More can be added to the earlier biography.
By 1429 Cricklade had become involved in a dispute over the Wiltshire manor of Beversbrook (in Hilmarton). In 1406, this manor had been purchased from Sir John Blount by William Worfton† (or Wroughton), from whom it had descended to his son and heir John (aged seven at his father’s death), who had named Cricklade among his feoffees. At the time of Wroughton’s death in 1429, the manor was in contention between Cricklade and William Spershet, the latter claiming an apparently spurious title through one Walter White who, so he stated, had been disseised by the Blounts. The matter came to trial in the court of common pleas in 1435, but it seems that Cricklade won the day, since three years later he was able to convey Beversbrook to William Darell*, who had recently married one of his daughters to the heir, John Wroughton*.
It is not possible to prove Cricklade’s complicity in the murder of his brother-in-law, Walter Studley*, in February 1438, but it is at least curious to find his eldest son Robert providing bail for the woman who had allegedly ordered the assassination – Joan, the wife of John Hodgkins alias Ferrour.