BORN_SHORT ‎± 1281 Arberfelde, Berkshire, England
Robert was the successor of Gilbert and is known to have been trustee for the Crown (Edward II) of certain land in Barkham. The land was supposed to have orginally belonged to John Mautravers and was forfeited by him to the King, along with other possessions. Agnes (Anne) de Neville claimed to have been wrongly dispossessed of this land by Mautravers. She was successful in her claim and Robert Bullock was authorized to make the land over to her in 1335. Robert Bullock is referred to as "Lord of Erburghfeld" in 1331 and this is the earliest indication that the Bullock family held the Lordship of the Manor of Arborfield. In 1341 Robert settled the manor on his son Robert and Joan Drokensford, his wife.

Bullock's Chantry.

IN the year 1330, an inquisitio ad quod damnum was taken at Newbury, on writ dated February 6 in that year, to ascertain

" If it would be to the damage of the King, or of any of his subjects, if Robert Bullock of Newbury assign a messuage in the town to Richard de Warmington, Rector of Newbury, to celebrate divine service at the Altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Newbury for the souls of the father and mother of the said Robert Bullock, and of all the faithful departed. The jury found that it would be no damage to any one, and reported that the messuage was held of the Earl of Lincoln, as of the inheritance of his wife by service of 2s. 8d. yearly, and was worth 26s. 8d. beyond this in annual value. The Earl of Lincoln held of the Earl Marshal, who was a tenant of the King. There remained to Robert Bullock after his gift, lands and tenements worth one mark yearly, which were held of the Earl Marshal by an annual payment of 5s."

The Earl of Lincoln referred to in the Inquisition was Eubolo le Strange, a younger son of John, Baron Strange, of Knockyn, who in some documents is dignified with the title of Earl of Lincoln, he having married Alice de Lacy, the daughter and heir of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and the divorced wife of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster.

The grant by Robert Bullock was confirmed by Wyvill.

In the report of the Commissioners appointed to survey the ecclesiastical property in Berkshire there is this notice of Bullock's Chantry: " " There is a Chantry called Bullocke's Chantry, founded by Robert Bullocke, and hath been dyss.. . [? disused] by the parson of Newbury since the fourth day of February, in the 27th year of the late King's reign [Henry VIII] without the King's license, of the clear yearly value of 9s. d. And the ornaments, plate, goods, and chattels merely appertaining to the said Chantry are none "." The Ministers' Accounts, i, 2 Edward VI., furnish the following return from Bullock's Chantry while in the King's hands: " " Deanery of Newbury. " Account of Richard Pickering, collector, for half a year ending at Michaelmas.

The chantries in the parish church were of considerable value. Bullock's chantry was founded by Robert Bullock of Newbury about 1330 for a priest to celebrate at the Lady altar in the parish church, and endowed with a messuage in Newbury. By 1535 it had been appropriated to the rectory, and was returned as of the clear annual value of £8 16s. 2d. Slightly different estimates of value are given by the chantry certificates. Warmington's chantry was an augmentation of Bullock's, and founded about 1367–8 by William de Warmington, chaplain of the earlier chantry.

The lands belonging to Bullock's chantry passed to one Thomas Adams, but those belonging to Wormestall's chantry and to the 'Lady Priest's chantry' continued to be, as they already were, the endowment of the town school.

The family to which Robert Bullock, the founder of the
first Chantry in our church belonged, was of some import-
ance in the county of Berks, for there is a Final Concord
(15 Edw. IIL, no. 19s) between Robert Bullock, senior,
plaintiff, and sundry defendants, for the manor of Erburgh-
field (Arborfield), which was settled on the plaintiff for
Hfe, with reversion to Robert his son, and Joanna, daughter
of John de Drokensford, and the issue of Robert Bullock,
junior, and Joanna his wife, in default of issue to Robert
Bullock, senior, and his heirs.

John de Drokensford was Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, Lord High Treasurer, and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1310 to 1329, and the above Joanna was not improbably a relative] of his. The manor of Arborfield belonged to the Bullocks for many generations. Robert Bullock of that place
served the office of Sheriff of Berkshire and Oxfordshire
in the 8th and 15th Richard IL, and w^as M.P. for Berks
in the Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster
6 Richard 11,, 138J, The names of Thomas Bullock and^
Richard Bullock occur in the list of the gentry of Berk-
shircj returned by the Commissioners 12 King Henry VI.,
1433. Thomas, son of Robert Bullock, of Arborfield^
married Alice, daughter of William Yeading, w^hose son
Robert married Margaret, daughter of William Norrcys,
of Bray, from whom descended the Lord Norreys of
Rycote. Thomas Bullock, of Arborfield, was Sheriff of
Berks, 23 Queen Elizabeth.

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messuage:
(Law) Property law a dwelling house together with its outbuildings, curtilage, and the adjacent land appropriated to its use

BORN_SHORT ‎1285 Arborfield, Berkshire, England, DIED_SHORT ‎1345‎, 59 or 60 years
Name is also Joanna de Drokensford
Birth also reported 1325