LISLE, John I

More may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 608-9.

Lisle’s long-running dispute with Sir William Sturmy* over the herbage at Hippenscombe in Wiltshire, which Sturmy claimed as pertaining to the forest of Savernake (of which he was hereditary warden) and Lisle claimed as warden of the neighbouring forest of Chute and by virtue of leases granted at the Exchequer to his father and himself, seemingly came to a decisive end in July 1412. At an assize of novel disseisin Sturmy was awarded judgement against him and his deputy warden at Chute, John Harris†, with damages of 40 marks. Furthermore, in November these damages were tripled after Lisle failed to pay. In 1424 Lisle and Harris contested the judgement by bringing a writ of error in the King’s bench. JUST1/1020/6; KB27/651, rots. 85-86d. Even so, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, who had asserted that the herbage pertained to him, as part of the revenues of Savernake granted to him by Henry IV, secured it after Sturmy died in 1427. It was not to be until after Gloucester’s death that Lisle’s son and heir, John II, was able to obtain a new lease at the Exchequer. CFR, xv. 209; xviii. 91.