire, excepted.

The chief subject of this letter was clearly the marriage of Thomas Stonor's ward, John Cottesmore, to one of his daughters—probably Joan—see Nos. 128 and 136. I cannot explain why Harcourt addresses Stonor as "my ffadyr". The letter would naturally imply that Harcourt was married to a daughter of Thomas Stonor, and that a son or daughter of his by a former wife was going to marry a daughter or son of Thomas Stonor. But Richard Harcourt is said to have married (1) Edith, daughter of Thomas Sencler or St. Clere, by whom he had a son Christopher and a daughter Anne; (2) Eleanor, daughter of Sir Roger Lewknor, by whom he had a son John, who married Margaret, daughter of William Bray; and (3) Katherine,