Bartholomew Pecche

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁰⁴
Herbert de Shortecombe died seised of 2 marks rent in Lollingdon at some date prior to 1240, when his nephew and heir Robert de Shortecombe, then a minor, remitted that rent to Bartholomew Peche in exchange for the reversion of land in Sparsholt [Assize R. 37, m. 17 d]. Bartholomew's son and heir Herbert Peche died about 1272 holding the manor of Lollingdon of Robert de Shortecombe in free socage by 1d. yearly [Cal. Inq. p.m. (Hen. III), 285]. The Shortecombe mesne lordship appears to have lapsed very shortly after the death of Herbert Peche, whose son and heir [Ibid] held Lollingdon of the king in chief as one-tenth of a knight's fee [Ibid. 1'9619 Edw. I, 293] He died seised about 1283 [Ibid,] leaving his son, another Bartholomew, a boy of three and a half, as his heir. In 1327 [De Banco R. 270, m. 7] Joan, the widow of Bartholomew Peche, impleaded John Peche concerning an agreement made between them as to the manor of Lollingdon. The younger Bartholomew was knighted and his son John is mentioned in 1349, when the manor of Lollingdon was held for life by Elizabeth Edward, by a certain Joan and by William son of Joan [Feet of F. Berks. 23 Edw. III, no. 50].

~A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume III, 296-302

• Background Information. ¹²⁸⁹
Early in the reign of Henry III, William de St. John granted to Bartholomew Pecche the lordship of Crockerel Hulle, which up to this time had formed part of his manor of Sherborne St. John [Burrows, op. cit. 375], and some years later Robert de St. John, son and successor of William, granted Bartholomew an additional 11 acres of land with appurtenances in Sherborne St. John [Burrows, op. cit. 375]. This manor, which was subsequently known as Clotely [Assize R. 778; Close, 23 Edw. III, pt. i, m. 18 d., 19] and afterwards as Beaurepaire, continued to be held of the St. Johns and their successors as of their manor of Sherborne St. John until the 16th century, when the overlordship fell into abeyance [Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 221; Close, 23 Edw. III, pt. i, m. 18 d., 19; Feud. Aids, ii, 344; Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 961, no. 9]. Bartholomew Pecche, who was alive in 1249 [Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 33 Hen. III], had been succeeded before 1264 by Herbert Pecche [Feet of F. Hants, East. 38 Hen. III], who died seised of a hide of land called Beaurepaire in Sherborne St. John in 1272, leaving as his heir his son Bartholomew [Cal. Inq. Hen. III, 285]. (fn. 112) Bartholomew claimed to have free warren throughout the whole hundred of Basingstoke in 1275 [Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 221], and died about seven years later, leaving as his heir his infant son and namesake [Cal. Inq. Edw. I, 293]. The latter, before 1318 [Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 11 Edw. II], had been succeeded by his son Sir John Pecche.

~A History of the County of Hampshire, Volume IV, pp. 158-171