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WILTSHIRE. 
 
 THE 
 
 TOPOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 •Softtt ftttfereo, JF.lLa., 
 
 A.D. 1659—70, 
 
 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 CORRECTED AND ENLARGED 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN EDWARD JACKSON, M.A., F.S.A., 
 
 of Bra8bnose Coll. Oxon. 
 
 Rector of Leigh Pelamere, Yicar of Norton, 
 and Hon. Canon of Bristol. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 OTir JEILltsIurc ArcR.Tologtcal anti natural J^igtorn Soctetg. 
 
 DEVIZES : 
 
 PRINTED AND SOLD FOR THE SOCIETY BY HENRY BULL, SAINT JOHN STREET. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 LONGMAN & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. 
 
 1862. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 942-37 
 
 jAWS'i 
 
 JOHN AUBREY Esq., of Easton Piers in the Parish of Kington St. Michael, 
 if not the first to conceive the idea of a Topographical History of his native 
 County, was certainly the earliest Collector for that purpose whose materials are 
 known to have been preserved. On the principle of division of labour, as described 
 by himself at the beginning of his Preface, he undertook the Northern part: but 
 his colleagues failing to redeem their promises of co-operation, he was left to pursue 
 his researches alone, and so by degrees extended them generally throughout the 
 County. Between the years 1659 and 1670 he personally examined the Parish 
 Churches, made notes of the memorials then to be seen in them, and being a 
 frequent visitor at the houses of the gentry, he also gleaned upon those occasions 
 such information as hall-windows or family traditions were able to supply. The 
 result of his labours forms the Text of the present Volume. 
 
 That Aubrey adopted statements too easily upon credit is an old complaint 
 
 against him. The truth is that he wrote down what he was told, without having 
 
 at the moment any means of sifting it, and afterwards either forgot or neglected to 
 
 do so. But he was, upon the whole, not a bad observer of things: and though he 
 
 may have collected rather indiscriminately, still he has certainly been the means 
 
 b 
 
IV 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of preserving, in his various Manuscripts, a great number of curious facts and 
 memoranda which otherwise would never have been known again. John Evelyn 1 
 alluding to Aubrey’s “History of Surrey” has done him justice: and a later Authority, 2 
 in an Article upon the youth of Milton, after verifying, by incidental testimony in 
 that Poet’s writings, some notes of Milton’s early biography which Aubrey had made 
 in his “Lives of Eminent Men,” generously says: “For this and many like treasures 
 of literary gossip, we account Aubrey, despite his love of ghosts and wonderful 
 accidents, among the benefactors of mankind.” 
 
 Pecuniary troubles having compelled him to sell his Wiltshire property in 1671, 
 he became a homeless man, and passed the latter years of his life chiefly in or 
 about London, seldom revisiting his native county. His Wiltshire Collections 
 were never completed. He had at first intended to place them in the hands of 
 Anthony Wood: but being unhandsomely treated by that Antiquary, he changed 
 his mind, and “repositcd” the Manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, then 
 recently founded. 
 
 In the Dedication of his “Miscellanies” in 1696 (the year before his death) to 
 James, 1st Earl of Abingdon, he says: “It was my intention to have finished my 
 ‘ Description of Wiltshire,' 1 half finished already, and to have dedicated it to your 
 Lordship. But my age” (about 70 years) 3 “is now too far spent for such 
 undertakings. I have therefore devolved that Task on my country-man Mr. 
 Thomas Tanner, who hath youth to go through with it, and Genius proper for 
 such an undertaking.” 
 
 1 Miscell. Writings 4to, p. GST. 2 Edinburgh Review, April, 1860, p. 324. 
 
 3 1625 — 6. “John Awbrye, Sonne of Richard Awbrye: gent: was baptized the xij Daye of March.” Kington 
 St. Michael Register. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 V 
 
 The future Bishop of St. Asaph and author of the “ Notitia Monastica,” a native 
 of East or Market Lavington in this County, was at the close of Aubrey’s life 
 engaged in assisting Bishop Gibson with Wiltshire information, for a New Edition 
 of Camden’s Britannia. Aubrey’s papers had been already lent to him in 1693, 1 
 and in returning them to then- author, Tanner writes 2 that ho “had collected above 
 100 sheets towards completing them.” It is believed that all the materials prepared 
 by Tanner were absorbed in Bishop Gibson’s work. 3 
 
 Aubrey’s Collections, when first consigned to the Museum at Oxford, consisted 
 of Two Volumes , marked on the side “Hypomnemata Antiquaria A,” and “ B.” 
 Of these, “Liber A” only is now to be found. “Liber B” was borrowed from the 
 Library in 1703, a few years after John Aubrey’s death, by his brother William, 
 and unfortunately was never restored. 4 
 
 The “Volume A,” (lately transferred to the Bodleian Library,) consists of Two 
 Parts , bound together. It is of small folio size, in Aubrey’s own hand-writing, and 
 is interspersed with coloured shields of Arms, inscriptions, copies of deeds, and a 
 few rude outlines, apparently from memory, of ancient houses. Under the titles of 
 the several parishes he appears to have simply registered facts or remarks relating 
 to each, as he met with them. There is no appearance of further method or 
 
 1 Letters from the Bodleian, II. 166. 2 Ditto II. 172. 
 
 3 “ Tanner, in a folio half-sheet 1694 communicated his plan for a comprehensive History of Wilts, which 
 unfortunately, by the distance of his” (subsequent) “preferment from the County, he was prevented from finishing.” 
 
 Edw. Poore’s MS. Journal: penes Wilts Arch. Soc. 
 
 4 See an Article by the present Editor on the subject of this missing Volume, in the “Wiltshire Archaeol. Mag.” 
 vol. vii., 76. A Note to Warton’s “History of Kiddington,” 4to 1783, p. 44 says, that Aubrey’s MS. History of 
 Wiltshire wms at that time preserved partly in the Ashmolean Museum and partly in the Library at Ahlerton, 
 Wilts. The Alderton Library, then belonging to the Montagu family, was probably dispersed at the Sale of their 
 effects at Lackham near Chippenham in 1815 or 1816. The Editor has made every enquiry in his power for this, 
 lost “ Liber B,” but hitherto without success. Aubrey frequently refers to it. See pp. 185, 186, 309, 360, 
 400, and 415. 
 
 b 2 
 
VI 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 disposition: so that his own apology for the chaotic state in which he left another 
 of his Manuscripts (the History of Surrey) might have been equally well made for that 
 of Wiltshire. “My papers are like Sibyllina Folia. I shall not take the pains 
 to digest them in better order, which would require the drudgery of another 
 transcribing; and now I set things down tumultuarily, as if tumbled out of a sack, 
 as they come to hand.” 
 
 Notwithstanding their disorder and rudimentary character, Aubrey’s gleanings 
 are now of considerable value, simply on account of their age. During an interval 
 of 200 years, time and neglect have produced their usual effects. Of what Aubrey 
 saw and has recorded, a great part has long since utterly perished; and for the 
 mere fact of its ever having existed at all, we are indebted to such of his “Sibylline 
 leaves ” as were prudently stitched together in Volume A. 
 
 For the graver purposes of regular Topography, it may perhaps be considered 
 that a selection of the more important parts would have been sufficient. But in a 
 work which professes to describe things as they were two centuries ago, more 
 particularly in one withdrawn unfinished from Aubrey’s anvil, it is not very easy to 
 say what may or may not be rejected. Although from sources that have since been 
 laid open it may be in our power to correct many of his statements, still there are 
 other instances in which, the original memorials having perished, it is no longer 
 possible to pronounce with certainty how far he is right or wrong. 
 
 That many of his remarks do not at first sight appear to be very important, is 
 undoubtedly true. But for retaining them it may be some excuse to say that he was 
 the first, and for a long time the only collector for Wiltshire ; and that almost any 
 notices of days long past are better than no notices at all. It does however so 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 yii 
 
 happen that even Aubrey’s hearsay anecdotes, though resting on no higher 
 authority than that of “the parish clerk’s wife” or “old Hughes the gunsmith,” 
 and in themselves of no extraordinary value, have occasionally been found to 
 contain some local allusion, suggestive of enquiry, and capable of being traced 
 to a real result. 
 
 It is also only fair to remember that his Manuscript makes no sort of pretension 
 to the dignity of a County History. It is literally nothing more than the rough 
 original note-book of a somewhat miscellaneous Collector, either too fond of his 
 own crop to hoe it himself, or, as he says in one of his Letters, “surprised by age” 
 before he had time to do so. Last of all, failing any great importance in his 
 matter, Aubrey’s mere language is amusing: the quaintness of the telling is often 
 compensation enough for the insignificance of the thing told. For these reasons 
 it has been thought better to print the whole, and to let Aubrey give us his stories 
 in his own way. Instead of pilfering his information, and using it in some other 
 shape, it is more just to produce the Collector himself “in his habit, as he lived” 
 and wrote. His native county which he loved so well, which he took so much 
 trouble to serve, and in which he and his oddities of thought and speech have 
 always been indulgently received, would resent the appearance of the Father of 
 Wiltshire History in any other costume than his own. 
 
 But the costume, though not altered, required to bo properly adjusted. The 
 sentences in the original Manuscript, having been (as already mentioned) entered 
 just as they “ came to hand,” refer of course first to one thing, then to another. A 
 memorandum about the Church is followed by another about the Manor; then 
 comes the Church again, or any thing else, as the case may be. Facts of later, 
 
Till 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 stand before others of earlier date: and so on. In re-arranging the paragraphs and 
 in short, the entire Manuscript, the Editor has only done what Aubrey himself— 
 “ potuit, si non prius ipse perisset ”—might have done, had he lived, and conquered 
 his dislike to the “ drudgery of another transcribing.” The Hundreds, and under 
 them the Parishes, are now presented alphabetically. 1 
 
 In the next place, some occasional additions were absolutely necessary, even to 
 the Text itself. Aubrey’s pen was apt to slip: he left numerous blanks, and was 
 unable to give names to many of the coats of Arms. The reader will be so good 
 as to understand, that throughout the Yolmne, (Aubrey’s Preface excepted, where 
 nothing was required), all that is placed within brackets is not in the original Text. 
 
 The 11 Mem" or “ Quaere ” continually recurring, was intended as a signal to catch 
 the attention of the Antiquary’s brother William Aubrey; who still remained at 
 King-ton St. Michael, and was looked upon as a sort of provincial agent, charged with 
 the duty of filling up gaps, whenever the Yolmne might happen to reach his hands. 
 
 It will be observed by reference to the Plates, that by far the greater part of 
 Aubrey’s Illustrations are Heraldic. This may perhaps be pronounced to be not 
 the least useful part of his work. For the truth is, that upon the more serious 
 labours of Parochial History—the long investigation of evidences, the thoughtful 
 comparison of them, and the drawing of correct conclusions from them—Aubrey was 
 either unable or unwilling to enter. 2 Yet, by preserving, as he did, drawings of the 
 Arms still in his days to be seen on the windows or walls of churches and houses, 
 
 1 A few copies of the Text in its original state, without note, arrangement, or Heraldic illustration, were printed 
 some years ago: the First part of vol. A, at the press of J. Davy, Queen Street, Seven Dials, 1821 : the Second part, 
 at Middle Hill, 1838 : both, it is understood, by direction of Sir Thomas Phillipps. 
 
 2 “I would willingly, before I leave England, finish the ‘ Perambulation of Wilts (the present Manuscript) 
 “ which is more than half done. In a fortnight or 3 weeks I could do it—the country part. The Records will 
 keepe cold." To A. Wood, October 27th, 1671, MS. Letter. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IX 
 
 his industry has been of considerable service in providing others with a clue to 
 research. Arms and quarterings on nameless memorials of stone or glass, are not 
 only useful, but (if accurately copied) unerring indications of local or family history, 
 where other information fails. Aubrey may not have been always quite accurate, 
 but—“Est aliquid, memori visa notare manu”—it is something to have copied at all. 
 On the other hand, to correct him on these points, is neither easy nor always safe. 
 For his drawings frequently differ from his verbal descriptions of them: and if, in 
 order to decide between the two, the place is visited, either the shield is found, in 
 most cases, to have vanished altogether, or the Arms have been unskilfully re-touched, 
 which makes the confusion greater than before. Authentic parochial history, 
 where it could be had, has cleared up some of the difficulties: and whenever this 
 has been so precise as to leave no manner of doubt, Aubrey has been corrected, 
 or his blanks supplied, without hesitation. But where any doubt remains, his 
 drawings are simply given in the Plates, as he left them. 
 
 That he, or indeed any person, not knowing the particular history of a parish or 
 its ancient families, should fall into error, is not at all surprising. In Heraldry, 
 two coats belonging to totally different families, are often very nearly alike; and 
 distinctions, at all times apt to be overlooked, become entirely effaced in course of 
 years upon decayed and weather-worn stone or glass. Even if not effaced, it is 
 not always easy to detect them. “Dim days” (sometimes complained of in the 
 following pages), height from the ground, the smalness of the shields themselves, 
 the chilly atmosphere of an old country-church, and the hurry of a chance visit, are 
 obstacles to accuracy, with which all church-note takers are familiar. 
 
 In correcting and identifying these valuable relics of Wiltshire family history, the 
 
Xll 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED continued. 
 
 Kington West . . .86 
 
 Parish of Lacock . . . .89 
 
 Borvdon . . .93 
 
 Lackham . . .95 
 
 Langley Burell . . .95 
 
 Leigh Delamere . . .100 
 
 Littleton Drew . . . 103 
 
 Dunley . . . 104 
 
 Luckington . . . 105 
 
 Sherston Magna . . . 106 
 
 -Parva or Pinkeney . 109 
 
 Slaughterford . . .110 
 
 Sop worth . . . .111 
 
 Abbey of Stanley . . . .112 
 
 Tithing of Surrenden . . .114 
 
 Parish of Tytherington Keilways . . 115 
 
 Tytherington Lucas . .116 
 
 Wraxhall North . . .117 
 
 Ford . . .120 
 
 Yatton Keynell . . .120 
 
 Yatton Keynes or West . 122 
 
 IY. DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 Christmalford . . . 125 
 
 Grittleton . . .128 
 
 Kington St. Michael . .130 
 
 Priory, St. Mary’s . . 143 
 
 Kington Langley . . 145 
 
 Langley Fitzurse . . 146 
 
 Nettleton . . . 148 
 
 Y. HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE, and 
 STAPLE HUNDRED. 
 
 Bluntesdon St. Andrew’s . 150 
 
 Highworth . . . 151 
 
 Sevenhampton . . 158 
 
 Latton . . . 152 
 
 Lydiard Millicent, or North . 153 
 
 Purton . . . 154 
 
 Kodbourne Cheney . . 156 
 
 Somerford Keynes . . 159 
 
 Stratton St. Margaret . .160 
 
 VI. KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 Ckiselden . . .162 
 
 Cliff Pipard . . .163 
 
 Hilmerton . . .167 
 
 Cliff Wancy . . .169 
 
 PAGE 
 
 KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED continued. 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Lydiard Ewyas, or Tregoz 
 
 
 170 
 
 
 Lyneham 
 
 
 185 
 
 
 Midghall 
 
 
 183 
 
 
 Bradenstoke Priory 
 
 
 186 
 
 
 Clack 
 
 
 186 
 
 
 Tockenham West 
 
 
 189 
 
 
 Swindon 
 
 
 190 
 
 
 Tockenham East 
 
 
 194 
 
 < 
 
 W anborough 
 
 
 194 
 
 
 Wootton Basset 
 
 
 202 
 
 
 Fastern 
 
 
 204 
 
 VII. 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 
 
 Ashley 
 
 
 206 
 
 
 Bremelham 
 
 
 208 
 
 
 Brinkworth 
 
 
 208 
 
 
 Grittenham 
 
 
 209 
 
 
 Brokenborough 
 
 
 210 
 
 
 Charlton 
 
 
 211 
 
 
 Crudwell 
 
 
 213 
 
 
 Dauntesey 
 
 
 216 
 
 I 
 
 Draycote Cerne 
 
 
 228 
 
 
 Knapwell 
 
 
 235 
 
 Tything of Easton Piers 
 
 
 235 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Foxley 
 
 
 275 
 
 
 Garsdon 
 
 
 241 
 
 
 Hankerton and Cloateley 
 
 
 243 
 
 
 Hullavington 
 
 
 245 
 
 
 Bradfield 
 
 
 248 
 
 
 Kemble and Ewelme 
 
 
 249 
 
 
 Lea and Cleverton 
 
 Malmesbury 
 
 
 250 
 
 
 Borough 
 
 
 251 
 
 
 Monastery 
 
 
 253 
 
 
 St. Mary, Westport 
 
 
 263 
 
 
 Burton Hill 
 
 
 265 
 
 
 Cole Park 
 
 
 265 
 
 i 
 
 Corston 
 
 
 266 
 
 
 Rodbourne 
 
 
 280 
 
 1 
 
 Whitchurch 
 
 
 2G7 
 
 
 Minty 
 
 
 268 
 
 
 Newnton 
 
 
 271 
 
 
 Norton 
 
 
 274 
 
 
 Oaksey 
 
 
 275 
 
 
 Poole 
 
 
 278 
 
 
 Seagry 
 
 
 280 
 
 | 
 
 Somerford Maltravers, alias Broad 
 
 283 
 
CONTENTS. Xlll 
 
 PAGE 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED continued. 
 
 Parish, of Somerford Mauduit, alias Little 285 
 Stanton St. Quintin . . 286 
 
 Sutton Benger . .291 
 
 VIII. MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 Melksham . . . 294 
 
 Earlstoke . . . 298 
 
 Seend . . . 302 
 
 Poulshot . . . 300 
 
 Whaddon . . . 305 
 
 IX. POTTERNE and CANNINGS HUN¬ 
 
 DRED. 
 
 Devizes . . . 306 
 
 Rowde . . . 309 
 
 X. RAMSBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 Bishopston . . .311 
 
 XI. 
 
 SELKLEY HUNDRED. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Abury 
 
 . 314 
 
 
 Silbury 
 
 . 331 
 
 
 Broad Hinton 
 
 . 334 
 
 
 Kennet East 
 
 . 337 
 
 
 Marlborough 
 
 . 337 
 
 
 Mildenhall 
 
 . 338 
 
 Forest 
 
 of Savernake 
 
 . 339 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Winterbourne Monkton 
 
 . 341 
 
 
 Winterbourne Basset 
 
 . 342 
 
 XII. 
 
 WHER WELLS-DOWN 
 
 EUN- 
 
 
 DRED. 
 
 Bradley North 
 
 . 345 
 
 
 Southwick Court 
 
 . 346 
 
 Priory 
 
 of Edingdon 
 
 . 340 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Steeple Ashton 
 
 . 352 
 
 SOUTH WILTS. 
 
 I. AMBRESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 Durington . . . 356 
 
 Fighelden . . . 357 
 
 Ludgershall . . . 358 
 
 II. DUNWORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 Tisbury . . . 360 
 
 III. ELSTUB and EVERLEY HUN- 
 
 KINWARDSTONE HUNDRED continued . 
 
 379 
 
 379 
 
 380 
 
 381 
 381 
 
 Wulfhale 
 Tottenham Park 
 Bedwyn Parva. 
 Burbage 
 
 Priory of Easton 
 
 Y. MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 Parish of Maiden Bradley 
 
 383 
 
 DRED. 
 
 
 Mere 
 
 . 
 
 . 385 
 
 Everley 
 
 . 365 
 
 Stourton 
 
 
 . 389 
 
 Wroughton 
 
 . 367 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 VI. 
 
 WESTBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 
 KINWARDSTONE 
 
 HUNDRED. 
 
 Westbury 
 
 . 
 
 . 402 
 
 Bedwyn Magna 
 
 . 372 1 
 
 Brook House 
 
 . 399 
 
 
 GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
 
 
 
 Down Ampney 
 
 . 407 | 
 
 Marshfield 
 
 . 
 
 . 415 
 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 Appendix 
 
 of Deeds .... 
 
 
 419-444 
 
 
 Additions, 
 
 and Errata observed 
 
 
 445 
 
 
 Index I. 
 
 Places .... 
 
 
 447-457 
 
 
 II. 
 
 Persons . 
 
 
 458-478 
 
 
 III. 
 
 Plates, Arms and Quarterings, &c. 
 
 . 
 
 479-488 
 
 
 IV. 
 
 Miscellaneous and Glossary 
 
 • 
 
 489-491 
 
 
XL1 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED continued. 
 
 Kington "West . . .86 
 
 Parish of Lacock . . . .89 
 
 Bowdon . . .93 
 
 Lackham . . .95 
 
 Langley Burell . . .95 
 
 Leigh Delamere . . .100 
 
 Littleton Drew . . .103 
 
 Dunley . . . 104 
 
 Luckington . . . 105 
 
 Sherston Magna . . . 106 
 
 -Parva or Pinkeney . 109 
 
 Slaughterford . . .110 
 
 Sop worth . . . .111 
 
 Abbey of Stanley . . . .112 
 
 Tithing of Surrenden . . . 114 
 
 Parish of Tytherington Keilways . .115 
 
 Tytherington Lucas . .116 
 
 Wiaxhall North . . .117 
 
 Ford . . .120 
 
 Yatton Keynell . . .120 
 
 Yatton Keynes or West . 122 
 
 IY. DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 Christmalford . . . 125 
 
 Grittleton . . .128 
 
 Kington St. Michael . . 130 
 
 Priory, St. Mary’s . . 143 
 
 Kington Langley . . 145 
 
 Langley Fitzurse . .146 
 
 Nettleton . . . 148 
 
 Y. HIGH WORTH, CRICKLADE, and 
 
 STAPLE HUNDRED. 
 
 Bluntesdon St. Andrew’s . 150 
 
 Highworth . . . 151 
 
 Sevenliampton . . 158 
 
 Latton . . . 152 
 
 Lydiard Millicent, or North . 153 
 
 Purton . . . 154 
 
 Rodbourne Cheney . . 156 
 
 Somerford Keynes . . 159 
 
 Stratton St. Margaret . .160 
 
 VI. KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 Chiselden . . .162 
 
 Clift’ Pipard . . .163 
 
 Hilmerton . . .167 
 
 Cliff Wancy . .169 
 
 PAGE 
 
 KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED continued. 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Lydiard Ewyas, or Tregoz 
 
 
 170 
 
 
 Lyneham 
 
 
 185 
 
 
 Midghall 
 
 
 183 
 
 
 Bradenstoke Priory 
 
 
 186 
 
 
 Clack 
 
 
 186 
 
 
 Tockenham West 
 
 
 189 
 
 
 Swindon 
 
 
 190 
 
 
 Tockenham East 
 
 
 194 
 
 
 Wanborough 
 
 
 194 
 
 
 Wootton Basset 
 
 
 202 
 
 
 Fastern 
 
 
 204 
 
 VII. 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 
 
 Ashley 
 
 
 206 
 
 
 Bremelham 
 
 
 208 
 
 
 Brinkworth 
 
 
 208 
 
 
 Grittenham 
 
 
 209 
 
 
 Brokenborough 
 
 
 210 
 
 
 Charlton 
 
 
 211 
 
 
 Crudwell 
 
 
 213 
 
 
 Dauntesey 
 
 
 216 
 
 
 Draycote Cerne 
 
 
 228 
 
 
 Knapwell 
 
 
 235 
 
 j Tythin 
 
 g of Easton Piers 
 
 
 235 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Foxley 
 
 
 275 
 
 
 Garsdon 
 
 • . 
 
 241 
 
 
 Ilankerton and Cloateley 
 
 
 243 
 
 
 Hullavington 
 
 
 245 
 
 
 Bradfield 
 
 
 248 
 
 
 Kemble and Ewelme 
 
 
 249 
 
 
 Lea and Cleverton 
 
 Malmesbury 
 
 
 250 
 
 
 Borough 
 
 
 251 
 
 
 Monastery 
 
 
 253 
 
 
 St. Mary, Westport 
 
 
 263 
 
 
 Burton Hill 
 
 
 265 
 
 
 Cole Park 
 
 
 265 
 
 
 Corston. 
 
 
 266 
 
 
 Rodbourne 
 
 
 280 
 
 > 
 
 Whitchurch 
 
 
 267 
 
 
 Minty 
 
 
 268 
 
 
 Newnton 
 
 
 271 
 
 
 Norton 
 
 
 274 
 
 
 Oaksey 
 
 
 275 
 
 
 Poole 
 
 
 278 
 
 
 Seagry 
 
 
 280 
 
 
 Somerford Maltravers, alias Broad 
 
 283 
 
CONTENTS. XU1 
 
 PAGE 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED continued. 
 
 Parish of Somerford Mauduit, alias Little 285 
 Stanton St. Quintin . . 286 
 
 Sutton Benger . . 291 
 
 YIII. MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 Melksham . . . 294 
 
 Earlstoke . . . 298 
 
 Seend . . . 302 
 
 Poulshot . . . 300 
 
 Whaddon . . . 305 
 
 IX. POTTERNE and CANNINGS HUN¬ 
 
 DRED. 
 
 Devizes . . . 306 
 
 Rowde . . . 309 
 
 X. RAMSBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 Bishopston . . .311 
 
 XI. 
 
 SELKLEY HUNDRED. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Abury 
 
 . 314 
 
 
 Silbury 
 
 . 331 
 
 
 Broad Hinton 
 
 . 334 
 
 
 Kennet East 
 
 . 337 
 
 
 Marlborough 
 
 . 337 
 
 
 Mildenhall 
 
 . 338 
 
 Forest 
 
 of Savernake 
 
 , 339 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Winterbourne Monkton 
 
 . 341 
 
 
 Winterbourne Basset 
 
 . 342 
 
 XII. 
 
 WHERWELLS-DOWN 
 
 EUN- 
 
 
 DRED. 
 
 Bradley North 
 
 . 345 
 
 
 Southwick Court 
 
 . 346 
 
 Priory 
 
 of Edingdon 
 
 . 340 
 
 Parish 
 
 of Steeple Ashton 
 
 . 352 
 
 SOUTH WILTS. 
 
 I. AMBRESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 Durington . . . 356 
 
 Fighelden . . . 357 
 
 Ludgershall . . . 358 
 
 II. DUNWORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 Tisbury . . . 360 
 
 III. ELSTUB and EVERLEY HUN- 
 
 KINWARDSTONE HUNDRED continued. 
 
 Wulfhale . . .379 
 
 Tottenham Park . . 379 
 
 Bedwyn Parva. . . 380 
 
 Burbage . . . 381 
 
 Priory of Easton . .381 
 
 Y. MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 Parish of Maiden Bradley 
 
 383 
 
 DRED. 
 
 
 
 Mere 
 
 
 . 385 
 
 Everley 
 
 . 365 
 
 
 Stourton 
 
 
 . 389 
 
 Wroughton 
 
 . 367 
 
 YI. 
 
 WESTBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 
 KINWARDSTONE 
 
 HUNDRED. 
 
 
 Westbury 
 
 . 
 
 . 402 
 
 Bedwyn Magna 
 
 . 372 
 
 
 Brook House 
 
 . 399 
 
 
 GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
 
 
 
 Down Ampney 
 
 . 407 
 
 
 Marshfield 
 
 
 . 415 
 
 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 Appendix 
 
 of Deeds 
 
 • 
 
 
 419-444 
 
 
 Additions, 
 
 and Errata observed 
 
 . 
 
 
 445 
 
 
 Index I. 
 
 Places 
 
 . . 
 
 
 447-457 
 
 
 II. 
 
 Persons 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 458-478 
 
 
 III. 
 
 Plates, Arms and Quarterings, &c. 
 
 . 
 
 479-488 
 
 
 IV. 
 
 Miscellaneous and Glossary 
 
 • 
 
 489-491 
 
 
oUCEIlJ AHJBMY. 
 
 (Bom A.D. 162•§ —Died 1697) 
 
(Title Page of the Original Manuscript.) 
 
 Ut canis h Nilo . 1 
 
 m 
 
 ESSAY TOWARDS THE 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NORTH DIVISION 
 
 OF 
 
 WILTSHIRE 
 
 BY ME 
 
 JOHN AWBREY of EASTON PIERSE. 
 
 “ . .data sunt ipsis quoque fata Sepulchris.” Juv. Sat. x. 
 
 “ Yanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.” Eccl. I. 
 
 “ Et ssepe in tumulis sine corpore nomina legi.” Ovid. Met. xi. fab. 10. 
 
 [freehold] 
 
 “ One generation passeth and another Generation succeedeth, but the earth abideth for ever.” (Eccl. 1. 4.) 
 “ Mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.” 
 
 Let these two Volumes of Antiquities of Wilts be Dedicated to my singular 
 good Lord the Rt. Honble. James Earle of Abingdon . 2 
 
 (Xf 3 See what signe North Wilts is under by observation of remarquable Accidents. I should guesse it to be 
 under Capricorn: as also is Oxford. 
 
 1 “ Like a dog at the Nile.” The crocodiles made it dangerous for a dog to linger at his 
 draught. This proverb on his Title Page, is to be interpreted as poor Aubrey’s apology for the 
 imperfections of his “ Essay.” Ilis pecuniary troubles gave him but few opportunities of re¬ 
 visiting his native county and of pursuing his researches peacefully. He could only come there, 
 as he says in one of his letters, “ like Cams ad Nilum, take a lap and away.” 
 
 2 The Manor of West Lavington formerly belonged (under the See of Sarum) to Sir John 
 Dauntsey. His grand-daughter Elizabeth was second wife to Sir John Danvers the Regicide. 
 Anne Danvers, second daughter, (becoming a coheiress on the death of her brother Henry s. p.), 
 married Sir Henry Lee, of Ditchley, Oxon. Eleanor, eldest daughter and coheiress of Sir H. Lee, 
 married James Bertie, first Earl of Abingdon, who thus became seated at M est Lavington. At 
 his House there (of which a small part only remains), Aubrey found shelter in adversity. He 
 also dedicated his “ Miscellanies ” to the same Nobleman, who died 1699. 
 
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r/ YAvj ANTIQUARIA . 1 
 
 In Sir Robert Cotton’s Library, and at Arundel House in tbe Royal Soc. Library, are Transcripts of Domesday 
 Book. Tbe Arundel copy is lent to-Powell of Berkshire. Sir Paul Neile responds for it. 
 
 51 Sir Robert Long hath the Legier Book of Priory St. Mary’s now in the Parish of Kington St. Michael’s. 
 
 51 Col. Wm. Eyre of Neston in Cosham Parish hath the Legier Book of the Family of Tropnell of Neston. It is 
 an excellent booke : in parchment, well writt, and retrieves the ancient and extinct families of this North 
 Division. 
 
 51 Sir Edward Harley Kt. of Bath, of Brampton Bryan in Herefordshire, hath a most noble Legier Booke of the 
 great Mortimer E. of March. I believe there is not the like in England. It is a huge Folio in parchment 
 well writt. He had land in most parts of England. By this might have been cleared the greaj controversy 
 
 between the E. of Salisbury and the Bordering, about_Chase. The Border map [ ? ] has 100 sheets of 
 
 paper. 
 
 51 Sir John Talbot hath the Legier Book of Lacock. In Bibliotheca Cottoniana is a MS. called “ Chronicon.. 
 ...” [name effaced in MS.~\ 
 
 51 Quaere of the Heires of Sir Pexhall Brocas in Berks and .... cestershire for the Legier Book of Bradstoke 
 Abbey. 
 
 51 Mr. Thomas Hawles of Sar: hath the Legier Book of.Hospital near Wilton. 
 
 51 Mr. John Sheldon of Bewley hath a gallant Legier Book of the Abbey of Glastonbury, called “Secretum 
 Domini.”—“ Secretum Domini ” doth properly belong to the Arundelian Library, but was lent to somebody 
 and lost, and afterwards found with other old papers in St. Clement’s Danes Tower. In the Warres,— 
 Sheldon, Esq., bought it in Milford Lane together with Mr. Vincent’s Visitation. 
 
 51 Mr. Wm. Bayliff of Mounckton near Chippenham hath the Legier Book of Malmsbury Abbey. And another 
 MS. in folio relating to the same Monastery. 
 
 5 ] Sir John Lowe of Shaftsbury hath the Legier book — a copie of it — of the Abbey of Shaftsburv. 
 
 51 The Legier Book of the Abbey of Abingdon is in the hands of Mr. Berry of Culham nr. Abingdon. 
 
 51 Judge Morton hath the Legier book of Winchcombe Abby in Glouc sh . 
 
 51 The Legier book of the Abby of Cirencester, with Sr. Wm. Masters. 
 
 51 Major John Morgan of Worminster nr. Welles, Som 1 ., hath a (MS ?) in folio wh. speaks of the Knights Fees of 
 Glaston. 
 
 51 The Judiciary Records of the Tower are but Duplicates of the Records of the Chamberlain’s offioe. 
 
 51 For the Legier Booke of Stanly Abby. Qy.if Sir Edw. Baynton has it. 
 
 1 “ Antiquarian Materials,” Records, &c. The reader will find in “ Collectanea Topographica et Genealogies ” an elaborate List of Monastic 
 Cartularies at present existing, or which are known to have existed since the dissolution of Religious Houses, together with information where 
 they are now deposited, (so far as known). See that work, Vol. I. pp. 73-79, 197-208., 399-405, and Vol. XI. pp. 102-114, 400. 
 
THE PREFACE. 
 
 a Meeting of Gentlemen at tlie Devises for choosing of Knights for the 
 Shire in March 1659, it was wished by some that this County wherein 
 are man 7 observeable Antiquities, were surveyed in imitation of Mr. 
 
 Dugdale’s Illustration of Warwickshire : but it being too great a Taske 
 for one man, Mr. Wm. Yorke (Counsellor at Lawe and a Lover of this kind of 
 Learning) advised to have the Labour divided. He himselfe would undertake the 
 middle Division. I would undertake the North. T. Gore, Esq. Jeffrey Daniel, 
 Esq. and Sir Jo. Erneley would be assistants. Judge Nicholas was the greatest 
 Antiquary as to Evidences that this County hath had in memory of man : and had 
 taken Notes in his Adversaria , of all the auncient Deedes that 
 came to his hands.* Mr. Yorke had taken some Memdums in 
 
 bert of Cosham his son- 
 
 this kind too. Both now dead. T’is pitie that those papers m-iaw for ’em. 
 shoulde fall into the mercilesse hands of woemen, and be put under pies. 2 
 
 But this good design vanished in fumo Tabaci, [over their tobacco pipes], and was never 
 thought of since. I have, since that, occasionally made this following Collection 
 which perhaps may some time or other fall into some Antiquarie’s hands to make a 
 
 • Who had those 
 Adversaria ? Ask Capt. 
 Chaloner and Mr. Hnl- 
 
 1 Some extracts from this Preface were printed in “ Curb's Miscellanies ” 1714 : but with a great 
 many errors, which have been all repeated in a reprint of the entire preface introduced into Mr. 
 J. R. Smith’s edition of Aubrey’s “Miscellanies” 1857. See also “Antiquarian Repertory” Yol. 
 I. pp. 69, 79. In the present Edition, a few additional sentences written by Aubrey “ in terejo, 
 aut pleni jam margine libri” have been inserted at the places to which they seemed most suitable. 
 
 2 Mr. Yorke was of Basset’s Down. Thos. Gore, Esq. of Alderton died 1684. He was an 
 amateur herald and antiquary to whom Aubrey often refers under the initials T. G. Jeffrey 
 Daniel was of St. Margaret’s, Marlborough. Sir John Ernely of Whetham near Caine was 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer I. James 2. Robert Nicholas of Roundway near Devizes was a 
 Baron of the Exchequer. Anne liis daughter married Thomas Hulbert of Corsham, the person 
 to whom Aubrey refers in the marginal note. For Capt. Chaloner, see Wilts Archaeol. Mag. vi. 
 135. 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 handsome worke of it. I hope my worthy friend Mr. Anthony Wood of Oxford 
 will be the man. I am heartily sorry I did not sett down the Antiquities of these 
 parts sooner, for since the time aforesaid many things are irrecoverably lost. 
 
 In former daies the Churches and great houses hereabout did so abound with 
 monuments and things remarqueable that it would have deterred an Antiquarie from 
 undertaking it. But as Pythagoras did guesse at the vastnesse of Hercules’ stature 
 by the length of his foote, so among these Ruincs are Renames enough left for a 
 man to give a guesse what noble buildings, &c. were made by the Piety, Charity, 
 a*»d Magnanimity of our Forefathers. 
 
 “ And as in prospects wee are there pleased most, 
 
 Where something keepes the eie from being lost, 
 
 And leaves us roome to guesse [<&> John Suckling.~\ 
 
 so here, the eie and mind is no lesse affected with these stately ruines than they 
 would have been when standing and entire. They breed in generous mindes a 
 kind of pittie; and sett the thoughts a-worke to make out their magnificence as 
 they were when in perfection. These Remaynes are “ tanquam tabulata naufragii” 
 {like fragments of a Shipwreck ) that after the Revolution of so many yeares and 
 governments have escaped the teeth of Time and [which is more dangerous] the 
 hands of mistaken zeale. So that the retrieving of these forgotten things from 
 oblivion in some sort resembles the Art of a Conjuror who makes those walke and 
 appeare that have layen in their graves many hundreds of yeares: and represents 
 as it were to the eie, the places, customs and Fashions, that were of old Time. It is 
 said of Antiquaries, they wipe off the mouldinesse they digge, and remove the 
 rubbish. 
 
 Let us imagine then what kind of countrie this was in the time of the Ancient 
 Britons. By the nature of the soil, which is a sour woodsere land, very natural 
 for the production of oakes especially, one may conclude that this North Division 
 was shady dismal wood: and the inhabitants almost as savage as the Beasts whose 
 skins were their only rayment. The language British, which for the honour of it 
 was in those dayes spoken from the Orcades to Italie and Spain. The Boats on 
 the Avon (wh. signifies River) were basketts of twigges covered with an oxe skin: 
 
HIS PREFACE. 
 
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 which the poore people in Wales use to this day. They call them curricles. 
 Within this Shire I believe that there were several Reguli which often made war 
 one upon another: and the great Ditches which run on the plaines and elsewhere 
 so many miles were [not unlikely] their boundaries: and withall served for defence 
 against the incursions of their enemies, as the Piet’s Wall, Offa’s Ditch : and that in 
 China, to compare things small to great. Their Religion is at large described by 
 Caesar. Their priests were the Druids: some of their Temples I pretend to 
 have restored, as Aubury, Stonehenge, &c., as also British sepulchres. Their waie 
 of fighting is lively sett down by Caesar. Their camps with their way of meeting 
 their antagonists I have sett down in another place. They knew the use of Iron; 
 and about Hedington fields, Bromham, Bowden, &c., are still plowed up cinders, the 
 Scoria of melted iron. 1 (In Herefordshire, towards Monmouthshire, are many old 
 Roman cinders found; which they use in their Blomeries now to make their oare 
 runne the better). They were 2 or 3 degrees I suppose less salvage than the 
 Americans. Till K. John’s time wolves were in this Island: and in our grand¬ 
 father’s dayes more Foxes than now, and Marterns (a beast of brown rich Furre) at 
 Stanton Parke, &c.: the race now extinct thereabout. 
 
 The Romans subdued and civilized them. At Lackham, Mr. Camden saith 
 was a Colonie of them, as appears by the Roman coine found there. About 1G54 
 in Week-field in the Parish of Heddington digging up the ground deeper than the 
 plough went, they found for a great way together, foundations of howses, hearthes, 
 coles, and a great deal of Romane Coine, silver and brasse; whereof I had a pint: 
 some little copper pieces no bigger than silver halfepence—quaere, if they were not 
 the Roman Denarii. The pott in which a good deale was found, I had. I presented 
 it to the Royal Society’s Repositorie: it resembles an apprentice’s earthen Christmas 
 boxe. At Sherston hath severall times been found Roman Money in ploughing. I 
 have one silver piece found there not long since [1653], of Constantine the Great. 
 
 1 Aubrey here speaks of these ancient smelting works as British : but he afterwards seems to 
 think, as it is now generally considered, that they were Roman. For more upon this subject, 
 see infra under “Hedington.” 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Among other arts, that of Architecture was introduced by them, and no doubt but 
 here as well as in other parts were then good buildings, here being so good stone. 
 I know not any vestige now left in this County, except the fragment of the Castle 
 of Salisbury: which takes its name from Caesar: Cs v-saris burghus, from whence 
 Sarisburgh, whence Salisbury: R being often changed into L. At Bath are severall 
 Roman Inscriptions, which Mr. Camden hath sett down, and by the West Gate a 
 piece of a delicate Corinthian freeze which he calls “wreathed leaves,” not under¬ 
 standing Architecture; and by, a bass relieve of an Ophiouclius. At Bathford about 
 1663 was found a grotto paved with mosaique work. 
 
 [Mem. We find in England, never an Elme to grow naturally in a wood, as 
 oakes, ashes, &c. This consideration made me reflect that they were exotique: 
 but by whom brought into England ? By the Saxons they could not: for upon 
 enquiry they tell me none there, nor in Denmark, nor yet in France: therefore 
 neither by the Danes, nor French. But in Italie they are naturally, e.g. Lom- 
 bardie, &c. Therefore they were brought by the Romans, who were great im¬ 
 provers, and had great skill in husbandrie, as we see by Columella.] 
 
 The Britons received the knowledge of husbandrie from the Romans: the foot 
 and the acre which we yet use is the nearest to them. In our west country [and I 
 believe so in the north] they give no wages to the shepherd, but he has the keeping 
 so many sheep with his Master’s flock. Plautus hints at this in his Asinaria, Act. 
 iii. Scene i. 1. 36. 
 
 “ Etiam opilio, qui pascit, mater, alienas oves, 
 
 Aliquam habet peeuliarem, qua spem soletur suam.” 1 
 
 The Saxons succeeded them, and driving them away to Ireland, Cornewall, &c., 
 these Roman Britaines left here:—(for they used the best of them in their warres, 
 being their best soldiers). Here was a mist of ignorance for 600 yeares. They 
 were so far from knowing Aids that they could not build wall with stone. The 
 Church of Glaston was thatched. 
 
 They lived sluttishly in poor liowses, where they ate a great deale of beefe and 
 mutton, and dranke good Ale in a brown mazard : and then- very kings were but a 
 
 1 See Aubrey’s Nat. Hist of Wilts, p. 108, published by the Wilts Topogr. Society, 1847. 
 
HIS PREFACE. 
 
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 sort of Farmers. After the Christian Religion was planted here it gave a great 
 shoote; and the Kings and great men gave vast revenues to the Church who were 
 ignorant enough in those days. The Normans then came and taught them civility 
 and building; which though it was Gothique as also their Policy (Feudalis lex), 
 yet they were magnificent. For the Government, till the time of H. 8., it was like 
 a Nest of Boxes : for Copy-holders, (who till then, were Villaines) held of the Lords 
 of the Manor, who held of a superior Lord, who held perhaps of another superior 
 Lord or Duke, who held of the King. Upon any occasion of Bustling in those 
 dayes, one of the great Lords sounded his Trumpet [all Lords then kept Trumpeters, 
 even to King James] and summoned those that held under them: those again 
 sounded their Trumpets, and so on downwards to the Copy holders. Old Sir Walter 
 Long, grandfather to Colonel Long, kept a Trumpeter: and rode with xxx servants 
 and retainers to Maryborough (Sessions ?) and so for others of his ranke in his time. 
 
 The Court of Wards was a great bridle in those days. 
 
 • A great part of this Division held of the Honour of Trowbridge, where is a ruin¬ 
 ated Castle of the Dukes of Lancaster. No younger brothers then were by the 
 custom and constitution of the Realme to betake themselves to Trade: but were 
 churchmen, or retayners and servants to great men: rid good horses, (now and then 
 tooke a purse) and their Blood that was bred of the good Tables of their Masters, 
 was upon every occasion freely left out in their quarrells. It was then too common 
 amongst their Masters to have Feuds with one another, and their servants, at 
 market, or where they met (in that slashing age) did commonly bang one another’s 
 bucklers. Then an Esquire when he rode to Townie, was attended by 8 or 10 men 
 in blew coates with badges. The Lords (then Lords in deed as well as in Title) lived 
 in their countries like petty Kings, had jura regalia belonging to their signories, 
 had their* Castles and Bmroughes, and sent Burghesses to the Lower House: had 
 Gallows wdtliin their Liberties where they could try, condemne, hang, and drawe. 
 
 [At Combe, a Gallows were standing within these 50 years. At Tormarton in 
 Gloucestershire anciently the seate of Rivers, (then St. Loe by match) is a Dungeon 
 about 13 or 14 foote deepe of good ashler worke. About 4 foot high are iron rings 
 fastened into the v r all, which was probably to tye offending Villaines , as anciently 
 
8 
 
 aubeey’s north wilts. 
 
 all Lords of Mannors had this power oyer their Villaines, and had all of them no 
 doubt sure places for then’ punishment. To ascend higher to Seignories; all Castles 
 have dungeons: and I believe so had Monasteries, for they have within themselves 
 
 power of life and death; witnesse the poor monke at-in France that upon 
 
 complaint of his friends to the Bishop, had him pluckt out, but his feet and hands 
 rotten, and shortly after died, 1663.] The Lords of Mannors never went to London 
 but in Parliament time, or once a yeare to do then’ homage and duty to the King. 
 They kept good bowses in their countries, did eate in their great Gothique Halls, at 
 the High Table, or Oreile, a the folke at the side Tables. The meate was served 
 up by Watch words. Jacks are but an invention of the other age. The poor boyes 
 did turn the spitts, and lickt the dripping pan, and grew to be huge lusty knaves. 
 The beds of the servants and retayners were in the great Halls, as now in the 
 Guard Chamber, privy chamber, &c. b 
 
 “ A neat built chapel and a spacious Hall 
 Were all the Roomes of Note : the rest were small.” 
 
 The hearth was commonly in the middle, as at most colleges, whence the saying 
 u Round about our coale tire.” Aunciently, till about the Reformation, ordinary 
 men’s houses had no chimneys, but Flues, like Louver holes: some of them were in 
 being when I was a boy. Here in the Halls were the Mummings, cob-loaf stealing, 
 and great number of old Xtmas plaies performed. Every Baron and Gentleman of 
 Estate kept great horses for a man at Armes: Lords had their Armouries to furnish 
 some hundreds of men. The Halls of Justices of the Peace were dreadful to behold. 
 The Skreenes were garnished with corsletts and helmetts gaping with open mouth: 
 with coates of mail, lances, pikes, halberts, brown bills, batterdashers, 1 bucklers, 
 
 a Oreile is an eare, but here it signifies a little Roome at the upper end of the Hall where stands a square or 
 round table: perhaps in old time was an oratorie. In every old Gothique Hall hereabout is one, as at Draycot, 
 Lekham, Alderton, &c. 
 
 b “ In Scotland still the Architecture of a Lord’s Howse is this, viz., a great open Hall, a Kitchen, and Buttery, a 
 Parlour, over which a Chamber for my Lord and my Lady ; all the rest lye in common : viz., the Menservants in 
 the Hall, the women in a common room. From Sir Christopher Wren.” [This is printed in Curll’s copy, but is 
 not in the Oxford MS. Ed.~\ 
 
 1 Aubrey uses this word again, and also gives a rough drawing of the weapon, in his MS. account 
 of Stonehenge, (‘ Monumenta Britannica ’ MS.) “ The Duke of Buckingham in 1620 did cause the 
 
HIS PEEFACE. 
 
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 and the moderne colivers and petronells, (in King Charles the First’s time) turned 
 into Musketts and Pistolls. Then were entails in fashion (a good prop for Monar- 
 cliie). Destroying of petty Mannors began in H. 7. to be now common : whereby 
 the meane people lived lawlesse, nobody to govern them, they cared for nobody, 
 having on nobody any dependence; and thus, and by the selling the Church landes, 
 is the Ballance of the Government quite altered, and putt into the handes of the 
 common people. No Ale house nor yet Innes then, unlesse upon great Roades. 
 When they had a minde to drinke, they went to the Friaries: and when they 
 travelled they had entertainment at the Religious Howses for 3 dayes, if occasion 
 so long required. The Meeting of the Gentry was not held at tippling howses; but in 
 the Fields or Forests with their Horses and Howndes, with their Bugle horns in 
 silken bawdricks. This part very much abounded with Forests and Parkes. Thus 
 were good Spiritts kept up: and good horses and good riders made. Whereas now, 
 the Gentry of the Nation is so effeminated by Coaches, they are soe far from 
 managing great horses that they know not how to ride hunting horses: besides 
 the spoyling of several trades dependant. In the last age, every gentlemanlike 
 man, (yeoman) kept a sparrow-hawk. A Priest, I thinke, kept a Hoby. And it was 
 a divertisement for young gentlewomen to manne sparrow-hawkes and merlins. In 
 Henry 6. time, one Dame Juliana Berners writt the Art of Hawking, in English 
 verse: (it is in Wilton library). This country was then a lovely campania, as that 
 about Sherston and Coteswold. Very few enclosures, unlesse near howses. My 
 Grandfather Lyte did remember when all between Cromhall’s (Eston) and Castle 
 Combe was so, when Easton, Yatton, and Combe did intercommon together. In 
 my remembrance much hath been enclosed, and every year more and more is taken 
 
 middle of Stonehenge to be digged: and they found a great many horns of Stags and oxen, 
 charcoal, batter-dashes, heads of arrows, some pieces of armour eaten out with rust, and rotten 
 bones.” Sir R. C. Hoare says, “ I cannot 
 make out what kind of thing is meant, but 
 in the rude sketch which Aubrey gives, it 
 resembles the instrument made use of for 
 churning butter.” [Anc. Wilts i. 154]. It 
 
 was probably some war-club, like the crest of the Bathurst family. 
 
 A Batterdash. 
 
 c 
 
10 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 in. Anciently the Leghs (now corruptly called Sleights), 1 i.e., pastures, were noble 
 large grounds as yet the Demesne lands at Castle Combe are. So likewise in his 
 remembrance was all between Kington St. Michael and Dracot Cerne common field. 
 Then were a world of labouring people maintayned by the plough as yet in North¬ 
 amptonshire, &c. There were no rates for the poore even in my gr. father’s daies: 
 but for Kington St. Michael (no small parish) the Church Ale at Whitsuntide did 
 then’ businesse. In every Parish is, or was, a church liowse, to which belonged 
 spitts, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. 2 Here the Ilowsekeepers met, 
 and were merry and gave their Charitie: the young people came there too, and 
 had dancing, bowling, shooting at buttes, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, 
 looking on. All things were civill and without scandall. This Church Ale is 
 doubtless derived from the Agapee or Love Feasts mentioned in the N. T. Mr. A. 
 Wood assures me that scarcely any Almeshowses before the Reformation. 3 That 
 over against Christchurch, Oxon, one of the ancientest. In every Church was a 
 poore man’s boxe; but I never remembred the use of it. Nay, there was one at 
 Great limes. I remember it before the warres. Before the Reformation, at their 
 Vigills or Revells they sate up all night fasting and praying the night before the 
 Dedication of the Church : b certain officers were chosen for gathering the money 
 
 a See Statute of Elizabeth for erecting Hospitalls. 
 
 b [Aubrey probably intended to add something about Churches being built East and West, as he has here the 
 following marginal Mem. Ed .] “ Capt. Silas Taylor says that they took that Point of the Horizon where the Sun 
 
 arose for the East, which makes that variation. That few are true except those built about the two Equinoxes : 
 and in those days the compasse was not known. I have experimented some churches and find the Lyne to point 
 to that part of the horizon where y e Sun rises that day of that Saint to whom the church is dedicated: e.g. at 
 Hothfield.” 
 
 1 “ Sheep-sleights” is a common name for feeding grounds in Wilts. But “ Sleight” is not 
 as Aubrey says, a corruption of “ Leghs.” It is a pure Anglo-Saxon word, ‘ slaed ’ a slade, or 
 open plain. 
 
 2 In many parishes in Wiltshire there is still to be met with some old house called “The 
 Church House,” where this took place. The correctness of Aubrey’s account is confirmed bj' old 
 
 Parish Books. Those of Wimborne Minster in Dorsetshire, for instance, contain for a great 
 many years regular items of “ Ales at Lent and Whitsuntide.” “ Paid for Treen dishes.” 
 “ Hogsheads and butts for ale at the Church House.” “ Received, profits of church ale at Lent 
 and Whitsuntide, &c.” 
 
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 11 
 
 for charitable uses. a Olcl John Wastfield of Langley near Chippenham was Peter¬ 
 man at St. Peter’s Chapell there: at which time is yet one of the greatest Revells 
 in these parts: but the chappell converted into a dwelling Howse. 1 Such joy and 
 merriment was every Holiday: which dayes were kept with great solemnity and 
 reverence. These were the dayes when England was famous for the gray goose 
 quill. The Clarke’s Ale was in the Easter Holidays, for his benefitt, and the solace 
 of the neighbourhood. 
 
 Since the Reformation and Inclosures aforesaid, these parts have swarmed with 
 poore people. The Parish of Caine pays to the poore (160-3) £500 per annum: and 
 the Parish of Chippenham little lesse, as appears by the Poor’s bookes there. In¬ 
 closures are for the private, not for the public good. For a shepherd and his dogge, 
 or a milk mayd, can manage that land, that upon arable employed the hands of 
 severall scores of labourers. 
 
 In those times (besides the jollities already mentioned) they had their Pilgrimages 
 to Walsingham, Canterbury, and severall shrines? hereabout; to St. Joseph of Ari- 
 mathea. at his Chapel in Glastonbury Abbey. In the roads thither were severall 
 houses of entertainment built purposely for them. Among others was the howse 
 called the Chapell of Playster near Box: and a great howse without Lafford’s gate 
 near Bristowe. Then the Crusades to the Holy Warre were most magnificent and 
 glorious, and the rise, I believe, of the adventures of knights errant and Romances. 
 The solemnities of Procession in and about the churches and the Perambulations in 
 the Fields, besides then’ convenience, were fine diversions. The Priests went before 
 in their Formalities singing the Latin Service, and the people came after makeing 
 their good-meaning responses. The Reverence given to Holy men was very great. 
 Then were the churches open all day long, men and woemen going in and out 
 leisurely to and from their Devotions. Then were the consciences of the people 
 kept in so great awe, by Confession, that just dealing and vertue were habituall. 
 Sir Edwyn Sandys did observe in his Travels [Speculum Europse] in the Catholique 
 
 a See Bede’s History. Also, I. Kings, viii. 62. 2 Chroei. vii. Nehemiah viii. 10. 11. 12. 
 
 1 See Wilts Archteol. Mag, iv. 49. 
 
 c 2 
 
12 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Countries so great use of Confession as aforesaid, that though a severe enemy to the 
 Church of Rome, he doth heartily wish it had never been left out by the Church of 
 England: perceiving the great good it does beyond Sea. In the Halls, Parlours, 
 &c., there were wrote Texts of Scripture: and good Sentences on the painted 
 cloatlis, which does something evidence the piety of those days more than now. 
 
 The Tablecloath was on the board all day long ready for what was to be sett thereon 
 for Strangers, Travellers, Fryars, Pilgrims, &c.: And so t’was, I have heard my 
 grandfather say, in his grandmother’s time called Old Joane of Eston; and my 
 honoured grandmother Mrs. Israel Lyte was also of this hospitable nature. At the 
 Parish Priest’s houses in France, especially in Languedoc, is the like. 
 
 Lent was a dismal time: strictly observed by fasting, prayer, and confessing 
 against Easter: During the 40 days the Friars preached every day. Before the 
 Reformation pulpits were generally stone. Severall were in my boy-hood altered. 
 This Country was very full of Religious Howses: a man could not have travelled 
 but he must have mett Monkes, Fryars, Bonhonnnes, &c., in their severall habits, 
 black, white, and gray, &c.: and the Tingle Tangle of their convent Bells I fancie 
 made very prettie musique, like the College bells at Oxon. u The Monkes were 
 good chemists, and invented many good Receipts, which they imparted to their 
 Penitents; and so are handed downe to then* great grandchildren, a great many 
 rarities.” [Traditio Lampadis]. There were no Free Schooles. The boys were 
 educated at the Monasteries. Mr. M. Lloyd saies that in Wales before the Reform¬ 
 ation every man almost, of any fashion, could speak Latin. They learned it at the 
 monasteries, wdiere they spake of duty. 1 I believe the same might be said of 
 England. The young mayds were brought up (not at Hakney, Sarum Schools, 
 &c., to learn pride and wantonnesse, but) at the Nunneries, where they had examples 
 of Piety, and Humility and modestie and obedience, to imitate and to practise. 
 Here they learned needlework, the art of confectionary, surgery, (anciently no 
 apothecaries or Surgeons—the gentlewoemen did cure their poore neighbours: their 
 hands are now too fine—vide Sir Courtly Nice in comedie, epilogue ,] physick, writing, 
 
 1 He probably means, “ where they were obliged to speak it.” 
 
HIS PREFACE. 
 
 13 
 
 drawing, &c. Old Jacques, (who lived where Charles Hadnam did) could see from 
 his Howse the Nunnes of the Priory, (St. Marie’s near Kington St. Michael) come 
 forth into the Nymph-hay with their Rocks and Wheeles to spinne: and with their 
 soweing work. He would say that he hath told threescore and ten : but of Nunnes 
 there were not so many, but in all, with Lay Sisters, as widowes, old maydes, and 
 young girles, there might be such a number. This was a fine way of breeding up 
 young woemen, who are led more by example than precept; and a good retirement 
 for widowes and grave single women to a civill, virtuous, and holy life. 
 
 Plato says that the foundation of Government is the education of youth. By this 
 meanes it is most probable that then was a Golden Age. I have heard Judge 
 Jenkins, Mr. Jo. Latchmere and other Lawyers say that before the Reformation 
 one shall hardly in a yeare find an Action of the case as for Slander, &c. It was 
 the Result of a good government. It is a sarcasm more malitious than true com¬ 
 monly thrown at the churchmen, that they had too much land for their Constitution, 
 being in truth considered that they were rather administrators of these great 
 Revenues to pious and public uses, than usu-fructuaries. As for themselves, they 
 had only their Habit and competent Diet, every order according to the prescribed 
 Rule, from which they were not to varie. Then, for their Tenants, their Leases 
 were almost as good to them as Fee simple, and per chance might longer last in 
 then- Families. Sir William Button (the Father) hath often told me, that Alton 
 Farm (£400 a year), had been held by his Ancestors from the Abbey of Winchester 
 about 400 yeares. The Powers of Stanton Quintin held that Farm, of the Abbey 
 of Cirencester, 1 in Lease 300 years; and my ancestors the Danverses held West 
 Tokenham for many generations of the Abbey of Broadstock, where one of them 
 was a Prior. 2 (Mem. That in the Abbies, were severall corodies granted for poore 
 old shiftless men, which Fitzherbert speaks of amongst his Writts.) In France to 
 every Parish Church is more than one Priest; because of the severall masses to be 
 said; which fashion Mr. Dugdale tells me was used here. 
 
 In many eliancells are to be seen 3 seats with Niches in the wall (most commonly 
 
 1 But see infra. “ Stanton St. Quintin.” 2 Doubtful. A Danvers was Bailiff to the Priory. 
 
14 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 on the South side) rising by degrees, and sometimes only 3 seats; the first being 
 for the Bishop, 2 d for the Priest: and 3 rd for the Deacon, whenever the Bishops 
 visited their Churches in person. This from Mr. Dugdale; as also that in many 
 churches where Stalles are, as at Cathedralls, (which I mistook for Chauntries) 
 were Collegiate Churches. The Architecture of the Churches of the West is much 
 better than the East of England. Mr. Dugdale told Dr. Wren and me that about 
 Henry the Third’s time, a Pope gave a Bull or Patent to a company of Italian 
 Architects to travell up and down to build churches. 
 
 Heretofore (before H. VIII.) Glasse windowes were very rare, only used in 
 Churches and y e best roornes of gentlemen’s bowses. Even in my remembrance, 
 before the Civil Warres, Copy holders, and ordinary poor people had none. Now, 
 the poorest people that are upon almes, have it. In Herefordshire, Monmouth, 
 Salop, &c., it is so still; but now [1671] are goeing up no lesse than 3 glasse-houses 
 between Gloucester and about Worcester. So that glasse will be common over all 
 England. 
 
 When I came to Oxford Crucifixes were common in y e glasse in the Studies 
 window: and in the Chamber windowes were canonized Saints: (e. g. in my 
 chamber window, St. Gregorie the great, and another broken,) and Scutcheons, 
 
 i 
 
 with the Pillars, y e Whip, the Dice, and the Cock. But after 1047 they were all 
 broken: Down went Dagon. Now no religion to be found. Without doubt before 
 the Reformation there was no county in England but had severall Glasse-Painters. 
 I only remember one poore one an old man, Harding at Blandford. 
 
 Mem. Anciently no Bandes worne about them neckes, but Furre, as in old 
 glasse pictures. 
 
 Mem. Till Q. Eliz. time, no Hatts, but cappes—i. e. bonnets. Trunke hose in 
 fashion till the latter end of K. Jas. I. 
 
 By reason of Fasting dayes, all gentlemen’s bowses had anciently Fishponds, 
 and fish in y e motes about y e bowse. 
 
 About 90 years ago (about 1580) noblemen’s and gentlemen’s coates were of the 
 Fashion of the Bedells and yeomen of the guard—i. e. gathered at the girdle 
 place. Our Bencher’s gownes retayne yet that fashion of gathering. 
 
HIS PREFACE. 
 
 15 
 
 All old Bayliff’s accounts with numerall letters. Even in my remembrance when 
 I was a boy, baylies in the country commonly used no other. The Shopkeepers 
 anciently counted with counters: wli. is y e best way and still used by y e French. 
 
 I remember that before y e late warres y e Ministers in Herefordshire and Counties 
 that way had y e title of “Sir”; as y e Bachelors of Art have at Oxford, as “Sir 
 Richard of Stratford”, “Sir William of Monkland”, and so it was in Wilts when 
 my Grandfather Lyte was a boy: and anciently every where. An example of this 
 appears in the excellent comedie of “The Scornfull Ladie” where “Sir Roger”, the 
 Chaplain, has a great part. It was made by Mr. T. Fletcher about y e beginning of 
 K. James’s time: but in old wills before the Reformation it is upon Record. When 
 1 was a child (and so before the Civill Warres) the fashion was for old women and 
 mayds to tell fabulous stories nightimes, of Sprights and walking of ghosts, &c. 
 This was derived downe from mother to daughter, &c. from y e Monkish Ballance 
 which upheld Holy church, for y c Divines say, “Deny Spirits, you are an Atheist”. 
 When y e warres came, and with them Liberty of Conscience and Liberty of 
 inquisition, the phantoms vanished. Now children feare no such things having 
 heard not of them; and are not checked with such feares. 
 
 Sir John Danvers told me that when he was a young man the principal reason 
 of sending their Sons to Travels, was to weane them from their acquaintance and 
 familiarity with the Servingmen: for then Parents were so austere and grave, that 
 the sonnes must not be company for their Father; and some company man must 
 have—so, contracted a familiarity with the Servingmen who got a hank upon them 
 they cd. hardly clawe off. Nay : Parents w' 1 suffer their Servants to domineer over 
 their Children, and some, in what they found their Children to take delight, in 
 that w d be sure to crosse them. 
 
 The use of “your Humble servant” came into England by the Marriage of Q. 
 Mary, daughter of Hen. IV. of France; derived from “votre tr&s humble serviteur”; 
 and never heard of before; but “God keep you,” “God be wi’ ye,” “How dost doe,?” 
 with a thump on the shoulder. 
 
 Till this time the Court itself was unpolished and unmanncred. King James’s 
 Court was so far from being civill to woemen, that the Ladies, nay thq 
 
16 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Queen herself, could hardly pass by the King’s apartment without receiving some 
 affront. 
 
 Before the late Civill Warres, in gentlemen’s houses at Christmas time the first 
 Dish that was brought to table was a Boare’s Head with a lennnon in his mouth. 
 At Queen’s College in Oxford they still retayne this custom: the bearer of it brings 
 it into the Hall, singing to an old tune, an old Latin Rhyme “ Caput apri defero > \ &c. 
 
 Heretofore Noblemen and gentlemen of fair estates had their heralds who wore 
 their coat of arms at Christmas and at other solemn times and cried “Largesse” 
 thrice. 
 
 The first dish that was brought up to the table on Easter Day was a red herring- 
 riding away a-horseback; i. e., a herring ordered by the cook something after the 
 likeness of a man a-horseback, set in a corner sallett. 
 
 From the time of Erasmus till about 20 years past [1536-1650], the learning 
 was downright pedantry. The conversation and habits of those times were as 
 starcht as their bands and square beards: and gravity was then taken for wisdom. 
 The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit, even in 
 their sermons. The gentry and citizens had little learning of any kind, and their 
 way of breeding of their children was suitable to the rest. They were as severe 
 to their children as their schoolmasters; and their schoolmasters, as masters of the 
 house of correction. The child perfectly loathed the sight of his parents as the slave 
 his torture. Gentlemen of 30 and 40 years old were to stand like mutes and fools 
 bareheaded before their parents; and the daughters [grown woemen] were to stand 
 at the cupboard-side during the whole time of the proud Mother’s visit, unless (as 
 the fashion was) leave was desired, forsooth, that a cushion should be given them to 
 kneel upon, brought them by the serving man, after they had done sufficient 
 penance in standing. The boys, (I mean the young fellows), had their foreheads 
 turned up, and stiffened with spittle: they were to stand mannerly forsooth thus: 
 the foretop ordered as before, with one hand at the bandstring: the other behind 
 them. The gentlewoemen had prodigious fans, as is to be seen in old pictures, like 
 that instrument which is used to drive feathers: and in it had a handle at least half 
 a yard long: with these the daughters were oftentimes corrected. [Sir Edward 
 
HIS PREFACE. 
 
 17 
 
 Coke, Lord Chief Justice, rode the circuit with such a fan. Sir William Dugdale 
 told me he was an eyewitness of it. The Earl of Manchester also used such a fan]. 
 But fathers and mothers slaslit their daughters in the time of their besom discipline 
 when they were perfect woemen. At Oxford, (and I believe at Cambridge) the rod 
 was frequently used by the Tutors and Deans. And Dr. Potter, of Trinity College, 
 I knew right well, whipt his pupil with his sword by his side, when he came to 
 take his leave of him to go to the Inns of Court. 
 
 This searching after Antiquities is a wearisome taske. I wish I had gone through 
 all the Church monuments. The records at London I can search gratis. Though 
 of all studies I take the least delight in this, yet methinks I am carried on with a 
 kind of divine CEstrum: for nobody els hereabout hardly cares for it, but rather 
 makes a scorn of it. But methinkes it shewes a kind of gratitude and good nature 
 to revise the memories and memorialls of the pious and charitable Benefactors 
 since dead and gonne. 
 
 Eston-Piekse, JO: AWBREY. 
 
 April 28, 1670. 
 
 n 
 
AUBREY’S NORTH WILTSHIRE. 
 
 BRADFORD HUNDRED. 
 
 ATFORD (Atworth)} 
 
 tf the Church Win dunces, all broken, only this fragment.2Ti)0lttaS 
 
 M T/ 4ft _ 
 
 capcllc . quc fieri. 
 
 The great howse here, which with the Mannor, was lately sold by Mr. 
 Long, of North (read South) Wraxall, about 1668, is an ancient howse 
 and seems to be, by the great windowe, of about Edw. 3, and so the Chancel 
 windowe. 
 
 COTELLS. 
 
 This is in the parish of Afford, and was anciently belonging to Cotele, who had 
 great possessions in these parts: Vide de hoc the Legier book of Tropnell, at Neston, 
 where it is at large recited. There are only some poore people left of this name 
 now in this countrey. Arms of Cotele (PI. ii. Fig. 1.) A penon hangs in the 
 Chanccll for old Mr. Pawlet, of Cotels. Qucere , their quarterings ? 
 
 Mem. They quarter the armes of Trappe, of Warwick, by whom they had and 
 have still, a good estate: the daughter and heir or coheir of Trappes, the Gold- 
 
 1 The ancient and correct name was Atworth Magna. It is a Tything in the parish of Brad¬ 
 ford on Avon: and the manor formerly belonged to the Abbess of Shaftesbury. That it ever 
 afterwards belonged, as Aubrey says, to the Longs of the adjoining parish of Wraxliall, is not 
 known upon any other authority. There are no remains now in the parish of any “ Great 
 House ” of the reign of Edward III. The body of the church (St. Michael’s ?) was rebuilt in 
 1832, not precisely upon, but close to, the original site. Several inscriptions from the former 
 church are preserved on the walls of the vestry; among them are Edw. Tidcombe sirgen, 1689, 
 Tlios. Ayliff, gent. 1738, Godwyn of Ford Farm, and others. In Atworth, (exclusive of Cottles), 
 there are about 1236 acres of land which at present belong chiefly to Mr. Conolly, and Mr. 
 Fuller of Neston. 
 
20 Aubrey’s north wilts. [CotelVs. 
 
 smytli in Hen. 8. that hath the Monument, with the merry Epitaph in St. Faith’s 
 Church, in London. 1 
 
 1 Cottle’s was Atworth parva. Sir Roger de Cotele, Kt. is named in an Inquisition at Melksham 
 in 1275. Richard Cotell “of Cotell’s Atteward” married c. 1280 Isavvde Tropenell of Chalfield. 
 The “ Legier Book of Tropenell at Heston,” referred to by Aubrey, is unfortunately missing. 
 See some account of it infra, under “ Corsham,” note on “ Tropenell’s Chapel.” The Cotele family 
 appear to have remained here, their names occurring as Patrons of Atworth Chapel, to 1309 : 
 and were followed by the family of Selyman. The next was that of Beaushin. (A William 
 Beaushin had been of Bradford, Wilts, and of Beaushin in Whitchurch Canonicorum co. Dorset 
 in 1274. Hutchins I. 329). At Atwort'h this family first appear as Patrons in 1401. For their 
 Pedigree see Wilts Visit. 1565, in which year John Beaushin was “of Cottle’s Atworth:” his 
 wife being Elizabeth Eyre of Chalfield. The next owner was Lord Giles Pawlet, fourth son of 
 the first Marquis of Winchester. He married Mary daughter and coheiress of Nicholas Trappes. 
 This person was Henry 8th’s Goldsmith. He was buried A.D. 1526, with his two wives Agnes 
 and Joan, not at St. Faith’s as Aubrey says, but in the chancel of St. Leonard’s, Foster Lane. 
 The “ merry ” Epitaph, as given by Weever, runs in this vein :— 
 
 “ When the bells be merrily rung, 
 
 And the Masse devoutly sung, 
 
 And the meat merrily eaten, 
 
 Then shall Robert Trappes, his wives and his children be forgotten,” &c. 
 
 (For more of this family see ‘Trappes of Nidd,’ Co. York. Burke’s Landed Gentry). The son of 
 Lord Giles Pawlett and Mary Trappes was the “old Mr. Pawlett ” of Aubrey. A pedigree of 
 this branch of Pawlett is in the Wilts Visit. 1623. In the Church is a monument to the last of 
 the family who was buried here 2 Jan. 1700, viz.: Bernard Powlett, “son of William who was 
 grandson of Lord Giles Powlett,” with a shield of the following arms. 1. Powlett. 2. De Ros. 
 3. Poynings (with a crescent). 4. St.John. 5. Delamere. 6. Hussey. 7. Az. a fess between 
 3 fleurs de lis Or. 8. Ireby. 9. Delamore. 10. Sherington ? Also one to Mrs. Jane Browne 
 of Cottles, sister to Bernard Powlett, who at her death 26 July 1706, left a Benefaction to the 
 parish. On her shield, a widow’s lozenge, Browne, (Sable, 3 lions puss, guard, between 2 cotises 
 A), impaling Powlett. (On her achievement which was in the church about 30 years ago the 
 Powlett arms were on an escutcheon of pretence. There was also another achievement of the six 
 principal quarterings of Powlett, of the Marquis of Winchester’s line). The two monuments 
 were erected by the late Mr. Hale of Alderley, Co. Gloucester, to whom the estate had descended. 
 In 1857 it was sold by his son Robert Blagden Hale, Esq., to Charles J. T. Conolly, Esq., of 
 Midford Castle, Bath. 
 
 The successive owners of Cottle’s Atworth, as above named, were patrons of the chapel till 
 about 1540, when for the first time it appears as annexed to the Vicarage of Bradford then late 
 the Abbess of Shaftesbury’s. With that Vicarage, Atworth chapel was granted to the Dean and 
 Chapter of Bristol. Atworth is still parochially connected with Bradford on Avon, but in 1847 
 the Church, with South Wraxhall annexed, was made a Perpetual Curacy, endowed with a 
 Vicarial Rent-charge. 
 
BRADFORD HUNDRED. 
 
 21 
 
 BRADFORD (on Avon.) 1 
 
 This is a Market Townc; market dav. 
 
 At the end of the great barne is a hand holding a battle ax, which is the crest of 
 Hall. 2 Arms of Hall. (See Plate ii. fig. 2.) 
 
 I would have the prospect taken of Mr. J. Hall’s howse which is very fine. 3 (See 
 Plate I.) 
 
 In this Towne is a fair old built howse of the family of Rogers of Canning-ton, 
 here are many old escutcheons, which see; now it is the seat of Mr. Methwyn, the 
 Cloathier. 4 
 
 On the top of the North Hill, above Mr. Methwyn’s, is the finest hermitage 1 
 have seen in England; severall roomes and a very neate chapell of good freestone. 5 
 This high hill is rock and gravell, faces the south and southwest, therefore is the 
 best seate for a vineyard of any place I know; better in England cannot be. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Gore assures me that in the Church here, is nothing of antiquitie to 
 be found. 6 
 
 Here is a strong and handsome bridge in the middest of which is a little chapell, 
 as at Bathe, for Masse. Mem. A little beyond the bridge is a chapell and alms¬ 
 house of an old date. Q. whose donacion ? 7 
 
 1 A full account of Bradford on Avon, by the present Vicar the Rev. W. H. Jones, having 
 lately appeared in the Wilts. Archseol. Magazine, Vol. V., the reader is referred to that work. 
 
 ' Barton Barn. But it is doubtful whether the crest of Hall was ever there. 
 
 3 Afterwards called “Kingston” or “The Duke's House.” An account of it by the present 
 Editor is printed in Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. Vol. I. pp. 265—302: followed by an Abstract of 
 some curious documents found under one of the floors, and kindly lent for the purpose by Stephen 
 Moultou, Esq., now owner of the house, by whom it has been admirably restored. 
 
 4 This stands at the top of Peput Street. Sec p. 272 in the Vol. of the Magazine last referred to. 
 The escutcheons seem to have been forgotten, as the} 7 are not given in Aubrey ’sM S. 
 
 5 Perhaps ‘Tory Chapel.’ See Wilts. Archmol. Mag. I. 148, and Ditto V. 35. 
 
 6 Aubrey’s Oracle in Heraldry and Genealogy, Mr. Gore, (see above p. note 2), gave him 
 wrong information about Bradford Chnrch, as the reader will find by consulting the Rev. W. 
 H. Jones’s History. 
 
 7 The ‘Chapel beyond the bridge ’ has been long since destroyed and the site is not quite certain. 
 The ‘Almshouse of old date’ is also destroyed. “Hall’s Almshouse,” now in that part of the 
 town, was not built till A.D. 1700, after Aubrey’s death. 
 
22 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Bradford on Avon. 
 
 Mother Bloker’s Prophecy, a simple one. 
 
 Bristowe shall sinke, and Bath shall swimme: 
 
 And Bradford shall be a Haven town. 
 
 [Aubrey draws his pen through it in the MS. and adds ,) Too moderate to insert, viz. 
 about 40 yeares since. 1 
 
 Pedigree of Rogers [of Bradford .) 2 
 
 (Pi. ii. fig. 3.) 1 . Rogers of Bradford. Quarterly 1 and 4. A. a chevron between three stags courant S. 
 
 Rogers. Quartering 2 and 3, A. three torteaux. (Besil). 
 
 (PI. ii. fig. 4.) 2. Rogeks of Cannixgton, t. and 4. Rogers as before; Quartering 2 and 3, Or, on a 
 
 chief az. 3 lions ramp, or ; a crescent under the chief. (Lisle). 
 
 2d.d. of...Courteney= 
 
 of Powderham Devon I 
 2d. wife. 
 
 Thos. Rogers of Bradford, com. M'iltes, Esqr.=lst. 
 serviens ad legem, Imus. filius. 
 
 1478. 
 
 t 
 
 Rogers 
 of Kent. 
 
 t 
 
 .dau. & one of the heirs of Wm. 
 
 Besil, of Bradford, Esqr. 
 
 1st. wife. 
 
 Sir Edward Rogers, of Can-=...d. & h. to... Wm. Bogers=Joane d. of John Horton 
 
 nington, in Somerset Lyle, alias Lisle of of Bradford I of Iford, Wilts. 
 
 Controller of the house- the Isle of Wight, 
 hold to Q. Eliz. and of the 
 Privy Counsel!. 
 
 Et. Offic. Herald: 
 
 Stem. Geo. Rogers=Elizabetli 
 de Lupit in co. Devon, 
 
 2dus filius, frater Thos. 
 
 Rogers de Bradford, 
 ut supra. 
 
 Edw. Rogers,=Mary 
 Miles, filius Lisle 
 et lucres, ut 
 supril. 
 
 Sir Geo.=Jane d. of Cath. wife Lore, wyfe Eliz. wife 
 
 Kogers [ Edmund to Thos. to .. Chetle to Sir Thos. 
 
 ol Can- ' Winter of Harman of of Bland- Throckmor- 
 
 uiugton Somersett Carde, ford Dorset. tonofTort- 
 
 s. A; h. & his only Gent. Usher worth, Gloc. 
 
 heir. to Q. Eliz. 
 
 Henry Antony Rogers=Dorothy d. of ... 
 2d. son of Bradford. | Brunley ( Erneley) 
 of Canyrgs, in 
 Wilts, Esqr. 
 
 
 Edward=Katharine Wm. 
 Rog ra d. ol Sir Jo. s. p. 
 of Can- 1 Popham 
 nington Lord Chief 
 s. A h. I Justice of 
 England. 
 
 1_ 
 
 I 
 
 Francis 
 
 Marie Uxor 
 Johis Ha- 
 rington de 
 Kelsey, 
 
 (Kelston.) 
 
 Richard Ambrose Eliz. =W. Sewell, 
 2d. son. 3rd. son 1 of Bathe. 
 
 I 
 
 Anthony= Anne d. of 
 
 Rogers 
 of Brad¬ 
 ford. 
 
 Thomas 
 Wroughton, 
 of Brough¬ 
 ton, in co. 
 South. Esqr. 
 
 John Hall, of Ford=Dorothy his only d. A: h. 
 in Wilts, Esqr. 
 
 Thomas nail 
 
 John Hall 
 
 1 In a letter to Thos. Tanner (then a young man, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph,) who was 
 assisting Bishop Gibson with notes upon Wiltshire for a new Edition of Camden’s Britannia, and 
 had the use of Aubrey’s Manuscripts for that purpose, Aubrey says, referring to this “ simple ” 
 prediction, that “ Mr. Sloper came in whilst I was writing about Bradford and bade me put it in, 
 but pray doe me the favour to blott it out.” 
 
 2 This imperfect pedigree is on a separate leaf in the original MS., and is inserted not under 
 ‘ Bradford ’ to which it properly belongs, but under ‘ Headington.’ It does not appear to be in 
 
BRADFORD HUNDRED. 
 
 23 
 
 SOUTH WRAXHALL. the church. 
 
 Over a door which opens into Long’s Chapelle: 
 
 A Marshal's \ _ 
 
 Fetterlock. [ R. AN. DOM. 1566. L. 
 (PI. ii. fig 6.) ) 
 
 ( 
 
 A Stag's head 
 cabossedd 
 
 In Long’s chapelle, an old altar monument of freestone, (PI. ii. tig. 5.) on which 
 lies a figure with a robe, but so covered with a deske as not well to be discerned; I 
 guess it to be of a woman. In the limbe ( border) are the Marshall’s Locks; in the middle 
 of the North side is an Angell holding this escutcheon, (Fig. 7.) Long, Crusuly and 
 a lion rampant, impaling Berkeley quartering Seymour, 2 wings inverted, supported 
 with two lyons passant guardant, which seem to have been crowned or heaumed (i.e. 
 helmeted) and have a neckcloath which is invecked (i.e. with its margin jagged) as low 
 as the shoulders. The one hath on his shoulder the escutcheon of the Wings, the 
 other that of Long. The South side (i.e. of the monument) was as the North, but 
 now almost defaced. The windowes are all defaced of this Cliapell, as also of the 
 Church ; in the East window of the Chancell is only signe of a scutcheon. * 1 2 
 
 Aubrey’s hand-writing, but was probably supplied to him by one of the Rogers family, three of 
 whom were successively Rectors of Headington, 1605, 1670, 1721. The “ Mem. from Herald’s 
 Office ” (which, again, seems to be in a different hand from the rest), appears to have been intended 
 to supply a missing link: viz. George Rogers of Luppit, father of Sir Edward, but it makes the 
 said George of Luppit brother of Thomas Rogers of Bradford, whereas other authorities call him 
 the son. See the Pedigree printed in Rev. W. II. Jones’s History of Bradford on Avon, in 
 Wilts. Archseol. Mag. V. 366—9. Also Burke’s Landed Gentry, “ Rogers of Rainscombe.” 
 
 1 The letters R. L. denote Sir Robert Long. The stag’s head was the crest of Popham, called 
 of North Bradley, an estate which is said to have come to Sir Robert’s ancestor by an heiress of 
 that family. The device of the “Marshal’s fetterlock” (an instrument for fastening a prisoner’s 
 chain) seems to have been used by the Longs of Wraxhall, in allusion to their tenure of the 
 Draycote estate. The Cernes of that place had used it before them. Draycote was held of the 
 Crown by petit sergeanty, the nominal service being that of rendering every year a wand for the 
 Third officer of the King’s Marshalsea. The Long’s chapel in Wraxhall Church, as well as those 
 portions of the Old Manor House where this cognizance is found, were built before the two estates 
 were severed by the act of Sir Walter Long who died 1610. 
 
 2 The Long’s Chapel is on the South side of Wraxhall Church (St. James’s.) There seems to 
 be no good reason for supposing that the back of this monument had ever been defaced, as 
 
24 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [South Wraxhall. 
 
 In the Chapell, in freestone : 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of Capt. John Long, Esqr. son of John Long, Esqr. Justice of the Peace 
 and Quorum, who departed this life in the city of Westminster, the 23rd of Febr. 1652.” * 1 
 
 A marble blank. In freestone : “ Here lieth the body of Will: Long, Esq. who died 11 Sept. 
 
 1664.” 2 
 
 “Here lieth Walter Long, of South Wraxall, Gent, son of John Long, Esqr. and Justice of 
 Peace and Quor. who dyed at East Brent, in Somerset, Oct. 11, 1669. Here lieth also, the body 
 of Barbara his wife, who dyed Oct. 14, 1669.” 3 
 
 Aubrey says. Before the Chapel was built in 1566, the monument stood in the Church, with its 
 back against the South wall, and its carved front looking northwards into the church. The back 
 not being intended to be seen, would most probably be left rough hewn. But when the chapel 
 came to be added, in order to make an opening into the church, that part of the South wall against 
 which the back abutted was taken down : and the monument itself not being disturbed, the rough 
 hewing became exposed. It was in that position—its original one, minus the wall behind it— 
 when seen by Aubrey. And so it remained, under a wooden screen which divided the chapel 
 from the church, until a few years ago, when the church was restored. During the alterations, 
 the monument was removed to its present situation, the East end of Long’s chapel, where it 
 stands with the rough hewn back once more against a wall. The person to whom it was erected 
 has not yet been identified. The figure is that of a Lady, who according to the heraldry, must 
 have been by birth a Berkeley descended from a Seymour heiress, and by marriage a Long. The 
 difficulty is, that there is no certain knowledge in the pedigrees of a match between a Long 
 and a Berkeley. The tomb being in Wraxhall Church would imply that her husband was owner 
 of this estate: the fetterlock on it, that he was also owner of Draycote. As the two were not 
 held by one and tbe same owner before 1438, nor after 1610, the monument seems to belong to 
 that interval. There is a minute enquiry into its history in Gent. Mag. June 1835 : but the 
 statement in that Article as to the way in which the Longs obtained Draycote is rectified in the 
 Wilts. Archteol. Mag. Vol. iii. 178. The charge upon the chevron on the Berkeley quartering, 
 on this monument, appears to be 3 plates, not 3 roses. It is remarkable that the lion supporter 
 bears the Seymour wings, and not the Berkeley shield. 
 
 1 His widow, Katharine Paynter, remarried Edward Awbrey of Wraxhall. 
 
 2 Brother of the above Capt. John Long. 
 
 3 The youngest brother of Capt. John Long: and father of Walter Long of Wraxhall who, 
 dying 1731 without issue, bequeathed his estates to the sons of his cousin Katharine wife of John 
 Long of Monkton. These inscriptions, not now visible, are probably concealed by flooring. A 
 few monuments to the same family have been added since Aubrey’s time, viz. : Thos. Long, Esq. 
 of Wraxhall (eldest son of John and Katharine last mentioned) died 1759 : Mary (Abbott) his 
 wife, 1733 : on a shield Long, impaling, Erm. on a pale G. 3 pears Or, Abbott. Ann Long (sister 
 of Katharine) 1705 : and her husband Henry Long of Melksham 1686. 
 
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 “ Here lieth the body of William Awbrey, late of Chaddenewych in the parish of Meer, in the 
 County of Wilts, Esqr. who dyed Jan. 8, 1664.” 1 — 
 
 Another Inscription of 1649, not very legible. In this Chapell are two handsome 
 niches, and holy-water pott. 2 
 Chauncell: 
 
 “ Here lies the body of Vm. Jones, who dyed the 18th Aug. A.I). 1660.” 
 
 “Laugh not Fanaticks, though he bee gonne, 
 
 He hath fought his fight, and hath won a crowne; 
 
 Though he is gone, in heaven he takes his rest, 
 
 Singing allelujah, and is for ever blest; 
 
 In life he taught to dye, and he did give 
 In death a great example how to live: 
 
 If wisdome, learning, knowledge, cannot dwell 
 Secure from change, vaine bubble earth, farewell.” 
 
 In the Churchyard: 
 
 “ Here lies interred under this stone 
 
 Anne, Henry Mat.wife, and her sonne, 
 
 Edward White’s daughter, who ending this life, 
 
 Christ are freed from all woes and strife; 
 
 In life kind and constant to husband and friend, 
 
 Most zealous and faithfull to God in her end. 
 
 Who deceased August 7, Anno Domini 1630.” 
 
 Mem, The Revell here is a weeke before Michaelmas. 
 
 South Wraxhall House. 3 
 
 This is a very large well built old house. On the gate is the Marshal’s Lock, 
 and the Stagg’s head caboshed, in stone. 
 
 1 See Sir R. C. Hoare’s “Mere” p. 28. The Awbreys of Chaddenwych (not known to have 
 
 been connected with the Antiquary) sold that estate in 1640. 
 
 3 Still remaining, but one of the niches is concealed by a Tablet. 
 
 3 South Wraxhall House, between Bradford on Avon and Corsham, and now the property of 
 Walter Long, Esq., of Rood Ashton, has been described and illustrated with engravings by Mr. 
 
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26 Aubrey’s north wilts. [South Wraxhall House. 
 
 Mem. Over the gate is a handsome chamber, and a good glasse Window full of 
 figures, which I could not see. 
 
 [The Hall.J 
 
 The Hall is open and high, and Windowes full of painted glass. 1 In the first 
 
 Thos. L. Walker, in “Pugin’s Architecture of the Middle Ages.” Being very ancient and 
 having been altered at different times it has necessarily become irregular both in plan and style. 
 Outwardly, the oldest portions seem to be the Porch and Ilall which have the ecclesiastical 
 character common to dwellings of the 14th century. The armorial bearings in the Hall windows, 
 described by Aubrey, refer to the next century: and the date on the mantel piece was 1598. 
 The Gate house with its projecting window is of Hen. VII. ; the large Drawing Boom (called 
 the Dining room by Aubrey) was built in 1610. 
 
 There is no family evidence to show either by whom the older portions of the House were 
 built, or in what year the Longs first settled here. The statement in “ Britton’s Beauties of 
 Wilts ” [iii. 226.] that the Manor of South Wraxhall belonged to the Hungerfords of Farley Castle 
 and was transferred by them to the Longs can hardly be correct, since in the first place though 
 the Hungerfords were not altogether unconnected with Wraxhall, that was at a later period. 
 The name of Wraxhall does not occur in the lists of their earliest possessions. In the next place 
 the principal landowner down to the Dissolution was the Abbess of Shaftesbury. Robert Long, 
 described in one of the family Deeds of Gore of Alderton as “ Armiger” in 1418, and one of the 
 Knights of the Shire in 1421, was a landowner here under Shaftesbury Abbej r in 1433. [Rolls of 
 Pari. iv. 467]. To what extent does not appear; but as Leland in 1540 describes the Long’s 
 estate here as then only “a little maner,” it is not improbable that they made their principal 
 purchase upon the Dissolution of the Monasteries. There were some other ancient owners. 
 Monkton Farley Priory had a farm in South Wraxhall, partly by gift of one Martin a chaplain, 
 about A.D. 1260. They had also the advowson of a certain Berlegh or Barley chapel, the site 
 of which is not exactly known, but may perhaps have been in this parish. Its incumbent was a 
 Rector, instituted by the Bishop. Reginald de Berlee was appointed by the Priory, in 1323. 
 The Crown nominated from that time to 1349, when we hear no more of it. There was a family 
 of Berlegh at Cumberwell, who had in South Wraxhall a place called Berley’s Court. This 
 passed to Blunt, and then to Hussey. A chapel called St. Tewen’s (corrupted from St. Audoen’s) 
 was purchased from Thynne by the Longs in 1629 ; and in the purchase deed, St. Audoen’s is 
 described as endowed with glebe lands, and (inter alia) the tithes of Barley’s and Hussey’s farm. 
 Not far from South Wraxhall Manor House, in one of Mr. Long’s farmhouses there are some 
 very good portions of church stone screen-work with crocketted canopies of about the reign of 
 Edw. I. This is believed to have been St. Audoen’s. 
 
 The hundred of Bradford belonged to Shaftesbury Abbey : and there were some lands in South 
 Wraxhall and Moxham, which appear to have given to their owner a right to the office of Bailiff 
 of the Hundred. 
 
 1 A few stone shields in the Hall, and the fine chimney-pieces, are left: but of the Arms on stained 
 
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 Window, which is semee of (strewed with ) a braunch, or beame, of a Stagge’s horn, 
 Or; [Plate ii. Fig. 8.] 9. Courtenay. * 1 10. (Bluet of Lackham). 11. Darell 
 
 quartering (Calstone of Littlecote). 2 12. Lucy. 3 
 
 2nd. window. This is semee the Marshal’s Lock, O. At the bottom the Salutacion 
 of the B. Virgin Mary. 13. Stourton. 4 14. (Popham of) Bradley. Bluet (as 
 before). 15. Long impaling (Popham of) Bradley. 16. Berkeley (of Stoke, with a 
 chevron erm). 17. Berkeley. 18. St. John quartering Delamere. 5 19. Fortescu. 
 
 On the chimney piece, 20. Long impaling Carne of Ewenny: 6 and the date, 
 A.D. 1598. 
 
 3rd. window. In the entrey that leades from the Hall to the Parlour, is a win¬ 
 dow semee of Stagg’s branches. 
 
 glass described by Aubrey, not a vestige: nor is any thing known as to the cause or time of their 
 removal. The connexion of many of these shields with the Long family is not quite clear. Some 
 are explained by the Pedigrees: others relate to matches recorded on the monuments here and at 
 Draycote: but many were evidently introduced in compliment either to neighbours or political 
 leaders. (See “ Gent. Mag.” 1835, p. 593). 
 
 1 Courtenay of Powderham. Elizabeth daughter of Walter Lord Hungerford married Sir Philip 
 Courtenay. 
 
 2 Sir Thomas Long married Margery Darell whose ancestor married the heiress of Calston of 
 Littlecote. (Wilts. Arch. Mag. IV. 22G.) 
 
 3 Perhaps for Lucy of Dorsetshire who intermarried about the 15th century with Long of 
 Purse-Candel in that county, believed to be a younger branch of Wraxhall. There is a monu¬ 
 ment at Purse-Candel bearing the arms of Long and Lucy. This is also the coat of the Herings 
 who sold Draycote to the Longs. 
 
 4 Stourton. The mother of Elizabeth Darell (wife of Sir Thos. Long) was of this family : with 
 which also Hungerfords and Berkeleys intermarried. Lord Stourton sold Whaddon, Hilperton, 
 and in West Ashton lands still called “Stourton,” to Thos. Long of Trowbridge 1543. 
 
 5 Also at the West end of the Draycote monument. 
 
 6 This coat of Long and Carne, and the fetterlock, still remain. On escutcheons at the spring 
 of the arches which form the roof of the hall are shields, bearing, 1. Long. 2. Long impaling 
 Berkeley. 3. Seymour. 4. Long impaling Popham. 5. Cowdrey. 
 
 E 2 
 
28 Aubrey’s north wilts. [South Wraxhall House. 
 
 Fig. 21. Neville , 1 in fess point Neville’s knot. 22. Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of 
 Winchester. 23. Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury . 2 24. [Henry Duke of 
 Exeter. ?] 3 
 
 4th. window. This window semee of Marshall’s Locks. 25. [Guy Earl of War¬ 
 wick quartering Beauchamp] I believe this coat is inverted by the glazier. 4 
 
 [other rooms.] 
 
 In the Dining Room, 5 6 a very noble one, in the windowes ; 
 
 Fig 26.-quartering Esturmy. Berkeley as before. 27. King’s Arms. France 
 
 and England quarterly. Long, single. 28. Montagu quartering Monthermer. 
 
 29.-and Esturmy quarterly (as fig. 26), impaling Long and Berkeley of Bruton 
 
 quarterly. Long as before. 30. [Mowbray quartering Mautravers.] 31. Long 
 impaling [N ewborough] . 6 32. Berkeley of Bruton. 
 
 Here is a stately chimney Piece, of freestone, where is the figure of Arithmetica, 
 under which; 
 
 “ Par impar numeris vestigo rite subactis ; 
 
 Me pete, concinne si numerare cupis.” 
 
 (“ Even or odd my figures find results : 
 
 He’ll reckon skilfully icho me consults.”) 
 
 1 For the Earl of Warwick and Salisbury. 
 
 2 For John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells translated to Canterbury 1443, died 1452. See 
 “ North Bradley.” 
 
 3 Perhaps for Henry, Duke of Exeter, a great Lancastrian leader who escaped to France after 
 the battle of Barnet. 
 
 4 Possibly for Henry Beauchamp Duke of Warwick who died 1445 : and whose mother was a 
 Berkeley. The shield ought to have been Beauchamp quartering Guy, Earl of Warwick. The 
 pane of glass had been turned wrong side out. 
 
 5 This, in Mr. T. L. Walker’s History of Wraxhall, is called the withdrawing Room. 
 
 6 Newborough of Lulworth, Co. Dorset, (Hutch. I. 135.) and of Berkeley next Frome, Co. 
 Somerset. This shield was also in a house behind the Church at Chippenham. (See “Chippenham.”) 
 It was for Henry Long who died 1490, and his second wife Margaret Newborough. 
 
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 And Geometria, under whom thus: 
 
 “ Mensuras rerum spatiis dimetior tequis ; 
 
 Quid coelo distet terra, locusque loco.” 
 
 (“ By just admeasurements I mark off space : 
 
 How far from Ileav’n to Barth, from place to place.") 
 
 To Prudentia and Justitia no verses. 
 
 In the Chamber within, a very good Chimney Piece, with Ionique pillars: 
 
 “ Faber est quisque Fortune© suae.” (“ Every man is the workman of his oicn fortune.”) 
 
 “ Mors rapit omnia.” (“ Death seizes upon all things.”) 
 
 “ FEqua laus est a laudatis laudari, et ab improbis improbari.” (“ To be praised by the good, 
 and abused by the bad, is praise alike.”) 
 
 In this house are severall good Chimney Pieces. 
 
 In another Chamber, in the Windowes : the edges of this Window, Long and the 
 Marshall’s Lock, Fig. 33 ; as it used to be with the Saxon crownes. (?) 
 
 No. 34. [Cowdrey ]. 1 35. [Cowdrey impaling Bluet]. 36. [Cowdrey] quartering 
 [Popham of] Bradley, with a crescent. I believe t’is inverted. 
 
 In the same window, which is full of Marshal’s Locks, [Popham of] Bradley (as 
 before), without the crescent. 
 
 In another chamber window, the Locks aforesaid, glasse and figures broken. In 
 a chamber within this, beames of a stagge’s horn, and at the top, in scrolles, 
 to oil toe. Fig. 37. See “ Box” de hoc. 
 
 In the Parlour 2 windowe these 2 Coates. No. 38. Berkeley of Bruton, impaling 
 [Malwyn], 3 No. 39. Beauchamp quartering Delamere and Roche, within a border 
 verdoy of holly leaves. 4 
 
 1 Of Barton Sacy, Co. Southampton. Peter Cowdrey married a Popham. Half the manor of 
 Barton came to the Longs. 
 
 2 Aubrey’s “Parlour” is called the Dining room by Mr. T. L. Walker. 
 
 3 The same shield is on the Draycote tomb. 
 
 4 This shield, but with a border of skull-caps, is given in “Gough’s Sepul. Mon.” ii. pi. 101, as on 
 the tomb of Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Sarum, who died Oct. 1481. His uncle Richard, 
 Lord St. Amaud, who died 1508, bequeathed by his will “his manor of Charlton, Wilts, to Henry 
 Louge, son and heir of Sir Thomas Louge, Kt. and his heirs.” He also made Sir Thomas one of 
 his Executors. See Nicolas, Testam. Yet. p. 491. 
 
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 BERWICK BASSET. 1 
 
 AC 
 
 f * *N the nave of this Church, in brasse, on a marble, thus: tEHtUclmttS fjtc 
 ; .7i\ jacct Baulu stc lino, placet; Icgabit ccclic soliDos centum semper manm. 
 Glut V tints Nobemb. Anno. Dm. M,CCCC,XXVII. (“William Bayly 
 
 • lieth here, so it pleaseth the Lord. He left 100 shillings to the church 
 for ever. He died 8. Noy. 1427. ,;i ) His effigies is with short hair, but not shaved; 
 his habit a long robe with a girdle. 
 
 In the Chancell: “ Here lieth the body of Frances, the wife of Thomas Crippes, who dyed on 
 her knees the twentieth day of. 1664.” 
 
 1 Berwick is a generic name. In Domesday Book, a berewick (Berg-wick, manerii vicus ) is a 
 hamlet severed from the body of a manor. (Thus, a charter of the Confessor’s speaks of 
 “Kingston, with its berewics Raffley and Byri.”) Basset is a family name. This Berewick 
 was part of the estate of Adam de Port, forfeited on his being accused of the death of K. Hen. 
 II. (Dugdale). King John gave it to Alan Basset. K. Hen. III. added the lands of one John 
 de Cambon a Norman. The Manor was held of the Crown by the annual render of a mew-hawk. 
 The heiress of the Bassets, widow of Roger Bigod, Earl Marshal, brought it in second marriage, 
 to Hugh Despencer by whom temp. Edw. II. it was forfeited. Patrick de Chaworth is also 
 mentioned as an owner (Edw. I.) of lands appurtenant to his Barony of Kempsford. The Abbot 
 of Stanley near Chippenham also had an estate. Ini. Edw. III. he complains to Parliament 
 that Hugh Despencer had taken it, as well as the Rectory, from him by force. This included 
 Richardston and Langedene: out of which the Abbot paid a pension to St. Bartholomew’s 
 Hospital at Bristol. John Stratton was Bailiff under the Abbey. In 1400, Sir John Roche of 
 Bromham was a proprietor. In 1559, Thomas Goddard. In modern times John Nalder: and 
 in 1859, Lord Holland and Mr. Stratton The Marquis of Lansdowne is Lay impropriator. 
 
 Berwick Basset is seven miles S. W. of Swindon. It is a chapelrv of Caine, the Vicar of 
 Caine, patron. The old church, (St. Nicholas), of the Eleventh century, had on the S. side a 
 tower of framework cased with weather boarding. It has recently been restored by subscription 
 and was re-opened Oct. 28. 1857. A stained glass window was erected in memory of Mrs. 
 Hawkins of Avebury who left £200 towards the restoration, and £200 to the Poor. There is a 
 curious old house near the Church. Round an old gravestone is also this ; “ 4 * It hath pleased 
 God to take to his mercye Henrye Holman and was buryed the xx day of October, An. Do. 
 1599.” 
 
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 BLACKLAND. 1 
 
 CALNE. 2 
 
 The charter was graunted to this towne by King Stephen wherein is a privilege 
 for their buying and selling in any part of England without paying tonnage and 
 poundage. Arms of the Borough. [PI. iii. No. 40.] 
 
 1 A large manor in North Wilts, being at that time demesne of the Crown, is called in Domes¬ 
 day Book by the perplexing name of “ Nigrarve,” which Mr. Wyndham (Wilts. Domes, p. 42) 
 is unable to identify. Black-land (Nigrum arvum) seems to be the place meant: particular^ as 
 of the two holders of lands called Nigrarve, Hervey of Wilton, and Nigel the Physician, the 
 former is also mentioned as a land holder at Edendone (Headington), and the other at Bevers- 
 brook, both close to Blackland, near Caine. (Wilts D. pp. 515 and 437.) Nigel also held the 
 tithes of Caine, and those of “Nigrarve” itself, where a church is mentioned then so ruinous 
 that it was likely to be destroyed. Blackland church happens to be very ancient. In the chancel 
 are two windows considered to be of Saxon type, with triangular heads formed of two straight 
 stones placed on end and resting against each other at the top. These circumstances seem to 
 render it not improbable that Blackland was connected with the “Nigrarve” of Domesday Book. 
 The Abbey of Malmsbury had an estate here, by gift of one Christina de Haddone, from c. 1284 
 to the Dissolution. Other portions were held in Edw. I. by John de Beinton and Adam de 
 Castrinton under Mortimer, Earl of March. In 1544, William Allein. From about A.D. 1600 
 a branch of the Hungerfords of Cadenham were owners for about 160 years. Walter Hungerford 
 of Studley near Caine by will 1754 entailed it on his nephew George, remainders to Keate and 
 Luttrell. In 1779 Mr. Maundrell the eastern traveller was proprietor. Afterwards Mr. Mere- 
 wether, and then Mr. Tanner. Blackland House was purchased about 1848 by Marshall Hall, 
 M.D. In the church is a monument to Robert Smith of Blackland (1691) and his family. The 
 Arms on it, Az. an inescutcheon A. between 6 lions ramp. 0. Crest, a Pegasus. The Church (St. 
 Peter’s) has lately been restored, and was re-opened Jan. 6, 1859. [See Wilts. Independent, Jan. 
 13.] The East window is filled with stained glass in memory of Marshall Hall, 31.D. who died 
 1857, the father of the present lord of the manor. The fine timber at Blackland House was de¬ 
 vastated by a most extraordinary hurricane on 30th December, 1859, an account of which is pub¬ 
 lished in the “ Wilts Archaeol. Magazine,” Yol. vi. p. 365. The institutions to the Rectory are 
 to be found in the Register of the Dean of Sarum who has episcopal jurisdiction here. 
 
 2 Whitaker [Hist, of Manchester I. 187] derives the name of Caine (sometimes anciently spelled 
 Colne), as well as that of the Colnes in Gloucestershire, from the Celtic, Col-aun, signifying a 
 “ station by the narrow water.” The neighbourhood of the town is by no means deficient in 
 springs. A “ Chany fountain ” is named in a charter of Bradenstoke Abbey. 
 
 The Church of Sarum had a large estate here of 11 Hides so early as Edward the Confessor. 
 [Domesday.] The Treasurer of Sarum had two thirds of the Borough in Edw. I. The Manor of 
 Caine (Cauna) was Royal Demesne temp. Wm. I. but ceased to be so in Hen. III. when, with the 
 
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 aubkey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Caine. 
 
 Hundred, it was granted to the Barons Cantilupe at a fee-farm rent of £15 a year. (T. de N.) 
 In 1. Edw. I. (1272) George Baron Cantilupe died, seised of “ The Buries,” g of the Borough 
 and the out-hundred. The Burgesses paid him at St. Martin’s 22d, church scot: and services 
 called “Chipping-gavel” ( Market-rent) and Brewin-gavel. His heirs were his sister Milicent, 
 (widow of John de Moutalt, and wife of Eudo de Zouche of Harringworth,) and John de Hastings 
 grandson of Johanna another sister. Caine Manor and Hundred were in the share of Zouche. 
 Tanner (Mon. p. 596) mentions a Charter for a Market and Fair in 1303, 32 Edw. I. In Charles 
 I. the Hundred belonged to the Crown. The Steward and Burgesses were incorporated 4 Jas. II. 
 (1688.) In 1711 the Manor was Geo. Duckett’s. 
 
 The right of election of the Representatives of the Borough in Parliament formerly lay in such 
 of the inhabitants as had right of common and were sworn at the Court of Ogbourn Parva, or St. 
 George, near Marlborough. The origin of this is not precisely known. The Manor of Ogbourn 
 belonged at one time to the King’s Honour of Wallingford which again formed part of the estate 
 bestowed by King John on his son the Earl of Cornwall. Several places in this county formed 
 part of the Earldom, afterwards the Duchy of Cornwall, but Caine does not appear among the 
 number in the older lists. Perhaps the custom may date from II. VII., when the Zouche’s Estate 
 here was forfeited to the Crown. The burgesses holding under the Crown may have been ordered 
 to attend the King’s officer for his convenience, when he held his court at Ogbourn. In 32. 
 H. VIII. [1540] by a private Act of Parliament the Honour of Wallingford was separated from 
 the Duchy of Cornwall and united to the Honour of Ewelme now Lord Macclesfield’s. In 
 “ Waylen’s Marlborough,” p. 549 are some remarks upon this custom. 
 
 Aubrey [Nat. Hist, of Wilts, 79] says that of the family of Forman of Caine, clothiers, was the 
 Lord Mayor of London [1538] at whose Show was a representation of the Creation, with the 
 motto, “ And all for man.” Stow says he was of Gainsborough, co. Lincoln. 
 
 In 1544 Edw. Hungerford (first of the branch settled at Cadenham in Bremhill) mentions in 
 his will his estate called “Berrils” in Caine. [See “Studley.”] 
 
 The late celebrated S. T. Coleridge lived here in 1814. [See Memoir by his son 1851, App. 
 cxcviii.] 
 
 There was a chantry of St. Mary Magdalen in Caine Church, endowed by John St. Lo, Esq., 
 in 24 Hen. VI. [1445—6.] In 43 Eliz. [1600] “ Abbard’s Mead and Seale’s” late belonging to 
 “ Our Lady’s Chantry ” were held of the Crown by Wm. Seager in right of his wife Edith, “per 
 legem Anglice.” [I. p. M.] Ground called “Abbard’s” also belonged to Stanley Abbey. 
 
 A Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, at Caine, was in being temp. John. In 1202 a house was 
 quit claimed to Ernald the Presbyter and the Brethren by Richard the Tanner. [Wiltshire Fines 
 4 John.] Galiena of Caine was a Benefactor [Bowles’s Lacock 328.] They held lands at Ufcote 
 under Lacock Nunnery [Do. App. xxxv.] and had three bushels of corn per week from Hudden, 
 Berks. [Tanner, 608.] In 1336 Sir Robert Hungerford gave to John de Pewelle the Custos of 
 the Hospital forty acres at Stock, Quemerford, Calstone, &c. for maintenance of a daily mass for 
 his soul at the Altar of St. Edmund in the Church of Caine: the mass to be said by the second 
 Presbyter in rank. Also a set of robes, and a green hanging powdered with small white crosses. 
 The deed is dated at Caine. [Hungerford Chartulary.] In 1442 Walter Lord Hungerford obtained 
 
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 Here was anciently a castle, which stood where M ris Norborne’s house now does. * 1 
 A Councell was held in this town, (perhaps it was in the Castle) where was a 
 
 great fall, and St. Dunstan, being then President or Prolocutor, was saved by 2 . 
 
 King Henry the First, who was a very great benefactor to the Cathcdrall Church 
 
 of Sarum, did by his Deed, bearing date . (which is amongst their evidences at 
 
 Sarum) give to that church the tythes of all his forests and chases in Wilts, Dorset 
 and Berks, Godaiming in Surrey cum multis aliis, and the tythe of Caine, a great 
 Tything, 10 miles long, with the appurtenances, (viz. the tythings of Cherhill, 
 Berwick, Calston, Quemmerford, Stock, Stockley, both Studeleys, Eastmeadstreet, 
 Whitley and Whetham). 3 The parsonage of Caine is the corps of the Treasurer of 
 the Cathedrall Church of Sarum; the demesne is worth between £400 and £500 
 
 license to merge this Chantry with others endowed by his family, being ill supported and some 
 vacant, in a new Foundation of similar kind at Heytesbury. The “ Hospital of Saint John ” was 
 perhaps the same with the “Free Chapel of Saint John” whose incumbent had a pension after 
 the Dissolution. [See Tanner.] 
 
 1 Still called the Castle House. It may perhaps be to Caine castle that the following (from 
 Acta Stephani. A.D. 1139,) alludes. King Stephen having blockaded Wallingford marched 
 towards Trowbridge. In his way he took by assault the Castle of Cerne (sic ), which Milo of 
 Gloucester the Earl of Hertford had built to encourage the insurrection in favour of the Empress 
 Maude. 
 
 2 By “ a miracle,” said his partisans. Dunstan’s life was a crusade against the married clergy, 
 and such were all the Secular clergy in Anglo Saxon times. Dr. Milman [Lat: Christianity iii. 
 115] represents the character of this Abbot of Glastonbury as odious, witness his trampling the 
 Royal power under foot, and his cruel treatment of Edwy and Elgiva. “The scene at the Synod 
 of Caine, A.D. 978, when the great question between the Secular and Monastic clergy, (it might 
 almost be said, between the celibate and married clergy) was on the issue before a great Council 
 of the Nation when the whole of the seats filled by the adverse party fell with a crash and buried 
 many of them in the ruins, was so happily timed, that although it might have been fortuitous, 
 (with the monks of course it was providential), it is difficult not to remember Dunstan’s mastery 
 over all the mechanical skill of the day.” The only beam that remained was the one over which 
 he was standing. [See William of Malmesbury, and Osbern.Vit. Dunst.] 
 
 s It was Bishop Osmond A.D. 1091 who gave to the first cathedral, at Old Sarum, “ the 
 churches of Caine with the tythes thereto belonging.” [See charter in English, Dodsworth’s Salis. 
 98, and in Latin, New Mon. “Salisbury.”] Henry II. confirmed the gift. [New Mon.] 
 
 The omission of Bowood among Aubrey’s notices of the Parish of Caine is to be accounted for 
 
 F 
 
•34 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Caine. 
 
 per annum; here is also a mannonr annexed to it. * 1 Qu. to whom the church was 
 
 dedicated. 2 In this towne are two fayres, one St. Marke’s day, the other 3 . 
 
 It was here that Roger afterwards Bishop of Sarum pleased the soldiers so well 
 by his soe quick despatch of Masse that he being so fitt for their trade, they took him 
 along with them, which was his rise. 4 
 
 Here was standing in the middle of this church a faire steeple, which fell down 
 about 1642. 5 
 
 by the fact that in his time it did not contain the important Mansion and ornamental Grounds 
 of which the County of Wilts is now so justly proud. It was formerly called the “King’s Bowe- 
 wood Park,” having been an enclosure for deer, with an ordinary hunting Lodge, in or adjacent 
 to the great Forest of Chippenham. In 1619 it was granted by James I. to Philip 4th Earl of 
 Pembroke for his life. In 1642, (before the Earl’s death which took place in 1655) the reversion 
 was granted by Charles I. to William Murray, Esq., Groom of the Bedchamber, (believed to have 
 been afterwards Earl of Dysart.) But in 1661 it was again in the hands of the Crown, and was 
 leased for 99 years to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. In 1726 his 
 family obtained the absolute ownership in fee: and soon afterwards sold it to the Earl of Shel¬ 
 burne. The present House was then built. The site of a Homan Yilla between the House and 
 the lake is mentioned in Hoare’s Ancient Wiltshire II. 124. 
 
 1 For an account of Bishop Davenant’s dealings with this Church property, see Aubrey’s Lives 
 II. 301, quoted in Cassan’s Bishops of Sarum, p. II. p. 123. 
 
 2 St. Mark. 3 Now September 29. 
 
 4 Price also [Sar. Cath. p. 136 Add. Rem.] says that Bishop Roger had been “ Curate of Caine." 
 
 But this is an error. It was at Caen ( Cadomus ) in Normandy in suburbiis civitatis Cadomensis.” 
 The story is told by Godwyn: but Cassan [Lives, p. 122.] can find no good authority for it. 
 
 5 “ A fine high steeple which stood upon four pillars in the middle of the church. One of the 
 
 pillars was faulty, and the churchwardens were dilatory, as is usual in such cases. -Chivers, 
 
 Esq. of the parish, foreseeing the fall of it, if not prevented, and the great charge they must be 
 at by it, brought down Mr. Inigo Jones to survey it This was about 1639 or 1640: he gave 
 him 30 li. out of his own purse for his paines. Mr. Jones would have underbuilt it for an 100 li. 
 About 1645 it fell down on a Saturday, and also broke down the chancell. The Parish have since 
 been at 1000 li. charge to make a new heavy tower.” [Aubrey, Natural History of W iltshire 99.] 
 “Mrs. May of Caine, upon the general fright in their church of the falling of the steeple, when 
 the people ran out of the church, occasioned by the throwing of a stone by a boy, d}’ed of this fright 
 in halfe an hour’s time.” [Do. p. 72.] 
 
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 In the North porch of this church, in stone, viz. 
 
 [PL iii. fig. 41.] 3 Sickles conjoined in triangle. [Hungerford.] 
 
 [42.] On a shield the bear and ragged staff. 1 
 [43.] 0. a fret S. on a chief S. 3 bezants— St. Amand. 
 
 Almerick St. Amand, Lord St. Amand, of whom descended two heirs generall, the first married 
 to Wm. Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, and had issue; the second married to Sir Gerard Bray- 
 brooke, Knight, and the heir generall of him married to the Lord Cobham. 2 
 
 In the Chancell, North side, is a very handsome and able inscription on white 
 marble, erected by Mrs. Mary Norborne, to the memory of her husband (Walter 
 Norborne , Esq.) who was born at Stodeley in this parish. Arms: [No. 44] Nor¬ 
 borne impaling Chi vers. 3 
 
 1 So drawn by Aubrey; but in error. The device, still on the inner doorwa}', is not the bear 
 and ragged staff, but a lion rampant holding in his paws a baton. 
 
 2 The shield certainly alludes to Lord St. Amand, owner of Old Bromham House before the 
 Baynton family: but xlubrey’s explanation is quite inaccurate. The last Alraeric Baron St. 
 Amand died 1403. The two sons John and Almeric mentioned in his will dated 1400 [Test. 
 Yet. 159.] must have died before him : as his immediate heirs were 1. Gerard Braybroke the son 
 of his eldest daughter Eleanor, and 2. Ida, Lady West, his (Lord St. Amand’s) sister. Between 
 these two the Barony fell into abeyance. Lady West dying issueless, three daughters of Gerard 
 Braybrooke became heirs. The two younger dying issueless, Elizabeth Braybrooke the eldest 
 became sole ultimate heir. She married, not, as Aubrey says, Lord Cobham, but William 
 Beauchamp (grandson of John Lord Beauchamp of Powyck) who was summoned to Parliament 
 as Lord St. Amand jure uxoris ; and dying 1457 was buried at Steeple Lavington. His wife 
 Elizabeth was buried at Bromham, where on her monument is a brass effigy of her with two 
 coloured shields : 1. St. Amand, only. 2, St. Amand and Braj-brooke quarterly ; impaling Delamere 
 and Roche quarterly. 
 
 3 Walter Norborne, Esq. of Studley was one of those gentlemen whose estates were seques¬ 
 trated by the Parliament. A fine of £380 was levied upon him. He married Mary youngest 
 daughter of Henry Chivers of Quemerford by Elizabeth Seacole of Milton, co. Oxon. According 
 to the epitaph, his loyalty to Church and State provoked the populace of Caine to some act of 
 violence at his funeral. He died 1659 aged 64. Plis widow was buried at St. Paul’s, Covent 
 Garden, 9th August, 1689: as also were his second son John, February 1681, and the eldest 
 Walter set. 29. September 1684. Of this young man, Aubrey in one of his MSS. has this Mem. 
 " Walter Norborne born Nov. 18. 1655, was killed in a duel in the Middle Temple by the 
 
 Fountain, b} r Mr. -an Irish gentleman, (Sept.) A.D. 168[4]. He hath left two coheirs, 
 
 great fortunes.” One of these, Elizabeth, married Edw. Devereux who became iscount Hereford 
 
 F 2 
 
36 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. \Calne. 
 
 “ Yir, caelo charus, exosus Satanae, Dei cultor assiduus, contemptor sui, Juris-peritus o <ndw 
 inculpate consultissimus, acri ingenio, judicio exasciato, lingua vero prmpotenti, Gualterus 
 Norborne de Cain in Agro Wiltoniensi, Armiger. 
 
 Ex antiquo steinraate (per utrumque parentem) oriundus, Uxorem duxit Mariam Henrici Chiver 
 Arinigeri filiam pientissimam, ex qua, Gualterum, Johannem et Mariam, felicissimo conjugio sus- 
 cepit Liberos. Pro Rege Patriaque 6uis multa fecit tulitque totos annos xvii: Et in Ckristi 
 mortem complantatus. Tanta etiam post mortem martyria passus (Satana suam rabiem in 
 honores funebres exerente) uti duplicem videatur reportasse victoriam, de Natura alteram, alteram 
 de Fortuna. ’AxP dvfy>l yewouco nxnx yn : tandemque emeritus Christi miles postquam annos 
 
 Lxiiij Domino Jesu invigilasset, in eodem placide obdormivit IY Calendas Aprilis MDCLIX.” 
 
 Mem. This Epitaph was made by Dr. Pierce, President of Magdalen College, 
 Oxon. * 1 
 
 Near this, on a black marble gravestone, thus : 
 
 “Here under liethe buried the body of the Lady Fraunces Mildmay, wife to Sir Thomas Mild- 
 may. She dyed in the faith of Christ the ninth of December, 1624.” 
 
 in 1683. She survived her husband who died 1700, and remarried John Symes Berkeley, of Stoke, 
 near Bristol. Her son by this marriage, Norborne Berkeley, recovered the Barony of Botetourt 
 (in abeyance) in 1765. Henry Norborne, B.D., of this family, Rector of Langley Burrell 1637, 
 was ejected from his living. There is a pedigree of Norborne of Bremhill in Wilts. Yisitation, 
 1623. A grant of Arms to Norborne of Hilmerton 1651. 
 
 1 Dr. Thomas Pierce, the writer of the epitaph, was son of John Pierce of the Devises, and was 
 successively chorister, Demy, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon. In 1648 on suspicion of 
 having written a Satire against the Parliament Visitors he was ejected from his Fellowship. 
 Upon the Restoration of the King he was made Canon of Canterbury and Prebendary of Lincoln, 
 and in 1661 upon the death of Dr. Oliver he was elected President of Magdalen. But the fellows 
 not agreeing under his government he resigned the office 1671, and in 1675 was promoted to the 
 Deanery of Salisbury. He was esteemed both as a poet and a preacher, had great quickness 
 and sagacity and was much exercised in the controversies handled in those times. The catalogue of 
 his writings which were various and numerous occurs in Wood’s history of the Oxford writers, 
 [Athen. Oxon. Vol. ii. Col. 858, &c. Bridges’s Northamp. I. 478.] Whilst Rector of Brington 
 Co. Northampton, he printed a Sermon preached at St. Paul’s November 10th, 1658, “ before the 
 gentlemen of Wilts: it being the day of their yearly feast.” He died in 1691 at Tidworth, 
 Wilts, where Robert Pierce was Rector. At Brington he was “ much followed for his smooth 
 and edifying way of preaching,” but says Mr. Baker the Historian of Northamptonshire [I. 92.] 
 “ in his controversial writings there was more of the bitterness of gall than the smoothness of 
 oil.” His scarce pamphlet called “ A Vindication of the King's Sovereign rights,” relating to 
 the patronage of the Prebends of Sarum, and printed at the end of Dr. Rawlinson’s Antiquities 
 of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, is said to have hastened the death of Bishop Seth Ward, 
 his opponent in that controversy. 
 
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 She was daughter to Sir Jno. Ernie of Whetham, and was a very rare beauty. 
 
 In the two windowes in the chancell these two figures kneeling [PI. iv. No. 45] 
 
 between these two coates, [No. 46] Blake, and [No. 47.-.] u ©rate p. 
 
 . HSlakc hr Ptnljtll xl .” The same shields repeated ; and, No. 48. 
 
 PINHILL. 1 
 
 CAMBERFORD. (Quemerford). 
 
 Which now (forsooth) they fantastically write Quemmerford. 2 
 
 Mem. In Sir Wm. Dugdale’s Baronage p. 7. thus: “ Werstan, Earle of this 
 Province, was slaine in battle at Kinemereford.” 
 
 1 Of Pinhill in this parish Aubrey [Nat. History of Wilts, p. 57] says, that “ a grove of pines 
 gave the name to the seat: and that about 1656 there were remaining about four or five which 
 made a great show on the hill.” But Pinnel was a very old family name at Caine. Pinhill 
 House, then the residence of Mr. Blake, was occupied for a short time in the Civil Wars by 
 Colonel Massey the Parliamentary Governor of Gloucester. “ He placed a small body of Mus¬ 
 keteers in it, directing them with all despatch to construct a breastwork round the building. But 
 before the fortifications were in any degree rendered available, information of the circumstance 
 reached Devizes where the Royalist officers Goring and Ilopton were lying on their way to 
 Bristol. A party was accordingly despatched to Pinhill to put a stop to the affair at once, and 
 just as they were about to fall on, the inmates beat a parley and surrendered at discretion. When 
 the Scoutmaster who conducted this expedition entered the house the prisoners begged hard that 
 they might not be stripped of their wearing apparel, upon which he pointed out of the window to 
 the soldiers outside and told the prisoners that they might easily see that his Majesty’s Troops 
 were all so well clothed that they would not accept of Rebel’s garments even if offered to them 
 for nothing.” Pinhill House was taken on the 28th December, 1643. “ True Informer.” 
 
 - The name was written “ fantastically ” Quemerford so far back as the nund. Rolls of Edward 
 I. Sometimes Comerford or Kemerford. Aubrey appears to claim for this village a battle which 
 is thus mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle. “ The same day iEthelmund, ealdorman, rode 
 over from the Huiccii at Cynemaere’s Ford. Then Weoxtan the ealdorman with the men ot 
 Wiltshire met him. There was a great fight, and both the ealdormen were slain, and the men of 
 Wiltshire got the victory.” This battle is much more likely to have been at Kemps-ford by the 
 Isis, on the borders of Co. Gloucester and Wilts. In 1257 both the manor of Kinemerford Co. 
 Gloucester, and a lordship of the same name in Wilts, belonged to Patrick de Chaworth [ If ills. 
 Fines.~\ In 1291 the Calstone family of Littlecote near Hungerford, were land owners. Sir 
 Robert Hungerford in 1335 gave some land here to the Hospital of St. John at Caine. Persons 
 are mentioned in the Hund. Rolls as holding land in virtue ot their office as Bedel or Summoner 
 
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 \_Studley. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 BOTH THE STODLEYS. 
 
 Stodeley belonged to Priory St. Marie’s juxta Kington St. Michael, given by 1 
 
 to the Hund. Court of Caine. In 1404 Agnes Wyly was an owner. In 1475 William Temys, 
 whose lands were probably sold with his other estates to the Buttons of Alton. In his Natural 
 
 History of Wilts (MS.) Aubrey mentions among the successful Wilts clothiers “-Chivers 
 
 of Quemerford: where the rack doth yet remain [1680] : an estate of £1000 a year. They say 
 they are derived from Chivers of the Mount in Ireland, whose coate they give.” In 1568 Henry 
 Chivers, Cloathier, of Bishop’s Lavington presented to that church. In 1598 Roger Vince of 
 Quemerford, Cloathier, to Yatesbury. There is a pedigree of the family in Harl. MS. 1165. p. 
 35 signed “ H. Chivers,” with additions by a later hand. [See “ Leigh Delamere ” infr&.~\ 
 Holy Trinity Chapel (of ease to Caine) was consecrated in 1853. 
 
 1 Part of Studley is in Caine, part in Bremhill parish. St. Mary’s Priory at Kington had 
 only a very small portion of tithe and rent in the parish of Caine out of which it had to provide 
 the Churchwardens with 2 lbs. of wax per annum for the church. Mr. Bowles [Bremhill p. 77]. 
 maintains that there was a Roman Station (?) here : on the evidence of coins and pottery, &c., 
 plentifully found, chiefly in a field called Red-hill. An ancient way “a Stodleia ad Divisas ” is 
 mentioned in a Deed (Bowles. 110). In his account of the name “Studley Hungerford,” he 
 seems to imply that it was the last, relic of the ancient estate of the Ilungerfords. Studley 
 House in the parish of Caine never belonged to the principal and older branch of that family, 
 but was only a late acquisition b} r the latest and youngest branch. In 1611 it had belonged to 
 Jolm Norborne, Esq.; and some years afterwards to Walter Norborne, buried in Caine church 
 1659. Sir George Hungerford of Cadenham died owner in 1712. His grandson George, the 
 last of the Cadenham line, had it for life. He died 1764 without issue. Studley passed under 
 entail in his uncle Walter Hungerford’s will to his cousin Mr. Keate. The Luttrells were also in 
 the entail. Mr. Keate’s son took the name of Hungerford and died S. P. His sister and heir 
 married Mr. George Walker of Caine who also took the name of Hungerford. His daughter 
 married Colonel Crewe ; whose descendant Lord Crewe has now the greater part of the Cadenham 
 Hungerfords’ property in Caine : but Studley House with some land, was sold off many years ago. 
 The site is now occupied by a farm house which belongs to the representatives of the late Mr. 
 Angell of Rumsey House. 
 
 A newspaper of 1785 contains the following : “ Anne Simms, aged 113, of Studley-green, Wilts. 
 Till within a very few months of her death, she was able to walk to and from the seat of the 
 Marquis of Lansdown, near three miles from Studley. She had been, and continued, till upwards 
 of 100 years of age, the most noted poacher in that part of the country : and frequently boasted 
 of selling to gentlemen, the fish taken out of their own ponds. Her coffin and shroud she had 
 purchased, and kept in her apartment more than 20 years.” 
 
 Christ Church, Derry Hill, was consecrated in 1840. Bowles’s derivation (Brem. p. 20) of Derry 
 
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 WHETHAM. 1 
 
 STOCKLEY. 2 
 
 CALSTON WILINGTON. 3 
 
 Hill, from its having been Royal property, quasi “ De Roy,” is very improbable. Neither is it likely 
 to be the Irish word, Derry, although that does signify “ a place of oaks : ” as in the 
 first place Wiltshire does not go to Ireland for its names, and in the next, even in Ire¬ 
 land the word Derry is not used by itself, but always with the addition of some distinctive 
 epithet, as Derry Calgard, London-derry, Derry Columbkill, &c. It may be merely a corruption 
 of “ Dairy-hill: ” as the Monks of the adjoining Abbey of Stanley on the plain below, had a 
 Farm on the hill, which in the Deeds of that House is spoken of as their “Daeria,” or dairy farm. 
 On this hill a great many Roman coins were found 1680. 
 
 1 Wilhelma (Delamere) widow of Sir John de Roches of Bromham, held at her death in 1410, 
 lands at Whetham. Michael Ernie of Bourton in All Cannings (but of a family originally from 
 Erneley near Chichester,) Sheriff of Wilts 22. Elizabeth, married Mary daughter and heir of 
 —Finamore of Whetham. Of this eldest branch of Ernley, whose manor house near Bowood park 
 is still standing, were Sir Michael, governor of Shrewsbury in Charles I. and Sir John, Chancellor 
 of the Exchequer at the end of Charles II. Sir John founded a widow’s charity at Caine. He 
 was one of the 18 Privy Counsellors who recommended King James to send the Bishops to the 
 Tower. This family was connected with several places in Wilts, as Conock, Etchilhampton, 
 Brirnslade, Maddington, &c. The last male heir Sir Edward died 1787, and the name has dis¬ 
 appeared from the County. Whetham belongs to the representative by female line, AYilliam 
 Money Kvrle, Esq. 
 
 2 In 1565 certain lands here belonging to a late chantry in Bromham church were granted to 
 Simon Sloper. 
 
 3 There appear to have been Three ancient properties here. 
 
 1. A manor at Caleston, Demesne of the Crown, was given by King John to Fulk de Canti- 
 lupe. In 1. Edw. I. (1273) George Baron Cantilupe had built a House here. In 3. Edw. I. Ivo 
 de Zouche had this property in right of his wife Milicent Cantilupe. The Zouches, Lords St. 
 Maur and Ilarringworth, continued owners till 1547. Pinnel, Chinnokand Lachmere held under 
 them. 
 
 2. Ralph de Wvlyton, 1254, was bound to find for his estate at Kalston, the service of one 
 haubergeon at Devizes Castle for 6 weeks during war. In Edw. III. John Baron A\ ilintou son 
 of Ralph the Governor of Devizes Castle left this estate to his son Ralph the 3rd. and last Baron. 
 From this family the Parish takes its second name. 
 
 3. In Edw. I. John de Comerwell (also of Compton Comerwell) was the third proprietor. In 
 Hen. III. this belonged to Andrew le Blount, Knight, Lord of Beversbrook, who held under the 
 Barony of De Lisle of Castle Combe. The Blunts presented to the church until 1361. In 
 
40 
 
 [ Cherhill. 
 
 aubbey’s north wilts. 
 
 CHERHILL. 
 
 In the Church is only this piece of scutcheon : the field broken, a chief 3 roundels; 
 q. what it is, for I could not gett in: v. the coat of St. Amand. 1 
 
 1537 “Calston Wyly” was granted to Robert Whytacre alias Bathe. In 1563 Joan Long 
 had half a manor. In 1566 Thomas Page had lands : and in 1579 Calston was granted to Lionel 
 Duckett. In 1582 Stephen Duckett of Flintham, co. Nottingham, was tenant in tail of Calston 
 House. His grandson John a Colonel in the Royalist Army, is said to have escaped from the 
 Parliament’s Forces by passing through them concealed in a hearse. The House was destroyed 
 in the Civil War, and the family removed to Hartham. [See “Hartham ” in Corsham parish.] 
 They represented Caine in several Parliaments. Their estate at Calston, &c., was sold by Thomas 
 Duckett, Esq. in 1763 to the Earl of Shelburne: (now Lord Lansdowne’s). 
 
 In 1382 Stanley Abbey had £40 in land at Calston by gift of Sir Robert Hungerford 1336. 
 St. John’s Hospital, Caine, and a chantry in Hungerford church were also endowed with lands 
 here. 
 
 Calston is celebrated for its copious springs which are owing to its geological position at the 
 base of the chalk hills. “ The lower beds of the chalk formation, and every fissure in them, are, 
 with few exceptions, completely filled with water. All the rain and snow which fall upon chalk, 
 percolate downwards to the base, where the water is stopped by a subsoil of blue clay, and that 
 occasions it to accumulate in the chalk until it rises to such a height as enables it to flow over the 
 surface of the adjoining land. In this manner are formed the springs and rivulets which issue 
 near the foot of every chalk hill.” [Phillips’s Geol. 87.] On the floor of the church is a grave¬ 
 stone of the Michell family. Other monuments to Newman, Heath, and Baily. 
 
 1 A Chapelry of Caine. Some writers mention a fight at “ Cheren hill ” in A.D. 821, which 
 the Saxon Chronicle places at Ellandun. In 49. Hen. III. and 4. Edw I. the Manor was John 
 Fitz-John’s. This Cherhill family varied their name to Fitz-Geoffry, and their arms were, Quar¬ 
 terly O. and G. within a border vair. Their Demesne of Churiel or Cyriel was 268 acres. That 
 of Kuwych or Cowich 64 acres. Richard Fitz-John of Cherhill died in the French Wars 
 25. Edw. I. and having no issue left his estate to his four sisters. The eldest, Maud (widow 
 of Furnival) married Wm. de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and had this estate. With the 
 exception of being once forfeited temp. R. II., it remained in the Earls of Warwick till the 
 death of the Earl at the battle of Barnet after which King Edw. IV. seized it. King Hen. 
 VII. restored it to the widow for her life : reversion to himself. In 1315 the Lady of the Manor 
 was Matilda (? Alice) de Toni, wife of Guy Beauchamp Earl of Warwick. In 1400 Sir John de 
 Roches of Bromham had lands here, which descended to St. Amand. Hence that coat of arms 
 seen by Aubrey in the church. On opening a barrow here a quantity of substances, moss, &c. 
 encrusted by a petrifying spring, British pottery, bones, an urn, and a very large pair of ox horns 
 were discovered in 1835. [Devizes Gazette, Oct. 25.] The great earthen-work called Oldbury 
 Camp, on the top of Cherhill Hill, is described in Sir R. C. Hoare’s Ancient Wilts. Vol. II. 
 
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 41 
 
 COMPTON BASSET. 1 
 
 In the Legier hook of Mortimer of March’s muniments; “John, Earl of Oxford, in 
 the right of his wife Maud, one of the coheirs of Egidius Badlesmere, among divers 
 other lands in this county, had two Knight’s fees with their appurtenances in Com- 
 erwell and Compton in Com. Wiltes which Roger de Berle holds at £xi xiijs. iiijd. 
 per annum.” 2 
 
 q. If Comerwell is not Cumberwell, near to Comerford, ( Queinerford .) 
 
 In this parish is a quarry of soft white stone, betwixt chalke and freestone, which 
 they use much for ovens, it endures the fire rarely well, and I doubt not but it 
 would be good for a glass furnace, or iron forge, or chymists. 
 
 p. 97 and Plate viii. He considers it originally British, with Saxon additions. The principal 
 part of the site belongs to G. H. W. Heneage, Esq. of Compton Basset; but part of the western 
 side to the Marquis of Lansdowne, by whom the fine stone obelisk was erected which forms so 
 conspicuous a landmark to a great part of North Wilts. It bears no inscription, but it was placed 
 here about the time of the Birth of the eldest son of Queen Victoria, H. Pi. H. the Prince of 
 Wales. 
 
 1 In the “ Wiltshire Institutions,” under A.D. 1521, this place is called, “ alias Long Compton.” 
 In the same work under A.D. 1307, the entry of “ Compton sub album equum ” (below the 
 White Horse), to which living Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, presented in that year, refers, 
 not to Compton Basset, though it also happens to be “ below a White Horse,” but to Compton 
 Beauchamp, near Shrivenham, Berks. 
 
 2 Aubrey throws but little light on the history of Compton Basset, which owing to the recur¬ 
 rence in old records of the single name, Compton, without any further distinction, is not easy to 
 be traced. But from inspection of original documents kindly permitted by the present proprietor, 
 it appears to have been this. 
 
 There were in A.D. 1230 Two Manors, held under the Dunstanvilles, afterwards under the 
 Badlesmeres, as of the Barony of Castle Combe; viz. 1. Compton Basset : and 2. Compton 
 Cumberwell. 
 
 1. Compton Basset. 
 
 Of the family of Basset there were several branches : all deriving from the celebrated Justiciary 
 Ralph Basset, temp. Hen. I. In Wiltshire the name adheres to this parish, to Wotton, V inter¬ 
 bourne, and Berwick. In A.D. 1233, Gilbert Basset of Compton (probably of Burcester, co. 
 Oxon) is mentioned as a person of influence, who opposed the innovations of lien. III.: for which 
 “ his house at Compton ” was placed under the eye of the Sheriff 1 . He was deprived of the manor 
 
 G 
 
42 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Compton Basset. 
 
 of Netlieravon, (a gift to his family from King John); and on repairing to Court to vindicate his 
 rights was called a Traitor and threatened with the gallows. 
 
 In 1271 Philip Lord Basset of Wycombe, Bucks, died leaving a daughter and heiress Aliva, 
 widow of Hugh Despenser, to whom she had brought [inter alia ) the Manors of Compton, Wotton 
 Basset, and Broadtown. Despencer, Justiciar} 7 of England, and Governor of Devises Castle, 
 had been killed at Evesham 1265. His Estates were seized, but his widow recovered great part 
 of them. She married 2ndlv, Roger Bigod 5th Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal, whence she is 
 sometimes called The Countess Marshal. She died 1280. 
 
 Hugh, the “elder Despenser” of Edw. II., had this Manor, Berwick and Winterbourne 
 Basset, Fasterne, and others. After his downfall, his estates were plundered, parks and houses at 
 Compton and elsewhere robbed, to the damage of £30,000. [Wilts Archseol. Mag. III. 249.] 
 Being forfeited to the Crown they were settled first on the Queen : then on Edmund of Langley 
 Duke of York (5th son of Edw. III.,) and afterwards (1415) on his son when in want of funds to 
 build his college of Fotheringay. [Bonney’s Hist, of F. 38.] On his death at Agincourt they 
 were held by his Duchess Philippa [Mohun] till 1431. The names of several Tenants under the 
 Crown occur. Sir Guy de Bryan 1365. Best, 1389. Roger Mortimer Earl of March, 1398. 
 Lypiate 1429. After the death of Queen Catharine Parr, who held it in dower, it was sold by 
 the Crown in 1552 [Edw. VI.] for £952, to Sir John Mervyn of Fonthill, whose grand-daughter 
 and heiress married George Touchet Lord Audley : and 1663, [15 Charles II.] was sold by Mervyn 
 Touchet and James Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, to Sir John Weld of Bindon co. Dorset, ancestor 
 of the Welds of Lulworth. He built the present house at Compton and died 1674. His son 
 William, inheriting the estates of an uncle, left Wiltshire in 1684. In 1700 Humphrey Weld, 
 sou of William, sold Compton to Sir Charles Hedges of Richmond, Surrey, Secretary of State. 
 William Hedges of this place married Elizabeth sole heiress of the Gores of Alderton; and in 
 1715 sold Compton to William Northey, son of Sir Edward Northey, Attorney-General to Queen 
 Anne. In 1761 it was re-sold by this family to John Walker Heneage Esq., owner at the time, 
 (by inheritance), of Tockenham (in Lyneham) and several other properties, among which was, 
 in this parish, the small manor of Compton Camberwell. 
 
 Some part of Compton was held in 1100—1250 by Reginald Mohun, and in 1476 by his under 
 tenants. 
 
 Some part also of the Basset estate both here and at Berwick Basset, passed by an heiress of 
 Delamere (of Beversbrook and Rockley c. Edw. I.) to Sir John Roche, and by bis coheiress to the 
 Bayntons. John Eyre also appears as an owner in the parish in 1332. John Pawlett, 1455. 
 
 2. Compton Cumberwell. 
 
 It is this to which Aubrey alludes. It is a small property lying in Compton but originally 
 distinct from it and belonging to other owners. The name was sometimes spelled Comb’ville. 
 
 There are in Wiltshire two Cumberwells, this at Compton, and another, Cumberwell Park near 
 Bradford on Avon. Both were held under the Barony of Castle Combe, and in 1339 on the 
 partition of that Barony (then Lord Badlesmere’s) among his daughters, the seignory of the two 
 Cumberwells w T as part of the share of Maud wife of John de Yere, the “Earl of Oxford” 
 mentioned by Aubrey. Under that Barony, both Cumberwells belonged for some centuries to 
 
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 43 
 
 Iii the Church I find nothing remarkable but this coatc [PI. iv. No. 49] which is 
 in the North windowe twice. Mem. By the name of Cotton, also Sir Thomas 
 Ridwar, temp. E. I. 1 
 
 the same successive owners: viz. the Families of, 1st, Berlegh of Bathampton and (as heirs of 
 Ford) of Swainswick. 2nd, Blount. This family was of Bitton and Mangotsfield, Co. Gloucester, 
 and of Woodborough, Wilts, (as heir of D’Amnevile) : also of Beversbrook and North Wraxhall, 
 and a small estate in South Wraxhall. 3rd, Sir John Ilussey, Knt., who married an heiress of 
 Blount. In 1530, either by purchase or family connection, it is believed by the former, both 
 Cumberwells came from the Hussey family to William Button Esq. of Alton (afterwards of 
 Tockenham Court in Lvnehain), and were held together by his family for many years. On the 
 death, without issue, of Sir John Button his grandson the 4th and last Baronet, in 1712, Compton 
 Cumberwell and several of the Button properties above mentioned, went to Sir John’s sister Mary; 
 of whom a curious old portrait is preserved in Compton House. She married Clement Walker 
 Esq. Usher of the Court of Exchequer, M.P. for Wells, and author of “ The History of Indepen¬ 
 dency who died in 1681. From him they descended to John Walker Esq. Hereditary Usher 
 of the Court of Exchequer, who died 1758 : and from him to his son John Walker Heneage Esq., 
 who three years afterwards purchased Compton Basset, as mentioned above. He died 1806. His 
 estates are now the property of his eldest nephew G. H. W. Heneage Esq. by whom the house 
 was restored. Bound the parapet are Arms of previous owners, Weld, Hedges and Northey : 
 and over the front door, the shield of Heneage and Walker quarterly: Impaling, Webber and 
 Nicholson quarterly. 
 
 Col. Montagu in his Ornithological Dictionary mentions that the greatest number of window 
 swallows nests he ever saw, was fifty ranged in a continuous line under the eaves of the stables of 
 Compton House. 
 
 The other Cumberwell, near Bradford on Avon, was bequeathed by the will of Sir Robert 
 Button, 3rd Baronet who died 1679, to the son of his sister Jane, Charles Steward Esq., (killed 
 by a fall from his horse and buried in Bradford Church 1698): at whose death that property 
 passed to Heneage Walker Esq. who sold it to John Allen Cooper, from whom it went to the 
 family of Taunton, and from them by sale to the family of Thos. Clarke Esq. the present owner. 
 
 1 The names of Cotton and Rydware are not connected with this parish. The shield is perhaps 
 meant for Sir Guy de Bryan, Steward of the Household to Edw. III., sometime of Compton Basset 
 as already mentioned: but the colours are different. The patronage of the Church, from 1311, 
 has always been in the Bishops of Sarum with two or three exceptions. In 1337 Andrew Blunt 
 Lord of Beversbrook presented. In 1432 the Prior of Burcester (Bicester) Co. Oxon : a Religious 
 House founded in 1182 by Gilbert Basset, Baron of Hedingdon (near Oxford). In White Ken- 
 net’s History of Ambrosden p. 205 is an Arbitration of the Bishops of Lincoln and Bath relating 
 to the Prior’s right to the Advowson of Compton Basset. In 1552 Nicholas Snell of Ivington 
 St. Michael presented by leave of Edward Baynton. The Church (St. Switkin’s) is partly Nor¬ 
 man, partly Perpendicular. The stone screen has a loft over a stone vaulting constructed on 
 
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44 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Hedington. 
 
 HEDINGTON. 
 
 Ex MSS. Harleianis: “ Brampton et Brian Castle. A Knight’s fee in 7/adyn- 
 done in Com. Wilts., which the Prior of Bradenstoke holds at £6. 13 . 4.” Mem. 
 In the copy it is doubtfull, by reason of a fracture, whether there were another 
 letter P or S. * 1 before H in Hedyndone. 
 
 In Hedington field is found plenty of old cindres, the melting of iron ore ; the 
 like at Bowdon. In Heref. and Monmouthshire, they use these cindres to melt 
 down their new digged oare the more easily. These Blomeries 2 * * * * were in the times 
 
 pillars and arches, and its eastern front perforated. In the piers of the screen are twelve small 
 brackets with canopies, once probably containing figures of the Apostles. The rood loft had for¬ 
 merly an oaken railing. This was removed, and a stone railing put in its place, but of an earlier 
 style than the screen itself. In Weale’s Quarterly papers on Architecture, Yol. III. are engra¬ 
 vings of this roodscreen, and of the hour glass and frame (date about 1648—60) attached to the 
 pulpit. The hour glass is also figured in “ Instrumenta Ecclesiastica.” The stone pulpit and 
 desk were given by Mrs. Heneage in 1842. A stained glass window has been lately placed on 
 the North side. 
 
 The Arms on one of the bells, viz. a chevron between 3 cross crosslets fitchee, with the initials 
 I. W. [Wilts. Mag. II. 341] are those of some family of Walker, but not the coat quartered by 
 Mr. Heneage. 
 
 1 The missing letter was C, and the place to which Aubrey’s Extract refers, was Chadington (in 
 Lydiard Tregoz, formerly L. Ewyas) which was held by Bradenstoke Priory under the Ewyas 
 family of their Lordship of Brampton Bryan, Co. Hereford. The Extract does not refer to 
 Hedington. This manor ( Edinton in Wilts Domesday p. 225) belonged to Edward of Salisbury. 
 One portion of it may have been given with his daughter on her marriage with Humphrey Bohun, 
 for, under the Bohuns, of their Honour of Trowbridge, it was held in temp. Hen. III. by the 
 Barons Cantilupe. [See “ Caine.”] A moiety of the manor was given by Ela Longespee to the 
 Abbey of Lacock, charged with the support of two chantries to the Ryvers family, which the Nuns 
 seem to have neglected. Ralph Augiers was an owner here temp. John. The Patron of the 
 church was the Prior of Monkton Farley, by gift of the Bohuns. After the Dissolution, in 1543, 
 Lainbard. In 1571—1605, Partridge, of South Cerney Co. Gloucester. In 1670, Daniel. In 17^1— 
 1800, the family of Rogers: for whose pedigree, see p. 22. “ Bradford on Avon.” 
 
 2 A “ Blomary ” is the first forge in the iron mills, through which the metal passes, after it has 
 
 been first melted from the mine. [Johns. Diet.] The scoria, or slag, found in great quantity in and 
 
 near Spye Park, was derived from iron works, in which the ore of the Lower Green sand of this 
 
 district was smelted. This was most likel} 7 by the Romans. The late Mr. Cunnington, the An¬ 
 
 tiquary, found in a field not far from the Roman Villa (Yerlucio) near Bromham, the remains of 
 
 a furnace which he pronounced to be Roman. 
 
_v,.<. o ivxay, i /ou. Aiiumcr oi " ine Jttev. Henry Southouse, Hector 
 
 of this parish, oh. July, 1811, aged 39.” And one of the Rev. Dr. Richard 
 Scrope, ob. July 8tli, 1787. 
 
 The general commemorative monument erected to the Scrope family by Dr. 
 Scrope himself has been already noticed. 
 
 In the south aisle, below the east window, a square stone let into the 
 wall has the following inscription:— 
 
 Remedium . unicum . Jesus . Ch 
 ristus . Christ . is . the . only . 
 salve . for . everi. sore . Lear 
 ne . him . a . right . ye . neade . 
 to . learne . no . more . Rica 
 rdus . Gillus . obiit . no 
 no . die . Januarii 
 1588. 
 
 In the body of the church and tower are some ordinary monuments or 
 tablets to members of the families of Child, Taylor, Watts, Lewis, Fisher, Bevan, 
 White, Wild, Jenkins, several of whom were clothiers, and all repeatedly men¬ 
 tioned in the court rolls as respectable inhabitants of the manor. A handsome 
 one in marble has been already alluded to, bearing the following inscription :— 
 
 Near this place are deposited the bodies of 
 Mr. Walter Fisher, clothier, and Mary his wife, 
 who left behind them six sons and four daughters, 
 all decently educated and formed for the world 
 by their industrious care and tenderness. 
 
 * See p. 39 supra. 
 
Iii the north aisle are several inscribed tablets, some of .early dates, to the 
 Child family, who have been mentioned as still holding a freehold estate within 
 the manor.* 
 
 The church was probably in great part built at the expense of the wealthy 
 clothiers of the place. The bequest of one of them, a native or serf of the 
 manor, by name William Heyne, of twenty pounds, “ datum fabric® ecclesiae 
 et campanil® de Cast el Combe,” “to the building of the church and belfry 
 tower,” in the year 1436, has been quoted.! This year corresponds, almost 
 exactly, with the commencement of the tower as recorded by William Wyrcestre. 
 Probably, also, some of the vast personal wealth of Fastolf, which came to 
 the disposition of Sir John Howes, one of his two chief executors, and who 
 was rector of this church, was applied by him here, the old knight having 
 specially enjoined in his will its appropriation to such purposes “ in parishes 
 of which he was lord.” J 
 
 The church has been entirely re-pewed in oak, or rather fitted up with 
 uniform low open seats, and the interior altogether has a spacious, airy, and 
 
 _ * Sir Josiah Child and the great London bankers of that name are said by old Aubrey to have derived 
 from the Childs of Castle Combe and the adjoining parish of Yatton Keynell, who still possess freehold 
 estates there. He says, “ Parson Child, rector of Yatton Keynell, is cosen-german to the eminent banker 
 of Fleet Street.”—Nat. Hist, of Wilts (1690). The family of Wild mentioned above owned another small 
 freehold at Longdene, and are also mentioned by Aubrey. “ I remember when the paper-mill at Longdene, 
 in the parish of Yatton Keynell (it adjoins Yatton Keynell but is in Castle Combe parish), was built by 
 Mr. Wyld, a Bristow merchant, 1635. It serves Bristow with brown paper.”—Nat. Hist. p. 95. The 
 paper-mill still exists, and still makes brown paper exclusively for the Bristol market. The Wilds were 
 succeeded there by the Lewises, who have likewise tablets in the church, but have disappeared from the parish, 
 f Note, p. 221. f Note, p. 189. 
 
 c/^CT A-**, 
 
CALNE HUNDRED. 
 
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 of the Romans or Britons. Hereabout the water in the ditches, on the fall of the 
 leafe, looks blewish, which is an indication of iron, as also the veins of other coloured 
 sand. At Seene or Send, is iron ore so rich that it will run in the Smyth’s forge, 
 yet this treasure was not understood, for the forest was destroyed about 1630, and 
 now no wood left in the parish to melt it. 
 
 In Weeke field, by Sandy Lane in the parish of Hedington, digging the earth, 
 in March 1653, deeper than the plough had gone, to so we carrots, they found foun¬ 
 dations of howses, and coales, for at least a quarter of a mile long, and a great quan¬ 
 tity of Roman money, silver and copper, of the Emperors. Among the rest was 
 an earthen pott of the colour of a crucible, and of the shape of a Prentice’s Christ¬ 
 mas Box, with a slit in it, containing about a quart, which was near full of money. 
 I gott the pott, and about a quarter of a pint of the money, most of it in copper, 
 which was stolen by a servant from me. Y. Aulularia Plauti. Among the coin 
 there was a good deal of small copper pieces no bigger than a silver single penny, 
 which Q. if not the Roman Denarii ? The stamp is .... The inscriptions were ot 
 . This pott I gave to the Repository of the Royal Society at Gresham College. 1 
 
 1 Dr. Stukeley considered Hedington to be the much disputed Roman Station Verlucio: 
 which Sir R. C. Hoare places only a little way off, at Wans House. The Dr. supposed the true 
 name to be Yerolucio, from Celtic Vro and lug, a “ white habitation.” The Saxon name Hed¬ 
 ington he derives from Heddan-town, (town of Hedda.) In his Iter. vi. (p. 143) he says: “This 
 town is but small at present, lying at the bottom of a great hill in a rich marly country. The 
 inhabitants are not surprised when you enquire for Antiquities. They assert it to have been a 
 very old and great city. Infinite quantities of antiquities are found here: handfuls of coins 
 brought home ever} r time they plough, (Madam Whitlock has many): and the streets and found¬ 
 ations of houses found for a great length, sufficiently evince it. Reuben Horsal, clerk of Abury, 
 told me, be had seen a gallon of Roman Coin taken up at a time in Hedington field, in an urn 
 covered with a stone.” Hedington Wick more particularly abounds in these relics. For an 
 account of a Roman leaden coffin, &c., see Archceol. Journal, Yol. xii. p. 283, 1855. Another 
 discovery is described in the Devizes Gazette, April 1855. In Aubrey’s MS. Monum. Brit. 
 (Bodl. Lib.) is a letter to himself from Sir James Long, with a list of a great number of coins 
 found in 1688 at this place. Hedington lies close to the old Roman road which was formed in 
 this part along the line of the earlier Wansdyke. On the hill above (mistaken for Roundway 
 by Stukeley) is a camp which has led some to think that here was the celebrated battle of Ethan- 
 dun for which there are so many competing places. For further notice of Hedington, see History 
 of Lacock (Bowles), pp. 186, 315. xxxij. Also Beauties of England and Wales ; “Y ilts.” p. 434. 
 Robert Child, clothier of this place, was brother to the Goldsmith and founder of the first banking 
 house in London, Sir Francis Child. 
 
46 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Yatesbury. 
 
 YATESBURY. 
 
 In the Church 1 here is nothing to lie found, neither is any tradition that I can yet 
 learn of any remarkable thing in the parish. In the field eastwards from the towne 
 is a harrow or two. 
 
 1 The Church (All Saints) originally Early Norman, was rebuilt early in the 13th century, 
 repaired, and robbed of its South aisle, at the end of the 14th. Of the Font, very handsome 
 Norman on E. English base, long choked with whitewash and ochre, a good woodcut is given in 
 the “Builder.” The Church was restored, and chancel entirely rebuilt in 1854. 
 
 The name is variously spelled in old Records, as, Zatesbury, Hyatebiri, Jetesbury, Sitesburi, 
 Etesbury: and being sometimes confounded with Hevtesbury in South Wilts, it is difficult to 
 trace the descent of property. Subject to error from this cause, the following names occur. 
 Temp. John, Barville, and Fitz Everard. In Hen. III. Reginald of Caine and Fitz-Mathew. 
 In 1308 Wahond in right of an heiress of Longespee Her property (not a large one) passed by 
 another marriage to Sir Baldwin Freville of Warwickshire whose family in 1. Richard II, con¬ 
 tested with the Dymocks the championship of England. They were succeeded by Sir Robert 
 Aston (1464), [Branch and Dole 31. and I. p. in.] In 1330 Edmund Earl of Kent in right of 
 his wife Margery Wake. From 1300 to 1366 the Bourdon family. In 1349 Sir Peter Doignel, 
 in right of Agnes Bourdon his wife. In 1410 John Preston held, “ as of the Castle of Devizes.” 
 From 1432 for above 300 years the Ernie family. By his will, 1764, George Hungerford, Esq., 
 L.L.D. of Studley House, near Caine, bequeathed his Manor Farm of Yatesbury to his second 
 wife, and widow, Elizabeth (Pollen) who died 1748. Their monument is in the Church. By 
 this lady’s family, their estate was sold a few years ago to Mr. Tanner. 
 
 The Prebendal estate at Yatesbury was held in 1085 by Alured of Spain a foreign 
 Ecclesiastic. In 1716 Strickland Gough farmed it. Isaac Walton, the fisherman’s nephew, was 
 Prebendary 1678. A list of earlier Prebendaries is printed in Dr. Rawlinson’s “ Antiq. of the 
 Abbey Church of Bath, and of Salisbury ” p. 343. 
 
 Some of the barrows in the parish were examined by the late Dean Merewether. See Arch. 
 Inst. Journ., Salisbury Yol. 1849, p. 95. 
 

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CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 ALDRINGTON. 
 
 [The Manor House, now destroyed.] 
 
 I HE Mannour House here is of the fashion of Bradfield [for which see 
 PL xxiv.] which was the common way of building gentlemen’s houses in 
 ® those dayes. 1 In the Hall, which is open, on the carved skreen, these 
 four escutcheons : 
 
 PL iv. No. 50. Gore. 0. 3 bulls heads cabossed S. Mem. This is the coate which Thomas 
 Gore, Esqr., now gives. His oldest deeds are thus, without a chevron, and it is so confirmed by 
 Mr. Camden. 
 
 No. 51. Gore impaling Keynell. 53. Gore, with a chevron. 
 
 52. ditto impaling Whittocksmede. 54. Keynell impaling Hall and [Atford ? 
 
 See Wilts. Archseol. Mag. I. p. 268.] 
 
 In the windowes of old glasse in the Hall: 
 
 No. 55. Gore impaling Hall [and Atford?]. 
 56. ditto impaling Stourton. 
 
 — ditto and Whittocksmede [as 52]. 
 
 — ditto and Keynell [as 51.] 
 
 — Gore single [as 53]. 
 
 57. ditto [as 50] impaling Jennings. 
 
 58. ditto impaling White. 
 
 Mem. About 1656 Mr. Gore aforesaid took down all these shields and had them 
 rectified, or altered,to the coat above [No. 50]. 
 
 1 “The architecture of an old English Gentleman’s house, especially in Wilts and thereabout, was 
 a good high strong wall, a gate house, a great hall and parlour; and, within the little green court 
 where you come in, stood on one side the Barne. They then thought not the noise of the 
 threshold ill musique. This is to be seen at severall old houses and seates, e.g. Bradfield, 
 Alderton, Stanton St. Quintin, Yatton Keynell &c.” [Nat. Hist, of Wilts 101.] 
 
 The House of which Aubrey speaks was probably taken down soon after his time and replaced 
 by one of modern style, the offices being retained. There is no Manor House at Alderton now, 
 the last having been taken down about 45 years ago. From minute description given by old 
 people, it did not at all correspond with the one which Aubrey describes. An avenue led to it 
 across the large field called “The Ridges.” The present road to the church is new. The house 
 stood on the North side of the church ; the site is visible near the fishponds which still remain. 
 
48 
 
 [A Merton. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 In the Church. 
 
 In the top of the West window these two coates; 
 
 Gore [with chevron, as 53]. | Gore [with chevron] and Keynell [as 51]. 
 
 In the Chancell, on the North side, above a gothique Altar Monument, this In¬ 
 scription, vis. 
 
 ©f gour rijargte prag for tije Soule of ©©ft©, ISsqugcr, latr 
 
 iLorti of tips Count, tlje bjijgd) brcrsgb tfje jfJfu hate of 3ulg, Snuo IDnt. 
 M.V c .xxxij. ©n toljos Soul 3ffju Ijabe mareg. &mcn. 
 
 On the Monument are these coates : 
 
 Gore [with chevron] impaling Hall 
 [and Atford, as 55]. 
 ditto and Keynell [as 51]. 
 ditto single [as 53]. 
 
 In the Chancell, under a faire black marble (now partly hidden by the Communion 
 Table), this Inscription. 
 
 “ Here lies the body of Anne James, third daughter of Edward Gore, Esqr. (by Eliz. his wife) 
 wife to Gyles James, gent, of Great (Sherston) in Com. Wilts: who departed this mortall life on 
 Sunday the 4th of Oct. 1629 : set. suae 40.” 
 
 “ Expectans expectavi.” Psal. 40. 
 
 With Jacob’s Rachel I [a James his wife] 
 
 Waited full long before our married life. 
 
 In me it was a matchless expectation, 
 
 More taedious farre than matche’s consummation, 
 
 Which once enjoyed, and scarce three yeares in all, 
 
 A lingering sickness ridd mee out of thrall; 
 
 For this my change all mine appointed days 
 I waited still, and waiting gave God praise 
 That had so fitted me for Heaven, where 
 My soul now rests, as doth my bodie here. 
 
 “ Usque quo Domine.” Apocal. 6. 10. 
 
 “ Veni Domine Jesu.” Apocal. 22. 20. 
 
 One of her sexe’s worthies here doth lye, 
 
 A wife, a patterne to posteritie ; 
 
 To husband loyall, gracious unto all, 
 
 Pious to God, to th’ poore most liberal.” 
 
 Keynell [as betore] single. 
 
 Gore [with chevron], impaling Whit- 
 TOCKSMEDE, [as 52.] 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 49 
 
 (On Chancel Floor.) “Here lieth the body of Mrs. Lydia Gore, the wife of 
 Charles Gore, Esq. late Lord of this manor of Aldrington, who dyed the 3rd 
 day of Jan. Anno. Dni. 1654.” On a freestone are two plates ofbrasse, on the 
 top one of which are her husband’s coate and her own. [Gore impaling White.] 
 On the other this Epitaph : 
 
 “ Reader, if thou hast a tear, 
 
 Doe not grudge to drop it here: 
 
 Think not it can fall alone, 
 
 Flouds are due unto this stone. 
 
 Here lies (ah ! how that word does pierce, 
 And double blacks the mournfull herse;) 
 Vertue’s fair copie, Heaven’s delight, 
 
 Not fitt for mens’ but angells’ sight. 
 
 In whose pure breast sweet innocence 
 
 (Exil’d by most) found sure defence ; 
 Where no black thought, the sire of shame 
 (Charm’d by her vertues’ magick) came; 
 Lov’d by the rich, the poor did blesse 
 Her as theyre Soveraigne Almonesse; 
 Wife, Mother, Friend, better no age 
 E’re shewed upon the world’s stage. 
 
 Then Reader, if thou hast a. tear, 
 
 Canst thou chuse but drop it here.” ! 
 
 By Dr. Tally, (Rector of Grittleton.) 
 
 In the wall, on the South side, is a little freestone figure of a child kneeling, with 
 this inscription: “ Here lies the body of Charles Gore, eldest sonne of Charles 
 Gore, Esqr., who dyed the 3d day of Sept. 1628.” 
 
 “ Hie jacet ingenii splendor, pietatis amator, 
 
 Vita, morte, pius, cum tamen ipse Puer !” 
 
 N. One in commendation of him hath inserted this Distich in the Register Booke, 
 viz. 
 
 “ Haeres patris eram, Matris virtutibus haeres, 
 Mansuetus, blandus, cum pietate cornis.” 
 
 (On a Brass on y e chancel floor now half hidden.) “ Elizabeth Gore, dau. of 
 Charles Gore, Esqr., departed this mortall life April 14, 1641, get. suge 4 ”; upon 
 whose gravestone thus: 
 
 “ So rare a piece for beauty, grace and witt, 
 Though God had showed us, yet he thought 
 not fit 
 
 For us to gaze upon too long; ’twas He 
 
 By 
 
 That tooke her to himself, himself to see. 
 Admired she was by all that did behold her; 
 Much more shall be when God anew shall 
 mould her.” 
 
 Mr. Parson William Noble, of Sutton Benger. 
 
 It 
 
50 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Alderton. 
 
 On a brasse plate in a Monument erected in the S. Wall by Charles Gore’s Monu¬ 
 ment : (now against N. Chancel Wall. Ed.) 
 
 “ Psalm 116. 15.—Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saintes.” 
 
 “ Here lie the bodies of Charles Gore, aged 6 yeares and 18 weeks; Edw. Gore, 
 aged 9 weekes; Mary Gore, aged 1 yeare and 14 weekes; Anna Gore, aged 12 
 weekes; and Elizabeth Gore, aged 4 yeares and one monetli: all children of Charles 
 Gore, of Aldrington, Esq, and Lydia, his wife, expecting the second coming of 
 Christ.” 
 
 Malady III. 17 —“ They shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hostes, in that day when I make up 
 my Jewells.” 
 
 Jewells of price this place contains, 
 
 As a choice Cabinet, the Remaines 
 Of those sweet soules : all of a Race, 
 
 Which now in Heaven have their place. 
 
 “Parens uterque moerens posuit. An. D. 1641.” 
 
 Mr. Nolle. 
 
 On a brass against the S. wall in the S. Aisle, these Inscriptions. 
 
 [“An Epitaph upon the death of that godly and grave Matron Mrs. Ann James, 
 wife of Mr. William James, Gentelman, and Mother to Mrs. Lydia Gore wife of 
 Charles Gore of Aldrington Esquire, whose body heare lieth interred in hope of the 
 Resurrection. Obiit 20 mo Decembris An 0 Salutis 1636. Hit. sum 70.] 
 
 Deare saint of God! to whom in life most deare, 
 God’s howse and messengers and servants were, 
 The holy things of God most precious all, 
 Precious with God her death and burial; 
 
 Her soule enlarg’d and sett at libertie 
 
 Next to this, “ 
 
 who departed this life the 
 
 Death parteth soule and bodie, man and wife, 
 So as to meet again in better life, 
 
 On better termes: meanewhile our bodies must 
 To their first nothing tarn, at best but dust, 
 Till glorified: our soules doe alwaies sing 
 All glory to the everlasting King. 
 
 The seaventith yeare of its captivity, 
 
 If evidence for Heaven be Truth of Grace 
 Then sure in Heaven this Matron hath a place; 
 Let after ages say, when this is gon, 
 
 Blest be the memorie of such a one. 
 
 Surviving friends ! in life see you prepare 
 For life in Heaven where no survivors are : 
 That when of this short life Death ends 
 the story, 
 
 You sharers be with us of endlesse glory. 
 By Parson Noble , 0 / Sutton Benger. 
 
 An Epitaph upon the death of Mr. William James, Gentilman, 
 28th of March, 1637, [mt sum 56].” 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 51 
 
 This Deed [Appendix No. 1.] is in the custody of Thomas Gore, of Aldrington, in 
 the county of Wilts, Esqr., descended from the beneath sayd William Gore, and 
 Agnes, his wife. The lands are still in the possession of the said Thomas Gore, 
 who still payeth the same annual rent. 
 
 (“A.D. 1402. Walter, Abbot of Kingswood confirms to Wm, and Agnes Gore a 
 house and lands in Aldrington, held of him and his Convent, in lieu of certain 
 other premises: paying to the Convent 15 s . a year.”) 
 
 On the Convent Seal: [PI. iv. fig. 59] The Virgin crowned, standing, and hold¬ 
 ing Christ in her arms; below is the half figure of the Abbot holding up his hands 
 in the posture of prayer, Mr. Dugdale sayeth. 
 
 Inscription: S. ABBATIS ET CONVENTUS B. MARIE DE KINGSWOOD. 1 
 
 1 Aldrington was held of the Crown by the Mortimers at the Domesday Survey, afterwards by 
 the Cliffords of Clifford Castle. Under these the principal estate belonged to Henry de Hartham. 
 So late as 1442 there were still some lands in the parish, then occupied by Ralph Ivy, charged 
 “from ancient time, with providing one chaplain to celebrate Divine Service in the church of 
 Aldrington for the souls of the ancestors of the Lords of Hartham.” Thomas de Pedworth 
 appears to have succeeded the Harthams as mesne tenant. From him, about 1392, it was bought by 
 William Gore (of a Melksham family,) whose descendants continued here for nearly 400 years. 
 In 1583 Alderton manor is described as held by the Gores “of the Queen, of her manor of 
 Dunley.” By degrees they became large owners in adjoining parishes; at Grittleton, Surrenden 
 in Hullavington, Luckington, Yatton Keynell, &c. They had Grittleton manor (late the 
 Abbey of Glastonbury’s) from the Dissolution to 1601. Hartham in 1457. Their estate at 
 Melksham and Shaw they sold to the Brounckers in 1544. 
 
 The name of their family is now chiefly remembered in the person of Thomas Gore Esq. the 
 writer on subjects connected with Heraldry: and an intimate friend of John Aubrey. [See 
 Wilts. Mag. IV. 107.] 
 
 This Mr. Gore was at the pains to form a careful MS. vol. of Family evidences, which is now 
 in the possession of G. Poulett Scrope Esq. It is written with extreme precision in a fine bold 
 hand, and supplies ample particulars of their history and property. His monument is against 
 the North wall of the chancel. “M. S. Thomae Gore de Aldrington armigeri (cujus exuviae hie 
 juxta sitae) honoris ergo posuit filius et haeres ejusdem nominis. Obiit Martii 31°. A.D. 1684. act: 
 suae 50 to .” Then follow some Latin verses. By the death of Thomas Gore’s youngest grandson 
 Walter Gore in 1712, the estates passed to Elizabeth, sister of Walter. She married William 
 Hedges Esq. of Compton Basset, whose sons dying, Eleanor Hedges their sole surviving sister 
 became heiress and carried the property by her marriage into the family of Montagu of Lackham. 
 
 At the breaking up of the Montagu property, was unfortunately dispersed a number of manu¬ 
 scripts, collected or composed by Mr. Thomas Gore just mentioned. These if they could now be 
 
 n 2 
 
52 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Avon. 
 
 AVON. 
 
 Quaere, If this was ever a Parish. They have a tradition here that a Queen lay 
 in here. 1 
 
 recovered would be of much value in illustration of Wiltshire History. There are in the Church 
 several inscriptions to the Gores, besides those given by Aubrey. Col. Montagu the Ornithologist, 
 lived for some time at Alderton House, though he was not owner of the estate. [See Memoir of 
 him, Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. III. 87]. In 1827 the whole of the Alderton estate was purchased 
 by the late Joseph Neeld Esq. (then of London); and was his first acquisition in the county of 
 Wilts. The Surrenden estate had been bought by Mr. Burne, father of the Rev. William Way 
 Burne late Rector of Grittleton. On Mr. Neeld’s purchasing in the following year the adjoining 
 estate of Grittleton, he came to reside in the County. The village of Alderton was at that time 
 in a state of general deca}\ He rebuilt the cottages and Parish Church, (the latter in 1844,) and 
 erected also a new school and Parsonage House. 
 
 Alderton Grange belonged before the Dissolution to Kingswood Abbey. The Gores then 
 purchased the fee simple. 
 
 The Rectory was impropriate; having been given, together with that of Sherston Magna, by 
 Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, c. 1442 to Tewkesbury Abbey. A vicar was endowed for 
 Sherston, but none for Alderton. After the Dissolution both rectories were given to the Dean 
 and Chapter of Gloucester. The utmost effort of their liberality has hitherto been to allow £30 a 
 year towards the stipend of the Perpetual Curate of Alderton : on the patronage of this valuable 
 preferment being transferred to the late Mr. Neeld he augmented it. 
 
 Of the old church (St. Giles), some portions of which are preserved in the new school, a 
 description is given in the “ Builder,” 1845, p. 223. On the base of the original tower, a new 
 tall spire was erected. The chancel windows contain some good old stained glass, the Crucifixion, 
 St. Michael, &c. On a tablet placed against the wall of the South aisle, is the following inscription 
 in memory of the late Rev. Anthony Austin, who is buried in the church yard. 
 
 “Antonio Austin, vicario de Aldrington, quem vivum diligebant, sepultum desiderant, Hoc 
 Marmor, P. C. ex amicis amantissimi. Ob. VII. Kal. Sept. A. S. MDCCCXLVIII.” 
 
 1 The Editor is unable to say by whom so great an honour was conferred upon this smallest of 
 hamlets: which lies, on the left bank of the River Avon, between Chippenham and Christ- 
 malford. Though the names cannot refer to Royalty, it is odd that out of six tenants paying 
 acknowledgments here to Malmesbury Abbey in 12. Edw. I. two should bear the names of “ John 
 le Kyng, and Matilda la Quene” (Cartulary List.) A Manor of “Avene” called at that time 
 “in Bremhill” was given to Malmesbury Abbey by K. Athelstan. (New Mon. “Malms.” 259). 
 Under the Abbot it was held by Godfrey de Sifrewast temp. Edw. I. (T. d. N.) This was a 
 Dorsetshire family [see Hutch. “Hook,” I. 241] but is met with here, at Chitterne (Heyts. 170) 
 Poulshot, and Winterbourne Shrewton, (T. de N.) Sifrewast was succeeded by Maltravers, and 
 Stafford. From Edw. II. to Rich. II. Avon belonged to the Pavelys of Westbury. Elena widow 
 
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 BIDDESTON. 
 
 Here are two Parish Churches: 
 
 (St. Peters.) 
 
 That at the lower end of the village is St. Peter’s Church, formerly a prettie 
 little Church, but now lamentably ruined, and converted to a barne, and nothing of 
 antiq. there. At this Church, in Mr. Teys his time, viz. about the beginning or a 
 little before the late warres, was not only Prayers, but also Communions. 
 
 Mem. On the old gate at Mr. Monjoy’s by St. Peter’s Church, was a scutcheon, 
 in freestone, charged only with a bend; now the coate of Cotel is G. a bend Or. 
 [see PI. ii. fig. 1.] and, as I remember in Tropnell’s MSS., Cotel had an estate here, 
 
 viz. which afterwards was given to the Monkes at Mounckton Farlegh. * 1 
 
 of Walter Pavely, who remarried Sir Edward Cerne of Draycote [see Brass in D. church] had it 
 for her life, and is sometimes called Elena de Avon. Sir Edward held it under the Honour of 
 Trowbridge. [I. P. M.J At Elena’s death in 1419 it reverted to a coheir of Pavely, who married 
 Sir William Cheney, and from him by another inheritance to Sir John Willoughby (de Broke.) 
 [See Sir II. C. Hoare’s Westbury p. 3 ; and Wilts. Mag. III. 178. Pedigree of Cerne.] 
 
 It was a chapelry to Christmalford, and the incumbent was Rector. The Pavelys presented in 1333. 
 Sir Edward Cerne (jnr. ux.) 1383. Walter Talboys of Ryme Co. Lincoln 1442. Lord Willoughby 
 de Broke 1452—1509. Avene chapel is named in the Valor Eccl. (H. VIII.) ; John Hawke, 
 Rector: Value 33s. 4d. Soon after that period the chapel must have been destroyed. Robert 
 Ilungerford Esq. of Cadenham purchased the Tithes. His descendant in the 5th generation, 
 Walter Hungerford of Studley near Caine, by his will, 1754, bequeathed his “ Parsonage of Avon” 
 to his nephew George (afterwards of Studley) for his life, in tail to Robert Blake of Sodbury, Co. 
 Gloucester who had married one of his nieces. 
 
 There is another small place of the name, close to Old Sarurn. 
 
 1 The name of Cotel occurs here in a Deed of 1358, and if the Tropnells had any estate at Bid- 
 deston they probably succeeded Cotel. [See Atworth.] Biddeston St. Peter’s consists only of 
 an ancient Manor House, 3 cottages and about 130 acres of land. This was sold in 1626 by Sir 
 Gilbert Prynne (of Allington in the adjoining parish) and Sir George Hastings of Gray’s Inn 
 his son in law, to William Mountjoy, gent. This family remained for six generations, and founded 
 a charity in the Parish. Anne widow of the last Mr. Mountjoy and wife of John Lee of Worm¬ 
 wood, in Box, sold Bid. St. Peter’s in 1811 to Mr. Thomas Little of Bid. St. Nicholas, by 
 whom it was sold in 1841 to Lord Methuen. Over the mantel piece in the hall of the manor 
 house are three small stone shields. On two of them is, apparently, a horse’6 head bridled. On 
 the centre one, the hame of a horse’6 collar. 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \Biddeston. 
 
 (St. Nicholas.) 
 
 “Jo. de Tivetot had the fourth part of a Knight’s Fee in Biddeston in Com: 
 Wiltes, which Nicholas de Biddeston holds, worth 100 shillings.” Ex. MSS. Sari. 
 
 At the upper end of the village is St. Nicholas’ Church. Here in y e chancel N. 
 side, is a freestone Altar Monument, without any inscription. It hath 3 escutcheons. 
 [PI. iv. No. 60]. W. Aubrey tliinkes that this Monument was of Haynes. Mr. 
 Thynne, of Bideston, had the Parsonage from Haynes. * 1 
 
 Monkton Farley Priory had the Patronage of Bid. St. Peter’s. The little Church being quite 
 ruinous was taken down about 20 years ago. The Bell Turret is preserved in the gardens at 
 Castle Combe. It was of Perpendicular style, and is described with illustrations by Mr. T. L. 
 Walker in “ Pugin’s examples of Gothic Architecture,” Vol iii. Also in the “ Saturday Mag.” 
 No. 776. 1844: and “Gent. Mag.” 1838. p. 142. It stood behind the Old Manor House of the 
 Mountjoys: and the site is now used as a garden. The Parsonage stood at the corner where the 
 lane from Allington joins that from Biddestone to Corsham. The distinction of Parishes is still 
 kept up : the garden wall of the manor house being the boundary. Aubrey’s “ Mr. Teys ” is 
 called in the Wilts. Institutions, Elias Tyse, Rector of St. Peter’s 1620—1633. 
 
 1 Part of Biddeston was held under the Barony of Castle Combe, sometime Tybetot’s, by 
 Nicholas Sambourne 1392. Russell 1455. Bagot 1520. Mompesson 1573. 
 
 In Hen. III. Reginald de Burnivale was the manorial Lord of another part. In Edw. II. the 
 Gascelyns of Sheldon; whose heiress marking Edward Hales, sold her estate to Walter Lord 
 Hungerford the High Treasurer, in 1424. In Hen. YIII. his descendant Lord Hungei'ford of 
 Heytesbury was executed and his manors forfeited. The Crown appointed — Grimston, Steward 
 of this estate, Little Cheverell and others. John Coxed, LLD. was Lord of the Manor 1739—51. 
 Paul Methuen, Esq. 1785. 
 
 Monkton Farley Priory had £6 a year in “Bydston cum Hartham,” partly by gift of one 
 Archard. Some part of the parish near West Yatton used to be called B. Keynes from an ancient 
 owner. 
 
 In the Sarum Registers, as printed by Sir T. Phillipps, the Presentations are to St. Peter’s 
 Rectory only, until 1719. From that time, to St. Peter’s cum Vicarage of Bid. St. Nicholas. (The 
 entries in that volume under the name of “ Buddesden ” refer to a place near Ludgershall). 
 From this it would seem that St. Peter’s was the original parish Church. But as the archi¬ 
 tecture of St. Nicholas’s is older than was that of St. Peter’s, the latter may have been pre¬ 
 ceded by a still older one on its site. See Mr. Walker’s Book above referred to, tor both Bell 
 Turrets. Views of the Bell Turret, Norman Font, and Doorway of St. Nicholas, with a descrip¬ 
 tion of both churches, are given by Mr. E. W. Godwin, Architect, in Wilts. Archmol. Mag. I\ . 143. 
 
 The Arms [No. 60] are those of Haynes, with quarterings. The name is old in Castle Combe 
 and Corsham. In 1611 Thomas Thynne, Esq. was of Biddeston. In 1640 Henry Thynne. 
 
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 At the George Inne here, is a well at the back of the house the vertues whereof 
 are attested by the neighbours for the spleen, the stone and fitts of the mother. 
 Blue marie at the bottom of the well yields by precipitation a sediment of yellowish 
 nitre. Mem. In this village are severall springs, and marie is to bee seen in the 
 highway. Mr. M (ontjoy) about 1661, by a little gutter, turned the water, which 
 runnes through the street, into his pond, which hath unproved a leasowe from £5 
 per ann. to at least £25 per annum, and is farther continuing it. I conceive this 
 improvement is chiefly from the nitre, though the filth of the street helps. * 1 
 
 BOX. 
 
 (Church. St. Thomas a’Becket.) 
 
 By the three graduall stone seates is a Lyon rampant, in stone, with a cross- 
 crosslet on his shoulder. 2 
 
 Edmund Smith, commonly called “ Rag Smith,” the friend of Steele and Addison, author of 
 “ Phmdra and Hippolytus” and translator of Longinus on the Sublime, died at Hartham 1709, 
 and was buried in St. Nicholas, but there is no memorial. A very small oldfashioned leaden box 
 containing the bones of a child was found in the churchyard wall (east) in 1855. In the same 
 year Elizabeth Packer was buried aged 106. In a Deed of 1258 occurs “John do Angulo” (of 
 the Corner) and in another, 1358, “Nicholas in le Hole” of Biddeston. A letter of Mr. Tatter- 
 sail’s, Rector of Biddeston and Grittleton, 1696, mentions that “ Poor Dr. Noble has overshot 
 himself in Mrs. Frampton’s estate at Biddeston, and is forced to abscond.” 
 
 1 This “ Leasowe ” (now Lord Methuen’s, in B. St. Peter’s) lies South of the Manor House, and is 
 still remarkable for its fertility. One of the springs called Holy Well rises near it. The brook 
 that runs through the village is called the Wavering. 
 
 2 A tesselated pavement, a bath, and other remains of a Roman villa have been found, a few 
 yards to the South of Box Church. See Gent. Mag. 1831, p. 596 ; Do. 1833, April, p. 357 : and 
 Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. Dec. 1860, p. 341. The Mosaic was of coarse pattern, and was chiefly 
 destroyed by exposure to frost. 
 
 Under “Ditchridge” (infrd) Aubrey writes: “ Parson Bridges says Sir Hugh Speke told him 
 that he had searched in the Black Book and found. . .., that 100 years after the conquest Box 
 church was built by the Earl of Hereford.” The Bohun family (Earls of Hereford) were certainly 
 proprietors in the neighbourhood, and founded the Priory of Monkton Farley. But the “ lion 
 rampant in stone on the gradual seats” (all now gone) may perhaps be a relic of the real builders, 
 the Bigod family. In nen. III. Sampson Bigod, Kt. was Lord of the Manor. He is sometimes 
 
Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
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 [Box. 
 
 On the South side of the Church a faire freestone Monument of Roman Architec¬ 
 ture, borne up with Ionique pillars, a figure incumbent on the Altar, in armour. 
 “ Here lyeth the body of Anthony Long, Esqr. buried the 2d of May, 1578.” Over 
 the Marshall’s Lock, in a scroll, this motto, vis. 11 (! B.” fPl. iv. 
 
 called “ Sampson de la Boxe.” His seal, appendant to a Deed (without date) by which he grants 
 the wood called Kingswood to Agnes de Shokerwyck, is a Lion rampant, with the legend 
 *fi, SIGILL: SAMPSONIS: BIGOD. In 14. Edw. III. Henry Bigod de la Boxe sold the manor to 
 Sir John Molvns who held it as of Trowbridge Castle under the Duchy of Lancaster. During a 
 forfeiture by one of his descendants in 20 Ric. II. it was held by Thomas, Duke of Gloucester. 
 Eleanor Molvns an heiress brought it in marriage, temp. Hen. VI. to Robert third Lord 
 Hungerford: and by his grand daughter, an heiress, it passed to the Hastings family. 
 
 A smaller manor in Box “super Wedere,” (including perhaps “ Weather-cliff” ?) belonged to 
 Agnes St. Maur in 1257. This passed by descent to Margaret Lady Sandes, daughter of Sir John 
 Erleigh of Rowdon, and of Beckington Co. Somerset. In 13. Hen. VI. she sold it to Lord Hunger- 
 ford the High Treasurer. In 1540 on the execution of Lord Hungerford of Hevtesbury, it was 
 confiscated, and held for a time by the Duke of Gloucester. Afterwards on being restored to the 
 Hungerfords, these lands were held by Snell, Leversege, Long, and others, as of Sir Walter 
 Hungerford’s manor of Rowley alias Wittenham (a manor now in the parish of Farley 
 Hungerford.) 
 
 The Blounts of Bitton had lands in Box, temp. Edw. IV. 
 
 Rudlow. The name is often spelled Ruge-lawe in old Deeds : meaning perhaps Ridge-lawe, a 
 tumulus (Anglo Saxon hlawe) on a ridge. There are said to be traces of barrows not far off. 
 William Westbury, J. of Com. Pleas, was owner in 1448. In Edw. IV. Alice widow of John 
 Newburgh. Afterwards Edmund Leversege, In 1589, Sir Walter Hungerford. About 1720, 
 Webb. Now, Lord Methuen. 
 
 The Rectory of “ Box and Ryddelaw,” with 48 acres of “ Rayle Land ” at Wadswick, and a 
 church house, were given by Bartholomew Bigod to Monkton Farley Priorj’, which presented to 
 the Vicarage. Sir Thomas Long of Draycote, 1508, left the lease thereof to his son Robert. At 
 the Dissolution, the Rectory was bought by Sir William Sherington (also purchaser ol Lacock 
 Abbey) and Mr. Bonham of Haselbury in Bex. John Bonham sold [16 Eliz.] to Sir John Smyth 
 of Long Ashton near Bristol and he to Sir John Young of Bristol. The Vicarage was afterwards 
 [1613] in the gift of the Speke family, then of the Webbs of Marshfield, now of H. D. C. S. Hor- 
 lock D.D., the vicar. 
 
 The Narrative of Walter Bushnell, vicar 1644, ejected temp. Cromwell, was published in 1680. 
 It was answered by Humphrey Chambers, D.D. of Pewsey, and by W. Blissett who was clerk to 
 the Commissioners for ejecting him. These tracts are in the Br. Mus. Library. The case is in 
 “ Cobbett’s State Trials.” See also “Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy,” Pt. I. p. 180. Edit. 
 1714. And “ Wood’s Ath. Oxon.” 11. 273. 
 
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 n nr 
 
 57 
 
 fig. 63.] Vide Wraxhall (Soutli) de lioc. The Arms of Long, [impaling Butler, 
 fig. 61.] 1 
 
 In the Chancell, under a plaine freestone, thus: 
 
 “ Hie jacet Jewellus Long, armiger, vir et propria virtute et parentiun et Com- 
 patris* clarissimus. Obiit Junii 9, 1647. 4 And they shall he mine in the day when 
 
 I shall gather up my Jewells.’— Cap. 3. 17. Malachi.” 2 
 
 Under a faire black marble thus: “ Here lietli the body of Hugh Speke, of 
 IJaselbury, Esqr., second son of Sir George Speke, of Whitlakington, in the Countie 
 of Somerset, Knight of the Bath, who deceased the 4th day of Januarie, An. Dili, 
 1624.” 
 
 Sir Hugh Speke, Knight and Baronet, and Gent, of the Privie Chamber, died 
 . No Monument, but two penons, whose coates are thus: (Nos. 62. 64.) 3 
 
 On the wall: 
 
 “ Here lies the man in nature, life, and arts, 
 
 Mild, sober, learned, till death both his parts 
 Did sever; his corps lowe in grave to lye, 
 
 His soule to endles blisse in Heaven high.” 
 
 “James Goren was buried the 26th of October, A.D. 1636. Disce mori.” 
 
 * John Jewell, Bishop of Sarum, was his Godfather. 
 
 1 Anthony Long of Ashley in the parish of Box, fourth son of Sir Henry Long of South Wrax¬ 
 hall and Draycote, by Eleanor Wrottesley. He married Alice daughter of William Butler; 
 her grandmother being a Mountford of Ashley. Only the tablet and coat of arms are now left: 
 against the wall behind the pulpit. Some fragments of the monument are in a garden. 
 
 2 Jewell Long, nephew of Anthony, and son of Sir Robert, by his wife Barbara Carne. He 
 was brother to the Sir Walter on whose death Draycote and Wraxhall were severed, and also to 
 Henry Long who was shot by Sir Henry Danvers. [Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. I. 305.] 
 
 The Speke family (see Burke’s Ext. Barts.) were of Haselbury, and Lords of the Manor of 
 Box: succeeded by Speke Petty of Cheney Court in this parish : now W. B. Northey Esq. 
 
 3 The shield No. 62. is that of Hugh Speke of Haselbury, (died 1624) and his wife Eliza 
 daughter of Henry Beke of Hartley Court, Berks. [Ashm. Berks 11. 371.] The shield No. 64. 
 is that of his son Sir Hugh Speke who married Anna only daughter and heir of John Maynev of 
 Staplehurst, Kent. He died 1661. There are other Epitaphs to this family, and some lines by 
 Edmund Waller to the last Baronet who died young. 
 
 I 
 
58 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Haselbury. 
 
 Mem. In the Parsonage House in the windows are frequently in scroles in 
 painted glass. “ Mcmorare quatuor novissima .” 1 
 
 HASELBURY. 2 3 (In Box.) 
 
 Is in the Hundred (read Honour) of Wallingford, in Berks. It was one Sir John 
 Young’s; then sold to Speke. Sir Hugh Speke told me he hath the Abbot of 
 Glastonbury’s carpett here, in the middest whereof is his coate of arms richly em¬ 
 broidered. 
 
 Old Coates in the Hall window. I tliinke, Blue, 3 lioncells ramp, argent. 
 
 Haselbury Quarre is not to be forgott; it is the eminentest free-stone quarrey in 
 the West of England, Malmesbury and all round the country of it. The old men’s 
 story that St. Adeline, riding over there, threw downe his glove, and bade them 
 digge and they should find great treasure, meaning the Quarry. 
 
 Quaere : if it is Hasel bery or Hascl bury (i.e.) if there has been a Camp or Borough. 
 In the fields about Haselbury, Box, and Ash wick, by Marsfield, are stones of the 
 bignesse and shape of Scallops, of a kind of coarse freestone. 
 
 1 The Parsonage house was burned down 6th Nov. 1805. The scroll signified “Remember the 
 four last things” (viz: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell.) 
 
 There is a small coffin-like niche, about 14 inches long, in the South wall of the chancel, outside. 
 The south aisle was built 1840. A new stained glass East window has been put up, “To the 
 glory of God. In Memory of Mary the wife of George Pinchin of Hatt House in this Parish and 
 5 of their children, 1857.” 
 
 3 Haselbury House, once much larger than it is at present, lies one mile from Box in a hollow 
 under the end of Corsham Ridge. In 43. Hen. III. the manor was held by William le Marshal. In 
 Edw. I. by Henry Crook, of the Honour of Wallingford. (T. de N.) In Edw. II. by Richard 
 Crook, Do. From 1315 to 1637 by the Bonhams, who came from near Lacock. The house “was 
 a thing of a simple building afore that old Mr. Bonehom father did build there.” Leland. [See 
 Notes, Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. I. 144.] Sir John Young was probably of the Colleton family. 
 [See Burke’s Ext. Barts. : also “ Wraxhall (North) ” infra.] 
 
 The carpet may have belonged to the Abbot of Glastonbury, but Haselbury never did. The 
 “ Quarre,” so much to be remembered, was the property of Bradenstoke Priory, by gift of Walter 
 Croc. [New. Mon.] The Prior also presented to the Rectory. There was once a chapel in or 
 near the House. After its destruction it was customary for a new Rector on induction to read 
 prayers in a room in the old house, and to have a portion of mould given into his hand in a 
 
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 CHAPEL PLAYSTER (in Box). 
 
 Mem. In this Parish is the Chapelle of Playster, a known place on the Roade. It 
 was heretofore a place of entertainment for Pilgrims that went to Glastonbury, to 
 St. Joseph of Arimathea’s Chapell. It is now an ale-house, the little Chapell yet 
 remaines of it; on the outside, towards the highway, is, in the wall, a place for 
 holy water. 
 
 Mem. That without Laford’s gate at Bristowe, the great old house called . 
 
 was likewise for the entertainment of Pilgrims that went to Glastonbury. From 
 Sir Henry Creswick. 1 
 
 ground called the burying place. [Gent. Mag. 1835. I. 145.] Stone coffins have been found 
 here. The parishioners have now seats in the south transept of Box Church. The Lord of the 
 Manor who is Tithe owner, pays Ten pounds a year to an absentee Rector of Haselbury. 
 
 The Spekes, whose arms in stone are still upon the pillars at the entrance gateway, settled here 
 about 1613. They were not all supporters of the Crown : for it is entered in a Subsidy list for 
 maintaining Charles Ist’s army, that while George Speke Esq. of Box paid his money, Margaret 
 his wife and Elizabeth his daughter were recusant. In 1627 the Crown presented John 
 Hungerford to the Rectory, (for that turn.) Hugh Speke favoured Monmouth, and took an 
 active part in the Restoration. Sir George was M.P. for Chippenham. There is a tradition that 
 the Court, which is large and surrounded by a high wall, was used for some military purpose in 
 the Civil Wars. 
 
 1 This Chapel stands at the end of Corsham Ridge, on the high road from Corsham to Bradford 
 and near the meeting of six different roads, leading to Bath, Devizes, &c.: a very unlikely 
 situation for a “ hermitage ” such as Leland conceived it to have been. No account of it appears 
 to be known more ancient than Aubrey’s, which may perhaps be the true one ; such chapels being 
 said to have been traced elsewhere, as on the Pilgrim’s road to Canterbury. [N. & Q. No. 47. 
 p.269.] The additional name of “ Playster ” is not taken from the outside material, as it is 
 built of stone ; but either from some founder (Plaister being an old Wilts name), or more probably 
 (as the Rev. W. L. Nichols has suggested, N. & Q. VII. 145) from “play-stow” (Saxon, 
 pleg-stow), an open space for village exercises. Brand [Antiq. II. 592] explains “ Plei-tor ” to 
 be “an area near the church ” : and in such a situation stands “the Pleistor oak” in White’s Sel- 
 borne. The Chapel consists of a chancel and nave, together 29 feet long by 9 feet 3 inches wide, 
 with a porch, and North transept: a bell cot at the West end: a holy water stoup on South side of 
 the door. Over the door but not quite in the centre, is a large niche of curious design ; its sides 
 pierced. The building appears to be of the date A.D. 1460—1480. It has long been dese¬ 
 crated : sometime used, as appears from an oven and large fireplace, as a dwelling, now a lumber 
 Adjoining it is a small house, long known as a wayside inn, and many years ago the head 
 
 I 2 
 
 room. 
 
60 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 f Bremhill. 
 
 BREMHILL. 
 
 Mem. tliat Bremhill did belong to the Abbey of Malmesbury, v. Mss. 1 
 
 quarters of John Poulter alias Baxter a noted highwayman, who, according to tradition, made a 
 window at the side to command a view of the Corsham road; so as to be ready for arrivals. This 
 was the man who robbed I)r. Hancock of Salisbury on darken down: and who in Salisbury jail 
 confessed that he had put a pistol into the-mouth of the corpse of Dr. Shakerley Dean of Wells, 
 and another into his hand, which led to the verdict Felo de se, [Gent. Mag. 1755. “Highwayman.”] 
 The Chapel being in the parish of Box, some have thought it tvas once Haselbury church. The 
 sinecure Rector of Haselbury, has to keep the roof of this chapel in repair. It belongs to IS!r. 
 Northey. There is some account of Chapel Playster, with two engravings, in Gent. Mag. 1835. 
 p. 143. 
 
 1 By gift of King Athelstan, A.D. 938. In Domesday Book the name is Breme : perhaps from 
 its situation, bryme in Anglo Saxon being, “ conspicuous.” The Saxon boundaries of the 
 “ Bremel ” given to Malmsbury Abbey, were, 
 
 “ From Wrokcumbe to Merkendene, then along the water course to the Street, thence to Cadeburne : from the 
 source of the said burne (stream) straight to Avene : along Avene to Christemalford : thence to Huckeam (Cook's 
 Elm 1) : thence to the Great Tree, from the same to Sandsete, and so the Cliff: thence to Stizelwav: from the way 
 to Blackmore, and from the More to Wrokcumbe aforesaid.” 
 
 In Athelstan’s grant are mentioned “ Chedecotun ” (Charlcot) : “ Speerful ” (Spirthill) ; 
 Foxham, and Avene. The Abbot of Malmsbury had a grange here, which at the Dissolution was 
 bought by the Bayntons of Bromham House. 
 
 Bremhill was a Rector} 7 in A.D. 1217, in the gift of the Abbot. A little before the year 1228 
 the patronage was transferred to the Bishop of Sarum. A dispute having long existed between 
 the Monastery and the Bishops as to the rights of Episcopal jurisdiction claimed by the latter, 
 the Abbot claiming exemption, from the time of rebuilding Malmsbury Abbey, a commission 
 was appointed by the Pope to settle the question. The Charter of Privileges having been pro¬ 
 duced, a composition was finally made by which the Monastery was declared to be for ever exempt 
 from all subjection to the Bishop both in temporals and spirituals: in return for which concession 
 the Monastery agreed to surrender to the See, the Manor of Highway, with the right of patronage 
 of the Churches of Bremhill and Highway, and of the Chapel of Foxham. [Deed in Sarum 
 Registry]. Highway is about five miles off, annexed to Bremhill. “ Hiwi ” is mentioned in 
 Domesday Book as belonging to Ralph de Mortimer: and some land there is described as having 
 been granted out for three lives. This is a very uncommon occurrence in that Record, and shews 
 the great antiquity of that kind of Lease. In 38. Edw. III. (1364) a license was granted to the 
 Rector and Brethren of Edingdon Monastery to hold the Manor of Hywey paying a fee farm rent 
 of £10 a year to the Bishop of Sarum, and also, by way of “ relief,” 6s. 8d. upon every appoint¬ 
 ment of a new Rector of Edingdon Monastery. Three years afterwards the Monastery exchanged 
 the Manor of “ Hywey in the parish of Bremhill ” for that of Bremelridge (near Westbury,) and 
 the advowson of the Chantry of Heywood belonging to Sir Philip Fitzwaryn and Constance his 
 wife. [See the Latin and French documents. Sir R. C. Hoare’s Westbury, p. 61.] 
 
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 61 
 
 (Church ') North Aisle. East Window. 
 
 Col. 1. A woman kneeling 1 2 , with a white veile and blew habit, a skarfe white, 
 semee with guttee de poix, (drops Sable). An escutcheon imperfect. (PI. v. No. 
 65 where the arms are restored) . GFranJ Ct ©loabctf).cjus. 
 
 2. Broken. 
 
 3. A man kneeling by the Escutcheon, in blew and red robes; the Escutcheon, 
 (No. 66). Underneath written, BofcrtUS LluSSCllJ 
 
 The window is full of good old glass painting: being the 5 works of mercy, as 
 buriall of the dead &c: on the dead corps is a cross crosslet. 
 
 In the south Aisle, in the top of the East windowe, ©rate p. ata ScljtS $?Ctf}. 3 He 
 is drawne in green, kneeling like Judge Littleton, 4 5 and a woman is drawn by him. 
 In this Aisle are 12 Columnes, (i.e, ivindow lights) wherein arc finely painted the 
 12 Apostles, every one with his Symbol of the Creed, and his cognizance in bis 
 hand. In this Aisle is this Coate in severall places, (No. 67). 5 All the windowes 
 have been very good. This Coat I also find in very old glass at Sir Richard 
 Knight’s house, at Chawton, in Hampshire, impaled with G. Lyon Rampant, Arg. 
 Heth (?) 
 
 1 Aubrey’s MS. Church notes seem to have been unknown to the late Mr. Bowles, when he pub¬ 
 lished the “ History of Bremhill,” 8vo. 1828. Of the stained glass above described a small portion is 
 left in the upper part of a window in the North Aisle: where is also a shield of arms, “ ermine, 
 a chevron Gules, in chief 3 Maiden’s heads.” The Church is dedicated to St. Martin. The Nave 
 Pillars and Font are ancient: the rest, of various later periods. It has been restored during 
 the incumbency of the present Vicar, the Rev. Henry Drurj’, Prebendary of Sarum and Chaplain 
 to the House of Commons: and was re-opened for Divine Service on 24th October, 1850. 
 
 2 In 1431 Robert Russell was Lord of the Manor of Tytherton Kellaways, part of which lay in 
 Bremhill. [See “ Tytherton Kellaways.”] 
 
 3 The name of Heath is more familiarly connected with Bremhill, b} - Maud Heath’s Causey, 
 which begins at Wick Hill in this parish. See an account of it, in Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. 1. p. 
 251. 
 
 4 The engravings of Judge Littleton, the celebrated Lawyer, represent him in this attitude. 
 
 5 Perhaps for John Brampton, a tenant under the Abbey of Malmsbury 5. Hen. "\ I. [I. p. m. ] 
 or, Stokes of Tytherton. 
 
62 aubrey’s north wilts. [ Cadenham . 
 
 In the Chancell is an altar monument of Hungerford of Cadnam, modern, 1 viz. 
 
 since the Reformacion, and 2 Inscriptions of..Trimnells; One of them was 
 
 master of the Pettie Bag Office, wdio died 1640. In the middle, lies an old marble 
 gravestone, called the Parson’s stone. Vide , if the Inscription on it is in the Saxon 
 character. 2 
 
 CADENHAM is in Bremhill Parish. 
 
 Cadenham belonged to Priorie St. Marie’s, juxta King-ton St. Michael, given b}- 
 
 .Since the dissolution of the Abbeys it hath been in the possession of the 
 
 Hungerfords, a younger branch of the Hunger fords of Downe Ampney. 3 
 
 1 This Altar monument has disappeared. There are two memorials of the same family still in 
 the Church, but both later than Aubrey. One is a very large monument to George eldest son of 
 Sir George Hungerford of Cadenham, with a bust, and long Latin eulogy (confusedly printed in 
 Mr. Bowles’s History), the substance of which is, that the young man was educated at Salisbury 
 and Oxford, studied the law in London, was an accomplished musician, “ clarissimi Purcelli 
 fautor semulus;” passed some time in Holland, was M.P. for Caine, and died in 1698 aged 24. The 
 other is a gravestone to his brother Walter, of Studley, also M.P. for Caine, and the founder of a 
 charity there. Dr. John Townson, another benefactor to Caine, is also buried in Bremhill Church. 
 
 “Mentioned by Mr. Bowles, p. 172, as a “carved stone, just midway on the floor before the 
 Communion rails, of great antiquity, and denoting some dignitary in the Church or some unknown 
 benefactor, the stone being marked with the remains of a foliated cross.” In 1818, a stone coffin 
 was found lying across the porch, east and west. There is a stone Cross with a single shaft in 
 the Church yard [See Frontispiece, Bowles’s Hist, of Bremhill], and a similar one near the centre 
 of the village. 
 
 3 This is not quite correct. Prior)'' St. Mary’s had here [see Wilts Archaeol. Mag. IY. p. 70] 
 by gift of one Alexander of Studley, c. A.D. 1280, “his tithes of Cadenham; together with a 
 place in his Barton of Cadenham to build a grange in ”; the value of the tithes being only 
 18s. 8d. per annum at the Dissolution; when the whole property of that Priory was bought by 
 the Longs of Draycote. The Manor of Cadenham does not appear to have been at any time church 
 property. In Domesday Book it is mentioned as belonging to a Saxon Earl. In Edw. I. it was 
 held bv Roger de Addeley (Audley ?) as of the Honour of Warwick. [T. de N.] 
 
 Before 1534, one William Crekelade had some estate in Cadnam and Studley. Sir William 
 Wyndesor, Kt. of Bradenham, Bucks, and William Walrond of Langridge, Co. Somerset, were his 
 next heirs. This seems to have been bought by Hall of Bradford, and to have descended by an 
 heiress to Giles Gore of Aldrington. (Gore Leeds.) In 1504 Edward Hungerford, Esq., the 
 first of this branch, by will dated in that year, left his estate at Cadnam to Robert his son and heir in 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
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 Arms in the Windows of Cadenham House. (See Plate v. Nos. 68. 69. 70. 71. 
 72. 73. 74. 75.) 
 
 In Christian Malford Parisli is a mill called “ St. John’s Mill ” by High Bridge. 
 A mill here was given to the Priory of Bradenstoke by Ralph Luvel of Clive (Cliff 
 Pipard), 16. Hen. III. Vide Monast. T. 2. p. 209. 
 
 FOXHAM in the Parish of Bremhill. * 1 
 
 CASTLE COMBE. 2 
 
 The Castle stands on a hill, North from the Towne, about a quarter of a mile, 
 
 Tail. It consisted of about 400 acres: and was sold probably after the death of Sir George Ilungerford 
 in 1712, as it does not appear in wills of the family after that period. The older Mansion House 
 of the Hungerfords at this place, near Foxham Green, seems to have been restored or rebuilt by Sir 
 George, as on the house now standing, there are, together with his own, the arms and crest of his 
 wife’s family, Seymour : viz. a pair of wings ; and a phoenix rising in flames out of a ducal coronet. 
 John Evelyn visited Cadenham 16th July, 1654; the then owner Edward Ilungerford being uncle 
 to Evelyn’s wife. “We did nothing but feast and make good cheer. One day went to Spye Park. 
 After dinner to bowls : and in the meantime our coachman was made so exceedingly drunk that in 
 returning home we escaped great danger. This it seems was by order of the Knight (Bajmton) 
 that all gentlemen’s servants be so treated: but the custom is barbarous and unbecoming a 
 Knight.” One of the local traditions is, that in the time of the Hungerfords a running footman 
 who had come all the way from London was so little fatigued that he danced in the hall after his 
 journey. 
 
 1 William Westbur} r , Justice of the Common Pleas, had land here 28. Hen. VI. Alice, wife of 
 William Newburgh, 22. Edw. IV. The Abbot of Malmsbury had the Manor worth £22. 13s. 9d. 
 a year; and some land given by Sibil, Agnes, and Matilda, three sisters of Hugh de Foxham. 
 There was a chapel here before A.D. 1228. (See supra “Bremhill” page 60, note 1.) In 1555 
 Andrew Baynton endowed St. John the Baptist’s chapel with two houses called Church house 
 and Priest house, and two parcels of land called the Chapel Hay and Butt Hay. In Mr. Bowles’s 
 Lacock p. 158, it is said that the Hungerfords charged some lands with £3 a year. Sir George 
 Hungerford called it “his chapel” [Bowles p. 201]. See also “Charity Com. Reports.” 
 
 2 On the brow of the hill in the park opposite to the present House at Castle Combe is a long 
 barrow : near which a great number of Roman coins have been found. 
 
 The History of this Manor and Ancient Barony, chiefly compiled from original Manuscripts 
 and Cartularies preserved here, with Memoirs of the successive owners, the families of Dunstan- 
 ville, Badlesmere, Tiptoft and Scrope, was published in 1852 in a quarto volume printed for private 
 distribution, from the pen of George Poulett Scrope Esq. MP. It is the subject of an article in 
 
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 \_Castle Combe. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 the area of it is about six acres; there are within the compasse of it . divisions, 
 
 in one whereof, ’tis by tradition that there was kept the market. And on the 
 hills in the park, were, Anno 1645, felled many a gallant oak. 
 
 The Castle, whereof now remains the Toft, strongly seated on a steep hill, was 
 demolished in the time of the Danes; Jo. Scrope, Esqr. hath some old writings 
 that mention so much. Q. what year. [A.D. 878.] Mem. get a Draught of the Castle 
 Keep. * 1 
 
 In the Church, in the North Aisle, is in the wall a handsome monument of a 
 Chevalier lying crossed-legged, viz. right leg over the left, and mayled about the 
 head, and armoured like the Knts. in the Tern pie-Church ; at his feet a beast, 
 doubtfull if a Lion or a Bear, but I guesse the former. On the side of this Monu¬ 
 ment, in 6 niches, stand so many little figures. 2 
 
 the Quarterly Review, March 1853. In the Wilts. Archaeol. Magazine, Vol. II. pp. 133 and 261, 
 there is also by Mr. P. Scrope, an abridgment of the Manorial History: the outline of which is as 
 follows:— 
 
 The manor belonged to the Dunstanville family, from Reginald Earl of Cornwall (natural son 
 of Henry I.) A.D. 1135, to 1269: when it passed by their heiress Petronilla, to the Montforts : 
 and was sold by them to Lord Badlesmere in A.D. 1309. On a partition of estates between four 
 coheiresses of Giles Lord Badlesmere in A.D. 1339 it fell to the share of Margaret, wife of Sir 
 John Tiptoft. After the death of Sir Robert Tiptoft A.D. 1372 there was another partition between 
 three coheiresses. Millicent married Sir Stephen Scrope. She remarried the celebrated Captain 
 in the French Wars, Sir John Fastolf, who held Castle Combe for his life, but did not reside there. 
 In 1459 it reverted to the Scrope family in which it has continued to the present time. 
 
 1 Of the Castle itself nothing remains but the site, occupying an area of eight acres on the 
 summit of a “tongue-shaped” hill, jutting into the valley of Combe The area is divided into 
 four enclosures of unequal size by earthworks and deep trenches. The buildings stood within the 
 northernmost. The site of the Keep-tower may still be recognized by the excavation of the two 
 lower stories within walls of masonry ten feet thick. Near this a modern round tower has been 
 erected merely to mark from a distance the position of the old castle which it might otherwise be 
 difficult to distinguish in a mass of wood. Sir R. C. Hoare [Ancient Wilts II. 101] gives a ground 
 plan of the earthworks, and considers them only of Saxon origin, but their antiquity is probably 
 greater. Some early work may have been destroyed by the Danes: but the Castle at Combe is 
 considered to have been built by the Dunstanville family. Aubrej^’s intention of preserving a 
 draught of the Keep was not fulfilled. 
 
 2 Mr. P. Scrope considers this monument, from its architectural character, to represent a 
 Dunstanville. See a woodcut of it, Hist, of Castle Combe, p. 366. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
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 Upon the Altar, scroll-wise; 1. [No. 76] Scrope. 2. [No. 77] Quarterly, Tiptoft 
 and Badlesmere. 
 
 Behind the Chancel is a strong place, perhaps for preserving records. 
 
 In the East Windowe of the Chancell there was, lately defaced, the coate of Sir 
 John Falstafe , who was second husband to Millicent, wife to Sir Stephen le Scrope, 
 and daughter of Sir Robert Tiptoft. The coate is, [No 78].' 
 
 In the East Aisle, on the wall: 
 
 “ Remedium unicurn Jesus Christus. 
 
 Christ is the only salve for everi sore. 
 
 Learn him aright, ye neade to learne no more. 
 
 Ricardus Gillus obiit nono die Januarii, 1588.” 
 
 The Tower is strong and stately. On the great Bell thus: .Sancte: (fuTgOlT: 
 Ota : pro : liofots ; on the other two Bells nothing. 1 2 
 
 Market house. Staple for wool. 3 —Here were jura Regalia. 4 —The Gal- 
 
 1 The Church (except the fine tower of A.D. 1434, which required no repair) was almost 
 wholly rebuilt in 1850, at the expense of Mr. Poulett Scrope. The chamber beyond the chancel, 
 mentioned by Aubrey, was then taken down : in doing which an Early English window of four 
 lancet lights, surmounted by a quatrefoil, was found blocked up in the East wall of the church. 
 This had probably been done when the “ strong room ” beyond was added, the entrance to that room 
 being made through the East wall. Some of the new windows are richly emblazoned with the 
 principal quarterings of the Scrope family : one, on the South side, with the shields of the succes¬ 
 sive lords of the Manor. The chancel arch is very remarkable; containing six figures in canopied 
 niches in high relief, and in good preservation. 
 
 2 There is now only one bell. 
 
 3 Meaning perhaps a pitched market: for the “ Staple ” towns were sea-ports. Castle Combe 
 had once a flourishing clothing trade with its retinue of weavers, fullers and dyers, to whom the 
 rapid brook was something better than a well stocked trout stream. Of this trade every trace has 
 disappeared ; save the solitary emblem of a shuttle cut in stone near the battlement of the church 
 tower, denoting the liberality of some successful merchant of the ancient village “staple.” 
 
 4 Thus explained by Mr. P. Scrope in the Wilts. Archseol. Mag. III. 147. “The inhabitants 
 of Castle Combe, although not incorporated by Royal Charter, enjoyed, however, from an early 
 period, all the special rights and privileges which appertained by the Common Law to those 5 ills 
 which belonged to the domain of the Crown in the Saxon era. These rights were conveyed under 
 the terms, now scarcely intelligible, of Tol, Them, Sok, Sak, Infangthef, &c.: and were generally 
 
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66 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Chippenham. 
 
 lows 1 stood in . Several old men, yet living, remember it.—Here is a Peculiar 
 
 for Probat of Wills.—On St. George’s day a fan*, very famous for sheep. 2 
 From a Harleian MS: viz. Legier Book of the Earl of March. 
 
 “John de Tibetot married Margaret the fourth daughter, and heire, of Giles de Badlesmere. 
 He had to his wive’s Dividend, inter ccetera, Oxenwood in Co. Gloucworth £xxvii. xviis. iiijd. 
 The Manor of Castle Combe, in Co. Wilts., worth fxxx. xiiis. ixd. Witness, Edward Duke of 
 Cornwall our beloved son, Guardian of England. Dated at Kenington.” [Edw. III.] He had 
 also the Advowson of the Church at Castle Combe aforesaid, worth £26. (?) 13. 4. 
 
 CHIPPENHAM. 3 
 
 (K. Edgar) “ The Twelve-tyde following, all oathes forgotten, the Danes came 
 to Chippenham in Wiltshire, dispeopling the country round, dispossessing some, 
 driving others beyond the sea. A.D. 878.”— J. Milton's History. 
 
 (The Borough). 
 
 Incorporated in the beginning of the Reign of Q. Mary: consisting of one Bay lift' 
 and 12 Burgliesses. The Election of the Bailiff to be yearly on Michaelmas Day. 4 
 The Charter for making it a Corporation and to elect 5 2 Burgliesses for Parliament, 
 
 known as Jura Regalia, including the power of punishment by Stocks and Pillory, Pit and Gal¬ 
 lows. They comprised exemption of the free inhabitants, from the arbitrary exactions of the usual 
 collectors of tolls or taxes for the military service of the Sovereign: from contributing to the 
 expenses of the Knights of the Shire : from being put on Juries in the Sheriff’s Courts, &c. They 
 elected their own officers: had local courts of Justice: bye laws, &c.” In the Wilts. Archoeol. 
 Mag. referred to, Mr. P. Scrope has written an interesting Paper “ On the Government of small 
 Manorial Communities as exemplified in the Manor of Castle Combe.” 
 
 1 “Probably kept up only in terrorem .” [Historic of Castle Combe.] 
 
 2 Now held, owing to change of style, on May 4. 
 
 :i For the ancient history of the parish of Chippenham the reader is referred to a Paper by the 
 Editor in the Wilts. Archteol. Magazine, Yol. III. p. 19. 
 
 4 Since the Municipal Reform Act the local government has consisted of a Mayor, four Aldermen, 
 and twelve Councillors. 
 
 5 Not to “elect,” but to “maintain” out of the Borough lands. Chippenham is an ancient 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 67 
 
 was granted by Queen Marie, who gave, out of the Lands of the Lord Hungerford 
 attainted, a great quantity, e.g. meadows, worth ...per annum. 
 
 The Amies of the Borough, [See Plate V. No. 79] are the armes of Gascelyn 
 once Lord of the Towne; * 1 [and Hussey]. 
 
 Mem. Smith’s Gifts, of London. Q. all the gifts. 2 
 
 This Towne did stand in the Pewsham Forest, which was disafforested about the 
 year of Our Lord 16... 3 
 
 The Poore People have made this Rhyme: 
 
 “ When Chipnam stood 
 In Pewsham’s wood 
 Before it was destroyed, 
 
 A Cowe might have gonne for a groate a yeare, 
 
 But now it is denoyed.” 
 
 Robert Smyth of the White Harte of Chippenham remembers when lie was a boy 
 about 60 yeares since, the goeing of a Cowe in the Pewsham Forest for 4d a yeare, 
 and pigges cost nothing the goeing: the order was how many they could winter 
 they might summer. 
 
 Mem. At Chippenham is a little Manor belonging to the Bayntuns, about St. 
 Mary Street. 
 
 Mem. in (St. Mary’s) street, behind the Church, in the house where Mr. Goldney 
 lives, of ancient building, are these 3 escutcheons, in painted glasse, in the windowes. 
 
 1. Beauchamp quartering Delameke and Roche, [No 80.] 2. Long impaling 
 
 [Newborough, No. 81]. 3. A. 3 bars G. Quaere ; Barry of 6? [No. 82]. 
 
 borough by prescription and has (with intermissions) returned representatives to Parliament from 
 23. Edw. I. (1295). The new charter altered not the custom. The original quantity of land 
 given was about 235 acres. 
 
 1 Sir Walter Gascelyn of Sheldon, whose family were Lords of the Manor 174 years from A.D. 
 1250 to 1424. Arms. Argent, ten billets azure, 4. 3. 2. and 1. The other shield used by the Town 
 is that of Husee, owners of Rowdon for 142 years from A.D. 1250, to 1392. Arms. Or, 3 boots 
 sable ; in allusion to their Latin name Hosatus, hosed or booted. 
 
 2 For the various Charities, see Commissioners of Charities Report, No. 29. p. 1240. 
 
 3 In A.D. 1630: when it was granted by King James I. to Christopher \ illiers Earl ol 
 Anglesey, brother of the Duke of Buckingham who was stabbed by Eelton. 
 
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68 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [' Chippenham. 
 
 (The Church.) 
 
 The steeple was in danger of falling about 163(3) & re-edified, but not so high by 
 about 15 foote, by Sir Francis Popham Kt. whose armes are in stone on the tower. 
 [Same as PI. ii. No. 14.] He gave also to this Corporation-.' 
 
 In the East Window, [PI. v. No. 83. Wickham?]. 1 2 3 
 
 In the North side of the Chancell is an Altar Tombe, on which are 2 Escutcheons. 
 viz. [No. 84, Wroughton]. The other [No. 85] at the head. ( Q. Whittocksmede? Ed.) 6 
 
 In the Chancel on the N. side is a very good organ loft of free stone carved: 
 whence I guesse here was a Collegiate Church. In the remembrance of the Sexton, 
 was an organ, the place where it stood is of good old free stone worke. They say 
 it was sold to Lacock. 4 
 
 (Hungerford Chapel. E. end of S. Aisle.) 
 
 In the middle of this Chapell lies a faire flatt marble stone, which had the effigies 
 of two persons, and an Inscription underneath, and at the head two Escutcheons. 
 Under this stone lies I suppose, the Hungerford that erected this Chapell, where 
 questionless was a Chauntry. Qu. what Hungerford it was, and when. The roof 
 is extraordinarily richly gilded. 5 
 
 1 Sir Francis Popham’s Arms are immediately over the Western door. He was M.P. for Chip¬ 
 penham. His Benefaction, A.D. 1635, consisted of lands at Foxham and Hale Mead: the rents 
 to be distributed among Poor Freemen of the Borough. 
 
 • In Harl. MS. 1443, p. 257, Withie draws this, and the Hungerford shield, as “ in the North 
 chancel.” 
 
 3 In Harl. MS. 6072, p. 21. Argent a chevron between 3 birds gules: a crescent on the chevron. 
 
 4 Chippenham Church was never “ Collegiate.” The carved stone work to which Aubrey 
 alludes, is over the vestry door. 
 
 5 A mutilated slab of freestone partially corresponding with this description was found in 1847 
 under the floor of the vicarage pew in the chancel and is now placed in the vestry. One effigy 
 
 remained, and, round the border, part of a legend which appears to be. “ Clerk : e : ali : 
 
 sit: femme: Foundours: de une : Chaunteri : a: cest: aut. A John le Clerk was a 
 
 considerable landowner in the Parish in 1. Edw. III. (I. p. m.) But the Chapel of St. Mary 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 69 
 
 On the roof in the middle, is this coat. [No. 86.]: 1 and at the West end, these; 
 [PI. vi. Nos. 87, 88, 89.] At the East end is this; [No. 90.] 
 
 In the glass in the old windows this supporter is common, viz, a Raven volant 
 collar’d and chayn’d, in a wreath dotted Or. 2 
 
 In Hungerford’s Chapelle South Windowe are 4 coats, [Nos. 91, 92, 98, 94.] 
 
 “Here lieth the bodie of Thomas Hungerford the sonne of Anthony Hungerford of the Lea, 
 gent, who departed this life August 15th, 1665, aged 22 years.” 3 
 
 Underneath the South Windowe is a worshipfull Monument of Bayntun, sans 
 Inscription. The escutcheon [No. 95] hath mantling and crest, viz. the Griffon s 
 head erazed, S. On the side is A. B. for Andrew Baintun: at the head, 1579. 4 
 
 These coates (Nos. 96, 97, 98, 99, 89 repeated , 100, and 101) were in the window 
 which was spoiled by Sir Gilbert Prinne’s Monument. 5 
 
 commonly called the Hungerford’s, was built by Walter Lord Hungerford and Heytesbury, High 
 Treasurer of England A.D. 1442 : and a Chantry Priest endowed with 10 pounds a year to say 
 Mass, &c. The founder was buried in Salisbury Cathedral. He had large estates round Chip¬ 
 penham and was Lord of the Manor and Hundred. 
 
 1 In shield No. 86, the fourth quartering, (Gules, 3 Chevronells Or, if for Clare) is one which 
 the Editor has never met with elsewhere in the heraldry of the Hungerford family. In No. 106 it 
 occurs again, but as a Hastings quartering. These shields seem to have been unskilfully repainted. 
 
 2 Several quarries of glass bearing this device, as well as another commonly used by the 
 Hungerfords, three sickles interlaced, may still be seen in the window of a house at the entrance 
 of AVood Lane, Chippenham. The house was once occupied by a glazier who is supposed to 
 have transferred them from the church windows. 
 
 3 This inscription, to a Hungerford of a later branch, is not now to be seen. It was probably 
 on the floor. 
 
 4 Eldest son of Sir Edward Baynton of Bromham House (who died 1544) and Elizabeth Sulyard. 
 [See the Pedigree of Anstie, “Stanley Abbey.”] How he came to be buried in this chapel does 
 not appear: the adjoining one being called the Baynton chapel. On the top, is this inscription, 
 which Aubrey does not appear to have noticed. 
 
 “ Armiger hoc tumulo jacet hie generosus opaco. 
 
 Andreas Baynton qui nominatus erat. 
 
 Quem genuit miles bene notus ubique Edoardus. 
 
 Hujus erat heres: nunc requiescit humo/ 
 
 3 The shield, No. 101, is probably that of John St. Barbe Esq., of Broadlands, co. Hants, and 
 his wife Honour Norton of Southwick, [see Ext. Bart 8 .] According to Aubrey this shield (101) 
 was in the window spoiled by Prynne’s monument, viz., on the South 6ide of the church. But 
 
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 aubkey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Chippenham. 
 
 Prynne! s Monument. 
 
 Sir G. Prynne and liis Lady are in effigie in the best window in the Church 
 spoiled for this monument to be placed there. (Below are two slabs, on one of 
 which is this epitaph.) 
 
 “ The Memorial of Sir Gilbert Pryn, Kt. who married Marj r the eldest daughter of Jayne 
 Davys, daughter to Sr. Wymond Carye, Kt. Lord Warden of the Stanneries, Master of the First 
 Fruites Office and Knight of ye Bathe. The said Sr. Gilbert Pryn having issue by the said 
 Mary his wife 7 children, 2 sonnes and 5 daughters; 5 of which, 2 sonnes and 3 daughters are 
 dead: the other 2 daughters, namely, the eldest of all, Fraunces, is married to Sir Francys 
 Seimour, Kt., youngest sonne of the Lord Beauchamp sonne and heire to the now Erie of Hert¬ 
 ford : and the second daughter, named Seimour, married to Sir George Hastings, Kt., second 
 brother to Henry now Erie of Huntingdon.” 
 
 (On the other slab, the following.) 
 
 [Figure of a man. A Tree. Figure of a woman.) 
 
 “ Eche man’s a plant, and every tree 
 Like Man is subject to mortalitie.” 
 
 (Five branches broken off.) 
 
 “ These branches, dead and fallen away, are gone 
 From us until the Resurrection.” 
 
 (A man. Tree grafted. A woman. || A man. Tree grafted. A woman.) 
 
 “These grafted thus by Wedlock’s sacred Dome 
 (God graunte) may flourish till those other come.” 
 
 Erected 1628. 
 
 “ He was buried June 21. 1627. She the 20. January 1628.” 
 
 Arms of Prynne (No. 103). The Crest (No. 102) a Falcon’s head, blue I think, 
 issuing out of a Crown. (On the monument Prynne impaling Davys No. 104). 
 
 Under the young Ladies are these Arms. 1. Seymour impaling Prynne (No, 
 
 John Withie, the Herald, who took notes here in 1626 [see Harl. MSS. 1443. p. 257] draws “ from 
 the two windows in the North side of the church,” three coats; viz., the shield 101 twice ; sur¬ 
 mounted by a helmet and crest, viz. a pair of wings rising out of a ducal coronet: and between 
 those two shields, that of Hungerford only. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 71 
 
 105). 2. Hastings impaling Prynne (No. 106). (The quarterings of Hastings are, 
 
 1. Hastings. 2. Hungerford (i.e. Heytesbury). 3. Botreaux. 4. Molyns. 5. 
 Moels. 6. Pole. 7. Clarence. 8. Nevill. 9. Montagu. 10. Beauchamp. 11. 
 Spencer. 12. Clare.) 3. Davys impaling Carew [PI. vii. No. 107.] 1 
 
 1 Sir Gilbert Prynne lived at Allington in this parish. His house is now a barn, but the Arms 
 of Prynne quartering Davys are to be seen on the farm house close by, belonging to Sir John 
 Neeld. In the original vol. of Aubrey’s MS., is inserted the following letter from “ Thos. Pitman,” 
 without date of place or year, addressed to Mr. William Aubrey of Kington (St. Michael) House, 
 containing the inscription (from some church not mentioned) on Lady Prynne’s mother, Mrs. 
 Jane Davys. “ Sir, I have taken an apograph from the Pillar according to your direction. 
 ‘ Here is interred Jane daughter of Sir Wymond Carye Kt. (descended from the Barons Carye) and 
 Martha his wife (who was the daughter of Sir Edward Dennys Kt), wife to Mr. John Davis an 
 Esquire of the Body to King Henry y e 8: and had issue by him 5 sonnes and 2 daughters: 
 mother to the Lady Pryn, and grandmother to all these children abovementioned.’ ” The seal 
 of the letter is that of Ivy, of West Kington and Malmesbury. 
 
 Pedigree, in explanation of Sir Gilbert Prynne’s monument. 
 
 Sir Wymond Carew (or Carye) Kt._Martha, dau. of Sir Edward Dennys 
 
 Lord Warden of the Stannaries. T Kt. King’s Remembrancer. H. VII. 
 
 John Davys, Esq. _Jane. Lawrence_A daughter. 
 
 of the Body to K. 
 
 Mompesson. 
 
 H. VIII. 
 
 
 Sir Henry 
 Davys. 
 
 4 other 
 sons. 
 
 Sir Gilbert Prynne_Mary 
 
 of Allingtondied 1627-8. 
 Mon. at Chippenham. (See 
 Ped. Wilts. Yisit. 1623.) 
 
 eld. dau. 
 
 2nd. dau. 
 
 Sir Francis Seymour_ Frances Sir George Hastings_Seymour 2 sons and 3 
 Kt: son of Lord Beau- [eld. dau. 2nd. brother of the 2nd. dau. daughters 
 
 champ, created Baron , and cob. Earl of Huntingdon, and coh. died. 
 Seymour of Trow¬ 
 bridge 1641. 
 
 Frances Charles _Mary Smith George. 3 daughters, 
 
 mar. Sir Wm. Baron of Soley, Ferdinando. 
 
 Ducie. Seymour of in parish of 
 Trowbridge. Chilton. 
 
 Sir George_Frances Seymour. 
 
 Hungerford 
 of Cadenliam. 
 
72 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Allington. 
 
 In the North aisle against the wall is this coate by the name of Bayliffe, impaling 
 (Pleydell) and (Reason ?) quarterly. (No. 108.) 1 
 
 Mem : Mr. Jo: Power told me heretofore that in Chippenham forest was Vitriol: 
 quod N.B. I thinke he sayed he had that information from his Uncle Penne who 
 was an ingeniose Person, and a good Chymist. 
 
 In Chippenham Parish is a spring called Holy-well. Medicinal waters were 
 anciently, before Christ’s time and since, dedicated to some Deity or saint to whom 
 they imputed the virtue, being ignorant of the Minerals that impregnated it. The 
 name of this well made me curious to try it, and by precipitation of one-third of a 
 pint of it until a strong Lixivium in 12 horn’s space I found a sediment of about the 
 quantity of a small nut-shell, somewhat turning to yellow, the particles as big as 
 powder of freestone pounded for scowering. By Evaporation a pottle of the said 
 water yielded a sediment of the colour of Cullen earth. Mem. Infusion of Galls 
 altered not the colour of the water at all. I think I have been told the water is 
 good for the eyes. Q. Mr. Th: Neale de hoc. V. “ Luckington,” Hancok’s-well, 
 of which kind this seems to be. 
 
 Mem. That in the hollow way on the hill leading from Chippenham into Langley 
 Green, the earth, a mouldering clay, is extremely salt, as you may in dry weather 
 perceive. It seems to be a grey vitriol. T’is a salt of copperas colour. 
 
 ALLINGTON. (In the Parish of Chippenham.) 
 
 Quaere J. Milsham, about the Chapell, or then perhaps Church, where the 
 pidgeon-house stands now, the pidgeon-house being part of it. It w r as dedicated to 
 St. The Revell is kept the Sunday after Holyroode day, 14th of September. 
 
 The Manor belonged to the Monks, at Mounkton-Farleigli, given by . I 
 
 guess, Cotel. 1 
 
 1 William Bayliffe of Monkton in Chippenham married Agnes daughter of Gabriel Pleydell, 
 of Midghall in the parish of Lydiard Tregoz. [See Wilts. Visitation 1623, “Bayliffe.”] This 
 part of the church used formerly to be called “ Bayliffe’s Aisle.” 
 
 2 A bad guess. Allington was given bj 7 King Stephen to the Nuns of Martigny in the Valais: 
 and by them transferred, temp. Edw. I. to Monkton Farley Priory. See its further History, 
 Wilts. Archseol. Mag. III. 36. The Editor has met with no account of any ancient chapel 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 73 
 
 COCKLEBOROUGH juxta Monkton. (In Chippenham Parish.) 
 
 The inhabitants say it was anciently a Borough. It hath its denomination from 
 the petrified cockles which are in great plenty found in the stones here. Anciently 
 London road was here, which is nearer than Chippenham, and in a straight line 
 from Bristowe. From Mr. W. Bayliffe of Mounkton} 
 
 FOWLESWICK. (In Ditto.) 
 
 Here is an ancient liowse with a faire mote about, and with cross-barred windowes, 
 then according to the fashion of the old times, which were so infested with robbers 
 and housebreakers. The retayners here, well fed, and led an idle lazic life; hence 
 those evils. Quaere J. Arch, if this did not anciently belong to the Abbey of 
 Wallingford.? * 1 2 * * * * 
 
 here. In Sir Gilbert Prvnne’s house (mentioned above p. 71, note 1.) which afterwards 
 belonged to the Seymours, William Aubrey in a letter to his brother John the Antiquary, dated 
 1683, (in Ashmol. Mus.), says, that he saw in the windows 100 quarterings of the Seymour 
 family, and also John Aubrey’s “ picture, in my Lord’s parlour.” Of the 100 quarterings he only 
 took note of 21. They were as follows, 1, Seymour, Augmentation coat. 2, Seymour, ancient. 
 3, Damarell. 4, Beauchamp of Hache. 5, Yivonia, or De Fortibus. 6, Marshal, Earl of War¬ 
 wick. 8, Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. 9, Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke. 10, De Clare. 11, 
 Gilford, Earl of Buckingham. 12, MAlorougb, King of Leinster. 13, Bolebec. 14, Delamere, 
 of Bedfordshire. 15, Esturmy. 16, Hussey, Or, a cross vert. 17, Hussey, Barry of 6ix, erm. 
 and gules. 18, Macwilliams. 19, Coker. 20, Grey, Duke of Suffolk, bringing in, 21, Fitzosborn 
 Earl of Hereford ; “ and other quarterings of Grey ; ” but the rest Wm. Aubrey neglected to take. 
 
 Allington Common was enclosed 1860. 
 
 1 In 1299 some land at “ Cokelberge ” was held of the Earl of Cornwall, as of the Honour of 
 Wallingford. (I. p. M.) The Cobham family then owners of Langley Burrell had some interest 
 here in 1319 : and a tenement formerly belonging to Monkton Farley Priory, and then to the 
 Duke of Somerset, was granted by the Crown in 1570 to Cicely widow of John Pickerill of Nor¬ 
 wich. Gandersdych in Cokelbergh, occurs in a deed of 1336. 
 
 2 At the extreme end of Chippenham parish in the tj 7 thing of Allington, near Yatton Keynell: 
 
 now a solitary farm house. In 1299 it was held under the Honour ol Y allingford. In 1303 
 
 John Burel of “ Fugeles-wick ” granted to Elyas Escudemor (Lord ot Hardenhuish) an acre of 
 
 land in the East field of Laugle, between the land of Walter Calewei and Y illiam de Cruce: for 
 
 the rent of a pair of gloves at Easter. YTtnesses Elyas de Kaillewai, William de Haywode, &c. 
 
 Fowleswick belonged to Malmesbury Abbey, whose Lessee in 1534 was T. Gore, Lord ol the Manor 
 
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74 
 
 [ Chippenham. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 HUBBA’S-LOWE. (In Chippenham.) 
 
 “In the reign of King Ethelred, Hinguor and Hubba, two brothers, Danes, 
 Leaders, who had gott footing among the E. Angles. These Pagans, Asserius saith, 
 came from Danubius. Bruern, a nobleman, whose wife King Osbert had ravished, 
 called in Hinguor and Hubba to revenge him.”— J. Milton's History , page 233. 8vo. 
 
 See, concerning this place, in an old edition of Stowe, which Sir Ch : Snell 
 showed me, when I was a fresh-man. 1 
 
 MOUNKTON juxta Chippenham. (In Ditto.) 
 
 belonged to the Mounkes, at Mounkton Farleigh, given by. 2 
 
 ROWDON HOUSE. (In Ditto.) 
 
 In the parish of Chippenham. Rowdon House was a large well built Gothique 
 house, square, and a court within; about the house a mote; a fair hall very well 
 furnished with armour. Here were a number of scutcheons in the windows. This 
 was a Garrison in the late civill wars for the Parliament, where Col. Stephens, of 
 
 Estington, in Gloucestershire, was Governor: it was taken by . A.D. 164... 
 
 and burnt. 3 In the walles of the court are these escutcheons, in stone, as at 
 
 of Yatton. There are several deeds relating to it in the Malmesbury Chartularv, Add. MSS. 
 15667. p. 110. In later times it was the property of the Jacob family, of Norton : and was 
 purchased from their representative Sir Robert Jacob Buxton by the late Joseph Neeld Esq., of 
 Grrittleton. 
 
 1 There seems to be no authority for this tumulus having ever been even called “ Hubba’s Low ” 
 (i.e. the burial tumulus of Hubba, the Dane). It is merely the name that Aubrey gave it, because 
 his neighbour at Kington St. Michael, Sir Charles Snell “told him so.” Hubba was most likely 
 buried where the Chronicles say he was slain, in Devonshire. See, Hoare’s Anc. Wilts, ii. 99; 
 and a minute account of this barrow by Dr. Thurnam, in Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. III. 67. The 
 common name is Lan Hill (Long Hill) barrow. It is three miles N. W. of Chippenham in a 
 meadow on the left of the high road leading to Marshfield. It is a heap of stones about sixty 
 paces in length, covered with turf. For the convenience of obtaining road materials it has been 
 much injured. 
 
 2 Matilda the Empress, Mother of Henry II. [See Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. III. 36.] 
 
 3 The History of Rowdon is printed in the Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. III. p. 30: and the full 
 
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 CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 75 
 
 Farleig'li-Castle; viz, 
 
 SHELDON-FARME. (In Chippenham). 2 
 
 Part of the possession of the Lord Hungerford’s, where, in the windowes, when 
 I was a boy, were severall of the Scutcheons. 
 
 COLERN. 
 
 V. Etym. Danic. 3 
 
 Here is a most noble prospect, a stately high well built tower, which, when the 
 bells, which are new cast, ring, shakes much. A very faire church, but nothing 
 
 particulars of the siege may be found in the “ Historical Relation of the Military Government 
 of Gloucester, by John Corbet, Preacher of God’s Word, 1645.” 
 
 The House had been garrisoned for the Parliament, to counteract the Royalists of Devizes 
 Castle. But before it was well settled and provisioned, the Royalists set upon and sorely 
 straightened it. Col. Stephens, Governor of Beverston Castle near Tetbury, came to its relief, and 
 with difficulty got into it, but whilst he had alighted unwarily and was refreshing himself, the 
 Royalists threw up a breastwork before the entrance and so cooped him in. Succour not arriving 
 in time, he and his party of 430 men inside became desperate and surrendered upon quarter for 
 their lives. 
 
 1 Aubrey has omitted these in his MS. but they were most probably arms of the Hungerford 
 Family. 
 
 2 Anciently Shuldham or Shuldene. For its history See Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. III. p. 28. 
 
 3 The etymology is not Danish but Anglo-Saxon : in which language Col is cold, and corn (when 
 ending a word), habitation. 
 
 In a ground in this parish called The Allotments, a Roman villa was laid open in 1854: a plan 
 and description of which, by Mr. E. W. Godwin, are given in the Archaeol. Journal, 1856, p, 328. 
 
 In the Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. II. 269 there is a notice of the Manorial History: to which may 
 be added that during a temporary forfeiture by Bartholomew de Badlesmere of Castle Combe, his 
 estate here was granted by Edw. II. in 1322 to Hugh le Despencer, Senior. At a later period, 
 1370, being then the property of the Burghersh family, it was leased by Margaret widow of 
 Bartholomew Lord Burghersh (and then wife of Sir William Burcestre Kt.), for term of her life, 
 to Sir Thomas Hungerford. At her death c. 1380 it went to Elizabeth the heiress of Burghersh, 
 then wife of Edward le Despencer, as part of her inheritance: from whom it was purchased, 
 11. Rich. II. by William of Wykeham, and has since belonged to Winchester College. 
 
 Some part of Colerne belonged (Hen. YI.) to the Blounts of Bitton co. Gloucester, proprietois 
 in the adjoining parish of North Wraxliall: from whom it passed to Husee. 
 
 L 2 
 
76 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Colerne. 
 
 of Antiquity left, unless tlie three seates in the Chancell for the Bishop, and others; 
 an old nich of a monument, but figure and inscription gone. 
 
 This coate, a plain cross, is on the West side, of the outside of the tower of the 
 Church. [PI. vii. No. 109.]' 
 
 In Burywood is a Camp, double workes; ergo , not Roman but British: very 
 large, and the graffes are very deepe, notwithstanding the rocke. It hath an aper¬ 
 ture, West, towards Colerne downe. It stands on a kind of Promontory, and every 
 other side is well secured by the precipice. A prettie cleare little streame runs on 
 the rock, and gravell in each bottome. * 1 2 3 * 
 
 At Colern Parke, above Slaughtenford, they tell me there is a single wor/ces camp: 
 i.e. Roman, which see. 
 
 Mem. At Ford-hill is a rampard with graffe eastward, but no camp; it was to 
 obstruct the enemies comeing; the like whereof is to be seen in severall other places. 
 — Q. If the trench aforementioned, at Colerne Parke, is not of the same nature ? 
 
 There was a William of Colerne , Abbot of Malmesbury, who died in 1296. He was famous for 
 his zeal in improving the creature comforts of the monks, and in a Register of that Abbey 
 preserved in the Exchequer, he is stated to have planted vineyards, laid out gardens, made fish¬ 
 ponds, and when he instituted an Anniversary for himself, his father and mother, he directed that 
 with the money a cask of the best wine should also be bought, and first tasted on that day. (New 
 Mon.) In Malmesbury Abbey Register there is also a Deed (No. 132) of composition between 
 Osbert de Colerna and the Monks of that House. 
 
 1 Mr. E. W. Godwin, Architect, has described, with several illustrations, the church of St. John 
 Baptist. [Wilts. Archseol. Mag. III. 358.] In 1857 a stained glass East window was placed in 
 memory of Mary, wife of the Rev. Gilbert Heathcote (the present vicar). She died April 2, 1854. 
 
 The late Mr. Bowles in his History of Bremhill (p. 259) says, “ a late friend of mine, Lawson 
 Huddleston, of Shaftesbury, with manj 7 and extraordinary accomplishments, had a kind of passion 
 for bells. To oblige any clerical friend who had six bells in his church, he would pass days and 
 weeks in the belfry, chipping, and modulating the sound of every bell, till they answered exactly 
 the intervals of the monochord. I had often heard of the music of Colerne bells. No one could 
 tell why their sounds were so pleasing. It is because they are perfectly tuned .... Huddleston 
 was sent to school at Colerne, and Colerne bells were the first he tuned.” 
 
 2 Bury Wood Camp is a very strong military position; of which Sir Richard C. Hoare gives a 
 
 plan and description, Ancient Wilts II. p. 103. See also Wilts. Archacol. Mag. III. 79, and 
 
 IV. 304. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 77 
 
 Quaere Dominie Matravers de hoc: as also what old thing’s he can remember. He 
 is almost 100 years of age. 1 
 
 Colerne downe is the place so famous and frequented for stoball playing. The 
 turfe is very tine, and the rock is within an inch and a half of the surface, which 
 gives the ball so quick a rebound. 
 
 They smite the ball with a statfe, commonly made of withy about three feet and 
 a half long. A stobball-ball is of about four inches diameter, stuffed very hard with 
 quills, sowed into soale leather, and as hard as a stone. I doe not hear it is used 
 but hereabout and in Gloucestershire adjacent. 2 
 
 HALL FARME. (In Colerne.) 
 
 Q. If this was not anciently the Halls ? 
 
 Sutton bought this mannor of King James to give it to Charter-house, at London. 3 
 
 THICK-WOOD. (In Ditto.) 
 
 In this manor Wills are proved and recorded in the Court Rolles. 4 
 
 1 This veteran was of the adjoining parish of Slaughterford. A few irregular hollows in Colerne 
 park (now a wood) may have been mistaken for trenches; but nothing seems to be known of any 
 regular camp there. At the top of the wood there is said to be a large hillock called “ The 
 Dane’s Tump ” where tradition buries a Danish King. 
 
 2 Stow-ball or Stool-ball is described by Strutt, [Sports and Pastimes p. 103] as a variety of 
 the game more commonly known as “ goff” or “bandy-ball:” the paganica of the Romans, who 
 also stuffed their ball with feathers. 
 
 3 He means the Halls of Bradford. One Thomas de Aida de Thickwood occurs in a deed of 
 1318. Hall Farm belongs to the Charter House, in London. In his MS. Aubrey bad inadver¬ 
 tently called Thickwood the Charter House property. 
 
 4 This Farm certainly does not at present correspond with its name, except on the principle of 
 “ mons a non movendo,” and “ lucus a non lucendo ; ” being almost tree-less. A Manor called 
 “Ticoode” belonged at the Conquest to the great Wilts proprietor Edward of Salisbury. In Hen. VI. 
 Stanley Abbey near Chippenham had some land here to maintain a chantry at Highworth. [I. p. M. J 
 The chief estate, given by John son of William Le Lung, belonged to Malmesbury Abbey, which 
 paid thereout 6s. lOd. a year to New College Oxford. [ Val. Ecc.~\ By a will of one of the Fisher 
 family of Worcester, Thickwood, then about 108 acres, was left in 1769 to John Oseland who sold 
 
78 
 
 [ Corsham. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 YEW-RIDGE. (In Colerne.) 1 
 
 CORSHAM. 
 
 The Mannor of Cosham is Auncient Demesne; it heretofore belonged to the 
 Duke, or Earle of Cornwall. 
 
 The great howse at Corsham was built by Customer Smyth : he rented the cus- 
 tomes then of Queen Elizabeth for twenty thousand pounds per annum. This 
 yeare, 1674, was made of the customs £120,000. 
 
 Notes of Capt. Tuck: and-Kent. 2 
 
 it to Paul Methuen Esq. 1780. In 1796 it was sold to John Clements of co. Tyrone. In 1806 to 
 R. B. Deverill: and in 1830 by Mrs. Parsons to the late A. C. Boode Esq. father of the present 
 owner J. Christian Boode Esq. of Lucknam. 
 
 Lucknam (properly Luckenham) which adjoins Thickwood, was divided in I. John between 
 William Fitz Osbert and Roger de Limoges. It belonged in 1732 to Ezekiel Wallis. By his 
 widow Cecilia (Selfe) it passed to her sister’s son, Mr. Paul Methuen : was sold in 1796 by his son 
 to John Clements, whose widow sold it in 1807 to William Norris Tonge: by whom in 1827 it 
 was sold to the late Mr. Boode. 
 
 1 “ Ywerig,” or “Ewrugge,” was given by K. Athelstan to Malmesbury Abbey, at the time of 
 the grant of Bremhill. Annual offerings from this farm, at the shrine of St. Leonard, in Malmes- 
 
 bur\ 7 Abbey Church, are mentioned in the Valor. At the Dissolution it was granted to - 
 
 Lucas. In later times it belonged to Mr. Deverill, and was bought of Mrs. Parsons by the late 
 Mr. Boode. “ Fcm-’- trees grow indifferently plentiful,” sa}’8 Aubrey, Nat. Hist, of Wilts. 55. 
 The manor was sometimes called “ Euridge cum Yatton.” See “ Yatton Keynes.” 
 
 4 Corsham was a Manor both of the Saxon and early Norman Kings: hence called Ancient 
 Demesne. King John gave it to his second son Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, King of 
 the Romans and Almaine, and to the heirs of his body by Sanchia his wife. The tenants of the 
 Crown at that time held their lands by certain debasing services. From these the Earl of Corn¬ 
 wall relieved them by a Deed by which he granted to them the lands in fee farm, free of those 
 Services: paying annually to the Lord 110 marks. From that time the “farmers in fee” held 
 their lands to them and their heirs : elected a Bailiff (who was also Coroner and Sheriff) of their 
 own, in lieu of the Earl’s: had their lands tried in their own Court by Writ of right and not by 
 the common law : were exempt from serving on Juries, except in their own Manor, &c. The 
 Earl’s grant is still preserved in the Manor Chest: and has been printed in Collect. Topogr. and 
 Geneal. ii. 317. In this Deed he reserved “ the site of his “ Vinarium ,” or “ Vivarium ,” his parks, 
 and Conigere (or Warren), and the third part of Minty-mead.” Before his time Corsham Manor 
 used to do suit at the Hundred Court of Chippenham, but the Earl refused. (H. Rolls.) He 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 79 
 
 died 1271. His son Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, held it 1299, and died without issue. This estate, 
 with the Castle of Mere, and others, then reverted to the Crown. Prvnne (p. 937) says that in 
 1301 (30. Ed. I.) the King’s daughter Mary having taken the veil at Ambresbury Nunnery, 
 manors (including this), to the amount of £200 a year were settled on her. In 1307 it was 
 granted by Edw. IT. to his favourite Piers Gaveston. [Rymer. iii. 3.] In 1333 John de Hor- 
 wode was Keeper of the Manor, in which was a House called the Grange. In 1358 King Edward 
 III. and his Queen spent the summer between Marlborough and Corsham. It was then settled 
 by Edw. III. upon his daughter Isabella, who married Ingelram de Courcy (created Earl of Bed¬ 
 ford) one of the French hostages detained in England after the battle of Poictiers. Afterwards 
 it formed part of the Dowry of several Queens of England, and hence is called in Deeds, “ Corsham 
 Regis,” and sometimes “ Corsham Reginae.” Under the Queens it was held b}- different families 
 successively. In 14. Eliz. the lands called Corsham Parks were granted to Sir Christopher 
 Hatton. Three years afterwards, 1575, the manor was sold to Thomas Smyth an ancestor of Lord 
 Strangford, (son of John Smyth of Corsham who married Mary Brounker of Melksham). Being 
 Farmer of the Customs he obtained the name of “ Customer Smyth.” He built the oldest part of 
 the present House in 1582, and removed from Wilts to Ostenhanger in Kent, leaving Corsham to 
 his third son Henry. A shield of arms carved in wood, Smyth quartering Judde, was dug up 
 in the grounds a few years ago. This was the coat of Henry Smyth ; his father, the Customer, 
 having married a daughter of Sir Andrew Judde, Lord Mayor of London. Henry Smyth sold 
 Corsham in 1602 to Edward Hungerford of Rowdon (near Chippenham) afterwards Sir Edward, 
 of Farley Castle, who died 1607. In that family it remained till 1684 when it was sold by the 
 extravagant Sir Edward to Richard Kent Esq. M.P. for Chippenham. In 1694 it was again sold 
 to Richard Lewis Esq. of Edingdon Priory who was buried in Corsham Church in 1706, in which 
 year it was again sold by his son Thomas Lewis to the executors of Henry Frederick Thynne Esq. 
 In 1719 it was sold to Mr. Joseph Stiles who by his will bequeathed it to his brother Benjamin 
 Haskins Stiles. He died 1733, and it passed to his nephew Francis, son of Sir John Eyles, Bart. 
 This nephew changed his name to Haskins Stiles Eyles. From this family it was purchased in 
 1746 by Paul Methuen Esq. great grandfather of the present owner, Lord Methuen. Corsham 
 House was greatly altered on the North side by the late Mr. Repton : and in 1844 this part was 
 taken down and a new Front made, by Mr. Bellamy. 
 
 The Rector}' Manor. 
 
 In the Liberty of Corsham there is, besides the “King’s Manor,” the Rectory Manor, with a 
 Bailiff of its own : but doing service at the King’s manor court. The History of the Rectory is 
 perplexing. It was given by King William I. to the Monastery of St. Stephen at Caen. Being 
 Alien it was liable to seizure. Hen. II. gave it to the Abbey of Marmonstier in Touraine, to 
 which Tickford Priory (near Newport Pagnell in Bucks) was a cell. Then we find it given by 
 Hen. YI. to King's College, Cambridge, as “ part of the possessions of St. Stephen’s, at Caen.” 
 Edw. IY. gave it to the Monastery of Our Lady of Syon. At the Dissolution it was granted to 
 Philip Moore. Lately it belonged to the Neale family: now to G. Goldney Esq. The foreign 
 Priories would probably have a small subordinate one here: and the site of a Priory house is 
 pointed out. 
 
80 
 
 [ Cor sham. 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 ( Church .) 
 
 Queere. If it has been a Collegiate Church, i.e., if there be any stalles in the 
 Chancell. ? 1 
 
 An Epitaph upon Collonell Morgan of Wells, Deputy Lieutenant of the County 
 of Somerset, buryed in the chancell of Corsham Church, in the County of Wilts, 
 Anno Dni. 168-t: 
 
 “Substrato tumulo corpus jacet hie repositum Johannis Morgani, ex agro Sommersettensi, 
 Armigeri, Chiliarchse magnanimi, exemplaris virtutis intrepid® insignissirui pro Rege, pro Patria, 
 pro Legibus, nec-non pro Religione vere Catholica, in nuperis nefandis motibus, praeliatoris ad- 
 versus perduelles acerrimi: nobis etsi intempestive heu! nimis, at sibi exoptato feliciter, ex im- 
 proviso ad sydera rapti. Anno MCtatis 73, Salutis 1684. 
 
 Fortia nunc muto requiescant ossa sepulchro: 
 
 Hlterno exurgant tandem fruitura triumpho.” 
 
 In the Chancel the Arms of Hulbert. [PI. yii. No. 110.] 2 
 
 1 Corsham Church (St. Bartholomew) was not collegiate. The vicarage was in the gift of the 
 successive alien Priories mentioned in the last note: since that time, of the Lords of the manor. 
 The vicar has an old claim of Episcopal privileges within the parish. There is a volume of wills 
 in the Register chest, and a seal, with 3 Trees and a Hebrew inscription. 
 
 In the South East corner of the church is the “ Consistory,” once railed off by a screen of wood¬ 
 work. The spire was taken down in 1812. The church is Norman; two of the arches on the 
 South side have been cut away to make one larger one. The old vicarage stood in the church 
 yard. The present one, in the street, was built by Mr. Methuen. Some lands called “ Lady Lands” 
 were anciently given to provide “Our Lady’s Priest” for a chantry. In 1548 the commissioners 
 for suppression of chantries, report (naming the lands) that they were worth clear 3. 14. 1: that 
 one William Lewys was the chantry Priest, an honest man aged 60 years, with no other living 
 and not able to serve a cure: that the parish was very large, the vicarage very small, and no 
 one but this stipendiary to help the vicar, and that the lands had been given for the purpose of 
 providing this assistance. 
 
 At the back of the late George Inn is an old Roman bas-relief of six figures, dug upon the spot. 
 Domesday Book mentions a church of Paveshou adjoining Corsham Manor. According to the 
 Tropenell MSS. there was a chapel of St. John the Baptist at Chapel Knap. 
 
 2 On a Brass: “Here resteth the body of Thomas Hulbert of this town of Cosham, Clothier, 
 who aged 55 christianly finished his course with powerf'ull prayer to GOD upon Tuesday being 
 the 16. October 1632. He espoused Elizabeth the daughter of Thomas Wallis of Trowbridge, 
 Clothier, by whom he had issue Anne, Elizabeth, Thomas, who deceased before him. Bridget, 
 married to Wm. Sherston of Bromham gent: Susan married to Wm. Hallidaye of the county 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 81 
 
 (Tropenell’s, Hanham’s, or the Ncston Chapel.) 
 
 In the East window of the Chapell, in the North Aisle: seven shields. 
 
 1. [PI. vii. No. 111]. St. Edward the Confessor (still in the Church). 2. [No. 
 
 112]. - A. a cross Gules. (Ditto). 3. [No. 113]. King of the West Saxons. 
 
 4. [114. King Atpielstan, Ditto). 5. No. 111. repeated. 6. [115], France and 
 England with a label of 3. 7. No. 111. repeated. 
 
 In the North Windowe of this Cliapelle; ten shields. 1 
 
 Mem. The escutcheons marked with an asterisk were taken out of this Chapell, and 
 placed in the great parlour windowes at Neston House, by Win. Eyre, Esqr. 1675. 2 
 1. * [No. 116.] Baynard and Bluet quarterly, Impaling Ludlowe. 2. *[117] 
 
 Ludlowe as before, Impaling [Ringwood.] 3. [118] Ludlowe, quartering - ? 
 
 4. [119] Ludlowe with a crescent Arg. for difference. 5. * Walter Lord IIungerford 
 K. G. (same as PI. v. No. 70). 6. Botreaux single, (same as in PI. vi. No. 87.) 
 
 7. Moels single, (same as in PI. v. No. 86). 8. [No. 120] Hungerford [and Molyns 
 
 quarterly, Impaling Percy and Lucy quarterly.] 9. [121] Hungerford (quartering 
 Botreaux.) 10. Three sickles intertwined (as in PI. iii. No. 41.), Hungerford, (still 
 in the Church). 
 
 [Tlios. Tropenell’s Monument, A.D. 1490, PI. vii. No. 122.J 
 
 The Monument of Tropnell of Neston in the Cliapelle aforesaide, with these three 
 coats; viz. 
 
 1. Ludlowe single, (as in next shield.) 2. [PI. viii. No. 123 Tropenell] impaling 
 Ludlowe. 3. [Tropenell] single. 
 
 of Gloucester, Clothier; James, Elizabeth and Mary, all five yetliveing to testifye their Father’s 
 piety and care of them.” 
 
 1 In our Plate No. vii, some of these are inadvertently marked as in a “ South ” window. 
 
 2 These were afterwards removed Sir William IJanham to his house in Dorsetshire. Besides 
 these, Sir William also removed the following shields from Neston House. 1. Eyre single. 2. 
 Eyre quartering Ringwood and Payne. 3. Ludlow impaling Ivingwood. 4. Baynard and Bluet 
 quarterly, impaling Ludlow. 5. Eyre quartering Ringwood and Payne, impaling Tropenell and 
 Percy quarterly. 6. The same, impaling Tropenell, Percy and Carew quarterly. [From a MS. 
 and drawing, by Rev. John Lewis of Great Chalfield, 1760.] 
 
 M 
 
82 Aubrey’s north wilts. \Corsham. 
 
 About the limbe {edge) of this Monument is: An ox yoke, [No. 124]; then this 
 writing, 3ljs. Cfgs. ^ajarcnus films Bet films Babtti, films IHaric Uirgmts salbet 
 nos. A yoke. After every oxe yoake, which I suppose was the crest or cogni- 
 zaunce, the same writing repeated again. Under that writing, in the next moulding, 
 is,— A yoke — tira bcllcntcnt —A yoke — tira &C. i.e. “lie will draw well.” Under this 
 monument is a little freestone vault, where he and his wife’s bones lye. 
 
 Eyres of the familie of Derbiesliire married with the daughter and heir of Tropnell, 
 about. 1 
 
 1 The Chapel (Saint Mary’s ?) on the North side of Corsham Church was most probably built by 
 the Tropenells, owners of Great Chalfield, Neston, &c. and it belonged to their successors, the 
 Eyres and Hanhams. Some account of the Tropenells is printed in “Walker’s History of Chalfield,” 
 derived from extracts out of a MS. called “ The Book of Tropenell,” now missing. This Book, 
 which Aubrey often alludes to, was in the custodj' of Mr. Dickinson of Monk’s in 1744. It was 
 supposed to have been afterwards in the hands either of a Mordaunt family or of the Neales, 
 owners of Great Chalfield : but Sir H. B. Neale (1837) did not possess it. [“ Frustfield ” p. 118]. 
 It was written on vellum; commencing “Allhallwyn Day 4. Edw. IV. (1464) and related to 
 the pedigree and estates of Thomas Tropenell Esq., reciting however many charters and grants 
 long before his time concerning other Lordships, towns, and estates. The property of the Tropenell 
 family in 1519 was as follows. The Manor and AdvowsoD of Great Chalfield, together with the 
 office of Constable of Trowbridge Castle; and lands in Great Atworth, Little (alias Cottle’s) 
 Atworth, Lynford, Holt, and Broughton Gifford: the Manor of Maiden Bradley, and lands at 
 East and West Codford. The manors of Chicklade (with the advowson), and Hindon, and lands 
 in Knovle Episcopi and Milton : the Manor of East Harnham and lands in HomiDgton : the Manor 
 of Little Durnford and lands at Old Sarum and Fislierton Aucher : the Manor of Neston, with the 
 Chapel of St. John the Baptist there and an enclosure adjoining it in the Ridge, and lands at 
 Upton, Stratford sub Castro, Hartham, and “Cosham land:” with divers messuages in Chip¬ 
 penham and Pewsham, Allington, Longdean, Great and Little Sherston, Castle Combe, Lock- 
 ridge, Kington St. Michael’s, Tollard and New Sarum. Also the Advowson of Great Cheverell, 
 and lands at Bourton co. Gloucester, Kilmersdon, and Hassage, near Littleton co. Somerset. In the 
 year last named, 1519, Sir Edward Hungerford, Philip Baynard and John Ernley were Trustees 
 of these estates for some minor of the Tropenell family. [See Add. MSS. 6363 p. 175. Brit. Mus.] 
 
 The heraldry seen by Aubrey in the windows, related for the most part to families allied by 
 marriage with the owners of the Chapel and of Chalfield. That estate came by an heiress of Percy 
 to the Tropenells. Thomas Tropenell the fifth in descent married (Agnes or) Margaret Ludlow of Hill 
 Deverill. Their grand-daughter, a coheiress, married John Ej're of Wedhampt-on, (see Matcham’s 
 Hundred of Frustfield p. 56), and, after several descents, Jane Eyre married Sir William Hanham. 
 The Hungerford arms were perhaps introduced on account of an old match with Percy. 
 
 The noble altar-tomb described by Aubrey, and still in the chapel, is that of Thomas Tropenell, 
 the husband of (A. or) M. Ludlow, and the projector of Great Chalfield Manor House. He died 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
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 HARTHAM. 1 (In Corsham Parish.) 
 
 The Conigre ( Rabbit-warren ) here turns the breed of black conies white, and the 
 pasture grounds make the breed of black cattle pied. (In his Nat, Hist, of Wilts. 
 Aubrey adds, “ Let him that knows this, believe it,”) The rest of this country 
 hereabout is much inclined to pied cattle, but commonly the colour is black, or browne, 
 or deepe red: the men and woemen strong, and something warme and well-coloured, 
 a drawning speech, something heavy and melancholy, as under Saturn. 
 
 1490. The Tomb, with details, is engraved in Walker’s Chalfield. There is a smaller tomb, not 
 mentioned by Aubrey, against the South wall, on which are the arms [No. 125] : the wife 
 apparently a Carew. 
 
 The Chapel is now considered appurtenant to Neston, the property of J. B. Fuller Esq. Neston 
 House is in the parish of Corsham, close to the line of the Roman Road, more anciently the 
 Wansdyke. In the Hall is a shield of arms, Fuller and Jeanes quarterly, impaling Hanning and 
 Harward quarterly. In the Dining room among other portraits is one of Thomas Gooch D.D. 
 Master of Caius College Cambridge and Bishop of Ely. 
 
 1 Hartham is in the parish of Corsham. It was however no part of the King’s “Ancient 
 demesne” enfranchised by the Earl of Cornwall (see p. 78, Note 2.) There are no less than six 
 notices under the name of “ Heortham ” in Domesday Book, all of which appear to refer to this small 
 hamlet. There were four superior lords. The Crown, the Earl of Salisbury, a Saxon Earl Hugo, 
 and the Barony of Castle Combe. All traces of this distinction soon disappear. The Earl of 
 Sarum’s portion passed to the Bohuns, who gave it to Monkton Farley Priory. The Dunstanvilles of 
 Castle Combe probably disposed of theirs in the same way. The rest belonged about A.D. 1400 
 to “ Henry de Hartham,” owner also of Alderton (see p. 51, Note 1.) and in 1457 both those estates 
 had been purchased b} r the Gores. From 1640 until later times, there were two principal families, 
 Goddard and Duckett. The former owned the present Hartham Park and Rudlow. Their house 
 stood on the site of the present one, which was built by Lady James, widow of Sir William James 
 a Naval Officer in H. E. I. Company’s service and afterwards a Director, who died 1783. \_Ext. 
 Barts]. She was Anne surviving daughter and coheir of Edward Goddard Esq. of this place 
 (eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Goddard, Canon of Windsor). Her only daughter married Lord 
 Rancliffe. Lady James was buried at Eltham in Kent. By her will dated 16 June, 1798, she 
 left £1000 for the benefit of the Poor of Corsham, Pickwick and Biddeston. 
 
 The residence of the Ducketts was called Hartham House. It stood very near the other on the 
 side towards Biddeston. It was bought by Mr. Joy and taken down some j’ears ago. Sir 
 Benjamin Hobhouse (father of Lord Broughton) lived there about 65 years since: afterwards 
 General Kerr, and Walter Long Esq. The Duckett family was descended from Richard Duket 
 (a Judge, 9. Hen. III.) of co. Lincoln. A descendant, by marriage with the daughter of Lord 
 Windesoi'e obtained [Rich. II.] Grayrigg, co. Westm. A later descendant, M illiam, was ol 
 Flintham co. Nottingham. His son Sir Lionel was Lord Mayor of London 1573. Stephen 
 
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 aubeey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Corsham. 
 
 MONK’S. * 1 (In Corsham Parish.) 
 
 DITCHRIDGE. 2 
 
 In this Church nothing' to be found. Parson Bridges sayes Sir Hugh Speke told 
 him that he searched in the Black Booke—I believe it was Domesday Book— q., and 
 
 Duckett, grandson of John, was of Calston House near Caine [See above p. 40]. His grandson 
 William, M.P. for Caine, removed to Hartham House c. 1650. All the sons of the last generation 
 died without issue. They had two sisters, one of whom, Grace, married 1. George Goldstone, and 
 2. John Walton. Mrs. Goldstone’s daughter (by the first husband) Grace, married 1. Robert 
 Neale Esq. of Shaw House near Melksham, and 2. Sir George Jackson. His wife being the heiress 
 of the Duckett family, Sir George by Royal licence and in pursuance of the will of her maternal 
 uncle Thomas Duckett of Hartham who died 1765, assumed the name and arms of Duckett in 1797. 
 He died 1822 aged 97. Michael Joy Esq. having purchased the estate of Lady James, Hartham was 
 much improved by his son the late Henry Hall Joy Esq. Q.C. Soon after his death it was purchased 
 by the first Lord Methuen who had already bought the principal part of the Duckett estate. 
 Hartham Park has since become the property and residence of Thomas Henry Allen Poynder 
 Esq. of Hilmerton, who made a large addition to the House in 1860. 
 
 1 This property perhaps takes its name from a Henry Monk who is mentioned in a record of 
 A.D. 1358 as owner of a Messuage and Yardland in the tything of More. John Avliffe was 
 owner about 1590. His daughter Susan married John Danvers of Sherston Pinkney, afterwards 
 of Tockenham. In 1684 a descendant, John Danvers Esq. was here: who probably sold it to 
 Arthur Esmead. “Monk’s” afterwards belonged to Mr. Dickinson of Bowdon. Now to Mr. 
 Harman. 
 
 In Corsham parish there is also a small estate called Jaggard’s, properly Jacquard’s, from an 
 ancient family. The old-fashioned house now there, appears, from the initials R. K. with the 
 date of 1657 over a chimney-piece, to have been built by Richard Kington. Mary the daughter 
 of John Kington was wife of John Shore. Their daughter Mary Shore married the Rev. Thomas 
 Leir, Rector of Charlton Musgrave in 1781: to whose descendant Thomas Macie Leir, this place 
 now belongs. There is upon the premises a fine old Dovecot: an appendage to country-houses, 
 to which our forefathers attached much importance. 
 
 2 Now corrupted into Ditteridge; a very small parish near Box. It was one of 17 Lordships 
 given by the Conqueror to William de Ow: under whom it was held by one Wai’ner. The 
 Abbot of Malmesbury had been before that time owner of a hide of land, which he had alienated 
 to one Alestan. Among the notices of owners here, are William Lupus [Ed. I.] under the Earl 
 Marshal. Richard Pembridge [49. Edw. III]. John Blount of Bitton [22. Hen. VI]. Two 
 estates (very small, for the whole parish is under 400 acres) appear to have descended regularly. 
 The first from Sir Bogo de Knoville [Baron by writ 1295] to the Mauduits, Lords of Warminster: 
 by their heiress Matilda, to Sir Henry Grene of Drayton co. Northampton, and by his daughter 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
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 found that William the Conqueror gave this Parish to one of his soldiers; and that 
 C years after, Box Church was built by the Earle of Hereford.- V. Domesday. 
 
 EASTON GREY. * 1 
 
 In the Church, only these two scutcheons left, in the East window, in the Chancell: 
 
 and heiress Constance, to Edward Stafford Earl of Wilts, who in 1493 was patron of the church. 
 2. Another fragment of the hamlet belonged [Edw. III.] to the Pavely family of Westbury : 
 from them by marriage to Sir Ralph Cheney. [See Deed of partition of Pavely estates; “ Hoare’s 
 History of Westbury,” 63, 64]. In 9. Hen. YI. Sir Edmund Cheney. Close to Ditchridge (but 
 in the parish of Box) is a well-windowed old house called “Cheney Court” commanding a beau¬ 
 tiful view over the valley towards Bath. There is an old-fashioned hall wainscotted, and, broad 
 staircase. It was probably built by the Spekes, Lords of the Manor of Box (see above pp. 57, 59), 
 as on a chimney-piece on the ground-floor is a shield of Speke. In the room above, another shield 
 of Speke impaling Luttrell (viz. a bend engrailed between six martlets). The house now belongs 
 to Mr. Northey : who is also owner of Ditchridge, and patron of the Living. Ditchridge church, in 
 which Aubrey saw nothing, has met with more justice in the Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. IY. 146 from 
 Mr. E. W. Godwin ; with two plates showing its Norman Door, Font, &c. Some fresco paintings on 
 the North wall are described in Gent. Mag. Oct. 1854. The church was restored in 1860 chiefly 
 by the Rev. W. N. Heathcote, Rector. “ Parson Bridges ” may have been either Richard B. 
 Rector 1636-74; or Charles, Rector 1674-84. There are some monuments of this name. 
 
 1 Easton Grey lies a little to the North of the Foss road : and here, according to Sir R. C. Hoare, 
 [Ancient Wilts II. 101] was the Roman Station Mutuantonis. On the “Foss Knoll” at a part of 
 the parish called “ Whitewalls,” have been discovered numerous coins, a tesselated pavement and 
 foundations. [Collinson’s Somerset I. p. 100.] A bas-relief dug up here is figured in “Ancient 
 Wilts p. 100.” In Easton Grey wood are said to be remains of an earthwork. 
 
 The shield of Nevill, perhaps refers to the Earls of Warwick, at one time landowners in the 
 adjoining Parish of' Sherston. 
 
 Easton, (and Foxlev adjacent,) belonged at the Conquest to Roger de Berkeley, (of the original 
 family, whose name was afterwards assumed by Fitz-Harding.) It derives its second name from 
 a subsequent owner Sir John de Grey [Hen. III.] founder of the House of Grey of Wilton on 
 Wye co. Hereford. How it was forfeited to the Crown in the reign of Henry YIII. does not 
 appear: but in 1541 there was a grant to John Ady. [Jones’s Index]. Thomas Hedges 
 (Q. Hodges) Esq. was owner and patron 1565. William Parry Esq. died owner 1684. In the 
 church are several inscriptions to this family. Walter Parry Esq. took the name of Hodges as 
 heir to his maternal great uncle Dr. Walter Hodges, Provost of Oriel College. He sold the estate 
 to the late Thomas Smith Esq. Graham Smith Esq. is now the owner. 
 
 The Patronage of the Living belonged to St. Peter’s Abbey Gloucester, down to the Dissolution,. 
 The old parsonage house is near the church. The new one at some distance, was built by the 
 present Rector, the Rev. W. S. Birch. A brook called the “ Ewer ” runs through the parish into 
 the Avon. 
 
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 [ West Kington. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 1. Neyill [as PL in. No. 21]. Berkeley [as PI. ii. No. 17]. 
 
 Here have been good windowes, especially in the North cross Aisle. 
 
 Here hath anciently been a very spacious Parke, well walled. 
 
 All this North ridge enjoyes delicate prospects to the South. 
 
 KINGTON (WEST.) 1 
 
 In this parish is a downe, called Ebdowne, westward from the Church, where is 
 a Roman Camp, ... acres; (it has no graff; a slight rampart; no vestigia of any 
 ports. Mon. Brit.): and on the other hill opposite to it, another lesser Roman 
 Camp. Vid. Cliorograph. antiq. 
 
 1 In 1244 (28 Hen. III.) the Manor of West Kington belonged to Hugh de Yivoin (de Vivonia,) 
 Steward under Hen. III. of Poitou, Aquitaine and Gascony. He obtained for it a market every 
 week, and a fair for 3 days every year on the vigil, day, and morrow of St. Dunstan. He had 
 two sons William surnamed de Fortibus, and Hugh. William had four daughters. Hugh had 
 one son, John de Yivoin, who died s.p. 1314 seised of the Manor. It then reverted to the 
 daughters of William, or their representatives. These were found to be only two: viz. Peter 
 Fitz-Reginald son of Joan de Yivoin, and Cicely (Yivoin) widow of John Lord Beauchamp of 
 Hache. Each of these had a moiety. 
 
 The moiety of Fitz-Reginald descended to Fitz-Roger by whom it was held in 1385. The 
 moiety of Beauchamp was again divided in 1360 on the death of John, last Lord Beauchamp of 
 Hache, s.p., between his sisters Cicely, and Eleanor wife of Meryot. John Meryot son of Eleanor, in 
 1379 sold his share to Sir William Bonville of Shute co. Devon. Cicely the heiress of the Bon- 
 villes married John Grey, Marquis of Dorset, and in 1502 this portion was still in the Grey 
 family. 
 
 Some account of Yivoin may be found in Hutchins’s Dorset II. 122. See also Coll. Top. et 
 Gen. YII. 137: and, for Bonville, C. T. and G. VIII. 237. 242. 
 
 In 1443—1476 a small part of West Kington belonged to the Blounts of Bitton. In 1565 the 
 family of Ivye are found settled here : (but the name of Adam Yve occurs to a very old deed with¬ 
 out date in which William Gernun of West Kington appears owner of La Breche near the Foss.) 
 
 Sir George Ivy, of this place, married Susanna daughter of Lawrence Hyde Esq. of West Hatch, 
 and Aunt to Lord Chancellor Clarendon. [In “ Lord Clarendon’s Life,” 8vo p. 2 the name of 
 Ivy is misprinted Fuy.~\ Sir George was buried in Bath Abbey church, 1 April 1639. His 
 epitaph, containing an account of his family, is printed in “ Antiq. of Abbey Ch. of Bath,” p. 179. 
 
 An estate at West Kington belonged in 1628 to Sir Richard Grobham of Great Wishford: 
 from whom it descended to John Howe, fourth Lord Chedworth, who died 1804. This was sold to 
 different purchasers. [See “ Nettleton.”] Christopher Codrington Esq. was Lord of the Manor 
 in 179-. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 87 
 
 King Charles the First dranke of the spring here. 
 
 Parsons here. - Russell. (Benj. Russell, 1596—1633. Ed.) Robert Dave- 
 
 nant, Dr. in Divinitie: brother to Sir William Davenant, Poet Laureate. 1 (Bp. 
 Latimer was Rector here. In the walk at the Parsonage House is a little scrubbed 
 hollow oak called “Latimer’s Oak,” where he used to sit. Mon. Brit.) 2 
 In the South Aisle of the Church, 3 on the wall— 
 
 1 These two brothers, Robert and Sir William, w r ere related to John Davenant, Bishop of 
 Salisbury. Their father kept the Crown Tavern at Oxford. Their mother (Jane Sheppard of 
 Durham) Aubrey [Lives of Eminent Men, II. 303,] says, “ was a beautiful woman of very good 
 wit, and conversation extremely agreeable, but (see the Original MS. of the “Lives”) of somewhat 
 light report.” It was the belief of many that Sir William Davenant was really the son of Shakes¬ 
 peare, who used to frequent that Tavern on his journeys to Warwickshire. “ Sir William was very 
 well content to be so thought.” Robert Davenant, [Aubrey’s “ Parson Robert ”] the Rector of 
 West Kington, was Fellow of St. John’s College Oxford, Prebendary of Sarum, and Chaplain to 
 Bishop John Davenant. According to Aubrey (Lives), the Rector had two sisters of whom one 
 married Gabriel Bridges B.D. of Corpus Christi College, beneficed in Berkshire: the other, Dr- 
 Sherborne of Pembridge co. Hereford, and Canon of that Cathedral: but according to the 
 Davenant Pedigree in Matcham’s “Frustfield” p. 86, Mrs. Sherborne was the only sister. Sir 
 W. Davenant once spent a week at West Kington, “mirth, wit, and good cheer flowing,” in 
 the midst of which the former wrote, “ upon the table of the parlour, a Treatise on Socinianism ! ” 
 [Lives II. 550.] 
 
 2 Hugh Latimer was instituted to this Rectory in 1530 by the celebrated Cardinal Campegio 
 then Bishop of Sarum. He remained about 5 years. His letters to Sir Edward Baynton of 
 Bromham are written from this place [“ Brit. Reformers,” Life of Latimer.] In them he speaks 
 [p. 406] of “ his little Bishoprick of West Kington,” [p. 423] of the “ Lord of Farley,” (Prior of 
 Monkton Farley); and in another letter, (p. 398), “ As for pilgrimage, you would wonder what 
 juggling there is to get money withal. I dwell within half a mile of the Fossway, and you would 
 wonder to see how they come by flocks out of the west country to many images, but chiefly to 
 the blood of Hailes ” (Hales Abbey, co. Gloucester.) 
 
 Among other incumbents here, were, in 1363 Stephen Kynesman, Prior of Stamford 
 co. Line, Rector by exchange: and in 1706 Thomas Burnett D.D. Prebendary of Sarum and 
 Rector also of Littleton Drew. He was of New College Oxon : author of “A Treatise on Scripture 
 Politics,” “A course of Sermons preached at Bojde’s Lecture,” “A Catechism,” &c., “Answer to 
 Tindal,” and “ Essay on the Trinity; ” from which la6t work his ideas were borrowed by Matz. 
 [See Mosheim.] 
 
 3 The church, in the shape of a Greek cross, and dedicated to St. Mary, is of Early English date. 
 The Rectory was always in the gift of the Bishops of Salisbury, but by an Order in Council 1852 
 it has been transferred to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, this part of Wilts being now in 
 
88 
 
 [ West Kington. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 “ Oh. mi dear children marke what I saye, 
 
 “ Your mother’s bones truli are wrapt here in clay, 
 
 “ Her soule no doupte, to heaven is gone thither, 
 
 “ Wher we most joyfully shall meet altogether. 
 
 “ The Lord be your guid, the Lord be your strength, 
 
 “ And give you his special grace to die in him at length; 
 “ You gentell readers remember your end, 
 
 “ Be true unto such whom faithfull you find; 
 
 “ Let this be example and tell hit abroad, 
 
 “ How faithfulli this woman died in the Lord. 
 
 A short figure in a cap and gowne with no inscription. 
 
 A. P. They say Anne Prater. 
 
 Underneath is a gravestone, of freestone, with this inscription. 
 
 “ Rest in the Lord most loving wife, 
 
 “ Thy daies are spent and gonne, 
 
 “ Thy husband’s race and end of life 
 ** Shall be, God knoweth how soon. 
 
 “ Though death hath doon the worst he can 
 “ To part us twayn a space, 
 
 “ Yet time will come to meet again 
 “ In heaven that joyfull place. 
 
 “ With bitter teares thy husband spake 
 “ These words upon thy toombe, 
 
 “ His hand did write, thes vers did make, 
 
 “ To show in time to cum 
 “ How faithfull thou hast been to me, 
 
 “ And haddest six children dear, 
 
 “ Within six yeare a marvell to see 
 “ All borne one time of yeare ; 
 
 “ The seaventh also in like manner, 
 
 “ If death had not them lett, 
 
 “ Borne had been as the other wear, 
 
 “ At Midsummer time direct. 
 
 “ Alas how should it chance so bad 
 “ To littil babes so young, 
 
 “ To tell in time what losse they had 
 “ Bi nature whence they sproung. 
 
 But God is he who giveth life, 
 
 “ And he that takes away, 
 
 “ Let us therefore avovd all strife 
 “ And geve ourselves to pray. 
 
 “Thy children’s names if men would know, 
 “ Which God hath geven to thee, 
 
 “Behold are written here below 
 “ In order as they bee. 
 
 “ Thomas, William, Elizabeth, Ferdinando, George, Thomas.” 
 
 that Diocese. On the death of the Rev. Edward Ravenshaw Dec. 1854, the late Bishop Monk 
 collated the Rev. G. N. Barrow, Hon. Canon of Bristol, by whose exertions the church was 
 restored, and re-opened 16 Oct. 1856. Latimer’s pulpit is preserved, and a stained glass window 
 on the South side of the chancel has been erected to his memory, being the gift of Mr. G. W. 
 Gabriel of Bristol, the Architect of the Church restoration. 
 
 In 1444 Henry YI. granted to King’s College Cambridge (subject to the life of John Mershton) 
 a Pension of 100s. a year, formerly paid out of the church of West Kington to the Alien Priory 
 of Fulgeis, or “de Fugeriis,” in France. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 89 
 
 About these verses, in the Limbe, thus: “Here lieth Judeth Prator, the wife of 
 Anthony Prator, gentilman, daughter unto Thomas Ivie, Esqr., who died the sixth 
 day of February, Anno Domini 1578.” 
 
 Arms of Prater, [PI. viii. No. 126.] 1 
 
 LACOCK. (The Abbey.) 2 
 
 In the Hall, in great letters A. W. 3 Quaere, who was the last Lady Abbesse ? 4 
 
 In the vaulting of the 
 Nos. 127—141]. 
 
 i 
 
 1. [127] Courtenay. 
 
 2. [128] ? 
 
 3. [129] Baynard. 
 
 4. [130] ? 
 
 5. [131] Latimer. 
 
 6. [132] Roche. 
 
 7. [133] Cheney. 
 
 Cloysters at the Abbey are 
 
 8. [134] Hungerford ( i . e . 
 their Heytesbury shield.) 
 
 9. [135] ? 
 
 10. [136 Beauchamp]. 
 
 11. [137] Ela, Countesse oe 
 Salisbury, the Foundresse. 
 
 12. [138] ? 
 
 these coates, 5 viz. [PI. viii. 
 
 13. [139] Holmes, co. Glouces¬ 
 ter. [or, Ashton ?] 
 
 14. [140 Cobham?] 
 
 15. [141 Daubeney ?] 
 
 16. Baynard, as before, 
 [129]. 
 
 Mem. Desire my Brother William to visit this for me, for it was late when I 
 was there, and could not stay. 
 
 (The other shields in the cloisters, omitted by Aubrey, are, PI. viii. Nos. 142, 
 143, 144, 145, 146, and PI. ix. No. 147. Ed.) 
 
 1 Probably Prater of Nunney Castle, co. Somerset. 
 
 2 A History of Lacock Abbey, by the Rev. W. L. Bowles and Mr. J. G. Nichols, was published in 
 1835. The Rev. G. Witham, Roman Catholic Domestic Chaplain to the Dowager Ladj r 
 Shrewsbury, with types and a press of his own at the Abbey, printed in 1806 a small 4to of 44 
 pages, consisting chiefly of extracts from Dugdale, &c., but it was never published. A view of 
 the Cloisters is in “Britton’s Archit. Antiq.” II. 112. On the Abbey Seal the House is called 
 the “ Convent of the Blessed Mary and of St Bernard of Lacoc.” In the New Monasticon, 
 p. 501, it is called, perhaps by mistake, a “Priory.” 
 
 3 Perhaps Agnes de Wick, Abbess temp. Richard II. 
 
 4 Joanna Temys, or Temmes, of a family then owners of Rood Ashton. 
 
 5 In Bowles and Nichols, p. 350, some names are suggested for the shields which Aubrey could 
 not identify : but they are uncertain. 
 
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90 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Lacock. 
 
 In Bibliotheca Cottoniana there is an old 4to. MS. called “ Clironicon de Lacock,” 1 2 
 wherein are divers Antiquities, and particularly Ela’s life, Countess of Salisbury, 
 the Foundresse, who outlived her understanding, being above an hundred yeares of 
 
 In the kitchin is a vast great pott, or crock, which served the Abbey; it is bigger, 
 much, than Guy’s at Warwick Castle. By the Inscription, it appears to have been 
 made at Mechlin. 3 
 
 Mem. The high wall, with battlements, on the South side of the Cloysters, was 
 the North wall of the Abbey Church, of which no vestigium is now left. Here was 
 a good ring of bells, which Sir .... Sharington sold, when he built Rea-bridge to 
 divert the travelling by his house. The ringers took their leave of the bells of the 
 Abbey, when they were to be taken down, which was on the first of May, .AD.... 
 This country Rythme was made upon it 
 
 1 This “Chronicon de Lacock ” is believed to have been destroyed at a Fire in the year 1731 
 which seriously injured the Cottonian MSS. Part of it is copied in Vincent’s Collection in the 
 College of Arms; and is printed in Bowles and Nichols, Appendix I—V. For extracts, see also 
 Dodsworth’s MSS. Bodl. Lib. Oxon. No CXXVI, and Harl. MSS. 5019. f. 231. Many deeds from 
 Mr. Talbot’s Cartulary are printed in Bowles and Nichols : some relating to Chitterne (one of the 
 Abbey estates) in Hoare’s Heytesbnry, p. 169. The Commissioners of Public Records in Appendix 
 to Report 1857, p. 158, mention “A ledger Book of the Monastery of Lacock.” 
 
 2 She died 24 August 1261 “in her seventy fourth year.” Bowles and Nichols, p. 275. 
 
 3 See in Bowles and Nichols an engraving of the “ Nun’s Boiler,” p. 360. The inscription is, “A 
 PETRO WAGHFENS IN MECHLINIA EFFVSFS FACTUS VE FUERAM, ANNO MIL- 
 LESSIMO QFINGENTESSIMO. DEO LAFS ET GLORIA CHRISTO.” [“ I was molten or 
 made by Peter Waghuens of Mechlin in the year 1500. Praise be to God and glory to Christ.”] 
 The Boiler now stands on a pedestal in the garden, where it was placed, according to an indignant 
 inscription, in consequence of the Window Tax. “ Ne totum lateret hoc veteris Hospitii 
 Monumentum, (Proh pudor ! occlusis fenestris) sub aprico voluit positum J. Talbot, 1747.” 
 [“ That this relic of ancient hospitality might not be altogether lost to sight (the windows—Oh 
 shame!—being blocked up,) J. Talbot has caused it to be set up in the open air.”] One of the 
 traditions of Lacock is, that a side of bacon and a sack of peas were boiled in it on the occasion of 
 Queen Anne’s visit. There was formerly a larger one, of bell metal, 7 feet in diameter, which 
 was disposed of in 1716. The great stone trough more than 10 feet long, sunk in the floor of 
 the apartment now called the Nun’s Kitchen, may have been used either for fattening captive 
 fish, or for salting meat. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 91 
 
 “ On Philip and Jacob, the bells rang at Lacock, 
 
 “ The great bell went with such a surge, that he fell in at Rea-burge.” 
 
 This rhythme, as bad as it is, was used in evidence at Sarum Assizes, at the triall 
 for pulling down Rea-bridge, which was about 165—. 
 
 Sharington was King Henry the Eighth’s Taylor. He married the mother, and 
 his brother (Henry) married the daughter. Upon the dissolution of the Abbeys, 
 fox certaine causes and considerations, King Henry the 8th gave him Lacock, Seene, 
 &C . 1 Arms of Sharington, [PI. viii. No. 146.] 
 
 1 Aubrey makes an odd blunder in calling Sir William Sherington the King’s tailor. Sir 
 William certainly had an evil reputation for “clipping and shearing,” but his art was practised 
 on the King’s coin, not his broadcloth. He was by birth a gentleman of Norfolk family, [see 
 Wilts. Yis. 1565.] His third wife was Grace widow of Robert Pagett Alderman of London: 
 whose daughter Ann was wife of Sir William’s brother Henry. Sir William was one of the chief 
 officers of the Mint, and by malpractices, carried to an enormous extent, obtained the means of 
 speculating largely in the purchase of Abbey lands. In 1547 he bought estates in Wiltshire, at 
 Avebury, Winterbourne, Charlton, and Barbury near Ogbourne: late belonging to Fotheringhay 
 College, co. Northampton. Also Lacock Abbey, Beaulieu, Notton, Woodrew, Seend, Seend-row, 
 Catcombe, Luddington, Cote, Medburn, and the Rectory of Lacock : with many others in 
 Gloucestershire, Berks, and elsewhere. In 1548 his frauds were discovered. He was, saysStrype, 
 “ clapt up ” in the Tower, indicted before the Lord Mayor, and upon his own confession, convicted 
 of having in the first year of King Edward YI. counterfeited in the Mint at Bristol £12,000 of 
 coins resembling the testoons (a debased coin then recently prohibited): also of having defrauded 
 the King of clippings and shearings of the coin to the amount of several thousand pounds, and of 
 having falsified indentures and books. The whole amount of his profits he was unable to declare. 
 He was attainted and his lands forfeited. Yet it seems he was not so ruined but was able soon 
 after to make a great purchase again. For in the fourth year of the same King he was allowed 
 to buy his estates back by paying nearly £13,000. Bishop Latimer in his sermon on covetousness, 
 speaks of him as a sincere penitent. “ Some examples there have been of open restitution, and 
 glad may he be that God was so friendly unto him, to bring him unto it in this world. I am not 
 afraid to name him; it was Master Sherrington, an honest gentleman, and one that God loveth. 
 He openly confessed that he had deceived the King, and he made open restitution. Oh what an 
 argument may he have against the devil, when he shall move him to desperation. God brought 
 this out to his amendment. It is a token that he is a chosen man of God, and one of his elected.” 
 Sir Thomas Seymour (the Protector’s brother) was an instigator to the fraud, in order to raise 
 money for his own political purposes. This story is told at length by Strype [Mem. ii. Pt. I. 
 p. 191. 8vo.] and by Ruding, [Coinage, iii. 314, 4to.] 
 
 Sir William Sherington is said to have built at Lacock Abbey the Turret in which the Magna 
 Charta of Henry III. is preserved. His monument is in the Parish Church. He had no children, 
 
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92 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Lacoclc. 
 
 Mem. The story that Sir Robert Long told me of Sir [Henry) Sharington’s 
 daughter Clave, who leaped, at night, downe from the battlements of the Abbey 
 Church, to [John) Talbot, her lover, who caught her in his arms, but she struck 
 him dead, and was with great difficulty brought to life: her father told her, Since 
 she made such leapes, she should e’en marry him. 1 
 
 and his brother Sir Henry, the friend of Bishop Jewell, succeeded. Henry’s heirs were two daughters, 
 Grace, wife of Sir Anthony Mildmay of Apthorp, co. Northampton (whose daughter married 
 Francis Fane, first Earl of Westmoreland), and Olive, who married John Talbot Esq. of Salwarp 
 co. Worcester, fourth in descent from John second Earl of Shrewsbury. After the death of John 
 Talbot, Olive remarried Sir Robert Stapjdton of Yorkshire, and resided at Lacock, in her second 
 widowhood, as Lady Stapylton. The estates were divided between the two sisters Lady Mildmay 
 and Mrs. Talbot. The next owners of Lacock were Sherington Talbot the father, who died 
 1630, and Sherington Talbot the son, who died 1677. The latter was succeeded by his son Sir 
 John. In June 1685 a duel took place during Monmouth’s rebellion in the West, between Sir 
 John’s eldest son by his first wife, Mr. Sherington Talbot, “a worthy gentleman ” says Evelyn, 
 “ who had behaved very bravely,” and Captain Love, Marshal General of the Artillery. The 
 quarrel arose as to the comparative conduct of their respective men on the occasion of an alarm 
 from Monmouth’s men. The duel took place at the White Hart Inn, Glastonbury, and Sherington 
 Talbot was mortally wounded. 
 
 1 A portrait of Olive Sherington is preserved at Lacock Abbey, and her little finger, drawn 
 slightly curved, is accepted by the easy visitor as the mark of personal damage sustained in this 
 wonderful flying leap. Dr. Popham, formerly Yicar of Lacock, in a letter written 1802, declares 
 the whole story to be fabulous. No one who considers the usual height of a Church battlement 
 will be likely to believe it. Whether Miss Sherington did or did not leave her home in any 
 irregular way, ought to have been known in Aubrey’s time, for she was still living in 1651, when 
 he was in his 25th year, and her grandson, Col. Sherington Talbot,—a person likely to be 
 acquainted with the fact, if it had really happened—was his “honoured friend.” It is however 
 not improbable that village tradition may have transferred to one lady, the alleged exploit of 
 another, viz., one of the Nuns of the Convent who is said, according to a second variety of the 
 tale, to have escaped through a window. That a young lady was abducted, is certain. For 
 in the MS. Cartulary of the Hungerford Family there is an Indenture dated April 19, 
 4. Hen. YI. [1426], from which it appears that one Godfrey Rokell had carried off, from 
 Lacock Nunnery, Eleanor daughter of John Montfort, a Minor whose wardship belonged to Sir 
 Walter (afterwards Lord) Hungerford, the High Treasurer. There was an old Statute, “De 
 raptu Custodiae,” which provided that if any layman or other, should by force lead away or 
 marry any heir under the age of 14 years, he should pay to the party to whom her wardship 
 belonged the value of the Marriage, and be imprisoned until he had paid the same, and also until 
 he had satisfied the Crown for the trespass. By the Indenture referred to, Sir Walter Hungerford 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 93 
 
 (The Parish Church.) 
 
 In the Parish Church, in Baynard’s Aisle, which is the North (South) crosse, in 
 brasse on a marble thus: 
 
 “Hie jacet Robtus Baynard armiger, vir egregius et legis peritus, in armis bellicis multurn 
 strenuus, dapifer praecipuus inter primos pacis conservator diligentissimus, uxorem habens 
 Elizabeth devotissimam, cum totidem filiis et filiabus sub (enumeratis) : qui obiit xxvj. die Aug. 
 An Dni. MCCCCC. primo. Quoru. aiab. p’picietur Reus, Amen.” Filii 13. Filiae 5. 1 
 
 In this Aisle is a Gothique Altar Monument of. Bluett.. 
 
 1. O. an imperial eagle G. membered Az. Bluet; Impaling, G. a chevron A. [Cobhasi; No. 
 
 148.] 
 
 2. 0. (imperfect.) Impaling [Cobham, as before]. 
 
 3. Quarterly: I. blank. 2. [Abbot?] 3. & 4. blank. [No. 149.] 
 
 BOWDON. 
 
 Bowdon, I believe, hath been a celle to Lacock; it is of ancient and strong free- 
 
 releases Godfrey Rokell and Elena, Abbess of Lacock, from all actions to which they had been 
 liable in consequence of the abduction. In the list of the Abbesses of this House, printed in the 
 Monasticon, there is none of the Christian name of Elena: but in the Registers of Sarum the 
 name is found. “ In 1408, William Stephens was presented to the Vicarage by Elena, Abbess of 
 Lacock.” Wilts. Inst. p. 96. The following is a copy of the Indenture in the Hungerford 
 Cartulary. 
 
 “ Haec Indentura facta apud Farlegh decimo nono die mensis Aprilis anno quarto Regis 
 Henrici sexti, inter Walterum Hungerford militem Thesaurarium Anglios ex una parte, et 
 Galfridum Rokell ex altera parte, testatur, Quod pracdictus Walterus remisit, relaxavit, et 
 omnimodo pro se heredibus et executoribus suis in perpetuum quietclamavit EleNjE, Abbatiss.® de 
 Lacock, et praodieto Galfrido, heredibus et executoribus eorundem, omnimodas actiones de Itaptu 
 Custodice Elianorje Filiae Johannis Montfort, ac quascunque actiones personales quas versus 
 eos seu eorum aliquem habuit, habebit, seu habere poterit ab origine mundi usque in diem con- 
 fectionis praesentium. Ita quod ab omnibus actionibus personalibus ante haec tempora perpetratis 
 in perpetuum per praesentes sit exclusus. In cujus rei,” &c. 
 
 ' An engraving of this Brass, and an account of other Baynard monuments in the church b}' Mr. 
 Edward Kite, are given in the Wilts. Archacol. Mag. IV. p. 1 : See also Mr. Kite’s “ Wilts. Brasses.” 
 
 To the South side of Lacock church an ancient house seems to have been attached, which now 
 forms part of the church itself. The new cemetery of this parish was consecrated by Dr. J. II. Monk 
 late Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, September 1st, 1854. 
 
94 Aubrey’s north wilts. \Lacock. 
 
 stone building; a little chamber chapell yet remaining with the crucifix in the 
 window, March 6, 1625. Here hath been a parke, and till about 1660, the pales 
 stood about it. It is the seate of my worthy and honoured friend, George Johnson, 
 Esqr. Councellor at La we. He has trebled this estate; Marl lies about 15 foot deep 
 under the barren sand. Hereabout is found store of Cinders , which is the remaymes 
 of a Roman Bloomery; perhaps here might have been a vulcano, as in Surrey. 
 Mem. The sand on the hills hereabout is very fitt for a glasse work, and Compton 
 ( Basset) stone for a furnace. Mem. The deep lane from Bowdon to Rey-bridge is 
 very full of nitre, as a warm day wall evidence; tliis hill abounds with excellent 
 blue marie, and marie abounds with nitre. 1 
 
 1 There is no account of any “ Cell,” or House subordinate to Lacock Abbey, at this place. If 
 the “ little chamber chapell ” was attached to a mansion, it must have been taken down with the 
 old house about 1770. The date “6 March 1625” cannot mean the day and year on which 
 Aubrey made this observation: because he was not born till 12 March 1626. It was most likely 
 a slip of his pen, for 1525.—The name of Bow-don may possibly be derived from the winding of 
 the hill ( dim in Anglo-Saxon.) A French topographer says, “L’arc que decrit un vallon ou une 
 riviere on appelle le “ Bout,” en Saxon, Bow.” “Where the hill forms a curve, in shape of a low,” 
 [“ Ove s’incurva il monte, A guisa d ’arco,”] might be Ariosto’s description of Bowdon Hill. 
 Bowdon was part of the property of Lacock Nunnery, and after the Dissolution became Sir 
 W. Sherington’s. His niece Grace (one of the coheiresses of his brother Sir Henry) had it for her 
 share. She married (as already mentioned in the note p. 92) Sir Anthony Mildmay whose daughter 
 Mary was wife of Francis Fane, Earl of Westmoreland. The Earl sold it about 1663. Aubrey in 
 his “ Nat. Hist, of Wilts,” often mentions the luck of Mr. George Johnson in enriching his land 
 with marl. Also that, “ in 1666, the diggers found the bones of a man under a quarrie of planke 
 stones. He told me be saw it. He was a serious person and fide dignus.” Mr. Johnson was a North 
 Wales Judge, Solicitor to the Treasury ; and M.P. for Devizes 1681: he was dead before 1696. 
 His grandson James, sometime a Master of Westminster School, and afterward Bishop of Wor¬ 
 cester, died at Bath from the effects of a fall from his horse in Nov. 1774. In 1751 Sir Francis 
 Haskins Eyles Stiles Bart, sold the estate to Ezekiel Dickinson Esq. whose son Barnard built the 
 present house. It was purchased a few years ago by Capt. John Neilson Gladstone, R.N. (brother 
 of the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, now Chancellor of the Exchequer) Sheriff of Wilts in 
 1859, and now M.P. for Devizes. This gentleman built at his sole expense the new Church of 
 St. Ann on Bowdon Hill, besides giving £1000 towards its endowment, and £100 for a School. 
 The Church was consecrated by Dr. Charles Baring, the present Diocesan, 28 July 1857. On the 
 Common is an ancient building placed by the Nuns of Lacock to protect the spring of water by 
 which the Abbey was supplied. There are others of similar kind at Monkton Farley, and 
 Edingdon. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 95 
 
 LAKEHAH. 
 
 Queers , by Mr. T. G. ( Thos. Gore), of the old deedes here. Baynard married with 
 the d. and heir of Blewett. Mem. There is a report that if the King should hap¬ 
 pen to kill a deer in the Forest, so near to the River Avon that one might throw a 
 Horne, the Lord of Lakham, by custome, could challenge it for his own, which Sir 
 Robert Baynard did in King James’s time, and alleged his graunt for it from a 
 King; q. his name. “0 my soule,” said King James, “he was a tvise King that 
 made such a graunt.” 1 
 
 At Wick Field a quantity of Roman coin was found, of which-Lord (a 
 
 Chippenham man born), a Herald painter in the Strand, got a good many. Sir 
 Edw. Bainton had the greatest part. Q. his son Henry B. Esq. or rather his Lady, 
 Ann d. and coheir of E. of Rochester. She is a great lover of such Antiquities. 
 
 LANGLEY BUREL. 
 
 A Deed of John Bur el to Michael, Abbot of Glastonbury, conveying to him a 
 
 1 Lackham did not belong to the Nuns of Lacock. It has passed through the following hands. 
 Temp. Hen. Ill, William de Ewe, a Norman Baron. From Hen. III. to c . 1350, the family of 
 Bluet, who were also of Silchester, Hants. About the same time (1303) Roger Bigod Earl of 
 Norfolk and Alice (Basset ?) his wife had some part of Lackham. And for some years an estate 
 here was held for a term, probably jure uxoris, by John Peyton 1346; the same, by Peter de 
 Cusaunce 1352. By marriage with the heiress of Bluet it came to the Baynards, who were 
 owners from c. 1350 to 1635. By marriage of the heiress of Baynard it came to the Montagu 
 family. Early in the present century it was bought by Capt. Rooke, R.N : and after his decease, 
 was purchased about three years ago, by the present owner II. B. Caldwell Esq. 
 
 Attached to the Manor was a Chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In a Deed (no 
 date) Edward Sweyn gave some land to Lacock Abbey, charged with maintenance of the Lamp of 
 St. Mary. [JVeic. Mon .1 Sir John Bluet in 1308 granted certain rents to Robert of the Bridge, 
 Clerk, for his life, subject to annual provision of 2 lbs of wax for the Chapel of St. Mary of 
 Lackham. [Add. Chart. No. 1533.1 In 1346 John de Peyton obtained a license. [ Wyvill 
 Reg.) Three chaplain’s names are preserved: viz. 1349, Stephen Draper: 1352, Walter Fyna- 
 mour: and 1410, William Hunte. [ Wilts. Inst .] The site is not known. At the rear of Sir 
 John Awdrv’s house at Notton are some fragments of carved stone-work which may have come 
 from it. Notton belonged to the Nunnery. Afterwards it became part of the Lackham estate, 
 and was severed about 90 years ago. Lands at Notton, and Bewley (Beaulieu) Court belonged 
 in 1528 to Sir Edward Darell. 
 
 * 
 
96 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Langley Burrell. 
 
 croft in Langelegh Bur el 1 called “ Penicroft,” 2 between the croft of John the Miller 
 and that of Walter de la Yate. Witnessed by Sir John of Estingdone (Easton Piers) 
 William of Heywood, Milo of Langley and others. [See Appendix No. ij, no date, 
 but about A.D. 1240.] 
 
 In the Church in the West Window is this figure, of great antiquity; of a Knight 
 in a robe, girt, and standing on a borne Or, holding on his left arm a shield. [PL ix. 
 No. 152]. (In his Mon. Brit., Aubrey adds; “head and upper part covered with made. 
 His scucheon like the Knights’ Templar’s, temp. Hen. III. At his feet lies a golden, 
 not borne, but like those Tubes in Olaus Wormius and that at York.”) 
 
 It is likely that this is the figure of Johannes Burel. It is very old glasse worke. 3 
 Mem. that in the old time there was a way of donation of Lands by a Horne, e.g. 
 Ulplius, a ruler in Deira, being old and childless, came to the High Altar at St. 
 Peter’s, at Yorke, kneeled down and drank wine out of a Horne, and then layed it 
 on the Altar, and thereby gave all his Lands to God, and St. Peter : the likeness of 
 this Horne is in stone, in severall places of the side of the choire which he built. 
 The Horn itself Thomas Lord Fairfax hath amongst his rarities. But the Horne 
 here, appeares to be a hunting Horne: perhaps he was a Baunger or Lieutenant of 
 some Forest about these partes. Vide Ola. Wormii. Mon. Danica. where is mention 
 of Hornes. Mem. Painting in glasse came into England but in King John’s 
 time, Mr. Dugdale saith. The Carta above was in Hen. III. 
 
 Mem. Vide iterum the shield: If the chief be Or., and what colour the 2 mullets be. 
 
 1 This authority, more than 600 years old, is however not the oldest for the origin of the name 
 of this Parish. In Domesday Book, “ Bor el” holds, under Edward, Earl of Sarum, “ Langefel ” 
 and “Terintone;” meaning Langley, and Titherington adjoining. This family continued till 
 about A.D. 1300. 
 
 2 “Penicroft” is still the name of a ground, near Peckingell Mead. 
 
 3 The strange figure (No. 152) is drawn exactly as Aubrey’s rude sketch represents 
 it: but the glass was most likely broken, or badly set, when he saw it, as the head¬ 
 dress is unintelligible, and the horn is placed where the legs should be, instead of being under 
 the feet. There can be no doubt that it was a Knight in mail-armour under the long surcoat of 
 temp. Edw. I. and earlier. The horn was probably a badge of some forest tenure. One of the 
 name of Burel married an heiress of Woodland co. Devon : and the arms borne by him very much 
 resemble these, but have three leopard’s faces instead of three mullets on the chief. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 97 
 
 My brother Wm. sayes that in this cliiefe are 3 mullets of 6 points, pierced, sans 
 colour, and that there are 2 shields more which I did not see, like Powlet and 
 Courtney. [PL ix. No. 150. 151.] 
 
 Duke of Lancaster. 
 
 Sir William Burgh, Lord Burgh. Burgh bears, Az. 3 fleirrs de lys ermine. 
 
 Mem. In a Booke that was Mr. Camden’s, in his own hand, of the shields in West¬ 
 minster Abbey, now in the hands of John Saintlow Esq. of (Little Fontmel ) in the 
 County of Dorset, is this shield [Fig. 153] ; which is the Seal to the original Deed, 
 dated 3. Eliz. belonging to Samuel Ashe Esq.: (viz. 1. and 4. De Burgh, Earl of 
 Gainsborough. 2. Percy quartering Strabolgi. 3. Cobham.) 
 
 Berkeley. -Reed. -White. -Ashe. 1 
 
 1 The names of different owners of Langley, probably noted down by Aubrey upon inspection 
 of documents. All are correct, so far as they go, but, as will be seen, others are known, viz., 
 Delamere, Cobham, and a Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland. 
 
 The Lordship of Edward of Salisbury under which (as mentioned in the first note to page 96) 
 Langley was held by “ Borel” at the Conquest, included the Honour of Trowbridge, which descended 
 in course of time to the Dukes of Lancaster. [See note to Leland’s Tour, Wilts. Mag. I. 152]. In 
 the Inquisitions, Langley is twice mentioned [4. and 6. Hen. IV.] as held under the Honour of 
 Trowbridge : consequently under the Duchy. 
 
 The Burel family disappear, (as stated p. 96) about 1300. In 1304 it belonged to Sir John 
 Delamere, owner also of Leigh-Delamere: who with Alice his wife obtained in 1332 a license for 
 an oratory in their manor “of Langley and Lye” [Sarum Reg.] His last Presentation to Langley 
 Church was in 1342. That the manor was then transferred to Sir Reginald Cobham of Ster- 
 borough, would appear from the Will of his widow Joan Lady Cobham, (daughter of Thomas Lord 
 Berkeley), dated Aug. 13. 1369. [Test. Yetust. p. 81]. “ I will that my house in Southwark be 
 
 sold to pay my Lord’s debts: and to found prayers in the parish church of Langele-Borell for the 
 souls of Sir John Delamere Knt., sometime lord there, Sir Reginald Cobham, Sir Thomas Berkeley, 
 and for the souls of my benefactors. If Reginald my son shall appropriate that church for the 
 maintenance of two priests to celebrate Divine Service there for ever, as it was intended and 
 conditioned by the said Sir John Delamere when he sold that lordship of Lanejele, with that of Lye, 
 to my husband, in the presence of the Lord Berkeley my father, then I will, &c.” But the actual 
 purchaser seems to have been the lady’s father ; for the Berkeley evidences, (Fosbrooke’s Extracts 
 p. 134 and 136), state that in 1343 Thomas Lord Berkeley purchased the Manor and Advowson 
 of Langley Burrell of Sir John Delamere, and gave it the same year, with £2000 in money, to 
 his daughter Joan on her marriage with Sir Reginald Cobham. In the Wilts Institutions Lord 
 Berkeley is the Patron of the Living in that year. The Arms of Cobham are still on a wooden 
 boss on the roof of the aisle, and the church is traditionally said to have been built by one of 
 
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 \Langley Burrell. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 (The Church.) 
 
 In the Chancel two seates only, and a piece of an old freestone Monument, de¬ 
 faced. A black marble gravestone, with . but the Inscription now illegible. 
 
 In the wall between the Church and Chancell, a Hole, I suppose for confession. * 1 
 In the East Windowe of the North Aisle is this coat. [No. 154.] 2 
 In the North Aisle, in wood: 1. (No. 155, The Pope. 2. No. 156, A pestle and 
 mortar. 3. No. 157, Cobham). 4. Courtenay, as before. 5. (No. 158, I. B. ? John 
 Burel, or John Burgh, both ancient owners. Ed.) 
 
 In the South Aisle, in stone in the wall are these. 1. Cobham, as before. 
 2. The Pope; as before. 3. (159) Three sickles conjoined in fess. [Hungerford.] 3 
 (Aubrey has also drawn the two following, but does not say in what part of the 
 Church they were. No. 161, An Estoile. No. 162, A Saracen’s head wreathed. Ed.) 
 
 In the South side of the Church are Two coats in wood. 1. (No. 160 Burel impaling 
 blank. 2. Cobham, as before.) 
 
 The Bells were cast 1607, so nothing of Antiquity there. 
 
 that family. But the original fabric is much older: the pillars that divide the North aisle from 
 the Nave being low and circular with Norman capitals. The Cobhams probably enlarged it. 
 Their names occur several times in the Presentations. In 1460 the Patron, in right of his wife 
 Margaret Cobham, was Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland: (misprinted in the Wilts Institutions, 
 Earl of West minster.) 
 
 By marriage with Anne daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Cobham of Sterborough the manor 
 passed to Edward de Burgh, second Baron Burgh of Gainsborough, co. Lincoln; who was Patron 
 1489. (His grandmother was a Percy, and her mother an heiress of Strabolgi. Coll. Top. et 
 Gen: vi. 88. This explains the shield No. 153). In 8. Eliz. (1565) U. Burgh sold it to John 
 Reed : [Chap. House Fines] ; who in 20. Eliz. (1577) was “ exonerated of Homage for the Manor 
 held of the Earl of Sarurn,” (Jones’s Index to Records.) In 1601 it had passed to Henry White, 
 then owner also of Grittleton. About 1660 his grandson sold it to Samuel Ashe Esq. the ancestor 
 of the present owner, the Rev. Robert Martyn Ashe. 
 
 1 In the Decorated style, and in form of a spherical triangle. Archaeol. Inst. Journ. iii. p. 302. 
 
 2 Perhaps for Malory. In 7. Edw. iii. (1333) about the date of the additions to Langley 
 Church, one Stephen Malory sold land in this parish and in Titherington Lucas to John Turpyn. 
 
 3 Probably in compliment to that family, sometime Lords of the Hundred and Manor of 
 Chippenham. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 99 
 
 In the Church-yard, on the South side of the Church, lye two Sisters in a free¬ 
 stone Monument. There was a Canopie of stone over them, not long since taken 
 away. These two Sisters were Benefactors to the repairing the Causeway towards 
 Keilway’s Bridge. Q. of the gift of Maud Heath, for the repairing of Keilway’s 
 Bridge and the Causey. 1 
 
 In the Church-yard wall is an ancient covering of a gravestone. Mr. Hughes, of 
 Wotton Basset, sayes that here was lately digged up the figure in stone of him that 
 built this Church. Q. 
 
 Anno Domini 1652, was printed a booke for Ralph Smith, at the signe of the 
 Bible in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange, called “ The Wiltshire Rant” being “A 
 Narrative of the most unparalleled Prophane Actings, Counterfeit Repentings, and 
 Evil Speakings of Thomas Webbe, late pretended Minister of Langley Buriall , in¬ 
 truder to Henry Norborne, B.D., by Edward Stokes, of Titherton Lucas, Esq.” (It has 
 83 pages, and the mottoes are Isaiah lix. 4. 5. 6, containing two jeux de mot on the 
 name Webbe ; “ They hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider’s Webb.” —“ Their 
 Webbs shall not become garments. &c.” Ed.) 
 
 There was such Blasphemy and uncleanness among the zealots of these parts, all 
 which is sett forth in this book, by the author, a sober prudent person, that in after 
 ages ’twill scarcely be believed: most of the parties I myself knew. The Baccha¬ 
 nalia of the Romans were not more licentious. 2 
 
 1 See Wilts. Arch. Mag. I. 257, for a history of Maud Heath’s Causeway. It is not known that 
 any second person was concerned in this Benefaction. Moreover, the “ Canopie ” Aubrey speaks 
 of has come to light, and contains the half effigies, not of tw T o sisters, but, (by the dress) of a man 
 and wife. 
 
 2 Mr. Edward Stokes the author of “ The Wiltshire Rant,” was a Justice of Peace: of a family 
 sometime resident in Langley Burel, Kington St. Michael and Tytherton Lucas. A copy of it is 
 in the British Museum Library, under “ Stokes.” The circumstances which led to this publication 
 were these. “About the year 1649” (to use the writer’s words) “one Thomas Webb came as an 
 Angel of light into these parts, with a great forme of Godlinesse, in sheep’s cloathing: whereby 
 he gained with ease the affections of many, not only hypocrites, but sincere hearted Christians 
 who took him to be only as he seemed to be. As new things, so new or strange persons, affect 
 much. So new brooms sweep clean: this man seems to be of a blameless life and conversation : 
 and being furnished with cunning and expression, makes use of it to his best advantage; and so 
 rouls up and down till at last he takes up his rest at Langley Burrell, and having obtained the 
 
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100 
 
 [Leigh Delamere. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Mem. In this parish is a place called Watling-street. Q. de hoc. 1 
 
 LEIGH DELAMERE. 
 
 I find the coate of Sir Robert Delamere, G. 2 lions passant guardant. [PI. ix. 
 No. 163.] The coate of Sir Geffrey Delamere {of Suffolk) Or, a fesse between 2 barres 
 gemelles Azure. 
 
 Mem. In 17 Eliz. Leigh-Delamere was the landes of John Thorneborough Esqr. 2 
 
 parsonage there he preached and practised for some short space, but none could spy out his 
 wickednesse. This young stripling, having formerly made himself a preacher, forsaking his 
 lawful calling, becomes a Parish Priest or Parson ; and being settled to his content and obtaining 
 a glebe worth £70 a year, he cunningly, to increase his fame, refused the Tythes, protesting 
 against them as an unjust Tax; by which means he obtained the good will of divers of the most 
 ignorant Parishioners: and others looked upon him as a conscientious man, not knowing what he 
 had been nor what he was.” 
 
 The other chief actor in this history was Mrs. Mary White, wife of Mr. Henry White then 
 owner of the manor of Langley. Between her and Thomas Webbe a criminal intimacy sprung 
 up; which being promoted by the two families having agreed to live under one roof, (the manor 
 house), scenes of the most disgraceful kind were enacted for some time. At length the matter 
 being taken up by the neighbourhood, informations against the two chief persons were laid 
 before two magistrates, Mr. Edward Stokes and Mr. William Shute, by whom they were com¬ 
 mitted to Salisbury Jail. Adultery was made a capital offence by the Long Parliament: a severity 
 of law which defeated its own object. So the Jury, being “for life or death,” acquitted them. 
 Upon their release Webbe proceeded to London to appear before the Committee for Plundered 
 Ministers, in consequence of certain Articles laid against him by Mr. Stokes. To the series of 
 scandalous crimes and misdemeanours with which he was charged, Webb was required by order 
 of the Committee to give answer before the County Justices at Chippenham, Mr. George Ivy, 
 Sir Edward Baynton, Mr. Shute and others. Upon these articles and depositions he was ejected 
 from the Parsonage of Langley in September 1651. He then published a Manifesto called “A 
 masse of malice against Thomas Webb (late Minister of Langley Burell) discovered.” It was in 
 reply to that effusion, and in vindication of himself and his brother magistrates, that Mr. Edward 
 Stokes wrote the pamphlet called “ The Wiltshire Pant: ” such a picture of blasphemy, immo¬ 
 rality and cant as had, it is to be hoped, no parallel, even in those times of spiritual extravagance. 
 
 1 A by-lane now leading only to fields. This name for a road was not uncommon. It is sup¬ 
 posed to be that of some mythological personage, in Anglo Saxon Heathendom. It was also their 
 name for The Milky Way in the Heavens. 
 
 2 This Parish is named from a Norman family near Caen, of which, when settled in England, 
 there were branches in different counties, chiefly iu Wilts, Somerset, Oxon., Herefordshire 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 101 
 
 (The Church.) 
 
 In the porch over the dore, in a nich, is the figure of a woman, St. Margaret. 
 Mem. The Sevington revell in this parish is at St. Margaret’s tide. * 1 
 
 The upper end of the Chancel hath thirteen niches for Christ and twelve apostles, 
 six of each side, in the manner as it was at All Soules’ College, in Oxford, before 
 the new painting by Fuller. 2 
 
 In the win do we of the North side of the Chancell, standes an escutcheon, [No. 
 
 and Essex. In Wilts their name survives also at Fisherton Delamere. They were landowners at 
 Steeple Lavington, Foxley, Winterbourne Gunnore (so called from a Lady, Gunnora Delamere,) 
 Langley Burrell, and other places. At Nunney, co. Somerset, are some monuments with effigies : 
 and the ruins of their Castle. Sir Peter Delamere is the first of the Speakers of tho Commons 
 whose names have been preserved. 
 
 This Manor, in Hen. III., was held by them of William de St. Leger. In 1343 they sold it, 
 (see above, “ Langley Burrell,” p. 97, note 1.) to Thomas Lord Berkeley who settled it on the mar¬ 
 riage of his daughter Joan with Sir Reginald Cobham. Among succeeding owners three names are 
 supplied by the Sarum Institutions: viz. in 1424, Robert Blamford: in 1465, Thomas Norreys, 
 and in 1521, Wm. Thornborough. It belonged in 1634 to the family of Chivers of Quemerford 
 near Caine : in 1730 to that of Yince, and was purchased, from the two sons of Col. Henry Chivers 
 Yince by the late Joseph Neeld Esq. of Grittleton. 
 
 1 Though it gives the name to the whole parish, Leigh-Delamcre is but a small portion of it, 
 consisting only of the Church, Manor Farm, Rectory, and a new Almshouse, built and endowed 
 by the late Mr. Neeld. The village is Sevington, about one mile westward. In the Archaeologia, 
 1837, and in the Wilts. Mag. I. p. 203, is an account, with a Plate, of some Saxon coins and other 
 relics found there in that year. 
 
 2 In the margin of his MS., by a little drawing with his pen, Aubrey has corrected himself. 
 There were only nine compartments: the largest in the centre: three smaller ones on each side: 
 and again a larger one at each extremity. The church, with which Aubrey ought to have been 
 familiar enough, as he was born within a mile of it, and was taught his first lessons, partly at the 
 then Rectory, and partly (as he elsewhere says) “ in the chancel,” was entirely taken down in 1846 : 
 but the chancel, with its Arch, Reredos, and curious Bell Turret, were re-erected at Sevington as 
 the village school. The old Bell Turret is well known to English Archaeologists. It is described in 
 Archaeol. Journal, I. 37, but with a poor Plate. Also in the “ Builder,” VI. No. 287, and II. 606, 
 where the woodcut of the octagonal spire is incorrect. There are no ribs running up between 
 the several faces. The best drawing of it is by Wm. Twopeny Esq. in a recent volume of plates of 
 “Ancient Timber work.” The New church was built upon the old site, and the model of the Bell 
 Turret imitated, with one or two additions. In stating that the cost of the New church was borne 
 solely by the late Mr. Neeld, the writer of these Notes on Wilts. Topography, takes this opportunity 
 
102 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Leigh Delamere. 
 
 164] Gules, a chevron Or, under a crucifixe. The old glasse in the other columne 
 is defaced. When I went to schoole there, a little boy, I remember it all painted 
 glasse. Mr. Pli: Kinsman, the rector, saies there was an inscription mencioning 
 the Founder of the Church, by the name of Ridley; and the windowe opposite to it 
 had then severall scutclions, now, 1661, all gonne; now only remaines I. H. S. and 
 M. R. [No.165]. * 1 
 
 Under the Communion table; “ Here lietli Robert Latymer, sometime Rector 
 and Pastor of this church, who deceased this life the second day of November, Anno 
 Domini 1634.” 
 
 This Mr. Latimer was schoolmaster to Mr. Thomas Hobbes in a private school at 
 Malmesbury, i.e. at Westport, next to the smyth’s shop as is now, 1666, opposite 
 the ( Three Crowns ) an Inne. He afterwards taught children here. He entered me 
 into my accidence. 2 
 
 Before Mr. Latimer, one Mr. Taverner was Rector here, who was the parson that 
 maried my grandfather and grandmother Lyte. 
 
 of adding, that to the same Gentleman’s friendship he is indebted for the opportunity of writing them 
 at the Rectory of Leigh-Delamere. Mr. Neeld died March 24,1856, and was buried in a family vault 
 under the North Aisle. 
 
 1 The old church, (St. Margaret’s) was of about A.D. 1190, Early English with some Norman 
 features. The chancel had been altered into Perpendicular: at which time the Early triplet 
 East window was blocked up in order that.the stone reredos might be placed there. The name 
 of Ridley has never been met with in any ancient notices of the parish. It seems most probable 
 that the original church had been built by the Delameres. The shield Gules a chevron Or, if it 
 had, as it may have had, charges on the chevron, would be that of Cobham. With a slight 
 difference of colour it is that of Dudley : and being under a crucifix, perhaps denoted an ecclesiastic. 
 It happens that Richard Dudley, sometime Master of the College de Valle Scholarum at Salisbury, 
 and Precentor of the Cathedral, gave in 1537, to Oriel College Oxford, lands in this parish to 
 support a Fellowship, or Exhibitions. It is not impossible that he may have embellished the 
 church, and that Mr. Philip Kin^sman the Rector, mistook the name of Dudley, for Ridley. 
 “ P. K.” the initials of this Rector, were found on the old Parsonage house taken down in the first 
 year of the present writer’s incumbency, 1846, and have been duly preserved over the door of 
 the new one. “ P. K.” died 1691, and his gravestone is built into the New church wall. 
 
 1 Mr. Latimer’s gravestone is now inserted at the East end of the New church outside. For 
 some account of him, and of Aubrey as his scholar, see note in Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. IV. 99. 100. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 103 
 
 Q. Mr. Seacole Chi vers daughter’s Inscription. 1 
 
 LITTLETON DREW. 
 
 (Church.) 
 
 Anciently the Parish Church was a mile and a halfe from hence in the place called 
 Dunley Chapell, and for convenience the Lord of the Mannour and parishioners 
 agreed to build the Church here. The inhabitants say that the South part of the 
 Church was built by Drew about 200 years since, more or less. The North side 
 was built by the Parish. In the South side of the Church here, is a monument, in 
 the wall, of a woman Drew. The South windowe of about H. 4. From the Drews 
 this Mannour came to Mompesson and Welles by two coheires; so they divided, and 
 Wells had it, and about 165..., sold it to the Lord Herbert, of Chepstowe, eldest 
 sone of the E. of Worcester. 2 
 
 1 Against the East wall of the South aisle. 
 
 “ Stands looke downe : and behold the stone under which was laide the Body of Elizabeth 
 Eldst daughter of Secole Chiver Esquier Lord of this Mannour. The Miracle of her Age for 
 Reason, Language, and Religeon, Who deceased August 10th, 1653, Mense ACtatis Su^83°” 
 i.e. two years and nine months old. This young prodigy was half-sister to Mary the wife of the 
 Right Hon. John Methuen, Chancellor of Ireland. Others of the Chivers, and some of the 
 Vince family, are buried in a vault under the South Aisle. 
 
 2 The popular derivation of “ Littleton Drew,” from “ the Druids,” seems to be altogether a 
 mistake. The same derivation has been given to the names of Drew’s Teignton in Devonshire, 
 and Stanton Drew in Somerset. It is certainly remarkable that at both those places there are 
 some of the antiquities called Druidical; at the one, a cromlech, and at the other, stone circles: 
 and also that, near, but not within, the parish of Littleton, there is a cromlech. This stands in the 
 parish of Nettleton, to which accordingly the distinctive name of Drew ought to have been given, 
 if it had been really derived from Druidical origin. But notwithstanding the curious fact that 
 such antiquities do exist at or near these three places, Druid is not the proper derivation. It 
 cannot be shown that the Druids ever gave their title to any parish in England. The Index 
 Villaris contains not a single instance. The only places, the second or distinctive name of which 
 bears any approximation to the word Druid, are the three above mentioned. Yet it is quite 
 certain that at the very period when the fashion most prevailed of naming places from their 
 owners, all these three severally belonged to a family of the name of Drew. So far as regards 
 Drew’s Teignton, the question is settled in “ Archseol. Journal,” V. 321; and in “Topographer 
 and Genealogist,” II. 209 : as to Stanton Drew, in “ Collinson’s Somerset,” II. 432. In the 
 
104 
 
 [Littleton Drew. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Dunley. 
 
 (A Deed undated, but c. Hen. III.) Quitclaim by the commoners of the Pasture 
 called Donelweye: (to the Abbot of Glaston, then owner of Nettleton, Grittleton, 
 &c. Ed.) 
 
 [“ Walter Dru, Lord of Liteltone, and others, release to John, Lord Abbot of Glastonbury, their 
 right to common of pasture westward of Donewohceye in the Abbot’s manor of Netelingtone. Ako 
 in the marsh between Donewolweye and a cart-way. Witnessed by Sir Godfrey de Wrokeshale, 
 Roger de Lokingtone, Henry de Cerne, Reginald Burel, Knights, and others.” See Appendix, 
 No. III.] 
 
 Mem. I do believe Donewohvcye to be that which is now called Dunley, where 
 till about 1640 remained the walls of a chapell, in the north-west quarter as you 
 stand in the point where the Fosse-way is crossed by the way that leads from 
 Clapcote to Aldringtone. 
 
 Q. Mr. T. G(ore): If Ivingswood men came to Dunley to offer ? * 1 
 
 oldest records this parish is always called simply Littleton. It never bore the name of Drew 
 until it belonged to the family of that name, one of whom, Walter Drew, is called “Lord of 
 Littleton ” in a Deed relating to Dunley given above by Aubrey, which from the names of the 
 witnesses is about A.D. 1290. See also “ Testa de Nev.” p. 142 and 158. 
 
 Thomas, Earl of Stafford, held the Court Leet of Littleton in 1302. The Mompessons were 
 also of Seagry, (which see.) Sir William Courtenay was the actual vendor to Lord Herbert. 
 From that nobleman (afterwards second Marquis of Worcester) the manor has descended to the 
 Duke of Beaufort. Littleton Field, then an open common lying between the village and Dunley, was 
 enclosed about 1841. Sir John Neeld is a proprietor in the eastern part of the parish. The 
 church was restored, through the exertions of the Rev. Gray Lawson the present Rector, and 
 re-opened on 6th May, 1856. A village School was built in 1850 by subscription among 
 the friends of the Rev. Anthony Austin late Rector: and the Parsonage house was rebuilt by 
 Mr. Lawson in 1852. In taking down the church, part of the remains of a stone Cross was found. 
 The Advowson used to be in the patronage of the Bishop of Sarum, but in 1852 it was transferred 
 by an Order in Council to that of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 
 
 1 Dunley is still the name of several fields at the Eastern end of Littleton Drew parish : as well 
 as cf some on the other side of the Foss, in the parish of Hullavington. It anciently gave the 
 name to a small Hundred, which in Rich. I. was escheat of the Crown, and in the hands of 
 “ William of the church of St. Mary.” In Hen. YI. “ Donlewe Hundred” was held by Lord 
 Hungerford, under the Abbot of Malmesbury. Some particulars of it are given in “Abbrev. 
 Plac. 13.” In 1583 the Manor of Alderton, and lands at Surrenden (in Hullavington,) were 
 held of the Queen as of her Manor of Dunley : the former by the Gores, the latter by Hamlyn. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 105 
 
 LOKINGTON. * 1 
 
 In the Church is nothing of antiquity; marble, or rather liasse pillars, to old 
 windowes like those of Kington St. Michael, and Sarum Cathedrall, whence it is to 
 be judged that it was built about that time, i.e. a little after the finishing of Sarum 
 Cathedrall Church. 2 
 
 In this village is a fine spring called Hancock’s-well, which is mentioned by Dr. 
 
 The site of Dunley Chapel may still be traced in the corner field exactly opposite Sir John 
 Neeld’s “ Foss Lodge,” at the Cross Roads known as the “ Elm and Ash : ” so called from a tradi¬ 
 tion that a felon was buried there and that two young trees on or near his grave grew up so 
 closely together as to seem one. Whether this small chapel ever was, as Aubrey says, the Parish 
 Church, is very doubtful. It was more probably a way-side chapel for the benefit of the crowds 
 of pilgrims travelling to the Monastery of Hailes in Gloucestershire, by whom the Foss road (on 
 which Dunley Chapel stood), used to be traversed. (See Bishop Latimer’s account, supra p. 87, 
 note 2). At another place where four roads meet, also on the Foss, near Long Newnton, there 
 appears to have been some building of similar kind. In modern times such sites are generally 
 seized upon for public houses. By “ the Kingswood men ” Aubrey means probably the tenants of 
 Alderton Grange which belonged to Kingswood Abbey. He fancied that being near, these may 
 have belonged, as parishioners, to Dunley instead of Alderton. 
 
 1 The Manor and Advowson of Luckington belonged in 34 Edw. III. (1360) to Sir Thomas 
 Bradston of co. Glouc., under the Honour of Trowbridge. Of Sir Thomas, (an extinct Peer, not 
 mentioned by Bolton,) there is a particular account in the Berkeley MSS. [See Smith’s Extracts, 
 p. 136.] His daughter Elizabeth was wife of Sir Walter de la Pole, and died owner 1428. Their 
 daughter Margaret de la Pole was wife of Thomas Ingoldsthorp, and their son Edmund was the 
 heir to the estate in that year. [See Napier’s Swynecombe, p. 295.] In 1442 Thomas Burton Esq 
 was owner in right of Agnes Chamberlayne his wife. In 1531 the patronage belonged to the 
 Comptons, ancestors of Lord Northampton. From about 1600 to the early part of the present 
 century the principal owners were the Fitzherberts, from the last female of which family it passed 
 by will to that of the present possessor Mr. Jones. In 1315 the Querle family had some lands 
 here: and in 1400 St. Maur had one third of an estate. The ancient name was Lokyngton. 
 
 2 The church of St. Michael contains some fine portions of Early English style, and is quite 
 capable of being restored to a very beautiful edifice, but it is now in a most unbecoming condition. 
 Elegant Purbeck marble shafts are choked with vulgar stone panelling, and a small side chapel 
 has been converted into a “ manor pew,” patched up with the relics of a carved stone reredos and 
 a wooden screen. Many of the church windows are blocked up. There is a stone pulpit, and, at 
 the chancel door, a curious porch. 
 
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106 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Luckington . 
 
 Childrey in his u Britannia Baconica.” 1 Being precipitated by a lixivium of pot¬ 
 ashes, it yields a sediment of nitre, turning a little to yellow, i.e. a kind of fine 
 flower of such a colour. The vertues of it testified by Mr. Fitzherbert, Lord of the 
 
 Mannour, Mr., Minister there, and other inhabitants: It cures the Itch and 
 
 Scabbe; it hath done much good to the eies. I tried this water also by evaporation 
 of two quarts, and it yielded as above. 
 
 Mem. I find store of deep blew marie hereabout, which sort much abounds 
 with nitre. In it is often a vitriolate wood, black and burning like coal. 
 
 V. “ Monumenta Druidum,” 2 and Nat. Hist, of W. (p. 20). 
 
 SHERSTON MAGNA. 
 
 It lies on the North limitts of this Shire, from whence it hath its denomination: 
 perhaps anciently a mere, or Shire stone, might be set up. Saxon, Scire, signifies 
 division : from whence a pair of shears. 
 
 Here are sometimes found Roman Coines; about 1650 was a prettie quantity 
 found in the field, by ploughing. I have one silver piece of Constantine the Great, 
 on his head a kind of chaplet of roses, not laurcll: his hair is a kind of flaggish 
 hair. On the reverse, “ Constantinus Aug.” In the Limbe within, an Angell or 
 Genius holding a palm branch; in the left hand, stretched out, something like a 
 snake involved; underneath the Genius, T. S. C. 
 
 As I remember, in the fields, here is a barrowe or more. 
 
 1 Joshua Childrey D.D. Archdeacon of Salisbury, 1663. The book alluded to was entitled 
 “ Britannia Baconica, or the natural rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales, historically related, 
 according to the precepts of Lord Bacon,” &c. London, 1661, 8vo., the work which first suggested 
 to Dr. Plot his “ Natural History of Oxfordshire.” Hancock’s well is still resorted to for the 
 cure of sick dogs, bad legs, and the like. 
 
 2 In the MS. to which he refers Aubrey describes a long-barrow (now commonly called the 
 “ Giants’ Cave ”) adjoining Badminton Park, near the “ Shoulder of Mutton Gate.” “ It is 
 covered with oaks and other boscage. Here were discovered 1646 five or six small caves about 
 11 feet high, 7 or 8 feet long, floored, lined and roofed, with great stones that grow plentifully 
 hereabouts. Y. Childrey, p. 45.” This large Cairn is entirely formed of stones, and the sepul¬ 
 chres or kist-vaens, have been opened several times since Aubrey’s days: but nothing of 
 importance seems to have been found. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 107 
 
 In the wall of the Church Porch on the outside, in a nich without inscription or 
 scutcheon, is a little figure about 2 foote and a half high, ill done, which they call 
 I&attlc 13 OltC, who, the tradition is, did much service against the Danes, when they 
 infested this part of the countrey; the figure resembles more a priest than a soldier; 
 something looks like a Maniple, and his Robe is a kind of Cope. [PI. x. No. 169.] 
 
 Mem. The old woemen and children have these verses by tradition, viz. 
 
 “ Fight well Rattlebone, 
 
 “ Thou shall have Sherstone.” 
 
 “ What shall I with Sherston doe, 
 
 “ Without I have all belongs thereto?” 
 
 “Thou shalt have Wj r ck & Willesly, 
 
 “ Easton towne and Pinkeney.” 
 
 These are hamlets belonging to this parish. Their tradition is that the fight 
 was in the ground called the Gaston. Qucere, what it signifies ? At Malmesbury, 
 here, at Ashwick, and at Marsfield, are grounds of this name, but at about all these 
 places have been fights: most of them are arable land. 1 
 
 On the north side of the Towne is a signe where a castle stood, which they call 
 
 Castle . Here hath been heretofore a Market, which was kept on Fryday: 
 
 the towne was burnt temp. H. 8. since which time it hath been disused: ’tis strange 
 it is not revived, for it stands very advantageously. The Charter is in the Church 
 Chest. 
 
 1 The men of Sherston still uphold with undirainished tenacity the local traditions of the 
 formidable Rattlebone: and the little figure above-mentioned, which is merely that of a priest 
 holding a book against his breast, is interpreted to be the great Sherston Champion, severely 
 wounded in the fight, but heroically applying a tile-stone to his stomach to prevent his bowels 
 gushing out! There was a great battle between King Edmund Ironside and Canute the Dane in 
 A.D. 1016 at a place called in the Saxon Chronicle “ Sceorstan : ” which many consider to have 
 been in Worcestershire, but Bishop Gibson (on Camden) places here. But none of them can be 
 right, if as the History says, Canute marched the night after the battle to Winchester, and 
 Edmund the next morning to Old Sarum. Price (Old Sarum, p. 40,) thinks it was at the village 
 of Sarston near Amport in Hants, a few miles East of Ambresbury in Wilts. A battle there may 
 have been also at Sherston, for where in this County 7 , one may almost ask, has there not been one ? 
 but the name of “ Gaston ” is no indication of a battle-field, as it simply means “ a grass- 
 inclosure : ” in Anglo-Saxon “gaers-tun.” 
 
 p 2 
 
108 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Slierston Magna. 
 
 In the West windowe of the North Aisle: 
 
 [PI. ix. No. 166] Beauchamp. [No. 167] Spenser. [No 168] Quarterly Beau¬ 
 champ and Newburgh. Within it should have been inserted an Iscutcheon of 
 Spencer as juxta. 
 
 Mem. Spenser had to doe at Sherston 300 or 400 years since. 1 
 It belonged to the Priorie of Kington St. Marie’s juxta Kington St. Michael, 
 given by . V. Legier Booke. 2 
 
 1 The Manor of Great, or as it was sometimes called “ Much-Sherston ” was granted by Hen. III. 
 to Matthew Besil. In Edw. I. John Besil was holding it for his life. In 1316 the same king 
 settled it on his daughter the Princess Mary a Nun of Ambresbury, as part of her maintenance. 
 In 1334 Edward son of Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford was a land-owner here. In 1349 the 
 Manor, and Advowson of the Rectory, belonged to Hugh le Despenser and Elizabeth his wife, 
 widow of Lord Badlesmere. In 1375 to his nephew Edward Lord Despenser who married the 
 heiress of Burghersh ; and afterwards to his son Thomas, Earl of Gloucester. According to an 
 Inq. a. q. d. [Jones’s Index] this Earl in 1400 gave the Manor, with Broadtown and Winterslow 
 to Thomas de Percy, Earl of Worcester, who was beheaded 1402. Earl Thomas Despenser’s 
 daughter and heiress Isabella married Richard Beauchamp Earl of Worcester, (No. 168) and after 
 her first husband’s death she married, by dispensation, his nephew Richard Beauchamp Earl of 
 Warwick. By the second marriage she had a son Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, to whom 
 the Manor and Adowson belonged in 1445. The Beauchamp and Despenser estates ultimately 
 passed by an heiress to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick, the “King-maker,” to whom Cox 
 [Mag. Brit.] says that Sherston belonged at his death in 1471. The Tropenell family of Chal- 
 field were owners here, and their Pedigree mentions Thomas Ivy as Lord of Sherston in 1483, 
 [Hist, of Chalfield, 7]. In 1585—8 Sir Edward Seymour Lord Beauchamp and Earl of Hertford 
 was Lord of the Manor. A volume of Court Rolls of that period is amongst the Rawlinson MSS. 
 in the Bodl. Librar} T B. 440; Thomas Estcourt Esq., Simon Cothrington Gent., Thomas Gore, 
 Francklyn, Webb, and others were then Freeholders. 
 
 2 This is a mistake ; see note on “ Sherston Pinkeney,” infra. 
 
 If this is the “ Sorstain ” of Domesday Book, the Rectory at the conquest was attached to the 
 Foreign Priory of St. Wandragesil in Normandy. But for some time after A.D. 1299 the Rector 
 was nominated by the Crown: the Vicar by the Rector. In 1340 it belonged to the Despensers, 
 afterwards to the Beauchamps. The Rectorial Tithes of Sherston and Aldrington with the 
 appointment of Vicar were then given by Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, to the Abbot and 
 Convent of Tewkesbury. (The Abbot already possessed, in 1389, the rents of “Le Gore juxta 
 Sherston.) At the Dissolution, the Rectory was transferred to the Dean and Chapter of Glou¬ 
 cester : whose lessee generall} 7 nominated the Vicar of Sherston, and also allowed, by the terms 
 of his lease, £20 a year for a Curate to Aldrington Chapel. Some lands at “ Sceorstan,” Wilts, 
 were given by Editha, a Saxon Queen, relict of King Edward, to the support of the Canons of 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 109 
 
 The windowes here are lamentably spoiled. In a windowe of the South side is 
 left, in the limbe, thus: ©rate pro ata tint Hobcrtt —I suppose, Pinkeney— tirortS ft.... 
 
 On a tombe, in the Church Yard: “ Here lietli the body of Samuel Millard, 
 Clothier, who deceased the 27 th day of June, 1667. Hi tat. suae. 48.” 
 
 Here lieth one who left his art 
 (First having sought the better part) 
 Although he made both red and white, 
 Yet in his owne did not delight. 
 
 There are white robes of righteousnesse 
 His Saviour’s workes, this was his dresse; 
 
 And though his owne were ready made, 
 Yet none to those that will not fade; 
 
 Now Heav’n crownes him, where all labours 
 cease, 
 
 He long endured paine, but died in peace. 
 
 The Church liowse is in the street, a good howse. A liowse, q. if it be the 
 Church howse aforesaid, and land, of the value of six or ten pounds per annum was 
 given to the Church, and I think now like to be imbezelled. 
 
 SHERSTON PINKENEY. 
 
 Now in the parish of Sherston, but I think heretofore, in H. 7, a small Mannor 
 and parish. It belonged to the Priory of Kington St. Marie’s * 1 juxta Kington St. 
 
 St. Mary’s Church in Old Sarum. A pension of £6 13s. 4d. was paid out of Sherston Rectory to 
 the Cathedral of New Sarum, by the Abbot and Convent of Tewkesbury. 
 
 The church (Holy Cross) has Norman nave arches with good chevron mouldings. In the 
 chancel a three-light East window with shafts of Purbeck marble, and ornamented canopy. The 
 Tower is only about 150 years old, but rests on Early English arches, at the spring of which is a 
 curiously short shaft resting on a corbel head. There was once a spire. In the North aisle is 
 an arched monument to a Lady, c. 1350 : and a three-light Early window. In the North chancel 
 wall a “low side window” blocked up. The South chancel was added, c. 1460, and has square 
 headed windows. The Porch is handsomely groined, with bosses : over it a small chamber. A 
 fine yew tree and large lich-gate in the church yard: and in the Vicarage garden good remains 
 of a Perpendicular cross. 
 
 1 The Priory of St. Mary’s, Kington, had nothing in the parish, except one messuage in Little 
 Sherston, paying an assize rent of 13s. 4d. a year. In Little Sherston, temp. Hen. III., Sir John 
 Grey (of Easton Grey) held some lands by the petty serjeanty of being falconer to the King. 
 In the same reign, Ralph de Pinckeney, (whose name it retains,) held a Fee under the Barony of 
 Castle Combe. From 1279 to c. 1560 it belonged to the Giffards of Weston under Edge, 
 co. Gloucester, and afterwards of co. Hants. The Esturmy family were patrons about 1407, 
 after a suit. The Manor was afterwards the property of the Estcourt family, by one of whom 
 
AUBREY’S NORTH WILTS. 
 
 110 
 
 \_Sherston Magna. 
 
 Michael. It was given by . Pinkeney. v. the Legier-Book. Q. The coate of 
 
 Pinkeney ? 
 
 From Harl. MSS. “John T yvetot had one Knight’s fee with appurtenances in 
 Sherston Pynkeneye in Co. Wiltes which Thomas Giffard of Weston holds, at 
 6. 13. 4. a year.” 
 
 SLAUGHTENFORD. (Now Slaughtered). 
 
 That in this Parish was a great fight of old time, is the constant tradition of the 
 Inhabitants, and that a Danish King, or General of the Danes, was killed. The 
 farmer’s sonne, of Hall-farme, in the green, where now the quarres be, looking back 
 towards Slaughtenford, was shot through, or over, the walle of the Parke. * 1 * * * * * 
 
 Here is a prettie small Church, the most miserably handled that ever I saw, the 
 very barres are taken out of the windowes; here have been two good South 
 windowes, and the doores are gone and the paving, and it serves for any use, viz. 
 weavers. The font gone to make a trough. 
 
 the Mansion House was built. Over the porch is the shield of Estcourt impaling Corbet. By 
 marriage with Elizabeth, youngest sister and coheiress, ultimately sole heiress, of Thomas 
 Estcourt Esq., (who died 1704,) the estate passed to Richard Cresswell Esq. of Sidbury co. Salop, 
 to whose descendant W. H. Cresswell Esq. it now belongs. Lands at Sherston Pinkney, belonging 
 to Malmesbury Abbey, are described by name, in Cott. MSS. Faust. B. VIII. p. 256. 
 
 Sherston Pinkeney had formerly a Free Chapel of it’s own dedicated to St. John Baptist. The 
 building has been long destroyed: and the site seems to have been forgotten. In Philip and Mary 
 this chapel and certain rents belonging to the chapel-wardens were granted by the Crown to 
 Hedges (Q. Hodges.) The name of several incumbents, entitled Rectors, are preserved in the 
 Sarum Registry. All the presentations were made by the successive Lords of the Manor, except 
 that of the last Incumbent, Elizeus Roberts, who was nominated by the Crown in 1640. The 
 tithes of Pinkeney go to the Poor of Cirencester. 
 
 1 Slaughterford is a very small hamlet lying at an angle of the valley between Castle Combe 
 
 and Box : and about one mile from the Chippenham and Marshfield road. It is commanded by 
 
 Ford hill on the west, on the brow of which are some ancient earthworks : and at no great distance 
 
 are the very strong positions of Bury Camp, and the old Castle of Combe. It is also about mid¬ 
 
 way between Bury Camp and the Yatton-down, which is claimed by some topographers as 
 
 Ethandun, the scene of Alfred’s victor} 7 over the Danes. [See Wilts. Archseol. Mag. III. 80. 
 
 IV. 75 and 228.] 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Over the South door thus, [PI. x. No. 170] A bull’s head cabossed (Gore ). 1 
 One of the Bayliffes of Weavering-Mill was buried in the Church-yard, before the 
 Porch dore, under an Altar Monument, which is torne to pieces. There remains 
 this escutcheon: [No. 171 BayliffeJ. The Inscription may be yet found, but I 
 had no time to write it. 2 
 
 In the gravelly stream are excellent troutes. 
 
 SOPWORTH. 
 
 In the Church here is nothing of antiquity. 
 
 1 The Manor and Rectorial Tithe of Slaughterford were granted by King Stephen to the foreign 
 Nunnery of Martigny, and were afterwards transferred, in exchange, to Monkton Farley Priory. 
 The Monks had a Court House here and a mill. Farley being an Alien Priory its estates were 
 liable to confiscation [Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. IY. 275,] and during some interval of this kind 
 Slaughterford was held for the Prior and Convent by John Marreys, John Gore and Sir 
 Thomas Hungerford, in 1391 (15 Rich. II). Hence perhaps the crest of Gore over the South 
 door of the church mentioned by Aubrey. There may have been alteration in the building at 
 that time, but a church there had been long before. For in 29 Edw. I. (1300) it was found upon 
 enquiry by a Jury “that the Church of Slaughterford was not a mother Church nor several by 
 itself, but was a chapel annexed to the Church of Chippenham, which church, with its chapels 
 annexed, was given by Maud the Empress to Monkton Farley Priory.” [Abb. Plac. 243.] The 
 parish of Slaughterford was never connected with that of Chippenham : but the Prior being Rector 
 and patron of both churches may at one time have treated Slaughterford as a chapelry to the larger 
 church. Afterwards it was annexed to the adjoining church of Biddeston, of which the Trior 
 was also Rector and patron : and so it has continued to the present time. Slaughterford is not 
 mentioned in Sarum Registers till 1719, when Mr. Mountjoy (then of Biddeston) presented to it 
 and the two Biddestons together. They are now in the gift of Winchester College. After 
 remaining in ruins from Aubrey’s time the body of Slaughterford Church was rebuilt, and re¬ 
 opened in 1823. 
 
 At the Dissolution, the Estate and Manor were granted to Sir Edward Seymour (afterwards 
 the “Protector,”) from whom they descended to Wyndham Earl of Egremont. About 1840—8, 
 they were purchased by the late Joseph Neeld Esq. of Grittleton. [See Wilts Archaeol. Mag. III. 
 36, “ Allington.”] 
 
 George Fox the Quaker often tarried here. There is another place of the same name between 
 Naseby and Harborough co. Northampton, where King Charles’s troops were cut to pieces after 
 the battle of Naseby. 
 
 2 William Bayliffc was principal tenant here in 1640: and another resident was Dominicus 
 Matravers, the very old man mentioned above, p. 77. 
 
112 aubkey’s north wilts. \ Sopworth. 
 
 “ Here lies the body of John Shipway, Gent. Lord of the Mannour of Sopworth, who departed 
 this life the 29th of September 1652.” 
 
 “ Here lies the body of Alice Gore, wife of Thomas Gore, Gent. Lord of Sopworth, who whiles 
 she was living desired that she might bee upon her knees praying to God, dying, which being 
 graunted, she soe departed this life the 9th day of February, 1663.” 1 
 
 STANLEY ABBEY. (Near Chippenham.) 
 
 Qu. Who was the Founder of Stanleigh Abbey? I have been told it was Mawd 
 the Empress, and that one Anstey, or Ansted, was the last Abbot here, and one of 
 
 that name had lately £60. per annum out of it from Sir Edward Baynton, whose 
 land it now is. It is very rich land, and lies by the river’s side, but in a place in 
 
 1 Hugh de Mautravers was mesne tenant of five hides at “ Sopeworde ” under the Barony of 
 William de Ow in 1088; under Mautravers, in 1272 Robert de Pont de 1’Arche, and 1280 Wil¬ 
 liam de Valence. John Lord Mautravers in 1364 left his estates to his two grand-daughters: Joan 
 the wife of Sir John de Keynes, and Eleanor wife of John Fitzalan Lord Arundel. In 1450 
 Ralph Thorpe of Boscombe and Poulshot had property here: and in 1481 Thomas Selyman a 
 Manor. 
 
 The Tropenells of Chalfield also had in very ancient times an estate at Sopworth with the 
 Patronage of the Church. According to a somewhat confused account published in “Walker’s 
 History of Chalfield,” from an old MS. of that family, Sir Osbert Tropenell divided his estate 
 between two sons Sir James and Walter. Sir James’s two daughters Margaret and Lucy subdi¬ 
 vided his share, and Margaret who married Hugh Paruns, by deed A.D. 1260, gave her portion 
 at Sopworth to Monkton Farley Priory. Lucy married Leonard Mautravers (?) and their son 
 John “ who had the keeping of King Edward to his death,” also gave part of his lands to the same 
 Religious House. Walter Tropenell, brother of Sir James gave his portion to his daughter 
 Galiena, and she in 1206 [Wilts. Fines] had exchanged them for lands at Uffcot with Elias de 
 Turri, probably a Prior of Monkton Farley, as the Tropenell History says that Galiena’s share 
 also went to the Priory. The Prior had a Court-house, and 180 acres, with the Advowson to 
 which he presented continually to the Dissolution ; when all the estates of that monastery were 
 granted to Sir Edward Seymour. 
 
 In 1558 William Lord Wyndesore of Bradenham co. Bucks, who married the heiress of 
 William Sambourne of Berks bequeathed by will his Manor of Sopworth to his sixth son Walter 
 Windsore who married the daughter of Sir Geffrey Poole. In 1652 John Shipway was Lord of 
 the Manor (according to Aubrey’s inscription) and in 1663 Thomas Gore. He built the house 
 now used as the Rectory. His family were a branch of the Gores of Alderton ; descended from 
 Thomas younger son of Thomas Gore Esq. (who died 1532) and Elizabeth Keynell. The estate 
 and Advowson were purchased by the Duke of Beaufort’s family. The church is dedicated to 
 St. Mary : and the Registers begin 1697. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 113 
 
 the winter time altogether unpleasant. Here is now scarce left any vestigium of 
 Church or house. 1 
 
 Mem .Lechmore, of the Middle Temple, 2 has taken notes out of an old 
 
 Deed, of a Farme, or Estate that the Abbot of this Convent had assigned for his 
 Concubine, for her life, and to his children by her. M. Pury, of Gloucester, has the 
 very original Deed, quod vide. 
 
 1 The history of the Foundation of Stanley Abbey (of which hardly a trace is left, but which 
 stood within the bounds of Chippenham Parish, close to that of Bremhill,) was investigated by the 
 late Rev. W. L. Bowles, and his account is adopted by the Editors of the New Monasticon. [See 
 History of Bremhill, pp. 83. 123. Also Gent. Mag. 1823, p, 24.] 
 
 Lokes-well, in the Forest of Chippenham, had been given by Henry Duke of Normandy (after¬ 
 wards Henry II.), and his mother Maud the Empress, to one Drogo her Chamberlain. It was 
 afterwards transferred tc a House of Cistercians at Quarrer (now Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight) 
 founded A.D. 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, on condition that the Monks should 
 settle a House of the same Order at Lokeswell. This they did in 1151, by the name of Drown- 
 Font (Drogonis Fons), in allusion to the copious spring of fine water for which the spot is 
 celebrated. Three years afterwards the Brethren were removed to Stanley on receiving a fresh 
 grant of lands within the King’s Manor of Chippenham. The water of Lokes-well was made to 
 follow them by an underground channel. Stanley Abbey Church was consecrated A.D. 1270. 
 In order to distinguish it from other places of the same name, it was sometimes called “ Stanley 
 Imperatricis.” There is no list of Abbots in the Monasticon ; but a few names have been met 
 with in various authorities. Ralph: deposed 1204: of whom Mr. Bowles (p. 116—119) states 
 that he was deposed, “for attending a Convention ” in Ireland without leave: (“eo quod dnxerit 
 Conventum,” &c.) But that is not the meaning of the Latin words. His offence was that he had 
 carried over to, and founded in, Ireland, a Branch establishment of Monks, -without having first 
 obtaiued the usual licence from the Chapter. Other Abbots were, Thomas of Colestune 1205 : 
 Nicholas Mendom: William Chinnok, tenth Abbot, who died 1268. William, 1357. That a 
 member of the Anstie family was the last Abbot of Stanley, seems to be only one of John Aubrey’s 
 “ hear-says.” The last Abbot was probabty Thomas Morley, who, November 4th, 1537, was 
 consecrated in the chapel of Lambeth to be Suffragan Bishop of Marlborough; [Strype, Life of 
 Cranmer, p. 88;] and in 1540 was presented to the Vicarage of Bradford on Avon. The site of 
 the Abbey, and some lands, were then purchased by the Bayntons of Bromham. An engraving 
 of the Conventual Seal is given in “ Bowles’s History of Bremhill,” p. 83. The original Cartulary 
 is in Trinity College, Dublin. For a notice of the breaking into the Abbey and carrying off the 
 coffers of the Despensers, see “Wilts. Archacol. Mag. III. 249 : ” and for the adventure of Fulk, 
 Baron Fitzwarren taking refuge there, VI. 117: see also III. 34, 37. 
 
 * Nicholas, created by Geo. I. Baron Lechmere of Evesham, a celebrated Whig lawyer, died 
 1727. 
 
 Q 
 
114 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Stanley Abbey. 
 
 Mem. Old Mr. Ansted, natus 1588, told me lie was born in this Abbey. 1 
 Arms of Anstie [PI. x. No. 172] vis., 1 and 8. Anstie. 2. Baynton. 3. Dan- 
 deley. 4. Beauchamp. 5. Roche. 6. Delamere. 7. Wanton. 
 
 Henry Anstie,_d. of. .. Sir Edward Baynton,__Eliz. d. of Sir John 
 
 of Bromham, Esq. j 0 f Bromham, Knight. I Suliard of Suff. Kt. 
 
 M illiam Anstie_d. of ... Crew. Andrew Baynton__Phillippa, d. of 
 
 of Bromham, Esq. i 1 ... Brelite (Brulet). 
 
 William Anstie_Ann, d. and sole h. of 
 of Bromham, Esq. j Andrew Baynton, Esq. 
 
 John Anstie,_Katharine, d. of Sir Robt. Payne, 
 of Egham, Esq. I of Midlawe, in Huntingdonshire, Kt. 
 
 John Wheeler=Hannah Anstie, only child, 
 obiit s. p. now living. 1658. 
 
 SURRENDEN. (In Hullavington Parish.) 2 
 
 Before the Dissolution, in Henry the Seventh’s time, a mannor and little parish. 
 
 1 “ Old Mr. Ansted ” must have been the “ John Anstie of Egham ” mentioned in the Pedigree. 
 His father William married the daughter of Andrew Baynton buried in the South chapel of Chip¬ 
 penham church, [see above, p. 69.] William Anstie seems to have resided at the Abbey soon 
 after the Dissolution. The quarterings in the shield No. 172 are those used by the Bayntons. 
 In the Pedigree of that family printed in Sir R. C. Hoare’s “Downton,” p. 7, Anstie is miscalled 
 Annesley; and Dandeley, Dudley. 
 
 2 Surrenden, often called Surrendell, is a solitary House and Farm between Alderton and Hul¬ 
 lavington. The greater part of Hullavington parish is in Malmsbury Hundred, but Surrenden is 
 in the Hundred of Chippenham. In Hen. III. it was held under the Mortimer’s Fee by William 
 de Middlehope, and Sir John de Easton. In 1565 by John Hamlyn who built a house in 1580. 
 A person of this name was one of the Commissioners for valuing the estates of Lacock Abbey at 
 the Dissolution in 1535. William Hamlyn sold Surrenden to the Gores of Alderton, who in 1583 
 held it of the Queen as of her Manor of Dunley. From the Gores it passed (together with the 
 Alderton estate, see supra p. 51,) by descent to the Hedges and then to the Montagu family ; 
 from whom it was purchased about 50 years ago by the father of the late Rev. W. W. Burne, 
 Rector of Grittleton. In 1858 the Rector bequeathed it to his nephew and successor the Rev. T. B. 
 Lancaster. Part of the mansion house remains: but of the chapel mentioned by Aubrey there 
 is no trace. In Kent the name of Surrenden is a known corruption of the Anglo-Saxon 
 Swithraeding-dene. The late Anglo-Saxon scholar Mr. Kemble explains the termination den, as 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 115 
 
 The Church or Chapel remaines yet, but decayed. It is now in the parish of 
 Hullavington, and in the possession of Thomas Gore, Esq. in whose ancestor’s 
 hands it hath been for at least a century of yeares. Q. of him when and how it 
 came to them. 
 
 Before it came to them it was in the possession of the Hamlins: whose coat was 
 thus. [Eig. 173.] 
 
 TITHERINGTON KEILWAYS. (Or East Titherton.) 
 
 From Keilweyes it came to the Longs of Dracot, by-. Arms of Keilways. 
 
 [PI. x. No. 174.] 
 
 Mem. Both these Titheringtons exceeding rich soile. 2 
 
 cubile ferarum, a haunt of wild animals, but chiefly swine. He suggests that the many dens in 
 England, if successively traced on the map would indicate the lines of uncleared forest which 
 surrounded the earliest marks, or family settlements. The mark-men had common rights in the 
 dens. Bra-den (broad-den) was one of them. In a field east of Surrenden house is a large 
 solitary stone half buried in the ground, apparently the remains of a cromlech. 
 
 1 Titherington is the name of three contiguous hamlets near Chippenham, which in remote 
 times probably formed one estate. Titherington Keylways (more generally known by its second 
 name only) was severed from the rest by the Family of Keylway. They had already been owners 
 for three generations in 1226 (2 Hen. Ill); how much earlier is uncertain. The name of Elias de 
 Keyhvay, among others, is of frequent occurrence in North Wilts charters. They continued owners, 
 and patrons of the Advowson till about 1424: after which date the name disappears here, but is 
 found at Whiteparish in South Wilts, in Dorsetshire and Hants. The Keyhvay Pedigree in 
 “ Wilts. Visit.” 1565 and 1623, does not appear to include any of the Christian names found in 
 connection with this parish. 
 
 The next owner was Robert Russell, a merchant of Bristol; perhaps the person of that name 
 who was buried in Bremhill Church: [p. 61.] Then follows as patron, and probably owner, 
 John Bagot. About A.D. 1500, the Manor and Advowson were purchased by Sir Thomas Long 
 of Draycote and Wraxhall. By will, 1508, he bequeathed the Manor to his younger son William 
 and his heirs; and two other younger sons successively ; remainder to his eldest son. In 1519 it 
 had returned to the eldest son Sir Henry Long, who held it, under the Barony of Castle Combe. 
 He presented to the living in 1526. After the severance of the Wraxhall and Draycote estates 
 in 1610, Keylways appears to have gone with the former, for in 1650, after it had been seques¬ 
 tered by the Parliament on account of Thomas and Robert Long having been delinquents inarms, 
 and had been granted to Vincent Smith, John Long Esq. of Wraxhall, petitioned to have it 
 restored as his inheritance. [State Taper Office.'] In 1658 the Manorial rights and Advowson 
 
 Q 2 
 
116 
 
 [ West Titherton. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 TITHERINGTON LUCAS. (Or West Titherton.) 
 
 It hath been a good while in the possession of Stokes and Barrett, in partition. 
 Arms of Stokes & Barrett [PI. x. No. 175. 176.] 
 
 The Church here is a Chapell of ease to Chippenham. In it I find nothing of 
 antiquity. Here are found stones like hafts of Knives, dimly transparent, having 
 a seame on one side: they are found in cases: they are called Belemnites. 1 
 
 belonged to Walter Long of Bristol (uncle to Hope Long of Wraxhall) and Barbara his wife. 
 In 1844 they were sold by Walter Long Esq. of Rood Ashton to the late Rev. Robert Ashe of 
 Langley Burrell, and in the following year to the late Joseph Neeld Esq. of Grittleton. 
 
 Kellaways House and Farm (122 acres,) of which about 54 are in Bremhill parish, belonged in 
 1737 to Sir John Eyles of South Broom House. In 1740 it was sold to Mr. Paggen Hale. In 
 1797 William Hale of Locksley’s, Herts, son'and heir of William Hale formerly of King’s Walden, 
 Herts, (owner also of Easton Piers) sold it to Mr. Thomas Crook of Headington near Caine. In 
 1834 it was again sold, to the present owner William Stancombe Esq. 
 
 The-name adhering to this parish from an ancient family has obtained an established place in 
 the nomenclature of Geology. A peculiar oolitic limestone is quarried here called the “ Kelloway’s 
 Rock,” containing characteristic fossils of which a list (now requiring some alteration) is given 
 in “Conybeare and Phillips,” p. 194: also in “Phillips’s Geology of Yorkshire.” The deceptive 
 appearance of a bituminous shale in the Oxford clay above this rock has led to sundry useless 
 trials for coal in the neighbourhood of Titherington. 
 
 The original church (St. Giles) is called in the Diocesan Register, the chantry chapel of 
 Kejdways, until 1450. It is not unlikely that the family of that name built and endowed it, and 
 that it afterwards became a parish church. It was destroyed before 1760: and has since been 
 rebuilt in a different situation, but in very poor style. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Brindley, Rector 1785—1819, left a guinea a year for a Sermon to be preached 
 against cruelty to animals. The Glebe of this Rectory lies at Melksham. 
 
 1 This is perhaps the Titherington at which Two Hides of land were held at the Norman 
 Survey by “ Borel,” who also held the neighbouring Manor of Langley (see p. 96). But the 
 second name is derived from a family of Lucas who were owners of one Knights’ fee in 1202, held 
 under the Barons Tregoz of Ewyas Castle, Herefordshire : afterwards under Edward Nevil Earl 
 of Bergavenny. In 1316 the owners were William Percehay, John Turpyn (whose demesne had 
 formerly been Malory’s) and Walter Scudamore, whose family were purchasers in Wilts from the 
 Barons Ewyas, at Upton Scudamore. [ Hoare’s Westb>ir>/.~\ In 1352 Sir John Delamere (then 
 of Langley and Leigh) had lands here. Bradenstoke Abbey had some portion of one of the 
 Titheringtons, which was granted at the Dissolution to Mr. H. Goldney. 
 
 There is a pedigree of the Barretts in the “ Wiltshire Visit.” 1565 and 1623. William Barrett, 
 the Historian of Bristol, born 1735, belonged to a family of or near Chippenham. On a garden 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 117 
 
 WRAXHALL (NORTH). 
 
 This was formerly a Commandery. 
 
 In the Church, North Aisle. East windowe, is the picture of a man, [No. 177] the 
 head and shoulders mailed. He weares or beares a coate of armes, as also a scutcheon, 
 which is Ermine 2 barres G. [No. 178]. 3 He hath a loose flying' coate comes below 
 his knee, his legges are mailed and lieeles spurred; in his hand he holds a kind of 
 staffe, like a pilgrim’s, as high as his eare. Underneath his feet lies a lady all along. 
 
 Qncere the habit of a Kt. Templar, and what kind of flying coate it is that comes 
 downe belowe the knees. There was, no doubt, some story of Kt. Errantry did 
 belong to this picture. 
 
 Mem. The Knight’s garment under his coate of Maile, is white, and it is so 
 likewise in the Knight’s picture at Langley Burell. * 1 * ’ 
 
 In this Aisle is also the battered monument, in freestone, of a crossed-legged Kt. 
 with a shield by his side, but sans charge. The inhabitants say it is the Monument 
 of Sir Geoffrey of Wraxhall, of whose name here is frequent mention. 1 
 
 a Mr. Wythie’a Ordinary of Arms gives this coat under the names of Sir Walter Bavant, Nugent, Baron of Delvyn 
 in Ireland, and Boteler of Gloucestershire. Parson Wilkinson’s Booke. 
 
 b I should have left the coat alone. Let this picture, and that at Langley, be copied more exactly for the habitt’s 
 sake. 
 
 wall at the old Manor house the shield of Barrett is still to be seen : and on a tablet in the church, 
 “Hugh Barrett. 1627. act. 85.” Over the house door is a handsome stone shield, date 1702, 
 Andrews, On a bend raguly cotised three mullets, impaling Townsend, A chevron ermine between 
 three escallop shells. 
 
 Of the Stokes family there are inscriptions in the church. For Edward Stokes, author of the 
 “Wiltshire Rant,” see “ Langley Burell supra p. 99. In later times the owners have been the 
 Crookes, and H. G. G. Ludlow Esq. of Heywood. 
 
 The church (St. Nicholas) and tithes of the parish were given by the Empress Maud to Monkton 
 Farley Priory A.D. 1150. About 1272 they were annexed to the Vicarage of Chippenham. 
 [Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. III. 44.] The church was rebuilt in 1805 out of the old materials, the 
 windows and style of architecture being preserved. 
 
 1 North Wraxhall parish is traversed by the Roman road called the Foss. At the North 
 
 Eastern extremity of the parish where a glen divides it from Castle Combe, were discovered in 
 
 1859 the extensive remains of a Roman Villa, measuring about 130 feet by 33, and containing 
 more than sixteen separate rooms, and passages, &c., with walls and outbuildings extending over 
 
118 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. [North Wraxhall. 
 
 In the windowes at the Parsonage House are a great many Scallop-shells Or, and 
 I think I remember Malette’s coate there, [No. 179]. They say Malette had it, or 
 something to doe here, heretofore. The Mannonr House hath been ruined a long 
 tune; there remain yet the ruins of a pigeon house. 
 
 Mem. In the Church here Sir Win. Button, Kt. & Baronet—the father—built, 
 165—, a vault in the N. Aisle, where he and his sonne Sir Wm., and his Lady, lye 
 buried. 1 There is no Monument set up for them, but the pennons, which are now 
 
 two or three acres. This was in a field commonly called “ The Coffin Ground,” belonging to 
 Lord Methuen. An account of these remains, by G. Poulett Scrope Esq., is printed in the 
 “ Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. YII. 59.” 
 
 The name of the parish is spelled in Domesday Book “ Werocheshalle;” in other ancient 
 records “ Wrockeshale.” A “ Commandry ” or “ Preceptory ” was the title given to any messuage 
 and lands that belonged to the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem : the governor of the House being 
 called the “ Commander.” Aubrey’s authority for saying that there was one here is not known. 
 
 The shield No. 178 is that of Wroxhall of Wroxhall co. Dorset: and probably also of the family 
 who appear to have been owners here from the conquest to c. 1340. The name of Sir Godfrey de 
 Wrokeshale often occurs in Wiltshire deeds. He was in 1266 a partizan of John Lord Giffard of 
 Brimsfield at the battle of Evesham. [Finest There was a chantry chapel here dedicated to St. 
 Mary (or All Saints,) probably founded by one of this family. 
 
 It is not easy to make out what the figure No. 177 is meant to represent. That Aubrey 
 intended to correct his drawing is shown by his marginal note above, “ I should have left the 
 coate alone, &c.: ” meaning perhaps that the surcoat should have been left plain, and not drawn as 
 mail armour. From the staff, and rowelled spurs, which are unusual, it is perhaps a Knight 
 Templar, (see the engraving of one in Dugd. Monast.); but if so, the staff ought to be surmounted 
 by a Maltese Cross. Over their dress also, the Templars generally wore a mantle : but portraiture 
 of this Order is rare. 
 
 It is doubtful whether the figure of the lady appearing to be under his feet was on the glass. 
 There is still in the Church, now under the stove, the “ battered” stone effigy of the “ crossed-legged 
 Knight, Sir Geoffrey,” and b) r his side that of a lady recumbent. Aubrey may have hastily 
 sketched the latter upon the same piece of paper on which he had drawn the Knight “ Templar ” 
 from the window : and writing afterwards from memory he may have fancied that his sketch of 
 the lady was also taken from the glass. 
 
 1 After the family of Wroxhalls mentioned in the last note, who appear for the last time in 
 1351, Ralph de Brokenborough was lord of the manor and patron of the church and a chantry 
 within it, to which he presented in 1361. In 1390 these belonged to the Cervingtons of 
 Longford. [Hoare’s Caicden, 27.] Edward son of David Cervington sold the Manor and Advowson 
 to Thomas Yonge, M.P., Recorder of Bristol, and afterwards Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. In 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 119 
 
 dropping; and though nothing of antiquity, yet for pitie, and for they were my very 
 worthy friends, I will here sett them downe, viz. 
 
 1st. [No. 180] Crest. A Ducal cap. For Sir William Button. 
 
 [181] Arms. 1. Button/ 2. [Burnell]. 3. [Bryan]. 4. [Flud?] 5. [Carter]. 
 6. [Furneaux]. 
 
 2nd. [182] 1. and 4. Dunch of Avebury. 2. [Barnes]. 3. [Pilkington]. 
 
 3rd. [183] Button as before, Impaling Lambe of Coulston. 
 
 4th. [184] Ditto ditto Dunch, as before. 
 
 5th. [185] Ditto ditto Rolle of (Stevenston Co. Devon). 
 
 6th. [186] Rolle as before, ditto Dennys. 
 
 Mem. The improvement by Sanfoin was brought into this parish with good 
 returns about the year 1650 by Nicholas Hall of Dundry Co. Somerset. 
 
 1 This coate of Button is in the North side of Welles Cath. Ch. in a windowe, towards the Chapter-house, twice. 1 
 
 1453 this Lawyer was committed to the Tower for moving in the House of Commons that incase 
 of issue failing to Henry VI., the Duke of York should succeed. He died 1477. \_Sandford 
 Geneal. Hist. 336.] Of this family were the Yonges of Colleton, co. Devon. \_Ext. Barts.~\ Chief 
 Justice Yonge had a son Thomas. In 1506 the Manor and Advowson belonged to William 
 Malet Esq. of Enrnore co. Somerset in right of his wife Alice daughter and heir of Thomas Yonge. 
 (For pedigree of Malet see Iloare’s Amesbury, p. 106). Hugh their son was owner 1525 : and 
 Thomas son of Richard Malet 1569. There was a Rector, Thomas Malet. Hence the arms in 
 the old parsonage windows. The present one was built by Rev. Michael Wyatt who died 1830. 
 
 There had been some division of the original manor so early as 1406, as in that year Edmund 
 Ford of Swainswick, near Bath, (whose brass, 1439, is in that Church. Collinson’s Som: i. 155) 
 had one third part of it, and presented, apparently in turn, to the Rectory and Chantry. This 
 portion came to the Blounts of Bitton and Mangotsfield. Their heiress married Sir John Hussey 
 (afterwards Lord Hussey of Sleaford co. Lincoln, beheaded 1536), from whom their lands here, 
 and the advowson, were purchased in 1530 by William Button of Alton Priors. In 1667 his 
 descendant Sir Robert Button, Bart., of Tockenham Court in Lyneham (which see), sold the 
 manor and all his property here (the advowson excepted) to William Grove of Broadchalk, co. 
 Wilts, who in 1682 sold it to Mr. James Wallis, from whom it descended to the Methuen family 
 the present owners. The Advowson passed by the heiress of the Button family to Mr. Walker, 
 and thence to G. H. W. Heneage Esq. of Compton Basset. It now belongs to Oriel College 
 Oxford. In the “ Wilts Institutions ” many of the entries under the name of “ Wraxhall ” relate 
 to Wraxhall cum Chilfrome, co. Dorset. 
 
 1 There were two of this family Bishops of Bath and Wells. William Bitton, or Button 1247 
 —1264: and William 1266—1274. The name of Bitton, changed by usual Wiltshire pronun¬ 
 ciation into Button, seems to have been adopted from the parish of Bitton between Bath and 
 
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 [North Wraxhall. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 FORD. * 1 (In North Wraxhall Parish.) 
 
 [Aubrey here gives, (probably from his own store, as he was sometime owner of 
 Duncombe Mill near Ford), a Latin Deed dated 25. Edw. I. (1296) by which Wil¬ 
 liam Ivy de la Ford conveys a house there near the More to John Coule. Witnessed 
 by Sir Godfrey de Wrokeshale, Kt., John Keynel, William Fitz Godfrey of Littleton 
 (Drew) Clerk, and others. See Appendix No. iv.] 
 
 On the Seal a quater-foil. The inscription IL T (!H. [PI. xi. 
 
 No. 187.] 
 
 YATTON KEYNELL. 2 
 
 In the partition, between the Church and Chancell, which is of very curious 
 gothique worke in freestone, are these escutcheons. 
 
 Bristol. The arms of this family are the same as those of D’amnevile, ancient owners both of 
 that manor and of Mangotsfield. 
 
 In the Vault under the North Aisle in North Wraxhall Church are these interments. ‘‘ Sir 
 William Button Bart. (Senior), died January 28 1654.” “Sir William Button Bart, (the son) 
 died 8th March 1659,” and “Dame Anne Button (Rolle) wife of Sir William died 4th February 
 1665.” It also contains the remains of “Ezekiel Wallis Esq. of Lucknam, died 31st Dec. 1735 
 aet. 43,” and of “ his wife Cecilia (Selfe) who remarried John Coxed L.L.D. and died 28th January 
 1760 aet. 62.” The rest are members of the Methuen family, by whom the Vault is now used. 
 
 1 With respect to the meaning of the word Ford, the Rev. W. Barnes (Notes on Anc. Britons, 
 p. 44) says that it is a British word, used by them to signify a road or passage, whether over a 
 stream or on dry land: but that the Anglo Saxons when they adopted it, limited it to a road 
 through water. The Scandinavian word Fiord does not mean a passage or way at all. 
 
 “ Mount Sylla,” as the hill above Ford is called, is possibly a corruption of “ Hons Elios,” from 
 some Danish chieftain. In the Chronicles this Latin name occurs for other hills in Wilts. See 
 
 “ WHOUGHTON.” 
 
 - The true name of this parish is Eaton : Kaynel being that of a family to whom it anciently 
 belonged. The inhabitants commonly call it Yatton: except when they wish to distinguish the 
 main village from a hamlet within it called West Yatton: and then they recur to the original 
 word, calling the former, Church Eaton. 
 
 In 1316, Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel and Henry de Lancaster, and in 1330 Edmund, Earl of 
 Kent, were chief Lords of the manor. The Kaynels are found in adjoining parishes in temp. 
 Hen. III., and in 1318 the name of William Kaynel first appears as patron of this rectory. In 
 1473 Richard Kaynel married Edith daughter of Thomas Hall of Bradford; and their grand- 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
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 1. Keynell [No. 188]. 2. Yevelton, I guess. [No. 189]. 
 
 3. Chaderton [No. 190]. 4. Two lions, or griffins, defaced. \_The former; 
 
 for Delamere, No. 191. Ed.~\ 
 
 In the East windowe of the South Aisle, is the coate of Hall. [No. 192]. 
 
 On a pillar, on a stone scutcheon is Keynell (as before). On the other side, in 
 a stone escutcheon, Gore [No. 193], and two other scutcheons scraped out. 
 
 I have heard my grandfather say that when he went to school in this Church, in 
 the S. windowe of the Chancell, were several escutcheons, which a herald, that 
 passed by, tooke note of, which window is now dammed up with stones, and now 
 no memorie left of them. * 1 
 
 The pulpit is of stone, the most curious carving in our country. 2 
 
 On the first Bell this Inscription : 
 
 mmxms 
 
 daughter Elizabeth Kaynel an heiress brought a moiety of the manor, and 590 acres here and 
 elsewhere, in marriage to Thomas Gore of Alderton, who died 1532 (ancestor of the Heraldic 
 country gentleman of that name.) This moiety and the Advowson were sold by Richard Gore 
 their grandson to the Snells of Kington St. Michael, (in whose pedigree is an intermarriage with 
 Kaynel of Biddeston,) in 1557. One moiety of the manor of Yatton was held, 1587, under the 
 Lordship of the Hundred of Chippenham. Sir Charles Snell sold it c. 1623. [Wilts. Mag. IY. 
 45.] The Yeoviltons whose arms are on the stone screen were, temp. Edw. III. owners of Easton 
 Piers in the next parish : as well as of lands here. [Wilts. Mag. IV. 75.] 
 
 Two Rectors of this parish, George Child, 1661, and his son Williamson Child were very near 
 of kin (the former is believed to have been uncle) to Sir Francis Child, Lord Mayor of London, 
 the founder of the first Bank, in Fleet Street. Aubrey mentions this in Nat. Hist, of Wilts. 70. 
 The name is still found in the adjoining parish of Castle Combe. 
 
 1 In his “ Nat. Hist, of Wilts.” p. 79, Aubrey mentions that he “ entered into his Grammar at 
 the Latin School at Yatton Keynel, in the Church where the Curate, Mr. Hart, taught the eldest 
 boys, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, &c.” Then follows a curious account of the way in which the old 
 Missals of Malmesbury Abbey were destroyed by being used for book-covers, &c. The then 
 Rector of Yatton was Mr. William Stump, great grandson of the wealthy clothier who had 
 purchased the Abbey at the Dissolution. At page 81 of the same work, Aubrey also gives the 
 strange adventures in Guiana of Capt. Thomas Stumpe, one of the Rector’s sons. 
 
 2 This pulpit has disappeared. The beautiful stone screen remains, and is in a state of fair 
 preservation. 
 
 R 
 
122 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Yatton Keynell. 
 
 Mem. Here were of the Lovells living in my grandfather Lyte’s dayes: their 
 house was the handsome old built bowse near Penny Pool. Q. Lovell’s coat. 1 
 
 The soil clay and stoney. Here is a Tile quarry. In the ploughed lands store 
 of yarrowe, and in the feeding grounds plenty of wood-wax, and in several grounds, 
 centaury and wood sorrell, &c. sowre plants. Lady’s bedstrawe. 2 
 
 YATTON KEYNES. 
 
 Commonly called West Yatton, is in this parish. At East Combe are of the 
 names of Keynes still. I have a release of Thomas Keynes the sonne of William 
 Keynes of Yatton Keynell, to his brother Henry Keynes, of all his estate in the 
 parish of Yatton Keynell. Hat. Anno Reg. Philipp, et Marie, Dei gracia &c. primo 
 et secundo. The witnesses names writt by the scribes, not by themselves. 3 
 
 1 There is a pond in the village, commonly called Halfpenny Pool: near which, in the recollection 
 of old persons living, stood about 50 years ago, a house of good qualit} r , of Elizabethan style, 
 with a private chapel attached to it, having niches for Saints, &c. Aubrey alludes to it in “Nat. 
 Hist, of Wilts.” p. 41. 
 
 2 The particular quarry meant is probably the very large one at Giddy Hall, of the Forest 
 marble grit, yielding great flagstones. Speaking of these “sowre plants” in “Nat. Hist, of 
 Wilts.” p. 105, he observes, “Yet the cheese made at Broomfield in this parish was the best in 
 the neighbourhood.” 
 
 3 This belonged to the family of Keynes, of Somerford Keynes, Ashton Keynes, and Dorsetshire. 
 There was a conveyance of lands to Roger de Keynes from Bartholomew Yeovilton and Ralph 
 Cromhale, lords in chief of lands in Yatton in 1336: and the Deed mentioned in the text shows 
 his descendants here in c. 1555. 
 
 The Abbot of Stanley also had an estate in both Yatton Major and Yatton Keynes, charged 
 with maintenance of a chantry at Highworth. Being held with another of his farms, at Yewridge 
 in Colerne, (about three miles off), the two are described in the Yalor as “Euridgecum Yatton.” 
 The traces of this connection are not altogether lost: as some years ago the occupiers of Yewridge 
 used to assert a right of sporting over West Yatton. The Abbot of Stanley presented several 
 times to Yatton Kaynell Rectory: but his right was disputed by the Kavnells, and seems to have 
 been alternately lost and won. 
 
 In 1640 Thomas Wilde a Bristol merchant was principal land owner. He is mentioned by 
 Aubrev [Nat. Hist, of Wilts.] as having built in 1635 at Long-dean in this parish (purchased 
 from the Tropenells) a paper mill, the trough of which was made out of a single oak from Langley 
 Burrell. On a tablet to the Wilde family over the door of the church inside are the arms, Sable 
 a chevron engrailed Or., but this shield is imperfect. 
 
CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
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 Mem. Keynes, of Dorset and Somerset [No. 194]. Another Keynes [No. 195]. 
 
 Mem. Almost at the lower end of the Conigere (Rabbit warren) was the mines of 
 a Chapell, till about 165... I think there was a Hermitage by it, but a pleasanter 
 romancy place I know not easily where to find. 1 Yatton Revell is at St. James’s 
 tide. 2 
 
 Note. A tenant of my father’s here, one goodwife Miller, did dentire, i.e. had 
 young teeth, in the eighty-fifth year of her age, or more; this was about 1644. 
 The like is recorded of the old Countess of Desmond in Ireland, who lived to the 
 age of ... yeares. V. that hist. 
 
 1 West Yatton commands a fine view over Ford valley, Castle Combe, Colerne, &c. Near the 
 principal farm bouse, now the property of Mr. Poulett Scrope, is a small building with a curious 
 merchant’s mark upon it. Not far from here is the ground formerly called Yatton Down, but 
 now enclosed; where Whitaker and others place the battle of Ethandun. [See Wilts. Archaeol. 
 Mag. Vol. IV and V.] 
 
 2 July 25. N.S. The chapel was probably dedicated to St. James: Yatton Keynell revel is at 
 St. Margaret’s tide, 20 July, the parish church being of that Dedication. 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED 
 
 Viz: CHRISTMALFORD, GRITTLETON, KINGTON ST. MICHAEL, 
 
 NETTLETON. 
 
 jjJJEM: that all the Lands that belonged to the Abbey of Glaston, in this 
 Countie, were within the Hund: of Damerliam, which for convenience 
 sake is divided into Two parts, viz. Damerliam South and North. 1 
 
 [Appendix No. V. A.D. 1319. Edmund Gascelyn of Sheldon, as Lord of the Hundred of 
 Chippenham, quit claims to the Abbot of Glastonbury, all his jurisdiction in the Four Parishes above- 
 
 named. 
 
 “To all &c, Edmund Gascelyn Lord of the Hundred of Chippenham, greeting. Know, &c., 
 that I have quit-claimed for myself and my heirs for ever to Godfrey by the Grace of God Lord 
 Abbot of Glastonbury and to the Convent there, all summonses, attachments, distraints, and 
 executions of all briefs, precepts and mandates, of our Lord the King, his Justices, Sheriffs and all 
 other his officers, in Kington St. Michael, Christemalforde, Gritelington and Netelingtone, and 
 
 1 This Hundred takes its name, not from any place in North Wilts, but from one at the very 
 Southernmost extremity of the County : viz., Damerliam (properly Domerham) 11 miles below 
 Salisbury, on the borders of Hants and Dorset. The origin of Broken—and still more, of what 
 are called “Ragged ’’-Hundreds is very obscure : but that of North Damerham appears to admit 
 of explanation. The Four Townships, Christmalford, Grittleton, Kington St. Michael, and 
 Nettleton, were originally reckoned, the first in the Hundred of Sterkeley (which see), the three 
 others in the Hundred of Chippenham. The Lordship of the Hundred of Sterkeley belonged to 
 the Abbot of Malmesbury : that of Chippenham to the Gascelyn family. The Abbot of Glaston¬ 
 bury, being chief landowner in the Four parishes above-named, arranged for their severance from 
 the old Hundreds to which they had belonged and formed them into one of his own. The Deed by 
 which he obtained this concession from the Gascelj’ns is the one preserved by Aubrey in the Text, 
 Appendix No. Y. But the Abbot was also principal landowner of a large territory in the lowest 
 part of the County including the abovementioned township of Damerham. And upon that 
 Township he fixed as the place for the return of all Writs. This is specially stated in the 
 Glastonbury Terrar. “ The Bailiff of Domerham shall receive the return of all Writs touching 
 the Liberty of the Abbot of Glastonbury throughout all Wiltshire, and for the same shall answer 
 before the Justices, Sheriff, &c. The Bailiff of Kington, Nettleton, Grittleton and Christmalford, 
 
DAMERIIAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
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 all lands and fees thereto belonging in Wiltshire: witnessed by Henry Spigurnell, * 1 Richard de 
 Rodney, John de Bousser, Knights, &c. Dated at Glastonbury, Monday after Feast of Purification 
 13 Edw. II.”] 
 
 CHRISTMALFORD. 2 
 
 In the Church nothing' of antiquity left but some stalles yet left about the 
 Chancel. 
 
 To the Parsonage belongs a little Mannour in this Village. 
 
 Here is, in the green, a very faire Church-howse, where at Midsummer is a famous 
 Revell. 
 
 and other his bailiffs, shall be to him attending and answering.” One Bailiffbeing thus supreme, 
 and the whole district being under one jurisdiction, the whole was included under one and the same 
 name : being naturally divided, by the distance, into North and South Domerham. From the name 
 of the Abbot mentioned in the above Deed, Godfrey (Fromont), this formation of the Hundred of 
 Damerham North appears to have taken place between A.D. 1303—22. 
 
 The “ Glastonbury Terrar ” alluded to, is a fine Register of that Abbey’s estates, containing 
 minute particulars of the lands, names of tenants, boundaries and quantities, in the time of Abbot 
 Beere, 9 Hen. VIII. (1517—18.) It forms Ilarl. MS. No. 3961. 
 
 1 Of Dagnall, co. Bucks. Jacob [Law Dictionary] explaining the meaning, of “ Spigurnel,” the 
 standing official name of the Sealer of the King’s Writs in Chancery, mentions the opinion of some, 
 that it was originally a family name: and that Godfrey Spigurnel, being by King Hen. III. 
 appointed to be Sealer of his Writs, was the first in that office ; and therefore in after times the 
 persons that enjoyed the office were all called “ Spigurnels.” 
 
 2 This name is now commonly written Christian Malford; the second name being pronounced 
 with the accent on the syllable Mai. In its present shape, it admits of no meaning, and sets at 
 nought all the rules that govern the composition of our English local names. It is evidently a 
 corruption : and the old and proper name was “ Christmal Ford.” In Anglo Saxon, moel, or mal, 
 is, a mark, or sign: and “Christ’s mal” is Christ’s mark, or sign, the cross. In the account of 
 the Foundation of an Abbey in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 657, the attestation runs thus: 
 “ I King Wulphere have subscribed it, with my finger on Christ's mal.” “ I, the Archbishop &c., 
 grant it, with “ Christ's mali.e. making therewith the mark of a cross: the substitute used 
 in those days, and not unfrequently in our own, for more accomplished performance in the Art of 
 Writing. There are also a few instances of the word used as the name of a locality. In the 
 Codex Diplomaticus, Charter 118, a well known boundary Tree is called “The Christmal Oak.” 
 The name of this Parish therefore means “ Cross Ford: ” and in the village there still happen to 
 be the remains of a stone Cross. This explanation of the name, which has been confirmed by 
 
126 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. \_Christmalford. 
 
 Deeds from Glaston Abbey Cartulary relating to Cliristmalford Manor. 
 
 [Appendix. No. vi.—A.D. 940. Grant of Christmalford by King Edmund to St. Dunstan Abbot 
 of Glastonbury. The original is printed in New Monasticon I. p. 51. 
 
 “We are instructed by a Great Preacher in the Holy Scriptures” (2. Cor. iv. 18) “that ‘the 
 things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.’ Those there¬ 
 fore who possess an abundance of the good things of life, are charged by the Holy Word in this 
 text, not to set their hearts on the passing wealth of this world, but to fix them on spiritual things 
 and press forward to the Kingdom of Heaven. Wherefore, I Edmund by Divine Favour King 
 of the English and Ruler of many tribes have given to my faithful follower Saint Dunstan the 
 Abbot, Twenty Manses at a place by Avon, which the common people, by a laudable custom and with 
 
 reference to good Saxon scholars, is still further supported by the words in the Deed of A.D. 940 
 (Appendix No. VI,) thus rendered above into English. “ A place by Avon which the common 
 people, by a laudable custom, and with a noble allusion, call Christemal-ford.” 
 
 Christmal-ford belonged to Glastonbury Abbey for about 600 years. Soon after the Dissolution, 
 the principal landowner was Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. In 1575 Sir John Danvers 
 of Dauntesey purchased the Manor. There was a partition of it between his sons, but by the 
 marriage of his great grand-daughter Ann, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, 
 it ultimately came to Thomas, 5th Earl of Wharton. His son Philip Duke of Wharton is said 
 to have lost it at the gaming table. The next owner was Thomas Boucher Esq. in 1733, by 
 whom it was sold to Mr. Herbert, and hence passed to the Earl of Caernarvon, now the chief 
 proprietor. 
 
 Among other ancient owners of portions of the parish were the Hungerfords of Cadenham, 
 1578 to c. 1733. Walter Long Esq. 1584. George Worth 1611, Seymour, Hinton, and Ody. 
 “St. John’s Mill,” near Highbridge, Aubrey supposed to have belonged to Bradenstoke Priory. 
 [See “Cadenham.”] 
 
 The Rectory was originally in the gift of the Abbot of Glaston but became severed from the 
 Manor in this way. When Richard I was taken prisoner on his return from the Holy Land at 
 the instigation of Henry IV then Emperor of Germany, one of the conditions of his release was 
 that Savaric, a relative of the Emperor’s, should be appointed Bishop of Bath and Wells with 
 the Abbacy of Glastonbury annexed. This violent proceeding (A.D. 1199) produced great confusion 
 amongst the Monks. A partition of Estates took place, and Christmalford manor and advowson 
 (inter alia) were assigned to the Bishoprick. Subsequently, A.D. 1223, the manor was restored 
 to Glastonbury, but the advowson remained with the See of Bath and Wells: and so continued 
 until a late Order in Council transferred it for the future to the Diocesan, the Bishop of Glou¬ 
 cester and Bristol. 
 
 The “ fair church-house ” alluded to, after being long occupied as a Poor-House, has been taken 
 down. The village Revel was not held at that house. The Parish Register does not go farther 
 back than 1653: the earlier volumes having been burned when the Curate’s lodging was fired by 
 lightning in 1693. By the “ little manor of the Parsonage ” is meant the Rectory Glebe. There 
 was never any collegiate church here: and the wooden stalls have disappeared. 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 127 
 
 a noble allusion, call “ Christemal-forde ” to hold and enjoy the same for ever, &c. If any one by 
 fraud shall attempt to defeat this our gift, let him reflect that he shall give account before the 
 Tribunal of God at the day of Judgment, and be condemned to punishment with the reprobate 
 whose sentence will be ‘ Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.’ (Then follow the 
 Boundaries). 
 
 Signed by King Edmund, Ethelred his Brother, Wufhelm Archb. of Canterbury, and many 
 others.” 
 
 Appendix No. vii.—A.D. 1287. The Abbot of Malmsbury to the Abbot of Glastonbury. 
 
 “That in virtue of his Warrant, he has put the Prior of Bradenstoke into possession of the 
 Service of the Abbot of Glastonbury’s men, at the Prior’s Mill of Christmalford. Dated at 
 Malmsbury on the Morrow of St. Ambrose.” 
 
 Appendix No. viii.— Feudage of the Prior of Bradenstoke. 
 
 “Be it remembered that 9 April 1287, Prior W. of Bradenstoke, (having very often taken 
 upon himself to refuse, considering it to be not justly due from him) hath paid Feudage according 
 to the custom of the country, to the Rev. Father, John, Abbot of Glastonbury, in the presence 
 of Master J. Chancellour specially deputed by the Abbot for this purpose, for the Mill Mead near 
 the Mill of Christemalforde. In the presence of W. Abbot of Malmesbury, Sir Henry de Besiles, 
 Sir Henry de Cerne, Sir John de Blundestone, Kts. Adam of Ramsbury, Special Clerk and 
 General Agent for the Prior of Bradenstoke, Silvester Doynes, Robert Russell, and many others.” 
 
 Appendix No. ix.— Writ of admeasurement of Pasture against the Parson of Cristemalforde. 
 
 “ Be it remembered, that in 1243, 27 Hen. III. on the eve of St. John Baptist, Michael, Abbot 
 of Glaston, sued out a Writ at Wilton against Robert Parson, of Cristemalforde, for overstocking 
 his pasture there. The Sheriff appointed both parties to meet and submit to just award, on the 
 eve of the Translation of St. Benedict. A Jury being summoned, viz, Ralph of Sterkelie, 
 William of Crosham, Adam Sturmy, John Lucas, John of Cnapwelle, Henry of Boxe, Ralph of 
 Foxcote, Simon of Foxcote, Ralph Ryal, Robert Mauduit, Adam le Paximinster, and John Gefray, 
 say, that for every hide of land in the said vill, should be reckoned 16 plough oxen, 4 Cows, 
 2 heifers, 50 sheep, and six pigs.” a 
 
 Appendix No. x.— The admeasurement of Pasture. 
 
 “The aforesaid Jury say that whereas the Abbot of Glastonburj 7 had sued out a Writ against 
 Wm. of Highway, Robert of Bremleigh, and Alexander of Boxe, for overstocking Cristemalford 
 Pasture; for every virgate there should be reckoned 4 plough oxen, 2 cows, 1 heifer, 3 pigs and 
 12 sheep. That the Parson and Abbot should have full and equal right of common. But if the 
 Parson incloses his land against the Abbot, the Abbot shall bar the Parson from pasture except 
 for 4 heifers, 1 horse, 6 sheep, and 2 pigs: for which the Parson shall have pasture in right of 
 4 acres of meadow which he has beyond his inclosure. 
 
 Nicholas Haversham was Sheriff at this time. 
 
 a Mem. That Ten acres make one Fardell of land. Four Fardells one virgate. Four virgates one Hide. Four 
 hides one Fee. This was written in a speciall note on the margin of the (Glastonbury) Legier Booke. J. A. 
 
128 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Christmalford . 
 
 Do. Memorandum. Another dispute having arisen between Michael the Abbot, and Robert, 
 Parson of Cristemalford, about Pasture, it was agreed; That the Abbot shall have for every hide 
 of land, feeding for 16 plough oxen, 4 cows, 2 heifers, 50 sheep, and 6 pigs; and the Parson the 
 same in proportion to his acreage, to run every where in the said Manor where the Abbot’s cattle 
 run, oxen with oxen, cows with cows, sheep with sheep, pigs with pigs, and heifers with heifers. 
 On condition that the Parson shall open his inclosures after corn harvest and his meadows 
 after mowing; for the Abbot’s cattle to run there; the Parson’s in like manner to run in the 
 Abbot’s ground. Witnesses, Adam Delamere, John de Eston, Philip de Cerne, Ralph de Foxcote, 
 and others.”] 
 
 GRUTELINGTON, now called GRITTLETON. 
 
 In the Church here is nothing of Antiquity to he found. The Rector hereof is 
 now, 1670, Dr. ( Thomas) Tulley, Principall of Edmund Hall in Oxford. Mem: To 
 this Parsonage, is a little mannour belonging, in this Towne, the like whereof I 
 know not but at Christian Malford. 1 * * * * * 
 
 1 The principal Manor, and Advowson, of Grittleton belonged for 600 years to Glastonbury 
 Abbey. After the confiscation they were sold by the Crown in 1544 to the family of Gore of 
 Surrendell and Alderton: from whom in 1601 the Manor was purchased by Henry White Esq., 
 of Langlej 7 Burell. In 1707 his descendant Priscilla White, a coheiress, brought it in marriage 
 to Joseph Houlton Esq. of Trowbridge, and of Farleigh-Hungerford, co. Somerset. He was 
 ancestor of the late John Houlton Esq., sometime Lieutenant-Colonel of the Somerset Militia, who 
 sold the estate in 1828 to the late Joseph Neeld Esq. On the site of the ancient residence, just 
 before his death in 1856, Mr. Neeld erected the present House. 
 
 The advowson was severed from the Manor in 1604, and passed through various hands. It now 
 belongs to the Rev. Thomas Burne Lancaster, Rector. The “ little manor ” spoken of by Aubrey, 
 is only a farm that happens to have been frequently bought and sold -with the Parsonage, but 
 forms no part of it. Clapcote, in this parish, was held in 1243 (under Glastonbury Abbey) by 
 the Fitzurse family: in 1334 by John de Hales : in 22 Hen. VI. by the Blounts of Bitton. It was 
 sold at the Dissolution to Mr. Gore the purchaser of Grittleton. Afterwards it belonged to the 
 Jacobs of Norton, and by their representative Sir Robert Jacob Buxton was sold in 1851 to the 
 late Mr. Neeld. In 1852 a leaden coffin, containing a skeleton and a few Roman coins, was found 
 
 in draining “ North Field: ” and in another ground adjoining there were some traces of Roman 
 
 building. 
 
 Grittleton Church (St. Mary) was formerly called All Saints. The nave arches are pointed, 
 
 with Norman capitals. The tower is much later: about A.D. 1380. The Chancel is modern and 
 
 poorly built. The Rectory house was built by Dr. Pollok. 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
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 On a brass plate, against the Wall. 
 
 In obitum Gulielmi Gore, Armigeri, qui 
 E vivis expirayit, vicesimo die Aprilis, 
 
 Anno Salutis 1647. 
 
 Gaudeto, Juvenis, pravum dum rideat sevum, 
 
 Judicis adventum mente revolve tamen. 
 
 Quamvis fata trahuut, finem, dum spiritus adsit, 
 
 Respice; sic Munus vita perenuis erit. 
 
 Eccles. ii. 9. 
 
 .... Mors sola fatetur, 
 
 Quantula sint hominum corpuscula .... [Jau . x. 172]. 
 
 Mr. ( Walter ) White lies in the Chancel under a black marble whereon is a shield 
 [PI. xi. No. 196], with which they have nothing to do. 1 
 
 In the Earle of March’s Legier book. “Alice femme Walt: Ilaklut faict a 
 Mons r . Roger Mortimer de tenements in Foxcote.” Q. if not Foxcote in this 
 Parish? 2 * * S 
 
 (From Glaston Abbey Cartulary.) 
 
 [Appendix. No. xi.] A.D. 940. Grant by King Edmund to his Servant Wulfric, of land at 
 Grutelington. [The original is printed in New Monast. I. p. 50. ] 
 
 After the usual preface. [“ In the year of our Lord’s incarnation 940 and in the first of his 
 own reign King Edmund, with happy omen bestows upon his faithful Servant Wilfric, not for 
 money, but as a gift for his advancement, 25 tenements at Gruteliugtone according to their 
 ancient boundaries: To hold to him and his heirs for ever free from all charges except for 
 bridges, castles, and military expeditions. Let all who infringe this Grant beware of everlasting 
 punishment: and may all who respect it and make such marks of honour still larger, rejoice among 
 the children of Jesus. This document proceeding from our love, has been written in C. . .. (Ji I, 
 Edmund have signed with the mark of the Holy Cross this my first grant to my Servant Wilfric. 
 ■i 1 , I, Wulfhelm Archbishop with the rest of the Bishops have gladly added my mark. 
 
 ‘ First from the Old Ditch above an aged trunk: then along-ways upon the Street: so by the 
 
 1 The arms are those of Hale? impaling Badby. The wife (Badby) was related to Mrs. Walter 
 White (wife of a former Lord of the Manor) and to the wife of Abraham Conham, Canon of 
 Salisbury. [See under “ Durrington.”] 
 
 2 Fosscote (Tipper and Lower) is the name of a part of Grittleton parish : but most of the 
 
 cottages were taken down about thirty years ago. A Memoir of Grittleton in thin quarto by the 
 
 present writer was published in 1843 by a former Wilts. Topographical Society. 
 
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130 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Grittleton. 
 
 Street to Holdene (“ the hollow valley) ” and along the valley to the Springs. Then to Old 
 Gore : so on Clegate to the old trunk : thence to the old Barrow: then from the barrow upon the 
 fowl lake to the Withy: from the withy on to the well near East Foxcotone. From the well 
 west to the Moor: from the moor alongwaj’s to the old ditch.’ 
 
 This possession Wulfric bequeathed after his wife’s death to the Abbey of Glaston, which 
 bequest another named Elswine fulfilled.”] 
 
 [Appendix No. xii.] A.I). 1267. Plea of Right and Assize at Wilton on the morrow of St. Hilary 
 
 52 Hen. III. 
 
 [A Jury was summoned to try whether a messuage and 12 acres at Grutelingtone is free alms 
 belonging to the Church of Grutelingtone of which Nicholas de Turri is Parson, or a lay fee of 
 Roger Le Chapman. Nicholas saith that one John Le Clerke his predecessor was seised thereof 
 in the time of Henry I, as of right belonging to the Church of G. and that Chapman holds 
 it—who being summoned and re-summoned by the Sheriff comes not. The Sheriff is ordered to 
 take possession. Judgment given in default. 
 
 The same Jury also try whether ten virgates are free alms of the said Church or a lay fee of 
 John de Wintershull and Joan his wife. Nicholas saith that John Le Clerke his predecessor was 
 seised—and that Wintershull holds : same result. The Jury saj r that to the Church the messuage 
 and twelve acres formerly belonged, but that John Le Gros who was seised, as Parson, in Henry I. 
 did in Henry III alienate the same in marriage with his daughter to William Ludington: and 
 that W. L. gave it in marriage with his daughter to one Richard Le Dol. That the premises 
 therefore belong to the Church of Grittleton: Nicholas to be put in possession, and Chapman 
 and Wintershull at the mercy of the Court.] 
 
 KINGTON ST. MICHAEL. 1 
 
 (Manor.) 
 
 The Manor House at Kington was the Graunge of the Lord Abbot of Glastonbury. 
 It was bought by ( Nicholas ) Snell, the Abbot’s Reve, who payed halfe the money to 
 the King: the arrears he kept in his hands, foreseeing the Fall of the Abbeys. 
 
 Nicholas Snell new built the howse. The White Rose within the Red [PI. xi. 
 No. 197] common in those days, and the cognizance of the Queens of England, 
 common in the two Queens dayes, viz, a Pluenix O. on a Tower A. [No. 198.] 
 
 In Kington Parke is a well called Marian’s Well. Here is a noble Carp Pond of 
 about . acres. 
 
 1 The History of Kington St. Michael Parish by the writer of these Notes, will be found in the 
 Wilts. Archaeological Magazine, Yol. IY. pp. 36—128. The Tything of Easton Piers, though 
 now included in the parish of Kington St. Michael, is in a different Hundred, viz. that of Malms- 
 bury : under which it is placed in this volume. See Index “ Easton Piers.” 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 131 
 
 Mem: That before the Reformation the Parke at Kington St. Michael was in 
 common to the Lord Abbot’s tenants; and that the grounds of the Copie-holders in 
 Kington neer to their houses, soil: westwards of their houses, did in the Abbot’s 
 time extend to the ditch in Ryding. This ground runs north from the Mannour 
 house, and was taken away from the Tenants, to enlarge his prospect and pasture, 
 by Nicholas Snell, formerly Reeve to the Lord Abbot, who bought the inheritance 
 with the arrears of Rent detained in his hands, foreseeing the destruction of the 
 Church-lands. Also the Tenants, Copy-holders, had parcells belonging to their 
 respective Cojfie-liolds in the west-field, then common, now enclosed, which was 
 also taken from them by their new Land-lord Snell. So heretofore they were able 
 to keep a whole plough; but since, having but work enough for half a plough, they 
 live poorly and needily. 
 
 This information 1 had from my Grandfather Mr. Isaac Lyte: from his Father 
 who remembered it: as also from Jo. Brome the Clerk, from his Father who did 
 remember it. * 1 
 
 In the fame pasture ground called u Ryding” is yet visible the or Figure of 
 Eight, for the horses for the great Saddle in Snell’s time. So at Draycot. 
 
 The Estate is sold to another Family, viz. one Laford a Bristowe-man about 
 1679. 
 
 Mem. Cotel had some estate in Kington Parish : prout the Legier of Tropnel: 
 and beareth, Gules, a bend Or. [Fig. 199.] 2 
 
 1 In the MS. of his Monum. Britann., speaking of “Dress,” Aubrey says; “When about 1632 
 
 I learnt to read of John Brome the Clarke of K. St. Michael, his old father (above 80) who had 
 been clarke there before, dayly wore a gowne like an undergraduate’s at Oxford, with the sleeves 
 pinned behind. I doe believe that about the later end of Q. Eliz. time, t’was the fashion for 
 grave people to wear such gownes. Mr. Wm. Shakespeare, Poet, in his monument in the Church 
 at Stratford upon Avon his figure is thus: a Tawny sattin doublet, I think, pinked: and over 
 that a black gown: the sleeves of the gown do not cover the arms, but hang loose behind. 
 
 The children’s shoes were printed with silver figures, as the back of horn books, with St. George 
 on horseback on red leather, and they wore yellow shoes, which I think they do still.” 
 
 * Jordan Cotele was Rector of Kington, c. 1261. See App. xxiv. 
 
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 I “ Richard Snell was Reeve to the last Abbot Whiting. The office had been in the Snell Family 
 many years; as appears from many Rolls of Accounts, which were in the Manor House in Mr. 
 Wm. Aubrey’s time: one of 'which was entitled “Computus Barth: Snelle temp. Walteri 
 Monyton.” [Abbot 1341—1374.] [iifS. Note by James Gilpin .] 
 
 3 Nicholas Snell of Kington was Sheriff 8. Eliz., and M.P. for Chippenham, 1555, 1558, 1563. 
 For Wilts, 1557. For Malmsbury, 1571. He died April 1577 and (by Will, proved 11 May, 
 following) was buried in Kington Chancel. Anne, his third wife was buried at Kington, Dec. 1573. 
 
 3 Edmund Long, of Titherton Keilways near Chippenham, 1556 : younger brother of Sir 
 Robert Long of Wraxhall: and uncle to Anne Long who married Sir Thomas Snell.— Susan 
 wife of E. L. remarried Hugh Barrett of Titherton. 
 
 4 John Snell; was buried at Kington Dec. 1587. 
 
 5 Buried at Kington Oct. 1566. Susanna, a second wife, was buried Aug. 1570. 
 
 6 Sir Thomas had one Brother Henry : and three sisters ; Mary, married at Kington Nov. 1582, 
 to John Berkeley of Beverstone Esq. Elizabeth, married at Kington Feb. 1593 to John Younge: 
 and Agnes, married at Kington 1596, to Bowj'er Worsley Esq. John Berkeley had a son 
 Maurice who married at Kington 6 Aug. 1614, Barbara daughter of Sir Walter Long of Wrax¬ 
 hall and Draycote. 
 
 7 Sir Charles Snell was baptized at Kington 16 Nov. 1590 and buried 25 Nov. 1651, the day 
 after his death. He was unmarried. Administration of effects granted to his Sister Mary Gastrell 
 otherwise Snell. 8 July 1652. He was the last male owner of the Manor of Kington which at 
 his death was divided among his three sisters, or their representatives. 
 
 8 Of Lockswell (on Bowdon Hill) within the Parish of Chippenham. He was buried at 
 Chippenham, Oct: Will proved Dec: 1607. 
 
 9 Bowssar of Stone, co. Gloucester 1606. Erm. a cross cheeky 0. and G. between 4 waterbougets. 
 
 10 Buried in chancel of Chippenham Church on North side Dec. 1628. 
 
 II Sometime of Alderholt, co. Dorset: and of Hill House in Parish of Box, co. Wilts. Buried 
 at Box, June 1658. Will proved 1662. 
 
 12 See pedigree of Pleydell, Ashmole’s Berks. 
 
 13 Charles Snell of Hill House, Box ; and Alderholt co. Dorset. Baptized at Chippenham 1618. 
 Buried at Cranbourne Nov. 1671. He married Anne eldest daughter of Christopher Stokes of 
 Stanshaw, near Yate, co. Gloucester, by Barbara daughter of Sir Thomas Snell Kt. 
 
134 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Kington St. Michael. 
 
 (The Church.) 
 
 Kington was called Kington Monachorum or Kington Moine. 
 
 I doe guess Michael, Abbot of Glastonbury, dedicated it to Michael the Archangel, 
 and built the steeple, and 1 believe did sett the spire upon the old Tower which is 
 too weake and cracks, and will shortly fall. The Tower is, 
 by the Windowes (see Woodcut 1,) much older than the spire. 
 
 Mem. Michael, Abbot of Glastonbury, lived in the time 
 of 27. Hen. III. A.D. 1243. The fashion of the windows of 
 
 the Cl lurch speak this King’s reign. 
 
 (South Porch. See Woodcut 2.) 
 
 Over the Keystone of the Arch 
 of the South door is a head crowned, [PI. xi. No. 200], 
 which I guess to be King Ethelred whose Seate this was. 
 Also a Gothic arch over the North door. The like Door 
 is at the Priory Chapell. 
 
 (Chancel East Window.) 
 
 In the East window of the Chancel are, in 3 severall 
 columns, these 3 figures [PI. xi. 201.]; Thomas Nye, 
 Margaret his wife, and Christina their daughter/ 
 
 1. Window formerly in the Tower 
 of Kington St. Michael Church. 1 
 
 2. South Door. 
 Kington St. Michael Church. 
 
 In the middle of the Chancell; 
 
 “ Here underneath this stone lieth interred the bodie of Sr. Charles Snell, Knight, who 
 deceased the 24th day of November in the yeare of our Lord 1651, aged 61.” 
 
 In the East windowe under the escutcheon [PI. xii. No. 203] is this inscription, 
 viz. : “in memoriam caroli snell militis qui obiit 1651.” The field in Keynell’s 
 coat should be sable, not azure. The crest is a demy talbot Arg. [No. 202.] 
 
 * V. A long roll of parchment which Mr. Thos. Stokes shewed me, wherein is mention of this Dominus 
 Thomas Nye, which name is still in Sussex, and some antiquities of them, V. Surry MSS. The foresayd roll will 
 shew about what King’s raigne he was here. I believe, by this windowe, t’was in H. 6th. 
 
 Mem: Judge Littleton is pourtrayed on hisMonum*. at WorcesC. Ch: in this habit (t.e. T. Nye’s) in brasse, as it 
 is to be seen before S r . Edw d . Coke’s Comment: He lived in the Reign of K.(Hen. VI. and Edw. IV. Ed.) 
 
 1 The woodcuts of this Tower window and of the South door, are taken from drawings by 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 135 
 
 Sir Thomas Snell was buried the 2d. day of September 1612, and lies interred 
 in the middle of the chancell. He was a good Astrologer; understood Navigation; 
 was a Captain in the Island-voyage. 
 
 Near to him; Arms, [Englefield impaling Browne. No. 204.] and inscription. 
 
 “Hereunder this stone lyeth the bodie of the late Dame Jane Englefield widow of Sir 
 Francis Englefield, Baronet, deceased: Eldest daughter of Anthony Browne Esqr. eldest sonne 
 
 to Henry Lord Viscount Mountague of Cowdray in the Countie of Sussex. This.d.. . 
 
 e.. . departed this life . . . .enteenth of September in the yeare of our Lord 1650 aged 75 years. 
 Of your charitie say one Ave and a Pater-noster.” 
 
 In the South-east corner lieth the body of my Father, under a stone thus inscribed, 
 and now almost out. 
 
 “ Hie jacet quod reliquum est Richardi Awbrey Armigeri, qui obiit 22 die mensis Octobris, 
 MDCLII.” 
 
 Mem. My Father and Mother are buried in the South-east angle of the chancell 
 here. I doe hope to live so long to erect a little Inscription of white marble to the 
 Memory of my father: about an ell high or better. 
 
 P. M. 
 
 “Richardi Awbrey Armig. filii unici Johannis Awbrey de Burlton in agro Heref.: filii tertii 
 Gulielmi Awbrey L.L.D" 5 . et e Supplicum libellis Eliz. Reg. Mag": Viri pacifici et fidelis amici. 
 Uxorem duxit Deborah filiam et heredem Isaaci Lyte de Easton Pierse, per quam suscepit tres 
 superstites, Johannem, Gulielmum, et Thomam, filios. Obiit xxi°. die Oct v . An°. Dni. 1652. 
 iEtat: 49. 
 
 Alexander Brome has an Elegy on him in his Poems which he made at the 
 request of his next neighbour and friend Mr. Isaac Lyte, Alderman of London, my 
 
 Kinsman. He should have added my Father’s Christian name.I would have a 
 
 blank of two lines for my Mother. 
 
 Mem: In the Chancell windowe, which is over my father’s grave, was, when I 
 was a boy, the greater part remayning of the Picture of the Ladie Bodenham, in 
 her cope and robes, who gave that window. In the Limbe “©rate pro aia” (vel 
 bono statu) “ Borntne ©ectle Botjcnijam $3rtorissc que Ijanc fenest.” 
 
 Aubrey in one of his papers, called “ Architectura Chronologica,” among his MSS. “ Monumenta 
 Britann : ” now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 
 
136 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Kington St. Michael. 
 
 About the West End of the Chancel; 
 
 “ Here lyeth the body of Dorothy late wife of Mr. Thomas Tyndale and daughter of William 
 Stafford Esqr. who departed this life upon the twentieth day of July 1664, aged neer 72.” 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of Thomas Tyndale Esqr. who departed this life the thirteenth day of 
 February 1671, aged 84 yeares, and seaven months.” Arms of Tyndale. [No. 205.] 
 
 “ Memento Mori.” 
 
 “Under those two stones lyeth the bodies of Nicholas Gastrell gent, whoe departed this life 
 the 15th. and was buried the 20th. day of February in the veare of our Lord 1662, and aged 83 
 yeares and seven monthes. Also the body of Mary his wife who departed this life the 22d. and 
 was buried the 23th day of October in the year of our Lord 1661 aged 73 yeares and 5 months.” 
 
 Shield of Gastrell. [No. 206.] The crest is a lyon’s head Or., with a garland 
 Vert about his neck. 
 
 In the South Aisle. 
 
 In the sealing, which is painted and gilt in pannells of plaister, [seven shields]. 
 
 1. [No. 203] 
 
 2. [207] 
 
 3. [208] 
 
 4. [209] 
 
 5. [210] 
 
 6 . [ 211 ] 
 
 7. [215] 
 
 Snell quartered with Keynell. 
 
 An A interlacing a B. Q. Abbot Beere of Glastonbury ? 
 A saltire impaling blank. 
 
 Arms of the Pope: Az. 2 keys in saltire and a cross in pale. 
 A Portcullis Or. 
 
 Az. a stag at gaze Or. 
 
 A Marshal’s bolt Or. Cognizance of Cerne of Draycote. 
 
 In this aisle lies buried John Power of this parish, a practitioner in Physique 
 who was buried 1647 upside down. By him lyes his Brother Zachary, both sine 
 prole: An. 
 
 In a windowe of the South aisle in two columnes is a King sitting, [Fig. 212] 
 and a Queen in an inclining posture [Fig. 213] which when I was a boy, I was told 
 it was King Etlielred and Queen. But finding in the Legier Book of Glastonbury 
 that they lived here (?) and gave their mannour of Kington and Langeley to that 
 Abbey, I cannot conclude whose else it should be: It being a common fashion in 
 those days, to place in the windows the Effigies of pious Benefactors, for examples 
 to stirr up others. This is donne from the glass itself. It is not unlikely that this 
 was the King that first built the church after Christianity was here in use. a 
 
 a King Etlielred lyes buried in the choire at Wimburne Minster in Dorset under a black marble whereon is in 
 brasse the figure crown and sceptre as in [PI. xii. No. 214.] “In hoc loco quiescit corpus Sancti Ethelredi Regis 
 Westsaxonum Martyris qui A.D. DLXXXlxxij : xxiij die Aprilis per manus Dacorum paganorum occuhuit;” 
 written in moderne Gothique characters, not in the old Saxon. 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 137 
 
 (Middle Aisle.) 
 
 In the middle aisle, under the great stone, of the Inscription whereof is now no 
 signe left, lyes Isaac Tayler of the Priory, brother to . Tayler, Vicar. 
 
 By the Font lies buried Mr. Thomas Lyte of Easton Pierse, Father of Isaac Lyte 
 my honoured Grandfather. The Inscription is now quite obliterated. He was 
 buried May 14th. A.D. 1627. AEtat 96. V. Register, near 100. 
 
 By him under a black marble, lyetli his sonne Isaac with this Inscription. [A 
 shield of Arms, No. 216.] 
 
 “P. M. 
 
 Isaaci Lyte de Easton Pierse, Gen : 
 uxorem habuit Israel, Filiam 
 Tho : Browne de Winterbourne Basset, Gen : 
 
 Convixit illi annos 52. 
 
 Obiit anno setatis suae octogesimo tertio. 
 
 Feb 7 . XXI. MDCLIX. 
 
 Posuit Johannes Awbrey. 
 
 (North Aisle.) 
 
 In the North aisle under our seate lies buried my deare Grandmother, M ris Israel 
 L\ r te. On a stone which is under the seate, thus : 
 
 “ M.S. Israel Lyte, relicta Isaaci Lyte de Easton Pierse, quae obiit. . . die Feb. A". Dni. 1661.” 
 
 If it shall please God to enable me, I intend to sett up this following Inscription 
 in a decent white marble. Mr. Chr. Wase made this Inscription. 
 
 “ Here lies the body of M rs . Israel Lyte, daughter of Tho: Browne of Winterbourne Basset, 
 Gent., the Relict of Isaac Lyte of Easton-Pierse, Gent., with whom she lived .... years; a modest 
 and sober matron ; pious and charitable; an excellent menagere; delighting to be at home, yet 
 hospitable within her hounds, to admiration : Having by him only one Daughter, Deborah, the 
 wife of Richard Awbrey of Burleton, in Ileref: Esq : Surviv’d her husband 2 yeares and rendered 
 her Soule to God in peace : the 24 day of Feb r : in the yeare of her age 83 : of our Lord 1661. 
 
 John Awbrey, her Grandsone, in duty to y e memory of her tendernesse and diligence in his 
 Education hath placed this Monument.” 
 
 In a window over my Grandmother Lyte’s seat, are these two pieces of stained 
 glass. [No. 217.] 
 
 The Register booke here, which is one of the fairest in the countrey, began the 
 
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138 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Kington St. Michael. 
 
 6th day of October An: Dom: 1563: written by John Tayler, then Vicar, who 
 was buried 1580. The next Vicar was ( Nicholas ) Fawkener, who dyed.(1612). 
 
 Mr. Richard Hine succeeded Mr. Fawkener: and was here above 50 yeares. Mr. 
 John Ferris succeeded him. 
 
 May 4th. A.D. 1582. The Plague began in this Parish, and rested y e 6th, of 
 Aug st . following: 13 dyed of it; most of them of the Family of the Kingtons. 
 
 Nicholas Snell gave the Chalice. No Inscription, but on the cover of it is the 
 crest of Snell, viz. a demy Talbot. 
 
 Inscription on the Bells. 
 
 On the great Bell “ * . 2HE A IHk A A ©&£ . m&” 
 
 He meant “ Sancte Michael ora pro nobis.” The next bell, second, was cast 
 1618, the first was cast 1620. 
 
 Here was a daintie little bell 1600, stolen about 1649. Not long after, the little 
 Bell at Sutton Benger was stolen too. 
 
 One Adam Milsham an old wealthie batchelour who was born in this parish gave 
 in 1637, the clock and chimes, and £10, to the parish; the interest to pay for the 
 lookeing to them. A smyth was clerke in the troublesome times, and converted 
 the iron of the chimes to his owne use. A clocke the Parish hath gott lately again. 
 
 (Church Yard.) 
 
 Under a tombe by the Ch : porch lies Adam Milsham aforesaid. The inscription, 
 now illegible; he “ died An 0 . 1642. Cito pede prceterit cetas. h 
 
 In the Ch : yarde near this, 
 
 “ Here lyes the bodyes of Richard Hike, Clerke, and Anne his wife. He was Vicar of this 
 Parish 50 yeares and upwards, and buryed the 28 th . day of Aug st . 1663; being 78 yeares. She 
 was buryed the 30 th . of Jan T . 1666, being aged 73 yeares. 
 
 “Spe Resurrectionis insimul obdormiunt.” 
 
 In the S. side thus, 
 
 “1664. 
 
 “Under this Tombe here doth reside, as you may well remember, 
 
 “ The bodie of Simon Neck, who dyed the 4th. of November. 
 
 “ His age was 78 yeares, then his wife was fifty nine, 
 
 “ Who dyed the last of May ’47, and here she doth lye by’n.’ 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 139 
 
 Under a stone, now illegible, lies honest old John Wastfield, a freeholder at 
 Langley, in this parish. He dyed above 80 years of age, about 1644. 
 
 (WoodroofFe’s Charity.) 
 
 Old (Wm.) Woodrooff, by his Will 166(4), gave (20 s . a year to the poor , and 10 s .) 
 every yeere to the Vicar here to preach an Anniversary Sermon. 
 
 (Cross.) 
 
 The Cross stood at the "y goeing to the Priory. In those dayes here was a little 
 market Frydayes for fish, egges, butter, and such small gear. Perhaps chiefly for 
 the Nunnes. On Michaelmas day, here is a Fayre much resorted unto by the young 
 people, famous for ale and stubble geese. Q. when the first charter for it was 
 graunted? (A.D. 1266.) 
 
 In the Legier booke of Glaston, is mentioned Mayden-well in this Parish. 
 
 Q. Where is it: and what virtue ? Perhaps Alice Grig may know it. Biddle- 
 well lyes between Kington and Swinley. It turnes milke. In Mr. Stokes’s well at 
 Kington was found store of spod. 1 
 
 Maudlin’s bower. 
 
 DEEDS relating to the ancient Manor of Kington, extracted from the Legier 
 Booke of Glastonbury in the hands of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq., called 
 “ Secretum Domini.” 
 
 [1. Appendix No. xiij. A.D. 934. Grant of Kington by King Athehtan. The original is 
 
 printed in New Monast. I. 59. 
 
 “ I Athelstan, King of Anglia, raised by the power of the Almighty to the throne of All Britain 
 freely give to my faithful servant Atheline a certain portion of land, viz., Fifteen cassates in a 
 place which the inhabitants call “ At Kingtone,” to hold for his life free from all service with all 
 its appurtenances, and on his decease to bequeath the same to whomsoever he may please, as his 
 heir for ever. Whosoever shall presumptuously infringe this donation, let him perish in eternal 
 fire with Judas the Traitor and blaspheming Jews. 
 
 Dated at Buckingham 12 Sept. A.D. 934. Witnessed by Constantine the Viceroy, and others.” 
 
 2. Appendix No. xiv. A.D. 987. Grant by King Ethelred. New Monast. I. 51. 
 
 “ I Ethelred by the Grace of God King and Monarch of all the Island of Britain, out of deep 
 
 1 Spod, in Latin “ spodium,” cinders after the melting of iron. Bailey’s Dictionary. 
 
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140 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Kington St. Michael. 
 
 regard for the welfare of the Abbey of Glaston have given to God and his Mother the Virgin 
 Mary for ever, a certain Farm of 40 manses with woods, &c., called Kingtone: which Elswith 
 formerly wife of Duke Elphege purchased for 40 mancuses of pure gold from King Edgar of 
 glorious memory. To be held by the Abbot so long as the Faith endures in the realm of England. 
 
 Dated A.D. 987. TV itnessed by Dunstan Archb. of Canterbury and Oswald Archb. of York.” 
 
 The Fitzurse family, at Swinley, Langley, and Clapcote in Grittleton. 
 
 3. Appendix No. xv. A.D. 1243. Jordan Fitzurse acknowledges service due to the Abbot. 
 
 “Know that I Jordan Fitzurse and my heirs are bound to Michael, Abbot of Glastonbury and 
 the church there in 40s. sterling to be paid at two terms, viz., 20s. at Michaelmas A.D. 1243, 
 and 20s. at Christmas following for scutage due to him for 1J Knight’s Fee which I hold of the 
 Honour of Glaston, in Langley, Clapcote and Swinley. Whereof I have already paid 20s. on 
 account of the same scutage, being that granted to our Lord the King Henry son of K. John 
 when he sailed over to Gascony in the 26th. year of his Keign. And to such payment in full at 
 the terms aforesaid I have bound myself and my heirs and have been distrained by the Abbot. 
 In testimony, &c.” 
 
 4. Appendix No. xvi. His Deed in completion thereof. 
 
 “Know, &c., that I Jordan Fitzurse and my heirs are bound to answer to the Church of Glaston 
 for the service of a Kt’s. Fee and a half. To wit, in Langley half a Fee, in Clapcote half a Fee, 
 and in Swinley half a Fee. And that this may not be forgotten I have hereunto set my seal. 
 Witn. Sir Robert Blakeford, Sir Henry de Hertham, Sir Wm. de Estone, John de Abbotstone, 
 Sir Roger de Dantesey, Wm. de Haywode and others.” 
 
 5. Appendix No xvii. A.D. 1243. Jordan Fitzurse acknowledges a Knight's Fee and a half in 
 
 Swinley, Clapcote and Langley. 
 
 “Be it remembered, that 1243 Michael (of Ambresbury) Abbot of Glaston by his Bailiffs at 
 Kington distrained Adam and Roisia of Clapcote for scutage of a Knight’s Fee which they hold 
 of the Honour of Glaston in Clapcote and Swinley, viz., For the scutage granted to King Hen. Ill 
 for his expedition over sea to Gascony (1242). Whereupon A. and R. showed that they bad 
 paid the same to Jordan Fitzurse of Langley: that they hold the said fee of him : and he of the 
 Abbot. Then the Abbot distrained Jordan for his fee at Langley. Whereupon Jordan demanded 
 his chattels again, declaring that he is not bound for the scutage as the Abbot says. The Abbot 
 not releasing, Jordan went to the Sheriff of Wilts, Nicholas de Haversham, and complains: gives 
 a surety and recovers the chattels. The Sheriff summoned the Abbot by his Bailiff of Domerham, 
 to show cause, &c. After reasonable interval, the Abbot appears in person at Wilton at 
 Midsummer, and Jordan, by his son Jordan his attorney. Jordan being thrice called for his 
 answer, gave none : and after an interval being called again, admitted that he would not prosecute. 
 Whereon it is agreed that the chattels of Jordan, delivered by the Sheriff, viz. XXV beasts, be 
 restored to the Abbot. And being restored to the Abbot’s Park, Jordan came and acknowledged 
 his debt to the Abbot for the scutage of the Fee wh. Adam and Roisia held at Clapcote: and for 
 the half fee wh. he holds himself at Langley : and so forthwith paid it.” 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
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 Heywood, in Kington. 
 
 6. Appendix No. xviii. A.D. 1255. Quitclaim by William de Haywode .* 
 
 “To all, &c.; William de Haywode greeting : Quitclaims for himself and his heirs, to Roger, 
 Abbot of Glastonbury ( Roger Forde A.D. 1261—61) and the Convent there, all his right in 
 an acre of arable in Kington Monachorum lying between the land of the Parson of Kington and 
 the Cross of Roger Morin ; and running East and West. 
 
 Witnessed by Sir John of Eston, Jordan Fitzurse, Richard Marshall, and others ” 
 
 7. Appendix No. xix. Another Quitclaim by the same. 
 
 “ William de Haywode quitclaims to the Abbot 4 acres of land in the East Field of Kington 
 Monachorum ; whereof 3 lie in the West Dene between the cropped ground of the Abbot on one 
 side and a certain stream of water on the other: and one lieth in East Dene at the end of the 
 acre which Hugh the woodward formerly held—near the stream aforesaid, &c. Witnessed by Sir 
 John de Eston, John de Abbotstone, Jordan Fitzurse, Robert Curteys, &c.” 
 
 8. Appendix No. 20. A.D. 1285. Chirograph between the Abbot of Glastonbury and Robert of 
 Haywode, touching a certain ground in Kington, which Wm. le Wayte of Chippenham gave to the 
 
 Abbot of Malmesbury. 
 
 “To all, &c.—Robert of Haywode—greeting. Know all men that whereas Wm. le Wayte of 
 Chippenham and Edith his wife gave &c., to the Abbot and Convent of Malmsbury XXI acres 
 and a half and 1 perch of land in Kington, as by deed &c. ; And I by my deed have confirmed 
 the said gift for myself and heirs, &c., to have and to hold the same in perpetual alms of my Lord 
 the Abbot and Convent of Glaston : And whereas the said Wm. and Edith have been used to pay 
 to me Royal Service so far as regards the said ground: I by this present Deed have bound myself 
 and heirs, &c., to the Abbot and C. of Glaston: as the chief Lords of the Fee, to pay to them 
 Royal Service when the Relief runneth due, as well for the aforesaid land as for my own land, 
 whensoever it happeneth by my decease or that of my heirs: and to perform all services secular, 
 Royal, and others, for the said Abbot and Convent of Malmsbury, the past alienation of the said 
 land notwithstanding. In testimony whereof, &c. 
 
 Witnessed by Sir Godfrey de Wroxall, Reginald Burel, Henry de Cerne, Knights, Richard 
 Horne, Adam Harding, Roger de Caynes, and others. Dated 2. April 1285.” b 
 
 Edenworth, (? Edingworth, Co. Somerset.) 
 
 9. Appendix No. xxi. A.D. 1255. Letter of Ernald du Bois, touching a tenement atEdenworth. 
 
 This letter (in old French) is among Aubrey’s Kington Deeds: but as there is no such name in 
 
 a Mem. The Toft of William of Haywod’s howse is yet visible in Haywood ; and not far from it, in a ditch, a well 
 called “ Marian’s well.” 
 
 Mem. The Germans call July, “ Heumond: ” “ Heu ” is “ secare ; ” as we retain hew ; as to hew a piece of tim¬ 
 ber. This month being so called for that then they eutt their grasse to make hey, which word comes from “ heu ; ” 
 And so likewise “ Heywood ; ” inasmuch as to say “ Bois taille,” or “ Coppice-wood.” Quod N.B. 
 
 (Heywood is still the name of a farm and coppice in Kington. In A.D. 1224 William de Heywood held here one 
 sixth of a Knight’s Fee : and the Abbot of Stanley one virgate, quitclaimed to him by Wm. Burell. Ed.) 
 
 b This was in the time of John by the divine providence Abbot of Glaston: who granted to the Abbey of Malmes¬ 
 bury free ingresse, so that they did not overstock to the damage of the Convent of Glaston. J. A. 
 
142 
 
 [Kington St. Michael. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Kington, it seems to relate to some other property of Glastonbury Abbey. An Ernald du Bois 
 was Justiciary of Forests: but there were others of the name. See Lipscombe’s Bucks. IY. 538.] 
 
 “To the Hon ble . and Rev d . Father, Robert by the grace of God Abbot of Glaston, Ernaud de 
 Bois Greeting and all honour. It bath been set forth to us, Sire, by Sir Thomas Beauchamp our 
 Cousin, who bolds of us a Tenement in Edenwortb with appurtenances, which Tenement we 
 claim to bold of you and your church, that you have caused him to be distrained for the Homage 
 which you demand of us for the same: And whereas, Sire, we are in great sickness and feebleness 
 of body so that we could not journey unto you, we pray you as heartily as we can, for Gods sake 
 and for the love you bear us, to respite the distress until we shall be in such bodily health as to 
 be able to come and do the said homage. For we well know, and wish and are bound to acknow¬ 
 ledge that we hold and claim to hold the said Tenement of you and of your church and that to 
 you and your church we are bound to Homage and Royal Service, whensoever it falleth due, 
 according to the ancient custom of so doing. In Witness whereof we send these Letters Patent 
 sealed with our Seal.” 
 
 Kington. 
 
 10. Appendix No. xxii. A.D. 125.5. John of Artherne, excuses himself from doing suit in 
 
 person at the Hundred Court of Kington. 
 
 “ To the venerable and our beloved in Christ, Robert, by the grace of God, Lord Abbot of 
 Glastonbury, John Artherne greeting, with reverence and honour. 
 
 Seeing that through hindrance of much business I am not able, an it please you, this year to do 
 the suit at your Hundred of Kington, as, like the freeholders of the said manor, I am bound to 
 do in person, I beseech your Lordship, to admit Roger Rugge as my attorney for the same. 
 Dat. Sep. 47 Hen. III.” 
 
 11. Appendix No. xxiii. A.D. 1270. Quitclaim by Wm. de Wayte of certain rights of road. 
 
 “ Know, &c.: That Whereas Wm. le Wayte of Chippenham prayed by two briefs of our Lord 
 the King that Robert (Pederton) Abbot of Glaston: should allow him 4 rights of outlet towards 
 the Abbot’s wood of Haywode in his manor of K. through the middle of a certain bank which 
 lies between the wood aforesaid and some crofts held by said Wm. as part of a tenement 
 formerly belonging to Wm. de Haywode ; so that he might have a way for carrying his corn, &c.; 
 It is at length amicably agreed between them, at Michaelmas A.D. 1270, (53 Henry I.) that 
 the aforesaid Wm. hath allowed, &c., the two middle outlets to be stopped up for ever: and for 
 this concession, the Abbot grants that Wm. and his heirs shall have for ever two outlets only 
 towards the said wood through the said bank, viz., one from Wyk Croft and the other from the 
 Croft which Walter de Haywode formerly held of the aforesaid Wm. de Haywode. 
 
 Witnessed by Sir Godfrey Foliot, Sir John de Eston, Sir Sampson of Box, Knights. Richard 
 Horne, Martin de Pedworth and others.” 
 
 Kington Rectory. 
 
 12. Appendix No. xxiv. A.D. 1251—Gl. Jordan Cotel, Rector, to the Abbot. 
 
 “ Jordan Cotel, Rector of the Church of Kington, binds himself never to alienate, to any 
 
DAMEKHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
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 Religious House, or Parson of a Church, without the consent of the Abbot, an acre of land which 
 he had of Wm. of Heywood, part of the Fee of the Abbey.” 
 
 13. Appendix No. xxv. A.D. 1269. The same. 
 
 “ The same Rector agrees with the Abbot, to abide by the decision of certain arbitrators, 
 touching a piece of ground sometime the Abbot’s Pinfold, a curtilage, and 2 heifers seized by 
 the Abbot. Dated at Mells, St. Denis’s day.” 
 
 14. Appendix No. xxvi. A.D. 1269. An Agreement between the said Rector, and Abbot 
 Robert Pederton, touching the feeding of Inwood. 
 
 “ Whereas the Abbot had deprived the Rector, of Common of Pasture for all his cattle, had 
 erected certain houses at Kington Langley, and obstructed a road between the wood of Inwood 
 and * La Sterte,’ &c.: It is agreed that the Rector’s pigs shall run with the Abbot’s at all times, 
 in Inwood, provided that the said pigs go in and out, through the middle of the Abbot’s courtyard, 
 and no way else. That the Rector shall have right of road for carriages; the Abbot to set up a 
 fence whenever the ground is sown; and when the crop is removed, the Rector to have free 
 ingress for cattle with the Abbot’s, to ‘ La Sterte,’ in lieu of which he quitclaims all common of 
 pasture at Inwood, saving for the pigs as aforesaid: and releases the Abbot from all damages 
 incurred by building the houses.”] 
 
 PRIORY ST. MARY’S. 1 
 
 (For Aubrey’s sketch, see PI. xiii. No. 218). 
 
 This is a very pleasant seate, and was a fine Nunnery wherein were.Nunnes; 
 
 they were Benedictines, and under the jurisdiction of Glaston. 2 Mrs. Tyndale has 
 told me that it was Maud the Empresse was the foundresse. In the Legier booke of 
 this howse I cannot find who founded it, nor get the favour, tho’ no danger, to see 
 the donation. Mr. Sherwin hath bought this estate. 
 
 The Coppice, and that ground between Easton Pierse and this place, was given 
 out of the Wood-close by S r . John of Eston, to the Nunnes here, to pray for his 
 soule, & of his wife & children: tempore. 
 
 Below this wood, on the other side of the Rivulet, is a little meadow, called “ the 
 Minchiu,” which word in old English is a Nunne: so, Mincing i.e. Minchin—Lane in 
 London, where was a Nunnery. On the east side of the howse is a ground facing 
 
 1 See Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. IY. p. 51. 
 
 2 This is incorrect. The Nunnery was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Salisbury. In 
 the “ Langton ” Registers at Salisbury is a curious forged document by which in 1490 the 
 Prioress attempted to exchange the Bishop’s jurisdiction for that of the Abbot of Glaston. See 
 the particulars of this story in the Wilts. Archaeol. Mag., just referred to. 
 
144 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Kington St. Michael. 
 
 the east, and the delightfull prospect on the south east, called the Nymph-hay. 
 Here old Jaques, who lived on the other side, would say, he hath seen 40 or 50 
 Sisters—nunnes, in a morning, spinning with their rocks 1 and wheeles and bob¬ 
 bins. He said the number often was 70; he might not be mistaken perhaps in the 
 number of woemen; for there might be as many, nuns, lay sisters and pensioners; 
 but Nunnes only not so many. Their last Priest was Parson Whaddon, whose 
 chamber is that on the right hand of the porch, with the old-fashion chimney. 
 
 Mortimer Earl of March was a great Benefactor here. [Arms. No. 220.] 
 
 Mem : In the Legier Booke is mention of Eleanor . Priorissa. 
 
 The Lady Cicelie Bodenham was Lady Prioresse here. In the parlour windowe 
 was, and in the Buttrey yet, the coat of Bodenham with a mitre to which were two 
 
 chains Or. Also the coat [No. 221], of Bodenham and . viz. Az. a fess Or 
 
 between 3 chess rooks, quartering G, three bars cheeky A. and S. This coat is 
 at Foffont Church in this County, but with barry of six , cheeky ... and G. She 
 (Lady Cicelie) was Prioress of a little Nunnery there, and built the S. aisle of that 
 church, where her coate is. Perhaps she might be preferred thither. 2 
 
 Also in the parlour window, this coat [No. 222] G. 2 bars nebule O., above the 
 coat a Mitre. The Lord Lovell’s coat was harry of six nebule O. and G: which in 
 Mr. Wythie’s Ordinary is by the name of Basset, but Lovell’s coat, of Co. Bucks, is 
 the same, with a canton ermine. 
 
 Ralph Basset and Tho: Basset bear, Undee gold and red. S r . W. Duydale's 
 usage of hearing of armes , p. 19. I am confirmed by Sir W. Dugdale. This is 
 Basset. 3 
 
 1 A “rock” was a distaff; from an old French word, roeque. In his Mon. Britann: MS. ii. 
 38, Aubrey says, “ Rocks are now utterly unknown in those parts. I never saw any but in 
 Staffordshire, -where the poore women spin with them in the streets. They are certainly of the 
 elder house to a spinning wheele.” 
 
 2 Lady Cicely Bodenham was promoted from Kington St. Mary’s nunnery to Wilton, of which 
 she was Abbess at the surrender. The Manor of Fovant belonged to the Nuns of Wilton, but 
 there was no separate religious house at Fovant. 
 
 3 But he forgot to alter his drawing (copied in our plate xiii. fig. 222) which is that of the 
 arms of Lovell. There has been no Bishop of the name of Lovell. Fulk Basset was Bishop of 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
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 In divers pannells of glass about this howse are the letters B. D. The last Ladie 
 Prioresse was the Lady Mary Dennys of Gloucestershire: [No. 223] this Lady 
 Dennys lived a great while after the Reformation, and died within the memory of 
 man in Somersetshire. 1 From my grandfather Lyte. 
 
 In the Chapell, which was very fayre, is neither glasse, chancell nor monument 
 remayning. Formerly, and lately, in the garden, where chancell and consecrated 
 ground was, have been digged up severall coffins of freestone: and one stone was 
 found of about two foote diameter. To what use it served I could never learne; it 
 was about the thicknesse of a grinding stone, having in the centre on one side a 
 heart held between two handes [No. 224]: it was found at the foote of a grave, in 
 which there was found a Chalice. 2 
 
 The windowes of the Chapel of Priory St. Marie’s [No. 219] like those in the 
 Tower of Merton Coll. Oxon. (? Ed.) 
 
 In the old Hedges belonging to this Priory, and in the hedges of the Priory 
 Downe are yet a good number of Berberry Trees and which t’is likely the Nunnes 
 used for Confections, which art they taught the young Ladies that were bred up 
 there: for in those days the woemen were bred at Nunneries. No such schools as 
 at Hackney and Sarum for woemen until after the Reformation. 
 
 Moreshall in this parish belonged to this Priory. Q. who gave it ? 3 
 
 KINGTON LANGLEY 4 (in Kington St. Michael.) 
 
 At Langley was a Chapell dedicated to St. Peter, it is now converted to a dwelling 
 
 London 1242—1259: Arms. A. 2 bars nebulee az. Aubrey probably made some mistake in 
 copying this shield. 
 
 1 She died 1593 at Bristol and was buried in the “ Church of the Gaunts on the Green.” Old 
 MS. at C. C. College, Oxon. 
 
 2 In Aubrey’s MS. “Remains of Gentilism ” fol. 146, he says this stone was found in 1637 in 
 the chapel: and was 16 inches in diameter: both the hands were right hands. Mr. Thoms 
 [“ Anecd. and Tradit.” Cam. Soc. p. 107] says “ this kind of sepulchral stone was placed where the 
 heart of a deceased person was interred apart from the corpse” (?). Two hands supporting a 
 heart was the device on a seal used by Reginald Husee, 3 Edw. Ill, with the legend “ Cor 
 immobile.” [Hutch. Dors. II. 69.] The same emblem may be seen on a monument in the church 
 of Hinton Charter-House, co. Somerset. 
 
 3 Only one or two of the fields. See Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. IY. 47. 4 See Ditto. 
 
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146 Aubrey’s north wilts. [.Kington St Michael. 
 
 howse; it is about the middle of the village on the north side of the way. 
 
 Old John Wastfield told me that he had been Peterman in the beginning of Her 
 Majestie’s Raigne. The Revell is still kept the Sunday following St. Peter’s day, 
 (June 29.) it is one of the eminentest Feastes in these partes. 
 
 The family of Gengel (mentioned in Deeds, Appendix xxxi. and xxxii.) continues 
 yet in this parish, and it was but about 1664, that the ancient estate here of them 
 was sold to one Samuel Martin; it is about an hundred poundes per annum. 
 
 LANGLEY FITZURSE. 
 
 In Langley is another little Mannour called Langley Fitzurse. The Hill that 
 leades up to Langley from Kington, is to this day called Fitzurse-hill. The Estate 
 is now Mr. Bampfield Sidenliam’s who bought it of the heirs of the Lord Hopton. 
 It is a very ancient-built howse with a great Hall, and moted about: here is the 
 chapell bell yet left. There is a piece of a tradition yet left among the old people 
 that a king once lived here. 
 
 [DEEDS, extracted by Aubrey, from Glastonbury Abbey Cartulary, relating to 
 Kington Langley. 
 
 1. Appendix No. xxvii. A.I). 940. Grant of Langley by King Edmund to his Servant Wilfric. 
 
 Printed in the New Monast. I. p. 60. 
 
 The first two lines of the original Latin are Hexameters. The introduction is a specimen 
 of the strange bombast commonly used as preface to legal documents in those days. 
 
 “0 Cross! that excellest and rulest over all Olympus, glorious law and foundation of the 
 throne of Christ our Lord, my Alpha and Omega; bless with thy mark the beginning, middle 
 and end of this present writing. Thou also more brilliant than the stars, and more holy than any^ 
 gifts in the sight of Christ, hast endowed with the fullest rights the Royal House of Edmund 
 King of the Anglo-Saxons. Wilfric, enriched by Sovereign bounty is able to proclaim with 
 truth, so that to all others by the character of this document it may be made known, viz. That 
 under favour of God, in the nine hundred and fortieth year, since, to the world, waiting for the 
 Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mother presented her Divine progeny, and in the second year of his 
 Reign, the said King endows the said Wilfric with 30 Tenements at Langley, to himself and 
 his heirs. Let all therefore now and for ever ponder the wise saying of a Christian writer: 
 “ Render, 0 ye rich, unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are 
 God’s. Do works of piety and justice, and you set an example to the Catholic Church.” [Then 
 follow the boundaries.] Confirmed by King Edmund to Archbishop Wulfhelm at the well- 
 known town of Chippenham.” 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 147 
 
 2. Appendix No. xxviij. (no date.) Reginald Bosket gives his land at Combe and Langley to 
 
 the Church. 
 
 “ Know, &c.: that I Reginald Bosket with the consent of Herbert Frankchivaler my Lord, 
 and Juliana his daughter, my wife, have given, &c. to God and the Church of St. Mary of Glaston : 
 all my land at Combe and Langley which I received in marriage with my wife: three shillings 
 per annum being reserved to me and my heirs in lieu of all services. For this grant, Roger Fitz- 
 Edwin (?) has given me 10s : to Juliana my wife 12d. and to Thomas my heir 12d. and to Herbert 
 Frankchivaler 12s.: since out of special love to the said Roger, now a Monk of Glastonbury, we 
 have made the said gift. Witnesses, Alured Ferling, &c.” 
 
 3. Appendix No. xxix. Herbert Frankchivaler consents to the grant. 
 
 “Know, &c: (concluding thus). This Deed was read in full assembly on St. Giles’s day at 
 Exeter. Witnesses, Julian Pokehelle and others, all good men of the Hundred of Langley.” 
 
 4. Appendix No. xxx. Milo Fitzurse to the Abbot. 
 
 “ Milo son of Milo Fitzurse de Langley grants to Robert, Abbot of Glaston, a Perch of land on the 
 South side of Maydenweil, in Langley North field, to enlarge his Mill of Bidemill.” 
 
 5. Appendix No. xxxi. A.D. 1273. Roger Gengel of Langelegli and Alice his wife, to the 
 
 Abbot. 
 
 “ Know that whereas Robert, Lord Abbot of Glaston, has granted to us for life half an acre which 
 Robert Long of Langelegh once held there and by reason of his poverty surrendered, rented at 
 12 pence, or one sheep of the same value, and the customary service of mowing Pegingehulle 
 Mead, the same shall revert at our death to the said Abbot: &c. Dated at Kington St. Michael.” 
 
 6. Appendix No. xxxii. Thomas GengeVs gift to the Church of Glaston. 
 
 “ Gives one perch and a half of land in Langelegh lying under Bidemille Mill in the North 
 field of Langley. Witnesses, Sir John of Eston Kt., Thomas Delamere, and others.” 
 
 7. Appendix No. xxxiij. (before A.D. 1261J Jordan Fitzurse to the Abbey. 
 
 “ Jordan Fitzurse of Langley gives to Robert de Pederton, Monk of Glastonbury, for his life, 
 and to the Abbot and Convent for ever, a Mill and Pond, near the spring called Maydenweil in 
 the manor of Kingtone, for the supply of the mill pond. Also five perches of land. For the 
 above, Robert has given two marks sterling. Witnessed by Sir John of Eston, Kt., &c. 
 
 8. Appendix No. xxxiv. A.D. 1280. Reginald Burel, Lord of Langley. 
 
 “ Whereas disputes have arisen between the Abbot of Glaston and his men of Kington St. 
 Michael and Langlegh on one part, and me on the other, concerning the impounding of beasts 
 trespassing within the woods of Langley Burel: Reginald engages to put a fence on that side of the 
 woods which abuts on the common pasture of the Abbot; and if the fence is broken, to drive out 
 beasts without impounding them. Witnesses—Henry Cerne, John Greensted, Kts. : Thomas 
 Delamere and others. Dated Marlborough Monday after St. Denis, 9. E. I.” 
 
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 [Nettleton. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 (Camely, co. Somerset.) 
 
 9. Appendix No. xxxv. Aubrey includes the following among his Kington Langley Deeds: 
 but he seems to have mistaken the name of Burel for Burnell one of which family was also a 
 Benefactor to Glaston Abbey, to which “ Camleigh ” belonged; [See Collinson’s Somerset II, 125 
 and New Monasticon, I, p. 15.] 
 
 “ John Burel (should be Burnell ) of Camely grants to his daughter Agnes a house and curti¬ 
 lage in Camely near the croft of Alexander his brother, and 5 acres called “ La Gore,” for the 
 rent of a pair of white gloves, value one farthing. Witnesses, John Crumhale of Faringdon, 
 Philip Kether of Littleton, Anquetil of Hinton, &c.”] 
 
 NETELINGTONE. 
 
 At Nettleton, for so it is now called, is a well built Church; but the windowes 
 all broken by the fanatique rage of the late times. The Church-howse was the 
 handsome stone house thereby, with a crosse at the end of it. The bells are all 
 new cast. 1 Q. When the Revell is here. 
 
 1 A large part of the parish and village is called Burton. The Manor and Advowson of 
 Netlington belonged till the Dissolution, to Glastonbury Abbey. Among Sir H. Ellis’s “ Origi¬ 
 nal Letters” Vol. II, 379, is one from Abbot Whiting placing this Rectory at the disposal of 
 Secretary Thomas Cromwell, instead of Batcombe which he had asked for. The Manor and 
 Advowson were purchased at the Dissolution by the Botelers (owners of Badminton for 400 years 
 till about 1608). Early in Queen Elizabeth’s reign John Astley purchased them: and after 
 other changes during the same reign, they came to Sir Richard Grobham of Great Wishford, a 
 gentleman who was said to have made a very large fortune as Steward to the Gorges family of 
 Longford Castle. [History of Branch and Dole, p. 46.] Sir Richard died childless 1628 and left 
 his estates to his sister’s son afterwards Sir John Howe, Bart. These consisted of the Manors of 
 Great Wishford, Steeple Langford, Stapleford, West Kington, Nettleton, Netheravon cum Hack- 
 leston, Combe, Compton, Bemerton and Quidhampton: the Hundred of Malmesbury, the 
 Hundred and Borough of Highworth, the Advowsons of Wishford and Netelington, and Rectory 
 of Enford, all in Wilts. In this family Nettleton remained till the death in 1804 of John Howe, 
 fourth and last Lord Chedworth. In 1806 the Manor and Advowson were purchased by Andrew 
 Carrick of Clifton, M.D.: after whose death in 1837 they were sold by his Trustees. 
 
 The Priory House (part of the Abbot’s estate) was taken down in 1852 and a new one built on 
 the site by Mr. Hill. Five hundred and twenty six acres of common were enclosed in this Parish 
 by Act of Parliament, 1812. The Blounts of Bitton had a small estate here, in 1443. 
 
 The Church (St. Mary’s) is of different periods. The pillars and arches between the nave and 
 aisle, and the font, are Norman. The windows have had good stained glass. The Pulpit is of 
 stone, with vine-wreath carving. There is a Tower at the West end, and a pretty porch on the 
 North side. John Hewett, Rector here 1455, is mentioned as one of the “ Penitentiaries ” for 
 the Deanery of Malmsbury. 
 
DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
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 In tlie Church yard was this old Epitaph, not long since legible: 
 
 Here lies a traveller old madam Besse, 
 
 Honest Charles Hales his wife I guesse. 
 
 She was his dear one, we’ll not belie her; 
 
 And so’s mine too; wou’d shee lay by her. 
 
 In this Parish, in a field that faces Combe Castle, is an ancient monument called 
 Lugburys: it lies Northward and S-ward.paces long. 1 
 
 From Glastonbury Abbey Cartulary. 
 
 [1. Appendix No. xxxvi. A.D. 943. Grant of Netelington by K. Edmund to his Servant 
 
 Wulfric. 
 
 “Our Lord Jesus Christ being King for ever: The Catholic Fathers admonish us from Holy 
 Writ, to remember how this transitory world, though daily older by the lapse of time, yet is 
 waning whilst it grows, and is shortened whilst it is prolonged: and that by frequent sudden injuries 
 of various assailing forces, the end of all things is perceived to be nigh. By the means of earthly 
 things that perish we should therefore purchase to ourselves, heavenly things that will endure. 
 Wherefore I Edmund, King of the Anglians, and ruler of other neighbouring tribes, have 
 vouchsafed to bestow upon a certain Servant of mine named Wolfric, for his obedience and 
 fidelity, Twenty Tenements, called in English “ Twenti-Hide,” at a place which by the confluence 
 of people has long been called ‘ At Netelintone ’—To be a perpetual inheritance: &c., &c. 
 Now if any son of Belial shall venture to impugn this our purpose, may he be condemned at the 
 Day of Judgment to everlasting fire, unless in this world he shall have repented in tears. [Then 
 the boundaries.] 
 
 Done A.D. 943. by Edmund, Odo Archb. of Cant., &c. This land was left by Wulfric after 
 his wife’s decease; which bequest, Elswin, becomiug Monk and returning to the Monastery, ful¬ 
 filled.” 
 
 2. Appendix No. xxxvij. A.D. 956. Grant of Netelington by E. Edwy to the Abbot and 
 Monastery of Glastonbury. [The original printed in New Monasticon, I. p. 50.] 
 
 “ Christ being the Disposer of all kingdoms. I Edwi in the first year of my reign, swaying 
 the sceptre of the realm of England, grant to my singularly faithful Abbot of Glaston Elswi 20 
 Tenements at the place commonly called by the inhabitants, ‘ At Netelintone.’ To be inheritable, 
 and free of charge, except, &c. 
 
 Done A.D. 956. I Edwy the King have irrevocably consented, iJ«, I Edgar the King’s 
 brother have cheerfully agreed. I Odo, Archbishop, have confirmed, with the sign of the 
 cross.” 
 
 1 Of this Cromlech-Tumulus a full account, with illustrations, by Dr. Thurnam of Devizes, is 
 given in the “Wilts. Archaeol. Mag.” Vol. Ill, p. 164. See also “Gent. Mag.” 1827, part 1, 
 p. 161. The Tumulus has been levelled; but the Cromlech remains. 
 
HIGHWORTH, CR1CKLADE and STAPLE HUNDRED. * 1 
 
 BLOUNDESDON (St. Andrew’s). 2 3 
 
 TANDS nobly, it is beheld by a stately prospect from the South-west: it 
 (r is a faire gothique house, with a great Hall after the old fashion, built 
 ^ ^ 01( ^ Chandois temp. Hen. 8. In the Church or house is nothing 
 
 f or an Herald. Traditur , that the Church here was sometime larger 
 
 than it now is, and that here was a village adjoyning, as appeares by the mines, 
 which howses were swallowed up by the Mannour house. 
 
 1 This is an union of Three Hundreds formerly separate. 
 
 1. Highworth. In the Latin Hundred Rolls it is called “ Altel-burgh,” and sometimes simply 
 “Worth.” The Lordship belonged in 39 Hen. III. (1254) to Baldwin Redvers, or De Insula, 
 Earl of the Isle of Wight, and, he being a Minor, it was in the hands of the Queen as his 
 guardian. It made no return to the Sheriff. In 1280 Adam Stratton held it. [See “Seven- 
 hampton.”] In 1316 it belonged to Margaret the Queen Dowager widow of King Edw. I. In 
 1 Edw. VI. (1547), having been then also part of the late Queen’s jointure, it was granted, with 
 Cricklade Hundred and the Bailiwick of Bisley, co. Gloucester, to Thomas Lord Seymour of 
 Sudeley. At the Dissolution the Bailiwick of the Hundred was leased by the Crown to John 
 Warneford. The Hundred and Borough belonged to John Howe, Lord Chedworth, who died 
 1804: and in 1806 were purchased by William Crowdy Esq. 
 
 2. Cricklade. The Lordship of this Hundred also belonged to Baldwin de Insula as above : 
 and likewise made no returns to the Sheriff. In 9 Edw. II. (1316) it was also the Queen Dowa¬ 
 ger’s, as above: when it included Cricklade, Polton, Ashton Keynes, Cerncote, Somerford Keynes 
 and Latton. 
 
 3. Staple, or Stapelee. King Henry II. gave the Lordship of this Hundred to Odred his 
 Falconer, whose heirs, Adam de Peryton and Hugh Peverell, held it in 39 Hen. III. (1254), free of 
 the Sheriff; they held their own View of Frank Pledge, and had return of Briefs, “by ancient 
 Liberty.” In 1275 the Lordship belonged to the families of Keynes and Paynell: in 1316 to 
 the Despensers. It included Chelworth and Purton. [See the Hundred Rolls.] 
 
 2 About three miles from Swindon. In 1282 Roger de Writele gave land in Blunsdon to the 
 Abbess of Godstow. For the estate which he held he did suit at the court of Adam Stratton of 
 Sevenhampton. A Charter of A.D. 1321 (Inq. a. q. d.) witnesses that the Advowson was in 
 
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 HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE AND STAPLE HUNDRED. 
 
 In Mortimer’s Leiger Book: “Duo feod. milit. cum pertinent, in Bloundesdon, 
 in Com. Wiltes, quse Johannes As tenet, et que ad xiij 1 . yi s . yiij d .” 
 
 HIGHWORTH. 1 
 
 I have been credibly informed by Mr. Ph. Laurence that at the Bull in this 
 
 that year appropriated by Robert Hungerford to the Monastery of Ivy Church : but this gift 
 seems to have been defeated. This Manor (held under Dunstanville of Castle Combe and Mautra- 
 vers, jointly, see Wilts. Archmol. Mag. II. 282) and the Advowson, belonged A.D. 1201—1348 
 to a family whose name is variously spelt, As : Ace: Aze: Aas: or Wace. A Henry de Blunsdon 
 was Almoner to Edw. I.; a chantry, with a priest to pray for his soul, was founded in Sarum 
 Cathedral c. 1398. In 1361—98 the manor belonged to Fitzwarine; in 1440 to Andrew; in 
 1445 to John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury, [see “North Bradley;”) in 1454 to James 
 Audley; in 1459 to John Ferris (or Ferrars) who was Sheriff of Wilts. This family was twice 
 in trouble. In 1. Hen. VII. Ferris of Blunsdon was attainted as a partisan of Rich. III.: and 
 an Edmund Ferris of Blunsdon St. Andrew was included in the attainder of Edmund Delapole, 
 2nd. Duke of Suffolk, in 1513, when the manor was granted to Sir Giles Brydges. His son, Sir 
 John, was created 1554 Baron Chandos of Sudeley, and lived here. Henry, 2nd. Earl of Claren¬ 
 don was owner in 1667. This family presented to the living the Rev. Josiah Pullen, afterwards 
 Vice Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford; whose favourite elm is still known as “Joe Pullen’s 
 tree,” on Headington Hill near that city. About 1770 the Clarendon family sold their estate. 
 The Kecks of Great Tew, Oxon, were proprietors here in 1714, whose estate has passed to' its 
 present owner Mr. Calley. 
 
 Bury Blunsdon is so called from an ancient Burgh or Camp on a hill. This is described by 
 Sir R. C. Hoare, Anc. Wilts, ii. 39, as different from many that he had seen, and as presenting 
 some singularities he could not account for. The manor belonged in 1300 to Golafre, holding 
 under Ryvers. 
 
 Connected with Blunsdon Gay are found in 1316 Adam de Gay; in 1398 Mortimer, Earl of 
 March ; in 1437 Lovell of Titchmarsh; in 1469 Roger Bavent. Alexander Heydok had one 
 third of the manor in 1544. Michael Dennys one third in 1564. John Samborne Jun. one third 
 in 1570. (Jones’s Index.) 
 
 At Broad Blunsdon (St. Leonard’s), the living of which is attached to Highworth, among 
 other owners were, in 1316 Margaret Queen of England : Gilbert de Ellesfield, 1319 : Walrond, 
 a very ancient family here (see Fines) and Montacute Earl of Sarum. For a description of a 
 brass in the Church of Broad Blunsdon to a Lady, name unknown, A.D. 1608, see “ Kite’s 
 Wiltshire Brasses,” p. 80. 
 
 1 The ancient name was simply “ Worth,” place or village, sometimes Latinized into Vorda. 
 From the situation, it became Alta Worth, Altel-burgh, or High-worth. At the Conquest it w r as 
 demesne of the Crown. From Hen. III. to Hen. VI. the families of Mandeville, and Ryvers of 
 
152 Aubrey’s north wilts. [. Higliworth . 
 
 Towne, at one Hartwell’s, is to be seen a skull of a vast bignesse, half as big again 
 as an ordinary one: which see. 
 
 LATTON. (In Cricklade Hundred). 
 
 About 1670 was found in a ploughed field at Latton near Cricklade, a pavement 
 of Opus tessellation , which they told me was chequer-work of about 2 or 3 inches 
 square. Colours of the stones were black, white and red. [Mon. Brit.~\ 
 
 This estate belongs to Down Amney. 1 In the church is nothing for an antiquary 
 
 Tormarton co. Gloucester were principal owners: and at Freshdeane, the De L’isles. Hampton 
 retains the surname of Robert de Turville, 1316. In 1365 Sir Thomas Hungerford gave to 
 Edingdon Monastery various lands in Hampton and Westhorp, late Ryvers’s, "Walter Berton’s, 
 and Aylmer’s, with a ferry at Freshdeane: for the Foundation of Obits to his family. Mr. 
 Lemon’s “Domestic Calendar, State Papers,” p. 169, mentions “Particulars of the manor of 
 Escrope (Esthorp) in Highworth, late in the tenure of Thomas Lord Seymour, on payment of a 
 certain rent, 21bs. of was, a pair of gilt spurs, 1 rason of ginger, and 1 pair of gloves. Weldon’s 
 suit.” 
 
 The Tithes of the Parish were given by Wm. I, to Osmund, Bishop of Old Sarum. (In Henry the 
 Second’s Charter to that Church, A.D. 1162, Highworth Rectory is called “ Ecclesia de Wydha.”) 
 The Prebend of Highworth was ordained and made by Margery Ryvers. [See “ Sevenhampton.”] 
 There is a List of the earlier Prebendaries in “ Antiquities of Abbey Church of Bath and Salis¬ 
 bury,” p. 325. The Parish Church was used as a garrison by the Royalists in 1644. The 
 Warnefords are buried in the South aisle. John Potenger Esq. controller of the Pipe, son of Dr. 
 J. Potenger, Master of Winchester School, was buried at Highworth in 1733: Arms, a bend 
 lozengy between 6 fieurs de lys. In “ Hone’s Year Book ” p. 915, is an account of some curious 
 proceedings at the funeral of a female gypsy in August 1830. A. D. Hussey Esq. of Salisbury 
 is Lay Rector. 
 
 There was a chantry of St. Nicholas endowed out of lands at “ Stodley grange and Mighale ” both 
 near Lydiard, Thickwood (in Colerne), Yatton Keynell, and Clapcote (in Grittleton), of which 
 the Abbot of Stanley near Chippenham was patron. In 1456 he presented John Salve. At the 
 Dissolution a chantry-house was purchased by Reve and Cotton, two speculators in church property. 
 
 1 “ Latone and Eisy ” were united by a Saxon Earl. They were given by King John to Ciren¬ 
 cester Abbey; and, under the Abbey, Latton was held on lease by a branch of the Stutville or 
 Estoteville family who settled here, and were thence called De Latton. Many particulars of 
 them are given in Ashmole’s Berks, iii. 330—363. Camden (“ Remains ”) contends that sirnames 
 were first given for distinction of families, which afterwards descended to the eldest son only, the 
 rest taking their names from their possessions. He quotes this case as an example. In the 
 Monasticon is a copy of a curious grant (1305) by the Abbey, of a Corrody, or maintenance 
 
HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE AND STAPLE HUNDRED. 
 
 153 
 
 to observe. * 1 
 
 Mem. The Priory by Cricklade in the rode to Cirencester. 2 The East window 
 in the Chapell is like that at St. Abb’s by Pembroke College in Oxford. 
 
 The country people say, that as Creekelade hath his name from Greeko being 
 taught there, so this place hath its denomination from the teaching here Latin. 
 Perhaps both their names, as to part, come from the British word Laith, which is a 
 marasse, which well agrees with both these places: so Long-leat, laith, is as much 
 as to say Long-marsh. 3 
 
 LYDYARD-MILLICENT, alias NORTH-LYDYARD. 4 
 
 In the Church, in the South Aisle, is an ancient large seate, now belonging to 
 Antony, Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the Checquer, on the timber of the seate thus: 
 
 IMM. JI3EM ©1EE (?) ffldB jF<£S®e. 
 
 consisting of fourteen white loaves and nine gallons of beer every week so long as they live, to 
 John de Latton and Isabel his wife, for surrendering their rights in a lease granted to his father. 
 Prater was a family here in 1565. 
 
 At the Dissolution Latton was purchased by the Hungerfords of Down Ampney. The Manor, 
 and Rectory impropriate, were in this family in 1629: from whom, by their heiress, it passed to 
 Dunch of Wittenham, Berks. 
 
 1 The Church was originally Norman, of which style some portions remain. The chancel was 
 rebuilt in 1835 by the Earl of St. Germain’s, of Down Ampney. 
 
 2 The Prior of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist at Cricklade had some land at Latton. 
 
 3 This absurdity of “ Greek and Latin lades ” has been sometimes seriousfr repeated by 
 writers who ought to have known better. The derivation of the name Latton is simply Lay, 
 summer pasturage, and tun, enclosure. That of Lon g-leat is from leat, an aqueduct or water¬ 
 course. See Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. III. 282. 
 
 4 Some account of the descent of this manor may be gathered from that of Melcombe co. Dorset 
 with which in ancient times it seems to have been connected, as to ownership. [Hutchins, II. 423.] 
 It is probable that in order to distinguish it from Lydiard Tregoz, this parish retained the Christian 
 name of a Lady who was owner temp. King John. In a Fine of that date, “ Hugh son of William 
 granted to his brother Richard the Yill of Lidiard after the death of Milisent his mother.” Her 
 own family name is lost, but she was probably the wife of a Clinton : as in Hen. III. and Edw. I., 
 the Clintons of Coleshill co. Warwick were landowners here : either in their own right, or under 
 
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154 
 
 [Pur ton. 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 PYRTON or PURETON. 1 (In the Hundred of Staple.) 
 
 Tliis was collected by my ingeniose friend Mr. R. Browne of Magd. Hall, Oxon. 
 
 the Newburghs, and then the Beauchamps, Earls of "Warwick. In 1347 Clinton’s estate was held 
 by Ralph Basset of Drayton co. Stafford, and about 1457 by Robert Turges who was also patron 
 of the Rectory, to which, in 1465 William Browning, in right of his wife Alice Turges, presented, 
 and in 1515, Baskett. All these names occur also in the descent of Melcombe abovementioned. The 
 Baskett family disappear about 1576 when they sold their estate to Wm. Richmond alias Webbe. 
 [Of this family there is a Pedigree in the Wilts. Visit. 1623.] After 138 years, the Webbes sold 
 in 1714 to Sir John Askew. The daughter of his brother Ferdinand Askew, married Colonel 
 Blunt: from whose family the Manor passed by sale in 1811 to the Rev. Henry Thomas Streeten. 
 The Lordship of the Manor had been for some years a subject of dispute, but by a recent Trial at 
 Salisbury (1860) between the Streeten family and the Earl of Shaftesbury, it has been awarded 
 to the former. 
 
 Among other names of ancient landholders here are, Robert le Archer 1280, Robert Russell 
 1307, Roger Normaund 1349, John Russell 1472, William Lock 1587. In 1274 Godfrey de 
 Aspail gave land to the Priory of Bradenstoke. In 1476 John Yorke hold some land for a chantry 
 at Ramsbury. 
 
 Of the Font, which is circular and Norman, of about A.D. 1150, there is an engraving in 
 “ F. A. Paley’s Baptismal Fonts.” The Rectory in the 14th century belonged to the Prior}' of 
 Newent co. Gloucester: afterwards was in the gift of the Crown : and from 1460 to the present 
 time has passed through many different patrons. It now belongs to Pembroke College, Oxon. 
 
 1 The name of Purton was anciently spelled Piri-ton, or Pury-ton, meaning, in Anglo Saxon, the 
 Pear-tree inclosure. The Rectory and principal Manor, described as “ 35 hides of land on the 
 East side of the wood called Braden ” were given by King Chedwalla to Bishop Aldhelm for the 
 foundation of Malmsbury Abbey. At the Dissolution the Abbey’s manor was in lease to Margaret 
 Pulleyne, widow, and some part of Braden was then leased by the Crown to the Earl of Warwick. 
 The Rectory was granted to Brydges, Lord Chandos of Sudeley. In 1629 the Manor and 
 Advowson belonged to Sir John Cooper father of the first Earl of Shaftesbury. The Earl’s 
 grandson, the Hon. Maurice Ashley (who dropped the name of Cooper,) M.P. for Weymouth, 
 and Translator of Xenophon’s Cyropsedia, resided, and with his wife Katharine Popple, was buried 
 here. [See Inscription, Hutchins’s Dorset, II, 216.] 
 
 Lord Chancellor Clarendon’s house now belongs to the Earl of Shaftesbury. On a chimney piece 
 is the shield of arms of the Chancellor’s grandmother, one of the Sibell family : viz., a tiger looking 
 backwards in a mirror. (See “ Tisbury ”). This coat was also on the church windows of Thame, co. 
 Oxon. In his “Life,” vol. I, p. 9. octavo, Lord Clarendon mentions that in his 17th year being 
 seized with an illness at the Middle Temple, his friends much feared a consumption, so that his 
 uncle” (Sir Nicholas Hyde of Marlborough, Lord Chief Justice) “thought fit to send him into 
 the country to Pirton in North Wiltshire whither his father ” (Henry Hyde who married Mary 
 Langford of Trowbridge) “ had removed himself from Dinton ” (where the Chancellor was born, 
 
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 HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE AND STAPLE HUNDRED. 
 
 u Tliis is a very faire Church, sometime doubtless a place of great devotion, as 
 appeares by those many niches in the walles within and without to sett images in, 
 &c. At the East end of the Chancell without are two Angells holding some kind 
 of vegetative between them, which I suppose to be either a lam-el or olive branch. 
 
 All the windowes in the Chancell are seminated all over with estoilles or starres 
 of 6 points. 
 
 On the North side of the Altar, in the wall, is an old marble tombe, but the 
 
 1608:) “ choosing rather to live upon liis own land, the which he had purchased many years 
 before, and to rent Dinton, which was but a lease for lives, to a Tenant.” It was also at this 
 house at Pyrton that, he says, whilst he was reading to his father in Camden’s Annals, in Latin, 
 the particular passage relating to a certain John Felton who had fixed the Pope’s Bull against the 
 Bishop of London’s palace gate, a person of the neighbourhood knocked at the door and told them 
 that a post had just gone through the village to Charlton, the Earl of Berkshire’s, to inform the 
 Earl that the Duke of Buckingham was killed the day before by another John Felton. His two 
 elder brothers dying, the Chancellor succeeded to this property. He married for his first wife 
 Anne daughter of Sir George Ayliffe of Grittenham House in the adjoining parish of Brinkworth. 
 She died in the first year of marriage, 2nd. July 1632 aged 20. Ashmole [Berks. I. 2.] mentions 
 her monument, with portraiture of herself and an infant, in Purley Church, Berks: with this 
 inscription: “Yale anima candidissima! Yale mariti tui quern dolore et luctu conficis, aeternum 
 desiderium ! Yale foeminarum decus et smculi ornamentum! ” The Clarendon property now belongs 
 to Worcester College. 
 
 The two coats of arms, mentioned by Aubrey as in the church windows, were those of the Keynes 
 and Paynell families, who in 1274 were landowners under Malmesbury Abbey. The former were 
 Hereditary Keepers of Braden Forest. “Keynes’s Place, or Court” came in 1376 to Wentiliana 
 sister and heiress of Sir John Keynes, Knight. In 1413 it was Sir William Brantingham’s. [See 
 also Hutchins Dorset, I. 127.] “ Paynell’s,” shortened into “ ’Nele’s-Place,” passed by an heiress 
 
 Margery Paynell, to John Ponger, or Poucher, 1349. The Earls of Sarum, and of Lancaster, had 
 some ancient interest in the parish, and among owners in temp. Edw. III. and IY. are the names, 
 of Aylmer, Walrond, Russell, and the Lord St. Amand. In 1565 Robert Shermore. About temp. 
 Elizabeth the family of Digges from Kent settled here: their descendants at Marlborough. In 
 Charles I. and II. Nevil Maskelyne. The Astronomer Royal of that name was buried here in 
 1811. Lord Clive of Plassy, the celebrated Indian General who died 1774, married Margaret 
 daughter of Edmund Maskelyne Esq. of Purton. Anthony Goddard was of Purton 1737. In 1472 
 some land here maintained a chantry in Ramsbury church : and there was also a payment of rent 
 to Maiden Bradley Prion^. In the “ Archeeologia,” vol. XXXVII. p. 304 there is a carefully drawn 
 Map, and an Article on the ancient bounds of Braden Forest, by J. Y. Akerman Esq. 
 
 The Church, St. Mary’s, but called St. Nicholas in a Fine of 9. Edw. III., has tico towers, on 
 one of which is a spire. The words “Johannes Passus” (John in Martyrdom) perhaps refer to 
 some stained glass representation of the execution of St. John. 
 
 V 2 
 
Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 156 
 
 \_Purton. 
 
 Inscription with coates of armes being in brasse, on purpose to perpetuate the 
 memories of the dead, gave occasion to sacrilegious hands to teare them away. 
 
 In this Church have been very fine paynted glasse, but now so broken and 
 mangled, that there is little to be recovered. 
 
 In a crosse Aile, on the South side, in the third column of the East windowe is 
 this coate : [No. 225, Keynes.] In the South windowe, in the same Aile, are severall 
 Inscriptions, with severall Bishops with their Mitres and Crosiers. 
 
 This coate, [No. 226, Paynell] is in the last windowe on the South side of the 
 Church, and this inscription has been shuffled, I know not how, by the glazier, into 
 the first columne of the same window: “ 3of)anttfl5 PaSSUS.” 
 
 In this parish was the Chancellor Hyde’s habitation when a private gentleman, 
 before the civill warres.” 
 
 RODBOURNE-CHEINEY. 
 
 From Mr. R. Browne. 
 
 “ In the Chancell, on the South side of the Altar, is a monument erected to 
 William Holcroft, Gent. He was buried about fourty years since, or thereabout. 
 This was Dr. Whistler’s wife’s father, viz. Alderman Lowther’s Relict. 
 
 “ In the name of God, Amen. Here lyeth the body of William Holcroft the sonne of Thomas 
 Holcroft and Margery Sandis his wife, the youngest daughter of the Lord Thomas Sandis; the 
 sayd William Holcroft at the time of making this his monument, had to wife Dorothy Bedingfield, 
 the daughter of Thomas Bedingfield, of Bedingfield, in the county of Suffolke, Esquire, and by 
 her had five children, namely Thomas and William Holcroft, Elizabeth, Dorothy, and Mary Hol¬ 
 croft, for whom hee prayed God to bless them, saj’ing, Christ is to mee life; death is to mee 
 advantage. Anno Domini 1621, July XXVIII.” 
 
 Four shields. [No. 227.] Holcroft. 
 
 [No. 228.] Do. impaling (Sandys.) 
 
 [No. 229.] Do. impaling - (? Woolberg, Young, or Fydelow. 
 
 See Glover’s Ordinary of Arms. 
 
 [No. 230.] Do. impaling (Bedingfield.) 
 
 This monument was made by him in his lifetime. 
 
 In an Aisle adjoining to the Chancell, now belonging to Edward Webb, Esqr., 
 this coate, in the third columne of the second windowe, [No. 231.] 
 
HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE AND STAPLE HUNDRED. 157 
 
 In the second columne of the same windowe a pigge salient, with a bell about his 
 neck, [No. 232], respecting a man at his beads, now broken: I presume he was 
 Saint Anthony. In the limbe (edge) of the window: 'Hutto Dm. mtlcSttttO • • • 
 
 These letters are in the first columne of the 3rd windowe; in a circle I.P.C. 
 [No. 233], and stand, I suppose for I.H.C, i.e. Jesus: how the P should come in 
 
 there I know not. In the limb is ©rate . BnicfartoriflUS. In this windowe 
 
 this escutcheon; [No. 234, Richmond alias Webb]. 
 
 In the limb of the 3rd window, on the north side of the Church, 
 
 $rag for toeltlj of SHtlltam.for tljc bicltlj of Syomas Satugrr anb ©atente. 
 
 The Vicaridge howse is very ancient, and, as I have often heard the reverend 
 late deceased Vicar say, was an itinerating-liowse to the Monastery of Hales in 
 Gloucestershire.” 1 
 
 1 In the greater number of instances the second name of this parish is spelled in old records, 
 Chanew, Chaneu, Chanow, &c.: which seems as if it rather came from Chaneux, a different 
 family from Cheyne of Wilts. In Edw. I. Ralph Le Chanu was the mesne lord under Richard, 
 Earl of Cornwall, as of the Honour of Wallingford. He had also the Advowson. The Rector in 
 1308, by whom the Vicar was appointed, is called “ Richard le Ostage.” On the death of the 
 Earl, the Crown granted the Lordship and Advowson to Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, 
 by whom in 17 Edw. II. [1323] the advowson and some lands were given to the Abbey of Hayles, 
 co. Gloucester. In 43 Elizabeth [1600] Lionel Bostock, gent., had at his death the late monas¬ 
 tery’s manor. [I. p. m.] A family of this name was at Abingdon, Berks. 
 
 In 1587 the chief estate belonged to Edmund Richmond alias Webb, whose mother was heir of 
 Anthony Pulleyne, of this place. [Wilts Visit. 1623 “Richmond.”] It still belonged to the 
 Webbs in Aubrey’s time. Wotton, and Yorke, are names found here in Edw. IV. 
 
 At Haydon, Haydon-wick, and Morden in this parish occur the names of owners, viz., Sanford 
 1202, Tregoz 1298, Aylmer 1361, Le Warr 1370, St. Omer 1404, Wrofton (Wroughton) 1408, 
 Fitzwaryn and Montacute 1414, Nevill, Earl of Abergavenny, 1476. 
 
 Thomas Rodbourne, Warden of Merton College, Oxon., and builder of the fine tower there, 
 afterwards Bishop of St. David’s, who died about 1442, is said by A. Wood to have been a native 
 of this parish. [Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary, “ R«dborne.”] 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Adee, Vicar 1670—1713, published in 1682 a Visitation sermon preached that 
 year at Cricklade from Luke xx. 14, called “ A Plot for a Crown ” : in which he applied the 
 parable of the Husbandmen who cast out the Heir in order to seize his inheritance, to tho case of 
 the rightful Prince and the excluders in Parliament. The times being “ nice,” he was obliged 
 to clear himself by a Preface. 
 
 In shield No. 231 the sinister may possibly refer to the Sawyer family, whose name is 
 
158 Aubrey’s north wilts. [, Sevenhampton . 
 
 SEVENHAMPTON, not far from Highworth. 
 
 In an old, and very faire and gilt and painted MS. in folio on velam, which was 
 the Missale in the hands of Mr. Hood, Pastor of Coulsdon in Com. Surrey, which 
 heretofore belonged to this place, I find written as followeth: 
 
 [Appendix No. xxxviii.] Extract from a Latin Deed in which one of the Warneford Family 
 ‘Confirms to God and the Chapel of St. James of Sevenhampton, and to Elias there, a house, 
 and land which .... Warn. . . . my father, of good memory, gave to found a Daily Mass for his 
 soul, with Dirige and Placebo, &c. Witnessed by John Fitz Piers, Robert de Waltham, Roger 
 Foliott, Peter Jordan, Chaplain, and others.” * 1 
 
 In the Kalendar (i.e. of the Missal above-mentioned), in the Month of August, I 
 find thus, viz. 
 
 “9. Aug. The Obit of John Warneford, A.D. 1393.” 
 
 In the same Kalendar: 
 
 “21. July. St. Praxedes Yirgo. The Obit of Margery Ryvers, Lady of Sevenhampton, who 
 ordained and made the Prebendary and Prebend of Hey worth.” No year of the Lord. 2 
 
 mentioned in Aubrey’s text as in an inscription on the church windows. Burke’s Armoury gives for 
 Sawyer “ a fess between three sea-pies; ” but for Sayer, a kindred name, “ a chevron between 
 three sea-gulls,” as in the shield No. 231. 
 
 1 Aubrey has not preserved the date; but the next extract from the Kalendar of the same 
 Missal, probably supplies both the Founder’s name and the year, 1393. 
 
 2 Sevenhampton (in Anglo Saxon, Seofen-ham-tun, the enclosure of seven farms), commonly 
 called Sennington, is a hamlet of Highworth. It was of the Lordship of William de Ewe at the 
 Norman Survey. In Hen. III. an estate here was held under the Crown by Margery de Ripariis, 
 or de Ryvers, of Tormarton, co. Gloucester, who, according to the memorandum preserved by 
 Aubrey, founded the valuable Prebend of Highworth, in the Cathedral of Salisbury. 
 
 The Manor belonged in 1262 to Baldwin de Redvers, or de Insula, Eighth and last Earl of 
 Devon of that name: whose heir was his sister Isabella widow of William de Fortibus Earl of 
 Albemarle. She was Hereditary Chamberlain in Fee of the Exchequer, which office, together 
 with this Manor, and the “ hamlets of Highworth, Stratton and Cricklade ” she granted by Deed 
 to Adam de Stratton, Clerk, for which he did homage and obtained confirmation from the Crown. 
 (Madox). For some offence he was imprisoned, and his estate, of which 926 acres were in 
 demesne, was seized by the Crown. It was assigned as dower to Margaret Queen of England widow 
 of Edw. I. 
 
 In 6. Edw. II. (1312) the King’s tenants at Sevenhampton, Stratton and Highworth complained 
 
HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE AND STAPLE HUNDRED. 159 
 
 SOMERFORD KEYNES. 
 
 In the church is not to be found the coate of Kaynes, [PI. xi. No. 194], nor any 
 thing else but a monument—on which are these Arms, Straung quartering Hun- 
 gerford [PI. xiv. No. 235]. The inscription was made by H. Hungerford Esq. 
 
 PIE LECTOR. 
 
 Dormientem hie habes Robertum Straung Filium Unigenitum et Posthumum Roberti 
 Straung de Somerford-Keynes in Agro Wilts Armigeri et Janje uxoris, Alice Antbonij 
 Hungerford de Black Bourton in agro Oxon. Militis. Qui e quinis Sororibus tres babuit 
 Superstites, Quae [concurrentibus maritis] fragile hoc erexerunt Monumentum in Fratris 
 Sui memoriam : qui e vivis decessit 14° die Junii An° Dm. 1654. ACtatis suae 23. 
 
 “ "Ov Oeo? cnroOvijaKei i ” 
 
 (He whom God loves , dies young.) 
 
 “ Non jacet hie Straung, attamen bic jacet ille Robertus 
 Qui modo Straung fuerat, Straung abit, ille manet.” 
 
 that though they were not of Ancient Demesne of the Crown and were not wont to be tallaged 
 (taxed for the King’s aid) in times past, but bad paid their common charges and prestations like 
 the rest of the Towns, yet nevertheless the King’s officers had charged them with tallage as if they 
 had been of Ancient Demesne. Search was made in Domesday Book. Sevenhampton was found 
 to have belonged to William de Ow, and Stratton to Nigel the Physician. About Highworth 
 they could find nothing either in Domesday or other records. They were accordingly adjudged 
 to be discharged of tallage. There is a long Deed relating to this matter in “ Madox’s Firma 
 Burgi.” p. 6. note. Afterwards these manors were dower of Isabel, widow of Edw. II. In 1378 
 the Duke of Brittany had surrendered the town of Brest to the King of England until the war 
 should be ended, on condition of having a large sum of money, and a Castle and Manor assigned 
 him in England. Castle Rising in Norfolk was the one chosen, and with it the Manor of Seven¬ 
 hampton and Hundred of Highworth, which he held until the restoration of Brest in 1396. 
 (Fceclera.) Henry VII. settled the three manors abovementioned as jointure on his Queen. 
 Among ancient landholders in the reigns of the Edwards were the Abbess of Godstowe, William 
 Aylmer, Clinton Earl of Huntingdon, and Sir Robert Knolles. Certain lands belonging to 
 Elizabeth St. Omer (of Britford) who married 1st. Richard Horne and 3rd. John Syward were 
 sold by her daughter and heiress Joan Atte More to Walter Lord Hungerford in 1435. 
 
 The Warnefords of Warneford Place in Sevenhampton, according to the old Kalendars quoted 
 by Aubrey, were here so early as 1393. John Warneford was Sheriff of Wilts 1589. Sir Edmund 
 1683. They were supporters of the Parliament in the Civil Wars. The South East chapel in 
 Highworth Church belongs to this family. Dr. Samuel Wilson Warneford, Rector of Lydiard 
 Millicent, Wilts, eldest son of Rev. Francis Warneford and Catharine Calverley,) who died Jan¬ 
 uary 1855 aged 92, endowed the Queen’s College and tho Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, with 
 £29,500: and was a most munificent benefactor during lifetime to various societies and charities. 
 A memoir of him, printed for private circulation, was written by the Rev. Vaughan Thomas 
 B.D. of C. C. College, Oxon. 
 
160 aubkey’s north wilts. [Somerford Keynes. 
 
 In the church-yard is a tombe-stone with Inscription of. Coldwell, son of 
 
 Bishop Coldwell of Salisbury, who was a tradesman in London, and broke and 
 became a Steward in this family. 1 
 
 STRATTON ST. MARGARET. 
 
 From Mr. R. Browne. 
 
 “ Here is nothing very remarkable either ancient or moderne, only in the N. 
 wall of the Church is an old niche, but without any monument. In a windowe on 
 the South side, is the picture of St. Katharine with her wlieele and another broken 
 
 1 Somerford Keynes is in Cricklade Hundred. In the Monasticon is a grant [Malmsbury No. 
 VI.] to Bishop Aldhelm of “ 40 cassates of land on the East side of the River Thames near the Ford 
 called Summerforde ” : these are also mentioned in Domesday Book as belonging to the Abbey: 
 and Moffat (Hist, of Malms. 181) places them at Somerford Keynes. It certainly lies nearer to the 
 Thames than either of the other Somerfords, but in the list of the Malmsbury Abbey estates at 
 the Dissolution there is no mention of property of that extent at any place called Somerford. At 
 that time the Abbey had only a trifling payment of 3s. 4d. from Little Somerford, and Is. for 
 Angrove. 
 
 Hutchins (Dorset I. 110.) says that Ralph de Kaynes (son of a Norman Ralph de Caineto) had 
 the manor of Somerford given to him by King Henry I. in marriage with the daughter of Hugh 
 Maminot a Baron in Kent. His grandson Ralph forfeited the estate by joining the barons in 
 rebellion against King John. In Edw. I. Hugh Paynell held Somerford under William de 
 Kaynes. In 1280 Robert de Kaynes died seised of this estate, of Chelworth, the custody of Braden 
 Forest, part of Ashton Keynes and Purton and Colcote manors. Somerford was held in 1316 by 
 the favourite Despenser: in 1354 by William Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon: and in 1361 by Sir 
 Theobald Mounteney of Minchinhampton co. Gloucester. In 1365 the Manor and Advowson were 
 granted by Edw. III. to his daughter Isabella on her marriage with Ingelram de Courcy. In 
 1400 to Edmund Duke of York. Hen. VII. settled them in jointure. They were purchased from 
 the Crown in Philip and Mary by Robert Strange: whose last male representative, Robert, died 
 (see inscription above) in 1654, aet. 23. His fine monument is in the North aisle. By one of his 
 sisters and coheiresses the property passed to the Foyles of Hampshire. The three sisters were 
 Mrs. Margaret Foyle, Mrs. Southby of Carswell, and Jane, Lady Jocelyn. The young man’s 
 mother was Jane, Bister of Sir Edward Hungerford of Farleigh and Corsham, and daughter of 
 Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney. 
 
 The church has some masonry which is considered to be Saxon. In the North wall is a very 
 ancient outside-door: there is an hour-glass by the pulpit, and a painting of St. Christopher on the 
 wall. The old manor house is standing. Geo. Soley Foyle and J. Pitt Esqrs. were joint Lords 
 of the Manor in 1805. 
 
161 
 
 HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE AND STAPLE HUNDRED. 
 
 in the first columne, which I suppose to he St. Margaret the Tutelar saint of this 
 Church. a Here are no coates of armes, only on the tombe of one Lacy alias Hedges, 
 [No. 236] ; and on one Kemble’s tombe, [No. 237.] 1 Neither of these have been 
 interred above fourty yeares. 
 
 Here is likewise a tradition that this was a Market-towne in the time of the 
 Saxons. 
 
 Merton, Bishop of Rochester and Founder of Merton College in Oxford, had once 
 the cure of soules here; he afterwards purchased the mannour and gave it to his 
 college.” 2 
 
 a G. If she stands on a Dragon ? 
 
 1 There was a family of Kemble of Stratton 1565 and 1660. 
 
 2 Walter Rodbourn, Rudborn, or De Merton (see above p. 157) who was in Holy Orders so 
 early as 1237, is said to have been Rector here. He gave the Advowson, and lands, to his College, 
 and endowed a Vicarage. The College obtained a fair and market 26 Hen. VI. (1447.) The 
 Abbey of Turon, or Tirron, had a pension from Stratton in 1291. An Alien Priory here was 
 confiscated and its property given by Hen. VI. to King’s Coll. Cambridge. 
 
 Stratton is in Cricklade Hundred. The name is a corruption of Street-town, from a Roman 
 street which passed through it. The entire parish was held at the Conquest by Nigel, the King’s 
 Physician. In Edw. I. there were four properties held under the Braose family, as of their 
 Honour of Kington co. Hereford, by Gardun, De la Folye, Feonay, and Le Bret. Besides these 
 were other owners, Walerand of Blountesdon, free of service; Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and 
 Margery Ryvers who held under the Crown; and Baldwin de Insula, whose estate seems to have 
 descended in the same course as that held by him at Sevenhampton. In 1316 Margaret, Queen 
 of England, had both the Strattons in dower. In 1363 Humphrey de Bohun had the manor of 
 Stratton St. Margaret. On the partition of the Bohun estates in 1421 between King Hen. V. 
 and his cousin the Lady Anne Plantagenet then Countess of Stafford, Stratton fell to the latter. 
 In 1414 it had been held by her husband’s nephew Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. In 
 1445 the “grange within the King’s manor at Margrete Stratton” is described as “ roofless and the 
 thatch rotten.” In 1544 there was a grant to Sir Thomas Brydges. Chelrey, Bonville and Orgoyle 
 were also ancient names here. In 10 Rich. I. a virgate of land was held by the service of attending 
 the army with a horse to carry the lord’s clothes. Some of the land belonging to Margery 
 Ryvers and Le Bret above mentioned, afterwards belonged to a family of Espringham, by whom 
 they were sold to Burton, and from his representatives were purchased in 1439 by Lord Hunger- 
 ford who gave them to his younger son Sir Edmund, of Down Ampney. 
 
 Gough speaks of the Font in Stratton Church as of c. 1280. [Sep: Mon : ii. p. 1. Tab. 8.] By 
 Order in Council 1852 the Vicarage was transferred from the patronage of the Bishop of Salisbury 
 to that of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 
 
 X 
 
KINGSBR1DGE HUNDRED. 1 
 
 CHISELDEN. 
 
 ^ the Communion table a gravestone of marble, with brasse, with this 
 inscription, viz. 
 
 ■^ raunc * s Butlanh, lEsqutrr Sonne anti fjctrc to 
 Rgcolas Rutland of fHtrijam in thjc countie of Surrge, lEsqutcr, ixifjo 
 ntarrorh tfjc tiaugljter of Cljornas Stephens, (£sqr. attti hjatj 4 sours anti 2 tiaucjljtcrs; 
 fye tiirti tfjc XXVM of August, 1592. 
 
 The escutcheon is lost; he was a courtier and dyed in the Progresse. 
 
 On the Chancel N. wall hangs, in a table, the escutcheon of Cawley impaling 
 Bower, [No. 238]. Cawley’s Crest is a demi lyon O. surcharged with a bend G. 
 with 3 mullets A. holding a battle-ax, the top A. 2 
 
 1 Now includes the old Hundreds of Thornhill (containing Wanborough, Liddington, Chisel- 
 den, Hinton, and Overtown), and Blackgrove (containing High Swindon, Lydiard Tregoz, and 
 Binknoll.) So early as temp. Edw. I. complaint was made against the Sheriff of Wilts for holding, 
 upon his own authority, one Court for the three Hundreds conjointly, to the great inconvenience 
 of the said Hundreds. [H. Bolls. 276]. 
 
 2 The Boundaries of “ Ceosel-den ” are given in Codex Dipl. No. 730. They mention Holcombe, 
 A stone cist, and Blackman’s barrow, as ancient places of interment Ceosel is Anglo-Saxon for 
 gravel or sand, (hence the “ Chesil-bank,”) and dene, vale or plain. “ Chesel-dene ” is reckoned 
 in Domesday Book among the manors of the Abbey of St. Peter of Westminster: but in 1316 it 
 belonged to the Abbey of Hyde near Winchester. A small portion was held (Edw. I.) by the 
 Foliots under the Honour of Wallingford. In Hen. IT. Wroughton, and Boche, had some 
 interest here. The Abbot of Hyde had the great Tithes and presented to the Bectory. The 
 Bector presented to the Yicarage. At the Dissolution Sir Thomas Brydges of Xeynsham pur¬ 
 chased the Manor and Advowson. Between 1581 and 1616 it was bought by — Stephens. 
 Of this family there is a short pedigree in Wilts Visit. 1623. The effigy on brass of Francis 
 Butland, who married Mary Stephens and died in one of Queen Elizabeth’s Progresses, together 
 with a Pedigree of his family from the Herald’s Visit, of Surrey A.D. 1623 (Harl. MS. 1561) is 
 given in Kite’s Wiltshire Brasses, p. 73. The next and present owners, by purchase, were the 
 
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 In Nave Ecclesiae. “ Here lieth the body of Richard Harvey, Gentleman, who departed this 
 life Jan. 16, and was buried Jan.. . 1668, set. suse. 80.” 
 
 In the Cliancell, by the North wall, near the altar, is an altar monument of free¬ 
 stone, with blanke escutcheon, nomine Ridforn: he was Lord of Badbury, in this 
 parish. 
 
 On the hill above this Badbury is an ancient fortification, and the Clark tells me 
 that he has seen it written in ancient writings Battle-bury. 1 
 
 CLIFF PIPARD vulgd PEPPER. 2 
 
 Here is a handsome Church, and have been very good windowes. 
 
 Galley family. The arms on the escutcheon mentioned in the text were those of William Calley 
 Esq. and his wife Anne daughter and coheir of William Bower of Fiddington in West Lavington. 
 Mr. Calley was involved in trouble by his opposition to the Royal cause in the Civil Wars, and 
 hence for a long time was traditionally believed to have been the “ Will: Cawley ” whose signature 
 was affixed to the Warrant for King Charles’s execution. But Mr. Waylen in his History of 
 Marlborough p. 248 has shown that the real Regicide was of quite a different family. That 
 person was of Chichester, and was buried at Yevay in Switzerland in 1666. 
 
 Burdrop is properly Bury-thorp. Thorp is a Danish word for village: and in Denmark is 
 often corrupted into “ trup ” or “drup,” as Norup for North-thorp, Moldrup for Mill-thorp. 
 Burdrop belonged to Hyde Abbey, to which it was given 34 Edw. I. partly by Agnes de Carde- 
 ville, her grant being dated at Cardeville-wyke. Sir Thomas Brydges at the Dissolution, and 
 Stephens, were successive owners. Now, Mr. Calley. In the Cartulary of Hyde Abbey (Harl. 
 MS. No. 1761, pp. 104, 109) are many deeds relating to Chiselden, Hoddesden and Burithorp : 
 including a “ Consuetudinarium de Chiselden.” The Arms of Calley of Burdrop are the same 
 as those of Caley of Yorkshire. 
 
 1 Battlesbury is a camp near Warminster. That at Badbury, now more commonly called Lid- 
 dington Castle, is described in Sir R. C. noare’s Anc. Wilts, ii. p. 39. 
 
 The Manor of Badbury was given by King Edred to Abbot Dunstan of Glastonbury, A.D. 955. 
 The Charter, printed in New. Mon. I. 51, contains the Anglo-Saxon boundaries, in which mention 
 is made of “ The Ten Stones.” During the great dispute with the Abbey, the Manor was assigned 
 to the Bishop of Bath from 1204 to 1218, when it reverted to Glastonbury. Folyot held under 
 the Monks in Edw. I. Aubrey names Redfern as an owner after the Dissolution. 
 
 Hodson in this parish was formerly spelled “ Horderes-ton, or Hoddesdon.” It also belonged to 
 Hyde Abbey. In Hen. VI. John Wroughton had some lands both here and at Burithorp. 
 
 2 Clive ( Clivus , brow of a hill) frequently occurs as a local name in Wiltshire records. The two 
 most common (surnamed from respective owners) are Clift-Pipard, and Cliff-Wancy (now 
 
 x 2 
 
164 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 j Cliff Pipard. 
 
 Clevancy. See “ Hilmerton.”) Among the many “ Clives ” in Domesday Book, this is identi¬ 
 fied as one of the estates of Gilbert de Bretevile, by part of his territory being there called Tornelle 
 (i.e. Thornhill in this parish.) De Bretevile’s estates afterwards formed part of the Fee of Bigod, 
 Earl Marshal. Under him they were held by the family of Columbars : under them by the Pipards. 
 This Norman name is found in co. Somerset, Gloucester, Devon, and Oxon. (At Freshford near 
 Bath it is corrupted into “Pipe-house.”) At Cold Ashton co. Gloucester their manor passed to 
 Boteler, Earl of Ormond. The heiress of the Devonshire Pipards married Warm de L’isle ; her 
 shield, A. 3 bars gemelles az. Leland mentions the Pipards of Hasely co. Oxon. as men of fair 
 possessions whose heiress married Lenthal. [Itin. II. p. 35.] Of the Wilts branch there are a 
 few local notices. Roger Pipard was the King’s Coroner 1274. Robert was of Fittleton 1278. 
 William was Forester of Savernake 1281. Isabella, in 1291 gave Mackingdon (Mannington) 
 manor in this neighbourhood to Lacock Abbey. Giles was of Salthrop. A Philip Pipard of 
 Cliff, was Rector of Trowbridge so late as 1347. 
 
 The Columbars family was a collateral branch of the Barons Columbars, extinct in 1342. In 
 temp. John they had Pipard’s Cliff, Binknoll, Broad Hinton, and Chisbury near Bedwyn. In 
 Hen. III. Michael Columbars married Joan daughter of John Cobham C.J. : and issue male failing, 
 about 1284 he disposed of most of his estates to his father-in-law. Henry, son of the C.J. and 
 first Baron Cobham, gave Cliff Pipard to his second son Thomas Cobham in 1306. He bore 
 3 lions on the chevron of the Cobham shield, but Henry his son (1308) 3 crescents. In 1525 
 the manor was sold to William Dauntesey, Alderman of London, Founder of the West 
 Lavington “Dauntesey School and Almshou&:\” By him, 26 April 1530, it was transferred to 
 John Goddard, Gent, of Aldbourne, ancestor of the present owner Horatio Nelson Goddard Esq. 
 Other names connected with Cliff Pipard are, in Hen. III., Ralph Lovel, holding under Castle 
 Combe Barony: in 1296 William St. Maur: in 1368 Robert De L’isle: in 1476 John and Isabella 
 Latton : in 1535 Henry Brounker. 
 
 The Rectory belonged to the Cobhams: and the Rector appointed a Yicar. About 1398 the 
 Advowson was severed from the Manor and given by John de Maydenhith, (called in Wilts. Inst, 
 p. 87. “ Dean of Cirencester,”) to Lacock Abbey, where an Obit was kept for him. The Abbess 
 presented to the Vicarage until the Dissolution. John Goddard (above-mentioned) of Albourne, 
 had also a grant from the Crown in 1541 of the Rectory and presentation to the Vicarage, late 
 belonging to Lacock Abbey: together with lands in Wanborough, Upham, Wiclescote, 
 Wroughton, &c. The Rectory appears to have been leased out for years: the lessee appointing 
 the Vicar. The remainder of a lease was re-purchased by the Goddards, and their first Presenta¬ 
 tion was in 1660. Henry Blake was ejected for Nonconformity in 1662. 
 
 The Church (St. Peter’s) is Perpendicular; with early English features in the Chancel. It is 
 traditionally said to have been built by one of the Cobhams, to whom is attributed the cross-legged 
 effigy (not of free-stone, but of a hard chalk) in the wall, N. E. corner of N. aisle. The Chancel was 
 re-built in 1860 by H. N. Goddard Esq. Some of the stained glass was left in 1710, about which 
 time also some large free-stone coffins were dug up in the church yard. In digging graves at the 
 present time, ashes are frequently met with, mixed with dark rich earth at considerable depth, 
 though the soil of the parish generally is of no great thickness above the chalk. In the green sand of 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
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 In the North Aisle is an old Gothique freestone monument, with the figure of a 
 man incumbent, which they say is the monument of the Lord Cobham, who they 
 say died in one of the grounds here. He built this church. 
 
 In the South Aisle is a fair marble gravestone with a Knight-like effigies in 
 
 brasse, but the Inscription is lost; it is the gravestone of. Quintin, of Bupton, 
 
 in this parish. Here is only a poor boy now loft of the name and family. 1 
 
 Cliff great quantities of fossil coprolite have been found. On 22 September 1856 a violent tornado, 
 appearing to descend perpendicularly, crushed and wrenched up a great number of noble trees in 
 the grounds of Mr. Goddard at the Manor House. Bacon’s Liber Regis mentions “ Corton Chapel 
 (destroyed,) annexed to Cliff Pipard” : but this would seem to have been in Hilmerton. 
 
 Broad Town was anciently held, by Edmund Earl of Cornwall (1299), and Philip Basset, 
 under the Honour of Wallingford : by the families of Bernard, and Parys (whose tenement was 
 called Parys Place), under the Earl Marshal, and then under the Mortimers. The Manor belonged 
 to the Crown in 1400, Edmund Duke of York 1415, Beauchamp Earl of Warwick 1446: George 
 Duke of Clarence jure uxoris, 1478. In 28 Hen. VIII. (1536) the manor was granted to Sir 
 Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, afterwards the Protector Duke of Somerset. 
 
 Broad Town now supplies the funds for a General Charity to the county of Wilts. 
 By her will dated 17 May 1686, Sarah, Duchess Dowager of Somerset, ordained that the rents 
 and profits of an estate at Cotmarsh in Broad Hinton, and of her manor of Broad Town, should 
 be applied to apprenticing poor boys; those born within her manors of Broad Town, Thornhill, 
 Froxfield, Wotton Rivers and Huish, having the preference : in default, from the county at large. 
 Her Grace was the youngest daughter and coheir of Sir Edward Alston, of co. Bedford: and was 
 married: 1st, to George, son of Sir Harbottle Grimston; 2nd, John Seymour fourth Duke of 
 Somerset, (great great-grandson of the Protector Somerset) who died S. P. 1675 ; 3rd, it is 
 believed, to Henry Hare, Lord Coleraine. The license for this marriage issued 17th July, 1682, her 
 Grace being then about 40 years of age. She died 26 October 1692, and was buried in West¬ 
 minster Abbey. These estates came to her, as survivor, under a settlement made in 1671, after her 
 marriage with the Duke of Somerset. She was also the munificent Foundress of the Froxfield 
 Almshouse. 
 
 Near the North boundary of Broad Town Fields, some years ago were discovered a few large 
 skeletons, lying with their feet towards the East: near one of them, the iron head of an arrow. 
 Roman remains are said to have been found on a spot contiguous. 
 
 1 Bupton (properly Bubbe-ton) is in the Hundred of Potterne, the reason probably being that 
 the Bishop of Sarum was chief lord of both. In Hen. III. William Quintin held one Knight’s Fee 
 in “ Clive ” (late Muleple’s) under the Bishop, (T. de N.): and William Bubbe a portion of one, by 
 service of Ward at Devises Castle. The Quintins also held land at Ramsbury, under the Bishop: 
 and Woodhill in this parish, (now Mr. Broome’s), under Bigod, Earl Marshal. Their old resi¬ 
 dence at Bupton is now an ordinary farm house. In “ Wilts Visit.” 1623 is a pedigree, showing 
 their intermarriages with Long of Dra 3 7 cote, Ivy of West Kington, &c.: their Arms, Erm. on a 
 chief Gules, 3 lions ramp. Or. The Brass on the floor of the South Aisle, engraved in “ Boutell’s 
 
166 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Cliff Pipard. 
 
 In the Chancell is a monument of wood with this Inscription, & the Arms of 
 Goddard impaling Fettiplace [No. 239]. 
 
 “ Heare lieth the body of Elizabeth Godard, wife of John Godard, Esqr. and daughter to Sir 
 John Fettiplace, Knight, who deceased A.D. 1550.” * 1 
 
 On another monument, the Arms of Hunton impaling Jordan [No. 240]. 
 
 “ Epitaphium positum Ricardo Hunton de Bushton 2 Generoso in perpetuam memoriam 
 Elizabeth® Hunton uxoris ejus charissim® et olim filiae Gulielmi Jordan de Chittern, Armigeri.” 
 “ Quis numerosa tua referat pr®conia vita, 
 
 Chara nirnis cunctis Elizabetha bonis ! 
 
 Nulla pio mulier te vicit amore Jehove; 
 
 Nulla pio mulier vicit amore viri. 
 
 Nec magis ulla suis fuit altera chara propinquis; 
 
 Nec magis ignotis altera chara fuit. 
 
 Brasses,” p. 53, as “probably a Cobham of c. 1380,” is called by Aubrey with more probability, 
 a Quintin. Bupton also once belonged to the St. Vincent family. In 1860 it was sold by Sir 
 Richard Simeon, Bart., to Mr. Richard Stratton. In 1346 William de Beauver had land here: 
 in 23 Edw. III. Edmund Stokes: in 1587 Gabriel Pile: in 1635 Sir Francis Pile, at Lower 
 Bupton. In 1682 Thomas Goddard disposed of his part of Bupton to that family. Sir Seymour 
 Pile 1699. There was a grant here in Philip and Mary to — Dismars. 
 
 1 The inscription on the old oaken tablet says “daughter of Sir Robarte Phetyplace.” The 
 date of the year is now defaced, but it was copied a few years ago as 1585 : and in the Register 
 of the Parish the burial of Elizabeth Goddard is entered October 23rd, 1584. 
 
 2 Bushton. This is a corruption of Bishop-ton. At the Conquest it was held, with Thornhill, 
 of the Bishop of Winchester by the Prior of St. Swithin’s in that city. At the Dissolution a lease 
 was granted by the Crown to John Warneford Esq. In 22 Elizabeth there was a grant to William 
 Webb. The family of Hunton was of East Knoyle, [Mere 186]. For their pedigree, see “Wilts 
 Visit.” 1623. In 1669 a farm at Bushton was settled on the marriage of Sir Francis Holies son 
 and heir of Denzill Lord Holies, with Anne one of three coheirs of Sir Francis Pile. In 1743 it 
 was sold by Thomas Holies, Duke of Newcastle, to John Walker Esq. of Lyneham. Thence it 
 passed with Mr. Walker’s other estates to G. H. W. Heneage Esq. of Compton Basset, and was sold 
 about 1854 to the Rev. G. A. Goddard. The late Mr. Wayte of Highlands, Caine, was owner of 
 some lands. William Spackman was of Bushton temp. Charles II. One of this family, Thomas 
 Spackman of Kimbolton co. Huntingdon, endowed the Charity School at Thornhill in Cliff Parish. 
 He was buried at Cliff Pipard October 29, 1785, aged 76. At Thornhill, an estate which be¬ 
 longed in Hen. III. to the Priory of Monkton Farley, was granted at the Dissolution to the Protector 
 Somerset. Brasenose Coll. Oxon. has now five farms here; some of them being leased to 
 H. N. Goddard Esq. Barn-hill in the parish of Cliff is perhaps a relic of the name of Barnevil, 
 or Bernevall (now the Irish family of Barnwell), who wereo wners here in Hen. III. 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
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 Sive animi memorem seu pulchro in corpore dotes, 
 
 Fseminei fuerat gemma decusque chori. 
 
 Ergo age, de victa quid mors inopina triumphat ? 
 
 Qui citet hanc nuptam, quum requievit, erit. 
 
 Obijt 23 Febr. Anno, Redemptionis 1604. iEtatis sum 37.” 
 
 This monument stood in the Chancell windowe and was ordered to be pulled 
 down by Dr. Lynne, the Chancellor, when the Communion Table was to be sett 
 altar-waies. 
 
 Mem. The Chapelry of Bircingknoll, alias Binknoll, alias Binoll, in this parish, 
 belonged, as Mr. Brunsdon thinks, to the Nunnery of St. Margaret’s jaxta 
 Marleborough. 1 
 
 IIILMERTON. 2 
 
 The windowes of this Church have been very good. In the North Aisle is a 
 niche for a monument, but sans inscription, or tradition of the dark’s wife. 
 
 1 Binknoll is now in Broad Hinton. It belonged to the Cobhams. The chapel is mentioned 
 in Pope Nicholas’s Taxatio (A.D. 1291) as a Rectory belonging to the Priory of St. Denis? 
 Southampton. It is likewise named in “Non. Inq.” A.D. 1340. Here also are some remains of 
 an Earthwork nearly triangular intersected by a vallum and foss: and a curious well. Wood- 
 hill Chapel, in 3 Edw. I. (1274) was a Rectory belonging to the Prioress of Ambresbuiy. [Non. 
 Inq.] 
 
 2 The name is spelled in Domesday Book Aldhelmer-ton, viz., the town of some Saxon Aldhelm : 
 but probably not the Bishop of that name, Founder of Malmesbury Abbey, because, although 
 Highway in this parish was at one time the property of that House, and is so described in the 
 Norman Survey, Aldhelmerton is entered in that Record as the Lordship of a foreigner, William 
 de Owe, or Ewe. 
 
 In Edw. I., under Bigod, Earl Marshal, Hilmerton was held by the families of Wancy of Cliff- 
 Wancy (now Clevancy), and Bluet (also of Lackham), who obtained a Fair. In 1380 Peter de 
 Cusaunce, jure uxoris. In Hen. IY. and V., the Baynards of Lackham. In 1600 William Sadler, 
 also of Wroughton. Soon afterwards the Jacob family. 
 
 About 1670 the principal estate belonged to the Norbornes; [see “Calne.”] A coheiress of 
 Norborne married Mr. Berkeley of Stoke near Bristol. Their son Norborne Berkeley recovered 
 the ancient Barony of Botetourt which was in abeyance. By the heiress of Berkeley of Stoke, 
 Hilmerton came to Charles, fourth Duke of Beaufort. By that family it was sold in 1803. In 1813 
 it was purchased from Colonel Ainslie by Thomas Poynder Esq. whose grandson Thomas Henry 
 Allen Poynder Esq. of Ilartham Park is now the proprietor. 
 
 At Widcombe in this parish ancient owners were, in Edw. I. to Hen. IV., Spilman of Coulsfield- 
 Spilmau in South Wilts, and in Hen. IV., William Wroughton. There was a chantry chapel at 
 
1G8 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Hilmerton. 
 
 In this Aisle is this Inscription in white marble; Arms. Quintin [No. 241; His 
 wife Harold No. 242:] 
 
 “ Cineres Gulielmi Quyntyn Armigeri, et Margarets uxoris sum, hoc Ambulatorio juxta hunc 
 locum humatse sunt. Ille nono die Octobris, An. Dni. 1652; Ipsa decimo die Maij, An. 1647 ; 
 e vivis emigrabant, sed die novissima consurgent.” 1 
 
 In the Chancell, in brasse, on marble in the floor, vis. $?tc jaert tms. 3o!)CS, 
 JEJglkus quonbam htcarius tsttus cccitc. qut oHitt viii hit mensts fHatt &nno Dm. 
 MCCCCLXXX. Cutus ate pptrictur ©cus. Arnett. 2 On the shield, a cup with 
 the letters 31)5: [No. 243.] 
 
 Wydecombe, in the gift A.D. 1332 of John de Langford, then owner of that estate. 
 
 Godacre (now Goatacre) belonged in Edw. I. and III. to Barneville, and Bluet: in 12 Hen. 
 IY. to Roche. Mr. Poynder is now owner. 
 
 Corton (properly Corston) belonged before Edw. II. to Fitz Elys of Waterperry co. Oxon., and 
 was held under the Honour of Gloucester. By Fitz Elys it was sold in 1324 to Sir John Russell 
 of Bradenstoke and of Bradfield in Hullavington. The Rectory of a Free Chapel once at Corton 
 was sold by the heiress of Russell, widow of Quatermayn, to Walter Lord Hungerford in 1434 ; 
 by whom the profits were annexed to the chantry of St. Mary in Heytesbury Church. Some lands 
 at Corton were sold by the Russells to Walter Boteler of Sheningford 43 Edw. III. In 1438 
 Thomas Danvers held “ late Quatermayne’s.” 
 
 Littlecote (in this parish) belonged to the Bluets in 1316. In 1857 it was sold as part of the 
 estates of the late Lady Neale. 
 
 Highway originally belonged (as above stated) to Malmsbury Abbey; but by a Composition 
 mentioned (under “ Bremhill,”) w r as surrendered in 1220 to the Bishop of Sarum ; and so became 
 part of the Hundred of Cannings. William Horton held it under the See in Edw. I.: and in 22 
 Edw. IY., Robert Strenshaw. It is now the property of Mr. Tonge. 
 
 The Patronage of Hilmerton Church was in the Bluets A.D. 1217. Then, and for many years, 
 the clerk, who was Rector, used to nominate another clerk Vicar. In 1292 the Priory of Ewyas 
 Harold on the borders of Herefordshire received a yearly payment of £2 out of the tithes. In 
 1393 the Advowson was given to the Abbey of Bustlesham, or Bysham-Montagu, co. Berks. For 
 some particulars relating to the Advowson, see under that Abbey, in the New Monasticon. Since 
 the Dissolution the Crown has been Patron of the Vicarage. From 1662 to 1680, when he 
 resigned, Lancelot Addison, father of Mr. Secretary Addison author of the “ Spectator,” was Vicar 
 of Hilmerton. He also held the Rectory of Milston near Ambresbury from 1670. 
 
 1 William, son of Michael Quintin of Bupton in Cliff Pipard, married Margaret daughter of 
 William Harold of Cherhill. [Wilts Visit. 1623.] The Quintins, a very ancient Wilts family, 
 had land in Highway so early as 1316. Ambulatorium in this inscription perhaps means aisle. 
 It generally signifies a cloister or alley. 
 
 2 This brass has disappeared. The name of Vicar Wvlkys does not appear in the Institutions 
 to Hilmerton. 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 169 
 
 In a window, in the Chancell, the workes of mercy, defaced. On the wall, of 
 moderne worke, this scutcheon, Cawley 1 impaling Bower; [as above No. 238]. 
 
 On St. Lawrence day is a Fayre here. 2 
 
 CLEVANCY. 3 (In Hilmerton.) 
 
 Mem. In the Legier Booke of the muniments of the great Earle of March, in 
 the custody of Sir Edward Harley, Knight of the Bath, viz. of all his estate in 
 England, Wales, and Ireland, I find thus : u Endenture entre Margarete de Mortimer 
 et Roger de Mortimer son fitz de certaines terres livrees a dite dame en dower,” 
 and amongst a great many others, “ des tenements que dame Elizabet de Penebrugge 
 et Johan son fitz tiegnent en Clyve-Wauncy.” 
 
 1 The first of the Calleys of Wiltshire is described in the Visit. 1623, as of Highway in this parish. 
 Martha sole daughter and heiress of Roger Calley of Hilmerton, married John Jacob Esq. of 
 Norton, near Malmsbury. On the church floor at Hilmerton are several gravestones of the Jacobs 
 who were also of The Rocks near Marshfield, and of Tockenham. Two charities were founded for 
 Hilmerton by this famity : 1. Miss Anne Jacob (third daughter of John Jacob and Martha Calley 
 abovementioned) who died 9th March, 1709, and was buried at Hilmerton, by her Will, proved in 
 London 6th May, 1710, left £100, for the education of poor children. 2. Her niece, also Miss 
 Anne Jacob, who was buried at Tockenham 3rd December, 1787, by Will dated 29th April, 1780, 
 left an annual sum of £10, to be expended, first in keeping in repair the chancel, family 
 monuments and tomb, the remainder of the £10 to the poor not receiving relief. 
 
 2 The Church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. It was restored a few years ago (1840) at the 
 expense of the late Thomas Poynder Esq. The Registers commence 1645. 
 
 3 Properly Cliff Wancy: so called from William and Godfrey de Wancy, Knights, owners 
 temp. Hen. III. and Edw. I, under the Fee of the Earl Marshal. The Wancy family is also 
 traced in Suffolk and Northamptonshire. Some part of this tything belonged at the same time 
 to one Hugh de Doddeford (holding under Tregoz, as of the Honour of Ewyas). This portion was 
 sold to Sir Roger Fitz Elys of Corton adjoining, and of Waterperry, co. Oxon: and again in 
 18. Edw. II. to Sir John Russell of Bradenstoke, Kt. His descendant Johanna Russell widow 
 first of Quatremain, second, of Crede, sold it 1434 to Walter Lord Hungerford. 
 
 In 1280 Roger Mortimer held this manor, (mis-spelled in the Testa de Nevil, “CheneWaunte.”) 
 In 1282 Edmund Mortimer was of “ Clyve Wancy ; ” the robbery of his goods is mentioned in a 
 Fine of that date. According to Aubrey’s extract (above), the Pembridge family held under them. 
 In 1316 John Pedewardyn was a landowner. In 1331 Gilbert de Berwick. In 1476 Edward 
 Nevill, Earl of Bergavenny. In 1482 Robert Stranshaw. Bradenstoke Priory had some rents: 
 and in 1534 Magdalen College, Oxon, a farm (Yal. Ecc.) The Glanvilles of Broad Henton, or a 
 branch of them, were at one time owners. 
 
 Y 
 
170 
 
 \Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 LYDIARD EWYAS or TREGOZ. 
 
 This place is so called to contra-distinguish it from the other neighbouring 
 Lydiard, called Lydiard Milsent or North Lydiard. Whatever the etymologie is, 
 it is obvious enough it received its agnomen from Ewyas, and Tregoz, who succes¬ 
 sively enjoyed it. One Ewyas had this place at the conquest. From Ewyas to 
 (Tregoz, then to Grandison, then to) Pateshull, (Beauchamp, and St. John.) It is 
 now the seat of the Worshipfull familie of the Saint Johns, who are descended 
 in a direct line from them both, as you wall find in those verses beneath the Painting 
 of their Pedigree. 1 
 
 1 Lydiard Tregoz, or South Lydiard, is in the old Hundred of Blackgrove, now included in 
 Kingsbridge. The name occurs in a multitude of forms: as, Lydeyerd, Lidegkerd, Lideyert, 
 Lidiarde, Lydyarde, Lyde} ? arde, Lidvard, Ledverd, Lydeard, Liddiard, Ladykart, Lidykart and 
 Lediar. The derivation is Anglo-Saxon; from Leod, people, and geard, enclosure. The name of 
 Ewyas is that of a Herefordshire family under whose Barony of Harold Ewyas were held in 
 Wilts, Lydiard, Teffont Ewyas, Upton Scudamore, Somerford Ewyas, and others. 
 
 The Tregoz family were of Norfolk and Essex, until a Sir Robeit became the head of its most 
 important branch by marriage with Sibilla the wealthy heiress of Robert, Lord Ewyas. Though 
 this Lady was duly married a strange contest arose concerning her in the 11th year of King John. 
 One V illiam de Newmarket (Newmarche) claimed her: but as no less a person than King 
 Richard I. had bestowed her in marriage upon Tregoz, the Royal gift was not to be disturbed, 
 and the plaintiff Newmarck was, in more senses than one, non-suited. She afterwards married 
 Roger de Clifford. Her second son John Tregoz had license from the Crown in 1269 to enclose 
 Shortgrove Wood in Braden Forest. His elder brother, Robert, was created Baron Tregoz of 
 Lydiard. His son, John, second Baron, resided in Devizes Castle. He left (1299) two daughters, 
 coheiresses, Clarissa, wife of La Warre who succeeded to the Ewyas Castle and Lordship; and 
 Sibilla wife of William de Grandison, then of Exon Hill, co. Gloucester, on whom her father 
 settled Lydiard. Other branches of the Tregoz family continued till temp. Hen. IV. (For a 
 detailed account, see Topog. and Genealogist, Yol. ii. 124 : and for Pedigree of Ewyas and Tregoz, 
 Hoare’s “ Dunworth,” 110.) Mabel, the heiress of Grandison, married John, Baron Pateshull; 
 whose sister and coheiress Sibilla was the wife (4. Edw. III.) of Roger Beauchamp, Baron of 
 Bletsho, co. Bedford, in which family Lydiard remained until the marriage of Margaret Beau¬ 
 champ (afterwards Duchess of Somerset) with Oliver St. John (who died 1497) ancestor of the 
 present owner, Lord Boling-broke. The name of St. John is said to have been derived from their 
 original Lordship of St. Jean near Rouen. The most remarkable members of the St. John family 
 of Lydiard were, Oliver created Viscount Grandison, Baron Tregoz of Highworth, a statesman 
 and Lord Deputy of Ireland under Charles I. and James I: (but he was a second son and never 
 Lord of the manor): and Henry, Lord Bolingbroke, the opponent of Walpole and friend of 
 
PEDIGREE OF ST. JOHN OF LYDIARD-TREGOZ. 
 
 To KXPLAIN THE AltMH AND MONUMENTS IN LyDIARD CHURCH. 
 
 By the Rev. J. JACKSON. 
 
 ■ dr F.wyiu had a grant of Lydiard from 
 William the Conqueror. 
 
 Sir John 8t, John= Elizabeth dau. 
 
 E. III. and heir, of Sir Henry 
 
 Ultra* villb. 
 
 
 dau. and cdi. 
 John P*vKt.y. 
 
 in Elizabeth d< 
 
 Sir John 8t. John— Elizabeth Pawlot. 
 
 Sibilla Ewtas— Sir Robert do Trego*, 
 heiress. | Shor. of Wilt*. 1191. 
 from whom 
 
 Sibilla Teeooz-«*W ro. do Grandison. 
 heiress | 
 
 from whom 
 
 Mabel ()il*npi*os= .. Pateshuil. 
 heiress. | 
 
 from whom 
 
 Roger Beauchamp- Sibilla PiTMacLL 
 Bnrvu of IllcUho, I heiress, 
 d. 1379. | 
 
 from whom 
 
 To fart p. 170. 
 
 St. John of Bletsuo Olitcr St. John =Eli*ab*th d. of Henry 4th Barm 
 Elder branch Scrope of Bolton. Widow of, 1 »t. Sir 
 
 *4* John Bigod, 2nd Henry Roehford. 
 
 Sir John St. John—Janod. and h.=2. Niohola* Saunders 
 | of Sir John of Farley, Hants, and 
 Kw*ttBT. Kt. Ewell, Surrey. 
 
 1 Margaret d. of—John St. John= 2. Elizabeth dau. of 
 Sir Richard Cakew i Sir Richard Wn eiiiill, 
 
 of Bedding ton. I Kt. 
 
 Nicholas St. John—Elizabeth dau. of Sir Richard Blount 
 buried at Lydiard \ of Mapledurham. Bor. at Lydiard 
 1489. 1487. 
 
 
 St. John—Lucy dau. and cob. Sir Oliver St John—loan dau. and h. Rii 
 ■' " of Sir Walter Hux- Vise. Gn*NDi»ON, of Henry Roydon: 
 okri-ord of Farley Baron Trego* of widow of Sir 
 Cattle. She remurr Highworth. Died William Holcroft. 
 
 Sir A nth. H ungerford. 1630. S. P. 
 
 Buritd at Lydiard. 
 
 
 Sir Richard ^Elizabeth Edmund 
 St. Gkorok, Kt. eld. dau. Wkbde 
 Garter King at Keq. 
 
 Sir Thoraas= Eleanor. . . BdXOflDRsDototfljr Eoberl S fa bolaiaJane. 
 Cave Kt. of Roundway. 
 
 Walter eon and heir 1. Anne dau.= 
 21 at. at hit of Sir Thomas 
 father's death. Lkiohtox, 
 
 D. t.p. Governor of 
 
 John. 1 . _ Jersey. Died 
 
 Oliver, j 1628. 
 
 Sir John St John = 2 Marg ret >ir l.il.-. = K.jth.iiin« >u = Ann- . I l:..l.. rt : Un. - 
 
 2nd son. Created d. of William Momjiesson, Buried at Ayliffe of Atlye 
 
 Bart. Mon. at Whitmore of Kt. Lydiard Grittenham, Esq 
 
 Lydiard: erected Apley. 1633. Kt. 
 
 in hit lift timt. 
 
 Charles Sir William = Eleanor. Sir Ed ward=Barbara. Sir Alien— Luoy Martha 
 Plkydkll, Kt. St- John of Villien.Kt. Apal 
 
 Heighley, oo. 
 
 Glam., Kt. 
 
 „ I 
 
 Oliver 8t. John— Catharine 
 
 Willii 
 
 
 i d. and ooh of St. John St. John Walter, 
 
 i Horatio Vcre killed at killed at Francis. 
 
 Baron of Til- Cirenoca- Newbury Thomas, 
 
 bury. ter. 1644. Mon. Henry. 
 
 at Lydiard. Elizabeth. 
 
 Edward 1 fiitUu. 1 John St. John= Dorothy Sir Walter—Joan, dan. of Oliver 1. Sir Henry=Anne.= 2. Henry Barbara Lucy Sir Thomas = F.lizabetb Colonel John— Luey 
 o» t«t.. w-ii- - -■ *i-- i • o.-_ o. i i._ c* n i «/ r 1 wo—• married Newcomeh Plcydell Hutchinson. Apalsy. 
 
 killed in the dau. of Sir St. John 
 North. S. P. George 3rd Bart. 
 Ayliffe of 
 
 Wilmot _ . 
 
 Earl of Egerton. Riohard Bart., of died 
 
 Rochester. Howe Kenagh oo. Inteription 
 
 Esq. Longford. at Lydiard. 
 
 Sir John St. John 1. Mary d. and coh.of—Sir Henry St. John—2. Augolina Magdalene 
 
 1. Frances dan. and = Henry St. John =2. Mary det Chumps John SL John—Ann d. and roll, 
 coh. of Sir Henry only son and heir, de Marsilly, widow Vise. St. John of Sir Robert 
 Winohoombe of The eelobrated of Marquis' de Vil- died 1749. | Furness. 
 
 Buckle bury, co. Statesman. Created letta m France. 
 
 Bucks. Vise. Bolingbroke. 
 
 Buried at Battersea 
 1741. 8. P. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 171 
 
 (The Church.) 
 
 Here is but little that savours of venerable antiquity, but for modern monuments 
 and ornaments, not unworthy the observation of a student in Heraldrie, it exceeds 
 all the churches in this countie. * 1 
 
 The Chancell, and the aisle of the St. Johns adjoining, are adorned with about 
 
 Pope. For more extended notices of the family, see Pedigree, &c., in Noble’s “ Cromwell,” ii. 29. 
 Manning and Bray’s Surrey, iii. 330. Britton’s Beaut, of Wilts, iii. 32. In the Chapter 
 House, Westminster, is a Deed relating to the Manor and Church of Lydiard. 
 
 In the Wilts. Archmol. Mag. III. 247, is a notice (taken from Rolls in Pari. II. 215) of a 
 violent proceeding at Hook, in this parish, by Hugh Despenser of Fasterne, the favourite of 
 Edw. II.: to compel a landowner there to give up his property. His hands were bound behind 
 him and he was kept for a week in prison at Fasterne until he had quitclaimed his rights! In 
 
 1. Edw. III. Hook, aud another property then called Lydiard Tyeys, belonged to the Barons 
 Tyevs. [See Ext. Peerage: in which their arms are described as Argent a chevron gules.] 
 This family had also in 1322 Chilton and Draycot Foliot: and one of them was constable of 
 Carisbrook Castle. Henry le Tyes was a follower (Valettus) of John St. John at the siege of 
 Carlaverock. “ Lydiard Tyeys” had passed to the Beauchamps, Earl of Warwick, in 7. Hen. IY. 
 
 At Cuadington the Prior of Bradenstoke held land under the Barony of Castle Combe. East 
 Chadington was at one time called Chadington Bordeville, from an owner. The Montacutes, 
 Earls of Sarum, also had some interest here. 
 
 Studley Grange belonged to Stanley Abbey near Chippenham: and was charged with 
 £6 13s. 4d. a year towards maintaining a chantry founded by William Ingram in Highworth 
 Church. 
 
 Maningdon. This (if it is the place meant by “ Maghedon,”) was of the Fee of Richard Earl 
 of Cornwall 28. Edw. I.: as of the Honour of Wallingford. The Pipards made a gift here to 
 Lacock Abbey. One third of an estate belonged to Lovell of Tichmarsh co. Northampton in 
 Hen. IY. and Edw. IV. Another portion in 1329 to Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Devon. 
 
 Toot-hill is a common name all over England. It has been thought (see Bowles’s Bremhill, 
 p. 50) that all hills of this name were mounds, on which (as at Silbury Hill, according to Mr. 
 Bowles’s theory) Mercury the favourite Deity of the ancient Britons was worshipped as Thoth, 
 or Teut- ates. 
 
 1 The gorgeous Monuments of the St. John Family in this Church had been only recently 
 erected in Aubrey’s time. A Memorial window to Mr. John King of Blagrove has lately been 
 given, by his sisters the Misses King. It represents the Ascension of our Saviour. In a note 
 by Mr. Dallaway to “Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painters,” IV. 187, it is mentioned that, when the 
 furniture of Lydiard House was upon one occasion disposed of by auction, a bust of Lord 
 Bolingbroke by Rysbrach was concealed by an old servant in a vault under the Church, from 
 which in due season it was restored to light. 
 
 D 
 
Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 172 
 
 [Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 30 penons; over the altar doe hang two banners of St. George, two guidons 
 [standards) of Ulster, and on each side a Mandilion (coat without sleeves) beautified 
 with all their quarterings, ‘with shield, sword, helmet, and crest, made in manner 
 of a trophie, with gauntletts, gilt spurs, and such like badges of Equestrian dignitie. 
 
 In the East Windowe, first columne. 
 
 (For Oliver St. John, who married Margaret, heiress of Beauchamp.) 
 
 On an Olive Tree, fruited proper, hang 6 shields. [PI. xiv. No. 244.] 
 
 1. Ewyas. 1 
 
 2. Tregoz impaling Ewyas. 
 
 3. Grandison, impaling, Tregoz quartering Ewyas. 
 
 4. Pateshull, impaling, Grandison, Tregoz and Ewyas. 
 
 5. Beauchamp, impaling, Pateshull quartering Grandison, Tregoz and Ewyas. 
 
 6. St. John, impaling, Beauchamp quartering Pateshull, Grandison, Tregoz and Ewyas. 
 
 Four Crests on Wreaths. G. and A. 
 
 1. [No. 245.] A Monkey. 3. [No. 247.] A Collar or Horse-hames Or. 
 
 2. [246.] Grandison. 4. [248.] St. John. 
 
 The 2nd. and 3rd. are in the third column. (In the soffit of Nicholas St. John’s tomb there is 
 a 5th. crest, viz. A Sun, with an eye in the centre, PI. xvi. No. 268.) 
 
 I suppose the two Saints John (viz. the Baptist and the Evangelist) and the 
 Olive Tree, in the window, doe make the Rebus, whereby Sir Oliver St. John (who 
 first married the heir of Beauchamp) is signified. 
 
 (Three shields formerly on the First column, East window. 
 
 I. No. 249. Sir John St. John, grandson of Sir Oliver St. John and the Heiress 
 of Beauchamp.) 
 
 A shield of six quarterings (viz ; 1. St. John. 2. Beauchamp. 3. Pateshull. 4. Grandison. 
 5. Tregoz. 6. Ewyas.) 
 
 II. [PI. xv. No. 250.] Viscount Grandison. (Great grandson of the preceding, 
 died. 1630.) 
 
 Crest, an Eagle, with a collar, or horse-hames, on its breast. Supporters, and a Viscount’s 
 coronet. 
 
 1 Aubrey gives for Ewyas, three estoiles : and so it is painted on one or two old tablets in the 
 Church : but on the stained glass, the shield of Ewyas is three mullets. 
 
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 173 
 
 A shield of 12 quarterings, viz. 
 
 1. St. John. 2. [Umfreville]. 3. [Delabere]. 4. - 5. Beauchamp. 6. Pateshull. 
 
 7. Grandison. 8. Tregoz. 9. Ewyas. 10. [Ewarby]. 11. [Carew]. 12. [Hall]. 
 
 III. (No. 251. Sir John St. John. Nepliew of Lord Grandison.) 
 
 A shield of 16 quarterings, viz. 
 
 1. St. John. 2. [Umfreville]. 3. [Delaberf.]. 4. [Paynell?] 5. Beauchamp. 
 6. Pateshull. 7. Grandison. 8. Tregoz. 9. Ewyas. 10. [EwarbyJ. 11. [Carew]. 
 12. [Hall]. 13. [Hungerford]. 14. [HeytesburyJ. 15. [Botreaux]. 16. [Molines]. 
 
 Mem. that temp. (Edw. IV., Margaret) St. John, a daughter of this family was 
 Lady Abbesse of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1 
 
 Sir John St. John, 1594, and his Lady, Lucy Hungerford. 
 
 On the North side of the Altar are the pourtraictures as big as the life very well 
 and curiously painted all at length, of Sir John St. John and his Lady, Lucy 
 daughter and coheir to Sir Walter Hungerford. Also his sonne Sir John with his 
 Lady, Ann, daughter of Sir Thos. Leighton, and their six daughters, who were all 
 Ladyes. On the back i.e. the outside, of the doors, on which they are painted, is 
 also the Pedigree of their family: which gett. Q. Mr. Thomas Oore of Alderton 
 for it. 2 
 
 [At the feet of the lady are represented the six daughters in mourning habits; and 
 below them are depicted the arms of the St. John and Hungerford families, with 
 the following inscription: 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of Sir John St. John, Knt., who married Lucy, daughter and coheire of 
 Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farley, Knt., by whom he had issue Walter that died young, Sir 
 John St. John, Knt. and Baronet, Oliver that died young, Katherine, Anne, Jane, Elinor, 
 Barbara, Lucy, and Martha, that died a child. He deceased 20th Sept., 1594. She was secondly 
 married to Sir Anthony Hungerford, Knt., by whom she had Edward, 3 Bridget, and Jane, and 
 then died the 4th June, 1598. This was erected by Sir John St. John, Knt. and Baronet, in the 
 year 1615, the 20th of July.”] 
 
 1 Margaret, third daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, elected 9 March 1460, was Abbess in 1480. 
 
 2 This Pedigree, which differs from Collins’s, was drawn up, (as an inscription under it states , 
 by Sir Richard St. George, Garter King at arms. 
 
 3 Afterwards Sir Edward Hungerford, a leader of the Parliamentary Forces in Wilts. 
 
174 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \ Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 Katharine married Sir Gyles Mompesson; Anne m. Sir George Ayliffe, of 
 Gretenliam, Jane m. Sir Arthur Attye, 2nd. Sir Charles Pleydell; Ellinor m. Sir 
 William St. John co. Glamorgan; Barbara m. Sir Edward Vi Herts; Lucy m. Sir 
 Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower. 1 
 Under this Picture are verses. 
 
 [“ When conquering William won by force of sword 
 The famous island now called Brittan’s land, 
 
 Of Lydiard then was Ewyas only Lord, 
 
 Whose heir to Tregoz linckt in marriage band : 
 
 That Tregoz, a great Baron in his age, 
 
 By her had issue the Lord Grauntson’s wife; 
 
 Whose daughter Patshull took in marriage, 
 
 And Beauchamp theirs; which Beauchamp’s happy life, 
 
 Was blessed with a daughter, whence did spring 
 An heir to St. John, who did Lydiard bring. 
 
 Thus course of time, by God’s almighty power, 
 
 Hath kept this land of Lydiard in one race 
 Five hundred forty-nine years, and now more, 
 
 Where at this da} r is St. John’s dwelling-place; 
 
 Noe ! noe ! he dwells in heaven, whose anchored faith 
 Fixed on God accounted life but death.”] 
 
 1 Lucy St. John, the youngest daughter, became the third wife of Sir Allen Apsley Governor 
 of the Tower during Raleigh’s imprisonment. Sir Allen was 48, Lucy 16, at her marriage. One 
 of her children was Lucy, the celebrated wife and biographer of Colonel John Hutchinson 
 Governor of Nottingham Castle. Mrs. Hutchinson has left the following notice of her mother’s 
 family. “ She was of a noble family, being the youngest daughter of Sir John St. John of Lidiard 
 Tregoz in the County of Wilts : her father and mother died when she was not above five years 
 of age, and yet at her nurse’s; from whence she was carried to be brought up in the house of the 
 Lord Grandison her father’s younger brother, an honourable and excellent person, but married to 
 a lady” (Joan Roydon widow of Holcroft) “so jealous of him and so ill-natured in her jealous 
 fitts to anything that was related to him, that her cruelties to my mother exceeded the stories of 
 step-mothers. The rest of my aunts, my mother’s sisters, were disperst to severall places where 
 they grew up till my uncle Sir John St. John being married to the daughter of Sir Thomas Laten 
 (Leighton), they were all againe brought home to their brother’s house. There were not in 
 those days so many beautifull women found in any family as these, but my mother was by the 
 most judgments preferr’d before all her elder sisters, who, something envious att it, used her 
 unkindly; yett all the suitors that came to them, still turned their addresses to her, which she in 
 her youthful innocency neglected, till one of greater name, estate, and reputation than the rest, 
 
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 175 
 
 [The following memorandum, also painted underneath, supplies the date of the 
 work, and the name of the person under whose superintendence it was executed. Ed. 
 
 “Some remaines of S r . Richard St. George, Kt., Garter King at Arms, relating 
 to the Pedigree of St. John, written in the year 1615 and now transcribed this 
 present year 1694.”] 
 
 This following Epitaph is written beneath a Statue erected to Mr. Edward St. 
 John, a little lower on the same side: (i.e. the North side of the Chancel. The 
 statue is full size of life, all gilt. Ed.) 
 
 “P. M. S. 
 
 Scitote, vos quorum interest humanitatis, justum esse dolorem & nolentem mori, qui per diffi- 
 cilem lapidem verba quaerit. EDOARDUS ST. JOHN, faelicissima natura usus ad repentinam 
 gloriam brevi vixit, speeiosum inter homines exemplar, imo ad omne magnificum contendens, 
 annorum tantiim fit egenus. Non enim citius virtute, fortuna, fama bona, ornarat Familiam, 
 quam per istas jubetur umbras transire baud sicco pede. Eheu! festine satis reliquias mortales 
 Majorum cineri promiscuas florida juventute [sed placide] misit, cetera scilicet in caelum raptus. 
 Quantus in hoc elato marmore relinquitur, vos videte qui viventem colebatis, victurum lugebatis, 
 et vos etiam qui vita functum desideretis. Sic ille stetit olim, ut erectus jam imaginatus est, 
 adversum impetus iucivilis belli, et rigidas rninas armatae mortis bonesto vultu fidentique pectore 
 tulit. Sic enim ille cecidit ut stautem putes, et mente saltern immobilem. Quinimo superstitem 
 voluit amicorum subinde lacbrimis proborumque memoriae amor parentis optimi, cujus ingeniosa 
 pietas hunc lapidem fecit eloquentem. Obiit pridie Iduum Aprilis Anno MDCXLV.” 
 
 [Sir Giles and Lady Mompesson.] 
 
 This over their figures as they are carved in freestone, each sitting in a nich, 
 over the little door of the same aisle: (the Chancel.) 
 
 “M. S. 
 
 Faeminarum optimae, Dnae. Katharine Mompesson, Forma, Pudicitia, Constantia, Pietate, 
 omnique virtutum genere praestantissimae, Johannis St. John, de Lidiard Tregoze, Baronetti, 
 
 hapned to fall deeply in love with her, and to manage it so discreetly that my mother could not 
 but entertaine him : and my uncle’s wife ” (Anne Leighton Lady St. John) “ who had a mother’s 
 kindnesse for her, persuaded her to remove herself from her sisters’ envie by going along with her 
 to the Isle of Jernsey where her father ” (Sir Thomas Leighton) “ was Governor. Arriving there 
 Lucy St. John boarded at the house of a French Protestant Minister where she became enamoured 
 of the Geneva discipline. On her return to England the suitor had been persuaded to marry 
 some one else, and Lucy was about to return to the Minister’s when Sir Allen Apsley meeting 
 her accidentally at her uncle’s Sir William St. John’s, obtained her hand.” [Memoirs of the 
 Life of Colonel Hutchinson, p. II.] 
 
176 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 sororis natu maximae; Egidii Mompesson, ex antiqua familia de Bathampton, in Comitatu Wilts 
 Equitis* Aurati conjugis charissimae. Qui quidem Egidius viginti sex annorum matrimonio 
 feliciter peracto, mortalitatis minime oblitus, suos etiam cineres (quum accident) reponi jussit; 
 Obiit XXVIII Martii, Ao. Dni. 1633. 
 
 Siste Viator, non ut figuras Phidiana confectas manu discutias.” 
 
 This under their figures, of freestone: u Defunctorum mores perlege.” 
 
 The St. John Family Aisle. (North). 
 
 Here are several stately Tombes. 
 
 These coates are in the East windowe of the St. John aisle, adjoyning to the 
 Chancell: 
 
 [No 252.] St. John, impaling, Beauchamp, Pateshull, Grandison and Tregoz. 
 
 [No. 253.] Do. (Carew.) 
 
 [No. 254.] Do. (Blount.) 
 
 a Sir Giles was degraded. Vide Chronicle temp. King James . 1 
 
 1 Sir Giles Mompesson was of the Bathampton-Wyly family (see Pedigree in Iloare’s Heytes- 
 bury 219) and of Apshill in Tisbury (to which he bequeathed a small charity). The family 
 name also belongs, in this county, to Seagry, Littleton Drew, Corton near Heytesbury (1667) 
 and North Tidworth : to the last in connexion with the celebrated ghost story of the “ Drumming 
 boy.” Sir Giles, M.P. for Great Bedwyn 1614—20, was a great projector, dealer, and patentee. 
 He and a co-patentee, named Michel, abused the privilege of the exclusive manufacture of gold 
 and silver thread, “ by a new alchemistical way of making it with copper and other sophistical 
 materials to cozen and deceive the people. And so poysonous were the drugs that made up this 
 deceitful composition, that they rotted their heads and arms, and brought lameness upon those 
 that wrought it, some losing their eyes, and many their lives, by the venom of the vapours that 
 came from it. The clamours put forth were so great that the King was obliged to call in the 
 Patent.” The Parliament proceeded against Sir Giles in 1621. He was degraded from the order 
 of Knighthood: fined £1000: to be considered an outlaw: his testimony not to be received in any 
 court: to be imprisoned for life : disabled from holding any office, and to be ever held an infamous 
 person. King James for this sentence, “it being so just and moderate ,” thanked the Lords: and 
 added to it perpetual banishment. The truth is, according to Buding, (Annals of Coinage, i. 
 377) that there was great abuse in patents at the time: that Sir Giles was made a scapegoat to 
 bear all the blame, of which a great part properly belonged to the procurer of them, the Duke of 
 Buckingham : and perhaps not a little to the grantor himself. Sir Giles Mompesson is considered 
 to have been undoubtedly the prototype of the “ Sir Giles Overreach ” of Massinger (himself a 
 native of Wiltshire). Mompesson’s practices are pointedly alluded to in “ The Bondsman,” 
 A. II. sc. 3. In 1639 out of his regard to Archbishop Laud he gave the Rectory of Codford 
 St. Mary to St. John's College, Oxon. 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 177 
 
 [No. 255.] St. John, impaling, (Ewarby quartering Carew.) 
 
 [No. 256.] Do. (Whethill.) 
 
 [No. 257.] Do. Hungerford quartering Heytesbury. 
 
 (Monument of Nicholas St. John, 1589.) 
 
 “ Jacent hie, optime Lector, spe beatae Resurrectionis reposita corpora Nicolai Seynt Ihon 
 Armigeri et Elizabeths conjugis sum. Regi Edovardo, Regius Maris, et Regins Elizabeths e 
 selectorum stipatorum nurnero (quos vulgo Pentionarios vocant) fuit, eumque apud Principem 
 locum obtinens, mortem obijt. Elizabetha ipsius uxor, filia fuit Richardi Blunt, Militis, ex 
 eaque genuit tres filios et quinque filias, Johannem, Oliverum, Richardum, Elizabetham, Cath- 
 arinam, Helionoram, Dorotheam, atque Janam. Johannes filius natu maximus in uxorem duxit 
 hliam Gualteri Hungerford Militis. Oliverus et Richardus vivunt adhuc cslibes. Elizabetha 
 filia natu maxima nupsit Seynt George, Comitatus Cantabrigiensis: Catharina Webb, Helinora 
 Cave, Comitatus Northamtoniensis, Dorothea Egiocke Warvicensis, Jana vero Nicholas, Comitatus 
 Wilts. Ipse Nicholas Seynt Jhon ex hac vita decessit octavo die Novembris, Anno Domini 1589, 
 Elizabetha vero ipsius conjux ex hac vita decessit undecimo die Augusti, Anno Domini 1587, 
 Insigne relinquentes Trophsum posteris suis, et fams purs, et vits integrs. Johannes Seynt 
 Jhon illorum filius hoc illis de se optime meritis et piis parentibus pietatis ergo Monumentum 
 posuit, Anno Domini 1592.” 
 
 “Nobis est Christus et in vita, et in morte “Tempora qui longs speras felicia vits, 
 
 Lucrum.” Spes tua te fallit, testis utrique sumus.” 
 
 (Shields of Arms on Nicholas St. John’s Monument.) 
 
 [Same as No. 249.] St. John quartering Beauchamp, Pateshull, Grandison, Treooz, and 
 Ewyas. 
 
 [No. 258.] In a lozenge, 1. Blount. 2. Sanchez, of Spain. 3. (Ayala, of Spain.) 4. Yair, 
 
 az. and arg. 5. Delaford ? 6. -. Arg. a dog, or wolf, ramp. S. 7. (Swayne ? Az. a 
 
 chevron between three pheons 0.) 
 
 [No. 259.] Sir John St. John, impaling Hungerford quartering Heytesbury. 
 
 [No. 260.] (Oliver) St. John, Visct. Grandison, quartering Grandison and Tregoz. 
 
 [No. 261.] Mr. Richard St. John. 
 
 [No. 262.] Sir Robert, (read, Sir Richard) St. George impaling St. John. 
 
 [No. 263.] Mr. Edmund Webb of Rodbourne 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 [No. 264.] - Egeoke 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 [n. xvi. No. 265.] (Sir Thomas) Cave 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 [No. 266.] - Nicholas 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 (Sir John St. John, Bart., died c. 1645 : and his two wives). 
 
 Near the East windowe is a magnificent Monument of marble, not much unlike 
 
Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 178 
 
 \Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 to that of Queen Elizabeth, made by Sir John St. John in his lifetime, where he 
 lies between his two wives: on his left hand his first, holding a child in her armes, 
 in travaile of which shee died: on his right hand his second wife, with 5 sonnes 
 kneeling at head, and 3 at feet, all under an arch supported at either end with four 
 Corinthian pillars. On the chancell side of this Tombe lye four children, dead at 
 the making of this Monument. At the top of the arch are the quarterings of St. 
 John, scarcely visible by reason of the smallnesse and distance. 
 
 This Inscription is on the West end of this Monument: and, on a shield, St. 
 John, impaling, 1st. [Leighton, and 2nd. Whitmore. No. 267]. 
 
 D. S. 
 
 Johannes St. John, Miles et Baronettus, annum agens XLIX um , mortalitatis suae memor, 
 H. M. M. P. C. Anno CIOIOCXXXIIII. [1634] : et sibi et duobus Uxoribus Ann^e scilicet et 
 Margarets. 
 
 Anna, Filia fuit Tbomae Leyghton Eq. Aur. ex Elizabetha Conjuge Gentis Knowlesiae, et 
 Reginae Eliz. tam virtutis quam cognationis ergo in deliciis. Vixit An. XXXVII. eximiis animi 
 et corporis et Gratiae muneribus dotata, rarum virtutis et pietatis exemplum, XIII. liberorum 
 superstitum Mater. Tandem aerumnosis ultimi puerperii agonibus diu conflictata, et demum victa, 
 fugit in ccelum XIII. Cal. Oct. A°. CIOIOCXXXVIII. [1638]. 
 
 Margareta, Filia fuit Guil. Wbitmor, Arm., de Apley provinciae Salop. Vivit LVIII um 
 agens annum, virtutis laude spectabilis, et bonis operibus intenta, in istud hujus Familiae 
 Requietorium suo tempore (ni aliter ipsa olim statuerit) aggreganda. 1 
 
 The two following Inscriptions on the Chancell side of the same Tombe. 2 
 
 1 This Inscription is ratber curious as a specimen of the taste of the day in such matters. Sir 
 John St. John erects it to his deceased wife Elizabeth Knowles, but also panegyrizes his second 
 wife Margaret Whitmor, then alive, as setting an admirable example of an useful life. This lady, 
 before her marriage with Sir John was widow of Sir Richard Grobham, of Great Wishford. 
 Sir John St. John left by will dated 1645 a Rent Charge of £10 a year for repairing the “New 
 Aisle,” the “Old Aisle built by his ancestors,” the Vault, Chancel and Monuments: the same to 
 be viewed by the Minister and Churchwardens every Easter Monday, and 20s. thereof to be spent 
 in a dinner or supper. An Indenture executed 2nd June 1645, declaring the Trust, was ordered 
 to be kept in the Parish Chest. 
 
 2 Above this tomb on the chancel side is a shield of 12 quarterings of the Hungerford Family : 
 and on the Aisle side, another shield of 23 quarterings of the St. John Family. 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 179 
 
 “ Sir John St. John had issue by Anne his first wife: 
 
 Oliver, borne 
 
 Feb. 9, 1612. 
 
 Oliver married Katharine daughter and heir of Horace 
 
 Anne, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Nov. 5, 1614. 
 
 Lord Yere, Baron of Tilbury. 
 
 Married to Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, co. Oxon. Bart. 
 
 John, 
 
 Do. 
 
 March 24, 1615. 
 
 
 William, 
 
 Do. 
 
 March 29, 1616. 
 
 
 Edward, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Feb. 26, 1617. 
 
 
 Barbara, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Feb. 15, 1618. 
 
 
 Nicolas, 
 
 Do. 
 
 March 29, 1620. 
 
 Died April 18, 1639. 
 
 Lucy, 
 
 Do. 
 
 July, 1621. 
 
 
 W alter, 
 
 Do. 
 
 May, 1622. 
 
 
 Francis, 
 
 Do. 
 
 July, 1623. 
 
 Died Jan. 13, 1633. 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 Do. 
 
 August, 1624. 
 
 Died April 2, 1629. 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Sept. 1625. 
 
 Died July 23, 1630. 
 
 Henry, 
 
 Do. 
 
 July, 1628. 
 
 
 God form’d a Mould of Clay which then beganne, 
 
 When he first breath’d into’t, to be a Man. 
 
 We raise this Pile of stone, and in its wombe 
 Laying that breathles Clay, make it a Tombe. 
 
 A Tombe so pretious, that what here within 
 Sleeps for a while, shall rise a Cberubin, 
 
 In which the wealth of Nature’s treasury 
 (More Beawtie, Goodnes, Yertue, cannot dy) 
 
 The love and glorie of her sex, the best 
 Of Women, Mothers, and of Wives, doth rest. 
 
 First went the Mother, after her must goe 
 Father, and Children, and you [Reader] too. 1 
 
 In the third windowe in the North aisle are two Bishops, or Mitred Abbots, 
 together with other religious persons with their heads shaven.—At the top of the 
 third colunnie are three men in light armour, one of which hath on his dexter arme 
 this shield, [No. 268] viz. An estoilc or mullet of 6 points surrounded by rays. In 
 the lower part of the same column is a bald-pate Priest habited in white with a red 
 cross saltire on his breast, joyning the hands, or marrying, a man and woman in 
 blew: the man hath before him a large white purse, encompassed with yellow 
 
 1 On the floor of the St. John Aisle is a brass to “Richard Gorham of Lidyet, 29th Oct. 1670, 
 set. 75.” The family name is rare, and this one seems to be an addition to the elaborate collection 
 of ‘ Gorhamiana ’ in the Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. 
 
 z 2 
 
180 
 
 [Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 beades; wherein probably was the woman’s dowry, or somewhat wherewith he 
 was to present her. The attire on the woman’s head something like this, [see 
 No. 269]. 1 
 
 Near this wind owe, on a marble gravestone, this Inscription : 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of Dame Elizabeth Newcomen, the Relict of Sir Thomas Newcomen, 
 Baronet, 2 and daughter to Sir Charles Pleydell, of Midge-hall, who deceased the 10th day of 
 June, 1669.” 
 
 Arms ; in a Widow’s escutcheon, Newcomen, impaling Pleydell [No, 270]. 
 
 (South Aisle.) 
 
 In the West window of the South aisle are these 3 old scutcheons still remaining-: 
 the two first, according to Mr. Anth: Wood’s rule, ancient. 3 
 
 [No. 271 Pigot]. (No. 272) Grauntson. [No. 273] Tregoz. 
 
 (Chancel.) 
 
 This following Inscription is engraven on a brasse plate affixed to a stone in the 
 Chancell, viz. 
 
 Si quern memoria dignum, ecce tibi, mortalis! Gulielmtjm Blackburne, Ecclesise hujus 
 Rectorem, Yicarium de Chorlbury, 4 Antiqua Familia in Agro Lancastr. oriund., Oxonii educatum, 
 maximi profectus indicijs, memoriae firmitate, ingenii pernicitate, singulari Doctrina, suavitate 
 Morum, concionandi mira facultate, pietate Yitae, Morte denique ipsa. Summo Bonorum Doc- 
 torum omnium desiderio obiit die decimo mensis Martii, anno suae Redemptionis MDC.XL.IIII. 
 
 1 All the windows of the North, or Pleydell’s aisle, were apparently once filled with stained 
 glass: of which some portions remain. At the head of the first, nearest West, are the words 
 “ Laudamus te, Adoramus te, Benedieimus te.” On the next, “Gloria deo, &c.” The “three 
 men in light armour,” appear, from the flames under them, to represent Shadrach, Meshech, and 
 Abednego. The armour is curiously scaled. They are barefooted : and on the heads of two of 
 them is a cross. 
 
 2 Newcomen of Kenagh, co. Longford ; [Ext. Irish Barts.] 
 
 3 A. Wood had probably said, the plainer the shield, the more ancient. 
 
 4 Charlbury, co. Oxon. He was Rector of Lydiard only one year. 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 181 
 
 (Nave.) 
 
 1. On a marble gravestone in the Nave of the Church: Arms [No. 274] Yorke 
 impaling Stampe . 1 
 
 “ Willus. Yorke, de Basset’s-Downe infra hanc Parochiam, Generosus, hie situs est; ex 
 Equestri Familia in Agro Eboracensi oriundus; natus fuit Mense Febr. Anno Dni. 1576, in 
 uxorem duxit Annain filiam Simonis Stampe, Armigeri, cum qua per annos 51 et amplius feliciter 
 vixit, ex qua genuit quatuor filios totidemque Alias; Willum. York, Armigerum, qui duxit in 
 uxorem suam Elizabethans, Relictam Henrici Danvers, Armigeri, et filiam et cobaeredem Willi. 
 Bower, Armigeri: Edwardum Yorke Sacrae Tkeologiae Baccalaureum, qui duxit in uxorem suam 
 Hesteram, filiam—Thompson, Generosi: Carolum Yorke, qui in cunabulis expiravit: et Carolum 
 Yorke, qui prirno duxit in uxorem Jocosam filiam Johis. Barnard, Gener: ipsa defuncta, duxit 
 in uxorem Annam filiam praedicti Henrici Danvers: Annam Yorke, nuptam Henrico Kempe de 
 Interiori Templo, Londin : Armigero: Janam Yorke, nuptam Jobi. Brind, Generoso: Mariam 
 Yorke, et Susannam Yorke. Et tandem plenus dierurn, scilt. -ZEtatis 83 Annorum et amplius, 
 obiit 4to. die Maij 1660.” 
 
 2. Yorke as before, Impaling Bernard. [No. 275.] 
 
 “ Sacrum memoriae Jocose Yorke, uxoris Caroli Yorke de Basset’s-Downe, Generosi, unius 
 filiarum Jobis. Barnard de Rissendon in Com. Glocestriae, Gen. quae obiit 25 die Maij, 1650. 
 Maritus maerens Monumentum hoc Amoris posuit.” 
 
 3. Kempe quartering blank [No. 276]. 
 
 “ Sub hoc Lapide reposita jacent corpora Gulieemi et Henrici Kempe, filiorum Gemellorum 
 Henrici Kempe de Interiori Templo, London, Generosi, et Annae uxoris ejus filiae natu maximae 
 Gulielmi Yorke de Basset’s-Downe, Generosi. Qui nati fuerunt in festo die Sancti Bartbei. 
 Apostoli, Anno Dni. 1642. Animae vero Henrici, 21° die Junii, ac Gulielmi, 18° die Julii, Anno 
 Dni. 1648, ex hoc carcere in ccelestem patriam evolarunt.” 
 
 1 There is a Pedigree of Yorke in Wilts Yisit. 1623. In these inscriptions (as well as in 
 another in West Lavington church, now almost illegible, but preserved in Sir Thomas Pbillipps’s 
 privately-printed volume of Wiltshire Epitaphs) the genealogy stands as follows. 
 
 Wm. Yorke —Anne d. of Simon 
 of a knightly Stampe Esq. hired 
 Yorkshire family in wedlock 51 years 
 born 1576, d.1660. bur. Oct. 1. 1661. 
 
 Wil!iam=EIizabeth 
 Yorke Esq. Relict of 
 
 Henry Danvers 
 (of Baynton) 
 Esq. dau. 
 and coh. of 
 Wm. Bower 
 (of West La¬ 
 vington) Esq. 
 
 Edward =Hester 
 S. T. B. Thomson. 
 
 Charles 
 d. y. 
 
 I 
 
 1. Jocosa =Charies.=2. Ann, dau. 
 or Joyce of Henry 
 
 Bernard Danvers 
 
 of Rissington, aforesaid, 
 
 co. Glouc. mar. 20. Sep. 
 
 d. 1650. 1G53. 
 
 I 
 
 Henry —Ann. 
 Kempe, 
 of the 
 Inner 
 Temple. 
 
 John =Jane. Mary. 
 Brind Susannah. 
 
 Gent. 
 
 Wm. Henry. 
 Twins: and died 
 set. 6 : almost 
 together. SeeM. 1. 
 above, No. 3. 
 
182 
 
 [Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 (Church Yard.) 
 
 This following Epitaph is on a Marble Tombe, in the Church yard: Arms, 
 [Culme, No. 277]. 
 
 The Crest is a Lyon rampant holding in his pawe a columne, and thereon a 
 Pelican (vulning herself) as in the manteled shield. 
 
 “ Siste Yiator. 
 
 Vir non mediocris hie jacet Benjaminus Culme , 1 * Praenobilis Culmiorum Devoniensium Familiae 
 singulare ornamentum, S.S. Theologiae Doctor, Sancti Patricii Dubliniensis Decanus postremus, 
 non ultimus: utriusque fortunae particeps, utramque bonestavit. Idem semper in Prosperis, in 
 Adversis idem, in omnibus antiquae Fidei, Pietatis, Patientiae, moderaminis, imitandum exemplar 
 in saeculo non imitando. In patriam Exul, Exul in patria, nec inaudita Hibernorum feritate 
 perterritus, nec inopinato Anglorum successu seductus, satur curis, annis satur, neutros pertaesus, 
 sed spe plenus et coelo. Rerum mundanarum vanitatem expertus plus satis, ut aeterna frueretur 
 Quiete et Gloria, in Christo placide obdormiit Anno Domini M.DC.LVII. iEtatis LXXVI, 
 Octobris XXI, Futuram praestolans Beatorum resurrectionem.” 
 
 This engraven on a stone in the Church yard, 
 
 “ Septr. 25, Anno Domini 1667. 
 
 B. J. 
 
 iEtatis suae 54. 
 
 Ecce 
 
 Hie decumbo 
 Innoxie jam calcas 
 sed 
 
 Yindictae 
 
 Uti Senatus consulto cautus 
 Lapidi 
 
 Da pacem nec moveas quidem Quaeso 
 Cineres 
 
 Ego quietos expecto non lenes .” 3 
 
 1 Benjamin Culme D.D. of Canonsleigb, son of Hugh Culme of Holland, co. Devon, was of 
 
 Lincoln College, then of St. Alban’s Hall, Oxon. He became Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, but 
 being forced thence by the Rebellion in 1641 be returned to England, lived several years in a 
 retired condition, and died at Midgehall in the family of his wife Deborah Pleydell. [Wood. 
 Fast. Oxon.] His daughter Elizabeth was third wife of Sir John Morton, Baronet, of Milborne 
 St. Andrew’s. [Hutch. I. 480.] 
 
 3 The Latin of this Inscription, if imperfect, cannot be corrected by reference to the original, 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 183 
 
 At a place in this parish, is a Well, the water whereof, as I am informed, was 
 heretofore famous for curing many diseases, and working miracles, in the old time. 
 The country people calle it “ Antedochs-Well ” perhaps instead of Antidote. I 
 suppose here was the cell of some Anchorite. 
 
 In the gravell pitts, in the park by the bowling green, is found Lapis Judaicus, 
 and great quantity of petrified shells; some like muscles. 
 
 MIDGEHALL (in Lydiard Tregoz). 
 
 This was the Grange of the Abbey of Stanley. The Demesnes thereto belonging, 
 with some other smaller tenements of the same Tenure, are in value above a thousand 
 pounds per annum, and pay but 8s. in lieu of their tithes. For Pope Innocent, the 
 1st of that name, decreed in the Lateran Councell, that no Cistertian, he being of 
 that Order himself, should pay any tithes. * 1 
 
 Johannes de Winterburg, Rector of Lydiard Ewias, sued for, or claimed his 
 Tithes of the said Abbot, who appeals to the Pope, and his Holinesse, after the 
 recital of many privileges this Order always enjoyed, adds, as I have seen it in the 
 Decree, 2 “ Nos tamen de communi assensu et voluntate, ut onmis in posterum cesset 
 occasio malignandi inter Domurn nostram et dictum Ecclesiam de Lydiard-Ewias et 
 ipsius Rectores, super decimis omnibus divino charitatis intuitu assignamus octo 
 solidos dicto Johanni et successoribus suis annuatim in festo Sti. Michaelis in Ecclesia 
 de Lydiard Ewias per aliquem ex nostris in perpetuum reddendos, &c.” 
 
 This was confirmed by Robert, Bishop of Sarum, given at Ramsbury, but without 
 date. 3 
 
 as the stone has disappeared. It seems to allude to some wrong suffered during lifetime, and to 
 be addressed particularly to the oppressor, who survived. What the story was, or to what 
 person it refers, it is now impossible to say: but the initials, “ B. J.” and the date, happen to 
 correspond with an entry in the Lydiard Register of Burials, “Bridget Jacob, Sept. 25th, 1667.” 
 
 1 Pope Innocent the 1st could not very well have been a Cistercian Monk, for he died A.D. 417, 
 and the Cistercian Order did not exist till A.D. 1098. 
 
 2 The extract given by Arnbrey, is not from the Pope’s Decree, but from the Deed of Agreement 
 between the Abbot of Stanley and the Rector of Lydiard, (given in English below.) 
 
 3 Neither the Deed of Agreement nor the Confirmation Deed are dated : but from the attestation 
 
184 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Lydiard Tregoz. 
 
 of “Stephen, Archdeacon of Wilts,” and other incidental evidence, it must have been about the 
 first year of Robert Bingham, Bishop, A.D. 1228. It seems to have been at the General Council, 
 10th Lateran, A.D. 1139, under Innocent II. (who however was not of that Order) that the 
 Cistercians either were exempted from paying Tithes on their estates, or agreed in some cases to 
 make Composition for them. At that period there were very few Cistercian houses in England, 
 but the number increasing, fresh land being broken up and the Parish Priest losing all benefit, 
 the Bishops began in course of time to re-assert their claim to tithe, contending that the exemption 
 in favour of the Cistercians at the Council of 1139 only applied to such lands as they tilled before 
 that year. Whereupon Pope Honorius III. (1216) pronounced that the privilege should be 
 understood to apply to all lands whatsoever as well after as before. The Cistercian Abbey of 
 Stanley, (near Chippenham) to which the whole tything of “Myghale” had been given about 
 A.D. 1161 by King Henry II., contributing nothing out of that tything to the maintenance of 
 the Rector of Lydiai'd, successive Rectors murmured so much that the Abbot, William of 
 Stanley, at length relented ; and by the following Deed, of about A.D. 1228, between himself and 
 John de Winterburg, Rector of Lydiard, bound himself and his successors to pay 8s. a year; 
 the Rector formally acknowledging it as a bounty, and withdrawing all claim to tithe. Eight 
 Shillings a year in the year 1228 represented about the value of three oxen. This Composition is 
 not mentioned in the “Valor Ecclesiasticus” under the payments and receipts of Stanley and 
 Lydiard. 
 
 Composition between the Abbot of Stanley and the Rector of Lydiard. Translated from a 
 Latin Copy, exhibited in Court on a Trial between the Earl of Hertford v. St. John, 4th May, 
 1587:— 
 
 “ To all, &c. William Lord Abbot of Stanley and the Convent there, and John, Parson of 
 Lydiard Ewyas, greeting. Whereas it is well known to all, that the Order of Cistercians hath 
 been for a long time past, bv privilege from the Roman Pontiffs, exempted from payment of Tythe ; 
 And we, being of that Order, have enjoyed that exemption and immunity in our Grange of 
 Mygehale with its appurtenances and in all our lands and possessions within the limits of the 
 said Parish of Lydiard Ewyas from the time of the Foundation of our House: To wit, that no 
 payment whatsoever of any kind under the name of tythe, great or small, hath ever been made 
 by us to the said Church or any Rector thereof, or even to the said John: In order however that 
 all occasion of complaint may in future be put an end to between our House and the said Church 
 of Lydiard Ewyas and the Rectory thereof, respecting any kind of Tythes, we of our common 
 consent and will, having a holy respect unto charity, Do assign Eight Shillings to be paid every 
 year at Michaelmas unto the said John and his successors in the Church of Lydiard Ewyas, by 
 some one of us for ever. But whereas neither I John, (the Rector) nor the said Church, nor any 
 of my predecessors, have ever received any thing whatever under the name of Tythe out of the 
 aforesaid Grange and its appurtenances, nor out of the lands or possessions of the said Monks; 
 being however sensible that the condition of the said Church hath been amended by their bounty, 
 
 I have freely accepted their favour, and give my assent that the said Abbot and Convent shall be 
 exempt from payment of all Tythes which can possibly be demanded of them either of parochial 
 right or in any other way, by the said Church, or by myself, or by any other Rector, under any 
 
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 The Custome of Word-ale. 
 
 The tenants in memorie of this Decree doe yearly, every one in his order, about 
 the Feast of All Saints, keep a Feaste for their fellow-tenants which they call a 
 SHorlnalc. It was celebrated heretofore with great solenmitie, many prayers being 
 made for the Abbot of Stanley, and the Monks of the Cistertian Order, now 
 forgotten; all that they yet retaine is, 
 
 “ You are to pray for the Abbot of Stanley, and all the Monks of the Cistertian Order, by 
 whom we are all Tithe-free, Tithe-free. By whom we are all Tithe-free, Tithe-free, &c.” 
 
 These words are sung by the chorus, whilst one drinkes a carouse, holding a 
 white wand in his hand; and so all round. When the Feast is ended, he that then 
 kept it delivers his Wand to him that by course is to keep it the yeare following. 1 
 
 LINEHAM. 
 
 Vide Lib. B. 148. (The Second Volume of Aubrey’s County Collections, now 
 missing. Ed.) 2 
 
 pretence whatsoever. For the better security of this Composition both I John, and the said Abbot 
 and Convent, have hereunto affixed our seals, and at our request the Reverend the Archdeacon of 
 Wilts as Ordinary, the See of Sarum being vacant, has affixed his seal. Witnesses, Master Luke, 
 Canon of Sarum, William-, Robert Bacon and others.” 
 
 Nearly 2000 acres in Midgehall Tything are still quit of all tithe to the Rector, in consideration 
 of the eight shillings abovementioned. 
 
 Soon after the Dissolution of Monasteries, Midgehall, where there is an old moated house, 
 became the property of the Pleydells of Coleshill, Berks, some of whom resided there and were 
 buried in Lydiard Church. Sir Charles Pleydell of Midgehall, Knighted 1618, died 1642. His 
 second wife was Jane St. John : and their fourth daughter married Benjamin Culme D.D. who is 
 buried in the Church yard. Sir Charles’s grandson, Edmund Pleydell, married Ann sole daughter 
 and heir of Sir John Morton of Milborne St. Andrew’s co. Dorset (who was also buried at 
 Lydiard, 1623), and the name of Morton from this match was afterwards prefixed to Pleydell. 
 William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor, married Harriet only daughter and heir of Sir Mark Stuart 
 Pleydell of Coleshill, and the estates have passed to his Lordship’s descendant the present owner. 
 
 1 A Private Court or Feast, said to be observed with some old ceremony which the paj’masters 
 of this slender impost pretend that they are not permitted to divulge, is kept at Midgehall on 
 the first Sunday after New Michaelmas. For an account of the “Ancient Ales” of Wiltshire, 
 see Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. II. 161 ; and for this particular one, Ditto II. 399. The meaning of 
 “ fFor«?”-Ale, is not exactly known, but it is most likely, (as suggested by the Rev. E. Wilton), 
 from the Anglo- Saxon, WorS, Land. A “ carouse,” formerly meant a “ bumper-toast.” 
 
 2 Lvneham, not being mentioned by name in Domesday Book, was perhaps included in that 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \Lyneham. 
 
 BROADSTOCK cum CLACK (Bradenstoke, in Lyneham). 
 
 V. Lib. B. 51. (at present missing. Ed .) 
 
 Mr. Petrus Zittzscliar, a Danish Gent., tells me that in their language Clack 
 signifies Defamatio. 
 
 A learned Suedish Gent, saves, Clack in Swedish signifies macula , a blot. Vide 
 in British Dictionary. - Resp. Non inventum. 
 
 In Hexam’s Low-Dutch Dictionarie KLACK signifies a cleft, chap, crevice; Item 
 a mill-clack: also, a clapper of Lazarus. 
 
 Mem. At Broadstock Abbey is an over-shot mill. 1 
 
 survey under “Stock,” which was the original name of Braden-stoke; and if so, it belonged at 
 that time to Edward of Salisbury. The manor and Rectorial tithe certainly formed part 
 afterwards of the gift made to Bradenstoke Priory by his descendant Walter D’Eureux the 
 Founder of that Monastery. The impropriation of the church took place in A.D. 1256. [See the 
 Deed in New Mon.] The cure of souls was provided for by the Abbey ; which seems to have 
 obtained some kind of privilege for Lyneham, as there are no Presentations of that period in the 
 Sarum Registry and it was one of the few benefices exempt from First Fruits and Tenths. 
 
 Among the chief proprietors after the Dissolution was Richard Long who died 1558, 
 youngest son of Sir Ilenry Long of Wraxhall and Draycote, by Eleanor Wrottesley. His 
 estate continued for five generations in his descendants, some of whom were buried in the church, 
 and was sold by Edmund Long who died s. p. 1681. There was a grant here to Thomas Matson 
 1556—7 : and in 1560 Letters Patent granting the demesne and manor of Lyneham to William 
 Button Esq. and Thomas Estcourt, gent. 
 
 Thickthorn was granted on lease by the Crown, temp. Edw. VI. to John Wichicote. 
 
 A part of Littlecote lying nearest to Lyneham belonged to Bradenstoke Priory, given probably 
 by John Elcombe and Joan his wife 13 Hen. IV. 
 
 1 “ Clack,” by the consent of several languages, is certainly a word adopted to represent an im¬ 
 portunate noise, whether of the tongue, or any other too persevering instrument: and the clack 
 of a mill is the continual rattle caused by shaking the hopper to make the corn run : but that the 
 hamlet of Clack, near Bradenstoke Abbey, should have taken its name from the usual noise of 
 a mill there, does not seem very likely. It is described in documents of A.D. 1540 as “The 
 Manor of Clake.” Claeg is Anglo-Saxon for clay. 
 
 A “ Clapper of Lazarus ” is more easily explained. A Leper used to be called a Lazar, from 
 being full of sores like Lazarus. The ceremonies observed on the occasion of declaring a man a 
 leper and cutting him off from social intercourse, were in the highest degree terrible and tragic. 
 After a dismal mass in church he was conducted to a solitary abode far from all society: and was 
 provided with a hood, a cloak, a sheepskin rug, a pair of dappers , a leathern girdle, and a birchen 
 
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 staff. The clappers were for giving notice of his approach, in order that people might get out of 
 his way. In Chaucer, Yenus is represented as condemning Cressida to go 
 
 “ Begging from house to house 
 
 With cuppe and clapper, like a Lazarous.” 
 
 For full particulars upon the subject of Lepers, see “ Jephson’s Walking Tour in Britany 1859,” 
 p. 76. 
 
 Bradenstoke Priory. The general name for the whole parish was simply “ Stock,” village; 
 the property of Edward of Salisbury at the Norman Survey. Sometimes it was called “ Stoke apud 
 Clive.” From comprehending other hamlets it became “Broad;” in Saxon, Braden-stoc. It 
 had nothing to do with Braden Forest, being beyond the limits. Bradenstock as the name of the 
 Tillage occurs so late as 1361. A House of Regular Canons of St. Augustine, or Priory of Black 
 Canons, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded here 13th April, A.D. 1142, by 
 Walter D’Eureux of Salisbury and Sibil Chaworth his wife. He was descended from Edward 
 of Salisbury, and was grandfather of Ela Countess of Sarum the Foundress of Lacock Abbey. An 
 account of Bradenstoke Priory, with copies of some charters, is in the “New Monasticon.” See 
 also Bowles and Nichols’s “ History of Lacock,” chap. 2, to which some additions, with a woodcut, 
 are given in “Gent. Mag.” Nov. 1833: and in “Britton’s Beauties of Wilts.” One Register 
 of the Priory is in the British Museum (Cotton MSS. Yit. A. xi) : and another (formerly at 
 Stowe) is now in the library of Lord Sherborne. (For a description of the contents of this 
 valuable volume, which is of the reign of Hen. VII. see O’Connor’s “Bibliotheca MS. Stowensis” 
 vol. ii. p. 147). Sir Thomas Phillipps has some Extracts. See also Dodsworth’s Collections in 
 Bodl. Library. In Buck’s views there is a Plate of the Priory as it was in 1732. Tanner 
 (Notitia) says that William Aubrej' the Antiquary’s brother had the Rental Book of the House: 
 [which William Aubrey had obtained from the family of Stokes of Kington St. Michael, in this 
 way. One of his letters to his brother John the Antiquar}% begins, “ Deare Brother. I have 
 here sent you the examination of that which was the destruction of the Danvers family. Mr. 
 Thomas Stokes desired a copie of it. . . Mr. Jo. Stokes doe not much care to part with any 
 thing, but could not well denie me Bradstock Rent Roll, and on his slight grant I seized it- 
 These things my cousin Power” (also of Kington St. Michael) “has the best title to, and will 
 freely give it me.”] 
 
 In “ Baker’s Northamptonshire,” pt. v. p. 317, is a ludicrous account of a dispute between the 
 Prior of Bradenstoke’s tenants at Towcester in that county and the Lord of that Manor who 
 insisted that they should bake their bread in his oven. The grant to this Priory by one Le Gras, 
 of a Manor “Apud Wales ” (see Monasticon, Charter No. iv.), applies, not to the Principality, 
 but to a township of that name in the Parish of Laughton le Morthen, co. York. [See Hunter’s 
 S. Yorks. I. 307.] 
 
 The Priory Church, mentioned in charters of John and Hen. III., was dedicated to St. Mary. 
 It stood South of the present remains. Aubrey (Nat. Hist, of Wilts p. 100) describing it in 
 A.D. 1666, says that the cellar, in which was a strong spring of water, was “the stateliest in 
 Wilts.” The Church had been at that time long destroyed, and the foundations digged up. On 
 the West of the hall had once been the “King’s Lodgings” which stood till A.D. 1588. King 
 John was often hero, and left by Will some jewels to the Priory. There was some tradition 
 (Harl. MS. 980, p. 286,) that during disturbances of the period, Hen. II. was three times crowned 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \J3radensto1ce Priory. 
 
 Sir Pexhall Brocas who sold this to H. Danvers Earle of Danby, had the Ligier 
 Booke of this place; his son lives at Baruper (Beaurepaire,) in Hampshire, by the 
 Vine, which was a Graunge they say to Baruper. Q. him for inscription. Mr. 
 Robert Roberts knows Mr. Brocas. Sir Pexhall Brocas was Uncle to Dr. Shirley. 
 His ( i.e ., Sir Pexhall’s) son a prisoner in the King’s Bench. 
 
 “ in a chapel ” in the “ Vill of Braden.” The fine wooden roof, engraved in Mr. J. Parker’s 
 edition of “ Rickman’s Architecture,” p. 181, and the vaulted cellar, are still left: but the present 
 building is in a tottering condition. It is a conspicuous object from a great distance, and com¬ 
 mands a wide view over, what Aubrey elsewhere calls [Nat. Hist, of Wilts. 125.], the “ tuff-taffety 
 vale ” towards Malmsbury, &c. There is an old Monastic barn, and near it, in a stable, a window 
 taken from the old Priory, very like the one in the vestry of Sutton Benger Church. The large 
 Perpendicular window seen in Buck’s view is now destroyed. Under it were the following 
 shields and devices, some of which are now on a cornice over a porch on the East side. 
 
 1. A Calvary-cross-staff within two wreaths. (Perhaps for Fitz-Jocelyn Bishop of Bath and 
 Wells 1174—1191, who gave to the Priory the Church of Chilcompton). 2. On a cross five roses. 
 3. France and England. 4. Cheeky. 5. Three ostrich feathers in pale. 6. A Monogram, W. S. 
 (Wm. Snow, the last Prior.) 7. Three Lions passant gardant. (Plantagenet.) 8. An orle (?) 
 9. Paly of six arg. and vair : on a chief a lion. Langford. (Perhaps for Stephen de Langford who 
 gave to the Priory, Chitterne and Langford. In Harl. MS. 6124. f. 19. this shield is mentioned 
 as used by Patrick D’Eureux son of the Founder. But Qncere.) 10. A capital T. Qucere, for 
 Todenham, one of the Priors ? 
 
 On a boss in the middle of the ceiling of what is called the Refectory is a large S. A tiled 
 pavement, six feet under ground, was laid open behind the present house, on the site of the old 
 church, in 1851. On one of the tiles, the Arms of Gilbert de Clare a benefactor, (Charter vi). 
 On another the shield of Heytesbury and Hungerford quarter^. Some of them were removed 
 to pave the floor of the porch at Dauntesey parsonage. Stone coffins have also been discovered. 
 A large carved stone chimnevpiece, of late style, much too large for the very small apartment 
 commonly shown as “ The Prior’s Room ” in which it still remains, is engraved in the “ Builder,” 
 Vol. vii. No. 341, p. 387. On it are the initials W. A. L S., hitherto unexplained. (The 
 “ Builder ” gives the letters as W. H. L.) The Seal of the Priory is engraved in Bowles and 
 Nichols’s “Lacock,” p. 31. Of another seal found here not long ago, a description and drawing 
 are given in “ Wilts. Archseol. Mag.” II. 391. 
 
 The endowment of the Priory by the D’Eureux family consisted of the Manor and Tithes of all 
 Bradenstoke and Lyneham, land at Etchilhampton, a chapel at Lake, the Rectorial tithes of the 
 Manor of Wilcote, Easton and the Church, also lands at Littlecote in Hilmerton ; besides others 
 in co. Dorset. Subsequently it obtained from various benefactors property at Seagn r , Chitterne, 
 Christmalford, Ore, Stowell, and many other places in Wilts and other counties: for which see 
 the New Monasticon. An ancient Hospital of St. John at Wotton Basset was united to it in 1405. 
 In Wiltshire the Prior presented to the Vicarage of Wilcot (but none of his Presentations are 
 registered); to Lyneham, Seagry, Marden, and Haselbury chapel. Leland (Coll. i. 65.) saye 
 
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 Broad-Hinton House, Bromham house and Cadnam House were built of the 
 Ruines of Bradstock Abbey. The two former were burnt in the late Warres and 
 Cadnam is propt for fear of falling. 
 
 TOKENHAM WEST (in Lyneham). 
 
 Is in the Parish of Lineham, and belonged to-. Since, to the Danvers’s there. 1 
 
 that in his time the King was considered Patron and second Founder in his right of the Duchy 
 of Lancaster. 
 
 At the Dissolution the general manor seems to have been divided. Some part was granted to 
 Edward Baynton. In temp. Elizabeth there w T as a Suit in Chancery between Edward Savage 
 and Sir Robert Rennington and the Lady Eleanor his wife, concerning a claim as heir male to 
 one fourth. The Bailiwick of the Priory was granted to Henry Lanum. But the site of the 
 Priory itself, in 1546, to Richard Pexhall, in exchange. [Harl. MSS. 4316: p. 73, and 7389, 
 p. 35.] Sir Richard, son of Ralph Pexhall and Edith Brocas, married Eleanor daughter of 
 William Paulett, Marquis of Winchester K.G., by whom he had four daughters and coheirs. 
 He died 1571 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. The Priory passed to Sir Richard Brocas. 
 For some account of this family see Coll. Top. et Gen. viii. 397 : and Lipscombe’s Bucks. (A Sir 
 Bernard Brocas had been patron of Barford St. Martin’s in Wilts in 1394.) About 1640 the 
 Priory was purchased by Henry Danvers Lord Danby, of Dauntesey, who died 1643. His two 
 nieces, daughters of his brother Sir John Danvers the Regicide, had a joint interest. In 1667 
 446 acres in Clack and Lyneham belonged to the representatives of Sir John: viz, his eldest 
 daughter Elizabeth, Lady Purbeck, and the children of his second daughter Anne, Lady Lee of 
 Ditchley. (Robert Wright) Villiers, Viscount Purbeck, the husband of Sir John’s eldest daughter, 
 is mentioned in one of Aubrey’s MSS. as the gentleman who might supply him with a view of the 
 Priory, to illustrate his intended History of North Wilts. From Anne Lady Lee (Sir John 
 Danvers’s youngest coheiress), the Priory appears to have passed to her daughters. One of them, 
 Eleanor, married James, Earl of Abingdon, who was owner at his death in 1699. 
 
 The “Index Villaris ” AD. 1700, mentions Bradenstoke as a seat of the Duke of Somerset. 
 Germanicus Sheppard, the proprietor to whom Buck’s View is dedicated in 1732, died here in 
 1758. Afterwards it belonged to the Selfes of Beanacre near Melksham, a coheiress of which 
 family brought it in marriage to the ancestor of the present owner, Lord Methuen. Sir John 
 de Bradenstoke, Kt., whose family name was Russell, is often mentioned in Deeds relating to this 
 neighbourhood, c. 1306—54. 
 
 A communication about Clack Fall Fair, and some minor matters connected with the village 
 may be found in Hone’s Every Day Book, ii. 1371 and iii. 231: printed also in the “Wilts. 
 Independent” of 13th Oct. 1859. “Clack Mount” is an old square earthwork. In the village 
 are the remains of a Cross. 
 
 1 This seems to be the “ West Ockham ” or “ West Cocham ” of the Inquisitions, Sylvester 
 Doignel’s in 20 Edw. I: but given probably by the Russells of Bradenstoke to that Priory, to 
 
190 
 
 [Swindon. 
 
 aubeey’s north wilts. 
 
 SWINDON. 
 
 This Towne probably is so called, quasi Swine-Downe, for it is situated on a 
 Hill or Downe, as well as many other places, viz. Horse-ley, Cow-ton, Sheep-ton, 
 &c. take their name from other animals. 1 It is famous for the Quarrie, which is 
 
 which it certainty belonged in 1344, and until the Dissolution. A lease had been given before 1514 
 by the Convent to the first Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, or his widow Anne (the heiress of 
 Stradling) Lady Danvers. By her will 1539 she left it to her younger son John. After the Dis¬ 
 solution the Crown renewed the lease of the manor and tithes to him. His son Richard shortly 
 before his death in 1604 sold it to William Button Esq., (Chanc. Proceed.), retaining “Walter’s” 
 at Tockenham Wick. John Aubrey’s grandmother Rachel Danvers was daughter of a Richard 
 Danvers of Tockenham. 
 
 The popular tongue of Wiltshire, which confounds the vowels i and u, converting “ Bishop ” 
 into “ Buship,” and “ pulpit ” into “ pilput,” is probably also answerable for having changed, 
 into Button, the name of the old family of De Bitton, so called from a Parish in co. Gloucester, 
 between Bristol and Bath. About 1540 and afterwards, they became large proprietors in North 
 Wilts at North Wraxhall, Beechingstoke, Woodborough and Sutton Yenej’: also at Alton and 
 Stowell near Marlborough under lease from the Earl of Pembroke. William Button of Alton 
 sold Rood Ashton (then a small manor) to the Longs about 1593. His son Sir William, the first 
 Baronet, resided at West Tockenham Court. In the Civil Wars he was a staunch Royalist and 
 suffered accordingly. His house here was twice stripped. In June 1643 Sir Edward Hungerford, 
 then Commander of the Forces for the Parliament in Wilts, made a foray and carried off 380 
 sheep, 69 beasts, 160 weights of wool, besides the very beds and hangings from the rooms and 
 the pewter and brass of the kitchen : total value £767. In the following June, 1644, a party of 
 horse from Malmsbury garrison repeated the invasion, making spoil of 440 sheep, 50 beasts, 
 62 mares and foals, &c; and, from the house itself, damask curtains, scarlet cloth, silver plate, even 
 “ 1 fair gridiron,” 100 cheeses, and all the butter, together with the apparatus for making it, out 
 of the dairy: total value £526 6s. On 22nd November the same year, Sir Edmund Fowell, 
 President of the Committee of Sequestration, was ordered to be the tenant to the State for Sir 
 William Button’s lands at Tockenham in Lyneham, paying £320 a year rent. Sir William 
 appears to have lived afterwards at his Manor of Shaw near Overton, and in 1646 was fined £2380 
 for “ Delinquency.” He was educated at Exeter College under Dr. Prideaux: and attended Sir 
 Arthur Hopton in his Embassy through France and Spain. “ His hospitalit}',” says D. Lloyd, 
 “ exemplar}^ charity great, to poor Ministers and Cavaliers greater, to poor Scholars at School 
 and the University greatest of all.” He died 1654. From this famity, West Tockenham has 
 descended in the same way as Compton Cumberwell (see Compton Basset), to its present owner, 
 G. H. W. Heneage Esq. 
 
 In 1574 Roger Newborough Esq. was a holder of lands in one of the Tokenhams. [Jones’s 
 Index.] 
 
 1 Aubrey’s derivation, “ Mons Porcorum,” is however questionable : a Down not being a place 
 
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 neer tlie Towne, of tliat excellent paveing stone, which is not inferior to the Purbec 
 Grubbes, but whiter, and will take a little polish; they send for it to London; it is 
 a white stone; it was not discovered till about thirty yeares agon: and I am now 
 writing in 1672 : yet it lies not above 4 or 5 foot deep. 1 Here is on Munday every 
 
 very suitable for fattening swine. It is more likely to be named from some owner, a Saxon or 
 Danish “Sweyn,” a name not only often found in ancient Wilts records, but still well known in 
 the county. 
 
 The Parish of Swindon was divided at the Conquest among five proprietors, of whom the chief 
 were the Bishop of Bayeux, Ulward the “ King’s Prebendary,” and Odin his chamberlain. In 
 Hen. III. and Edw. I. lands are mentioned as belonging to the several monasteries of Malmsbury, 
 Wilton and Ivy Church : but the name is not found in the lists of those houses at the Dissolution. 
 The principal manor of High Swindon was conferred (among other estates) by King Hen. III. 
 upon his half-brother William de Yalence, created Earl of Pembroke, of Goderich Castle: one 
 of the many French noblemen whose importation into England excited the jealousies of that 
 Reign. For his history see the Baronage. His son, Aylmer de Yalence, was Lord of the manor 
 in 1323 : and in 1377 it was held by his widow Mary de St. Paul, Countess of Pembroke, Foundress 
 of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. Aylmer de Yalence dying without issue, a part of this estate 
 passed to his sister’s daughter, Elizabeth Comyn, who brought it in marriage to Richard, second 
 Baron Talbot of Goderich Castle: and in 1473 it belonged to his descendant, John, Earl of 
 Shrewsbury. In those early days part of it was held under the Honour of Pont de l’Arche or 
 Pontlarge. In 1560 the Swindon estate was purchased by Thomas Goddard of TJpham, ancestor 
 of the present owner A. L. Goddard Esq. of the Lawn. This family name occurs in deeds relating 
 to this parish of the date of A.D. 1404. “ Wadard” was the name of one of the two tenants 
 
 who in the Domesday Survey held land at Swindon under the Bishop of Bayeux. The 
 Charter granted to Thomas Goddard Esq. 1627, for holding a weekly market and two fairs yearly, 
 was printed in the “Swindon Advertiser,” 12th September, 1859. Everard, Spilman, and 
 Avenel, are found here in 1316. The woods “super Rectoriam,” were sold by the Crown to 
 Thomas Stephens (of Burderop) in 3 Elizabeth. At Even-Swindon, Wenman was an owner in 
 33 Hen. VIII. 
 
 At Wicklescote in this parish, on the South side of Swindon Down, Everard, and the Lovells 
 (of Titchmarsh) were the propi’ietors in Edw. III. and Hen. IY. Some lands here, held under 
 Philip Basset’s manor of Wotton, were given by Katharine Lovell to Lacock Nunnery, and at 
 the Dissolution were bought by John Goddard of Upham. John Wroughton had a manor in 
 7 Hen. VI. Sir Edward Darell of Littlecote also had one at his death 3 Edw. YI. 
 
 1 The “ Portland Rock ” of Geology, one of the Upper Oolitic Strata, is quarried here. This is 
 the only point at which it appears in this part of Wilts. Elsewhere in this neighbourhood it is 
 either concealed by alluvial debris scattered over the vallies, or its edge is overlaid by the superior 
 strata. For Sections and Fossils, see “ Fitton’s Strata below the Chalk,” p. 264. Also “Mem. 
 of the Geol. Survey of Great Britain,” sheet 34 : By A. C. Ramsay, and others, p. 25. 
 
Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 192 
 
 [Swindon. 
 
 weeke a gallant Markett for Cattle, which encreasod to its now greatnesse upon the 
 Plague at Highworth, about 20 yeares since. 
 
 Here, at Highworth, and so to Oxford, the poore people, &c. gather the Cow- 
 shorne 1 in the meadows and pastures and mix it with hay or strawe and clap it 
 against the walles for Ollit; they say ’tis good Ollit, i.e. fuell: they call it Compas, 
 they meane I suppose Compost. All the soyl hereabout is a rich lome, of a darke 
 liaire colour. 
 
 (Church.) 2 
 
 In the Church is nothing observeable left in the windowes, except in the first 
 on the South side of the Chancell, viz. the coate of Clare. [PI. xvi. No. 278]. 3 
 
 This Cross (engrailed, on 3 grees or steps, No. 279), is on a tombe about a foote 
 higher than the pavement, on the North side of the aisle belonging to ... Goddard, 
 Esqr, In the same aisle, beneath his picture, was buried, aged 25, 1641, Thomas 
 Goddard, Esqr., husband of Jane, daughter to Edmund Fettiplace, Knight, his 
 coate thus, [No. 280.] Goddard. Somebody is buried by, I suppose his wife, but 
 
 1 Shard, or sharn, is by some thought, to be the derivation of Shakespeare’s “ shard-born beetle : ” 
 
 i.e. bred in dung. [Macbeth]. 
 
 3 The Prior of St. Mary, of Southwick, formerly Porchester, in the diocese of Winchester had 
 the Rectory before the Dissolution. Afterwards, from 1560 to 1584, the Stephens family of 
 Burderop: by whom it was sold to that of Yilett. The Prior of St. Mary’s presented to the 
 Vicarage: and since 1634, the Crown. The Vicarage was endowed in 1359. Narcissus Marsh, 
 D.D. a native of Hannington, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, was Vicar of Swindon for one 
 year in 1662. The Monks of Wallingford had a pension from the Rectorial tithe. 
 
 The old Parish Church, “ Holy Rood,” but called “St. Mary’s” in 1302 (Wilts. Inst.), being 
 small and much dilapidated, was all taken down except the Chancel, and a new one, “ Christ - 
 Church,” was erected, in 1850 : the site of which, and the ground for a new church-yard, together 
 with £1000, were given by the Goddard family, Lords of the Manor. The New church was conse¬ 
 crated by the Right Rev. Dr. Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (acting for the Diocesan) November 7th, 
 1851. The New Town of Swindon, called into existence within these few years by the Great 
 Western Railway and its large establishment, has a church of its own, dedicated to St. Mark: 
 erected, as well as the Parsonage, at the Railway Company’s expense. 
 
 3 Oliva Basset, wife of Hugh Despenser had some land in Swindon, in 7 Edw. I. Her grandson 
 Hugh Despenser Junr. married Eleanor, coheir of Gilbert de Clare , Earl of Gloucester. 
 
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 the Inscription not legible. This on an old freestone in the Chancell, now worne 
 out, [No. 281], Grubbe of Poterne, sinister. Also Stephens of Burthorp. The 
 same in other colours & metalls. 
 
 Near this lye buried two children of William Leyet, Esqr.; the coate as it is cut 
 in the stone, is [No. 282.] They were buried 1667. 1 
 
 Tins under the altar, viz. “ Here lietli the body of Thomas Vilett, Gent. He 
 departed this life the 6th day of November, 1667.” On both sides lye buried his 
 two wives, escutcheon thus: [No. 283.] Vilett. 
 
 At the upper end of the Church, this Inscription; 
 
 “ Christus, qui mortuus est ut per mortem suam superans mortem triumpharet, a mortuis ad 
 vivos exsuscitabit. Buried the 5th of June, An. Dom. 1610, the body of Elenor Huchens, the 
 wife of Thomas Huchens, of Ricaston : shee to this parish twenty pound gave to the relief of the 
 Poore, the use for ever. James Lord, and Henry Cus, her husbands, twenty pounds each of them 
 gave to the Poore of this Parish, the use for ever.” 
 
 This in the Chancell, (Alworth, No. 284). 
 
 “ Hie jacet Henricus Alworth in hac vicinia natus, Qui adolescentiam in Schola Wintoniensi, 
 juventutem in Academia Oxoniensi, senectutem in patria Wiltoniensi, feliciter consecravit, 
 ubique caste, sobrie, pie, sibi parcus, suis beneficus, egenis effusus, ab omnibus desideratus, Obijt 
 XYI die Augusti 1669, Altatis suao 75.” 
 
 Mem. At Brome, near Swindon, in a pasture ground, near the house, stands up 
 a great stone, q. Sarsden, called Longstone, about 10 foot high, more or less: which 
 I take to be the remayner of a Druidish Temple; in the ground below' are many 
 stones in a right line, thus: OOOOOO O. 2 
 
 1 Levet. The Arms are not those usually assigned to Levett. As a Swindon name, Leviet occurs 
 in the Domesday Survey. 
 
 2 Brome belonged in Edw. I. to the Alien Priory of Martigny. After the Dissolution to the 
 Seymours. By Katharine daughter of Charles sixth Duke of Somerset, it came to the Wyndhams, 
 of the Egremont house: and from them was purchased a few years ago by A. L. Goddard Esq. 
 Of the great stones mentioned by Aubrey none are now remaining. 
 
 Two memoranda, relating to Swindon, may be added. A door-way of very Saxon-like 
 construction, in a cellar in the High Street, was brought to light in January 1860. Of Robert 
 Sadler, the author of “ Wanley Penson, or the Melancholy Man,” who was born at Swindon in 
 1754, there is a memoir in Britton’s Autobiography, p. 341. 
 
 2 B 
 
194 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Tockcnliam East. 
 
 TOKENHAM EAST. 1 
 
 On the outside of this Church seems to be the figure of St. Christopher. 2 
 
 WANBOROUGH. 
 
 From Mr. Browne. 
 
 “ Under correction of better judgment, I should take it to be called Wans-borough, 
 corruptedly, from Wodens-burgh, as 1 Faws-dyke elsewhere in this countrey. 
 
 “ At several places hereabouts are every yeare digged up Roman coynes, ruines of 
 houses, and black ashes, especially about the meadow called ‘ The Nighs.’ 3 
 
 1 Called Tockenham East, T. Vetus, or T. Wick. In Domesday Book are four or five various 
 
 holdings under “ Tocheham.” In temp. John and Hen. III., these were in the hands of Spileman, 
 Fitz Piers (of Stanton Fitzherbert), Beinton (under the Bohuns), and Bradenstoke Priory (under the 
 Mortimers): but it is uncertain to which of the two Tockenhams each of these precisely belonged. 
 King Ina gave lands at “Tokenham” to the Church of St. James in Old Sarum. In Edw. II. 
 Tockenham Manor was part of the estate of Hugh Despenser, of Fasterne, &c. In the next and 
 following reigns it was dower of the Queens of England. In 3 Hen. V. (1415) it was bestowed 
 by the Crown on the Duke of York in further endowment of Fotheringhay College. In Edw. YI. 
 it was granted by the Crown to Wright. Gryffin Curtree is named as principal landholder in 
 1565 (Subsidy Roll). In Charles I. and II., Thomas Smith. By the marriage of Mary 
 Smith, it came to John Jacob of Wotton Basset, and also of Norton near Malmsbury. His son, 
 John Jacob of Tockenham House, the last male, was Sheriff of Wilts 1756 and died s. p. 1776. 
 Anne his eldest sister, by Will 1780, founded charities here and at Hilmerton, (which see). 
 Elizabeth the youngest sister, became ultimately sole heiress, and brought the estates in marriage 
 to John Buxton Esq. of Tybenham and Rushford co. Norfolk, to whose descendant Sir Robert 
 Jacob Buxton Bart., of Shadwell co. Norfolk, they now belong. 
 
 3 The Church is called after St. John. It was in the gift of Hugh Despenser, in Edw. II. : 
 but from that time to the present has been in Royal patronage. Malmesbury Abbey had a small 
 interest in the Tithes from the time of the Confessor to the Dissolution. Against the church 
 there is a niche containing a curious figure, with a staff apparently entwined by a serpent. 
 
 In the Ann. Register 1759, and Britton’s Beauties of Wilts, III. 44, is a curious account of 
 John Ayliffe Esq. a native of this place who was executed in October of that year for having 
 forged under peculiar circumstances, a Presentation to the Rectory of Brinkworth. 
 
 3 The word ‘Nighs’ is a probable corruption either of ‘ Nythe ’ the name of a brook at this 
 place, or of ‘ Nidum,’ the Roman Station which, according to Sir R. C. Hoare, (Anc. Wilts. II. 94), 
 once occupied the ground to a large extent about the brook, near Covenham Farm. At this 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
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 point a Roman road, coming from Cricklade, parted into two branches : the one continuing to 
 Cunetio (near Marlborough) the other to Spinas (Speen near Newbury). The soil at the ‘Nighs’ 
 abounds in the usual marks of Roman occupation. In the year 1689, between sixteen hundred and 
 two thousand coins were found in one vessel; none later than Commodus. [Aubrey Mon. Brit.] 
 Sir R. C. Hoare gives a ground plan of the site. 
 
 Wanborough. In A.D. 590, a battle of importance in its day, was fought between Ceawlin, 
 third King of Wessex, and his nephew Ceolric at a place which one copy of the Anglo-Saxon 
 Chronicle calls Wods-bergh, and another Wodens-berg. If the former is correct, the village of 
 Woodborough near the Wansdyke, may have been the scene: if the latter, Wanborough. 
 Dr. Guest, Master of Caius College, Cambridge, considers it to have been Wanborough. [See 
 Archseol. Inst. Journal, 1859, p. 107.] Mr. Sharon Turner (Hist, of England, I. 329 and 331), 
 erroneously describes Wanborough as near the Wansdyke, from which it is several miles distant. 
 
 Wanborough is in the old Hundred of Thornhill. In Domesday Book it is called “ Wemberghe,” 
 and was held by the Bishop of Winchester, for the support of the Monastery of that city : but it 
 is not named in Tanner as one of the estates of the Convent. In Hen. II. it belonged to William 
 Longespee Earl of Sarum who in 30 Hen. III. (1245) gave it (but still to be held under his lord- 
 ship, as it continued to be under his representatives, Laci Earl of Lincoln 1264, and Montacute, 
 Earl of Sarum, 1396) to his brother Stephen, Justiciary of Ireland. [Grant, with Seals, Harl. 
 Chart: 53. B. 14.] In 1252 Stephen obtained a grant for a market and fair. He died 1260 
 leaving a widow Emmeline, called, in right of a former husband, Countess of Ulster: and two 
 daughters and coheirs, 1. Ela, wife of Roger Le Zouche, who had a son Alan Zouche : and 
 2. Emmeline, wife of Maurice Fitz-maurice, who left no issue. Alan Zouche had a daughter and 
 heiress Matilda, wife of Robert de Iloland. Their grand-daughter and heiress Matilda Holand, 
 Lady of Wanborough, brought it in marriage to John fifth Baron Lovel of Titehmarsh, 1375. 
 From him descended Francis Viscount Lovel, the Favourite of Rich. III., concerning whose death a 
 mysterious story is told. See Burke’s Ext. Peerage. He died without issue and was attainted 1487. 
 Between that year and 1515 the Manor “late Viscount Lovel’s ” was enjoyed by John Cheyne 
 Knight, then by Sir Richard Elyot, father of Sir Thomas the diplomatist (see Notes and Queries viii. 
 276) ; and lastly, by Sir Edward Darcll of Littlecote who died owner 1549. His grandson Sir 
 John (of Kintburv) sold it to Sir Humphrey Forster of Aldermaston about 1614. Britton 
 (Beauties of Wilts) says that in Queen Anne’s reign it belonged to Sir Charles Hedges who 
 sold it to Samuel Sharpe Esq., of Bath. 
 
 Under the Fee of Longespee, Sewale D’Oseville (a benefactor to Bradenstoke and a proprietor 
 near Chippenham) held a portion of Wanborough temp. Edw. I. Other names are, in Edw. I. Fitz 
 Geffrey (see “Cherhii.l,”) under whom Foliot, Turville, and others: Almaric St. Amand, Edw. II.: 
 Katharine Aylmer, 35 Edw. Ill: Sir James Windsor of Stanwell, co. Middlesex, who is mentioned 
 as having married Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Sir John Streechie of Wanborough, about 
 A.D. 1360, (See Scrope and Grosvenor Roll vol. II. 213): Sir John Roche (who married a coheiress 
 of Delamere in 1378) ; William Fitz William and William Wroughton, in Hen. IV.: and in 1565, 
 Thomas Brynd, who was also Patron of the Rectory of Stanton Fitzwarren (called in Wilts. Instit., 
 perhaps by mistake, Stanton Fitz Brynd). The name of this family survives in a charity given to 
 
 2 B 2 
 
196 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Wanborough. 
 
 11 Here is a tradition that at a certain place in this parish called Court Close, some¬ 
 time resided the famous Lovell, favorite to Richard the Third, King of England. 
 The howse with a chapell adjoining, and another (chapel) at Hall-place in this 
 parish, dedicated to Saint Ambrose, were, as 1 am informed, carried to the building 
 of the Tower. Here are few vestigia of any such structure (i.e. Court Close) to be 
 discovered, only a mote, which encompassed the house, commonly called Lovell’s 
 mote. 1 
 
 the parish by Margaret Brynd in 1747. Their pedigree is in Wilts. Visit. 1623. In the Rolls 
 Record Office are some curious papers relating to the murder of a Mr. Brind of Wanborough in 
 A.D. 1571. In 32 Hen. VIII. there was a grant (Originalia) in Wanburgh and Upham to John 
 Goddard. 
 
 Clement Harding B.L.L., 1507, gave some land here to New College Oxon. of which he was 
 Fellow. Bradenstoke Priory had also a small interest in the parish. 
 
 Erdescote (now Eastcot) belonged (35 Edw. III.) to Blount, holding under Bohun, Earl of 
 Hereford: afterwards to the Lovells. Blackgrove, 200 acres, was also theirs. 
 
 1 Captain Symonds of King Charles’s army, who visited Wanborough in 1644, and whose 
 pocket note-books have been recently edited by C. E. Long Esq. for the Camden Society, mentions 
 (p. 150) the moat and foundations of Lovell’s House. He was also told of “a Church of 
 St. Margaret's ” that formerly stood close by: but this name, as will be seen, was probably a 
 slip of his memory. Court Close, now commonly called “ Cold Court,” is near Fox-bridge, and 
 the moat, about thirty yards wide, which adjoins it, is still traceable. 
 
 Hall Place, also once moated, is near the lower town, and is believed to have belonged in 1418 
 to the Polton family mentioned in the inscriptions given by Aubrey. Of any chapel here dedi¬ 
 cated to St. Ambrose nothing is known. The field in which Hall Place stood is now called 
 “ Ambrose,” and was the property of the late Mrs. F. A. Carrington. There are distinct marks 
 of building in it. The two traditions, viz., that Francis, Viscount Lovell the favourite of Rich. III. 
 resided at Court Close, and yet that the materials of his house were used in building the square 
 tower of the Church, are inconsistent. For this Lord Lovell did not become owner of the estate 
 till 1464 and died 1487: but the tower was built (as a date upon it testifies) in 1435. 
 
 The Chapel of St. Katharine of Wanborough. 
 
 In the Sarum Registers, and in various other authorities, a chapel of this name is mentioned. 
 It has hitherto been commonly supposed to have been the small projection, still remaining, 
 attached to the North side of the chancel of the Parish Church : but the Editor is of opinion that 
 St. Katharine’s must have been a distinct and independent building, in a different part of the 
 Parish. 
 
 He has ascertained that in St. Katharine’s Chapel, wheresoever it may have stood, there were 
 two Foundations, by separate families. 
 
K1NGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 197 
 
 1. Longespee’s Foundation. From a reference in a Deed in the Hungerford Chartulary (see 
 below) it appears that a chantry in the Chapel of St. Katharine had been founded, and rules laid 
 down for its observances, by Emmeline, Countess of Ulster, (Comitissa Ultonke), the widow of 
 Stephen Longespee. Her death was in 1276. Her daughter the Lady Emmeline Longespee 
 (widow of Fitz-maurice whose name she dropped, resuming, according to a custom of great 
 heiresses, her own paternal sirname on becoming a widow, in 1291) held lands “ pro cantaria 
 facienda.” (I. p. M. 19 Edw. I.) She died 1331, set. 79. The Chaplain was called “Custos:” and 
 in 1334 he was further endowed by Lady Emmeline’s successor in the Manor, Matilda, daughter 
 of Alan Zouche, and wife of Robert de Holand, with the unusually large sum of 100 marks a year 
 arising out of lands here, and 14 marks a year out of her Manor of Steeple Lavington. The 
 Custos was instituted by the Bishop: and Presentations continued to be made by the successive 
 Lords of the Manor, Holand, and Lovel, until 1466 : and in February 1483, Francis Viscount 
 Lovel, the last of the family, sold the Chapel of St. Katharine with all its lands, the house of the 
 Custos, &c., to William Wayuflete, Bishop of Winchester, for his College of St. Mary Magdalene 
 at Oxford : which Society is now a proprietor in the parish of Wanborough. 
 
 2. Wambergh’s Foundation. B} 7 a Deed in the Hungerford Chartulary, dated at Wanborough 
 14th July 1336, John de Wambergh, Canon of Wells, gave to the Custos 47 acres of land called 
 “Tenpoundworth land,” and a messuage at Colne, inherited from his brother Robert de Wambergh, 
 Archdeacon of Wells, and Rector of Steeple Lavington (to which, Robert had been presented in 
 1315 by Lady Emmeline Longespee late Fitz-maurice, Lady of that Manor); to provide two priests 
 to say daily mass at any altar in the Chapel of St. Katharine ; for the souls of his brother and him¬ 
 self, Emmeline Longespee, Robert and Matilda Holand, Richard Delamere, Sir Robert Hungerford, 
 and others (some of whom were still living). The two priests of this Foundation were to follow 
 the rules of the Countess of Ulster’s chantry in the same chapel: to board and lodge with the 
 Custos and be paid by him. The Obits of Lady Emmeline and Robert the Archdeacon to be kept 
 in the choir of the chapel, the Lady’s on 15th May, his 12th October, with Placebo and Dirige, 
 bells (“ classica pulsari,”) and a distribution to the Poor. 
 
 The facts above stated seem to imply some building of more suitable importance than the very 
 humble one now on the North side of the chancel. For 1st. The usual provision in former times 
 for a mere chantry priest serving a Family Altar in a parish church was about 10 or 12 marks per 
 annum. But in this case there were Two Foundations, with an united endowment of 114 marks 
 a year, besides the 47 acres of land at Colne, making an income equal to that of the Vicar of 
 Wanborough in those days. 2nd. There were Five Priests in the service of the chapel, (three 
 of Longespee’s, two of Wambergh’s) the Superior being called “Custos,” a name sometimes given 
 to the Head of a Brotherhood of Clergy (as was the case in the first foundation of Edingdon Priory 
 in Wilts). 3rd. St. Katharine’s had a “ Choir,” in which certain services are directed to be 
 performed ; it had more than one altar, bells, &c. 4th. St. Katharine’s Chapel and its lands were 
 sold as freehold in 1483 by Lord Lovell to Bishop Waynflete who gave them to Magdalen 
 College, Oxon. Although the Chapel was then suppressed and its services were discontinued, still, 
 if it had been part of the Parish Church, the College would probably have remained liable to the 
 repair of that part, which does not appear to be the case. Finally ; whenever chantry chapels 
 
198 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Wanborough. 
 
 “ Here is a Lott-Mead celebrated yearly with great ceremony. The Lord weareth 
 a garland of flowers; the mowers at one house have always a pound of beefe and a 
 head of garlick every man, according to that of Horace, “ 0 dura messorum ilia /” 
 with many other old customs still retayned. It is now sufficiently known to the 
 neighbouring gentry, for revelling and horse-racing. a 
 
 “ This escutcheon is in a window of the Parsonage house: [No. 285]. 
 
 (Church.) 2 
 
 “ In the third columne of the East win do we in the Chancell, I find these two 
 
 * Mr. Browne hath promised to send me the particular account of this Custome . 1 
 
 did stand within and under the roof of a Parish Church they were almost always distinctly so . 
 described in documents relating to them. This has not been hitherto found to be the case in 
 any document where St. Katharine’s is mentioned. 
 
 Taking all these circumstances together, it would seem as if St. Katharine’s of Wanborough 
 had been an edifice separate from and altogether independent of the Parish Church : and if so, 
 most likely at Court Close, near Foxbridge, now commonly called “Cold Court,” the ancient seat 
 of the Lovells, the successors, in the Lordship of the Manor, to the Longespees and others; and 
 now, belonging, as the writer is informed, to Magd. Coll: Oxon. Cold -court may perhaps be a 
 corruption of Colne : the name of some lands which, as mentioned in the Deed of A.D. 1336, 
 formed part of the endowment. Both Aubrey’s informant Mr. Browne, and Captain Symonds, 
 were told that a chapel, or church, had once stood there, and the name of “ St. Margaret’s,” 
 which the Captain retained, was an easy mistake to a passing visitor, for “ St. Katharine’s.” 
 
 ^‘Lot Mead” is not an uncommon name of fields in Wiltshire parishes. It is perhaps a 
 vestige of the original partition of lands when cleared, which the chronicler Simeon of Durham 
 says were distributed by lot. See Kemble’s Anglo-Saxons, I. 91. Some kind of festival would 
 probably be instituted in memory of the event: but no other account of the matter than that 
 which Aubrey has preserved, has been met with. 
 
 2 Wanborough Church, St. Andrew’s, is built in a peculiar way. The Nave has a square tower 
 at its West end, and, at its East end, a slender spire with dormers. The date of the tower is 
 known from an inscription affixed to it as A.D. 1435. The style of the spire is older. Captain 
 Symonds (1644) was told that the chancel had been a chapel, the body added since. The 
 following memorandum is said to be No. 1405 in Bishop Chandler’s Begister at Sarum (A.D. 1417 
 —1426) “Wanbrough Oapella non est dedicata: altare tarnen priucipale consecratum est in 
 honorem gloriosae Yirginis.” (Wanbrough Chapel has not been dedicated : but the principal 
 Altar has been consecrated in honour of the glorious Virgin.) 
 
 Under the floor of the church were discovered in 1843, lying with their faces downwards, 
 portions of two effigies of a man and woman, drawn and described in Journal Archmol. Institute 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 199 
 
 coates, vis. [No. 286 and Pavey No. 287], the latter broken in the first columne of 
 the same windowed 
 
 “ In the limbe of the windowe this Inscription : 
 
 ©rate p ©na. a .qur Ijauc fcncstram fieri 
 
 fecit, Sinno Bni. millestmo. 
 
 * Emma Fisher, as I am informed. * 1 2 
 
 April 1851, as representing Lady Emmeline Longespee and her husband Fitz-maurice. But on 
 the margin are plainly the words “ Fiz-vvilliam et sa femme.” There was a family of this name 
 here in 1341 [Non. Inq.] and 1378 (I. p. M.) : and in Hen. IV., as mentioned above at foot 
 of p. 195. 
 
 The Rectory of Wanborough was originally given by Bishop Osmund to endow his new 
 Cathedral at Old Sarum in 1091. [Dug. New. Mon., Salisb. Chart. II.] But it was in some way 
 soon alienated from that episcopal church. For in Prynne’s Papal Usurpations (iii. 438) there 
 is an account of a process at law relating to the right of Advowson of Wanborough, from which 
 it appears that so early as 1189 it had been transferred to the Alien Priory of Nugent le Rotroi, 
 Depart. d’Eure et Loire, in France, probably through the interest of the Longespees, Earls of 
 Salisbury, as in the Deed preserved by Prynne, we find Stephen Longespee (who died 1260) 
 claiming- the patronage of Wanborough and presenting one Hugh Penne: but the Pope by 
 definitive sentence deprived the Presentee. The Prior of Nugent le Rotroi afterwards conveyed 
 the Advowson to the Prioress of Ambros-bury in Wilts, and the Bishop of Salisbury allowed her 
 to appropriate the church. Lady Emmeline Longespee (widow of Fitz-maurice) and her nephew 
 Alan Zouche in 1289 resumed the contest for the patronage, but the Prioress succeeded in retaining 
 it. The house of Font Evraud in Normandy, to which Ambresbury Priory was subordinate, also 
 put forward a claim as Patron, but without success. [Wilts. Inst. p. 6.] At the Dissolution 
 the Rectory and Advowson were granted to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester who have ever 
 since presented to the Vicarage. 
 
 A copy of the Parish Registers forms No. 6506—8 in Sir Thomas Phillipps’s Collection of MSS. 
 [Wilts Archaeol. Mag. I. p. 100.] The Register of Burials begins 1582. 
 
 1 According to Symonds (30 years before Aubrey) this shield was then entire, viz. Gules a fess 
 indented Or, a bend ermine. There were also at that time three other shields in the church. 
 
 1. “In the cross North Yle, Argent (sic), 10 bezants, 4, 3, 2, 1, for Zouche (see above, p. 195.) 
 
 2. South window, Howard, quartering Brotherton, Warren, Mowbray, Segrave, and Braose. 
 
 3. North window, Or, a saltire Arg: with a label of 3 points Sable.” This shield is still in the 
 window. 
 
 2 The name ‘Fischere’ was there at Symonds’s visit. Probably Alice Fisher, elected Prioress 
 of Ambresbury 16th May, 1486: who, becoming thereby Rector of Wanborough, may have 
 adorned her chancel with the window. 
 
200 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Wanborough. 
 
 u At the upper end of the South Aisle on a marble stone, this Inscription in brasse 
 beneath their pictures, 
 
 “ ilarmorro laptbe f£i)omas jarct Jjic rt lEbgtlja, 
 
 (Quern Bolton bita qutsque bocabat tta. 
 
 Quos mors rxpultt ijinc mtilcuo Utrgtnts anno 
 
 ©uabringmteno becinto, quttms abb tutus orto: 
 
 /\ /\ 
 
 ©nbrna lure Scptrmlms tunc, buobnxa 
 
 H?anc JFcbrut; grab tens fttnbas preeanttna plena. 
 
 ©etoque natorum natarum totque suantm, 
 
 Collegium rarum etrrumettnbo Sarum. 
 
 IZx obitu quorum TOantergt curatus babebtt 
 
 ©uatuor atque breent ntimntos qtte rite tenebit 
 
 Post ortum fflatris Qnt Qniea btc sequentc, 
 
 lEllerntts be et |i?allr plase SHaubergt rettnente.” 1 
 
 1 This inscription, through the fault either of the Muse, or the engraver, is not very intelligible. 
 So far as tolerably clear, it seems to signify that Thomas Polton died September 11th, and Edith 
 his wife, February 12th, both in the same year “of the Virgin,” 1418: having had sixteen 
 children (eight sons and eight daughters): and that they had appointed a payment of 14 nummi 
 (monies, which Ducange says means denarii), to be made from and after their decease, to the 
 “ Curate of Wambergh ” every year on the Sunda} r following the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 
 Mary, (January 1st.) 
 
 The “ Curate of Wanbergh ” would, in the ordinary church-phrase of those days, appear to 
 mean the resident clergyman in cure of the parish; who at this parish would be the Vicar. 
 Because in 1418 (the date of the inscription) Ambresbury Nunnery was Rector; and any other 
 clerk here must have been either the Custos, or some one of the chantry chaplains, of St. 
 Katharine’s Chapel, none of whom had any thing to do with the secular charge of the parish. 
 
 The two most perplexing lines are those in which, 1st, the Reader seems to be asked to pray for 
 the souls of Thomas, Edith, and the sixteen children, “Collegium carum circumeundo Sarum,” 
 “ in going round their beloved College at Sarum.” (?) And 2nd (the last line) “ Ellermis de et 
 Ilalle plase Wanbergh retinente.” As to the former, it is possible that Sarum may have been 
 the place where some of the sixteen children were interred. Of the latter, the following is offered 
 as a solution. The preposition “ De,” when placed in proper order, must come before Ellermis. 
 The two easily make “ Dellermis,” which maj ? have been intended for “ Delamere’s,” the name 
 of the family to whom some of the lands charged with the 14 “ monies,” may have previousl}' 
 belonged. The MS. Cartulary of Edingdon Priory (p. 152) mentions a Hugh Delamere of Wan¬ 
 borough in 1329. In the Foundation Deed of a chantry in St. Katharine’s by the Archdeacon 
 
KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED. 
 
 201 
 
 “ Tlie following Inscription is engraved on a brasse plate in the wall of the North 
 side of the Bellfree : 
 
 ©rate p. Eijorna polton rt lEtrotija uxc ruts Urfunrtts: JHagro 
 pjiltpo ^rripto ffilouerstr. &gnctc rt xtttj altts rorum 
 Itbrrts: ©no Eobto Fbcrarb Ftcario rt otints suts pavodjtants 
 q. l)or campanile mcrprnmt. &nno ©nt fftCCCOXLF . 1 
 
 u Near to the Poltons lye buried some of the Hintons, of an Equestriall family 
 sometime living in this parish, but of no long continuance. I have not seen their 
 coate in colour and metall. It is [No. 288.] 
 
 u In the Chauncell under the altar lieth interred, “The Lady Mary Hinton, wife 
 of Sir Thomas Hinton, Knight, daughter of Mr. Peter Tryon, and sometime wife 
 and widowe of Sir Sebastian Harvey, Knight, Citizen and Alderman of London: 
 she dyed about M,DC,XXX.” 2 
 
 “ In the first columne of the second windowe, on the South side of the Church, I 
 find this coate: [No. 289] Az. a lion ramp. O. crowned Gules, on the shoulder a cross- 
 
 of Wells 1336 (above referred to), among tlie persons to be prayed for are Richard Delamere, bis 
 brother Ilugh, and their parents William and Agnes Delamere. And among proprietors in 
 Wanborough in 1411 was Sir John Roche who had married one of the coheiresses of Sir Peter 
 Delamere of Aldermaston, co. Berks. It is therefore possible that some lands so called, had come 
 into the possession of the Polton family, who had charged them with the 14 monies: the charge 
 to endure so long as Wanborough Parish should continue to include “Delamere’s” and “Ilall 
 Place,” i.e., (as it was hoped) for ever. 
 
 Of “ Anno Viryinis ” instead of “ Anno Domini there is said to be an instance on a warrior’s 
 tomb of the 14th century in Worms Cathedral. 
 
 1 To Philip Polton, Archdeacon of Gloucester, son of Thomas and Edith, (who, with the Vicar 
 Robert Everard and the parishioners began, according to this inscription, to rebuild their bell- 
 tower 1435) there is a Brass in the ante-chapel of All Souls College, Oxon : the inscription 
 perfect, figure kneeling; on the shield of arms, 3 mullets of 5 points pierced. He died 1461. 
 See Mr. E. Kite’s “ Wiltshire Brasses.” 
 
 2 Thomas Hynton was the largest occupier of land in Wanborough in 1565. Captain Symonds 
 (1644) found another inscription of this family on a plain monument of white stone. “Anthony 
 Hinton Esq. ob. 7 May 1598 mt. 66, grandfather to Mr. Hinton privy counsellor to King Charles,” 
 and a shield: on a bend cotised 3 martlets. Peter Tryon was a wealthy refugee from the Low 
 countries driven out by the persecution of the Duke of Alva. See “Tryon,” Burke’s Ext. Barts: 
 where this second marriage of his daughter Lady Harvey is omitted. Sir Sebastian Harvey was 
 Lord Mayor 1618, the year Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded. 
 
202 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Wanborough. 
 
 crosslet fitchee Sable: which, according to Mr. Antony Wood’s rule, appears very 
 ancient. Some broken in every columne of the same window. Dayrell, without 
 the cross-crosslet, but whether it is a charge or minute difference I know not. a 
 This, until the cross-crosslet fitchee on the shoulder, is empaled sinisterly with 
 Hungerford’s coate in the second columne {light) of the first windowe in the 
 Chancell at Down-Ampney, Gloucestershire.” 1 
 
 WOOTTON-BASSET. 2 
 
 A very ancient Mayor towne. Mem. Maer, in the Welsh language signifies a 
 governor. Q. When the Charter was first granted ? 3 
 
 a Qucere T. Gr. Esq. de hoc . 
 
 1 The Darells, as already mentioned, were Lords of Wanborough manor in Edw. VI. Hasted 
 (Kent, vol. iii. 225) says : “when the house of Darell of Sesay branched off into Darell of Calehill, 
 Kent, and Darell of Littlecote, Wilts, the Darells of Calehill bore a trefoil slipped on the shoulder 
 of the lion : the Darells of Littlecote a cross crosslet fitchee. When Darell of Calehill became 
 the eldest heir male, they used the original coat without the difference of the trefoil.” 
 
 2 The early descent of the manor of Wootton Vetus, alias Basset, was similar to that of Compton 
 Basset (See P. 41, Note 2). The last Lord Basset of Wycombe who was owner here, having died 
 in 1271, the name has survived nearly 600 years. By Aliva his daughter and heir the Manor 
 and Church passed to the Despensers. She died 1280, having remarried Roger Bigod fifth Earl 
 of Norfolk, and Earl Marshal, who held Wootton under the Earl of Cornwall as of the Honour of 
 Wallingford. In 1334 it appears in the name of Edward Bohun : in 1358 of Isabella the Queen; 
 in 1370 of William Wroughton : in 1401, of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, fifth son of Edw. 
 III. His son Edward, Duke of York, intended to bestow it upon Fotheringhay College, but his 
 death at Agincourt 1415 hindered the endowment. His widow Philippa (Mohun) afterwards 
 wife of Walter Fitzwalter was owner at her death 1431. In Edw. YI. (c. 1547) it was granted 
 by the Crown to John Dudley Earl of Warwick, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, and on his 
 attainder 1553 to Sir Francis Englefield, (of a Berks family) Master of the Court of Wards under 
 Queen Mary. The last Presentation by his family was in 1620. 
 
 Lord Chancellor Clarendon, whilst living as Edward Hyde at Purton was returned to Par¬ 
 liament in 1640 for two places, Shaftesbury and Wootton Basset. He “made choice to serve his 
 neighbours ” of the latter place. The Manor was purchased by his second son Lawrence created 
 Baron Hyde of Wootton Basset and Earl of Rochester. He died 1711. His son Henry became 
 in 1723 fourth Earl of Clarendon. This Earl’s only son, Henry Viscount Cornbury, died just 
 before his father in 1753. One of the Earl’s daughters, Jane, was wife of the Earl of Essex. 
 Their daughter the Lady Charlotte Capel became heir. She married Thomas Yilliers, created 
 Lord Hyde of Hindon, and afterwards Earl of Clarendon, from whom it has descended to the 
 present Earl. 
 
 3 25 Hen. YI. (1446—7.) In Jones’s Index to the Records is mention of the “Liberties of 
 
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 This Church was dedicated to St. Bartholomew. * 1 In the East window, North 
 Chancell, was Spenser’s coate till of late. [PI. xvii. No. 290, Despenser]. The 
 same in the South Chancell. 
 
 In the North Aisle window these three coates: 1. [No. 291] Duke of York 
 3 times. 2. Blount [No. 292]. 3. Dauntesey [No. 293]. 
 
 In the South Aisle. 1. [No. 294] Wroughton. 2. [No. 295]. 2 3. [No. 296] 
 
 nomine Dixton. The Chevron here I believe is broken. This coat is on the wall 
 of the North Aisle of the Abbey of Cirencester with a name written under it, now 
 scarcely legible: Q. Mr. Th. Gore delioc , and Mr. Friend. 3 4. (broken) Impaling 
 
 Wootton Basset, 13 Eliz.” By another Charter, 2nd December, 31 Charles II. (1679) in the 
 Mayoralty of John Hollister, were granted (inter alia) two new Fairs, a Court of Piepowder, 
 and a weekly Court of Record. The original Document of this date was discovered in 1859 
 among the papers of Meiler Owen Esq. of Goppa, Denbigh, and has been restored to the Corpora¬ 
 tion. The second Seal, (or as it is ungrammatically engraved, “ Minor Sigillum,”) of Wotton 
 Basset bears the arms of Lawrence Hyde, in recognition of the interest through which the Charter 
 of 1679 was obtained. “Schedule A” in the Reform Bill of 1832 closed the Poll books of this 
 Borough. In the Wilts. Archseol. Mag. I. p. 74, is a drawing of an old engine for correction of 
 scolds, called a “Cucking Stool,” belonging to this Town. 
 
 1 Called “ All Saints ” in Bacon’s Liber Regis. On the walls some years ago a representation 
 of the massacre of St. Thomas a’Becket was discovered. 
 
 The Rectory of Wootton was in the gift of the early Lords of the Manor, Basset, Despenser, 
 and the Crown: until between 1361 and 1389 (Wilts Inst.) when the Tithes were appropriated 
 to Stanley Abbey near Chippenham. The Yicar was nominated by the Abbot until the 
 Dissolution. In 1551 the Tithes were leased by the Crown to Roger Blake. The patronage was 
 granted to the Englefields and has since gone with the Lordship. 
 
 A Priory or Hospital of St. John the Baptist was founded here in A.D. 1266, (Orig. Deed in 
 Chap. House Westm.) : but in the reign of Hen. IY. it was united to Bradenstoke Priory. The 
 “ Custos ” or Prior of St. John’s, was generally some neighbouring incumbent. The only four 
 Presentations recorded, 1307, 1342, 1353, 1380 were made by the Lord of the Manor. The Prior 
 had certain ancient rights in the “Purlieu” of Braden Forest: viz. to cut trees to build his 
 house, and to hunt with bow and hound, without hindrance from gamekeepers (“ therio-phylaxis ”). 
 According to a Deed of 1565 (D. and C. of Sarum) these privileges descended to the Yicar of 
 Wootton Basset. 
 
 2 The arms of Edward Duke of York and Philippa Mohun abovementioned, p. 202, note 2. 
 
 Rudder (p. 365, Glouc.) mentions a brass plate on the floor of Cirencester Church with this 
 coat of arms and the name of Richard Dixton, 1438. 
 
 2 c 2 
 
204 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Wootton Basset. 
 
 (Wroughton ? No. 297, but the chevron is omitted.) Taken by Mr. Withie 1616. 
 
 This seal, in brasse, was found in a field in this parish, in ploughing. On a pile 
 surmounted by a cliev. 2 saltires in chief, the letter E. in base. “Sigillum 
 Joliannis Yowne?” or Yeven? Hughes the gunsmith hath it [No. 298]. 
 
 In this parish are found delicate snakestones of a reddish gray. 
 
 In the parke here is petrifying water, which petrifies very quickly, and the bottom 
 of the gutter is like a rock, the rest is moorish. Leaves petrify before they are 
 halfe rotten. 
 
 At Hunt’s mill here is a well where the water turnes the leaves, &c. of a red 
 colour. 
 
 In this parish are found stones of the shape of Oyster shells. 1 
 
 FASTERNE, in the parish of Wootton Basset. 
 
 Belonged to the Spensers : he had 56 manours. V. de hoc Survey of London. 
 
 Tradition, that Richard Coeur de Lyon was borne here, or Duke of Yorke. I 
 believe the arms in the North Aisle of the Church, with a label of 3, was of that 
 Duke that was here borne. 2 3 
 
 1 The town stands on the Coral Rag, but close to the frontiers of both the Kimmeridge and 
 
 Oxford Clays. Wootton Basset was visited by a violent hurricane which blew down a house and 
 killed a child, February 16th, 1760: and in 1770 John Haynes died here aged 105. 
 
 3 Fastern is on the road from Caine to Wootton Basset. The name is variously mis-spelled 
 Vastern, Yasthorne, Wasterne, &c., but the derivation is probably from the Anglo-Saxon, fasten, 
 an enclosure. 
 
 The course of ownership follows that of the Manor of Wootton Basset. At the death of Aliva 
 (Basset) Lady Despenser, 9 Edw. I. Fastern Park contained 789 acres of which 616 were arable, 
 173 pasture. In 13 Edw. II. Hugh Despenser obtained Letters Patent to enlarge it by taking 
 300 acres of wood then included under Braden. He also appears to have added to it by means 
 less regular: and in the Wblts. Archaeol. Mag. III. 247 is the account of a forcible entry made 
 upon his Manor by the adherents of the parties whom he had injured. That it was the birthplace 
 of Richard Coeur de Lion seems incorrect. The best authorities place that event at Fotberinghay 
 Castle. At Fastern there was a country hunting seat for the Crown, with a domestic Chapel. 
 The latter is mentioned in a Deed in the Rem. OIF. Exchequer, Inq. 20 Edw. II. Leland 
 (Collect: iv. 248) says ; “ a little before Lady Day 1489, Ring Henry VII. roode into Wiltshire 
 an Hunting: and slew his gres (buck) in three places in that shire. He first hunted in the 
 Forest of Savernake : the second in the goode Parke of Fastern, the third in Blackmore Forest, 
 
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 and so returned to Windsor. Also he was at Ramsbury with the Bishop of Salisbury.” Fastern 
 was granted by Patent (2 and 3 Phil, and Mary) 1555—6, to Sir Francis Englefield, who presently 
 turned the “Great Park” into enclosures: leaving about 100 acres called Wootton Lawn to be 
 used as common by the “Free Tenants of the borough,” in lieu of the larger range of pasture of 
 which he deprived them. Towards the time of the Commonwealth, in the Mayoralty of Jeffery 
 Skeate, the Free Tenants sent a Petition to Parliament in which they gravely state that the very 
 elements befriended their cause, for that ■whenever the landlord’s cows entered the common, a 
 storm invariably drove them out: insomuch that it grew to be a proverb at Wootton Basset, 
 instead of saying “it thunders,” to say, “they’re putting Sir Francis’s cows into the lawn.” 
 The Petition is printed at length in Nichols’s Topographer and Genealogist iii. 23, and Britton’s 
 Beauties of Wilts, iii. 39. 
 
 In 1578 Henry Knevett Esq. was exonerated from arrears of payment of £4 10s. per annum 
 “of the farm of Fastern Park.” [Jones’s Index “ Memor.”] 
 
 Richard Rowsewell, whose pedigree and arms are in the Visitation of 1623, appears to have 
 been tenant under the Englefields in that year : and in 1648, Mr. Jacob, ancestor of the Jacobs of 
 Tockenham. Lady Honora (O’Brien) widow of the third Sir Francis Englefield, Bart., married 
 secondly Sir Robert Howard, sixth son of the first Earl of Berkshire. He was Principal Secretary 
 to Lord Clifford the High Treasurer, and was living here 1673. An engraving by Faithorne, 
 1660, of a Sir Francis Englefield, was sold at Sir Mark Sykes’s Sale in 1824, for £48 6s. About 
 1682 Fastern became the property and residence of Laurence Earl of Rochester, second son of 
 Lord Chancellor Clarendon. The house is now a farm-house and contains among other relics of 
 former dignity a carved chimney-piece on which is a shield with the arms of Englefield, Barry of 
 six G. and A. on a chief O. a lion pass. Az. 
 
MALMESBURY 
 
 HUNDRED . 1 
 
 ASHLEY. 
 
 BELONGED to the Dutcliy of Lancaster, and was by Queen Elizabeth 
 
 given to . one of her Mayds of Honor, to buy her pins. It is a 
 
 pleasant place, and worth ... per annum. 
 
 Sir Theobald Gorges. He lies buried in the Church, but without 
 any remembrance of him; nor is there anything of antiquity. 
 
 1 This comprises three old Hundreds, viz. those of, 1st. The Borough of Malmesbury; 2nd, 
 Sterkeley; 3rd, Chedgelow. These were kept distinct before the Dissolution of Monasteries, but 
 after that event they merged into one. The Lordship (of all three) anciently belonged to the Crown, 
 and was granted by King John to the Abbot of Malmesbury. In later times it belonged to Sir 
 Richard Grobham of Great Wishford, who died 1730. From him it descended to the Howes, 
 Lords Chedworth. After the death of the last Lord Chedworth, 1804, it was bought in 1806 by 
 Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. He sold it in 1813 to Joseph Pitt Esq. who in 1840 sold it to the 
 late Joseph Neeld Esq. 
 
 Sterkeley is a ver\ r small hamlet in the parish of Great Somerford. The two Law-days of this 
 Hundred were held here (why, is not known) on Hockday (Tuesday after Easter, sometimes the 
 second Tuesday) and St. Martin’s (November 11th). This Hundred included Christmalford, 
 Dauntesey, Brinkworth, Great and Little Somerford, Seagry, Rodbourn and Corston, Draycote, 
 Stanton St. Quintin, Hullavington, Norton, and Easton Piers (in the Parish of Kington St. 
 Michael). For some curious proceedings before a Jury at Sterkeley Hundred Court in 1189, see 
 Abb. Placit. pp. 13 and 15. 
 
 Chedgelow, or Chedda’s low. Hlsew in Anglo-Saxon means, tumulus, and Hleo, abode. 
 These words gave names, sometimes to Hundreds; as Totman’s-low (Tateman’s-hkew) co. 
 Stafford, and Oswald’s-low, co. Worcester: or to places, as Taplow (Tappe’s-hlaew) co. Bucks, 
 and many others. Shire Courts were held on the spot, in the open air. Cwichelme’s Low (now 
 Cuckamsley) on a high hill in Berks was the rendezvous of a Shire Court in the eleventh 
 century, one of whose extremely important Acts is on record. See “Kemble’s notices of 
 Heathen Interments,” Archseol. Journal, xiv. 131. The actual place called Chedgelow was pro¬ 
 bably that which is now called “ Church-leaze,” a farm in the parish of Crudwell: (which see). 
 The Hundred included Sutton Benger, Brokenborough, Newnton, Charlton, Crudwell, Kemble, 
 Oaksey, Pool and Ashley. 
 
 In 1274 (3 Edw. I.) the men of the Hundreds presented as a grievance that whereas, whilst the 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
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 This is the highest part of the ridge of North Wilts; from whence, as all along 
 this riseing, is as pleasant a prospect as any in England, for an inland prospect. 1 
 
 King was Lord, they had only the two Law-days and nothing to pay, the Sheriff had now com¬ 
 pelled them to appear on two more days at Cowfold (now Colepark), and made them pay ten 
 marks, five to himself and five to the Abbot, besides two more for the King’s “ aid.” 
 
 1 Ashley is in the North West corner of Wilts and lies North of the Foss road. The Manor 
 was held in temp. Edw. I. under the Bohuns, Earls of Hereford (a moiety of whose property 
 afterwards merged in the Duchy of Lancaster) by Walter de Ashley, whose heiress brought it to 
 Henry, Baron de TTrtiaco or De L’Orti: (miscalled in Sir R. C. Hoare’s History of Mere, p. 117, 
 “Sir John de Lortie of Axford). By what connexion with that family does not appear, but 
 •John Mohun, Baron of Dunster was Patron of the Rectory in 1325: his widow, 1330: 
 Ralph de Middelney, 1361, Sir Robert de Ashton or Aston 1364, (who was also owner of Escote 
 near East Lavington ; see Edingdon Chartulary). According to a Deed printed in Gent. Mag., 
 1860, p. 36, Sir Robert Ashton exchanged Ashley for another property at Sutton Yeney with 
 Sir Thomas Hungerford of Farley and Heytesbury. According to another Deed in the Hunger- 
 ford Chartulary, Sir Thomas in 17 Rich. II. (1393) had a release of the Manor and Advowson 
 from John Snapp (Rector of Ashley) and Henry Telesford, both clerks, acting as feoffees of John 
 Langrich and Matilda his wife. It continued in the Hungerford family for about 100 years, and 
 by Mary, heiress of the eldest branch of that family, passed to Hastings Earl of Huntingdon, 
 c. 1500. 
 
 According to Aubrey the Crown was owner in temp. Elizabeth. The Lady to whom it was 
 given, was Helen Snachenburg who came over to England in the Suite of the Princess Cecilia 
 daughter of Eric King of Sweden. She became a favourite at Court and married William Lord 
 Parr of Kendal, Brother of Queen Katharine Parr, and Marquis of Northampton. After his 
 death in 1571 she remarried Sir Thomas Gorges of Wraxhall co. Somerset, and (by purchase), of 
 Longford Castle, which house at his wife’s instigation and nearly to his own ruin, he rebuilt on 
 the model, it is said, of one near her own country, the Danish Castle of TJranienburg in tho Sound. 
 There is a curious monument in Sarum Cathedral, on which are the effigies of the Marquis of 
 Northampton and his Lady: engraved in Sir R. C. Hoare’s History of Cawden, pp. 30 and 32. 
 She died 1635, aet. 86. Sir Theobald-Gorges, her second son, lived at Ashley : married a daughter 
 of Henry Poole of Sapperton, and died 1647. The Manor continued in his family till about 1740 : 
 was then sold to Sir Onesipliorus Paul: and again c. 1776 to the Estcourt family. A survey, 
 taken A.D 1591, is printed in Wilts. Archseol. Mag. vol. YI. p. 199. 
 
 The Advowson was in the Hungerford Family from A.D. 1377. By a benefaction, probably 
 of their first heiress Lady Hastings already mentioned, it belonged in 1554 to the College of 
 St. Mary Newark (“ Novi operis ”) at Leicester. Since, to the Duchy of Lancaster. In the 
 Church (St. James’s,) the door on the South side, and the chancel-arch are Norman: the nave arches 
 Early English. Of these, and the Font, a drawing is given in the lately-published first volume 
 of the “ Ham Anastatic Society,” 1860. There is also a very narrow aisle, and a small projecting 
 
208 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Bremelham. 
 
 BRYMNAM (Bremelliam). 1 
 BRINKEWOBTH. 
 
 This Manor belonged to Malmesbury Abbey. Now it belongs to the Earl of 
 Berkshire. 2 
 
 The Church was dedicated to St. Michael. In a North window “. (5rutndjam 
 
 UC ©RyfyS . ft Sotjartnc jfflti.” (notv destroyed ). 
 
 mortuary chapel containing Ferdinando Gorges’s monument 1736: on which the Arms are, 
 Quarterly, 1 and 4, a Whirlpool, (gurges,) the old coat of that family: 2, their later coat, Lozengy 
 0. and Az. a chevron gules: 3, Russell of Dyrham, co. Gloucester. The Church was restored 
 and chancel rebuilt in 1858 by the Rt. Hon. T. H. S. Sotherou Estcourt, Lord of the Manor. 
 
 1 Bremelham, alias Cowage (formerly Colkidge,) near Malmsbury. Britton (Beauties of 
 Wilts. III. 132.) is wrong in saying that this small parish belonged to the Lords Molines and 
 that from them it passed to the family of Hungerford. He appears to have confounded this 
 name with another somewhat similar, viz., Bremelshaw, near Salisbury, which was a Hungerford 
 estate. Bremelham belonged in A.D. 1200, to the Daunteseys of Dauntesey: by whose heiress 
 Joan (1420) it passed to Sir John Stradling: was held for life, 1439, by John Dewale third 
 husband of the said heiress, and also, 1465 for life, by William Lygon husband of another Lady 
 Stradling. By Anne the heiress of the Stradlings it came to Sir John Danvers with the Daun¬ 
 tesey property. In 1654 part of the Danvers estates had vested by descent in Sir Henry Lee of 
 Ditchley, one of whose two coheirs, Anne, married Thomas fifth Baron Wharton. Bremelham 
 was part of her share. In 1760 the Rushout family w r ere owners, and the church is still in their 
 gift. The Manor now belongs to Mr. Holford of Weston Birt. The Parish Registers before 1813 
 are lost. 
 
 2 The Danvers family of the adjoining parish of Dauntesey had not much interest in Brinkw'orth. 
 A tenement called “ Jones’s” with seventy acres was held under them, as of their manor of Lea 
 and Cleverton. The Hungerfords, who held this on lease in 1641, had also a freehold of their 
 own called “ Weekhurst” in 1659. The principal Manor was given to Malmesbury Abbey by 
 one Leofsi a Saxon nobleman : [New Mon. Malm. No. ixj. After the Dissolution, there was a 
 grant from the Crown (19 Eliz.) to Robert Houlton Esq.: but probably in some way for Sir 
 H. Knevett of Charlton, from whom it has descended to the Earl of Suffolk. The Rectory 
 (according to Hatcher, History of Salisbury p. 721) was given, by the name of “ Brykelsworth,” to 
 the church of Old Sarum, temp. Hen. I: by the name of “ Wrynchemurth,” temp. Stephen, for 
 the use of the Master of a school there (ditto p. 724) : and in the Charter of Confirmation 
 by Hen. II. (ditto p. 726) it is called “ Bryghteles-word.” But in 1248 it belonged to Malmes¬ 
 bury Abbey, and so continued till the Reformation. From that time to c. 1732 it was in 
 the gift of the Ayliffes of Grittenham : then in the family of Fox, Lord Holland to c. 1802: 
 now, of Pembroke College, Oxon. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 209 
 
 In the upper end of that aisle on the wall is thus, viz. 
 
 “The Right Hon hle Sir Henry Danvers, Knight, Lord Danvers, Baron of Dauntesey, and Lord 
 Lieutenant of the King’s Majestie’s Province of Mounster in Ireland Anno Domini 1612.” 1 
 
 The Arms [PI. xvii. No. 299]. Supporters, Dexter, a Wyvern 0. Sinister, a 
 Mountain Cat proper. Crest, a Wyverne 0. 
 
 Between the Church and Chancell is a hole on the right hand, as in most of the 
 churches of these parts, which I suppose was for Confession. 
 
 In Grettwood grow naturally sorbe apples or service trees. 
 
 GRYTTENHAM (in Brinkworth) 
 
 Anciently belonged to the Abbey of Malmesbury. King Henry 8. was danger¬ 
 ously ill of a Fistula, which-Ayliff, a famous Chirurgian at London, cured : for 
 
 which he had this great Estate given, and I thinke all the rest of his Estate here¬ 
 about. This-Ayliff obtayned of the King the Charter to make the Cliirur- 
 
 gians a Company, and in Surgeon’s Hall is a noble piece of K. II. 8. sitting in his 
 chair, and the Warden, then Ayliff, the first Warden, and Company in their gowns 
 and formalities, doeing their obeisaunce to his Majesty, and receiving the Charter 
 from his Majestie’s Hands. This is a picture of the famous painter, Hans Holbein, 
 the painter to II. the 8., and hath escaped the great conflagration. 2 
 
 1 Brinkworth Church is late Perpendicular, with battlement: large windows: very high nave 
 arches and slender columns. The monuments are chiefly of the Stratton family. One to John 
 Weekes 1745, founder of two charities: and Elizabeth Morgan (of Fairford) his wife. Arms , 
 ermine 3 battle axes, impaling quarterly 1 and 4 Or, a griffin rampant sable, 2 and 3, Gules, a fess 
 vair between 3 unicorn’s beads Or. On a small wooden hatchment are the arms of Ayliffe and 
 St. John : for Sir George Ayliffe of Grittenham and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir John St. John 
 of Lydiard Tregoz, by his wife Lucy Hungerford of Farle)^ Castle. The Font is provided with a 
 brass tap, like a beer barrel. 
 
 2 Of Grittenham House, long the seat of the Ayliffe family, nothing is left but one gable w T ith 
 ornamented chimneys. The estate passed from the Aylifl’es to the ancestors of the late Henry 
 Fox, Lord Holland, to whose widow it now belongs. 
 
 Mr. Ayliffe could not have obtained the first charter for making the Chirurgeons a Company, 
 as they were incorporated in 1464, 3 Edw. IV. (Stow) : but they had subsequent privileges by 
 charters from the Henries and other Kings, which he may have assisted in obtaining. The fine 
 painting, considered to be one of Holbein’s best works, and engraved 1736 by Bernard Barton, 
 
 2 D 
 
210 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Brinkivorth . 
 
 This coat [PL xviii. No. 300] was graunted to Sir John Ayliff of this place, 
 Sheriff of London, per Thos. Howley, Clarencieux, 3 Lid. VI. 
 
 BROKENBOROUGH. 
 
 Here w r as the Seate of King Athelstan, which the inhabitants still show. 1 It is 
 prettily seated on the promontory of a little hill, like Malmesbury, or as the Roman 
 forts many times are. The River embraces it in the figure of an horse-shoe. The 
 Toft is called Goldhill. It was square, and one of the sides is sixty paces. 
 
 Brokenborough is now parcell of the Earl of Berkshire’s estate. 
 
 still belongs to the Company, and is in good preservation in the Court Room at Barber-Surgeons’ 
 Hall in Monkwell Street. Mr. Pepys (29th August 1668) thought of offering £200 for it, “ it 
 being said to be worth £1000 : but it was so spoiled by the Fire of London that he had no mind 
 for it.” It is engraved also in “ Knight’s London : ” and the names of the persons represented 
 are given in Gent. Mag. 1789, p. 290. J. Ayliffe is the second person from the King on his 
 right hand : he has a ring on his finger, and a gold chain about his neck. Stow says, “ as many 
 broad pieces have been offered for the Picture as would cover it.” Ayliffe’s tomb is in the chancel 
 of St. Michael’s Basinghall Street. There are Pedigrees of the Ayliffe family in Harl. MS. 
 No. 1165, folio 28: and No. 1443, folio 16 b . 
 
 1 The authority for this was an old Chronicle found in Malmesbury Abbey and partly copied by 
 Leland. [Collect. III. 158.] It states that the original town now called Malmesbury, having 
 been destroyed, its site had become occupied only by a strong-hold called Ingelbourne Castle, under 
 shelter of which, Maidulph a Scotchman, flying from the disturbances of his own country, 
 established a school, the germ of the future Abbey; but that the Christian as well as Pagan 
 population were settled chiefly at Caidurburgh afterwards called Brokeburgh, and that there the 
 Saxon King of Wessex lived. When King Edwin (A.D. 982) gave Brokenborough to Malmesbury 
 Abbey, the grant certainly included, as part of Brokenborough Manor, large estates at Corston, 
 Rodbourne, Cowfold, (Cole-park) all now forming part of the parish of Malmesbury, Bremel- 
 ham and part of Grittenham. [See New Monasticon, Malmesbury Charters, No. ix.] These places 
 appear to be included under the one name of Brokenborough in Domesday Book. The same fact 
 also appears in a Perambulation of Forests. It is therefore not unlikely that the central residence 
 may have been here. The peasantry have a tradition that “ Brokenborough is a 100 years older 
 than Malmesbury.” In Mr. J. Y. Akerman’s valuable Paper on the possessions of Malmesbury 
 Abbey, Archseol. xxxvii. p. 266, is a copy of the Grant of Brokenborough. The limits include 
 a considerable tract far beyond those of the present parish. The origin of the name is uncertain. 
 “To tham breocan beorge” (to the barrow broken into), alluding to some violated tumulus, is a 
 common mark in old boundaries. In O’Connor’s catalogue of the Stowe MSS. now Lord 
 Sherborne’s, vol. II. p. 225, is “A copy of the Customs of the Manor of Brokenborow, A.D. 1750.” 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
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 Mem. Mrs. Dorothie Tyndale (of the Priory, Kington St. Michael) told me, that 
 the howse where my Lord lives was not the seat of King Athelstan; his Palace 
 was much bigger, as by the ruins may appear, not farre off from my Lord’s house. 1 
 
 In the Church, before the warres, they say were very fine windows, now utterly 
 defaced: an old man told me that his Father, who dyed twenty-four years since, 
 was 110 at his death, and remembred in the tyme of the old lawe, eighteen little 
 bells that hung in the middle of the Church; the pulling of one wheel made them 
 ring, which was done at the Elevation of the Lloste. 2 
 
 Here is a very great Barne; but one was pulled downe since the warres much 
 greater. Here was an old farme house, moated, and two ponds. 
 
 Mem. This Countrey was anciently a delicate Campania, all ploughed fields as 
 about Sherston: much have been enclosed since my tyme, and more and more will 
 every day: so now lesse barnes serve the turne. 
 
 This Countrey is altogether upon a Stone-brash, and very natural for Barley. 
 When I was a boy, wheate was very scarce; then was baked twenty bushells of 
 barley to one bushel of wheate; now they have altered the course of husbandry, 
 —how wisely I cannot say, I something doubt,—and spend 20 bushells of wheat to 
 one of barley. 
 
 CHARLTON. 
 
 This was the Seate of the Lord Abbot of Malmesbury. 
 
 See at Mr. Water’s howse which was the Grange, by the Church, if the Arms of 
 Malmesbury Abbey is to be found there. It was at Dr. Lambert’s in Sarum, as 
 also the' Arms of Wilton and Glaston Abbey, &c. now lost, being taken down by 
 Mr. Eires the Minister. 
 
 In Charlton Church the windows all new. Nothing to be found of concernment, 
 but a great monument without any Inscription of S r . Henry Knevet who married 
 Isabel daughter and sole heir of Sir James Stumpe of this place. 
 
 1 In the manuscript a pen has been drawn across this paragraph. 
 
 s This paragraph is also crossed by the pen. 
 
 2 D 2 
 
212 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Charlton. 
 
 This Sir Henry Knevett had some command at the Invasion in 1588, and shortly 
 after his returne home died of a Feaver he gott there. From Mr. Thomas Hobbes. 1 
 
 (Sir Henry left three daughters and coheirs. 1. Katharine, who married Lord 
 Thomas Howard afterwards created Earl of Suffolk, whose second son was created 
 Earl of Berkshire. 2. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Clinton, third Earl of Lincoln: 
 
 1 Charlton with its Tithes and Chapel was one of the earliest grants, A.D. 681, to Malmesbury 
 Abbey. In temp. Hen. VIII. one Robert At Water was Tenant of the Abbot’s Demesne Lands: 
 probably an ancestor of “Mr. Water” whose house Aubrey speaks of. Sir Henry Long of 
 Draycote was at that time Hereditary Keeper of Charlton Wood. At the Dissolution of Abbeys, 
 Charlton was purchased by Mr. William Stumpe of Malmesbury, whose son Sir James Stumpe 
 was Sheriff of Wilts 1551, and married Bridget daughter of Sir Edward Bavnton of Bromham. 
 Their only daughter Elizabeth married Sir Henry Knyvett, of a Cornish family, afterwards of 
 co. Norfolk. She died 14th July, 1585, and was buried at Charlton. If, as Hobbes the Philoso¬ 
 pher of Malmesbury told Aubrey, Sir Henry Knyvett died of a fever caught in 1588, the fever 
 must have lasted a long time, as he did not die until 1598. See the account of his Funeral in 
 Topographer and Genealogist, I. 472. 
 
 The monument of Sir Henry Knyvett and his wife is still standing, between the chancel and 
 the North Aisle. The figures are on a raised tomb under a canopy supported by ten Corinthian 
 columns. The Shield of Arms is drawn in PI. xvii, No. 301. Many of the quarterings were 
 incorrectly copied by Aubrey in his MS.: and are here rectified both from the monument itself 
 and from the Banner used at his funeral. [See Topographer and Genealogist, above referred to.] 
 The Crest is a demi-dragon, wings azure. Some of the quarterings appear also on the Tomb of 
 Thomas, Lord Knyvett (1622) at Stanwell, co. Middlesex: and to a few of them are assigned, in 
 the description of that monument in the Gent. Mag. 1794, p. 313, names different from those 
 given here; as, to quartering 7, Isley, to 10, Burghersh, 11, Blondeville, 15, Hovill, 18, Freville, 
 and 19, Stapleton. There are a few notes relating to Charlton Church by Carter the architect in 
 Gent. Mag. 1802, p. 825, and 1806, p. 211. The capitals of the pillars in the nave, and the 
 Font, are Norman. The Registers commence 1660. 
 
 The present Charlton House was commenced by the first Earl of Suffolk who married the 
 heiress of Knyvett; was continued by Henry, Earl of Suffolk and Berks, temp. George III: and 
 left unfinished 1799. Of the Earls of Suffolk there is a detailed account in “Napier’s History of 
 Swyncombe and Ewelme” p. 415. 
 
 Dryden the Poet married Lady Elizabeth Howard, eldest daughter of the first Earl of Berkshire. 
 Charles their eldest child was born here in 1666. An account of a curious accident that befel 
 him in the Park is printed in the Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. Ill, 377. Dryden himself frequently 
 came here for fishing, and he dates his “Annus Mirabilis ” from Charlton, 1667. Mary Davis, 
 a person of notoriety about the Court of Charles II., is said to have been born at or near the village. 
 See Notes and Queries, New Series, vol. V. 208, and Pepys’s Journal. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 213 
 
 and 3, Frances, who married first Sir Wm. Bevill, and secondly Francis Manners 
 6th Earl of Rutland. Ed .) 1 * 
 
 Here are old Inscriptions on the Bells at the Dedication of ’em. ifi ioaitctf 
 fficorgtt ora P nollts. The rest I could not come to. 
 
 CRUDWELL. 
 
 Etymol. Perhaps Crud-well, from turning milk into crud? 
 
 This place, like the rest on the border of Gloucestershire, enjoys the pleasant 
 prospect of part of the vale foreshortened, terminated with the blue hills towards 
 Salisbury Plaine. 
 
 In this parish are several Barrows. Q. their names. There is a Hamlet called 
 Chedslowe, near to which place is a Barrow or two. 
 
 Mem. Lowe in old English is the same with Tumulus, or Barrow; so this is as 
 much as Cheddce Tumulus. 3 
 
 1 In the original MS., Aubrey refers to “Yorke, the Blacksmith’s, Heraldry” for an account 
 of Sir Henry Knyvett’s heirs. His own account is so confused, as not to be worth preserving. A 
 new paragraph is inserted in the Text. The Earl of Rutland married for his second wife, in 
 1608, Cicely (Tufton) widow of Sir Edward Hungerford of Farley Castle, co. Somerset. This is 
 probably the Lady Hungerford whose portrait is now preserved at Charlton House. 
 
 Another paragraph in the original MS. about the daughters of the first Earl of Suffolk, is also 
 omitted, on account of its inaccuracy. Aubrey says that Lady Viscountess Purbeck (daughter of 
 Sir John Danvers the Regicide) told him that three daughters were married all in one day, which 
 may have been the case; but he gives their names incorrectly. They were 1, Elizabeth wife first of 
 William Knollys, Earl of Banbury, and secondly of Lord Vaux. She is mentioned among Ballard’s 
 Learned Ladies. 2, Frances, wife of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, from w T hom she was divor¬ 
 ced. Her second husband was Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset. Of this Lady there is an engraving 
 by Simon Pass, which H. Walpole calls “a curious print of a curious person,” (Anecd. V. 51). 
 The third daughter Katharine married William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury. 
 
 8 Not a satisfactory “Etymol.” In the old Malmesbury Abbey Charters the name is spelled 
 Crede-well, and Credan-well: probably from some person’s name. 
 
 3 Of the barrows one or two are left. That at Chedgelowe itself, has been (so the writer was 
 informed on the spot) “ hauled away to fill up quarries.” The field is still called Barrow field. 
 It has been already mentioned (p. 206,) that Chedgelow used to give the name to a Hundred : 
 and that the name has now been metamorphosed into “ Church Leaze.” 
 
214 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Crudwell. 
 
 Crudwell did heretofore belong to the Abbey of Malmesbury, now to the Lord 
 Lucas, who this year 1670 is building of a very fine Schoole-house, and endowes it 
 with twenty pounds per Annum revenue. Arms of John Lord Lucas. [PI. xviii. 
 No. 302.] 1 
 
 The church is good, and hath been adorned very well with good windows which 
 are much defaced. 2 
 
 1 Forty hides of land here, including “ Eastcot-town, Hanekyn-town (Hankerton) andMorecot- 
 town (Morecot) were of the gift of King TEthelwulf to Malmesbury Abbey : which in 40 Edw. III. 
 had a further gift from William Camme. In the Cartulary of the Monastery are several Deeds 
 relating to Crudwell. 
 
 The Abbot also presented to the Rectory. The first Presentation after the Dissolution was b} T 
 John White Esq. 1554. In 1599 Sir Thomas Lucas was Patron and Lord of this Manor. He 
 was the eldest brother, (by the same mother, but born before marriage), of Sir John and Colonel Sir 
 Charles Lucas; all three distinguished supporters of the Crown in the Civil Wars. Sir Charles 
 was shot at Colchester by Sir Thomas Fairfax after the surrender of the Town. Sir John was 
 created Baron Lucas of Shenfield co. Essex in 1644: but dying without issue male, the Barony 
 went, by the terms of the creation, to his illegitimate brother Sir Thomas and his issue male; in 
 whom it became extinct in 1705. The only daughter and heiress of Sir John married Anthony 
 Grey, eleventh Earl of Kent. She was created Baroness Lucas of Crudwell; which title was 
 vested in her descendant by female lines, the late Earl De Grey. lie was owner of the greatest 
 part of the Parish of Crudwell, but not of the Advowson, that having been sold off some years 
 ago to the Father of the present Rector Mr. Maskelyne. There is a portrait of Sir Charles 
 Lucas by Hobson, at Corsham Court: and a Memoir of him by the late Earl De Grey privately 
 printed 1845. 
 
 In 2 Hen. IY. Sir John Roches had an estate lying in Crudwell, Escote and Chedgelow, which 
 in Edw. VI., belonged to the Baynton family. 
 
 The School is a large square house opposite the Parsonage, and it has the endowment above- 
 mentioned. The Parliamentary Returns of 1786 mention also a Benefaction b} T “ the Duke (the 
 Earl) of Kent or his son.” 
 
 2 The Church is dedicated to All Saints. It consists of a Nave and Chancel, with Aisles North 
 and South of the whole length of the Church itself. In the South Aisle are good Perpendicular 
 Windows. That on the North is older and more dilapidated. The Tower is at the West end, 
 flanked by the Aisles. It is of bad stone and wants rebuilding. Of the four-light stained glass 
 window in the North Aisle three parts are left, but much mutilated. When perfect it represented 
 the seven Romish Sacraments. It is still possible to distinguish, Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, 
 Orders, and Extreme Unction : also the Figure of Our Saviour. Of the inscription to Dow (car¬ 
 penter or smith,) mentioned by Aubrey, the single word Johannes remains: also the two coats of 
 Arms, but all turned wrong side out by the glazier. Aubrey’s remark about the possessions of 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 215 
 
 In the North window are the two Coats, (No. 303, Hungerford of Down Ampney, 
 with a mullet for difference. And No. 304.) 
 
 Hungerford’s coate in this country is a kind of Parietaria that flourishes on every 
 wall; so great possessions they anciently had hereabouts; and their tenants set up 
 the Coat honoris ergo. A great deal this family yet enjoys. 
 
 The window aforesaid is entire. It hath four columns ( lights ): “ IZxtrcma SEncttO : ” 
 “ ©onfrssto,” Nc. In the Limbe (edge) “ ©rate pro ata Sofjannts ©oto faim ft 
 Soijantte uxorts rjits, ft ftlior’ suorV’ 
 
 Here are the best and most substantial seats that I know anywhere, built by one 
 Walton whose name is expressed in a rebus in carved work thus [No. 305]. 
 
 Quaere, when the Revell here ? 1 
 
 Here hath been a great Mannor-house whereof a great gate remains still. Here 
 
 the Hungerfords is just, but is made mal a propos at Crudwell, where (so far as the Editor is 
 aware) they had no property. Probably they were contributors to the window, or patrons of 
 John Dow the donor. 
 
 In the Gent. Mag. 1806, part i. p. 210, are some Church notes of Crudwell, but with inaccuracies. 
 In E. H. Relton’s “Sketches of Churches,” 1842, part I. is a view of the Church : and a drawing 
 of some of the carved panels. 
 
 Thomas Walton’s “Rebus” has disappeared. He had the Manor of Escote in this parish in 
 4 Eliz. (1561) and married Margaret, daughter of John Earle of that place: was a Justice of 
 Peace 1576, and farmed the Rectory here. His only daughter and heir Margaret was wife of 
 Edward Poole of Poole. See Pedigree of Walton, Wilts. Visit. 1623. Of the Earles there are 
 several memorials in the Church. Thomas son of William 1617. Thomas 1637. Thomas (clerk) 
 and Anne 1664 and 1693. Thomas (son of Thomas Earle of Crudwell, Mercer) 1715. 
 
 George Ingram, Rector of this parish from 1718, and Vicar of Hankerton from 1723, was 
 Canon of Windsor and Prebendary of Westminster. In 1761 he succeeded to the title of Lord 
 Ingram, Viscount Irwin of Scotland, and of Temple Newsam near Leeds. He died 1763, having 
 been the fifth brother of one and the same generation, to whom the title descended. There are 
 two gravestones in the Chancel marked T. I. 1671; and N. I. 1675, said to be for Thomas 
 and Nicholas Ingram. 
 
 “ At the great “ Smith Festival ” held in Draper’s Hall, London, a century or two ago, where all 
 from the President to the Waiters were of that name, the Hall was decorated with flags 
 emblazoned with three Turks’ heads, “ Purchased by Smith of Crudwell’s famous deeds.” [Notes 
 and Queries 1854, p. 463.] 
 
 1 All that is left of the Annual Festival is called Morecot-mead Revell, held about the beginning 
 of August. 
 
216 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Crudwell . 
 
 was one of the biggest barnes in the county, not long since taken down. They 
 inclose dayly. Near to the house is a fine walled spring in the street; now called 
 Bery-well. Qucere, the Farm- well ? Labourers say it quenches the thirst better than 
 the other waters; to my taste it seemed to have aliquantulum aciditatis ; and probably 
 is vitriolate. Qucere , if medicinall, or what effect it has ? Try it. 1 
 
 DAUNTESEY. 
 
 (Manor.) 2 
 
 Here is a stately Parke with admirable oakes: the ground too, good. The 
 meadows and pastures here are famous at Smithfield Markett: no better fatting 
 ground in England. 
 
 o o 
 
 Idovers. Rich meadows watered by the Avon. In Welsh, “wy douer” means 
 vagus fluvius (winding stream.) So here the river. 3 
 
 1 A barn corresponding with Aubrey’s description is still standing, below the Church. Bery- 
 well, close by, maintains a good reputation: but the Editor has not thought it any part of hi6 
 Editorial duty to “ Try it.” 
 
 2 Walter de Pavely, Lord of Westbury, Wilts, was lord of this Manor in A.D. 1315 (Nom: 
 Vill:). After him, it belonged successively to the families of 1. Dauntsey. 2. Stradling. 
 3. Danvers. From the first, it passed about A.D. 1420 by an heiress Joan to the Stradlings; and 
 about A.D. 1500 from them by their heiress to Danvers, in whom it remained to the death of Sir 
 John Danvers the Regicide, A.D. 1655, when it was forfeited to the Crown. 
 
 2 “ Ydor ” British for river, is one of the words mentioned by Giraldus Cambrensis as showing 
 a likeness between British and Greek. In Greek ''vStop, Water. [Leland’s Collect. III. 81.] The 
 name of “ Ydouer ” was therefore originally that of the stream itself, from which it has been 
 transferred to the land upon its banks. In Hen. III. Roger de Dantesey held in Tydover 
 (i.e. th’ Idover) a Knight’s Fee under the Honour of Wallingford. 
 
 The name of Dauntesey, or as written in the oldest Episcopal Register Daunteseye, is a corrup¬ 
 tion from the Anglo-Saxon “ Damic’s Eye.” The Anglo-Saxon word Eig, or Ige, means land 
 enclosed by water. “ Ireland’s Eye ” is a well known island off the Dublin coast. An Ey-ot 
 (pronounced eight) is a little island. Damic’s Eye was the land bounded by water belonging to 
 a Saxon proprietor called Damec. In the “ Boundaries of Dauntesey ” recited in a Deed of 
 A.D 850 the original forms of both the local names now explained, occur: “A loco qui vocatur 
 Damic’s Eye,”. . .ad rivulum qui dicitur Ydouere.” See Mr. J. Y. Akerman’s Article, on the 
 Possessions of Malmesbury Abbey, Archaeol. xxxvii. p. 262. 
 

 
 
 
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PEDIGREE OF DAUNTESEY, 
 
 STRADLING, AND DANVERS OF DAUNTESEY. 
 
 By the Rev. J. E. JACKSON. 
 
 Sir Waller D»unte«y=Thomaw». 
 died 1420, jet. 22. 8.P.' 
 bur. before St Mary'* 
 
 Altar in Dauntesey Church 
 
 2. Sir John Stradling= Joan Dauntesey 
 2nd. son of Sir Wm. 8. of heiress of her brother 
 St Donat's, co. OUru. Pa- Walter 1420, died 
 Iron of Dauntesey Rectory 1455, bur. in Daunt- 
 jure uxor it 1432. Used escy Church, 
 the arms of the Dauntesey 
 family. Died about 1436. 
 
 = 1. Sir Maurice =3. John Dowale Esq. 
 Russell of Kings- died boforo 1454. Bur. 
 ton Russell, oo. in Dauntesey Church. 
 Dorset. 
 
 Edward Stradling__Elizabetb. d. of Sir Ronfrcw Arrindell 
 ict.26 in 145ft. Sheriff by Jane dau. of Sir John Colshill of 
 of Wilt* 1452—3. Cornwall. She remarriod William 
 
 Lvgon, who presented to Dauntesey 
 Itootory jure uxorit 1405. 
 
 Other Children. 
 
 1 
 
 Edward .S trad ling Sir John Danvers. 2nd son of_Anno Strndling 
 
 Munir red at Daontesoy Richard D. of Culworth co. North- the •• Lady of Dauntesey. 
 
 beforo 1503. amp: and gr. gr. son of Richard n - : - *---*• ■ 
 
 D. of Cothorp, Oxon, by the heir¬ 
 ess of Branoestor of that plaoo. 
 
 Adopted the Branoestor Armsfviz. 
 
 On a bend three martUte.) Died 
 1514, bur. N. sido of Dauntcaoy 
 Church. Will provid 1615. 
 
 Heiress of hor brother. Used 
 the Arms of her gr. gr. mother 
 Joan Dauntesey. mil provod 
 1639. Brass on South side of 
 Dauntesey Church. 
 
 Thomas Danvers^ 
 of Dauntesey. Used'' 
 Arm* of Dauntesey 
 and lirauoester. Was 
 dead 1537. 
 
 Villi am 
 
 _,Eliz. Fiennes Richard, 
 
 dau. of Sir Wm. of Culworth, d. of Lord of Innor (na 
 Courtenay of d. 1544. I Say and Scle. Temple, Wil 
 Powdcrham. unm. 
 
 John Danvers of Tockouhnm,=Margcry 
 [named in Sir A. Hungcrford’s (Blount Y) 
 ilL) Probably gr. father of of Mangots- 
 Rachcl Danvers who mar. John field, oo. 
 Aubrey of Burlton, grandfather Glouc. 
 of John Aubrey the Antiquary. 
 
 Bur. at Lyneham, Wilts. 
 
 1.. Fottiplace. ~ Dorothy : 
 
 2. Sir Anthony 
 Hungcrford 
 of Down Amp- 
 ney, d. 1669. 
 
 Elirabeth 
 =Sir John 
 Abarowo. 
 
 Margaret Anno SnsnDna 
 
 =lidward =Thomas first wife. 
 
 Fiennes, Lovett, 
 
 called Lord 
 
 =8ir Walter, Constance 
 
 afterwards inar. 
 
 Lord Hun- Staveley, 
 
 K rford, of had a 
 
 ytesbury dau. Mary, 
 exeo. 154(). 
 
 Elizabeth 
 daughterofJohn 
 I-ord Mordount, 
 marr. 1637. 
 
 Sir John Danvers^Elirsbcth Nevill 
 of Dauntesey. (The “ old Sir 
 
 = Silvester Danvers = 2. Elirabeth 
 of Dauntesey and Prcscote, d. of Wm. Rode 
 Sher. of Wilts, 1 Edw. VI. of Mitten. (See 
 Will d. July 30, 1649, Uarl, MS 1984, 
 p. 169.) 
 
 Dan by in co. York, jure ux. 
 Resumed the origiual Arms of 
 Danvers, (vir. A chevron bet. 
 3 mulleti pierced.) Died 19 
 Dee. 169-1, bur. at Daunte»oy. 
 Epitaph by Goo. Herbert. 
 
 Sir Charles Danvers 
 
 n 
 
 dsuTandooh. of Lord ^3? ^=\r £j3t? Elizabeth. Heiry Danvers = Joan, dau. 
 
 imer hv I-adv I.nnv isu d-j _ Dur - second son. Of , of AuukaII 
 
 latimer by Lady Lucy 1588. Great Bedwyn. 
 Somerset. She remarried 
 Sir Edmund Carey, 3rd 
 son of Henry Lord Huns- 
 don. Died 1630, ict. 84. 
 
 Bur. at Stowe, eo. North- 
 amp. (See Bakor't North¬ 
 amptonshire I. 448.) 
 
 seoond son. Of , of Aunoell 
 Baynton. | Lambe of 
 Couliton. 
 
 Sir nenry Danvers ^ aw Jonn uanvers of Chclsc. 
 
 kro 1673. Pago to Su Sir Richard Newport, and West Lavington. The It eg i- 
 1 Mdney. Baron Danvers Widow of Rich. Herbert eide. Bur at Dauntescv 28 April 
 
 ofDauntswey EarlofDanby, of Clulsea and mother of 1655. Will doted 1064 proved 
 
 K.G._ Dud at Cornbury 1643, Geo. Herbert of Bemorton. 26 June 16-56. Attainted' 
 
 71- bur. at Dauntesey. Married 1609. Funeral 
 Will d. 1639. Settled lira Sermon by Dr. Donn> 
 estates on liis nephew Henry. 1627. 
 
 1. Magdulen, dau. of =Sir Johi 
 
 Danven of Chelsc. = 2. Eli*, dau. and coh. of Ambrose, 
 nvinirtnn Tf.. T,.„. an(1 ^ ^ of g if John DttUntM , 
 
 of West Lavington. Upou her death 
 death April 1636, Sir John Duuver* 
 embellished tho family burial-place 
 in West Lavington Church. Her »ist«r 
 Sarah married Sir Hugh Stnkoley. 
 
 <£2 
 
 arlcr, ob. 1634, 8.P. 
 John, ob. inf. 
 
 Mary, ob. inf. 
 
 Henry Danvers. Robert (Wright) Vil- = Elizabeth Dai 
 Gave “all of Ins hors. M.P. for Wcstbury eld. dau. bom 
 
 great estate in his from which he was 
 power " to his *is- polled. Took tho name 
 tor Anne. Died of of Danvcr* by Patent, 
 small pox, let. 20, Viscount Purbeck. Bur. 
 8.P. bur. 12 Dec. at Calais 1674 
 1664. 
 
 coheir of brother 
 Henry, mar. 2ndly 
 John Duvall Esq 
 h vingl681. [Baker's 
 Nortbamp. p. 442 ] 
 The “ Viseountess 
 ParbecVof Aubrey. 
 
 Sir Henry Lee, = Ann Danvers, 
 of Ditoliley, oo. " * 1 
 Oxon, mar. 1655 
 by Wm. Yorke 
 Esq. J.P. (West 
 lavington Reg.) 
 remar. at Ditch- 
 ley same year. 
 
 (Woottou Reg.) 
 bur. at Spels- 
 bury, Oxon, 31 
 March 1659. 
 
 and ultimately sole heiress, died 
 on Wliitsuoday 31st May. (Se« 
 Dryden's “ Eleonora.") Bur. at 
 West Lsriugton 6th June 1691, 
 ®t. 33. Removed in 1099 tc 
 Kjeote Chapel. 
 
 2nd dau. ooh. 
 and solo exe¬ 
 cutrix of her 
 brother. Bur. 
 at Spelsbury, 
 Oxon, 24th 
 July 1669. 
 
 John Danvers, = Elizabeth 
 b. 1651, Po- Morcwood, 
 titioncr to tho widow of 
 Crown for his Snmnel 
 father's estate*, Danvers of 
 d. 1721, rot. 50, Swithland. 
 bur. at Cropre- 
 dy, Oxon, 8.P. 
 left Prescoto to 
 heirs of his 
 wife's first 
 hushaud. 
 
 , = 3. Grace dau. of Inno. 1 * =Sir Arthur Porter. Sir Henry = Luor 
 
 Kel,?„n W *!L 0f E1 “ a ° r = Tho ’- W.lm.ley, Bayntun huri.dat an idiot, of Boynton,“bur" 
 Kimorion, oo. co. Lancaster. d. 1616. Westm.Abb. (Colo's at Edinsdon cn 
 
 Glou.Mar.6Jan. Ehzabeth. =Sir Edw. Hoby, J uno> 1621. Eseh. WilU 1026 
 
 Her por- iv. 201.) ’ 
 
 trait at Ea»t- 
 
 Charles Danvers = Mary. nenry = Ann. 
 
 Baylill'e 
 of Chippen- 
 
 ag« 
 
 Isic worth. Hor grave, of Noitel, 
 
 mother was a co. York, 
 
 dau. of Sir Thos. Dorothy. =Sir Peter Osborne. 
 Cluuntierlaync. Mary a. y. 
 
 well House. 
 
 Henry ^.Elizabeth 
 Danvers 
 M.P. for 
 Devizes, 
 inarmed 
 
 rriTTTi " i- 
 
 Eleanor =Sir John Osborn. Jauo=Rcv. George 
 
 daughter of Ann. =(M. John Dan- 3rd dan. Herbert of 
 
 "JU. Bower vors. 2. Wm. marr. at Bemorton, 
 
 of West Ln- Eyre of Ncston.) EdiDgdon, step-son to 
 
 vington. Re- Elizabeth. WilU, 5th Sir John 
 
 Wm. Mury. Mar. 1628. Danvers tho 
 
 Joan =Edw. Mitchell of Regicide. 
 
 horn 1593, 
 
 III?" 
 
 Charles. 
 
 Silvoster. 
 
 Yorke, of 
 
 Chitterne, died 
 
 1054. 
 
 died 1632. 
 
 n 
 
 "sUNte* Ssit.** 5"' b'.ru,,..ltb.d^oFb,"; 
 
 d 1MHI V"" di«l tun.ri av .., 
 
 V l*>« 1713. ., A,1,n. 
 
 in M cote Remarried Francis W rough ton 
 ChajH'l 0 f Eastcot in Urchfont. 
 
 at Adderbury, Oxon, 2!) 
 Oot., bur. at Winchon- 
 den, Bucks, 10 Nov. 
 1686, 8P. 
 
 John Danvers = 
 sold Baynton to 
 John Long of 
 Little Chovcrill. 
 
 Charles =2nd wifo Ann 
 Yorke. Danvers, mar 
 1053, bur. at 
 West Laving¬ 
 ton, Oot. 1001. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 217 
 
 (1. The Dauntesey Family.) 
 
 “John, Earl of Oxford, had by right of his wife Mawd one of the coheiresses of 
 Giles Badlesmere, one Knight’s Fee in Smythcote in Com. Wilts, which Richard 
 Dauntesey now holds: at ten pounds...” Legier Book of Mortimer. 1 
 
 In the parlour of the Parsonage the Arms of Dauntesey, [No. 313]. 
 
 (Gravestone of Joan Dauntesey and John Dewale.) 
 
 This is a very tine Church, and hath had better luck in the late warres than any 
 hereabout. 
 
 Under the Communion table in freestone; viz. 
 
 “ fLKc jacrt Soljanncs ©ctoalr Granger ct ©na Soijana uxor rjus quonbatit uxor ©ttt 
 jlRaurictt Hussrll milttis qui qutUrm 3ot)rs ©ctoalr oixitt mcnse ... Die ultimo jjE&C&C 
 
 ... ttj. fit prrfata Sofjanna oRttt in ... prime titr Sno ©m . Quorum aiatrns 
 
 pptctriur ©cits ten.” 
 
 He and she are drawne at length, he in armour with sword and dagger. (At the 
 Lady’s head, the shield of Dauntesey, as before in No. 313. At the husband’s, that 
 of Russell, No. 314.) 2 
 
 1 Smithcote in the Parish of Dauntesey was held under the Barony of Castle Combe in 
 A.D. 1162 and 1250 by the Dauntesey Family. On the partition of the estates of Giles Lord 
 Badlesmere among his four sisters and coheiresses in the year 1339, it fell to the share of 
 Matilda wife of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Another of the coheiresses married Edmund 
 Mortimer, Earl of March, from whose Record of the Badlesmere estate the extract in the Text was 
 made by Aubrey. [See Mr. P. Scrope’s History of Castle Combe, p. 73.] 
 
 There was a Chapel of St. Anne at Smithcote, to which the Daunteseys presented. The names 
 of nine of the Chaplains are preserved in the “ Wilts. Institutions.” The last is that of William 
 Ramsbury appointed A.D. 1443. 
 
 2 This incised alabaster (not freestone) slab bears the effigy of the Lady on the dexter, and the 
 Esquire on the sinister side. Upon her shield are the Arms of Dauntesey only. On his the 
 chevron ermine is just traceable: but the cross crosslets are worn out. Part of the inscription, 
 and the dates, are also effaced. It is the oldest monument in the Church; being that of Joan 
 Dauntesey (the heiress, by whom the estate passed to the Stradlings,) and John Dewale Esa. 
 her third husband. The Arms at the sinister corner, at the head of the Esquire, are those of one 
 of the families of Russell, and seem to relate to Sir Maurice, the former husband named in the 
 inscription round the margin. Two things are remarkable on this gravestone. 1, It gives the 
 
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•218 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 r Dauntesey. 
 
 X. Mv Ladv Viscountess Purbec tells me, that at Our Lady’s Church at Calais, 
 lve two of the sonnes of Sir John Dantesey. Her Lord (i.e. Vise. Purbeck) lyes in 
 the aisle. There had been a Dantesey Governour there. They had two or three 
 streets there . 1 
 
 (2. The Stradlixg Family.) 
 
 Anno . : Here was a Robbery committed at the Mannour liowse, on the family 
 
 of the Stradling's: he (i.e. Sir Edward ), and all his servants, except one plowboy 
 who hid himself, were murthered: by which meanes, this whole estate came to 
 Anne his sister, and lieire. She married after to Sir John Danvers a handsome 
 gentleman, who clapt up a match with her before she heard the newes, he, by good 
 fortune lighting upon the Messenger first. She lived at that time in Pater-Xoster 
 Rowe at London, and had but an ordinary portion. This Robbery was donne on a 
 
 Arms of the first husband (Russell) who is not buried here: and 2, there is no allusion, either in 
 the inscription or Arms, to her second husband Sir John Stradling. lier first husband (Russell) 
 was dead before 1420 when she succeeded as heir to her brother Walter at Dauntesey: for, by 
 documents quoted in Mr. P. Scrope’s Castle Combe, p. 219, she was in that year the wife of 
 Sir John Stradling. Sir John’s death was probably about 1435 or 6, as he presents to Dauntesey 
 Rectory (jure uxoris) in 1432, and to Bremelham 1433 ; but in 1437 the Presentation to Bremel- 
 ham runs in the name of herself only. [Wilts. Inst.] Her third marriage must have been about 
 1438, as in 1439 John Dewell Esq. and Joan his wife present to Bremelham. She kept her 
 second husband’s name, and in 1454 was surviving as “Lady Stradling late wife of John Dewale.” 
 
 The brother to whom Joan was heiress, was Sir Walter Dauntesey Knight. In his Will, dated 
 26th August, 1420, “he desires to be buried before the Altar of St. Mary in the Parish Church 
 of Dauntesey. He had property in Dauntesey, Smythcote, Merdene, Willesford and Wynterburne- 
 Dauntesey. Thomasia his wife. William Gore his steward. Five poor men or women to be 
 maintained in an Alms-house at Dauntesey for ever, to pray for his soul: to have sixpence a week 
 each, and to be established in the Alms-house by Michaelmas after the date of his Will. Edmund 
 his uncle: William Hankford K : , Thomas Dru, Wm. Gore, and Thomas Felix, Parson of Little 
 Somerford, his Exors. To Dauntesey Church a Missal, a Gradual, and a Chalice: and some vest¬ 
 ments.” A copy of the Will in Latin is printed in Hoare’s History of Alderbury Hundred, p. 83. 
 
 1 Lady Purbeck, was by birth Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Regicide Sir John Danvers. 
 She was wife of Robert Villiers, the alleged son of John, Baron Villiers and Viscount Purbeck. 
 In 1660 Robert Villiers, Viscount Purbeck, renounced his aristocratical honours by legal surrender 
 of them to Charles II., fled from his creditors and died at Calais 1674. His widow on her return to 
 England resumed the title of Viscountess Purbeck, thinking it would advance her son’s interest. 
 
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 Saturday night; the next day the Neighbours wondered none of the family came 
 to Church; they went to see what was the matter, and the Parson of the parish 
 very gravely went along with them, who, by the boy (i.e. the concealed plough- 
 boy) was proved to be one of the company, and was, I think, hanged for his paines. 1 
 
 (Chancel South Wall. Anne, Lady Danvers, Heiress of the Stradlings.) 2 
 In the South Window of the Chancel, in four lights, are the entire pictures of 
 
 1 Of this story the Editor has never been able to meet with an) 7 other written account whatso¬ 
 ever, nor in any of his researches relating to Wiltshire has he ever seen even the most remote 
 allusion to it. The tradition however still lives in the parish of Dauntesey ; not only vivens, but 
 vivax: though probably now as unlike the original truth, as any tale could well be, that has been 
 flitting from village-mouth to mouth for nearly 400 years. The popular version at present seems to 
 be that the Father had gone to Parliament and had left his wife and son under the Parson’s charge; 
 that he and the Parish Clerk committed the murder, as they thought, undetected, but the plough- 
 boy, hidden in the oven, saw and told; that the Parson’s name was Cuthbert: and that he was 
 starved to death in a cage on a gibbet in the field close by the Parsonage. As to the Parish 
 Clerk, (entitled of course, professionally, to a less exalted position,) him they bury alive, with his 
 head above ground. All this however presents nothing in aid of Aubrey’s story. No such name 
 as Cuthbert appears, either in the list of Incumbents of Dauntesey, or in the general Register of 
 the Clergy of Wilts about the period. The person who seems to have been Rector of Dauntesey 
 when the crime was committed, was John Jones who was appointed in 1465, and who vacated 
 the living by death in 1503. [Wilts. Inst.] For, though the exact } 7 ear of the murder is not 
 given by Aubrey, it must have been towards the year 1500 : as Sir Edward Stradling, the mur¬ 
 dered man, is known to have been still in his minority in 1485, and the first Presentation to the 
 Rectory of Dauntesey made by his successors the Danvers family, was on the death of John 
 Jones, in 1503. 
 
 The house in Paternoster Row, where the Lady was staying at the time of the murder, was 
 probably the Town-house of her family, inherited by them from the previous heiress Joan 
 Dauntesey: for the Inquisitions post mortem mention that Sir John Dauntesey, who died 
 6 Hen IV. (1404) had obtained by marriage with a daughter and heir of John Beverley, sundry 
 houses in the Parish of St. Michael ad Bladum (corn) . The Church, afterwards known as Michael 
 le Querne, formerh 7 stood at the corner where Paternoster Row joins Cheapside. Though Aubrey 
 says that Sir John Danvers “clapt up the match ” with the heiress of the Stradlings before she 
 heard the news, it is not unlikely that his attention had been called that way before, as, during 
 her brother Sir Edward’s minority, the Stradling family were (in 1485) under the guardianship 
 of Henry Danvers, probably of Cothorp, the head of the House of Danvers. [Bans. MS. 
 260, p. 117.] 
 
 2 The outline of this lady’s effigy in brass is on the Altar tomb of her husband Sir John Danvers, 
 on the North side, (hereafter described); but she is not mentioned in the inscription there. 
 
 2 e 2 
 
220 Aubrey’s north wilts. [. Dauntesey . 
 
 Sancta Magdalena, S ta . Katharina, S ta . Margarita, and S ta . Dorothea with her basket 
 of roses; overthwart every one a scrole, in which, “ gfe please ffioti SO be it.” 
 
 Below tliis windowe is an ancient monument, partly altar-waies, with a great 
 niche; about the limbe of the plan, “ £ prag gOU of pour cljaritg & in tl)C bJ0rsf)tp of 
 gc UTrinttic, for an sole, sage a pater W k an &be.” In severall places A.D. 1 In 
 the middle between two Angels kneeling, are the Armes of Dauntesey; on the two 
 pillars of the monument stand two mastif dogges, I believe the Crest of Dauntesey. 
 
 [No. 310.] 1. Dauntesey: impaling Quarterly. 1 and 4. [Arundell]. 2. [Carminow]. 
 
 3. [Coleshill], 
 
 - 2. Dauntesey, single, as before: between two kneeling angels. 
 
 - 3. Ditto impaling Courtenay. [Courtenay as in No. 311.] 
 
 Within the niche, and in brasse, Anne (Stradling) Lady Danvers, kneeling, 
 between the old-fashioned (emblem of the) Trinity and the coate of Dauntesey. 
 
 “ ©Sty at baglrtb gt rtcbrs, or toijat possession, 
 
 (Sgftcs of fjtgfj nature, nobles tn gentrg, 
 
 ©aftencs brpitrgb, or pregnant pollgrg; 
 
 Sgtij proves, sgtb pobjer babe tbelr progression. 2 
 jfatc it is fatall on seiff succession, 
 
 Etjat boorlb Ijatlj nothing tljat smellitfj not frealtir, 
 
 2El}cre most assuraunce is most unsuertie. 
 
 Hlere Itctij ©ante &nnc, tljc Habg of ©aunteseg, 
 
 1 On tbe tomb, only in the spandrel of the arch over the recess. But in the chancel, on the 
 ends of some of the seats, in place of what are called “ poppy-heads,” there are wooden shields, in 
 which the dexter is, in some, the shield of Danvers, in others, a large A : the sinister, the Arms of 
 Dauntesey. It is to be observed, that instead of using her own family arms, viz. those of Stradling, 
 this Lady uses on her tomb, those of the more ancient family, the Dauntesej^s, whose heiress Joan 
 had brought the estate in marriage to Sir John Stradling about 1420, as mentioned in p. 216, 
 note 2. 
 
 2 By “nobles in gentry” is meant, noblesse or nobility of birth. The next words “dafteness 
 depuryd” are not clear. If daftness means folly, and depuryed, strained off, the 6ense may be, 
 mens sana, a healthy understanding. But the reader must interpret for himself. 
 
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 3To <$tr Joljn JBanbers spobasc m conjunction, 
 
 ®o Sir Joljn ©auntcscn, liu lone btsccncton, 
 
 Cosyn 1 atib Ijctvc, bciljosc fjerytage btgljlyc 
 jfastcly be ftrmcb in Cristc tits mancyon." 
 
 In the carved vaulting in wood in the chancel in several places, a shield quarterly 
 [No. 315], 1, a D (for Danvers, or Dauntesey). 2 and 3, Arms of Dauntesey as 
 before. 4. an A (for Anne). 
 
 (3. The Danvers Family. 
 
 Tomb of Sir John Danvers, who married the heiress of the Stradlings.) 
 
 In the Chancel on the N. side is an Altar Monument of freestone of good Grotliique 
 work. About the limbe of the plan of it, (Aubrey means, the margin of the slab) is 
 this inscription. 
 
 “ !i?crc lyctb burycb syr Joint ©anbers IMitgljt sumtumc ILorbr of tins ntancr $c patron 
 of tips CTiiitrctic in tfjc rtgbt of bantc 2fotne ijts boyf, tig bolpcljc satb snr Joint tf)c tttj ban 
 of tfjc monctijc of January beptyb tijys Infc too transitory tig ycrc of our ILorb <E>ob 
 JECCCCC anb xiiij.” 
 
 At the fower corners of the plan of this tombe are these escutcheons in brasse; the 
 Effigies of him in armour, and of his Ladie, both at length: she weareth her girdle 
 to her feet: the fashion then. [No. 309.] 
 
 [No. 3061 1- Danvers ( i.e . Branchester) quartering Barendes/ with a crescent at the fess 
 point. 
 
 [No. 307] 2. Stradeing, quartering Dauntesey. 
 
 [No. 308] 3. Danvers {i.e. Branchester) and Barendes quarterly, with the crescent: impaling 
 Stradeing and Dauntesey quarterly. 
 
 - 4. (Same as No. 308.) 
 
 On the sides in colours; 1. Dauntesey single (same as No. 313). 2. Danvers single (same as 
 first quarter in No. 306). 3. Danvers and Barendes (as before No. 306). 
 
 Mem: that the 3 popingays (viz: in the first quarter of No. 30G) was the coate of 
 
 a Memd. In Cirencester Abbey are painted the coats and matches of Danvers with the names underneath. 
 Under “ G. 2 bars O. 2 stagg’s heads in chief ” is “ Barrandtne.” (This is taken from another MS. of Aubrey’s.) 
 
 1 Cousin (consanguineus) was formerly used to signify almost any blood relative. 
 
222 Aubrey’s north wilts. '{Dauntesey. 
 
 Branchester. A Danvers married the daughter and heir; and thereupon left off 
 his own coate of arms {viz : Gules, a chevron between 3 mullets pierced Or); which 
 was not re-assumed till by old Sir John Danvers. 1 
 
 Above this Monument (on the North side of Chancel) is a very beautifull and 
 entire windowe of four lights. 1 
 
 1st. The picture of a King holding the head of a young King in his hand; at 
 the bottome four lovely male children, resembling then’ father, kneeling in gownes 
 with wide sleeves like a Bachelor of Aides. Neither Sir John ncy his children have 
 any Bandes. Over then- heads in a Scrole, “ iSanctC jfrtbtsmunbc ora pro nobts.” 
 
 2nd. Our Ladie; In a scrole from Our Ladye; “ lEccr anctUa ©ttt, fiat 
 smmtutm brrbum tuum.” Underneathe, the picture of S r . John Danvers a handsome 
 young gentleman kneeling in armour, over which his coate of Armes; In the scrole 
 “ Sancta Set genctrtx srmprr birgo IBarta ora pro nobis.” 
 
 3rd. Angelus Annuncians; under, Dame Anne kneeling: over her cloathes, her 
 Coate of Armes. In the scrole “ kntrrrrbr pro nobts ab ©omhuun.” 
 
 4th. Saincte Anne; under, four or live daughters kneeling. In the scrole, 
 “ Sancta Snna ora pro nobts.” Every one with a girdle pendant [No. 309] as a 
 Cordelier,— quaere: which fashion is of late introduced in mourning for woemen, of 
 old only for noble woemen. 
 
 1 By “Old Sir John Danvers” Aubrey means, not the first of the name, who married Anne 
 Stradling, and died 1514, but his great grandson the Sir John Danvers, senior, who died 1594; 
 called senior, to distinguish him from one of his three sons, who were Sir Charles, Henry Lord 
 Danby, and Sir John Danvers junior, the Regicide. The original coat of Danvers was, Gules, a 
 chevron between three mullets Or, (as in No. 317). In lieu of it the earlier members of the 
 family adopted, for a time only, the Arms brought in by a match with an heiress, called by 
 Aubrey, Branchester, by others, Sindlesham [See Harl. MSS. 6594, f. 12: and Harl. MS. 260, 
 f. 121.] : viz., Arg. on a bend Gules, three martlets Or, (which Aubrey calls popingays). This 
 adopted coat was in its turn dropped by the Sir John Danvers (died 1594) who re-assumed the 
 original one. His son the Earl of Danby also used the original one, both by itself and quarterly 
 with the arms of his mother, Neville, on shields both inside and outside Dauntesey Church. The 
 Tower, as appears by an inscription over the chancel arch was built in 1630; the Church was 
 restored 1632 : both no doubt by the Earl. The doorway (South side) has Early Norman shafts. 
 
 2 Some portions of the glass here described, together with the figures, 1520 (or 1525), the date 
 of the window, are still remaining in the present year 1861. 
 
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 On the top of every light an escutcheon as followeth: (same as Nos. 308, 306, 
 307, and 308 repeated). 
 
 In the limbe (margin) at the bottom, this Inscription, “ attaints SoijanntS QanbcrS 
 mtlttts ft ©ne Slnnc . pro atahus filtor, filtarquc suaru . Slnno 30nt 
 
 (?) 
 
 Mem: The crescents in these coats. Therefore Sir John was not the Penkenol. 1 
 The crescent is also on his coate armour, over his armour. 
 
 (Chancel East Window.) 
 
 In the East window of the Chancel are 
 
 1. [No. 311. The Arms of Thos. Danvers, (son of Sir John Danvers and Anne 
 Stradling), and his wife Margaret Courtenay, viz.~] 
 
 Danvers quartering Dauntesey : impaling Courtenay with label azure, each label chargedwith 
 a bezant. Over it, “ Sabers, Satttcscg antr Courtenau♦” 
 
 2. [No. 312. The Arms of Sir Walter afterwards Lord Hungerford of Heytes- 
 bury, and his wife Susanna Danvers : vis.] 
 
 Quarterly, 1. Heytesbury. 2 and 3. Fitz John. 4. Peverell: impaling, Danvers and 
 Dauntesey quarterly. Over it “ [fljUttJgfrforll SabrrS aillt SaUtCSCU,”—And underneath 
 
 “ifcectonsbencfactorumhuj. fenegtri ftno Sm 
 
 (Monument of Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby.) 
 
 On the North side of the chancel is a handsome Burying place rayled with iron. 
 
 1 Sir John Danvers was of the second House of Danvers. The proper heraldric distinction of his 
 House would therefore be a crescent. The word “Penkenol,” which would be familiar to Aubrey 
 being himself of Welsh descent, is in Welsh, Penkenedl, signifying Head of a Tribe, or family. 
 “Among the Britons, every family or clan was represented in law-rights by a Foreman, or Pencenedl, 
 whose office was to see right done to his kindred ; whereas among the Saxons a man looked for 
 this protection to the freemen of his tything, represented by the Head-borough, or Head of the 
 tything.” [Rev. W. Barnes’s Notes on Ancient Britons, p. 32.] 
 
 * Two daughters of Sir John and Anne married Hungerfords : but, so far as the Editor is aware, 
 the Hungerford family was never connected by property with Dauntesey Parish. 
 
224 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Dauntesey. 
 
 which was built by the Earl of Danby: wherein lye buried 1, His father, old Sir 
 John Danvers. 2, The Earl of Danby: who was, my Cousin Villiers told me, 
 page to Sir Philip Sydney: and 3, Lady Gargrave, the Earl’s sister. 
 
 Queere, it Sir Charles Danvers, that was beheaded, was buried here. Iiesp. He 
 was buried in the Tower chapell. 
 
 To the Earle of Danby is erected by his Will, a noble altar monument of white 
 marble, with this inscription : Viz. About the plan, 
 
 “ Henry, Earle of Danby, 2d sone to Sir John Danvers, Kt., and Dame Elizabeth, daughter and 
 co-heyre to Nevil, Ld. Latimer, borne at Dauntesey, in the countie of Wiltes, the 28th day 
 of June, A 0 . Dni. 1573, and baptised in this church the 1st of July following, being Sunday. He 
 departed this life on the 20th day of January, A 0 . 1643, and lieth here interred. 
 
 North side. “ He was partly bred up in the Lowe-countrey warres, under Maurice, Earle of 
 Nassaw, afterwards Prince of Oraunge, and in many other military actions of those times, both by 
 sea and land. He was made a Captaine in the warres of Fraunce, and there knighted for his good 
 service under Henry IV., then French King. He was employed as Lieutenant Generali of the 
 horse, and Sergeant Major of the whole army in Ireland under Robert, Earle of Essex, and Charles 
 Baron of Mountjoy, in the reigne of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 South side. “ He was made Baron of Dauntesey, and Peer of this Realme, by King James the 
 First; and by him made Lord President of Munster, and Governor of Garnesey. By King Charles 
 the First he was created Earle of Danby, made of his privy councell, and Knight of the most 
 noble Order of the Garter. But declining more active employments in his later time, by reason 
 of his imperfect health, 
 
 “ Full of honour, woundes, and daies, he died at his howse in Cornbury-parke, in the county of 
 Oxford, in the yeare 71 of his age. 
 
 Laus Deo.” 
 
 (East side) epitaph. 
 
 “ Sacred marble, safely keepe 
 His dust, who under thee must sleepe, 
 
 Untill the graves again restore 
 Their dead, and time shall bee no more: 
 
 Meane while, if he (which all things weares) 
 
 Does ruine thee: or if thy teares 
 Are shed for Him, dissolve thy frame, 
 
 Thou art requited ; for His fame, 
 
 His virtues, and His worth shall bee 
 Another monument to thee.” 
 
 G. Herbert. 
 
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 By the same (Geo. Herbert), Orator of University at Cambridge; pinned on the 
 curtaine of the Picture of the old S r . John Danvers, who was both a handsome and 
 a good man. 
 
 “ Passe not by, 
 
 Search and you may 
 Find a treasure 
 Worth your stay. 
 
 What makes a Danvers 
 Would you find ? 
 
 In a fayre bodie 
 A fayre mind. 
 
 S r . John Danvers’ earthly part 
 Here is copied out by art; 
 
 But his heavenly and divine, 
 
 In his progenie doth shine. 
 
 Had he only brought them forth, 
 Know that much had been his worth; 
 Ther’s no monument to a sonne, 
 Reade him there, and I have done.” 1 
 
 1 Sir John Danvers senior, married Elizabeth Nevill, fourth daughter and coheiress of John 
 Lord Latimer. She remarried Sir Edmund Carey. Her fine monument in the Church of Stowe 
 co. Northampton is described in Baker’s History of that County, I. 447. 
 
 George Herbert of Bemerton, having been in the first year of his age in 1594 when Sir John 
 Danvers senior died, could only have known his character by report. The younger Sir John 
 Danvers (the Regicide) married, for his first wife, George Herbert’s mother, then widow of 
 Richard Herbert^of Chelsea. Aubrey says (Lives, II. 355,) that “ she was old enough to have 
 been Sir John’s mother, but that he married her for love of her wit. The Earl of Danby was 
 displeased with him for this disagreable match.” George Herbert married a relative of his step¬ 
 father, viz., Jane, third daughter of Charles Danvers Esq. of Baynton, and resided for a year or 
 two after marriage, at Dauntesey. Izaak Walton has a romantic story about George Herbert’s 
 wife Jane Danvers having fallen in love with him upon the strength of his virtuous and simple 
 character, before seeing him, and that she married him after three days sight. This may have 
 been so; but it seems strange that they shonld never have even seen each other before, considering 
 that Jane’s near relative Sir John Danvers had been at the very time for 16 years the husband of 
 George Herbert’s mother. 
 
 Of Sir Charles and Sir Henry Danvers (Earl of Danby) some particulars are given in the 
 narrative of the Murder of Mr. Henry Long, in the Wilts. Archmol. Mag. Yol. I. p. 306. Of 
 Lord Danbv, Aubrey says (Natural History of Wilts., p. 78) “ He was born at Dauntesey 28th day 
 of June A.D. 1573. He was of a magnificent and munificall spirit, and made that noble Physic- 
 Garden at Oxford” (the gate-house designed by Inigo Jones, built by Nicholas Stone) “and 
 endowed it with I thinke £30 per annum. In the epistles of Dcgory Wheare, History Professor of 
 Oxford, in Latin, are severall addressed to his Lordship that doe recite his worth.” (Prior has 
 also some verses on the Earl’s liberality to the Botanic Garden). “He allowed £3000 a year for his 
 kitchen only. He bred up severall brave young gentlemen and preferred them ; e.g., Colonel 
 Legge and several others, of which enquire further of my Lady Viscountess Purbeck. The estate 
 of Henry Earle of Danby was above £11000 per annum : near twelve.” 
 
 D. Lloyd says of him; “ He was called, by the Earl of Nottingham, at 25 years of age the 
 
226 
 
 {Dauntesey. 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 best sea-captain in England. Baron of Dauntesey at 30. His instalment as K.G. the greatest 
 solemnity ever known in the memory of man. The composition for his large estate is the greatest 
 in the whole catalogue, being £21597 6s. not abating the odd twopence.” [Memoirs.] 
 
 A fine full length portrait of the Earl of Danby by Vandyke, from Lord Orford’s collection, 
 now belongs to W. H. H. Hartley Esq. of Lye Grove. 
 
 Lord Clarendon’s account of the youngest of the three brothers, Sir John Danvers the Regicide, 
 is not prepossessing. Speaking of the King’s trial he says “ The two men who were only known 
 to the King before the troubles were Sir Harry Mildmay, and Sir John Danvers, the younger 
 brother and heir of the Earl of Danby. He was a Gentleman of the privy chamber to the King, 
 and being neglected by his brother ” (Lord Danb)’) “ and having, by a vain expense in his way 
 of living, contracted a vast debt, which he knew not how to pay, and being a proud, formal, 
 weak man, between being seduced and a seducer, became so far involved in their counsels, that 
 he suffered himself to be applied to their worst offices, taking it to he a high honour to sit upon 
 the same bench with Cromwell, who employed and contemned him at once: nor did that party 
 of miscreants look upon any two men in the kingdom with that scorn and detestation, as they 
 did upon Danvers and Mildmay.” [Book xi. p. 235, 8vo. 1826.] 
 
 In the “Division of Plunder” by the self-den} T ing Republicans A.D. 1646 is the following. 
 “ Sir John Danvers, Colonel. After the death of his brother the Earle of Danby, he proved him 
 to have been a malignant, and by Parliamentary proceedings overthrew his brother’s Will, outed 
 his sister Gargrave and Sir Peter Osborne of the estate, and hath it.” (For full particulars of 
 Sir Richard Gargrave of Nostel, co. York, husband of Katharine Danvers, who “ could once ride 
 on his own land from Wakefield to Doncaster: but was at last reduced to earn his bread by 
 travelling with pack-horses,” see Hunter’s South Yorkshire, II. p. 213.) 
 
 In this County Sir John Danvers lived at West Lavington, where he indulged the costly taste 
 for ornamental gardening, of which Aubrey gives an interesting account in his Natural History of 
 Wilts, p. 93. His eldest son Henry, on whom his uncle the Earl of Danby had settled the greater 
 part of his estates, died, vita patris, in 1654. Before his death Henry made some of them over to 
 Trustees, to pay his father’s large debts, the balance to go to his (Henry’s) sister Ann, afterwards 
 Lad} r Lee. Sir John died at Chelsea the 16th, and was buried at Dauntesej’ the 28th April 1655. 
 Though this was before the Restoration of Charles II. he was nevertheless attainted, 12th July 
 1661. Much of the property was protected: part was forfeited. The West Lavington estate, 
 (the inheritance of Sir John’s second wife Elizabeth Dauntsey) was shared between her two 
 daughters, Viscountess Purbeck and Ann (Lady Lee). See above p. I. note 2. Fearing that such 
 estates as had been conveyed by Henry, the son, in 1654, might be affected by the attainder, a 
 grant of them was obtained from the Crown 13th December 1661, to Henry Hyde Lord Cornbury, 
 and others, who by another Deed declared themselves Trustees to carry out the son’s arrange¬ 
 ments. This applied to the Manors of Christmalford, Marden, Hilperton Zouch alias Stourton, 
 Morgan’s and Milbourne’s in Chitterne, Stock and West Bedwyn, Chelworth, lands called John a 
 Gore in Lavington, the twelfth part of Bradenstoke, the Rectory of Seagry, the Advowsons of 
 Hilperton, Norton (near Malmesbury) and Bremelham ; all in co. Wilts: besides property in 
 
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 This coate, [No. 317] Danvers quartering- Nevill, with supporters, Dexter a 
 Wyvern, Sinister a Mountain-Cat—but there is a wyvern instead of a cat—is on 
 the outside of the tower, which is very well built. 1 About the tower are divers 
 coates, which are quartered by Danvers and Nevill. The same coat, within the 
 Garter, is also on the tower on the inside in colours. 
 
 Northamptonshire and at Chelsea. Some of these were subsequently divided between Lady Lee’s 
 two sons-in-law James, 1st Earl of Abingdon, and Thomas, 5th Lord Yharton. 
 
 Dauntesey was not restored to Sir John’s representatives. By Letters Patent 20th September 
 1662, the Manor of Dauntesey, together with the Hundred of Chippenham, was granted to the 
 King’s brother, James, Duke of York. The Duke had, by Lady Anne Hyde, four sons who died 
 young: the second of whom, James, born 1663, bore the title of Baron of Dauntesey. The Duke 
 succeeded to the throne as James II., in February 1685, and on the 28th August following, the 
 Manor was granted to certain feoffees in trust for his Queen, Mary of Modena, during her life. 
 Five years afterwards, on 12th January 1690 (1 William and Mary), it was again granted by the 
 Crown to Charles Mordaunt then Earl of Monmouth, afterwards the celebrated Earl of Peter¬ 
 borough. On the floor of the chancel within the rails are two slabs: 1. “ Lt. Gen. Harry 
 Mordaunt son of Lord Mordaunt, died 5th January 1719:” and 2. Charles Henry Mordaunt 
 Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth, 16th June 1814, aet. 56. 
 
 The Funeral ceremonies of this last Earl were conducted on the most expensive scale. The 
 body lay in state in a very large room hung from the ceiling with superfine cloth; eighty wax 
 lights, many of them weighing a pound each, were kept burning. The dress of the body in the 
 coffin was composed of satin and the finest cambric: the coffin, covered with the richest Genoa 
 velvet, and escutcheons of Arms: for the silver-gilt nails alone £85 was charged. The pall 
 gorgeous. The body was placed on a magnificent platform ornamented with festoons of black satin, 
 surmounted with a dome lined inside and outside with rich black velvet, and covered with ostrich 
 plumes. The platform fringed with velvet, and behind it a transparency of the Armorial bearings. 
 Banners and shields round the room, and eight mutes in constant attendance. From the room 
 to the Church is about 20 yards: but the procession, in order to be seen, went a circuit of two 
 miles. It consisted of a hearse, seven coaches and six, a carriage and four for the clergymen, 
 six marsbalmen, eight mutes, two feather-men, eight underbearers, forty six pages and a grand 
 page on horseback bearing the coronet. Nine servants received two suits of clothes each. The 
 undertaker’s bill was £3000. The executors Sir E. Antrobus and Mr. Coutts Trotter objected. 
 An action was brought at Salisbury : they paid £2000 into Court. Justice Burrough advised a 
 reference, and Mr. Moore, a Barrister, finally settled the whole cost to be £2568. From the 
 Mordaunt family, Dauntesey descended to Mordaunt Fenwick Esq. by whom it was sold a few 
 years ago to Charles W. Miles Esq. and his brother. 
 
 1 The shield of Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby : being the old Danvers coat re-assumed, quar¬ 
 tering that of his mother, a Nevill. See p. 222, note 1. 
 
 2 f 2 
 
228 
 
 aubeey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Dauntesey. 
 
 (Other inscriptions in the Church.) 
 
 “ Now, Richard Hunt, (a servant true to the Earle of Danby, here 
 Rul’d 18 yeares his Wiltshire estate) lyeth buryed underneathe 
 This marble stone; whose desire was all ages that doe come 
 Would not disturb his bodyes rest, but let his bones alone, 
 
 Till Jesus Christ (in whom only was all his hope and trust) 
 
 Shall glorify his sinfull corps, which here lay in the dust, 
 
 Natus, Ap 1 . 1, 1581. Obijt 30 Aug st . 1647.” 
 
 (On North Aisle floor, a Latin inscription of which Aubrey gives this version.) 
 
 “ Acton Drake, Gent., gentleman of His Lo ds . bedchamber, Ranger of the Forrest of Whichwode 
 in com : Oxford, and one of his Lor d3 . Executors, and faithfull servant. Obijt. 1642.” 
 
 Near the Bellfree. “ Here lietli William Lawrence, Gent., who departed this life 
 An” Dni. 1650. AEtatis siue 68.” Arms, [No. 316]. Q. If not stolen? 
 
 Mem: Anno Dom 16... Regno regis Caroli primi, Henry Earle of Danby built 
 an almshouse in this parish for ... poore people, and a schoole. Quaere the salary of 
 both.? 1 
 
 DRAYCOTE. 
 
 Draycote was held by petit Sergeantie, viz. by being Marshall at the King’s 
 Coronation; which is the reason the Cernes gave the Marshall’s Lock for their 
 cognizance. 2 
 
 1 The Foundation of an Almshouse here had been intended by Walter Dauntsej - in 1420. (See 
 note, p. 218.) In the Commissioners of Charities Report No. 29, p. 1320, it is stated that search 
 had been made in vain for Lord Danby’s Will between 1652 and 1667. He died 20th January 
 1643 : and by Will dated 1639, charged a part of his estates with £50 a year for the maintenance 
 of six people, the repair of the Almshouse, and the salary of a schoolmaster. This is paid out of 
 lands at Gore, in Market Lavington. The same report states that “ Lord Abingdon married the 
 daughter of Sir John Danvers, which Sir John Danvers married the daughter of the Earl of 
 Danby.” The facts were that Lord Abingdon married Eleanor Lee, groW-daughter of Sir John 
 Danvers, which Sir John Danvers was brother to the Earl of Danby. 
 
 2 The Manor of Draycote has passed (since the reign of Rich. I.) through the following hands. 
 1. St. German. 2. Yenuz or Venoir. 3. Cerne. 4. Herynge 5. Long. 6. Earl of Mornington. 
 
 In 1196 (8 Rich. I.) Ralph de St. German, and his mother Margaret wife of Ralph de Oaksey, 
 transferred it on payment of fifty marks to Robert de Yenuz (of probably a Hampshire family). 
 [Wilts. Fines.] In 1223 (8 Hen. III.) John de Yenuz was in debt to the King. [Rot, Lit. 
 Claus. I. pp. 619, 644.] The obligation was assigned by the Crown to Master Henry de Cerne, 
 
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 229 
 
 (Church.) 
 
 In the Chancell is a monument of a Chevalier, lying in maile, cross-leg’d, in an 
 antique niche on the north side; the tradition is that it is the monument of S r . 
 Philip Cerne. 1 
 
 who appears to have been paid off by receiving from Yenuz the Till and Advowson of Draycote, 
 confirmed to him by Royal Charter dated at Dunstable 20th January 1228. Master Henry de Cerne 
 was an Ecclesiastic, clerk of the King’s Chapel, an architect and engineer, and was also employed 
 by the King in embassies to Rome. As a witness to Wiltshire Deeds, he is called Henry de 
 Capella. [Proc. of Ant. Soc. IV. p. 18.] Philip de Cerne his brother and heir succeeded to Dray¬ 
 cote in 1254 (39 Hen. III.) From him descended Sir Edward de Cerne, who diedl393, and whose 
 effigy with that of his second wife Ellen are in brass on the chancel floor. On the death of Sir 
 Edward’s grandson Richard Cerne in 1430 without issue, the heir was found to be John Heryng of 
 Chaldon Heryng, by descent from Anastasia de Cerne, sister of Henry the clerk of the King’s 
 Chapel, above-mentioned. Isabella mother of Richard Cerne being still in possession for her life, 
 John Heryng in 1437—8 (16 Hen. VI.) sold his reversionary interest; nominally to William 
 Ryngbourne, really to Robert Loug of Wraxhall. See particulars, and pedigree of Cerne, in 
 Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. Vol. III. p. 178. Robert Long purchased Draycote for bis younger son 
 John, but an eldest son Henry, who had South Wraxhall Manor, dying 1490 without issue, South 
 Wraxhall also came to the younger son. Thus the two were united, and so they continued until 
 the decease of Sir Walter Long in 1610. From John, the son of Robert Long of Wraxhall above- 
 mentioned, Draycote descended through eleven generations in male line direct to Sir James 
 Tiluey Long the last Baronet. He died in 1805 at the early age of eleven years, and through 
 the marriage of his eldest sister Catharine with the Hon. W. Wellesley Pole, it is now the pro¬ 
 perty of their son the Earl of Mornington. 
 
 By a “ Marshal’s Lock ” Aubrey means a shackle-bolt or fetter-lock for prisoners. That the 
 “petty serjeanty ” under which Draycote was held, was that of being “Marshal at the Coronation ” 
 seems to be incorrect. Draycote, and Notley (in co. South.) both belonging to the family of Venoir 
 or Venuz, predecessors of the Cernes, were held of the Crown by the nominal service of supplying 
 the “Third Rod of the Marsbalsea” in the King’s Household: by which is probably meant, 
 supplying one of the vergers or wandbearers to attend upon the Marshal: the Third Rod’s post 
 (according to another Record, Test, de Nev. p. 147) being, at “the door of the King’s 
 kitchen, [ostium coquina ?.”] The Shackle-bolt would accordingly be the emblem of the Assistant 
 Marshal’s authority over all marauders or breakers of the peace in that department. In the 
 time of Philip Cerne this tenure was changed into Military service (T. de N. p. 147) : but the 
 badge continued to be used by the Longs as owners of Draycote, and may still be seen under their 
 coat of Arms upon the Mill there, as well as on the old monument in South Wraxhall Church. 
 [See above, p. 23.] 
 
 1 This cross-legged effigy, about eight feet long, lies nearly on a level with the floor within a 
 fine arched recess surmounted by a bold crocheted canopy. “Under it” (says Hutchins, History 
 
230 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Draycote. 
 
 On a flatt marble in the Chancell is this figure [PI. xix] and inscriptions in 
 
 brasse; viz. 
 
 “J&otm strr Htitnarti Crrnr rfjtbalrr o Signe sa fcntmr gist teg: tie les queus almes 
 Mmx p sa ggte egt m’ci. Sfotcn .” 1 
 
 On the left side of Edward Cerne lies his daughter [No. 318] with this inscription; 
 viz. 
 
 “ pi)tligge tie Cerne gist teg. ©teu tie s’alme egt nteret .” 2 
 
 Queere Cerne’s coate, and if Wayte did not marry the daughter and heir of Cerne? 3 
 
 On the right of these is another fair marble, sans inscrip. 4 
 
 (Sir Thomas Long’s Monument, No. 319.) 
 
 Sir Thomas Long, Knight, lyes buried by the North wall of the Chancell, under 
 a rich Gothique altar monument of freestone without inscription: his heaume and 
 crest do yet hang up over it. 
 
 of Dorset., II, 424) in a stone coffin, are bis bones very large and very perfect,” Sir Philip was 
 brother of Master Henry “de Capella ” the grantee, and probably built Draycote Church, about 
 A.D. 1260. 
 
 1 The brasses of Edward and Elena Cerne, about three feet in length, still remain, but without 
 the shields of Arms. These seem to have disappeared before Aubrey’s time. The Crest over the 
 Knight’s helmet, judging from the shape of the vacant socket, was a demi-lion issuing out of a 
 coronet. This is the crest used by the Long family ; but not from any known connexion with, or 
 descent from, the Cernes. Sir Edward Cerne died A.D. 1393 : Elena de Avon, his second wife, s. p. 
 about 1419. 
 
 2 She was Sir Edward’s daughter by his first wife Philippa. This brass disappeared many 
 years ago. The sockets for the figure, the three shields above, and the label below, remain. Owing 
 to the gravestone having been broken, the figure of the lady has been shortened. See Mr. Kite’s 
 Wiltshire Brasses, p. 21. 
 
 3 The coat of Philip de Cerne was Quarterly, Or and gules, a lion rampant within a bordure, 
 all counter-changed. [Glover.] Aubrey’s query about Wayte, arose from his supposing, as his 
 friend Sir James Long did, and as many others since have done, that the Longs obtained Draycote 
 by marriage with some heiress of Wayte. But the real state of the case, (as given in p. 228, 
 note 2,) is, that Draycote came to the Longs by purchase. 
 
 4 The “ fair marble on the right ” of the Cerne brass was probably the decayed Purbeck marble 
 slab that now lies close to the North wall. On it are traces of a brass legend. On the South 
 side, next the chancel door, there is also a slab with the outline of three small brasses and label, 
 which, not being mentioned by Aubrey, were perhaps stolen before his time. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 231 
 
 The coates of armes on this monument are as followeth: 1 
 
 West end. 
 
 No. [320] St. John quartering Delamere. 2 
 
 South side. 
 
 [321] Long, single. 
 
 [322] Do. impaling Darell. 3 
 
 [323] Berkeley (with 3 torteauxes on the 
 
 chevron) impaling (Malwyn). 4 5 
 
 [324] Seymour. 
 
 About the cornice of the Monument, thus; 
 West end. 
 
 [325 Popham of Bradley.] 
 
 [326] Cerne (?Ed.)* 
 
 [327] Stourton . 6 
 
 [328] The Marshal’s Fett-lock or Hand- 
 
 bolt. 
 
 Cornice South side. 
 
 - (Popham of Bradley) as before. 
 
 [330] A cross. 
 
 [329] Long impaling (Berkeley and) 
 Seymour quarterly. 
 
 - Stourton, as before. 
 
 - Seymour, as before. 
 
 [331] -Azure, on a chevron Or, 
 
 3 bezants, (annulets. Ed.) 
 
 - (Popham of Bradley) as before (325.) 
 
 [332 Meredith ?] 
 
 [333 Fortescue. ] 
 
 East end. 
 
 - (Meredith ?) as before. 
 
 - Long impaling (Berkeley and 
 
 Seymour) quarterly: as before 
 (in No. 329.) 
 
 - Marshal’s Lock: as before (328). 
 
 1 This fine massive monument stands as described by Aubrey. It very much resembles that of 
 Tropenell in Corsham Church. Sir Thomas Long was grandson of Robert of Wraxhall the 
 purchaser of Draycote. He took part in the expedition against Perkin Warbeck in 1497. His 
 arms as entered in Claudius, C. iii. are Long and Seymour quarterly. His wife was Margery, 
 daughter of Sir George Darell of Littlecote. Of this tomb there is a description with small 
 engravings in Gent. Mag. 1835, p. 591. The heraldry on the tomb seems to have been unscien¬ 
 tifically restored at some time since Aubrey described it. Three sides only are visible : the fourth 
 which is plain, is against the wall. By Will, 11th September, 1508, Sir Thomas Long desired to 
 be buried here, bequeathing 20s. to the Church, and “ his gown of velvet to make a cope : ” also 
 certain lands to maintain an Obit for 20 years: and gifts of money to many neighbouring 
 churches: to his wife a gold ring “that was my Lord St. Amand’s.” 
 
 2 Delamere of Nunney, co. Somerset: but how the St. Johns had the right of quartering Delamere, 
 or, how the coat quarterly is found among those of Long, does not appear. Delamere quartering 
 St. John was on the North side of Lord Hungerford’s Iron Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral. 
 
 3 The coat of Sir Thomas and his wife. 
 
 4 This coat is described as Argent and Sable in Aubrey’s account of South Wraxhall: see 
 PI. III. No. 38. Malwyn was an old Wilts family of Echilhampton, near Devizes. A William 
 Malwyn w’as incumbent of Draycote from 1452 to 1458. 
 
 5 See p. 230, note 3. This coat is a quartering on the shield on Draycote Mill: p. 235 note. 
 
 5 There being no known marriage between Long and Stourton, the coat was probably here in 
 compliment to Sir T. Long’s wife’s mother who was a Stourton. See Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. 
 Yol. IV. p. 227, Note 10. 
 
232 
 
 \ Dr ay cote. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 (Sir Henry Long’s Monument.) 
 
 Sir Henry Long, sonne to Sir Thomas Long, lies buried in the South side of the 
 Chancell, under a plain altar monument, covered with a faire black marble, without 
 inscription. 1 
 
 T’was S r . Henry Long that made that gallant charge at Ter way n 2 in France, in 
 the sight of King Henry the Eighth, at which time, and for which action, the King 
 did graunt him that new crest, viz. Lyon’s head, erased, with a man’s hand in 
 the mouth. 
 
 In the window by the Pulpit 3 4 is an escutcheon in stone, viz. [No. 334] 1. Long, quartering, 
 2. (Popham of) Bradley, [with a bezant] ; 3. Berkeley of Bruton. 4. Wayte. Qiuere de 2 
 and 4. Mem : Col. Long sayes that the coate like Popham’s is by the name of Bradley : and that 
 Bradley mannor came by that match. Q. de hoc.* 
 
 (Old Draycote House, See Plate xxi.) 5 
 
 In the Areil window in the hall, these coates: 
 
 - Long, impaling (Popham of Bradley as before). 
 
 No. [335] Stourton impaling Wrottesley. 
 
 In the Parlour Window. 
 
 [PI. xxii. No. 336] Long, impaling Berkeley of Bruton. Crest, a Lion Rampant issuing 
 out of a coronet. 
 
 [No. 337] Long impaling Wrottesley of Staffordshire. 
 
 1 This altar tomb disappeai’ed many years ago. Sir Henry married 1. a Hungerford. 2. a 
 Wrottesley. He died about 1556. 
 
 2 Terouenne, fifty miles from Calais. In 1513, Hen. VIII. laid siege to this place August 4th. 
 It capitulated on 23rd. Henry then took Tournay and returned to England. 
 
 3 Now against a window on the North side of the nave. 
 
 4 Sir James Long of Draycote in a letter dated 1688 (printed in lumber’s Baronetage, II. 265) 
 says that bis family property at North Bradley, had been originally granted to a Reginald de 
 Bradley, Knight, whose heiress his ancestor had married. But there is at present no evidence 
 of this marriage: nor are the Arms which Aubrey calls “ Bradley’s,” (and which he confuses 
 with the shield of Popham), found to be assigned to any family of the name of Bradley. 
 
 The Arms which Aubrey doubtfully calls Wayte are also quartered on the Draycote Mill shield : 
 see p. 235. The usual Arms of Wayte have a chevron between the 3 bugle-horns. Without a 
 chevron it is more like Dodington. 
 
 5 Of the exterior of old Draycote House, Aubrey has preserved a very rude outline, sufficient to 
 suggest the probable appearance of the house as given in Plate xxi. Part of it is perhaps masked 
 by the modern front. There are no remains of ancient stained glass in the present house. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 233 
 
 In stone over the Hall chimney, u 1574.” 
 
 [No. 338] Long quartering Popham (of Bradley,) and Seymour as before: Impaling, quarterly 
 1 and 4 Carne of Ewenny co. Glamorg: 2 and 3, (Kerne of Cornwall.) A cross crosslet in saltire. 1 
 
 Over the Porch. 
 
 - Same as last. 
 
 [No. 340] James Ley, Earl of Marlborough, who built this gate. 
 
 - Long, single : and crest, a lion sejant. (?) 
 
 [No. 339] The new crest of Long; a lion’s head erased, with a hand in his mouth. 
 
 Over the stable door, as over the porch: but with manteling and the new crest. 
 
 Mem. The Longs were anciently Lords Lieutenant (? Ed.) of Braden Forest. 
 Severall of them have been Lieutenants. 
 
 One of the Longs was Chiefe Justice in Eire. 2 Q. who, and in what King’s 
 raigne. 
 
 Here (at Draycot) is a great deal of vitriol oare. Sir Walter Long about the 
 beginning of King James, digged for silver through blew clay, and got £20 worth, 
 but at £60 charge or better. Here are frequently found petrified periwinkles: also 
 belemnites. The water is not good for tucking or fulling-mills: it tinges the cloath 
 a little yellowish. 3 
 
 1 The coat of Sir Robert Long who died about 1581. His grandson Sir Walter married the 
 daughter of James Ley, Earl of Marlborough. 
 
 2 Leland mentions a Thomas Long “ who could skille in the law.” 
 
 3 Sir James Long invited to Draycote one Mons. Cocks (afterwards Baron Crownstrome,) superin - 
 tendant of mines in Sweden, then travelling in England, to inspect some ore found in his Park : 
 but the metal was found to disappear in the process of smelting. Aubrey says “ I doubt there was 
 a cheat put upon him.” 
 
 It should not be omitted, that Draycote House was a home to Aubrey in his misfortunes, and that 
 he was on his way thither when he died at Oxford. There are some notices of Draycote in his 
 Natural History of Wilts. A story about the separation of the two properties Draycote and 
 Wraxhall, is given in his “Miscellanies;” and another about the introduction of tobacco¬ 
 smoking into Wilts by Sir Walter Long, in his Lives of Eminent Men, II. 512. For the former 
 see also “Burke’s Romance of the Aristocracy,” I. 119. In “Household Words,” Saturday, 
 May 6th, 1854, is a curious account of the Death-bed of Charles II., written by a Lady about 
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MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 235 
 
 KNAPWELL (vulgarly called Knabbal’s.) 
 
 The Court Rolles of Draycot-Cerne mention, Manerium do Cnapwelle juxta 
 Dracot. Quaere etymol: ? 1 
 
 Out of the middle of the knap issueth disembogued a subterranean Rill. Upon 
 felling the oakes here, many foundations of howses were discovered, and a smyth’s 
 forge. 
 
 Whitchurch-1 rill is opposite to Knapwell, and probably was their parish church. 2 
 
 ' EASTON PIERSE. 3 (In Kington St Michael.) 
 
 Easton-Pierse was anciently a Parish of itselfe. It was a little Mannour; where 
 
 is a stone shield of Arms : 1. Long. 2. Popham. 3. Seymour, and 4. a lion rampant: Impaling 
 1. Darell. 2. A horse’s head, as No. 326. 3 Stourton, having on a chief, the device, either of a 
 
 Dray or a Sledge. 4. Wayte? (see p. 232). Above, is the new crest: below, a shacklebolt. 
 It is the coat of Sir Thomas Long (c. 1510) and Margery Darell his wife. 
 
 In a field near the Mill, several skeletons and some armour were discovered in 1821. Also a 
 circular stone-ticket inscribed F. YI. (Gent. Mag. 1838, p. 495.) “Sir James Long digging a hole 
 for a post for his parke pale, 1680, found an urne, but did carefully inter the ashes again, I think 
 with the urne ” (Aubrey Mon. Brit. MS.) On the Communion Plate in the Church are the 
 arms of Leach in a lozenge: viz. Ermine, on a chief indented 3 Crowns. Aubrey’s friend Sir 
 James Long, who died about 1692, married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Edward Leach of Shipley, 
 co. Derby, Kt. 
 
 1 Knap is a provincial word for the “ top of a hill.” This small manor now a farm, spelled 
 “Nable’s” in the Ordnance Map, is in the Parish of Draycote and lies at the back of the Park, 
 between it and Lower Stanton. In Edward I. Amicia relict of William de Cnabbewell held half 
 a Knight’s fee here under the Earl of Sarum. (T. de N.) It is now Lord Mornington’s. There 
 is another farm about one mile off (now mis-called “ Avil’s ”), formerly called “ Cnabwell’s in 
 Stanton.” This is in Stanton Parish, and belongs to Lord Radnor. In 1308 it belonged to Robert 
 Delainere of Offley, Herts, and of Steeple Lavington, Wilts : in 1404 to Matilda Delamere, widow : 
 in 1410 to Willelma widow of Sir John Roche: and in 1456 to Beauchamp Lord St. Amand. 
 (Inq. p. M.) In 1535, 40s. a year was paid to Malmesbury Abbey out of Cnabwell in Stanton. 
 (Val. Ecc.) 
 
 2 There is a Whitechurch, five miles off, beyond Malmesbury, near which is a Farm now called 
 “Quebwell.” Aubrey may have confounded that name in some Deed for Cnabwell, or he may 
 have inserted the sentence in this part of his MS. by mistake. 
 
 3 Easton Piers, or Percy, though in the Parish of Kington St. Michael, is within the Hundred 
 of Malmesbury ; the rest of Kington being in North Damerham Hundred. For the history of the 
 whole Parish see Wilts. Mag. Yol. IV. p. 36. So far as the descent of Easton is traceable through 
 
 2 G 2 
 
236 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Easton Piers. 
 
 is yet to be seen ... tofts. It is now in the Parish of Kington St. Michael, which 
 is in another Hundred viz. in the Hundred of Damerham North. In the time of 
 Henry VII. a world of little Mannours over England were destroyed; as several 
 here about. 
 
 Queere: when this was annexed to Kington. 
 
 This Mannour butted upon Cotteswold; which is a ploughed campania. And 
 Mem: that fourscore years agoe, (about 1(500) from Yatton Keynell town’s-end to 
 the Parson’s close adjoyning to Easton-grounds, all was common, and Yatton and 
 Easton did intercommon together, and putt in cattle equally. 
 
 (Chapel.) 
 
 The Chapell was pulled downe about fourtie yeares since (about 1640.) It was 
 but small; and such a turret for two tintinnabulums as at Leigh Delamere, Corston 
 and Brokenborough. The toft where it stood is still called the Chapell-hay, near 
 to the Mannour house. They did bury here. 
 
 (Cross.) 
 
 At the Crosse way by the Pound, at the entrance into the Lane which heretofore 
 went to Lve Delamer Mannor house, stood the Crosse: apiece whereof is at this 
 (Easton) house a trough: and at Cromwell’s the Font-stone serves for cattle to drink. 
 
 This soyle brings very good oakes and witch liazles; excellent planke stones. 
 
 In Vern-knoll, my Lord Lucas’s, by the brooke on the West side of Easton grounds, 
 I bored clay as blue as Ultra-marine, which might make Porcelayne. 
 
 Old Wm. Kington assures me that his house in the Priory Downe near the spring 
 by the brook, was built long before he was born; that it was built for a Mill for 
 the Nuns of the Priory. Vide the old Deedes in Mr. Hill’s hands. 
 
 Old ways now lost; but some vestigia left. 
 
 Anciently a way from the gate at the brook to Yatton Keynell: another by the 
 Pound and Mannor house, leading northwards to Leigh Delamere, and southwards 
 to Allington; but of that now no sign left. 
 
 documents given by Aubrey, it belonged in succession to 1. Pikks, or Fitzpiers, c. A.D. 1250. 
 2. Be Yeovilton c. A.D. 1300. 3. Payne, 4. Lord Daubeney. 5. Willoughby. 0. Essex. 
 
 7. Sackville Lord Buckhurst. 8. Lyte. 0. Snell. Then the Langton family, see p. 240. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
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 (The Manor.) 
 
 That this place was anciently the Piers’s the addition speaks. I have some 
 Deedes that run so high. In this Parish are some of that name yet left. Vide the 
 Legier book of Trapnell at Col. Wm. Eyres at Neston; where mention is made 
 of Pierse and his coat; [PI. xxii. No. 341.] This MS. is the best key to open the 
 knowledge of the old and lost families which is my search. Vide if the coate of 
 Pierse is in the roofe of Kington Church in Sir Charles Snell’s seate. 
 
 Extract of my old Deeds. Q. When Dating of Deedes first came in. 
 
 (1. Piers or Fitz Piers.) 
 
 Appendix No. xxxix. John son of Peter Fitz Piers Kt. grants in fee to Ivetta wife of Adam 
 Hoke of Yatton, land towards Eston, called Gold acre above Ridgeway between the land of the 
 Parson of Yatton and Adam Haylesworth’s. Also in the North field, land called Bolemead between 
 that of the Abbot of Stanley and Adam Fewy’s. [No date, but about A.D. 1260—70.] 
 
 Do. xl. Wm Fitz Piers of Eston sells all his land to John de Eston his lord. 
 
 Do. xli. Ralph de Cokelbergh and Isabella his wife, to Joan daughter of Sir Peter of Eston 
 Pieres, Kt. deceased, rents late Alice Wylly’s. 
 
 (2. De Yeovilton.) 
 
 Do. xlii. Wm. Seward of Eston Peres grants to John Eyvelton his lord and Joan his wife, 
 all his land in Easton Peres. 
 
 Do. xliii. John le Heyr’ of Easton Piers yields to the same all his tenements. 
 
 Do. xliv. Roger of Combe releases to John Yevelton and Joan his wife, land in Yatton 
 Keynel which he held for life, under John de Cromhale. 
 
 Do. xlv. Final Agreement by which John and Joan de Yevelton convey the Manor of Eston 
 Peris to Philip de Paunton and Juliana his wife. 
 
 Do. xlvi. Reginald West resigns to John de Eyvelton a messuage at Y"atton Katnell 
 [N.B. “ Bolehide’s,” now called “ Bullidge,” a tenement at Allington, probably takes its name 
 from one of the witnesses to this Deed. Ed.'] 
 
 Do. lvii. Ralph de Cokelbergh grants to Joan daughter of Sir Peter of Eston Piers Kt., 
 certain rents of Wylly’s. [Seal, No. 342.] 
 
 Do. xlviii. Joan de Easton grants to Margaret Burvman of Marshfield, land late Alice at 
 Slade’s in Easton : to do suit at the Court there. 
 
 Do. xlix. Edmund de Eston, Clerk, appoints James Hody of Yatton attorney to deliver to 
 to Hugh Brown, land late Roger de Cromhale’s. 
 
 Seal, a cross engrailed, inscription illegible, t’is like Willoughby. [No. 343.] 
 
238 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [.Easton Piers. 
 
 Appendix 1. Peter de Yevelton being about to go into foreign parts grants to bis sons Nicholas 
 and Richard his manor of E. P., land at Yatton Keynell, and at Speckington and elsewhere in 
 co. Somerset and Devon, on condition of their being restored to him on his return. Dated 
 Easton Piers. 
 
 Do. li. General Release from Thomas Lord Camoys to Sir Robert Yevelton. Dated London. 
 [Seal, No. 344.] 
 
 Do. lii. Sir Robert Yevelton Kt. grants to John Curteys and others his Manor of Eston, 
 lands at Yatton Keynell: and his Manors of Yevelton, Speckington and others in co. Somerset. 
 Dated at Easton. [Seal, No. 345.] 
 
 Do. liii. John de Suyfmore, Clerk, to John Wadham Esq. and others, his lands in Easton 
 and Yatton. 
 
 Do. liv. John Wadham, &c., appoint John Peny, &c., attornies to receive the same. 
 
 Do. lv. Extracts from the Court Rolls of Easton Piers, 12th July 1428. 
 
 The Manor is worth £6 per annum. Thos Dru, Wm. Gore and others Feoffees. Homagers 
 present: Wm. Kaynell, John Cromhale, Nicholas Young, &c., all do suit, for lands held in Eston 
 and Yatton except John Cromhale. 
 
 Payments for feeding, in North Hinnokes, Ryland, Woldesclose, Moremeade; by the Prioress 
 of Kington, Richard Snape of Sevenhampton (Sevington ?), Wm. Kaynell, Wm. Kavnes, John 
 Cromhale and others. Adam at Hill, Richard Aleway and Wm. Gaudeby, defaulters. The 
 Homage to enquire by next Court day into John Cromhale’s alleged encroachments on the 
 demesne lands. 
 
 A distraint is ordered upon him to do fealty and pay 40s. Relief. 
 
 (3. Payne.) 
 
 Appendix lvi. A.D. 1443. John Cromhale and Wm. his son release to Thomas Payne Esq. all 
 right to the Manor of Eston Piers: except in one messuage and lands which he occupies. 
 
 Do. lvii. Thomas Payne Esq. cosin and heir of Sir Robert Yevelton Kt. appoints Wyn- 
 terbourne, &c., attorneys to deliver the Manor to John Payne and others. The crest is a 
 kind of garland. 
 
 Do. lviii. Extracts from the Accounts of Thomas Perbyke, from Lady Day to Sept. 14: 
 and from Sept. 14 to the end of Michaelmas, A.D. 1446. (Among others,) “ To the Sheriff of 
 Wilts at Malmesbury, 2s. 6d. Mowing, at 4 pence a day. For tiling a house, 13s. 4d. Three 
 calves sold, 6s. Of John Cromele rent, 2s. 2d. Three beasts sold, 30s. 8d. Aq ox, 11s. Two 
 labourers two days for hauling wood to market, 6d. Paid for Tithes, Is. 2d. The Clerk’s 
 stipend, 4d. Rec d . on Sunday the Feast of St. Luke at Rokeburne 1 7s. 2d. P d . the King’s 
 Taxes, 8s. 9d. 
 
 (4. Lord Daubeney.) 
 
 Hen. 7.—Arms of Daubeney, G. a fess lozengy A. (No. 346.) 
 
 1 There is no place of this name in Easton or Kington St. Michaels. 
 
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 Appendix lix. A.D. 1483. John, Prior of Bruton, Sir Wm. Paulet Kt., John Cheyne, of Pinho, 
 and others, settle on Sir Giles Daubeney Kt. and Elizabeth his wife the Manors of Spekington 
 co. Somerset, and Eston. 
 
 (5. Willoughby.) 
 
 Do. lx. A.D. 1483. The King grants to Ralph Willoughby (inter alia) the Manor of Eston 
 near Kington, to him and his heirs male to hold by military service. (This seems to have 
 been a temporary confiscation.) 
 
 Lord Daubeny sold Easton Pierse to . Essex. 
 
 (6. Essex.) 
 
 Arms of Essex. (No. 347.) Do. (No. 348); 1. Essex, as before. 2. S. chevron 
 A. between 3 crescents ermine. 3. G. a fleur de lys A. 4. Per pale dancette A. 
 and G. 5. Ermine. 
 
 Pedigree of Essex. (See Ashmole’s Berks. II. 328. Ed.) 
 
 William Essex, Lord=. 
 
 Treasurer, and of the 
 Privy Councill, about 
 Hen. 8 th . 
 
 Sir Thomas Essex. =. ... Daughter 
 
 Lord Sands. 
 
 of the 
 
 Tho s . Essex, Esqr r . 
 called Black Tom. 
 
 .Daughter 
 
 S'. Robb Browne 
 Northamptonshire. 
 
 of 
 
 of 
 
 Thomas Essex, Esq r .= 
 
 .Daug. of M r . 
 
 Harrison, a Jeweller. 
 
 S r . W m . Essex, 
 and Baronet. 
 
 ..Daug. of S r . 
 
 Walter Harcourt, of 
 Staunton Harcourt, in 
 Oxfordshire. 
 
 Arms, G. 2 bars 0. 
 (No. 349, Harcourt). 
 
 S’. Thomas Essex, K*. 
 and Baronet. He was 
 Gover'. of Bristowe for the 
 Pari 1 , under E. of Essex. 
 A Bachelor. 
 
 Essex sold it to the Lord Buckhurst. 
 
240 
 
 [Easton Piers. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 (7. Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. Arms, No. 351.) 
 
 A.D. 1574. Thomas Lord Buckhurst sold Easton Pierse to John and Thomas 
 Light. The deed of purchase beareth date November the sixth, in the sixteenth 
 yeare of the reigne of Queen Elizabeth. The price was ... poundes. 
 
 (8. The Lyte Family.) 
 
 It is not improbable that the Lytes of Easton may have originally come from 
 Evelton ( Yeovilton ) which is but 2 miles from Lytes Cary in Somerset. They have 
 held Easton by lease time out of mind, and may have taken their first lease from 
 the De 1 eovilton family, (see p. 237,) and might relate to them as Stewards.— Vide 
 the pedegree, if any kindred between Lyte and Yevelton. 
 
 Appendix lxi. On 1st January, 17 Eliz. (1575) John Light and Thomas Light of Easton 
 Piers sold the Manor Farm to John Snell, gent., and Thomas Snell his son for £385. 
 
 (9. Snell family.) 
 
 (In the year 1623, the Snells sold the Manor House to John Langton of St. 
 Nicholas Parish, Bristol. Ed. from original Title Deed.) 
 
 The Old Mannour Howse was pulled down and rebuilt, all except the Hall, 
 whose window is of a peculiar old fashion, An 0 . Dni. 1633. 1 Here was an open 
 old-fashioned Kitchen with a huge chimney. 
 
 Mem: In my great grandfather Thomas Lyte’s remembrance, Herons did 
 build on high oakes, near the orchard of Easton Mannor Howse. 
 
 When my great grandfather Thomas Lyte sold the Old Manor House, with the 
 lands near it, (to the Snells) in 1575, he built another House 2 (vis. at Lower Easton 
 Piers, Ed.) on the brow of the Hill above the brook, facing South East: and the 
 
 1 It was by the Langton family that the old Manor House was taken down, all but the hall and 
 window which still remain. On the present house then built, the initials “I. L., A. L. 1630” 
 on one chimney, refer to John and Alice Langton : on another, “I. L. 1630” to John Langton : 
 on the west front “ T. L. 1644” to Sir Thomas Langton, Alderman of Bristol. 
 
 2 The House built at Lower Easton Piers in 1575, in which Aubrey was born 12th March 
 1625—6, disappeared many years ago. On the site is a modern farm house occupied by 
 Mr. Chapman to whom Lower Easton Piers, once Aubrey’s own property, now belongs. 
 
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 prospect from it is the best between Marsfield and Burford, and though all along 
 on that ridge between those two Towns are lovely prospects, yet none hath so many 
 breakes and good ground objects. 
 
 It was built the same year my Grandfather was born. In the parlour chimney is 
 “ T. L. 1576.” 
 
 Here, in my grandfather’s chamber, where in an ill hour I first drew breath, 
 Saturn directly opposing my ascendant, are these two escutcheons, on the chimney. 
 [No. 352, 353.] 
 
 1. G. chev. between 3 swans A. a mullet S. for difference. “Isaac Lyte. 
 natus 1576.” 
 
 2. An eagle displayed S. legged G. on its breast a crescent O. (Browne) “ Israel 
 Lyte.” 
 
 Easton Piers Farm. 
 
 Appendix lxii. By this Deed, dated 12 Dec. 1574, a part of the Manor Farm was severed, 
 and sold to Nicholas Light of Leigh-Delamere. 
 
 This is now in the possession of Mr. Benjamin Hine. 1 
 
 “Cosham’s” and “Old Easton.” 
 
 Appendix lxiii, lxiv, lxv. Three deeds, of c. A.D. 1300, one having on the seal a pair of shears 
 (No. 350), relate to some part of Easton then held by one Cosham of Luckington. And two 
 others, lxvi, lxvii, to land of the Keynell family, of Yatton Keynell, in “Old Easton.” 
 
 GARESDEN. (Garsdon.) 
 
 Here is nothing of Antiquity left in the Church. On one of the Bells thus, 
 * Santa &nna ora pro nobis. On another ,* 
 
 SISCSINOTS ftt3£I C©N®3:E©E. 1586. 
 
 Mem: That one Mody was a footeman to King Henry the Eighth, who, falling from 
 
 1 This a small farm, West of the Manor House. About 1670 it was bought by Mr. Benjamin 
 Hinde, from whom it has descended to the Rev. Thomas Lowe, Yicar of Willington, co. Sussex, in 
 right of his mother Susanna, coheiress of the late Thomas Hinde, M. A. Rector of Ardeley near 
 Bicester. 
 
242 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Garesdon . 
 
 his horse as he was hawkeing, 1 think on Harneslow-heath, fell with his head into 
 mudde, with which, being fatt and heavie, he had been suffocated to death, had he 
 not been timely relieved by his footman Mody; a for which service, after the 
 dissolution of the Abbies, he gave him the Manour of Garesden 1 
 
 The Mannour House, which was I think, a Graunge to the Abbey of Malmesbury, 
 was for the greatest part re-edified by S r . Laurence Washington 2 about the beginning 
 
 a Mody or Moody of Westport and Garsden [PI. xxiii. No. 357] bears, Vert, a fesse ingrailed Arg. (surmounted 
 of another, Gules) between 3 liarpy’s heads A. crined 0., their wings close. The Crest [No. 356] a wolfe’s head 
 erazed proper. 
 
 1 The Yill of Garesden was anciently within the bounds of Braden Forest. Tanner (p. 591) 
 refers to two charters, by which Ina, King of Wessex, in A.D. 701, gave to Malmesbury Abbey 
 45 cassates of land at Gersdun. In the New Monasticon, (Malmesbury, No. xi.) is another charter, 
 by which in 1081, the Manor, Rectory and Patronage, at the request of Abbot War in, were 
 given to the Abbey by Matilda, Queen of William the Conqueror. 
 
 The family of Moody of Westport, Malmesbury, (of which there is a short pedigree in the 
 Wilts. Visitation 1623) was of Worcestershire origin. John Moody of Moody’s Place in that 
 county married the heiress of Wolfdon. His son married a Warneford of co. Wilts, and settled 
 at Westport. The name occurs among the officers of Malmesbury Abbey. The grant of the 
 Abbot’s estate to Richard Moody was made in 36 Hen. VIII. (1544). Henry Moody was 
 created Baronet 1621. His son Sir Henry sold the Manor about 1640 and settling in New 
 England, died s. p. about 1662. 
 
 2 Sir Lawrence Washington who purchased Garsdon from the Moodys, was a second son in the 
 family of Washington of Sulgrave co. Northampton, from the elder branch of which General 
 Washington was descended. [See Pedigree in Baker’s Northamptonshire, I, 514.] Sir Lawrence 
 was buried at Garsdon. His Epitaph is as follows. “Sir Lawrence Washington Kt. lately 
 Chief Register of the Chancery, whom it pleased God to take unto his peace from the fury of the 
 insuing wars, Oxon. May 4, here interred 24th A.D. 1643, aged 64. Also Dame Ann his wife 
 died June 13, buried 16th, 1645. 
 
 “ Hie patrios cineres curavit filius urna 
 Condere qui tumulo nunc jacet ille pius.” 
 
 On the Church plate (a flagon, two chalices and salver, all of silver), is engraved “ Given to 
 Garsden Church by the Lady Pargiter, formerly wife of Sir Lawrence Washington, who both lie 
 buried here.” This plate for many years had been kept in a box and deposited in a lumber closet 
 in the old mansion. There was an idle story in the village that a ghost had formerly been laid 
 in the box : a story that perhaps was useful as a double-lock ; for a superstitious dread of disturbing 
 the ghost effectually deterred many from indulging their curiosity by looking into it. Having 
 understood from an old man that there was some Communion Plate at the Great House, the 
 Clergyman made enquiry, and to the utter surprize of the people of the house, upon opening the 
 lid of the box (for the first time perhaps for a century) instead of seeing a ghost jump out, this 
 
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 of the Civil-Warres. 1 In the Closet window in the Parlour remains this one 
 Scutcheon [Basely, PI. xxiii. No. 355] with the Crest [No. 354] which is an arme 
 dexter in armour, holding a Lance. 2 
 
 HANKERTON and Cloateley. 
 
 «/ 
 
 It was anciently called Hanekington and did belong to the Abbey of Malmesbury, 
 given by . 3 4 
 
 In the Church is not anything of antiquity to be found: the chancell hath been 
 downe above these twenty yeares. The Parish is well enough contented without 
 it, and more thrifty than to re-edihe it, so they have walled up the place of the 
 cancelli. i Very good land and very dirty. 
 
 valuable service of tarnished plate presented itself, and was immediately taken to the Yicarage 
 House. [Letter from Rev. II. J. Newbery, 1822]. 
 
 Stonehenge at one time belonged to the family of Washington. The grand-daughter of Sir 
 Lawrence was the heiress of the Garsdon estate. She married Robert Shirley, Lord Ferrars of 
 Chartley, who presented to this Rectory in 1698. Aubrey says, Natural History of Wilts, p. 53, 
 “In Garsden Park now Lord Ferrars’s is perhaps the finest hollow oak in England.” 
 
 1 The Manor House is a good example of Jacobean Architecture. An engraving of one of the 
 chimney-pieces is given in “ The Builder,” 1845, p. 126. On it is a shield bearing the Arms of 
 Moody (as in No. 357) quartering Wolfdon (a fess between three wolves’ heads). There is also a 
 loose shield of stone bearing Quarterly, 1 and 4, Washington, (Ar. two bars gules, in chief three 
 mullets), 2 and 3, A cross flory between four cinquefoils, (Mercury?). Crest, Washington. 
 
 The Earl of Suffolk is now Lord of the Manor: from which the Patronage of the Living has 
 been severed. The Church has been rebuilt, and was re-opened 8th May, 1856. 
 
 2 This (now gone) was the shield of William Basely Esq. who was Knight of the Shire 1555, 
 and resident here 1565. [Harvey’s List of Wilts. Gentry]. He presented to the Rectory in 
 1553 in right of his wife Katharine Mody, widow of William Stumpe Esq., (son of the Mr. Stumpe 
 who purchased Malmesbury Abbey at the Dissolution). She had a life interest in Garsdon. [See 
 at the Rolls Office an Inq. p. M. taken at Bradford 23rd March, 3 and 4 P. and M. 1556.1 
 Basely, as a Wilts, name, is found at East Knoyle 1587 (Wilts. Subsidy). In 1565 Elys Gore was 
 also of Garsden. 
 
 3 It was included with Charlton in the grant by King vEthelwulf to the Abbey. 
 
 4 The Church is dedicated to Holy Cross. The Yicarage has always been in the patronage of 
 the Rector of Crudwell to which it was ancientty a chapel. It is so called in Sarum Registers 
 1433. There are some Church notes in Gent. Mag., 1806, p. 209. The practise of “ walling 
 
 2 h 2 
 
244 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Hankerton. 
 
 This is the Coate of Warneford 1 [No. 358]. 
 
 Vide at Mrs. Warneford’s House, if the Armes of the Abbey are there to be found. 
 
 Mem : In the Common here is such another Bogge as in Myntey Common, and 
 bigger than that. Quaere if so nitrous, for they may turn it to very good account, 
 for the common price of saltpetre is one shilling a pound. A gentleman or two in 
 London would make good profitt of it. Vide the account of making it in the Royal 
 Society. Wood ashes are 2d. or 3d. the bushel: the staler the better. Sir Jo. 
 Hoskins * 1 2 tells me that feme ashes are better for this use than wood ashes. 
 
 In King James’s time, Mr. ... Chaloner, who was an ingeniose gentleman, and 
 had been a traveller, and had seen the Allume works in Germany, riding a hunting- 
 in Yorkshire, discovered by the herbage and nature of the ground, and the taste of 
 the water, that Allume might be made there: whereupon he got a Patent of the 
 King; and this worke was worth £2000 per annum or better; but in King Charles 
 the 1st time, the profit was thought too much for him, and notwithstanding the 
 sayd Patent, the King granted a Moiety, or more, to another, a Courtier, which 
 was the reason that made Mr. Chaloner so zealous for the Parliament, and to be 
 one of the King’s Judges. 3 
 
 up” has continued at Hankerton: and the parishioners are still “ content ” to dispense with 
 the use of certain doors and windows as well as arches. 
 
 1 An estate at Cloatley which in 19 Eliz. belonged to John Warneforde Esq. is now the property 
 of the Earl of Suffolk, Lord of the Manor of Hankerton. John Wantysford, Incumbent, died 1389. 
 
 Frances Howard, wife of Sir Henry Winchcombe of Bucklebury, Berks, and only surviving 
 daughter of Thomas third Earl of Berkshire, left by Will a benefaction charged on an estate 
 formerly “ Warnford’s.” 
 
 2 Sir John Hoskyns, a friend of Aubrey’s often mentioned in his writings, was a Herefordshire 
 Baronet and M.P., a Master in Chancery, one of the first members of the B 03 M Society, and its 
 President in 1682, He was grandson of Serjeant Hoskyns, often called by Aubrey in his letters, 
 “ The Old Serjeant,” who was the author of the verses on “The Trusty Servant” at Winchester 
 School. [See Wilts. Archaeol. Mag. IY. 108]. 
 
 3 Aubrey’s version of this story (which however has very little to do with Hankerton) is not 
 quite correct. Chaloner the discoverer of the Alum, and Chaloner who signed the warrant for 
 King Charles’s death were different persons, Sir Thomas, the father, and Mr. Thomas the son. 
 The facts supplied by the biographies, were these. The father, Sir Thomas, of Guisborough 
 in Yorkshire, born 1559, a man well versed in natural science, travelled abroad, chiefly in Italy ; 
 
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 Mr. R. Boyle tells me that the Salt at Mynty is sea salt mixed with Nitre. He 
 bids me try it again, and hopes well of it, that it may he profitable. 
 
 N.B. Dr. Daniel Cox tells me that he has a way to separate nitre from sea-salt 
 quickly: and desires to have some of it. 
 
 Mem: At Wobourne in Hankerton Parish is Fuller’s earth. Qucere. 
 
 HULLAVINGTON. 
 
 The Manor belonged to a House of Friars Alien, subordinate to St. Victor’s in 
 France; queere, in Normandy, or Paris. After the Alien Priories had been dissolved 
 by Act of Parliament, King Henry the Sixtli gave the Lands of Ilullavington, 
 among others that belonged to these Friers, as the Parsonage and Provost’s mannor 
 at Clialke, to his two Colleges that he erected; viz., King’s College in Cambridge, 
 and Eaton College. 
 
 and on his return was knighted 1591. Soon after this he discovered at Guisborough the first 
 alum mines ever known in England : large sums of money were spent before the project was 
 brought to bear : but by importing from Holland and France workmen acquainted with the 
 business, it began to succeed: yet very little to the profit of the proprietors, for it was adjudged 
 to be a Mine Royal and came into the hands of the Crown. It was then granted to Sir Paul 
 Pindar, under the following Rents, viz., £12500 a year to the King: £1640 a year to the Earl 
 of Mulgrave and £600 a year to Sir William Pennyman. Notwithstanding these high rents and 
 that no less than 800 persons at a time were employed in the manufacture, this farm of the alum 
 mines produced a great profit to Sir Paul Pindar, who kept up the price at £26 a ton. The Long 
 Parliament voted this a monopoly and restored the alum works to the original proprietors. Sir 
 Thomas Chaloner was however dead before this took place. He had been in great favour with 
 King James and was made governor of the Household to Prince Henry. He died 1615. 
 
 Thomas, one of his younger sons, also travelled through France and Italy, and was distinguished 
 for his wit and literary accomplishments. But having contracted a dislike to the Royal Family 
 on the score of the alum mines of which his father had been deprived he joined the malcontent 
 party; was elected M.P. for Aldborough in Yorkshire, and became an active Member of the Long 
 Parliament. He sat as one of the King’s Judges and was a Member of the Council of State. On 
 a prospect of the King’s return, he went abroad and died in Zealand. 
 
 In his “Lives,” Yol. II. p. 282, Aubrey gives some anecdotes of Mr. Thomas Chaloner, adding 
 that “ he was as far from being a Puritan as the East is from the West; one of Henry Martyn’s 
 gang, who loved to enjoy the pleasures of this life: a good scholar, but had only written, about 
 1652, an anonymous pamphlet called ‘ An account of the Discovery of Moses’s Tomb,’ which had 
 set the wits of all the Rabbis to work, and t’was a pretty while before the sham was detected.” 
 For the Chaloners, see Young’s History of Whitby, II. 826. 
 
246 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 f Hullavington. 
 
 This Hullavington belongeth to Eaton Colledge. 1 2 * * * * * 
 
 In the Church is nothing of Antiquity. 8 There is a plain Tomb of Symon James, 
 
 who married . the daughter and heir of Chatterton. 
 
 North (or Bradfield) Isle (N.E. corner.) 
 
 O . MAX • REPENT • THIS • WORLD • DEFIE • 
 
 REMEMBER • WELL ■ THAT • THOU • MUST • DIE • 
 
 FOR • AS • I • AM • SOE • SHALT • THOU • BE . 
 
 DUST • AND • ASHES • AS • THOU • MAIST • SEE • 
 
 SERVE • GOD • THEREFORE • WHILE • THOU . HAST . TIME . 
 
 THAT • THOU • TO • BLISSE • AT • LENGTH • MAIST • CLIMF. • 
 
 EVERY • ESTATE • LORD • DUKE • AND • KING • 
 
 RICH • MEN • AND • POOR • MARK • WELL • THIS • THING • 
 
 SIMON JAMES. GEN. Buried 
 The 25 Daj r of Aprell 
 1616 .\ 
 
 1 The town of “ Hunlafing.” This name of a Saxon Thane occurs in the Codex Dipl. No. 433. 
 
 St. Victor “ in Caleto ” or at Caux, a few miles North of Rouen, in Normandy, was founded 
 
 by a Norman Baron, Sir Roger de Mortimer, before the Conquest of England. His son Sir 
 Ralph came over with William I. ; and having received a huge grant in this part of Wilts, viz., 
 the Fee of Hullavington, Surrenden, and Bradfield, with parts of Alderton, Luckington, and 
 Kington St. Michael’s, he endowed his Father’s Monastery in Normandy with the Manors of 
 Hullavington and Clatford, (near Marlborough). At the latter place was the Priory Alien or 
 establishment subordinate to St. Victor’s. The Prior of Clatford is sometimes called the Prior of 
 Hullavington. He presented once or twice to the Vicarage, but generally the Crown presented 
 for him. After the confiscation of the Alien Priories, King Henry VI. gave both these Manors 
 to Eton College to which that of Hullavington still belongs, being now held in lease under the 
 College, by Sir John Neeld Bart. In the Cartulary of Malmesbury is a Composition between 
 “ the Prior and men of Hullavington ” with the Abbot. A MS. (No. 268) in Queen’s College 
 Oxon. relates to the same subject. Tanner mentions a Bull of Pope Gregory for the augmentation 
 of the Vicarage, as among the archives at Eton. 
 
 2 He means no ancient monuments. The Church itself is of considerable antiquity. The Porch, 
 
 Arches, Columns, and other parts are Transition Norman. In the Chancel the East window is a 
 three-light lancet. On the North side, the Bradfield Aisle contains some very good Early English 
 windows of three lights, with Purbeck marble shafts. 
 
 Another object of antiquity which Aubrey might have noticed, is a very curious piece of 
 
 mediaeval embroidery, originally a cope, now used as a pulpit cloth. On a brown satin ground are 
 stitched various embellishments worked in gold and silver thread. In the centre is a representation 
 
 of our Saviour on the Cross, with an angel on each side receiving the blood in a chalice. The 
 
 rest is covered with figures of Saints, cherubim full of eyes, fleurs de lys, &c. [See Archaeol. 
 
 Journal, I. 330]. 
 
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 (Chancel. North side.) 
 
 [No. 360]. Arms of Ivye, quartering (Vyell) a fess raguly Gules between 3 annulets 
 Sable. Impaling Finett. Crest, a demi-lion ramp. G. holding a shield. [No. 359.] 
 
 “ Oliver Ivye, sonne and heir of George Ivye Esq. of Hullavington, co. Wilts, who married 
 Anne Finett in the year of our Lord 1649, one of the Daughters of Sir John Finett K 1 . 1 Master 
 of the Ceremonies to King Charles the 1st. and of the Lady Finett his wife sister to the Earl of 
 Cleveland. This said Oliver Ivie deceased in Nov. 1650, leaving his said wife with child who 
 was on the 14th of April 1651 delivered of a Daughter which was named Jane, which said Jane 
 Ivie deceased 2 Oct. 1654: and with her said Father lyeth under this place. Anne Ivie his 
 widdo : in memory of her dear hush : and child, hath erected this monument in the yeare of our 
 Lord God, 1663.” 2 
 
 1 Sir John Finett Knight, of West Keele, co. Lincoln, Master of the Ceremonies in the Courts 
 of King James I. and Charles I., married Jane only sister of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland, 
 one of King Charles’s chief supporters. [Burke’s Ext. Peer. p. 568.] lie wrote a book now rare, 
 called “ Finetti Philoxenis,” published after his death by his friend James Howell, and consisting 
 of Observations on the Precedence and Reception of Ambassadors: 1656. There is a notice of him 
 in the “ Antiquarian Repertory,” IY. 521, and a Portrait at Upton Manor House, co. Northampton. 
 
 2 The name of Ivy occurs in documents relating to the adjoining Parish of Alderton so far back 
 as A.D. 1296. Between the years 1560 and 1670 the family was settled at West Kington, at 
 Hullavington (as leaseholders nnder Eton College), and at the Abbey House, Malmesbury. 
 There are no entries of the name in the Hullavington Registers, which are preserved only from 
 1694. But there are some gravestone inscriptions, besides the one which Aubrey copied. Thomas 
 Ivy of West Kington (1569) by his wife Eliza Mallett of co. Somerset, was the Father of Sir 
 George, who (as mentioned above p. 86) married a Hyde of W^st Hatch. Their son Thomas 
 was the father of twenty children ; the eldest of whom, George (named in Aubrey’s Natural 
 History of Wilts, p. 16) married a daughter of Oliver St. John, was a County Magistrate for 
 fifty years and died ast. 80. They had among other children Oliver, whose wife was Anne Finett, 
 and Colonel Thomas Ivy. The eldest son of the latter, was St. John Ivy, J.P. living 1694. The 
 third son was Sir Thomas Ivy who married one of the family of Stumpe of Malmesbury, and lived 
 at the Abbey House, where, in what is called the Banqueting Room, his coat of arms is still to be 
 seen over the chimney-piece. He made a voyage to Guiana about A.D. 1633: and was buried 
 at Hullavington about 1671—5. [See Natural History of Wilts, p. 81, and Collect. Top. et. 
 Gen. YI. 244]. In Sir John Bramston’s Autobiography (pp. 15 and 19, Camd. Soc.) is an 
 unfavourable account of a Thomas Ivy, (husband of Sir John’s niece Theodosia Stepkin) who 
 “ was knighted after the King’s return, but merited whipping rather; ” and who was the author 
 of a scarce pamphlet called “ Alimony arraigned.” He was certainly of this family, but whether 
 he was the Sir Thomas who was buried at Hullavington about 1671—5, is not clear. 
 
 The Manor House is near the Church. After the Ivy family, the proprietors were the Jacobs 
 of whom some are buried in the Church. 
 
248 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [ Bradfield . 
 
 BRADFIELD (in Hullavington). 
 
 It is now in the parish of Hullavington, but it was anciently a parish of itself, 
 and a Mannor. The Chapel stood. The House is of the old gothic fashion, [see 
 plate xxiv.] with the barne within the court, which was the general way of building 
 the Mansion liowses of the Lords of Mannors. Quod N.B. Here is a good fair 
 Gate-house and Hall of the old way. In the Hall windowes are these Coates. 
 
 [PI. xxiii. No. 361] (Dixton ?) 
 
 [362] (Clinton ? The names of Clinton and Russell occur together at Lydiard 
 
 Milicent. See p. 153.) 
 
 [363] Russell. (Aubrey gives the colours of this coat as Gules on a bend Azure, 
 
 which is false heraldry. Probably it was Or, on a bend Sable, two swans 
 
 A. bet. three mullets pierced 0.) 
 
 [364] Russell, as before, impaling Nicholas. 
 
 [365] (Landeth or Londeth ?) 
 
 [366] Forte. Vide Guillim. (This should be 3 mallets. Our plate has 3 vanes, by 
 mistake, owing to the indistinct drawing of this coat in Aubrey’s Manuscript. 
 
 Russell. Collingbourne. Cliatterton. 
 
 The Catt, the Ratt, and Lovell the Dog, 
 
 Rule all England under a Hogge. 
 
 I think it was Collingbourne made this. Q. Ned James. 
 
 Mem: See Mr. Edm. James’ old deeds: which are the oldest and the most that I 
 believe any gentleman hath now in this Countrey. Copie them and also the Seales. 1 
 
 1 Bradfield is between Hullavington and Norton. From the Ecclesiastical shape of its hall- 
 windows it is commonly thought to have been a Priory. But there is no record of monks being 
 actually established here. Nor does it appear to have been, like the Manor of Hullavington, 
 given to the Abbey of St. Victor. The great tithes only belong to Eton College, as the owners of 
 the Advowson. Bradfield appears to have been always a separate property, held (according to 
 ancient notices,) partly under the Mortimers, partly under the Barony of Castle Combe. 
 
 The three names set down by Aubrey without remark, “Russell, Collingbourne, Cliatterton,” 
 are those of successive owners before his time. This family of Russell had lands at Bradenstoke, 
 Quedhampton near Cliff Pypard (held under Castle Combe Barony) and at Lydiard Millicent. 
 The Collingbournes succeeded them by inheritance. In 2 Rich. III. William Collingbourne of 
 Lydiard Millicent and of Bradfield, with others his associates, was indicted for conspiring to bring 
 over from Brittany, Henry, Earl of Richmond: and for devising and circulating hand-bills and 
 verses, to stir the people to commotion ; fastening the same upon the doors of St. Paul’s Cathedral. 
 The result is well known. “Tristis psena secuta jocos.” 
 
 “ It stands on record that in Richard’s times 
 A man was hanged for very honest rhymes.” 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 249 
 
 KEMBLE and Ewen. 
 
 It stands in a delicate campania, near Cirencester. The parish, or the greater 
 part of it, did anciently belong to the Abbey of Malmesbury. Vide Legier Book, 
 who was the donor, and Quaere , to whom the church was dedicated. 
 
 Here is a handsome church porch, the moulding and pillars like those of the 
 Cathedrall of Sarum, tempore H. III., but the moulding of the dore goeing into the 
 church is like the North dore of Kington St. Michael. 1 
 
 William Collingbourne had two daughters, one of whom married George Chaderton, and had a 
 son Edmund. After Collingbourne’s execution his possessions were granted to Mr. Edmund 
 Chaderton, the King’s Counsellor and Chaplain. (Harl. MS., 433. art. 1323.) A lady of this 
 Chaderton family appears to have married Simon James, whose epitaph in the North Aisle is 
 given above. His grandson Edmund James was owner in Aubrey’s time. 
 
 In the North, commonly called the “Bradfield, Aisle” in Hullavington Church, is a small 
 Tablet to William Cole of Bristol who died at Bradfield 1701. He was a writer on Philosophical 
 subjects, and lived here and at Bristol. Aubrey (in another of his MSS.) mentions him as having 
 this estate in right of his wife. He had probably married into the James family. His wife’s 
 name was Anne. She survived him only a few weeks, and was buried 4th November, 1701. 
 (P.R.) There are several later entries of the name. Two volumes of Mr. Cole’s Letters in MS. 
 relating to points (now obsolete) in Natural Science, written to one of the Southwells of King’s 
 Weston, and dated “From my solitude at Bradfield,” were sold at the auction of the Brockley 
 House Library (near Bristol) in 1849, and are now in tbe British Museum, as Nos. 18598—9, 
 Addit: MS. The inscription to him placed in the Church by a grand-daughter is as follows. 
 
 “ Gulielmo Cole: de Bradfield gen: qui ob : III. Cal. Sept. A.D. MDCCI. 
 
 Anna Gilberti Cale gen : til: Avo materno Beatce Memoriae Posuit.” 
 
 Bradfield now belongs to Mr. Hooper of Corston near Bath. Of the chapel, if there ever 
 was one, nothing is left. The portions of the house drawn by Aubrey that are now des¬ 
 troyed are marked with A in our Plate xxiv. There is at the back of it a large pile of irregular 
 building of James I. date, which rises above the rest, but does not appear in the sketch. The 
 stained glass coats of arms have perished. 
 
 1 Kemble is five miles from Cirencester, and seven N.E. of Malmesbury, at the northernmost 
 point of the county of Wilts. The name is spelled Kemele, and Kcmelegh, in Anglo-Saxon 
 Charters. 
 
 The grant to Aldhelm Abbot of Malmesbury, of an estate at “Kemele,” in A.D. 682 bj’ 
 Cedwalla King of Wessex, is printed in the New Monasticon (Malmesbury, No. viii). Kemble 
 Morley was held by Milo de Morlee in King John : in Edw. III. by Roger Normaund, and in 
 Rich. II. by Gilbert, lo Despencer. [See Wilts. Fines and Inq. p. M.] The Church is dedicated 
 to All Saints. The South Porch was built by William de Colerne, Abbot of Malmesbury about 
 
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250 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Kemble. 
 
 In the South aisle, in an old gothique nich lies the effigies, in grey marble, of a 
 Chevalier, mailed and crosse-legg’d ; at his feet is a wolfe. They say his name was 
 Allam or Hallam, and in this parish is a place yet called by the name of Allam’s 
 Court. In his shield is this coate [No. 367]. 
 
 Mem. A.D. 1408, Rob. Hallam, Cardinall and Chancellour of Oxford, was 
 Bishop of Salisbury; the 49th in number of the Diocese. * 1 
 
 At Ewen I do not hear of any thing of antiquitie. 2 
 
 The Lee and Cleverton. 
 
 The Glasse all new at the Lea; but I remember about 1648 at R. Pitman’s 
 
 A.D. 1280. The inner door is Norman of c. 1100. These are drawn and described in 
 E. H. Relton’s “ AViltshire Churches: ” and in the Collections of the Oxford Architectural 
 Society, are some details. 
 
 1 The name of an Earl Ilalam, “ Halamius Comes,” occurs in the Grant of Garsdon to Malmes¬ 
 bury Abbey (New Monasticon, p. 259), but the Arms preserved by Aubrey do not correspond 
 with those usually found under the name of Hallam. They resemble more those of Berkeley. 
 In saying that Robert Hallam was the 49th Bishop, Aubrey is reckoning from the commencement, 
 before the severance of Sarum from Sherborne. Of the Bishops of Sarum only, he was 18th. 
 He is called by Somner and others “ De Hallam,” and when clergymen in those days were so 
 called, it generally indicated the place of birth. Being, in the earlier part of his professional 
 career, Prebendary of York, it is not improbable that he may have been a native either of Hallam 
 in that county, or of another place of the same name in co. Derby. By mentioning him at all 
 under the head of the parish of Kemble, Aubrey would seem to suggest that the Bishop may have 
 been a Wiltshire-man, through some possible connexion with the cross-legged Knight, who, the 
 people told him, was called Hallam. The Bishop was buried in Constance Cathedral A.D. 1417. 
 Of his effigy there is a fine brass of Flemish workmanship. See Mr. E. Kite’s Wilts Brasses. 
 
 2 The proper name is Ewelme (as it is spelled in the Valor Eccl:) from the Anglo-Saxon 
 JEwelm a fountain. It is barbarized into “ Yeoing” in Andrews and Dury’s map. The lands 
 in this hamlet that belonged to Malmesbury Abbey were given to it by King Athelstan 
 c. A.D. 931. [Monasticon.] A chapel here is mentioned in the Sarum Registers A.D. 1661. In 
 1226 Godfrey le Berners held under the Abbey, and Richard de Husseburn under him. [Wilts 
 Fines.] 
 
 In the Archaeologia xxxvii, p. 113, is an account by J. Y. Akerman Esq. of a discovery in 
 1856 of Anglo-Saxon Remains, with a Map, tracing the ancient boundaries of Athelstan’s Grant. 
 See also Gent. Mag. Jan. 1857. Henry Hatcher, the Historian of the Salisbury Volume forming 
 part of Sir R. C. Hoare’s Modern Wilts, was born here 14th May 1777. R. Gordon Esq. is now 
 Lord of the Manor. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 251 
 
 wedding, that the E. window of the Chancel, containing five lights, had in every 
 one of them one scutcheon, if not two. I am heartily sorry I did not take a note 
 of them ; some of the windows are now donne up with boards. 
 
 There is a good old Gothique seate of the Hungerfords: and at one of the 
 windowcs, and porch, in stone, are monke’s heads. 1 
 
 MALMESBURY BOROUGH. 
 
 The Prospect of Malmesburie. [See PL xxiv.] I would have another from Tliorne- 
 hill. Mr. Hollar to draw a Mappe of the Towne, with the names of the Rivers that 
 embrace it, the Avon and (Newnton Water), the Prospect of it, the Abbey Church, 
 and K. Athelstan’s Monument. 
 
 “ A very neat town, and hath a great name for cloathing.” V. England described 
 by Mr. Edw. Leigh. 
 
 Maidulphi Urbs , that is, Maidulpli’s City; afterwards shortened to Malmesbury. 
 Maidulph’s burgh, methinks is too much forced an Etymologie for this place. I 
 believe it rather comes from Malme, which signifies mudd or clay, as well agrees 
 here; so Malmes-hull in Herefordshire, a clayey place. 1 
 
 1 The Church of Lea, with Cleverton, is annexed to Garsdon. The Manor belonged to Malmes¬ 
 bury Abbe} 7 . The windows over which Aubrey’s eye was wandering during his friend’s nuptials 
 may have contained the Arms of that Abbey or of some of the following families. In 13 Edw. III. 
 Ralph de Combe “de la Lee juxta Malmsbury ” surrendered his mother’s estate here to Sir John 
 Mauduit Kt. who in the following year settled it on his daughter and heiress on her marriage 
 with Sir John de Molyns. With the heiress of Molyns it passed into the eldest house of Hungerford, 
 and by their heiress to Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. At the Dissolution, the Tithes were 
 purchased by Richard Moody of Garsdon. From c. 1570 to 1680 a younger branch of Hungerford 
 of Down Amney, were owners of Brill’s Court, the “Gothique seat” alluded to: now a farm 
 house, where their Arms still remain, in stone. The Danvers family of Dauntesey appear to have 
 been also proprietors. The Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, now Lord Herbert of Lea, is Lord of 
 the Manor. 
 
 1 The derivation from malm , a word that has no existence in English Dictionaries, is frivolous. 
 The first religious man who settled on this site was Maildulf, or Maidulf. The Anglo-Saxon 
 name for the town was Maldulfes-burh, sometimes written Maldumes, or Maldmes-burh. It is 
 the inevitable fate of long names to be compressed by the vox populi, into the shortest possible 
 space, without the slightest regard to the dignity of their origin. There is another instance, in 
 
 2 i 2 
 
252 Aubrey’s north wilts. [. Malmesbury . 
 
 The Armes of the Borough are a Tower triple towered between two trees ; round 
 
 it “ smmwm mm&m 1 
 
 (Athelstan.) 
 
 King Athelstan was a great Benefactor to this Borough. Transcribe the original 
 Charter, which is not above six lines, and very legible. For the good service this 
 towne did him against the Danes, he gave them a vast and rich common, called 
 King’s Heath,- and other privileges to the Burghers, and also certain meadows near 
 the town. By the Towne is a Hill called Danys-Hill. ®tnm ... is the name of 
 the ground on which K. Athelstan vanquished the Danes. * 1 2 3 
 
 (Edmund.) 
 
 King Edmund, who lies buried at Glastonbury, succeeded Athelstan. His Arms 
 were Az. 3 crowns Or [No. 369]; which were anciently very common in the 
 windows in the West of England, and is the garniture of the bordures of the 
 windows in Glastonbury Abbey. 
 
 point to the present case. Off the coast of Laconia in Greece is a small island connected with 
 the mainland by a bridge. In modern Greek it was called Monemvasia (/ iovr) ififiaaia, single 
 entrance). It became celebrated for the excellence of its wines. The Italian sailors shortened it 
 to Mai vasia, the French to Malvoisie, the English to Malmsey. 
 
 1 This was an older Common Seal. See Moffatt’s Malms: p. 132. n. The inscription on the 
 present Seal of the Corporation is “ sigil. com. aldri. burgen. burgi. de. Malmesbury, in. com. 
 wilts. 1615.” See PI. xxiii, Ko. 368. The proper description of the Arms is: “A castle with an 
 embattled Tower at each end: on the centre a Tower domed, thereon a pennon: on each side of 
 the Castle three ears of wheat on one stalk ; in chief, on the dexter side, a mullet of six points, 
 and on the sinister an increscent; again, on the sinister side three balls, one near the dome of 
 the upper tower, and the other two near the battlements of the sinister tower: the base of the 
 escutcheon water.” Mr. Edmondson, says that it is painted thus, on a field gules, in the Town- 
 Hall: but that he believes it was never intended as an armorial ensign. [Edmondson’s 
 Heraldry, vol. I. Armorial Ensigns of Counties, &c., Letter M.] 
 
 2 Malmesbury Common : enclosed and allotted by Act of Parliament 8th June 1821. [2 Geo. IV.] 
 A “ Bruera,” or rough pasture, near the Manor called Brendeheth (now Burnt heath farm) “ was 
 given b} r King Athelstan ” for sustaining one chaplain to pray for the souls of the King and the 
 Burgesses. [Pat. Hen. V. Jones’s Index.] 
 
 3 Perhaps “ Wynyarde’s,” a ground mentioned in a Deed of 13 Elizabeth. This is still the 
 name of a Mill on the Avon under the walls of Malmesbury on the S.E. side. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 253 
 
 (The Castle.) 
 
 The Castle of Malmesbury was built by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury; he also built 
 the Castle of the Devises, and Shirborne in Dorset; he lived in the time of King 
 Stephen. V. Godwyn and Heylyn. 
 
 The Castle stood on the neck of Land between the Abbey and Westport, and by 
 reason of the narrowness there, it could be but a kind of great Gate or Port, and 
 from hence t’is likely West-port takes its name. 
 
 The Right Rev. Father Seth Ward, Lord Bishop of Sarum, upon search of the 
 evidences of that See, which he has examined and digested from the beginning to 
 this present time, and which had not been inspected for above a hundred yeares, 
 finds that the Bishops of Sarum had never then’ See at Malmesbury, as some say. 
 
 (Monastery.) 
 
 See Monasticon Anglicanum, of the Monastery here. 
 
 Aldelme , the chief of Maiclulph’s Disciples, being elected his Successor, built there 
 a very fair Monastery, and was himself the first Abbot thereof. He was canonized 
 a Saint, and on his Festival Day (March 31) there was kept here a great Faire, at 
 which, usually, there was a band of Armed Men appointed to keep the peace among 
 so many resorting thither. I never heard of any such thing in my time. 1 Aldhelm 
 was the first of the English Nation who wrote in Latin, and that taught the 
 Englishmen the way how to make a Latin verse. 
 
 “ Primus ego in Patriam mecum, modo vita supersit, 
 
 Aonio rediens deducain vertice Musas .” 2 
 
 Mem. Westward of the King’s Wall, here is a meadow called St. Aldhelm’s 
 
 1 March 28th is still one of the four Malmesbury Fair days. This is said to have been formerly- 
 kept in St. Aldhelm’s Mead, but it has long been discontinued there. Leland mentions the 
 armed police in A.D. 1540. Itin. II., 52. 
 
 2 Some of his biographers have mistaken these two lines for Aldhelm’s own. They are from 
 the beginning of Yirgil’s Third Georgic written by him at Athens; and they are merely- applied 
 by Aldhelm, in his Treatise on Metre, to his own case. As Virgil designed to transport the 
 literary trophies of Greece into Italy, so Aldhelm proposed to introduce the Muses of Italy among 
 his own countrymen. 
 
254 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Malmesbury. 
 
 Mead, wherein is a Poole, with six or seven willowes about it. Richard Web, a 
 glover, lives by it. 
 
 The Tradition here is, that St. Aldhelm’s father was a weaver. Mem. The story 
 of his Mother’s conception and of the Barne full of birds at masse. 
 
 Queere of Bartholomew, the strange manner of his birth and life. V. Bale, Pits 
 and Leland. 
 
 Mem. St. Aldhelme dyed at Shirburne in Dorset, where he was Bishop; and lay 
 inshrined at Malmesbury where he was Abbot thirty years. Fuller’s Worthies. 
 Osmundus Neustrius scripsit vitam Aldelmi Episcopi. 
 
 (Other celebrated Persons.) 
 
 This Monastery, among other famous Clerkes, and great Scholars, brought forth 
 William, surnamed thereof, Malmesburiensis , unto whom, for his learned industrie, 
 the History of England, both Civil and Ecclesiasticall, is deeply indebted. 
 
 Mem. This great Historian, wrote the History of his Times, and dedicated it to 
 a naturall son of William the Conqueror. 1 He wrote also the Historie of the Abbey 
 
 of Glastonbury, which is in the Library of. College in Cambridge in manuscript. 
 
 He says himself that he was the next that wrote after Venerable Bede. (Four) 
 Hundred yeares between them. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hobbes thinks here was another writer, besides Will" 1 . Malmesb. 
 Q. de hoc. and V. Baleum, &c. 2 
 
 Johannes Scotus Erigena did teach Greek here, and was killed here by his 
 Schollars, who stabbed him with pen-knives. J. Leland saves, his Statue was in 
 the Clioire ; he lived in the time of (Alfred). 3 
 
 1 It was dedicated to Robert Earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I. 
 
 2 Bede died A.D. 735. William of Malmesbury who died 1143, was born in Somersetshire, but 
 adopted as bis home the Abbey of Malmesbury, of which he was Librarian. Some of the Monks 
 wrote anonymously. 
 
 3 It is uncertain which “John Scot” this was: for there were two learned contemporaries of 
 the name. 1. John, a Saxon Monk, surnamed Scotus, who was brought over to England and 
 made Abbot of Athelney in A.X). 887, as mentioned by Ingulphus. 2. John Scot Erigena; born 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 255 
 
 (The Abbey Church.) 
 
 Insert the Draught of the Abbey from the Monasticon: but t’is ill done. The 
 Abbey Church was built per crucem , in the middle whereof was the Tower, on 
 which, no doubt, as every where else almost in this Champagne Countrie, was a 
 Steeple . * 1 Here was a great Bell, called St. Aldhelm’s Bell, which was rung when 
 it did thunder and lighten, to send the Tempest from the Town into the Country. 
 
 Note. St. Aldhelm’s Bell was a Telesman , no question : and I believe the same of 
 the great Bell at St. Germain’s Abbey at Paris, which they ring when it thunders 
 and lightens. Concerning Telesmens, vide Gaffarel, Heydon’s Temple of Wisdome, 
 &c. 2 
 
 When the great rejoicing was on the King’s birtli-day, 1660, for the return of 
 King Charles 2 d ., viz. 29th May, here were so many and so great vollies of shot, 
 by the inhabitants of the Hundred, that the noise so shook the pillars of the Tower, 
 that one pillar and the two parts above fell down that night. 
 
 Where the Choir was, now grass grows, where anciently were buried Kings and 
 great men. 3 
 
 in Ayr, or, as others saj r , in Ireland. Roger de Hoveden and William of Malmesbury speak of 
 the latter as the person pen-knived by the Greek-detesting youth of Malmesbury, in A.D. 883. 
 He is however said by some to have died abroad. A third and more celebrated John Scot 
 commonly called Duns Scotus, lived long afterwards; dying at Cologne A.D. 1308. Leland 
 names as the scene of this murder “a little Chirch joining to the South side of the Transept,” 
 which was still standing in his day, “ a very old pece of work: ” but filled at that time with the 
 sacrilegious looms of Master Stumpe the great clothier, to whom the Abbey and its Church had 
 been sold. Leland does not exactly say, as Aubrey quotes him, that the statue of John Scot was 
 in the choir : but, “yn Th’abbay Chirch.” [Itin. II., p. 53.] 
 
 1 “ A mighty high Pyramis—and felle dangerously in hominum memoria. It stode in the 
 midle of the Transeptum of the Church : and was a marke to al the countre about.” [Leland.] 
 
 2 More commonly spelled Talisman : from the Arabian “ Talism ” a magical charm. Evil spirits 
 were supposed to have a great aversion to bells. “ It is said the evil spirytes, that ben in the regon 
 of th’ ayre, doubte moche when they here the belles rongen; and this the cause why the belles 
 ben rongen whan it thondreth and whan grete tempests and outrages of wether happen, to the end 
 that the fiends should cease of the movinge of tempeste.” [Golden Legend]. 
 
 •'The site of King Athelstan’s grave is now under an asparagus bed. The foundations of the 
 
Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 256 
 
 [. Malmesbury . 
 
 Hughes of Wootton Basset saies, that the Steeple of Malmesbury Abbey was as 
 high almost as Paule’s, 1 and that when the steeple fell, the ball of it fell as far off as 
 the Griffin. A great Tower was at the end of the Church. 2 
 
 Mem. Without the Church at the West end, on one side is the Sagittary and 
 on the other the Griffin. 
 
 This Coate [No. -370] I find in Dan. King’s draught of the Monasteries in the 
 frontispiece for the Arms of Malmesbury Abbey, by what authority I know not. I 
 cannot yet find it any where. 3 
 
 This [No. 371] is the coate of -Selwyn the last Lord Abbot. He was uncle 
 
 to old Sir Thomas Selwyn of Sussex. About Gloucester are yet gentlemen of the 
 name of Selwyn. 4 
 
 North and South walls of the Choir were partly excavated in January 1853 in the garden of the 
 Abbey House. They were enormously thick, and well put together with gravel and grout. The 
 substratum of the garden appeared to be a complete floor of stone foundation which had been 
 laid down at first over the whole area so as to allow the builders to lay walls upon it in any 
 direction. Some stone coffins were found. In the North Transept outside the garden was dug 
 up a skeleton, in lime, without any coffin. The foundations showed that a wall, as of some other 
 edifice, had abutted against the North wall of the Choir. 
 
 Cleaning, not St. Paul’s Church, Malmesbury, but St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. 
 
 2 This is described by Leland as square, at the West end of the Abbey Church, and still 
 standing when he visited this town. Britton (Arch. Antiq. Vol. I., Y. 3.) understood Leland 
 to say that it was then occupied as a dwelling-house; but Leland in that passage is speaking of 
 another Tower—that at the West end of St. Paul’s , Malmesbury. Judging (from the Ruins), of 
 the general Plan of the Abbey Church, it does not seem clear how a single square Tower could have 
 been introduced at the West end. But Leland’s visit was very short and his description most 
 superficial. It is not improbable that he may have mistaken one of the corner Western 
 Towers, part of which is still left, for a main Western Tower. It is to be regretted that no 
 ancient Ground-plan of the Church has been preserved, nor any old engraving of it, except the 
 wretched one by D. King in the earlier editions of the Monasticon. 
 
 3 Fuller could find no seal of Malm. Abbey. [Church Hist. YI. III. 12. This one is given 
 in Tanner: and, as an initial letter, in the New Monast: (Malm.) where the leopards are drawn 
 the wrong way. A different seal, from a Deed of the last Abbot, in the Augmentation Office 1767, 
 is engraved by Bayly in Brit. Topog. II. 379. Both in Moffatt, p. 97. 
 
 4 The last Abbot is called in the Pension List “Robert Frampton alias Selwin.” The Arms 
 are distinctly those of Selwyn : but are not unlike the Shield of Frampton of Dorsetshire. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 257 
 
 This from Minety: Sir Broivne. 1 u The Coate of Malmesbury Abby I cannot find. 
 The Seale of the House is affixed to a Deed which they call a Mortuary, made in 
 Henry 8. Reigne, between Robert Selwin, Abbot, and the Convent of the said Abby, 
 the Vicar of Westporte, and the Parishioners of Brokenborough, in which it was agreed 
 they should have licence to bury at Brokenborough, on condition a penny for every 
 person interred wore payed for ever to the Vicar of Westporte, at the feast of St. 
 Aldhelm. It has Two Saints, viz. the Blessed Virgin and St. Aldhelm, to whom 
 the Abbey was jointly dedicated, each standing on a shield-like pedestall; the first 
 (shield) I cannot recover; the sinister is a Griffin segreant. 1 2 The seal of the Vicar 
 of Westport has likewise a Saint.” 
 
 Quaere Bartholomew the Glazier for the old Scutcheons in the church windows. 
 Mr. Weekes of the Royal Society remembers curious painted glasse windows before 
 the Warres, in the Abbey-Church. Arnold 3 of this Town Hath old deedes of the 
 Abbots, and another hath the seal of the Convent, with St. Peter and St. Paul. 
 
 (Monuments. 1. King Athelstan’s.) 
 
 In the Church is a handsome Gothique Monument of King Athelstan, which 
 seems to be of workmanship since the Conquest. 4 Express his Habit. On his left 
 
 1 “ Sir Browne.” Aubrey had two correspondents of this name. One, William Browne, B.D., 
 who had been Usher at Gardner’s School, Blandford, co. Dorset, in 1638 when Aubrey was there 
 as a boy, used in after life to write to him as “his most loving pupil,” subscribing himself 
 “ W. Fuscus.” The other “ Sir Browne,” a young Wiltshire-man, of Minty, (probably son of 
 Richard Browne, Vicar there, who died 1682), was one of Aubrey’s occasional assistants in 
 supplying parochial information. “Sir,” in Latin Fominas, w T as formerly used instead of 
 “Reverend.” Fominas is still a title used in Colleges for all Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 2 Malmesbury Abbey Church was first dedicated to Our Saviour, St. Peter and St. Paul. In the 
 grant of King Edgar, the Blessed Virgin and St. Aldhelm are noticed as the Patron Saints. 
 “Sir Browne” seems to describe a different Seal from the one (p. 256. n. 3) engraved by Bayly, 
 and in Moffatt p. 97. The two small shields were probably the same in both : viz. 1. France and 
 England; for King Edw. III. 2. A Griffin; for the Kingdom of Wessex. Bayly and Moffatt 
 both engrave a lion rampant: but it is a griffin on the original seal. 
 
 3 Probably of the family of John Arnolde, Alderman, 1629. 
 
 4 The monument commonly called King Athelstan’s stands, in what is also called his chapel, at the 
 East end of the South side of the Nave. His body certainly was not laid on this spot, for William 
 
 2 K 
 
258 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Malmesbury. 
 
 hand, I remember, he hath a Falconer’s glove, with a knob or tassell to put under 
 his girdle, as they use still. a Sir Wm. Waller’s soldiers broke the head of the figure 
 to pieces. Athelstan deserved a shrine of gold for bringing in the Statute of Trial 
 by twelve men. V. Sir Ed. Coke’s Elogie of him. His coate of Arms thus. 
 [PI. xxvii. No. 386,] See Mill’s Heraldry p. 14. 
 
 “ The Welsh did King Athelstan homage at the city of Hereford, and covenanted 
 a yearly payment of £20 gold, of silver £300, oxen 25000, besides hunting dogges 
 and liawkes. He dyed at Gloucester, A.D. 941, and was buried, with many trophies, 
 at Malmesbury; where he caused to be layd his two Cosin-germans, Elwin and 
 Ethelwin, both slain in the battle against Anlaf. He was thirty years old when he 
 came to the Crown, mature in wisdome from his childhood, comely of person and 
 behaviour.” W. of Malmesbury sayeth, he was a bounteous, just and affable King. 
 His laws are extant among the Laws of other Saxon Kings to this day. V. Jo. 
 Milton’s Hist. Saxon Annals. W. Malmesbury and Ingulphus. 
 
 Sir George Marshall of Coleparke had no more humanity than to bury his body 
 
 * N. The Turks first manned hawks: at first they rode into field with their dogges, and sprang the Partridges, 
 and the wild hawkes would souce them down : it being excellent sport, it came into somebody’s head to make a 
 Hawke tame. 
 
 Anno Dom. 900. Tempore R. Alfredi. Hawking was first used. Coteswold is a delicate country for Hawking; 
 especially before they began to enclose about Malmsbury, Newnton, &c., as I hint in my preface : (p. 9.) Hawking is 
 a most princely sport, and no doubt the novelty, together with the delight and convenience of this country, made King 
 Athelstan much use it. 
 
 of Malmesbury says it was buried under the High Altar, which would be about the centre of the 
 present garden of the Abbey House. Both the effigy and the Tomb are of a style some hundreds 
 of years after the time of Athelstan. Browne Willis doubted whether even the figure could be 
 the same that had belonged to the original tomb when at the East end of the Church. Mr. Britton 
 was of opinion that they have no reference whatever to Athelstan. But it is not impossible that 
 they may have been erected at some later period, in honourable memory of the Benefactor of 
 Malmesbury. Moffatt (p. 70) says that the Tomb was once opened, and that it seemed to have 
 been only a cenotaph. The falconer’s glove is broken off, but a portion of the tassell remains. 
 
 Antony Wood who visited the Church in 1678, says in one of his MS. letters; “ Athelstan’s 
 monument had the head knocked off in the Civil Wars, and the inhabitants put on a new one 
 with a bushy beard, but whether like the former I cannot tell. This monument I suppose 
 formerly stood in the Choir, but removed to this place at the Dissolution.” After quoting Leland’s 
 meagre account of Malmesbury, he adds “ Thus far Leland concerning Malmsburi, but, which is 
 a wonder to me, not one word of a monument in the Abbey Church and particularly that of 
 Athelstan. There is not one coat of Arms in the windows.” 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 259 
 
 under King Athelstan’s Monument; temp: Charles 1st. From old Hughes the 
 gunsmith. 
 
 Get Sir George Marshall’s Lady’s Inscription, the scutcheons are all 
 
 defaced. 1 
 
 (2. Tablet to Anne, widow of John Warneford Esq., her -3rd husband. PI. xxiii. 
 No. 372.) 
 
 
 Crane 
 
 Stumpe 
 
 Wabneford 
 
 [373] 
 
 and 
 
 [374] and 
 
 and 
 
 [375] 
 
 
 Godwyn 
 
 Godwyn 
 
 Godwyn 
 
 
 
 
 The Blessed Memorials of 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mbs. Anne Waenefoed who was daughter 
 
 
 
 
 Knyvett 
 
 and heir of Thos. Godwyn Esq r . first married 
 
 Hebvey 
 
 
 [376] 
 
 and 
 
 to Henry Crane of Suffolk Esq r . by whom shee 
 
 and 
 
 [380] 
 
 
 Stumpe 
 
 had Issue only a daughter married to Sir 
 John Harvey K 4 . By her second Husband 
 John Stumpe of Malmsbury in the County 
 of Wilts Esq. (heir male of Sir James Stumpe 
 K l . whose Heires generall were married 
 
 Ceane 
 
 
 
 Howard 
 
 to severall honourable families here 
 
 Powlett 
 
 
 [PI. xxvii. No. 377] 
 
 and 
 
 delineated by their Armes and Coronetts), 
 
 and 
 
 [381] 
 
 
 Knyvett 
 
 she had Issue Three daughters and Heires 
 that is to say, Elizabeth married to the 
 Hon blc . Kh Sir John Powlett of Hyde neere 
 
 Stumpe 
 
 
 
 Clinton 
 
 Wynton : Katharine married to Foulke 
 
 Botry 
 
 
 [378] 
 
 and 
 
 Buttery of the co. of Northampton 
 
 and 
 
 [382] 
 
 
 Knyvett 
 
 Esq r : and Anne married to William Plumer 
 of Bedfordshire Esq r . 
 
 She departed this mortall life upon 
 the 12 th April 1631. 
 
 Stumpe 
 
 
 
 Manners 
 
 To whose remembrance the Lady Powlett 
 
 Plumes 
 
 
 [379] 
 
 and 
 
 her loveing and most beloved daughter 
 
 and 
 
 [383] 
 
 
 Knyvett 
 
 hath consecrated this monument. 
 
 Stumpe 
 
 
 (Abbey House.) 2 
 
 The new dwelling house at the Abbey is of about Edw. 6th architecture, and on 
 
 1 See “ Coleparke ” infra. In the Register of Burials at Malmesbury is this entry. “1625, 
 April 23. The R\ Wor 11 . Dame Cicely Marshall, Ladye Wyfe to Sir George Marshall, Knight.” 
 She was daughter of Sir Owen Hopton, Lieutenant of the Tower of London. The epitaph to 
 Lady Marshall is printed by Molfatt, p. 71. 
 
 2 A Chapel dedicated to St. Michael (see Leland Coll. 1. Tt. 2, pp. 30, 31) was built by Aldhelm ; 
 and in it he was buried; but, for the fact that it stood upon this site, Aubrey produces no authority. 
 The “ Abbey House ” is traditionally said to have been built by one of the Stumpe family. The 
 Arms, of Stumpe impaling Baynton, still over the door facing the garden, point to Sir James 
 Stumpe (whose first wife was Bridget Baynton of Bromham) as the person who probably pulled 
 
 2 K 2 
 
260 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Malmesbury. 
 
 the Porch to this house, built by Stumpe, are two Scutcheons in stone. Stumpe and 
 [Baynton, Nos. 384 and 385]. Where the House now stands was St. Michael’s 
 Chapel. The wealthy clothier Stumpe came from North Nibley in Gloucestershire. 1 
 He bought a vast deal of the Abbey Lands hereabout. When King Henry the 8th 
 hunted in Bradon Forrest, he gave him a noble Entertainment ; the King admiring 
 at it, he told his Majestie his servants should only want their suppers for it. His 
 eldest sonne, to whom he left a great possession of Malmesbury Abbey Lands was 
 Sir James Stumpe, Sheriff (1551 and 1559). He left one daughter, married to Sir 
 Henry Knevett, who had Charlton, Brinkworth, &c. One of Sir Henry Knevett’s 
 daughters married Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, who gave these lands to his 
 second son Thomas, Earl of Berks. 
 
 John Leland says in his Itinerary, that when he was here, the Monks’ dortures 
 ( dormitories ) &c. were filled with weaver’s Loonies, and that there were made every 
 year a 3000 Cloathes. 
 
 (Abbey Kitchen.) 
 
 On the N. West (?) side of the Abbey Church, stand the mines of the Kitchin, on 
 four strong freestone pillars. 
 
 down the Monastery, and made out of it a residence for himself. The lower parts of this house 
 are much older than the upper. They consist of a range of cellars formed out of larger apart¬ 
 ments, of ecclesiastical style. The present floor, partly made of old encaustic tiles, is on a level 
 with the capitals of a handsome arcade. The arrangement of that arcade is not one usually found 
 in Chapels, but has more the appearance of having belonged to a refectory. The original floor of 
 this refectory lies 10 or 12 feet below the present floor of the cellars. The Abbey when entire 
 covered the ground on the North and East sides of the Abbey Church, including the space now 
 occupied by a brewery. In the narrow street leading from Malmesbury Cross to the Abbey 
 House, there was to be seen a few years ago the arch of an entrance gateway: part of the wall of 
 which is still against a house. One of the rooms in the Abbey House, lined with oak wainscot, 
 is commonly called Henry 8lh’s Banqueting Room. If it was so, this room must of course have 
 been here in the clothier’s time: but it is probably later, as over the chimney piece are the Arms 
 of Ivy, a family who were living here about A.D. 1670. (See p. 247.) The Arms of Baynton in 
 No. 385 vary from the usual bearing of that family which was Sable a bend lozengy Argent. 
 
 1 At Wanswell near Berkeley Castle (not far from Nibley) there is a small property called 
 “ Stumpe’s land” described among the Berkeley Freeholds as “the inheritance of Sir James 
 Stumpe Kt.” [Fosbroke’s Extracts from Berkeley Deeds, p. 47.] 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 261 
 
 (St, Paul’s.) 
 
 Mem d . The Church, long since decayed, standing where the steeple is in the 
 Church-yard, was the Parish Church of Malmesbury, dedicated to St. Paul. 
 [Si 53 Remaining yet twenty four stalls. Oct. 1. 1673. 1 
 
 (Burneyale, and other Chapels.) 
 
 Mr. Weekes assures me that there are, in and about Malmesbury, besides Whit¬ 
 church whose steeple is now, I thinke, pulled downe, seven chapels, in Malmesbury, 
 Westport, Burton Hill. 
 
 Mr. Sayer of Hartwell, Bucks, says there was a Chapell at Burnevale, and that 
 the old woemen talk of a Lady Abbesse there. Sed quaere Mr. Weekes de hoc. Resp. 
 That here are the mines of a small Religious House for woemen, dedicated to Our 
 Ladie; but believes no Lady Abbesse. 2 
 
 1 Leland’s description of St. Paul’s in 1544 is as follows. “The body of the olde Paroch 
 Chirch, standing in the West” (read South) “End of the Chirch Yarde, is clene taken down. 
 The Est ende is convertid in aulam civicam. The fair square Tour in the West ende is kept for 
 a dwelling house.” [Itin. II. 53.] The Church used to be called “ St. Paul’s in Bynport.” 
 
 All that remained of St. Paul’s Church in 1852 was taken down in that year except the tower and 
 spire which are still standing: the materials were sold by the Churchwardens, and the site was 
 appropriated to burial. The building had been for a long time desecrated as a receptacle for lumber. 
 It did not stand in an even line with the tower, and might have been taken for an aisle of the 
 original church, but for Leland’s statement that it had been the East end. It had an East window. 
 Some portions of St. Paul’s were of very early character, and a few Norman fragments, (to be 
 seen, 1853, in a neighbouring garden) were said to have been certainly brought from this church. 
 There were also two or three windows with good Perpendicular tracery. 
 
 2 For the number Seven, Tradition has a fondness that is not always so well grounded as it 
 appears to have been in the present case. “Mr. Weekes” reported traces of seven, besides 
 Whitchurch. As he omitted to give the names, it is not clear whether he reckoned Westport as 
 one of the seven. The following list is therefore only conjectural. Letters of the alphabet have 
 been added to Aubrey’s rough plan [PI. xxv.] to indicate the relative positions of these buildings. 
 
 1. Burnevale (i.e. Bourn-vale) Chapel. See Plate xxvi: and for its site, O, upon the Plan in 
 PL xxv. This chapel was for many years used as a Poor-IIouse and is now destroyed. In a 
 “ Bill of Receipts of Sir John Williams, Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, 13th November 
 38 Hen. VIII.” it is described as “ A certain Chappell in Burnevall in the Parish of Westport, 
 within the Borough of Malmesbury, called ‘ Our Ladye Chappell,’ parcell of the possessions of 
 
262 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Malmesbury . 
 
 At the King’s Arms Inne 1 in this towne is an old scutcheon [No. 387]. Q. and 
 V. if not the coat of Chandois. Grides, doubtful whether fess or pile Or : impaled 
 with (Keynell. Ed.) V. the Amies at the Crosse. 2 
 
 In the River here— Queere Mr. Weekes if in the other stream also?— are Lam- 
 prills, like Lampreys: in knotts. They are but a few inches long. 3 
 
 Quaere , when the Abbey was pulled down ? 4 5 6 7 8 What year and month did Sir 
 
 the late Monastery of Malmesbury;” and it was sold (inter alia) to a speculator in Church 
 property, John Broxolme, Gent. [Dug. and Stev. Edit. 1723, vol. III. App. p. 10.] 
 
 2. Burton Hill Chapel : (See PL xxvi: and for its site, PI. xxv. R.) This was taken down 
 some years ago. 
 
 3. St. John’s (marked P in PL xxv.), near the bridge: part of a Hospital of St. John of 
 Jerusalem : front still standing. 
 
 4. St. Michael’s. Certainly mentioned in Deeds : but whether it stood as Aubrey says above, 
 on the site of the Abbey house, or was attached to the Abbey Church, is doubtful. 
 
 5. Whitchurch. (N. in Pl. xxv.) about one mile from Malmesbury on the way to Charlton. 
 See infra p. 267, n. 2. 
 
 6. St. Helen’s. (S. in Pl. xxv.) At the corner of formerly Milk Street. [Moffatt, p. 102.] 
 
 7. Westport. The Church was anciently called St. Mary’s Chantry. (See next page, 
 
 note 3.) 
 
 8. Moffatt (p. 102) mentions traces of a Chapel West of the Church last mentioned. In a 
 narrow street leading to the Horse Fair, a very ancient doorway, and good Perpendicular window 
 of two lights, are still to be seen in a cottage on the left hand side. Aubrey appears to have 
 thought that a Chapel stood at the site marked T. in PL xxv. 
 
 Besides the above, the Valor Ecclesiasticus names, as in the Abbey Church, a Chapel of St. 
 John Baptist, the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the shrine of St. Aldhelm. 
 
 1 Taken down in 1856. 
 
 2 In his Plan (Plate xxv.) Aubrey marks a second Cross (K.) at Malmesbury, besides the large 
 Market Cross (L.) now there. It stood in the Church-yard, either of St. Paul’s, or of the Abbey 
 Church. 
 
 3 “ They use them for baytes; and they squeeze these knotts together and make little kind of 
 cheeses of them for eating.” [Aubrey’s Nat. Hist, of Wilts, p. 63.] 
 
 4 i.e. the Monastery ; see p. 259, note 2. The Abbey Church, (partly left, and now used as the 
 Parish Church) suffered great havoc immediately after the Dissolution. The central steeple, 
 “ with mighty high pyramis,” had fallen down within memory, before Leland’s visit, (1544) but 
 from what cause, he does not say. Cranmer’s Licence to convert the Abbey Church into a 
 Parish Church is dated 20th August 1541. It is printed in Wilts Archaeol. Mag. I. 249. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 263 
 
 W m . Waller take this town and pull down the West gate, and sell the Bells? The 
 several Takings of this town by both parties ? 1 When the Tower fell down, after 
 the 29th May 1660, occasioned by the extreein shooting for joy of his Majestie’s 
 return ? Also when Plagues have been here ? 
 
 WESTPORT juxta Malmesbury. 2 
 
 Before the late Warres here was a prettie Church, where there were very good 
 windows and a fair steeple higher than the other, which much adorned the Towne 
 of Malmesbury; in it wore five tuneable bells, which Sir W m . Waller melted into 
 Ordnance, or rather sold; and the church was pulled down, that the enemie might 
 not shelter themselves against the garrison of Malmesbury. 
 
 The church was dedicated to St. Mary. Here were three aisles, which took up 
 the whole area. It is reported to have been more ancient than the Abbey. In the 
 windowes, which were very good, were inscriptions which declared so much. 3 
 
 At Westport, in the rode that goes towards Sherston, is an ancient building, 
 
 1 Malmesbury was occupied as a military post seven times between the summer of 1642 and May 
 1644. 1. By Sir Edward Baynton for the Parliament. 2. By the Royalists under Lord Digby, or 
 Col. Lunsford, February 1643, just after the taking of Cirencester. 3. Re-captured by Sir William 
 Waller on 22nd March in the same year. 4. Abandoned b}' Sir Edward Hungerford almost 
 immediately afterwards : and again occupied by Royalists from Cirencester. 5. Re-possessed by 
 the Parliament Forces 20th April, the garrison being wanted by the King at Reading. 6. Re¬ 
 taken by the Royalists after the victory of Roundway, July 1643. 7. Recovered by Massey for 
 
 the Parliament 25tli May 1644. From this period it remained in the hands of the Parliament, 
 being strengthened by an outpost of Cavalry at Charlton Park. Malmesbur}^ was a position of 
 great importance, as it commanded the road between Oxford and Bristol. 
 
 i Westport is now part of the town: being, as Aubrey elsewhere says, “the Parish without 
 the West Gate : which Gate, now demolished, stood on the neck of land that joins Malmesbury 
 to Westport.” 
 
 The grange of Thornhill in this parish belonged to Malmesbury Abbey: and was granted in 
 1 Edw. VI. to Sir William Herbert, the first Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 3 In his “ Life of T. Hobbes” written 1680, Aubrey says “Now is here rebuilt a church like a 
 stable.” To the body built between 1643 and 1680, an aisle was added a few years ago. 
 
 In the New Monasticon, vol. IY. p. 402, under the head of St. Mary’s Priory, Kington St. 
 Michael, is a notice of a payment of 12 pence a year to that House, out of the rents belonging to 
 St. Mary's Chantry, Westport. 
 
264 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Westport. 
 
 which looks like an hermitage. 1 Q. de hoc. There are severall about Westport 
 and Malmesbury. 
 
 This place is for nothing- so famous as for the birth of my honoured and learned 
 friend and country-man Mr. Thomas Hobbes. 2 
 
 1 Leland says The Hermitage was in the Dike of the town at the West end of the Parish 
 Church. (? Burnevale Chapel.) 
 
 2 At this point in his MS., Aubrey has some biographical memoranda of his friend, “ the 
 Philosopher of Malmesbury : ” but as he afterwards used them in his “ Life of Hobbes,” (printed 
 in “ Letters from the Bodleian ” vol. II. p. 593) it will be sufficient to note here only such as 
 more particularly relate to the town. In the Memoir alluded to, Aubrey is at great pains to 
 describe minutely the site of the humble cottage in which Hobbes was born : and in the present 
 MS. has left a sketch of it and a plan of the town, on purpose to identify the place without 
 mistake. [See PI. xxv. Letter A., and PL xxvii. No. 388.] The sketch has survived the 
 cottage, which was taken down some j-ears ago. It stood at the corner of the Horse-Fair. 
 
 The Philosopher was second son of Mr. Thomas Hobbes, Yicar of Westport. “The Father,” 
 says Aubrey, “ was one of the ignorant Sir Johns ” (priests) “ of Q. Elizabeth’s time ; could only 
 read the prayers of the Church and the Homilies, and valued not learning, not knowing the 
 sweetness of it. He was a cholerick man ; and a Parson (who, I think, succeeded him at Westport) 
 provoked him a-purpose at the Church door. So Yicar Hobbes stroke him, and was forced to 
 fly for it, and, in obscurity beyond London, died.” This family was established at Malmesbury. 
 “ The Yicar’s elder Brother Francis had been Alderman ” (the chief magistrate in those days). 
 “He was a wealthy glover: a great trade there, and had been greater.” Having no child, he 
 maintained his nephew (“the Philosopher”) at Oxford, and at his death gave him a pasture 
 called the Gaston gi’ound lying near to the Horse-Fair, worth £16 or £18 per annum. 
 
 At four years old Hobbes went to school in Westport Church : then to Mr. Evans, Minister of 
 the town ; and afterwards to Mr. Robert Latimer “ a good Grecian, who being a Bachelor (of 
 Arts) not above 19, taught him and two or three more ingeniose laddes after supper till 9 : at 
 his own house in Westport, where the broad place is, next door north from the Smyth’s shop, 
 opposite to the Three Cuppes, as I take it,” (see above, p. 102), “ by whom he so well profited 
 that at 14 years old he went a good scholar to Magdalene Hall in Oxford, and before he went 
 did translate Euripidis Medea out of Greek into Latin iambiques. I have heard his brother say 
 that when he was a boy he was playsome enough ; but withall he had a contemplative melancho- 
 linesse. He would gett into a corner and gett his lesson presently. When young he loved 
 musique and practised on the lute. In his old age too he used to sing prick-song every night 
 when all were gonne and sure nobody M ould hear him, for his health, which he did believe would 
 make him live 2 or 3 yeares longer. He was a tall man, rather more than six foot, hazel quick 
 eie, which continued to his last. Higher than I am by half a head. He hath no countryman 
 living now, 1677, hath known him so long as myself: nor of his friends doth know so much.” 
 
 For the rest of Hobbes’s Life the reader is referred to the work above-mentioned. He did not 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 265 
 
 BURTON HILL. 1 
 COLE-PARK. 2 
 
 Sir George Marshall was a Scotsman and one of the Escures (Equerries) to King 
 
 live at Malmesbury, but only visited it occasionally : ending his days under the protection of the 
 Earl of Devonshire at Hardwick in Derbyshire. He was buried in the neighbouring Church of 
 Ault Hucknall: where the following inscription is on his Tomb. 
 
 “ Condita hie sunt ossa Thome Hobbes Malmesburiensis 
 qui per multos annos servivit duobus Devoniae 
 Comitibus, patri et filio. Vir probus, et fama eruditionis 
 domi forisque bene cognitus. Obiit A.D. 1679, mensis 
 Deeemb. die 4 t0 set. suae 91.” 
 
 In John Aubrey’s MS. of the present volume there is an original letter from his brother 
 William Aubrey lying loose, containing as much information about Hobbes’s kindred as he could 
 obtain, from such of them as were surviving in 1680. 
 
 About 1660 Mr. William Hobbes, first or second cousin to the Philosopher, was a great clothier 
 at Malmesbury, and had an estate at Cleverton. There is still in Malmesbury Abbey Church, 
 a brass to Edmund Hobbes, a Burgess 1606 : and the name often occurs in the Parish Registers, 
 between 1590 and 1610. There is a portrait of the Philosopher at Hardwick: an engraving in 
 the Antiquarian Repertory vol. I. 388 : and a small one in the Frontispiece of his translation of 
 Homer 12mo. 1677. He is said to have been pleased with an epitaph suggested by anticipation 
 for his grave, “ This is the Philosopher’s stone.” His works were a few years ago re-published 
 by the late Sir William Molesworth. 
 
 1 A MS. Chronicle seen by Leland in Malmesbury Abbey said that the ancient name of Burton 
 had been Ilan-burgh. The Manor belonged to the Abbey: and was charged with £5 per 
 annum payable in 1530 to John Lord Hussey. In 1534 this had become, by purchase, payable 
 to Thomas Awdelett. Edward Carey had a grant of lands here from the Crown, in 1576. 
 Adam Archarde was a landowner in 1587. In 1606, the Tithes of Corston, Rodbourn, and 
 Tythings of Burton and Thornhill, parcel of the Rectory of St. Paul's, were granted by Patent 
 of King James I. to Lawrence Baskerville, William Blake, and Roger Rogers. In 1825 they were 
 purchased by Mr. R. H. Gaby of Chippenham, and were by him re-sold in lots. Burton Hill 
 House, then belonging to J. Cockerell Esq. was destroyed by fire on Saturday 14th March 1846. 
 The estate attached to it was afterwards sold to the present owner Charles William Miles Esq. 
 Sheriff of Wilts 1856. At Cowbridge, a new house was built about 1855 by S. B. Brooke Esq. 
 Burton Hill Chapel (PI. xxvi.) stood near the corner of the road leading to Cowbridge, behind 
 the late Mr. Salter’s House. See also Plan of Malmesbury, PI. xxv. Letter R. 
 
 2 Cowfold (corrupted to Cufold, then to Cold, now to Cole-) Park, in the Parish of St. Paul’s 
 Malmesbury, was part of the large grant made under the name of the “ Manor of Brokenborough ” 
 to that Abbey by King Edwv, (see above, p. 210). This was the Abbot’s Home-farm or Grange. 
 After the Dissolution it was used for the breeding-stud of King Henry VIII. In 1609 King 
 
 2 L 
 
266 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Cole-Park. 
 
 James who granted him a Lease, or the Fee, of Coleparke. He was a Justice of 
 Peace and dyed about 1637. 
 
 CORSTON. 
 
 In the Church nothing to be found; 1 the modern zeal has been reforming here¬ 
 about. Surely this tract of land, Gloucestershire and Somerset, encline people to 
 zeal. Heretofore nothing but Religious Houses, now nothing but Quakers and 
 Fanatiques. It is a sour woodsere 2 country, and inclines people to contemplation. 
 So, that, and the Bible, and ease, for it is now all upon dairy-grassing and clotheing, 
 sett their witts a-rmining and reforming. 
 
 One Mr. Baily 3 gave £3 towards the repayre of the Chancell, where he lies buried, 
 
 James I. paid to Sir Robert Brett, Kt. £182 16s. 8d. to build a dry wall round it for the same 
 purpose. The Park itself contained 300 acres. At “Cowfold grange,” and Rodbourne, lands were 
 granted by the Crown to Sir Thomas Gresham in 1578. Sir George Marshall was residing at 
 Colepark in 1625. In March 17th of that year a Royal Warrant was issued to pay him £100, 
 “to build a new Lodge at Malmesbury Race.” He was buried in Malmesbury Abbey Church. 
 In 1629 Marmaduke Marshall lived here. His daughters, Frances and Ciceley were buried, 
 and Margaret was baptized, at Malmesbury. Hugh Awdley (Sheriff of Wilts 1654) was 
 afterwards owner. Then by marriage, the Harvey family of Thurleigh and Ickwell Bury, co. 
 Bedford. It is now the property of Audley, eldest son of Peter Harvey Lovell Esq. The house 
 is moated and has lately been enlarged. Over the hall fire-place in the older part, is a 
 shield of Arms, Harvey impaling Selfe. On a hill in the grounds is an ancient mound. The 
 Sheriff used to hold his Court at “ Cofaude ” twice a year in the reign of Hen. III. [Hundred 
 Rolls.] 
 
 1 The Perpendicular Bell-turret is remarkable. It rises upon a transverse block, upon the 
 West gable, the block springing from a corbel above the West window, and is considered to be 
 an elegant specimen of its class : but “difficult to describe and not very easily drawn.” See both 
 description and drawing in Archseol. Journal, vol. I. p. 39. 
 
 2 In his chapter on “Local influences” (Natural History of Wilts, p. 11) Aubrey uses this 
 expression again, speaking of North Wilts. “ It is a woodsere country abounding much with 
 sour and austere plants, as sorrel, &c.: which makes their humours sour: ” and “ Mem. North 
 Wiltshire is very worm-woodish, and more litigious than South Wilts.” 
 
 3 Of a family which for several generations held lands here by Copy of Court Roll in the reign 
 of Queen Eliz., &c. [Hungerford Rent Roll.J 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 267 
 
 and the Parish Churchwardens built the wall of the Church yard, which is now 
 downed 
 
 WHITECHURCH juxta Malmesbury. 
 
 Here hath been a Church; it is now converted into a dwelling house: but the 
 steeple remaynes still (1670). 1 2 
 
 MINTY. 
 
 It anciently belonged, saietli the Parson, to the Abbey of Cirencester. 
 
 Qucerc de hoc: for, by the Legier-Book of Malmesbury, King Athelwulph gave 
 Five u mansiunculas” tenements, at “ Mintih ” to Malmesbury Abbey. See MSS. 
 with Mr. Bayliffe of Monkton near Chippenham. The impropriation here is a corps, 
 belonging to the Archdeacon of North Wilts. 3 The Church and Parsonage-house 
 
 1 Corston was one of the Malmesbury Abbey estates. Soon after the Dissolution it came into 
 the possession of the Hungerfords of Farley Castle co. Som : and was sold, with Stanton St. Quintin, 
 (as the Editor believes, by Lord Lexington who married the heiress of Sir Giles Hungerford of 
 Coulston), to the Bouverie family. It is now the property of the Earl of Radnor. It is in the 
 parish, and is a Chapelry, of St. Paul’s Malmesbury. Mr. Britton (Beauties of Wilts III. 131) 
 in naming the Cobham famity, &c. as former owners, appears to have confounded this place with 
 Corton in the parish of Hilmerton. West Park, near Corston, belonged to the Abbot of Malmesbury. 
 
 2 The Manor of “ Whitechurch, with Milbourne Tything ” belonged to Malmesbury Abbey, and 
 together with “Maltraver’s Fee, in Fuling’s” and “ Wyneyard’s Mill” was held under lease in 
 1534 by William Stumpe. On the page of his MS. on which Aubrey drew the rough plan of 
 Malmesbury (PL xxv.) he has marked the Chapel formerly here as having a spire, and upon the 
 margin he adds ; “ Whitchurch, formerly a Chapelle with a pretty steeple, is turned into a dwelling 
 house, and did belong to Capt. William Ivy, who pulled downe the steeple to build with, about 
 1675.” The Chapel was probably dedicated to St. James, offerings at his Image being named 
 in the Yalor Ecclesiasticus. It is called in a Malmesbury Charter “Album Monasterium.” 
 Of the origin of the name of White-church, Bede says “ there was a time when there was not a 
 stone Church in all the land, but the custom was to build them all of wood; and therefore when 
 a Church was built of stone, it was such a rarity and unusual thing among the Britons that 
 they called the place ‘Candida Casa’ or White-Church.” [Ilist. III. c. 4.] In 37 Hen. VIII. 
 the Manor of Whitchurch cum Milborne was granted by the Crown to Richard Moody. It 
 was (as just mentioned) Captain Ivy’s in 1675. The estate, about 200 acres, now belongs to 
 Dr. Kinnear. 
 
 3 King John gave to Cirencester Abbey Rents of assize and demesne in Mynty, worth at the 
 
 2 l 2 
 
268 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Minty. 
 
 are in the Countie of Wilts; the Parish in the Countie of Gloucester. Mem. The 
 Church was dedicated to St. Leonard. They have of late disused the Revell on 
 that day, (Nov. 6). 1 On the outside, near the Porch is such a lineary crosse in free¬ 
 stone as this [No. 389]; which was for the Consecration, as at Sarum Cathedral 
 Church. 2 
 
 There have been very good painted glass windows, some few fragments whereof 
 are yet left. 
 
 (West Window.) 
 
 In the West window, is [No. 390] Arg. a chev: S. between 3 badgers or pigs S. 
 saliant, Q. Swynnow ? but Swynnow is without a chevron: and part of another, 
 
 [No. 391,] impaling Nicholas. In the limbe ( edge ) of the window is “. pro 
 
 tiono statu ILronartu ^oolc.uxor fenestram fieri frccrunt nono tote JH...” A third 
 
 coat is broken out. 
 
 (South Window.) 
 
 In a S. window of three columnes ( lights) is part of the effigies of 3 Kings, the 3 
 Kings, I suppose, of Cullen ( Cologne') finely donne. In the top are these two 
 escutcheons, 1st. [No. 392] by the name of Chiche. 2. [No. 393] by the name of 
 Clay. Minetey Court in this parish was the mansion of the Lord of the Mannour, 
 or some great person: the seat in the church belonging to the house is under the 
 windowe in which these two coates (Chiche and Clay) are, and therefore not 
 unlikely they were coates of some of the possessors of the Court aforesaid. 
 
 In the limb : “ ©rate pro ataims tic.grnrrost rt SUtrir.” 
 
 Dissolution, £13 4s. 5d. It had also the rent of a close called “Sewen’s,” towards the Cook’s 
 salary: and, by gift of Hen. IV. four does a year from Braden Forest. Malmesbury Abbey also 
 had at one time some estate here: and in A.D. 1248 it had the Right of Patronage. [See New 
 Monast. Malmes: Chart. No. xiii]. In 36 Hen. VIII. a Manor at Minty belonged to Edward 
 Bridges and his wife. In 17 Jas. I., the “ Day Closes” to William Hicks. 
 
 1 The Bells of St. Leonard’s here ring a half-muffled peal on the evening of Innocents Day. 
 
 I See Notes and Queries, 2d. S. VII. p. 245.] 
 
 2 This is nothing more than a fragment of grave-stone with a cross on it, used as old material in 
 building. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 269 
 
 In the third column, “. ac Xtoftri ••• Soljis ••• ©orotijrc ... ksabrllc ... qu ••• 
 
 ijanc frnrstrant.” 
 
 Over this inscription in the window, is the effigies of a Knight armed cap-a-pee, 
 with his mandilion or surcoate, on which his coat of armcs. (IIungerford : with a 
 mullet for difference. No. 394) with the effigies of his 3 sonnes and 3 daughters. 
 They are in purple gowns. First daughter, in a cap Arg. semee guttee de poix: Second, 
 a kind of French hood, like Madam Nye, at Kington [PL xi. No. 201]. Third; liaire 
 dishevelled, temples bound round with pearles. The sonnes have liaire to their 
 shoulders. Over the 3 sonnes and 3 daughters’ heads in a scroll, “ (Tt]at ffic ntag 
 long.” “ Hauhatc pttcrt.” These, ill this and the next windowe, are the pictures of 
 the benefactors and their children kneeling, in the habitts of those dayes, and bidding 
 their beades. 
 
 The next windowe, 3 columnes, one is semee horseshoes Or. [No. 395]. The 
 other, semee fetters Or. [No. 396]; a terrctt of a grey-hound’s collar [No. 397]. 1 
 Perhaps he was ranger or keeper of the Forest of Braden, within whose limitts this 
 Church is. Another semee escallops Or. [No. 398]: Besides M and R. for the 
 blessed Virgin (d/aria /legina) which is common. 2 
 
 In a North Windowe. 
 
 “ ©rate pro atalnts ftljomc llhmgrrfort) nttltits rt ©ante Cristtan ttxorts rjtts qui...” 
 
 This coat is in severall places of the windowe: [No. 399, Powlett impaling 
 
 1 A “Tirret” is a name in heraldry for a manacle or handcuff. It is one of the badges of the 
 House of Percy. 
 
 2 The figure of the knight “ cap-a-pee,” and the rest of the stained glass here described, (which, 
 
 from a few pieces now left, appears to have been very good,) were probably in the windows of a 
 small Chantry at the East end of the North aisle used by the Hungerford Family. The Knight 
 was Sir Thomas Hungerford of Down Ampney who died October 1494. His wife was Christian 
 daughter of John Halle, of the Halle, Salisbury. A few r columbine flowers (the charge on the 
 shield of her family) are still scattered over the windows: and there are also well executed heads, 
 of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the letters M. K., and of a Saint with white roses in her hair, 
 bearing a palm-branch. Also the Hungerford crest, a Wheatsheaf between two Sickles, (without 
 the usual coronet). Of one of the inscriptions, only the words “ Ct DailtC ” remain. 
 
270 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Minty. 
 
 Hungerford with a mullet for difference. Underneath is a little brass inscription 
 of Nicholas Powlett and Mary his wife, who was a Hungerford. 1 2 
 
 Mem. The tradition of the old people here, is, that here was an organ. 
 
 Quaere. If here was not a chauntrev ? 
 
 Mem. In the glass at the top of the pointed windows here, are white roses, as 
 [No. 400] , sc: the cognizance of the House of York. 
 
 Sir William Penn the famous Seaman, Rere-Admirall in the Expedition to 
 Jamaica in Oliver’s time, father of William Penn the proprietor of Pennsylvania 
 was descended in a direct line from William Penne of Mynty who lieth buried in 
 the Chancell here near the South door. The grave-stone was broken at the last 
 paving of the Church. P... is yet visible. : He (Sir William) was born here, 3 and 
 had he lived he would have bought the estate. Q. If he was not one of Oliver’s 
 Knights. He was Knighted by K. Chas. 2. He dyed and was buried at Bristoll. 
 
 Mem. The Penns have been here a long time, but, I think, only Yeomen. 
 Stewards, or relating to the Lord Abbot of Malmesbury. In Braden Forest in the 
 parish of Brinkeworth is Penn's Lodge, yet so called. At Rodbourne there were 
 Penns: which ... Power, of Stanton Quintin, married. 
 
 This is not taken notice of by any body. 
 
 1 In Edmondson's pedigree of Earl Powlett. there is a Nicholas, second son of Sir Hugh Poulett 
 of Hinton St. George, co. Somerset, and brother of Sir Amias the jailor of Mary Queen of Scots: 
 but no wife's name is given. The style of dress on the Minty brass corresponding with the period 
 
 Sir Amias having died 1588), liis brother Nicholas may have been the person here buried. 
 Marv the wife of Nicholas Powlett of Minty was daughter of Thomas Hungerford of The Lea 
 near Malmesbury and Edith Strange his wife: great grandson of Sir Thomas and Christian 
 Hungerford above-mentioned. The children of Nicholas Powlett named on the brass are Ames 
 an onlv son who would be nephew to Sir Amias) Elizabeth, Mary (who married Henry Long of 
 Ashley near Box in Wilts) and Edith. See Mr. E. Kite’s Wilts. Brasses, p. 84. 
 
 2 The letter P is now the only one that is not visible. The inscription is “ w tt.t am - exx dyed 
 the 12 of march ix the year of OVR lord 1591.” This was Sir William’s great grandfather 
 soon after whose death in 1591 the estate was sold to the Pleydells. [Burke’s Land. Gent. II.. 
 
 p. 1021.] 
 
 3 Sir William was son of Captain Giles Penn, and was born at Bristol 1621 : he was knighted 
 1665 : died 1670, and was buried in Red cliff Church. [See Mon. Insc, there). 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 271 
 
 In Minty Common, near the road which leades to Ashton-Kaynes, is a boggie 
 place, called the Gorges, 1 2 where are springs, rising up out of blew clay. This is in 
 the Manor and belongeth to George Pitt Esq. In hott weather, round the spring 
 it lookes like froste: but if you taste it, it much resembles salt-petre; but there may 
 be a mixture of allum with it. Vide my Natural History of Wilts (p. 25) de hoc. 
 In the prints of the cattle’s feet in the Forest, the standing water is of a copper 
 colour; quod N.B. In this parish mints are very common, from whence it hath its 
 denomination. Here also grow wild camomile and penny-royal, such as in gardens. 
 
 The Common is part of (Braden) Forest: quod N.Br 
 
 NEWNTON. 
 
 This village anciently belonged to the Abbey of Malmesbury, and was given to 
 them by . V. Legier Book. 3 
 
 It affords a lovely prospect to the South, S.W. and S.E. 4 On the South it is 
 terminated by the blew hills of Iiackpen and Cherhill, and others of that range; 
 in the fore-ground Malmesbury town, the Ruins of the Abbey, Charlton House 
 the seat of the Earle of Berkshire, and, till these late unhappy warres, with 
 the woods of Charlton Parke and the parke of Hyams. 5 At the upper end of this 
 
 1 Perhaps a corruption of quag, itself a corruption of quake. “ I be all in a gogg-mire ” is a 
 North Wilts phrase for being in what appears an inextricable difficulty. 
 
 2 See a curious Map of Minty, temp. Eliz., in Archseologia xxxvii, p. 307. 
 
 3 Aubrey’s collections for Newnton, including the “ Custom on Trinity Sunday,” appear to have 
 been supplied to him by a correspondent whose initials were E. Gi. They are printed in Curb's 
 Miscellanies, 1714, p. 47. 
 
 Newnton is on the road between Malmesbury and Tetbury. A very large grant of land here, 
 described as “ lying on the western side of the Public Way called the Fosse,” with the Tithes and 
 Patronage of the Church, was given to Malmesbury Abbey by Ethelred King of Mercia A.D. 681. 
 [New Monasticon Malmesbury, Charter vi, ix and xiii]. At the Dissolution it was granted to the 
 Estcourt famil}', whose name in this neighbourhood occurs in Deeds of A.D. 1330 as “ De la Est 
 Court.” It is now the property of the Right Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron Estcourt, M.P. In Lee’s 
 History of Tetbury there is a pedigree of the Estcourt Family. 
 
 4 In his Natural History of Wilts., p. 125, Aubrey calls the view from “Mr. Poole’s garden- 
 house at Newnton ” the best in Wiltshire. 
 
 5 Now a Farm belonging to the Earl of Suffolk, in the parish of Brokenborough. 
 
272 Aubrey’s north wilts. \_Newnton. 
 
 village was tlie house of Sir Giles Estcourt Kt. and Baronet, Lord of this Mannor, 
 flanked with a delicate grove of oakes, which he cut down and sold for £700. [Arms 
 of Sir G.Estcoukt PI. xxviii. No. 402]. This village, long time ago, stood a little 
 higher in the field, where they still plough up fomidations of houses : the tradition is 
 that it was burned, and then built here, whence it was called Newnton, quasi New¬ 
 town. 1 At the upper end of this town, at the old mannor house, where the old pigeon- 
 house is, is a fine fountain of freestone, from which the water was brought in pipes of 
 lead to Malmesbury Abbey: they oftentimes digged for the pipes, but now I think 
 few are left: some of these pipes have been digged up within these twenty years. 
 
 The Church here was anciently a Chappell of Ease to Malmesbury, from which 
 it is distant above two miles: and buried here. There is the Inscription of the 
 first Rector here, which see: Hie jacet , &c. 2 
 
 The Custome here on Trinity Sunday. 3 
 
 King Athelstan having obtained a victory over the Danes by the assistance of the inhabitants 
 of this place, riding to recreate himself, found a woman bayting of her Cowe upon the way called 
 
 1 The statement as to the old foundations and tradition of an ancient village is quite coriect; 
 but any prior name that it may have had is lost. None of our oldest records (within the Editor’s 
 experience) give any other name than Newton, Newenton or Newnton. 
 
 2 It is called a Rectory in 1248 (New Monasticon). There is no inscription actually naming 
 the first Rector, but a brass with the effigy of a Priest, John Erton, “quondam Rectoris,” 
 formerly Rector, who died 1503. The Sarum Registers give many older names: the first recorded 
 being John de Bray who died 1309. Another brass, to Nicholas White, mentions that “he first 
 obtained from Malmesbury Monastery, the right of burying in the Church and Cemeter}’.” It is 
 without date, and does not say that he was Rector at all. [See Mr. Kite’s Wilts. Brasses, p. 41]. 
 The Church is dedicated to “ Holy Trinity.” There is a view of it, taken before the body was 
 rebuilt in 1842, in Relton’s Churches. In Malmesbury Abbey Register is a Composition between 
 the Abbot, and a brother Abbot of Kingswood, about the course of a stream at Newenton. A house, 
 now the Bell Inn, standing where the Foss road crosses the Turnpike road, is traditionally said 
 either to have been a chapel, or to have had a Bell placed here to call the more distant parishioners 
 to Church. Qucere : May it not have been the House with the Bell, mentioned in “The Custome ” ? 
 See next page. 
 
 3 In a Paper on “ Ancient Ales in co. Wilts.” printed in the Wilts. Archasol. Magazine, \ ol. II. 
 p. 198, the title of “ Herd’s Ale ” is given to this Custom at Newnton, by the late Mr. F. A. 
 Carrington. For “ Church-Ales ” see above p. 10. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 273 
 
 the Fosse, which runs through this parish and is a famous Roman way that goes from Cornwall 
 to Scotland. 1 This woman sate on a stoole, with the Cowe fastened by a rope to the legge of the 
 stoole ; the manner of it occasioned the king to aske why she did so ? she answered the King, that 
 they had no Common belonging to the Town. The Queen being then in his company, by their 
 consents it was granted that the Town should have so much ground in Common next adjoining 
 to this way as the woman would ride round upon a bare-ridged horse. She undertakes it; and foi 
 ascertayning the ground the King appointed Sir Walter, a Knight that way ted on him, to follow 
 the woman, or goe with her; which being donue and made known to the monkes at Malmesbury, 
 they, to show their liberality upon the extent of the King’s Charity, gave a piece of ground, 
 parcell of their inheritance, and adjoyning to the Churchyard, to build a House upon for the 
 Hayward to live in, to look after the beasts that fed upon this Common. And for to perpetuate 
 the memory of it, appointed the following Prayers to be said upon every Trinity Sunday in that 
 bowse with the Ceremonies ensueing. And because a monke of that time, out of his devotion 
 gave a Bell to be rung here at this howse before Prayers began, his name was inserted in the 
 Petitions for that gift. 
 
 The Ceremonies. 
 
 The Parishioners being come to the door of the Hayward’s house, the door was struck thrice, 
 in honour of the Holy Trinity : then the} 7 ent’red. The Bell was rung ; after which silence being 
 ordered, they read the Prayers aforesaid. Then was a Ghirland of Flowers, made upon a hoop, 
 brought forth by a mayd of the Town upon her neck; and a young man, a Bachelor, of another 
 parish, first saluted her three times, 11 in honour of the Trinity, in respect of God the Father. 
 Then she puts the ghirland upon his neck, and kisses him three times, in honour of the Trinity, 
 particularly God the Sonne; then he puts the ghirland on her neck again, and kisses her three 
 times, in respect of the Holy Trinity, and particularl} 7 the Holy Ghost. Then he takes the 
 Ghirland from her neck, and, by the Custoine, must give her a penny at least, which, as fancj 
 leads, is now exceeded, as 2s. Got., or &c. 
 
 The method of giving this ghirland is from house to house annually, till it comes round. 
 
 In the Evening every Commoner sends his supper up to this house, which is called the Eale- 
 Ilouse ; c and having before layed in there, equally, a stock of Malt which was brewed in the 
 house, they sup together, and what was left was given to the poor. 
 
 In the late wars this house was burnt clown by the Soldiers, and the custom of 
 supping, together with brewing that quantity of drinke, had ceased in 1670; 
 
 a The Kiss of Peace. 
 
 b Mem. About 1660, one was killed striving to take away the ghirland. 
 c Of the Eale-hus see Somner’s Glossary at the end of the English Historians, printed at London, 1652. 
 
 1 Not strictly so. There was a Roman road all the way, but “ The Fosse ” is considered to have 
 been the name of the road between Exeter and Lincoln. 
 
274 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Newnton. 
 
 The rest of the Ceremonies are yet continued, 1682, in the Toft 1 and on the old 
 house-door which yet remains, which they then carry thither; and a small quantity 
 of drinke, of six or eight gallons, is yet drank after the ghirland is given. 
 
 The Forme of Prayer. 
 
 “ Peace, good men, Peace, this is the House of Charitie, and House of peace. Christ Jesos be with us this day 
 and evermore, Amen. 
 
 “You shall pray for the good prosperitie of our Soveraigne Lord King Henry VIII. and the Royal Issue (of late 
 dayes King Charles II., Queen Katharine, Duke of York, and the rest of the Royal Progenie), with all the Nobilitie 
 of this Land; that Almightie God would give them such grace, wisdome, and discretion, that they may do all 
 things to the glory of God, the King’s honour, and the good of the Kingdome.” a 
 
 “ You shall praise God that moved the hearts of King Atitei.stan and Dame Matjd his good Queen to give this 
 Ground to our forefathers, and to us, and to all them that shall come after us, in Fee for ever. 
 
 “ You shall pray to God for the sowle of Sir Waltek, the good black Knight, that moved his heart to give to 
 our Fore-fathers, and us, this ground both to tread and tite, 2 and to them that shall come after us, in Fee for ever. 
 
 “ You shall pray to God for the sowle of Abbot Loringe , 3 that moved his heart to give this ground both to build 
 this house b upon, to our Forefathers and to us, and to them that shall come after us, in Fee for ever. 
 
 “ You shall pray to God for the sowle of Don 4 Alured, the black Monke, that moved his heart to give the Bell c 
 to this house. 
 
 “ For the sowles of these Benefactors, whom the Lord hath moved their heartes tobestowe these benefitts upon us, 
 Let us now and ever pray. Pater noster, &c.” 
 
 NORTON. 5 * 
 
 a N.B. This was made by Mr. Richard Estcourt in favour of the present Government. 
 b The Hayward’s house called the Eale-house. 
 c This bell is now at Mr. Richard Estcourt’s house. Vide what inscription it hath. 
 
 1 A toft is a place where a messuage once stood. 
 
 2 To tite, is an old word meaning to put in order. 
 
 3 Walter Loring, Abbot of Malmesbury from A.D. 1205 to 1223. 
 
 4 Meaning Dominus, Sir, anciently used instead of “ Reverend.” 
 
 5 Norton is a small village between Hullavington and Foxley. The parish, which contains about 
 one thousand acres, touches the Foss Road on the West, and Malmesbury Common on the East. 
 When the writer of these Notes was presented to the Vicarage in 1846, he was inducted into it as 
 
 “ Norton Coleparle, alias Newton, alias Newnton Coleparle ! ” How all these aberrations from the 
 truth crept into the Books of the Diocesan Registry, he is unable to say: but the addition of the 
 last name may be thus accounted for. About three miles from Norton is Cole-Park (mentioned 
 above p. 265), and in some of the old County Maps these two names are not only printed so close 
 as to appear one, but the mistake is completed by Coleparle being mis-printed Cole-Par/e. The 
 proper and only 7 name of the Parish is Norton; as in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, and all other 
 ancient Records without exception. 
 
 Three fourths of the lands here, together with the Rectorial Tithes and the right of nomination to 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 275 
 
 OKESEY alias WOXY. 1 
 
 Did belong to the Duke of Lancaster, 8 now to Sir Edward Poole who hath this 
 
 the Yicarage, belonged for 600 years to Malmesbuiy Abbey, by gift of King Athelstan in A.D. 938. 
 At the Dissolution, the Abbot’s estate was sold to Sir John Bridges (created 1554 Baron Chandos 
 of Sudeley). It is supposed to have belonged next to the Danvers family of Dauntesey, as they 
 were the succeeding Patrons. Afterwards it was the property of the Estcourts of Pinkeney, near 
 Sberston. Thomas Estcourt Esq. who died in 1704 bequeathed the Manor and Advowson to his 
 youngest sister, the wife of Richard Creswell Esq. In 1713 they were sold to Sir Edward 
 Gould, Kt., of Ilighgate, co. Middlesex, and continued in his family till 1798, when the estate 
 was broken up, and disposed of in parcels by Colonel Edward Thoroton Gould of Mansfield 
 Woodhouse co. Nottingham. In 1829 one of these, called Gorsey Leaze, the Lordship of the 
 Manor, and the Patronage, were purchased by the late Joseph Neeld Esq. of Grittleton. 
 
 The remaining one fourth of the Parish is believed to have belonged in the 17th century to the 
 Family of Jacob (see Hilmerton p. 169, n. 1). John Jacob, Sheriff in 1681, was of Norton: and 
 his daughter Miss Anne Jacob by will in 1709 founded a small charity here for a school. This 
 family probably built the principal House, which, with its lands, is understood to have passed 
 through the Ayliffes of Grittenham to the late Lord Holland, owner also of the contiguous parish 
 of Foxley. 
 
 Foxlf.y (in the old Hundred of Sterkeley) belonged in the reign of Will. I., with the adjoining 
 Manor of Easton (see above p. 85) to Roger de Berkeley. In Hen. III. Simon de Eldersfield, 
 co. Worcester, held it, under the Abbess of St. Edward of Shaftesbury. [T. de N.] In 
 3 Edw. III. (1274) William Delamere, under the same. The last of this family who presented 
 to the Rectory, in 1457, was William Delamere of Hardwick in Eldersfield. The next owners 
 were the Moodys of Garsdon who were followed, about 1627, by the Ayliffes of Grittenham in 
 Brink worth. George Ayliffe Esq. married Judith Strangwa^^s of Melbury co. Dorset; and after 
 the death (as it is believed) of their daughter Judith Ayliffe, who gave the Communion Plate to 
 the Church and died in 1727, Foxley passed to the family of Lord Holland. 
 
 The Church is ancient and has some good Early English columns. On the South is a “ Low- 
 side ” window. In a side-chapel on the North is a fine monument to George Ayliffe 
 (abovementioned) who died 1712, and his wife Judith Strangways, 1716; with a shield of their 
 arms impaled. Also a tablet to Richard Carter who died May 11th 1843, aged 92, and Eleanor 
 ]\lary his wife 26th December 1844 aged 88, after an union of 70 years. Another tablet mentions 
 that “This chancel was Pav’d by John Sturnpe Rector here” (1679-1726) “June 29, 1708. 
 Never done before.” The initials of this Rector, I. S. 1682, arc on a small ohalice: and a small 
 paten bears the name of “ Jeferey Penel of Foxles Parysh, 1606.” 
 
 1 Oaksey is about half way between Malmesbury and Cirencester. The name was anciently 
 spelled Occhesei, Wochesie (Domesday Book), or Wokesey. A “ Wuxi ” was a wattled sheep-cote 
 (falda wixata). Fields are sometimes called the Woxies; perhaps from the sheep-cotes on them. 
 [See Proceedings of Archseol. Instit. at Salisbury, 1849, p. 201J. 
 
 8 The Manor belonged to the Fitz Payne family, temp. Hen. II., then to the Bohuns, Earls of 
 
 2 M 2 
 
276 Aubrey’s north wilts. [~ Oaksey. 
 
 Privilege, that nobody can lie arrested in this Mannor without his warrant. Q: if 
 all Bradon Forrest did belong to the Duke of Lancaster: a coppice there is called 
 Lancaster Wood. * 1 
 
 In this Parish, about half a mile northwards, is the remaines of a little Cittadel, 
 with a Keepe Hill, both moated round. In the ground near this place, Farmer 
 Earle ploughed up a sword. This Cittadell is called by the name of Norwood 
 Castle, a place of defence, no question, for the Duke of Lancaster. Mem. In a 
 close adjoyning to the Church-yard are yet to be seen, the ruins of an old seat of 
 the Duke of Lancaster’s, and a Chapell; it is now called Court and Chappell Close. 
 
 Near to this village is Okesey Parke, the seate of Sir Edward Poole; it is not 
 above one mile about, but admirably well wooded: the best oakes in the County. 
 There are two Witch-hazel trees of that vast bigness I never heard of the 
 
 Hereford, who are said to have had a castellated house here. By the marriage of a coheiress of 
 Bohun it passed to the Duchy of Lancaster. (In the list of the Duchy estates it is sometimes 
 misprinted Loxley Park). In 1591 the holders of the Manor under the Duchy were Unninge, 
 Baker, and Allis. Sir Henry Poole was a Freeholder in the parish. Others were Keddelbie, 
 Strange and Michelborne, &c. After the Manor had been obtained, in Aubrey’s time, by the 
 Pooles, it was bought, c. 1710 by Sir Francis Westley: was left by his will to his daughter 
 Mrs. Adamson, sold to the first Earl of Malmesbury, re-sold to Francis Webb Esq., and since 
 divided. In the Wilts. Archaeol. Mag., Yol. VI., p. 198, there is a Survey of it, A.D. 1591. 
 
 The Priory of Monkton Farley had by gift of Humphrey de Bohun c. 1221, the patronage of 
 the Rectory of “ Wokesie,” with an annual payment to him of 40 shillings as tithe of unbroken 
 colts, (“pullorum indomitorum .”) The Manor was not given to the Priory, being widow’s jointure. 
 
 1 Braden Forest belonged to the Crown, under which certain portions were appropriated. In 
 A.D. 1300 Henry de Laci Earl of Lincoln (and jure uxoris Earl of Salisbury), was an owner 
 within the precincts. [See Wilts. Mag., IV., 201]. He died A.D. 1312: his daughter and heir 
 married Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster whose nephew was created Duke of Lancaster 
 1351. Hence “Lancaster” or the “Duchy” wood, the “Duchy” Ragg, &c. In Hen. IV. the estate 
 of the Duke of Lancaster merged in the Crown. In 1096, seven hundred and forty one acres in 
 Braden Forest, including Hatton’s Lodge, &c., were leased by the Crown to the Jacobson family, 
 as parcels of the Duchy of Lancaster, under the seals of the Crown and the Duchj^ (Orig. doc. 
 penes Edit.) In the Pleadings of the Duchy of Lancaster, III., 139, mention is made of Okesey 
 Manor, and Highley. In the Archaeologia, Yol. XXXVII., p. 304, is a Paper by J. Y. Akerman 
 Esq., on the Ancient Limits of the Forest of Braden, with a Map, and copies of some Perambu¬ 
 lations. See also a Survey A.D. 1591, in Wilts. Archaeol. Mag., Vol. VI., p. 200. 
 
 For some Church Notes of Oaksey see Gent. Mag., 1806, Pt. I., 212. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 277 
 
 like, they are not much less than most of the best oakes in the Parke. 
 
 In the Church have been also good windowes, but now extremely defaced. There 
 remayn some pieces of these two coats, Swynnow? (See PI. xxvii. No. 390. 
 “ Minty,”) and Baynton [No. 403]. 
 
 In the Chancell is an ancient nich, but no figure there, nor any tradition whose 
 
 monument it was. In a North window is only “ ©rate pro ata . ttttUttS 
 
 bencfactoris.” 
 
 SirNevill Pool, father to Sir Edward, lies buried in this Church: no monument, 
 only a little coate which is Poole, impaling Poole of Sapperton. (This would be 
 an impalement of the two coats quartered in the dexter of No. 406, PI. xxviii.) 
 Insert the Pedigree of Poole. 1 
 
 On the great bell here is this inscription : viz., “ NHIEi 
 
 3®l©l£©2l£®IfH N©13I[cS.” (Between each word is a Head crowned, 
 
 on which Aubrey observes) This is a Hood, which fashion was by King Henry, I 
 tliinke, the Fourth. [PI. xxvii. No. 401.] 
 
 Mem. The Canale, that is to be cat for the uniting the Rivers of Isis and Avon, must runne 
 through this parke. The hint was first given by Mr. H. Brigges, Professor of Geometrie, of 
 Oxford, Mathematician. Observing the neerness of the two rivers in the mappe, he took a journey 
 from Oxford to see it, which was not long before he died. Then the Civill Warrs came, and 
 after there was a calme of quietnesse, M r . F r . Mathew revived it, who made a Mappe, and 
 wrote a treatise of it, about eight sheets; he &ok much paines about it, and left many good 
 papers concerning it, which had all been unknown, had it not been for me: Aug st . 1682. Jo. 
 Collins, Mathematician, went down purposely to see, and wrote well of it; and then I told him 
 where M r . Mathew’s papers lay, a bundle that would fill an ordinary portmantue. They were 
 proffered to the Royal Society for £5, together with the plate of the Mappes which did cost £8; 
 but they having not so much public spiritednesse in them, S r . James Shaen of Whitehall sent the 
 
 1 Sir Henry Poole Kt. was M.P. for Cricklade 1603, for Malmesbury 1614, and Sheriff of 
 Wilts 1619. His wife was a Wroughton. Sir Neville Poole of Oaksey was M.P. for Cricklade 
 1614 and 1623 : for Malmesbury 1640—41 : and Sheriff 1636. He was an officer for the Parlia¬ 
 ment and defended Marlborough against the Royalists in 1642. [See Way left’s Marlborough, 157. ] 
 Sir Edward Poole Kt., of Kemble, was M.P. for Wootton Basset 1641; for Cricklade 1658—9. 
 He was afterwards of Oaksey. In an old county list 1667 he appears as a “Justice of Peace with 
 £1000 a year.” See some notices of this family in Burke’s Landed Gentry; “Poole of 
 Mayfield.” 
 
278 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Poole. 
 
 five pounds to M r . Mathew’s poore daughters, and has them. Then the Aldermen of London 
 that are Fellows of the Royal Society repented that they let slip such an opportunity. 1 
 
 POOLE. 
 
 This parish belonged to the Dutchie of Lancaster, to the Pooles now. 2 
 In the east window of the Chancell is the coate, [No. 404], Clifford (read Giffard) 
 Earl of Longuevile in Normandy and Earl of Buckingham. 3 
 
 1 Of this project to displace the “ western waggons ” and packhorses, Aubrey gives a more 
 detailed account in his Natural History of Wilts, p. 31. The scheme though recommended bj’’ 
 two men of experience, Briggs and Collins, was never executed. 
 
 Henry Briggs who “ gave the first hint,” was a man of genius and invention, and one of the 
 best mathematicians of his day. He was Professor at Gresham College, and first Savilian Pro¬ 
 fessor at Oxford: died 26th January 1630 and was buried in the choir of the chapel of Merton 
 College. 
 
 John Collins who was also a very eminent mathematician, lost his life in the cause of this Cut 
 from the Avon to the Isis. He rode from Oxford to Malmesbury in order to view the ground: 
 but drinking too freely of cyder when overheated fell into a consumption, of which he died 
 November 10th, 1683. 
 
 Francis Mathew, was of the co. Dorset and had been Captain in King Charles’s service. He 
 had the hint from Briggs, and took much pains about it, went into the country, made a map, 
 wrote a treatise, and addressed himself to The Protector and the Parliament. Oliver was 
 exceedingly pleased with the design and had he lived a little longer would have had it perfected: 
 but upon his death it sunk. After the Restoration Aubrey recommended Captain Mathew to 
 William Lord Brouncker (then President of the Royal Society) who introduced him to the King. 
 His Majesty also approved the design, but (says Aubrey) “money was wanting and public spirited 
 contribution. The Captain had no purse (undone by the Warres) : and the heads of the Parlia¬ 
 ment and Council were filled with other things. Thus the poor old gentleman’s project came 
 to nothing.” 
 
 2 Pool Keynes, formerly in the Hundred of Cheggelow ; about six miles South of Cirencester. 
 The patronage of the Rectory is still in the Duchy of Lancaster. The Manor is not named in 
 the printed list of the Duchy Estates A.D. 1558, but in the Duchy Office there is a Survey of it 
 in 1591, when Henry Poole held seven hundred and seventy six acres paying Crown Rent 
 £21 6s. 3d. The only Freeholder was John Blandford. In 1381 Sir Thomas Hungerford 
 purchased a Rent of ten marks in the village “ De la Pole near Kernel ” from Thomas Morleye 
 de la Pole. [H. Deeds]. 
 
 3 The coat happens to be the same as that of Giffard (which, in the MS., Aubrey by a lapsus 
 calami, wrote Clifford): but in this church it is more likely to have been Fitz Payne. In 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 279 
 
 Iii the Chancel on a freestone is this inscription:— 
 
 “ Subtus requiescit veneranda cinis Johannis Ferrabee, Theologi 
 tarn studio quam exercitio insignis, hujus ecclesise Pastoris 
 vigilantissimi, pie demortui May 11, Anno Salutis MDCLXII. 
 
 Infirmus terris, grandaevus pulpita vectus, 
 
 Regali caelos firmus adire via. 
 
 Obiit cui vixit Deo.” * 1 
 
 In the North winclowe of this church is the coate of Parre, Marquesse of 
 Northampton. [No. 405.] 
 
 In the wall of that side is a freestone monument, very ill donne, of Edward Poole, 
 Esq., with this Inscription :— 
 
 “ Hie jacet corpus Edwardi Poli armigeri qui in hoc mortali.aevo vixit ann: 48, et ex hac 
 serumnosa vita ad dominum migravit 28 die Aprilis, Anno Dni. 1577, Elizabethe 20.” 
 
 This shield on the monument is inverted, and the man’s coate is where the 
 female’s should stand. Here Poole of Oakesey is quartered with Poole of Sapper- 
 ton : impaling-[No. 406.] 
 
 K. Fettiplace. 2 
 
 9 Edw. I. (1281) Robert Fitz Payne died, bolding this Manor under the Earls of Salisbury. 
 [Wilts. Fines and T. de N.] In 1327 Sir Robert Fitz Payne conveyed it with the Advowson to 
 John Maltravers Junr. [Index to Wilts. Fines, Lans. MS. 306.] For some account of Fitz Payne 
 see Hutchins’s Dorset, II., 403. Coll. Top. et. Gen., III., 399: and Gent. Mag., 1825, Pt. ii. 
 p. 297, where is a seal of the Arms: over three lions a bendlet. John Maltravers Junr., (son 
 of Lord Maltravers one of the assassins of Rich. II.) left two daughters and coheiresses, of whom 
 Joan the eldest married Sir John Keynes (Burke’s Ext. Peer. “Maltravers,”) from whom the 
 Parish derives its second name. For a Pedigree of the Keynes family whose property lay chiefly 
 in Dorset and Northamptonshire, see Baker’s Northamptonshire, I., p. 355: and Hutchins’s 
 Dorset, I., 110. 
 
 1 John Ferrabee was Rector, according to Sarum Registers, fifty nine years. The verses in the 
 Inscription signify that though so feeble in body, as to be carried to the pulpit, his mind had lost 
 none of its energy. In 1623 he nominated Thomas Ferrabee to the Vicarage of Bishop’s 
 Cannings, on the death of George Ferrabee the amateur musician, whose entertainment of King 
 James I., with bell-ringing, organ, “pastoralls and bucolics of his own making,” is described 
 by Aubrey, Natural History of Wilts, 1847, p. 109. 
 
 2 In the Pedigree of Fettiplace of Bessil’s Leigh, Oxon, are two marriages of Fettiplace and 
 Poole: an alliance to which Aubrey perhaps intended to refer. 
 
280 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Poole. 
 
 In the church-yard here, on the South side, under an ordinary freestone tombe- 
 stone, thus:— 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of John Plott Esquier, Counsellor at Lawe, who died the 16 day of .... 
 in the year of our Lord 1645.” 
 
 Mem. He was one of the Judges of the Welch circuit. 
 
 RODBOITRNE. 1 
 
 SEAGRE, vulgd SEGAREY. 
 
 Lord Seagrave gott the Mannor house long since. It was sometime a Nunnery. 
 
 1 This village forms a Chapelry, and is within the Parish, of St. Paul’s Malmesbury. The 
 Manor and Tithes belonged to Malmesbury Abbey: and according to the old records of that 
 Monastery, the lands seem to have been given at three different periods. The first Grant was 
 made to Aldhelm the Founder, by his relative Ina, the 13th King of Wessex, A.D. 701. The 
 second, by Kynewulf the 17th King of Wessex : in w T hose charter, A.D. 758, the grounds 
 bestowed are described as lying at the meeting of two rivulets, the Meardaen and the Reod-burne ; 
 (in Anglo-Saxon, Reod is reed, and burne, stream). The third gift was by iEthelred the 23rd 
 King of Wessex, in A.D. 982. Among the boundaries of Rodburne, (in the Abbey Cartulary, p. 34) 
 is mentioned a place called “ The Heathen Burials ; ” being some very ancient cemetery. The 
 rents arising from part of the lands here belonging to the Monks, went towards the maintenance 
 of their Cook. The rest was the Abbot’s, and was included in the rents received from his 
 Grange at Cowfold (Cole-park) adjoining. 
 
 Together with many of the other estates of the Monastery lying near Malmesbury, Rodburne 
 Manor was purchased after the Dissolution by Mr. Stumpe. It is named in the will of his son 
 Sir James, in 1563. It has not been found among the possessions of the Hungerfords of Farley 
 Castle who were owners of the neighbouring parishes of Corston and Stanton St. Quintin, and 
 also of Mauduit’s Park: but it belonged to Walter Hungerford Esq. of Studley, M.P. for Caine, 
 second surviving son of Sir George Hungerford of Cadenham. Walter married Elizabeth 
 daughter and heiress of J. Dodson, (not Dudley, as printed in Sir R. C. Hoare’s Hungerfordiana, 
 p. 23), and by his will in 1754 bequeathed Rodburne to his nephew George (son of Ducie) 
 Hungerford, also of Studley. George Hungerford (buried at Yatesbury, see above p. 46), by his 
 will in 1764 bequeathed to his widow Elizabeth, daughter of John Pollen Esq., one portion of 
 this estate : the rest to his relatives, the families of Luttrell and Duke. The whole was afterwards 
 re-united, and is now the property of Richard Hungerford Pollen Esq. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to “ Holy Rood.” In one of his MSS. Aubrey mentions “ old Mr. Penn 
 of Rodburne, an ingeniose man and a good chymist,” temp. Jas. I., as of the same family as the 
 founder of Pennsylvania, and Admiral Sir William Penn. [See above, “Minty,” p. 270]. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 281 
 
 Afterwards it came — quaere by purchase or match ? to 
 
 Bonham — 
 
 I 
 
 . Godwyn _. . .. d. and heir 
 
 Arms [PL xxviii. No. 407]. ; 
 
 Sir Robert Mompesson— . . .. d. and heir 
 Arms [No. 409]. This 
 coat is in the Hall Window 
 with the martlet on the 
 shoulder. 1 
 
 Mompesson — . . .. \ one of these two was d. and h. of Drew 
 / of Littleton-Drew, by whom it came. 
 
 r 
 
 Mompesson— . ... ) 
 
 Hungerford= .... d. and Norton =. . .. d. and coheir. 
 
 Arms [No. 408]. coheir of Rotherfield, 
 
 {wrong. See Hants. 
 
 Note.) Arms, Yert, a 
 lion ramp. 0. 
 
 [No. 411.] 
 
 Mr. Stratton there hath all the Deeds. 2 
 
 1 See the shield of Mompesson on a tomb in Steeple Langford Church: also “ Branch and 
 Dole,” p. 13. The martlet seems to be, not a mark of cadency, but an allusion to the old name 
 Moun -pinzon. In French, pinson is a chaffinch. See Hoare’s Heytesbury, p. 218. 
 
 2 Many ancient owners are named in this Parish. In A.D. 1084, Drogo, or Drew: whose nephew 
 
 and successor Walter Drew took the name of Clifford in marrying the heiress of Clifford Castle, 
 and was the father of Fair Rosamond (Collect: Cliffordiana). 1259, Reginald de Burnevale 
 (I. p. M.) 1275, Roger de Clifford. Aubrey then supplies the name of Lord Segrave: upon what 
 
 authority does not appear. The last ancient Baron of that name died in 1321. Thomas Dru, 1369. 
 [A Deed dated at “Segre” with his seal, viz., “Ermine a wolf or dog (no doubt, a lion) statant,” 
 and his wife’s, “ A greyhound statant,” is mentioned in Collect. Top. et. Gen., VI., 359], In 1373, 
 Bohun : and in 1399, Mortimer, Earl of March, probably as chief lord. In 1417, Thomas Bonham, 
 with whom Aubrey’s pedigree begins. The latter part of it seems to require correction. The 
 heiress of Thomas Bonham married William Godwyn of Gillingham, Dorset. The heiress of 
 Godwyn married Robert Mompesson of Bathampton Wyly. John Mompesson their son married 
 Isabel daughter and heir of Thomas Drew, of Seagry. (The letters T. D. were still in a spandril 
 of one of the nave windows in 1849.) Their great grandson Edward Mompesson died 1553 s. p. 
 leaving four sisters coheiresses, one of whom married William Wayte, and it was by their daughter 
 Elizabeth Wayte that the Manor came to Sir Richard Norton of Rotherfield. His grandson Sir 
 Richard sold Seagry 1648 and died 1652. 
 
282 aubeey’s north wilts . [ Seagry . 
 
 Mem : Moorshull in Kington parish, Chisenbuiy, Fisherton Anger and Littleton 
 Drew, were the lands of Mompesson. 1 
 
 In the North side of this Church is an ancient freestone monument in a nich, but 
 without inscription or escutcheon; nor is any tradition left whose it is. 2 On the 
 same side, another of a Chevalier in armour, with his shield, but without any 
 charge on it, or inscription. 3 
 
 In a window of the North side of the Church remains this figure [No. 410] an 
 
 Sir Richard Norton’s estate (formerly Mompesson’s) was broken up among three purchasers. 
 1. The Stratton family. 2. The Right Hon. Henry Fox. 3. Mr Bayliffe. The Strattons lived 
 at Upper Seagry. They sold their portion to Joseph Houlton Esq., then of Grittleton, whose son 
 Nathaniel was in 1754 the builder of the present Seagry House. His arms are on the Pediment. 
 In 1785 the Houltons sold it to Sir James Tylney Long and it now belongs to his descendant the 
 Earl of Mornington. Mr. Fox’s purchase still belongs to Lord Holland’s family. Mr. Bayliffe’s 
 to his descendant. 
 
 Aubrey’s statement, that one moiety of the old Mompesson property went by match to the 
 Hungerfords is a mistake. No such match appears. In a letter to Bishop Tanner he desires 
 this error to be corrected. It is however the case that from 1582 to about the middle of the last 
 century the Hungerfords of Farley Castle had a manor and house at “Over Seagry,” of which 
 William Adie was tenant in 1609. This devolved, as the writer believes, upon Lord Lexington 
 in right of his wife the heiress of Sir Giles Hungerford of Coulston, by whom it was sold to the 
 Bouverie family and now belongs to the Earl of Radnor. 
 
 There was never any endowed Nunnery at Seagry: but the neighbouring Priory of Braden- 
 6toke had property here, called “ Segre Cockerel’s,” afterwards “ Segre Earl’s,” given to them by 
 Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford. They had also the Rectory and patronage of the Yicarage. 
 Likewise some land given by Elias Burell. The lands here belonging to Bradenstoke Priory 
 were leased to, and afterwards bought by, the Danvers family of Dauntsey : which, probably in the 
 same way as Christmalford, passed to the Herberts. Seagry vicarage is now in the gift of the 
 Earl of Caernarvon. 
 
 In 1651 the Tenants of Seagry manor considered themselves as tenants under the Duchy of 
 Lancaster. [Original Deed.] 
 
 1 Moreshall and Swinley, in Kington St. Michael parish, then belonging to Edmund Leversage 
 and Grace his mother, were held under Seagry manor in 25 Elizabeth. [Hungerford Cartulary.] 
 
 2 Seagry Church was entirely re-built in 1849. The “monument in the niche,” called “The 
 Nun’s,” is now within the altar rails, North side. Nothing is known of its history. 
 
 3 The “ Chevalier in armour ” has been placed in the South Chapel (belonging to Lord Holland). 
 It is of about A.D. 1360. The charge upon the shield is very rudely cut and much worn at the 
 edges. It is a lion passant, the coat of Drew. Thomas Drew was of Seagry 1373: (see p. 281.) 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 283 
 
 Esquire kneeling, with a silver collar a round his neck, and an escutcheon, viz., 
 Dexter side broken out: Sinister, (perhaps Horsey, No. 412). 
 
 At the East side of the Cliapell is also an ancient tombe without escutcheon or 
 inscription, whereof no tradition is left. 1 
 
 SOMERFOKD MALTRAYERS, S. Magna, or Broad S. 2 
 In the Legier-Book of the Earle of March, I find William de Bohun Earl of 
 
 a A Silver Collar of SS (as tliis should be) is to be worn by an Esquire: Collar of SS of Gold, by Knights. 
 
 1 The Fig. 410, and Arms 412, have disappeared. So also has the “ancient tomb” he speaks 
 of; for the one now there (see last note) was brought from the North side of the nave in 1849. 
 
 2 As there are in North Wilts three separate parishes called Somerford, (viz. S. Magna, 
 S. Parva, and S. Keynes) whilst in the earlier Records the name of Somerford only is used, 
 without any thing else to distinguish which is meant, it becomes difficult to trace their 
 respective histories. That of Broad Somerford appears to be as follows. 
 
 Under the Barony of Castle Combe (to which Aubrey’s extract refers) the principal manor 
 belonged in Hen. III., and down to Hen. IY. to the family of Maltravers. In the latter reign, 
 Alianora the heiress of Sir John Maltravers married John Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundell. At his 
 death 1379, she married secondly Reginald 2nd Lord Cobham of Sterborough, who was accordingly 
 owner, but only for lif e,jure uxoris. In 1438, Walter Lord Ilungerford held it in a similar manner, 
 as second husband of a Countess of Arundell. The Manor and Advowson continued with the 
 Lords Arundell and Maltravers, till purchased by John Yewe of Bradford (on Avon), about 1573. 
 In 1637 they belonged to Robert Jason Esq. raised in 1661 to a Baronetcy which became extinct 
 in 1738. Mrs. Birtell is now Lady of the Manor. 
 
 The Patronage of the Rectorj^ formerly lay in the Lords of the Manor, but has for some jmars 
 belonged to Exeter College, Oxford. In 1676 there was a law-suit about it between Edmund 
 Pruning of Hambleton and Sir R. Jason, which was decided in favour of the latter. 
 
 Some part of Somerford was anciently called Somerford Ewyas. It belonged to the Maltravers 
 family, and was held by them, not under the Barony of Castle Combe, but under that of Ewyas, 
 afterwards Tregoz. 
 
 A third property here belonged to the Nuns of St. Mary’s Priory, Kington St. Michael. This 
 seems to be the portion called in Domesday Book Edward of Salisbury’s; afterwards Bohun, 
 Earl of Hereford’s, under whom the Nuns held. In 1499 they paid a chief rent to Lord Arundell, 
 and also to John Hussey. Their land was granted in 1541, at the Dissolution, to Sir Richard 
 Long of Draycote. In 1579 it appears to have been transferred to Sir John Thynne. [Jones’s 
 Index.] By a Deed in the New Monasticon (Kington St. Michael’s) the “ Church of Somerford ” 
 was given to the Nuns by Richard de Ileriet: who appears (Coll. Top. et. Gen. VI. 336) to have 
 married a Maltravers. But the Nuns presented only once, in 1324. 
 
 2 n 2 
 
284 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Somerford Maltravers. 
 
 Northampton, had by right of Elizabeth his wife, third daughter and coheir of 
 Egidius de Badlesmere, among other lands in this County, “ One Knight’s Fee in 
 Somerford Mautravers in Co. Wiltes, which John Mautravers holds, valued at £6 
 per ann.” 
 
 In the Church, N. side, E. windowe, is this Escutcheon [PL xxviii. No. 416] 
 which is by the name of Russell. In the Limbe ( margin ) “©rate pro ^fatmafcug 
 
 .Iiltsafcrt UXOrtS rjltS.” Two figures, with IHtSrrcrc, &c. on labels issuing from 
 
 their mouths. Q. their habitts. 
 
 In the Chancel. In the Limbe of the window thus: “ ©rate pro ata (Lfjomc QrGn, 
 rt pro Bono statu Srjnctis uxorts rjus.” Q. the coate of Drew. * 1 
 
 The Assassination of Harry Long was contrived in the Parlour of the Parsonage 
 here. Mr. Attwood was then Parson. He was drowned coming home. 2 
 
 The Inquisitions p. M. of 1407 mention Sir John Lovell, Kt. as an owner at Somerford, in 
 right of his wife Matilda de Holand. And in 1541 Andrew Wyndsor, Lord Wyndsor, obtained 
 from the Crown a grant of Lands in Somerford lately belonging to the Monastery of Syon. 
 [Harl. MS. No. 1880.] To which of the three parishes these two notices allude is not clear. 
 
 The Hamlet of Sterkeley which formerly gave its name to a small Hundred (now included in 
 that of Malmesbury) lies in this parish. 
 
 Near to the Church, and to the house of H. J. Smith Esq. formerly Sir R. Jason’s, is a circular 
 mound, on a site commanding the ford of the Avon. Some remains of semicircular windows and 
 a doorway, with traces of destruction by fire, were found here in 1811. 
 
 1 The coat of Drew (of Seagry) was, Ermine a Lion passant Gules: see pp. 281 and 282. 
 
 2 The particulars of the murder of Mr. Henry Long, (younger brother of Sir Walter Long of 
 Draycote and South Wraxhall), by Sir Henry and Sir Charles Danvers in 1594, were published, 
 so far as the Editor was able to trace them, in the Wilts Archaeol. Mag. I. 305. There had been 
 it is supposed, some private quarrel, and Mr. H. Long’s assailant shot him with a pistol, openly 
 in the presence of other county-gentlemen at an inn in Corsham. 
 
 Richard Atwood was Rector of Broad Somerford from 1578 to 1605; an absentee, it is to be 
 hoped, whilst murder was contrived (if this really was the case) in his parsonage-house. The old 
 Registers of the Parish, which might have alluded to the circumstances of his death, were des¬ 
 troyed in 1717 by a fire at the Parish Clerk’s house, where they were at that time kept. Mr. 
 A.twood was perhaps drowned in crossing the ford when the waters were out, for there was no 
 bridge until the present century, and in 1799 when the late Rev. S. G. Demainbray (who died 
 1854) came to be inducted into his living, he was obliged to make a long circuit to reach it, or he 
 would have shared his predecessor Mr. Atwood’s fate. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 285 
 
 SOMERFORD MAUDUIT, S. Parva, or S. Molines. 
 
 Mauditch Parke in this parish, vulgarly; the true name is Maucluit’s. 
 
 At Christmalford is a butcher of the name yet. Here hath been, till of late 
 years, a Parke; the house stands very pleasantly on a hill, facing the West: below 
 in the valley are rich meadows belonging to it. The house is now much decayed. 1 
 
 This did belong to Priory St. Marie’s. Vide the Legier Book, who gave it. 2 
 
 On the Church-porch, over the door, is this scutcheon in Stone [PI. xxviii. 
 No. 413] a cross moline. 3 The glass all new. The chancell east windowe of five or 
 six lights walled up, and overgrowne with Ivy. 
 
 1 This Parish obtained its name of Mauduit from an old Baronial family, Lords of Warminster, 
 to which, “ Mauduit’s,” now still more strangely miscalled Marriclge Park, belonged in A.D. 1300. 
 Agnes wife of the last John Mauduit remarried Sir Thomas Bradeston Kt., who, jure uxoris, held 
 it at his death 1360. But in 1333 iEgidia, or Gile, John Lord Mauduit’s heiress, had married 
 Sir John de Molines, to whom she ultimately brought this estate, with others at Farnhill in Font- 
 hill, Nipred, Tisbury, Whitlegh and the Advowson of the chapel there (near Melksham), Lee, 
 Gore, Combe Biset and Box; all in Wilts: besides others in Bucks and Oxon. Many Deeds 
 relating to the heritage of Mauduit are to be found in a Cartulary of the Molines family, belonging 
 to Henry Hobhouse Esq. of Hadspen, co. Somerset. In Rich. II. this, with several of the above- 
 mentioned estates, belonged to Thomas Despenser, Earl of Gloucester: but on his attainder 
 1397, returned to the Molines family. About A.D. 1440, Eleanor the heiress of Molines 
 married Robert afterwards Lord Hungerford and Molines. Under this family Robert Long was 
 lessee of Mauduit’s Park in 1449. By the marriage of Mary, heiress of the Ilungerfords, all the 
 above-mentioned estates of the Molines inheritance, including Somerford, passed to Edward, second 
 Baron Hastings, about 1480. But in 1581 Edward Hungerford (afterwards Sir Edward, of Farley, 
 who died 1607) was owner. He had also the Advowson of Little Somerford. In 1657 Antony 
 Hungerford had, besides these, another property in the parish, then leased to Richard Estcourt. 
 The Patronage was purchased about 1686, probably from the extravagant Sir Edward Hungerford, 
 by Sir Stephen Fox, from whom it has descended to the Earls of Ilchester. Mauduit’s Park in 
 later times belonged to Mr. Egerton of Newton Toney, who sold it to W. Bendry of Christmalford, 
 by whom it was bequeathed to the family of the present proprietor S. B. Brooke Esq. of Cowbridge 
 House, near Malmesbury. The Arms of the Ilungerfords are still upon the house at Mauduit’s. 
 
 2 The estate never belonged to the Priory (St. Mary’s, Kington St. Michael) : but the Nuns had 
 in this parish at the Dissolution, some Tithes out of Mauduit’s : then about 18s. a year. Malmes¬ 
 bury Abbey received xiid. a year from the Rector of Little Somerford, out of certain lands under 
 Angrove, for the Warden of St. Mary’s Chapel, in the Abbey Church. 
 
 3 A cross Flortj : still there. 
 
286 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Somerford Mauduit. 
 
 Q. Mr. Palmer, if any Tombe in tlie church. 1 
 
 Mr. Antli: Ettrick tells me, that in the Belfre windoweis, Or, three pales wavy G., 
 which is the coate, he believes, of Mauduit [No. 414]. 
 
 Mem: In an old booke at the Herald’s office, I find the Coate [No. 415] viz. G. a 
 three-peux dancette (for, by the name of Sir John Mauduit. 2 
 
 STANTON ST. QUINTIN. 
 
 This Mannor came by match from Quintin to the Lords Dacre. 
 
 Mem: Stanton Quintin did belong to the Abbey of Cirencester, as appears by the 
 Legier Booke with Sir William Masters there. 3 
 
 Mem: I have heard my cosen Parson Power say, that the Farme of Stanton, 
 which his family had for many generations on lease, belonged to that Abbot, and 
 that his grandfather was a great favourite of the Abbot’s. In the great mead of 
 Christian Malford is ... acres, anciently known by the name of Power’s Meade, 
 belonging to Stanton, and it was for the Abbot’s horses when he came. 4 
 
 1 John Palmer was Rector A.D. 1660—1689. Of the inscriptions now in the Church, the only 
 one old enough to have been there in Aubrey’s time, is against the South wall, to “Geo. Wroton 
 (Wroughton) who deceased at Mauditz House 29th January 1627.” He married Mary, widow 
 of Richard Gore Esq. of Alderton, daughter of Wm. Lord Stourton. 
 
 2 Three peux, or piles dancette, is the proper Mauduit shield. Modern Mauduits use three 
 pales : perhaps from an error in translating the old French word^ew#. 
 
 3 Sir William Masters, was physician to Queen Elizabeth, Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1627, 
 and married Alice daughter of Edward Estcourt of Salisbury. On the execution of Thomas 
 Lord Seymour of Sudeley, to whom it had been granted by Hen. VIII., he obtained the site 
 of Cirencester Abbey. 
 
 4 Aubrey had already mentioned in his Preface (see above p. 13) that Stanton belonged to 
 Cirencester Abbey, and he refers, in the text, to the Legier Book of that House for evidence of 
 the fact. The Editor has not seen a Register of the Abbey said to be in the possession of Sir 
 Thomas Phillipps, but neither in the New Monasticon, nor in Tanner, is there any thing to 
 confirm Aubrey’s statement. With the exception of some rents (40s. a year in 1534) belonging 
 to Malmesbury Abbey, out of “ Knapwell’s ” in this parish, the Records say nothing of a 
 connexion between Stanton St. Quintin and any of the great Religious Houses. 
 
 In the reign of Hen. III., the principal Manor of Stanton belonged to, and was the residence 
 of, Sir Herbert de St. Quintin, holding under the Honour of Gloucester. [See Wilts Fines, Testa 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 287 
 
 The Manner howse, which is of very old building, is rarely well situated, and in 
 very good aire; the grounds mulling. It hath a delicate prospect south and east 
 towards Hackpen * 1 and that range of hills, and north to Cotswold. 
 
 The hall is above stairs, all on an ascent outwards, as at Bradenstoke Abbey. In 
 the hall and parlour are two old-fashioned protuberant chimnies, which fashion is 
 still used in France. The upper rooms are floored with oak, which perhaps was the 
 general fashion in the old time, and brought in, no question, by the French. Here 
 is a little building with leads and battlements, which was, I believe an Oratory; 
 by the door is a well carved Holy-water niche and basin in stone. A brave mote 
 was here, part remaining, well stored with fish: and an old-fashioned gate-house. 2 3 
 
 de N., and a curious Deed of the St. Quintins dated here Oct. 1303, in Hutch. Dorset., II., 509]. 
 From the St. Quintins, (as indeed Aubrey himself also states) it came to Lord Dacre ; not by a 
 match between those two families, but from one to the other by a succession of matches. The 
 course of descent was by the three following heiresses. 
 
 1. Lora St. Quintin, a coheiress, about A.D. 1390 married Sir Robert de Grey of Rotherfield, 
 who in right of his mother assumed the title of Lord Marmyon. (Vincent gives the two 
 Christian names as Elizabeth St. Quintin and John de Grey.) 
 
 2. Elizabeth Greij, daughter and heiress, married Sir Henry Fitz-Hugh ofRavenswath and died 
 A.D. 1427. (The Parish is sometimes called in Deeds, Stanton Fitz-Hugh). In 1512 on the 
 death of Richard 6th Baron Fitz-Hugh his two sisters and coheiresses divided his estates. 
 
 3. Alice Fitz-Hugh married Sir John Fienes, and had this estate. 
 
 To their son Thomas Fienes, 8th Lord Dacre, and his successors, it belonged as stated by Aubrey 
 in the text. In 1581 Stanton Manor, late Thomas Lord Dacre’s, was granted to William Cecil, 
 Lord Burghley, and his son Robert. About 1670 it belonged to William Halliday, Lord Mayor 
 of London: whose daughter and coheiress married Sir Edward Hungerford of Farley Castle and 
 of Corsham. It passed to Sir Giles Hungerford of Coulston. Sir Giles’s daughter and heiress 
 Margaret married Robert Sutton, Lord Lexington, by whom it was sold to Sir Edward Bouverie, 
 ancestor of the present owner Viscount Folkestone. 
 
 Of “ Power’s mead ” in Christmalford parish, but belonging as Aubrey says, to Stanton, 
 nothing is now known. Any Abbot, whose horses, after their journey, grazed jure suo in 
 Christmalford, would probably be the Lord Abbot of Glastonbury. (See above, p. 126.) 
 
 1 Hackpen, about sixteen miles off, is a short but conspicuous range of chalk hills near Avebury. 
 
 2 In Plate xxi. is a view of the old Manor House in 1856. It had become a Farmhouse and its 
 Demesne had been already converted into a wood (Stanton Park) when Aubrey wrote. The 
 “Oratory” (if it was one), attached to the S.E. corner, was destroyed in 1807. The rest of the 
 house was entirely taken down in 1856; when in removing the parlour inner wall, a stone coffin 
 
288 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Stanton St. Quintin. 
 
 In the hall of the Mannor liowse, are these coates in one of the windowes: on 
 banners. 
 
 [PI. xxviii. No. 418] - 
 
 [419] Marmyon ; though, as the ground is broken, it may have been 0. three 
 
 chevronels G. and a chief vair, St. Quintin. 
 
 [420] - 
 
 [421] EOS. * 1 
 
 The parke, very large, comes to the house. Yet is remaining part of the wall of 
 it, built with mortar, and overgrown with ivy; the highest that I know to any 
 park. Likely of old here were kept stagges. Martens in the parke in my grand¬ 
 father Lyte’s remembrance. 2 
 
 Mem. In this parish stood a very fine hermitage, moted about, in an oaken wood. 3 
 
 (Church.) 
 
 Nothing of antiquity now left in the church. In the chancell are two old kind 
 of collegiate seates for priests: and boxes for their song hooks. It is likely here 
 was some Chauntrey for some of the Lords of the Mannor. 4 On the west side, 
 
 containing bones was found imbedded in it, about two feet from the ground. The “hall above 
 stairs ” was a large upper room not unlike a chapel, with good timber roof and ecclesiastical 
 windows. 
 
 1 Richard 6th Baron Fitz-Eugh, (Brother of the two coheiresses mentioned in a preceding 
 note, last page,) being then Lord of the Manor of Stanton, married a daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Burgh and Margaret Ros of Kendal. 
 
 2 In the Church-yard at the "West end, was buried 26th May 1764, George Hartford a negro 
 sailor who was murdered in the wood called Stanton Park by a comrade named William Jaques 
 of Leigh Delamere. They had sailed together in the “ Stag,” and had been paid off, each receiving 
 about £28. Having squandered all his own money, the murderer decoyed the poor Black into 
 the wood, and having beaten out his brains with a hedge stake robbed him. He was gibbeted on 
 the brow of Stanton Common, since enclosed. 
 
 3 The place to which he is supposed to allude, is now a small copse about 40 yards square, 
 moated all round. It lies by the field-path leading from Lower Stanton to Knabwell’s, under 
 Seagry woods. What it formerly was is unknown. 
 
 4 No allusion to any Chantry having been found here has ever come under the Editor’s notice. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 289 
 
 outside, is an ugly figure in stone in the wall, of St. Michael and the Devill: like a 
 dragon, I think. 1 
 
 (The Parsonage. Destroyed since Aubrey’s time.) 
 
 At the porch of the hall of the Parsonage House are these coats well carved in 
 stone: 2 about H. IV. time. 
 
 1. [PI. xxix. No. 423 Pulteney P] Over this coate a spica, or ear of barley, and “ (JiUEittlH 
 Cftt/’ (?)• Bere is an old word for barley, and Abbot Bere of Glaston hath ears of barley cut in 
 stone about his lodgings. 3 
 
 2. [No. 424] The See of Wells impaling Beckington. Over this coat is H/ltt.S 
 
 SCO,” This T. B. for Thomas Beckington, Bishop of Wells. This coate is in many places 
 here, and no doubt but he had been Parson here. Bishop Beckington died JanL 14, 1464. 
 Vide Godwyn de Prassulibus. 4 
 
 3. [No. 417] Three chevronels braced in base, in chief, a (Sun.) 
 
 The hall hath been very good. Old John Power, Doctor, remembers when there 
 
 1 Aubrey mentions the “ ugly figure on the wall ” of the Church (St. Giles’s), but neglects to 
 notice points of greater architectural interest, the three fine Norman arches and porch. During 
 the incumbency of the Rev. Charles Grey Cotes, these have been restored, and the Church 
 generally repaired. It was re-opened on Thursday, 18th September 1851, the sermons on the 
 occasion being preached, by the Rev. Thomas Leigh Claughton of Trinity College, Oxon, vicar of 
 Kidderminster, and by the writer of these notes. Over the porch is a figure of St. Christopher. 
 A solitary fragment of stained glass, bearing “ a fess dancette Sable,” was formerl}’ in one of the 
 South windows of the Church, but was accidentally destroyed in the repairs of 1851. 
 
 2 These three shields are now inserted in the back of the present Rectory House, the larger part 
 of which was built by the Rev. Samuel Smith, Rector 1780. 
 
 3 Richard Beere, the last but one of the Abbots of Glastonbury A.D. 1493—1524, was much 
 given to building. Upon the Abbey House at Glastonbury are left two of his devices; an ear of 
 barley, and a cross between two cups. The worthy Abbot was, it seems, not at all careful to 
 suppress any associations arising out of his family name. How his device came to be found at 
 Stanton is not known. His Abbey had no property in the Parish : nor was he ever Rector. 
 
 4 Bishop Beckington’s name does not occur in the Wilts Institutions as having been Rector of 
 Stanton. His coat of arms is found on the Church of Yeovilton, and in 1644 it was in the chancel 
 window at Hinton St. George (where also one of the St. Quintin family was buried), and at two 
 or three other places, but all in the co. Somerset. That he was professionally connected with 
 Wiltshire at any period of his life, is not mentioned in the biographies. 
 
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290 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Stanton St. Quintin. 
 
 was a great deal of painted glass in the window, and coates with mitres; and says 
 the tradition is that a Bishop lived here. 1 
 
 P o wer of Stanton Quintin, Arms [PI. xxviii. No. 422]: from the Herald’s Office. 
 
 The family was thus. 1. William. 2. His son Robert. 3. His son John. 4. His son 
 
 John Power married a daughter of Pounter (? Paynter) of Ilullavington. Their son 
 
 Richard Power _Alice, dau. of Edward Pen 
 
 of Rodburn. 
 
 John Power= . . .. dau. of Zachary Abraham John Gingell,_Anne Johannes— Maria 
 aet. 40, 1624 Wm. Arch, 32, 1624 26, 1624 de Langley. | 1st filia. Davy, 2nd filia 
 s. p. Attorney. s. p. s. p. [ Clericus. ^30, 1624. 
 
 Quaere , whence Parson Power and Richard Power my great great uncle branched? 
 
 1 The burial-ground at Stanton appears to have been in ancient times larger than at present. 
 Leaden coffins have been found (1852) in the adjoining farm-yard, and traces of foundations 
 and interment within premises belonging to the rectory. The “ great deal of painted glass with 
 mitres,” which Dr. Power remembered, the tradition about a Bishop, the stone shields with the 
 Arms of a Bishop and an Abbot, and the fine nave arches in the Church, certainly seem to indicate 
 that in some way or other this place was once under high ecclesiastical patronage: but (as already 
 mentioned, p. 286, note 4,) nothing has been met with to show that the principal estate was ever 
 the property of a Religious House. The Sarum Registers contain several appointments of two 
 clergymen here at one and the same time, a Rector, and a Yicar. [See Wilts. Inst. A.D. 1311, 
 1342 and 1349]. The Lords of the Manor nominated the Rectors: The Rectors appointed the 
 Yicars. The last of the Yicars was in 1393. 
 
 On a Tablet in the Chancel to Mary, wife of William Charmbury who was Rector here from 
 1639 to 1677 is this inscription: “ Hie, licet in Occiduo cinere, adspicit Eum, cujus nomen est 
 Oriens.” “ Nil tam revocat a peccato quam frequens meditatio mortis. Aug.” The first sentence 
 (also on Dr. Donne’s monument in St. Paul’s) alludes to Zechariah vi. 12, rendered as in the 
 Greek of the Septuagint : “ Behold the man whose name is the East.” “ Aug.” probably means 
 St. Augustine. 
 
 Mr. Charmbury’s successor was the Rev. John Byrom M.A. born in 1648, and buried 1717, at 
 West Lavington (where his father Thomas Byrom, who died 1656, had been Yicar, some years). 
 He was a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was presented in 1677, by Sir Giles Ilungerford 
 of Coulston, to Stanton Rectory which he held for 40 years. An Assize Sermon from Romans 
 xiii. 1. preached by him at Sarum as Chaplain to the High Sheriff, Thomas Gore Esq. of Alderton, 
 was printed in 1681. One of his letters, written to Aubrey in 1693, on the Custom of Salting at 
 Eton Montem, is published in “ Letters from the Bodleian, II., p. 167: and among Bishop 
 Tanner’s MSS. at Oxford are also some letters from Mr. Byrom relative to the Bishop’s literary 
 and antiquarian pursuits. Upon his death, the Rev. William Twentyman was appointed Rector 
 by Lord Lexington, to whom (as stated on his monument) he had been Chaplain at Madrid. 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 291 
 
 Etymology of Power. Boer in Low Dutch and, in High Dutch, Bower, which some 
 pronounce Power, means colonus ox farmer. So, Power is not potestas. 1 
 
 SUTTON BENGER. 
 
 Benger is the contracted name for Berenger. 
 
 Mem. Barnewell Castle in Northamptonshire was built by Berenger Le Moine 
 (“ The Monk .”) It is probable that this place (Sutton ) was given to the Abbey of 
 Malmesbury by him, at which convent he might be a Monke. 
 
 In an old book in the Herald’s Office I find the coate of S r . Ingram Berenger 
 of Wiltshire [No. 426] sell: Or, a cross Vert, over which a bend Gules. 
 
 In the church is only now left the coate of Clare, in the west windowe of 
 the S. aisle, 3 clievronels. [No. 425.] 3 
 
 1 “ Parson Nathaniel Power,” Vicar of Avebury 1660, and “old John Power, Doctor,” were 
 brothers: grandsons of a Richard Power who was Aubrey’s great great uncle. They were con¬ 
 nected with him, through his mother’s family, the Lytes of Easton Piers. The point in Aubrey’s 
 logic about his relative’s name, is that, as a name, Power does not mean what the icord commonly 
 signifies. 
 
 2 Barnwell Castle, near Oundie, co. Northampton, was built by Reginald de Moine A.D. 1132, 
 but Berengarius was owner 1270. He sold it to Ramsey Abbey 1278. In 1330 his descendants 
 tried to regain it by law but failed, after which they disappeared from that county. 
 
 There are four Suttons in Domesday Book: one of which was held by “ Berenger,” under 
 Richard Fitz Gilbert the founder of the great Baronial House of Clare, Earls of Gloucester. 
 This may explain how the shield of Clare came to be in after times one of the embellishments of 
 Sutton Benger Church. The family name of Berenger is found anciently both in South and 
 North Wilts: in the former at Ebbesbourne Wake and Alvediston, temp. Hen. III. Its most 
 important member seems to have been Sir Ingelram, or Ingram Berenger, Steward to the 
 Longespees, Knight of the shire in 1315 ; died 1336. Nicholas his grandson, the last male of the 
 family, left two daughters, one of whom married a Stantor of Horningsham, the other a Bodenham. 
 
 In North Wilts, “Berenger of Ulfhall,” (Wolfhall in Burbage), occurs in a Fine, temp. 
 Hen. III. With the exception of the notice in Domesday Book above-mentioned, they have not 
 been met with, as “ of” Sutton : but it is clear that they were connected with it, sufficiently to 
 bequeath their name. 
 
 The notices of the parish generally are extremely few. In the earliest records it is called Sutton 
 only. Once, in 1 Rich. II., “Sutton Berengere’s” (I. p. M.) The Sarum Registers in 1415 (the 
 first entry in that record in which the second or family name appears), call it “Sutton Bengere’s : ” 
 at other times “Sutton juxta Bradenstoke,” and once (1497) “Sutton Leonard juxta Christ- - 
 malford.” [Wilts. Inst.] The Church (according to Ecton) is dedicated to All Saints. 
 
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292 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Here have been good windows, and 
 is a neat built tower. 1 Q. Inscriptions 
 
 on bells. One . a taylor, who 
 
 lived where Vicar Ferris now dwells, 
 gave the play-place: he went to the 
 Lord Abbot of Malmesbury, and beg¬ 
 ged it and got it, for a play-place. 
 
 In the Parsonage Parlour here, over 
 the chimney, are two hooded monk’s 
 heads cut in stone. Mem. Severall 
 hundred yeares since, one of the Abbots 
 of Malmesbury did give to the Church 
 of Sarum the Parsonage of Sutton 
 Benger, and Whitlegh in the parish of 
 Caine, &c., to be exempt from the 
 Bishop's jurisdiction. Mr. Ferris of 
 this place hath the copie of it. 2 De jure 
 the parsonage here doth belonguntothe 
 
 Sutton Benger. 
 
 Tower of Sutton Benger Church. 
 
 Besides the Berenger family, Malmesbury Abbey bad here ten Hides of land, by gift of Edwy, 
 King of TVessex, A.D. 956, 110 years before the Conquest. [New Monasticon, No ix.] But 
 Sutton is not registered by name as a property of that Abbey in the Norman Survey; the reason 
 being that the ten Hides which the Abbot had here, were included in that Survey, under the 
 head of “ Brokenborough.” It has been already mentioned (see above, p. MO), that the Manor 
 called Brokenborough, when given by King Edwy to the Abbot, included much now belonging 
 to other parishes. Its whole extent was 100 Hides of land, and in King Edwy’s Charter (printed 
 in Kemble’s Codex Dipl., Yol. III., p. 446, and also in Archaeolog., Yol. XX X YII., p. 267), it is 
 distinctly stated that the Abbot’s ten Hides at Sutton formed part of those 100 Hides. “Hi 
 sunt termini x hidarum pertinentium ad Manerium de Brokenberge, quae sunt de centum Hidis 
 nominatis. Hoc est de Suttone.” At page 287 in the Yol. last quoted, is also a list of names of 
 71 tenants under Malmesbury Abbey at Sutton about the year 1318. Since the Dissolution the 
 principal proprietors have been the Longs of Draycote, maternal ancestors of the present owner 
 the Earl of Mornington. 
 
 An Inquisition p. M. (1 Rich. II.) mentions property at “Sutton Berengeres” as belonging to 
 Glastonbury Abbey, but the name no where occurs in the Lists of that House. 
 
 1 The Church, which had probably been re-built towards the latter part of the “ Decorated ” 
 
MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 293 
 
 Vicar, which the Dean and Chapter of Sarum hath aliened about a hundred 
 y cares. 3 
 
 Anciently in this parish were vineyards, which are recited among other grants 
 to the Longs by King Henry the Eighth. Gravelly land is the most natural for 
 vines. Near this village, eastwards, is a gravelly field called u Barret’s,” which is 
 sown every yeare with barley and with no other graine. Never lay fallow in the 
 memory of the oldest man’s grandfather there. Some years since, Leon. Atkins 
 sowed a part of it with wheat, for a tryall. It came up wonderfully thick and 
 high: but it proved but fair strawe, and had little or nothing in y e eare. 
 
 period, was entirely restored in 1850. The East window of the South aisle, the tracery of which 
 is Reticulated, has an interesting peculiarity: a stone panel at the bottom of the centre light 
 representing, outside, a model of the whole window in miniature. Inside the Church, the panel 
 forms a canopied niche. The parapet resembles that of St Cuthbert’s, Wells. The Tower is at 
 the West end; and from the centre of the roof of it, rises a pretty open-worked spire-let. The 
 late Mr. Britton calls it a pinnacle, not altogether incorrectly, as that word was sometimes 
 applied to a spire, or turret, even to a cupola on the top of a turret; and indeed to any tall 
 perpendicular member on the summit of a building. 
 
 • John Ferris was Vicar 1642—1664. Aubrey means that the Abbot desired to free Malmesbury 
 Abbey from the controul of the Bishop of the Diocese : but the statement that this exemption was 
 purchased by giving up “ the parsonage of Sutton, Whitlegh, &o.,” does not accord with a Deed 
 in Sarum Registry already referred to under “ Bremhill.” [See above p. 60.] According to that 
 document the Abbot purchased the exemption at the price—not of Sutton Parsonage, &c., but—of 
 the Manor of Highway, and the patronage of the churches of Bremhill, Highway, and Foxham 
 Chapel. Moreover, the Parsonage of Sutton never belonged to the Abbot of Malmesbury. 
 
 3 The Dean and Chapter of Sarum appear to have always had the great Tithes. In 1534 (Val. 
 Eccl.) these were nine pounds a year; charged with £2 Os. 2d. for celebrating the anniversary of 
 Bishop Walter de Wyly: to be distributed among the ministers and servants of the Church of 
 Sarum, according to that Bishop’s Foundation. The Dean and Chapter have presented since 
 1742. Before that time the Bishop of Sarum had collated, so far back as A.D. 1297 when the 
 Sarum Registers commence. The name of the Patron in 1415 is printed in the Wilts. Institutions, 
 p. 105, Johannes Rober. The Bishop of Salisbury at that time was Cardinal Ilallam, and he was 
 absent from England, from October 1414, in attendance at the Council of Constance where he 
 died in 1417, as mentioned above p. 250. 
 
MELKSHAM 
 
 HUNDRED . 1 
 
 MELKSHAM. 
 
 HE Forest here, was also called the Forest of Blackmore. 2 
 
 (Church.) 
 
 In the Chancel is an Inscription for Isaac Selfe, a wealthie cloatliier 
 
 1 The Lordship of this Hundred anciently belonged to the Crown. King Hen. III. bestowed it 
 upon Amicia, Countess of Devon: and afterwards upon the Prioress and Nuns of Ambresbury. 
 It was again in the hands of the Crown, in Charles I. It was purchased from the Brounckers of 
 Earlstoke by Sir John Danvers of Dauntesey : and is now the property of Walter Long Esq., M.P. 
 of Rood Ashton. 
 
 2 The Manor of Melksham, and Forest of Blackmore or Melksham, were Royal demesne both 
 before and after the Conquest and were all in the hands of the Crown except three Hides of land 
 held separately by one of the King’s Officers. The Wardenship of the Forest was usually held 
 with that of Chippenham. A Perambulation of its boundaries in A.D. 1300 is printed in the 
 Wilts. Archaeol. Mag., Yol. IY., p. 206. 
 
 One part of the town bears the name of “ The City; ” for what reason is not known. Some 
 have explained it by saying that the Kings who occasionally came hither for hunting, exalted 
 Melksham to great importance, by establishing there a Court with Royal jurisdiction. The fact 
 simply is, that in those days the King’s Justices, to the great inconvenience of suitors, and probably 
 of themselves, followed the King in person ; and whether he was at Melksham, or elsewhere, legal 
 business was transacted Coram ipso Bege. Henry II. was here on the Feast of the Conversion of 
 St. Paul in 1183 ; King John on 8th, 9th and 10th December, 1204—5, James de Potterne being 
 one of the four Justices in attendance; on which occasions Fines were passed. 
 
 In the reign of Hen. III. (A.D. 1260) the Abbess of Lacock had a special grant of forty acres 
 out of the Forest near Wodensdich (Wansdyke) which she was allowed to enclose in lieu of cutting 
 w r ood, &c. [History of Lacock, p. 274.] The King then settled the Manor and Hundred of 
 Melksham upon Amicia, Countess of Devon. This Lady was daughter of Gilbert de Clare Earl 
 of Hertford and Gloucester, and wife of Baldwin de Redvers, seventh Earl of Devon. The grant 
 was for her life, paying to the Crown £48 a year. Shortly afterwards for the purpose of founding 
 in Ambresbury Church Obits for the souls of Prince Arthur of Britany (the King’s first cousin, 
 murdered by King John), for that of Eleanor his sister, and for the souls of the King himself 
 and his Queen when they should die, Hen. III. bestowed this Fee-farm Rent of £48 a year, (made 
 
MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 295 
 
 up to £50 out of the Exchequer) upon the Prioress and Nuns of Ambresbury, with the reversion 
 to them of the Manor at the Countess of Devon’s death. This arrangement was subsequently altered, 
 and the Manor itself was given to the Prioress and Nuns of Ambresbury, they to keep £50 a year 
 out of it for their own use, and to pay all the profits above that sum to the Countess of Devon 
 for her life, and after her death to the Crown. [Hundred Rolls, and original Grant, 13 Edw. I.] 
 King Edw. I. reduced this rent payable to the Crown, to £30 a year: and at the Dissolution it 
 was only £13 13s. 7d.: the net value to the Monastery being then £80 16s. 4d. The Prioress’s 
 estate lay at Melksham, Benacre, Whitley, Woodrew, Woolmer, and Seendrow. A Charter, 
 A.D. 1301, granting to the Prioress certain privileges in the Forest, is printed in the New 
 Monasticon, (“Amesbury” p. 338), and another A.D. 1315, relating to a claim of exemption 
 from Tallage, (ditto, p. 334.) King Hen. VIII. in 1514 granted a charter for a Fair on the 
 17th (now, by change of Style, the 27th) July. 
 
 After the Dissolution of Monasteries the chief proprietors seem to have been the Brouncker 
 family, (see “ Earlstoke.”) The name of Laurence Bronker occurs in a Deed of “St. Mary’s Service,” 
 in Chippenham Church, as early as A.D. 1378. On the doorway in the garden of “ Place House ” 
 in Melksham are the Arms of Sir William Brouncker (son of the purchaser of Earlstoke) and 
 his wife, a Mildmay. The Gores of Alderton, whose first known ancestor was of Whitley 1330, 
 also had property here which they sold to the Brounckers in 1544. Other old names of this 
 period were Bertillet, Lovel, and Catour. “ Melksham Brouncker ” and “ Benacre Lovel ” are 
 still names for sections of the Parish. 
 
 Shaw in this parish was held under the Castle Combe Barony, by William Atmore 1338; 
 Simon Basset 1365 ; by Cecilia Berkeley 1389 ; by Sir John Roche of Bromham 1400, then by the 
 Bayntons : and by John Gerrish 1600. Thomas Smith died owner 1723 : and from his family it 
 passed by heiress to Robert Neale. The Dean and Canons of Sarum were bound, so early as 1355 
 (29 Edw. III.) to provide a Priest to say Mass for the deceased Lords of Castle Combe in the 
 Chapel of St. Leonard at Shaw : the neglect of which service is one of the grievances complained 
 of in the Court Rolls of that Barony. [Mr. P. Scrope’s History of Castle Combe, 221, 249]. 
 
 Whitlegh was an ancient property of the Mauduit, Molines, and Hungerford families. Sir 
 Andrew Baynton’s part in 13 Eliz. was bought by Wm. Gerrish. In the same reign William 
 Jordan and H. Brouncker had lands here. 
 
 Part of Melksham including the rich land of Iley has been connected with the Whaddon estate 
 apparently since 1253. 
 
 Rotteridge. In the Rolls of Parliament is a curious petition from one Nicholas Bourdon, 
 A.D. 1334, relating to “ Raderigge ” near the Forest. It had been disafforested, and the petitioner 
 describes it as having been “le souverain repair a les betes sauvages de la dite Forest pur le pestr’ 
 del suboys: ” (the principal resort of the game to feed on the under-wood). 
 
 Later owners were, in 1418, Thorpe : afterwards, the Selfe family, from whom by marriage it 
 came to Thomas Smith of Shaw, who died 1723. By his grand-daughter it passed to Robert 
 Neale, from whose representatives Rotteridge farm was lately purchased by Mr. Starky of Spy 
 Park. 
 
296 
 
 Aubrey’s north welts. [ Melksham. 
 
 who dyed y e . day of. (1656) in the ninety-second yeare of his age, leaving 
 
 behind him a very numerous offspring, viz. 83 in number. * 1 
 
 The North, or Daniel’s aisle, belongs to Bineger within this parish, where is a 
 very ancient house that belonged to the Daniels, now seated at St. Margaret’s juxta 
 Maryborough. 2 
 
 In the aisle aforesaid are two old scutcheons of this coate, Vert, a fess between 
 3 mullets A. 3 
 
 Strowd belonged to the Montagus of Lackham. Wolmere, formerly Wolvemere, is the pro¬ 
 perty of Sir John Awdry of Notton. Sandridge, for many years the property of Lord Audley, 
 was bought by Mr. Thomas Bruges and Mr. E. Phillips. A new House has lately been erected 
 here by Henry Lopez Esq. 
 
 1 The tower of Melksham Church formerly stood in the centre. In 1845 it was taken down 
 and removed to the West end. William Eyre of St. Thomas’s Sarum, a public preacher silenced 
 1662 (Wood), was buried here. The Rectory of Melksham used to be in the gift of the Crown 
 until King John granted it with all its appendages to the Canons of the Cathedral of Sarum, in 
 the time of Bishop Herbert Poore, by Deed dated at Falaise in Normandy, 4th June 1200* 
 (New Mouasticon, Salisbury, Charter III.) The gift was charged with an annual bounty of 
 £2 15s. 8d. to be distributed on the Anniversaries of King Hen. II. and III. among the atten¬ 
 dants belonging to Sarum Cathedral. Edward Carne, Doctor of Decretals, was Vicar at the Survey 
 of Hen. Till. The Vicar of Melksham provides Curates for Seend and Earlstoke. [In the 
 Calendar of Inq. p. M. the Advowson of Melksham is entered as belonging, 5 Hen. IV., to Sir 
 Thomas Berkeley, and in 17 Hen. VI. to Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick : but Mildcston (now 
 Milston, near Amesbury) which did belong to both those persons, seems to be the place intended.1 
 
 2 Connected with “ Bineger,” properly Bean-acre, are found the names of, Maignard, 1274; 
 Bluet, 1348. Then the Whittocksmede family, whose heiress Elizabeth married William Danyell 
 of Cheshire. [Wilts. Visit. 1623, “ Danyell.”] The Danyells were succeeded as owners by the 
 family of Selfe, a very ancient name at this town. William Selfe was on an Inquisition 
 38 Hen. III. (1253). The number of descendants of the venerable gentleman mentioned by 
 Aubrey is not to be wondered at; for he had two sons and twelve daughters, all of whom were 
 married. [Wilts. Visit. 1623.] The eldest son was represented by daughters. The second son 
 Jacob Selfe died 1702, having been twice married. A descendant of the first marriage was wife 
 of Thomas Smith of Shaw above-mentioned. The only child of the second marriage of Jacob 
 Selfe was Isaac who married Penelope daughter of Charles Lord Lucas. Their daughter 
 and ultimate sole heiress Ann, married Thomas Methuen of Bradford (d. 1733): from whom 
 Beanacre has descended to the present Lord Methuen. The name of Selfe survives at a Farm 
 near Rotteridge, and in a Parish charity. Their arms were, Ermine three chevrons Gr. 
 
 3 This appears to be the coat of Poore, with some variation of colours. It may have been 
 placed in the Church, in compliment to Bishop Poore above-mentioned, but it is not there now. 
 
MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 297 
 
 In the South aisle lyes Ambrose Dauntesey, Sir John Dauntesey’s son of West 
 Lavington . Henry Brounker, Esqr. 1 
 
 1 The inscription, on the brass plate formerly in the Church was as follows :—“ Here lyeth buried 
 the body of Ambrose Dauntesey Esq., the eldest son of Sir John Dauntesey, K nt . who had to wife 
 Gartrude, the widow of Henry Brouncker, Esq'., which lieth here buried by him, and died both 
 within a year, and had by her four sons and two daughters. He deceased 29 Nov. 1612, a 
 zealous Christian and well-beloved by all men.” 
 
 The oldest Wiltshire family of the name of Dauntesey were owners of the Manor of Dauntesey 
 in Hen. III. and Edw. I. [An ancient genealogy of them at that period is in a Deed in the 
 Malmesbury Abbey Cartulary Add. MSS. 15667. pp. 38b. and 39.] At Dauntesey the original 
 family ended in an heiress Joan, (who married Sir John Stradling, and whose gravestone, 1455, is 
 described above, p. 217, note 2). A branch of the family, living at Wintei’bourne-Dauntesey 
 near Salisbury in 1391, had half the Manor of Landford. [There was a slight difference in 
 their coat-armour. The North Wilts Daunteseys used, three bars nebule : those of South 
 Wilts three bars dancette.'] From this Winterbourne-Dauntesey branch came, it is believed, the 
 Daunteseys who, about A.D. 1500, are found at West Lavington, both as freeholders, and as 
 leaseholders under the See of Sarum. They were also proprietors within the Manor of Bremelridge 
 in the parish of Westbury. William Dauntesey, Alderman of London, by Will dated 
 10th March 1542 and proved the year following by his brother Ambrose, founded the School 
 and Alms-houses in West Lavington ; the foundation taking effect in 1553. The son of Ambrose 
 and nephew of the Alderman was John Dauntesey, who died 1559. [See Mr. E. Kite’s Wilts 
 Brasses, No. xxi., and p. 55. J The son of this John was Sir John Dauntesey, Kt., Sheriff of Wilts 
 1595. He had a son Ambrose, of Melksham, who married Gertrude daughter of Sir Henry 
 Sadleir of Everley, and widow of Henry Brouncker Esq. Ambrose Dauntesey died 1612 
 before his father Sir John, who did not die until 1630) leaving, out of the six children 
 mentioned in the above inscription, two daughters his coheirs, Elizabeth and Sarah. Elizabeth 
 the eldest was second wife of Sir John Danvers the Regicide (see above p. 226) ; and was made 
 by her grandfather Sir John Dauntesey in 1630 his sole heir, “ ex asse lueres,” as stated on her 
 monument, in the Dauntesey chapel, on the South side of West Lavington Church. Henry, her 
 only son by Sir John Danvers, dying in 1654, her two daughters Lady Purbeck and Lady Lee 
 shared their mother’s inheritance. Ultimately, the whole came into the possession of Lady Lee’s 
 son-in-law, the first Earl of Abingdon. During the last century, at various intervals, the estates 
 in Wilts belonging to the Earls of Abingdon were sold by order of the Court of Chancery. At 
 Littleton raganell in West Lavington, and at Market Lavington, purchases were made by the 
 ancestor of the Earl of Radnor. The ancient freehold of the Daunteseys at West Lavington, 
 and the leaseholds held under the See of Sarum, were bought by George, Duke of Marlborough, 
 who settled the same upon his second son, Lord Francis Spencer, afterwards created Baron 
 Churchill, the father of the present possessor. 
 
298 
 
 aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Earls take. 
 
 EARL-STOKE. 1 
 
 Taken by my brother Wm. Aubrey , April, 1680. 
 
 In the Chancell, on a plain altar-monument of free-stone: ©f gour rijantg gray 
 
 1 In order to distinguish this Stoke (village) from others in the county, as Stoke-Yerdon, 
 Braden-stoke, Limpley-stoke, &c., it was called, at a very early period, Stoke-Comitis, or Earl’s. 
 But from what Earl it was so called, is not quite clear. In Domesday Book there is certainly a 
 “ Stoche ” that belonged to the well-endowed Edward, Earl of Sarum ; but that seems rather to 
 refer to Braden-stoke : and further, if Earl-stoke had belonged to that Earl of Sarum, it would 
 probably have descended either to the Longespee or Bohun family, which does not appear to 
 have been the case. For in 3 Hen. III. (1218) Matthew Fitz-Herbert, son of one of the King’s 
 Justices was residing here, in a house which he had built; and towards the building of which he 
 had been allowed timber out of the Ro} 7 al Forest of Chippenham. He was duly succeeded here 
 by legitimate descendants, though according to the modern usage of names, it would not be easy to 
 recognize them as of one famifr. For instead of using one sirname common to all, they each made 
 a separate one for himself, out of the Christian hame of his father or a predecessor; thus, 
 after Matthew Fitz-Herbert, we have Herbert Fitz-Matthew, Peter Fitz-Herbert, John Fitz- 
 Matthew, and finally Matthew Fitz-Jobn. The latter was a great landowner in co. Devon. [See 
 Lysons’s Devon: p. 462, under “Stokenham.”] For some reason which is variously explained, 
 he surrendered his property to the Crown, but obtained in A.D. 1286, a grant from Edw. I. of 
 Earlstoke, Rowde, the Castle of Devizes, St. John’s and St. Mary’s Churches there, and Hackleston, 
 co. Wilts, for his life: with a settlement of one third of Earlstoke upon his widow Eleanor Fitz- 
 John for her life. King Edward then gave Earlstoke to his own daughter Joan “ of Acre,” wife, 
 first of Gilbert Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and secondly of Ralph de Monthermer who 
 so long as she continued his wife was allowed to use the titles of the first husband. Ralph Mon¬ 
 thermer obtained the reversion of the estate for his son Thomas, whose daughter and heir 
 Margaret brought it in marriage to John Montacute Sen. Kt., brother to William, second Earl of 
 Salisburv. The ultimate heiress of Montacute married Richard Nevill, created Earl of Salisbury 
 in 1442. On his death in 1460, it reverted to the heirs of Monthermer, and after them, in 
 default of issue, to the Crown. 
 
 By Henry VIII Earlstoke was granted to Henry Brouncker Esq. of Melksham, Sheriff of Wilts 
 1558. This gentleman’s descendants, of the jmunger branch, obtained a certain celebrity. His 
 second son Sir Henry was made Lord President of Munster, and was father of Sir William created 
 Viscount Brouncker of Castle Lyons in Ireland. He had two sons, William, second Viscount 
 Brouncker, President of the Royal Society, and Henry (afterwards third Viscount), the Gentleman 
 of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York, who lost his seat in the House of Commons for mis¬ 
 conduct in the naval action of 1665. But Earlstoke never belonged to any one of the younger 
 branch of this family. The Estate passed from Henry the purchaser to his eldest son Sir William 
 Brouncker, Sheriff 1580 and M.P. for Wilts 1586, and successively to others of the elder line, 
 some of whom represented Devizes and Westbury in Parliament. 
 
MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 299 
 
 for gc ^oulc of Efjomas BolstretJ, anti (JBtittf) tits toife, ILorti of tfjis flannour 
 
 On it are these Arms following:— 
 
 On the death of a Mr. Dauntesey Brouncker in 1693, his estate was divided between two daughters 
 his coheiresses: Katharine, wife of John Baynton Esq. (the last male owner of Brombain), and 
 Anne, wife of James Townsend Jun. Esq. of Great Cheverell. Mr. Baynton’s moiety was 
 purchased by Sir George Heathcote, Alderman and M.P. for the City of London. He built a 
 house, but very soon sold his property, either to Sir Peter Delrne (Lord Mayor 1723), or to his son 
 of the same name. The Lord Mayor’s grandson Peter Delrne of Titchfield House co. Southampton, 
 (who died in 1789) sold it to Mr. Joshua Smith, who, with his brother Sir Drummond Smith, 
 Bart., also bought the Manor of Edingdon and the several estates sold by the Trustees of Charles, 
 Duke of Bolton, under an Act of Parliament 1784. The present House was built, in 1788, from 
 the designs of George Stewart. 
 
 Of the other moiety of Dauntesey Brouncker’s estate some part was purchased by Mr. Joshua 
 Smith. A portion still called “ Brouncker’s Farm” with a house called “ Brouncker’s Court ” 
 passed by the heiress of the Townsend family to Mr. Wadman of Imber. This was sold after 
 Mr. AVadman’s death to Mr. Simpson, and it now belongs to his daughter, the widow of Dr. 
 Johnson, M.D. Mr. Joshua Smith was M.P. for Devizes. Being succeeded at his death in 1819 
 by daughters, all his estate was sold in the following year to the Trustees of Simon Taylor Esq. 
 deceased. It devolved on that gentleman’s niece and heiress, the wife of George Watson Esq. 
 He took the addition of her name, and their son Simon Watson Taylor Esq., is now the resident 
 proprietor. This beautiful place is described in “Neale’s Views,” and in “ Britton’s Beauties of 
 Wilts,” III., 356. It was lately occupied for several years by the Rt. Hon. Lord Broughton. 
 The parish contains 2066 acres. 
 
 In this parish was born William Gough, mentioned by A. Wood (Ath: Oxon:) as an Anabaptist, 
 of St. Alban’s Hall, Oxon, author of “ Londinum triumphans,” and “ An Essay on Trade ” (Harl. 
 Misc. xii. 250). He died 1682. He was son of William Gough of Christ Church Oxon, who after 
 ejection from Inkpen, was a Nonconformist at Earlstoke, and whose father was the Rev. Edward 
 Gough, Patron and Rector of Great Cheverell. 
 
 The Church (St. James) stands on low ground N. West of the House. The Tower, traditionally 
 said to have been used by Sir William Brouncker as a mew for his hawks, has an Early English 
 Tower Arch. Mr. Peter Delrne, sub-lessee of the great Tithes, rebuilt the chancel in 1778, but, it 
 must be added, in a most unecclesiastical style. There is a monumental slab to William 
 Brouncker, Catharine his wife, and four children. Arms, Brouncker impaling Moore. 
 
 1 This monument, not now to be seen, stood on the North side of the Communion Table. It 
 was probably removed when the chancel was rebuilt. In tracing the successive owners of 
 Earlstoke, no allusion whatsoever being met with, to the Bulstrode family having ever 
 been Lords of the Manor, this inscription, which seemed to be rather an awkward witness to that 
 fact, was for a long time quite inexplicable. And so it would have continued to be, but for the 
 'accidental discovery of some old memoranda relating to Earlstoke, in the Library of the Society 
 of Antiquaries. From these, written about 1765, it appears that the real words of the inscription 
 
 2 p 2 
 
300 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \_EarlstoJce. 
 
 [No. 427] Bulstrode, impaling (Bonham?) 
 
 [428] Do. (impaling a shield quarterly effaced). Perhaps Bonham. Quaere, if 
 quartered? In a pew is the escutcheon impaled. 
 
 [429] (Probably Hungerford.) * 1 
 
 [430] (Bulstrode as before : Quartering, a chevron between three -) perhaps Cul- 
 
 lumbines rudely cutt. Hall of Sarum. 
 
 In a Chamber of William Brouncker’s, Esq., in glasse: 
 
 [No. 431] (Arms of Moscow Company.) Motto : “Nostre resort est en Dieu.” 
 
 [432] Brouncker. 
 
 [433] Do. impaling (Braybrooke) : under it the date, 1555. 
 
 [434] Do. impaling (Hyde of Denchworth, and Yate). Under it the date, 1555. 2 
 
 POULSHOT. 3 
 
 I was informed at my last being at the Devises, April 4, 1668, that in this village 
 
 were not, as William Aubrey had copied them, “ Lord of this mannour,” but—“Bollstryd and 
 Edythe his wife, and, Lord , of thy mercy on them have pity, Amen.” 
 
 1 In the absence of colours the shield (No. 429) on the tomb is only conjectured to be for 
 Hungerford. That family owned Heytesbury, the adjacent parish. Sir Walter Hungerford of 
 Farley Castle who died 1515—6, married a Bulstrode, and one of that name was overseer of Sir 
 Walter’s Will. 
 
 2 These four shields, then in the House, refer to Henry Brouncker of Melksham the purchaser, 
 temp. Henry Till. He was a member of the Hon. Company trading to Moscovy : and was twice 
 married. [Wilts. Visit., 1623]. The first wife was a Braybrooke, No 433. The second was 
 Ursula, daughter of John Yate and Alice Hyde, No. 434. The sinister or wife’s, side of this 
 shield seems to have been copied wrong by W. Aubrey. As it stands, it denotes Hyde and Yate 
 as two wives. It should have been Yate quartering Hyde. 
 
 3 The ancient name appears to have been Paul’s Holt ( icood). It is so called in Testa de Nevill 
 and in an Inquisition of 8 Edw. I. 
 
 The superior Lord in the reign of Hen. III. was Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundell, under whose 
 family, as of their Seignory of Keevil, two distinct estates appear to have been held in Paulsholt. 
 The 1st, by the family of Burdon, from Hen. III. to c. 1361 : when it passed by heiress to Thorpe. 
 If the lands of the Thorpe family, at Paulsholt, followed the course of their manor of King’s 
 Teignton, co. Devon, they would have passed by heiress of Thorpe, c. 1509, to the ancestor of 
 Lord Clifford. 2. Of the other estate, held originally under the Fitz-Alans, as of Keevil, 
 Sifrewast was sub-tenant in H. Ill: and John “de Paulsholt” to 1331. The name of Willington 
 (see p. 39) is once found here, 1396; and that of Sir John Lovell, jure uxoris Matilda Holand, 
 1407. In 1413, a Manor here belonged, at his death, to Sir Wm. Stourton, who had married the 
 heiress of Moigne of Maddington. This was perhaps purchased, together with lands at West 
 
MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 301 
 
 are several springs which taste brackish. Which try. Ask the virtues from some 
 of the Devizes, who have lately dranke thereof: viz., Mr. Allen, &C . * 1 An hectique 
 and emaciated person, by drinking this water, did in 3 weeks increase in his flesh 
 and get a quick appetite. 
 
 There are severall brackish drawing-wells, but especially that of Ric. Bolwell, 
 blacksmith ; two quarts whereof, by evaporation, did yield a very tart salt two 
 good spoonfulls heaped. Dr. Charles Merrott believetli it to be vitriolic. In the 
 highway, towards (Marston) in a ditch, a mile from the Devises, is a spring, which 
 if you putt powder of Galls into it, presently becomes of a deep claret colour. In 
 the ditches there is a kind of friable slatt, like Cornish slatt, lyeing bend wise, ////// : 
 it is extremely friable, and I believe abounds with vitriol, or perhaps rather with 
 vitriol and nitre. 2 
 
 Mem. All the low grounds of North Wilts abound with a sowre herbage, 
 which makes it so proper for good cheese; the soyle of Cheshire is also of that 
 nature. (? Ed.) 
 
 In the Church. 3 
 
 Ashton, &c., from William 6th Lord Stourton, 1543, by Thomas Long of Trowbridge : from whom 
 it descended to the Longs of Whaddon : and is now the property of Walter Long Esq M.P. of 
 Rood Ashton. Edw. Horton of Chalheld was an owner 1666. 
 
 1 Probably of the Alleine family, see “ Waylen’s Devizes,” pp. 258. 338. 
 
 8 Poulshot lies on the borders of the Oxford clay and Coral rag. Aubrey says (in N. H. of 
 W. 74.) “ ’Tis a wett, dirty place, and in the spring-time the inhabitants appear of a primrose 
 complexion.” The mineral spring of which he speaks is near “ The Five Lanes,” and its 
 virtues are well known. 
 
 3 The older portion of the church is of Early English style. In the Chancel are several monu¬ 
 ments to a family of White. Samuel White of Poulshot was buried in Bath Abbey Church 1663. 
 
 The Rectory has been in the gift of the Bishops of Salisbury so far hack as A.D. 1297. 
 Among the Incumbents have been Simon, Bishop of Connor 1459 : William Hulle or Hill, 
 who was also Rector of Edingdon Monastery, 1491 : and Edw. Davenant (nephew of John, 
 Bishop of Sarum) 1622. He resigned in favour of his wife’s brother, William Grove, who was 
 ejected from the Rectory “in the Troubles,” 1644. [Aubrey, Lives ii. 298.] From 1680 to 1719, 
 the Rector was Isaac, only son of the celebrated “ Piscator,” Walton, by Ann sister of Bishop Ken. 
 The Bishop, after his deprivation, w T as frequently in retirement at Poulshot with his nephew, who 
 was also Rector of Boscombe, a Canon of Salisbury, and Prebendary of Netheravon and Bishopston. 
 
.302 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Seend. 
 
 SEND vulgd SEENE. 1 
 
 In the Records in the Tower in London it is written Send. 
 
 This village is about a mile from the Spring at Poulshot before-mentioned. It is 
 on a red-sandy hill, from whence it has its name, Sand in the Old English being 
 called Send ; as Send, a village in Surrey, on a sandy soil. In this, hill underneath 
 the sand, is iron oare, and the richest that I have seen, for the smytli can make the 
 
 1 The Manor of Seend, a member of the King’s Manor of Melksham, was granted in Hen. III. 
 to John de Cherbourgh, probably a foreigner in the service of the Crown. With it he held 
 Winterbourne Cherbourgh, afterwards W. Gunnore. By his first wife Christiana Du Bois, he 
 had a son Wygan de Cherbourgh, who died owner 1282, leaving a son, John, then of age. But 
 in Edw. II., with Upavon and other Wilts Manors, Seend was given to the favourites Despenser: 
 and upon their attainder, to Edward Bohun, Earl of Hereford, 1330 : whose son Humphrey had 
 license, 1347, to embattle a manor-house here. On his death without issue male, it would have 
 reverted to the Crown, but by surrender of a claim upon the King, of 2000 marks due for services, 
 Humphrey’s nephew, Humphrey, Earl of Northampton, secured it in his family. In the great 
 division of the Bohun inheritance in 9 Hen. Y. (1421) between the two heiresses, Mary wife of 
 the Duke of Lancaster (King Hen. IY.) and the Lady Anne Plantagenet, Countess of Stafford, 
 Seend fell to the share of the latter. She married secondly William Bourchier, Earl of Ewe in 
 Normandy, to whose son John, Lord Bourchier de Berners, it belonged at his death in 14 Edw. IY. 
 (1474). His son John second Lord Berners (sometimes written Barnes, whence Alton-Barnes in 
 this county), the Governor of Calais and translator of Froissart, had some natural daughters, one 
 of whom Ursula was first wife of William Sherington (the purchaser of Lacock Nunnery). Seend 
 was settled, to the use (after Lord Berners’ death) of Sherington and this wife, and their children. 
 She died s.p. So, by will 1532 Lord Berners desired his reversion in the Manor to be sold, except 
 to the value of Ten pounds a year which he bequeathed to his son George Bourchier; the rest to 
 be'applied by the executors for his soul’s wealth. [Test. Vet., 658.] 
 
 The Tything of Seend-row belonged to Ambresbury Nunnery. William Sherington, above- 
 mentioned, purchased some monastic land at Seend and Seend Row, which (as at Bowden), in the 
 division between the two heiresses of his brother Sir Henry (see Lacock) fell to the share of Lady 
 Mildmay, and so came to her son-in-law, Francis Fane, Earl of Westmoreland: whose family 
 sold it in parcels at various times during the 17th century. 
 
 The family of Awdry of Seend, whose first known ancestor in this count}'- was the Rev. John 
 Awdry, Yicar of Melksham 1601—39, to which he was presented through the interest of the 
 Brounckers, have been resident landowners in the parish of Seend for about 200 years. Their 
 estate previously belonged to Wadman. A House near the Church was built by Mr. Thomas 
 Bruges of Melksham, who died 1835 and bequeathed his name and the property he had formed 
 to his nephew the late William Heald Ludlow Bruges Esq. Recorder of Devizes, sometime M.P. 
 for that Borough, and for Bath; who died September 1855. 
 
MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 303 
 
 oare he takes up in the street melt in his forge, which the oare in the Forest of Deane 
 will not do. In the street, where the sand has been worn and washed away, the 
 oare appears after a shower, and it glisters when the sun shines. Melksham Forest 
 reached to the foot of this hill. It was full of good oakes, which were cut down 
 
 about 1634, and sold for.per load, and nobody then ever tooke notice of this 
 
 iron oare, which every sunshiney day, after a shower, glistered in their eies; now 
 there are very few oakes left in this parish, or thereabout, and so this rich mine 
 cannot be melted. 1 Finding this plenty of oare, I presently concluded that I should 
 find here some water impregnated with it, and tried some wells with powder of 
 galls, with which infusion the wells of the South side did turne ; the North side not. 
 The principall well is that belonging to Mr. John Sumner, 2 which upon infusion 
 with galles, immediately became as black as inke, so that I could write with it to 
 reade it. Neither Tunbridge water, nor any other iron water I ever could meet 
 with, would doe the like. a 
 
 a Mr. Alderman Gomelton, of London, assured me that Tunbridge waters in Kent, were first used by Mr. Dudley 
 North, Grandfather, or Great Uncle, to my Lord Chief Justice North, which is fitt to be remembred. 
 
 1 For further details respecting the quality of the mineral waters of Seend, see Aubrey’s Nat. 
 Hist, of Wilts, p. 21. His observations about the iron ore have been lately verified. After 
 remaining either unknown, or, from want of oaks in Melksham Forest, neglected for 200 years, 
 the ore in this parish, principally on the lands of Wadham Locke Esq. has at last attracted 
 attention. Works were begun in 1856, and have been carried on here and at one or two other 
 places near. The ore is found in a ferruginous sandstone of the “ Lower Green Sand ” of English 
 Geology. In the quarries at Seend are also found very beautiful chalcedonized casts of Ammon¬ 
 ites, showing with remarkable distinctness how the several compartments of the shell projected 
 one into the other. 
 
 2 Of this family was Mistress Joan Sumner, to whom, as he elsewhere says, “ in an evil hour,” 
 Aubrey made his first address in 1665. [See Wilts Arch. Mag. iv. 97—104.J About the 
 beginning of the last century an Edward Sumner of Seend died without issue. His niece, who 
 became his heir, was Mary daughter of Daniel Webb of Monkton Farley. She married Sir 
 Edward Seymour who (on the extinction of the Dukedom in the younger branch) succeeded as 
 Eighth Duke of Somerset in 1749. Their third son Lord William Seymour, who married Hester, 
 heiress of John Maltravers of Melksham, lived at Seend. The house which he occupied (since 
 rented by the late Mr. Daubeny) was bought from the Duke of Somerset, after Lord William’s 
 death, by Mr. Thomas Bruges. Over the door is the shield of Sumner, Yert, a fess dancette 
 ermine. There are three achievements of the Seymours in Seend Church. 
 
304 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Seend. 
 
 Mem. Mr. Fr. Lodwyck told me that mention is made in some of our Histories, 
 that King Hen. 7. was in exile some time, and lived at the Duke of Burgundy’s 
 Court. The staple for our Wool was then at Calais, and ’twas manufactured by the 
 Walloons. When he came to the Crown he sent for a number of them to come into 
 England, to sett up the cloathing trade there, and Mr. Lodwyck says the history 
 says, that they were settled in Wiltshire, and that there are still several of their 
 descendants with Dutch and French names. I remember one Mr. Goupy, 1 and I had 
 to do with a merchant of his name at Tours. I remember I heard them say, that 
 heretofore this was a great place of Cloathing, sc. about 90 and more years since. 
 I have now forgott the reason of their removal hence to Trubridge. 2 The good 
 houses here were built by the Cloathiers; I know not any small country village 
 that has so many well built houses. 
 
 In the church here, which is a chapel of ease to Melksham, in the north aisle, 
 which by tradition was built by the family of Stokys, is this Epitaph: 
 
 Ulcrc ltd) Soljti Stokes, anti Sins, fyts innf, tolpdg 
 3ol)n tifcrscti nr XI5JKE hag of 3itnr, fyz grrr 
 of our ilorti ffiob tijousanb 
 On toljose sohilns JIju Ijabc tncrcn. Sntcm 
 
 They lye under a flatt marble stone, in which are both their pourtraictures in 
 brasse, with the Inscription aforesaid, but there is no escutcheon. 3 
 
 In this Church has been a great deale of painted glasse, with pictures of some of 
 the Stokys’ children, but beaten down by one William Sumner, of this parish, about 
 
 1 This name, altered to Guppy, was at Seend, and at Sandridge in Melksham : and there are 
 
 some interments of the family in Melksham Church: with a coat of arms half English, half 
 French: On a chevron between three roses slipped, three fleurs de lys. 
 
 3 In his Natural History of Wilts, p. 112, he conjectures the main reason to have been that 
 the water at Seend was not proper for the fulling and washing of their cloth : “ because, being 
 impregnated with iron, it gave the white cloth a yellowish tincture.” 
 
 3 A note written on an original Pedigree of Stokes of Kington St. Michael, says that “ John 
 Stokys in his will desired to be buried in the Chapel of Sende which he had built, and gave £20 
 for its adornment.” His device, a pair of shears, is on the moulding of the West window of the 
 North aisle, the only part of the Church which is believed to have been built by him. 
 
MELKSHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 305 
 
 the yeare 1648. There is not now one escutcheon in the Church remaining. Mem. 
 In the high windowes in the nave of this Church, a figure in glass, and inscription 
 in the margins underneath, which for want of a short telescope I could not read. 1 
 
 Mem. At the bottome of an arch, at the partition between the Church and 
 Chancell, is carved in stone this figure, which I take notice of, for the hat’s sake; 
 which fashion I think came in about Hen. 8. [PI. xxix. No. 436.] 
 
 WHADDON. 2 
 
 1 On the battlements of Seend Church, North side, are these devices. 1. A Rudder, for Pavely 
 of Brook House. 2. Three sickles interlaced, Hungerford. 3. Bourchier’s Knot. 4. Some 
 animal’s head very rudely cut. 
 
 2 This is a very small parish of about 438 acres of land. The situation corresponds with the 
 Anglo-Saxon words hwced little, dun hill. There is another place of the name in the parish of 
 Alderbury in South Wilts : and in Cox’s “ Magna Britannia,” a long account of the latter is, (by a 
 confusion not uncommon in that book), attributed to Whaddon in the Hundred of Melksham. 
 
 In Domesday Survey Wadone was held under the Crown by a military Thane, one Aluric, who 
 had been owner in the Confessor’s time. In Hen. III. and Edw. I. the family name of the owner 
 is not recoverable, as he is only called Henry de Whaddon. He held part under the Earl of 
 Sarum, who held under the Crown as of the Honour of Trowbridge : and part under Humphrey 
 de Escovill who was owner, under the same tenure, of Hilperton. 
 
 In 1342—51 the owner of the manor, and Patron of the Living, was Sir John de Holt, Kt. 
 This person whose family name is also lost under that of the neighbouring manor of Holt, is 
 mentioned in the “ Wilts Archseol. Mag.” I. p. 280. On his seal appended to a Deed, are these 
 arms, Semee of fleurs de lys, 3 lions rampant. 
 
 In 1282 Thomas Gore, of the Alderton family, was patron of the Living: hut probably only 
 for the turn by purchase. In the folio MS. of Gore documents belonging to Mr. Poulett Scrope, 
 there is no allusion to that family having ever been owners of the manor of Whaddon. In 1401 
 Sir John Roche was owner. By one of his daughters and coheiresses it passed to the Beauchamps, 
 and from them on the failure of issue, to the Ba} r ntons. In 1538 Sir Edward Baynton of Brom- 
 ham House was Lord of the manor; but about 1543 by purchase, partly from the Bayntons, and 
 partly from the Stourton family, it became the property of Mr. Thomas Long of Trowbridge, 
 from whom it has descended to the present owner, Walter Long Esq., of Rood Ashton. Whaddon 
 House was taken down about 1835. The Church is of very old foundation : the doorway and 
 capitals of the chancel arch being Transition from Saxon. The Living is now united with 
 Hilperton. About 1644 William Shipman was ejected from this Rectory. Among the Add. MS. 
 in the British Museum (No. 15561, xi.) is “ The Answer of Martin Brunker and others to the 
 Rev. William Shipman about his performance of Divine Service.” 
 
POTTERNE and CANNINGS HUNDRED . 1 
 
 1 No Hundred of the name of Potterne appears, either in the Hundred Rolls of Hen. III. and 
 Edw. I., or in the “ Nomina Villarum ” of 9 Edw. II. In those Documents the parishes now in¬ 
 cluded in the Hundred of Potterne and Cannings are registered as lying, in a Half-Hundred called 
 “ Roubergh Episcopi,” and in the Hundred of “ Cannings Episcopi: ” the Bishop of Sarum having 
 the lordship of both. The other Half-Hundred of Roubergh was called “ Roubergh Regis,” and 
 is now, nearly all, included in that of Swanborough. 
 
 The general topography of Potterne and Cannings Hundred - has been recently assisted by 
 “The History Military and Municipal of the Borough of Devizes, 1859;” and by the “Historical 
 Memoirs of the Parish of Bishop’s Cannings,” a contribution by Archdeacon Macdonald to the 
 Wilts Archaeol. Mag., Yol. IV. p. 121. 
 
 The onty parish touched upon by Aubrey in the single Volume of his MS. now to be found, is 
 that of Rowde. If he made Collections for any others, they were probably in the missing 
 “ Liber B.” The Editor’6 comments being therefore limited to Rowde, he must for the present 
 omit the rest of the Hundred. But there is one point connected with its principal town, upon 
 which, as it has often been discussed, he would take this opportunity of making a suggestion, viz.: 
 as to the meaning of the name now written and pronounced “ Devizes.” 
 
 Devizes. That it is a word of Latin origin, and that “ Castrum ad Divisas ” (the Castle at 
 the Divises), was one of the oldest and commonest Latin names given to the Castle built here 
 in the reign of Hen. I., will perhaps be allowed. The word “ divisa ” (divided) is a past participle, 
 and, as such, would properly require to be joined with a substantive, as terra. But, like the 
 word “ premises ” (i.e. terrae prcemissce,,) and others, it grew by familiarity to be considered as an 
 independent noun : and as a noun was commonly used, not by classical, but by mediaeval Latinists. 
 
 Of its use, there are many instances, chiefly in the Monastic charters. 
 
 1. In John of Glastonbury’s description of the bounds of “ Glastonbury sii. Hides” (printed in 
 New Monasticon, I. 23, No. 1.) the word “ divisee ” occurs in one and the same document no less than 
 eight times. 1. “Hinc in divisas de Bikenham et Ferlege.” 2. “ In divisis fossati.” 3. “Usque 
 ad Litelnie quae est divisa de Martineseie.” 4. Per divisas insulae.” 5. “Per divisas de Ceddre.” 
 6. “Deinde usque ad divisas de Mere et Poulton.” 7. “ Et sic per illas divisas versus orientem.” 
 8. “Per divisas de Andredesey.” 
 
 2. In the same Abbey Register (New Monasticon, p. 35), “ Super insulam juxta divisas, &c., 
 A.D.1261. 
 
 3. In the partition of Godeney Moor (ditto p. 52,) “ Ita quod Abbas habeat in longitudine illius 
 divisee: ” where the word seems to signify one of the moieties. A.D. 1283. 
 
 4. In an Ivy-Church charter (New Monasticon, No. 3); “ Totam praedictam placeam infra 
 divisas prasdictas, &c.” A.D. 1256. 
 
POTTEENE AND CANNINGS HUNDRED. 
 
 307 
 
 5. In the Book of the Priory of Bath (Lincoln’s Inn Library, No. xliv., Art. 4), is mention of 
 lands between the “divisas de Corston” (near Bath) “et Wodensdiche.” 
 
 6. In a Deed relating to Stansal in South Yorkshire, dated A.D. 1236, the boundaries are 
 described: “De illa.fossa usque ad divisas de Wadworth:” and again, “Ad terram arabilem de 
 Stansall et divisas de Wadworth.” [Hunter’s South Yorkshire, I., p. 247]. 
 
 7. “The whole Manor of New Hall within the divisas of Darfield.” [Ditto, Vol. II., p. 112]. 
 
 8. Sir Thomas Fairfax, describing the march of his troops in 1642, says that “he passed to 
 Thorne, and then across the devises of Hatfield to Crowle.” Here, in its English form which is 
 very rare, the word is considered by the late Mr. Hunter to mean Border-lands. [Ditto, Yol. I., p.74]. 
 
 9. Jacob (Law Dictionary) under “Divisa,” says, “Sometimes it is taken for the bounds or 
 limits of a parish, or farm, &c., as ‘divisas perambulare,’ to walk the bounds of a parish : in which 
 sense it has been extended to the division between countries, and given names to towns, as to the 
 Devizes in Wiltshire, situated on the confines of the West Saxon and Mercian Kingdoms.” [But 
 of any town so called from lying on the frontier between countries, or of this particular one having 
 separated Wessex from Mercia, Mr. Jacob produces no evidence]. 
 
 10. Bracton, Fleta, and R. Hoveden, are said to use the word for Boundary. [Davies’s Origines 
 Divisianae, p. 6]. 
 
 11. “ S. Maria de Divisis ” was in early charters, the name of Pipewell Abbey, co. Northampton. 
 The historians of that county cannot explain the reason, but only conjecture that some ancient 
 partition gave rise to the name. 
 
 From these instances it appears that the word “ divisce” was used to signify, either 1. Lands 
 parted between two proprietors, or 2. Border-lands, or 3. (which is by far the most frequent 
 sense), Boundaries. 
 
 To apply this to Devizes. Were there boundaries of any sort at this place in ancient times: 
 and if so, were they boundaries of kingdoms, provinces, shires, hundreds, parishes or manors ? 
 
 No authority has ever been produced to show that any limit either of a British Kingdom, or of 
 a Roman Province ever passed over, or by, this place. (In the latter case the more classical 
 name of “Ad Fines” would probably have been used). As to the Saxon period, it does not any 
 where appear that Devizes was ever the boundary of the Shire of Wilts. We are therefore driven 
 to look for some subordinate partition, either between Hundreds, or, on a still smaller 6cale, 
 between Manors and Parishes. And it is after all in the one or the other of these, that the 
 explanation of the matter is most likely to be found, because all the instances above produced 
 (and produced in detail, for this very purpose), show that the word divisa was not used in the 
 case of the larger, but only in that of the less important kinds of partition. 
 
 1. As a boundary between Hundreds. It may be mentioned that there is already an instance 
 of the word divisce having been used precisely in this sense in speaking of another place in the 
 county of Wilts. In an ancient Survey of Braden Forest, the limit “runs from East to West, 
 including the Mill of Mighall, Baillard’s Ash, and the Tres Divisas,” i.e. : a spot at the point of 
 union of the Three Hundreds of Kingsbridge, Highworth, and Malmesbury.” “ This ” (says 
 Mr. J. Y. Akerman) “ suggests the origin of the town of Devizes, which probably once stood at 
 
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 \_Devizes. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 the junction of ancient boundaries obliterated in an age long past, and of which no record remains.” 
 [Archaeologia, xxxvii., p. 50]. 
 
 It is however not so easy to obliterate all record of old boundaries. Owners vanish quickly 
 enough, but rights, and the limits that define them, are more enduring. It is the fact, that 
 certain local distinctions of territory observed here at this very day, are exactly the same as they 
 were at the time when the Castle was built. Further, they are precisely of that sort which would 
 have been rendered into Latin in those days by the word “ divisce” These are submitted to the 
 reader’s eye in the annexed Plan. 
 
 All that is now included in the “ Borough of Devizes ” was formerly a Castle and its Demesne. 
 The Eastern portion of the Borough runs into, and is enclosed on three sides by lands in the Parish 
 of Bishop’s Cannings. In a similar manner, the Western portion of the Borough invades, and 
 is very closely pursued by, lands in the Parish of Potterne. Both these parishes were Manors 
 belonging to Bishop Roger the builder of the Castle. Nothing appears to be known of any town 
 here before that time, nor has the name (Ad Divisas) been met with before it is given to the Castle 
 by William of Malmesbury, a historian contemporary with the Bishop who built it. From the 
 peculiar way in which the Demesne (now the Borough), appears to trespass upon the otherwise 
 continuous Manors, it would seem to be not improbable that, in forming it, the Bishop took the 
 Eastern part from Bishop Cannings, the Western from Potterne. 
 
POTTERNE AND CANNINGS HUNDRED. 
 
 309 
 
 ROWDE. 
 
 Insert this in Liber B, or bring that hither. 
 
 In the highway here is a spring called Stockwell: on both sides of the way 
 are gravelly cliffs, which in dry weather are candied white; it turnes not with 
 gall powder, which were it vitriol it would: I hope it may have the effect of 
 Epsham water. The sediment by precipitation is almost a perfect white Nitre. 
 The inhabitants tell me that it is good for the eyes, and washes very well, and that 
 it used for making medicines. 
 
 At the fall of the leafe the water in the ditches hereabout looks blewish. 1 
 
 If this was so; then, Bishop’s Cannings on the East was in one Hundred, that of Cannings : 
 whilst Potterne on the West was in another, the Old Hundred of Roubergh Episcopi. Conse¬ 
 quently, the Western walls of the Bishop’s new Castle must have almost touched the divisa that 
 separated the two Hundreds. 
 
 2. A.s a boundary between Manors. Before Bishop Roger, out of the two Manors, Bishop’s 
 Cannings and Potterne, belonging to his See, thus, (as we may conceive,) enclosed his Demesne, the 
 boundary lines of those two Manors, and that of a third, the King’s Manor of Rowde, met at one 
 point. At that particular point, (in those days, literally “ad tres divisas”) stood the Castle 
 which the Bishop built. 
 
 From this peculiarity of situation; that is, on the dividing line between Two Hundreds, and, 
 at the Meeting of Three Manors, possibly arose the name of “ Castrum ad Divisas.” 
 
 1 This Manor, under the name of “ Villa de Rudes,” was demesne of the Crown in A.D. 1275 
 [Hund. Rolls, ii. 236], and was sometimes granted out for life, with the Constableship of the Castle 
 of Devizes, and the Forests of Chippenham and Melksham, &c. It was thus held by Plessetis, 
 Earl of Warwick (Hen. III.), Matthew Fitz-John (Edw. I.), Sir Edmund Hungerford 1455, and 
 Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Sarum. When in hand of the Crown it was generally dower of 
 the Queens of England. Under the Queen it was leased to a “ Farmer of the Manor,” the last of 
 whom was Robert Maundrell, 27 Eliz. (1584). (The martyr burnt at the stake at Salisbury 1556 
 was John, son of Robert Maundrell of Rowde.) Before 1597 it had been perpetually alienated to 
 Sir Edward Hungerford of Farley Castle, who died 1607. His widow re-married Francis Manners, 
 sixth Earl of Rutland, who held for his life about 1158 acres, and received Quit Rent for 
 various Assart lands. In the Hungerford Rent Roll (in the writer’s possession) ail names of 
 tenants, &c., are given. The principal occupier of the “Site of the Manor,” at that time was 
 Wm. Norden. 
 
 The Reversioner, after the death of the Earl and Countess of Rutland, was Edward Hungerford, 
 then a Minor, (afterwards Sir Edward the Parliamentary Officer), son of Sir Anthony Hungerford 
 of Black-Bourton, and Stock, (near Bedwyn.) The following letter from Sir Anthony relates to 
 
310 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \Rowde. 
 
 an Enclosure of a Common Field, which appears to have been contemplated about the year of its 
 date, 1619. 
 
 “ To Robert Flower and 
 John Lewes, These; 
 
 At Rowde. 
 
 Whearas there hath bin a generall agreement by yo r selves and all the Tennants Free-houlders of the Mannor 
 of Rowde, as likewise the Parsonn there, for the Inclosinge of your Common Field, Whereunto my Lord of 
 Rutland by his Steward and Mr. Pewe his Officer, and my Selfe in the behalfe of my Sonne, have given our assent, 
 Since which time as well yourselves as the rest of the Inhabitants there whome this concerneth, have submitted 
 your selves to the judgement of fower personnes equally named to see that everie weann (one) in this partition 
 might respectively have what of righte perteines unto him, whoe beinge nowe willinge to doe their best endeavour 
 to this purpose: It is said that you two onelie, contrarie to your former assents, doe now intend to interrupt this 
 worke: the which if you shall persever to doe I presume you wil be enforced to make good your former agreemente, 
 with your Charge and trouble: I doe therefore wishe you for the avoydinge of bothe, quicklie to joyne with your 
 Neighboures in this Worke, the rather for that I conceave you shall reape benifitt by this Inclosure as well as others: 
 And soe I recomend you to God. From Stocke this xxth of Januarie 1619. Your loveinge Friend, 
 
 Anth : Httxgebfobd.” 
 
 Sir Edw. Hungerford, the Parliamentary officer, died owner 1648. His arms with his wife’s 
 (Halliday) on a scutcheon of pretence, are on the third bell: which however was given after his 
 death, as the date is 1654. Rowde is named in the Will of his half-brother and successor Anthony, 
 1657 : by whose son the last Sir Edward it was most likely sold. Francis Eyles (of South Sea 
 notoriety) was owner 1721. Mr. Delme 1770. 
 
 The estate at Rowdeford formerly belonged to Mr. Richard Tuck, who resided there: after¬ 
 wards to Mr. Wyatt, of whom it was purchased by the late Mr. Wadbam Locke, father of the 
 present owner Francis A. S. Locke Esq. Sheriff of Wilts 1858, of Rowdeford House. The House 
 stands in the parish of Bromham. 
 
 Some part of Rowde was held 39 Hen. III. by the serjeantry of providing the King, or, in his 
 absence, the Constable of Devizes Castle, with hawks from Michaelmas to Lent. 
 
 “ Foxangre” in this parish was given by the Empress Maud to Monkton Farley Priory. 
 
 The Rectory was anciently in the Crown : when enjoyed by a subject, as by Walter de Leuche 
 and Robert de Chaucy in Hen. III., the rector nominated a vicar. In 1377 the Tithes 
 had been appropriated to Stanley Abbey : and at the Dissolution were bought by the Bayntons of 
 Bromham, whose successors at Spye Park have since presented to the Vicarage. The Church, all 
 but the tower, was rebuilt in 1833. 
 
 Of Ferdinando Warner, a very voluminous writer, vicar here 1730, there is a memoir in 
 Chalmers’s Biog. Diet. He is said to have declared (according to a, probably foolish, story) that 
 he wrote his “ Ecclesiastical History ” and his “ Dissertation on the Common Prayer,” three folio 
 volumes, both the original and corrected copies, with one single pen, which was an old one when 
 he began, and when he finished was not worn out. His son Dr. John Warner, Rector of 
 Stourton, died 1800. Of William Higginson, vicar 1808, and his family, there is a notice in 
 Baker’s Northamptonshire, “ Gretworth,” p. 510. 
 
 Above St. Edith’s marsh, (now corrupted into Titty-marsh,) a Mosaic pavement was found 
 about 1660. [Mon. Brit.] This was opened again a few years ago. 
 
 Some extracts from the Rowde Registers were printed in the Devizes Gazette, 25th July 1839. 
 
RAMSBURY HUNDRED . 1 
 
 BISHOPSTON. 
 
 HIS place as the name imports, belongs to the Bishopric of Saruin. 2 The 
 ^ mannour is now leased to a Layman, and he again lets estates to his 
 Tenants, who all do him yearly this service for their lands as followeth. 
 Every plow or teame at three dayes warning, makes, in the husband¬ 
 man’s phrase, three journeys; i.e. plougheth three days for the Lord, at 2d, a day, 
 and bread and cheese gratis , At wheat harvest every messuage is bound, likewise 
 at three days warning, to maintaine a reaper. These breake their fast at their 
 owne and afterwards are entertained at the Lord’s, charge, viz. at dinner every man 
 hath a pound of beefe, a pound of mutton, a handfull of salt and fower pound of 
 bread, and among all a barrell of beer. This is brought to them into the field; at 
 evening they all come to the mannour house, and again every man hath four pounds 
 of bread, one pound of cheese, and a candle (? caudle), or a cuppe of beare. 
 
 Here is an old seate, called “Hocker bench,” hewn out of the side of a banke 
 near the Maypole where they keepe their revelling. It is probably so called from 
 the ancient Saxon custome of Hocking at Hocktide, for joy of the death of the 
 
 1 The name of Ramsbury is a corruption of Raven’s-burg : in Anglo-Saxon “ Hraefens-byrig.” 
 During the 200 years (from A.D. 705 to A.D. 909) that the Bishops of Wiltshire had their See 
 at Ramsbury it was called, “ Ecclesia Corvinensis.” The lordship of the Hundred was given to 
 the Bishop by King Offa. [Hundred Rolls]. He was a King of Mercia, and died A.D. 794. 
 
 2 This Bishopston belonged to the See of Sarum ; Bishopston in South Wilts to that of Win¬ 
 chester. At the Muster in 1538, the archers, &c., from this parish were supplied by the Bishop 
 of Sarum, Lady Darell and WKlliam Wroughton. When Church property was confiscated in 
 1647—51 the episcopal Manor was sold to John Oldfield and Matthew Cendrick for £2261 16s. 2d. 
 The Lordship of the Manor is now in Lord Holland’s family. An old Manor House was taken 
 down in 1860. The Vicarage was a Peculiar in the gift of the Prebendary of Bishopston, now 
 in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Of the early Prebendaries there is a list in 
 the “ Antiquities of Salisbury, and Bath Abbey' Church, p. 315.” 
 
312 
 
 [ Bishopston . 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Tyrant Hardicanute the Dane. 1 Hither the ancient and graver men, calling them¬ 
 selves Aldermen of Hocker-bench, resort to keep good order and be spectators of 
 the dancing and pastime of the younger. Mem. There is a Hocker-bench likewise 
 at Hartwell in Barkshire: ideo queerc. 
 
 Near unto this place, as the indigence informe me, was sometimes a Sanctuary 
 called Paradise , whither whosoever fled he was free from all arrests. 
 
 In the Church here hath been very fine painted glasse, but all broken by the 
 Parliament soldiers in the late civil warres; one window only, viz. that in the East 
 end of the North aisle, escaping the fury of the puritanical zealots. In it are three 
 women saints, each standing in a nich of curious architecture. That in the first 
 columne holds a sword reversed in her right hand, a book expansed in her left. 
 
 That in the middle I suppose to be the B.V. On an escroll at her feet. 
 
 Sea. fHar. ora pro nolfis.The figure in the third columne holds two baskets in 
 
 her right hand, and a booke as aforesaid in her left. In the limbe of the same windowe 
 
 .sap qut tstant fcncstram fieri feed.At the top of the third columne of 
 
 the same window this coate [PI. xxix. No. 437]. Some device in a shield at the top 
 of the first columne, viz. Argent , over a Starre of 6 points proper, an Eagle rising 
 Argent. [No. 438.] Another broken in the middle columne. 
 
 In the third columne of the last window in the same aisle, a saint’s head broken 
 off, the upper garment is seminated all over with these letters, H within a circle Or, 
 f No. 440]. On both sides of the same saint, these words counterly varied 3H)U turret; 
 at the foot of the same saint, M on a shield within a circle Or. [No. 441.] 
 
 Some device in a shield in the East window of the South aisle, Argent, some 
 birde rising.in base, but metall upon metall. 2 
 
 1 Hampson (Medisev: Kal., I., 204,) pronounces this to be a popular error, but knows of no 
 satisfactory origin of the custom. At some places it consisted in catching passengers by a rope, 
 and making them pay forfeit : at others, in “ heaving or lifting ” them. Hock Tuesday was the 
 2nd Tuesday after Easter. 
 
 2 i.e. False heraldry. The same remark applies to shield 438. In the South Aisle window the 
 device described by Aubrey, and some other portions of stained glass remain. The three figures, 
 &c., which he saw in the North Aisle, have perished. 
 
 Bishopston Church has a fine peal of bells, a beautiful Norman door outside the chancel on the 
 North side, and a rich battlement on the Nave. 
 
KAMSBUKY HUNDRED. 
 
 313 
 
 In the South aisle is an opening through the wall into the Chancell; over it winds 
 up a small pair of stairs, at the top of which is a (diamond-shaped) peepe-hole like 
 this into the Chancell: [No. 442]. 
 
 In the nave of the Church, beneath his picture on a brasse plate affixed to a 
 marble, this following inscription: ©f tmtr djarttc prao for uc Soffilc ox l^arrg $rcrt, 
 fofjtclj Slavrp bcccsffi tfjc tx hap of Suit, tljr prare of our ILorh ©oh fH.TL on 
 
 pjljosr soule 31ju fjabe turret, bitten. 
 
 This on a marble near the altar: 
 
 “ Having finished her course, here resteth the body of Edith, wife of Christopher Willoughby 
 of London, Merchant, late Sheriffs of this Countie, who deceased this life the 15th of August, 
 1670.” 
 
 A monument likewise erected to her on the wall; the escutcheon within a mantle, 
 thus: [No. 439] Willoughby quartering [Beke. See “ Brook House,” and No. 555]. 
 
 “Hie obdormiscit in pace Edktha Christ. Willoughby Armig: Lond: conjux charissima: apud 
 Alvington in Agro Glocest: nata An. 1607: ubi libras annuatim solvend. pauperibus legavit. Lond. 
 translata matrimonium contraxit 1634. Desponsum absentem apud exteros (negotiis mercatoriis 
 versantem) aequo tulit animo per Annos 6: matrimonium contractual tunc sacrum consummavit 
 1640. Maritum inde ad Indos navigantem summo expectavit desiderio per Annos 6f. Redeuntem 
 tandem (sorte sua contentum) mutuo conjugali fruuntur solatio invicem felices. Fcemina erga 
 Deum pia, egenos benigna, voti conjugalis semper observantissima, amicis fidelis, omnibus dilecta : 
 Obiit .ZErae Xtianoe 1670, iEtatis suae 63. Cujus memorice hoc sacravit Maritus moerens.” 1 
 
 Nota. That about An. Dni. 1657 Mr. Gilbert Iveate, Lord of this manor under 
 the Bishop, gave 4 pounds per annum to fower poor people : {i.e. to each of the four. 
 Ed.) Since, the estate is sold to Christopher Willoughby, Esqr. Merchant. 2 
 
 1 From this odd inscription it appears that immediately after a contract of matrimony, Mr. 
 Willoughby went abroad on mercantile business and was absent six years: that on his return the 
 marriage was completed: that he then went away again for six years and a quarter more, but 
 that upon his second return the domestic life was resumed, and continued without further inter¬ 
 ruption. He was a proprietor here in 1639—40 : and by Indenture 8th June 1680, he conveyed 
 the Tithes of Clinch in the parish of Milton Lislebonne (formerly Milton Abbot’s) near Pewsey 
 in this county, for various charitable purposes, chiefly for the benefit of Bishopston. His own 
 epitaph in the church mentions that he was “ infelix in secundis nuptiis.” 
 
 2 Gilbert Keate was of London: and his son Sir Jonathan, of the Hoo, co. Hertford, (then a 
 Knight, created Baronet 1660) was the chief proprietor in 1639—40. 
 
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SELKLEY HUNDRED. 
 
 ABURY. 
 
 f^/^N an old MS. at Mr. Bayliffe’s (of Monkton near Chippenham,) it is 
 written Auberia. 
 
 (From the “ Monimenta Britannica now in the Bodleian Library. 1 ) 
 
 I was inclined by my Genius from my childhood, to the love of antiquities: 
 and my Fate dropt me in a countrey most suitable for such enquiries. 
 
 Salisbury-plaines and Stonehenge I had known from eight years old: but I never 
 saw the Countrey about Maryborough till Christmas 1648: being then invited to 
 the Lord Francis Seymour’s, by the Honorable Mr. Charles Seymour, then of 
 Allington near Chippenham, since Lord Seymour, with whom I had the honor to 
 be intimately acquainted, and whose Friendship I ought to mention with a profound 
 respect to his memorie. There was my honoured friend and neighbour Colonel' 
 John Penruddock of Compton Chamberlayne, and that good old gentleman Mr. 
 Stephen Bowman, Steward to the Lord Marquesse of Hertford; we went together: 
 and Mr. Levet, &c. 
 
 The morrow after Twelfday, Mr. Charles Seymour and Sir William Button of 
 Tokenham, Baronet, mett with their packs of hounds at the Grey-Wethers. These 
 Downes look as if they were sowen with great Stones, very thick ; and in a dusky 
 evening they looke like a flock of Sheep: from whence it takes its name: one might 
 fancy it to have been the scene where the giants fought with huge stones against 
 the Gods. ’Twas here that our game began, and the chase lead us, at length, thorough 
 the village of Aubury, into the closes there: where I was wonderfully surprized 
 
 1 Aubrey’s 'account of his discovery of Abury (inserted here from another of his Manuscript 
 Collections,) is also printed, partly in Sir It. C. Hoare’s “Ancient Wiltshire,” vol. II., p. 59: 
 and more fully in the “ Wilts Archseol. Magazine,” vol. IV., p. 309, and VII., 224, in an Article 
 by William Long Esq. of Bath. Sir R. C. Hoare does not give the curious ground-plans. 
 
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 at the sight of those vast stones, of w ch I had never heard before: as also at the 
 mighty Bank and graffe [ditch) about it. I observed in the inclosure some 
 segments of rude circles, made with these stones, whence I concluded, they had 
 been in the old time complete. I left my company a while, entertaining myselfe 
 with a more delightfull indagation: and then steered by the cry of the Hounds, 
 overtooke the company, and went with them to Kynnet, where was a good 
 hunting-dinner provided. Our repast was cheerfull, which being ended, we 
 remounted and beat over the downs with our grey-hounds. In this afternoon’s 
 diversion I happened to see Wensditch (sic for Wansdyke), and an old camp, and 
 two or three sepulchres. The evening put a period to our sport, and we returned 
 to the Castle at Marleborough, were we were nobly entertained; juvat hcec meminisse. 
 I think I am now the only surviving gentleman of that company. 
 
 In the year 1655 was published by Mr. Web, a book intituled 11 Stonehenge 
 Restored,” but writt by Mr. Inigo Jones ; which I read with great delight. There 
 is a great deale of learning in it, but having compared his scheme with the monu¬ 
 ment itself, I found he had not dealt fairly, but had made a Lesbian’s ride, which is 
 verb^sreEraTraiAda^a! conformed to the stone ; * that is, he framed the monument to his 
 own hypothesis, which is much differing from the thing itself. 1 This gave me an 
 edge to make more researches ; and a farther opportunity was, that my honored 
 and faithfull friend Colonell James Long, of Dray cot, since Baronet, was wont to 
 spend a week or two every autumne at Aubury in hawking, where several times I 
 have had the happiness to accompany him. Our sport was very good, and in a 
 romantick countrey, sc .; the prospects noble and vast, the downs stock’t with 
 numerous flocks of sheep, the turfe rich and fragrant with thyme and burnet. 
 
 ‘ Fessus ut incubuit baculo, saxoque resedit 
 
 Pastor ; arundineo carmine mulcet oves.’ Ovid. Trist. Lib. iv. El. i. 1. 11. 
 
 Nor are the nut-brown shepherdesses without their graces. But the flight of the 
 
 1 The style of building in the island of Lesbos seems to have been one in which the stones were 
 not laid so as to form an even front, but each stone alternately projected and retired. Alluding 
 to this, Aristotle (from whom Erasmus borrowed the proverb) says, “ Of the indefinite the rule 
 also is indefinite, like the leaden rule in Lesbian building : which is altered to suit the figure of 
 
 the stone.” Ethic., Book v., Chap. 10. 
 
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316 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Alury . 
 
 falcons was but a parenthesis to the Colonell’s facetious discourse, who was Ham Marti 
 quam Mer curio ,’ and the Muses did accompany him with his hawkes and spanniels. 
 
 1663. King Charles II li . discoursing one morning with my Lord Brounker and Dr. 
 Charleton 1 concerning Stoneheng, they told his Majestie, what they had heard me 
 say concerning Aubury, sc. that it did as much excell Stoneheng as a Cathedral 
 does a Parish Church. His Ma tie admired that none of our Chorographers had taken 
 notice of it: and commanded Dr. Charlton to bring me to him the next morning. 
 I brought with me a draught of it donne by memorie only: but well enough 
 resembling it, with w ch his Ma tie was pleased: gave me his hand to kisse, and com¬ 
 manded me to waite on him at Maryborough when he went to Bath with the Queen 
 about a fortnight after, which I did: and the next day, when the Court were 
 on their journey, his Ma tie left the Queen and diverted to Aubury, where I shewed 
 him that stupendious Antiquity, with the view whereof He and his Royal Highness 
 the Duke of Yorke were very well pleased. His Ma tie then commanded me to write 
 a Description of it, and present it to him: and the Duke of Yorke commanded me 
 to give an account of the old Camps and Barrows on the Plaines. 
 
 As his Ma tic departed from Aubury to overtake the Queen he cast his eie on 
 Silbury-liill about a mile off: w ch he had the curiosity to see, and walkt up to the 
 top of it, with the Duke of Yorke; Dr. Charlton and I attending them. They went 
 to Lacock 2 to dinner : and that evening to Bathe; all the Gentry and Connnonaltie 
 of those parts waiting on them, w th great acclamations of joy, &c. 
 
 In September following, (1663), I survey’d that old monument of Aubury with 
 a plain-table and afterwards tooke a Review of Stonehenge: and then I composed 
 this following discourse in obedience to his Ma tics command: and presented it to 
 Him: w ch he commanded me to put in print. 
 
 But considering that the Hinge of this discourse depends upon Mr. Camden’s Kerrig 
 y Druidcl; and having often been led out of the way, not only by common reports 
 
 1 William, second Yiscount Brouncker (see above, p. 298) was the first President of the Royal 
 Society. Dr. Walter Charleton was the King’s Physician, and author of a Treatise advocating 
 the Danish origin of Stonehenge. 
 
 2 Sir John Talbot’s. 
 
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 but by Bookes; and for that I had scarcely seen hitherto any Antiquitie which did 
 not either fall short of Fame or exceeded it; I was for relying on my own eie-sight; 
 and would not sett forth this Treatise, (or) committ this Discourse to the press, till 
 I had taken a journey into North Wales to consider that, and another called 
 Kerricj y Drewen. But I never had the opportunity to undertake that journey; but (169|) 
 lately, my worthy friend Mr. Edward Lliuyd, Custos of the Musseum in Oxford, 
 hath made accurate Observations of the Antiquities in Wales, which I have quoted 
 out of his annotations to Camden’s Britannia. Also I expected an account of such 
 temples in Scotland, by the help of Sir Robert Moray, but his death did put a stop 
 to the Edition; till in the year 1692 I had the happiness to correspond with the 
 learned D r . James Garden, Professor of Theologie at Aberdene. 
 
 There have been several books writt by learned men concerning Stoneheng, 
 much differing from one another, some affirming one thing, some another. Now I 
 come in the rear of all by comparative arguments to give a clear evidence that 
 these monuments were Pagan Temples; which was not made out before: and have 
 also, with humble submission to better judgments, offered a 'probability , that they 
 were Temples of the Druids. 
 
 When a traveller rides along by the ruins of a Monastery: he knows by the 
 manner of building, sc. Chapell, Cloysters. &c., that it was a Convent, but of what 
 Order, sc. Benedictine, Dominican, &c., it was, he cannot tell by the bare view. 
 
 So it is cleer that all the monuments, which I have here recounted were Temples. 
 
 Now my presumption is, That the Druids being the most eminent Priests, or Order 
 of Priests, among the Britaines; ’tis odds, but that these ancient monuments, sc. 
 
 Aubury, Stonehenge, Kerrig y Druidd &c., were Temples of the Priests of the 
 most eminent Order, viz., Druids, audit is strongly to be presumed, that Aubury, 
 Stoneheng, &c., are as ancient as those times. This enquiry, I must confess, is a 
 gropeing in the dark: but although I have not brought it into a cleer light yet I 
 can affirm that I have brought it from an utter darkness, to a thin mist, and have 
 
 1 This Preface seems to have been written, perhaps re-written, by Aubrey not long before his 
 death which took place in 1697: and many years after he had composed the “ Templa Druidum ” 
 
 (the first chapter of the Mon: Brit:), which is dated “ Broad Chalk 1665.” 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \_Abury. 
 
 gonne farther in this essay than any one before me. These Antiquities are so 
 exceeding old that no bookes doe reach them, so that there is no way to retrive 
 them but by comparative antiquitie, which I have writt upon the spoil from the 
 monuments themselves. 1 Historia quoquo modo scripta , bona est and though this 
 be writt, as I rode, a gallop, yet the novelty of it, and the faithfulness of the delivery, 
 may make some amends for the uncorrectness of the style. 1 The first draught was 
 worn out with time and handling; and now, methinkes, after many years hung 
 dormant, I come abroad like the ghost of one of those Druids. 
 
 I beg the reader’s pardon for running this preface into a storie, and wish him as 
 much pleasure in the reading them, as I had in the seeing them. Vale. 
 
 John Aubrey. 
 
 In the declension of the Roman Empire, the Britons being drawn away to defend 
 other provinces, their own country lay open to the Incursion of the Invaders. 
 In that miserable state of things, the Learned Men fled for refuge into Ire- 
 
 janus AngVorum.^ eldcn '* land: * upon which occasion learning did flourish there a long 
 time : but the memorie of things here became obliterated. Books, if any of such 
 remarke, perished, and Tradition was forgot. The Saxon Conquerors—no searchers 
 into Antiquity—ascribed works great and strange to the Devil, as the Devil’s Ditch, 
 Devil’s Arrows, Gogmagog Hills, &c., or to Giants, and handed down to us only 
 + The Roman dedicated Fables. This Incursion of the Goths puts Mons. Balzac t into a 
 
 to the Lady Marquess of 
 
 Bambouiiiet. Cholerique Rhetorication; sc.: “ The Northern people who seemed 
 
 to come to hasten time and precipitate the end of the world, declared so particular 
 a war to written things, that it was not wanting in them but that even the Alphabet 
 had been abolished.” T’was in that deluge of Historie the account of these British 
 monuments utterly perished: the discovery whereof I doe here endeavour, for 
 want of a written Record, to work out and restore, after a kind of Algebraical 
 
 1 The phrase in the original, (Pliny Ep. Lib. V. viii,) is not “ bona est,” but “ delectat.” Com¬ 
 paring the style admissible in History, with that essentially necessary to Oratorj^ and Poetry, he 
 says “ In these the reader finds little pleasure unless the language is of the best. But in History, 
 which is read chiefly for the sake of the facts, gratification is given although the style may be 
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 method, by comparing them that I have seen one with another, and reducing them 
 to a kind of ^Equation; so being but an ill orator myself, to make the stones give 
 evidence for themselves. 
 
 I shall proceed gradually, a notioribus ad minus nota , that is to say, from y e Remaines 
 of Antiquity less imperfect to the more imperfect and ruinated ; wherefore I must 
 first treat of that vast and ancient monument called Aubury in Wiltshire. 
 
 AUBURY. 
 
 Aubury is four miles west from Marleborough in Wiltshire, and is peradventure 
 the most eminent and entire monument of this kind in the Isle of Great Britaigne. 
 Or thus: I doe take this old ill-shaped monument to be the greatest, most considerable, 
 and the least ruinated of any of this kind in our British Isle. It is very strange that 
 so eminent an Antiquitie should lye so long unregarded by our Chorographers : 
 Mr. only names it. 1 
 
 It is environed (see PI. I.) with an extraordinary great vallum , or Rampart, 
 as great, and as high as that at Winchester: w ch is the greatest Bulwark that I have 
 seen. Within which is a Graffe (ditch) of a depth and breadth proportionable to it: 
 wherefore it could not be designed for a Fortification, for then the Graffe would 
 have been on the outside of the Rampart. 
 
 From (West) entrance at a to (East) at /3 is sixty paces [read perches; as on Plan]. 
 
 From the (South) entrance at y to that (North) at $ the same distance: the 
 breadth of the rampart is fower perches; and the breadth of the Graff the same 
 distance. 
 
 Round about the Graffe, sc. on the edge or border of it, are pitched on end huge 
 stones, as big, or rather bigger than those at Stoneheng: but rude, and unhewen as 
 they are drawn out of the earth: whereas those at Stoneheng are roughly hewen. 
 
 1 In the rough copy he had written “Camden;” but in the corrected copy of his MS. he 
 leaves the name out. Abury is not named in any edition of Camden that Aubrey could 
 have seen. In Holland’s translation of Camden, it is mentioned; but the passage was inserted 
 by the Translator. All that Leland says of this place is, “ Selbiri hille botom, wherby hath ben 
 camps and sepultures of men of warre, as at Aibyri a rnyle off, and in dyvers places of the playue.” 
 
320 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. \Abury. 
 
 Most of the stones, thus pitched on end, are taken away: only here and there doe 
 still remain some curvilineous segments: hut by these one may boldly conclude, 
 that heretofore they stood quite round about, like a Crowne; 
 
 Ovid’s Fastor. lib. r. 1. 131. 
 
 ‘ sed longa vetustas 
 Destruit, et saxo longa senecta nocet.’ 
 
 Within this circumvallation are also yet remaining segments, of a roundish figure, 
 ma'nded of two as I doe conjecture— Sacella, one the fig. 1,* * the other 
 
 marked with the fig. i, fig. 2, and tlicii' mines are not unlike Ariadne s Crowne : and are 
 
 to try if I could find any 
 
 hum’an bones: but i did n o neerer to a perfect circle than is that Constellation, t So within 
 
 not doe it. A 
 
 + Aurea per steiias our Christian churches are seYerall Chapelles respective to such or 
 
 nunc micat ilia novem. 1 1 
 
 ovids iastorum, lib. m. suc q a g^t; and the like might have been in the old time. 
 
 This old monument does as much exceed in greatness the so renowned Stoneheng, 
 as a Cathedral doeth a parish Church: so that by its grandure one might presume 
 it to have been an Arch-Temple of the Druids. 
 
 It is situated in the countrey of the stones called the Grey-weathers: of which 
 the Grey 1 weathers! fr ° m sort of stones, both this Antiquity, and that of Stonehenge were 
 built. From the south entrance (see Plan II.) runnes a solemne Walke, sc. of 
 stones pitch’d on end about seven foot high, more or less, w ch goes as far as Ivynet, 
 
 \ A shower of rain hin- which is at least a measured mile from Aubury,§ and from Ivynet 
 
 dred me from measuring 
 
 il - it turnes with a right angle eastward crossing the river, 1 and ascends 
 
 up the hill to another monument of the same kind, but less. 2 The distance of the 
 stones in this walk, and the breadth of it, is much about the distance of a noble 
 walke of Trees of that length: and very probable this Walke was made for 
 Processions. 
 
 1 This is evidently a slip of the pen, or of memory in copying his rough notes, without having 
 the plan before him or the subject fresh upon his mind: because on the Plan itself (No. II.), 
 Aubrey has not drawn it as crossing the river. 
 
 *The short Avenue running from West Kennet eastward to the stone-circles on Seven Barrow 
 (or Overton) Hill, as seen at the foot of the general Plan II., is also made in Aubrey’s MS. the 
 subject of a separate and larger drawing. That drawing, reduced one sixth, is inserted on the 
 side of our Plate. 
 

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 Mdm. the great stones at Aubury’stowne’s Perhaps at this angular Turning, might 
 end, where this Walke begins, fell down in . 
 
 Autumn 1684, and broke in two, or three be the Celle > or Convent > of the Priests 
 
 pieces: it stood but two foot deep in the earth, belonging to these Temples: to be sure 
 
 From Mr. Walter Sloper, of Mounckton, the 
 
 next parish, Attorney : who also tells me that ^ 1( A om not un ell fai fiom them, and 
 
 there is a perfect ridge-way from Zilbury their Habitations might haply be the 
 
 Hill to Oldbury Castle. Below the ridge are . ... 
 
 five barrows: t’is in his way to Devizes. occasion of the rise of this village, Ivynet. 
 
 Within the circumference, or Borough of this Monument, is now the village of 
 Aubury, which stands per crucem , as is to be seen by Scheme the 1st. The Houses 
 are built of the Frustums of these huge stones, which they invade with great sledges : 
 for here-about are no other stones to be found, except Flints: I have verbum Sacer- 
 Mounckton Brunsdon of dotis* for it, that these mighty stones, as hard as marble, may be 
 broken in what part of them you please, without any great trouble: sc. make a fire 
 on that line of the stone, where you would have it crack; and after the stone is well 
 heated, draw over a line with cold water, and immediately give a knock with a 
 smyth’s sledge, and it will break like the collets at the Glass-house. 
 
 The Church is likewise built of them: and the Mannour-house w ch was built by 
 the Punches, temp. Reg. Elizabeths: and also another faire House not far from 
 that. 
 
 By reason of the crosse streetes, houses, gardens, orchards, and several small 
 closes, and the fractures made in this Antiquity for the building of those Houses, 
 it was no very easy taske for me to trace out the Vestigia and so to make this Survey. 
 Wherefore I have dis-empestred \dis-entangled ] the Scheme from the enclosures, and 
 houses, &c. : w ch are altogether forcigne to this Antiquity, and would but have 
 clowded and darkned the reall Designe. The crosse street within this monument, 
 was made in process of time for the convenience of the rodes. 
 
 One of the Monuments in the street, that runnes East and West, like that above 
 Holy-head, is converted into a pigstye, or cow-house—as is to be seen in the roade. 
 
 I am enformed by Mr. Edw. Philips, that as one rides from Marleborough to 
 Compton Bassett, a village not far from hence Westward, are to be seen Houses, 
 part whereof arc stones pitched on end, as big as those of Stonehenge. 
 
 As to the Etymologie of the word Aubury: it is vulgarly called Abury : and is writt 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \Abury. 
 
 of late times by ignorant scribes Auebury : the e quiescent being interposed after y e 
 lon^to thltTbbe r y d ' d be " old fashion. Butin the legier-book of Malmesbury* Abbey it is 
 wi'itt Anbury ; and so it is in the Records of y e Tower. But here, methinkes, I see 
 some Reader smile to himselfe, thinkinge how I have strained this Place to be of 
 my own Name: not heeding that there is a letter’s difference, which quite alters 
 the signification of the words. For Aubery, Albfric, is a Christen Name, as Godfrey 
 or Rowland, &c., the l before a consonant is frequently turned into u by the North- 
 + Et fadiis cuivis rigidi ern people. But begging pardon for this digression to obviate the 
 
 censura cachinni. Juven- 
 
 sat. x. scornful 11 smile, I come back to the Etymologie. What bury , 
 
 borough, signifies, every one knows: but I was at a great losse for the meaning of 
 the Lord Spar of Swede - the first syllable, au , till Mr. Johannes Heysig,^ a learned Suede , 
 
 land , who is of the blood 
 
 Royah and is a very fine enformed me, that IIa° signifies river , or flowinq water, in the Swedish 
 language. Au is not to be found in the Dutch or Saxon Dictionaries : but he affirmes 
 that A u is alwaies fluvius , and that eau in French comes from Am, or Aa°; as 
 also m, as in Eaton, which is a name given to many waterish Townes, e.g. Eaton 
 near Windsor, Water-Eaton in Oxfordshire, &c. So likewise ey and ay, as Ayton in 
 sFrom Dr. reii. the North, Chelsey, Chertsey, &c., so Breda, that is Broadwater.§ 
 At this Towne’s end, sc. Aubury, by the church, is a watery place, w ch , I thinke, is 
 the source of the River Kynnet. 
 
 But after all that hath been said, I have a conceit, that Aubury is a corruption of 
 Albury , that is, Oldbury; or the Old Borough: changeing, as is aforesaid, before a 
 consonant, l into u : and well agrees with the nature of this Old Place. 
 
 On the brow of the hill above Kynet, on the right hand of the high-way which 
 goes from Bristow to Marleborough, is such a monument as [at the side of Plate II.] 
 
 called.The stones are fower and five feet high,.in number; most 
 
 of them, now, are fallen downe. I doe well remember there is a circular trench 
 about this Monument or Temple, by the same token that Sir Robert Moray told me 
 that one might be convinced and satisfied by it that the earth did growe. 2 Here re- 
 
 1 The Abbot of Malmesbury had a trifling interest in lands within the Parish, but it will be seen 
 from a subsequent Note, that the Manor belonged to another Abbey. 
 
 2 Dr. Stukeley says (Abury p. 32) that “ Mr. Aubrey erred upon this point, and that there was 
 
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 remains a kind of solemne walk from Kynet to tlie top of the hill where this monument 
 is. It is at least a quarter of a mile in length,.foot broad, and the stones dis¬ 
 tant one from another about.foot. West Kynet stands in the angle where the 
 
 walke from Aubury hither, and that from the top of the hill, did joine. It lies by 
 the side of a little rivulet called Kynet, which runnes to Maryborough, from whence 
 Cynetium hath its denomination: and ’tis likely that here might in the old time 
 have been the celle or Convent for the priests belonging to these temples. * 1 * * * * * 
 
 Southward from Aubury in the ploughed field near Kynet, doe stand Three huge 
 upright stones, perpendicularly, like the Three stones (within the Earthwork) at 
 Aubury; they are called “ The Devill’s Coytes.” 
 
 no ditch round these circles ” on Overton or Seven-barrow hill. But as Aubrey “ well remem¬ 
 bered it,” by the token of a particular remark made upon the spot by Sir Robert Moray, it is by 
 no means clear that Aubrey did err. That there may have been no ditch in Stukeley’s time is 
 likely enough, for an interval of more than half a century had passed between their visits, and 
 continual agriculture may easily have effaced the mark of a slight hollow on the surface, such as 
 these “ ditches ” around barrows and circles frequently were. 
 
 1 Abury. Before adding any Note upon the more modern history of the Parish, the Editor feels 
 himself obliged to make some observations upon Aubrey’s ground-plans of the ancient Monument. 
 
 Aubrey appears to have been the first person who ever paid the least attention to the now 7 
 well-known Antiquities at this place: and this, under the circumstances described by him in the 
 Text, he was accidentally led to do in 1648, being then in the 23rd year of his age. He after¬ 
 wards visited it frequently; and the MS. of the “ Monumenta Britannica” which contains his 
 description bears the date of 1665. As no one followed him in the investigation until 1718, 
 Aubrey’s ground-plans are the earliest we have by 70 years. On this account alone they are 
 curious and interesting; but they are more particularly so, because one of them (No .II.) appears 
 to be altogether antagonistic to his successor Dr. Stukeley’s notion of Abury, viz., that it was, 
 what he was the first to call it, “a Serpent-Temple.” Many persons have been incredulous about 
 temples of this kind: and their incredulity will not be lessened by Aubrey’s representation of 
 the shape of this monument, taken so many years before. 
 
 Aubrey’s own statement of the motive which led him to renew his researches at Abury is 
 
 that he was “ edged ” to do so, by observing that certain antiquaries before and about his time 
 had “ not dealt fairly ” with another great Wiltshire monument, Stonehenge: but had gone by 
 
 the rule of framing the monument “ according to their own hypothesis,” which, as he truly adds, 
 “ is much differing from the thing itself.” He had also often been misled by descriptions of 
 
 Antiquities, having seen scarcely one which did not either fall short of fame or exceed it. He 
 
 therefore determined in this case “to let the stones speak for themselves.” His memoranda he 
 
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 \Abury. 
 
 aubrf.y’s north wilts. 
 
 made on the spot. “ The delivery being faithful,” lie hopes that his style may he excused: and 
 so, concludes by offering an opinion on the subject, “ with humble submission to better judgment.” 
 
 From this it is quite clear that he was under no bias whatsoever of fancy as to any particular 
 shape that Abury might or might not have had in remote times: but that he drew on his paper 
 with perfectlj 7 honest intention and as well as he had the means, or was in the habit, of drawing, 
 that which he saw; and according to the form in which it appeared to him to be lying on the 
 ground, then and there, before his eyes. The monument was very intricate. To make a mistake 
 in copying it was far from impossible. But before any one ventures now to charge Aubrey with 
 mistake, he had better consider how the charge is to be proved ? The best witnesses of course would 
 be the stones themselves: and in their absence, the cavities left by them. Unfortunately, both of 
 stones and cavities, the first through wanton destruction, the second through the ordinary action 
 of the plough, the greater part have disappeared. Still, Abur} r is not entirely destroyed. There 
 is something left. If therefore we wish to know how far Aubrey is trustworthy as to what is 
 gone, his plans should be tested, so far as they can, by what remains. To do this in detail would 
 require more space than a note will allow: so to take one instance, the great Earthwork, Plan I. 
 
 With an eye accustomed to Wiltshire antiquities, Aubrey immediatel} 7 noticed that it was an 
 “ ill-shaped monument,” but, as it was not his business to improve the shape, he drew it as he 
 found it: that is, so irregularly circular, that if any speculative Antiquary were disposed 
 to say that there had been in patriarchal times “ Hexagoniums ” or “ Pentagoniums,” six or 
 five-sided Temples, nothing would be easier than to claim Abur 3 r for one, either according 
 to Aubrey’s plan I., or Sir R. C. Hoare’s xiii plate, in the second volume of his “Ancient Wiltshire.” 
 
 Dr. Stukeley, on the other hand, in the large plate that forms the frontispiece to his work on 
 Abury, represents it as a true geometrical circle. The Earthwork is fortunately left to speak for 
 itself, and accordingly it is Sir R. C. Hoare’s warning to his readers, that upon Stukelev’s outline 
 of the Earthwork “no dependence is to be placed.” He even doubts “whether it were taken 
 from actual survey : ” whereas of Aubrey’s plan he says that, “ on comparing it with our’s I find 
 a great resemblance between them.” (Sir Richard’s was taken with care bj r Mr. Crocker, a 
 Surveyor.) In this particular therefore, Aubrey by keeping to the fact, hit the character 
 proper to the British antiquity. Stukeley misrepresents that character entirely. All the old 
 Earthworks are irregular : not because the engineers who knew how to move stones of 40 tons, were 
 ignorant how to describe a circle, but because for some reason of their own, the employers, who¬ 
 soever they were, preferred the ruder to the more elegant geometry. 
 
 But it is in the plan No. II. which professes to give the whole structure of Abury, that the 
 testimony of these two oldest witnesses comes into the most perplexing collision. Aubrey observed 
 only one stone-avenue issuing from the Earthwork, viz., the one that led to Kennet. This appeared 
 to him to run straight as far as that village. Stukeley, seventy years afterwards, asserts that 
 there had been two stone-avenues, each a mile long, issuing from the Earthwork in different 
 directions, the one towards Kennet, the other towards Beckhampton: together (to use his own 
 words) “performing the graceful sinuosities of a serpent.” Of the Kennet avenue, he savs that 
 on coming out of Aburv it curved a little. Its course in that part cannot be identified with 
 certainty, but it may have made a little deviation, to avoid going up a hill. Farther on, where 
 
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 its relics do begin, they indicate a perfectly straight line for nearly half a mile. Arrived at 
 Kennet, according to Aubrey, it turned off at an angle. This he particularly mentions two or 
 three times.’ Stukeley calls it a “ mighty curve,” but as he had, in the sentence before, mentioned 
 that there had been a great demolition of stones at Kennet, he had scarcely so good an opportu¬ 
 nity as Aubrey of knowing what the exact shape of the turn had been. 
 
 Of a stone-avenue leading from Abury to Beckhampton (which is the great point in dispute,) 
 Aubrey says not one word. lie mentions the three gigantic blocks of stone called by the 
 people “ The Devil’s Coits,” (now the Long-stones,) which lay on that side of Abury, and of which 
 two are still left standing; but no others, great or small, standing upright, any where near them. 
 If on that side of Abury there were any not upright, but lying about or half-buried in the ground, 
 it is clear that they did not attract his eye as stones that had ever formed part of the general 
 structure. 
 
 Stukeley’s statement, on the other hand, is that coming out of the Earthwork on the road 
 towards Beckhampton he saw stones, some lying in the very road, some in the pastures: and 
 that he was told of others that had been broken up in the fields, all within a few years prior to 
 1722. Upon, what certainly must be called, very slender evidence, he created an avenue of 200 
 stones, running some way beyond Beckhampton, and ending in a point upon the open downs. 
 The curious, with Stukeley’s book in hand, have often gone to look for the Beckhampton avenue, 
 or the marks of it, in vain : and none of the inhabitants are able to remember a stone of it. 
 Stukeley claims for it one or two stones which he saw forming the foundation of a barn. There is 
 one still to be seen in that situation, but it is not larger than a horse-block. On the open down 
 be} r ond Beckhampton may be also seen here and there one or two points of grey-wether just 
 emerging from the turf; but to all appearance they are occupying a place from which they 
 never were disturbed. The surface thereabout shows no hollows or scars of stones removed’ 
 though of such marks of injury the downs are generally long retentive. 
 
 Thenarrowing of the latter part of this supposed avenue, and its ending in a point, are admitted 
 by Stukeley himself to be only a supposition. He says, “ This I infer from the manner of the 
 end of a temple at Classerness ” (or Callernish in the island of Lewis in the Hebrides), “ which I 
 take to be the tail of a snake.” In another part of his work (p. 62), he brings the Classerness 
 monument forward again as his other instance of a serpentine temple ; and blames Mr. Lhuyd “ as 
 a bad designer for calling it an avenue, and for not discerning the curve of it no more than that of 
 Kennet avenue, which he has likewise drawn in a straight line.” No wonder Mr. Lhuyd was 
 unable to discern a curve towards the end of Classerness, for the stones in that part stand in 
 perfectly rectilinear order : and the whole monument bears no nearer resemblance to a serpent 
 than a Latin cross does. [See the figure, “ Borlase’s Cornwall,” ii. 206.] Stukeley’s supposition, 
 therefore, of a curve, a narrowing, or a point, at Beckhampton, so far as anything of the kind 
 could be inferred from any tail of a snake in the Hebrides, was quite groundless. 
 
 The end of the Beckhampton avenue being fanciful, it is not impossible that the same fancy 
 may also have been at work in constructing other parts of it. 
 
 From Stukeley’s own statement it appears that the greater part of the stones seen by him 
 lay at the beginning, in the interval between the Earthwork and the “ Devil’s Coits.” In the next 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Abury. 
 
 interval, between tbe said “ Coits ” and Beckhampton, his alleged track becomes very vague, and 
 depends chiefly on what he was told. He speaks of a stone lying almost buried in the ground, 
 of others broken up, and pieces lying dispersedly about on banks and meres. Now considering 
 that in the lands about Abury greywether stones lay in his day, as he elsewhere tells us, as thick 
 as leaves, (as they still do on the Hackpen side of the village,) it must have required a much 
 greater precision of memory, than is usually found in labouring men, to be able to identify the 
 very exact situation, within a yard or two, of any stone which, in a country full of stones, they 
 had broken up out of the way of their ploughshare, across half a mile of heath, or open ground, 
 during twenty years or more last past. It is impossible to believe that they could have settled 
 that so nicely, without a few hints from the idea that was working in the Doctor’s brain. 
 
 But where had been Aubrey’s eyes all the while, seventy years before ? If these stones had 
 stood in avenue order, and that order had only been destroyed within twenty years, or within 
 memory before 1722, it ought to have been visible, indeed much more distinct, so far back as 1648 
 when he was exploring Abury. Such order, if it existed, would have been the very first object 
 on the open heath to greet him as he rode towards Abury from his home near Chippenham. Yet 
 from his plan and description which make not the slightest allusion to it, it seems that though 
 he went, and very often, for the express purpose of looking for these things, and was riding 
 about the ground year after year, never did he see the Beckhampton avenue. 
 
 Perhaps the case may have been thus. There may have been in ancient times, a walk between 
 stones from the Earthwork as far as the “ Devil’s Coits,” connecting that outstanding monument 
 with the main body. That interval was more shut in by hedges and enclosures in Aubrey’s time 
 than the rest; and the stones if few and not very remarkable in size, may have escaped his eye, 
 or have been looked upon merely as greywethers in situ. More than this it seems difficult to 
 allow. If an avenue, or the remains of one, crossing the open country near Beckhampton, is 
 insisted on, it leaves us in a dilemma between Aubrey blind or Stukeley fanciful. 
 
 Without referring to the general reputation of the two men, but judging between them merely 
 by their respective memoirs of this monument, it is less easy to charge Aubrey with seeing too 
 little than Stukeley with a propensity to see too much. Aubrey seems to have noticed every 
 thing else at Abury, except this alleged avenue: describes what he saw, simply, and so far as 
 can be tested, faithfully : while Stukeley’s folio volume not only makes the monument more 
 elaborately regular in its shape than it was, or from its antiquity was likely to have been, but 
 loads the subject with so many extravagant and far fetched interpretations that the reader is 
 often at a loss to know, where he is following a true light, and where an ignis fatuus. 
 
 One licence in that volume Stukeley certainly took, not usual with antiquaries claiming to be 
 trustworthy. Having formed—as he had a perfect right to do—his own notion of the original 
 shape of Abury, viz., that of a snake passing through a circle, he gave it a popular currency by 
 stamping it with a name, of, he distinct^ says, historical authority. Several times in the course 
 of his book he repeats the assertion, “ That this figure was a Form of Temple in use in the very 
 oldest, the patriarchal, times: and that the first learned nations gave it the name of a Dracontium.” 
 
 It ought to be known that he omitted to bequeath the information in whose history of what 
 learned nation he met with the word “ Dracontium.” The same statement continues, strange to 
 
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 say, to be made by bis followers, but neither they nor any one else have ever been able to pro¬ 
 duce the name. The truth must therefore be spoken. In the sense of a temple, serpentine or 
 otherwise, the word “ Dracontium ” is utterly unknown to lexicons. The name being spurious, 
 suspicion is awakened, and those who have been long imposed upon by it, are now beginning to 
 doubt whether the thing is genuine. 
 
 Of serpents and circles, not only in this, but in a great many other combinations, as emblems of 
 certain attributes of a beneficent Deity, there are abundant examples in Egypt. But they are 
 only small devices carved upon the face of temples; which, as Aubrey would say, is “much differ¬ 
 ing ” from temples built in that shape. Of this there is not known to have been any example in 
 Egypt, nor is there the slightest allusion to any thing like it, among the ancient traditions gleaned 
 by Herodotus from the priests of that country. Walks, sometimes straight, sometimes but very 
 rarely, winding, from one part of a sacred precinct to another, have been found: but, that the 
 latter particularly allude to a serpent, seems to be at present founded more upon conjecture than 
 authentic information. The relics themselves in their present imperfect state accord but very 
 feebly with such a design. There is generally some essential portion wholly wanting. Both at 
 Abury and Stanton Drew, whilst one avenue in each case remained tolerably distinct, the second 
 has long since unaccountably disappeared. The three or four instances hitherto produced in aid 
 of the “ Dracontian ” theory are not what one would expect, for one is as straight as an arrow : 
 and others, even the most promising, bend sharply. Dr. Stukeley seems to have left it to 
 posterity to find the examples: “ he had no doubt that many would be found in Britain : ” but 
 they do not appear to have dropped in so rapidly as he predicted. If there is any part of 
 Britain likely to produce them, it is Dartmoor, and Cornwall: but the report from those 
 districts is not very encouraging. On Dartmoor there are stone rows and avenues in plenty. 
 Mr. Howe however in his work on that district says that among the whole number there is only 
 one slightly curvilinear, and though he is not unwilling to befriend the “ Dracontians,” even that 
 one he is unable to grant them. Of Stukeley’s fantastic assortment of temples into “ round, ser¬ 
 pentine, and winged,” Dr. Borlase the historian of Cornwall, conversant with all its ancient 
 remains, quietly says, “ The first sort (round) are very numerous, but of the others, I have not 
 met with any.” 
 
 The only work to be instantly recognized as having been intended for the figure of a serpent 
 is, in the New World. In Messrs. Squier and Davis’s curious volume of “Ancient Monuments 
 in the Mississippi Valley,” p. 96, is a Plate of a narrow curved promontory in Adams County, 
 Ohio; on the surface of which has been formed a low earthen bank about 230 yards long, 
 fairly resembling the coils of that reptile. The same region abounds with similar low 
 embankments, made to resemble quadrupeds, birds, the human figure, &c. 
 
 With respect to the meaning of the name of Abury; it will be observed that at the Heading 
 of Aubrey’s two Plans, he had at first written Arcburj 7 , but afterwards, considering that form to 
 be used only by “ ignorant scribes ” as he called them, he had with his pen, altered it into Awbury ; 
 believing the name to be a corruption of Auld, i.e. Oldbury. It may have been so; but the 
 Editor is not aware of any instances in ancient documents in which the spelling is near enough 
 to Auld, to support that derivation. In Domesday Book it is Arreberie: but as the v in that 
 

 328 Aubrey’s north wilts. [Abury. 
 
 Record is indiscriminately used for v or u, this settles nothing. In the Hundred Roll of 3 Edw. I. 
 [1274] it is Aveneburi, Avenesburi, or Avebury: and in the same book, persons apparently of 
 this parish are described as, of Anebury or Enesburi. In Herefordshire there is a village now 
 called Avenbury, which in Domesday Book is written Awenesbury. These pronunciations seem 
 to indicate a derivation from Aren, (or, softening the v,) Auen, or Awn. This could scarcely be 
 from Avon, water, for the rivers Avon are at some distance, and a small brook said to be so called, 
 is two or three miles off. On the spot itself, there is only a winter-brook, which does not bear 
 that name. 
 
 There have been several desperate efforts to find a meaning for Abury, such as “Abiri” from 
 the Samothracian Cabiri; and, “ Ab ” a serpent, and “ Aur” the sun: but with so many monu¬ 
 ments in Wiltshire whose names end in “ bury,” it seems quite unreasonable to sever this 
 particular one from the rest. Of “ bury,” we may be nearly certain. The difficulty is with the 
 first syllable. 
 
 Merely as a suggestion, and nothing more, it may just be mentioned that in Ezekiel 
 xxx. 17. the word Aven or Auen occurs as the name of a place. “ The young men of Avert and 
 of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.” In the Greek of 
 the Septuagint, Aven is here rendered by Heliopolis, the “ City of the Sun.” This was near 
 Cairo in Egypt and was the chief seat of that kind of worship, visited by Herodotus (II., 59 and 63). 
 In Genesis xli. 45, “ The Priest of On ” (which is the same word as Aven, Auen or Aun, a long 
 vowel o being used) is also explained to mean the Priest of Heliopolis. In Amos i. 5, “ The 
 plain of Aven ” in Syria is by some considered to be Baal-bec, also a city of the Sun. 
 Of the names Beth-at'en and Beth-a?m, (house of vanity or idols,) Calmet says, “ It may however 
 be queried whether in these names Aven or Aun is not the Aun or On, (the Sun) of Egypt.” 
 
 How, it may be asked, could the name have been brought into Britain ? Oriental names of places 
 connected with religion, have sometimes found their way to the West. Carnac, a name in Upper 
 Egypt, is also the name of a place on the desert coast of Britany in France, remarkable for an 
 extraordinary assemblage of rude blocks of stone stretching several miles into the country. 
 The worship of the Sun was common in these islands. It came from the East: his name of Baal 
 is traceable in many Irish names. In Britany, near Aurai, there is a large monument of stones 
 called Lech-amt, certainly not a French name: Lech is an old British word for stone, as in 
 crom -lech (bowing stone.) Our remote predecessors may have imported the name of Aun with 
 the worship. Even in our own day various Christian Societies continue to borrow, from the East 
 (whence our own Religion was derived,) such names for places of worship, as Sion, Ephraim, 
 Bethesda, Eben-ezer, Zoar, &c. The form of the great earthwork at Abury and of the rings of 
 stones within it, are generally considered to have some reference to the Sun. Structures connected 
 with that worship seem to have been occasionally of great size, even when architecture was more 
 advanced. Strabo mentions a temple of Apollo, constructed by the Milesians, so spacious that it 
 was left roofless, and contained within its precincts the houses of a village, and a grove, besides 
 minor sacred edifices. [Edit. 1707, Yol. II., p. 941]. In some of these particulars, this might 
 be a description of Abury. 
 
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 to form such a name as Aun-bury. As a general rule, both parts of a local name ought to belong 
 to one and the same language. But where one part is a Proper name, either of some Deity, 
 Person, or Place, in such cases perhaps the combination with another common word may be 
 admissible: as for instance Mount Sion, Mars Hill, &c. Aun-bury is not more incongruous than 
 Sil-bury, if the latter is derived, as some think, from the British Sul, or Latin Sol, the Sun. 
 
 But in presenting to the reader the above morsel of speculative etymology, the writer begs to 
 explain that he does not placard it as the derivation of the na?ne of Abury. It is merely a passing 
 shot, probably of no effect, at the origin of an ancient monument so strong in its obscurity as to 
 mock all the efforts of regular approach. The spelling of “ Abury ” has been adopted in this 
 volume, partly for the sake of uniformity with the “Ancient Wiltshire” of Sir R. C. Iloare, 
 partly because it is at present impossible to say what other form is more correct. 
 
 Taking the map of Europe generally, these aggregations of mighty stones appear to be chiefly 
 found upon the coasts and islands that form its Western fringe: more especially in Britain, 
 continental or insular. The actual spots are (speaking also generally) the wildest and most 
 desolate: open plains or what formerly were so. Such situations not having been, so far as 
 appears, much in vogue with the Druids, it was probably from not knowing what else to call 
 them, that these monuments have been called Druidical. This is the term which Aubrey uses, but 
 it does not seem to have been his first idea. The sheet of paper, on which his Plan No. I. is 
 drawn in the Original MS., had been previously used by him, on the reverse side, in preparing his 
 remarks: and, from one of the sentences, afterwards condemned by an erasure with bis pen, it 
 appears that his first intention had been “ to endeavour to prove that all these stone monuments 
 had been Burying-places.” 
 
 The use to which any structure is applicable must be one of three : viz,, Military, Civil, or 
 Religious. To the first, Abury was utterly unsuited; the great ditch being on the inner side of 
 the vallum or earthwork. If it had been for defence, the ditch would have been outside; like 
 the moat below a castle-wall. For Civil purposes, such as large gatherings of people, musters, 
 public games, and the like, the open plains around Abury would be convenient enough, but as to 
 the area itself, occupied by large circles of stupendous blocks of stone, it seems almost impossible 
 to think of any other use to which it could have been appropriated than such as, in some way or 
 other, was connected with Religion. Sir Walter Scott visited, and in his Diary described the 
 great Circles of Stones at Stennis in the Orkneys. Within view of them at some distance, he 
 mentions a large tumulus (like Silbury near Abury), with other smaller ones nearer. He attri¬ 
 buted to those antiquities a Scandinavian origin, and refers to the “ Eyrbiggia Saga ” for repeated 
 meetings at such places whether for Civil or Religious purposes, such as offering sacrifices to Thor 
 and Woden. [Lockhart’s Mem. of Life of Sir W. S., ch. xxix]. Bucks’ horns, oyster shells, and 
 other signs of festivity, (not altogether confined to primitive times,) were found in the original soil 
 beneath the great Earthwork, when part of it was cleared away many years ago on the Eastern 
 side of the Church. [See Plan I]. But if Woden and Thor came in only with the Anglo-Saxons, 
 Abury (unless a feature of the place deceives us) seems to have been in existence long before 
 their time, and also before the Romans. For a road (called in Plan II., “ Rode from Marlborough 
 to Bristol,”) said to have been used by the Romans, passed directly across the avenue near Rennet. 
 
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330 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Abury. 
 
 A public road would scarcely have been allowed to do so, whilst the precincts were sacred. It 
 may therefore be inferred that Abury had already ceased to be regarded as sacred when that road 
 was made. The avenue is not likely to have been made after the road, unless the Priests were 
 content to have their ceremonies and processions (if it was used for such purposes) interrupted by 
 a general thoroughfare. 
 
 But when, by whom, and for what purposes soever Abury was originally made and used, nothing 
 whatever is known about it, until in Domesday Book we find “Avreberie” registered as in the 
 hands of the Crown, “Terra Regis,” King’s land. The only part at that time in cultivation, 
 consisted of Two Hides of land held under the Crown by Rainbold, a Priest who also had the 
 Church. This seems to have included the whole Rectorial estate, land, church, chapels, tithes 
 and customs: for in the reign of King Henry III. (1217—1270) these, together with the right 
 of presentation to the Yicarage, were granted by the Crown to the Abbot and Monks of Ciren¬ 
 cester. The grant was confirmed in 1336 by King Edw. III. (Hundred Rolls), and this part of 
 the parish continued to belong to Cirencester Abbey till the reign of Henry VIII. In 1553, one 
 year before its own dissolution, that Abbey granted a lease of this property for sixty years to 
 Thomas Truslowe, Jane his wife, and John their son, at a rent of £36 16s. per annum, and a 
 Crown-rent of £3 5s. The Truslowes were of Yorkshire origin. In the Wilts Visitation of 1623 
 there is a Pedigree of them, and there are some epitaphs in the Church. In 1604, probably on 
 the termination of Truslowe’s lease, the Rectory estate was granted by the Crown in fee-farm to 
 Mrs. Mary Dunch. [State Papers]. The lands called Abury-Truslowe are now the property of 
 George Brown Esq. The Vicarage is in the gift of the Crown. It was united to Winterbourne 
 Monkton in 1747. The Crown Rent above-mentioned was purchased on 2nd July 1558 by 
 William Allen of Caine. 
 
 The Priory. Another portion of Abury, after being for a time in the hands of a subject, had 
 reverted to the Crown in the reign of Hen. III., who bestowed it upon William de Tankerville, 
 Chamberlain of Normandy. With it the Chamberlain endowed the foreign Benedictine Monastery 
 of St. George de Baskeville or Boschaville in Normandy. That Fraternity was represented here 
 by a subordinate House, the Superior of which was called the “ Prior of Avenebury.” Robert of 
 Avesbury, probably an ecclesiastic from this Priory, and Registrar of Canterbury, wrote a History 
 of King Edw. III. (MS. Harl. No. 200), printed at Oxon. in 1720, and edited by T. Hearne. No 
 Register or Cartulary of the Priory is known. Being Alien it was liable to confiscation. In 
 1296 it was in danger, but William the Prior had protection. [Prynne, III., 707]. On a sup¬ 
 pression of Alien Houses in the reign of Rich. II., this Priory Manor was given (according to 
 Tanner) to the College of St. Mary, Winchester. How it came back to the Crown does not appear, 
 but in Hen. IV. it was granted to the Duke of York towards his Foundation of Fotheringhay 
 College. Immediately before the Dissolution, on surrendering its estate here to Hen. VIII., 
 Fotheringhay College was allowed to receive in exchange Hemingford-Abbot, co. Huntingdon 
 (1545). This property was then sold by the Crown to Sir William Sherington, purchaser of 
 Lacock Nunnery. All Sir William’s lands were taken from him (as mentioned above, p. 91) 
 for defrauding the Mint, but he was afterwards allowed to redeem them at the original price. It 
 is doubtful whether he recovered the Priory, for in 1555—6 (2 and 3 Philip and Marj r ) the Crown 
 
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 SILBURY. 
 
 (The first paragraph is from the “ Monumenta Britannicafi ) 
 
 Silbury Hill, a little on the right hand of the road from Marlborough to Bristol. 
 
 granted it to William Dunch of Wittenham, co. Berks, Auditor of the Mint. [Jones’s Index]. 
 He died 1577, giving it to his younger son Walter, who died 1594, leaving it to his younger son 
 William. [Noble’s House of Cromwell]. The initials and date now over the House are “ I. M. D., 
 1602.” Kingsmill Long’s translation of “ Barclay’s Argenis ” is dedicated to the “truly noble 
 Wm. Dunche of A., Esq., 1636.” From the Dunch family the Priory passed by sale to the 
 Stawels, of Somerton, co. Somerset. In 1639 Ralph Stawel Esq. (created Baron in 1683) was the 
 largest proprietor in Abury Parish. The next largest were Margaret Dunch widow, Dame 
 Mary Baynton, widow, and Mary Norborne, widow. [Subsidy Roll]. Mr. Stawel’s house is men¬ 
 tioned by Aubrey in Natural History of Wilts, p. 42. Sir Richard Holford, Master in Chancery 
 1694, was lord of the manor at his death, 1718. Of his family, there are burials to 1751. 
 (Heneage, Lord Winchelsea, associated with Stukeley in his researches, has been sometimes 
 mentioned as an owner at Abury at this period, but this does not appear to have been the case. 
 He was probably an owner at Woodlands in Mildenhall, which see.) The next owner was 
 Mr. Jones, and then Governor Williamson of Jamaica, who bequeathed it to his relatives, the 
 same family of Jones, now owners. The Prior}’’ House is now occupied by Mr. Kemin. 
 
 In Pettis’s Life of Sir Stephen Fox (founder of the Holland and Ilchester Families,) it is 
 stated that Sir Stephen’s Will speaks of his elder brother John Fox having some estate at 
 Abury : (probably Winterborne). Some lands here belonging to a chantry-chapel in Bromham 
 church were sold by the Crown in 1563, to John, Philip, and Christopher Shewter. 
 
 A Church was built at Abury before the Conquest, as it is mentioned in Domesday Book. 
 The present one (St. James’s) stands outside the ancient earthwork. The font and porch are of 
 Norman date. The former is engraved in “Paley’s Fonts.” Over the chancel arch is the front 
 of the old Roodloft, gilt and painted. It is drawn, in a recent publication by the “ Ilam 
 Anastatic Society,” No. 1. In Waylen’s Marlborough, p. 436, is an account of a curious action 
 at law depending on the legibility of two tombstones in the church-yard. The Registers com¬ 
 mence 1698, but there arc portions of older ones. 
 
 Beckhampton (anciently Backhampton) and Stanmore in this parish belonged in William I. 
 to Gilbert de Breteville, but in Edw. I. were held under Isabella de Fortibus Countess of L’isle, 
 in moieties: one by the Moignes of Maddington, by whose heiress it passed to Lord Stourton : 
 the other by Casterton, succeeded by Colville. Mr. Holford of Weston Birt is now a proprietor here. 
 
 There was a Free Chapel at Backhampton, dedicated to St. Vincent. [Sarurn Registers, A.D.1532], 
 The Chaplain was instituted by the Bishop. We have the names of fifteen Chaplains, from 1302— 
 1544 : the last being John Warvner S. T. P. The patronage appears to have been alternately in the 
 owners of the moietios above-mentioned. It paid 8s. to Malmesbury Abbey and 2s. to the Vicar 
 of Abury, per annum. In Edw. VI. the chapel and tithes were leased to William Wellet and 
 granted to — Southcote. Robert House (Hussey?) had them in 1570. William Dunch, 1624. 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [Silbury. 
 
 I am sorry that I did not take the circumference of the bottom and top and length 
 of the hill: but I neglected*it, because Sir Jonas Moore, Surveyor of the Ordnance, 
 had measured it accurately, and also took the solid content, which he promised to 
 give me; but upon his death, that, among many excellent papers, was lost ... No 
 History gives us any account of it: the tradition only is, that King Sil, or Zel as 
 the countrey folke pronounce, was buried here on horseback, and that the hill was 
 raysed whilst a posset of milk was seething. The name of this hill, as also of Sil- 
 chester, makes me suspect it to be a Roman name, sc. Silius. A hill like Silbury is 
 described by Rudbeck in his Atlantica, Tab. 3, fig. 3. 
 
 Perhaps t’is quasi “ Silii burgus:” so, “Moles Adrian!” at Rome where the 
 Emperor Adrian’s dust lies, which is now made the Keepe of the Castle of St. 
 Angelo. 
 
 Sil , in British, signifies great. 1 
 
 1 In the original MS. Aubrey had entered Silbury under the parish of Kennet, adding that 
 “ Jonas Moore surveyed this and finds it to be here : ” but though "West Kennet is part of Abury 
 parish, Silbury stands in Abury proper. 
 
 It lies close to the London and Bath road, about half a mile west of West Kennet, and about a 
 mile nearly due South of Abury. It is —“collis conspectce magnitudinis ”—a colossal conical mound, 
 flat at the top, composed of chalk, and clothed with short turf. The dimensions have been very 
 variously given. Sir It. C. Hoare states the circumference, as near the base as possible, to 
 be 2027 feet, the diameter at top 120 feet, the sloping height 316 feet, the perpendicular 
 height 170 feet, and the space covered by the mound 5 acres and 34 perches of ground. These 
 measures, without being warranted accurate, may serve to give an approximate notion of the size. 
 In forming this mound, part of the labour was saved by Nature. From high ground lying East 
 and West (along which the Bath road runs), a spur or small side-ridge jutted out Northwards. 
 The end of this was taken for the basis, and the intervening soil was cut out and thrown upon it. 
 The late Mr. Rickman’s illustration is that a Q was made into an O- A small isthmus or neck 
 was left, to serve as approach and to shorten the ascent. The earth was perhaps taken up in baskets 
 by a spiral path. 
 
 Whether Silbury had any thing to do with Abury or was raised for some independent purpose, 
 and if the latter, for what purpose, is a question that still waits to be answered. Towards ascer¬ 
 taining its supposed Sepulchral character three partial openings contribute the following results. 
 
 1. In 1723 some workmen planting trees at the top for Mr. Holford then the owner, dug up 
 very little below the surface a skeleton; which Dr. Stukeley then living supposed to be the 
 remains of the “Great King” to whom the mound was conjectured to have been erected. But 
 Sir R. C. Hoare assures us, on his experience of British tumuli, that the place for a primary 
 
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 interment is not at the top, but at the bottom, on or immediately under the original native soil. 
 Stukeley adds that from this digging he obtained a horse’s bit, of iron, but a mass of rust, (of 
 which he gives an engraving in his “ Abury,” PL xxxvi.) : also some deer’s horns and an iron 
 knife with a bone handle, all much decayed. As he was not present at the finding of these 
 articles, it is neither impossible nor improbable that he may have been imposed upon. 
 
 2. The second opening of Silbury was in November 1776, under the direction of the Duke of 
 Northumberland and Colonel Drax. This was by a downward shaft from the top. Bingley’s 
 London Journal of that date says that the hill “ was begun to be opened by the miners of Mendip 
 on Thursday last. They have made a hole at the top, of eight feet square. The antiquaries 
 promise themselves wonders from the bowels of this mountain, (and it may produce a—Mouse.”) 
 According to the recollections of two old men, Maskelyn and Blake, still living in 1849 (who 
 however seem to have recollected rather what they had heard, than what they had actually seen) 
 the mountain had produced—not the predicted mouse, hut—“ a Man,” i.e. a skeleton: found at 
 the bottom of the shaft. A thin slip of oak-wood, met with in that situation, was all that Colonel 
 Drax shewed to Douglas : [Nenia Britan: 1793, p. 161.] 
 
 3. The latest examination was in 1849, by the Archaeological Institute, Mr. Blandford being 
 the engineer. Of this a detailed account, written by the late Yery Bev. J. Merewether, Dean of 
 Hereford, is printed in the Salisbury volume of the Institute, p. 73. The operation was not con¬ 
 ducted from the top, but by a tunnel in the side, so as to strike the line of the original surface, on 
 which, (as above-mentioned,) the upper or artificial portion of the hill had been heaped, and on 
 or about which any primary interment was thought most likely to be found. It was ascertained 
 that the shaft sunk in 1776 had neither hit the exact centre nor reached the original soil. The 
 alleged discovery, of “the Man,” was accordingly pronounced to be very doubtful. No skeleton 
 or sepulchre was found in 1849, but several Sarsen stones, some fragments of bones of ox and red- 
 deer, and, in two instances the tine of an antler: all of which articles, especially the first, arc of 
 British sepulchral character. The Dean thought that the verge of the base of the mound had 
 been set round with Sarsen stones; but the evidence of this is considered quite insufficient by 
 Mr. W. Long. [See “Wilts Archoeol. Mag.” IY. 339.] As the greater part of the interior has 
 never yet been examined, the result is not considered by many archaeologists to be quite conclusive. 
 
 Mr. William Owen, author of the Welsh Dictionary, identified Abury as the “ Gorsedd Bryn 
 Gwyddon,” one of the “ primary circles of Britain,” and Silbury, as “ Cludair Cyvrangon ” or 
 “ Heap of assemblies,” the piling up of which is mentioned in the fourteenth Triad. 
 
 Among those who have taken an an^'-sepulchral view of the question, was the late Rev. W. L. 
 Bowles, who was very earnest for a Hill-Temple to Mercury. [History of Bremhill, chap. ii.: and 
 Gent. Mag., 1827, part ii.] The Rev. J. Bathurst Deane connects it with Abury, dedicates it to 
 the Sun, and supposes a perpetual fire to have been kept burning at the summit. In the late 
 Rev. E. Duke’s “Planetarium” of the Wiltshire Downs, Silbury represents the Earth. Another 
 opinion is that, like the Mount at Marlborough, it was the basis of a Keep or Fort. [See Quarterly 
 Review, Yol. xci, p. 312]. Leland seems to have taken it for one: “Tumulus terrac, in usus- 
 bellicos, olim egestse, eui nomen Selburgus.” [Itin. ix. 91]. Mounds again of this sort may have 
 been thrown up sometimes, as at Waterloo, in memory of a victory. There is none on record. In 
 
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 [Silbury. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 BROAD-HINTON. * 1 
 
 “ John de Tvbetot had one Knight’s Fee in Broadhinton, co. Wiltes ; which Fidena Wase holds 
 at £6 13s. 4d. And one, in Over-Worston (Over-Wroughton) in Wilts, which the Abbot of 
 Tewkesbury holds at £10.” From Marl. MSS. 
 
 A.D. 1006 there was a fight with the Danes at Cynet, or near the Kennet, but that was a defeat 
 of the British. Dr. Stukeley, regarding Silbury as the tumulus of some British King, thought 
 it “likely” that, just as in Egypt, upon the breast of a mummy was sometimes placed the hiero¬ 
 glyphic of a circle and a snake, so the earthwork and stone rows of Abury (to which he was 
 pleased to give that form) had been constructed “ to brood over the depositum of the prince 
 interred; hence, the temple of Abury was made for the sake of Silbury.” [Abury, p. 41 and 52]. 
 Of this explanation (and perhaps not of this alone), it may be said, (to use one of Dr. Borlase’s 
 expressions), “T’is very tmlikely—to say no more o’nt.” Sir It. C. Hoare (Ancient Wilts, II., 89) 
 believing Silbury to have been formed before the Roman occupation of Britain, observes that the 
 Roman road coming from Bath “ seems to have taken Silbury for its bearing, but to have made a 
 slight deviation from the straight line to avoid it.” This is certainly not very perceptible: and 
 Mr. Rickman (Archaeologia, xxviii, 402), denies it. Further, he maintains that the road was 
 made before Silbury : and that, the road having been made by the Romans, Silbury is^os^ Roman. 
 He argues that, if Silbury existed first, then, the excavation, used in making Silbury, must have 
 been on the spot when the engineer came to make the road: and if that were so, the engineer 
 would surely have availed himself of that excavation, to carry his road through it, instead of 
 over the hill alongside of it. This satisfied Mr. Rickman that the hollow, and consequently Silbury, 
 was not in existence when the road was made. But he presumes the road to have been 
 made by the Romans: of which there is no proof. There is in short, nothing at present to 
 determine the origin of this Mound. “ Factum abiit, monumenta manent.” 
 
 1 Called Broad, or Hinton Magna, to distinguish it from Little Hinton in Elstub and Everley. 
 The parish lies part in Selkley, part in Kingsbridge Hundred. 
 
 There appear to have been two chief estates at Hentone, or Hantone, at the Conquest. 1. The 
 Fee of Humphrey de Insula, afterward Tibetot’s and Dunstanville’s, of their Barony of Castle 
 Combe. 2. Gilbert de Breteville’s; who also had Cliff, and Back-hampton. 
 
 I. That part of the parish which is in Selkley Hundred, was held of the Castle Combe Barony 
 by the Wase family (see “ Blountesdon ”) in 1392: afterwards by Wm. Wrofton, Worston, or 
 Wroughton, by whose descendants it was held for about 200 years. The house was built by 
 Sir William Wroughton in A.D. 1540. [For their Pedigree see Wilts Visit. 1565 and 1623.] 
 About A.D. 1640 the estate was bought from Sir Giles Wroughton by Sir John Glanville (second 
 son of John Glanville, Judge of C.P.), a very celebrated Sergeant-at-Law, and Speaker of the 
 House of Commons. [See Chalmer’s Biog. Diet.] The purchase is mentioned in his epitaph, 
 added to Aubrey’s Text. He is said (but quaere ) to have burned Broad Hinton House, in order to 
 prevent its being garrisoned by the Parliament. John Evelyn visited here. [Diary, 1654.] 
 
 Mr. Bernard Burke in his “Romantic Records of distinguished Families” (vol. i. p. 1) has 
 
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 worked up a story of “ The Glanvilles,” the facts of which he states to have been “ gleaned with 
 much labour and almost grain by grain,” but his authorities are not given. The outline of it is, 
 that Sir John Glanville, the Judge, disinherited Francis his eldest son for his wildness, and gave 
 certain estates to his younger son John the Serjeant: that a Mr. William Carnes of 
 Killworthy near Tavistock, having been saved from assassins by Francis in the streets of London 
 interceded for him with Sir John the father on his death bed, but too late: that Francis after¬ 
 wards adopting a steady life and following with diligence the study of the Law, married 
 Elizabeth Crymes the daughter: that John Glanville upon hearing of this event and being 
 satisfied of his brother’s entire reformation invited him to dinner, placed him at the head of his 
 table and desired him to raise the cover of the dish before him. Its contents, though dry, were 
 not unsavoury to Francis ; being a bundle of parchments, by which the estates were transferred 
 to himself. There are some monuments of the Glanville family at Tavistock, co. Devon. 
 
 A correspondent of the Devizes Gazette, March, 1858, who claims to speak upon authority, states 
 that “The descendants of Sir John Glanville became reduced, and in the early part of the 17th 
 century sold the estate to Thomas Benett Esq.” : [A Subsidy Roll of A.D. 1639-40 gives the 
 names of William, Julius, and the Lady Glanville, as separate contributors at Broad-Hinton in 
 that year.] “ From Mr. Benett this estate, as well as that of the Norbornes, and also the Salthrop 
 estate, passed to his daughter, Mrs. Pye Benett, formerly of Salthrop. On her death the estates 
 passed to her daughter Mrs. Calley, the wife of Thomas Calley Esq. of Burderop, and on her 
 death to her son, the late John James Calley Esq. He sold them to John Parkinson Esq., of 
 Lincoln’s-inn-fields, who, however—as it turned out upon his death, a few years ago—purchased, 
 and held them as trustee, for the great Duke of Wellington.” The Broad-Hinton and Salthrop 
 estates have been since bought (about 1860) from the second Duke of Wellington by Anthony 
 M. S. Maskelyne Esq. of Basset’s Down. 
 
 A small portion of Wroughton’s lands was bought, 31 Eliz. by George Sadler. 
 
 II. The part of the parish which lies in Kingsbridge Hundred was held by Breteville at the 
 Conquest: afterwards the Fee of Bigod the Earl Marshal: under which (like Cliff) it was 
 possessed in Edw. I. by the Columbars family : and in 1316 by the Lords Cobham. This includes 
 Ufcote: which afterwards belonged to the Lovells of Titchmarsh, (see Wanborough.) On the 
 attainder of Francis, last Viscount Lovell, in 1485, Ufcote was granted to William Compton 
 ancestor of Lord Northampton, by whose family it was sold with Elcombe, Wicklescote, &c., to 
 Thomas Sutton, Founder of the Charter House, London. 
 
 A Sir Thomas Hinton of Broad-Hinton who married Elizabeth Gawen of Imber is mentioned 
 by Sir R. C. Hoare (Heytesbury, p. 163). Cotmarsh maintains the Duchess of Somerset’s 
 General Charity. 
 
 Broad Town lies both in Cliff Pipard and Broad Hinton parishes. In 7 John, Alan Basset 
 (from whom Basset Down takes its name) was owner here: and was succeeded by the Despensers 
 (see Compton Basset) who held under the honour of Wallingford. In 1398 Robert Bernard and 
 Richard Parys (of Parys-place) held under Roger Mortimer, Earl of March. In Hen. VI. the 
 proprietors in chief were the Earls of Warwick, and in 18 Edw. IV., George Duke of Clarence 
 in right of his wife, their heiress. Doynell 1349, Nicholas Wootton 1453, and William York 
 
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 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Broad Hinton. 
 
 (Church.) 
 
 In the chancel; in brass on a flatt marble, thus: 
 
 mt jarrt 3ol)C5 SErofton glrmigcr qut ofmt xbi° btr Spirits Sttno Dni 
 IHCCCCIiHX Cuius ate pptcirtur Drus. Smrn. 
 
 Here is his effigies in armour, but the scutcheons are lost. 
 
 Chancell, North wall; in freestone: 
 
 “Here lyetli Sir William Wroughton, Knight, who dyed in the 50 yeare of his age in Anno 
 Domini 1559, and left yssewe of his body by Dame Elinor, his wife, daughter of Edward Lewk- 
 nor, Esqr. four sonnes and three daughters, and builded the bowse of Broadhenton, Anno 
 Domini 1540.” 
 
 The crest is a human head to a horse’s neck. * 1 The Arms [PI. xxix. No. 443] 
 Wroughton. Supporter, naked boy with wings, but no bow. The same coat repeated. 
 
 Wroughton impaling Lewknor [No. 444]. 
 
 (Chancel. South Wall.) 
 
 Two figures of Sir W' n . (read Sir Thomas, son of Sir William) Wroughton, and 
 his lady (Anne dau. and coh. of John Barwick Esq. of Wilcote): 4 sons and 4 
 daughters. 
 
 On the South side, on the wall, are the figures aforesaid, a large monument 
 of freestone with pillars, without any inscription, but with these Arms: [No. 
 445.] Wroughton, as before, quartering 1. (Norreys). 2 2. 3 bends within a 
 
 1476, are also old names here. The manor of Broad Town was left by Will of the Duchess of 
 Somerset to maintain Froxfield Hospital. 
 
 The Kectory of Broad Hinton belongs to St. Nicholas Hospital Sarum : the Master of which 
 presents to the Vicarage. The first presentation under this patronage appears to have been 
 A.D. 1478. 
 
 1 “ Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam, &c.,” but the usual crest of the Wroughton family 
 was, An ibex’s head, Arg., pellettee, collared, ringed and armed Or. 
 
 2 This quartering ought probably to be, Argent, a chevron between 3 ravens' heads, sable: 
 being really the shield of Kavenscroft of Cotton End. On the marriage of the heiress of that 
 family with John Norreys of Bray, co. Berks., temp. Edw. III., he assumed his wife’s Arms. 
 Anne, daughter of Sir Wm. Norreys, married William, grandfather of Sir Thomas Wroughton. 
 [See “ Wilts Visit.” A.D. 1565, in Harl. MS., No. 1565, p. 31 b .] 
 
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 border. 1 3. Arg. a chevron engrailed Gu. between 3 unicorn’s (heads, erased, Az.). 
 
 Sir John Glanville, Knt., Serjeant at Lawe, lies buried in this Chancell; only a 
 penon hangs over him with his coate, [No. 446]. 
 
 [“Memorise Sacrum Johis Glanville Militis, Servientisad Legem Caroli primi et Caroli secundi, 
 filii Johis Glanville de Tavistoke in Com : Devon : tempore Reginae Elizabeth® unius Justiciariorum 
 de Communi Banco natu secundi: Communium in ParJiamento Proloquutoris, hujus Manerii 
 Glanvillorum primi emptoris et proprietarii. Obiit 2d. die Octobris A.D. 1661. 
 
 Hoc monumentum propriis sumptibus posuit Winifreda Glanville ipsius Johis dum vixit uxor 
 amantissima, nunc vidua msestissima, 29 die Sept. A.D. 1673.”] 
 
 In the N. wall of the Chancell is a statue of alabaster, and about the nich of this 
 monument is a tedious Latin Inscription: but this is the substance of it. 
 
 “ Erected to the memory of Francis Glanville, eldest sonne of the Serjeant, who was a Lieutenant- 
 Colonel in the service of King Charles the First, obijt xxi day July, PEtat. 28, 1645, at the siege 
 of Bridgwater, in Com. Somerset.” 
 
 In the North side of this Church, in a windowe, is an old scutcheon [No. 447], 
 
 KINNET. (East). 
 
 East Ivinnet belonged to the Priory of St. Margaret’s near Marlborough. 2 
 
 MARLEBOROUGH. 
 
 Cunetium did not stand where now stands Maryborough, but farther northwards, 
 towards Middenhall. Notwithstanding, Cunetium is commonly taken for Marie- 
 borough, and the map-makers know nothing to the contrary. Vide et qucere the 
 
 1 This quartering ought to be, Bendy of six, Azure and Or, a bordure Gules; for Merbroke of 
 Yattendon, Berks ; a family whose heiress Alicia had married Sir John Norreys. 
 
 2 This is perhaps the Chenete of Domesday Book, held at that time “by the Church of St. 
 Mary of Winchester, of Hugo, in trust for his daughter.” In the reign of King John a marsh 
 and virgate of land belonged to the Prior and Canons of St. Margaret’s, Marlborough. In 1315- 
 16 John de Berwick and Godfrey de Weston were lords of the manor: probably Religious Men: 
 as in 1383 (7 Rich. II.) the Manor and Tithes belonged to the Prior and Canons aforesaid. 
 
 Some land charged “ with the maintenance of a lamp ” in the church was granted to-Dismars, 
 
 (Edw. YI.); the Manor to the Earl of Pembroke, and Rectory to-Herbert, (Phil, and Mary). 
 
 Richard Frankland Sen. had a grant (4 Eliz.) In 1639 Thomas Grubb Esq. and Dame Mary 
 Baynton widow, were the largest contributors on the Subsidy Roll. In 1783 Sir Berkeley William 
 Guise, Bart., died owner of the Manor and Tithes: which in 1786 belonged to Dr. Shute 
 Barrington (then Bishop of Sarurn) in right of his second wife Jane Guise, only sister to that 
 Baronet. Stukeley, 1743, mentions Charles Tucker Esq. late of East Kennet. 
 
 2 u 
 
338 Aubrey’s north wilts. [. Marlborough . 
 
 ruins of old Cunetium, of Jeffrey Daniel Esq. & Mr. Gilmore. It hath its name 
 from the river Kynet or Cynet. Kynette in Welsh signifies scolding; water will 
 make such a kind of noise. 
 
 Marleborough Castle and Keepe, now my Lord Seymour’s Mount. 1 
 
 MILDEN-HALL. 2 
 
 Stands by the river Cunct, now Kinnet, about half a mile from Marleborough. 
 
 1 Cunetio was a Station on the Roman road from Bath to London. Sir R. C. Hoare investigated 
 the subject, and suggested the name of Upper Cunetio for Folly Farm on the hill near Marl¬ 
 borough: and that of Lower Cunetio for Mildenhall, (Ancient Wilts, ii. 91.) 
 
 The church was given by Will. I. to Osmund, Bishop of Old Sarum. Mr. Waylen’s “History 
 of Marlborough and its neighbourhood,” published 1854, will supply information about this 
 parish. In the Wilts Archaeol. Mag., vol. YII. p. 1, is a Paper by the late Mr. F. A. Carrington, 
 on its Ancient State. Of local objects of curiosity there is a list in the same work, vol. "VT. p. 259. 
 
 Jeffery Daniel of St. Margaret’s is named in Aubrey’s Preface as one of his expected coadjutors 
 in Wilts County History. Some of this family were Stewards at Marlborough to the Earl of 
 Pembroke. In Preshute Church were lately some hatchments : and, on the North wall, the Arms 
 with many quarterings of Wiliam Daniel of Preshute and his wife Cicely Ernley. 
 
 2 The Manor of Mildenhall, (provincially called Middenhall, or “Minall”) belonged in the 
 reign of the Confessor to Glastonbury Abbey, and so continued till Edw. I. when it came to the 
 hands of Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, under whom it was held by William de Ferrars, seventh 
 Earl of Derby. By marriage of Isabel coheir of Ferrars, and widow of Gilbert Basset, it came to 
 Reginald de Mohun, Lord of Dunster, co. Somerset. She was his second wife, and the Manor 
 was given to their son William Mohun. He died without sons, and it went to his daughter and 
 coheir Mary, wife of Sir John de Meryet. Afterwards (25 Edw. I.) it reverted to the elder house 
 of Mohun. In Edw. III. it belonged to Bartholomew Lord Burghersh, who in 1371 sold it to Sir 
 Thomas Hungerford, the purchaser of Farley Castle. In 1460 on the confiscation of the estates 
 of that family it was granted for a short time to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and then restored. 
 On a second confiscation in 1540 the Crown granted it the Earl of Pembroke. The Hungerfords 
 again recovered it. In 1613 it was held for life by the Earl of Rutland in right of his wife, widow 
 of Sir Edward Hungerford. The Hungerfords finally ceased to be owners in 1686. Their estate 
 included Woodlands (of which William Jones mentioned in the Epitaph p. 339, was then Tenant), 
 the Warren called Barredge, Stockham Mill, &e. The next owners appear to have been the 
 Nourse family, as Sarah, daughter of Henry Nourse Esq. of Woodlands was wife of Charles Finch 
 third Earl of Winchelsea, and in 1713 the Countess of Winchelsea, then widow, and others sold 
 the Manor of Mildenhall to Charles, Earl of Ailesbury. Woodlands became Mr. Calcraft’s, from 
 whom it descended to the Wyld family. 
 
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 The old glass all spoyled in the late warres; on the South side, painted on the 
 wall, is the escutcheon of the Marquesse of Hartford, and the coate of Hungerford. 
 Woodland, in this parish, belonges to Hungerford, but about 100 yeares since to 
 . Essex. See u Easton Piers,” [P. 239 above.) 
 
 In the South Aisle here is this Inscription, no other in the Church: 
 
 “Juste judicat: veniemus omnes ad judicium. “Here lyeth the body of William Jones, 
 Gentilman, who departed this life the 8th of Nov. 1610, whose life was religious and honest, at 
 his death godly and charitable so witnessed by the beholders, deservedly commended by the 
 Preacher at his funerall. And here sleepeth with his father the body of John Jones, Gent., his 
 son, whose dayes also ended shortly after, being the 28th of January the same yeare, both whose 
 soules be with the individual Trinity glorified and charitably departed the earthly mansions here, 
 according to their faith published at their departinge, to be saved only by the death and passion, 
 
 and bloud-shedding of Christ Jesus.received their salvation whilst the world doth 
 
 persecute them.” 
 
 SAVERNAKE FOREST. 
 
 Sturmy’s Horne, by which he held the forest of Savernake, is mentioned in 
 “ Fuller’s Worthies.” 
 
 Dr. Fuller also makes mention of a sweet fern, which growes in this forest, which 
 the Vicar here tells me he hath seen and smelt: it is like other fern but not so 
 bigge, he knows not where about it grows, but promised to make enquiry. Send 
 also to Mr. Bird of Stock, for some. 1 
 
 Mildenhall appears to have been divided among several proprietors besides the Mohuns, in 
 ancient times. In Edw. I., Robert de Stutescomb, under the honour of Beauchamp. The Abbot 
 of Tewkesbury under the Barony of Castle Combe. This was Poulton. [See “ Wilts Archmol. 
 Mag.” II. 271]. Hugh Doure under the Honour of Wallingford. The Abbot of St. Victor, 
 Ralph Quintin, and the Templars. [See “T. de Nevill.”] 
 
 In Wilts Institutions, 1526, there is a note “de Unione Eccl. de Myldenhale cum Ecclesia de 
 Weleforde.” Walter Curie afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells was Rector here from 1619 to 
 1629. Also George Morley, Dean of Christ Church and afterwards Bishop of Winchester, from 
 c. 1643. Charles Francis 1788—1821, bequeathed £4000 for a school, of which the foundation 
 stone was laid 24th April 1824. Mr. Waylen, “History of Marlborough,” has some memoranda 
 of Mildenhall. 
 
 1 The earliest notice of this Forest that the writer has met with, is a grant of lands at Oare by 
 King Athelstan to Wilton Abbey, A.D. 933. The lands so given were between Oare and the 
 Wansdyke, and they are described as lying “ outside the wood called Safernoc.” [New Monasticon, 
 
 2 u 2 
 
.340 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \Savernalce Iorest. 
 
 “Wilton,” p. 320.] The origin of the name is uncertain. Camden, Fuller and others, finding 
 an old Cornish word “savarn” signifying savour, conceived the Forest to have been called from 
 some plant, such as the Polypodium fragrans, the “ sweet fern ” mentioned in the text. But 
 though this grows there, it is not rare: nor is it likely to have given the name to a large tract of 
 country. The word is sometimes written in old records with a mark of abbreviation, “Savernak’.” 
 If the full name were Savern-acre, it might possibly have some reference to the geological 
 character of the district, which, like that of most of the forests in the S.W. of England, consists of 
 tertiary sand and gravel, overlying the chalk. “Savhr,” an ancient word for sand or gravel, is 
 the true derivation of the name of the “sandy bottomed Severn.” [Shakspeare’s Hen. IV.] In 
 the Cornish language, <SZ - avernak is, a hare, (Borlase.) Scevenoc is the name of a Caernarvon¬ 
 shire river. 
 
 In A.D. 1280 the limits of the forest were much more extensive than now. They reached from 
 West Overton (West of Marlborough) to Denford beyond Hungerford; passing round by 
 Buttermere, Collingbourne Kingston, Easton and Pewsey, as far as Warekway (now Workaway) 
 Hill. The family of Esturmy of Wolf-hall were for a long time chief Foresters (paying Fines 
 for the same) under the Crown to whom the whole belonged. Under the Esturmys were sub¬ 
 foresters, each being keeper of a “ Baily,” and holding lands in right of their office. Of these 
 were 1. The West Baily, including Bedwyn Brail {bruel: copse) and Harden (now Harding’s), 
 of which the keepers were the Harden family, and afterwards Sir Bobert Bilkemore 1334. 
 2. Hippingscombe Baily (another part of which belonged to Chute Forest); kept by the Colum- 
 bars 1275, and the Pipards. 3. Eastwick Baily, kept by Bonclive of Wick. 4. Southgrove, by 
 Robert de Fortesbury, and in 1352 by the Malwayns. The Prior of Marlborough had rights of 
 feeding for oxen and cows. The Abbot of Hyde had certain liberties. The hounds of Matthew 
 Columbars, kept in his manor of Chisbury, were exempt from “ expeditation,” i.e. from having a 
 claw cut off. In 1275 the Bishop of Salisbury who had a chace for wolves and hares at Studecomb, 
 as well as the Prior of Okebourn who had a similar privilege in his own neighbourhood, were 
 complained of, as occasionally encroaching in Savernake, to the damage of the King. The King’s 
 Forester South of Trent, upon the death of the Chief Forester of Savernak, claimed his horse 
 saddle, bridle, horn, sword, bow and arrows, as a heriot. Lands at Burbach, and Coulsfield in 
 South Wilts, were appurtenant to the office. 
 
 The horn at Tottenham Park (now commonly called the Bruce horn) descended to the Bruces, 
 Earls of Ailesbury, through the Seymours from the Esturmys. The possession of it is said to be 
 the title by which the Wardenship of the Forest is held under a charter granted 23rd July, 
 1 Edw. VI. to Edward, Duke of Somerset. It is of ivory with mountings in enamelled silver. 
 There are no Arms upon the horn itself, but on the belt which is more modern are those of a 
 Scottish family, apparently Randolph Earl of Moray (the Bruce’s nephew). In the “ Wilts 
 Archaeol. Mag.” vol. vi. p. 265, are drawings of the horn, and a minute description by the Rev. 
 John Ward. 
 
 The oak tree, called the “ Duke’s Vaunt,” having been in younger days the glory of the 
 Protector Duke of Somerset, is still living. The age of this tree must be extraordinary. In 1762 
 twenty boys were shut up in the hollow of it: and old men then living said it had been in the 
 
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 WINTERBOURNE-MONKTON. * 1 
 
 Mem: Milbarrow is in this parish on the North side, a considerable British 
 sepulchre. Vide u Templa Druidum” de hoc. 2 
 
 Mem : Q. Farmer Tlios. Cripps for golden Roman coyne found here which he 
 has. He now lives at Berwick Basset. 
 
 Carta Athelstani Regis, facta amicabili femine Elflede, de Winterbourne. Vide 
 Legier Book of Grlaston, 3 
 
 “ Afflanti per cunctam triquadri orbis latitudinem gibonifero sacro sancti flaminis incendio 
 salutifera animarum gaudia ac multifida donorum spiramina prerogante quibus humanis improbitatis 
 rubigo consumitur felicitasque eterna ejus munere adquiritur qui ante omnia secula apud prem. 
 indissociabili nutu sempiternitate majestatis alto infima eterna labentia qualia administracionum 
 distinctione fieri possent, &c.” 
 
 Here is a close called Gregorie’s close, where is the signe of a great deal of 
 
 same state as long as they could remember. [“ Gent. Mag.” 1802, p. 497.] Dryden probably 
 under-rates the age of such a patriarch, when be says, 
 
 “ Three centuries he grows, and three he stays 
 Supreme in state: and in three more decays.” 
 
 The magnificent domain of the Earl of Ailesbury includes much more than Savernake Forest: 
 but the other parts are in a different Hundred. Savernake House was destroyed by fire on 
 9th March 1861. A new church called Christ Church, a Parsonage House and Schools, have 
 recently been built in the Forest by the Earl of Ailesbury. 
 
 1 There are many Winterbournes in Wilts, and their several histories are not easily traced, the 
 distinctive name not being always added. The word signifies winter-stream. 
 
 2 Mill-barrow, so called from a mill erected upon it, lies between this village and Abury. 
 Aubrey in his Monumenta Britanniea (which includes “ Templa Druidum ”) has preserved a sketch 
 of it. See also Stukeley’s Abury, p. 46. For a curious interment discovered near the spot in 
 1854, see Wilts Archseol. Mag. I. 303. 
 
 3 This charter, more than usually bombastic and unintelligible, is not printed in the New 
 Monasticon. The Manor was given to Glastonbury Abbey (whence it is called Monkton) by 
 Elflida Queen of King Edward. [New Mon. I. 24.] At the Dissolution it was sold to William 
 Sherington, purchaser of Lacock. There was a grant to William Gomelden and James Hawie in 
 temp. Elizabeth. Sir Edward Darell had lands here, at his death in 1549. 
 
 In 1274 the Jury of the Hundred Court represented that above 40 years before, Walter the 
 Prior had taken away the gallows at Overton and Avebury: and that Luke the Prior had done 
 the same at Winterborne Monkton. [Hundred Rolls.] 
 
342 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Winterbourne Monkton. 
 
 building, adjudged near two acres; they say ’twas Sir John Gregorie’s. 1 
 
 The Parsonage here belonged to the Priory of St. Margaret’s, (Marlborough) 2 as 
 also Purnell’s land. 3 
 
 In the Church is nothing of antiquity to be found, unless a marble with two 
 brasse figures, the Inscription lost. 4 
 
 WINTERBOURNE BASSET. 5 
 
 1 “ Sir John Gregorie ” seems to be an imaginary personage. The origin of the name was more 
 likely thus. From one of the Glastonbury charters (New Mon. cxxxii.) it appears that c. 1270 
 Gregory Delamere of Winterburne Monachorum gave to Robert of Pederton, Abbot, “ all that 
 place called La Stanburgh on the West side of Winterburne, in order that the Monks might 
 raise a windmill or otherwise improve their property (se improviarent ), as they liked best. Also 
 a certain close round the Abbot’s sheepcote (bercaria ).” It is likewise mentioned among the 
 acts of Abbot Robert that he erected a kitchen with offices, a sheepcote covered with stone, and a 
 windmill. These were probably the buildings of which the traces were visible in “ Gregory’s 
 Close.” 
 
 * This is so stated in Ecton’s Thesaurus. Tanner does not mention it. The Abbot of Glaston¬ 
 bury in 1309 presented to a “portion of Tithe.” In 1336 this portion is called a “Rectory” 
 and the building with which it was connected “The Free Chapel of Monkton.” Ecton speaks of 
 a chapel annexed to Overton, destroyed. In 1336 a Vicarage of Monkton (St. Mar}^ Magdalen) 
 had been endowed, of which the Abbey of Cirencester was Patron down to the Dissolution. The 
 Truslow family of Abury then presented once or twice. The Vicarage was united with that of 
 Abury in 1747. 
 
 3 John Purnell was an owner in the parish in 1587, Beckett Purnell in 1639. There was also 
 a family of Sloper in 1538 and 1639. 
 
 4 The Rev. John Brinsden, Vicar, who died 1719, was buried at the East end of the churchyard, 
 and a Sarsen stone, from his own glebe, was placed over his grave. The numerous snow-drops to 
 be seen there in spring were originally planted by him in the form of letters of the alphabet, for 
 the purpose, as it is said, of enlivening the dullness of the Horn-book to the young children of 
 his parish-school. 
 
 5 The Manor of Winterbourne Basset belonged, Hen. I. to the Dunstanvilles of Castle Combe 
 (See “ Wilts Archaeol. Mag.” VI. 270) by whom it was transferred temp. Rich. I. to Alan Basset. 
 Like Compton Basset it passed by Oliva heiress of Philip Lord Basset, 1271, to the Despensers. 
 On their forfeiture it became Crown property: and was granted to the Duke of York for 
 Fotheringhay College 1415 ; and at the Dissolution to William, Earl of Pembroke, to whose family 
 it belonged in 1607. It was probably bought by Sir Stephen Fox, as it has belonged for 
 many years to the Lords Holland. Robert Bellot was chief rate-payer in 1687. 
 
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 343 
 
 This Church was dedicated to St. Katharine. * 1 
 
 In the Chauncell lies interred Ambrose Browne, son of . Browne, of this 
 
 parish, he dyed Anno Dni. 166 . . aged 103. In the windowes here are St. Thomas 
 of Canterbury, and, I think, St. Katharine. 
 
 In the North aisle under the windowe, which is of the fashion of Edw. III., is an 
 old nich, within which on a stone is the lineary figure of a man and his wife, of 
 whose name here is no tradicion. I am sorry that new glass is set up in this old 
 window, else, perhaps, I might have found the coat of Basset. 
 
 In a kind of Chapell, on the North side of the Church next the Chancel, is this 
 monument, of freestone: 
 
 “Here lieth the body of Symon Baskervile, Esqr. sonne of Sir Walter Baskervile, of Earsley, 
 in the County of Hereford, 2 Knight, which Symon married the widowe of William Hutchins, of 
 Rickarston, who deceased in the yeare of Our Lord God, 1552.” 
 
 In the other column : 
 
 “Here also lieth the body of William Baskervile, of Wanborough, sonne of the above said 
 Symon Baskervile, who deceased at Rickarston, the 29th day of September, in the yeare of Our 
 Lord God, 1604.” 
 
 On a pillar below which, is an altar monument of freestone without inscription; 
 
 The advowson was given by Reginald Dunstanville to the Priory of St. Pancras, Lewes. At 
 the Dissolution it was granted to the Earl of Pembroke: and about 1720 to Magdalen College, 
 Oxon. 
 
 1 It is so called in Bacon’s “ Liber Regis: ” but the modern name seems to be St. Peter’s. The 
 church, except the tower, has been lately almost re-built at an expense of £1000, of which one 
 half was given by the incumbent the Rev. W. F. Harrison: who also chiefly at his own expense 
 re-built the parsonage house. Mr. Harrison died before the re-opening of the church, by Dr. 
 Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury, which took place on Wednesday 30th October, 1857. The tower 
 (West) is Perpendicular: the nave, and North, (or Baskerville’s) Chapel, Decorated. The chancel is 
 spacious, and has four side-lights of Flamboyant style. The East window is new. The font Early 
 English. 
 
 2 Of Baskerville of Erdisley (Burke’s “Landed Gentry”) a branch was settled at Ricardston 
 in this parish: having lands also at Wanborough, and at Rockley in Ogbourne St. Andrew. 
 
344 Aubrey’s north wilts. [ Winterbourne Basset. 
 
 on the former are these 10 scutcheons, viz : First the paternal, with mantling, and 
 crest, which is, I think, a greyhound’s head couped A. * 1 
 
 [No. 449] 
 
 Baskerville 
 
 
 [450] 
 
 Do. impaling (Wynter ?) 
 
 [451] 
 
 Do. do. 
 
 (Grosse ?) 
 
 [452] 
 
 Do. do. 
 
 (Burgess ?) 
 
 [453] 
 
 Do. do. 
 
 (Leighton ?) 
 
 [No. 454] Baskerville impaling Bruges. 
 
 [455] 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 (Audley ?) 
 
 [456] 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 Bodenham. 
 
 [457] 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 same as 4. 
 
 [458] 
 
 Do. 
 
 do. 
 
 Waterton. 
 
 The crest (of Waterton) is an Otter (a beaver passant) with a fish in his mouth. 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of Thomas Hutchins of Ricarston, who deceased the 27th day of May, 
 1607.” 
 
 Ricardston belonged to Lord Mauduit in 1315. The Abbot of Stanley in Edw. I., William 
 W roston, or Wroughton, in Rich. II., and the Delamere family, were also owners of land here. 
 The portion of the latter passed in Hen. IV. to their heiress Willelma wife of Sir John Roche, 
 from whom in Hen. VI. to Beauchamp. 
 
 Rabson in this parish, anciently Rabbedeston, belonged to the Prioress of Ambresbury. 
 
 1 The usual crest of Baskerville is a wolf’s head erased, Arg., holding in its mouth a broken 
 spear. 
 
WHERWELLS-DOWN HUNDRED . 1 
 
 NORTH BRADLEY. 2 
 
 very fine Church built all of freestone. The winclowes here 
 3n extraordinary good. For a windowe by the porch, now all 
 asse, Westbury, before the warres, would have given fourscore 
 and glazed the windowe again with plaine glasse. These 
 glorious windowes are now so much defaced there is but enough left for one to 
 guess at former beauty and skill: remaines in the Chancell East windowe Tljs and 
 fR: and this coate : [PI. xxxii. No. 459, Edingdon Priory.] 3 
 
 1 The Lordship of the Hundred of “ Wervelesdon ” was given by King Edgar to the Abbey of 
 Romsey. On the Dissolution of Monasteries it was granted to Thomas Seymour Lord Sudeley. 
 It now belongs to Mr. Watson Taylor owner of the Edingdon property. The name in Domesday 
 Book is “ Wrderusteselle,” in the Hundred Rolls “ Wervollesdon. Some think it may be 
 Orwolde’s, an old name found elsewhere in North Wilts. Wherwell is the name of an Abbey in 
 Hants, and of a wood in Wilts. 
 
 2 There is only one “ Bradele ” mentioned in Domesday Book which Sir R. C. Iloare claims for 
 Maiden Bradley : but as the owner mentioned in Domesday was Walter Giffard, ancestor of the 
 Earls of Buckingham, it is as likely to have been North Bradley: for much of the Giffard Earl 
 of Buckingham’s lands came afterwards to Greynvile, or Grey vile, of Southwick in this parish. 
 See note 5 next page. 
 
 The principal manor of North Bradley belongs to the Earl of Mornington by maternal descent 
 from the Longs of Draycote. How and when it came into that family has not been exactly 
 ascertained: but Robert Long (who died 1446) was a land owner under the Abbess of Romsey. 
 One of his wives was Margaret Popharn, widow of Wayte. [Deed of 1417.] 
 
 3 The shield of Edingdon Monastery; which was still in the window a few years ago. North 
 Bradley Church before A.D. 1351, was a chapelry of the ancient Prebend of Edingdon belonging 
 to Romsey Abbey : and when, in that year, the advowson of Edingdon Prebend was severed from 
 Romsey Abbey and granted to William of Edingdon Bishop of Winchester for the endowment of 
 his new College of Bonhommes at Edingdon, the Rectorial Tithes of North Bradley were impro¬ 
 priated to the Bonhommes and a Vicarage was endowed here. The Tithes and some land, with 
 the Patronage of the Vicarage of “North Bradley and Southwick” were granted (Edw. VI.) 
 to Winchester College. Sir W. Sherington had also a grant of land in 4 Hen. VIII. 
 
346 Aubrey’s north wilts. [North Bradley. 
 
 In the East windowe of the South aisle are 5 columnes, ( window-liglits ;) at the 
 bottom of each an Angell finely painted, with pimple wings, holding a scutcheon in 
 a riband, viz. 1. broken. 2. Long and Wrottesley : 1 inverted by the glazier. 
 [No. 460.] 3. (Long?) impaling (Popham of) Bradley, and another broken [No. 
 
 461] . 2 4. Long impaling . 5. broken. In 12 little columnes at the top of this 
 
 window are 8 of the Apostles in little, lost. 
 
 In the limbe of the next South windowe, . our ilortj IH.CCCCCi'ILHH 
 
 tfjr ... ti .. an ... tf)ts tognbo in tfyv grave . ©rate p. ata ©m . ®4jomc 
 
 ©Ime 3 nup. 
 
 At the bottom, as in the other, here are two Angells remaining, but the scutcheon 
 broken : about the middle of the windowe these: 1. Three Anlaces or daggers [No. 
 
 462] . 2. Two Battle axes in saltire [No. 463]. 
 
 A notable old gothique Font with the escuteheon of Christ’s Passion, and the 
 hieroglyphicks of the 4 Evangelists. 4 
 
 In the North aisle are two windowes stopt up; one with board, the other with 
 mortar. 
 
 (Southwick Court. ) 5 
 
 1 The shield of Sir Henry Long of Wraxhall and Draycote Kt., who died 1556: and of his 
 second wife Eleanor Wrottesley, relict of Edmund Leversedge of Frome Selwood. 
 
 2 The shield is drawn in our Plate, as given by Aubrey: not being able to distinguish the 
 charge, he made merely five indistinct marks. 
 
 3 The date of 1527 is an error : if, at least, the person referred to was Thomas Elme, Rector of 
 Edingdon Monastery (and, as such, Rector and Patron of North Bradley) A.D. 1433—1450. 
 
 4 The Font is late Perpendicular; with octagonal bowl and shaft. It is figured in “ Paley’s 
 Baptismal Fonts.” 
 
 5 In Southwick, a Tything of this parish, two carucates of land belonged A.D. 1274 to William 
 de Grey vile or Greynvile who held under the Abbess of Romsey. About A.D. 1294 his son 
 Adam de Greynvile (there was a Justice in Eyre of this name in 1267) attached to his house at 
 Southwick Court a chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist. By surrendering to the Rector of 
 Bradley (at that time the Prebendary of Edingdon) a ground called Alerleye, he obtained the 
 right of presenting to his chapel a chantry Priest, who in acknowledgment of fealty was to offer 
 21b. of wax in Bradley Church every year on the anniversary of the Nativity of St. John the 
 Baptist. In 1369 the Bishop of Sarum granted a license for Mass to be said in the private 
 
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 (Mortuary Chapel of the Staffords of Southwick Court. 1 ) 
 
 By the North aisle is a peculiar Chapelle of excellent worke, the roof of wood 
 
 mansion bouse of Southwick. This chaplain, in after times, was always instituted to his office, 
 by the Rectors of Edingdon Monastery to whom the Church of Bradley then belonged. [See 
 Edingdon Chartulary, p. 36.] 
 
 The Manor of Southwick and the advowson of the chapel at Southwick Court, appear to have 
 passed, about A.D. 1341, by the heiress of Greynvile or Greyvile (Hutchins’s Dorset, p. 292) to 
 Humphrey Stafford Kt., grandfather of John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then by Alice 
 Stafford, an heiress, to Sir Edmund Cheney of Brook Hall: and by their heiress to Sir John 
 Willoughby of Brook, c. 1430. In 1483, during a temporary forfeiture, Southwick was given 
 by Richard III. to his favourite Edward Ratcliffe: but it was restored, and in 1520 was sold by 
 Robert Willoughby Lord Broke to Sir David Owen, a supposed son of Owen Tudor. In his will 
 1529 (Test. Yet. 701) Sir David Owen mentions this manor and chantry. One portion was sold 
 by Henry Owen to Sir Woolstan Dixie, Lord Mayor of London, who by will 1592 devised his 
 lands here, worth £42 per annum, to Christ’s Hospital. Another portion was sold, 1556, by John 
 Owen to Christopher Bayley, whose wife Matilda (Horton) appears to have possessed one third of 
 the manor in her own right. She remarried Walter Bush, who held it for his life. Rebecca 
 Bayley, an heiress, grand-daughter of Christopher, married first, Henry Long of Whaddon, and 
 secondly, Henry Sherfield: (who also held it for life). By another heiress, Rebecca grand¬ 
 daughter of Henry Long of Whaddon, it passed in marriage to Sir Philip Parker: and on the 
 failure of issue male in his descendant, 1740, it reverted to the Longs of Whaddon, from whom 
 it has passed to the present owner Walter Long Esq. of Rood Ashton. A little viow of the old 
 House is given at foot of Plate xxxii. 
 
 Some part of Southwick belonging to Edingdon Monastery, was held after the Dissolution, 
 under Sir Thomas Seymour Lord Sudeley, by Ambrose Dauntsey. The Court Book of Southwick 
 is in the Chapter House, Westminster. 
 
 At Coteridge in the Tything of Southwick, owners have been, Edingdon Monastery: John 
 Blanchard, 1395: Francis Townsend Esq., 1604: the Trenchard family, of Wolveton, in Char- 
 minster, co. Dorset: from about 1655. John Trenchard Esq. of this place, author of “The 
 Independent Whig ” died 1723 ; and was succeeded here by his sister’s son Robert Hippisley Esq. 
 On a monument in the Church are the arms of Trenchard quartering Ashfordby. [See Hutchins’s 
 Dorset, “ Charminster: ” and “ Burke’s Landed Gentry.”] 
 
 1 The beautiful little Chapel, abutting on the North side of North Bradley Church, seems to 
 have been erected by John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury 1443—1452, Cardinal and Lord 
 Chancellor of England, as a burial-place for his Mother. About Archbishop Stafford’s parentage 
 there has been much confusion, and there is still some mystery. Some (as Dugdale) have called 
 him son of Humphrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham, others, of a Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire, &c. 
 Battely (“ Canturia Sacra, p. 75,”) says “he was born at Hook, co. Dorset, and was son of Sir 
 Humphrey Stafford ‘ with the silver hand,’ by his wife Elizabeth Dynham.” He certainly was the son 
 
 2x2 
 
348 Aubrey’s* north wilts. [North Bradley . 
 
 curiously carved. I guesse the worke to be about temp. Hen. 6, about which time 
 this kind of gothique architecture was at the height. This was as noble a Chapelle 
 as any in the county: now, (1669), in the windowe like a great bay-windowe, is 
 only one scutcheon left entire, viz., Stafford [No. 464]. Another was quarterly, 
 now broken ; another thus: [ broken , No. 465]. * 1 At the bottom whereof is a flatt 
 gravestone of freestone well worked, lineally, with the figure of a Lady in a gothique 
 niche. In the limbe [margin) thereof this Inscription: 
 
 m jacct tma Emma mater brnrratisstmi patrts rt Bommt 23nt Soljts 
 Staffort! Qri gra Cantuartcnsts glrrijtrpt que oimt qutnto tur mrnsts 
 Scptcmbris gnuo Out fHillcstmo C(£(£C no quabragestmo YJF°. (Cuius ate 
 pptetetur Qeus. &mcn. (© Brus trina me Soljn eonserfaa rutna.) 
 
 [“ Here lieth the Lady Emma, mother of the most Reverend Father and Lord, John Stafford by 
 the grace of God Lord Archbishop of Canterbury : who died 5th Sept. A.D. 1446. On whose 
 soul God have mercy. Amen. 0 Triune God, save me, John, from perdition.”] 
 
 In the limbe of this windowe are these fragments: Emmf matriS b ••• tint 3ol}iS 
 
 Urdprpt . r . bteti . In the top of this windowe, and also of the other, 
 
 are in scrolles, “ ffinoft)i SrautOU; Nosrc tCtpSum.” 2 The other windowe is all 
 broken but the scrolles aforesaid, only the picture of the Archbishop, except his 
 
 of Sir Humphrey, of Southwick, but not by Elizabeth Hynham, nor by his second wife Alice Bevile, 
 (if that Christian name is given rightly in “ Coll. Top. and Gen.,” VI., 335); for the inscription 
 still in the chapel, gives Emma as his mother’s Christian name, but without any sirname. 
 This appears in some degree to corroborate the traditions that he was, “ ignota matre inhonestus 
 Dr. Thomas Gascoigne (“Lewis’s Life of Pecock,” 8vo., p. 19), 6ays “ bastardus origine but 
 the Doctor’s authority alone may not be altogether trustworthy, as he wrote in a spirit not over¬ 
 friendly to the prelates of Henry VI. The Archbishop succeeded in 1443 to some lands at 
 Blunsdon, co. Wilts, on the death of Robert Andrews and his widow. The tomb is still standing 
 in the Chapel at North Bradley. 
 
 1 This shield, copied exactly from the MS., is not very intelligible. It was most likely that of 
 Bevile (of Suffolk) second wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford, the Archbishop’s Father, Quarterly 
 0. and G. In “ Hutchins’s Dorset,” I., 513, the coat of Stafford impaling Bevile is mentioned 
 among those on the windows at Melbury Sampford. 
 
 2 The motto used by the Trenchards of Cutteridge in this parish, a family mentioned in the 
 preceding page. 
 
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 head, remains, of curious painted glass: he is in his formalities, with pall, crosier, 
 
 &c. in a cope of sky-colour. In the limbe of this windowe . IjUjUS raprllc . 
 
 ^Irdjtcpt. Cantuar . In the carved wooden worke of the roofe, are several little 
 
 hunting figures, as of men carrying a deer, shooting a deer in a wood, &c. One 
 scutcheon [No. 466] of Hungerford in wood. 1 This Chapell is built out-side the 
 church, as Hungerford’s at Sarum, but the scutcheons of stone are not charged. 
 
 John Stafford made Bishop of Welles 1425, translated to Canterbury 1443: his 
 arms with the mitre are in the Hall next to Polydore Virgil’s house at Welles. 
 
 EDINGDON PRIORY. 3 
 
 1 Probably in compliment to the Hungerford Family who were owners of Langham (near Road) 
 in the Tything of Southwick. 
 
 2 The parish of Edingdon comprises Edingdon, Tynhide and Baynton, and West Coulston. It 
 is perhaps the “Ethandun” mentioned in King Alfred’s Will. In the year 968 King Edgar gave 
 the manor and an estate, about two thirds of the parish in value, to the Nuns of Romsey Abbey 
 in Hampshire : but owing to the loss of Romsey Cartulary, it is not easy to distinguish with 
 certainty the precise extent of the grant. Of Edingdon Church property, the earliest knowledge 
 we have is, that the Rectory, with the Chapel of St. Nicholas of North Bradley annexed, formed 
 a Prebend of Romsey Abbey. The Abbess, as Patron, presented the Prebendary Rector: who 
 being an absentee, nominated a Yicar to reside in charge of the parish. The names of the 
 following Prebendary Rectors have been met with. In 1286, John de Berwick. 1294, John de 
 Romsey. 1302, John de London. 1312, Gilbert de Middleton. 1334, Robert de Stratford. 
 1337, John St. Paul. 1338, Gilbert de Bruera. 1351, John de Edindon. All these were 
 appointed by the Abbess of Romsey. This state of things continued till the 14th century, when 
 an important change was effected through the influence of a Churchman of the greatest eminence 
 in the reign of Edw. III. 
 
 That William of Edingdon was born (about A.D. 1300) either in the parish, or of a family 
 belonging to it, (“ de qua villa traxit origincm,” being the words of a document that connects him 
 with this place); that his parents bore the Christian names of Roger and Avise (no sirname being 
 given): and that he had a brother Sir John de Edindon a Knight (whose son was the last 
 Prebendary Rector, already mentioned), are facts supplied by the Cartulary of Edingdon Priory. 
 He was educated at Oxford, became Rector of Cottingham, then of Dallington, both in co. 
 Northampton ; afterwards of Middleton Cheney, co. Oxford : then Prebendary of Leighton Manor 
 co. Lincoln, Dean of Westbury on Trym, co. Gloucester, and (by the patronage of Adam de 
 Orleton, Bishop of Winchester), Rector of Cheriton, co. Hants. On the death of that Prelate in 
 1345, he was appointed to the See of Winchester, and was made Lord Treasurer. Soon after his 
 promotion he turned his thoughts to the spiritual wants of his native village: and by an 
 
350 Aubrey’s north wilts. \ Edingdon Priory. 
 
 arrangement with the Abbess of Romsey, he obtained in 1351 a licence from the Crown to 
 appropriate the revenue of the Prebendal Church of Edingdon for the purpose of making a better 
 provision for the parishioners. The parish was large and populous, and greatly lacked the services 
 of Ministers. The Bishop founded a Chantry, consisting of a Warden and two secular Chaplains, 
 (with the intention of adding three more,) to which Chantry the Church of Edingdon was annexed. 
 The Prebendary, hitherto generally an absentee and therefore a sinecurist, was to become the 
 resident Warden, in charge of the parishioners, but still to bear the dignity of a Canon of Romsey 
 Monastery. Scarcely however had the first Warden, Walter Scarlet, been appointed, when the 
 Bishop altered his mind and determined to convert this small Fraternity into a regular Monastery, 
 and to build an entirely new Monastic Church, the one still remaining at Edingdon. On 
 3rd July 1352 the first stone of the new Priory was laid, and in the meantime the Chantry and 
 secular Chaplains continued. In 1358 the second, and last, Warden, Walter de Sevenhampton 
 was appointed: and in February 1359, the new Priory house being ready, the secular priests of 
 the Chantry (all but the Warden, who declined) received their first Tonsure, as Monks regular, 
 under the legal title of “ The Rector and Brethren ” of Edingdon. They were of the Order of 
 St. Augustine, but of a particular class called “ Boni Homines ” or “ Bonhommes.” This was 
 selected by the Bishop at the suggestion, it is said, of the Black Prince, who had returned from 
 France with some motive for favouring that species of Monasticism. There was at the time only 
 one Religious House of the Order in England, viz., at Ashridge in Bucks. Edingdon became 
 the second, and there were never any others. In 1361 the Priory Church was finished. In the 
 Royal Charter of confirmation it is described as dedicated to St. Mary, St. Katharine, and All 
 Saints. 
 
 The property with which the Priory was endowed, chiefly by the Bishop himself during his 
 life-time, was as follows. Romsey Abbey still retained in this parish the manor and large estate 
 originally granted by King Edgar, but the Priory of Edingdon had the Tithes and other Rectorial 
 property that had belonged to the original Prebend, with the Chapel of North Bradley. It had 
 elsewhere in the co. Wilts, the Advowson of Steeple, or East, Lavington, with the Chapel of 
 Gore : lands at Eastcot (in Urchfont), with the presentation to the Chapel: lands at South Imber: 
 the impropriated tithes and patronage of Keevil and Bulkington: lands at Baynton (but not the 
 presentation to the Chapel) : the Manor of Highway in Bremhill (afterwards exchanged, see 
 above, p. 60) : also part of the Manor of Tynhide (now Tinhead) in Edingdon, on the death of the 
 founder’s brother Sir John de Edingdon: lands at Esthorp, Westhorp, and Hampton Turville, 
 near Highworth, of which some part was given to maintain an Obit in the Priory Church, founded 
 in 1365 by Sir Thomas Hungerford of Heytesbury, purchaser of Farley Castle. Besides the 
 above, the Priory had certain smaller possessions in its own neighbourhood, at Kingston Deverell, 
 Dilton, Bratton, Penley’s, &c. In Berkshire it had the Manor of Coleshill (being the largest of 
 all its estates) and the Rectory of Buckland near Faringdon, with the Chapel of Burwardscote 
 (Burcote) annexed. In Gloucestershire, the Manor and Advowson of Tormarton : in Hampshire, 
 the tithes impropriate of Newton Valence: in Oxfordshire, the Manor of Alvescote, lands at 
 Alwardsbury, West Ilsley, &c. 
 
 The founder was made Chancellor of England in 1357; and in 1366, having declined the See 
 
WIIERWELLS-DOWN HUNDRED. 
 
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 of Canterbury, he died, and was buried at Winchester Cathedral. His monument is figured in 
 Britton’s account of that church. His Will has not been met with. 
 
 The following are the names of the Hectors of Edingdon Priory. The first (who came from 
 Ashridge) was John de Aylesbury, in 1358. In 1382 Thomas Odyham. In 1414 Thomas 
 Culmer. In 1433 Thomas Elme. (To this period the Bishops of Winchester were patrons : 
 afterwards the Brethren.) In 1450, William Godwyn. In 1464 William Newton. Ditto, 
 William Hull or Hill. In 1494 John St. John. In 1515 John Hyve, and finally in 1538, 
 Paul Bush. 
 
 On 29th June 1450, William Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury, in order to escape from the violence 
 of a tumult in that city, fled for refuge to Edingdon Priory. He was pursued, and whilst 
 officiating at the High Altar, was dragged from the Church to a neighbouring hill, and there 
 murdered. 
 
 The Priory was seized by the Crown in 1534, hut was not immediately dissolved ; for in 1538 
 Lord Cromwell, as Privy Seal, appointed Paul Bush, the last Hector: who in the following year 
 surrendered it, and was made first Bishop of the New See of Bristol. A portrait of him is in the 
 possession of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The Cartulary of Edingdon Priory is 
 No. 442 Lansd. MS. in the British Museum: and an alphabetical list of its contents is printed in 
 the “New Monasticon ” vi. p. 535. The Arms of the house, were, Or, on a cross engrailed 
 Gules five cinquefoils Argent. The Monastic Seal is appended to the Deed of Surrender in the 
 Augmentation Office. It represents the Apostles Peter and Paul: over them the Blessed Virgin 
 and child: below, an ecclesiastic with a crosier. The legend is “ S. Commune. Hectoris. (et.) 
 Conventus. (de.) Edyndon. The arms on Bishop Edingdon’s private seal, among the Archives of 
 Winchester College, are, On a cross engrailed five mullets pierced. 
 
 After the Dissolution, Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley, obtained in the parish of Edingdon 
 both the manor and lands belonging to Hornsey Abbey, and the church property, land and tithes, 
 belonging to Edingdon Priory. Upon his execution in 1549, all these were granted to Sir 
 William Pawlett, Earl of Wiltshire, and first Marquis of Winchester. During the ownership of 
 the Pawlett family, the Priory was leased, in 1551, to Sir Edward Hastings and Lady Elizabeth 
 Bayntun. In 1565 the lease belonged to Sir James Stumpe of Malmesbury, whose wife was a 
 Bayntun of Bromham. In 1599 it was the residence of William Jones; and, about the beginning 
 of the 17th century, of Sir William Paulett a natural son of the third Marquis of Winchester. 
 Another lessee was Sir Edward Lewis of the Van, co. Glamorgan, who married Anne Sackville 
 widow of Sir Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp. Sir Edward Lewis’s monument, on the South 
 side of the chancel, bears the effigies of himself and his lady. The Arms are those of Lewis 
 (quartering 3 Welsh coats, Colwyn ap Tango, Gestyn ap Gwrgant and Caradoc Vreichfar) impaling 
 Sackville. He died 1630. A brass piate on the floor records her death 25th September 1664. 
 Their son Hichard Lewis was residing at the Priory when he purchased Corsham (as mentioned 
 above p. 79). Lord Harry Paulett father of the two last Dukes of Bolton, was the next occupier. 
 He died 1759. (The sign of an Inn, formerly at Tinhead, popularly called “the Three Daggers” 
 was, properly, the arms of the Pauletts, 3 swords in pile.) In 1768 Peter Delme Esq. of Earl- 
 stoke treated with the Trustees of the fifth Duke of Bolton for the purchase of the Edingdon 
 
352 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 \Jdding don Priory. 
 
 STEEPLE ASHTON. 1 
 
 estates, but no conveyance was ever made: and in 1784, under the power of a Private Act, they 
 were sold to Mr. Joshua, and Mr. (afterwards Sir) Drummond, Smith. The former was survivor, 
 and at his death they were sold by his coheiresses to the Trustees of Simon Taylor Esq. elder 
 brother of Sir John Taylor, Bart. Sir John’s son Sir Simon Richard Brissett Taylor, second 
 Bart., dying unmarried, the estates were settled on his eldest sister Anna Susannah, whose eldest 
 son Simon Watson Taylor Esq. is now the owner. [See above, p. 299.] Of the remains of the 
 Priory House there is a small view in “Gent. Mag.” 1846. 
 
 The Priory Church (described in “ Wilts Archseol. Mag.” iii. 47) is a fine example of the 
 Transition from the Decorated to the Perpendicular style. The tracery of the tower windows is 
 worked in the pattern of a cross flory, and, in the West windows of the aisles, in that of a cross 
 saltier flory : the allusion probably being to the arms of the Pavelys (Lords of Westbury Hundred), 
 patrons and friends of the founder. At the end of the South Transept is a large altar-monument 
 with an ecclesiastical effigy under a canopy, not yet identified. The letters of a monogram upon 
 it appear to be I. B. (not T. B. as stated by a mistake of the present writer in “Wilts Archseol. 
 Mag.” I. 188); and a rebus, or device, of a branch of bay issuing from a tun, seems to indicate a 
 John Bayntun : but there is no known member of the Priory who bore that name. On a stone 
 at the West end of the South aisle are the arms of the See of Winchester, encircled with stars. 
 Under one of the arches, South side of the nave, beneath a stone canopy, is the altar-tomb of Sir 
 Ralph Cheney of Brook House in Westbury, who married one of the coheiresses of Sir John 
 Pavely c. 1361. Sir Ralph died in 1400. The brasses and inscription are gone, but these arms 
 are on the monument. On the side facing the nave: upon the canopy, 1. Cheney. 2. Ditto. 
 3. Cheney quartering Pavely. On the tomb itself, 1. Cheney and Pavely badge, a rudder. 
 
 2. Cheney. 3. Four escallops 2 and 2, Erlegh ? On the side facing South aisle: on the canopy, 
 1. Cheney impaling Pavely. 2. Pavely. 3. Ditto. On the tomb, 1. The rudder. 2. Cheney. 
 
 3. Erlegh ? On the North side of the chancel is a Cenotaph to the memory of Simon Taylor Esq. 
 (above-mentioned) of Lyssons Hall, Jamaica: and within the Altar-rails, against the North wall, 
 a fine monumental group, by Sir Francis Chantrey, representing the deathbed of his nephew 
 (also above-mentioned) Sir Simon Richard Brissett Taylor, the second Baronet. 
 
 1 This Parish includes Steeple Ashton proper, West Ashton, Rood Ashton, Hen ton, Littleton, 
 and Semington. The original name of the Manor was simply Ashton, and it is probably the 
 “iEsctune” bequeathed in the Will of King Alfred for the maintenance of his youngest daughter. 
 By his great grandson King Edgar it was given, A.D. 964, to the Nunnery of St. Mary of Romsey 
 in Hants. A copy of the Grant, and of the boundaries, is in the Cartulary of Edingdon Priory. 
 
 Besides the Abbess’s estate, there were some lay-properties, and the name of Ashton being 
 appended to various subdivisions of the Manor, it became in course of time, convenient to dis¬ 
 tinguish the principal one by the prefix of “ Steeple; ” the parish church being situated upon 
 it. It is so called in Deeds of Edw. I. and II. The Cartulary of Romsey Abbey (as already 
 mentioned under “ Edingdon,”) having been lost, and the list of its estates being unfortunately 
 omitted in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, we are left to private documents for the knowledge of what it 
 
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 possessed in this neighbourhood. From these it appears that the Abbess’s demesne lay chiefly in 
 Steeple Ashton proper, that other smaller manors within the parish were held as of her manor, 
 paying quit rents or other acknowledgements: and that she also had lands, or manorial rights, 
 in adjacent parishes, as North Bradley, Bulkington, Hilperton, Tydulside (Tilshead) and 
 Trowbridge. 
 
 After belonging to Romsey Abbey for 571 years, the estate was broken up and sold, probably 
 to those who had been Abbey tenants. The names of the principal freeholders in the parish 
 between the Dissolution and A.D. 1604, whose lands lay within the manorial jurisdiction of the 
 late Abbey were as follows. Brouncker, Greenhill, (of which family was John Greenhill a very 
 distinguished painter, temp. Charles II. See a long memoir of him in Hatcher and Benson’s 
 “ Salisbury,” p. 629); Marks, and Martyn. These had only done suit at the Abbess’s court. The 
 next paid small quit-rents : viz., Blagden, Clement, Flower, Hooke, Hutchins (of “ Leach Court),” 
 Lambe (of Henton), the Longs of Whaddon, of Lavington, Rood Ashton, West Ashton and 
 Semington; Palmer, Pryor, Silverthorn, Sumner (of Littleton), Stillman, Turben (of Henton), 
 Sir Francis Fane (one of the representatives of the Sheringtons of Lacock Abbey), Westley, 
 Whatley, Sir Richard White, Kt., and Whitaker. 
 
 The general Lordship of the whole Manor, was granted at the Dissolution to Sir Thomas Seymour, 
 Lord Sudeley, the Protector Somerset’s brother. (Part of Sir Thomas’s Court Roll is in the 
 possession of J. Moore Esq. of West Coker, co. Somerset.) On his attainder and execution in 
 1549, the lordship reverted to the Crown, and in 1610 it formed part of the maintenance of 
 Prince Henry, son of James I., its profits (in chief rents, timber on wastes, &c.), being 
 then returned at £85 5s. 5d. per annum. The greater part of the various estates obtained (as 
 above mentioned) by different individuals at the Dissolution, as well as the general lordship, became, 
 chiefly by purchase, concentrated in the Long family, and are now the property of Walter Long 
 Esq., M.P. of Rood Ashton. 
 
 The Rectory of Steeple Ashton was impropriate to Romsey Abbey, which appointed the Vicar, 
 until the Dissolution. The Crown was then Patron until 1676. Then the Martyn family. In 
 1698 Mr. Drue Drury of Riddlesworth Hall, co. Norfolk, gave by Will the impropriate Parsonage 
 to Magdalen College, Cambridge, for the maintenance of “The Norfolk Travelling Fellowship.” 
 The Master of the College now nominates the Vicar. 
 
 St. Mary’s Church. The body of the present handsome church was built between A.D. 1480 
 and 1500. Robert Long of this place, and Edith his wife, built the North aisle. Walter Lucas 
 and Maud his wife the South aisle. The fine tower had at first a spire, but that was destroyed by 
 lightning twice in the same year, viz. on 25th July, and 15th October, 1670. [See Aubrey’s Natural 
 History of Wilts, p. 17.] The West ends of both aisles, are of earlier date than the body of the 
 church. The Chancel, formerly very plain, was re-built by subscription in 1853, in a st}4e cor¬ 
 responding with the rest. The Font was given by the present Vicar, the Rev. Richard Crawley 
 and his sisters. There are monuments to Henry Long Esq. of Rood Ashton, died 1672, and 
 others of his family : also to Beach, Bennett (of this parish and of Comb-Hay), John Smith, M.P. 
 for Bath, Cary (of Hampstead), Hicks, Martyn, Wainhouse, Browne, and Darcy. There was 
 once a little brass bearing this inscription, “ Virgo quid loquitur quaeris ? Lege. Tu morieris 
 
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 \_Steeple Ashton. 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 Maria Carpenter: ” probably of the family of Henry Carpenter, Vicar, 1636. Among the 
 Vicars have been George Webbe, 1605, (son of Hugh Webbe, Rector of Bromham,) who 
 became Bishop of Limerick 1634, and died whilst confined in Limerick Castle by the Rebels 1641. 
 An engraving of him is prefixed to one of his publications called “ The Practice of Quietness.” 
 Gabriel Sangar, 1662. He was first Rector of Sutton Mandeville, then of St. Martin’s in the 
 Fields, London: and was ejected from Steeple Ashton by the Act of Uniformity. [See 
 Calamy.] Samuel Hey, appointed 1787, third son of Richard Hey of Pudsey near Leeds, brother 
 of John Hey, D.D., Norrisian Professor at Cambridge, and of William Hey, a late very cele¬ 
 brated surgeon at Leeds. He bequeathed a Vicar’s Library; and was buried in the church¬ 
 yard 1828. A monument erected by the Parishioners to his memory is placed in the South 
 Aisle of the Church. The Registers begin 1538. The Vicarage House was much enlarged by 
 the present Vicar, Mr. Crawley. 
 
 Some parts of the Manor, not now to be identified, were anciently called Middle Ashton, Salcer’s 
 Ashton, (from a family “ De Salceto,”) and Hurdecot’s Ashton. 
 
 West Ashton. In 1449 William de Westbury, Justice of the Common Pleas, who founded a 
 chapel in Westbury Church, possessed a house and some lands at this hamlet. Sir William 
 Stourton of Stourton who died 1413 was owner of the Manor, and of East Hills, held under 
 Romsey Abbey. In 1543 William sixth Baron Stourton sold this, (together with the Manors of 
 Hilperton and Whaddon and the patronage of Hilperton Rectory), to Thomas Long of Trowbridge. 
 The name of “ Stourton ” is still borne by a Hill, adjoining the park at Rood Ashton. 
 
 Paxcroft, (anciently Packel’s Croft). There are two farms of this name. 1. One adjoining 
 Hilperton, was held under Romsey Abbey in 1254 by Henry de Whaddon. In 1700 it belonged 
 to Matthew Burgess: in 1711 to John Hall Esq. of Bradford on Avon, who charged it with £40 
 a year for his Almshouse in that town. From his family it passed by marriages to that of the 
 present owner Earl Manvers. 2. Paxcroft Overcourt; which lies eastward of the former. It was 
 sold by Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy in 1599 to Henry Long of Whaddon. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Beach became an owner at West Ashton about 1660. He was of a family, once 
 living at Warminster: from which came also the Beaches of Netheravon and Keevil. He 
 was Steward to the Longleat estates, to the Crown for Steeple Ashton, and to Lady Elizabeth 
 Sevmour for Trowbridge. He died 1729 aged 92. His family removed to Woolley near Bradford 
 on Avon. The last male heir Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Beach changed his name to De la Beche. 
 Their estate at West Ashton was purchased by R. G. Long Esq. On it was a Labyrinth or Miz- 
 maze, mentioned by Aubrey 1670. “King’s Coffee House” in Covent Garden, took its name 
 from a native of West Ashton, Thomas son of Harman King. He was a scholar at Eton, but 
 resigned his scholarship, and set up the tavern. 
 
 West As hton was made a separate District; and St. John’s Church was built and consecrated 
 in 1846. 
 
 Rood, or Chapel, Ashton : so called from a chapel traditionally said to have stood here. A 
 “ Rood ” was properly the Image of our Saviour on the Cross. Rood Ashton was a separate Manor 
 held under Romsey Abbey. In 1306 John Biset (descended from Manasseh Biset founder of 
 Maiden Bradley Priory) was owner. In 1391 John Crouchton. In 1440 John Temys (see 
 
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 Pedigree, Bowles’s “ Lacock : ”) of which family was Joan Temys the last Abbess of Lacock. Her 
 nephew William Temys of London sold it to William Button Esq. of Alton (father of Sir William 
 Button of Tockenham: see above, p. 193). They held it only a few years, when it was bought 
 about 1593 by Edward Long of Monkton. The house was greatly enlarged in 1835 by the 
 present owner Walter Long Esq., M.P. 
 
 East Town : formerly called from an old owner Sulden or Silden’s Ashton. A family of Palmer 
 is mentioned as of this place in 1368 (Edingdon Cartulary), which continued till 1768 when 
 Stephen Palmer by will left freehold lands here for an Education Charity, but the devise was void. 
 They were also connected with Tellisford, co. Somerset. There were two families of Martyn in 
 Steeple Ashton: one of which lived at East-town. Their arms were, Argent, an eagle with two 
 heads displayed, Gules. Elizabeth the last of this family married Robert Ashe Esq. of Langley 
 Burrell. A Mrs. Elizabeth Martyn left a charity to this parish. Mr. Long is now owner of 
 East-town. 
 
 Henton. The Gores of Alderton had property here in 1442, which was sold in 1579 to 
 William Brouncker of Earlstoke. The property of the Martyns of Henton merged by a marriage 
 in that of the Longs. The arms of Martyn of Henton were Gules, two bars Argent. 
 
 Semington, is a Tything and Chapelry of Steeple Ashton. Among the Additional Charters in 
 the British Museum (No. 5091) is a Latin Decree regulating the appointment of a Chaplain, and 
 of burials in St. George’s Chapel. The document issued from Richard Beauchamp, Bishop of 
 Sarum, and was executed in the Parish. Church of Bromham, 28th May, 1470. It has a fine 
 impression of the Bishop’s Seal. Henry Long of Wraxhall by will 1490 bequeathed 20s. to this 
 chapel for vestments. In Nichols’s “Bibliotheca Topogr.,” Vol. VI., p. 68, is an incorrect copy 
 by Dr. Pegge (who mis-calls the village, Swinnington) of an ancient French inscription on a 
 small square stone still to be seen at the side of the church door. It is very much worn, but 
 from a rubbing carefully taken by Mr. E. Kite, the words appear to be these, “•}» ky pater 
 NOSTER : E : AVE MARIA : PUR LE ALME PUR FELEPPUR DE SALC EST *£ CRESTIENS DIRRA : QUARANTE : 
 
 jurs : de pardun avera : amen.” [“ Whoever shall say a Pater Noster and an Ave-Maria for 
 the souls, for Philippa de Salcest [qucere], and Christians, shall have 40 days of pardon.”] The 
 name is doubtful, but it may be that of “Salcer” or “De Salceto,” already mentioned as a family in 
 Steeple Ashton parish. It is found in Deeds of Edw. I. and II. The Church was restored, and 
 re-opened for Service 18th December, 1860. 
 
 2 y 2 
 
SOUTH WILTS. 
 
 AMBRESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 DURINGTON. 1 
 
 JN the Chancel, a marble gravestone with tliis Inscription: “ Philip 
 ;* Poor, aged 82.” 
 
 In marble and brasse. Arms, [Poore, Ph xxxiii. No. 467.] “An 
 * Epitaph on the immature death of his deare brother John Poor, who 
 dyed 24th August, 16-33, setat. 3 yeares.” 
 
 “ Fraternall love commands me to bestowe 
 A superscription on thee, though I know 
 Thou needest not my verse, nor can it give 
 Thee life, by whom it only hopes to live. 
 
 Yet suffer it t’ enforme the reader’s eie 
 Of what a stock this graft was. Here doth lye 
 A bud that promis’d fruit, but ’fore ’twas blowne, 
 Death nipt it blooming ere the fruit was growne.” 
 
 1 “ Dering-ton ” belonged at the Conquest to the Earl Albericus. In Edw. II. John de Ney- 
 hill, Canon of Sarum, and Prebendary, is returned as Lord of the Vill. From 1293 to 1395 
 several generations of Gilbert de Neville are found here as owners. [I. p. M.] Elizabeth 
 heiress of the last appears to have married Sir John Delawarr, who died 1397. In 1397 St. 
 Mary’s Winton had lands. In 1464 John Thorpe ; in 1587 Philip Poore. The Rectory belonged 
 to Ambresbury Monastery till the Dissolution : at which time the Dean and Chapter of Sarum had 
 rents of assize, £10 10s. per annum, charged with an annual distribution to the church officers 
 and the poor, of £5 12s. 7d. and praj-ers for the soul of Robert Beaver the founder. The Dean 
 and Chapter of Winchester now present to the Perpetual Curacy. Sir R. C. Hoare has some 
 notes on “ Durrington,” “History of Amesbury,” pp, 41, 156, 175: and in “Ancient Wilts,” 
 vol. i. 169, there is an account of “ Durrington Walls,” supposed to have been a British settlement. 
 The plough has turned up many spearheads, palstaves, &c., here. 
 
AMBRESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
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 Under a black marble, an Inscription, but illegible, . “ Hester Clarke.” 
 
 On the wall: Arms, [No. 468] Conham impaling [Badby]. 
 
 “ To the memorie of that worthy Matron, Mris. Hester Conham, widowe indeed, granddaughter 
 to Mr. Thomas Higbed, Martyr, 1 and wife of the Wor.’ Abraham Conham, 2 Bachelour in 
 Divinity, and Chanon resident sometime of the Cathedrall Church of Sarum, who deceased 3rd of 
 April, 1647, aged 79. 
 
 If righteous age a crowne of glorie be 
 Then sure this crowne was doubly due to thee, 
 
 "Who wast less old than righteous, yet ’tis told 
 Thou livd’st unto the Prophets wondrous old.” 
 
 In the South aisle, in a large annulet a cross flory Gules [No. 469]. By the 
 Pulpit, in a seat, the arms [No. 470 Bessome?] with mantling. The crest is a kind 
 of peic/ne Gules. 3 In Mr. Poor’s seate, above in the roof, is this scutcheon [No. 
 471] : Quarterly 1 and 4 Poore. 2. Clarke. 3. (Badby.) 
 
 Mem. On the North Wall is painted a huge St. Christopher. 
 
 (By a later hand.) This Church was blown down in the stormy weather, about 
 August 20th, 1693. 
 
 FIGHELDEN. 
 
 Near the Belfre, in the South Aisle, are two fair freestone monuments of Knights 
 crosse-legged, with shields, and at the feet of each is a Lyon. I could not learne 
 
 1 Mr. Thomas Higbed, a “ worshipful gentleman of the County of Esses,” was one of Bishop 
 Bonner’s victims. He was put to death at Horndon on the hill in that County, on 26th March, 
 1555. See Fox’s “Acts and Mon : ” vol. iii. Book x. 
 
 2 Abraham Conham was Hector and Vicar of Bishopston near Sarum, 1584—1612, and Rector 
 of Gussage St. Michael, co. Dorset, 1595—1612. His wife was a Badby: and one of their 
 daughters married Walter White Esq. of Grittleton (see p. 129) : the other, Edward Poore Esq. 
 The name of Conham has probably some affinity to Conyngham: the crest of the latter being, 
 On a mount, a stork, holding a snake. 
 
 3 Aubrey’s MS. says, shield Or, charge Sable: but in the Church it is now vice versa. Under¬ 
 neath is the date 1634. It is not known to whom this coat refers: but the arms are like those 
 of Bessome; (Or, 5 fusils in cross, four Azure, the middle one Argent.) The wooden panel on 
 which it is carved was removed to the vestry in 1850, when the church was re-built. What 
 Aubrey took to be a crest, and calls a peigne, (comb) seems to be the ornament like a cock’s- 
 comb, that was sometimes used upon helmets at this period, when the crest was unknown or omitted. 
 
 Some of the Communion Plate bears the name of “ Ambrose Webbe Cl. 1702.” 
 
Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
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 [ Fighelden . 
 
 whose Monuments they were: they are tumbled now, 1671, one on the top of 
 the other. 1 
 
 LUDGARSHALL. 
 
 Here is a small market and the mines of a castle. 2 
 
 1 These effigies, having received some injury in their horizontal position, were for some time 
 placed erect in the chancel: but have lately been restored to the place in which Aubrey saw 
 them. There is no device on the shields by which they can be identified: but from their style 
 they probably relate to the Hussey family. King Rich. I. granted to Godfrey Husee, Fighelden, 
 Eblindon (now Ablington) Stapleford, Knighton and Tidcombe : and in his descendants Fighelden 
 continued till c. 1315, when by coheiresses one moiety went to Esturmy of "Wulfhale, the 
 other to Torney or Tournay. [For the Seal of Henry Esturmy of Fighelden, showing the arms 
 of Husee besides his own, see “Wilts. Archmol. Mag.,” II., 387]. In 1325 Adam Burry had 
 an estate. In 1336 Esturmy purchased the Torney’s moiety. In the great division of Sir 
 William Esturmy’s estates between his two coheiresses, c. Hen. IV., Fighelden did not pass to 
 the Seymours; so probably was in the share of the other daughter who married John Holcombe. 
 William Ringbourne and Elizabeth his wife possessed lands before 28 Hen. YI. (1449). Edward 
 Myles is returned as chief occupier in 1587. Sir John Northcote was an owner in 1665. In 1649 
 the Bishop’s manor was sold, by the confiscating Powers, to Wm. Methwold for £518. Mr. Poore 
 is now Lord of the Manor. Sir R. C. Hoare (“ Amesbury,” p. 34,) does not appear to have 
 traced the manorial descent. The name is usually pronounced “ File-dean.” 
 
 Fighelden Church was given by King Henr}^ I. to Roger, Bishop of Sarum. The Rectory is 
 united to the Treasurership of Salisbury. The Vicarage used to be a Peculiar. The Church, 
 which was in various styles, having been erected at different periods between A.D. 1100 and 1600, 
 is dedicated to St. Michael. It has been restored, and was re-opened on 9th May, 1860. The 
 Tower, of which the lower part is ancient Norman, has been raised fifteen feet. The rise of the 
 Chancel is by seven steps from the Nave. A new East window is filled with stained glass in 
 memory of Mr., Mrs., and Miss Clift: and on the South side of the church the Eastern-most 
 window is in memory of the African Missionary the Rev. H. J. Leacock. The oak altar-table 
 was given by Dr. Hamilton, the present Bishop of Salisbury. 
 
 2 There are very few notices in the Public Records of this place and it is sometimes confounded 
 in topographical works with Ludgarshall co. Bucks. The ancient name was Lutegar’s Hall, the 
 residence of some Saxon owner. It was held at the Conquest by Edward of Salisbury, but must 
 have reverted to the Crown, as the Vill, Domain and Castle were in the hands of the Kings of 
 England, from Hen. II. Governors were often appointed to this and Marlborough Castle together. 
 The Empress Maud took shelter in it A.D. 1141. The seal of her great partizan Milo of 
 Gloucester, Earl of Hereford and Constable of England (see “Acts of Stephen ”), was found in the 
 neighbourhood some years ago. [“Archseol.” vol. xiv.] The Castle was part of the large grant 
 made by King Rich. I. to his brother John. Geoffry Fitz-piers, Chief Justice of England and 
 
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 (after marriage with Beatrix daughter of William le Saye) Earl of Essex, was governor 1205. 
 He appears to have been called after it, as one Record speaks of him as “ Ludgershall, named 
 Geffrey.” King John was here in 1212. The next governor, 1225, was Jollan de Nevill, a Justice 
 Itinerant temp. Hen. III. supposed to have been the compiler of the “Book of Fees” called 
 “ Testa de Nevill.” In 1242 Roger, fourth Lord Clifford, being with the same King at Hereford, 
 repressing the incursions of the Welsh, was appointed; but he fell from his allegiance and joined 
 the rebellious Barons under Montfort. In 1245 Robert de Mucegros. (An order to him for 
 certain additions to be made to the King’s apartments and for the History of “ Dives and 
 Lazarus ” to be painted, is printed in Waylen’s “ Marlborough,” p. 49. Henry III. dates a Deed 
 at Lutegarshall 26th November 1249.) Hugh Parget 1255. Robert Waterman 1259. Stephen 
 Fromund 1265. In 1334 it was part of the maintenance of Philippa Queen of Edw. I. In 1448 
 it was granted, with the office of Parker there, to William Ludlow and the heirs male of his 
 body. In 1456 to Edmund Tudor Earl of Richmond half-brother to the King, Hen. VI. In 
 1464 by Edw. IV. to George Duke of Clarence, with a park of 200 acres at Collingbourne. In 
 1540 at the time of Leland’s visit, the Castle was “ clene down,” but a Lodge had been recently 
 built out of the ruins and still belonged to the Crown. In Edw. VI. it was granted to the first 
 Earl of Bedford, but appears to have become very soon afterwards the property of the Bridges 
 family, ancestors of the Duke of Chandos. Sir Richard Brydges K.B. of this place, for which he 
 was M.P. 1553, and of Shefford, Berks, married Jane daughter of Sir William Spencer of Worm- 
 leighton, co. Warwick. There is a fine, but dilapidated monument to them in the church. He 
 died 1558. She was living here with her younger son Edmund 1587. In 1751 it belonged to 
 John Selwyn Esq., who by Will that year bequeathed it to his father. George Augustus Selwyn 
 was afterwards proprietor of the borough, 1763. There is a memoir of him in Annual Register 
 1791. His heir was Lord Sidney, who sold his interest to Sir James Graham of Kirkstall, co. 
 York. Oldfield (v. 215) says that “some of the favoured spots of land which gave the right of 
 Election might be covered with a hearth-stone.” Ludgershall returned members to Parliament 
 in Edw. I.; and was disfranchised in 1832. Grose gives a view of some pieces of wall which are 
 all that is left of the Castle. From some round-headed fragments of windows among them, the 
 late Mr. Britton pronounced it Norman. 
 
 Biddesden in this parish belonged to Ambresbury Monastery. At a later period to Lt. Gen. 
 John Richmond Webb, the Duke of Marlborough’s great friend, who was killed at the battle of 
 Malplaquet, 11 Sept., 1709. [Coll. Top. et Gen. vii., 30.] It was purchased from his descen¬ 
 dants by the Everetts c. 1795. A pension out of the Rectory of Ludgershall, together with the 
 right of Presentation, belonged to Ambresbury Monastery. In the Sarum Registers the Presen¬ 
 tations to Ludgershall run in the name of “ Budesden ” from 1306 ; “ Ludgarshall,” 1446 ; 
 “ Lu Igarshall and Budesden,” 1454 ; afterwards “ Ludgershall ” from 1465. Jane, Ladv 
 Bridges, widow, presented 1566. Selwyn 1763. Now the Graham famity. The Church is 
 dedicated to St. James. In the Autobiography of Sir John Bramston (Camden Soc.) p. xx. is 
 mentioned James B. Bramston, Rector of Ludgershall, author of “ Man of Feeling,” and other 
 poems.”, c. 1730. The name does not occur in the printed lists of Incumbents, either of this parish, 
 or of Ludgershall in Bucks. 
 
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 TISBURY 
 
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 Jg^^gJlHERE G. Lawes, if no old fortification here ? Methinkes there should, 
 because of the termination bury, i.e. burgh, i.e. a place that has workes, 
 i.e. ramparts, about it. 
 
 This Mannour did anciently belong to the Nunnes of Shaftesbury. 
 Here is a faire Church : the Chancell was collegiate, prout per stalles. 1 2 
 Mem. In the roof both of the South and North aisle which is very good timber- 
 work, well carved, on a shield resting against a crosier, is this coate [PI. xxxiii, 
 No. 472]. a This must certainly be the Arms of Shaftesbury Abbess. On each 
 side, E.S. “Anno Domini MCCCCCXXI. parochiani hoc.construxerunt.” 3 
 
 a Vide “ Dunhead ” in. Lib. B. (The second volume of this MS. lost.) 
 
 1 The principal manor of Tisbury, with the residence called Hall-Place of which the gateway 
 and some other parts still remain, belonged to the Abbey of Shaftesbury from A.D. 984 to the 
 Dissolution ; when it was granted to the Arundell family. In Sir R. C. Hoare’s “ Dunworth” 
 p. 129, is an account of Tisbury, its church, hamlets, &c.: and at p. 236, a copy of the grant by 
 King iEtheldred in A.D. 984 to the Abbess. Sir It. C. Hoare omits to mention that Tanner 
 (“ Monasticon,” p. 593,) thinks there may have been at Tisbury a House of Monks in very early 
 times, before the manor was granted to the Abbess of Shaftesbury, as in the life of St. Boniface 
 in “ Cressy’s Church History,” is a notice of one “ Wintra, Abbot of Tisselbury in the kingdom 
 of the West Saxons, who lived about the year 720. Tanner’s correspondent William Aubrey 
 (brother of John) had also reported to him a local tradition of some Religious House at the 
 Village. But such traditions often existed in places at which the Monasteries had granges built 
 in ecclesiastical style, as was the case here. 
 
 2 The Church is not known to have been “ Collegiate,” in the modern sense of that word. The 
 spire was thrown down by lightning in 1762. 
 
 3 In the shield 472, the dexter is Shaftesbury Abbey Arms. The sinister (supposing it rightly 
 copied by Aubrey) is not to be found under the family name of any Abbess mentioned in the 
 Monasticon. On a beam in the North transept are to be seen the names of .Edward Scamel: 
 Edward South, and Elizabeth South; but apparently of a date more modern than Aubrey. 
 
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 Two scutcheons, not coloured, in the Church timber; [No. 473], like Whitokes- 
 
 mede, 3 impaled with . fretty, 1 and [No. 474] The Church of Sarum impaled 
 
 with Bishop Audley, (A.I). 1502—24.) The windows are much broken: remaines 
 only South side, Willoughby [No. 475]: and by it, another escutcheon, Gules, 
 with some things Or, about the borders, like Chamberlayne’s coate. Desire my 
 brother to see it, for ’twas a dimm day, and winter. 
 
 On the North side of the Chancell is an altar monument of freestone, but the table 
 black marble; 
 
 “ Quicquid erat terrse, morbo confectus et annis, 
 
 Concidit, et factum est terra quod ante fuit. 
 
 Vivet ad aeternum pars ducta ob origine cceli 
 Mens generosa, nitens, sancta, recepta Deo. 
 
 Cum tuba terribilis Justi vocitarit ad aulam 
 Sorte necis spreta, vivet utrumque polo.” 
 
 “Here lyetk the body of Lawrence Hyde, late of West Hatch, Esqr., who had yssue by Anne 
 his wife, 6 sonnes and 4 daughters, and died the viith day of June, in the yeare of the Incarnation 
 of our Lord'God 1590. Beati qui moriuntur in Domino.” 
 
 On the edge thus. 
 
 “This Lawrence Hyde was the third sonne of Robert Hyde of b .sonnes 
 
 by Anne his wife being the daughter of Nicholas Sibell, of Chimbhams, in the countie of Kent, 
 Esqr.Hamonet & Edward dyed in their infancy, the rest survived their father.” 
 
 In Brass. 1. Hyde [No. 477.] 2. Sibell, a Tiger regardant on a mirror; 
 
 [No. 478.] He in his lawyer’s gowne ; six sonnes in gownes with hanging sleeves: 
 his wife and four daughters. 2 
 
 a V. “ Cirencester,” Lib. B. 
 
 b (Norbury) in Cheshire. From this Lawrence is Edward, Earl of Clarendon, descended. Insert the Pedigree. 
 [iSee Iloure’s “ Dunworth,” p. 131.] 
 
 1 In No. 473 the dexter was perhaps the shield of Twynyho, an old family of co. Somerset which 
 took its name originally from a small hamlet adjoining Whittocksmead, in the parish of Wellow 
 near Bath. There is a notice of the family in “Hutch. Dorset,” II., 171, as connected with 
 Turnworth in that county. Christopher "Twynyho, who died about 1509, had the church of 
 Donhead St. Mary, and many other preferments. His sister Margaret was Abbess of Shaftesbury. 
 Their uncle George was buried in the Abbey church. [“Hutch. Dorset,” II., 20]. Among the 
 quarterings in their shield (Ditto, II., 171) is, Ermine a fess Gules, fretty Or, which may perhaps 
 have been the sinister impalement on the shield No. 473. 
 
 2 Engraved in Hoare’s “Dunworth,” p. 147, and in Kite’s “Wilts Brasses.” 
 
 2 z 
 
362 
 
 [Tisbury. 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 Above the steps. 
 
 “ Here lieth Margaret Howard, daughter of the Lord Edmund Howard, seconde sonne of the 
 Duke of Norfolke, and wife to Sir Thomas Arundell, a famous Knight, 1571.” 1 
 
 North wall: Blew marble gravestone; (Sir Matthew Arundell who died 1598.) 
 
 “JESVS. 
 
 Mat. Arundel, Eques ordine, intus dormit in pulvere. Ignoscat ille omnia qui nostra tulit 
 crimina. Delicta juventutis mee et ignorantias meas ne memineris, Domine. 
 
 IHS.” 
 
 Chancell. On a blew marble gravestone; 
 
 “Here lieth the body of William Arundell, the youngest sonne of Sir Mathew Arundell, 
 Knight, as rare a young man as ever England bred; he dyed the 6th day of Febr. in the yeare 
 1590. 
 
 South side—An altar freestone monument of Mr. Thomas Bennet, of Pitt-house. 
 
 Above the steps, a blew marble gravestone, thus, viz. 
 
 “Thomas Dns. Arundelius Primus Baro de Warder et Sacri Romani Imperii Comes, obiit 
 7mo. die Novemb. aetat. sum 79 Anno Dni. 1639.” 
 
 Chancel, North side, on a black marble gravestone, thus on the margin: 
 
 “ Anna Arundelia pulcherrima et optima conjux Cecilii Calvert, Baronis de Baltimore, et 
 absoluti Domini Terrrn Mariae & Avaloniae, 2 filia-que charissima Thomae Arundelii primi Baronis 
 de Wardour, & Sac. Rom. Imp. Comitis.” 
 
 (Calvert) impaling Arundel 6 martlets 3 2 1. [No. 476.] 
 
 Phoenicis quicquid est 
 in 
 
 Floribus, Gemmis, Gratiis 
 (ipsa in Ccelis quanta ?) 
 
 Hie jacet 
 
 Anna Arundelia, Domina Baltemore : 
 
 1 Not printed in Sir R. C. Hoare’s “Dunworth.” For the Pedigree of Arundell see “Dun- 
 worth,” 179. 
 
 2 The province of Avalon in Newfoundland, and afterwards a Patent for Maryland, were granted 
 to Sir George (grandfather of Cecil) Calvert, Secretary to Sir Robert Cecil. See Irish Ext. Peer. 
 “ Baltimore.” 
 
DUNW0RTH HUNDRED. 
 
 363 
 
 Anagram} 
 
 Non alia in orbe tam redamanda, vale. 
 
 Amoris ergo conjux P. 
 
 Cessit humanis X. Kalendas Sextilis 
 Anno .ZEtatis XXXIIII. Ab infante Deo 
 CIO.IOCXLIX. 
 
 In freestone, North wall. 
 
 “M. 
 
 Simul bis nascitur, 
 
 Semel moritur, 
 
 Semper vivit. 
 
 Georgius Calvert. 3 
 
 A Cross between I.S. and this; 
 
 “Here lietb Mr. William Arundell 3 the 2d sonne of Thomas the first Lord Arundell of 
 Wardour by his first wife Maria Wriothesley, the only daughter of Thomas, Earle of Southampton. 
 He was married to Maria Browne the eldest daughter of Antony Maria Viscount Mountague, 
 being the relict of William Lord St. John of Basing, eldest son of William Lord Marquess of 
 Winchester: he dyed the 15th May, 1650, setat. 65, leaving his beloved wife to mourne and pray 
 for him, by whom he had many children.” 
 
 Another Cross between I.S. “Jesus have mercy upon us.” In brasse; 
 
 “ Here lyeth interred in hope of a joyfull resurrection, Anne the daughter of Edmund Mervyn, 
 late of Funthill, in the County of Wilts, Esqr., and the loving wife of Mathew Davys, of the 
 Middle Temple, London, Esqr., who was borne at Chicksgrove in this parish. She dyed in the 
 month of November 1657.” 
 
 Mem. Sir John Davys a Justice in Ireland, who wrote “ Nosce teipsum,” &c. in 
 verse, and an abridgement of Coke’s reports, was a tanner’s son of this parish, and 
 was born in it. Sir John was uncle to the above Matthew Davys: Sir John’s 
 Lady was a Prophetess, or rather Witch, who was kept Prisoner in the Tower for 
 her seditious predictions; Mathew Davys has told me sevcrall strange stories of his 
 
 1 That is; the letters of the preceding line, “Anna Arundelia, &c.,” are transposable into the 
 new words of the following one, “ Non alia, &c.” 
 
 3 Perhaps the Sir George Calvert mentioned in note 2, last page. He changed his creed and 
 became a Roman Catholic in 1624 : to which the words “ bis nascitur ” probably allude. This 
 and the following inscription are not printed in Hoare’s “ Dun worth.” 
 
 3 Of Horningsham, Wilts. 
 
 '2/9. 
 
 As Li Aj 
 
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 \Tisbury. 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 aunt; one, that her husband being then in Ireland, or far remote, she told the very 
 hour of his death. The daughter and lien* of this Sir John Davys was Countess of 
 Huntingdon, mother, I thinke, to the present Earle. 1 
 
 North Wall; marble and freestone, 
 
 “ Antonius Combtjs jacet liic, Yicarius almus 
 Tisburiensis olim ; mollis amansque fuit. 
 
 Dilexit populum, populus dilexit et ilium : 
 
 Maxima jucundi prajmia amoris habet. 
 
 Ob. 8 Sept. 1644.” 
 
 In the South aisle of this Church are marble gravestones, but brasse and inscrip¬ 
 tion lost. In the North aisle an old gotliique monument sans inscription. 
 
 Mem. In the North side of this Church-yard is a Tombe-stone of. Foyle of 
 
 Kimpton, 1638, which gett. Chilmarke Quarre. 2 Hazell’s. 
 
 At Tisbury near the Churchyard Keebel’s Well: which boils pease best of any 
 well in the country. (N. H. of W. MS.) 
 
 1 Sir John Davies was a lawyer of celebrity, and author, inter alia, of “A true discovery why 
 Ireland was never subdued.” See some account of him in “ Notes and Queries,” Yol. xi.: and 
 a Memoir in “Chalmers’s Biographical Dictionary,” where the story of bis being a tanner’s son 
 is disputed. His wife Lady Eleanor, 3rd daughter of Lord Audley, who after Sir John’s death 
 married Sir Archibald Douglas, was a remarkable enthusiast, and printed a pamphlet entitled 
 “The Restitution of Prophecy, that buried Talent to be revived.” “She was harshly treated 
 during the Commonwealth for her officious Prophecies, and is said to have been confined several 
 years in Bethlem Hospital and the Tower of London, where she suffered all the rigour that could 
 be inflicted by those who could tolerate no impostures but their own.” [Chalmers.] There is an 
 account of her in “Ballard’s Learned Ladies.” Peck (Des: Curios. IY. 13.) mentions the “death 
 of a Wm. Herbert according to the prophecy of Lad}' Davies.” Matthew—called by Aubrey in 
 his Miscellanies, “Councellor—Davys of Shaftesbury,” was also of Chicksgrove in Tisbury and 
 M.P. for Whitchurch, Hants. See “ Hutch. Dorset,” II., 6. 
 
 2 The lower strata of the Portland Rock. The late Miss Ethelred Bennet says, “ The Portland 
 beds are in great strength at Tisbury; and Chicksgrove quarry in that Parish, is one of more 
 than usual interest to the geologist on account of the fine section which it shows of sixteen beds 
 of this series singularly rich in organic remains : and the Purbeck beds on Lady Down, also in the 
 parish of Tisbury, have shewn that they contain the ichthyological treasures of Dorsetshire. The 
 siliceous madrepore” (commonly called “Tisbury flint”) “is a subordinate bed in this series and 
 which has not yet been found elsewhere, with the exception of the agatized madrepores of Antigua. 
 It lies over the Portland Rock: and is extremely local.” [“Hundred of Warminster,” p. 118], 
 
ELSTUB AND EVERLEY HUNDRED . 1 
 
 EVERLEY. 2 
 
 is a great Warren for hares ; it belongs to the Crowne. Here is a 
 e oaken coppice, but it growes but very poorly; it delights not in 
 chalkie soile. 
 
 . Sadler built the great house here, upon a lease of a hundred 
 
 yeares. I guesse, by the architecture, ’twas about the time of Q. Elizabeth or 
 
 1 The Name of “Ellestubbe,” (signifying in Anglo-Saxon, “trunk of elder,”) is taken from some 
 tree which (like Barkston Ash in Yorkshire) marked the ancient trysting-place of the Hundred. 
 This is one of the ragged Hundreds : lying in various distant parts of the County, from Ham on 
 the border of Berks and Hants to Westwood-cum-Iford on the edge of Somerset. The Abbot of St. 
 Swithin Winchester, was formerly Lord of the Hundred, as well as owner of many of the Manors 
 included within it. Extracts from the Hundred Rolls are printed in Hoare’s Amesbury, p. 167. 
 
 2 For some account of Everley see “ Hoare’s Modern Wilts.” Fine air and spacious downs 
 have always made it a favourite region for sporting. The Manor having been a long time parcel of 
 the Duchy of Lancaster was granted by the Crown 11th August, 1547, to Edward, Duke of Somerset, 
 in exchange for the late Prebends of All Cannings and Ercbfont, the Rectories of Ambresbury, 
 Froxfield and Ercbfont, in Wilts, and others. After the Duke’s execution it was granted by King 
 Henry VIII. to Sir Ralph Sadleir his Chief Secretary of State, afterwards Falconer to Queen 
 Elizabeth, and jailer to Mary Queen of Scots at Tutbury Castle. He is said to have built part of 
 Everley House. In 1545 there was an Act for the legitimation of the children of Sir Ralph, 
 and Ellen his wife. He died 1587. In 1591 Henry his son was owner. [The Earl of Hertford, 
 John Chainey, and Richard Fishe, were also Freeholders. See Survey, “ Wilts Archseol. Mag.,” 
 VI., 193]. He died 17th March, and his son and heir Henry ten days before him, 1618. Both 
 were buried in Hungerford Church. These seem to have been the last of the Sadleirs here. The 
 Manor next belonged to Sir John Evelyn of West Dean. His only son George died in infancy : 
 and an only surviving daughter married the Honourable Mr. Pierrepont, second son of the Earl 
 of Kingston. The next owner was Robert, third son of Sir William Barker. [Ext. Barts.] In 
 1727 was printed a Case before the House of Lords relating to this Manor and other estates of 
 R. Barker deceased. In 1764 the estate was purchased by Sir John Astley of Patteshull, co. 
 Stafford, ancestor of the present owner Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Baronet. In the house are 
 two curious paintings: one, on wood, of Sir Ralph Sadleir, which has been engraved and coloured :) 
 the other, of a Duel on horseback in Smithfield between John de Astley and an Arragonian 
 
366 Aubrey’s south wilts. \Everley. 
 
 K. James. Here is a drawing well of a prodigious depth, with a wheel. On the 
 windowe of the house in stone is a demy Lyon crowned. Query to what name it 
 belongs ? [Crest of Sadleir.] In this church is no monument of the Sadlers. 
 
 In the Church is this escutcheon [PI. xxxiii. No. 479. Barnardiston quartering 
 Manning: over it “ 1645.”] Below: “obiit 30 mo die Maii A° ut supra, non obiit 
 
 SED ABUT & REVERTI DEBET. I.B.'.DD.” 
 
 This is for (John) Barnston* D.D. a Canon resident of the Cathedrall Church of 
 Sarum. * 1 
 
 In the Chancell, in a rundle, “ PP.” and around it, “ Qui sperat in Deo libera- 
 bitur.” [No. 480.] 2 Also an inscription of Susan Tisdale, wife of the Vicar; she 
 dyed 1650. 3 
 
 a Vulgarly so called, but the true name is Barnardyston. 
 
 Knight Sir Philip Boyde, in 1483 ; engraved in Dugdale’s “ "Warwickshire,” second edition, p. 110. 
 Near Everley is the finely elevated Earthwork called Cidbury Camp: an outlying chalk hill 
 capped with a bed of tertiary flint pebbles. Sir R. C. Hoare gives a plan of the Camp and an 
 account of Barrows around Everley, in “ Ancient Wilts,” I., 180. 
 
 1 John Barnston (Barnardiston) D.D., born of an ancient Cheshire family, and Chaplain to 
 Chancellor Egerton, founded a Hebrew Lecture in Brasenose College, Oxon., of which he was a 
 member. He is mentioned in D. Lloyd’s “ Memoirs.” He was instituted Rector of Everley 1598, 
 and buried in Salisbury Cathedral, where is a similar brief inscription, “ Mutavit ssecula, non obiit.” 
 Mary his wife was also buried there 6th July 1625. In Everley Parish Register are three remon¬ 
 strances signed “John Barnstone, Rector 9th Sept. 1610:” “Thomas Ernie, Rector 25th December, 
 1667; ” and “A. Lemoine, Rector, 16th May, 1755 ; ” against an ancient “heathenish custom ” 
 to which they were subject, (though from what origin none of them could find out), of being 
 obliged to entertain the “ ruder sort of people with bread, cheese and ale, after Evening Prayer 
 on Christmas Day.” “ Sure I am,” says Mr. Ernie, “ it is of evil report, and no man can imagine 
 into what rudeness in tract of time it may degenerate. It were to be wished it were layd in the 
 dust and utterly forgotten.” The same Rector has also recorded a very angry Memorandum 
 concerning one William Eastman “ commonly called * Tinker,’ but by trade a blacksmith, who 
 was thrust into the Rectory for five years during the military reign of Cromwell.” In Sir 
 R. C. Hoare’s work, the Latin of this is incorrectly printed: and by mistake the date of 1677 is 
 given, instead of 1617, for the marriage of Robert Abbot, Bishop of Sarum. Also at p. 12, the 
 extract from the Register, following John Wallis, really refers to Dr. Abraham Lemoine. The 
 Dr. published “ A treatise on Miracles,” against Bolingbroke. He was buried at Paddington 
 13th January, 1757. 
 
 2 Perhaps for Philip Poore of the neighbouring parish of Durington. 
 
 3 On a brass, still in the church. “ Here lieth the body of M re . Susanna Tesdale the wife of 
 
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 Mr. Ernie, brother to Sir John Ernie, is now, 1671, Vicar here. 
 
 In the Minister’s Windowes is, or has been, some antiquity. 
 
 WROUGHTON. 
 
 The land of this parish is admirable pasture, and the tract hereabout is the 
 garden of Wilts. * 1 
 
 Christopher Tesdale Rector of this Church, who died the 13 of July and was buried the 19,1650. 
 Susanna signifieth a lillie or a Rose. 
 
 The lillie of vallies by his spirit, 
 
 His pure spirit, made me a lillie whit: 
 
 The Rose of Sharon by his blood’s merit 
 My soule advanced to a Rose’s hight. 
 
 Susanna a lillie and a Rose thoogh pale 
 Here like a whit lillie she fading lyes : 
 
 By vertue of the roote of DA VID shall 
 With orient colours like a red Rose ries.” 
 
 On another brass is “Hie jacet Dnus Johes Neet ” (printed Rut by Sir R. C. Hoare) “quondam 
 Rector ecclie de Everle, qui obiit V. die mens. Julii A.D. MCCCCXXIX. Cujus anima) propicietur 
 Deus, Amen.” A third to “Mary wife of John Sam well of Lavington, and daughter of William 
 Prater of this parish : set. 28, deceased 7 Oct. 1671.” 
 
 Of the old church of St. Peter which stood at East Everley, and of the present one at West 
 Everley built in 1813—14 by Francis Dugdale Astley Esq., there are views in Sir R. C. Hoare’s 
 work. The Patronage, till the Dissolution, was in the gift of the Abbot of Wherwell: then of 
 Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton : now, of the Astley family. 
 
 1 The parish lies partly in the Hundred of Everley, partly in Kingsbridge. It is sometimes 
 called in Records, Worston or Werston: in Sarum Registers Elingdon Wroughton. The most 
 ancient name appears to be Ellan-dun, “ Hill of Ella.” On some plain “ sub monte Ellae,” 
 Egbert King of Wessex overthrew Beornwulf King of Mercia in A.D. 823. Some topographers 
 suppose Ellandun, the scene of this battle, to have been Wilton : but Mr. Offer finds no authority 
 for this and places the battle here. [Hoare’s “B. and D.,” 57, 59]. A Manor here belonged at 
 the Conquest to the Monks of St. Swithin of Winchester. The Dean and Chapter of Winchester 
 have one now. The Rectory has been for some centuries a Sinecure, in the gift of the Bishop of 
 Winchester. The Monks of St. Briac had in 1291 a small pension out of it. The Vicarage was 
 in the gift of the Bishop of Winton : in 1852 by Order in Council it was transferred to the Bishop 
 of Gloucester and Bristol. The Church, originally Norman, is dedicated to St. John and St. Helen. 
 Some late repairs brought to light on a pillar behind the pulpit, a fresco painting of a mitred 
 Abbot, with scrip, pastoral staff, &c. Some particulars of the tenure of hamlets in Wroughton 
 under the Barony of Castle Combe are in “ Wilts Archseol. Mag.,” II., 278. Sir W. Codrington 
 has now an estate here. 
 
 In Over-Wroughton, John Torney, and afterwards the Abbey of Tewkesbury, had an estate 
 
368 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. [ Wroughton. 
 
 Sal thorp is in this parish. Ex Legier Book de Mortimer: “ Feodum unius militis 
 cum pertinenciis in Salthorp, in Com. Wiltes, quod Willielmus Everard tenet, et 
 quod ad sex libras xiijs. iiijd.” * 1 
 
 (Chur cli.) 
 
 The old windowes in the Church all spoiled. 
 
 In the Nave, in brasse on marble, are three figures, viz. Husband between his 
 two wives: Inscription thus: ©f uottr cljarttu prag for tf)C sottlrs of 0Hatcr ©lobot, Sc 
 Isabella Sc Susanne Ijts togbes, on toljosc soulcs ©oh ijabe mrreg. (This brass is 
 lost.) 
 
 Near to it, is this, on brasse, on freestone: u . Richard Spenser of 
 
 Quidhampton.” 2 
 
 held under the Barony of Castle Combe. [See “ History of Castle Combe,” 84.] In 32 Hen. VIII. 
 there was a grant of church land by the Crown to William Richmond alias Webbe. In 1400 a 
 manor here belonged to Sir John Roche of Bromham : in 1475 to his successors the Bayntons. 
 They had also lands in Nether Wroughton, probably by marriage with the heiress of Daundelye 
 who held lands here in Edw. I. under the Bishop of Winchester. [Hundred Rolls]. George and 
 Alice Wroughton were living at Overtown 1565. T. Powell 1660. William Sadler who died 
 1600 had half the Manor of Over-Wroughton. 
 
 At Cotstowe lands were given by the third Walter Dunstanville of Castle Combe to Stanley 
 Abbey near Chippenham. Bradenstoke Abbey also had lands at a place of this name. In 
 2 Hen. IV. Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick had an estate of this name in Wilts. 
 
 At Wicklescot, the Nuns of Lacock had an estate by gift of Katharine Lovell which at the 
 Dissolution was granted to John Goddard. [“History of Lacock,” 325]. 
 
 1 Salthorpe. The succession of landowners appears to have been thus. In Richard I., Eustace de 
 Balliol. In Edw. I., under the Barony of Castle Combe, the Abbot of Stanley and Godfrey Bluet. 
 In 1370, Sir Edmund Everard, Kt. [This name occurs in Aubrey’s extract from the “Legier 
 Book of Mortimer: ” it was only the Legier Book and not the estate that belonged to Mortimer 
 Earl of March]. In 1382, Robert Loundres. In 1404, Lovell. William Sadler 1600, leaving 
 Robert his son and heir. Sir Thomas Bennet 1670. His grand-daughter Martha, an heiress, 
 married Peter Legh Esq. Mr. Legh had two daughters: Harriet the wife of — Atherton, and 
 Elizabeth who married first, Anthony James Keck second, William Bathurst Pye who took the 
 name of Bennet. Mr. Keck’s daughter Elizabeth Ann Legh Keck married Thomas Calley Esq. of 
 Burderop. Lands at Salthorp belonging to the Charter House, London, are stated to have been 
 bought from Lord Compton by Sutton the Founder. [“Hearne’s C. H.” 294]. 
 
 2 At Quedhampton in Wroughton, the Prior of Marlborough was an owner 1335 : John Russell 
 
ELSTUB AND EVERLEY HUNDRED. 
 
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 In the south aisle, in an antique nich, is a coffin of stone, which they say is the 
 Lady Loveden’s. 1 
 
 North Aisle. On a Tablet, near the skreen. 
 
 “ An Epitaph on the death of Mrs. Blanch Sadler, the wife of Mr. Wm. Sadler, of 
 El combe, 2 who dyed in the 37th year of her age, and was buried under this stone : 
 October 1, 1632.” 
 
 “ Shee was (whose tombe thou view’st) a faithful wife, 
 
 Chast, Cheerfull, Frugall, Pleasing to her Fere, 3 
 Patient and peaceable, hating all strife, 
 
 A sweet companion, and a friend most deare. 
 
 Childless shee was, yet mother unto many, 
 
 She made the poore, her brother, sister, mother; 
 
 As kind shee was unto her kinne as any; 
 
 To equall her, ’tis hard to find another. 
 
 A curteouse neighbour, good to one and all, 
 
 Yet taught by Grace to put a difference; 
 
 For Piety, the best wee may her call, 
 
 That living in our age was taken hence. 
 
 A Saint shee was on earth, a Saint shee is: 
 
 Moane all our losse, but envy none her blisse.” 
 
 Prov. x., vers. 7. 
 
 ‘The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.’ 0. B.» 
 
 a Oliver Brunsden, the Vicar here. 4 
 
 1454 and 1472 under Castle Combe Barony. Elizabeth, Lady Reede, 1547, under ditto. Tho6. 
 Bennet Esq. of Salthorp 1743. Now the Calley family. 
 
 1 Was this, Joanna Lady Lovell , Lady of the Manor, 1316 ? See next note. 
 
 2 Elcombe : formerly a Park : belonged in 1286 (15 Edw. I.) to the Lords Lovell of Titchmarsh, 
 owners of many estates in this part of Wilts, as at Wanborough, Wicklescote, &c. In 1335 the 
 Priory of Marlborough, in 1361, John Brymore, and the Duke of Lancaster, had some interest 
 here. In 1535 some rents that had belonged to a Priory, belonged to Eton College. There was 
 a Chantry Chapel of St. Mary in the patronage of the Lovells: the last presentation was that of 
 John Potter 1448. Being forfeited by Lord Lovell after the battle of Bosworth, Elcombe was 
 granted by the Crown, 6 Hen. Till, to Sir William Compton (ancestor of Lord Northampton) 
 and Werburge (Brereton) his wife. By his grandson Henry first Baron Compton it was sold to 
 Thomas Sutton, founder of the Charter House, London. 
 
 3 Fere is from an Anglo-Saxon word signifying, companion or fellow-traveller. 
 
 4 Of the Rev. Oliver Brunsell (not Brunsden), Yicar of Wroughton from 1614 to 1641, some 
 
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 [ Wroughton. 
 
 aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 In the Chancel, N. side, a fan* Inscription of alabaster, thus: 
 
 “ Sacred to the memorj r of Mrs. Thomasine Bennet, wife of Thomas Bennet, Doctor of Lawes, 
 and one of the Masters of the Honourable Court of Chancery, daughter of George Dethick, Esqr. 
 sonne of Sir Win. Dethick, Knight, principall King at Armes; who was a very pious Christian, 
 a dutifull child, -a sweet consort, a discreet mother, an undissembling friend, a compassionate 
 neighbour, frequent in prayer, attentive to the Word, rich in faith, grounded in love, anchored in 
 hope, cloathed with humility, adorned with a meek and quiet spirit, modest in behaviour, gracious 
 in conversation, sparing in words, plentifull in good deedes, dayly increasing with the increase of 
 God, in the middest of troubles possessing her soule in patience, she willingly commended it into 
 the hands, of her God, and layd down the tabernacle of her flesh in confidence of its resurrection 
 to a more peaceable and happy life, through Jesus Christ her Saviour. 
 
 Born she was at Boston,(?) in the countie of Middlesex, the 25t,h of Dec. 1613, and departed this 
 life at Salthrop, March 27, 1645, and her infant daughter, Thomasine, was soon layd to rest by 
 her.” 
 
 “ Shee is not dead but sleepeth .”—Luke viii. 52. 
 
 The arms upon it: [PI. xxxiii. No. 481] Bennet, impaling Dethick quartering 
 (Allestree, Stafford and Pearson ?) 
 
 Opposite to this, on the South side, in alabaster, this Inscription: 
 
 “Not far from this place lieth the body of Sir Thomas Bennet, Knight, Doctor of Lawes, and 
 one of the Masters in Ordinary of his Majestie’s high and honourable Court of Chancery, who 
 
 particulars are obtained from an account printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps. He appears to have 
 been of a Nottinghamshire family. His wife was Elizabeth daughter of Henry Martyn of Upham 
 in Aldbourne, Wilts : they had 1. Henr}', Rector of Stretbam, and Prebendarj^ of Ely, who 
 married a sister of Sir Christopher Wren : and founded three Exhibitions at Magdalen College, 
 Oxon: and three at Jesus College, Cambridge. He died 1679. 2. Samuel D.D. Rector of 
 
 Bingham, Notts., where he was buried 1688: his wife was daughter of John Boughton of 
 Lipperton, in Kent. 3. Oliver, M.B. Oxon. 4. Jane, wife of Timothy Long son of John Long 
 of Netheravon: by whom she was mother of Col. Samuel Long distinguished in the History of 
 Jamaica. The Yicar died in June 1641. His Will written in a tone of piety and humility was 
 proved at Sarum 24th November 1642. It consists of simple bequests of books of Divinity to his 
 children: and twenty shillings to the poor of the parish of Wroughton: “and would doe more 
 if I were able to spare it:” but “I have little to bestow, for I never sought great things for 
 myselfe.” 
 
 There is also a brass plate to William Sadler 1588 and Christina his wife 1633, with some 
 verses, and the initials of the writer, R. S. Likewise some memorials of the Codrington family. 
 
 In 1658, 10th August, Mr. Stubbs, “Minister of Wroughton,” was reprimanded by William 
 Blissett, chairman of the Commissioners for ejecting “scandalous Ministers.” His offence was 
 that of brawling and quarrelling with his neighbours, scoffing and reviling professors of godliness. 
 
ELSTUB AND EVERLEY HUNDRED. 
 
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 departed this mortall life on Monday the 27th of June, Anno Dni. 1670, in the 78th yeare of his 
 age. 
 
 “ He married to his first wife, Charlotte, the daughter of Wm. Harrison, of London, Merchant, 
 by whom he had two daughters, Charlotte, that died the 30th of March, A.I). 1639, and Mary 
 now living. He married to his second wife, Thomasine, one of the daughters and coheires of 
 George Dethick, of Gray’s Inne, Esqr. eldest sonne of Sir William Dethick, Knt. alias Garter 
 principall King at Armes, by whom he had issue, Thomas Bennet, Esqr. his only son and heire, 
 and Thomasine, a daughter that dyed young. 
 
 Monumentum hoc Pietatis ergo Patri meritissimo mcerens posuit Thomas Bennet, XX. Decemb. 
 A°. Salutis M,DC,LXX. Qui mortalitatis exuvias pie deposuit insigne dedit Resurgendi 
 argumentum.” 
 
 Three shields, viz.: 1. Arms of Bennet, singly. 2. [No. 482] Bennet impaling 
 (Harrison). 3. Bennet impaling Dethick [as in No. 481]. 
 
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KINWARDSTONE 
 
 HUNDRED.’ 
 
 BEDWYN MAGNA. 
 
 EDWYN hath its denomination from the great Barrow there, which is 
 of chalk: as much as to say, The White Barrow or Sepulchre : accord¬ 
 ing to the Epigram of J. Owen, 
 
 Angli Bed lectum vocitant, Cambrique sepulchrum ; 
 
 Lectus enim tumuli, mortis imago sopor. [Mon. Brit.] 2 
 
 1 Anciently “ Cheneward’s Stone.” The Lordship of the Hundred belonged to the Earls 
 Marshal, temp. Hen. III.; and descended, like the Burgh of Bedwyn, to the Staffords. In 1783 
 it was purchased from the Earl of Pembroke by the Earl of Ailesbury. 
 
 2 “ Bedd ” (pronounced Beth,, the th being sounded hard as in thou), is Welsh for sepulchre: 
 “ Wyn” or “Gwyn” is, white: and when used to denote a place, also implies a certain dignity 
 belonging to it. This derivation gives a British name, which is very uncommon in Wiltshire. 
 There is no large barrow now to be seen. Stukeley’s name Leucomagus, as an equivalent, is 
 unmeaning. The name is Bedan-heafod (head of the graves) in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, (and 
 is still popularly pronounced Bedan.) Here was a battle in A.D. 674 (Turner’s “ Anglo-Saxons.”) 
 
 By the Will of King Alfred, his land at “Bedewinda” and at “Pefesigge” (Pewse 3 r ) was 
 given to his eldest son Edward, A.D. 900; and in A.D. 968 his great grandson King Edgar gave 
 72 “ cassates ” of land here, with others at “ Burgbeche ” (Burbage) and Hurstbourn, to Abingdon 
 Abbey. These were all violently taken from the Monastery, but again restored by Ethelred 
 A.D. 993. [“ Chron. of A. Abbey,” p. 315, 335, 367.] 
 
 The Hundred Bolls for Wilts say that the “ Burrough ” of Bedwyn (including both Great and 
 Little Bedwyn) was Boj’al demesne of the first Norman Kings of England, until Hen. I. bestowed 
 it, with the Manor of Westcombe (now Wexcombe), upon John (called from his Office) Marshal, 
 paying yearly to the Crown an “alba firma,” or Fee Farm Bent of “white money,” of 
 £32 Os. 19d. John was father of William Marshal Sen. Earl of Pembroke. The son of the 
 latter, known as William the Earl Marshal Jun., married Lady Eleanor Plantagenet sister of 
 King Hen. III. He died 1231. In 1238 she married secondly Simon de Montfort the Great 
 Earl of Leicester who, Jure uxoris, held the Borough and Manor by the same rent. In 1274 they 
 were in dower to the Countess Eleanor his widow. But an Inquisition states that so early as 
 Hen. III., Wm. Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, held lands at Bedwyn and Wexcombe, part of the 
 
KINWARDSTONE HUNDRED. 
 
 373 
 
 By the stalles here in the Chancell it appears to have been Collegiate. 1 
 In the Nave, (now in N. Transept), in brasse, on a Purbec-marble gravestone: 
 $tc jacct hits Syomas ©ogcson quonham fa tearing tsttus recite qut olffit septimo 
 itc ©eccmlms &no. ©nt. JBF C JL Cujus ate ppietetur ©nig, bitten. 
 
 In the North Aisle, a marble gravestone, brasse lost. 
 
 inheritance of his wife Alice, sister of Beaumont an older Earl of Leicester, and afterwards wife 
 of Simon de Montfort, father of the great Earl of that name. 
 
 In 1295 Bedwyn “Borough” and Wexcombe were held, at his death, by Gilbert de Clare 
 Earl of Gloucester and Hertford who had married Joan of Acre daughter of King Edw. I. The 
 last Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester, died 1313 and his widow Matilda (de Burgh) held them, 
 together with the Hundred of Kinwardstone, in 1315, (Nom. Vill.). By Margaret, Gilbert’s sister 
 and coheiress, Bedwyn Borough and Wexcombe passed to her husband Hugh Audley created 
 Earl of Gloucester and by his daughter and heiress Margaret to Ralph Lord Stafford who died 
 1372. Perhaps it was under the Staffords that John Kerby held them at his death 1469 (I. p. M.). 
 On the execution at Salisbury of Henry Stafford second Duke of Buckingham in 1483 they would 
 have been, if his, forfeited to the Crown: (but they do not appear in the list of his estates). 
 Rich. III. bestowed Bedwyn on John Howard Duke of Norfolk w T ho was killed at Bosworth. By 
 Hen. VIII. it was granted to his brother-in-law Sir Edward Seymour created Duke of Somerset 
 Feb. 1547. On the death of John the fourth Duke in 1675 it passed by the marriage of his niece 
 Lady Elizabeth Seymour to Thomas Bruce Earl of Ailesbury. In the sixth vol. of the “ Wilts 
 Archaeol. Mag.” p. 261, is a full account of this Parish, as well as of its Representative History 
 until the Borough was disfranchised, by the Rev. John Ward, Rector of Wath, co. York. 
 
 1 It was not Collegiate. There was a Church here in the reign of the Confessor. The Tithes 
 of both Bedwyns (“de utraque Bedewinda”), and a mill in the town, were given by William I. 
 to Bishop Osmund, and by him to Old Sarum Cathedral A.D. 1091. [Dugd.] Master Thomas 
 de Wykehampton (probably a relative of Robert de Wykehampton, then Bishop of Sarum) was 
 Parson in 1280. It was a Prebend, given after the Dissolution of Monasteries, to the Protector 
 Somerset, and with it, the right of appointing to the Vicarage, and the exercise of archidiaconal 
 jurisdiction which lasted to 1847. The Church (St. Mary’s) is cruciform, exhibiting good specimens 
 of Norman and later English styles. It was thoroughly restored by subscription in 1854 at an 
 expense of about £2000: and was re-opened on Easter Monday 1855. A new Font was given 
 by the Rev. Henry Tudway : and a stained glass window placed in the South Transept to the 
 memory of Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes K.C.B. Many very early stone coffins were found 
 to have been used in constructing the walls of the old church : and the oldest foundations were 
 rudely made of unhewn blocks of Sarsen stone ; the spaces being filled in with rough flints, with¬ 
 out mortar. Even below these, skeletons quite perfect were exhumed. Some curious extracts 
 from the Parish Registers are printed in “ Collect. Top. et Gen.” v. 20: with some account of 
 the Church as it stood before its recent restoration. In Carter’s “ Wiltshire Churches ” are two 
 views of it, exterior and interior. 
 
374 
 
 [Bedwyn Magna. 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 In the South crosse Aisle, in an old nicli, lyes a Knight crosse-legged, in free¬ 
 stone, his coate thus, Barry of 12 A. and G., on the bars G. 10 martlets S. 3,3,3,1; 
 over all on a bend S. 3 escallops 0 : [PL xxxiii. No. 483]: a lyon at his feete: the 
 
 inhabitants call him . of Stock. In one of the windowes is the same escutcheon, 
 
 in very old glasse, with harry of 10, but on the Monument it is harry of 12. 1 
 
 In another old nicli by, under a Purbec marble, thus: Uogcr ; tic: Stocrc: rigb ; 
 gist: tct: Qtcu: tic: salmc: fit: mom 2 
 
 In this Parish, on the hill westwards, is a tine seate called Stock , where this. 
 
 Stock lived; there has been a mote about the liowse anciently. 3 
 
 In a marble gravestone, brasse lost. 
 
 They tell in the windowes of this aisle "were more escutcheons and painted glasse 
 which the barbarous soldiers spoyled. 
 
 (Chancel.) 
 
 In the roofe, being wood-worke, over the Communion table, is remaining half of 
 an escutcheon, thus,... on a bend S., 3 like quaterfoiles A. [No. 484.] 
 
 (Monuments of the Seymours. 
 
 , 1. Sir John Seymour, the Protector’s Father. 4 ) 
 
 1 This is the effigy of Sir Adam de Stock by whom the South Transept is supposed to have been 
 built. The Arms on the shield, still distinguishable, are not exactly as Aubrey blazons them: 
 but are “A. 5 bars G., over all a bend charged with 3 escallops 0. (perhaps Argent) between 
 6 martlets S.” This coat is not in the College of Arms. Sir Adam was (inter alia) Guardian for 
 the Crown, of the temporalities of the See of Sarum after the death of Bishop Nich. de Longespee 
 1297, until the election of Simon de Gaunt to the See. [“ Prynne,” iii. 770.] He died about 
 1312, owner of Stock in this parish and of Rushall. His widow Geva married Sir Robert 
 Hungerford. 
 
 2 Sir Roger, son of Sir Adam de Stock died 1331, owner of the Manor of Wulfhale. 
 
 3 Stock belonged anciently to the St. Vigors family who were succeeded by Sir Adam de Stock 
 above-mentioned. By his family it was released to the Hungerfords before 1431: and still 
 belonged to them in 1628. It belonged, with lands in West Bedwyn, to Sir John Danvers the 
 Regicide, attainted 1661. In temp. Charles II. William Bird, gent, was of this place, then 
 called Stoke. In 1766 it was sold by Ralph Verney, last Earl Verney, to Lord Bruce. 
 
 4 A Thomas de Seymore held some small estate in Bedwyn, Chisbury, &c., so early as 
 
KINWARDSTONE HUNDRED. 
 
 !375 
 
 On the North Wall a Monument with a figure in armour, of freestone, above 
 which this Inscription. 
 
 “ Here lyeth intombed the worthie S r John Seymovk 
 of Wolphall Knight: who by Margerie his Wyfe, 
 
 Davghter of S r Henry Wentworthe, Knight, from whome 
 the nowe Lorde Wentworthe is discended, had Six 
 Sonnes and Fower Davghtei's: To wete, John, who 
 dyed vnmarryed. Edward, Dvke of Somerset. 
 
 Earl of Hertforde, Viscovnt Beavechampe and 
 Baron Seymovr, Uncle to Kinge Edwarde the Sixt, 
 
 Governor of his Royall Person, Protector of all his 
 Dominions and Svbjects, Lorde Tresorer and Earle 
 Marshall of Englande ; w ch Dvke marved Anne, a Davghter 
 of S r Edward Stanhope, Knight, by Elizabeth his Wyfe, 
 
 Davghter of S r Fovlke Bvrgchier, Lord Fitzwarjm, 
 from whome the moderne Earles of Bath are discended. 
 
 S r Henry Seynnovr Knight, who maried Barbara, Davghter 
 
 a But he should have sayed that he was married first to (Katharine) d. and coh : of Filloll, of Dorsetshire, from 
 whom are descended the Seymours of Devonshire. * 1 
 
 32 Edw. III. (1358) : but the first important accession of property here came by marriage of 
 Roger Seymour, who died 1420, with Maud, the heiress of William Esturmy of Wulfhale, Kt., 
 the fourth in descent from whom was Sir John Seymour, the Protector’s father. Sir John’s epitaph, 
 with that of John his eldest son, and that of Lord Beauchamp, grandson of the Protector, are the 
 only three that seem to have been found by Aubrey. The neighbouring Priory of Easton was 
 their burying-place, and when that House went to decay, Sir John’s remains, as well probably as 
 those of his son, were removed to Great Bedwyn. His leaden coffin, with the iron handles 
 attached for the purpose of removal, was discovered during the repairs in 1854. The breast¬ 
 plate had been taken off, and there was no appearance of any wooden coffin. Among other coffins 
 found at the same time were those of William Earl of Hertford the restored Duke of Somerset 
 who died 1660; Frances his wife, daughter of the Earl of Essex, 1674; and their son Henry, 
 Lord Beauchamp, 1653, (on whose plate were still left the seeds and stems of a bunch of rosemary 
 and other flowers,) and William third Duke of Somerset, 1671. 
 
 1 The Protector was twice married; but having been divorced from his first wife Katharine 
 Filliol, he passed over her issue in the succession, and left it first in the line of the younger House 
 the children of his second Duchess Ann Stanhope. Whatever the real motive for this proceeding 
 may have been, it would of course suit the policy of the second House b) T whom this inscription 
 was written, to ignore the first marriage. But time has made amends for the omission. By the 
 failure of the younger branch, the elder House of Seymour has long since recovered the title, and 
 the lineal descendant of Katharine Filliol is now Duke of Somerset. 
 
376 
 
 aubeey’s south wilts. [ Bedwyn Magna. 
 
 of Thomas Morgan, 1 Esqvier. Thomas, Lorde Seymovr of 
 Svdeley, Highe Admirall of Englande, who maryed 
 Katherine, Qveene of Englande, and Wydow to Kinge 
 Henry the Eight. One other Jhon and Anthony, who 
 dyed in theire Infancy. Jane Qveene of Englande, Wyfe 
 to Kynge Henry the Eight, and Mother to Kynge 
 Edwarde the Sixt. Elizabeth, firste maryed to S' Henry 
 Yghtred, Knight, after to Gregorie, Lorde Cromwell, 
 and last to Jhon, Lord Sainct John of Basinge, after 
 Marqvesse of Winchester. Margerie, who dyed in 
 her Infancy, and Dorothe, maryed to S' Clement 
 Smythe, Knight. 
 
 “ This Knight departed this Lyfe at LX yeares of age, 
 the XXI day of December, Anno 1536, and was fyrste 
 bvryed at Eston Priorie Chvrch, amongst divers of 
 his Avncestors, bothe Seymovrs and Stvrmyes; Howbeit 
 that Chvrch beinge rvined, and thereby all theire 
 Monumentes either whollie spoyled, or verie mvch defased 
 dvring the Mynoritie of Edwarde, Earle of Hertforde, Sonne 
 to the said Dvke, The said Earle after, as well for the 
 dvtifvl Love he beareth to his said Grandefather, as 
 for the better Contynvans of his Memory, did cavse 
 his Bodie to be removed, and here to be intombed at 
 his own Coste and Chardge, the laste daye of September, 
 
 Anno 1590, in the XXXII year of the moste happye Raigne 
 of ovr gratiovs Soveraigne Ladie, Qveene Elizabeth.” 
 
 Crest (of Se)Tuour), 2 wings conjoined erect O. [No. 485.] This was the old crest. 
 
 (Arms on the above Monument .) 2 
 
 [No. 486] King Henry YIII. impaling Jane Seymour with the Coat of Augmentation. 
 
 The coat surmounted by an imperial crown. Mem. Queen Jane’s Coat is, honoris ergo, sett 
 above all the rest. [No. 480 was at this time at the top of the monument.] 
 
 [487] (Sir John Seymour, the knight entombed) Quarterly of six: viz., 1 and 6, 
 
 Seymour. 2, Beauchamp of Hache. 3, Esturmy. 4, (Macwilliams). 5, (Coker). 
 
 [488] (The same Sir John) Seymour, impaling (Margery) Wentworth. 
 
 1 Morgan Wolfe. See the shield (No. 491), now over the inscription, and a note by Mr. Ward 
 in “ Coll. Top. and Gen.” v. 22. 
 
 2 For a drawing of this Monument as it was in Aubrey’s time, and an explanation of its present 
 appearance, see “ Wilts Archmol. Mag.,” vol. YI., p. 282. 
 
KINWAKDSTONE HUNDRED. 
 
 377 
 
 [489] (Sir John’s son), The Protector, Duke of Somerset, impaling (Ann) Stanhope. 
 
 quartering (Manlovell, 1 Longvilliers, and Lexington). 
 
 [PI. xxxiv., No. 490] (Another son, Thomas Seymour, Lord Sudeley) impaling (Katharine 
 
 Parr). (1. The Coat of Augmentation. 2. Parr. '3. DeRos. 4. Fitzhugh.) 
 
 - An Escutcheon lost. 
 
 [491] (Another son, Sir Henry Seymour) impaling (Wolfe of Gwerngotheyn) quartering, 
 
 1. Wolfe Newton. 2. Nanfant. 3. Le Sore of St. Fagan’s. 
 
 [492] (Gregory Lord Cromwell) impaling (Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John) Seymour. 
 
 [493] (Sir Clement) Smyth (of Little Baddow, Essex) impaling (Dorothy) Seymour 
 
 (another daughter). 
 
 (2. John Seymour Junr., the Protector’s Elder Brother.) 
 
 About the middle of the chancell, a Purbeck Marble, with this inscription in 
 brasse: 
 
 Ulcrc Igctfj tljc fiotio of sonc & fjetre of <£r 3oljn Jocgmourc, 
 
 Httogljt, anti of fHargcro, oon of tljc tiougfjtcrs of <Sr Ijcnru OTentfoortfi, Itnugljt, toljtdj 
 ticccmti ttje IF, ban of 3uto, tfje ocr’ of or far'd JHF C X. on toljas goule 3jju ijabc rn’en, 
 and of got rijantc sag a pater nost’r anti a aftc. 
 
 He is pourtrayed on the brass in a gown, (loosely sleeved and trimmed with fur) 
 no band. Here were 4 escutcheons, at each corner one; now remaine only these 
 two: 
 
 [No. 494] Seymour impaling Wentworth, quartering (Despenser, Tibetot, Badlesmere, 
 Marshall? and Lucy). 
 
 [495] Wentworth, with quarterings as before. 
 
 (3. Edward, Lord Beauchamp, the Protector’s grandson.) 
 
 Between the last, and that of Sir John Seymour, is an Inscription in brasse, in 
 a pittifull grafted freestone gravestone (now on the North wall): 
 
 “ Bellocampus eram Graia genetrice Semerus, 
 
 TrES HABUI NATOS, EST QUIBUS UNA S0R0r”. 2 
 
 1 Sir John Stanhope in 1373 married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Stephen Mallovell or 
 Manlovell. The arms of Manlovell are variously described, as “ Yert, three wolves passant in pale 0.” 
 \Burke\ : “ Three ivild cats passant in pale,” on a monument in Kingston-upon-Soar Church, 
 Notts. [“Coll. Top. et. Gen. viii. 271”.] They are blazoned by Aubrey “three talbots courant,” 
 but he probably mistook the animal. 
 
 2 See Mr. E. Kite’s “ Wilts Brasses.” The two lines mean in English : 
 
 3 B 
 
 “ I was BEAUCHAMP ; a Seymour ; my mother a Grey ; 
 I had three sons, and they have one sister.” 
 
378 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. [Bedwyn Magna. 
 
 This was the Lord Beauchamp. He was father to (William) the Marquesse 
 Hartford who was Generali of his Majestie K. Charles the First his forces in the 
 West and was restored to he Duke of Somerset by K. Charles the 2d. The Marquis 
 of Hertford now lies in his father's grave, without any memorial for him as yet, 
 1672. From the Register ; “ 1660, William Senior, Duke of Somerset late Marquis 
 of Hartforde was buried on the feast of All Saints, at night, being the first day of 
 November, in the year of our Lord God 1660.” 
 
 Francis, Lord Seymour of Trubridge, brother to the said Duke, and youngest 
 of the 3 sonnes, lieth also buried in this chancell, but sans memorial. 
 
 (William, the third) Duke of Somerset lies interred in the very middle of this 
 chancell; he was buried on Wednesday, the 20th day of Dec. 1671, sans memorial. 
 
 Memd. In this parish was born the famous Phisitian, Dr. Thomas Willis, the 
 27 day of January, Ao. Dni. 1621. His father was steward to Sir Walter Smyth 
 of this place. * 1 This from the Dr.’s owe mouth. 2 
 
 Edward Seymour, created Lord Beauchamp 1609, son and heir of Edward Earl of Hertford, 
 died in his father’s lifetime at Wick, below Martinsall Hill, and was buried at Great Bedwyn, 
 21st July, 1612 (see Bedwyn Reg). His mother was Lady Catherine, sister of Lady Jane Grey, 
 daughter of Henry, Duke of Suffolk. By marrying without the Queen’s consent, his father the 
 Earl of Hertford had greatly offended Elizabeth. In consequence, he had to pay a fine of £5000, 
 and was imprisoned nine years in the Tower, where his son the above Lord Beauchamp was born. 
 
 Lady Southwell, one of the e 3 r e-witnesses of Elizabeth’s death-bed, 6ays that among others pro¬ 
 posed to the Queen to be her successor, was the Lord Beauchamp, in right of his mother (as one 
 of the heirs of the Duchess of Suffolk, King Henry the Eighth’s sister). Elizabeth, upon hearing 
 his name, roused herself and said angrily, “ I will have no rascal’s son in my seat, but one 
 worthy to be a king.” 
 
 1 Sir Walter Smyth was M.P. for Great Bedwyn, 16 Car. I., and was buried here 28th April, 
 1648. 
 
 2 Dr. Thomas Willis’s parents were buried, Thomas 1643 and Rachel 1631, at Ferry Hinksey, 
 near Oxford. The Doctor was baptized at Great Bedw}-n 14th Feb., 1620 ; and was of Oxford 
 University, and a good writer in Latin. His works in two vols. 4to. are said to abound in chy- 
 mical reveries, but to contain some curious things. He married Mary daughter of Dr. Fell, Dean 
 of Christ Church. Browne Willis the Antiquary, his grandson, often visited the house at Bed¬ 
 wyn in which his grandfather was born. It stood in Farm Lane at the N.E. end of the town. 
 See “ Gent. Mag.” 1798, p. 1013. There is a caustic account of the Doctor, and of his grandson, 
 in “ Origines Divisianae,” p. 30. Also two Latin poems to his honour in “ Musae Anglican®,” 
 
KINWAEDSTONE HUNDRED. 
 
 379 
 
 WULFALL. 
 
 About a mile from hence eastward is Wulfall, the ancient seate of the Sturmeys, 
 which house has been much bigger, and great part pulled downe within these 10 
 yeares, to build the house of Tottenham Parke. I remember a long gallery. It 
 was never but a timber-house, v. Camden. 1 Here is a very long barne of ... . bays, 
 and 3 porches of timber, and thatcht: in this barne, then, 1536, hung with tapistry, 
 was the wedding kept for Queen Jane. 2 Hard by is 
 
 TOTTENHAM PARK, 
 
 which is a most parkely ground and romancy pleasant place; several walkes, of 
 great length, of trees planted. Here the Duke of Somerset hath his best seate, 
 which is now, 1672, to be made a compleat new pile of good architecture. 3 Both 
 
 I. 38: and a memoir and portrait by George Yertue in “ Houbraken’s Heads,” p. 119, with the 
 Arms, A fess between three lions rampant, within a bordure bezanty. A note to the entry of the 
 Doctor’s baptism in Great Bedwyn register says, “ He was the most famous physician in the world 
 in his time; and dying Nov. 11, 1675 in his 54th year was buried in Westminster Abbey.” 
 Henry Jenner, Yicar here, who died 1798, was elder brother of another no less famous physician. 
 Dr. Edw. Jenner, the founder of Yaccination. 
 
 1 Camden does not mention the materials of which the house was built. 
 
 * Leland in his commentaries (“Itin.” ix. 36) mentions this place, as “ Semarii Lupinum, villa 
 splendida,” (Wolf-hall, a fine house of Seymour): but the name is not derived from a wolf. It 
 is more probably from a Saxon owner Ulph, (like Wolve-ton in Dorsetshire). Under the name 
 Ulfela, it was held at the Conquest by Ralph de Halville an officer of the King’s. In Hen. III., 
 it was, together with a great district in this neighbourhood, part of the fee of the Earls Marshal: 
 under whom there were here three landholders, Robert Beauchamp, Hugh Poer, and Richard 
 Berenger. Under Beauchamp, Henry Esturmi held Wulfhall in 3 Edw. I. In 6 Edw. III., Sir 
 
 Roger de Stock had it. .(See p. 374.) It was sometime the residence of-Erlegh. The Earl 
 
 Marshal as owner was afterwards represented here, as at Bedwyn, by the Lords Stafford, under 
 whom the Esturmy family continued, until their heiress brought it to the Seymours. 
 
 3 In the year 1571, on the death of William, third Duke of Somerset s. p., the estates passed to 
 his sister Lady Elizabeth, who married the Earl of Ailesbury. The Dukes of Somerset of the 
 elder line which then succeeded, had no interest here. 
 
 The first House, built out of the materials of Wulfhall, was injured in the Civil Wars, and as 
 Aubrey states, was about to be restored in 1672. A new house was built in 1717, erected partly 
 after a design of the Earl of Burlington. Additions were made in 1722, and again by the late Earl 
 of Ailesbury. It is now in course of completion. In Gough’s “Camden” (i. 158) this place is 
 
 3 B 2 
 
380 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 \Bedwyn Magna. 
 
 in the Parish of Bedwyn Magna. 1 
 
 BEDWYN PARYA. 2 
 
 said to have belonged to the Despensers, but he confounds it with Tockenham near Wotton 
 Basset. Tottenham Park now includes Fosbury (Forest-bury) Manor purchased 1655 by the 
 Marquis of Hertford, from Henry Skilling Esq. Bagden (now Savernake Lodge) was obtained 
 in exchange with Col. Holt in 1765 by Thomas Earl of Ailesbury. His Lordship made very 
 large additions to the family estates in this neighbourhood. In 1783 he purchased from Lord 
 Pembroke Southgrove woods and a property at Bedwyn Brail : in 1786 East Grafton Manor 
 from Lady Aylesford, daughter of Charles 6th Duke of Somerset: Wilton and West Bedwyn 
 Manor from Benjamin Bond Hopkins Esq. in 1787: an estate (formerly Bishop Lowth’s) at 
 Collingbourne Ducis in 1805 : the Castle (now the College) at Marlborough, from the Duke of 
 Rutland in 1779; and St. Margaret’s Farm there, from the Duke of Marlborough in 1821. 
 
 1 The Editor believes that part of Tottenham Park is in the parish of Burbage. There is a 
 view of the House, 1792, in Robertson’s “Journey from London to Bristol.” 
 
 1 The one name of Bedwyn anciently included both West and East, (now, Great and Little) 
 Bedwyn. In 1405 a church and 4234 acres were severed, and made a distinct Vicarage, with a 
 portion of the tithes of the Prebend. See “ Coll. Top. and Gen.” v. 36,136. East or (Little) Bedwyn 
 was held in 1475 of the King by the Russells of Dyrham co. Gloucester. In 1324 Sir Theobald 
 Russell having trespassed while hunting within the limits of Savernake Forest, his wood at East 
 Bedwyn was taken into the King’s hands till satisfaction should be made. {Rot. Claus. 17 Ed. II.) 
 Other names here were Musard, 1330; Scot, 1389, and Rok 1427, each holding a half manor jure 
 Braybroke, under Stafford, Duke of Buckingham : John Sydele 1427, Nicholas Wotton 1452, 
 and John Stapulhill 1436. In 13 Hen. VIII. there was a grant to Sir Edward Darell of manors 
 at Wexcombe, Burbage-Savage, West Bedwyn and Orcheston. 
 
 At Knowle field were found in a barrow, a number of urns to the quantity of 227 gallons 
 “ filled with black jelly, smelling of spices, and quivering in the spades,” (Gough’s “ Camd. I. 159.) 
 There is a desecrated Chapel here. 
 
 Ckisbury Castle is the name of a large oval Earthwork on a high hill about a mile N.W. of 
 Great Bedwyn : enclosing within ramparts partly double, partly treble, (but these now almost 
 concealed by trees), an area of 15 acres. From the discovery of black ashes, pottery and charred 
 wood under the inner rampart, Sir R. C. Hoare thinks it was originally British, enlarged by the 
 Saxons. It is supposed to take its name from Cissa, an early Anglo-Saxon governor of Wessex. 
 The circuit is 1012 yards: depth of the vallum 45 feet. It is traversed by a road North and 
 South. The Wansdyke, which forms in some places a boundary between the two Bedwyns, runs 
 near, but apparently has no connexion with it. 
 
 Chisbury Manor belonged in 1086 to Gilbert de Bretevile: in temp. John to the family of 
 Columbars (a collateral branch of the Barons Columbars extinct): from c. 1284 to c. 1540 to the 
 eldest line of the great House of Cobham of Kent. (See above p. 164.) Then to Read of Yate 
 co. Gloucester, until 1602 when it was sold with its Tithes to the Earl of Hertford, and thence 
 
KINWARDSTONE HUNDRED. 
 
 381 
 
 BURBAGE. 1 
 
 In the Church here, nihil antiquitatis; the windowes seem to he about the time 
 of Hen. 4. The soyle is brown sand, and very naturall for turnips, with which 
 commodity many parts are furnished. Q. how long turnips have been sowen here ; 
 for my uncle, Alderman James, of Bristowe, now near 80, remembers when he was 
 a boy that all the turnips there came from Wales, and now none come thence, and 
 the red sand about Bristowe breeds a better, and a lugger turnip. 2 
 
 EASTON-PRIORY. 3 
 
 has come to the Earl of Ailesbury. Within the Earthwork is a farm house some time (from c. 
 1630 to 1713) the residence of a branch of the Hungerfords, leaseholders under Lord Hertford. 
 Near it is a Chapel, still in fair condition but used as a barn: built of flints and plastered. The 
 windows of stone, and in the “Decorated” style. In Yal. Eccl. it is called “St. Martin’s.” John 
 ap Man was Priest in 1534 with £2 13s. 4d. per annum. The Advowson belonged in 1400 to 
 the Cobhams. But at the Dissolution, in a grant to C. Willoughby, the chapel is described as 
 part of the possessions of the late Priory of St. Denis, near Southampton. It has since followed 
 the descent of the manor. 
 
 1 The ancient division of property here stood thus : 1. In Domesday Book Richard Sturmid, 
 
 one of the King’s Officers had lands in “ Burbage,” Grafton, Harden, &c. His manor here, and 
 another at Coulsfield in South Wilts were held by his family (Esturmy) of the Crown by petty 
 sergeantry, as appurtenant to the Chief Wardenship of Savernake Forest. [Beckwith’s “Fragm. 
 Antiq.” p. 157.] This ultimately came to the Seymours by marriage. 2. The Prior of Motes- 
 font, Hants, had some lands in Hen. III. 3. The Dunstanvilles of Castle Combe were Lords 
 of a Fee under the Honour of Wallingford 1100—1300. 4. Thomas Savage, under the Crown in 
 
 Chief, afterwards under the Earl Marshal. This was alienated in Hen. III. and the King gave 
 it to Ela Longespee (daughter of the Foundress of Lacock) Countess of Warwick and wife of 
 Philip Basset, for their lives. “Burbage Savage” afterwards belonged to Clare, Earl of Gloucester, 
 and from him descended (see Bedwyn Magna) to Audlev, Stafford, and Buckingham. 5. John 
 de Mohun in 3 Edw. I. had also a Lordship, and 6. Payne de Cadurcis (or Chaworth). 
 
 The Church (now All Saints) was in the hands of a Priest, Yitalis, at the Conquest. It was 
 given by Hen. I. to Old Sarum Cathedral: and with Hurstborne (Hants) became a Prebend. 
 Daniel Whitby, the Commentator, held it in 1668—1698. The Yicarage was in the gift and 
 under the jurisdiction of the Prebendary. Lord Ailesbury has the Rectorial Tithes. The present 
 church was consecrated 7th September 1854. 
 
 2 The turnips of Burbage left a pleasant taste on Aubrey’s palate. “ They are the best that 
 ever I did eat. They are sent for far and near. They are not tough and stringy like other 
 turnips, but cutt like marmalad. Pease also excellent.” Nat. Hist, of Wilts, 36. 
 
 3 Easton near Burbage is a parish per se. Here was a Priory of the Holy Trinity, founded 
 
382 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 \Easton Priory. 
 
 some say, c. 1240 (Hen. III.) by Stephen, Archdeacon of Sarum, for the redemption of captives. 
 The Esturmy and Seymour families were Patrons, the former of whom held lands here in 3 
 Edward I. under the Bishop of Hereford. The Priory estates lay, here, at Froxfield, and Fighelden. 
 It had the Churches of Easton, of Stapleford (by gift of John Benger 24 Hen. VI.), Tidcombe- 
 Hussey, and Froxfield : also lands at Milton and East Grafton, the latter given by Sir Robert 
 Hungerford, 1336, to maintain a Chantry Priest and Obit for his wife Geva, his friends and 
 himself. At the time of this foundation there were six Brethren ; five being in Orders and one 
 a Layman. Brother Edmund then Head of the House is called “ Minister,” and the Deed is 
 dated at Crofton. In 1363 Robert Englonde was Prior; died 1375. Among the Rawlinson 
 MSS. in Bodleian Library, Oxon, (B. 142) is a volume of “Letters of Robert (Wyvill) Bishop of 
 Sarum relating to the Hospital of Holy Trinity of Eston A.D. 1368.” In 1410 John Hakeleston 
 was Prior; and the last was Roger Marshal. The Priory was then granted, together with other lands 
 here belonging to St. Margaret’s Priory at Marlborough, to the Seymours, who seem to have occa¬ 
 sionally resided here: for in the British Museum (Add. MS.5496) there are many letters to and from 
 the Earl of Hertford “at his house at Easton.” The site is traditionally pointed out. In “Coll. 
 Top. and Gen.” v. 39, it is stated by Rev. John Ward that “Easton is a Royal Donative 
 in the sole jurisdiction of the Marquis of Ailesbury, who appoints the Minister, and is the prin¬ 
 cipal proprietor. The Registers commence in 1580, at which time the old Priory Church was 
 still in existence.” It was sometimes called “Easton Royal.” The present church was built in 
 1591 by Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, son of the Protector Duke of Somerset. 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 MAYDEN-BRADLEY. 
 
 ^|ERE was a handsome well-built house, built by Sir Henry Ludlowe 1 or 
 Jjb his ancestors, now dilapidated since the late warres. 
 
 In the Chancell, over the seate that was Sir Henry Ludlowe’s, are, 
 in wood, painted, these two coates: 
 
 1. [PI. xxxiv. No. 496] Margaret, Viscountess Howard de Bindon. Ask Mr. Wyche the 
 
 crest, which I have forgott. Over the coat, a Viscountess’s Coronet. Twelve quarterings. 
 [1. Manning. 2. Barwise ? 3. Brockhill. 4. Petley. 5. Troumer. 6. Brampton. 7. Troumer? 
 8.- 9. Arden. 10. Philipott. 11. Bernas? 12. Dymoke.] 
 
 2. [No. 497] Edmund Ludlow, Knight. Six quarterings. [1. Ludlow of Shropshire. 
 2. Bymer. 3. Bulstrode. 4. Moore. 5. Coicer. 6. Ludlow.] 
 
 The crest is something like a Lion ramp. Sable. 
 
 They bury at Hill Deverill. No monument of them in this church. Only, on 
 free-stone: 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of Frances Ludlowe, sixth daughter of Sir Henry Ludlowe Knt. who 
 dyed Aprill the 24th An. Dni. 1631, .... iEtatis. 
 
 “ Here lieth the body of Anne Ludlowe, the daughter of Thomas Ludlowe, squire, who dyed 
 the 2d day of December, Anno Dni, 166. . 
 
 1 Whether the family of Ludlow of Hill-Deverill (see Hoare’s “ Heytesbury,” p. 13) ever built 
 a house at Maiden Bradley, is doubtful: but they resided some time in the parish on an estate 
 called South Court held on a lease for three lives under the Seymours. The two shields described 
 by Aubrey have disappeared from the church. Viscountess Howard of Bindon was Margaret 
 daughter of Henry Manning of Greenwich, and Down, co. Kent. She was born at Down Nov. 
 1559 (“ Topog. et Gen.,” ii. 283) ; and was fourth wife and relict of Thomas Howard (second son of 
 the third Duke of Norfolk) who was created Viscount Howard of Bindon, co. Dorset, 1559 (the 
 same year that his fourth wife was born), and was buried at Marnhull, co. Dorset 1582 (Hutchins’ 
 I. 138 and II. 401). The Viscountess remarried Sir Edmund Ludlowe, and was buried under 
 the Communion Table in Maiden Bradley Church, 1633. For her family see Hasted’s “Kent.” 
 
 A shield nearly similar to Sir Edmund’s is in Hoare’s History of “Mere” p. 177: and the 
 Pedigree of Ludlow in “Heytesbury,” pp. 11 and 15; in which however the names of Frances 
 and Anne, buried at Maiden Bradley, do not occur. 
 
384 Aubrey’s south wilts. [.Maiden Bradley. 
 
 Col. Edm. Ludlowe, that kept War dour Castle for the Parliament, and so 
 resolutely defended it, was eldest sonne of Sir Henry by Dame Margaret aforesaid. 
 They say he was born here, and that he is now, 1671, 55 yeares of age. Vide the 
 Register for his Nativity, or if possible to gett his Greniture for the sake of Astrology, 
 to see what rugged aspects of Saturn or Mars he is under.—Apocalyptically mad. 1 
 
 “ Here lies interred the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Reddich, late wife of "William Reddich, Gent., 2 
 who departed this life the 8th day of Oct. 1668.” 
 
 Mem. The place where Mr. lives, called Kate or Kate’s-bench, where 
 
 Katharine of the leprous sisters Bassets {read, u Bisets”) used to sitt, 3 * * * 
 
 1 Colonel, afterwards General Edmund Ludlow, was the son of Sir Henry, but not by Dame 
 Margaret. His mother’s Christian name was Elizabeth : her family name is not preserved in the 
 pedigree. “ Dame Margaret aforesaid ” was Sir Henry’s mother; grandmother to the Regicide. 
 
 His retirement, with others of his party, to Yevay on the Lake of Geneva is well known. In 
 addition to the account of his residence there, already published in Hoare’s “ Heytesbury,” p. 25, 
 and elsewhere, some new particulars are supplied by H. L. Long Esq. who was permitted to 
 examine the archives of Yevay, (“ Archaeoiogia,” vol. xxxv. p. 114). On leaving the town for 
 a temporary residence in England 25th July 1689, Ludlow wrote a letter in French to the 
 authorities, stating that he was about to revisit his native country “ to strengthen the hands of 
 our Gideon, to deliver ourselves out of the house of bondage, and demolish the Altar of Baal.” 
 
 The following Latin inscription was formerly over Ludlow’s house at Yevay, hut is now at 
 Heywood House near Westbury in this count} 7 : “omne solum forti patria, quia patris, 1686,” 
 (literally, “Every land is a home to a brave man, because it is his Father’s”). The first four 
 words are taken from Ovid (Fasti, i. 493) who had translated them from a fragment of Euripides. 
 Plato (quoted in Lily’s Euphues) has a similar sentiment: “ Every place is a country to a wise 
 man, and all parts a palace to a quiet mind.” The two additional words “ Quia Patris ” have 
 often been misunderstood, (as in Hoare’s “Heytesbury,” p. 26). They do not refer to the 
 General’s natural father, but to the Almighty : and the meaning of the whole inscription is, in 
 the late Lord Macaulay’s words, (“ History of England,” iii. 509) “ To whom God is a father, 
 every land is a father-land.” 
 
 2 The pedigree of Redich of Maiden Bradley is in “ Wilts Yisit.,” 1623. See also Ashmole’s 
 “ Berks.” 
 
 3 The tradition alluded to was, and is, that the Religious House for female lepers at this place, 
 
 a fragment of which still remains, was founded by two Ladies, one of whom, being herself a sufferer 
 from that malady, resorted for solace to a neighbouring hill, whence to enjoy the prospect: that 
 
 her name was Katharine and (“ex re nomen habet”) this her bench. But the Founder of 
 
 Maiden Bradley Priory was a man : Manser or Manasseh Biset, who c. A.D. 1154 endowed it as 
 
 a Hospital with the Manor of Bradley. About a hundred years afterwards, viz. c. 1250, his 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 385 
 
 MERE 
 
 Is a Market-town bordering on Dorsetshire. It hath its denomination from butting 
 and bounding this County Westwards. (In Anglo-Saxon nicere signifies a boundary.) 
 
 Near the town is a Knoll, called Castle-hill. Mr. Fr. Potter, Rector, sayes here 
 Was anciently a Castle: here are several good trenches. 
 
 This Manor, they told me, belonged to the Lord Stourton before the forfeiture 
 for his killing Hartgill. 1 
 
 Q. If it did not belong to the Prince of Wales ? 2 
 
 estate at Kidderminster in Worcestershire being divided between two coheiresses of his descendant 
 John Biset, the husband of one of them, John de Rivers, added to the endowment a part of his 
 wife’s lands at Kidderminster. Nor was Katharine the name of either of the coheiresses. But 
 the place may have been the favourite resort of some of the unfortunate maidens of the House; 
 unless the name be merely a corruption of Gate-bench. 
 
 There is an engraving of Maiden Bradley Church in * Gent. Mag.,” 1816, p. 393. The family 
 of Mompesson of Corton in Boyton lived sometime in this parish. See Pedigree, Hoare’s 
 “ Heytesbury,” 219. 
 
 1 See under “ Stourton,” some account of this murder. The full particulars are in Sir R. C. 
 Hoare’s “ Mere,” p. 152. The Lords Stourton possessed in this parish only a portion of the 
 Tything of Zeals. 
 
 2 The Manor of Mere, ancient demesne of the Crown, was given by Hen. III. in A.D. 1243, to 
 his brother Richard, Earl of Cornwall. It was afterwards held by other persons: all of whom, 
 with the short exception of Gaveston the favourite of Edw. II., were connected with Blood Royal. 
 Since the time of the Black Prince, who was created first, Duke of Cornwall and afterwards Prince 
 of Wales, (when the Duchy merged in the Principality), Mere has always been, and still is, 
 associated with the heir apparent to the Crown. Of the Castle which stood upon an outlying 
 chalk hill a little distance from the town nothing is left. In the reign of Edw. I. the Abbot of 
 Scone in Scotland was imprisoned here. He was conducted as a rebel and traitor by the Sheriff 
 of Wilts from Winchester, and delivered over to be kept in chains by Richard de Chiselden 
 Seneschal of Mere. The reader will find the history of Mere in Sir R. C. Hoare’s “ Mod. Wilts,” 
 vol. i. pp. 1, 142, 160 : and at pp. 205—226, a very long but curious and minute account of the 
 annual receipts, expenditure and general management of Mere Castle and the Earl of Cornwall’s 
 estate under the said Richard of Chiselden 24th and 25th Edw. I. (1296—7). The Earl (Edmund 
 Plantagenet) resided at Berkhampstead, Herts, and his rents were carried to him in hard money, 
 the clerk’s journey to and fro occupying nine to thirteen days. Mere Castle had six towers 
 covered with lead. One was called “ The Countess’s; ” (his wife Margaret Clare having been 
 separated from him and “ decreed to lead an unmarried life,” probably lived here) ; and others, 
 the “ Northern, Eastern,” &c. It had an outer and inner gate: a very deep well, the chain of 
 
 3 c 
 
386 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. {Mere. 
 
 (Cliurch.) 
 
 Here is a very faire Church, and before the late troubles, well beautified with old 
 painted glass. An organ loft and six stalles. * 1 In the north aisle is a kind of Bal¬ 
 cony, as it were for an organ, on which these coates are painted, viz. (See PI. xxxiv.) 
 
 [No. 498] A Merchant’s Mark. 
 
 [499] (Clyvedon). 
 
 [500] Carant. 
 
 [501] Hungerford, with a mullet for 
 
 difference. 
 
 - Do without the difference. 
 
 [502] Prince of 'Wales. 
 
 [503] The Trinity. Device. 
 
 [504] -? 
 
 [505] Berkeley. 
 
 [506] Stourton. 
 
 [PL xxxv. 507] (Wadham). 
 
 [No. 508] Bettesthorne. 
 
 [509] Baynton. 
 
 - Carant as before, with a crescent 
 
 for difference. 
 
 [510] -? 
 
 “0on nobis Snc, non nobis, scb nomtnt tuo ba glortam.” 2 
 
 which appears to have been continually breaking: a Chapel and a Priest with 50s. a year to say 
 Mass for the soul of the Earl’s mother Sanchia Berenger. Its officers were a constable, a warder 
 for day and a watchman for night. In the year in which the account was taken, the armoury 
 and engines for casting missiles were ordered to be put in repair, as some trouble was expected; 
 the Barons, headed by Bohun and Bigod, having refused to serve the King in any war bejmnd 
 sea. Many curious details relating to the farming customs and domestic processes of the day 
 (more than 550 years ago) are also given in this document. 
 
 1 The Arms of “ Kymer,” Three wolves within a border, are stated by Sir R. C. Hoare (p. 11) to 
 be on one of these seats. This must have been Gilbert Kymer, Dean of Sarum 1449—63, and as 
 such, Rector of Mere. He had been Dean of Wimborne Minster, Principal of Hart Hall, and 
 Chancellor of Oxford. He was also Physician to King Henry VI. and Humphrey Duke of 
 Gloucester, and Author of “ Dietarium Salutis.” An order addressed to him as “ Master Dean 
 of Salisbury, notable, expert and proved in the Craft of Medicine,” is printed in “ Gent. Mag.” 
 1788, p. 943. See also “ Hutch. Dorset,” ii, 79. His figure in a gown, with an inscription, is 
 in a window of the South cross aisle in Salisbury Cathedral. The Rectory of Mere was a Peculiar 
 of the Deanery. A list of vicars from the Dean’s Register is printed by Sir R. C. Hoare, p. 168. 
 Also (p. 142) a curious inventory of the Goods of the Church in 1220, William de Wanda, Dean. 
 An engraving of the Rood Screen is in “Gent. Mag.” 1832, pt. i. One of the ancient doors of the 
 Church has some good iron-work. 
 
 * This list of shields appears to include some names not connected by property with Mere; 
 probably those only of residents or neighbours who contributed to the work. 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 387 
 
 (South Chancel. Bettesthorne’s, afterwards Berkeley’s Chantry.) 
 
 Mem. The Chapell has good carved worke in the roof. In the windowes, St. 
 Nicholas, and some other Saints. 
 
 Under a huge marble, with brasse, a figure of a Chevalier, standing on a Lyon. 
 »ic jacrt Sotjanncs Bcttcstfaornc quonham fans he Cfaafacnfrmdjc funhator istius 
 cantarte qut ofaut fat 0 fate Jfettruarti &nno ©m utcra faomtntcaT ft. 
 
 cuj ate ppteietur ©cus. Arnett. 
 
 Tu, qui transieris, videas, sta, perlege, plora, 
 
 Es quod eram, et eris quod sum, pro me precor ora. 
 
 The inscription of the limbe ( margin ) is lost, and one escutcheon; the other, 
 Bettesthorne as before. 1 
 
 In brass, on marble, is a Chevalier with his greyhound at his feet; his wife’s 
 effigies is lost, as also the escutcheons and inscription. 2 
 
 An Altar monument of marble, inscription and escutcheons lost. 
 
 In the East windowe here, are these coates, [PI. xxxv.] viz. 3 
 
 1 The South Chancel Chapel (St. Mary’s) was founded, as this inscription states, by Sir John de 
 
 Bettesthorne, of Chadenwych in this parish, and Gillingham co. Dorset. His daughter and 
 heiress married Sir John Berkeley of Beverstone co. Gloucester. The lands belonging to this 
 chantry were obtained at the Dissolution by the Protector Somerset for his Secretary Sir John 
 
 Thynne, by whom they were sold to Thomas Chafyn of Zeals, and by his representatives the 
 
 Groves of Zeals the chapel is now used for burial. In 1860 an East window of stained glass was 
 placed in it, in memory of the late Major Chafyn Grove. Sir John Bettesthorne’s brass is 
 engraved in Sir It. C. Hoare’s “Mere,” PI. iii. p. 12: in Boutell’s, and in Kite’s “Brasses.” 
 Chadenwych (commonly pronounced Charnich) is a manor of 722 acres adjoining here. The 
 tything was the Earl of Cornwall’s in 1298 (I. p. M.). It has belonged successively to 
 
 Bettesthorne, Berkeley, Compton : from 1550—1640 to Awbrey (a different family from the 
 
 Antiquary’s; see Pedigree in “Wilts Visit.” 1623: also “South Wraxhall,” supra, p. 25) 
 Coventry, Wyndham, Iloare. At a place of this name Montacute Earl of Sarum held a fee, 1396, 
 and 1414 (I. p. M.). 
 
 2 This imperfect figure is engraved on the plate of Bettesthorne’s Brass in History of “ Mere,” 
 p. 12. It probably represents one of the Berkeleys. 
 
 3 Aubrey’s description of these shields is not noticed by Sir It. C. Hoare. The lion of 
 “ Mowbray,” (Or, in the shield No. 511) should be Argent. No. 513 contains charges nearly resem- 
 
 3 c 2 
 
388 
 
 Aubrey's south wilts. 
 
 \Mere. 
 
 [No. 511 Mowbray], K.G. quartering (Mau- 
 travers or Audley), Impaling 
 1. lost . 2 and 3, (Neville.) 
 
 4. quarterly-. 
 
 - Berkeley. «, 
 
 - Bettesthorxe. > all as before. 
 
 - [Wadham]. ' 
 
 - Within a blue Garter, a coat broken . 
 
 [512 Henry] Lord Fitz-Hugh, (K.G. 
 temp. Hen. V.) 
 
 [513 Gournay ? quarterly, Impaling 
 Cantilupe.] 
 
 [514] Hungerford impaling Do. 
 
 - Stourton, as before. 
 
 [515 Cantilupe] impaling Fitz-Hugh. 
 [516] -impaling Berkeley quarter¬ 
 
 ing (Bettesthorne). 
 
 [517 Cantilupe] single. 
 
 [518 -?] within a Garter. 
 
 In the South Window, not legible this dimme day, Paly lozengy and a border S. 
 bezanty. (Newburgh, or Brize? No. 519.) 
 
 In the window, South aisle of the Quire, Clyvedon as before, with a crescent 
 Sable for difference. 
 
 On a marble gravestone: “ Here lieth the body of Elizabeth Chafin, daughter to Richard 
 Chafin, of Zeales, Esqr., and Lucie his wife, which sayd Elizabeth was here buried the 21 of 
 Novemb. 1641, and of her age the fourth, and it is the earnest desire of the sayd Lucie, her sor¬ 
 rowful mother, out of the most deare and tender affection to her sayd daughter Elizabeth to be 
 layd by her on the south side, whence they both expect a glorious resurrection.” 
 
 In a table: Chafyx impaling Hyde [No. 521]. The Crest is a Talbot passant 
 Or. [No. 520] 
 
 On a table against the wall [No. 522] Chafyx as before, quartering [Erlegh]. 
 
 In the South aisle window [No. 523, Roet ? ] 
 
 In the South windows of the middle aisle, 1. Prixce of Wales [No. 524]. 2. 
 
 -? impaling Caraxt [No. 525]. 3. Another outline, of 9 quarterings [No. 526] 
 
 I cannot discern, this dim weather. The first seems to be Touchet. On an escut¬ 
 cheon of pretence, Stourtox. * 1 
 
 It ought not to be forgotten that the reverend and learned Divine, Mr. Francis 
 
 bling Gournay, and Cantilupe, both names connected with the Pedigree of Zouche. A Zouche, 
 whose family had been Lords of Castle Cary, was holder of Mere Park under the Crown temp. 
 Eliz. The shields as described by Aubrey do not exactly correspond with those of Gournay and 
 Cantilupe, but as he was there “ on a dim day,”he may not have copied them quite accurately. 
 
 1 This seems to be wrong; for in the Pedigree of Stourton no match appears between Touchet 
 and Stourton: nor indeed any heiress at all, by whom the estates ever passed away. 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 389 
 
 Potter, B.D., Rector of Kilmington, in Co. Somerset, 1675, quondam a Commoner 
 of Trinity College in Oxford, Author of the “ Interpretation of the Number 666,” 
 which is translated into French, High Dutch, Low Dutch, and Latin; a rare 
 inventor of machines, and my singular good friend, was born here in the Vicaridge 
 house, his father being Vicar here, and Rector of Kilmington. 1 
 
 STOURTON. 2 
 
 The Parish of Stourton, the Lord’s house, and three of the six springs in the 
 Park, are all in the county of Wiltshire ; whereas Mr. Camden has put them all in 
 Somersetshire. These fountaines, I am sure those within the Park pale, are 
 curbed with pierced cylinders of freestone, like chimney tunnes, the diameter of 
 the concave being eighteen inches. [PI. xxxvi. No. 530.] 
 
 Note. That the coate of the Lord Stourton is S. a lend Or. between 6 fountains 
 [PI. xxxv. No. 528], which allude to these six springs, being the head of the 
 River Stour which runns to Blandford, &c. I believe anciently ’twas only Salle , a 
 bend Or. [PI. xxxvi. No. 529.] 
 
 The Park is large, but bald for timber trees, only some old stagge-headed trees 
 remaining. This tract of country was heretofore all horrid and woody; it border- 
 eth on the Forests of Bruton and Gillingham. 
 
 1 Anthony Wood’s account of Mr. Francis Potter, (Ath : Oxon : ii. 613) reprinted in Hoare’s 
 “Mere,” p. 158 was evidently supplied by Aubrey, who in bis Lives of Eminent Men, (“Letters 
 from the Bodleian,” ii. 496) has dwelt at considerable length upon this brilliant mechanical genius 
 hidden under the bushel of Kilmington Parsonage. “ ’Twas pity,” he says, “ that such a delicate 
 inventive witt should be staked in an obscure corner, from whence men rarely emerge to higher 
 preferment, but contract a moss on them, like an old pale in an orchard, for want of ingeniose 
 conversation, which is a great want even to the deepest thinking men.” Mr. Potter was born 
 1594, and died about 1678. His book was published at Oxford in 4to. 1642. Pepys mentions it 
 in his “Memoirs,” (February 18th 1665—6, and 4th and 10th November 1666,) “It pleased him 
 mightily. He liked it all along: but the close most excellent: and, whether right or wrong, 
 mighty ingenious.” There is a copy in the British Museum Library. 
 
 2 Modern Stourton is described by its then owner Sir B. C. Hoare in his “History of Mere,” 
 Hundred,” (Mod. Wilts, vol. i.) and a plan of the sources of the Stour is given in the same work 
 at p. 86. The park wall dividing the six springs was taken down by Sir Richard. 
 
390 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. [Stourton. 
 
 In the Parke on a hill, is the Toft, they say, of the Castle of Stourton: nothing 
 now remayning but trenches ; after this figure [No. 531]. 
 
 (Old Stourton House.) 1 
 
 Stourton House as it appears from the South [PL xxxvii. No. 548]. 
 
 The house is of gothique building, and standeth on a great deal of ground, 
 and tills and Farleigli Castle are the two howses that are almost entirely the 
 same as they were in the time of the old English Barons. 
 
 Here is a great open-roofed hall, and an extraordinary large and high open- 
 roofed kitchen. 
 
 In the Hall of Stourton house. 
 
 In the glasse windowes are several single scutcheons of Stourton [as in No. 528]. 
 
 In the Com! over the Parlour windowe is, in stone, this quartered scutcheon 
 [No. 532]: Stourton as before, quartering, 1. a cross engrailed [Willoughby]. 2. 
 an inescutcheon within an orle of 8 martlets (Chediock.) 
 
 Another shield Stourton and Derby. 2 
 
 In the buttrey is preserved a huge and monstrous bone, which the tradition of 
 the howse would have to be of a mighty man or rather gyant, of this Family: it is 
 tw r o foote long and . inches about. I had these verses there upon it, 
 
 “ In Sturtoni satrapae admirandae magnitudinis 
 Coxam gentilitia sepultura Monasterii Glassenburiensis inventam 
 asservatamque antiquitatis et admirationis ergo. 
 
 Epigramma. 
 
 Herculeam veteres molem cecinere poetae 
 Corpus et immensum, prodigiumque pedis. 
 
 1 For Leland’s account of Old Stourton House, every trace of which, except the site, is gone, see 
 ‘‘ Wilts Archaeol. Mag.” I. 194. Aubrey (“Nat. Hist, of Wilts,” p. 101) says “ It was little con¬ 
 siderable as to the architecture.” His rude sketch is copied in Hoare’s “ Frustfield.” p. 7. 
 
 2 Aubrey omitted to describe the shield called “Derby.” Charles Lord Stourton (who died 1557) 
 married Ann daughter of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby : and there was a Rector of Stourton 
 named Darby, 1666. 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 391 
 
 Saxonici Herois coxam mirando nepotes 
 Anglia quos genuit, nunc didicere, viros. 
 
 Talia si nostro florerent corpora seclo, 
 
 Sectarum nusquam monstra nocere putem.” 
 
 The knobbes at the end of this bone are about the bignesse of two fists of a good 
 substantial man, which exceeds the proportion of human thigh bones; and besides 
 they are not of the figure or shape of a human bone. There was such a kind of 
 bone hung up in a chaine in the Cloyster of Alderman-bury church-yard, before the 
 conflagration of London, which bone is now at the King’s howse in Greenwyche. 
 Mr. Camden somewhere in his Britannia, I think Essex, makes mention of such 
 bones; which he believes to be fish’s bones, mistaken for men’s. But why might 
 they not be Elephant’s bones ? for the Romans brought Elephants into Britaine. 
 
 In the Chappell, in the howse, the pavement is of brick annealed or painted with 
 their coate, and Rebus “V.S. a tower & a ton Or.” [No. 533.] N.B. These 
 enamelled bricks have not been used these last hundred yeares. The old paving at 
 our Lady’s Church at Sarum is so; and at Gloucester excellent; and the like in 
 other places. ’Tis pity it is not revived and improved—Mr. Dwight may much 
 improve it. 
 
 Parsonus de tribus Conversionibus Anglia?. 
 
 “ Primo accessu in banc Insulam Sancti Augustini ordinis sancti Benedicti, annis abhinc retro 
 elapsis mille et ducentis praeteritis propter, quo tempore c®pta est tertia hujus Regni Conversio, 
 floruerunt inter primos conversos et benefactores duo satrapae Sturtonus et Sturleius usque adeo 
 tam divino operi faventes, ut primum in Anglia Catholicam Ecclesiam Cantuari® promoverint, 
 subministratis ad ®dificium perficiendum sumptibus, fundisque in sustentationem donatis. Hinc 
 factum est, ut hi benefactores tanti beneficii symbolum in scutis gentilitiis acceperint atque 
 etiamnum gestent; alter cingulum sancti Augustini in quo hujus rei memoria erat insculpta: 
 alter monachum integrum cmgulo cinctum, et mortificatorio flagro obarmatum , in signum monastic® 
 mortificationis gentilitiis protent®. H®c Camdenus in sua Britannia tangit in descriptione 
 Comitatus Notingamiensis ubi Sturleius agit, etiam in transumptitia Mon® Insul® historia, sed 
 fuse omnia habentur in manuscripto codice Monasterii Benedictinorum Cantuariensium, qui 
 asservatur in Bibliotheca Cottoniana. H®c antiquitas induxit Botolphum Sturtonum tempore 
 Gulielmi Yictoris, ut cum Abbate Glassenburiensi et Stigando Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi sese 
 conjungeret, rebusque feliciter cadentibus, a Victore pro se totoque tractu in quo vixit pacis 
 conditiones acceperit. H®e prolixe in eodem quem posui manuscripto libro habentur.” 1 
 
 1 This is an extract from a “Treatise of the Three Conversions of Paganism to the Christian 
 
392 
 
 AUBREY S SOUTH WILTS. 
 
 \Stour ton. 
 
 Vide also Sir Henry Spelman’s Collections, under u Saxons.” 
 
 The Lord Stourtons were possessed of a great Estate in the West, till in Queen 
 Marie’s dayes the Lord Stourton was attainted by his murthering of Hartgill his 
 steward, whom he killed and buried in his cellar; for which he was hanged in a 
 silken cord at Salisbury: as also, I thinke, in the same yeare was the Lord 
 Hungerford. Sir Geo. Hungerford saies the Lord Hungerford was beheaded in 
 
 Religion,” by Robert Parsons the Jesuit, in which he informs the reader that the Stourton family 
 adopted their device, of a Monk armed with a scourge, at the first visit of Augustine to England, 
 B.D. 597. He might have said, with quite as much truth, that the Stourtons derived their arms 
 from Nileus, who bore upon his shield the seven sources of the Nile, Argent and Or. 
 
 “-qui se genitum septemplice ATilo 
 
 Ementitus erat, clypeo quoqueyfewuna septem, 
 
 Argento partim, partim coelaverat auro.” (Ovid, Met. v., 187.) 
 
 -“ Nileus, who vainly said he ow’d 
 
 His origin to Nile’s prolific flood, 
 
 Who on his shield seven silver rivers bore, 
 
 His birth to witness by the name he wore.” 
 
 The Stourton family adopted the crest of a Demi-Monk with a scourge from another family, Le 
 Moine, whose heiress married Sir William Stourton c. 1398: eight centuries after Augustine. 
 
 It is stated in some of the “ Peerages,” that the Stourtons were “ of considerable rank before the 
 Conquest, and dictated their own terms to the Conqueror: ” but of this there is no evidence in 
 Wiltshire County History. If there was any such family in this county at the Conquest, it was 
 not by their position or extent of property here, that they were qualified to be formidable to the 
 Conqueror. The name is found, apparently for the first time, among Wiltshire landholders in 
 the reign of Edw. I., when a Nicholas Stourton was holding one Knight’s fee here, under the 
 Lovells of Castle Cary. It occurs no where else in Wilts at that period. 
 
 By the marriage with the heiress of Le Moine above-mentioned, William Stourton, Knight, 
 obtained a large accession of property : and, following a custom common in those days, he adopted 
 her crest. In 1426 John (created in 1448, Baron) Stourton obtained license to enclose a Park of 
 1000 acres. He was the first Wilts Sheriff of this family (1426—7). In 1440 he had a grant in 
 Fee of Old Sarurn, then so ruinous that it yielded no benefit to the King, to be held by fealty 
 paying 3s. 4d. yearly to the Crown. His descendants remained till 1720 when Henry Hoare Esq. 
 pui’chased Stourton, and having taken down the Old House, gave to the new one the name of 
 of Stourhead. The Stourton Peerage is now one of the oldest in England, being one of the very 
 few, only eighteen in the whole, whose lineal male ancestors were noblemen at the end of Queen 
 Elizabeth’s reign. 
 
 “Sturleius,” mentioned in the extract from Parsons, is the family of Strelley, co. Nottingham, 
 which Camden calls one of the oldest and most famous in that county. 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 393 
 
 the Tower and buried there; as is to be seen in the Private Act of Parliament. 1 
 
 From Mr. Francis Potter, Minister of Kilmanton : (see above p. 389). 
 
 It is to be remembered that in those dayes there were great animosities, they 
 termed it feuds, between Lords and Lords, and Gentlemen and Knights, in all 
 counties; and in Queen Marie’s time there was a great feud between this Lord and 
 William Herbert, the first Earl of Pembroke of that family, who was altogether a 
 stranger in the West, and from a private gentleman and of no estate, but only a 
 soldier of fortune, becoming a favorite of K. Hen. 8. at the dissolution of the 
 Abbeys, in few yeares from nothing, slipt into a prodigious Estate of the Church’s 
 Lands, which brought great envy on him from this Baron of an ancient family 
 and great paternal estate, besides the difference in religion. This Lord Stourton 
 aforesayd was a person of great spirit and courage, and kept in his retinue the 
 stoutest fellowes he could hear of. Amongst others he heard of one Hartgill, a 
 mighty stout fellowe who had lately killed a man, who was recommended to his 
 Lordship for his valour; who when he came into his family, the Lord Stourton 
 gave the next Sunday ten groates to the Priest of the Parish to say a Masse for him 
 at Church, for the expiation of Hartgill’s sin in killing the man. A surly, dogged, 
 crosse fellowe it seems he was; who, at last, when his Lordship had advanced him 
 to be steward of his Estate, cosined his Lord of the Mannour of Kilmanton, the 
 next parish. I thinke it was a Trust. The Lord Stourton, who also had as good 
 a spirit, seeing that his servant Hartgill had so ensnared him in law tricks, as that 
 he could not possibly be relieved; not being able to bear so great and ungratefull 
 an abuse, murthered him as aforesaid. Vide Grafton’s Chronicle, which speakes 
 most fully of this story. 2 3 
 
 1 Lord Stourton was executed 16th March, 1557 : Walter Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury 
 28th July 1540. The Act of Parliament does not allude to the place of his burial. 
 
 2 The above account judging from the style, is most likely Aubrey’s own; but upon the infor¬ 
 mation of his friend Mr. Potter, who gave the best colour he could to the story for the family of his 
 neighbours. This extraordinary case is printed in Sir It. C. Hoare’s “ Mere,” and in Phelps’s 
 “Somerset,” i. 185: also in Gent. Mag. 1760, p. 87. The cause of the quarrel appears to 
 have been the Manor of Kilmington (or as Aubrey spells it, Kil-man-ton) which immediately 
 adjoins Stourton parish, and within the limits of which “Alfred’s Tower” now stands. Kilmington 
 
 3 D 
 
394 Aubrey’s south wilts. [Stourton. 
 
 Mem. Michaelmas 1675, the Mannour of Kilmanton was sold by Hartgill to. 
 
 Fox. 1 
 
 The Estate that belonged to this (i.e. the Stourton) Family before the forfeiture, 
 is judged to be worth noiv not less than twenty thousand pounds per annum. 
 
 had belonged to Shaftesbury Nunnery. It seems that Lord Stourton desired it, but that 
 Hartgill anticipated him. Their dispute is often mentioned in the Council Book of Edward VI., 
 in whose reign it began. Both parties were bound over. In Queen Mary’s reign it was renewed ; 
 but the Council again interposing, the disputants agreed to live amicably. Lord Stourton how¬ 
 ever caused Hartgill’s son to be waylaid and nearly murdered. For this he was imprisoned; and 
 then condemned to pay a fine to the Hartgills. Going down to his home ostensibly for this pur¬ 
 pose, he decoyed the father and son to meet him under pretext of paying the fine. They were 
 then bound, carried to a field near Stourton, knocked dowrn with clubs, their throats cut (his lord- 
 ship holding the candle), and their bodies buried in a dungeon. Lord Stourton was tried in 
 Westminster Hall, and at first refused to plead, but the Chief Justice threatening him with pres¬ 
 sure to death, he confessed the fact, and was executed at Salisbur}'. His assistants were hung in 
 chains at Mere. “ To his own quality,” says an old MS., “ a distinction was allowed, that instead 
 of being hanged in a common cord, a silken one was used, which must needs have been a mighty 
 comfort to him. This is not unlike a passage in the Homan History about Galba : who, being 
 petitioned by a condemned knight that he might not suffer like a common malefactor, the 
 Emperor commanded the gallows to be finely painted and coloured that it might be answerable to 
 his dignity.” Bp. Burnet (Hist, of Reform, iii. 44) having at first stated that Queen Mary had felt 
 herself obliged to let the sentence be carried out, though very much against her private wishes on 
 account of Lord Stourton being of her religion, says afterwards, that, living in Wiltshire, he (the 
 Bishop of Salisbury) had gathered from the traditions of the county another version, viz., that the 
 Queen had actually sent down a reprieve, but that Lord Pembroke, by locking his gates contrived to 
 evade the messenger for the night, and that in the morning when the bearer of the reprieve 
 returned to Wilton, Lord Pembroke had in the meantime hastened to Salisbury to cause the 
 original sentence to be carried into execution. Mr. Waylen (History of Marlborough, p. 219) 
 has some remarks upon this subject. 
 
 Among the class of impostors called “ Abraham Men,” who in Queen Elizabeth’s reign told 
 pitiful stories of the cruelties they had suffered in Bedlam, one is mentioned of the name of 
 Stradling, a knave who pretended to have been a servant of Lord Stourton, and to have gone mad 
 for grief at his execution : “ he fell first into a deep pensiveness, and then for a year or more lost 
 his wits. Lastly he was taken with a marvellous palsy, that shook both head and hands.” 
 [Greene’s Groundwork of Coney Catching.] 
 
 1 This “ sale to — Fox ” may perhaps have been only a mortgage to Sir Stephen, a great lender 
 of money on Wiltshire estates temp. Charles II.: for Sir R. C. Hoare (“Mere,” p. 157) says 
 that the Manor of Kilmington was sold by Ferdinando Hartgill to Henry Hoare in 1735. 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 395 
 
 They were great benefactors to the Cathedrall Church of Sarum, as appears by 
 their coate of arms every where about the Church, and in all the Prebendaries’ 
 howses. They were also great benefactors to the Abbey of Glastonbury, where 
 yet all about the Town their scutcheons flourish in the windowes, and in the 
 remaining part of that stately Monastery: in the Church of which most of the 
 Family, before the Reformation, were interred. I saw their Pedigree, which is 
 drawn from Botolph Stourton before mentioned (p. 391), who lived in the time of 
 the Conquest, to about the beginning of King James’s time. Mem. King James is 
 derived from this family in the Pedigree; one of his Progenitors marrying to a 
 daughter of this family about 200 yeares ago, more or less. Mem. The Lord 
 Stourton that is now, 1674, is named Botolph, and his sonne is the nineteenth from 
 the first Botolph inclusive. I had a great curiosity to observe that so honorable and 
 eminent a family should not, since the Conquest, lose a generation. Compare these 
 generations with ours and others. 1 
 
 (Church. St. Peter’s.) 
 
 The roof of the nave of this Church is of timber very well carved. 
 
 On the Church door is an escutcheon in freestone of Stourton impaling 
 Wrottesley. [No. 534.] 
 
 (Chancel.) 
 
 In the East window of the Chancel: 
 
 [No. 535] Stourton as before, quartering (Ash?) 0. 3 bars Az. 2 
 
 1 The Stourton family were contributors to church building, &c: but their names do not occur 
 in the New Monasticon as donors of lands to Glastonbury or Salisbury. The Christian names of 
 the Lords Stourton during Aubrey’s life, were William, Edward, and William : and the family 
 Pedigree, in Edmondson, gives no Baron at any period of the Christian name of Botolph. King 
 James’s “ derivation ” from them was as follows. Edith Stourton, aunt to the first Baron 
 married Sir John Beauchamp. Their only daughter married John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. 
 Their only daughter Margaret married Edmund, Earl of Richmond, by whom she was mother to 
 King Hen. VII. The daughter of King Hen. VII. was great grandmother to James I. 
 
 2 This is a coat of Ash : but no such heiress appears in the Pedigree of Stourton. A William 
 Ashe was Rector 1435—44. 
 
396 Aubrey’s south wilts. \ Stourton. 
 
 [536 Crowke ?] G. a bend Az. (sic: but false heraldry. Perhaps Az. a bend 0.] 
 between 6 fleurs de lvs Arg: impaling Stourton as before. 
 
 Stourton impaling Wrottesley, as before (534). 
 
 Under the picture of B. M. is an ancient monument of Purbec marble, the 
 escutcheons whereof are lost. 
 
 The North ( Chancel ) windowe is full of painting, Saints, &c. (all gone except a 
 fragment of the Crucifixion in light.) 
 
 A Stourton in his coate of armes, kneeling, and 3Hju nttSCl'frc met. 
 
 A White Friar with a Penitentiall whip [PI. xxxy. No. 527] which is one of the 
 crests, and the one now used, of this Family; 3 and an Angell bearing this scutcheon: 
 
 [PI. xxxvi. No. 537 Ash ? as before,] impaling,-G. a chevron A. bet. 3 plates. 
 
 Under this window an altar marble monument; escutcheons lost. On the wall: 
 
 “ Dormitoria sub hoc pariete (sed resurgent) Caroli & Frances Liberorum Caroli Croke, 
 Armig., et uxoris ejus Mariae, Anno Redemptionis 1666.—Oramus vigilent in Domino cito.” 
 
 [No. 538] Croke, a fess between six martlets quartering 1. (Haynes, a fess 
 indented, or nebulee, between three annulets.) 2nd, a cross between four martlets. 
 3rd, three escallops. 1 
 
 On a marble gravestone: jacct Soljrs EHunforb h quonbam ijttttts Hector dBu 
 
 cite qut ointt T tuc mrnsts Jultt, &nno ©nt euj ate pptcietur 
 
 ©cus. &mcn. 
 
 “Dormitorium Nathanielis Field, hujus Ecclesiae quondam pastoris, qui diem clausit extremum 
 16 Martii, Anno Domini 1665.” [No. 539] Field, impaling King. 6 
 
 1 1 have heard one say that the issue male of this Family being all extinct, except a brother who was a White 
 Friar, the Pope granted a dispensation of his vowe, and that he should quit his Convent, and marry to continue the 
 line of the Family; which accordingly he did ; and in such cases the brother that so departs, is to runne the gaunt¬ 
 let, as the soldiers term it, that is, all the Fryars put themselves into two ranks, having every one a penitential 
 whip in his hand, and the dispensed Fryar runnes through, every one giving him a lash. (In the original MS., a 
 pen has been drawn, probably by Aubrey himself, through this “hear-say.”) Before, the crest of this Family was 
 a Dray. Note —A crest taken according to this tradition is not so probable as that in page (391) backed by authen- 
 tique history, ( i.e. Robert Parsons’s story, Ed.) for the rise of that is honourable, this not so. 
 
 b Perhaps it should be Warnford. (The name is Winford. Ed.) 
 c Daughter of Dr. King who was Minister here. 
 
 1 See “ Croke of Chilton,” Lipscomb’s History of co. Buckingham, i., 147. 
 
MERE HUNDRED. 
 
 397 
 
 Stourton Aisle. 
 
 In the windowes of this chapell are good painted figures of Saints : and a Stourton 
 kneeling in his coate of armes, with a collar of SSS about his neck; and these 
 scutcheons: 
 
 - Stourton impaling Wrottesley (as 534). 
 
 [No. 542] Stourton single, supporter on either side an Antelope Argt. horned 0.» 
 
 [543] Stourton single. Over it, a Crest, a Dray Or. 
 
 In which East windowe is, in the limbe {margin) thereof, this inscription, viz. 
 .statu hut.he Storton et tine Eljomasme 1 co :.a. hut IE.UHL {gone.) 
 
 (There are also in the Church windows some crowns and estoiles Or.) 
 
 (Under an arch) in the aisle, or chappell, belonging to the Lord Stourton, an altar 
 monument of freestone, on which are the figures of ( Edward , 5tli) Baron of Stourton, 
 in armour, and his Ladye {Agnes Fauntlcroy) ; four children at head and feet. 2 
 These escutcheons in stone : 
 
 [No. 540, Chediock, gone.) [No. 541] Stourton impaling Fontleroy i.e. Infant 
 de le Roy (?) 3 heads coupe crined 0 : {remaining 1858. The letters E.A. and E.S. 
 are also left; and round the margin the device of the Dray). 
 
 On a faire black marble thus :—“ Hie jacet sepultus Dominus Johannes Stourton, {8th) Baro 
 de Stourton, qui diem extremum clausit Ao. Dni. 1587, et Rcgni Elizabethae Reginas Angliae 
 anno 28. Item hie jacet sepultus Dns Edwardus Stourton, (9 th) Baro de Stourton, Frater 
 praedicti Johannis qui obiit septimo die Maij, Anno Caroli primi Regis Angliae nono, Annoque 
 Domini 1633.” 
 
 Here is another marble whose brasse is all lost. 
 
 On black marble gravestones, 
 
 “ Here lieth interred the body of Frances Stourton, a second daughter of the Right Honour¬ 
 able William Lord Stourton, who died the 4th of Aug. Anno Domini 1646. ORA.” 
 
 “ Here lies interred the body of Lady Mary Weld, wife of Sir John Weld, Knight, ye eldest 
 daughter of William Lord Stourton, who dyed the 15th of May, Anno Domini 1650.” Arms 
 (Weld No. 544). 
 
 a The Lord Stourton’s supporters, now, are two horrid things like sea-horses Sable crested, instead of manes, with 
 things like Dragon’s wings Or. Quccre, when they altered their supporters and why ? 
 
 1 William, 4th Baron Stourton married Thomasine daughter of Sir Walter Wrottesley Knight. 
 
 2 These effigies are engraved in Sir R. C. noare’s “ Mere,” p. 45. 
 
398 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 [. Stourton . 
 
 “Hie jacet Domina Margarita Stourton, Filia Georgii Morgan Arm.es antiqua familia 
 Lanthernliam et Pentre; obiit die 7 Maii, Ao. Dni. 1665. Carissimae conjugi posuit Gulielmus 
 Stourton, Armig.” Arms, A fess between three bull’s beads cabossed (Morgan) impaling 
 Stourton (No. 545). ’Tis left wrong on the stone as here. 1 
 
 (East Aisle.) 
 
 In the East Aisle under a marble gravestone, thus:—“ Here lveth the body of the Honourable 
 Thomas Stourton, Esqr., brother to the Right Honourable William Lord Stourton, who dyed 
 the 20th day of August, Ao. Dni. 1669.” ORA. 
 
 Mem. The escutcheon of Stourton and the Dray is in stone and glasse in War¬ 
 minster Chappell. It belongs to the Cath. Church of Welles, and was anciently 
 given, perhaps by this Family, to provide that Church with Wax Candles. 2 
 
 In a North wiudowe of the North aisle, is this coate : Stourton single. 
 
 Underneath this windowe is a freestone monument of a woman, with the coate of 
 Wrottesley, and a Dray in stone, (still in the church 1858). 
 
 In the middle aisle windowes, on high, are the effigies of a Stourton kneeling in 
 his coate armour, and two ladies kneeling; the inscription I could not reade, it 
 being so high, and I had no short telescope about me. Coate of Wrottesley, and 
 parti pale Stourton and Wrottesley, and a figure kneeling, (gone.) 
 
 In the aforesaid windowe of the middle aisle, are these scutcheons. A woman’s 
 figure kneeling bidding her beades. (gone.) 
 
 [PI. xxxvi. No. 546] -? impaling Carent. 
 
 [547] -? 
 
 Mem. These windowes here have been very full of good painted glasse. 
 
 East Aisle. In brasse on freestone:—“Hie sepultus est Thomas Martinus qui obiit 15 die 
 Decemb. An. Dni. 1635.” 
 
 1 Aubrey drew the Arms as he saw them on the monument, Morgan impaling Stourton; but 
 observed that they were wrong. They ought to have been, Stourton impaling Morgan, as, 
 according to the inscription, William Stourton was the husband, and Margaret Morgan the wife. 
 In our Plate xxxvi, the dexter of No. 545 is accidentally miscalled Gore; for which read Morgan. 
 
 2 There is a Prebend of Warminster, (properly of “ Luxfield ” near Warminster,) in the Church 
 of Wells: but whether St. Laurence’s Chapel at Warminster was ever in any way connected with 
 "Wells, or with the Prebend, does not appear. 
 
WESTBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 BROOK-HOUSE, in Westbury Parish. 1 
 
 a very great and stately old bowse. In the Hall, which is great and 
 open, with very old windowes, remaines only the coate of Paveley, 
 
 Azure a cross flory Or [PI. xxxyii., No. 549]. 
 In the Canopie Chamber, in the windows: 
 
 [No. 550] 
 
 [551] 
 
 [552] 
 
 [553] 
 
 [554] 
 
 [555] 
 
 Sir (Humphrey) Stafford : Or, a chevron Gules, and bordure engrailed Sable, 
 Impaling for Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of Adam Greyvill, six lion- 
 cells rampant Sable, 3, 2, 1. Field not coloured. [For Greynville or Greyvile 
 of Southwick Court, see above, p. 347. Argent, six lions rampant Gules is one 
 of the coats of Greville.] 
 
 (Sir Humphrey) Stafford, quartering Greyvill; Impaling, Sable, a fret Or; for 
 Elizabeth daughter and heir of John Maltravers. 
 
 Sir John Maltravers, as before: Impaling, for Elizabeth daughter and heir of 
 (Robert) Cifrewast, Azure 2 bars gemelles Argent. 
 
 Sir John Maltravers quartering Cifrewast, both as before, Impaling, for Elizabeth 
 daughter of Sir William (and coheir of her brother William) Aumarle or 
 Almerle, Per fess Gules and Azure, 3 crescents Argent. 
 
 Sir Edmund Cheyne, G. on 4 lozenges in fess A., 4 escallops S. Impaling 
 Stafford quartering 1. Greyvill. 2. Maltravers. 3. Cifrewast: all as before. 
 
 Sir John Willoughby, S. a cross engrailed 0.; quartering, G. a cross moline A. 
 (Beke) with a crescent at fess point: Impaling, Cheyney quartering 1. Stafford 
 2. Greyvill. 3. Maltravers. 4. Cifrewast. 5. Aumarle : all as before. 
 
 1 Brook House (or Hall) is long since destroyed. It stood about three miles N.W. of Westbury 
 on the site of the present Brook House Farm. In the Notes (by the present Editor) 
 to “ Leland’s Journey through Wilts” printed in the “ Wilts Archaxd. Mag.,” I., 183, and in 
 Sir R. C. Hoare’s “Westbury” the reader will find some account of it. During the period 
 included within the dates of Aubrey’s heraldry, it belonged to the families of Taveley, Cheyney, 
 Willoughby de Broke, and Blount Lord Montjoy. The Paveleys are the oldest owners on record. 
 By their coheiress it passed to Cheyney c. 1361 : and by the heiress of Cheyney to Willoughby 
 c. 1430. Robert the 1st Lord Willoughby de Broke took his title, says Dugdale, “from his resi¬ 
 dence at Broke near Westbury called from that little torrent running there.” He made a new 
 house, but part of the old House of the Paveleys was visible when Leland was here. By a 
 grand-daughter of the first Lord Willoughby it came to Charles Blount Lord Montjoy. 
 
400 Aubrey’s south wilts. [. Brook-House. 
 
 [No. 556] Robert Willoughby (Lord Broke): of 10 coats. 1. Willoughby and Beke 
 quarterly. 2. Cheney. 3. Stafford. 4. Greyvill. 5. Maltravers. 6. Cifre- 
 wast. 7. Aumarle. 8. As 1 : all as before. 
 
 The windows are most of them sem^e with a Rudder of a Ship. [No. 557]. 
 
 Willoughby Lord Brooke, tempore Edwardi iij., gave the Rudder of a Ship Or, for his cognizance. 
 Vide Speed. 
 
 Mem. In Hen. 7th’s time Lord Willoughby of Broke was Admirall. 
 
 Mr. Wadman would persuade me that this Rudder belonged to Paveley who had this place here. 1 
 
 Dining Room. 
 
 [No. 558] Willoughby quartering Beke : a crescent for difference : 2. Latimer. 3. Cheney. 
 4. Stafford. All as before. 
 
 [559] France and England. King’s Arms. 
 
 [560] Do. do. within a bordure Gobone A. and Az. (Beaufort, Duke of 
 
 Somerset). 
 
 [PI. xxxviii., No. 561] France and England quarterly : Impaling, 1. Quarterly, 1. Courtenay. 
 
 2 and 3. G. three fishes Or. 4. France (so drawn by Aubrey: but Q. France 
 and England ?) 2 and 3. Mortimer. 4. 0. a cross G. 
 
 [No. 562] John, Lord Neville: Impaling, G. a cross patonce O. for Elizabeth, daughter and 
 heir of William, Lord Latimer. 
 
 [563] Sir (Thomas) Willoughby, quartering Beke: Impaling, Neville (all as before), 
 
 for Elizabeth, daughter and coheir to Elizabeth Neville aforesaid. 
 
 [564] Sir John Willoughby and Beke quarterly: quartering Latimer (all as before): 
 
 Impaling, for Johanna daughter and heir to Welby, S. 3 fleurs de lys A. 
 
 [565] Willoughby, Beke, and Latimer; impaling Cheney: all as before. 
 
 In the Parlour. 
 
 [567] The Sun in full glory : (with an eye in tears: a Crest of Blount.) 
 
 1 Camden says that “ Lord Willoughby, by report Admiral, used the helme of a ship for the 
 seal to his ring and Aubrey, that it had been used by Lord Willoughby de Broke temp. Edw. III. 
 But there was no such Baron until Hen. VII.: and no Willoughby, Admiral, appears in Rapin’s 
 List. The device of a Rudder (noticed by Leland also, as prevailing in these windows) for 
 whatsoever reason borne by the Paveleys, continued to be used here, (and on some churches, 
 as Westburv, Edingdon, and Seend,) by their representatives, Cheney and Willoughby. 
 
 In the original MS., Aubrey’s verbal description of the shields formerly at this House corres¬ 
 ponds neither with his own drawings nor with the ascertained family history. In order therefore 
 to prevent tediousness by a number of petty corrections, both text and drawings have been 
 adjusted according to the best pedigrees. [See Hutchins’s “Dorset,” I., 291. “Coll. Top. et 
 Gen.,” VI., 335, and Nicolas’s “Peerage.”] The following Table may be useful in explaining 
 the heraldry. The names printed in capital letters are those of the various heiresses whose 
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402 
 
 Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 i Brook-House. 
 
 [No. 568] The Rose, .proper. 
 
 [569] (Charles Blount, Lord Montjoy) ; Barry nebulee of six, 0. and S. Quartering, 
 
 1. Two wolves pass. S. within a border O. fretty Gules, (Ayala of Toledo). 2. 0. a 
 tower Azure (Saxchfz 1 of Castile). 3. Yaire, (Beauchamp). 4. A. three fleurs 
 de liz Azure (Welby). 5. Argent a fess Gules, in chief three covered cups of the 
 second. [Q. a fess between six covered cups, for Butler ?] 
 
 [570] Willoughby quartering Beke, as before. 
 
 In tlie Chapel. 
 
 [No. 571] (Robert Willoughby, KG. Hen. YII). Within the Garter of Honi Soit, fyc., 
 Willoughby and Beke quarterly, quartering 1. Latimer. 2. Cheney. 
 3. Stafford : (all as before). 
 
 [572] A Prince’s Feather, on one side E. on the other P. The Motto to it “ Ich dien.” 
 
 The tradition here is that King Edward the Third was here, and that the bridge, called King- 
 bridge, was built against his coming. 
 
 The Rudder every where, (as No. 557. It is also on the tomb of the first Lord Willoughby de 
 Broke, in Callington Church, co. Cornwall. Ed.) 
 
 WESTBURY. 2 
 
 Is a Market, and Mayor Townie, and sends two Burgliesses to Parliament. 
 
 Here is a very fame and well built Church, but the windowes lamentably spoiled 
 by the Fanatiques. 
 
 In the Chancell, nihil : only 3 signes of shields. There are very old Desks, not 
 stalls, which looks like a cliauntrey. 
 
 Near the Communion Table, is a large marble stone with this escutcheon, 
 [PL xxxviii. No. 573] W adman impaling Drew: Crest, (No. 574: in which the 
 demi-eagle should be Ermine and wings Gules,) and Inscription : 
 
 “ Here lyeth the body of Frances, the second wife of John W adman, of Brook, in the County 
 of Wilts, Esqr., who died the 28th day of August, 1681, and left to survive her, Robert, William, 
 and Francis Wadman : she was daughter to Robert Drew of South Broom, in the same county, 
 Esqr. 
 
 1 Sir Walter Blount, Knight, who died 1402, married Sanchia de Ayala, daughter of Don 
 Diego Gomez de Toledo, by Inez de Ayala. 
 
 2 The History of this parish, the materials for which were collected chiefly by Mr. R. Harris, is 
 in Sir R. C. Hoare’s “Modern Wilts: Hundred of Westbury.” In 1861 the name was selected 
 for the title of his Barony, by the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Bethell, Lord Chancellor of England, a 
 native of Bradford on Avon in this county. 
 
WESTBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 403 
 
 In memory of whom this stone was laid by her son, Robert Wadman, Esqr., Executor of John 
 Wadman his father, who died the 3rd day of October, 1688, in the 86th year of his age, and lies 
 interred at Imber, in the foresaid county.” 1 
 
 In an aisle, north of the Chancel, where nothing remains of the old glass. 
 Tradition is that two maydes of Brook built it. 2 Here under a faire black marble, 
 Mr. Bennet and his wife lye ; their figures in brasse plates; his in a gowne. 3 
 
 “Here lyeth the bodie of Thomas Bennet of Westbury, Gentleman, who tooke to wife 
 Margaret Buriton, the eldest daughter and one of the coheires of Thomas Buriton, of Streately, 
 in the countie of Barkes, Esquire, which Margaret survivinge her saide husbande, hath in token 
 of their mutuall love whilst they lived togeather, and in testimonie of her continued affection 
 after his decease, caused this stone to be here placed to his memorie; with whom as she lived, so 
 after her death intendeth she, by God’s permission, to rest in the same grave, as this monument 
 doth import. The said Thomas Bennet dyed the .... day of June, An. Dni. 1605. And the 
 said Margaret dyed the day .... of .... An. Dni. 
 
 [No. 575, with a mullet for difference, Bennet]. [No. 576] Buriton, (properly 
 Berington.) 4 
 
 In an aisle north of the Tower, called Leversidge aisle, were these two scutcheons, 
 now gone, viz., [No. 577] Cheney impaling Paveley. [No. 578] Cheney, as before; 
 impaling, a Lion ramp, quartering a cross flory,. not coloured. 
 
 In Brooke aisle which is over against the Organ loft—under which loft was Jesus 
 Chapell, now the Pew belonging to Haywood-house—only this coate: [PI. xxxix. 
 No. 580] G. a leopard’s head jessant fleur de lys, Or. (Westbrook,?) quartering 
 
 1 The Wadmans were leaseholders at Imber under the D. and Chap, of Sarum. 
 
 2 The “Two Maids” may have been Alice and Joan, coheiresses (1361) of Sir John Paveley of 
 Brook House: the former married Sir John St. Loe: the latter, Ralph Cheney, whose arms 
 impaling his wife’s (No. 577), Aubrey afterwards mentions as having disappeared from the 
 Leversedge aisle in Westbury Church. 
 
 3 See Mr. E. Kite’s “ Wilts Brasses,” p. 78 and Plate xxviii. The inscription is now partially 
 concealed by flooring. For the pedigree of Bennet of Westbury and Norton Bavent, see Hoare’s 
 “ Modern Wilts,” Warminster Hundred, p. 78. 
 
 4 Sir R. C. Hoare prints this name incorrectly Burston (“Westbury,” p. 16). Ashmole 
 (“ Berks,” I., 38) gives the inscription on Thomas Buriton in Streatley Church : where on another 
 monument the name is spelled Beryngton. They were from co. Hereford. 
 
 3 E 2 
 
Aubrey’s south wilts. 
 
 404 
 
 [ Westbury . 
 
 1. Gifford. 2. (Leversedge.) 1 3. G. a cross engrailed Arg: in dexter quarter an 
 annulet A. (for difference. This seems to be for another family of Leversedge.) 
 
 In a Chapelle, south of the Cliancell, are left in one win do we some Rudders of 
 ships Or; the cognizance of the Lord Willoughby of Brooke. In this Church are 
 severall good flatt marbles, but inscriptions lost, or never there. 
 
 (Monument of James Ley, Earl of Marlborough.) 
 
 In a South Chapell, where the Earle of Maryborough lies buried; in the windowe 
 nothing; under the windowe an old nich for a monument, but ibi sedet oblivio. The 
 said Earle lies here under a very noble monument with Corinthian pillars, and four 
 figures, viz. the Cardinall vertues. At the top, his coate, with the quarterings as 
 here expressed. 
 
 [Pl. xxxix. No. 579] 1. Ley. 2. (Another coat of Ley.) 3. (Rossell?) 4. A chevron 
 between 3 Magpies S. 5. (Chorley?) 6. Ermine a chevron Yair between 3 Leopards heads 
 cabossed Azure. (In Lincoln’s Inn Chapel window this quartering appears to be three Tortoises.) 
 7. (Cradock alias Newton ?) 8. (St. Maur.) 9. (Zouche.) 10. Or, a Lion rampant in an orle 
 
 of cross crosslets Az. (Lovell ?) 11. (Paveley.) 12. As 1. 
 
 Crest, a Lyon 6ejant Or, extending his dexter pawe. [No. 581.] Motto: “ Yincendo Yictus.” 
 The whole is surmounted by the Earl’s Coronet. Supporters: Dexter, a Lyon rampt. Ar. semee 
 of Trefoils Yert: Sinister, a Lyon rampt. Gr. semee of Plates. 
 
 Below, are two small shields, 1. Ley single. 2. Ley impaling Pettey. [No. 582.] 
 
 The Earl is figured in his robes: and the figure of his first lady by it. The 
 Epitaph: 
 
 D.O.M.S. 
 
 “Hie in pace requiescunt ossa et cineres D‘. Jacobi Ley, Equestris ordinis viri, et Baronetti, 
 Filii Henrici Ley de Teffont Evias Ar: natu sexti, qui juvenis, Jurisprudent* studiis mancipatus, 
 virtute meruit ut per omnes gradus ad summum togatae laudis fastigium ascenderet. Regii in 
 Hibernia Banci Justiciarius sufficitur capitalis, et in Angliam revocatus, fit Pupillorum Procurator 
 Regius. Dein Primarius in Tribunali Regio Justitiarius, quae munia postquam magna cum 
 integritatis laude administrasset, ilium Jacobus Rex Baronis Ley de Ley, (suae familiae in agro 
 Devon, antiqua sede,) titulo ornavit, in sanctius adscivit concilium, Summumque Angliae Thesau- 
 rarium constituit, et Rex Carolus Marlbrigii Comitis Auctario honoravit, Regisque Concilii 
 instituit Praesidem. 
 
 1 Of Yallis near Frome. In Frome Church i6 a chapel bearing their name. See Collinson’s 
 “ Somerset,” II., 183. 
 
WESTBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 405 
 
 “Uxorem duxit Mariam filiam Johannis Pettey de Stock Talmage, Oxon. Com., Ar. (cujus 
 corpus juxta ponitur) ex qua numerosam prolem procreavifc, Henricum uunc Marlbrigii Comitem, 
 Jacobum, Gulielmum, Elizabetbam, Annam, Mariam, Dionysiam, Margaretam, Hesteram, 
 Martkam, Phaeben; qua conjuge fato functa Mariam despondit Gul. Bowier Equitis Aurati 
 viduam, post cujus obitum, Jan;e, Domini Botteler filiee enupsit, ex quibus nullam prolem suscepit. 
 
 “ Ita Yir iste quern ad gravem prudentiam finxit natura, et doctrina excoluit, (publicis usque 
 ad declivem mtatem Magistratibus bene functis) senio confectus, animam de patria optime meritam 
 placida morte Deo reddidit, Londini, in Rospitio Lincoln, sibi ante omnia dilectissimo, Mart, 
 xiiii. Anno Salutis M.DC.XXVIII. 
 
 Henricus, Marlbrigii Comes, optimis Parentibus boc, pro munere extremo, monumentum uberibus 
 lacrimis consecravit.” 1 * * * * * * 
 
 This Lord Treasurer was Vicar of Teffont worth £60 a year, and this maintained 
 him at Lincoln’s Inn. The Butler, or somebody, read the Prayers. Mr. Ash of 
 Teffont has his Institution and Induction. Insert this in Teffont. 8 
 
 In the Chapell, S. of the Chancell, on a large marble, is this Inscription: 
 
 “ Here lietb the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Ivie, the wife of Mr. James Ivie, Vicar of Westbury, 
 
 1 In Sir It. C. Hoare’s “ Westbury ” there is a portrait, and Memoir of the Earl of Marlborough, 
 
 at p. 35: and an engraving of his monument at p. 15. The substance of the above inscription 
 
 is, that he was sixth son of Henry Ley (of Ley in Bere Ferrers, co. Devon, and afterwards) of 
 Teffont Ewyas, Wilts: that after having been (1603) Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in Ireland 
 he became in England Attorney-General of the Court of Wards (1609) and Chief Justice of 
 King’s Bench (1620) : was made by James I. (1624) Baron Ley and Lord Treasurer: and by 
 Charles I., Earl of Marlborough and President of the Council (1626—7). He was thrice married, 
 
 1st, to Mary daughter of John Pettey of Stoke Talmage co. Oxon, by whom he had three sons 
 and seven daughters. 2nd, Mary, daughter of Sir William Bower Knight. 3rd, Jane, daughter 
 of (John) Lord Butler (of Bramfield). He died at Lincoln’s Inn, 14th March, 1628. The Earl 
 lived at Hey wood : and had large property in Westbury an account of which is given in Hoare, 
 p. 81. This Earldom became extinct in 1679. There is a notice of him in Nichols’s “Lit. History.” 
 Pepys in his Journal mentions the “ young, beautiful and rich widow of the Earl, as having 
 remarried William Ashburnham, the Cofferer.” 
 
 In Sir William Dugdale’s plates of the Arms in the windows of Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, are two 
 shields of Sir James Ley’s arms in which the quarterings correspond very nearly with those 
 
 given in No. 579. 
 
 * The Earl was born about 1552 : was entered of Brasenose College, 1569 : and thence removed 
 to Lincoln’s Inn as a student. A “James Ley” was certainly instituted to the Rectory of 
 Teffont Ewyas in 1569, and resigned it in 1576. The dates and name seem to give some colour 
 to Aubrey’s statement: but how a youth of 17 years of age could be instituted to a Rectory, and 
 
 that, during the Bishoprick of John Jewell, does not seem very intelligible. 
 
406 Aubrey’s south wilts. [Westbury. 
 
 third daughter of Robert Barbar, of Tollard Royal, in the County of Wilts, Esqr., and of Ann 
 his wife, one of the daughters of Sir Robert Seimour, of Handford, in the county of Dorset, 
 Knight, who departed this life the 26th day of April, 1684, in the 32d year of her age.” 
 
 Mem. Mr. Bennet’s old howse.—Church land.—Shepherd and Dog.— 
 
 Q. The old customes there yearly.—“William Benet ” in wooden letters in the 
 pale. 
 
 On a hill above the Towne westward about a mile seemes to be a rude or 
 imperfect campe. 
 
 A Proverb: 
 
 “Westbury under the plaine 
 Never without a thiefe or twaine.” 
 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
 
 DOWN AMPNEY. 
 
 I the Church thus: 1 
 
 In the South Crosse, in an old niche, the figure of a Lady in freestone, 
 but sans inscription. Near to her, in blew marble, lyes a Knight 
 crossed-legged; in his shield the charge of Villiers; On a cross 5 escallops: 
 it is very ancient [PL xxxix. No. 584]. By this, a marble gravestone with an 
 
 Inscription in Saxon letters, now almost illegible: “ifi Hie jacet Dominus.ERS 
 
 . LERS quondam . man . XI . Cujus aie 
 
 . Deus, Amen.” 
 
 The surcoate on the figure is painted blew. 2 
 
 1 The shields at Down Ampney are referred to in our Plates, xl, xli, xlii and xliii, not by Arabic 
 figures, but by Letters of the Alphabet. 
 
 2 This monument of a knight and his lady, under a canopied niche, is figured in Lysons’e 
 “ Gloucestershire Antiquities : ” and the inscription there given is “ IIic jacet Dom .... las de 
 
 Tillers qui obiit x mensis Ju ii Anno Dom.xxxiij. Cujus anime . . .. tur Deus. 
 
 Amen.” The date would probably be 1294. In Burton’s “Leicestershire,” p. 47, he is said to 
 have been the son of Alexander Tillers of Brokesby co. Leicester; and, having fought in the Holy 
 Land, to have abandoned the original Arms of his family, Sable, 3 cinquefoils A., adopting the 
 cross of St. George with escallops Or. But in the MS. Cartulary of the Hungerford Family the 
 name is written Valers. According to the ancient Title Deeds of Down Ampney registered in 
 that MS., this manor was given by Edmund Crouchback, second son of Hen. III., to his soldier 
 Nicholas, son of William de Talers by Petronillade Bynnelar. Aubrey’s drawing preserves the 
 Horn slung on the Knight’s right side: a rather rare appendage which is not shown in Lysons’s 
 engraving-. 
 
 The Manor of Down Ampney passed about A.D. 1313 to the family of Cusance. In 1374 it 
 was purchased by Sir Thomas Hungerford of Farley Castle, in whose descendants, of the younger 
 house, it continued till the middle of the 17th century, when by the marriage of Bridget, only 
 surviving daughter and heiress of the last Sir Anthony Hungerford, it went to Edmund Dunch of 
 Wittenham co. Berks. It was afterwards bought by Mr. Secretary Craggs in the reign of 
 George I.: and by one of his daughters came to Richard Eliot from whom it has descended to the 
 
408 Aubrey’s Gloucestershire. [Down Ampney. 
 
 In tlie East nan clow of the Chancel this scutcheon, Ermine a chev. S.: [Touchet? 
 or, more likely, Hatfield ? * 1 PL xl. Lett. A.] 
 
 In the North windowe the Blessed Virgin with the Babe in her armes. Under¬ 
 neath, a handsome Lady kneeling, with seven fame daughters kneeling behind her; 
 this windowe is seme of sickles. Here is this scutcheon. (B.) Hungerford with 
 a mullet for difference, impaling Dayrell, Az. a lion ramp. A. Qu: if Or? I believe, 
 Or. crowned Or. 2 Underneath this window is a niche; in the bottom a gravestone 
 . as at the Middle Temple, without inscription. 
 
 In Nave ecclesice , in stone : 
 
 [PI. xl., Lett. C] Hungerford with the mullet, impaling S. a chevron Ermine between 10 
 crosses pattee A. I am afraid this is for Berkeley. 3 
 
 [D] Hungerford with the mullet. This in several places. 
 
 In the North Crosse. (Hungerford Aisle.) 
 
 The Hungerford Arms on brackets in the roof. In the West window, Courtney’s 
 Coat with a label of 3 points Azure. [PI. xl. E.] 
 
 In the North window, in the middle column, is the Crucifix. 
 
 (Sir Anthony Hungerford: married 1. Jane Darell. 2. Dorothy Danvers. Died 1558.) 
 
 Underneath is Sir Anthony Hungerford with quarterings broken: impaling 
 Dorothy Danvers and 20 quarterings. 4 [PI. xl. fig. F.] 
 
 present owner the Earl of St. German’s. There are views of the Church, Manor House, and the 
 fine old Gate-House, in Lysons. 
 
 1 The coat corresponds more closely with that of Hatfield. One of this name was Sheriff of 
 Gloucestershire temp. Hen. YI. The shield of Craggs was in this window a few years ago. 
 
 2 Aubrey calls the shield, Darell, but seems to have been in doubt. Perhaps it was Burnell: 
 and the “ handsome lady kneeling,” Margaret (Burnell) wife of Sir Edmund Hungerford the first 
 of the Down Ampney branch of that family. She had seven daughters ; and was buried here 1485. 
 
 3 The sinister is undoubtedly Berkeley; the field of which is properly Gules. Either the 
 painter had made a mistake, or it was one of Aubrey’s “ dim days ” when he copied it. By 
 “ being afraid ” he probably meant that he apprehended it was meant for Berkeley, whose shield 
 of crosses pattee he had more than once drawn wrongly as cross crosslets. 
 
 4 A few diamond-shaped panes with the Hungerford’s device of a sickle on them were to be 
 seen a few years ago: but of the other glass mentioned by Aubrey nothing was left except a 
 
DOWN AMPNEY. 
 
 409 
 
 The same quarterings that Danvers of Tockenham gives. V. Pedigree of 
 Danvers, Book B. 1 
 
 In the limbe at the bottom of this windowe, this; ©rate ... Stntij(onu) (1i)UUg)ci'forti 
 ... ct Borottjcc (uxoris)... 
 
 In the sinister column the old glasse is broken; in the third or dexter column, my 
 Lady kneeling with her daughter behind her, a prettie young Lady. They have 
 furre and girdles pendant, and black hoods pendant. 
 
 (2. Monument of Sir John Hungerford, great grandson of the above Sir Anthony.) 
 
 A faire alabaster monument, with two figures kneeling, and on the cornice 
 these five coates and quarterings following, viz : 
 
 [PI. xl. G.] Berkeley of Stoke (Sir John’s first wife). (H.) Goddard: his second wife. (I.) 
 
 Hungerford. 
 
 [K.] Lucy, (his son Sir Anthony’s first wife.) (L.) Ernley (Sir Anthony’s second wife.) 
 
 (Over the pediment a shield of 20 quarterings, PI. xli. M.) 
 
 “ Mors mihi lucrum.” 
 
 “ In this Chappell lieth the body of Sir John Hungerford, Knight, lineally descended from 
 Walter, Lord Hungerford, Knight of the noble Order of the Garter; Who was honorable in his 
 life, serviceable to his King and Country, liberall to his friends, charitable to the poor, and 
 courteous to all. Hee first married Mary the daughter of Sir Richard Barkly, Knight, by whom 
 hee had three sonnes and fower daughters, and afterwards married Anna the daughter of Edward 
 Goddard Esq. Hee dyed the xviii. March in the LXIX yeare of his age, Anno Regni Regis 
 Caroli 10, Anno que Domini 1634.” 
 
 By the phrase, I believe this epitaph was made by his Clarkes. 
 
 Answering to this under the other figure : 
 
 “ Christus mihi vita.” 
 
 “ Sir Antony Hungerford, Knight, now living, (eldest sonne to this Sir John Hungerford, 
 Knight) was first married to Eliz. Lucy, daughter to Sir Th. Lucy, Knight, by whom hee had 
 two daughters, (one died yong, Bridget survived and was married to Edmund Dunch, Esqr.); 
 and afterwards the sayd Sir Antony married Jane Earnley, daughter to Michael Earnley, Esqr., 
 
 fragment of Courtenay’s shield, at the top of a window on the South side of the Hungerford aisle. 
 This coat had been probably introduced, only as one of the alliances of the Hungerfords. 
 
 1 Aubrey’s grandmother on his father’s side was Rachel, daughter of Richard Danvers of 
 Tockenham. “ Book B,” the second volume of his Wiltshire Collections, so often referred to, is 
 missing. 
 
410 
 
 Aubrey’s Gloucestershire. 
 
 [Down Ampney. 
 
 by Susan Hungerford, daughter and one of the coheires of Sir Walter Hungerford, of Farly, 
 Knight. Ilee erected this monument in the Lllth yeare of his age, for the honour of his deare 
 Father, and in remembrance of his own mortality, September xxx, anno Regni Regis Caroli xiii, 
 Anno Domini 1637.” 
 
 [3. Mary Berkeley, the above Sir John Ilungerford’s first wife: mother of Sir Anthony (last 
 inscription) and of John H. of Stoke (next inscription but one). Erected by her son in law Wm. 
 Platt of Highgate.] 
 
 In brasse on tlie wall. 
 
 “Christus est Resurrectio mortuorum. 
 
 Hie jacet Maria Domina Hungerford nuper uxor Johannis Hungerford, de Downe Ampney, 
 Militis, (filiaque Richardi Barkley Militis qui a Mauricio Domino Barkley per Dominam 
 Isabellam uxorem ejus, filiam Richardi Plantagenet, Comitis Cornubiae, ac Regis Romanorum, filii 
 Johannis Regis Angliae, linealiter descendehat) : quae fuit verae pietatis rarum exemplum, bonarum 
 literarum valde studiosa, exquisitae pudicitiae observantissima, marito suo chara et amantissima, 
 liberis, cognatis, et amicis suis, plena charitatis et bonorum operum, vixit cum marito suo con- 
 junctissime 44 annos, a postern a in pectore vitam ejus finivit 18mo die Julii, vesperi circa horam 
 septimam, Anno iEtatis suae 65, Anno Domini computatione Angliae 1628. 
 
 Sicut vita, finis ita: 
 
 Yivit post Funera virtus. 
 
 Ultimum officii et amoris mei erga eandem Mariam Dominam Hungerford, et verum 
 Testimonium.” “ Willielmus Platt.” 
 
 (4. John, second son of the above Sir John.) 
 
 Under the West windowo in freestone this inscription, “ Here lyeth John second 
 sonne of Sir John Hungerford, Knight, who was buried the 5th day of March, 
 Anno Domini 1643, who, amongst others of his pious works left this his ensuing 
 epitaph: 
 
 “ My sad daies ended here I lie, 
 
 That is, my bodi wrapd in earth ; 
 
 My spirit is Ascended High, 
 
 And rests with him that gave it birth. 
 
 To this must all mankind be driven: 
 
 Earth must to Earth, the soule to Heaven.” 
 
 “ This Monument I fix unto the wall 
 In memory of him who gave me all. 
 
 His name I serve, I love, I honour still, 
 With body, mind, and with a ready will.” 
 
 Anthony Predy. 
 
411 
 
 DOWN AMPNEY HOUSE. 
 
 This is a very noble seate, and situated with great convenience for pleasure and 
 profit. By the house runnes a fine brook, which waters these gallant moadowes 
 on the west side, where depasture a great number of cattle:—thirty milk-maydes 
 singing. On the other side is the Cotswold Campania, that the Lord can fly his 
 hawke as soon as he is on horseback. I guess, by the scutcheon in the Hall, 
 (PI. xli. N) this house to bo built about Hen. 8. Over the porch of the house is the 
 coate of Hungerford cut in stone. The Church and parish is in Gloucestershire, 
 but part of the house, viz. part of the Kitchen, and, I think, the Cellar, in Wiltes: 
 and for that it hath a long time been the noble seate of the noble and ancient family 
 of the Hungerfords, I could not omit to insert it here. Mem. They say that the 
 Kitchen, or part of the Kitchen and Cellar, was taken out of the River. 
 
 I would have the draught taken of this church and house. 
 
 In the Hall which is large and open, the following 24 Shields. [Plates xli, xlii, 
 and xliii, Letters N to MM.] 
 
 [The 24 Shields are drawn in Aubrey’s MS. with some inaccuracies, and without 
 regard to their proper succession in the Pedigree of the Hungerford Family to which 
 they refer. Without a fresh arrangement, and explanation of each, they would 
 have been unintelligible to the Reader. For the following description therefore 
 the Editor is responsible. An extract from the Hungerford Pedigree is inserted; 
 with references to the different Shields. 
 
 PI. xli N. King Henry YIII. impaling Queen Anne Boleyn, A.D. 1532. Dexter, France 
 and England quarterly. Sinister, for Boleyn : Quarterly of 6 pieces. 1. Gules, 
 Three lions pass, gardant 0., with a label. 2. Angouleme. 3. Guienne. These 
 three were Augmentation coats granted to her by Hen. 8, when she was created 
 Marchioness of Pembroke. 4. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Rochford ; 2 and 3, Butler 
 Earl of Ormond. 5. Brotherton. 6. Warren. See Sandford’s “ Geneal.” 
 p. 487 : margin. Her Arms are on a wooden screen in the Choir of King’s College 
 Chapel, Cambridge, and in College of Arms “ D. 4. Yorkshire,” fol. 1. b. 
 
 The next six shields refer to the Eldest House of Hungerford. Note : that on 
 all the shields in the Down-Ampney windows the IIeytesrury quartering precedes 
 that of Fitz-John. Both were adopted by the Hungerfords, having been the 
 Arms of female ancestors, heiresses. 
 
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Extract from the Pedigree of Hungerford of Farleigh-Castle and Down-Ampney. 
 To explain the Shields of Arms formerly in Down-Ampney House. PI. xli—ii—iii. 
 
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 Hungerford of Farley Castle impaling Hussey. Sir Thomas Hungerford purchaser 
 of both Farley, and Down Ampney. Died 1398. His second wife Joan Hussey. 
 Ditto impaling Peverell. Walter Lord Hungerford K.G., son of Sir Thomas. 
 Died 1449. His first wife, Katharine Peverell. 
 
 Ditto impaling Molines. Robert Lord Hungerford and Molines, beheaded 1463. 
 Married Eleanor heiress of William Lord Molines. 
 
 Ditto impaling Percy. Sir Thomas Hungerford Kt. son of the last; married the 
 Lady Anne Percy. He was beheaded in 1469. 
 
 Dexter. 1. Heytesbury. 2. Hungerford (i.e. Fitz-John). 3. Botreaux. 
 In the MS., Aubrey in this and the next shield draws in this quarter a lion 
 rampant Gules. This not being known in the Hungerford shields of this early 
 period, it is most likely a mistake for the griffin segreant G. which is frequently 
 used as one of the bearings of the heiress Botreaux. Sinister, Percy quartering Lucy. 
 Ditto impaling Sandys. Walter Lord Hungerford and Heytesbury, great nephew 
 of Sir Thomas last mentioned. Beheaded 1540. His second wife was Alice 
 daughter of William Lord Sandys. Dexter, 1. Heytesbury. 2. Hungerford. 
 3. Peverell. 4. Botreaux. Sinister, Sandys. 
 
 The remaining shields refer to Hungerford of Down Ampney, the Second House. 
 Hungerford of Down Ampney, with a crescent: impaling Burnell. For Sir 
 Edmund Hungerford, second son of Walter Lord Hungerford, K.G. His wife 
 Margaret was daughter and coheir of Sir Edward Burnell. Dexter, 1. Heytes¬ 
 bury. 2 and 3. Hungerford. 4. Peverell. Sinister, Burnell quartering 
 Botetourt. He died 1484. 
 
 Ditto impaling Halle. Sir Thomas Hungerford eldest son of Sir Edmund. He 
 died 1494. His wife, Christian Halle of Salisbury. Dexter, 1 and 4 Hungerford. 
 2. Burnell. 3. Botetourt. Sinister, Halle. 
 
 Ditto impaling Blount. Sir John Hungerford, son of Sir Thomas. Died 1524. 
 Married Margaret Blount of Mangotsfield co. Gloucester. 
 
 The three next shields refer to families connected with that of Blount. 
 
 Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon and Marquis of Exeter; son of Sir William 
 Courtenay by Katharine daughter of King Edw. IV. Married Gertrude daughter 
 of William Blount Lord Montjoy. 
 
 The Earl of Devon’s Arms only, viz. France and England, quartering Courtenay 
 and Redvers. 
 
 Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset; natural son of King Hen. YIII. 
 by Elizabeth widow of Lord Talboys, daughter of Sir John Blount. 
 
 Blount of Mangotsfield, impaling Seymour. 
 
 Hungerford of Down Ampney impaling Wrythe or Wriothesley. Anthony 
 Hungerford Esq. brother of Sir John. His wife Barbara daughter of Sir John 
 Wrythe or Wriothesley, Garter King at Arms. Wrythe quarters Arnold. 
 
 For the arms used by Thomas Wriothesley, Garter, see Proceedings of Soc. of 
 Antiq., Second Series, vol. i. p. 186. 
 
414 aubeey’s Gloucestershire. [ Down Ampney House. 
 
 B. B. Higford impaling Hungerford of Down Ampney. Thomas Higford of Alderton 
 
 near Tewkesbury, married Elizabeth sister of Sir John Hungerford. Dexter, 
 Higford quartering Forneys? 
 
 C. C. Langley impaling Ditto. "Walter Langley of Sudington co. Gloucester. His wife 
 
 Anne was another sister of Sir John Hungerford. Dexter, Langley quartering 
 _? 
 
 PI. xliii. D.D. Hungerford of Down Ampney impaling Darell. Sir Anthony Hungerford eldest 
 son of Sir John. Died 1558. Jane Darell of Littlecote, Wilts, his first wife. 
 
 E. E. Ditto impaling Danvers. The same, and his second wife Dorothy daughter of Sir 
 
 John Danvers of Dauntsey co. Wilts. Sinister, 1 and 3. Danvers. 2. Dauntesey. 
 3. Barendes. Note. On a stone shield on Down Ampney gatehouse, Sir Anthony 
 Hungerford uses the mullet instead of the crescent, as a mark of cadency. 
 
 F. E. Ditto impaling St. John. Edward Hungerford Esq. the first of the Windrush 
 
 branch. Younger brother of Sir Anthony. His wife Margaret St. John; but, by 
 the bend in the coat, apparently not of the Lydiard Tregoz family. 
 
 G. G. Wintour impaling Hungerford of Down Ampney. Sir Roger Wintour of Hoding- 
 
 ton, co. Worcester: quartering Hodington. His wife Elizabeth was daughter of 
 Sir John Hungerford. 
 
 H.H. Hungerford of Down Ampney impaling Fettyplace. Sir John Hungerford eldest 
 son and heir of Sir Anthony. Died 1583. His first wife Bridget; daughter of 
 John Fettyplace of Bessils Leigh, co. Oxon. 
 
 1.1. Dunch impaling Hungerford of Down Ampney. Edmund Dunch of Little 
 Wittenham, co. Berks, Esq. created by 0. Cromwell in 1658, Baron Burnell, which 
 title he lost at the Restoration. (See Noble.) Died 1678. His wife Bridget was 
 the heiress to the Down Ampney estate, being surviving daughter of Sir Anthony 
 Hungerford. The Barony of Botetourt which came with the heiress Burnell wife 
 of Sir Edmund Hungerford (T.), is in abeyance: one moiety between Sir Henry 
 Oxenden and the Duke of Manchester as representatives of Bridget (Hungerford) 
 wife of Edmund Dunch. Dexter, The second quartering is indistinctly drawn in 
 pencil in the original MS. It is believed to be intended for 3 buckles. Query 
 Martyn, co. Berks ? 
 
 K. K. Hungerford of Down Ampney, impaling -? (The sinister broken.) 
 
 L. L. Ditto impaling -? Aubrey calls the sinister, Lee : but no wife of this sir- 
 
 name appears in the Pedigree of Hungerford of Down Ampney : nor do the colours 
 accord with those of the coat of Lee. 
 
 M.M. A Rose : red and white ; for York and Lancaster.] 
 
415 
 
 MARSHFIELD. 
 
 St. Oswald’s Ring. The place of his Martyrdom. 
 
 In this parish is a memorable Antiquity, which though in another Countie, viz ., 
 Gloucestershire, I cannot let passe. On St. Oswald’s Down is a place famous for 
 the Martyrdom of St. Oswald. Vide Lib. B. p. 318. 
 
 The ancient and common tradition is that King Oswald was beheaded by Penda 
 King of the Mercians. 
 
 Bede, Eccl. Hist. iii. cap. 9. 
 
 “ ©jSUjJlUr, the most Christian King of the Northumbers, had reigned nine years when he was 
 slaine at that great battle of a Maserfelih of the Pagan people and Pagan king of the Mercians 
 (Penda) by whom also his predecessor (Edwin) was killed, in the thirty-eighth year of his age, on 
 the 5th day of August. 13 The miracles of his virtues, after his death, declare his great devotion 
 and faith towards God. For in that very place, where fighting for his country, he was slaine by 
 the Pagans, to this very day cease not to be done cures on infirme men and cattle. Hence it 
 comes to pass, that many carrying away the dust, where his body fell to the ground, and putting 
 it in water, have received much benefitt for their infirmities: which custome so increased, that 
 by little and little, the earth being thus fetched away, there was left a pitt ' of the depth of a 
 man’s height. Many miracles are saied to have been here donne by the dust of the place.” 
 
 This Monument (St. Oswald’s Ring) is about the middle of the Downe on the 
 left hand as you ride from Castle Combe to Marshfield, a few perches from the road 
 Southwards, and about a quarter of a mile from Marshfield. It is a circular Bank 
 about 10 or 12 paces in diameter. Within the Circle is a stone. [See PI. xxxix. 
 Fig. 583.] 
 
 A. The stone on which he kneeled. 
 
 B. The stone on which his neck was fastened with two staples, which stone is about 15 inches 
 high. The two black spots are holes whereinto the staple, or the like, was inserted : one of 
 them is yet entire : the other broken out. Thus say the Incolce, (inhabitants.) 
 
 C. ignoratur. (not known.) 
 
 D. D.D. The circular bank. 
 
 E. The excavated place where they took up the earth to doe cures on man and beast. (See 
 Bede above.) 1 
 
 1 Maserfelth. Bede’s Eccles. Hist. Lib, III. cap. IX. and this is doubtless vitium scriptoris for Maresfelth, campus 
 equestris. 
 
 b Canonized in the Almanack that very day. The 5th Aug. and 28 Feb. are dedicated to him. 
 
 c The middle is excavated. J. A. 
 
 1 Marshfield Down is now enclosed, but in a large field not yet broken up, exactly on the site 
 
416 Aubrey’s Gloucestershire. [. Marshfield. 
 
 Not far from this Antiquitie are some barrows on the Downe: one of them is the 
 greatest that I ever sawe. 
 
 Heretofore about 80 years, in my grandfather Lyte’s remembrance, this Saint 
 
 was much implored by the shepherds hereabouts. The country people here, about 
 
 Wraxhall, Ford, &c., nay as far as Auburne Chace (near Marlborough), at night, 
 
 when they did penne their sheep in the fold, 
 
 “ Did pray to God and St. Oswold 
 “ To bring the sheep safe from the fold.” 
 
 And in the morning, when they let them out, 
 
 “ Did pray to God and St. Oswold 
 “ To bring the sheep safe to the fold.” 
 
 mentioned by Aubrey, marked “Tumuli ” in the Ordnance map, (on the left of the road between 
 Marshfield “ Thorns ” and the town,) there is still to be seen a circular earthwork, with a 
 considerable mound in the centre filling up two thirds of the area. The stones have disappeared. 
 Not far off, near a wood called “ Kington Thorns,” upon the border of the two counties, Wilts 
 and Gloucester, are five or six considerable burial mounds: and about two miles S.W. of Marsh¬ 
 field, near “ Beake Down ” are some large stones of the kind commonly called “ Druidical.” 
 
 For the honour of being the place of King Oswald’s martyrdom there are two or three com¬ 
 petitors. Oswestry (Shropshire), formerly Maserfeld, is derived from “Oswald’s tree:” and has 
 an “ Oswald’s well.” Winwick (Lancashire) can not only show a similar well, still in high repute; 
 but a spot called Mackerfield. It is stated to have been a favourite residence of the King’s; and 
 that its claim to have been the place of his death is not modern, is proved by a curious ancient 
 inscription against the wall of the parish Church. (See this inscription, and the whole question 
 discussed in Baines’s “ Lancashire, iii. 618.) Mirfield in Yorkshire has little pretension. With 
 respect to Marshfield in Gloucestershire, which no one seems to have thought of before Aubrey, 
 it does not appear whether there was any local tradition there in his time, or whether it was only 
 a passing idea of his own, suggested by the name and appearances. He probably drew his plan 
 from memorj’, as in the centre he places a pit, whereas in the ring at present to be seen (supposing 
 it to be the same) there is, as above-mentioned, a mound. That a battle between the Kings of 
 Northumbria and Mercia should have been fought so far to the South, seems improbable. He 
 mentions this story again in his MS. “ Monumenta Britannica ” from which some portions have 
 been borrowed for the present text. Oswald, when Canonized, appears to have become a very 
 popular “ King and Martyr : ” his name having been frequently given to Monasteries, Churches 
 and Crosses. He was buried at Bardney, co. Lincoln ; but in A.D. 909 the relics were removed 
 by Ethelred, Earl of Mercia, and his wife Elfleda daughter of King Alfred, to Gloucester, where 
 under the name of this Saint they founded a Religious House, or revived an older one that had 
 been built in A.D. 660. 
 
MARSHFIELD. 
 
 417 
 
 The country folk call St. Oswald, St. Twasole. 
 
 Mem. In Worcestershire is a Hundred, called Oswald’s Lowe; perhaps he was 
 buried there. It is certain that a most rich shrine was dedicated in the Cath. Ch. 
 at Worcester: but that was the shrine of St. Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, not St. 
 Oswald the King. 
 
 Mem. Marshfield belonged to the Abbey of Kainsham, not far off in Somersetshire. 
 After the Dissolution, Tlios. Earle of Sussex, had it. Ghostlowe bought one part; 
 Webbe bought Ashwick, &c. The Parsonage belongs to New College, in Oxon. 
 Q. If they have other lands, &c. Q. A. Wood, de hoc. 1 
 
 1 Keynskam Abbey of Augustines was endowed c. 1170 by William second Earl of Gloucester 
 (son of Robert surnamed “ the Consul ” natural son of King Hen. I.) with (inter alia) the Manor 
 of Marshfield. Leland (Itin. vi. 97) mentions the tradition of a Nunnery here, but of this there 
 is no record. The Keynsham Abbey tenants at Marshfield were liable to a small toll at Lacock 
 fair payable to Lacock Abbey. [See a curious charter in “ Bowles and Nichols’s History,” 
 Appendix p. lii.] The Earl of Sussex mentioned by Aubrey was Robert Ratcliffe, a favourite 
 Chamberlain. Being soon sold, the larger part was purchased by John Gorslet (not “ Ghostlowe.”) 
 One W. Gorslet was lord in 1608 : whose daughter and heir was mother to John Harrington Esq. 
 of Kelston. The rest was sold to John Chambers, Thomas Crisp and Nicholas Webb. The 
 Rectory appears to have been granted to New College in 1 and 2 Phil, and Mary, in exchange 
 for a manor at Stepinglee in Bedfordshire and another in Essex. [Tanner, 439.] 
 
 3 G 
 
 Lower Easton Piers. The birth-place of John Aubrey, (destroyed). 
 , See pp. 240, 241. 
 
419 
 
 Chippenham Hundred. 
 
 
 Damerham North Ditto. I 
 
 Highworth Ditto 
 Malmesbury Ditto. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 
 Nos. 
 
 Aldriug'ton 
 
 I. 
 
 Langley Burell 
 
 II. 
 
 Dunley 
 
 III. ’ 
 
 Ford 
 
 IV. 
 
 Hundred of Damerham North 
 
 V. 
 
 Christmalford 
 
 VI. to X. 
 
 Grittleton 
 
 XI. XII. 
 
 Kington St. Michael 
 
 XIII. to XXVI. 
 
 Kington Langley 
 
 XXVII. to XXXV. 
 
 Nettleton 
 
 XXXVI. XXXVII. 
 
 Sevenhampton 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 Easton Piers 
 
 XXXIX. to LXI. 
 
 CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED. 
 
 No. I. ALDRINGTON. [See page 51.] 
 
 The Abbot and Convent of Kingswood to William and Agnes Gore. A.D. 1402. 
 
 “ Haec indentura testatur quod Walterus, Dei gracia Abbas de Kyngeswode, in agro Wiltoniensi, 
 et ejusdem Conventus dederunt concesserunt et per presentes confirmaverunt Willielmo Gore et 
 Agneti uxori ejus unum messuagium et duas virgatas terras cum pertinenciis in Aldryngton in 
 Com. praedict. una. cum redditibus et serviciis Clariciae Waker, et heredum Nicholai Waker, 
 pro uno messuagio et una vii’gata terrae cum pertinenciis quae ipsi de eisdem Abbate et 
 Conventu tenent in eadem villa, quae vero omnia‘praedicta messuagium terram redditus et 
 et servicia quidam Johes Corl prius tenuit. Habendum et Tenendum praedicta messuagium et 
 duas virgatas terrae, cum redditibus et serviciis praedictis, praofatis Willielmo Gore et Agneti, et 
 heredibus masculis quos idem Wills, de corpore ipsius Agnetis procreaverit, de dictis Abbate et 
 Conventu libere bene et pacifice. Reddendo inde annuatim praedictis Abbati et Conventui et 
 successoribus eorum quindecim Solidos Sterlingorum ad festa Annunciacionis Beatae Mariae 
 Virginis et Sancti Mickaelis Archangeli per equates porciones, et Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius 
 et omnibus aliis omnia onera, redditus, et servicia quae ad praedicta terram et tenementa pertinent ; 
 
 3 g 2 
 
420 
 
 aubkey’s north wilts. 
 
 [appendix. 
 
 et praedicti Willielmus et Agnes sustentabunt et manutenebunt omnes domos praedicti Messuagii 
 in adeo bono statu sicut illas receperunt seu meliori. Et si praedictus redditus a retro fuerit in 
 parte vel in toto post aliquem terminum praenominatum per unum mensem, quod tunc bene liceat 
 praedictis Abbati et Conventui et Successoribus eorum in praedictis terris et tenementis cum per- 
 tinenciis reintrare donee eis de dicto redditu cum arreragiis plene fuerit satisfactum. Et praedicti 
 Abbas et Conventus praedicta messuagium et terram cum pertinenciis prefatis Willo. et Agneti, 
 et keredibus masculis ut supradicitur contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt. In cujus rei testi¬ 
 monium uni parti indenturae penes praedictos Willm. et Agnetem remanenti Sigillum commune 
 praedictorum Abbatis et Conventus est appositum. Alteri vero parti penes praedictos Abbatem 
 et Conventum remanenti sigilla praedictorum Willi, et Agnetis sunt apposita. His testibus, 
 Thoma Calston, Rico. Lambard, Willo. Aldeby, Nicko. Clerk, Tkoma Pruet, Laur. Ivet, Willo., 
 Paternoster, et aliis. Dat. apud Kyngeswode praedictum, in domo capitulari praedictorum Abbatis 
 et Conventus vicesimo die Octobris, Anno Regni Regis Henrici Quarti post Conquestum quarto.” 
 
 Vera Copia concordant cum originali. Test: 
 
 Tho : Gore, 
 
 Jo : Aubrey. 
 
 II. LANGLEY BURELL. [Page 95.] 
 
 Carta Johannis Bur el facta Michaeli Abbati de und croftd in Langlegh Buret. 
 
 Sciant, &c. quod ego Johannes Burel, vendidi et concessi Domino Michaeli Abbati Glastoniae et 
 successoribus suis unam croftam in villa de Langelegh Burel quae vocatur Penicroft quae jacet intra 
 croftam Johannis Molendinarii & croftam Walteri de la Yate. Tenend. et habend. libere, &c. 
 reddendo sex denarios in vigilia Pasche vel infra octavas Pasche pro omni servicio seculari, &c. 
 Pro hac autem concessione mea dedit mihi praedictus Abbas quatuor marcas argenti in gersuma 
 prae manibus. His testibus Domino Johanne de Estingdone, Willielmo de Haywode, Milone de 
 Langeleghe, et multis aliis. [ATo date, but c. A.B. 1240.] 
 
 III. DUNLEY. [Page 104.] 
 
 Quieta clamacio communariorum pastures quee vocitatur Donehveye: sive Doneivolweye. 
 
 Omnibus, &c. Walterus Dru dominus de Littletone, Rogerus Clerke de eadem, David Plusbel, 
 Rogerus le Roter, Adam filius Galfridi molendinarii, Rogerus William, Johannes Prat, Willielmus 
 le Muleward, — Dru de Littletone, Rogerus Watts, et Radulphus Frye de eadem, salutem. 
 Noveritis nos remisisse, &c. Domino Johanni Abbati Glastoniae, Conventui et successoribus, 
 totum jus quod habuimus vel habere poterimus nomine communae pasturae in cultura quae jacet 
 ex parte occidentali de Donewolweye in Manerio de Netelingtone. Ita quod nec nos nec heredes 
 nostri ullo tempore anni in eadem communare valeamus imperpetuum : ac similiter remisimus, &c., 
 totum jus nostrum nomine communae pasturae in La Mersh usque Donewolweye et usque le 
 cartweye anno quo idem campus jacet ad warectum. a Ita quod nec nos nec heredes, &c. 
 
 - His testibus Dominis Galfrido de Wrokeshale, Rogero de Lokingtone, Henrico de 
 
 Cerne, Reginaldo Burel, militibus, Willielmo Percehay, Johanne Caplevent et aliis. [A^ date.'] 
 
 a Q. The Signification ? (Fallow. Ed.) 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 421 
 
 IV. FORD in North Wraxall Parish. [Page 120.] 
 
 Sciant praesentes et futuri quod ego Willielmus Yve de la Ford dedi concessi, &c. Johanni Coule 
 unam domum in la Ford quae sita est inter ortum meum qui More appellatur et vicum, cum uno 
 curtilagio adjacente continente per acram septem perticas et decern pedes, et per vicum sex per- 
 ticas; cum duabus acris terrae arabilis quarum una jacet in campo Boreali vocato Woneakr- 
 Dichrigge et Lurecombesbrooke. In campo verb Australi Mithe acre cum hamis adjacentibus 
 jacet juxta Donecombesbroke et turn caput extendit super croftam Aliciae la Litele. Ilabend. et 
 tenend, &c. Pro liac autem donacione, mihi Johannes dedit prae manibus duas marcas sterlingo- 
 rum. His testibus, Domino Galfrido de Wrokeshale, milite, Ricardo Yve, Thoma de Pedeworth, 
 Th. Coy ley, Walt, filio Willielmi de Budestone, Johanne Keynel, Johanne de Combe, Ricardo 
 Keynel, Willielmo filio Galfridi de Littleton, clerico, et multis aliis. Dat. apud la Ford die Sabbati 
 in festo Beati Bartholomei Apostoli, Anno Regni Regis Edwardi vicesimo quinto. (A.D. 1296.) 
 
 DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 V. CHRISTMALFORD. [Page 124.] 
 
 Quieta clamancia Domini Edmundi Gascelin de omnimodd exactione libertatis de Kington , 
 Netelington , Grutelington, et Cristemalford. 
 
 Omnibus, &c. Edmundus Gascelin, Dominus Hundredi de Chippenham salutem. Noverit 
 universitas vestra me concessisse et pro me et heredibus meis in perpetuum quietum clamasae 
 Domino Galfrido Dei gracia Abbati Glastoniae, et ejus loci Conventui omnimodas summoniciones 
 attachiamenta districtiones et omnimodas execuciones omnium brevium preceptorum et mandatorum 
 Domini Regis, Justiciariorum, Vice Comitum, et omnium quoruncunque aliorum ministrorum 
 suorum in Kington Sancti Michaelis, Cristemalforde, Grutelington, et Netelington, seu in omnibus 
 terris et feodis eorum in Comit: Wilteschir absque impedimento mei vel heredum rneorum in 
 perpetuum per ballivos suos proprios faciend’ et exequendk Ita quod nec ego nec heredes mei in 
 praedictis summonere, attachiare, distringere, vel exequi aliquod brevium preceptorum vel man¬ 
 datorum, aliquid juris vel clamei vindicare vel in posterum supra dictos Abbatem et Conventum 
 vel eorum successores usurpare seu eos in aliquo premissorum inquietare poterimus quoquomodo. 
 In cujus rei testimonium presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. His testibus dominis Henrico 
 Spigurnel, a Ricardo de Rodenie, Johanne de Bousser, Johanne de Chediok, militibus; Johanne 
 Percehay, Johanne de Fosse, et aliis. Dat. Glastoniae die Lune in festo Purific: Beatae Mariae 
 Virginis, Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi xiiij.° [A.D. 1321.] 
 
 VI. [Page 126.] 
 
 Carta Edmundi Regis facta Sancto Dunstano, de Cristemalforde. [Printed in New 
 
 Monasticon I. p. 51 .] 
 
 Egregius agonista sermocinatus est in Scripturis Divinis, “ Omnia quae videntur temporalia 
 sunt, quae autem non videntur aSterna.” Idcircb superflua utentibus divinus sermo ut supra 
 taxati sumus terribiliter premonet ut hujus seculi caduca contempnentes spiritualia imitantes 
 a Signifies a Sealer of Witts. J. A. (See p. 125, Note 1.) 
 
422 aubeey’s north wilts. [appendix. 
 
 celestia properemus ad regna. Quamobrem ego Edmundus, Divina mihi arridente Gracia, Rex 
 Anglorum et Curagulus multarum gentium cuidam adoptivo fideli meo Abbati Dunstano vocitato, 
 viginti mansas ibidem ubi mlgares pulchro more nobilique relatione vocitant, “ at Cristemalforde,” 
 juxta derivativis fluentium successibus be Afene; quatenus ille bene perfruatur ac perpetualiter 
 possideat cum omnibus sibi recte pertinentibus, campis, paschuis, pratis, silvis, silvarumque 
 nemoribus. Fiat etenim prefata terra ab omni servili jugo libera, exceptis istis tribus, expedicione, 
 pontis, arcisve cokedificacione. Denique verb si quis nobis non optantibus nostrum koc donum 
 violari fraudulenter perpetrando consenserit, consideret kic se die ultimo judicii coram Deo 
 rationem redditurum, atque cum reprobris quibus dicitur, “ Discedite a me maledicti in ignem 
 eternam,” poenis atrocibus se esse passurum, si non antea corporea lamentacione emendaverit. 
 Istis terminibus praMicta terra circumgirata esse videtur. " Erest on Cristemalforde endlang 
 “ Afne on an litil dich, end lang tkar dick, eft on Afne on Clifwere, tkanen on tke witkibed, 
 “tkanen on ye mere Fourk, and soa on rigt over dauntesbourne on tker ellenestubb, eft on tker 
 “ brembelwernan, eft on tker merkawen, eft on swineskeued on tke grete mapildore, tkanen on 
 <( tka olde oden missenne, end lang tkis dives on tken ken ayssk on koddisclive foryerd bi 
 ‘‘ wirt-tkales on sand riddriate on tke kage tkar, eft on grete tre endlangiskawyn on tke elde strete: 
 “efte, on teonescanen soutkward, tkanne endlanges tkare brodefurgk, on ye kegebergkes in on 
 “ tke toun nortkward, endlang tkar forertke be a aker keued tkar, eft on Cristemalforde.” 
 Acta est kasc praofata donacio anno ab incarnacione Domini nostri Jesu Ckristi DCCCCXL. 
 indictione xiij. >JiEgo Edmundus Rex Anglorum preefatam donationem cum sigillo Sanctae 
 Crucis confirmavi. »fjEgo Eddred ejusdem Regis frater consignavi. “i? Ego Wulfkelm 
 Dorobernensis Ecclesie Arckiepiscopus ejusdem regis donacionem cum tropkeo agiae crucis confir¬ 
 mavi ; cum multis aliis. [A.D. 940.] 
 
 YII. [Page 127.] 
 
 Litera Abbatis Malmesburiensis de ponendo Priorem de BradenstoJce in seisinam sectce 
 hominum Abbatis Glaston: ad molendinum dicti Prioris , apnd Cristemalford. 
 
 “Reverendo in Ckristo Patri Domino Jokanni permissione divina Abbati Glaston: W. eadem 
 “ permissione Abbas Malmesbur. salutem. Cum certas literas Paternitatis vestrae nuper receperi- 
 
 “ mus, sub eo qui sequitur tenore verborum; ‘ Noveritis nos constituisse - attornatum 
 
 ‘ nostrum, ad ponendum venerabilem virum Priorem de Bradenstoke in plenariam seisinam 
 ‘ de secta hominum nostrorum de Cristemalford ad molendinum ejusdem Prioris in eadem villa 
 ‘ quam prius kabuit et kabere consuevit, ratificantes in praemissis quantum nomine nostro duxeritis 
 ‘faciendum. In cujus rei testimonium sigillo nostro sigillat: Dat: Glaston. pridie Ealend: 
 
 ‘ Aprilis anno graciae 1287 Nos cupientes vestra implere rogamina dictum Priorem in seisinam 
 “ prius kabitam juxta tenorem literarum vestrarum duximus imponendum. Dat: apud Malmesbury 
 “ in crastino Sancti Ambrosii Episcopi et Confessoris, anno gracise MCCLXXXVII.” 
 [A.D. 1287.] 
 
 VIII. [Page 127.] 
 
 Feodagium Prioris de Bradenstoke. 
 
 Memorandum quod An 0 Dni 1287, 5 to Idus Aprilis Prior W. Re Bradenstoke Yen: Patri 
 Jokanni Abbati Glast: feodagium secundum regionis consuetudinem, licet koc pluries negare 
 
DAMEKHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 423 
 
 APPENDIX.] 
 
 presumpserit et minus juste duxerit faciend., Magistro J. dicto “de Cancell’: ” clerico specialiter 
 ad hoc misso et deputato nomine Domini sui Abbatis memorati, in prato molendini de Cristemal- 
 forde juxta molendinum antedictum (dedisse) : Pracsentibus reverendis patribus Domino Willielmo 
 tunc temporis Abbate Malmesburiensi, Domino W. Abbate de Stanleighe, Domino Johanne de 
 Besiles, Domino Henrico de Cerne, Domino Johanne de Blundestone, militibus; Ada de Ramisbury 
 clerico speciali, negocia Prioris de Bradenstoke universa gerente in hac parte, Silvestro Doynes, 
 Roberto Russel, et multis aliis. 
 
 IX. [Page 127.] 
 
 De Amensuracionepastured super Personam de Cristemalforde. [A.D. 1243 .] 
 
 Memorandum quod anno MCCXLIII. et anno Regni Regis H. III. 27°, in vigilia Beati 
 Johannis Baptist* tulit Michael Abbas Glastoniae Breve de amensuracione pasturse super Robertum, 
 Personam de Cristemalforde, quod superoneravit pasturam suam in Cristemalforde et habuit in ea 
 plura animalia quam habere debuit et consuevit. Et liberavit illud Breve eodem die in Com. 
 Wiltesliir apud Wiltone, et cum Vicecomes audisset Breve, tarn dicto Abbati quam dicto Person* 
 precepit quod venirent ad Cristemalforde super pasturam, scil: in vigilia Translacionis Beati 
 Benedicti eodem anno, ad videndam amensuracionem illam et accipiendam quid Justitia illi daret; 
 et idem Vicecomes interim summoneri fecit Milites et alios liberos homines et probos et legales 
 de vicineto illo, et una cum illis ad dictam diem in propria persona sua venit et elegit xij ex ipsis 
 et ipsos per sacramentum quod ipsi in fidelitate sua dicerent ac notarent quot animalia pertinent 
 ad quamlibet hidam terrae in eadem villa: quorum nomina sunt haec. Radulphus de Sterkeleighe, 
 Willielmus de Crosham, Adam Sturmi, Johannes Lucas, Johannes de Cnapwelle, Henricus de la 
 Boxe, Radulphus de Foxcota, Simon de Foxcota, Radulphus Ryall, Robertus Mauduit, Adam le 
 Paximinster et Johannes Gefray. Jurat! dicunt quod cum Michael, Abbas Glast., portasset Breve 
 de amensuracione pasturae super Robertum, Personam de Cristemalforde, et ex eoquod idem Robertus 
 injuste superoneravit pasturam suam, &c. dicunt precise, Quod ad quamlibet hidam terrae in eadem 
 villa pertinent sexdecemboves ad terram excolendam, quatuor vaccae, ij averia, quinquaginta bidentes, 
 et sex porci. Haec praedicta pertinent ad unam hidam terrae secundum justam amensuracionem. 
 
 Hemorand. quod X acree faciunt I ferdellum. IV ferdella faciunt I virgatam. IV virgatse 
 I hydam. IV hidae feodum unum faciunt. This was written in a special note in the margin of the 
 Legier Booh. 
 
 X. [Page 127.] 
 
 De Amensuratione pasturae. 
 
 Proedicti Adam Sturmy, Johannes de Cnapwelle, Henricus de la Boxe, Radulphus de Foxcote 
 et alii dicunt, Quod cum Abbas Glastonie portasset Breve Domini Regis super Will, de Heiweie, 
 Robertum de Bremeleighe, et Alexandrum de Boxe, quod idem W., R., et A., super-oneraverint 
 totam communam pasturae in Cristemalforde, ita quod in ea plura animalia et pecora habuerint, 
 quam in ea debuerunt, &c. dicunt, Quod ad unam virgatam terras pertinent quatuor boves, et duae 
 vaccae, et unum averium, et tres porci, et duodecim bidentes, ad tantam excolendam et susti- 
 nendam: Dicunt etiam, Quod si praedicta Persona de Christemalford praedictam communam 
 
424 aubeey’s north wilts. [appendix. 
 
 plenarie habere voluerit dictus Abbas babebit communam per totam terram plenarie. Et si 
 praedictus Robertus Persona totam terram suam clausam et defensam contra dictum Abbatem 
 custodierit, ita quod ipse vel sui beredes de Cristemalforde ingressum non babuerint, bene licebit 
 praedicto Abbati praedictam pasturam contra dictam Personam et beredes suos custodire defensam, 
 nisi inde warrantum sufficiens babuerint, praeterquam ad averia iiij., unum afrum, sex bidentes, et 
 duos porcos, quae omnia praedicta Persona habebit in dicta pastura occasione iiij acrarum prati quas 
 babet extra clausum suum, ita soil: quod babeat averia cum averiis, bidentes cum bidentibus, 
 porcos cum porcis. Haec acta sunt tempore quo Nicbolaus de Haversham fuit Yice-comes 
 Wiltesbir. 
 
 Memorand. quod cbm mota lis esset inter Michaelem Abbatem Glast: et Robertum Personam 
 de Cristmalforde super Amensuracionem pasturae, eo quod dictus R: Persona superoneravit 
 communam dictae pasturae, unde dicta pastura admensurata est per xij liberos et legales homines 
 de vicineto de Cristemalford, tandem conquievit lis inter eos in bunc modum, viz. Quod praedic- 
 tus Abbas babeat in praedicta pastura de Cbristemalford ad quamlibet hidam terrae ejusdem 
 manerii sexdecim boves ad terram suam excolendam, et quatuor vaccas, duas affras quinquaginta 
 bidentes, et sex porcos; et praedicta Persona babeat eundem numerum secundum porcionem terrae 
 suae, ubique cum averiis Domini Abbatis in dicto manerio; viz. boves cum bobus, vaccas cum 
 vaccis, bidentes cum bidentibus, porcos cum porcis, et affras cum affris: Ita quod dicta Persona 
 aperiat omnia clausa sua in Cristmalford tempore pasturae, et tempore stipulae; et prata post 
 foenum asportatum de prato ipsius, ad pascendum cum averiis ipsius Abbatis secundum Amensu¬ 
 racionem praedictam sine contradictione ipsius Personae; et eodem modo dictus R. Persona babeat 
 in pastura ipsius Abbatis. In testim’, uni parti bujus scripti residenti penes Michaelem Abbatem 
 praedictus R. sigillum suum apposuit. His testibus Adam de la Mare, Johanne de Estone, 
 Pbilippo de Cerne, Radulpho de Foxcote, et aliis. 
 
 XL GRITTLETON. [Page 129.] 
 
 Carta Regis Edmundi de Grutelington facta Wulfrico ministro suo. A.D. 940 . [ Printed 
 
 in the New Monasticon, I. p. 50 .] 
 
 \_Post introductionem, pro more, usitatam ,] “ Anno Dominicae incarnacionis DCCCCXL. praefatus 
 Rex Edmundus primo anno principalis potentiae ministrum suum Wulfrik valde feliciter non pro 
 lucro pbil-argyriae sed perenni privilegio atque bujus viri fidelissima stabilitate onerat ac beuigne 
 beatificat largiens illi terram xxv mansarum imperpetuum “ at Grutelington ” antiquo confinio 
 sibi suisque beredibus perfruendam et ab omni jugo vectigalium, praeter pontem arcem expeditio- 
 nemque, perpetualiter possidendam. Caveant haec frangentes claustra infernalia. Gaudeantque 
 Jhesu ali gymnasio haec augentes eulogia. Amen. Haec cartula caritatis caraxata est in 
 collatesto: <4* Ego Edmundus hoc primitivum praerogativum meo ministro Wulfrico signo 
 sanctae crucis consignavi. •i 1 Ego Wulfhelm arcbiepiscopus cum caeteris pontificibus benevola 
 mentis intencione annotavi. “ Erest of elde dicb above stibbe, tbanne endlangweies on strete, 
 “ so bi strete on boledene, endlangdenes to springwellen, thanen to olde Gore, so on Clegate on 
 “ the elde stibbe, thanen on olde burgh suthward of tbare berewe in on the foullelake on tbone 
 “ bitbe, of tbone bitbe in on thone welle bi Este Foxcotone, of than welle west on tbone mere aker, 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 425 
 
 “of than aker endlangweies est to the old dich.” Hanc prefatam possessionem Wulfric minister 
 Edredi post dies conjugis sum commendavit Monasterio Glastingensi, quod turn alius fecit, Elswin 
 videlicet nomine. 
 
 XII. [Page 130.] 
 
 Placita de jure et assisd, capta apud Wilton in Com. Wilteshire in crastino Sancti 
 Hilarii anno regni Regis Henr: III. 52°. \_A.D. 12G7.] 
 
 Jurati venerunt recognituri utrum unum messuagium et xij aerm terrm cum pertinenciis in 
 Grutelington fuerint libera elemosina pertinens ad ecclesiam de Grutelington unde Nicholaus de 
 Turri est Persona, an laicum feodum Rogeri Le Chapman, unde idem Nicholaus dicit quod quidam 
 Johannes le Clerke predecessor suus, Persona predictm ecclesim, fuit in seisina de prmdictis mes- 
 suagiis et terris tempore Regis Ilenrici avi Domini Regis qui nunc est, ut de jure sum ecclesim 
 prmdictm, &c. et quod messuagium et terram Rogerus le Chapman tenet, et ipse non venit, et alias 
 fecit defaltas postquam fuit summonitus, ita quod preceptum fuit Vice-comiti resummonere, &c. 
 et Yic: testatur quod resummonitus esset, ideo capit jura versus eum pro defalt. &c. 
 
 Eadem jurata per eosdem ven. recognaturi utrum decern virgatm terrm cum pertinenciis in 
 Grutelington sint libera elemosina pertinens ad eandem ecclesiam de Grutelington unde idem 
 Nicholaus est Persona, an laicum feodum Johannis de Wintershull et Johannm uxoris ejus; et 
 unde idem Nicholas dixit quod Johannes le Clerke predecessor suus, Persona dictm ecclesim, fuit 
 seisitus de prmdictis decern virgatis terrm cum pertinenciis tempore, &c. et quas decern virgatas 
 terrm prmdictus Johannes de Wintersliulle et Johanna uxor ejus tenent; et ipsi non venerunt 
 et alias fecerunt defalt. postquam fuerunt summoniti, ita quod prescript, fuit Yic. quod resum. 
 eos, &c. et Yic. dicit quod summoniti sunt, ideo capit jura versus eum pro defalt. &c. 
 
 Jurat, dicunt quod predicta ecclesia de Grutelington, tempore, &c. et etiam ante tempus Henrici 
 avi, fuit in seisina de predicto messuagio et de predictis xij acris terrm cum pertinenciis unde 
 secunda jura’ arraiata esset, ut de libera elemosina pertinente ad ecclesiam prmdictam unde idem 
 Nicholaus est Persona, et dicit quod quidam Johannes le Gros, qui tempore Henrici prmdicti avi 
 Domini Regis fuit Persona dictm ecclesim, tempore Domini Hen : Regis alienavit prmdictam terram 
 et earn dedit Willielmo Ludington in maritagio cum quadam filia ipsius Johannis le Gros, et idem 
 Willielmus dedit postea prmdictam terram cum pertinenciis cuidam Ricardo le Dol in maritagio 
 cum quadam filia ipsius Willielmi; et unde dicunt per sacramentum suum quod predictum 
 messuagium et predictm xij aerm terrm cum pertinenciis in Grutelington .... unde prima jura’, 
 et etiam predictm x virgatm terrm cum pertinenciis in prmdicta villa unde secunda jura’ arraiata 
 esset, sunt in libera elemosina partium ad predictam ecclesiam et semper fuerunt - - - dictam 
 alienacionem. Et ideo consideraturn est quod prmdictus Nicholaus recuperet seisinam suam de 
 prmfatis messuagiis et terris ut jure ecclesim sum prmdictm, et prmdictus Rogerus le Chapman, 
 Johannes de Wintershull, et Johanna uxor ejus in misericordia. 
 
 XIII. KINGTON ST. MICHAEL. [Page 139.] 
 
 Carta Athelstani Regis facta Atlielino ministro suo, de Kington. A.D. 934. [.Printed 
 
 in New Monasticon I. 59]. 
 
 (After a flourishing introduction, according to the fashion of those times.) 
 
 “ Ego Ethelstanus, Rex Anglorum, per Omnipotentis dexteram totius Britannim regni solio 
 
 3 H 
 
426 Aubrey’s north wilts. [appendix. 
 
 sublimatus, quandam te’lluris particulam meo fideli ministro Athelino, id est, quindecim cassatarum 
 in loco quem solicolae, “At Kington,” vocitant, libenter tribuo, ut ille earn sine jugo exos® servitutis 
 cum pratis, pascuis, silvis, rivulis, omnibusque ad eadem utilitatibus rite pertinentibus, quam diu 
 vivat, habeat, et post su® decessionis transitum cuicunque voluerit heredi liberaliter et eternaliter 
 contradendo in perpetuum derelinquat. Si quis auteru, quod absit, alicujus typho supercilii turgens 
 banc meae donacionis breviculam, in modicis sive in magnis, elidere vel infringere temptaverit, 
 sciat se novissima examinationis die, classica archangeli clangente buccina, cum Juda proditore, 
 qui a satoris pio sato ‘Filius perdicionis’ dicitur, impiisque et infidelibus Judeis Christum ore 
 sacrilego in ara crucis mundi diluentem crimina blaspliemantibus eterna confusione edacibus 
 favillantium tormentorum flammis periturum. Hujus namque a Deo Dominoque Jesu Christo 
 inspirante atque innuente voluntatis cedula, anno Dominic® incarnacionis DCCCCXXXIIII, 
 indictione septima, epacta xiiij concurrente, ij Idus Septembris, luna xxix, in villa qu® 
 Buckingham dicitur, tota magnatorum generalitate sub ulnis regi® dapsilitatis ovanti, perscripta 
 est; cujus etiam inconcuss® firmitatis auctoritas, hiis testibus roborata constat, quorum nomina 
 subtus deputata annotantur. »I» Ego Athelstanus singularis privilegii gerarcha (sc. Hierarcha) 
 predictus Rex hujus acumen indiculi cum signo sanct® semperque adorand® crucis corroboravi et 
 8ubscripsi. •f* Ego Constantinus subregulus consensi et subscripsi: cum multis aliis. 
 
 XIY. [Page 139.] 
 
 Carta Ethelredi Regis facta Monasterio Glastingensi dc Kington. A.D. 987. [New 
 
 Mon: I. 51.] 
 
 After the introduction, thus, “ Ego Athelredus gracia Dei sublimatus Rex et Monarchus totius 
 insulae Britannia, quoddam pr®dium, id est, xl mansas cum pratis silvisque, quod dicitur Kington, 
 Deo ejusque venerabili genitrici semper virgini Mari® ad monasterium Glastingensem devotus 
 admodum in perpetuam possessionem donando donavi ; quod quidem pr®dium quondam Elswith 
 conjux Elphegi ducis digno plenoque pretio a gloriosissimo rege Edgaro cum xl puri auri emit 
 mancusis. Hanc autem pr®fatam donacionem supra-scripti pr®dii pr®fato monasterio perpetua 
 libertate concessi, eo scilicet tenore ut venerabilis ibidem Abbas cum grege digne Deo degens 
 habeat ac possideat quamdiu Fides in Anglorum catholica permanserit plebe. Si quis igitur hanc 
 nostrum donacionem in aliud quam constituimus transferre voluerit, privatus consortio sanct® 
 Dei ecclesi® eternis baratri incendiis lugubris jugiter cum Juda Christi proditore ejusque complicibus 
 puniatur si non satisfaccione emendaverit congrua quod contra nostrum deliquit decretum. H®c 
 autem cedula scripta est anno ab incarnacione Dni nostri Jesu Christi Dcccclxxxvij, indictione xv. 
 Hiis testibus consencientibus quorum nomina inferius scripta cernuntur. f|? Ego Athelredus Rex 
 Anglorum hujus donacionis libertatem regni totius fastigium tenens libenter concessi. *|iEgo 
 Dunstan Archiepiscopus Dorovernensis Ecclesi® cum signo Sanct® Crucis confirmavi. tjiEgo 
 Oswald Eboracensis civitatis archipresul Crucis taumate annotavi. 
 
 XY. [Page 140.] SWINLEY, LANGLEY and CLAPCOTE. 
 
 Recognitio Jordani Fitzurse de Servicio suo. A.D. 1243. 
 
 Noverint, &c. quod ego Jordanus filius Ursi et heredes mei tenemur Domino Michaeli Abbati 
 Glastoni® et ecclesi® Glastoni® in xl solidos esterlingorum ad duos terminos solvend’, viz. ad 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 427 
 
 festum Sancti Michaelis MCCXLIII xx s , et ad Natale Domini proximo sequens xx s , de scutagio 
 sibi debito de uno feodo militis et dimidio feodi qum teneo de Ilonore Glastonite in Langeleghe, 
 Clopcote, et Swineleghe, unde prius solvi eidem Abbati xx s de eodem scutagio et adhuc restant 
 xx 8 de scutagio scilicet concesso Domino Regi Henrico filio It. Johannis quando transfretavit in 
 Yasconiam anno regni ipsius xxvi' 0 : et ad istam solucionem terminis praenotatis plenarie faciendum 
 me et beredes meos firmiter obligavi et ejusdem Abbatis districtionein subivi. In cujus rei testi¬ 
 monium sigillum meum apposui. 
 
 * XYI. [Page 140.] 
 
 Noverint, &c., Quod ego Jordanus Filius ITrsi et heredes mei tenemur respondere Ecclesiae 
 Glastoniae de servicio unius militis et dimidio feodi: sc. in Langlegk de dimidio feodi: in Clopcote 
 de dimidio feodi: in Swinleghe de dimidio feodi. Et ne hoc a memoria hominum de facili excidere 
 possit, huic scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus, Domino Roberto Blakeford, Domino 
 Henrico de Hertbam, Domino Johanne de Estone, Johanne de Abbotstone, Duo- Rogero de 
 Dantesey, Willo. de Haywode, et aliis. 
 
 XVII. [Page 140.] 
 
 Processus quomodo Jordanus Filius Ur si recognovit feodum militis et dimidio in Swinlegh, 
 
 Clopcote, et Langleygh. A.D. 1243. 
 
 Memorandum quod MCCXLIII Michael (de Ambresbury) Abbas Glaston : fecit distringcre 
 Adam et Roisiam de Clopcot per ballivos suos de Kington, ad solvendum ei scutagium de feodo 
 unius militis quod ipsi tenent de Honore Glastoniae, in Clopcote, et Swineleghe, de scutagio, viz. 
 concesso Domino regi ad transfretacionem suam in Yasconiam anno ipsius Regis xxvj"; et cum 
 distringerentur praedicti Adam et Roisia venerunt et ostenderunt se solvisse dictum scutagium de 
 feodo predicto Jordano Filio Ursi de Langeleghe, et quod illud feodum de eodem tenent immediate ; 
 et ipse Jordanus de Abbate Glastoniae. Postea venit Abbas et distringere facit ipsum Jordanum 
 ad solvendum scutagum pracdictum de eodem feodo et de dimidio feodi quod ipse Jordanus tenet in 
 dominico in Langlegh in manerio de Kington. Et cum distringeretur, venit et interrogavit 
 namia sua quieta, asserens se non teneri eidem Abbati in ipso scutagio sicut ab eo idem exigit, et 
 cum Abbas non dimitteret namia sua quieta, statim ivit ad Nicholaum de Haversham tunc \ ice- 
 corn’ Wilteskir, et questus est de ipso Abbate quod injuste, &c., namia sua detinuit, et dedit 
 vadium et plegios prosequendi versus Abbatem de vi et de namio, et ita deliberari fecit namia sua, 
 et idem vicecomes summoneri fecit Abbatem per ballivum suum de Domerham, quod veniret 
 ostensurus “ quare,” &c., et intervenientibus rationalibus dilationibus tandem comparuit idem 
 Abbas apud Wilton in vigil. S'. Joh : Bapt: eodem anno, et idem Jordanus comparuit per Jorda¬ 
 num, filium suum, quern fecit attornatum suum ad lucrandum vel perdendum : et idem Abbas 
 obtulit se versus per seipsum. Et cum dictus Jordanus attornatus patris sui requisitus esset semel, 
 secundb, et tertio, quid diceret versus dictum Abbatem, nihil respondit, et facto intervallo adhuc 
 saepius requisitus nihil respondit, sed tandem fatebatur se nolle prosequi versus ipsum. Et ideb 
 consideratum est quod Abbas habeat returnum de namiis diet! Jordani quae deliberata erant per 
 Vic’ viz. xxv animalibus; et quod Jordanus et plegii sui in misericordia. Et postea cum prae- 
 
 3 h 2 
 
428 Aubrey’s north wilts. [appendix. 
 
 dicta namia returnata fuissent in parcum praMicti Abbatis, venit dictus Jordanus et recognovit se 
 teneri ecclesiae Glaston : in dicto scutagio unius feodi militis, quod praedictus Adam et Roisia de 
 eo tenent in Swineleghe et Clopcote, et in scutagio dimidio feodi militis quod idem Jordanus tenet 
 in dominico in Langlegke de Abbate Glastoniae, et ita statim intravit in solucionem. 
 
 XVIII. HAYWOOD: in Kington Parish. [Page 141.] 
 
 Carta Willielmi de Ilaywode de una acrd terroe in Kington Abbatis Glastonioe. A.D. 1255. 
 
 “ Omnibus, &c., Willielmus de Haywode salutem: Quietaclamacio pro se et heredibus Domino 
 Rogero Abbati Glastoniae et Conventui ecclesiae Glaston : totius juris in una acra terrae arabilis 
 cum pertinentiis in Kington Monachorum viz : in ilia quae jacet inter terram Personae de Kington 
 et croftam Rogeri Morin, et extendit se versus orientem et versus occidentem. Testibus Domino 
 Johanne de Eston, Jordano Filio Ursi, Ricardo Marescallo, . . Fitzurs, et multis aliis.” 
 
 XIX. [Page 141.] 
 
 Quieta clamacio Willielmi de Haywode Rogero Abbati Glaston: 
 
 In iiij acris terrae in campo orientali de Kington Monachorum, quarum tres acrae jacent in la 
 West-dene inter culturam ipsius Abbatis ex parte una, et quendam cursum aquae ex parte altera. 
 Et una jacet in la Est-dene ad finem acrae quam aliquando Hugo le Wodeward tenuit, juxta 
 predictum cursum aquae, &c. Hiis testibus, Domino Johanne de Estone, Johanne de Abbotestone, 
 Jordano de Fitzurs, Roberto Curteys, et aliis. 
 
 XX. [Page 141.] 
 
 A.D. 1285. Chirographum inter Abbatem Glaston: et Robertum de Haywode de 
 quadam terra in Kington quam Will 3 , le Waytede Chippenham dedit Abbati de Malmesburie. 
 
 Omnibus, &c. Robertus de Haywode salutem. Noverit universitas vestra quod cum Willelmus 
 le Wayte de Chippenham et Editha uxor ejus dederunt &c., religiosis viris Abbati et Conventui 
 de Malmesbury XX et unam acram et dimid., et unam perticatam terrae in Kington, prout in 
 carta, &c., et praedictam terram eisdem religiosis concessam per cartam meam pro me et heredibus 
 et assignatis meis confirmaverim, habendam et tenendam de dominis meis Abbati et Conventui 
 Glastoniae in pura et perpetua elymosyna, ac iidem Willielmus et Editha regale servicium quantum 
 pertinet ad tantam terram, mihi solvere consuevissent, obligavi me et heredes et assignatos meos 
 per presentem cartam praedictam dominis Abbati et Conventui Glastoniae tanquam capitalibus 
 dominis feodi illius, ad solvendum eisdem regale servicium quando currit, et relevium plenum tam 
 de praedicta terra quam de terra mea propria, quando accident per decessum meum vel heredum 
 meorum, et ad faciendum omnia secularia servicia tam regalia quam alia pro praedicto Abbate et 
 Conventu de Malmesbur. non obstante alienacione facta de terra praedicta. In cujus rei testi¬ 
 monium, &c. Hiis testibus Dominis Galfrido de Wroxhale, Reginaldo Burel, Henrico de Cerne, 
 militibus, Ricardo Horne, Adam Harding, Rogero de Caynes, et aliis.” Dat. iv. Nonas Aprilis 
 A.D. MCCLXXXV. 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 429 
 
 XXI. EDEN WORTH, co. Somerset. [Page 141.] 
 
 [ A.D. 1255.] Litera domini Ernoldi de Bosco pro tmemento de Edenworthe. 
 
 “ A honourable Pere et sage R. par la grace de Dieu Abbe de Glastingburg Ernaud de Boyz 
 “salutz et toutz honourz. Monstre nous est, Sire, par Sire Thomas de Beauchamp nostre cosin 
 “ qui un tenement de nous tient en Edenworthe avec les appurteynances, le quel tenement nous 
 “ tenons et clamons tener de vous et de vostre eglise, que vous en cele tenement le faites de- 
 “ streyndre pur homage que pur cele tenement vous demaundez; e pur ceo, Sire, que nous susmes 
 “ en gret maladie et en fible estat de corps que a vous travailler ne pourrons, nous vous prions 
 “ tant entierement comme nous savons, que nous pur Dieu et pur l’amour de nous cette destresse 
 “ lesser et mettre en respit, si la que nous sumes en tel estat de corps que a vous venir puissons 
 “ pur cele homage faire. Ear bien connaissons et connaistre voulons et devons, que cele tenement 
 “ de vous et de vostre eglise tenons et tener clamons, et que pur cele tenement homage a vous et 
 “ a vostre eglise et a vos successeurs, et real service, quant qu’il vient, nous appartient a faire, 
 “ selon* l’auncienne custome de faire devours. En tesmoigne de ceste chose nos envoyons nos 
 “lettres overtes de nostre seale enseals.” 
 
 XXII. [Page 142.] 
 
 \A.D. 1263.] Litera Johannis de Artheme pro sectd Hundredi de Kington. 
 
 “Venerabili viro Domino et amico in Christo Roberto Dei gracia Abbati Glast: Johannes 
 “ Artherne salutem, cum reverentia et honore. Quia variis praepeditus negotiis et servicio alieno 
 “ occupatus sectam ad Hundredum vestrum de Kington quam sicut ceteri liberi homines dicti 
 “ manerii facere teneor personaliter, si placet, hoc anno facere non possum, Dominacionem vestram 
 “ exoro, quatenus dilectum mihi Rogerum Rugge attornatum meum ad dictam sectam loco mei 
 “ faciendam per annum, si placet, recipere velitis. Dat. mens: Sep r . anno Regni Regis Henrici 
 “xlvij 0 . In cujus rei testimonium presentibus sigillum meum apposui.” 
 
 XXIII. [Page 142.] 
 
 Quieta clamacio Willielmi la Wayte de Chippenham de quibusdam exitibus in manerio de 
 
 Kington. A.D. 1270. 
 
 Noverint, &c. quod cum Willielmus la Wayte de Chippenham peteret per duo Brevia Domini 
 Regis quod Robertus Abbas Glaston permitteret ei habere iiij exitus versus boscum ipsius Abbatis 
 de Haywode in manerio suo de Kington per medium quoddam fossatum quod est inter boscum 
 prsedictum et quasdam croftas quas babet praedictus Willielmus de tenemento quod fuit aliquando 
 Willielmi de Haywode, ut posset habere cheminum ad carriandum blada sua, &c: tandem amica- 
 biliter convenitur inter eos festo St. Michaelis Anno Dni. MCCLXX. et anno Regni Regis 
 Henrici filii Regis Johannis LIIII°. viz. quod predictus Willielmus remisit, &c. quod duo medii 
 exitus clausi et obstructi remaneant in perpetuum, et pro hac concessione Abbas, &c. concessit 
 quod predictus Willielmus et beredes babeant in perpetuum duos exitus tantum versus boscum 
 predictum per medium predicti fossati, viz. unum exitum de Crofta que vocatur ‘La Wyke’ et 
 alium exitum de Crofta quam Walterus de Haywode olim tenuit de praxlicto Willielmo de 
 
430 Aubrey’s north wilts. [appendix, 
 
 Haywode. Testibus Domino Galfrido Foliot, Johanne de Estone, Sampsone de la Boxe, militibus, 
 Ric: Horne, Martino de Pedeworth, et aliis. 
 
 XXIY. RECTORY OF KINGTON ST. MICHAEL. [Page 142.] 
 
 A.D. 1251—1261.] Carta Jordani Cotel, Personae de Kington, de und acrd in eodem 
 
 manerio non alienandd. 
 
 Omnibus ad quos, &c. Jordanus Cotel, Rector ecclesiae de Kington, salutem. Noverint univer- 
 sitas vestra quod ego Jordanus me obligavi pro me et heredibus meis Domino Rogero Abbati 
 Glastoniae quod nec ego nec heredes mei unquam dabimus, vendemus, vel aliquo modo assigna- 
 bimus, alicui domui religiosae, seu alicui ecclesiae, seu Personae alicui ecclesiae, illam acram terrae 
 in Kington quam habui de Willielmo de Haywode, quae est de feodo ipsius Abbatis, sine espresso 
 consensu dictorum Abbatis et Conventus. In cujus rei testimonium praesenti scripto sigillum 
 meum apposui. Hiis testibus; Domino Thoma Trevet, Willielmo filio suo, Roberto de Brente, 
 Hugone de Middletone, et aliis. 
 
 XXV. [Page 143.] 
 
 [A.D. 1269,] Indentura facta inter Abbatem Glastonioe et Rector cm Ecclesice de King- 
 ton , de standd ordinacione bonorum virorum super quddamplated prop'e fabricam quee nunc 
 
 est curtilagium. 
 
 Memorandum quod cum die Beati Dionysii anno Domini millesimo CC sexagesimo nono 
 Jordanus, Rector Ecclesiae de Kington, diceret se esse gravatum in quadaru platea prope fabricam 
 quae aliquando fuit pundfolda Abbatis Glastoniae quae nunc reducta est in curtilagium, et de duobus 
 averiis suis quos idem Abbas ei deforceat ut dicit, convenit amicabiliter inter eosdem Abbatem 
 et Rectorem quod de communi consensu posuerunt se in consideratione bonorum virorum bine 
 inde communiter eligendorum. In cujus rei testimonium praesenti scripto in modum cbirograpbi 
 confecto praedictus Abbas et Jordanus sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunt. Hiis testibus Michael 
 le Goy, Durando de Wullavingtone, Waltero la Wayte et aliis. Acta apud Melles die et anno 
 supradicto. 
 
 XXVI. [Page 143.] 
 
 [A.D. 1269. | Indentura inter prcedictum Abbatem et Conventum et Rectorem de com- 
 mund pastures bosci qui vocatur Inwode, cum aliis prcedicto Abbati relaxatis. 
 
 Memorandum; quod die et anno supradicto Jordanus Cotele, Rector Ecclesie de Kington, 
 tulisset duo Brevia Domini Regis super Dominum Robertum Abbatem Glastoniae, unum, viz. ; 
 de nova disseisina, per quod conquerebatur quod quidam Abbas disseisiavit eum de communa 
 pasturae suae quam habere debuit, ut dicebat, ad omnimoda averia sua in bosco praedicti Abbatis 
 quod vocatur Inicode in Kington, et quod predictus Abbas levari fecerat tres domos in Kington et 
 unam domum in Langeleghe in communa pasturae suae, ut dicebat; et quod obstrui fecerat iter 
 quod habere consuevit, ut dixit, inter Inwode et la sterte (stream) : et aliud Breve per quod 
 conquerebatur quod idem levari fecerat sex fossata in Kington ad nocumentum liberi tenementi 
 sui in eadem villa; Tandem contentiones amicabiliter conquieverunt in forma subscripts, viz. quod 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 DAMEKHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 431 
 
 praedictus Abbas concessit praefato Rectori quod ipse habeat porcos suos proprios sine numero in 
 praenotato bosco praedicti Abbatis de Inwode simul cum porcis ipsius Abbatis quando-cunque et 
 quoties-cunque idem Abbas vel ballivi sui porcos suos in dictum boscum poni fecerint: ita tamen 
 quod porci memorati Rectoris quos ibi sic ponet, intrent vel exeant per medium curiam praedicti 
 Abbatis et non alibi. Promisit enim dictus Abbas dicto Rectori bona fide quod nec per se nec 
 per ballivos suos per fraudem vel per maliciam excogitatam, quod absit, aliquod impedimentum 
 praestabit quominus porci praedicti Rectoris in praefatum boscum ingressum habeant, et egressum 
 in forma praedicta Concessit etiam memoratus Abbas praefato Rectori, quod habeat iter quod 
 habere consuevit apud “la sterte” ad bigam et quadrigam, absque ullo impedimento sui vel suo- 
 rum; ita tamen quod liceat praedicto Abbati sepem et clausum facere inter dictum iter et culturam 
 suam quam habet in eodem ambitu clausi de “ la sterte ” tempore quo fuerit seminata. Et cum 
 segetes inde amotse fuerint supradictus Rector cum averiis suis simul cum averiis praedicti 
 Abbatis absque contradictione vel impedimento quolibet communicet ibidem. Et pro hac con- 
 cessione remisit totaliter dictus Rector praefato Abbati omnimodam communam pasturae quam 
 ad se pertinere dicebat ad quaecunque averia sua in dicto bosco de Inwode, salva eidem Rectori 
 communa in bosco ipso ad porcos suos proprios tantummodo in forma premissa. Remisit insuper 
 idem Rector praefato Abbati omnem actionem quam habuit et demandam versus praedictum Abba- 
 tem de praenominatis 4 domibus quas dixit esse erectas in communa pasturae suae, et de predictis 
 sex fossatis quae ad nocumentum suum levata esse dicebat in predictis villis de Kington et Lange- 
 leghe. In cujus rei testimonium, &c. Hiis testibus (scil: praedictis). 
 
 XXVII. KINGTON LANGLEY. [Page 146.] 
 
 [A.D. 940.] Carta Regis Edmundi facta Wilfrico ministro suo de Langeleyghe. 
 
 \_New Monastic on I. page 60.] 
 
 Crux, quae excellis toto et dominaris Olympo, inclita lex Domini Christi fundamen et aule, 
 Alpha mi et Omega, hujus syngraphae initium medium et finem vexillando faveto; tu quoque, 
 cunctis splendidior astris sanctiorque universis coram Christo charismatibus, regale pecusculum 
 Edmundi Regis Anglosaxon’ largissima perlustrasti prerogative!, hoc nempe veridico potest oraculo 
 Wulfric, procerali potentia ditatus, proferre veraciter, ut ceteris, regia dignitate condonatis, en 
 nempe innotescat hac cartula caraxanda quod, beato Dei patrocinio, idem Rex prefatus anno 
 DCCCCXL 0 . postquam Virgo puerpera caelesti puerperio caeleste protulit cunctis catholice conver- 
 santibus Agion Pneuma impnizante eulogium, atque secundo regum armigerulo ex quo regalia 
 gerebat diademata, bis quindenis ad Langelegh mansiunculis longacva liberalitate hunc Wulfricum 
 locupletat: hanc terram praenotatam sibi suisque post se heredibus cum locis silvaticis seu rite 
 campestribus circumcinctis climatibus perenniter perfruendam. Pcrpendant nunc perpetuumque 
 hujus agri alacriter quod promulgat sagaciter Auctor Christianus ac fortiter: “Reddite ergo quae 
 “ sunt Caesaris Caesari, 0 vos possessores, et quae sunt Dei Deo: fas divinum jus humanum minis- 
 “ trantes ecclioe catholicae lectitantes.” Iliis limitibus predicta terra giratur. 
 
 Erest at than, gren aken thanne endelang Merebrokes, of than broke on Southlingleygh’, of thar 
 leighe adoun to than Lypgate, of than L} r pgate over Ergespath to than Ragheye thar, then end- 
 lang Ragheyes out on than feld, thanne bi southe of AVeofwelle, thanne of than well endlang 
 
432 Aubrey’s north wilts. [appendix. 
 
 Bever-bourne on Stanforde; of Stanforde on the olde heggerewe on Sondermede thar, on of 
 Sondermede endlangweies out bi weste Smallehammes, thanne over thane feld, endlang there 
 hegge rewe that Alfric made on Schortegrove thare, thanne in on the grove on tber wester swolle 
 of ther swelle on ther dich on thene Ellenstubbe, of than stubbe over Stanleyghe to ther elde 
 hegge rewe thare, thanne endelang heggerewe est on ther one doune estward, on ther one doune 
 to Bradwellebrok to than stone, of than stone est to than seswelwe at climanfelde, of than seswelwe 
 to thar appildore, of thar appildore to Trindschachin to Holdene, to Acforde, to Acforde south on 
 than stone to than Rym aken Peginhullis the mere of thar yo endlangdich thar est on the ya.” 
 
 ijEgo Edmundus Rex regia dignitate conspicuus, hiis testibus conscribentibus, quorum nomina 
 adnotantur, hoc quod dedi confirmavi celebri loco Chippenham, ij* Ego Wulfhelm archipraesul 
 cum suffraganeis praesulibus domini regis roboravi. 
 
 XXYIII. [Page 147.] 
 
 Carta Reginaldi Bosket de terra sud de la Combe data Ecclesice. 
 
 Sciant, &c. quod Ego Reginaldus Bosket consensu et assensu Herberti Frankchivaler domini 
 mei et Juliana? filiae ipsius uxoris mete concessi Deo et Ecclesie S. Mari® Glastoni® totam terrain 
 meam de la Combe et Langeleyghe quam accepi cum uxore mea in maritagium, tenendam in per- 
 petuum libere et quiete de me et heredibus meis. Reddendo inde annuatim mihi et heredibus 
 meis tres solidos pro omni servitio ad me pertinente. Et si forte Regale servicium vel aliud 
 evenerit de hiis tribus solidis illud servicium semper fiet. Pro hac concessione Rogerus filius 
 Edine dedit mihi Reginaldo Bosket decern solidos et Julian® uxori me® xij denarios, et Thom® 
 heredi meo xij d et Herberto Frankchivaler xij solidos; pro speciali siquidem dilectione pr®dicti 
 Rogeri Monachi jam diet® ecclesi® Glastoni® fecimus concessionem pr®dictam. Et ut h®c mea 
 donatio rata et inconcussa imposterum permaneat scripto meo et sigilli mei munimine earn con¬ 
 firmavi. Hiis testibus, Aluredo Ferling, Thoma de Monte, Roberto Mareschall, et aliis. 
 
 XXIX. [Page 147.] 
 
 Consensus Herberti de terra predietd. 
 
 Sciant, &c. (sic concludit); H®c carta lecta est in plenis comitiis de die Sancti Egidii apud Exon. 
 Hiis testibus, Juliano Pokehelle, Aluredo Ferling, Ricardo de la Weye, Rogero fratre ejus, et 
 omnibus probis hominibus Hundred® de Langeleghe. 
 
 XXX. [Page 147.] 
 
 Carta Milonis Filii Milonis de und perticatd terree in Langlegh data Ecclesice. 
 
 Omnibus, &c. Milo Filius Milonis de Langelegh salutem. Noverit universitas vestra me 
 dedisse concessisse et confirmasse domino Roberto Abbati Glastoni® et ejusdem loci Conventui in 
 Monasterio Glastoni® inperpetuum unam perticatam in longitudine, et duas perticatas in latitu- 
 dine de Australi capite cujusdam dimidi® acr® me® jacentis apud Haydenewelle in campo Boreali 
 de Langelegh ad stagnum molendini sui de Bidemell elargiend: et amendand: Tenendum et 
 habendum eandem terram cum pertinentiis suis pr®dicto Abbati, et Conventui et successoribus ac 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 433 
 
 Monasterio prcedicto in puram et perpetuam elemosynam inperpetuum, &c. Hiis testibus domino 
 Johanne de Estone, milite, Henrico de Cerne domino de Draicot, Rogero Gengel, et aliis. 
 
 XXXI. [Page 147.] 
 
 Carta Rogeri Gengel et uxoris suae de redditu xii d vcl unius multonis * in Ringtone. 
 
 [A.D. 1273.] 
 
 Omnibus, &c. Rogerus Gengel de Langelegh et Alicia uxor ejus salutem in Domino. Noverit 
 universitas vestra quod cum dominus Robertus Abbas Glastonioe concessit mihi et uxori meae, 
 quoad vixerimus tantum, quandam parvam placeam continentem circa dimidiam acram terrae de 
 quadam furlong quam Robertus Longus de Langelegh aliquando tenuit in Langelegh et eandem 
 pro paupertate sua praedicto Domino Abbati reddidit, quae quidem placea jacet ex parte Australi 
 messuagii in Langelegh, pro xij denariis vel uno multone de eodem pretio ad consuetudinem 
 falcationis prati de Pegingehulle Mede de redditu per annum; Nos confitemur et fideliter 
 protestamur pro nobis ac quibuscunque heredibus et assignatis nostris nullum jus aut clameum 
 posse calumpniare, recuperare, vel habere, aliquo unquam tempore in ipsa placea praedicta vel 
 pertinentiis suis quibuscunque ratioue hujus concessionis nisi solum conventionem praedictam 
 quoad vixerimus temporis, sed post decessum nostrum tota placea praedicta cum omnibus in eadern 
 appropriatis, ut in domibus et aliis quibuscunque, Abbati et Conventui Glastoniae qui pro tempore 
 erunt ac Monasterio Glastonioe sine aliqua calumpnia vel contradiccione quorumcunque heredum 
 vel assignatorum nostrorum plenarie et integre revertatur. In cujus rei testimonium proesenti 
 scripto sigilla nostra apposuimus. Datam apud Kington Beati Michaelis, anno Domini Millesimo 
 ducentesimo septuagesimo tertio. 
 
 XXXII. [Page 147.] 
 
 Carta Thome Gengel de und perticatd terras et dimidid in Langelegh data Ecclesice. 
 
 Omnibus, &c. Thomas Gengel salutem. Noverit universitas vestra me dedisse et ccncessisse 
 et confirmasse Roberto, Abbati Glastonioe, et ejusdem loci, &c. unam perticatam et dimidiam in 
 longitudine et duas in latitudine de terra mea in Boreali capite cujusdam dimidiae acrae jacentis 
 sub molendino de Bidemille in campo Boreali de Langeleghe et preterea tres perticatas in longi¬ 
 tudine et quatuor perticatas et dimid’ in latitudine de terra mea in capitibus Australibus duarum 
 dimid: acrarum mearum jacentium super molendinum praedictum similiter in campo predicto ad 
 stagnum suum de molendino predicto emendand. et elargiend : Tenendum et habendum eandem 
 terram cum pertinentiis suis proedicto Abbati et Conventui et successoribus in puram et perpetuam 
 elemosynam. Ita quod nec ego nec heredes mei nec aliquis per nos aliquid juris vel clamei in 
 predicta terra aut pertinenciis suis aliquo unquam tempore habere vindicare seu exigere possimus 
 imperpetuum. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum huic scripto apposui. Hiis testibus 
 Domino Johanne de Estone milite, Thoma Delamere, Rogero Gengel, et aliis. 
 
 XXXIII. [Page 147.] A Mill in Kington. 
 
 Carta Jordanifilii Ursi facta Ecclesice pro molendino de Kington. \_Before A.D. 1261. ! 
 
 Sciant, &c. quod ego Jordanus Filius Ursi de Langelegh volo et concedo pro me et heredibus 
 1 Signifies, a sheep, at the price of xij pence. J. A. 
 
 3 i 
 
434 Aubrey’s north wilts. [appendix. 
 
 meis imperpetuum, quod frater Robertus de Pedertone monachus Monasterii Glastoniae toto suo 
 tempore et Abbas et Conventus dicti Monasterii Glast: perpetuis temporibus habeant et teneant 
 bene et in pace integre et quiete, &c. molendinum et stagnum cum pertinenciis suis prope fontem 
 qui vocatur ‘ Maydenewelle ’ in manerio de Kington ad ampliationem stagni dicti molendini. 
 Ego Jordanus Filius Ursi dedi concessi et quietum clamavi, &c. praofato Roberto de Pedertone 
 toto suo tempore et Abbati et Conventui- praedicto Monasterii Glastoniae imperpetuum quinque 
 perticatas terrae cum pertinenciis suis. Ego Jordanus et heredes mei memorato Roberto suo tem¬ 
 pore Abbati et Conventui imperpetuum contra omnes mortales warrantizare et defendere tenemur. 
 Pro hac autem mea donatione concessione, &c. dedit mihi prsefatus Robertus duas marcas ster- 
 lingorum prae manibus. In quorum omnium perpetuum testimonium praesenti cartae sigillum 
 raeum apposui. Iliis testibus domino Jobanne de Estone rnilite, Roberto de Cerne, Ricardo 
 Ilaylis, et aliis. 
 
 XXXIV. [Page 147.] 
 
 Carta per copiam. [A.Z>. 1280.] 
 
 Omnibus, &c. Reginaldus Burel dominus de Langeleygh salutem. Xoverit universitas vestra 
 quod cum quaedam contentiones nuper subortae essent inter Dominum Johannem A'bbatem Glas- 
 toniae et ejusdem loci Conventuin et homines suos de Kington Sancti Michaelis et Langeleghe ex 
 parte una, et me ex altera; super imparcamentis factis de averiis proedicti Abbatis et hominum 
 suorum praedictorum in boscis meis de Langeleghe Burel inventorum, tandem easdem contentiones 
 in hunc modum conquieverunt, viz. quod ego praedictus Reginaldus et heredes mei vel assignati 
 claudere tenemur praefatos boscos undique per illam costeram ad quam communis pastura extendit 
 se, ita ut. averia praedicti Abbatis Conventus et successorum et hominum suorum praedictos boscos 
 pro defectu clausturae non ingrediantur. Et si forte averia predictorum Abbatis et Conventus et 
 hominum suorum praedictos boscos pro defectu clausturae ingrediantur, ego et heredes mei et assig¬ 
 nati mei averia praedicta de praedictis boscis fugare sine damno praedictorum averiorum vel redemp- 
 cionem capiendo tenemur imperpetuum nec eadem averia ea occasione aliquatenus comparcare 
 tenemur. Hiis testibus Domino Iienrico de Cerne, Johanne de Grenstede militibus, Thoma Dela- 
 mere, et multis aliis. Dat. Marleberwe die Lunae prox’ post Festum Sancti Dionisi anno Edwardi 
 Regis nono. 
 
 XXXV. [Page 148.] 
 
 Carta Johannis Burel* facta Agneti filice suce de una domo et 5 acris terroe in Cameleyglie. 
 
 Sciant, &c. quod Ego Johannes Burel de Cameleighe dedi et concessi Agneti filiae meae pro 
 homagio et servicio suo, domurn unam cum curtilagio in Cameleygh juxta croftum meurn quod 
 Alexander frater meus quondam tenuit, et in campo Orientali quinque acras terrae arabilis simul 
 jacentes quae vocantur La Gore, in campo nostro Australi, ij acras simul jacentes quae extendunt se 
 super Middilwodishething, et dimidiam acrae quae jacet ex transverso predictarum acrarum ad 
 caput versus Austrum, et unam acram suj^ra le Inhaik quae se extendit versus plagam Borealem, 
 habend’ et tenend’, &c.: Reddendo inde annuatim ab ipsa et heredibus suis de se procreatis ad 
 Pascha mihi et heredibus meis unum par chirotecarum albarum de precio unius oboli, h pro omni 
 
 * Probably a mistake for Burnell. Ed. 
 
 A paire of white Gloves for a Halfe-penny. J. A. 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 DAMERHAM NORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 435 
 
 servicio et demanda. Et ego Johannes Burel et heredes mei warrantizabimus, &c. Et si predicta 
 Agnes sine liberis de se procreatis obierit, predictum mesuagium cum tot a predicta terra ad me 
 vel heredes meos libere revertatur. Et ut hsec mea donacio, &c. stabilis sit, &c. sigillum meum 
 apposui. Hiis testibus, domino Johanne Crumhale de Feringtone, Philippo Kether de Littletone, 
 Anquetillo de Hentone et aliis. 
 
 XXXVI. NETLINGTOX. [Page 149.] 
 
 [/1 .1). 943.] Carta Edmundi Regis facta Wulfrico ministro sno de Neielington. 
 
 Regnante imperpetuo Domino Jhu Christo. Sacrae autem Scripture edita forma catholicorum 
 patrum nos admonet ut memores simus quam quidem transeuntis mundi vicissitudo cotidie per 
 incrementa temporum crescendo decrescat et atnpliendo minuatur, crebrescentibusque repentinis 
 variorum incursuum minis vicinus finis terminus esse cunctis in proximo cernitur. Idcirco vanis 
 et transibilibus rebus mansura coelestis patriae prsemia mercanda sunt. Quapropter Ego Edmundus 
 Rex Anglorum cseterarumque gentium in circuitu persistentium gubernator et rector, cuidam meo 
 fideli ministro vocitato nomine Wulfrico, ob illius amabile obsequium ejusque placabilem fidelitatem, 
 dignatus sum impartiri bis denas mansas, quod Anglice dicitur “Twenti hide,” ubi turbaruin 
 collatione jamdudum nomen illatum hoc esse profertur “at Netlingtone.” Hsec igitur prsefata 
 tellus omnibus cum appendiciis silvis et campis pascuis atque pratis magnis vel minimis sit quoque 
 liber libertate prsefixa ab orani jugo servili cum universis quae pertinent sibi, tribus pretermissis 
 non obmittendis, expedicione, pontis municionisque confectione; deinceps namque sibi succedenti, 
 cui placuerit sibi, relinquat heredi in eternam hereditatem. Xam quisquis seculorum in generatione 
 Belial gnatus nostrum hoc volumen itnmutare temptaverit, inde reus celere judicii die, magna cum 
 turma, truces trudatur in fhunmas, nisi hoc in seculo penitentise prius fletu detersus bine se 
 corrigere studuerit. Istis terminis predicta terra circumgirata esse videtur. “Erest eudlang 
 ye fer to Alorbroko, endlang Alorbrokes to Wodeforde, of Wodeforde to Streteforde, of Streteforde 
 to Meredich, up of Meredioh, out to bilham that hit comet to lang-forlang sutlnvard, thanen to 
 Hengrave, of Hengrave to Cefe-landgrave, thanen to Abbanberghe to than or-putten to the fer 
 ist stone.” ^ Acta est hsec prefata donacio anno ab incarnacione Domini nostri Jesu Christi 
 DCCCCXLIII. indictione secunda. ■ 4 * Ego Edmundus rex Anglorum prefatam donationem cum 
 sigillo Sanctse Crucis subaravi.ijiEgo Odo Dorobern ecclesie archiepiscopusejusdem regisdonacionem 
 cum sigillo sanctse Crucis confirmavi, cum multis aliis. Hanc ruralem possessionem prsedictus 
 Wulfricus post obitum conjugis suse data cartula commendavit, quod turn Elswin factus Monachus 
 et ad monasterium rediens opere implevit. [See New Monasticon, I., p. 59.] 
 
 XXXVII. [Page 149.] 
 
 Carta Regis Edivy facta de Nctelington Abbati et Monasterio de Glastonbury. 
 
 [A.D. 956.] Christo jura regnorum omnia disponente, primo anno mei regiminis. Ego Edwy prse- 
 potens Anglicanae genealogim sceptro fretus uni meo fideli videlicet Abbati Glastingensi vocitato 
 nomine Elswio viginti mansas cousentio illo in loco ubi ruricolae appellativo usu nomen indederunt 
 “at Xetelingtone,” et in suo vivere cum prosperitate semper istum eximium optineat, et post se 
 cum chirographo perpetuo cui voluerit eternaliter derclinquat, cum campis pascuis pratis silvis 
 
 3 i 2 
 
Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 436 
 
 [appendix. 
 
 salva expeditione et pontis arcisve constructione. Sic vero maneat predictum rus defensum ab 
 omni obstaculo et liberum a cuncto servicio, exceptis istis tribus sicut superiiis praenotatum est. 
 Si quis autem, quod non optamus, infringere temptaverit, quod absit, sciat se rationem redditurum 
 coram Deo et angelis ejus nisi prius hie digna satisfactione emendare voluerit. Acta est haec 
 praefata donacio anno ab incarnacione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi DCCCCLVI, indictione xiiij. 
 
 Ego Edwy Rex Anglorum indeclinabiliter consensi. % Ego Edgar ejusdem Regis frater celeriter 
 consensi. ■£< Ego Odo archiepiscopus cum signo sanct® Crucis roboravi: cum multis aliis. 
 
 HIGHWORTH HUNDRED. 
 
 XXXYIII. SEYENHAMPTON. [Page 158.] 
 
 Foundation of a Warneford Chantry in the Chapel of St. James. (The Text of the 
 
 document appears to he imperfect .) 
 
 Omnibus ad quos hoc praesens scriptum, &c. Universitati vestrae notum facio me, divinae cari- 
 tatis intuitu, et pro animabus antecessorum meorum, concessisse et hac praesenti carta mea confir- 
 masse Deo et Capellae Beati Jacobi de Sevenhampton, et Eliae Capellano ibm et successoribus suis 
 
 unam virgatam terrae.cum pertinentiis, et mansionem illam ad terram cum suis pertinentiis 
 
 quam bonae memoriae.Warn. .. ,P. ... meus assignavit dictao Capellae ad inveniendum ibi 
 
 capellanum qui singulis diebus divina in eadem capella celebrabit ad perpetuam memoriam in 
 Canone Missae Animarum patris et matris meae, et mei cum viam universae carnis fuero ingressa. 
 
 Singulis]diebus habebit.et singulis annis Anniversarium parentum meorum.fecerint in 
 
 eadem. Et post obitum meum quando pro fidelibus celebrabit Dirige et Placebo, singulis diebus 
 dicet commendacionem. Et ut haec autem donacio mea stet et inconcussa permaneat praesenti 
 scripto sigillum meum apposui. Iliis testibus Johanne filio Petri, Roberto de Waltham, Rogero 
 Foliott, Petro Jordano Capellano, Petro Clerico, et multis aliis. Dictus capellanus quicunque 
 fuerit perpetue celebrabit divina pro animabus patris et matris me® et mei post obitum meum 
 singulis diebus quando dies ex debito proprium non deberet habere servicium in pr®dicta capella 
 ut in festis cum novem lectionibus et consimilibus. 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 XXXIX. EASTOX PIERSE. The Manor House. (1. Piers, or Fitz Pierse.) [Page 237.] 
 
 “Sciant pr®sentes, &c. quod ego Johannes filius Petri Fitz-Pieres militis dedi concessi, &c. in 
 feodum Jvett® uxori Adam Iloke de Yetton, et heredibus pro homagio et servicio suo viij acras 
 terr® arabilis et j ferudell positas in territorio versus Eston de feodo meo, viz. in campo Australi 
 iiij acras et unum ferudellum, quarum ij acr® qu® vocantur Golde acre, stunt super Rugwe}' inter 
 terram Parson® de Yetton et terram A. fili® W. de Haylesworthe: Item, &c. Item in campo 
 Aquilonari iiij acras, quarum ij acr® in Oriente parte Bolemede jacent inter terram Domini 
 Abbatis de Stanley et terram Adam Fewy bonce per hegge. Item, &c. Et ego Johannes de Eston 
 et hered : &c. octo acras et unum ferudellum cum communi pastur® pr®dict® J. uxori Adam 
 Hoke et heredibus suis contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus. Pro hac autem donatione et con- 
 firmacione dedit in manibus J. uxor Adam Hoke xvj solidos et iiij denarios in gersumam, &c. 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 437 
 
 Hiis testibus, Milone de Keynes, Henr’ Herbert, Walter’ de la Sale de Allington, Willielmo de 
 Aswell de Budeston, W mo . Water de Budeston, W mo . Cumpary, Roberto Swey de Yetton, et aliis. 
 [Ao date.] 
 
 XL. [Page 237.] 
 
 “Sciant praesentes et futuri quod ego Will. Filius Petri de Eston vendidi, et coucessi, &c. totam 
 terrain meam in villa de Eston, scilicet, 1 virgat’ teme et \ cum omnibus pertinenciis Jobanni 
 de Eston duo meo, tenend’ et habend’ Redd : unum denarium die Paschao pro omni servicio, &c. 
 pro hac autem venditione, &c. praedictus Johannes viij marcas argenti mihi et Agneti uxori mem 
 5 marcam argenti prae manibus, &c. Et ego, &c., warrantizabimus, &c. Hiis testibus, Ada de 
 Mara, Henry de Harth’m, Thom de Cherleton, Helya de Cherleton, Simon de Segree, Oseberto 
 Harold, AV m . de Cosham, Rob. de Crumhale, Johanne Clerico, et multis aliis. [Ao date.'] 
 
 XLI. [Page 237.] 
 
 “Sciant praesentes, &c. quod nos Radulphus de Cokelborghe et Isabella uxor mea dedimus, &c. 
 Johannae filiae dni Petri de Eston Pieres militis defuncti vij solidatos annui redditus in Eston Pyeres 
 quos Alicia quae fuit uxor Hen. Wylly nobis solvenda &c. Hiis testibus, Willino Kaynel, Rogero 
 de Kaynes, Joline Fitzours, Micho Royly, Johne Prat, et aliis. (No date.) 
 
 XLII. [Page 237.] (2. De Yeovilton.) 
 
 “Sciant praesentes, &c. quod ego Willms Seward de Eston Peres reddidi concessi, &c., dilecto 
 duo meo Johanni de Eyvelton & Johannae uxori ejus et heredibus, &c. omnia tenementa in Eston 
 Peres &c. Habend, &c. proedictis Job & Johannae, &c. Hiis testibus, Roberto de Bardenie, 
 Johe Iluberd de Stanton-court, Edmundo de Berewik, Rogero de Cromhale, Johane de Fyzhuron 
 et multis aliis. [Ao date.] 
 
 XLIII. [Page 237.] 
 
 “Sciant praesentes et futuri quod ego Johannes le Ileyr’ de Eston Peres reddidi, &c., Johanni 
 de Yeveltone et Johannae uxori, &c., et heredibus &c., omnes terras, &c., quae de ipsis Johanne et 
 Johanna tenui in villa predicta, Habend : et tenend : &c., Et ego praedict’ Johannes et heredes 
 
 mei &c., contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus, &c. Hiis testibus Rogero Hasard, Waltero Risom, 
 Willm de Somerford, Rico Baylemore, Johanne Rossell de Segere & multis aliis. [AY date.] 
 
 XLIY. [Page 237.] 
 
 4 Edw. I. [1275]. “Omnibus &c. Rogerus de Combe salutem. Noveritis me remisisse, &c. 
 Johanni de Yeveltone et Johannae uxori suae, et hered: totum jus, &c. quod habui, &c., in ilia 
 virgata terrae cum suis pertinenciis in villa de Yatton Kaynel quam terram Johes de Cromhale 
 mihi tradidit ad terminum vitae meae, &c. Hiis testibus, Johane Delamere, Adam Walrond 
 railitibus, Roberto de Bardenie, Waltero William, Willmo Herbert, Thoma de Bolehide, et multis 
 aliis. Dat. apud Eston die Jovis prox: post Festum Purificacionis Beatae Mariae, anno Regni 
 Regis Edwardi quarto. 
 
 XLY. [Page 237.] 
 
 35 Edw. I. [1306]. “Haec est Finalis Concordia facta in Curia Regis Edwardi filii Regis 
 
438 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [appendix. 
 
 Henrici apud Westrn : a die Sancti Johannis Baptistae, &c., anno regni Regis Edw. xxxv. Coram 
 Rado de Hengham, Willmo de Bereford, Petro de Malory, Willo Howard, Lambto de Trykingham, 
 et Henrico de Staunton, Justicariis, et postea, &c., inter Pkm de Paunton, et Julianam uxorem 
 ejus Quer’: et Johannem de Eyvelton et Johannem uxorem Deforc’: de maner. de Eston Peris cum 
 pertinentiis et de una carrucata terrae cum pertinent: in Yatton Kaynel, &c.; unde placitum, <$-c. 
 
 XLYI. [Page 237.] 
 
 11 Edw. II. [1317.] “Noverint, &c., quod ego Reginaldus West reddidi Johanni de Eyvelton 
 dno meo totum illud messuagium cum curtilagio, &c., qum de ipso tenui in Yatton Kaynel, remisi, 
 &c. Hiis testibus, Dno Johane Delamare, duo Edmundo Gacelym militibus, Roberto de Bar- 
 deneia, Thoma de Bolehide, Rogero de Cromhale, et multis aliis. Dat. apud Yatton Kaynel die 
 Dominica, prox: post Fest: Sancti Mattkiae Apli anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi 
 Undecimo. 
 
 XLVII. [Page 237.] 
 
 7 Edw. III. [1333.] “ Omnibus, &c., Radulphus de Cokelborgbe et Isabella uxor ejus salutem. 
 
 Xoveritis nos concessisse, &c. Johannae filiae domini Petri de Eston Pyeris militis et bered: &c. 
 totum jus quod habuimus, &c. in vij solidos annuatim redditos, &c. quos Alicia quae fuit uxor 
 Henrici Wylly nobis solvere consueverit pro uno messuagio et una virgata terrae, quae praedict’ &c. 
 Hiis testibus, Willo Kaynel, Rogero de Kaynes, Xicho Royly, Johanne Fyz Ours, Thoma Bole- 
 hyde, et aliis. Dat. Eston Pieres die Sabb’ti in Festo Philippi et Jacobi, anno Edwardi tertii 
 vij mo .”—[Seal, vide PI. xxii. No. 342.] 
 
 XLVIII. [Page 237.] 
 
 8 Edw. III. [1334.] “Omnibus, &c., Johanna de Eston salutem, &c. Noveritis me dedisse 
 concesse, &c. Margeriae, filiae Roberti William de Marsfield, uxori Henrici de Burvman, et Aliciae 
 filiae eorurn, 1 messuag. cum curtilag. et clausis adjacent,’ unam virgatam terrae ac tres peceas 
 prati, cum pertinentiis in Eston Peres quae Alicia atte Slade quondam tenuit. Concessi etiam 
 Margeriae et Aliciae coramunam pasturae ad unum affrum, sex averia, et 60 oves, ubicunque cum 
 tenentibus meis in villa sive campo de Eston. Habend’ &c. Reddendo annuatim unam marcam 
 
 argenti-et faciendo sectam ad Curiam meam de Eston, et inveniendo unum hominem per 
 
 1 diem in autumpno ad bladum meum, &c. Hiis testibus Willo Kaynel, Nicolao Royly, Johanne 
 Phisbeak, Willo le Clerk, et multis aliis. Dat. apud Eston Peres die Lunae prox: post Epipha- 
 niam Domini anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii a conquestu octavo. 
 
 XLIX. [Page 237.] 
 
 20 Edw. III. [1346.] “Noverint, &c : me Edmundum de Eston Clericum, ordinasse et consti- 
 tuisse dilectum meum in Christo Jacobum Hody de Yatton attornatum meum ad liberandum 
 Hugoni Brown de Eston plenam seisinam de omnibus terris, &c. in villa de Eston quae quondam 
 fuerunt Rogeri de Cromhale; Habend : et tenend : praedicto Hugoni ad totam vitam suam, &c. 
 Dat. Apud Oxon xxv. die Maij, anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum xx°. ’—[Seal 
 PL xxii. No. 343.] 
 
APPENDIX. J 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 439 
 
 L. [Page 238.] 
 
 38 Edw. III. [1364.] “Omnibus, &c., Petrus de Yevelton salutem. Noveritis me dedisse et 
 concessisse, &c., Nich de Yevelton et Rico filio suo Manerium meum de Eston Peres cum 
 pertinent, in Com. Wilts, una cum omnibus, &c. in Yatton Kaynel in eodem Comitatu ac etiam 
 omnia terras, &c. in Spekyngton, Brighampton, Yevelton, Mere in parochia de North Cory, 
 Slolegh, Wrentytb, Aswell, et Ashford in Com. Somerset.” Noveritis etiam me prsedictum 
 Petrura de Yevelton dedisse, &c. praefatis Nicho et Rico omnia redditus, &c. in manerio meo de 
 Putt, Bratton, Meryot, Puttynghay, et Lyneton juxta Brodehembury in Com’ Devon, ac etiam 
 omnia terras et tenementa, Habend’ et tenend’ omnia predicta maneria terras et tenements, &c. 
 liberorum quam villanorum reversiones, &e. cum acciderint, praefato Nicho et Ricardo filio suo 
 heredibus et assignatis eorum in perpetuum de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servicia inde 
 debita, &c. Sub tali tamen condicione quod si contingat me praefatum Petrum obire in partibus 
 transmarinis in quas profecturus sum quod tunc praefati Nichus et Ricus heredes et assignati eorum 
 simpliciter gaudebunt omnia maneria praedicta, &c. Et si contingat me praefatum Petrum in 
 partes Angliac redire quod tunc bene liceat mihi praefato Petro in omnibus praedictis manerio, &c. 
 ingredi et retinere, &c. Hiis testibus, Edwardo de Cerne, Milite, Thoma Ive, ThomaPedeworth, 
 Wm. Spekyngton, Rico Pleysted, Johane Meseye, Will" Blake, Hugone Causy, Pho Chapman, 
 et aliis. Dat: apud Eston Peres, die Dominica prox. ante FestumSaneti Mich Archangeli, anno 
 Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestuin tricesimo octavo. 
 
 LI. [Page 238.J 
 
 20 Rich. II. [1396.] “Pateat universis, &c. me Thomam Dnum le Camoys chevalier remississe 
 relaxasse, &c. Robto Yevelton, Clir, heredibus, &c: oinnimodas actiones tam personales quam 
 reales quas versus praedictum Robtum habui seu quomodo habere potero a principio mundi usque 
 in diem confectionis praesentium. In cujus rei testimonium, &c : Dat. London in Festo Nativitatis 
 Sancti Johannis Bapt: anno Regni Regis Ricardi secuudi post conquestum xx m °. [Seal, PI. xxii., 
 No. 344.] 
 
 LII. [Page 238.] 
 
 1 lien. IY. [1399.] “Sciant praesentes, &c. quod Ego Robertus de Yevelton, miles, dedi, concessi, 
 &c. Johanni Curteys, Rogero Golde, Jobanni Milward, Johanni Whiting, Robto Lovering et 
 Willmo Wylly clericis totum Manerium meum de Eston cum terris tenementis et serviciis. Ac 
 etiam omnia alia terras, &c. in Yatton Kaynel in Com. Wilts. Dedi etiam iisdem praedictis - - 
 omnia, &c. in manerio meo de Yevelton, Spekynton, Chilton, Yvelchester, Mere, Slolegh, Lyllesden, 
 Wrentyth, et Neuport in Com. Somerset; Ilabend’ et tenend’ praedict, &c. praedictis, &c. - - de 
 capitalibus dominis feodi illus pro servicio inde debito, &c. AYarrant: &c. Hiis testibus, Johanne 
 Dauntesey, milite, Willmo Gore, Thoma Bcausheme, Rico° Mayn, Johe Forde, Roberto Ruly, 
 Willo Clerk, et multis aliis. Dat. apud Eston praedict’ xi° die mensis Julii, anno Regis llenrici 
 quarti post conquestum priino. [Seal, PI. xxii., No. 345.] 
 
 ‘Wrentytli in Parish of North Cory and Wightlackington, Ashford in the Parish of Ilton ; Ashwell in Parish of 
 Ilnunster. J. A. 
 
440 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [appendix. 
 
 LIII. [Page 238.] 
 
 4 Edw. IY. [1464.] “Sciant praesentes, &c. quod ego Johannes de Suyfmore, clericus, dedi 
 concessi, &c. Johanni Wadham, armigero, Nich°. Fraunceys, Johanni Meryfield, et Will® Fraun- 
 ceys omnia terras, &c. in Eston Pyers et Yatton in Com. Wiltes, Habend’ et tenend’ &c., prsefatis 
 in perpetuum de capitalibus dominis feodi illius pro reddit: &c. Et ego praefatus Johannes 
 Su\ T fmore contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus, &c. Test: W mo . Paulet, milite, Will mo . Montagu 
 de Henlegh, Johanne Cullydon, et aliis. Dat. xx. die Aug. anno regni Regis Edwardi quarti 
 quarto. 
 
 LIY. [Page 238.] 
 
 4 Edw. IY. [1464.] “ Noverint, &c. nos Johannem Wadham, armigerum, Nichum Fraunceys, 
 
 Jobannem Meryfield, & W m . Franceys, constituisse attornasse et in loco nostro posuisse Johannem 
 Peny, Robertum Estbroke et W m . Rede, nostros veros attornatos ad recipiendum pro nobis et 
 nomine nostro de Johanne Suyfmore, clerico, plenam et pacificam seisinam, &c. de et in omnibus 
 terris, &c. in Eston Pyers et Yatton in Com : Wilts: secundum vim formam et effectum cujusdam 
 cartae ipsius Johannis Suyfmore, &c. Dat. xx. die Augusti, anno Regni Regis Edwardi quarti 
 quarto. 
 
 LY. [Page 238.J 
 
 The last office that was found, was in these words:— 
 
 [12 July 1428.] Sciatis quod manerium sive firma de Easton Peirce in Com: Wilts tenetur 
 de quo vel quo servicio ignorant: et valet per annum 6 libr. 
 
 (Extracts from the Court Rolls.) 
 
 6 Hen. YI. [1428.] Eston Perys ss: Cur. Thoe Dru Willi Gore Walteri Clerke et alior’ feoflator’ cum Extract: 
 Cur. eorundem ibidem tent. xii° die mense Julii Anno R : Henr : Sexti post conquestum sexto. 
 
 Fidelt. —Homag. present: viz. Willms Kaynell, JohanesCromhale,Nichus Young, Ricus Hurne, Adam atte Hulle, 
 Willmus Fryday, Ricus Alewey et Willms Gaudeby (now Godby J.A.) omnes superstites fecerunt dominis fidelitat; 
 pro terris et tenementis quae de dominis tenent in Eston praedict: et Yatton: prceter Johannem Cromhale. 
 
 ij d Item present. q d Priorissa de Kyngton pro ij vacc: in seperali dominorum p 1 ball: 
 
 ij d I. eadem p. i apro et xij pore in Sepali dominorum p 1 idem. 
 i d I. Johane Bayllv pro i pullan in Northynnokes p 1 Walt: Clerke. 
 
 ij d I. Joh: Soghell pro ij Ju cis in Ryland p 1 idem._ 
 i d I. Rico Snape de Sevenbampton pro ij Ju cis in bio dnorum p 1 idem. 
 
 6 d I. Job. Read, de Combe pro 1 equo in fre et ma sepa p 1 ball: 
 i d I. Joh : [de Consewe]. Cromhale pro j equo in seperali dominorum, p 1 ball. 
 
 ij d I. Will: Kaynell p. lx bid. in Woldesclos p 1 idem. 
 iiij d I. Johe Cromhale pro lx bid.’ in iloremeade p 1 idem. 
 
 ij s I. Willms Gaudeby Jun: pro cc bid. in sepal, dnorum p 1 Wil: Caynes, &c. Sma : iijs. xid. 
 
 Misericordi^, Homag. ibm venit et present defalt. Adam atte Hulle ij d , Ricum Alewey, Willm”. Gaudeby. 
 Ideo ipsi in misericordia. 
 
 Distr.’ Pr: est toti homag : supvidere et inq’rere citra prox : de terris metis et terris dnicis in diversis locis 
 appropriat: per Johem Cromhale ut dicitur v s . xl d . sub pasna xl d . 
 
 Item : citra messem ut patet per cedulam penes messores remanent iiij s . xi d . 
 
 AfFeer : 1 Nichus Yonge, Ricus Hurne: Preceptum est distrahere Johem Cromhale ad faciend dnis fidelit: pro 
 terris et tenem: qua? de eis tenet & ad solv. relevium, viz. xl d . 
 
 1 Affeerers. Arbiters, to affix the amount of fines. 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 441 
 
 LYI. (3. Payne.) [Page 238.] 
 
 22 Hen. VI .[1443.] Omnibus ad quos, &c. Johannes Cromliale et Wiliams Cromhale, filius 
 ejusdem Johannis, salutem. Noveritis nos pr®fatum Johannem et Willm remisisse, &c., Thom® 
 Payne armigero, h®redibus, &c. totum jus et clameum nostrum qu® habuimus, &c. de et in 
 Manerio de Eston Perys in Com: Wiltes, nec-non de et in omnibus terris et tenementis, &c. in 
 villa de Eston Perys praedict’ cum omnibus suis ubique pertinent: exceptis uno messuagio in quo 
 dictus Johannes modo inhabitat, uno clauso eidem messuagio adjacente, et septem acris terrce dicto 
 messuagio adjacent’ et pertinent’. Ita quod nec nos praefatus Johannes et Willms nec heredes 
 nostri nec aliquis alius per nos sen nomine nostro aliquid jus seu clameum in predict’ maner’, 
 terr’, et tenement’, &c. nec in aliquo parcello inde de caetero exigere, clamare, &c. poterimus, et 
 ab omni actione, jure, titulo, &c. inde habend’ totaliter sumus exclusi per praesentes in perpetuum. 
 Et nos praedictus Johannes et Willielmus et haeredes nostrum praedict’ maner’ terras tenementa, 
 &c. prasdicto Thomae et heredibus, $c. contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus, ^-c.. In cujus rei 
 testimonium, $-c., Hiis testibus, Pho. Baynard, Rico Keynel, Willmo Gore, Edwardo Paternoster, 
 Johe Spondel, Johe Peny, et aliis. Dat. xx die mensis Octobris, anno Regni Regis Henrici sexti 
 post conquestum xxij 0 . 
 
 LVII. [Page 238.] 
 
 22 Hen. VI. [1443.] Noverint, <^c. me Thomam Payne armigerum, consanguineum et heredem 
 Roberti Yevelton militis, attornasse et loco meo posuisse dilectos mihi in Christo Willm Wynter- 
 bourne et Philippum Fychet conjunctim et divisim ad deliberandum vice et nomine meo Jolii 
 Payne, Henrico Champeneys, Thome Lykhull et Johanni Cartebyle plenam seisinam de et in 
 manerio de Eston Peris, in Com. Wilts, cum omnibus, <^c. necnon de et in omnibus, d^c. in Yatton 
 Kaynel cum ejus pertinenciis; Habendum et tenendum eisdem predictis, secundum formam et 
 effectual cujusdam cart® per me f'actam, &c. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum apposui. 
 Dat. xx. die Octobris, anno Regni Regis Henrici sexti post conquestum xxij°. 
 
 LVIII. [Page 238.] 
 
 25 Hen. VI. [1446.] Eston Maner. Compotus Thom® Perbyke ibidem, a Festo Annunciationis 
 Sanct® Mari® anno Regni Henr: sexti post conquestum vicesimo quinto usque ad Eestum 
 Exaltacionis Sanct® Crucis, et ab eodem Festo usque ad terminum Set 1 Michaelis, a Festo Sancti 
 
 Michis usque ad finem Sc. Michis. 
 
 Solut: Johi Pety carpynter ------ 
 
 It. solut: Thom Phvllips pro stipendiis suis - 
 
 It. Johi Dupwade pro stipendiis suis - 
 
 It. Walt: Tolpeny pro stipendiis suis - 
 
 It: Fabro pro diversis ferris fact: ad aratr’ et domibus - 
 
 It: Vicecomit. Wilts apud Malmysbury - 
 
 It: Johni Sawear pro falcacione unius prati ad tax’ - 
 
 It: eidem pro falcacione prati pro vij diebus cap’ per diem iiij d - 
 
 It: Johi Browne et W mo Crede conduct’ ad fodiendos lapides et faciendas sepes 
 
 It: in diversis hoibus et mulieribus conduct’ ad levandum et faciendum prata et sarculandum 
 
 It: Rico Egowile conduct’ ad faciend’ bowsebandria’ - 
 
 
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 It: Rico Egovile pro faetura unius domus vocat’ Shephouse - 
 
 It: Joiii Saweare cum sociis suis conduct’ in autumpno ad falcand’ grana - 
 
 Et pro operariis conduct’ ad levand’ moremium (timber) dominae - 
 
 In costag’domicil.’ In carnibus xvj d . In pisis ij s . In caseis xij d . It: in candelis viij d . Etdimidio 
 modij fariuse vi d . In carnibus bovum xv d . 
 
 *. d. 
 
 xij 
 
 ix ix 
 
 xiij iiij 
 
 y vj 
 
 iiij iiij 
 
 v j 
 
 De Receptionibus. 
 
 Praedictus Thomas recepit de manerio sue ad Fest’ Annunc’ Stae Marim, hoc die apud Rokeborn 
 
 It: recepit pro tribus vitulis vendit’ vi s , sic appreciat’ - 
 
 It: recepit de Johe Cromhale pro redd : pro termino Anunc : S te M: 
 
 It: de eodem pro termino St’ Joh: Bap 1 . - 
 
 It: recepit de Johe Coolyne red : proterr: St e Marie - 
 
 It: recepit pro pellibus ovium venditis - 
 
 It: recepit pro iiij bestiis vendit’ xxx s viii d , sic app r & vendit: 
 
 It: recepit pro uno bove vendit’ pro xi s sic appreciat’ et vendit’. 
 
 Alloc, eidem Thomte et socio suo pro ij diebus cartand’ diet’ bosc’ ad forum vj d . 
 
 xxxviij vij 
 
 ij ij 
 
 xx 
 
 ij vj 
 
 xvj 
 
 Alloc, eidem ad equitandum Rokebourn semel pro piscibus versus Quadragesimale cum ij equis, et ad aliam vicem 
 ad certificand’ in manerio facta a Carpentaria xij d . 
 
 Hi sunt casei faeti anno superseripto videlicet, v xx .v. libat’ ad Rokeborne ad diversas vices iii xx .v. Item in 
 expens’ de caseis apud maneiium de Eston hoc die xlvij. It: pro decimis xiiij d . Item alloc, elerico pro stipcon’iiij d . 
 Item Thomas subsciiptus recepit de m° suo apud Rokeborne die Dominica ad Festum St' Lucae hoc anno - - vij s ij d . 
 
 It: recep: de m° suo ad idem tempos vj: iiij: It: recepit pro stramine vendit’, &c. Alloc, eidem Thome pro 
 taxo* Regis viij.. iij d . It: pro emendatione duarum rot arum ij iiij d . It: alloc, eidem pro clavis empt’eisdem rotis, 
 videlicet xxiiij joretii x.\ii, d . It: alloc, eidem pro emendatione Cot’: p v dies capient’ per diem iiij d . Sm a xx d . It: 
 
 pro clavisf tindelli (?) vidlt. mille pretii xviij d . It: pro aliis clavis grossis ij d . It. prosextackys-xij d . Mem: 
 
 de diversis bestiis liberandis a manerio de Rokeborne ad diversas vices viuit xxvij. Mem : de tribus bobus plegiatis 
 idem. Item, for tack nayles iij d . It: pro sale empto viij d . 
 
 LIX. (4. Daubeny.) [Page 239.] 
 
 1 Rich. III. [1483.] Omnibus Cbristi fidelibus, &c. Johanne.3, Prior Prioratus de Bruton, 
 TVillms Paulet miles, Johes Chevne de Pynho, Robtus Stowell, armigeri; Johes Hugyn, Johes 
 Ileyron, et Thomas Hyllyng, Salutem. Koveritis nos tradidisse dimisisse et hoc praesenti scripto 
 confirmasse Egidio Daubeney militi et Elizubethae uxori ejus Maneria de Spekyngton in Com. 
 Somerset et Eston in Com. Wiltes cum pertinent’, nec non omnia terras et tenements redd’ rever- 
 siones, &c. in Spekvnton et Eston pr®dict’ qu® omnia pr®missa nos prefat Jobes Prior, &c. simul 
 cum Johne Suyfmore Clerico et Johanne Reade jam defunct’ inter alia nuper habuiraus ex dono et 
 feoffamento pr®dicti Egidii: Habend : et tenend : omnia prmdicta maneria terras teuementa, &c. 
 pr®fato Egidio et Elizabeth® et heredibus, &c., ipsius Egidii in perpetuum de capital’ dnis feodi 
 illius pro redd’ et servic’ &c. Xoveritis nos insuper pr®fatum Johem, Priorem, &c. attornasse, 
 deputasse, &c., Walterum Eston et Johannem Knolles nostros attornatos, &c. ad intraud pro nobis 
 et nomine nostro in omnia pr®missa maneria terras, &c. Et post hujusmodi ingressum ad ple- 
 nam seisinam et possessionem inde deliberandam pr®fato Egidio et Elizabeth® juxta vim formam 
 
 King’s taxes viij : iiid. 
 
 f Nailes. J. A. 
 
APPENDIX.] 
 
 MALMESBURY HUNDRED. 
 
 443 
 
 et effectual ipsius cartae nostra indentat’ fact’ &c. In cujus rei testimonium, &c., Hiis testibus 
 Thoma Arundel et Johe Newton militibus : Johe Speke, Jobe Wadham, Amisio Pawlet, armigeris» 
 et multis aliis. Dat. xij die Augusti anno Regni Regis Ricardi tertii post conquestum Angliae 
 prime. 
 
 LX. (5. Willoughby.) [Page 239.] 
 
 1 Rich. III. [1483.] Rex concessit Radulpho Willoughby (inter alia) Manerium de Easton 
 juxta Kington in Com : Wiltes, sibi et heredibus masculis de corpore suo, tenend’ per servicium 
 militare. An° 1 Ric. 3 d . pat. 4, membrana 24. Out of the Records. 
 
 LXI. (8. Lyte Family.) [Page 240.] 
 
 [A.D. 1574—5.] This Indenture, made the first day of January, in the xvijth year of Queen 
 Elizabeth, Between John Light and Thomas Light of Easton Pierce, parish of Kington St. 
 Michael, gent, of the one part, and John Snell, gent, and Thomas Snell his sonue and heire 
 apparent, Witnesseth that the said John and Thomas Light, in consideration of the sum of Three 
 Hundred fourscore five pounds, lawful money, paid by tbe said Jo. and Thomas Snell, at or before 
 the ensuing quarter, doe bargain and sell, &c. unto Thomas Snell and his heirs for ever, all that 
 their Site and Capital Messuage of the Manor or Farm of Eston aforesayd, with all the lands 
 expressed by name, and the Rent of vj s viij d of it out of Henry Cromwell’s lands : and the seyd 
 John and Thomas Snell do covenant to and with the said John and Thomas Light, that they John 
 and Tho. Snell shall pay and doe all manner of accustomed chief Rents and services for the whole 
 Mannor of Easton Pierce and premises sold by the Lord Buckhurst. Testibus Nicholas Snell, 
 W m . Bayliffe, Jo. Tayler, Bartholomew Bayliffe, Isaac Tayler, Rich d . Light, John Reade, Richard 
 Tanner, Nicholas Reade, Nich s . Light and others. 
 
 LXII. (Easton Piers Farm.) [Page 241] 
 
 [A.D. 1574.] The 12th day of December, in the seaventeenth yeare of the raigne of Q. 
 Elizabeth, John Light and Thomas Light, of Easton Pierse, within the parish of Kington St. 
 Michael, in Com. Wiltes, for and in the consideracion of the sum of Six score and ten pounds of 
 lawful money of England, granted, bargained and sold to Nicholas Light, of Leigh Delamer, 
 
 Com. pradict. and his heirs for ever, 2 closes called the Wheate closes, 34 acres —| -, bounding 
 
 N. upon tbe lands of Hen. Cromwell. And tbe upper part of one close of pasture called Young’s 
 
 Leaze, by the Wheat closes, xx acres — |-, and ij acres of arable land parcell of the sayd mannor 
 
 or farme lying on the comon fields of Yatton Keynell. Testibus, Nichus Snell, Esquire, John 
 Snell, Will. Bayliffe, John Tayler, Clerke, John Reade, Richard Light, Isaac Tayler, and Bar¬ 
 tholomew Bayliffe. 
 
 LXIII. (“ Cosham’s.”) [Page 241.] 
 
 Omnibus Christi fidelibus, &c. Ricus de Cosham et Alicia uxor ejus, Salutem, &c. Noveritis 
 nos concessisse, &c. Johani de Cosham unum messuagium et unam virgatam terra cum pertinentiis 
 in Eston Peres, quae de pradicto Johanne tenuimus ad terminum vitae nostra in Eston Peres, Hiis 
 testibus, Thom, de Pedeworth, Johanne Clement, Willielmo de Middlehope, Roberto de Bardenie, 
 Waltero Willeine de Budestone, cum multis aliis. [Ao datef\ 
 
 3 k 2 
 
444 
 
 Aubrey’s north wilts. 
 
 [appendix. 
 
 LXIY. [Page 241.] 
 
 Sciant praesentes, &c. quod ego Johannes de Cosham dedi, &c. Rico Clerico et Constancies 
 uxori suae pro xx marcis pree manibus solut. 1 messuag. et 1 virgat. terree cum omnibus pertinen- 
 tiis in Eston Peres; Habend: et tenend: praedict: &c. praedicto Rico et Constanciae, &c. Hiis 
 testibus, Dno Johane Delamere, Ad: Walrond militibus, Tboma de Pedeworth, Jobne Clemente, 
 W m °. de Middlehope, Adam Harding, Jobne de Dourle, et aliis. [Ao date , Seal PI. xxii. No. 350.] 
 
 LXY. [Page 241.] 
 
 1 Edw. II. [1307.] Sciant, &c. quod ego Johannes Cosbam filius et haeres Willmi Cosham 
 de Lokynton, dedi et concessi, &c. Rico de Cosham et Aliciae uxori suae, totum tenementum meum 
 in Yilla de Eston Peres, cum terris, pratis, pascuis, et pasturis, &c. Habend: et tenend: ad ter- 
 minum vitae eorum vel diutius viventis de me et bacredibus meis, &c. Reddendo inde annuatim 
 mihi et beredibus sex solidos sterling ad festum Beatae Marioe et Mich : Archang. Hiis testibus 
 Walto Wyson, Henrico Yigorous, Reginald Royly, John de Crombale et aliis. Dat. apud Lokynton, 
 die Martis prox’ post Festum S“. Martin, anno Regis Edw: filii Regis Edw : primo. 
 
 LXYI. (“OldEaston.”) [Page 241.] 
 
 Sciant, &c. quod ego Henricus Kaynel dedi concessi, &c. Jobanni de Estona pro bomagio et 
 servicio suo sex acras terroe meae in Veteri Estona et iiij acras jacentes in Bromdune mede et ij 
 acras extendent’ super Heylethorn ; Habend : et tenend : &c. reddendo inde annuatim unum par 
 chirothecarum vel unum denarium in Festo St 1 Michaelis pro omni servicio: Hiis testibus dno 
 Rogero de Lokington, Ada Delamere, Milone de Kavnes, Willmo de Kaynel, Jokanne Burel, et 
 multis aliis. [Ao date.~\ 
 
 LXYII. [Page 241.] 
 
 Sciant; &c. quod ego Henricus Kaynel dedi, &c., Tbomae Boet pro bomagio et servicio 3 
 virgat: de feudo meo de Eston, &c. Hiis testibus, Ricardo de Lokington, Radulfo de Pinkenev, 
 Milone de Kaynes, Tboma de Foxcot, W m . de Bosco, Adam de Kaynes, Will, de Haywood, Walter 
 Drew, Galfrido de Kaynel, Walt, de Broca, Waltero Clerico, et multis aliis. [Ao date.~\ 
 
Additions, and Errata observed. 
 
 Page 20, Note, line 24. To tlie quartering No. 7, (Az. a fess between three fleurs de lis Or) add, “Shelton.” 
 
 ,, 28, line 11. For “ Mowbray ” read “ Sir William Fitz Alan alias Arundell K.G.” 
 
 ,, 56, Note, Rudlow. This manor has lately been purchased by T. H. A. Poynder Esq., of Hartham Park. 
 
 ,, 57, Note 3. For “ Beke ” read “ Becke.” 
 
 ,, 66, line 5. For “ Oxenwood ” read “ Oxenden.” 
 
 ,, 78. Note 2, line 3 from bottom. The Latin word in the original deed is certainly Vivarium. 
 
 ,, 79, line 17. For “ Smvthe quartering Judde,” read “ Smythe impaling Judde.” 
 
 ,, Corsham. Some portion of the Manor then held of the Queen Dowager was leased for 21 years to Sir 
 James Long of Draycote and Dorothy his wife, 17th June, 17 Charles II. (A..D. 1665). 
 
 ,, 93, line 12. For “ Abbot?” read perhaps Stewkeley. See below, Plate ix. 
 
 ,, 119, line 4. For “Carter' - ’ read “Cater.” 
 
 ,, 152, Note, line 15. John Potenger, Controller of the Pipe, was not buried at Highworth, but at Broad 
 
 Blunsdon in the parish of Highworth. A Memoir of him by C. W. Bingham, M.A. was published 
 
 in 24mo, 1841. 
 
 ,, 177. In the shield No. 25S, the 4th quartering is perhaps Beauchamp of Haehe. 
 
 ,, 180, line 12. No. 271 erase “Pigot.” See below, Plate xvi. 
 
 ,, 199, line 1. For “ No. 286 and Payey No. 287 ” read “ No. 286 Payey, and No. 287.” 
 
 ,, 208, Note 2. The “ Brykelsworth ” given to the Church of Old Sarum was not Brinkworth in Wilts, but 
 
 Brixworth, co. Northampton. 
 
 ,, 240, line 17. For An. Dom. “ 1633,” read “ 1630.” 
 
 ,, 243, line 3. After “ Lance,” insert “ [No. 356].” 
 
 ,, 267, end of Note 2. Whitchurch belonged, at his death in 1643, to Henry Danvers Earl of Dauby men¬ 
 tioned in p. 224. It has been recently purchased (1861) by the Rev. Mr. Elwell, Rector of Dauntesey. 
 
 ,, 296, line 7. Add the reference to the arms “ [Poore, PI. xxix. No. 435].” 
 
 ,, 344, line 2. Add, [“PI. xxxii. No. 448].” 
 
 ,, 361, line 5. The coat “like Chamberlayne’s” was perhaps Chediock. 
 
 ,, 383, line 9. In the shield No. 497, PL xxxiv, the first quartering, “ Ludlow of Shropshire” was probably 
 drawn wrong by Aubrey, and ought to have been the same as the sixth quartering in the same 
 shield, viz. Ludlow of Maiden Bradley. 
 
 ,, 387, Note 3: and p. 388. line 1. The dexter of the shield No. 511, PI. xxxv, is not “Mowbray:” but 
 “ Sir William Fitzalan alias Arundell K.G.: quartering Maltravers.” 
 
 ,, 392, Note, line 3. For “ B.D.” read “ A.D.” 
 
 ,, 398, Note. It should have been explained that the Warminster, or Wormister, connected with the Prebend 
 of Wells Cathedral is a small place two and a half miles South East of the city of Wells. It is 
 mentioned, as “ Worminster,” near the foot of p. 2. 
 
 ,, 400, under “ [565],” add, “ [566. Robert Lord Willoughby K.G.]” 
 
 Corrigenda in the Plates. 
 
 Plate iii. No. 30. For “ Mowbray ” read “ Fitz-Alan.” 
 
 ,, ,, No. 42. Erase “ Earl of Warwick.” The stone shield, being thickly covered with lime-wash, was 
 
 mistaken by Aubrey and the drawing is wrong. It should be a Lion rampant , holding in his 
 paws a baton, as mentioned in p. 35, Note. 1. 
 
 ,, vii. Nos. 120, 121. Erase the words “South Window,” over these two shields. 
 
 ,, ix. No. 149. The quartering marked [Abbot ?] may be Stewkeley ; a coat which is impaled with Baynard 
 on a monument in the Lackham Aisle in Lacock Church. 
 
 ,, xvi. No. 271. This shield is indistinctly drawn by Aubrey. As drawn in the Plate it is not the coat of 
 Pigot. Perhaps it is Brewes. 
 
 ,, xvii. Shield 299. The quartering No. 11 is perhaps Willoughby. 
 
 ,, xxiii. Shield 366. Name “Forte.” 
 
 ,, xxxv. No. 511. For “Mowbray” read “Fitz Alan.” 
 
 ,, xxxvi. No. 545. For “ Gore ” read “ Morgan.” 
 
 ,, xxxviii. No. 574. The crest of Wadman should be; the demi-eagle Ermine, the wings extended Gules. 
 
INDEX I.—PLACES. 
 
 A. 
 
 Abbanberghe 435. 
 
 Abbard’s Mead, Caine 32. 
 
 Abingdon Abbey, (Berks.) 2, 157, 
 372. 
 
 Aldington 358. 
 
 ABURY, Atibury or Avebury 314. 
 
 5, 45, 91, 119, 291, 341. * 
 Aclorde 432. 
 
 Adderbury, (Oxon.) 2\1 pedigree. 
 jEsctune 352. 
 
 Aldbourne 164, 416. 
 
 Alderbolt, (Dorset.) 133. 
 
 Alderley, (Gloucester.) 20. 
 Alderman-bury, (London) 391. 
 Aldermaston, (Berks) 201. 
 ALDERTON, properly AI.DRING- 
 TON 47. 8, 42, 108, 114, 246, 247, 
 419. House, Grange 52, 105, 
 Chapel 108. 
 
 Alderton, (Gloucester.) 414. 
 Aldhelmerton 167. 
 
 Alerleye 346. 
 
 Alfred’s Tower 393. 
 
 Allain’s Couit 250. 
 
 All Cannings 39, 365. 
 
 Aj.lington, in Chippenbam Parish 
 72. 53, 71, 82, 111, 237, 314, 437. 
 Alorbroke 435. 
 
 Alta-woith 151. 
 
 Altel-burgh 151. 
 
 Alton 13, 3S, 43, 119, 190, 355. 
 
 - Berners 302. 
 
 Alvediston 291. 
 
 Alvescote, (Oxon.) 350. 
 
 Alvington, (Gloucester.) 313. 
 Alwnrdesbury, (Oxon.) 350. 
 AMBRESBURY, HUNDRED OF 
 356. 79, 107, 108, 167, 199, 294, 
 344, 356, 359, 365. 
 
 Ainport, (Hants.) 107. 
 
 Angrove 160, 285. 
 
 Antidoch’s Well, Lydiard Tregoz 1S3. 
 Apsbill 176. 
 
 Apthorp, (Northampton.) 92. 
 Ardeley, (Oxon.) 241. 
 
 Arundel House, Strand 2. 
 
 Ashford, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 ASHLEY 206. 
 
 Ashley, in Box, 57. 270. 
 
 Ashridge, (Bucks.) 350, 351. 
 
 Ashton Keynes 122, 150, 160. 
 
 Ashton Long, (Somerset.) 56. 
 ASHTON, STEEPLE 352. 403. 
 
 - West 354. 27. 
 
 - Rood oe Chapel 354. 
 
 - Hurdecote’s, Middle, Sal- 
 
 cer’s, 354. 
 
 Ashwell, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 Ashwiok, (Gloucester.) 58, 107, 417. 
 AT FORD, see ATWORTII. 
 
 Athelney Abbey, (Somerset.) 254. 
 
 AT WORTH 19. S2. 
 
 Albourne Chase 416. 
 
 Ault Hucknall, (Derby.) 265. 
 Avalon, (Newfoundland) 362. 
 AVEBURY, see ABU Rib 
 Avenebury 328. 
 
 Avil’s 235. 
 
 Avon, (hamlet) 52. 60, 320. 
 
 Avon, (river) 4. 126. 
 
 Awenesbury 328 
 Ax ford 207. 
 
 Ayton, (Y’urk.) 322. 
 
 B. 
 
 Baalbec 328. 
 
 Badbgry 163. 
 
 Baddow, (Essex) 377. 
 
 Badminton, (Gloucester.) 106, 148. 
 Bagden 380. 
 
 Baillard’s Ash 307. 
 
 Barber Surgeons Hall, (London) 210. 
 Barburv 91. 
 
 Bardney, (Lincoln.) 416. 
 
 Bai tord St. Martin’s 1S9. 
 
 Barkston Ash, (Yorks.) 365. 
 Barley’s, South Wraxdiall 26. 
 
 Barnet, (Herts.) 28. 
 
 Barn Hill 166. 
 
 Barnwell Castle, (Northamp.) 291. 
 Barredge, near Mildenhall 338. 
 Barret’s, Sutton Benger 293. 
 
 Barton Sacy, (Hants.) 29. 
 
 Baruper, (Hants.) 188. 
 
 Baschaville, St. Georgeof (Normandy) 
 330. 
 
 Basinghall Street, St. Mich. Church, 
 (London) 210. 
 
 Basset’s Down 3, 181, 217 pedigree, 
 335. 
 
 Batcombe, (Somerset.) 148. 
 
 Bath, (Somerset.) 6, 21, 316. Abbey 
 Church 301. 
 
 Bathampton, (Somerset.) 43. 
 Batharnpton Wyly 176, 281. 
 Bathford, (Somerset.) 6. 
 
 Baynton 217 pedigree, 225, 349, 350. 
 Beake’s Down, near Marshfield 416. 
 Beaulieu, (Hants.) 91, 95. 
 
 | Beaurepaire, (Hants.) 188. 
 Beckhampton 331. 324. 
 
 Beekington, (Somerset.) 56. 
 Bedan-heafod 372. 
 
 Bedewinda 372. 
 
 Bedingfield, (Suffolk) 156. 
 BEDWYN GREAT, or WEST 372. 
 176, 226, 370, 374, 3S0. 
 
 ; BEDWYN LITTLE, or EAST 380. 
 372. 
 
 -Brail 340, 380. 
 
 Beechingstoke 190. 
 
 Bemerton 148. 217 pedigree. 
 Bexacre 296. 189, 295. 
 
 Beoly 139. 
 
 Berkeley, (Somerset.) 28. 
 Berkhampstead, (Herts.) 3S5. 
 
 Beiks co. 91. 
 i Berlegh Chapel 26. 
 
 Berlegh’s Court 26. 
 
 ! Berrils, Caine 32. 
 
 | BERWICK BASSET 30. 33, 42, 341. 
 
448 
 
 INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 Bery-well, Crudwell 216. 
 Bessil’s-Leigh, (Oxon.) 2T9, 414. 
 Beth-aven 328. 
 
 Bever-bourne 432. 
 
 Beversbrook 39, 42. 
 
 Beverston Castle, (Gloucester.) 75, 
 133, 387. 
 
 Bewley 2, 95. , 
 
 Biddesden, Ludgershall 359. 
 Biddeston 121, 132, 437. 
 
 Biddeston Keynes 54. 
 
 BIDDESTON ST. NICHOLAS 54. 
 
 111 . 
 
 BIDDESTON ST. PETER’S 53. 
 Bidemill 147, 432, 433. 
 
 Binager, see Benacre. 
 
 Bindon, (Dorset.) 42, 383. 
 
 Bingham, (Notts.) 370. 
 
 Binoll 167. 
 
 Binknoll 167. 162, 164. 
 Bircingknoll 167. 
 
 Birmingham, (Warwick.) 159. 
 Bishop’s Cannings 279, 306, 308. 
 BISHOPSTON, North Wilts 311.301. 
 
 -South Wilts 357. 
 
 Bisley, (Gloucester.) 150. 
 
 Bitton, (Gloucester.) 43, 56, 75, 119, 
 129, 190. 
 
 Black Bourton, (Oxon.) 159. 
 Blackgrove Hundred 162, 170, 196. 
 BLACKLAND 31. 
 
 Blackmore 60, 204, 294. 
 
 Blagrove 171. 
 
 Blandford, (Dorset.) 14, 257, 389. 
 Blunsdon 348. 
 
 BLUNSDON ST. ANDREW’S 150. 
 -Broad, or St. Leo¬ 
 nard’s 151. 
 
 -Burt 151. 
 
 -Gat 151. 
 
 Bolden 132. 
 
 Bolemead 436. 
 
 Boscombe, 112, 301. 
 
 Boston, (Middlesex) 370. 
 
 Bourton in All Cannings, 39. 
 Bourton, (Gloucester.) 82. 
 
 Bowdon 93. 5, 44, 84. 
 
 Bowood 33. 
 
 BOX 55. 11, 133, 285. 
 
 Braden Forest 115, 154, 155, 160, 
 170, 187, 203, 204, 239, 242, 260, 
 268, 269, 276, 307. 
 
 Bradenham, (Bucks.) 61, 112. 
 Bradenstoke Priory 1S6. 2, 13, 
 44, 58, 63, 116, 126, 154, 168, 
 169, 194, 195, 196, 203, 226, 248, 
 286, 298, 368, 422. 
 
 -Will of 187. 
 
 Bradfield, Hullavington 248. 47, 
 
 168, 246. 
 
 BRADFORD HUNDRED 19. 
 BRADFORD ON AVON 21. 22, 26, 
 43, 44. 47 pedigree, 77, 113, 120, 
 283, 354. 
 
 BRADLEY, NORTH 345. 151, 232, 
 353. 
 
 Bradwellbrook 432. 
 
 Bramfield, (sc. Brantfield, Herts.) 405. 
 Brampton Bryan (Radnor.) 2, 44. 
 Bratton, Wilts 350. (Devon.) 439. 
 Breda 322. 
 
 Breme 60. 
 
 Bremel 60. 
 
 BREMELHAM 208. 210, 218, 226. 
 Bremelridge in Westbury, 60, 297. 
 Bremelshaw 208. 
 
 BREMHILL 60. 36, 52, 78, 113, 
 115, 116, 293. 
 
 Brendeheth 252. 
 
 Brest 159. 
 
 Brighampton, (Somerset.) 439. 
 Brighteles-wood 208. 
 
 Brill’s Court 251. 
 
 Brington, (Northampton.) 36. 
 BRINKWORTH 208. 194. 
 
 Bristol 11, 91, 118, 131, 239, 240, 
 249, 270, 381. The Gaunts 145. 
 Britford 159. 
 
 Brixworth, (Northampton.) 445. 
 Broad Chalk 119. 
 
 BROAD HINTON 334. 164, 165, 
 
 169. House 189. 
 
 Broadlands, (Hants.) 69. 
 
 Broad Stock, see Bradenstoke. 
 Broad Town 335. 42, 108, 165. 
 Broke, see Brook House. 
 
 BROKEN BOROUGH 210. 236, 257, 
 
 265, 271, 292. 
 
 Brokesby, (Leicester.) 407. 
 Bromdune Mead 444. 
 
 Brome, Swindon 193. 
 
 Bromham 5, 30, 35, 39, 40, 44, 80, 
 259, 331, 354, 355. 
 
 - House, [Old] 35, 60, 69, 
 
 189, 305, 310. 
 
 Brook House, Westbury 399. 304, 
 347, 352, 403. Farm 399. 
 Broomfield 122. 
 
 Broughton Gifi’ord 82. 
 
 Brouncker’s Court 299. 
 
 Bruton, (Somerset.) 28, 29, 389. 
 Brykels-worth 208, 445. 
 
 Bryjinam 20S. 
 
 Bryn Gwyddon 333. 
 
 Bubbe-ton 165, 234. 
 
 Buckingham 139. 
 
 Buckland, (Berks.) 350. 
 
 Bucklebury, (Berks.) 244. 
 Buddesden near Ludgershale 54. 
 Bulkington 350, 353. 
 
 Bullidge in Allington, 237. 
 
 Bupton 165. 166. 
 
 BURBAGE 381. 340, 372. Savage 
 380, 381. 
 
 Burcester, [Bicester] 41, 43. 
 Burcote, (Berks.) 350. 
 
 Burderop, see Burythorpe. 
 Burgbeche 372. 
 
 Burlton, (Hereford.) 135, 137. 
 Burnevale, (Malmesbury) 261. 
 Burnt-Heath 252. 
 
 Burton 148. 
 
 Burton-Hill, (Malmesbury)- 265. 
 Chapel 262. 
 
 Burwardscote, (Berks.) 350. 
 Bury-thorp, or Bur-thorp 163. 
 192, 193. 
 
 Bury Wood, Colerne 76. 110. 
 Bushton 166. 
 
 Bustleham, or Bisham Priory, (Berks.) 
 168. 
 
 Buttermere 340. 
 
 Butt Hay 63. 
 
 Byri 30. 
 
 Bysham Montagu, (Berks.) 168. 
 
 C. 
 
 Cadeburne 60. 
 
 Cadenham 62. 53, 189. 
 
 Caen, Normandy 34, 79, 100. 
 
 C sesaris burghus 6. 
 
 Caidurburgh 210. 
 
 Calais 217 pedigree, 218. 304. 
 Calehill, (Kent) 202. 
 
 Callernish, (Hebrides) 325. 
 
 CALNE, HUNDRED OF 30. 
 CALNE 31. 11, 62. 
 
 - Castle 33. 
 
 -Hospital St. John 33, 37,40. 
 
 - Chantry 32. 
 
 CALSTON WILLINGTON 39. 3, 
 33, 83. 
 
 Cambridge; King’s Coll: 79, 88, 161, 
 411. Magd: Coll: 353. Pembroke 
 Hall 191. 
 
 Camberford, [Quemerford] 37. 
 Camely, (Somerset.) 148, 434. 
 
 Canal, Isis and Avon 277. 
 CANNINGS HUNDRED OF 306. 
 168. 
 
 Canonsleigh, (Devon.) 182. 
 
INDEX I.—PLACES. 
 
 449 
 
 Canterbury 11, 28. 
 
 Cardeville Wyke 163. 
 
 Carisbrook Castle, (I. of Wight) 171. 
 Carnac, (France) 328. 
 
 Carswell, (Berks.) 160. 
 
 Castle Cary, (Somerset.) 388, 392. 
 CASTLE COMBE 63. 7, 9, 39, 42, 
 54, 75, 82, 83, 110, 117, 121, 132, 
 164, 283, 295, 416. East 122. 
 
 -Barony of 109. 
 
 115, 217, 248, 334, 339, 342, 367, 
 368, 369, 381. 
 
 Castle Rising, (Norfolk) 159. 
 
 Catcomb 91. 
 
 Cefelandgrave 435. 
 
 Ceosel-den 162. 
 
 Cerne Castle 33. 
 
 Cernecote 150. 
 
 Cerney South, (Gloucester.) 44. 
 Chadenwych 25, 387. 
 
 Chadington 44, 171. Bordeville 171. 
 Chaldon Ileryng, (Dorset.) 229. 
 Chalfield Great 20, 82. Little 47 ped. 
 Chany fountain 32. 
 
 Chapel Hay 63 
 Chapel Knap 80. 
 
 Chapel Playstee 59. 11. 
 Charlbury, (Oxon.) 180. 
 
 Chari cot 60. 
 
 Charlton 30, 91, 154. 
 
 CHARLTON, near Malmesbury 211. 
 
 47 pedigree, 243, 263, 271. 
 Charnich 387. 
 
 Charter House, (London) 77, 335, 
 368, 369. 
 
 Chawton, (Hants.) 61. 
 
 CnEDDA’s Low 206. 213. 
 Chedecotun 60. 
 
 Chedgelow, Hundred of 206. 213, 
 278. 
 
 Chedslowe 213, 214. 
 
 Chelsea, (Middlesex) 217 pedigree, 
 226, 322. 
 
 Chcdworth 150, 160, 226. 
 
 Chene Waunte 169. 
 
 Chenete 337. 
 
 Cheney Court 85. 57. 
 
 Cheren-hill 40. 
 
 CHERH1LL 40. 33, 168. 
 
 Cheriton, (Hants.) 349. 
 
 Cherrington, (Gloucester.) 47 pedi¬ 
 gree. 
 
 Chcrtsey, (Surrey) 322. 
 
 Chesil Bank, (Dorset.) 162. 
 
 Cheverill Great 82, 299. 
 
 Cheverill Little 54, 217 pedigree. 
 
 Chichester, (Sussex) 163. 
 
 Chicklade 82. 
 
 Chicksgrove 363. 
 
 Chilcompton, (Somerset.) 188. 
 Chilmark 364. 
 
 Chilton 71, Foliot 171. 
 
 Chilton, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 Chilton, (Berks.) 396. 
 
 Chimbham’s, (Kent) 361. 
 CHIPPENHAM HUNDRED 47. 
 
 -Hundred Court 78, 
 
 98, 114, 121, 124, 227. 
 CHIPPENHAM 66. 11, 28, 30, 59, 
 82, 95, 133, 141, 146, 195, 429, 
 432. Church 111, 114, 116, 117. 
 Forest 34,113. St. Mary’s Service 
 295. 
 
 Chisbury Castle 380. 164, 340,- 
 374. 
 
 CHISELDEN 162. 
 
 Chisenbury 282. 
 
 Chitterne 52, 166, 188, 217 pedigree , 
 226. 
 
 CHRISTMALFORD 125. 53, 63, 
 124, 206, 188, 226, 285, 287, 421. 
 Mill 422, 423. 
 
 Christmal Oak 125. 
 
 Christ’s Hospital, (London) 347. 
 Church Eaton 120. 
 
 Churchill, (Somerset.) 47 pedigree. 
 Church Leaze, Crudwell 206, 213. 
 Churiel 40. 
 
 Chute Forest 340. 
 
 Cidbury 366. 
 
 Cirencester, (Gloucester.) 153, 164. 
 Church 203, 263, 267. Abbey 2,13, 
 110, 152, 203, 221, 286, 330, 342. 
 Clack 186. 189. 
 
 Clake 186. 
 
 Clapcote 128. 47 pedigree, 140, 152, 
 427. 
 
 Clarken-down, near Bath 60. 
 Classerness, (Hebrides) 325. 
 
 Clatford, near Marlborough 246. 
 Clavering, (Essex) 217 pedigree. 
 Clegate 129. 
 
 Clevancy, see Cliff Wancy. 
 Cleverton, near Malmesbury 250. 
 208, 265. 
 
 CLIFF PIPARD 163. 63. 
 
 Cliff Wancy, in Ililmerton 169. 
 163, 167. 
 
 Clifford Castle, (Hereford.) 51, 281. 
 Clifwere 422. 
 
 Clinch, in Milton Lislebonne 313. 
 Cloateley 243. 244. 
 
 Cludair Cyvrangon 333. 
 
 Cnabwell, see Knapwell. 
 Cockelborough, near Chippenham 
 73. 
 
 Codford 82. 
 
 Gofaude 266. 
 
 Coker West, (Somerset.) 353. 
 Colchester, (Essex) 214. 
 
 Colcote 160. 
 
 Cold Court 198. 
 
 Colepark, near Malmesbury 265. 
 
 207, 210, 258, 274, 280. 
 
 COLERNE 75. 122. 
 
 Coleshill, (Warwick.) 153. 
 
 -(Berks.) 185, 350. 
 
 Colkidge 208. 
 
 Colleton, (Devon.) 58, 119. 
 Collingbourne 359. 
 
 -Ducis 380. 
 
 -Kingston 340. 
 
 Colne 32, near Wanborough 197. 
 Cologne, (Prussia) 255. 
 
 Combe 432. 
 
 Combe Biset 285. 
 
 Combe Hay, (Somerset.) 353, 403. 
 Comerford 37. 
 
 Comerwell 41. 
 
 Commandery, what 118. 
 
 Compton 148. 
 
 COMPTON BASSET 41.47 pedigree, 
 51, 94, 119, 202, 321, 342. 
 Compton Beauchamp, (Berks.) 41. 
 
 .-Chamberlayne 314. 
 
 -sub Album Equum, (Berks.) 
 
 41. 
 
 Compton Cumberwell 42. 39, 41, 
 190. 
 
 Conock 39. 
 
 Cornbury, (Oxon.) 217 pedigree. 
 CORSHAM 78. 3, 47 pedigree, 132, 
 214, 231. 
 
 Corston, near Malmsbury 266. 206, 
 210, 236, 265. 
 
 - near Bath 249. 
 
 Corton Chapel, Hilmerton 165, 168, 
 267. 
 
 Corton, near Heytesbury 176, 385. 
 Corvinensis Ecclesia 311. 
 
 Cory North, (Somerset.) 439. 
 Cosham’s land 443, 444. 
 
 Cote 91. 
 
 Cotell’s Atworth 19. 20, 82. 
 Coteridge, North Bradley 347, 348. 
 Cothorp, (Oxon.) 217 pedigree, 219. 
 Cotmarsh 165, 335. 
 
 Cotstowe 368. 
 
450 
 
 INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 Cotswold 9, 236, 25S, 411. 
 Cottingham, (Northampton.) 349. 
 Cottle’s, see Cotell’s. 
 
 Cotton End 336. 
 
 Coulsdon, (Surrey) 158. 
 
 Coulsfield Spilman 167, Esturmy 
 340, 381. 
 
 Coulston 119, 217 pedigree, 299, 349. 
 Court Close, Wanborough 196. 
 Covenham Farm 194. 
 
 Covent Garden, (London) 354. 
 Cowage, or Cowich 208. 40. 
 Cowbridge 265, 285. 
 
 Cowdray, (Sussex) 135. 
 
 Cowfold Park, see Colepabe. 
 Credan, or Crede-well 213. 
 CRICKLADE HUNDRED 150. 
 Cricklade 150, 153, 157, 277. 
 
 Crofton 382. 
 
 Cromwell’s, Easton Piers 236, 441. 
 Cropredy, (Oxon.) 217 pedigree. 
 CRUDWELL 213. 243. 
 
 Cuckamsley, (Berks.) 206. 
 
 Culham, (Berks.) 2. 
 
 Cullen earth 72. 
 
 Culworth, (Northampton.) 217 pedi¬ 
 gree. 
 
 Cumbe 147, 148. 
 
 CcuBEitWLLL, see Compton. 
 
 -near Bradford 26. 42 ; 
 
 43. 
 
 Cunetio 195, 337, 338. 
 
 Cutteridge, see Coleridge. 
 Cwichelme’s Low, (Berks.) 206. 
 Cynemsere’s Ford 37. 
 
 Cynet 334. 
 
 Cynetium 323. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dagnall, (Bucks.) 125. 
 
 Dale-mead 68. 
 
 Dallington, (Northampton.) 349. 
 DAMERHAM, NORTH HUNDRED 
 124. 421. 
 
 Damerham, South 124. 
 
 Damic’s eye 216. 
 
 Danes Hill 252. 
 
 Danes Tump 77. 
 
 DAUNTESET 216. 47 pedigree, 
 18S, 190, 297. 
 
 Dean Forest, (Gloucester.) 303. 
 Delamere’s 200, 201. 
 
 Dellermis 200. 
 
 Denford, (Berks.) 340. 
 
 Denmark 6. 
 
 Derington 356. 
 
 Derry Hill 38. 
 
 Devil’s Arrows, Coits, 323. Ditch 318. 
 
 Devizes, Origin of Name 306. 36, 38, 
 29S. Castle 39, 42, 46, 75, 165, 
 170, 310. 
 
 Dilton 350. 
 
 Dint on 154. 
 
 Ditchley, (Oxon.) 1, 126, 179, 189, 
 217 Pedigree. 
 
 DITCHRIDGE S4. 83. 
 
 Divisas, Castrum ad 306. 
 
 Domerham 140. 
 
 Donecomes-broke 421. 
 
 Donewel-weye 104, 420. 
 
 Donhead St. Mary 361. 
 
 Donlewe Hundred 104. 
 
 Down, (Kent) 3S3. 
 
 DOWN AMPNEY, (Gloucester.) 
 Church 407. House 411, 62, 153, 
 160, 202. 
 
 Dracontium 326. 
 
 Draper’s Hall Festival 215. 
 
 DRAYCOTE CERNE 228. 8,10, 23, 
 24, 27, 53, 56, 57, 115, 131. Old 
 House, Plate xxi. 
 
 Draycote Foliot 171. 
 
 Drew’s Teignton, (Devon.) 103. 
 
 Drown Font 113. 
 
 Dublin, Trinity College 113. 
 
 Duchy Rag 276. 
 
 Duke’s Vaunt, the 340. 
 
 Duncombe MiU 120. 
 
 Dundry, (Somerset.) 119. 
 
 Ditnley 104. 420. Chapel 105. 
 Manor 114. See Donlewe. 
 
 DUNWORTH HUNDRED 360. 
 
 DURINGTON 356. 366. 
 
 Durnford 82. 
 
 Dyrham, (Gloucester.) 208, 380. 
 
 E. 
 
 Earl-Stoke 298. 296. 
 
 Earsley, (Hereford.) 343. 
 
 East Brent, (Somerset.) 24. 
 
 Eastcot, in Wanborough 186, in 
 Crudwcll 214, in Erchfont 217 
 pedigree, 350. 
 
 Eastmead Street 33. 
 
 Easton 188. 
 
 EASTON, near Burbage, Royal, H. 
 Trinity Priory 381. 340, 375, 376. 
 
 EASTON GREY 85.. 109, 275. 
 
 Easton Piers 235. 1, 9, 12, 121, 
 130, 143, 206, 436 et seq. Lower 
 (Aubrey’s house) 240,417. Farm 
 241. Old Easton 444. 
 
 Easton-town, Sherston 107. 
 East-town, Steeple Ash‘on 355. 
 Eastwell House 217 pedigree. 
 
 Eaton 120, 322. 
 
 Ebbesborn Wake 291. 
 
 Ebdown 86. 
 
 Eblindon 358. 
 
 Echilhampton 39, 188, 231. 
 Edendone, sc. Hedington 31. 
 Edixgdon Priort 349. 60, 79, 94, 
 152, 197, 200, 217 pedigree, 299, 
 301,401. Arms 345, 351. Seal 351. 
 Edingworth, (Somerset.) 141, 429. 
 Egham, (Surrey) 114. 
 
 Eisy 152. 
 
 Elcojibe 369. 335. 
 
 Elingdon, Wroughton 367. 
 
 Elite Mons 120. 
 
 Ellandun 40, 367. 
 
 Ellermis, Wanborough 200. 
 Ellestubbe 365, 432. 
 
 Elm and Ash 105. 
 
 ELSTUB and EVERLEY HUN¬ 
 DRED 365. 
 
 Eltham, (Kent) 47 pedigree, 83. 
 Enford 148. 
 
 Enmore, (Somerset.) 119. 
 
 Epsham, (Surrey) 309. 
 
 Erchfont 365. 
 
 Erdescote 196. 
 
 Eidisley, see Earsley. 
 
 Ergespath 431. 
 
 Escote, in Erchfont 207, in Crudwell 
 214. See Eastcot. 
 
 Esthorp 152, 250. 
 
 Etesbury 46. 
 
 Ethandun 110, 123, 349. 
 
 Eton College 246, 248, 354, 369. 
 EVERLEY 365. 297. 
 
 Evesham, (Worcester.) 113, 118. 
 Ewelme, in Kemble 250. 
 
 Ewelme, Honour of (Oxon.) 32. 
 Ewen, see Ewelme. 
 
 Ewenny, (Glamorgan.) 233, 234. 
 Ewer brook 85. 
 
 Ewridge cum Yatton 78. 
 
 Ewrugge 78. 
 
 Ewyas Castle, (Hereford.) 116. 
 
 Exon Hill, (Gloucester.) 170. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fairford, (Gloucester.) 209. 
 Farley-Hungerford Castle, (Somer¬ 
 set.) 26, 79, 129, 160, 173, 209, 
 213, 390, 407, 410. 
 
 Fasterxe 204. 42, 171, 194. 
 
INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 451 
 
 Ferington 435. 
 
 Ferry Hinksey, (Oxford.) 378. 
 Fiddington 163. 
 
 Fighelden 357. 382. 
 
 Fisherton Aucher, or Anger 82, 282. 
 Fisherton Delamere 101. 
 
 Fittleton 164. 
 
 Flintham, (Notts.) 40, 83. 
 
 Folly Farm, near Mildenhall 338. 
 Font Evraud, (Normandy) 199. 
 Fontliill 42, 285. 
 
 Fontmel, (Dorset.) 97. 
 
 Ford 120. 416, 421. 
 
 Ford Farm 20. 
 
 Ford Hill 76, 110. 
 
 Forest-bury 380. 
 
 Fosbury 380. 
 
 Foss, The 86, 105, 117, 273. 
 
 Foss Knoll 85. 
 
 Fotheringhay College, (Northamp.) 
 
 42, 91, 194, 202, 204, 330, 342. 
 Fovant, or Foffont 144. 
 
 Foxbridge, near Wanborough 196. 
 Foxcote 128. 
 
 Foxham 63. 68, 293. 
 
 Foxley 275. 85. 
 
 Fowleswick, in Chippenham Parish 
 73. 
 
 France 6, 8, 12, 13, 15. 
 
 Freshdene 152. 
 
 Freshford, (Somerset.) 47 pedigree. 
 Frome, (Somerset.) 234, 404. 
 Froxfield, Almshouse 165, 336, 365, 
 382. 
 
 Fugleswick 73. 
 
 Fulgeis, or De Fugeriis Priory, 
 (France) 88. 
 
 Fulinge’s 267. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gainsborough, (Lincoln.) 32. 
 GARSDON 241. 275. 
 
 Gascony 140. 
 
 Gaston, what 107. 
 
 Giant’s Cave, a cairn 106. 
 
 Giddy Hall 122. 
 
 Gillingham, (Dorset.) 281, 387, 389. 
 Glamorgan 174. 
 
 Glaston Abbey, (Somerset.) 2, 6, 11, 
 92, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 163, 
 252, 341, 395, 426. Abbey House 
 2S9. 
 
 Gloucester 14, 81, 85, 113, 234, 391, 
 416. 
 
 •-- Archdeacon of 201. 
 
 - Honour of 168, 286. 
 
 Gloucestershire 77, 91, 145. 
 
 Goatacre 168. 
 
 Godaiming, (Surrey) 33. 
 
 Goderich Castle, (Hereford.) 191. 
 Gogmagog Hills, (Cambridge.) 318. 
 Gold-acre 436. 
 
 Gold-hill, in Brokenborougk 210. 
 Goppa, (Denbigh.) 203. 
 
 Gore 285, 350. Le, in Sherston 108, 
 (Somerset.) 434. Old 129. John a 
 226, 228. 
 
 Gorsey Leaze, in Norton 275. 
 
 Grafton East 380, 381, 382. 
 Grayrigg, (Westmoreland) 83. 
 
 Great Wood 209. 
 
 Gregorie’s Close 341. 
 
 Grittenham, Brinkworth 209. 155, 
 174, 208, 210, 275- 
 GRITTLETON 128. 47 pedigree , 
 49, 51, 52, 55, 98, 114, 124, 140, 
 421, 424, 425. 
 
 Guernsey 224. 
 
 Guiana 247. 
 
 Guisborough, (Yorks.) 244. 
 
 Gussich St. M., (Dorset.) 357. 
 Gwerngotheyn 377. 
 
 H. 
 
 ILackleston 148, 298. 
 
 Hackney, (Middlesex) 12, 145. 
 Hackpen, 271, 287. 
 
 Hadspen, (Somerset.) 285. 
 
 Hales Abbey, (Gloucester.) 87, 105, 
 157. 
 
 Halfpenny Pool 122. 
 
 Hall Farm, Colerne 77, 110. 
 
 Hall Place, Wanborough 196, 200. 
 Ham 365. 
 
 Hambleton 283. 
 
 Hampton Turville 151, 350. 
 Hancock’s Well 72, 105, 106. 
 Handford, (Dorset.) 406. 
 1IANKERTON 243. 214, 215. 
 Hankynton 214. 
 
 Harden 340, 381. 
 
 Hardenhuish 73. 
 
 Hardwick, (Worcester.) 275. 
 
 - (Derby.) 265. 
 
 Haineslowe, [sc. Hounslow] 242, 
 Harnkam East 82. 
 
 Harold Ewyas, (Hereford.) 170. 
 Hartham, in Corskam 83. 40, 51, 
 55, 81. 
 
 Hartley Court, (Berks.) 57. 
 Hartwell, (Bucks.) 312. 
 
 Haselbury, in Box 58. 56, 60, 188. 
 
 Hasely, (Oxon.) 164. 
 
 Hassage, (Somerset.) 82. 
 
 Hatt House, Box 58. 
 
 Haydon-wick 157. 
 
 Ilazell’s, Tisbury 364. 
 
 HED1NGTON 44. 5, 20, 31, 116. 
 
 -Wick 5, 45. 
 
 Hedingdon, (Oxon.) 43, 150. 
 Heliopolis 328. 
 
 Hemingford Abbot, (Huntingdon.) 
 320. 
 
 Hengrave 435. 
 
 Henley 440. 
 
 Henton, in Steeple Ashton 355. 353. 
 Herefordshire 14, 15, 44, 100. 
 Heylethorn 444. 
 
 Heytesbury 33, 46, 300. 
 
 Heywood, Westburv [Chantry] 60, 
 117, 384, 403, 405. 
 
 Heywood, in Kington St. Michael 
 41, 142, 428—9. 
 
 Highhridge, in Ckristmalford 127. 
 Highgate, (Middlesex) 275. 
 Highlands, Caine 166. 
 
 Highley, Braden 276. 
 
 Highway, in Bremhill 60. 168,169, 
 293, 350. 
 
 HIGHWORTII HUNDRED 150. 
 Town 151, 148, 192, 307. Chantry 
 77, 122, 171. Prebend 158. 
 
 Hill Deverell 383. 
 
 Hill House, Box 133. 
 
 IIILMERTON 167. 83, 165, 169, 
 194. 
 
 Hilperton 27, 226, 305, 354. 
 
 Hindon 82. 
 
 Hinton 162, see Henton. 
 
 -Charter House, (Somerset.) 
 
 145. 
 
 -- St. George, (Somerset.) 270, 
 
 289. 
 
 Hippingscomhe 340. 
 
 Hiwi 60. 
 
 Hoeker-bench 311. 
 
 Hoddesdon 163. 
 
 Hodington, (Worcester.) 414. 
 Hodson 163. 
 
 Holdene 129, 432. 
 
 Holt 82, 305. 
 
 Holy Well, in Biddeston 55. 
 
 Homing ton, (Somerset.) 82. 
 
 Hoo, (Herts.) 313. 
 
 Hook, in Lydiard Tregoz 171. 
 
 - (Dorset.) 347. 
 
 Horderes-ton 163. 
 
 Horndon, (Essex) 357. 
 
 3 l 2 
 
452 
 
 INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 Hrmfens-byrig 311. 
 
 Hubba’s Low 74. 
 
 Huish 165. 
 
 HULLAVIXGTON 245. 47 pedigree, 
 51, 104, 114, 115. 
 
 Hungerford Church, (Berks.) Chantry 
 40, 365. 
 
 Hunt’s Mill, Wootton Basset 204. 
 Hurstbourn, (Hants.) 372, 381. 
 Hussey’s Farm, South Wraxhall 26. 
 Hyam’s 271. 
 
 Hyatebiri 46. 
 
 Hyde Abbey, (Hants.) 162, 163, 340. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ickwell-bury, (Bedford.) 266. 
 
 Idover, in Dauntesey 216. 
 
 Ilam Anastatic Society 207, 331. 
 Ilan-burg 265. 
 
 Iley 295. 
 
 llmington, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 Ilsley West, (Berks.) 350. 
 
 Ilton, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 Imber 47 pedigree , 299, 350, 403. 
 Ingelbourne Castle 210. 
 
 Inhok le 434. 
 
 Inwood, Kington St. Michael 430. 
 Ireland’s Eye 216. 
 
 Isis and Avon Canal -277. 
 
 Isleworth, (Middlesex) 217 pedigree. 
 Italy 6. 
 
 Ivy Church, Monastery 151, 191. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jaggabd’s, Corsham 84. 
 
 Jernsey 175. 
 
 Jetesbury 46. 
 
 Jones’s, Brinkworth 208. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kate’s Bench, Maiden Bradley 384. 
 385. 
 
 Keebel’s "Well, Tisbury 364. 
 
 Keele, (Lincoln.) 247. 
 
 Keevil 132, 300, 350, 354. 
 
 Keilways 132, 133. 
 
 Keilways Bridge 99. 
 
 Kelloways Hock 116. 
 KELLAWAYS, see TYTHERTON. 
 Kelston (Somerset.) 417. 
 
 KEMBLE 249, 277. 
 
 -- Morley 249. 
 
 Kernel 278. 
 
 Kemerford 37. 
 
 Kemerton, (Gloucester.) 217 pedigree. 
 Kempsford, (Gloucester.) 30, 37. 
 
 Kenagh, (Longford) 180. 
 
 Kenington 66. 
 
 KENNET EAST 337. 
 
 -WEST 315. 320,321,322, 
 
 323, 332. River 322. 
 
 Kerrig y Drewen, (Wales) 317. 
 
 Keynes Place 155. 
 
 Keynsham, (Somerset.) 162. Abbey 
 417. 
 
 Kidderminster, (Worcester.) 385. 
 
 Killworthy, (Devon.) 335. 
 
 Kilmersdon, (Somerset.) 82. 
 
 Kilmington, (Somerset.) 389, 393, 
 394. 
 
 Kimbolton, (Huntingdon.) 166. 
 
 Kinemereford 37. 
 
 Kingbridge, near Westbury 402. 
 
 KINGSBRIDGE HUNDRED 162. 
 307, 367. 
 
 King’s Coffee House, (London) 354. 
 
 Kingston 30. 
 
 -Deverill 350. 
 
 -onSoar, (Nottingham.)377. 
 
 -Russell, (Dorset.) 1\~pedi¬ 
 gree. 
 
 King’s Teignton, (Devon.) 300. 
 
 -Walden, (Herts.) 116. 
 
 -Weston, (Gloucester.) 249. 
 
 Kingswood, Abbey 51, 105, 272, 419. 
 
 - in Box 56. 
 
 KINGTON ST. MICHAEL 130. 
 99, 105, 121, 124, 187, 235, 246, 
 249, 269, 304, 421, 425. (Mona- 
 chorum) 134, 140, 428. (Hundred 
 Court) 142. 
 
 -Peioky St. Maey’s 143. 
 
 2, 10, 13, 38, 43, 62, 82, 108, 109, 
 211, 263, 283, 285, 440. 
 
 Kington Langley 145. 11,136,140, 
 430—1, 433. 
 
 KINGTON WEST 86. 47 pedigree, 
 71, 148, 165, 247. 
 
 Kington, (Hereford.) Hon. of 161. 
 
 KIN WARDSTON E HUNDRED 372. 
 
 Kirkstall, (Yorks.) 359. 
 
 Knapwell, in Draycote Cerne 235. 
 in Stanton St. Quintin 286. 
 
 Knighton 358. 
 
 Knowle, Bedwyn 380, 
 
 Knoyle Episcopi 82, 166. East 243. 
 
 Kuwych 40. 
 
 Kynnet, see Kennet. 
 
 L. 
 
 LACKHAM 95. 8, 47 pedigree, 51, 
 167, 445. 
 
 LACOCK ABBEY 89. 44, 56, 68,114, 
 164, 171, 191, 417. Cartulary 2. 
 Lake Chapel 188. 
 
 Lancaster Duchy 56, 188, 206, 282, 
 365. 
 
 Landford 297. 
 
 Langeden 30. 
 
 Langefel 96. 
 
 Langford, Steeple 148, 188. 
 Langleyghe 432. 
 
 LANGLEY BURRELL 95. 36, 72, 
 73. 101, 116, 117, 122, 129, 147, 
 355, 420, 434. 
 
 Langley Fitzubse 146. 427, 433. 
 Langridge, (Somerset.) 61. 
 Languedoc 12. 
 
 Lan Hill Barrow 74. 
 
 Lanternham, Llantarnam, (Mon¬ 
 mouth.) 398. 
 
 LATTON 152. 150. 
 
 Laughton en le Morthing, (Yorks.) 
 
 187. 
 
 Lavington 367. 
 
 - West, or Bishop’s 1, 38, 
 
 47 pedigree, 217 pedigree, 163, 
 164, 226, 290, 297. 
 
 - Market, East, or Steeple 
 
 35, 101, 197, 228, 235, 351. 
 Lawford’s Gate, (Bristol) 11, 59. 
 LEA and CLEYERTON 250. 69, 
 208, 270. 
 
 Leach Court 353. 
 
 Lech-aven, (France) 328. 
 
 Lee 285. 
 
 Leghs, The 10. 
 
 Leicester, St. Mary Newark 207. 
 LEIGH DELAMERE 100. 38, 97, 
 116, 236, 241, 443. 
 
 Leighton, (Lincoln.) 349. 
 Leucomagus 372. 
 
 Lewes Priory, (Sussex) 343. 
 
 Ley, Bere Ferrers, (Devon.) 404, 
 405. 
 
 Liddington 162, 163. 
 
 Limerick 354. 
 
 Lincoln’s Inn Chapel 404. 
 L1NEHAM, see LYNEHAM. 
 Lipperton, (Kent) 370. 
 
 Littlecote, near Hilmerton 168, 186, 
 
 188. 
 
 Littlecote, near Hungerford 37, 231, 
 234, 414. 
 
 Littleton, (Somerset.) S2. 
 
 Littletone 435. 
 
 LITTLETON DREW 103. 120, 176, 
 281, 282. 
 
INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 453 
 
 Littleton Paganell 297. 
 
 Littleton, Steeple Ashton 353. 
 Lockridge 82. 
 
 Locksley, (Herts.) 116. 
 
 Loekswell 113, 133. 
 
 Lombardy 6. 
 
 Long Dean 82, 122. 
 
 Longford 118, 148. House 207. 
 Longleat 153, 354. 
 
 Longstone, near Brome 193. 
 
 -near Abury 323, 325. 
 
 Lot Mead 198. 
 
 Lovell’s Moat, in Wanhorough 196. 
 Loxley Park 276. 
 
 LUCKINGTON 105. 51, 72, 241, 
 246. 
 
 Lucknam 78. 120. 
 
 Luddington 91. 
 
 LUDGARSHALL 358. 
 
 Lugbury 149. 
 
 Lulworth, (Dorset.) 28, 42. 
 Lurecombes-broke 421. 
 
 Lutegar’s Hall 353. 
 
 Luxfield, Warminster 398. 
 LYDIARD MILICENT, or NORTH 
 153. 159, 248. 
 
 LYDIARD EWYAS, or TREGOZ 
 170. 42, 72, 162. 
 
 Lydiard Tyeys 171. 
 
 Lyllesden, (Somerset.) 439. 
 LYNEHAM 185. 188, 189, 217 
 pedigree. 
 
 Lynford 82. 
 
 Lynton, (Devon.) 439. 
 
 Lypyate 431. 
 
 Lyte’s Cary, (Somerset.) 240. 
 
 M. 
 
 Mackerfield, (Salop) 416. 
 Maekingdon 164. 
 
 Maddington 300. 
 
 Magliedon 164, 171. 
 
 MAIDEN BRADLEY 383. 82, 155, 
 345, 354. 
 
 Maiden Well 139, 147, 432, 434. 
 Maldumes-burg 251. 
 MALMESBURY, HUNDRED OF 
 206. 114, 124, 148. 
 
 •-Borough of 251. 
 
 71, 102, 107, 190, 191, 210. Seals 
 252. Name 251. Castle 253. St. 
 Paul’s Church 256, 261, 265, 280. 
 St. John’s Hospital, St. Helen’s, 
 Crosses 262. 
 
 -Monastery 253. 
 
 Seals 256, 257. Cartulary 2, 74, 
 
 76, 246, 297. Missals 121. Estates 
 31, 52, 60, 63, 73, 77, 110, 154, 
 155, 167, 194, 208, 214, 235, 242, 
 243, 249, 250, 251, 268, 271, 275, 
 280, 292, 331, 428. 
 
 - Abbey Church 
 
 255. Chapels in it, St. John Bap¬ 
 tist, St. Mary’s 262, 285. St. Mi¬ 
 chael’s 260, 262. St. Leonard’s 
 shrine 78. Abbey blouse 247, 259. 
 
 Malmes-hull, (Hereford.) 251. 
 
 Malmsey 252. 
 
 Maltravers’ Fee 267. 
 
 Malvoisie 252. 
 
 Mangotsfield, (Gloucester.) 43, 119, 
 120, 217 pedigree, 413. 
 
 Maningdon 171. 
 
 Mansfield Woodhouse, (Notts.) 275. 
 
 Marden 188, 226. 
 
 Marian’s Well 141. 
 
 MARLBOROUGH 337. 3, 7, 47 
 pedigree, 79, 154, 155, 277, 358. 
 College 380. St. Margaret’s 296, 
 337, 340, 342, 368, 369, 380, 382. 
 
 •Marmonstier, (France) 79. 
 
 Marnhull, (Dorset.) 383. 
 
 Marridge, see Mauduit’s Park. 
 
 MARSHFIELD, (Gloucester.) 415. 
 56, 107, 438. 
 
 Marston 301. 
 
 Martigny Priory, (Rhone) 72, 193. 
 
 Maserfeld, or Maserfelth 415. 
 
 Maudlin’s Bower 139. 
 
 Mauduit’s Park 285. 286. 
 
 Meardaen brook 280. 
 
 Mechlin, (Netherlands) 90. 
 
 Medburn 91. 
 
 Melbury, (Dorset.) 275. 
 
 Melcombe, (Dorset.) 153. 
 
 MELKSHAM 294. 51, 79. Forest309. 
 
 Merden 218. 
 
 MERE 385. 25, 79. (In North Cory, 
 Somerset.) 439 
 
 Meredich 435. 
 
 Merkendene 60. 
 
 Meryot, (Devon.) 439. 
 
 Middleton Cheney, (Oxon.) 349. 
 
 Middilwodishething 434. 
 
 Midghale, or Mighale 183. 72, 
 152, 180, 182, 307. 
 
 Midlawe, (Huntingdon.) 114. 
 
 Mighall, see Midgehall. 
 
 Milborne St. Andrew’s, (Dorset.) 182, 
 185. 
 
 Milbourne, Malmesbury 267. 
 
 MILDENHALL 338. 
 
 Miletus 328. 
 
 Milford Lane, (London) 2. 
 Mill-barrow 341. 
 
 Milston 168, 290. 
 
 Milton 82. 
 
 -Lislebonne, or Abbot’s 313, 
 
 382. 
 
 Milton, (Oxon.) 35. 
 
 Minchin Lane, (London) 143. 
 MINTY 267. 244, 245, 257. 
 
 Minty Mead, Corsham 78. 
 
 Mirfield, (York.) 416. 
 
 Mississippi Valley Monuments 327. 
 Mitcham, (Surrey) 162. 
 
 Mitton 217 pedigree. 
 
 Moldrup, (Denmark) 163. 
 
 Molland, (Devon.) 182. 
 
 Monemvasia 252. 
 
 Monks, in Corsham 84. 
 
 Monkton, in Chippenham 74. 2, 73, 
 132, 267. 
 
 Monkton Farley Priory 26, 44, 54, 
 55, 56, 72, 73, 74, 83, 111, 117, 
 166, 303, 310. 
 
 Monmouthshire 14, 44. 
 
 Moody’s Place, (Worcester.) 242. 
 Morden 157. 
 
 More, Tything of S3. 
 
 Morecot 214, 215. 
 
 Moremead 440. 
 
 Moreshall 145, 282. 
 
 Moses’s Tomb 245. 
 
 Motesfont, (Hants.) 381. 
 
 Moxham 26. 
 
 Mutuantonis 85. 
 
 Munster, (Ireland) 224. 
 
 Myghale 184. 
 
 N. 
 
 Nele’s Place 155. 
 
 Neston S3. 2,20,81,82,217 pedigree. 
 Chapel, St. John’s 82. Chapel, in 
 Corsham Church 81. 
 
 Nether Avon 52, 148, 301, 354, 370. 
 Nether Wroughton 368. 
 
 Nettlf.ton 148. 103, 124, 420, 421, 
 435. 
 
 Neuport, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 Newent, (Gloucester,) 154. 
 
 Nf.wnton 271. 105, 258. 
 
 Newton Valence, (Hants.) 350. 
 Nibley, (Gloucester.) 260. 
 
 Nidd, (York.) 20. 
 
 Nidum 194. 
 
 Nighs, The 194. 
 
 Nigrarve, or Nigraure 31. 
 
454 
 
 INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 Nile, The 1. 
 
 Nipred 2S5. 
 
 Northamptonshire 10, 111, 259. 
 
 North Innokes 440. 
 
 Noeton, near Malmesbury 274. 74, 
 12S, 169, 206, 226. 
 
 Norup, (Denmark) 163. 
 
 Norwich 73. 
 
 Norwood Castle, Oaksey 276. 
 
 Nostel, (York.) 217 pedigree , 226. 
 
 Notley, (Southampton.) 229. 
 
 Notton 91, 95. % 
 
 Nugent le Rotroi, (France) 199. 
 
 Nunney, (Somerset.) 101. 231. 
 
 Nymph Hay 144. 
 
 Nythe 194. 
 
 0 . 
 
 OAKSEY 275. 
 
 Oare 339. 
 
 Occhesei 275. 
 
 Offa’s Ditch 5. 
 
 Ogbourn, Parva 32, 91. 
 
 Okebourn 340, 343. 
 
 Oldbury Camp, near Cherkill 40, 
 321, 322. 
 
 On, (Egypt) 328. 
 
 Orcheston 380. 
 
 Ore 188. 
 
 Ostenhanger, (Kent) 79. 
 
 Oswald’s Down 415. Low, (Wor¬ 
 cester.) 206, 417. Ring 415. 
 
 Oswestry, (Salop) 416. 
 
 Overton 190. Hill 323, 340, 341, 
 342. 
 
 Overtown 162. 
 
 Oveetown Weoughton, or Wbos- 
 tox 367. 334. 
 
 Oxenwood, (Gloucester.) 66. 
 
 Oxfordshire 100. 
 
 Oxford 1, 10, 12, 14, 17, 132, 225. 
 St. Abb’s Ch. 153. Colleges : 
 All Souls 101, 201. Brasenose 
 166, 366, 405. C. C. C. 145, 159, 
 160. Exeter 190, 283. Hart HaR 
 386. Magd. Coll. 36, 47 pedigree , 
 169, 197, 343, 370. Magd. HaR 
 151, 154. Merton 145, 157, 161, 
 278. New 77, 196, 417. Oriel 
 102,119. Pembroke 153,154, 208. 
 Queen’s 16, 246. St. Edm. HaR 
 128. St. John’s 176. Trinity 17. 
 Worcester 155. 
 
 P. 
 
 Packel’s Croft 354. 
 
 Paddington, (Middlesex) 366. 
 Paternoster Row, (London) 219. 
 Patteshull, (Stafford.) 365. 
 
 Paveshou Church 80. 
 
 Paxcroft Overcourt 354. 
 
 Peckingell mead 96. 
 
 Pefesigge 372. 
 
 PegingehuRe 147, 432, 433. 
 Pembridge, (Hereford.) 87. 
 
 Penicroft 96, 420. 
 
 Penley’s 350. 
 
 Pennsylvania, (North America) 270. 
 Penny Pool 122. 
 
 Pentree, (Monmouth.) 398. 
 
 Pewsey 56, 340, 372. 
 
 Pewsham, Forest 67, 82. 
 
 Pibeseth, (Syria) 328. 
 
 Piets Wall 5. 
 
 Pixhill, Caine 37. 
 
 Pinkeney, Sheeston 108. 107, 275. 
 Pipe House, (Somerset.) 164. 
 
 Pipwell Abbey, (Northampton.) 307. 
 Piriton 154. 
 
 Polton 150. 
 
 POOL KEYNES 278. 215. 
 Porcliester Priory, (Hants.) 192. 
 POTTERNE AND CANNINGS 
 HUNDRED 306. 165. 
 
 Potterne 132, 193, 308. 
 
 POULSHOT 300. 52, 112. 
 Powderham, (Devon.) 27. 
 
 Power’s Mead 287. 
 
 Prescote, (Oxon.) 217 pedigree. 
 Preshute 338. 
 
 Pudsey, (York.) 354. 
 
 Purley, (Berks.) 155. 
 
 Purnell’s Land 342. 
 
 Purse Candel, (Dorset.) 27. 
 
 PURTON 154. 150, 160. 
 
 Putt, (Devon.) 439. 
 
 Puttingkay, (Devon.) 439. 
 
 Pyt House 362. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quarr Abbey, (I. of Wight) 113. 
 Quebwell 235. 
 
 Quedhampton, Cliff Pipard 248, 368. 
 Qtjemeefoed, Caine 37. 33, 35,101. 
 Quidkampton 148. 
 
 R. 
 
 Rabson 344. 
 
 Raderigge 295. • 
 
 RafRey 30. 
 
 Ragheye 431. 
 
 RAMSBURY HUNDRED 311. 
 
 Ramsbury 154, 165, 183, 205. 
 Ramsey Abbey, (Huntingdon.) 298. 
 Raven’s-burg 311. 
 
 Ravenswatli, York. 287. 
 
 Rea-bridge 90, 91, 94. 
 
 Redeliff Church, Bristol 270. 
 
 Red Hill, Studley 38. 
 Reodburne-brook 280. 
 
 Ricaeston, or Richaedston 343, 
 344. 30, 193. 
 
 Richmond, (Surrey) 42. 
 Riddlesworth HaR, (Norfolk) 353. 
 Rissendon, (Gloucester.) 181. 
 Rockley 42, 343. 
 
 Rocks, The (Gloucester.) 169. 
 RODBOURNE CHENEY, or CHA- 
 NEW 156. 
 
 RODBOURNE, near Malmesbury 
 280. 176, 206, 210, 265, 266. 
 Rokeburne 238, 442. 
 
 Romsey Abbey, (Hants.) 345, 352. 
 R,ood Ashton 354. 89, 190. 
 Rotherfield, (Hants) 281, 287. 
 Rotteridge 295, 296. 
 
 Roubergk Hundred 306. 
 
 Roundway 3, 45, 47 pedigree. 
 ROWDE 309. 298. 
 
 Rowdeford 310. 
 
 Rowdon House, Chippenham 74. 
 56, 67, 79. 
 
 Rowley, alias Wittenham 56. 
 
 Rudes 309. 
 
 Rudlow 56, 83, 445. 
 
 Rugelawe 56. 
 
 Rugwey 436. 
 
 Rumsey House, (Caine) 38. 
 
 Rushall 374. 
 
 Rush ford, (Norfolk) 194. 
 
 Rvcote, (Oxon.) 217 pedigree. 
 
 Ryland 440. 
 
 Ryme, (Lincoln.) 53. 
 
 S. 
 
 Safernoc 339. 
 
 St. Ambrose Chapel, Wanborough 
 196. 
 
 St. Angelo, Rome 332. 
 
 St. Audoen’s Chapel, South Wrax- 
 hall 26. 
 
 St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Bristol 
 30. 
 
 St. Briac, 367. 
 
 St. Clement Danes, (London) 2, 47 
 pedigree. 
 
 St. Donat’s, (Glamorgan.) 217 ped. 
 St. Edith’s marsh 310. 
 
INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 455 
 
 St. Fagan’s, (Wales) 377. 
 
 St. Faith’s, (London) 20. 
 
 St. Germain’s Abbey Bell, (France) 
 255. 
 
 St. Jean, Rouen 170. 
 
 St. John’s Hospital, Wootton Basset 
 188. 
 
 St. John of Jerus. 118. 
 
 St. John’s Mill, Christmalford 126, 
 127. 
 
 St. Katharine’s Chapel, Wan- 
 borough 196. 
 
 St. Leonard’s Shrine, Malmesbury 
 Abbey 78. 
 
 St. Leonard’s, Foster Lane, (London) 
 
 20 . 
 
 -Chapel, Shaw 295. 
 
 St. Martin’s in Fields, (London) 354. 
 
 St. Michael Le Querne, (London) 219. 
 
 St. Oswald’s Ring 414. 
 
 St. Paid’s, (Covent Garden) 35. 
 
 St. Peter’s, Kington Langley 11. 
 
 St. Peter’s, (York.) 96. 
 
 St. Switliin’s, (Winchester) 166. 
 
 St. Tewen’s Chapel 26. 
 
 St. Victor’s, (Normandy) 245, 246, 
 339. 
 
 St. Wandragesil’s, (Normandy) 108. 
 
 Salisbury, City 6, 82, 102, 269, 392, 
 394. College 200. Schools 12, 145. 
 St. Thomas’s Church 296. Cathe¬ 
 dral 33, 36, 105,' 109, 151, 160, 
 207, 231, 268. Arms of See 361, 
 366, 374, 386, 391, 395. Hunger- 
 ford’s Chapel in, 69, 231, 349. 
 
 Salthrop 368. 164, 335. 
 
 Salwarp, (Worcester.) 92. 
 
 Sandridge 296, 304. 
 
 Sandsete 60. 
 
 Sapperton, (Gloucester.) 207, 277. 
 
 Sarisburg 6. 
 
 Sarston, (Hants.) 107. 
 
 Sarum Old, 6, 82, 392. Cathedral 
 33. (St. Mary’s Chapel in) 109, 
 152, 199, 381. St. James’s Church 
 at 194. 
 
 Saverxake Forest 339. 164, 204, 
 380,381. House 346. Lodge 380. 
 
 Sceorstan 107, 108. 
 
 Scevenoc, (Caernarvon) 340. 
 
 Scotland 8. 
 
 SEAGRY 280. 104, 176, 188, 226. 
 
 Seale’s, in Caine 32. 
 
 SEEND 302. 45, 91, 296, 400. 
 
 Seend-Row 91, 295, 302. 
 
 Selborne, (Hants.) 59. 
 
 Selburgus 333. 
 
 SELKLEY HUNDRED 314. 
 Semarii Lupinum 379. 
 
 Semington 355. 
 
 Sennington, see Sevenhampton. 
 Sevenbarrow Hill 320, 323. 
 Sevenhampton, Highworth 158. 
 132, 150, 238. St. James’s Chapel 
 436. Sevington ? in Leigh-Dela- 
 mere 440. 
 
 Severn, name of 340. 
 
 Sevington 101, 238, 440. 
 
 Shadwell, (Norfolk) 194. 
 Shaftesbury, (Dorset.) 202. 
 
 -- Abbey 2,173, 360, 361, 
 
 394. Arms of 360. 
 
 Shaw, in Melksham 295. 51, 84, 
 
 296, in Overton 190. 
 
 Sheldon, in Chippenham 75. 54, 67, 
 124. 
 
 Shefford East, (Berks.) ‘Ill pedigree. 
 Sherborne, (Dorset.) 254. 
 SHERSTON MAGNA 106. 5, 9, 47 
 pedigree, 48, 82. (Much) 108. 
 Sherston Pinkney 109. 84. 
 Shipley, (Derby.) 235. 
 
 Shortgrove 170, 432. 
 
 Shoulder of Mutton Gate 106. 
 
 Shute, (Devon.) 86. 
 
 Silbury 331. 171, 316. 319, 321. 
 Silchester, (Hants.) 95. 
 
 Sites bury 46. 
 
 SLAUGHTERFORD 110. Ill, 77. 
 Sleaford, (Lincoln.) 119. 
 
 Sleights 10. 
 
 Slolegh, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 Shithcote 217. 218. 
 
 Sodbury, (Gloucester) 47 pedigree, 
 53. 
 
 Soley, Chilton 71. 
 
 SOMERFORD GREAT, MALTRA- 
 VERS, or BROAD 283. 206. 
 Somerford Ewyas 170, 283. 
 SOMERFORD KEYNES 159. 122, 
 150. 
 
 SOMERFORD MAUDUIT, MOLI- 
 NES, OR LITTLE 285. 160, 218, 
 47 pedigree. 
 
 Somerton, (Somerset.) 331. 
 SOPWORTII 111. 
 
 Sorstan 108. 
 
 Southampton, St. Denys 167, 381. 
 South Broom 402. 
 
 South Court, Maiden Bradley 383. 
 Southgrove 340, 380. 
 
 Southwark, (Surrey) 97. 
 
 Sottthwick Court, North Bradley 
 346. 399, 401. Mortuary Chapel 
 346. 
 
 Southwick, (Hants.) 69, 192. 
 
 Speen, (Berks.) 195. 
 
 Speerful 60. 
 
 Spekington, (Somerset.) 239,439,442. 
 Spelsbury, (Oxon.) 217 pedigree. 
 Spirthill 60. 
 
 Spye Park 44, 63. 
 
 Staffordshire 144. 
 
 Stanford 432. % 
 
 Stanleyghe 432. 
 
 Stanley Abbey 112. 2, 30, 39, 40, 
 77, 122, 152, 183, 203, 368, 436. 
 Stanmore, Abury 331. 
 
 Stanshawe, (Gloucester.) 132, 133. 
 Stanton Drew (Somerset.) 103. 
 Stanton, Fitz Brynd 195. 
 
 -Fitz Herbert 194. 
 
 - Fitzwarren 195. 
 
 STANTON, ST. QUINTIN 268. 5, 
 13, 47, 235, 267, 270. 
 
 -Court 437. 
 
 Stanwell, (Middlesex) 195, 211. 
 STAPLE HUNDRED 150. 
 Stapleford 148, 358, 382. 
 
 Staplehurst, (Kent) 57. 
 
 STEEPLE ASHTON 352. 403. 
 Steeple Langford 281. 
 
 Stennis, (Orkney) 329. 
 
 Stepinglee, (Bedfords.) 417. 
 Sterborough, (Surrey) 97. 
 
 Sterkeley Hundred 206. 124, 284. 
 Sterte, La 143, 430. 
 
 Stevenston, (Devon.) 119. 
 
 Stizleway 60. 
 
 Stock, Caine 33. 
 
 •-Bradenstoke 186. 
 
 -near Great Bedwyn 374, 217 
 
 pedigree, 226, 309, 339, or Stoke 
 410. 
 
 -Talmage, (Oxon.) 405. 
 
 Stocke 298. 
 
 Stockham Mill, Mildenliall 338. 
 Stockley, Caine 39, 33. 
 
 Stockivell, Rowde 309. 
 
 Stoke, near Bristol 36, 167, 409. 
 
 - apud Clive 187. 
 
 - Comitis, or Earl’s 298. 
 
 Stone, (Gloucester.) 133. 
 
 Stonehenge 5, 243, 314, 315, 316, 
 320, 321. 
 
 Stour river 389. 
 
 Stourton 389. Old House 390. 
 - in West Ashton 27, 354. 
 
 3 m 2 
 
456 
 
 INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 Stowe, (Northampton.) 217 pedigree, 
 225. 
 
 Stowell 188, 190. 
 
 Stratford, sub Castro 82. 
 
 STRATTON ST. MARGARET 160. 
 15S. 
 
 Streatley, (Berks.) 403. 
 
 Streteford 435. 
 
 Stretkam, (Ely) 370. 
 
 Strowd, Melksham 296. 
 
 Studecomb 340. 
 
 Studley, near Caine 3S. 33, 35, 46, 
 53, 62. 
 
 Studley Grange, in Lydiard Tregoz 
 152," 171. 
 
 Sudington, (Gloucester.) 414. 
 Sulden’s Ashton 355. 
 
 Sulgrave, (Northampton.) 242. 
 Surrendex, in Hullavington 114. 
 
 47 pedigree, 51, 104, 128, 146. 
 SUTTON BENGER 291. 49, 50, 
 
 138, 188. 
 
 Sutton Mandeville 354. 
 
 Sutton Yeney 190, 207. 
 
 Swainswick, (Somerset.) 43. 
 SWINDON, High 190. 162, 191. 
 
 Even 191. New 192. 
 
 Swinley 139, 140, 427. 
 
 Swinnington 355. 
 
 Switkland, (Leicester.) 217 pedigree. 
 Swithraeding-dene, (Kent) 114. 
 
 Sylla Mount 120. 
 
 Syon Monast., (Middlesex.) 79, 283. 
 
 T. 
 
 Taplow, (Bucks.) 206. 
 
 Tavistock, (Devon.) 335, 337. 
 
 Teffont Ewyas 170, 405. 
 
 Tellisford, (Somerset.) 355. 
 
 Temple Newsam, (York.) 215. 
 
 Ten Stones, The 163. 
 
 Teringtone 96. 
 
 Terwayn, (Terouenne) 232. 
 
 Tetbury, History of 271. 
 
 Tew, (Oxford.) 151. 
 
 Tewkesbury Abbey, (Gloucester.) 52, 
 10S, 109, 367. ' 
 
 Thame, (Oxford.) 154. 
 
 Thickthorn 186. 
 
 Thickwood, Colerne 77. 152. 
 Thorxhill Huxdred 162. 195. 
 Thornhill, Cliff Pipard 164, 166. 
 
 - near Malmesbury 263,265. 
 
 Three Daggers Inn 351. 
 
 Thurleigh, (Bedford.) 266. 
 
 Ticoode 77. 
 
 Tickford Priory, (Bucks.) 79. 
 Tidcomb 358. Hussey 3S2. 
 Tidworth 36, 176. 
 
 Tilshead 353. 
 
 Tinhide, see Tynhide. 
 
 T1SBURY 360. 154, 176, 285. 
 Tisselbury 360. 
 
 Titherington 96. 
 
 TITHER1NGTON KEILWAYS, (or 
 EAST) 115, 61. 
 
 TITHERINGTON LUCAS, (or 
 WEST) 116. 98, 99. 
 
 Titty-marsh 310. 
 
 Tocheham 194. 
 
 Tockexhaji West, inLyneham 189. 
 
 13, 42. 43, 84, 119, 380, 409. 
 TOCKENHAM EAST 194. 169. 
 
 -Yetus 194. 
 
 -Wick 190. 194. 
 
 Tollard 82. Royal 406. 
 
 Toothill 171. 
 
 Tormarton, (Gloucester.) 7, 152, 158, 
 350. 
 
 Tornelle 164. 
 
 Totmanslow, (Stafford.) 206. 
 Tottexiiam Park 379. 340. 
 
 Tours, (France) 304. 
 
 Towcester, (Northampton.) 187. 
 Trindschaehin 432. 
 
 Trowbridge 7, 27, 33, 80, 154, 164, 
 304, 305, 353, 354. 
 
 -Castle 56, 82, 
 
 -Honour of 44, 53, 97, 
 
 105. 
 
 Tunbridge Wells, (Kent) 303. 
 Turnworth, (Dorset.) 361. 
 
 Turon, or Tirron Abbey (France) 161. 
 Twenty Hide 149, 435. 
 
 Twynyho, (Somerset.) 361. 
 
 Tydover 216. 
 
 Tynhide 349, 350, 351. 
 
 Tyrone co. 78. 
 
 TYTHERTON, or TYTHERING- 
 TON, see Titherington. 
 
 U. 
 
 Ufcote 335. 
 
 Ulfela 379. 
 
 Ulfhall 291. 
 
 Upavon 302. 
 
 Upham 164, 191, 196, 370. 
 
 Upton 82. 
 
 Upton Scudamore 116, 170. 
 
 Upton House, (Northampton.) 247. 
 Uranienburg, (Denmark) 207. 
 Urchfont217j5ed, 365. See Erchfont. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yallis Seholarum, Salisbury 102. 
 Yallis, (near Frome, Somerset.) 404. 
 Yan, The (Glamorgan.) 351. 
 Yasterne 204. See Fastern. 
 Yasthorne 204. See Ditto 
 Yerlueio 44, 45. 
 
 Yern-knoll 236. 
 
 Yevay, (Switz.) 163, 384. 
 
 Yine, The (Hants.) 188. 
 
 W. 
 
 Wadone 305. 
 
 Wadworth, (York.) 307. 
 
 Wales 5. (York.) 187. 
 
 Wallingford, (Berks.) Honour of 32, 
 58, 73, 157, 162, 165, 171, 202, 
 339, 381. 
 
 -Abbey 73, 192. 
 
 Walsingham, (Norfolk.) 11. 
 WANBOROUGH 194. 162, 164, 
 343. 
 
 Wansdyke 45, 83, 194, 294, 315, 
 339, 380. 
 
 Wans House 44. 
 
 Wanswell, (Gloucester.) 260. 
 Wardour Castle 384. 
 
 Warminster 2. St. Laur. Chapel 398. 
 Warneford Place 159. 
 
 Warwick 19. Castle 90. Honour of 
 62. 
 
 Warwickshire 46. 
 
 Wasterne 204. 
 
 Waterloo 333. 
 
 Waterperry, (Oxon.) 168. 
 
 Watling Street 100. 
 
 Wavering brook 55. 
 
 Weather Cliff 56. 
 
 Weawering Mill 111. 
 
 Wedhampton 82. 
 
 Weekhurst, in Brinkworth 208. 
 Weleford 339. 
 
 Wells, (Somerset) 80, 349, 398. 
 
 -St. Cuthbert’s 293. 
 
 Wemberghe 195. 
 
 Weofwelle 431. 
 
 Werocheshallc 118. 
 
 Werston 367. 
 
 Wervelesdon 345. 
 
 Wessex, K. Arms of 257. 
 WESTBURY 402. 52, 297, 298, 345, 
 354, 400. 
 
 -on Trym, (Gloucester.) 
 
 349. 
 
 West Cocham 189. 
 
 West Hatch 86, 361. 
 
INDEX I.-PLACES. 
 
 457 
 
 Westminster Abbey 97, 162, 165, 
 189, 215, 217 pedigree, 379. 
 
 -School 94. 
 
 West Ocham 189. 
 
 Weston, (near Wotton under Edge 
 Gloucester.) 109. 
 
 Westport, Malmesbury 263, 242, 
 253. Yicar’s Seal 257. 
 
 Westthorp 152, 350. 
 
 Westwood, cum I ford 365. 
 Wexcombe or Westcombe 372, 380. 
 WHADDON, near Melksham 305. 
 27, 295, 354. 
 
 WH ER WELL’S - DOWN HUN¬ 
 DRED 345. 
 
 Whetham 39. 3, 33, 37. 
 Whitchurch, Malmesbury 267, 235, 
 262. 
 
 Whitchurch Canonicorum, (Dorset.) 
 
 20 . 
 
 Whitchurch, (Hants.) 364. 
 WhiteLackington,(Somerset.)57,439. 
 Whiteparish 115. 
 
 White Walls 85. 
 
 Whitley, Caine 292. Near Melksham 
 47 pedigree, 285, 295. 
 
 Wickwood Forest, (Oxon.) 228. 
 
 Wick 340. Near Martinsall 378. 
 Wick Hill 61. 
 
 Wick-Field, near Laekham 95. 
 Wicklescote 191. 164,335,368,369. 
 Widcombe or Wydecombe, in Hil- 
 merton 167. 
 
 Wilcote 188, 336. 
 
 Willesley, in Sherston 107. 
 Willington, (Sussex) 241. 
 
 Wilsford 218. 
 
 Wilton 367, 394. 
 
 -Hospital 2. 
 
 -Monastery 191. 
 
 - Library 9. 
 
 -Abbey 339. 
 
 Wilton, Great Bedwyn 380. 
 
 Wilton on Wye, (Hereford.) 85. 
 Wimborne Minster, (Dorset.) 10, 136, 
 386. 
 
 Winchcombe Abbey, (Gloucester.) 2. 
 Winchenden, (Bucks.) 217 pedigree. 
 Winchester, (Hants.) 13, 319, 330, 
 337, 345, 356, 365, 367. 
 
 Winchester College 75, 111, 152, 
 350. 
 
 -Yerses, Author of 244. 
 
 Windsor, (Berks.) 215. 
 Winterbourne 91. 
 
 WINTERBOURNE BASSET 342. 
 41, 137. 
 
 ■-Cherbourg 302. 
 
 -Dauntesey 218, 
 
 297. 
 
 -Gunnor 302. 
 
 -MONKTON 341. 
 
 321, 330, 331. 
 
 -Shrewton 52. 
 
 Winterslow 108. 
 
 Winwick, (Lancashire) 416. 
 Wishford Great 86, 148, 206. 
 Wittenham, Rowley 56. 
 
 Wittenham, (Berks.) 153, 331, 407, 
 414. 
 
 Wobourn, in Hankerton 245. 
 Wodeford 435. 
 
 Wodensberg 195. 
 
 Wodensdyke 294, 307. 
 
 Wodsberg 195. 
 
 Wokesey 275. 
 
 Woldesclos 440. 
 
 WOLFHALL, or WOLPHALE, see WUL- 
 FALL. 
 
 Wolmere 296. 
 
 Wolveton, (Dorset.) 347, 379. 
 Woneakr-Dichrigg, in Ford 421. 
 Woodborough 43, 190. 
 
 Woodhill 165, 167. 
 
 Wood-lane, Chippenham 69. 
 Woodlands, Mildenhall 331,338,339. 
 Woodrew 91, 295. 
 
 Woolley, near Bradford on Avon 354. 
 WOOTTON BASSET 202. 41, 188, 
 194, 277. 
 
 Wootton, (Oxon.) Ill pedigree. 
 Worcester 14, 77, 94. 
 
 - Cathedral 134. 
 
 Workway Hill 340. 
 
 Worm-leighton, (Warwick.) 359. 
 Worms Cathedral 201. 
 
 Wormwood, Box, 53. 
 
 Worston 367. 
 
 Worth 150. 
 
 Wotton under Edge, (Gloucester.) 109. 
 
 Wotton Ryvers 165. 
 
 Woxy 275. 
 
 WllAXHALL NORTH 117. 43, 75, 
 190, 416. 
 
 WRAXHALL SOUTH 23. 19, 20, 
 25, 43, 57, 115, 229, 233. 
 Wraxhall cum Childfrome, (Dorset.) 
 
 119. 
 
 Wraxhall, (Somerset.) 207. 
 Wrderusteselle 345. 
 
 Wrentyth, (Somerset.) 439. 
 Wrockeshalle 118. 
 
 Wrokcumbe 60. 
 
 Wrottesley, (Stafford.) 234. 
 WROUGHTON 367. 164, 167. 
 Wroxhall, (Dorset.) 118. 
 Wrynchemurth 208. 
 
 Wulfhale 379. 291, 374, 375. 
 Wyck, in Sherston, 107. 
 
 Wycombe, (Bucks.) 42. 
 
 Wydha 152. 
 
 Wyk Croft, Kington St. Michael 142, 
 429. 
 
 Wyllys’s 237. 
 
 Wynyard’s Mill, near Malmesbury 
 252. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yate, (Gloucester.) 380. 
 YATESBURY 46. 38. 
 
 Yatton-down 110, 123. 
 
 YATTON KEYNELL 120. 47, 51, 
 152, 236, 237, 436—7—8—9, 440, 
 443. 
 
 Yatton Keynes, or West 122. 54, 
 
 120 . 
 
 Yatton Major 122. 
 
 Ydouer 216. 
 
 Yeoing 250. 
 
 Yeovilton, (Somerset.) 240, 289, 
 439. 
 
 Yew Ridge, Colerne 78. 122. 
 Young’s Leaze 443. 
 
 Yvelchester, (Somerset.) 439. 
 
 Ywerig 78. 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zatesbury 46. 
 
 Zeals 385, 387. 
 
 Zilbury 321. 
 
INDEX II.—PERSONS 
 
 A. 
 
 Abarowe, Sir John 217 ped. 
 
 Abbot, Arms 93, 445, Mary 24. 
 
 Bishop Richard 366. 
 
 Abbotstone, John de 140, 141, 427. 
 Abergavenny, Earl of 157. 
 
 Abingdon, James 1st Earl of 1, 189, 
 217 ped. 227, 228, 297. 
 
 Abraham men 394. 
 
 Acre, Joan of 298, 373. 
 
 Adamson, Mrs. 276. 
 
 Addeley, Roger de 62. 
 
 Addison, Lancelot, Secretary 168. 
 Adee, Adie or Ady, John 85. Nicho¬ 
 las 157. William 282. 
 
 AEthelmund 37. 
 iEthelwulf 214, 243. 
 
 Ailesbury, Earl of 338, 340, 341, 372, 
 373, 379, 380, 381, 382. 
 
 Ainslie, Col. 167. 
 
 Akerman, John Tonge 155, 210, 216, 
 250, 276, 307. 
 
 Alberic 322. 
 
 Aldeby, William 420. 
 
 Aldhelm, St. 58, 154, 160, 167, 249, 1 
 253, 254. Bell 255. Shrine 262, j 
 280. 
 
 Aleston 84. 
 
 Alewey, Richard 440. 
 
 Alfred, King 372. 
 
 Alfric 432. 
 
 Allam 250. 
 
 Alleine, William 31, 301. 
 
 Allen, William 330. 
 
 Allestree, Arms 370. 
 
 Allis 276. 
 
 Almerele, see Aumarle. 
 
 Alston, Sir Edward, Sarah 165. 
 Alured, Don 274. 
 
 Aluric 305. 
 
 Alworth, Henry 193. 
 
 Andrew, Family 151. 
 
 Andrewes, Arms 117. Robert 348. 
 Angell 38. 
 
 Anglesea, Earl of 67. 
 
 Angoul me, Arms 411. 
 
 Angulo, John de 55. 
 
 Anlaf 257. 
 
 Annesley 114. 
 
 Ansted 112. 
 
 Anstie 112,113. Arms, Pedigree 114. 
 
 Antrobus, Sir E. 227. 
 
 Ap Man, John 381. 
 
 Apsley, Sir Allen, Lucy 170 ped. 
 174. 
 
 Ap Thomas, Agnes 47 ped. 
 
 Arch, John 73. William 290. 
 
 Archard 54. Adam 265. 
 
 Archer, Robert le 154. 
 
 Arden, Arms 383. 
 
 Arnold, Arms 413. 
 
 Arnolde, John 257. 
 
 Artherne, John de 142, 429. 
 
 Arthur of Britany 294. 
 
 Arundell, Arms 220, 362. Elizabeth, 
 Sir Renfrew 217 ped. Anna, 
 Sir Matthew, Margaret Lady, Sir 
 Thomas 362, 443. Thomas Lord, 
 William 362, 383. 
 
 Fitz Alan, Earl of 283, 300. Sir 
 William, K.G. 445. Arms called j 
 by mistake “Mowbray” p. 387, | 
 388, and in shield No. 511. 
 
 As, John 151. 
 
 Ash, Arms 395, 396, 405. 
 
 Ashburnham William 405 
 
 Ashe, Robert 116, 355. Robert Mar- i 
 tyn9S. Samuel97,98. William395. I 
 
 Ashfordby, Arms 347. 
 
 Ashley, Anthony Lord 153. Maurice 
 154. Walter de 207. 
 
 Ashton, Arms 89. Sir Robert 207. i 
 
 Askew, Sir John, Ferdinand 154. 
 
 Aspail, Godfrey 154. 
 
 Asser 74. 
 
 Ashley, John 148. John de, Sir John, 
 Francis Dugdale 367. Sir Francis j 
 Dugdale 365. 
 
 Aston, Sir Robert 46. 
 
 Aswell, William 437. 
 
 Atford, Family, Arms 47, 48. 
 Atheline 139, 425. 
 
 Athelstan,King 52,60, 78, 253. Arms 
 81, 139, 210, 211, 250. Grave 
 255. Mon. 257, 272, 274, 275, 339, 
 341, 425. 
 
 Atherton, Harriet 368. 
 
 Atkins, Leonard 293. 
 
 Atwater, Robert 212. 
 
 Atmore, William 295. 
 
 Attye, Sir Arthur 170 ped. 174. 
 Atwood, Richard 284. 
 
 Aubrey, John the Antiquary, picture 
 mentioned 73. Birth 137, 241. 
 His ancestor a Danvers 217 ped. 
 Death 233. Lost vol. of his Col¬ 
 lections “ Liber B.” 409 Deborah 
 137 John of Burlton 217 ped. 
 Richard 135, 137. William 53. 
 71, 73, 89, 265, 298, 360. William 
 L.L.D., 135, 187. 
 
 Aubrey, of Chadenwyeh, Edward 24. 
 
 24. William 25, 387. 
 
 Audley, Arms 344, 361, 388. Touchet 
 Lord 42, 296. Lord 364, 381. 
 Hugh 378. James 151. 
 
 A ugiers, Ralph de 44. 
 
 Augustine, St. 391. 
 
 Aula, Thomas de 77. 
 
 Aumarle, or Almerele Elizabeth, Sir 
 William, Arms 399, 401. 
 
 Austin, Rev. Anthony 52, 104. 
 Avenel 191. 
 
 Avesbury, Robert de 330. 
 
 Avon, Elena de 53, 230. 
 
 Awdelett, Thomas 265. 
 
 Awdley, Hugh 266. 
 
 Awdry, Family 302. Sir John Wither 
 95,296. 
 
 Ayala, Arms, Inezde, Sanchiade 177, 
 402. 
 
 Aylesbury, John de 351. 
 
INDEX II.—PERSONS. 
 
 459 
 
 Aylesford, Lady 380. 
 
 Ayliffe, Family 208, 209, 275. Arms 
 210. Ann 209. Dorothy 170 ped. 
 George 275. Sir George 154, 
 170 ped. 174, 209. John 84, 
 194. Sir John 209. Judith 275. 
 Susan 84. Thomas 19. 
 
 Aylmer 152, 155, 157. William 159. 
 Katharine 195. 
 
 Ayscough, Bishop William 351. 
 
 B. 
 
 Bacon, Lord 106. Robert 185. 
 Badby, Arms 129, 357. 
 
 Badlesmere, Family 64. Arms 65, 
 377. Bartholomew 75. Elizabeth 
 108, 284. Giles 41, 64, 66, 217. 
 Margaret 66. Maud 217. 
 
 Bagot, Family 54. John 115. 
 
 Baily 40, 266. 
 
 Baker 276. 
 
 Balliol, Eustace de 368. 
 
 Baltimore, Calvert Lord, Anne Lady 
 362. 
 
 Balzac, Mons. 318. 
 
 Banbury. Earl of 213. 
 
 Barber, Robert 406. 
 
 Bardeneie, Robert 437, 438, 443. 
 Barendes, Arms 221, 414. 
 
 Barker, Robert, Sir William 365. 
 Barkesdale, Thomas 132. 
 
 Baring, Bishop C. 94. 
 
 Barnard 181. 
 
 Barnes, Arms 119. Rev. W. 120, 223. 
 Barnevile 166, 168. 
 
 Barnston or Barnardiston, Arms, John 
 366. 
 
 Barnwell 166. 
 
 Barrandyne, Arms 221. 
 
 Barret, Arms, William 116. Hugh 
 117, 133. 
 
 Barrington, Bishop of Sarum 337. 
 Barrow, Rev. George N. 88. 
 Bartholomew 254, 257. 
 
 Barton, Bernard 209. 
 
 Barville 46. 
 
 Barwick, Anne, John 336. 
 
 Barwise, Arms 383. 
 
 Basely, Arms, Crest, William 243. 
 Baskerville, Arms 344. Laurence 
 265. Symon, Sir Walter, William 
 343 
 
 Baskett, Family 154. 
 
 Basset, Alan 30, 335, 342,. Aliva 
 42, 192, 202, 204, 342. Bishop 
 of London, Arms, 145, Gilbert 41, 
 
 43,338. Katharine 384. Philip 42, 
 165, 191, 342, 381. Ralph, Arms 
 144,154. Simon 295. Thomas 144. 
 
 - of Wycombe, Lord 202, 203. 
 
 Bath and Wells, Bishop of 126. 
 
 Bath, Earl of 375. 
 
 Bathe 40. 
 
 Bathurst, Crest 9. 
 
 Battely 347. 
 
 Bavant, Sir Walter 117. 
 
 Bavent, Roger 151. 
 
 Bayeux, Bishop of 191. 
 
 Baylemore, Richard 437. 
 
 Bay ley, William 47 ped. Re¬ 
 becca, Christopher 347, of Bolden 
 132. 
 
 Bayliffe, Arms71, 111, 267, 282, 314. 
 Bartholomew 443. Henry 217 
 ped. Judith 132. William 2, 
 72, 73, 111, 443. 
 
 Ba\ lly, John 440. 
 
 Bayly, W. 30, 257. 
 
 Baynard, Arms 81, 89. Family 167. 
 Elizabeth 93. Philip 82, 441. 
 Robert 92, 95. 
 
 Baynton, Arms 114, 260, 386. 
 
 Family 35, 42, 60, 63, 67, 113, 
 214, 277, 368. Andrew (1555) 
 63, (1579) 69, 114. Sir Andrew 
 295. Ann 95. Bridget 212, 260. 
 Edward 43. Sir Edward 2, 69, 
 87, 95, 100, 112, 189, 212, 263, 
 305. Elizabeth, Lady 351. Henry 
 95. Sir Henry, Lucy 217 ped. 
 John 31, 299, 352. 
 
 Beauchamp, Arms 28, 29, 67, 71, 73, 
 89, 108, 114, 172, 176, 177, 402. 
 Honour of 339. Henry 28. Mar¬ 
 garet 170 ped. Sir John 395. 
 Richard 29, 379. Earl of Worcester 
 108. Bishop of Sarum 309, 355. 
 Sir Thomas 142, 429. 
 
 -ofHache, John 86. Arms 
 
 376, 445. 
 
 -of Powyck, John 35. 
 
 -St. Amand, William 
 
 Lord 35, see “ Saint Amand.” 
 
 -Seymour Lord 70, 71, 
 
 108, 351, 375, 377, 378. 
 
 -Warwick, Earl of 41, 
 
 108, 171. Guy 40, 41. William 
 40. Henry Duke of 52, 108. 
 Beaufort, (Cardinal.) Arms 28. 
 
 Duke of 104, 112. 4th Duke 167. 
 Beausheme, Thomas 439. 
 
 Beaushin, John, William 20. 
 
 Beauver, William de 166. 
 
 Beaver, R. 356. 
 
 Beekington, Bishop, Arms 289. 
 
 Bede 254. 
 
 Bedingfield, Arms, Dorothy, Thomas 
 156. 
 
 Beere, Abbot, his device 136, 389. 
 Beiuton 194. 
 
 Beke, Arms 313, 399, 400, 402. 
 
 Henry 57. Alice, Walter Lord 401. 
 Bellamy 79. 
 
 Bellot, Robert 342. 
 
 Bendry, William 285. 
 
 Benger, John 382. 
 
 Bennet or Benett 362. Ethelred 
 364. Pye 335, 368. Thomas 335, 
 369, 370, 371. Sir Thomas 368, 
 379. Of Westbury, Thomas, Mar¬ 
 garet 403. Arms 406. Nicholas 
 442. 
 
 Beornwulf, King 367. 
 
 Bere, see Beere. 
 
 Bereford, William de 438. 
 
 Berenger or Beringer, Arms, Family, 
 Sir John, Nicholas 291. Richard 
 379. Sanchia 386. 
 
 Bergavenny, Earl of 116, 169, 
 Berington, Arms 403, 
 
 Berkeley, Arms 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 
 86, 231, 232, 250, 386, 388, 408. 
 of Stoke, Arms 409. Cecilia 
 
 295. Joan 97, 101. John 133. 
 J. Symes 36. Sir John of Bev- 
 erston 387. Mary (Stoke) 409, 
 410. Maurice 133. Sir M. 410. 
 Norborne 36, 167, Sir Richard 
 85, 275, 409, 410, Sir Thomas 
 
 296. Thomas Lord 97, 101. 
 Berkshire, Earl of 154, 205, 208, 
 
 210, 212, 260. 
 
 Berlegh, of Bathampton 43. Regi¬ 
 nald 26. Roger 41. 
 
 Bernard, Family 165. Arms, John 47 
 ped. Joyce 181. R. 335, 
 
 Bernas, Arms 383. 
 
 Berners, Juliana 9. Godfrey de 250. 
 
 John Lord, Ursula 302. 
 
 Berry 2. 
 
 Bertie, see Abingdon. 
 
 Bertillet 295. 
 
 Berton, Walter 152. 
 
 Berwick, Gilbert de 169. Edmund 
 437. J. de 337, 349. 
 
 Besil, John, Sir Henry 127. Matthew 
 108. William 22. 
 
 Besiles, John de 423. 
 
 3 n 2 
 
460 
 
 INDEX II.—PERSONS. 
 
 Bessome, Arms 357. 
 
 Bethell, Sir Richard 402. 
 
 Bettesthorne, Arms 386, 388. Sir 
 John 387. 
 
 Beverley, John 217 ped. 219. 
 
 Bevile, Alice 348. 
 
 Bevill, Sir W. 213. 
 
 Biddeston, Nicholas de 54'. 
 
 Bigod, 164, 165, 167, 335, 386. 
 Alice 95. Bartholomew, Henry 
 56. Sir John 170 ped . Roger 
 30, 42, 95, 202, Sampson 55 ; 
 his Seal 56. 
 
 Bilkemore, Sir R. 340. 
 
 Billingsley, Jane, Sir Henry 47 ped. 
 
 Birch, Rev. W. S. 85. 
 
 Bird, 339. J. 374. 
 
 Birtell, 283. 
 
 Biset, J, 354, 385. Manasser 354, 
 384. 
 
 Bitton, De 190. See Button. 
 
 Blackburne, W. 180. 
 
 Blagden, 353. 
 
 Blake, 37, 333. Henry 164. Robert 
 53. Roger 203. W. 265, 439. 
 
 Blakeford, Sir R. 140, 427, 
 
 Blamford, R. 101. 
 
 Blanchard, J. 347. 
 
 Blandford, J. 278, 333. 
 
 Bletsho, R. Beauchamp Baron 170. 
 
 Blissett, W. 56, 370. 
 
 Bloker 22. 
 
 Blondeville, Arms 212. 
 
 Blount, see Blunt. 
 
 Bluet, Arms 27, 29, 81, 92, 93, 95. 
 Family 167,168, 296. Godfrey368. 
 
 Blunsdon, or Bluntestone, John de 
 Kt. 423. Henry de 127, 151. 
 
 Blunt, or Blount, Arms 176, 177,203, 
 413. Family 26, 43, 75, 129, 148, 
 196. 01 Bitton 56, 84, 86, 119. 
 
 Andrew 39, 43, Col. 154. Eliza¬ 
 beth 170 ped. 177, 413. John 
 84. Sir John 413. Sir Richard 
 170 ped. 177. Sir Walter 402- 
 Margaret 217 ped. 413. Ger¬ 
 trude 413. 
 
 Bodenham, Cicely 135, Arms 144, 
 291, 344. 
 
 Boet, Thomas 444. 
 
 Bohun, Earl of Hereford 55, 194, 
 196, 207, 386. Humphrey 44, 108, 
 161. Edward 202. Mary 302. 
 
 Bois or Bosco, Ernald du 141, 429, 
 William 444. 
 
 Bolebec, Arms 73. 
 
 Bolehide, Thomas 437, 438. 
 
 Boleyn, Queen Anne, Arms 411. 
 Bolingbroke, Lord 170, 366. 
 Bolstred, see Bulstrode. 
 
 Bolton, Duke of 299, 351, 
 
 Bolwell, Richard 301. 
 
 Bonclive 340. 
 
 Bonham, Arms 300. Family 58. 
 
 John 56. Thomas 281. 
 
 Bonville 161, Sir William, Cicely 
 
 86 . 
 
 Boode, A. C., John C. 78. 
 
 Bordeville 171. 
 
 Borel 116. 
 
 Bosket, Reginald 147. Thomas 432. 
 Bostock, Lionel 157. 
 
 Boteler, of co. Gloucester 117, 148. 
 Walter 168. 
 
 Botetourt, Barony 36, 414. Arms 
 413, 414. 
 
 Botreaux, Arms 71, 81, 173, 413. 
 Boucher, Thomas 126. 
 
 Boughton, J. 370. 
 
 Bourcliier, Knot. 315. Arms 370, 
 371. W. 302. G. 302. Sir F. 375. 
 Thomasine 370. 
 
 Bourdon, family, Agnes 46, N. 
 N. 296. 
 
 Bousser, J. 125. of Gloucester. 132. 
 
 John de 421. 
 
 Boutel) 165. 
 
 Bouverie, Sir E. 287. 
 
 Bower, Arms 162, 169, 291. Wil¬ 
 liam 163, 181, 217 ped. Mary, 
 Sir AVilliam 405. 
 
 Bowles, W. L. 76, 89, 90, 113, 171, 
 187, 188, 333, 417. 
 
 Bowman, S. 314. 
 
 Boxe, Alex, Henry 127, 423. Samp¬ 
 son de la 56, 142, 430. 
 
 Boyde, Sir Philip 366. 
 
 Bradenstoke, Prior of 127, 188, 422. 
 
 Sir John de 189. 
 
 Bradley, Sir Reginald 232. 
 
 Bradston, Elizabeth 105. Sir Thomas 
 105, 285. 
 
 Brampton, John 61. Arms 383. 
 Bramston, Sir John 247. James 
 359. 
 
 Branchester, Arms 221, 217 ped, 
 222 
 
 Brantingham, Sir William 155. 
 Braose, Family 16. Arms 199. 
 Bray, J. 272. 
 
 Braybrooke, 380. Arms 300, Ger¬ 
 ard 35, 
 
 Bremleigh, R. de 127 423. 
 
 Brente, Robert de 430. 
 
 Brereton, Werburgh 369. 
 
 Bret, de 161. 
 
 Breteville, Gilbert 164, 334, 380. 
 
 William 331. 
 
 Brett, Sir R. 266. 
 
 Brewes Arms, errata 445, 
 
 Bridge, Robert of the 95. 
 
 Biidgeman, Sir O. 34. 
 
 Bridges or Brydges, Charles 85. 
 Edward 268. Gabriel 87. Sir 
 Giles, Sir John 151, 275. Parson 
 55. R. B. 85. Sir Thomas 161, 
 162, 163. 
 
 Briggs, Henry 277, 278. 
 
 Brind or Brynd, John 181. Mary 
 196. Thomas 195. 
 
 Brindley, H. 116. 
 
 Brinsden, J. 342. 
 
 Bristol, Dean and Chap, of 20. 
 Britton, J. 89, 258, 293. 
 
 Brize, Arms 3S8. 
 
 Brocas, Sir Pexall 2, 188. Sir 
 Bernard, Edith, Ralph, Sir Ralph 
 189. Walter de 444. 
 
 Brockhill, Arms 383. 
 
 Broke, Lord, see Willoughby. 
 Brokenborough, Ralph de 118. 
 Brome, Alex. 135. 
 
 Brooke, Joseph 131. S. B. 265, 
 285. 
 
 Broome 165. 
 
 Brotherton, Arms 199, 411. 
 Broughton, Lord 83, 299. 
 
 Brouncker, Family 51, 294, 302. 
 Arms 300, 353. Anne, Dauntesey, 
 Katharine 299. Henry 164, 295, 
 
 297, 298. Henry, Viscount 
 
 298. Lawrence 295. Martin 305. 
 Mary 79. William 355. William 
 Lord 278. Sir William, Arms 295. 
 Viscount 298, 316. 
 
 Brown, John 47 ped. Hugh 438. 
 Browne 194, 353, Arms 20, 241. 
 Lord Montagu, Arms 135. Am¬ 
 brose 343. Anthony 135. George 
 330. Hugh 237. Jane 20. John 
 441. Maria 363. R. 154, 156, 
 160,257. Sir Robert 239. Thomas 
 of Wotton Basset, Arms 137. Wil¬ 
 liam Sir 257. 
 
 Browming, W. 154. 
 
 Broxolme, J. 262. 
 
 Bruera, Gilbert de 349. 
 
 Bruern 74. 
 
INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 4G1 
 
 Bruges, Arms 344. H. 295. Thomas 
 302, 303. William H. Ludlow 302. 
 
 Brulet, Philippa 114. 
 
 Bruning, E. 283. 
 
 Brunsdou 167. liov. 321. 
 
 Brunsell, l!ev. 0., Family 369. 
 
 Bruton, John, Prior of 442. 
 
 Bryan, Arms 119. Sir Guy 42, 43. 
 
 Brj'inore, J. 369. 
 
 Bubbe, W. 165. 
 
 Buckhurst, Lord, Arms 240, 443. 
 
 Buckingham, Duke of 8. Giffard 
 Duke of, Arms 73, 277, 345. Staf¬ 
 ford Duke of 161, 373, 380, 381, 
 Yilliers Duke of 67, 155, 176. 
 
 Budeston, William de 421. 
 
 Bulstrode, Arms 300, 383. Edith, 
 Thomas 299. 
 
 Burcester, Sir William 75. Prior of 
 43. 
 
 Burdon, Family 300. 
 
 Burel, Family 97. Elias 282. John 
 73, 96, 98, 420, 444. Reginald 
 104, 141, 147, 420, 428, 434. 
 William 141. 
 
 -- for Burnell, by mistake, 
 
 Agnes, Alexander, John 434. 
 
 Burgess, Arms 344. Matthew 354. 
 
 Burgh, E. of Gainsborough, Arms 
 97. Edward, John, U. 98. Mar¬ 
 garet, Matilda 373. Sir William 
 97. 
 
 Burghersh 108. Arms 212. Barth. 
 Lord 75, 338. Elizabeth 75. 
 
 Burghley, Cecil Lord 287. 
 
 Buriton, Charles 402. Margaret, 
 Thomas, Arms 403. 
 
 Burke, B. 334. 
 
 Burne, Rev. W. W. 52, 114. 
 
 Burnell, Arms 119. J. 148, 434. 
 Margaret, Arms 408, 413. 
 
 - Edmund Dunch, Lord 414. 
 
 Burnet, Bishop 394. 
 
 Burnett, T. 87. 
 
 Burnivale, Reginald 54, 281. 
 
 Burry, Adam 358. 
 
 Burston 403. 
 
 Burton 161. Thomas 105. 
 
 Buryman, M. 237. Alice, Henry, 
 Margery 438. 
 
 Bushnell, Walter 56. 
 
 Butler, Arms 57, 402. (Ormond) 
 411. William, Alice 57. Jane, 
 John Lord 405. 
 
 Buttery, or Botry, Fulke, Arms 
 259. 
 
 Button of Alton 38. Family 190. 
 Arms 119. Sir John, Mary, Sir 
 Robert 43, 119. William 43, 186, 
 190, 355. Sir William 13, 43, 118, 
 119, 120, 190, 314, 355. Bishop 
 119. 
 
 Bush, Paul Bishop 351. Walter 347. 
 Buxton, J. 194. Sir Robert J. 74, 
 129, 194. 
 
 Bynnelar, Petronilla de 407. 
 
 Byrom, Rev. John, Rev. Thomas 290. 
 
 C. 
 
 Cadureis, R. de 381. 
 
 Caernarvon, Earl 126, 282. 
 
 'Csesar, 5, 6. 
 
 Calcraft, 338. 
 
 Caldwell, H. B. 95. 
 
 Cale, Anne, Gilbert 249. 
 
 Calwei, Walter 73. (See Keylway.) 
 Calley, see Cawley. Family 151, 
 369. J. J. 335. Martha, Roger 
 169. Thomas 335, 368. 
 
 Caine, Reginald de 46. 
 
 Calstone, Family 37. Arms 27. 
 
 Thomas 420. 
 
 Calverley, Cath. 159. 
 
 Calvert, Arms, Sir G., Cecil 362. 
 
 George 363. 
 
 Cambon, John de 30. 
 
 Camden, W. 5, 6, 47, 97, 316, 319, 
 389, 391. 
 
 Camrne, William 214. 
 
 Camoys, Thomas Lord, Seal 238, 439. 
 Campegio, Cardinal 87. 
 
 Cancell’, John de 423, 
 
 Cantilupe 32, 44. Arms 387, 388. 
 
 Fulk de, George, Milicent 39. 
 Canute 107. 
 
 Capel, Lady Charlotte 202. 
 
 Capella, Henry de 229. 
 
 Caplevent, John 420. 
 
 Capricorn 1. 
 
 Carant, Arms 386, 388, 398. 
 Cardeville, Agnes 163. 
 
 Carew, Arms 27, 81, 173, 176, 177. 
 
 Margaret, Sir Richard 170 ped. 
 Carey, Sir Edmund 217 ped., 225. 
 E.265. 
 
 Carminow, Arms 220. 
 
 Carne, Arms 233. Barbara 57, 234. 
 Elena 52. Edward 296. Sir Ed- 
 ard 53. 
 
 Carpenter, Maria, Henry 354. 
 Carrick, Andrew 148. 
 
 Carrington, F. A. 196, 272, 338. 
 
 Cartebyle, John 441. 
 
 Carter 212, 373. Eleanor Mary, 
 Richard 275. Errata for Cater 
 119, 445. 
 
 Carve, Arms, Jane, Martha, Sir Wy- 
 mond 70, 71. 
 
 Casterton, Adam de 31, 331. 
 
 Castle-haven, Earl of 42. 
 
 Cater, Arms (printed by mistake 
 Carter) 119. 
 
 Catour 295. 
 
 Cave, Eleanor, Sir Thomas 170 ped., 
 177. 
 
 Causy, Hugh 439. 
 
 Cawley, Arms 162, 169. Anne, 
 William 163. See Calley. 
 
 Caynes, Roger 141, 428. 
 
 Ceawlin 195. 
 
 Cedwalla 249. 
 
 Ceudrick, M. 311. 
 
 Ceolric 195. 
 
 Cerne, device 23, 136. Crest 230. 
 Arms230,231. Anastasia, Richard, 
 Isabella 229. Edward 439. Sir 
 Edward, Ellen 229, 230. Henry 
 de 104, 147, 228, 420, 423, 428, 
 433, 434. Sir Henry 111, 127, 
 141.. Philip 128, 229, 230, 424. 
 Philippa 230. Robert 434. 
 
 Cervington Family, David, Edward 
 
 118 . 
 
 Chaderton, Arms 121, 248. George, 
 Edmund 249. 
 
 Chafyn, Thomas 387. Elizabeth, 
 Lucy, Richard 388. 
 
 Chainey, J. 365. 
 
 Chaloner, Capt. 3. Sir Thomas, 
 Thomas 244. 
 
 Chamberlayne, Arms 361,445. Agnes 
 105. Katharine, Sir Thomas 217 
 ped . 
 
 Chambers, Humfrey 56. John 417. 
 
 Champeneys, Henry 441. 
 
 Chaneellour, J. 127. 
 
 Chandos, Lord 150, 151, 154. Arms 
 262. Duke of 359. 
 
 Chanew, Ralph 157. 
 
 Chantrey, Sir F. 352. 
 
 Chapman, Roger 130, 425. Mr. 240. 
 Philip 439. 
 
 Charles II., death-bed 233. 
 
 Charleton, Dr. W. 316. 
 
 Charmbury, William 290. 
 
 Chaucy, R. de 310. 
 
 Chaworth, Patrick 30, 37, 381. 
 Sibil 187. 
 
462 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Chediock, Arms 390, 397, 445. John 
 421. 
 
 Chedwalla, King 154. 
 
 Chedworth, Lord 86, 148, 150, 206. 
 
 Chelrey 161. 
 
 Cheney, Arms 85, 89, 352, 399, 400, 
 401,402,403. Badge 352. Anne 
 401. Sir Edmund 85, 399, 401. 
 John, of Pynho442. Sir John 195. 
 Sir Ralph 85, 352, 401, 403. Sir 
 William 53, 404. 
 
 Cherburgh, John de, Wygan de 302. 
 
 Cherleton, Thomas de, Helias de 437. 
 
 Chetle, Lore 22. 
 
 Cheyne, J. 239. 
 
 Chiche, Family, Arms 268. 
 
 Child, Sir Francis 45. George, 
 Williamson 121. Robert 45. 
 
 Childrey, Dr. Joshua 106. 
 
 Chinnok 39. W. Abbot of Stanley 
 113. 
 
 Chiselden, R. de 385. 
 
 Chivers 34, 38, 101. Elizabeth, 
 Seacole 103. Henry, Mary 35, 
 36. 38. 
 
 Chorley, Arms 404. 
 
 Christopher St. 289. 
 
 Churchill, Lord 297. 
 
 Cifrewast, Arms, Robert, Elizabeth 
 399, 400, 401. See also Sifrewast. 
 
 Cissa 380. 
 
 Clapcote, Adam de, Roisia 140, 427. 
 
 Clare, Arms 69, 71, 73, 188, 192, 291. 
 Gilbert 188, 192. Margaret 385. 
 
 Clarence, Arms 71. George, Duke 
 of 165, 335, 359. 
 
 Clarendon, Edward Earl of 86, 154, 
 156, 202. 2nd Earl 151. Henry 
 Lord, Thomas Yilliers Lord 202. 
 
 Clarke, Arms, Hester 357. Thomas 
 43. 
 
 ClaugHton, T. L. Rev. 289. 
 
 Clay, Arms 268. 
 
 Clement 353. John 443, 444. 
 
 Clements, John 78. 
 
 Clerk, Alice, John 68, 130, 425, 437. 
 Richard, Constance, Walter 440, 
 444. Nicholas, Roger 420. Wil¬ 
 liam 438, 439. 
 
 Cleveland, Mary 132. Earl of 247. 
 
 Clifford, Family 51. Lord 205, 300. 
 Roger 170, 181, 359. Rosamond 
 281. 
 
 Clift 358. 
 
 Clinton, Arms 248, 259. Of Coleshill 
 co. Warwick, Milisent 153. 
 
 Clive, Lord 155. 
 
 Clowte, Water, Isabel, Susan 368. 
 Clyvedon, Arms 386, 388. 
 
 Cnabwell or Cnapwell, J. de 127, 423. 
 
 William de, Amicia 235. 
 
 Cobham, Family 73, 164, 166, 267, 
 335, 380, 381. Arms 89, 92, 97, 
 98, 102. Anne 98. Henry 164. 
 Joan 97, 101. John 164. Lord 
 35, 165. Margaret 98. Sir Regi¬ 
 nald 97, 101. Reginald 283. 
 Thomas 164. Sir Thomas 98. 
 Cockerell, J. 265. 
 
 Cocks, Baron Crownstrome 233. 
 Codrington, Sir E. 86. Sir W. 367. 
 
 Family 370. 
 
 Coke, Sir E. 17, 258. 
 
 Cokelbergh, Ralph de, Isabella 237, 
 437, 438. 
 
 Coker, Arms 73, 376, 383. 
 
 Coldwell, Bishop 160. 
 
 Cole, William, Anne 249. • 
 
 Coleraine, Lord 165. 
 
 Coleridge, S. T. 32. 
 
 Colerne, Osbert de, William de 76, 
 249. 
 
 Coleshill, Sir John 217 ped. Arms 
 
 220 . 
 
 Colestune, Thomas of 113. 
 
 Collingbourne, William 248, 249. 
 Collins, Jo. 277, 278. 
 
 Cologne, Kings of 268. 
 
 Columbars, Family 164, 335, 340. 
 
 Matthew 340. J. 380. 
 
 Columella 6. 
 
 Colville 331. 
 
 Combe, Antony 363. John de 421. 
 
 Roger de 251, 437. 
 
 Comer well, John de 39. 
 
 Commodus 195. 
 
 Compton 387. Lord Northampton 
 105. H. 369. W. 335, 368. 
 Comyn, Elizabeth 191. 
 
 Conham, Arms, Hester 357. Abra¬ 
 ham 129, 357. 
 
 Connor, Simon, Bishop of 301. 
 Conolly, C. J. T. 19, 20. 
 
 Consewe, John de 440. 
 
 Constantine 5, 106, 139, 426. 
 
 Consul, Robert the 417. 
 
 Conyngham 357. 
 
 Coolyne, John 442. 
 
 Cooper, J. A. 43. Sir J. 154. 
 
 Corbet, Arms 110. John 75. 
 
 Corl, John 419. 
 
 Cornbury, Viscount 202, 226. 
 
 Corner, John of the 55. 
 
 Cornwall, Earl of 32, 83, 157, 161, 
 165, 171, 202. Duchy of 32, 78. 
 Edmund Earl of 79, 385, 387. 
 Edward Duke of 66. Reginald 
 Earl of 64. Richard Earl of 78, 
 385, 410. 
 
 Cosham 241. William de 437. Alice, 
 John, Richard, William de 437, 
 443, 444. 
 
 Cotel, Family 53. Arms 19, 131. 
 Isawde, Richard, Sir Roger 20. 
 Jordan 131, 142, 430. 
 
 Cotes, C. G. Rev. 289. 
 
 Cotherington, Simon 108. 
 
 Cotton 43. Sir Robert 2. 
 
 Coule, J. 120, 421. 
 
 Courcy, Ingelram, Isabella 79, 160. 
 Courtenay 22. Arms 27, 89, 97, 98, 
 220, 223, 400, 408. Henry M. of 
 Exeter, 413. Margaret 217 ped., 
 223. Sir Philip 27. Sir William 
 104. 
 
 Coventry 387. 
 
 Cowdrey, Arms, Peter 27, 29. 
 
 Cox, Dr. D. 245. 
 
 Coxed, John L.L.D. 54, 120. 
 
 Coyley, Thomas 421. 
 
 Cradock alias Newton 404. 
 
 Craggs, Mr. Seer. 407. Arms 408. 
 Crane, H., Arms 259. 
 
 Cranmer 262. 
 
 Crawley, R. Rev. 353. 
 
 Crede 169. AVilliam 441. 
 
 Crekelade, W. de 62. 
 
 Cresswel), R. 110, 275. W. H. 110. 
 Creswick, Sir H. 59. 
 
 Crewe, Colonel, Lord 38. 
 
 Crippes, Frances, Thomas 30, 341. 
 Crisp, Thomas 417. 
 
 Crocker 324. 
 
 Croke, Arms, Charles, Frances, Mary 
 396. 
 
 Cromhale, Crumhale, Cromale or 
 Cromwell, John, William 148, 238, 
 435, 437, 440, 441, 442, 444. 
 Henry 443. Ralph 122, 237. 
 Robert, Roger 437, 438. 
 
 Cromwell, Thomas 148. Gregory 
 Lord 376. His Arms 377. 
 
 Crook, Family 117. Henry, Richard, 
 Walter 58. Thomas 116. 
 Crosham, W. de 127, 423. 
 Crouchback, Edmund 407. 
 Crouchton, J. 354. 
 
 Crowdy, W. 150. 
 
INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 463 
 
 Crowke, Arms 396. 
 
 Cruce, William de 73. 
 
 Crudwell, Baroness Lucas of 214. 
 Crymes, William, Elizabeth 335. 
 Cullydon, John 440. 
 
 Culme, Arms, Elizabeth, Hugh 182. 
 
 Benjamin 182, 185. 
 
 Culmer, Thomas 351. 
 
 Cumpary, William 437. 
 
 Cunnington 44. 
 
 Curie, Bishop Walter 339. 
 
 Curteys, R. 141, 428, J. 238, 
 439. 
 
 Curtree, Griffin 194. 
 
 Cus, H. 193. 
 
 Cusaunce, P. de 95, 167. Family 
 407. 
 
 Cuthbert 219. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dacre, Lord 286, 287. 
 
 Damarell, Arms 73. 
 
 Damic 216. 
 
 Damnevile, Family 43, Arms 120. 
 Dandeley, Anns 114, 368. 
 
 Daniel, Family 44, 296. Elizabeth 
 296. Jeffrey 3, 338. William 296, 
 338. 
 
 Danvers, Pedigree 217. Family 13, 
 187, 189, 208, 216, 251, 275, 282. 
 Arms 209, 221, 414, Old 222, 223, 
 227,408. Anne 1, (Stradling) 219, 
 
 221. Sir Charles 222, 224, 225. 
 Dorothy 408,414. Sir Henry, (Earl 
 of Dauby) 57, 84, 188, 189, 222, 
 223,224,'225,227, 228, 284. Henry 
 (son of Sir John) 226, 297. Sir 
 John, (1514) 218, 219, 220, 222, 
 223. Sir John, “old" 1, 15, 126, 
 190, 208, 222, 224, 225, 294. Sir 
 John the Regicide 126, 189, 216, 
 
 222. 226, 228, 297, 374. Susanna 
 
 223. Thomas 168, 223. 
 
 •- of Bainton, Anne, Henry 
 
 181. Charles, Jane 225. 
 
 - of Corsham, Henry 84. 
 
 -of Cothorp, Henry 219. 
 
 -of Tockenham, Rachel, 
 
 Richard 190, 409. 
 
 Darby 390. 
 
 Darcy 353. 
 
 Darell, Arms 27, 202, 231, 235, 408, 
 414. Sir Edward 95,191,195, 341, 
 380. Elizabeth 27. Jane 408 414. 
 Sir John 195. Lady 311. Margery 
 27, 231, 234, 235. 
 
 Daubeney, Arms 89, 303. Elizabeth 
 442 Lord, Arms 238. Sir Giles 
 238, 442. 
 
 Dauntesey, Family 208,216, Pedigree 
 217, Arms 203, 217, 220, 221, 223, 
 297, 414. Edmund 218. Elizabeth 
 1, 226. Jane 208. Joan 217, 297. 
 Sir Johnl,218,219,221,439. Roger 
 216, 427. Sir Roger 140. Thoin- 
 asin, Sir Walter 218, 228. Wil¬ 
 liam 164. 
 
 — -of WestLavington,Family, 
 
 Arms, Sir John, John, Alderman 
 William, Elizabeth, Sarah 297. 
 Ambrose 217 ped., 297. 347. 
 
 -of Potterne, Margaret, 
 
 Richard 132. 
 
 Davenant, Edward 301. Bp. J. 34, 
 87. Robert, Sir William 87. 
 Davis, Mary 212. 
 
 Davy, J, 290. 
 
 Davys, Arms, 70, 71. Anne 363. 
 Eleanor, Lady 364. Sir Henry 71. 
 Jane 70. John 71. Sir John 363, 
 364. Matthew 363. 
 
 Deane, J. B. 333. 
 
 De Grey, Eail 214. 
 
 Delabere, Elizabeth, Sir John 170 
 ped., Arms 173. 
 
 Delaford, Arms 177. 
 
 Delahay, Paul 47 ped. 
 
 Delamere, Family 42, 195, 200, 344. 
 Arms 20, 27, 29, 35, 67, 73, 100, 
 114, 121, 231. Adam 128, 424. 
 Agnes 201. Alice 97. Sir Geffrey 
 100. Gregory 342. GunnoralOl. 
 Hugh 200, 201. Sir John 97, 116, 
 437, 438, 444. Matilda 235. Sir 
 Peter 101, 201. Richard 197, 201. 
 Robert 235. Sir Robert 100. 
 Thomas 147. Sir Thomas 433, 434. 
 Wilhelma 39. William 201, 275. 
 Delapole, Elizabeth, Margaret, Sir 
 Walter 105. 
 
 Delawarr, Sir J. 356. 
 
 De L’Isle, Family 152. Baldwin 150, 
 161. Robert, Warin 164. 
 
 Delme 310. Sir Peter, Peter 299, 351. 
 De L’Orti, H. 207. 
 
 Delvyn, Nugent Lord 117. 
 Demainbray, S. G. Rev. 284. 
 
 Denny. Arms 119. 
 
 Dennys, Sir E. 71. Lady Mary 145. 
 Michael 151. 
 
 Derby, E. Stanley Earl of 390. 
 Desmond, Countess of 123. 
 
 Despenser, Family 113, 150, 202,204. 
 302, 342, Arms 108, 203, 377, 
 Edward 75, 108. Gilbert 249. 
 Hugh 30, 42, 75, 108, 157, 160, 
 171, 192, 194. Isabel, Thomas 
 10S, 285. 
 
 Dethick, Arms, G., Sir William 370, 
 371. 
 
 D’Eureux, Family, Patrick 188. 
 
 Walter 186, 187. 
 
 Deverell 78. 
 
 Dewale, or Dewell John 208, 217, 
 ditto ped., 218. 
 
 Devon, Countess of 171. Redvers 
 Earl of 294. 
 
 Dickinson, of Bowdon 84. 
 
 Digby, Lord 263. 
 
 Digges, Family 155. Richard 47 ped. 
 Dismars, 166, 337. 
 
 Dixie, Sir Wolstan 347. 
 
 Dixton, Arms, Richard 203, 248. 
 Doddeford, II. 169. 
 
 Dodington, Arms 232. 
 
 Dodson, Elizabeth, J. 280. 
 
 Dogeson, Thomas 373. 
 
 Doignel, or Doynell 335. Sir P. 46. 
 
 Sylvester 189. 
 
 Dol, Richard de 130, 425. 
 
 Donne, Dr. 217 ped. 
 
 Dornev, John 47 ped. 
 
 Douglas, Sir Arch., Eleanor Lady 
 364. 
 
 Doure, H. 339. 
 
 Dourle, John de 444. 
 
 Dow, John, Joan 214, 215. 
 
 Doynes, Silvester 127, 423. 
 
 Drake, Acton,228. 
 
 Draper, Stephen 95. 
 
 Drax, Col. 333. 
 
 DrQW, or Dru 103. Agnes 284. 
 Robert 402. Thomas 218, 238, 
 281, 282, 440. Arms 284. Wal¬ 
 ter 104, 281, 420, 444. 
 
 Drogo 113, 281. 
 
 Dru, see Drew. 
 
 Druids 5. 
 
 Drury, Drue 353, Rev. Henry 61. 
 Dryden, Charles, John, Lady Eliza¬ 
 beth 212. 
 
 Du Bois, Christopher 302. 
 
 Ducie, Frances, Sir W. 71. 
 
 Duckett, Family 83. George 32. 
 Sir George 84. John 40, 83. 
 Lionel 40. Sir L. 83. Richard 
 
 83. Stephen 40, 83. Thomas 40, 
 
 84. William 83, 84. 
 
 3 o 2 
 
464 
 
 Dudley, Richard 102,114. John Earl 
 of Warwick 202. 
 
 Dugdale, Sir AYilliam 3, 13, 14, 96. 
 
 Duke, Family 280. Edward 333. 
 
 Dunch, Arms 119, 321, 414. Bridget 
 414. Edmund 407,409. Mary Mrs. 
 330. Walter, William 153, 331. 
 
 Dunstan, St. 33, 126, 140, 163, 421, 
 426. 
 
 Dunstanville, Family 41, 83, 151, 
 334, 342, 343. 
 
 -of Castle Combe 64, 381. 
 
 Petronilla 64. 
 
 Dunster, (Mohun) J. Lord 207. 
 
 Duvall, John 217 ped. 
 
 Dwight 391. 
 
 Dymock, 46. Arms 383. 
 
 Dynham, Elizabeth 347. 
 
 Dysart, E. of 34. 
 
 E. 
 
 Earle, Anne, John, Margaret, 
 Thomas, William, 215. 
 
 Eastman, William 366. 
 
 Easton, Edmund de, Joanna 438. 
 Sir John de 114,128,141,142,147, 
 424—437, 444. Sir William 140, 
 Walter 442. 
 
 Edgar, King 140,349, 372,426, 436. 
 
 Edingdon, Bishop William de 345, 
 349, his Seal 351. John de, Sir 
 John de 349, 350. 
 
 -Rector and Brethren of 60. 
 
 Editha, Queen 108. 
 
 Edmund, King 107, 126, 127, 129, 
 146, 149, his Arms 252, 422, 424, 
 430, 432, 435. , 
 
 Edred, King 163, 422. 
 
 Edward, the Confessor 108. Arms 81. 
 
 Edward II., King 112. 
 
 Edward III., King 402. 
 
 Edward, of Salisbury 44, 186. 
 
 Edwin, King 210, 415. 
 
 Edwy, King 149, 265, 292, 435. 
 
 Egbert, King 367. 
 
 Egerton, Barbara 110 ped., 285, 366. 
 
 Egiocke, 170 ped. Arms, Dorothy 
 177. 
 
 Egowile, Richard 441, 442. 
 
 Eires, Rev. Mr. 211. 
 
 Ela, C. of Sarum, Device, 89, 90. 
 
 Elcombe, John, Joan 186. 
 
 Eldersfield, Simon de 275. 
 
 Elena Abbess of Lacock 92. 
 
 Elfleda, Queen 341, 416. 
 
 Eliot, Richard 407. 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Ella, Hill of 367. 
 
 Ellesfield, Gilbert 151. 
 
 Elme, Thomas 346, 351. 
 
 Elphege 140, 426. 
 
 Elswin 425, 435. 
 
 Elswith 140, 426. 
 
 Elwin 258. 
 
 Elyot, Sir Richard, Sir Thomas 195. 
 Englefield, Arms 135, 205. Jane 
 135. Sir Francis 135, 202, 205. 
 Englonde, Robert 382. 
 
 Erasmus 16. 
 
 Eric, Kins: of Sweden 207. 
 
 Erleigh, Sir John, Margaret 56. 
 
 Arms 352, 379, 388. 
 
 Ernie, Arms 409. Family 46. Cicely 
 338. Dorothy 22. Sir E. 39. Jane 
 409. John 82. Sir John 3, 37, 
 39, 367, Michael, Sir Michael 39, 
 409. Thomas 366. 
 
 Erton, J. 272. 
 
 Escovill, H. de 305. 
 
 Escudamor, Elias 73, 
 
 Esmead, Arthur 84. 
 
 Espringham 161. 
 
 Essex, Family, Pedigree, Arms 239. 
 Countess 213. Ewe Earl of 302. 
 Devereux Earl of 213. Capel 
 Earl of, Jane Hyde Countess of 
 202. Robert Earl of 224. 
 Estbroke, Robert 440. 
 
 Estcourt, Family 109, 207. Arms 
 110, 272. Edward 286. Elizabeth 
 110. Sir Giles 272. Richard 274. 
 Thomas 108, 110, 186, 275. Rt. 
 Hon. Thos. H. S. Sotheron 208.271. 
 Estingdon, Sir John de 96, 420. 
 Eston, see Easton. 
 
 Estoteville, Family 152, 
 
 Esturmy, Sturmy, or Sturmid, Arms 
 28, 73, 376. Family 109, 339, 
 340, 381, 382. Adam 127, 423. 
 Henry, Seal of 358, 379, Richard 
 381. Sir William 358, 375. 
 Ethelred, King 127, 134, 139, 271, 
 280, 360, 372, 416, 426. His 
 picture 136. 
 
 Ethelwin 258. 
 
 Ettrick, Anthony 286. 
 
 Evelyn, George, Sir John 365. John 
 63, 334. 
 
 Everard 191. Sir Edmund, William 
 368. Robert 201. 
 
 Everett, Family 359. 
 
 Ewarby, Sir John, Jane, 170 ped. 
 Arms 173, 177. 
 
 Ewe or Ow, William 95,112,158,167. 
 
 Ewyas, Family 44, 116, 170. Sibilla, 
 William 170 ped. Arms 172, 173, 
 177. Robert Lord 170. Sibilla 170. 
 
 Exeter, Duke of, Arms 28. Henry 
 Courtenay, Marquis of, Arms 413. 
 
 Eyles, Sir J. Styles, Francis 79, 310, 
 Sir John 116. 
 
 Eyre, Arms 81. Elizabeth 20. Jane 
 82. John 42, 47 ped., 82. Wil¬ 
 liam 2, 81, ‘111 ped., 237, 296. 
 
 Eyvelton, John 437, 438. See 
 Yeovilton. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fairfax, Sir Thomas 214, 307. 
 Thomas Lord 96. 
 
 Fane, Earl of Westminster 92. Sir 
 Francis 353. 
 
 Fastolf, Arms 65. Sir J. 64. 
 
 Fauntleroy, Arms, Agnes 397, 
 
 Fawkener, Nicholas 138. 
 
 Felix, Thomas 218. 
 
 Fell, Dr., Mary 378. 
 
 Fellowes, Sir T. 373. 
 
 Felton, J. 67, 155. 
 
 Fenwick, Mordaunt 227. 
 
 Feonay 161. 
 
 Ferling, Alured 147, 432. 
 
 Ferrabee, George, John, Thomas 
 279. 
 
 Ferrars, or Ferris, Edmund 151. 
 John 151, 293. Lord 243. AVil¬ 
 liam de 338. 
 
 Fettiplace, Arms 166, 414. Bridget 
 414. Dorothy 217 pec?. Elizabeth, 
 Sir Robarte 166. Sir Edmund, 
 Jane 192. John 414. Katharine 
 279. 
 
 Fewy, Adam 436. 
 
 Field, Nathaniel 396. 
 
 Fiennes, Edward, Elizabeth 217 ped. 
 
 Fiuett, Arms, Sir John 247. 
 
 Fishe, Richard 365. 
 
 Fisher, of Worcester 77. Alice, 
 Emma 199. 
 
 Fitton 191. 
 
 Fitz Alan, Lord Arundel, John, 
 Eleanor 112, 120. Sir William 
 445. 
 
 -Edin, or Edwin, Roger 
 
 147, 432. 
 
 -Elys 168. Sir Roger 169. 
 
 -Everard 46. 
 
 -Geoffrey, Arms 40, 195. 
 
 - Gilbert, Earl of Clare 291. 
 
INDEX II.—PERSONS. 
 
 465 
 
 Fitz - Godfrey, W. 120. Adam 
 420. 
 
 - Herbert 13. Of Earlstoke 298, 
 
 298. Of Luckington 105, 106. 
 
 - Hugh, Sir Henry, Alice, 
 
 Rickard, Baron 287, 288. Arms 
 377, 388. 
 
 - Jocelyn, Bishop, Arms 188. 
 
 - John, Arms 411, 413. (Cher- 
 
 hill) Arms 40, 223. Maud, 
 Richard 40. (Of Erlestoke) Elea¬ 
 nor, Matthew 298, 309. 
 
 - Matthew 46. Herbert, John 
 
 298. 
 
 - Maurice, Emmeline 197, 199. 
 
 - Osbert, William 78. 
 
 - Payne, Arms 278, 279. Fam¬ 
 ily 275, 279. 
 
 - Peter, John 436. 
 
 - Piers, John 158, 194, 436. 
 
 Family 237. Geoffrey 358. Joan 
 437, 438. William 437. 
 
 - Reginald 86. 
 
 - Roger 86. 
 
 - Urse or Ours, Family 129, 
 
 146. John 437, 438. Jordan 140, 
 433, 141, 426—7—8. Milo 141. 
 
 - Walter, Walter 202. 
 
 - Waryn 151, 157, 375. Sir 
 
 Philip, Constance 60. Fulk 113. 
 
 - William, William 195. 
 
 Fletcher, T. 15. 
 
 Flower, Elizabeth 47 ped. Robert 
 310, 353. 
 
 Flud, Arms 119. 
 
 Foliot 162, 163, 195. Sir Godfrey 
 142, 430. Roger 158, 436. 
 
 Folkestone, Yiscount 287. 
 
 Folye, Do la 161. 
 
 Foord, John 47 ped. 
 
 Ford, of Svvainswick 43. Edmund 
 119. John 439. 
 
 Forman 32. 
 
 Forneys, Arms 414. 
 
 Forster, Sir H. 195. 
 
 Forte, Arms 248. 
 
 Fortesbury, It. de 340. 
 
 Fortescu, Arms 27, 231. 
 
 Fortibus, De 73, 86. William, Isabel 
 158, 171. 
 
 Fosbroke 260. 
 
 Fosse, John de 421. 
 
 Fowell, Sir E. 190. 
 
 Fox, George 111. Henry 282. Sir 
 Stephen 285, 331, 342, 394. See 
 Holland. 
 
 Foxcote, Ralph de, Simon 127, 128, 
 423, 424. Thomas de 444. 
 
 Foxham Hugh de, Sibil, Agnes, 
 Matilda 63. 
 
 Foyle, Family 364. Margaret, 
 George S. 160. 
 
 Frampton, Mrs. 55. Abbot Robert 
 256. 
 
 Francis, or FraunceysC. 339. Nicho¬ 
 las, William 440. 
 
 Francklyn 108. 
 
 Frankehivaler, Herbert, Juliana 147, 
 432. 
 
 Frankland, R. 337. 
 
 Freville, Arms 212. Sir Baldwin 
 46. 
 
 Friend, Mr. 203. 
 
 Fromont, G. 125, 
 
 Fromund, S. 359. 
 
 Fry, Ralph 420. 
 
 Fryday, William 440. 
 
 Fuller, J. B. 19, 83,101. Dr. Thomas 
 339. 
 
 Furneaux, Arms 119. 
 
 Furness, Ann, Sir Robert 170 
 ped. 
 
 Furnival, Maud 40. 
 
 Fychet, Philip 441. 
 
 Fydelow, Arms 156. 
 
 Fynamour, Mary 39. W. 95. 
 
 Fyzhuron, John de 437. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gabriel, G. W. 88. 
 
 Gaby, R. H. 265. 
 
 Gaffarel 255, 
 
 Galba 394. 
 
 Garden, Dr. J. 317. 
 
 Gardun 161. 
 
 Gargrave, Sir R. 217 ped., 226. Lady 
 224, 226. 
 
 Gascelyn, of Sheldon 54. Arms 67. 
 Edmund 124, 421. Sir Edmund 
 438. Walter 67. 
 
 Gascoigne, Thomas 348. 
 
 Gastrell, Arms, Mary, Nicholas 
 136. 
 
 Gaudeby, or Godby, William 440. 
 
 Gaveston, Piers 79, 385. 
 
 Gawen, Elizabeth 335. 
 
 Gay, Adam 151. 
 
 Gearing, Anthony 47 ped. 
 
 Gefray, J. 127, 423. 
 
 Gengel, Family 146. Alice, Roger, 
 Thomas 147, 433. 
 
 Gernon, W. 86. 
 
 Gerrish, John, William 295. 
 Ghostlowe 417. 
 
 Gibson, Bishop 22, 107. 
 
 Giffard, Arms 404, John Lord 118. 
 Of Wotton, eo. Gloucester 109, 
 110. Duke of Buckingham, Arms 
 278. 
 
 Gill, Richard 65. 
 
 Gilmore 338. 
 
 Gingell, J. 290. 
 
 Giraldus Cambrensis 216. 
 
 Gladstone, John Neilson, W. E. 
 94. 
 
 Glanville, Family 169. Arms 172, 
 176. Lady, Julius, William 335. 
 Francis, John, Sir John, Winifred 
 334, 337. 
 
 Glaston, Abbot 51, 58, 96, 104, 124, 
 127, 130, 134, 136, 140, 141. 
 John 420, 422, 434. Godfrey 421. 
 Michael 423, 427. Robert 428. 
 Roger 430, 433. 
 
 Gloucester, Audley Earl of 373. 
 Clare Earl of 298, 373, 381. 
 Humphrey Duke of 386. Milo of 
 33, 358. Richard Duke of 338. 
 Robert, Earl of 254. Thomas Duke 
 of 56. William second Earl of 
 417. 
 
 - and Bristol, Bishop of 
 
 126, 161, 311, 351, 367. 
 
 ■- Dean and Chapter 52, 
 
 104, 108. 
 
 Godby, see Gaudeby. 
 
 Goddard, Arms 166, 409. Ambrose 
 Lethbridge 191, 193. Anne 83, 
 409. Anthony 155. Elizabeth 
 166. Edward 83, 409. Rev. 
 George A. 166. Horatio Nelson 
 164, 166. Jane 192. John (of 
 1530) 164, 166, 191, 196, 368. 
 Thomas 30, 83, 166, (of 1560) 191, 
 (of 1641) 192. 
 
 Godstow, Abbess of 150, 159. 
 Godwin, E. W. 54, 75, 76, 85. 
 Godwyn 19, Thomas, Arms 259. 
 
 W. 281, 351. 
 
 Golafre 151. 
 
 Golde, Roger 439. 
 
 Goldney, Mr. 67. Gabriel 79. H. 
 116." 
 
 Goldstone, George, Grace 84. 
 Gomelden, W. 341. 
 
 Gomelton, Alderman 303. 
 
 Gooch, Bishop T. 83. 
 
 Gordon, 11. 250. 
 
466 
 
 INDEX II.—PERSONS. 
 
 Gore, of Alderton, Pedigree 47. 
 Arms 47, 48, 111, 121, (in PI. 
 xxxvi. No. 545 for Gore read 
 Morgan: seep. 398, note.) Family 
 26, 83, 104, 114, 128, 129, 
 
 295, 355. Agnes 51, 419. Anna 
 50. Charles 49, 50. Edward 48, 
 50. Elizabeth 42, 49, 50, 51. 
 Elys 243. Giles 62. Ljdia 49, 
 50. Mary 50. Richard 121,286. 
 Thomas 3, 21, 47, 48, 51, 73, 108, 
 115, 121, 290, 305. William 51, 
 128, 218, 238, 419, 439, 440. 441. 
 Walter 51. 
 
 - of Slaughterford, John 111. 
 
 - of Sopworth, Alice, Thomas 
 
 112 . 
 
 Goren, James 57. 
 
 Gorges, Family 148. Ferdinando 
 208. Sir Theobald 206, 207. His 
 Arms 208. Sir Thomas 207. 
 Gorham, R. 179. 
 
 Goring 37. 
 
 Gorslet, John, William 417. 
 
 Gough, or GofTe, William 299. 
 Strickland 46. 
 
 Gould, Sir Edward, Col. Edward 
 Thoroton 275. 
 
 Gournay, Arms 387, 388. 
 
 Goy, Michael le 430. 
 
 Graham, Sir James 359. 
 
 Grandison, Arms 172, 176, 177, 180. 
 Mabel, William de 170 and ped. 
 Oliver St. John, Yiscount 170 and 
 ped. His Arms 172. 
 
 Green, or Grene, Constance 85. Sir 
 Henry, Matilda 84. 
 
 Greenkill, J. 353. 
 
 Greensted, Sir H. 147. Sir John 
 434. 
 
 Gresham, Sir Thomas 266. 
 
 Grey, M. of Dorset 86. Lady 
 Catharine 378. Of Wilton, Sir 
 John 85, 109. 
 
 Greyville, Greynville, or Greville 
 345, Arms 399, 400. Adam de, 
 Elizabeth, William de 346, 399, 
 401. 
 
 Grig, Alice 139. 
 
 Grimston 54. George 165. 
 
 Grobliam, Sir R, 86, 148, 177, 206. 
 Gros, John le 130, 425. 
 
 Grosse, Arms 344. 
 
 Grove, Chafyn 387. W. 119, 301. 
 Grubbe, Arms 193. Thomas 337. 
 Guest, Dr. 194. 
 
 Guienne, Arms 411. 
 
 Guise, Jane, Sir William B. 337. 
 Guppy, or Goupy, Arms 303. 
 
 Guy, Elizabeth, Sir R. 287. 
 
 Gwrgant, Arms 351. 
 
 H. 
 
 Haddon, Christina 31. 
 
 Hadnam, C. 13. 
 
 Hakleston, J. 382. 
 
 Hakluyt, Alice, Walter 128. 
 
 Hale 129. R. B. 20. Paggen, Wil¬ 
 liam 116. 
 
 Hales, Edward 54. Charles 149. 
 Hall, of Bradford 62, 77. Arms 21, 
 47, 48, 121, 173. Dorothy 22. 
 Edith 120. John 21, 22, 354. 
 Julian 47 ped. Nicholas 119. 
 Thomas 120. 
 
 - Marshall 31. 
 
 - of Sarum, Christian, John 269. 
 
 Arms 300, 413. 
 
 Hallam, Arms, Bishop R. 250, 293. 
 Halliday, Arms 310. Margaret, 
 William 287. 
 
 Halville, R. de 379. 
 
 Hamilton, Bishop of Sarum 343, 358. 
 Hamlyn 104. Arms 115. John, 
 William 114. 
 
 Hancock, Dr. 60. 
 
 Hanham, Family, Sir William 82. 
 Hankford, Sir W. 218. 
 
 Hanning, Arms 83. 
 
 Harcourt, Sir Walter 239. 
 
 Harden, Family 340. 
 
 Hardicanute, King 312. 
 
 Harding 14 Adam 428, 444. Clem¬ 
 ent 196. 
 
 Hare, H. (Lord Coleraine) 165. 
 Harington, John, Mary 22. 
 
 Harley, Sir Edward 2. 
 
 Harman, 22, 84. 
 
 Harold, Arms, Margaret 168. Osebert 
 437. 
 
 Harrington, John 417. 
 
 Harris, R. 402. 
 
 Harrison 239. W. F. 343. Charlotte, 
 William, Arms 371. 
 
 Hart, Rev. Mr. 121. 
 
 Hartford, George 288. 
 
 Hartgill 385, 392, 393. Ferdinand 
 394. 
 
 Hartham, or Hertham, H. de 51, 
 83, 140, 427, 437. 
 
 Hartley, W. H. H. 226. 
 
 Hartwell 152. 
 
 Harvey, Family 266. Sir John, 
 Arms 259. Richard 163. Sir Se¬ 
 bastian 201. 
 
 Harward, Arms 83. 
 
 Hasard, Roger 437. 
 
 Hastings, Family 56. Arms 70, 71. 
 Sir Edward 351. Ferdinand, 
 George 71. Sir George 53, 70, 71. 
 John de, Johanna 32. 
 
 Hatcher, Henry (birthplace) 250, 
 Hatfield, Arras 408. 
 
 Hatton, Sir Christopher 79. 
 Haversham, Nicholas 127, 140, 424, 
 427. 
 
 Hawke, J. 53. 
 
 Hawkins, Mrs. 31. 
 
 Hawles 2. 
 
 Hawie, J. 341. 
 
 Hayleswortk, Adam 237. W. de 436. 
 Haynes, Arms 53, 54, 396. J. 204. 
 Haywode, William de 73, 96, 140, 
 141, 142, 143, 420, 427, 428. R. 
 141. Walter 142, 429, 444. 
 Heath, or Heth40. John, Maud 61,99. 
 Heathcote, G. 76. Sir G. 299. Mary 
 76. W. N. 85. 
 
 Hedges 110, 114. ' Arms 161. Sir 
 C. 42, 43, 195. Eleanor 51. 
 Thomas 85. William42, ped.,51. 
 Heneage, G. H. W. 41, 43, 44, 119, 
 166, 190. Mrs. 44. J. W 42, 43. 
 Henry II. 113, 151. 
 
 •-IY., France 15. 
 
 -YII., 204, 395. 
 
 -YII I. 209. 
 
 Hengham, Ralph 438. 
 
 Hentone, Anquetil de 435. 
 
 Herbert 282, 337. Lord 103, 104. 
 Of Lea 251. George (Bemerton) 
 217 ped., 224, 225, Henry 437. 
 Richard 217 ped., 225. William 
 364, 437. 
 
 Hercules 4. 
 
 Hereford, Bohun Earl of 275, 282, 
 283, 302. 
 
 - (Devereux) Yiscount 35. 
 
 (Fitzosborn) Arms 73. 
 
 -Bishop of 382. 
 
 Heriet, R. 283. 
 
 Hering 27. 
 
 Hertford, Seymour Earl of 184, 294. 
 Edward 376, 378, 380, 382. Wil¬ 
 liam Earl of 358. M. of 339, 378. 
 Milo Earl of 33, 358. 
 
 Hertham, see Hartham. 
 
 Hervey, of Wilton 31. 
 
Herynge, J. 229. 
 
 Heth, John 61. 
 
 Hewes, Grace, Thomas 217 ped. 
 
 Hewett, J. 148. 
 
 Hey, Samuel, John, II. 354. 
 
 Heydok, A. 151. 
 
 Heydon 255. 
 
 Heyr’, John le 437. 
 
 Heyron, John 442. 
 
 Heysig, J. 322. 
 
 Heyteshury, Family, Arms 71, 89, 
 173, 177, 188, 223, 411, 413. 
 
 Heywood, see Uaywode. 
 
 Hicks, William 268, 353. 
 
 Higbed, Thomas 357. 
 
 Higford, Thomas, Arms 414. 
 
 Higginson, William 310. 
 
 Highway, William de 127, 423. 
 
 Hill, 148, 236. William 30, or Hull 
 William 351. 
 
 Hinde, or Hiue, Richard, Anne 138. 
 Thomas, Benjamin 241. 
 
 Hinguor 74. 
 
 Hinton 126. Anquetil 148. Arms, 
 Anthony, Lady Mary, Sir Thomas 
 201, 335. 
 
 Hippisley, R. 347. 
 
 Hoare, Henry 392, 394. Sir Richard 
 Colt 9, 45. 76, 90, 114, 151, 163, 
 194, 314, 324, 334, 338, 366, 367, 
 380, 389, 394, 397, 403. 
 
 Hobbes, Thomas 102, 212, 254, 264. 
 Edmund 265. Francis 264. AVil- 
 liam 265. 
 
 Hobhouse, Sir Benjamin 83. Henry 
 285. 
 
 Hoby, Sir Edward 217 ped. 
 
 Hodges 110. Thomas 85. Walter 
 85. 
 
 Hodington, Arms 414. 
 
 Hody, J. 237. James 438. 
 
 Hoke, Ivetta, Adam 237, 436. 
 
 Holand, Robert 195, 197 Matilda 
 de 195, 197, 284, 300. 
 
 Holbein 209. 
 
 Holcombe, J. 358. 
 
 Holcroft, Family, Arms, Thomas, 
 William 156. Sir William 170 
 ped. Joan 174. 
 
 Hole, Nicholas in le 55. 
 
 Holford 208, 331, 332. Sir R. 331. 
 
 Holland, Fox Lord 31, 208, 209, 
 275, 282, 311, 342. See Fox. 
 
 Holies, Sir F. 166. Denzil, Lord 
 166. 
 
 Hollister, J. 203. 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Holman, H. 31. 
 
 Holmes, Arms 89. 
 
 Holt, Sir J. 305, 
 
 Hood 158. 
 
 Hooke 353. 
 
 Hooper 249. 
 
 Hopkins, B.B. 380. 
 
 Hopton 37. Lord 146. Sir A. 190. 
 
 Sir O. 259. 
 
 Horace 198. 
 
 Horlock, H. D. C. S. 56. 
 
 Horne, R. 141, 159, 428, 430. 
 
 Horsal, R. 45. 
 
 Horsey, Arms 283. 
 
 Horton, E. 301. Joan, John 22. 
 
 Thomas 166. W. 168. M. 347. 
 Horwode, John de 79. 
 
 Hoskyns, Sir John, Serjeant 244. 
 Houlton, Joseph 129, 282. John 129. 
 
 Nathaniel 282. Robert 208, 
 
 House 331. 
 
 Hovill, Arms 212. 
 
 Howard, Arms 199, 259. Elizabeth, 
 Frances 213, 244, Lady Honora, 
 Sir Robert 205. Katharine 212, 
 213. Lord Thomas 212. Lord 
 Edmund 362. Margaret 362. 
 AVilliam438. OfBindon, Viscount, 
 Arms 383. 
 
 Howe, Sir J. 148. Lucy, Sir Richard 
 170 ped. Lord Chedworth 206. 
 Howell, James 247. 
 
 Howley, Thomas 210. 
 
 Huhba 74. 
 
 Iluberd, John 437. 
 
 Huchena, Eleanor, Thomas 193. 
 Huddleston, L. 76. 
 
 Hughes 99, 204, 256, 259. 
 
 Hugo 337. Earl 83. 
 
 Hugyn, John 442. 
 
 Huiccii, The 37. 
 
 Hulbert, Arms, Family 80. Thomas 
 3, 80. 
 
 Hull, William 301. Adam atte 440. 
 Hungerford, Family 208, 267, 280, 
 295, 374. Extract from Pedigree 
 412. Arms 35, 70, 71, 89, 98, 
 159, 173, 177, 178, 188, 202, 223, 
 281, 285, 300, 310, 339, 349, 386, 
 388,408,411. Crest 269. Device 
 305. Cartulary 92, 197, 407. 
 Chapel in Chippenham Church 68. 
 Anthony (1657) 285. Bridget 173. 
 Cicely Lady 213. Sir Edward (died 
 1607) 79, 213, 285, 309, 338. Sir 
 Edward (died 1648) 82, 160, 173, 
 
 467 
 
 190, 263, 287, 309. Sir Edward 
 (died 3 711) 79, 310. Elizabeth 
 (daughter of Lord H.) 27. Geva 
 374, 382. Sir Giles 267. Jane 
 159, 160, 173. John (a clerk) 59. 
 Lucy 170 ped., 173, 209. Mary 
 (Lady Hastings) 207, 251. Sir 
 Robert (died 1352) 37, 40, 151, 
 197, 374, 382. Robert, 2nd Lord 
 413. Robert (3rd Lord H.) 56, 
 285, Susan 410. Sir Thomas 
 (purchaser of Farley, died 1398) 
 75, 111, 152, 207, 278, 338, 350, 
 407. Sir Thomas (executed 1469) 
 413. Walter (Lord H. K. G. died 
 1449) 27, 54, 56, 67, 69, 75, 81, 
 92, 104, 159, 168, 169, 283, 413. 
 Sir Walter (died 1516) 300. AValter 
 Lord H. of Heyteshury (executed 
 1540) 54, 217 ped., 223, 392, 393. 
 Sir A\ r alter (died 1596) 56, 170 
 ped., 173, 177, 410. AV alter his 
 son 173. 
 
 -of Black Bourton, Sir 
 
 Anthony 159, 309. Jane 159. 
 
 -of Cadenham 31, 38, 
 
 63, 126. Ducie 280. Edward (of 
 1544) 32. Edward (1604) 62, 
 (of 1654) 63. Sir George (1712) 
 38, 62, 63, 71, 280, 392. George 
 (his son) 62. Margaret 234. 
 Robert 53, 62, 234. 
 
 -of Chisbury 381. 
 
 -—— of Coulston, Sir Giles 
 
 282, 2S7, 290. Margaret 287. 
 
 -of Down Ampney, 62, 
 
 153. Arms 215, 251. Anne 414. 
 Anthony 413. Sir Anthony 160, 
 170 ped., 173, 217 ped., 407, 409. 
 Sir Edmund 161, 309, 413. Eliza¬ 
 beth 414. Frideswide, Sir John 
 234, 409. Jane 232, 234. Mar¬ 
 garet, Lady 408. Sir Thomas, 
 Arms 269, 270, 413. 
 
 -ofFifield? H. 159. 
 
 -.- of Lea, Anthony, 69. 
 
 Edith 270. Thomas 69, 270. 
 
 -of Stoke or Stock, John 
 
 217 ped., 410. 
 
 -of Studley, (near Caine) 
 
 Elizabeth 46. George 31, 38, 46, 
 53, 280. Keate 38. Walter 31, 
 38, 53, 62, 280. 
 
 Ilunlafing 246. 
 
 Hunsdon, Lord 217 ped. 
 
 Hunt, Richard 228. AA r illiam 95. 
 
 3 p 2 
 
468 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Huntingdon, Earl of 70, 71, 207. 
 (Clinton) 159,160. (Davys) Coun¬ 
 tess of 364. 
 
 Hunton, Arms, Elizabeth, Richard 
 166. 
 
 Hurcum, Thomas 47 ped. 
 
 Hurne, Richard 440. 
 
 Husseburn, R. de 250. 
 
 Hussey, or Husee 26. Arms 20, 67, 
 73. A. D. 152. Godfrey 358. 
 Joan 413. Sir J. 43. John, Lord 
 119, 265. J. 283. Reginald, 
 Kt. 145. 
 
 Hutchins, W. 343. Thomas 344. 
 Hutchinson, Col. J. 170 ped. Mrs. 
 Col. 174. 
 
 Hyde,(see also Clarendon) 247. Arms 
 361, 388. Anne, Hamonet, Robert 
 361. Ann, Lady 227. Edward 
 202, 361. Henry 154. Lawrence 
 86, 202, 361. Sir Nicholas 154. 
 Susanna 86. Yilliers, (Lord) 202. 
 
 - of Denchworth, Berks. Arms, 
 
 Alice 300. 
 
 Hylling, Thomas 442. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ilchester, Earl of 285. 
 
 Ina, King 194. 
 
 Ingoldsthorp, Thomas, Edmund, Mar¬ 
 garet 105. 
 
 Ingram, William 171. George Lord, 
 Thomas, Nicholas 215. 
 
 Insula, H. de 334. 
 
 Ireby, Arms 20. 
 
 Irwin, Viscount 215. 
 
 Isabel, Queen of Edw. II. 159, 
 202 . 
 
 Isley, Arms 212. 
 
 I vet, Laurence 420. 
 
 Ivy, Ivie, or Ive 71, 86, 165. Arms 
 247, 260. George 100. Sir George 
 86. Elizabeth, James 405. Ralph 
 51. Thomas 47 ped. 89, 108, 439. 
 William of Ford, Seal 120. Capt. 
 William 267. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jackson, Sir George 84. 
 
 Jacob, Family 129, 167, 205, 247, 
 275, 307. Anne 169, 194, 275. 
 Bridget 182. Elizabeth 194. John 
 169, 194, 275. 
 
 Jacobson 276. 
 
 Jacquard 84. 
 
 Jacques 13, 144. 
 
 James, Alderman p81. Lady 83, 84. 
 Ann, Giles, Henry, William 47 
 ped., 48, 50. Edmund 248, 249. 
 Sir William 83. Simon 246, 249. 
 Jaques, W. 288. 
 
 Jason, Sir R. 283. 
 
 Jeanes, Arms 83. 
 
 Jenkins, Judge 13. 
 
 Jenner, Dr. Edward, Henry 379. 
 Jennings, Arms 47. Elizabeth, Ralph 
 47 ped. 
 
 Jephson 187. 
 
 Jewell, Bishop 57, 92, 405. 
 
 Joan of Acre 298. 
 
 Jocelyn, Lady 160. 
 
 John, King 294, 296. 
 
 Johnson, George, James 94. Dr. 
 (M.D.) 299. 
 
 Jones 331. Inigo 34, 225, 315. 
 (Luckington) 105. John 219, 339. 
 W. 25, 338, 339, 351. William 
 Henry Rev. 21, 23. 
 
 Jordan, Arms 166. Peter 158, 436. 
 
 William 166, 295. 
 
 Joy, Michael, Henry Hart 83, 84. 
 Judd, Sir Andrew, Arms 79, 445. 
 
 K. 
 
 Katharine, Queen 376. 
 
 Kaynell, see Keynell. 
 
 Kaynes, see Keynes. 
 
 Keate 31, 38. Gilbert, Sir John 313. 
 Keck, Family 151. Antony James, 
 Elizabeth Ann Legh 368. 
 Keddelbie 276. 
 
 Keilways, Keylway, Kaillewai, or 
 Calewei, &c., Arms 115. Elias 
 73, 115. 
 
 Kemble, Arms 161. J. M. 114, 198. 
 Kemm 331. 
 
 Kempe, Arms, Henry 181. 
 
 Ken, Ann, Bishop Thomas 301. 
 Kenet 217 ped. 
 
 Kent 78. Edmund, Earl of 46, 120. 
 Richard 79. (Grey), 11th Earl of 
 214. 
 
 Kerby, J. 373. 
 
 Kerne, Arms 233. 
 
 Kerr, Gen. 83. 
 
 Ivether, Philip 148, 435. 
 
 Keynell, Family 120, 241. Arms 
 47, 48, 121, 134, 136,262. John, 
 Richard 120, 421, 441. Elizabeth 
 112, 121. Henry 444. William 
 47 ped., 120, 238, 437, 438, 440, 
 444. Florence 132. 
 
 Keynes, Family 54, 122, 150, 155. 
 Arms 123, 156, 159. Sir John 112, 
 155, 279. Joan 112. Henry 122. 
 Adam, Godfrey, Milo 437, 444. 
 Robert, Ralph 160. Roger, Thomas 
 122. Wentiliana 155. William 
 122, 160, 238, 440. 
 
 King, Daniel 256. Harman 354. 
 John le 52. J., The Misses 171. 
 Thomas 354. Dr. William, Arms 
 396. 
 
 Kingsman, Philip 102. 
 
 Kingswood, Walter, Abbot of 51, 
 419. 
 
 Kington, Gyles 132. John, Mary, 
 Richard 84, 132. AV. 236. 
 Kinnear, Dr. 267. 
 
 Kite, Edward “ Wilts Brasses” 93, 
 151, 162, 201, 230, 250, 272, 297, 
 355, 377, 403. 
 
 Knight, Sir R. 61. 
 
 Knolles, Sir R. 159. John 442. 
 Knoville, Bogo de 84. 
 
 Knowles, Elizabeth 178. 
 
 Knyvett, or Knevett Family, Arms 
 
 212, 259. Henry 205. Sir H. 
 208, 211, 260. Katharine, Eliza¬ 
 beth, Thomas Lord 212. Frances 
 
 213, 217 ped. 
 
 Kymer, Dean G. 386. 
 
 Kynesman, Stephen 87. 
 
 Kynewulf, King 280. 
 
 Kyrle, W. M. 39. 
 
 L. 
 
 Laei, Earl of Lincoln 195. 
 
 Lacy, Arms 161. 
 
 La ford 131. 
 
 Lambard 44. Richard 420. 
 
 Lambe, Arms 119, 353. Auncell 
 217 ped. 
 
 Lambert, Dr. 211. 
 
 Lancaster, Duke of 7, 97, 275, 276, 
 369. Henry de 120. Thomas 
 Earl of 276. Rev. T. B. 114, 129. 
 Landeth, Arms 248. 
 
 Langford, Alice 217 ped. Arms, 
 Stephen de 188. Mary 154. John 
 168. 
 
 Langley, Arms, Anne, Walter 414. 
 
 Milo de 96, 420. 
 
 Langrieh, John, Matilda 207. 
 Langton, Alice, John, Sir Thomas 
 240. 
 
 Lansdowne, Marquis of 31, 38, 40, 
 
INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 469 
 
 Lanutn, H, 189. 
 
 Latimer, Arms 89, 400, 402. Bishop 
 87, 91, 105. Elizabeth 400, 401. 
 Rev. Robert 102, 204. Nevill Lord 
 224. John Lord 225, 400, 401. 
 
 Latton,Family 152. John,Isabel 104. 
 
 Laud, Archbishop 170. 
 
 Laurence, Philip 151. 
 
 Lawes, G. 300. 
 
 Lawrence, W., Arms 228. 
 
 Lawson, Rev. Gray 104. 
 
 Lea, Lord Herbert of 251. 
 
 Leach, Arms, Dorothy, Sir Edward 
 235. 
 
 Leacock, Rev. H. J. 358. 
 
 Lechrnere 39. John 13. Nicholas 
 Baron 113. 
 
 Lee, Arms 411. Ann 120, 170 ped., 
 189, 217 ped., 220, 297. Eleanor 
 1,217 ped., 22S. Sir Henry 1, 120, 
 170 ped., 179, 208, 217 ped. 
 John 53. 
 
 Legge, Col. 225. 
 
 Legh, P. 368. 
 
 Leicester, Beaumont Earl of, Simon 
 Earl of 373. 
 
 Leigh, E. 251. 
 
 Leighton, Arms 178, 344. Ann 173, 
 175, 178. Sir Thomas 170 ped., 
 173, 174. 
 
 Leir, Thomas, T. M. 84. 
 
 Leland 97, 256, 319, 333, 399. 
 
 Lemoine, Abraham 366. 
 
 Lemon 152. 
 
 Lenthal 104. 
 
 Leofsi 208. 
 
 Louche, W. 310. 
 
 Leversedge, Arms 404. E. 282, 346. 
 Edmund, Thomas 50, 234. 
 
 Levet, Arms 193, 314. 
 
 Leviet 193. 
 
 Lewis, Sir Edward 351. George 47 
 ped. J. (of Chalfield) 81. Richard, 
 Thomas 79, 351. 
 
 Lewknor, Arms, Edward, Eleanor336. 
 
 Lewvs, J. 310. William 80. 
 
 Lexington, Lord 267, 282, 287, 290. 
 Arms 377. 
 
 Ley, James Earl of Marlborough, 
 Arms 233. Monument 404. Henry, 
 Earl 405. 
 
 Lhuyd, Edward 317. 
 
 Light, see Lyte. 
 
 Lily’s Euphues 384. 
 
 Limoges, Roger de 78. 
 
 Lincoln, Earl of 212. Laci 276. 
 
 Lisle, De 39, 331. Mary 22. 
 
 Little, Thomas 53. 
 
 Littleton, Judge 61, 134. William 
 de 421. 
 
 Lloyd, M. 12. D. 225. 
 
 Locke, W. 154, 303, 310. F.A.S. 310. 
 Loekington, Roger de 104, 420. 
 
 Richard 444. 
 
 T.odwiek, F. 304. 
 
 Londeth, Arms 248. 
 
 London, John de 349. 
 
 Lomr, of Draycot, South Wraxhall, 
 and Whaddon, Family 62, 115, 
 165. Arms 19, 23, 27, 28, 29, 67, 
 231, 232, 233, 235, 346. Crest 
 230, 232, 233. Pedigree 234. 
 Ann 24. Barbara 24, 116. Catha¬ 
 rine 229. Edith 353. Henry 24, 
 28, 30, 57, (1490) 229. Murder 
 of 225, 284, 347, 353, 354, 355. 
 Sir Henry 57, 115, 186, 212. 
 Tomb 232. Hope 116. Sir James 
 45, 232, 235, 292, 315. James 7. 
 Sir James Tylney (1805) 229, 282. 
 Jewell57. Joan40. John24, 115, 
 (1490)224. Katharine 24. Kings- 
 mill 331. Robert (1273) 147, 
 (1421) 26, (1437) 229, 234, 345. 
 R. 56, 115, 353 Rebecca 347. 
 Thomas 24, 27, 301, 305, 354. Sir 
 Thomas 27, 30, 56, 115, 230. 
 Tomb 231, 235 Walter 24, 25, 
 126. Sir Walter 7, 23, 57, 133, 
 229, 233. 
 
 - of Ashley, Anthony, Arms 57. 
 
 Henry 270. 
 
 - of Cheverill Parva 217 ped. 
 
 - of Titherton Keilways, Ed¬ 
 mund 132. 
 
 - of Lyneham, Edmund, Robert 
 
 186. 
 
 - of Kington Langley (A.D. 
 
 1273), Robert 433. 
 
 - of Netheravon, Jane, John, 
 
 Samuel, Timothy 370. 
 
 - of Rood Ashton 190. Richard 
 
 Godolphin M.P. 354. Walter M.P. 
 83, 116, 294, 301, 305, 347, 353. 
 
 - Charles Edward 196. 
 
 - Henry Lawes 384. 
 
 - William 24, 115, 314, 333. 
 
 Longespee 46, 199, 291. Ela 44. 
 C. of Warwick 381. Emmeline 
 195, 197, 199. Stephen 195, 197, 
 199. W. 195. 
 
 Longuevile, Earl of 278. 
 
 Longvilliers, Arms 377. 
 
 Lopez, H. 296. 
 
 Lord, a painter, 95. James 193. 
 Loringe, Abbot 274. 
 
 Lortie, H. 207. 
 
 Loundres, R. 368. 
 
 Love, Capt. 92. 
 
 Loveden, Lady 369. 
 
 Lovell, Arms 404. Family 122, 151, 
 171, 196, 197, 295, 369. Lord 144. 
 John 5th Lord 195. Sir John 
 284, 300. Katharine 191, 368. 
 Of Tichmarsh 191. Francis last 
 Viscount 195, 196, 197, 248. 
 
 -of Castle Cary 392. 
 
 -Audley, Peter Harvey 266. 
 
 Lovering, Robert 439. 
 
 Lovett, Thomas 217 ped. 
 
 Lowe, Sir J. 2. Rev. Thomas, 
 Susanna 241. 
 
 Lowth, Bishop 380. 
 
 Lowther, Alderman 156. 
 
 Lucas 78, 116. Sir Charles 214. 
 Charles Lord 296. John 127, 423. 
 Sir John, John Lord, Arms 214, 
 236. Penelope 296. Walter, 
 Maud 353. 
 
 Lucy, Arms 27, 81, 377, 409. Eliza¬ 
 beth, Sir Thomas 409. 
 
 Luddington, W. 130, 425. 
 Ludgershall, Geffrey 359. 
 
 Ludlow, of Maiden Bradley and Hill 
 Deverill, Arms 81, 383. Agnes, 
 Margaret 82. Anne, Frances, 
 Sir Edmund, Sir Henry, Margaret, 
 Thomas 383. General Edmund, 
 Elizabeth 383, 384. 
 
 - of Shropshire, Arms 383. 
 
 Corrected 445. 
 
 - of Heywood, II. G. G. 117. 
 
 -W. 359. 
 
 Luke, Canon of Sarum 185. 
 
 Lung, John le 77. 
 
 Lunsford, Col. 263. 
 
 Lupus, W. 84. 
 
 Luttre.l 31, 38, 280. Arms 85. • 
 Luvel, Ralph 63. 
 
 Lygon, William 208, ‘111 ped. 
 Lykhull, Thomas 441. 
 
 Lynne, Dr. 167. 
 
 Lypiate 42. 
 
 Lyte, Arms 137, 241. Family 240, 
 291. Deborah 135. Isaac9, 102, 
 131, 135, 137, 416. Israel 12, 102, 
 137. Arms 241. John, Richard, 
 Nicholas, Thomas 137, 241, 443. 
 

 470 
 
 M. 
 
 Macaulay, Lord 384. 
 
 Macclesfield, Earl of 32. 
 
 Macdonald, Archdeacon 306. 
 
 Macmorough, Arms 73. 
 
 Macwilliams, Arms 73, 376. 
 
 Maidulph, or Maildulf 210, 251. 
 
 Maignard 296. 
 
 Malet, Arms 118. Hugh, Eichard, 
 Thomas, William 119. 
 
 Mallet, Elizabeth 247. 
 
 Mallovell, or Manlovell, Arms 377. 
 
 Malmesbury, 1st Earl of 276. Abbot 
 of 60, 61, 63, 84, 104, 127, 141, 
 160, 211, 214, 254, 423. Arms of 
 256. M. Borough Arms 252. 
 
 Malory, Anns 98, 116. Peter 438. 
 Stephen 98. 
 
 Maltravers, Family 52, 151. Arms 
 28, 388, 399, 400, 401, 445. 
 
 Dominic 77, 111. Elizabeth 399, 
 401. Hester 303. Hugh 112. 
 
 Joan 279. John 303. John Lord 
 
 112, 279. Sir John 283, 399. 
 
 Leonard, Lucy 112. 
 
 Malwyn 29, 340. Arms 231. William 
 231. 
 
 Maminot, Hugh 160. 
 
 Manchester, Earl of 17. Duke of 
 414. 
 
 Mandeville 151. 
 
 Manners, Arms 259. 
 
 Manning, Arms 366. Henry, his 
 Arms, Margaret 383. 
 
 Manvers, E. 354. 
 
 Mara, Adam de 437. 
 
 March, Earl of 31, 42, 151. Arms 
 144, 217, 283, 335, 368. His 
 Legier Book 2, 66, 128, 169. 
 
 Marescalcus, Eichard 428. 
 
 Mareschal, Eobert 432. 
 
 Margaret, Queen of Edw. I. 150, 
 151, 158, 161. 
 
 Marks 353. 
 
 Marlborough, Bishop of 113. Earl 
 of, see Ley. Duke of 297, 380. 
 
 Marmion 287. Arms 288. 
 
 Marreys, J. 111. 
 
 Marsh, Joan, Nicholas 132. 
 
 Marshal, Countess 42. William le 
 58. Earls 372, 379, 381. 
 
 Marshall, Arms 377. E. 141, 382. 
 Cicely 259, 266. Francis, Mar- 
 maduke 266. Sir George 258, 
 265, 266. 
 
 Marsilly, Mary de 170 yrecZ. 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Martin 26. Samuel 146. Thomas 
 398. 
 
 Martyn 353. Arms, Elizabeth 355. 
 
 H. 370. Of Berks, Arms 414. 
 Mary, Piincess Edw. I. 79, 108. 
 Queen 394. 
 
 Maskelyne214, 333. Nevil, Edmund, 
 Margaret 155. A. M. S. 335. 
 Massey, Col. 37, 263. 
 
 Massinger 176. 
 
 Masters, Sir W. 2, 286. 
 
 Matcham 87. 
 
 Mathew, F. 277, 278. 
 
 Matilda, Queen of William I. 242. 
 Maton 25. 
 
 Matson, Thomas 186. 
 
 Matravers, see Maltravers. 
 
 IWatz 87. 
 
 Maud, Empress 33, 74, 111, 112,113, 
 117, 143, 310, 358. 
 
 Mauduit, Arms 286. Family 84, 295, 
 Agnes, Gile 285. John 285. Sir 
 John 251. Lord 344. Eobert 127, 
 423. 
 
 Maundrell 31. E. J. 309. 
 Mautravers, see Maltravers. 
 
 May 34. 
 
 Maydenhith, J. 164. 
 
 Mayn, Eichard 439. 
 
 Mayney, Arms, Anna, John 57. 
 Mendum, Nicholas, Abbot of Stanley 
 113. 
 
 Merbroke, Arms, Alicia 337. 
 Mercury, Arms 243. 
 
 Meredith, Arms 231. Amy, Mary, 
 Michael 47 ped. 
 
 Merewether 31. Dean J. 46, 333. 
 Merrott, Dr. C. 301. 
 
 Mershton, J. 88. 
 
 Merton, Walter de, Bishop of Eoch.es- 
 ter 161. 
 
 Mervyn, Edmund, Ann 363. Sir J. 
 42. 
 
 Meryet, J. de 338. 
 
 Meiyfield, John 440. 
 
 Meryot, J. 86. 
 
 Mesey, John 439. 
 
 Methuen, John, Et. Hon., Mary 103. 
 Lord 53, 55, 56, (1861) 79, 118, 
 119, 120, 189, 296. Paul 54, 
 (1746) 79, (1780) 78, 80 Thomas 
 296. 
 
 Methwyn 21. 
 
 Methwold, J. 358. 
 
 Michelborne 276. 
 
 Michell 40, 176. 
 
 Middelney, Ealph 207. 
 
 Middlehope, W. de 114, 443, 444. 
 Middleton, Gilbert de 349. Hugh 
 de 430. 
 
 Mildmay, Arms 295. Sir Thomas, 
 Frances Lady 36. Grace, Sir 
 Henry 92, 226. Lady 302. 
 
 Miles, C. W. 265. 
 
 Millard, Samuel 109. 
 
 Miller, John the 96. Goodwife 123. 
 Milman, Dean 33. 
 
 Milo, Earl of Gloucester 33. 
 
 Milsham, Adam 138. John 72. 
 
 Mil ward, John 439. 
 
 Mitchell, Edward 217 ped. 
 
 Modena, Mary of 227. 
 
 Mody, see Moody. 
 
 Moels, Arms 71, 81. 
 
 Mofiatt 160, 252. 
 
 Mohun 339. Arms 203. John 207, 
 381. Mary 338. Philippa 42, 
 202. Ileginald 42, 338. 
 
 Moine, or Moigne 291, 300, 331, 392. 
 Molesworth, Sir W. 265. 
 
 Molyns, Arms 71, 81, 173, 413- 
 Family 295. Eleanor 56, 413. 
 Sir John 56, 251, 285. Lord 208. 
 AVilliam Lord 413. 
 
 Mompesson, Arms 281. Family 54, 
 103, 104, 385. Edward 281. Sir 
 Giles 170 ped., 174, 175, 176. 
 Katharine 175. Lawrence 71. 
 John, Sir E. 281. 
 
 Monk, H. 84. J. H. 93. 
 
 Monkton Farley, Priors of 111, 112. 
 Montacute, Earl of Sarum 151, 157, 
 171, 387. Sir John, AVilliam 298. 
 Montagu, Arms (Alderton) 114. 
 James 47 ped., (Lackham) 51, 52, 
 296. Col. 43. (Browne A. M.) 
 Viscount 363. William 440. 
 Montalt, John de, Milieent 32. 
 Monte, Thomas de 432. 
 
 Montfort, Eleanor, John 92. Simon 
 de 372. 
 
 Monthermer, Arms 28. Ealph, Mar¬ 
 garet, Thomas 298. 
 
 Montjoy, or Mountjoy 53, 54, 111, 
 224, 354. C. Blount 5th Lord 
 399, 401. Arms 402. AVilliam 
 Lord 413. 
 
 Moody, or Mody, Eichard 241, 267. 
 Arms and Family 242, 275. Katha¬ 
 rine 243. 
 
 Moore 227. Arms 383. Sir Jonas 
 332, 353. Philip 79. 
 
INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 471 
 
 Moray, Sir R. 317, 322. Earl of 340. 
 Mordaunt, Family 82. Gen. EL, 
 C. IT. 227. Elizabeth 217 ped. 
 More, Joan Atte 159. 
 
 Morewood, Elizabeth 217 ped. 
 Morgan, Barbara 376. Arms, Eliza¬ 
 beth 209. John 2. Col. John 80. 
 George, Margaret, Arms 398. 
 Errata 445. 
 
 Morin, Roger 141, 428. 
 
 Morlee, Milo de 249. 
 
 Morley, Thomas 113. Bishop George 
 339. 
 
 Mornington, Earl of 228, 235, 282, 
 292, 345. 
 
 Mortimer, 2, 51, 114, 165, 194. 
 Arms 400. Edmund, Margaret 
 169. Ralph 60, 246, 248. Roger 
 128, 169, 246. 
 
 Morton 2. Sir J. 182, 185. 
 
 Moulton, Stephen 21. 
 
 Moutiteney, Sir Thomas, Isabella 
 160. 
 
 Mountford, (of Ashley) 57. 
 
 Mountjoy, see Montjoy. 
 
 Mowbray, Arms 199, 387, 388, 
 
 should be Fitz Alan 28, 445. 
 Moyne, see Moine. 
 
 Mucegros, R. de 359. 
 
 Muleple 165. 
 
 Muleward, William le 420. 
 Mulgrave, Earl of 245. 
 
 Murray, William 34. 
 
 Musard 380. 
 
 Muscovy Company, Arms 300. 
 
 Myles, Edward 358. 
 
 Mylls, Jane 234. 
 
 N. 
 
 Nalder, J. 30. 
 
 Nanfant, Arms 377. 
 
 Napier’s Swynecombe 105, 212. 
 Neale, Family 79. Sir H. B. 82. 
 Lady 16S. Robert 84, 295. Thomas 
 72. 
 
 Neck, Simon 138. 
 
 Neeld, Joseph 47 ped., 52, 75, 101, 
 111, 116, 129, 206, 275. Sir John 
 71, 104, 105, 246. 
 
 Neet, J. 367. 
 
 Neile, Sir P. 2. 
 
 Neville, Arms 28, 71, 86, 38S, 400. 
 Gilbert de 356. Earl of Berga- 
 venny 116. Jollan de 359. John 
 Lord 401. Ralph 98. Richard 
 Earl of Warwick 108. Lord 
 
 Latimer, Arms 227. Elizabeth 
 217 ped ., 225. Arms 222, 224, 
 356, 401. 
 
 Newbery, H. J. 243. 
 
 Newborough, Arms 28, 67, 108, 388. 
 Margaret 28. 
 
 Newburgh 154. Alice 56, 63. John 
 56. William 63. 
 
 Newcomen, Arms, Elizabeth 180. 
 
 Sir Thomas 170 ped., 180. 
 Newman 40. 
 
 Newmarket, William 170. 
 
 Newport, Magdalen, Richard 217 
 ped. 
 
 Newton, W. 351. Wolfe, and Arms 
 377: alias Cradock, Arms 404. Sir 
 John 443. 
 
 Neykill, J. de 356. 
 
 Nice, Sir Courtly 12. 
 
 Nicholas, Judge R. 3. Arms, Jane 
 177, 248, 268. Robert 47 ped., 
 170 ped. 
 
 Nichols, W. L. 59. J. G. 89, 90. 
 Nicholson, Arms 43. 
 
 Nigel, the Physician 31, 159, 161. 
 Nileus, his Arms 392. 
 
 Noble, W. 49, 50. Dr. 55. 
 Norborne, Family 33, 167, 335. 
 Henry 36, 99. John, Mary, Wal¬ 
 ter 35, 36, 38. 
 
 Norden, W. 309. 
 
 Norfolk, J. Howard Duke of 373. 
 
 Bigod Earl of 42. 
 
 Normaund, R. 154. J. 249. 
 
 Norreys, T. 101. Arms, John, Sir 
 William 336. 
 
 North, Dudley 303. 
 
 Northampton, (Parr) Marquis of 207, 
 279. (Bohun) Earl of 302. 
 Northcote, Sir J. 358. 
 
 Northey 85. Sir Edward 42. Wil¬ 
 liam, W. B. 57, 60. 
 Northumberland, Duke of 333. 
 Norton, Honour 69. Sir Richard, 
 Arms 281. 
 
 Nourse, Family, Henry, Sarah 338. 
 Nye, Thomas, Margaret 134, 268. 
 Christina 134. 
 
 O. 
 
 Oaksey, Ralph de, Margaret 228. 
 O’Connor 210. 
 
 Odin, (temp. Wm. I.) 191. 
 
 Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury 149, 
 435. 
 
 Odred, the Falconer 150. 
 
 Ody 126. 
 
 Odyham, T. 351. 
 
 Ofl’a, King 311. 
 
 Offer 367. 
 
 Olaus Wormius 96. 
 
 Oldfield, J. 311. 
 
 Oliver, Dr. 36. 
 
 Ollivant, Bishop 192. 
 
 Orange, Maurice Prince of 224. 
 Orgoyle 161. 
 
 Orleton, A. de 349. 
 
 Osbert, King 74. 
 
 Osborne, Sir Peter 217 per l., 226. 
 
 Sir John 217 ped. 
 
 Oseland, John 77. 
 
 Oseville, Sewale de 195, 
 
 Osmond, Bishop 33, 152, 199, 338, 
 373. 
 
 Osmundus Neustrius 254. 
 
 Cstage, R. le 157. 
 
 Oswmld, Archbishop 140, 426. 
 
 - Saint 415. 
 
 -- King 415, 417. 
 
 Ow, William de 84, 112, 159, 167. 
 See Ewe. 
 
 Owen, Meiler 203. W. 333. Sir 
 David, Henry 347. J. 372. 
 Oxenden, Sir Henry 414. 
 
 Oxford, (Edward Vere) Earl of 126, 
 217. 
 
 P. 
 
 Packer, Elizabeth 55. 
 
 Page, Thomas 40. 
 
 Pagett, Robert, Ann 91. 
 
 Paley, Fonts 331, 346. 
 
 Palmer 353. John 286. Stephen 
 355. 
 
 Parget, Hugh 359. 
 
 Pargiter, Lady 242. 
 
 Parker, Sir Philip 347. 
 
 Parkinson, J. 335. 
 
 Parr, Queen Katharine 42, 207. 
 
 Arms 377. William Lord 207. 
 Parry, Walter, William 85. 
 
 Parsons, Mrs. 78. Robert, (Jesuit) 
 391. 
 
 Partridge 44. 
 
 Paruns, Hugh 112. 
 
 Parys, Family 165. R. 335. 
 
 Pass, Simon 213. 
 
 Paternoster, William 420. Edward 
 441. 
 
 Pateshull, Arms 172, 176, 177. 
 
 John Lord, Sibilla 170 and ped. 
 Paul, Sir O. 207. 
 
 3 Q 2 
 
472 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Paulett, Pawlett or Powlett 19. Arms 
 20, 97, 269, 351. Amisius 443. 
 Sir Amias, Mary, Nicholas 270. 
 Bernard, Giles Lord 20. Eleanor 
 1S9. Elizabeth 170 ped. John 42. 
 Sir John, Arms 259. Lord Harry 
 351. William 20. Sir W. 239, 
 351, 440, 442. 
 
 Paulshott, J. de 300. 
 
 Paunton, Philip, Juliana 43S. 
 
 Pavey, Arms 199. (Shield No. 2S6, 
 not 287.) 
 
 Paveley, Family 52, 85. Device 
 305, 400. Arms, Sir John 352, 
 399, 401, 403. Alice, Joan 401, 
 403. Walter 53, 216. Isabel, Sir I 
 John 170 peel. 
 
 Paximinster, Adam le 127, 423. 
 
 Payne, Arms 81. Katharine, Sir 
 Robert 114. John,Thomas238,441. 
 
 Paynell, Family 150, 155. Arms 
 156, 173. Hugh 160. Margery 155. 
 
 Paynter, Katharine 24, 205, 
 
 Pearson, Arms 370. 
 
 Pederton, Abbot Robert de 143, 147, 
 342, 434. 
 
 Pedewardjn, John 169. 
 
 Pedeworth, Thomas de 51, 421, 439, 
 443, 444. Martin 430. 
 
 Pegre, Dr. 355. 
 
 Pembridge, Elizabeth 169. Richard 
 84. 
 
 Pembroke, Ann Boleyn, Marchioness 
 of, Arms 411. Herbert Earl of 
 190, 263, 337, 338, 342, 343, 372, 
 380. 393. Marshal Earl of 338, 
 372. Arms 73. St. Paul Countess 
 of 191. Strongbow Earl of, Arms 
 73. Valence Earl of 191. 
 
 Penda, King 415. 
 
 Penel, J. 275. 
 
 Penitentiaries 148. 
 
 Penkenol, what 223. 
 
 Penn 73. Alice, Edward 290. Sir 
 William 270, 280. 
 
 Penne, Hugh 199. 
 
 Pennyman, Sir W. 245. 
 
 Penruddock, Col. J. 314. 
 
 Penv, J. 238, 440, 441. 
 
 Pepys 210. 
 
 Perbyke, Thomas 238, 441. 
 
 Percehay, William 116, 420. John 
 421. 
 
 Percy, Arms SI, 97, 98, 413. Badge 
 269. Lady Anne 413. Thomas 
 Earl of Worcester 108. 
 
 Peryton, A. 150. 
 
 Peterman, The 146. 
 
 Peterborough, Charles Earl of 227. 
 Petley, Arms 383. 
 
 Pett,*Dr. 322. 
 
 Pettev, Arms 404. John, Mary 405. 
 Petty, Speke 57. 
 
 Pety, John 441. 
 
 Peverell, Hugh 150. Katharine 413. 
 
 Arms 223, 413. 
 
 Pewe 310. 
 
 Pexhall, It. 189. 
 
 Peyton, J. 95. 
 
 Philipott, Arms 383. 
 
 Philippa, Queen 359. 
 
 Phillipps, Sir Thomas 187, 199, 370. 
 E. 296. 
 
 Phisbeak, John 438. 
 
 PhyHips, Thomas 441. 
 
 Pickerell, Cicely, John 73. 
 
 Pierce, John, Robert, Dr. Thomas 
 36. 
 
 Pierrepont 365. 
 
 Piers, Family 237. 
 
 Pigot, Arms cancelled 445. 
 
 Pile, Anne, Gabriel, Sir F., Sir S. 
 166. 
 
 Pilkington, Arms 119. 
 
 rillesary, Angelina, George 170 ped. 
 
 Pinchin, George, Mary 58. 
 
 Pinckney, Family 110. Ralph, 
 Robert 109, 444. 
 
 Pindar, Sir P. 245. 
 
 Pinnel 37. 
 
 Pipard, Family 164, 171, 340. Arms 
 164. 
 
 Pitman, Thomas 71. R. 250. 
 
 Pitt, J. 160, 206. George 271. 
 Plaister 59. 
 
 Plantagenet, Lady A. 161, 302. 
 Lady Elizabeth 372. Lady Isabella 
 410. Arms 188. 
 
 Plato 13, 384. 
 
 Platt, William 410. 
 
 Plautus 6, 45. 
 
 Plessetis, Earl of Warwick. 309. 
 Pleydell, Arms 72, 180. Family 
 270. Agnes, Gabriel 72. Sir 
 Charles, Elizabeth 170 ped., 174, 
 180, 185. Deborah 182. Edmund, 
 Sir Morton S. 185, Philip, Katha¬ 
 rine 132. 
 
 rieysted, Richard 439. 
 
 Pliny 318. 
 
 Plot, Dr. 106. 
 
 Plott, J. 280. 
 
 Plumer, W. Arms 259. 
 
 Plusbel, David 420. 
 
 Poer, Hugh 379. 
 
 Pokehelle, Juliana 147, 432. 
 
 Pole, Arms 71. William Wellesley 
 229. 
 
 Pollen, R. H. 280. Elizabeth46, 280. 
 Pollok, Dr. 128. 
 
 Tolton, Family 196. Agnes, Philip 
 201. Edith, Thomas 200, 201. 
 Ponger, J. 155. 
 
 Pont de l’Arche, R. 112. 
 
 Poole 271. Arms 277, 279. Edward 
 215, 279. Sir Edward 275, 276, 
 277. Henry 207, 278. Sir Henry 
 277. Sir Jeffrey 112. Leonard 
 268. Margaret 215, Sir Neville 
 277. 
 
 Poore, Arms 296, 356, 357. Family 
 
 358. Edward 357. Bishop Her¬ 
 bert 296. J. 356. Phil. 356, 
 366. 
 
 Tope The, Arms 98, 136. Innocent 
 II. 183. 
 
 Popham 23. Dr. 92. Sir Francis, 
 Arms 68. Sir John 22. Katharine 
 22 . 
 
 - of Bradley, Arms 27, 29, 
 
 231, 232, 233, 235, 346. Margaret 
 345. 
 
 Popple, Katharine 154. 
 
 Port, Adam 30. 
 
 Porter, Sir Arthur 217 ped. 
 
 Potenger, Arms, John 152. 
 
 Potter, Dr. Trinity College Oxon. 17. 
 Rev. Francis of Kilmington, 385, 
 
 359, 393. J. 369. 
 
 Potterne, James de 294. 
 
 Poucher, J. 155. 
 
 Poulden, John 47 ped. 
 
 Poulter, J. alias Baxter 60. 
 
 Pounter 290. 
 
 Powell 2. T. 368. 
 
 Power 13, 270, 286, 289. Arms and 
 ped. 290, 291. Nathaniel 291. 
 Jo. 72, 136, 291. Zachary 136. 
 Powlett, see Pawlet. 
 
 Poynder, Thomas 167, 169. Thomas 
 Henry Allen 84, 167, 168, 445. 
 Poyntz, Nicholas 47 ped. 
 
 Prat, John 420, 437. 
 
 Prater, Family 88, 153. Arms 89. 
 Anne SS. Anthony, Judith 89. 
 W. 367. 
 
 Preci, H. 313. 
 
 Predy, Anthony 410. 
 
INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 473 
 
 Preston, J. 46. 
 
 Price 107. 
 
 Prideaux, Dr., Exeter College 190, 
 Pruet, Thomas 420. 
 
 Prynne, 79, 199. Arms 79. Pedigree 
 71. Sir Gilbert 53, 70, 71, 73. 
 Pryor 353. 
 
 Pugin 26. 
 
 Pullen, liev. Joseph 151. 
 
 Pulleyne, Anthony 157. M. 154. 
 Pulteuey, Arms 289. 
 
 Purbeck, Elizabeth, Viscountess 189, 
 213, 217 ped., 218, 225, 226, 297. 
 John Viscount 218. It. Villiers 
 Viscount 189, 217 ped., 218, 
 Viscount 225, 226. 
 
 Purcell 62. 
 
 Purnell, John 342. Beckett 342. 
 Pury 113. 
 
 Pye, Alice 132. 
 
 Pythagoras 4. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quatermayn 168. Joan 169. 
 
 Queen of England, device 130, 194. 
 Quene, Matilda la 52. 
 
 Querle, Family 105. 
 
 Quintin, Arms 165. 168. Family, 
 "William 165, 168. Margaret, 
 Michael 168, 234. Ralph 339. 
 
 R. 
 
 Radnor, 1st Earl of 185, 235, 267, 
 282, 297. 
 
 Rainbold 330. 
 
 Raleigh, Sir W. 201. 
 
 Ralph, Abbot of Stanley 113. 
 Rambouillet, Marquis of 318. 
 Ramsay, A. C. 291. 
 
 Ramsbury, Adam of 127, 423. "W. 
 217. 
 
 Rancliffe, Lord 83. 
 
 Ratcliffe, E. 347. 
 
 Rattle Bone 107. 
 
 Ravenscroft, Arms 336. 
 
 Raven shaw, Rev. E. 88. 
 
 Rawlinson, Dr. 36. 
 
 Read 380. John 440, 442. Nicholas 
 443. 
 
 Reason, Arms 72. 
 
 Reddich, Elizabeth, William 384. 
 Rede of Mitton, William 217 ped., 
 440. 
 
 Redvers, Baldwin Earl of Devon 113, 
 150, 158. Arms 413, 
 
 Reed, John 97, 98. 
 
 Reede, Lady 369. 
 
 Relton, E. H. 215, 250, 272. 
 
 Rennington, Sir R., Lady Eleanor 
 189. 
 
 Repton 79. 
 
 Reve and Cotton 152. 
 
 Rich, Robert E. of Warwick, Mary 
 170 ped. 
 
 Richard I., King 126, 204. 
 
 Richard III. King 196. 
 
 Richmond, alias Webb, Arms 157. 
 W. 154, 157, 368. J. 359. 
 
 Richmond, Earl of (Tudor) 359, 
 395. 
 
 Rickman, J. 332, 334. 
 
 Rid torn 163. 
 
 Ridley 102. 
 
 Ridwar 43. 
 
 Ringbourne,orRyngbourne, William, 
 Elizabeth 229, 358. 
 
 Ringwood, Arms 81. 
 
 Risum, Walter 437. 
 
 Rivers 7. J. de 385. 
 
 ltober, J. 293. 
 
 Roberts, Elizeus 110. R. 188, 
 
 Roche 42, 162, 168. Arms 29, 35, 
 67, 89, 114. Sir John 30, 39, 40, 
 195, 201, 214, 235, 295, 305, 344, 
 368. Willelma 235, 344. 
 
 Rochester, Earl of 95. Hyde 202, 
 205. Henry Wilmot, Anne Count¬ 
 ess 170 ped. 
 
 Rochford, Arms 411. Henry 170 
 ped. 
 
 Rodbourne, Walter 157, 161. 
 
 Rodney, Richard de 125, 421. 
 
 Roet, Arms 388. 
 
 Roger, Bishop of Sarum 34, 253, 
 307, 358. 
 
 Rogers, of Bradford 44. Arms and 
 pedigree 22. R. 265. Of Can- 
 nington 21, 22. Of Rainscombe 
 23. 
 
 Rok 380. 
 
 liokell, Godfrey 92. 
 
 Rolle, Arms 119. 
 
 Rolt, Col. 380. 
 
 Romsey, J. de 349. 
 
 Rooke, Capt. 95. 
 
 Ros, Arms 288, 377. 
 
 Rossell, Arms 404. John 437. 
 
 Roter, Roger le 420. 
 
 Rowe 327. 
 
 Roydon, Henry, Joan 170 ped., 174. 
 
 Royly, Nicholas 437, 438. Reginald 
 444, 
 
 Rudbeck 332. 
 
 ltugge, Roger 142, 429. 
 
 Ruly, Robei’t 439. 
 
 ltushout, Family 208, 
 
 Russell, Family 54, 155. Arms 248, 
 284. Joanna 169. Benjamin 87. 
 Sir John 154, 168, 169, 189. J. 
 368. Mary 153. Robert 61, 115, 
 127, 153, 154, 423. 
 
 - Of Byrham eo. Gloucester 
 
 207. Sir Maurice 217, ditto ped. 
 Sir Theobald 380. 
 
 Rut. 367. 
 
 Rutland, Francis, Nicolas 162. Sixth 
 Earl of 213, 309, 338. Duke of 
 380. 
 
 Ryal, Ralph 127, 423. 
 
 Ilymer, Arms 383. 
 
 Rysbrach, (bust) 171. 
 
 llyve, J. 351. 
 
 Ryvers, Family 44, 151, 152. Mar¬ 
 gery 152, 158, 161. 
 
 S. 
 
 Sackville, Anne 351. 
 
 Sadleir, of Everley, Crest 366. Ellen, 
 Henry, Sir Ralph 365. Sir Henry, 
 Gertrude 297. Of Elcombe, 
 Blanche, Christina, AVilliam 369, 
 370. Geoi'ge 335. Robert 193, 
 368. William 167, 368, 370. 
 
 Saint Anne 222. 
 
 - Anthony 157. 
 
 - Christopher, figure of 194, 343, 
 
 357. 
 
 - Dorothy 220, 
 
 - Frideswide 222. 
 
 - Gregory 14. 
 
 - Joseph of Arimathea 59. 
 
 - Katharine 160, 220, 343. 
 
 - Magdalene 220. 
 
 - Margaret 220. 
 
 - Oswald 415. 
 
 - Twasole 417. 
 
 St. Atnand, Arms 35, 40. Lord 
 30, 35, 40, 155, 231, 235. Almerie 
 195. 
 
 St. Aubyn, Sir J. 206. 
 
 St. Barbe, John, Arms 69. 
 
 St. George, Sir Richard 170 ped., 
 173, 175. Arms 177. 
 
 St Germans, Earl of 153, 408. 
 
 St. German, Ralph 228. 
 
 St. John Family, Of Lydiard Tre- 
 goz, Pedigree 170. Arms 20, 27, 
 170, 172, 173, 177, 178, 231, 414. 
 
474 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Anne 173, 179, 209. Barbara 
 173, 179. Dorothy 177. Edward 
 175, 179. Elinor 173, 177. Eliza¬ 
 beth 177, 179. Francis 179. 
 Katharine 173, 174, 177. Jane 
 173, 177. John 171, 177, 179, 
 
 351. Sir John 172, 173, 177. 
 Henry 179. Henry Lord Boling- 
 broke 170, 171. Lucy 173, 174, 
 179. Martha, Margaret (Abbess) 
 173, 414. Nicholas 172. His 
 monument 177, 179, Oliver 170, 
 172, 173, 177, 179, 247. Oliver 
 Viscount Grandison 170. Richard 
 177. Thomas 179. Walter, Wil¬ 
 liam 179. Sir William 174. 
 
 - Of Basing 363, 376. 
 
 - Of Heighley, Sir William 170 
 
 ped. 
 
 St. Leger, W. 101. 
 
 St. Lo, Loe, or Low 7. John 32, 97. 
 Sir John 403. 
 
 St. Maur 105. Arms 404. Agnes 
 56. W. 164. 
 
 St. Omer, Family 157. Elizabeth 
 159. 
 
 St. Paul, Mary (Countess of Pem¬ 
 broke) 191. * John 349. 
 
 St. Quintin, Sir Henry 286. Lora 
 287. 
 
 St. Vigors, Family 374. 
 
 St. Vincent, Family 166. 
 
 Salcer, or De Salceto 354. Philippa(?) 
 355. 
 
 Sale, Walter de la 437. 
 
 Salisbury, Edward of 358. Earl of 2, 
 77, 83. (Cecil) 2nd Earl of 213. 
 (Laci) Earl of 276. 
 
 - Bishop of 143. 
 
 Salter 265. 
 
 Salve, J. 152. 
 
 Sambourne, Nicholas 54. W. 112. 
 John 151. 
 
 Samwell, J., Mary 367. 
 
 Sanchez, Arms 177, 402. 
 
 Sanchia, Countess of Cornwall 78. 
 
 Sands, Lord 239. 
 
 Sandys, Arms 156, 413. Alice 413. 
 Sir Edward 11. Margaret, Lady 
 56, 156. Lord Thomas 156. Wil¬ 
 liam Lord 413. 
 
 Sanford 157. 
 
 Sangar, Gabriel 354. 
 
 Sarum, Arms of See 361. Bishop 
 60, 165. Dean and Chapter 293, 
 295. Edward Earl of 96, 195, 298. 
 
 Saunders, Nicholas 170 ped. 
 
 Savage, E. 189. Thomas 381. 
 Savaric, Bishop 126. 
 
 Sawear, John 441. 
 
 Sawyer, Arms 158. Katharine, 
 Thomas 157. 
 
 Save le, Beatrix, William Earl of 
 Essex 359. 
 
 Sayer, Arms 158. Of Hartwell, 
 Bucks. 261. 
 
 Scamel, E. 360. 
 
 Scarlet, W. 350. 
 
 Scone, Ab. of 385. 
 
 Scot, 380. J. Erigena 254. 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter 329. 
 
 Scrope. Arms 65. John 47 ped., 64. 
 Milicent, Sir Stephen 64, 65. 
 Elizabeth, (of Bolton) 170 ped. 
 George Poulett, M. P. 51. 63, 64, 
 65, 118, 123, 217, 218, 295, 305. 
 Scudamore, AValter 116. 
 
 Seacole, Elizabeth 35 
 Seager, Edith, W. 32. 
 
 Segrave, Arms 199. Lord 280, 
 281. 
 
 Segree, Simon de 437. 
 
 Selfe, Family 189, 295. Arms 296. 
 Cecilia 78, 120. Isaac 294. Jacob, 
 William 296. 
 
 Selwyn, Abbot of Malmesbury, Arms 
 256, 257. John, G. A. 359. 
 Selyman, 20. Thomas 112. 
 Servington, see Cervington 
 Sevenhampton, W. 350. 
 
 Seward, W. 237, 437. 
 
 Sewell, W. 22. 
 
 Seymour, Arms 23, 24, 70, 73, 126, 
 231, 233, 235, 413. Old Crest 376. 
 Anthony 376. Hon. Charles 314. 
 Charles, Lord 71. Dorothy 376, 
 
 377. Edw. see “ Beauchamp,” 
 Lady F.liz, 373, 379. Eliz. Lady 
 Cromwell 377. Frances, Sir Fran¬ 
 cis 70, 71. Lord F. 314. Sir 
 Henry, Arms 377. Queen Jane, 
 Arms 376. John 376, 377. Sir 
 John (father of Protector) 375. His 
 Arms 376. Lord 38S. Sir R., 
 Anne of Handford 406. Roger 
 375. Francis Lord of Trowbridge 
 
 378. Thomas de 374. Sir 
 Thomas 91, 150, 152. Thomas 
 Lord 286. Lord William 303. 
 See also “ Somerset, Duke of” and 
 “ Sudeley.” 
 
 Shaen, Sir J. 277, 
 
 Shaftesbury, Abbess 19, 20, 26. 
 
 -Earl of 154. 
 
 Shakerley, Dr. 60. 
 
 Shakespeare 87. His dress 131. 
 Sharpe, Samuel 195. 
 
 Shaw, Sir John 47 ped. 
 
 Shelburne, Earl of 34, 40. 
 
 Sheldon, J. 2. R. 139. 
 
 Shelton, Arms 445. 
 
 Shenfield, Lord Lucas of 214. 
 Sheppard, Germanicus 189. Jane 87. 
 Sherborne, Dr. 87. Baron, his MSS. 
 187, 210. 
 
 Sherfield, Henry, Rebecca 347. 
 Sherington, Grace 91,94. Sir Henry 
 91, 94, 302. Sir William 56, 90, 
 91, 94, 302, 330, 341, 345. 
 Shermore, R. 155. 
 
 Sherston, William 80. 
 
 Sherwin 143. 
 
 Shewter, John,Philip,Christoph. 331. 
 Shipman, W. 305. 
 
 Shipway, J. 112. 
 
 Shirley, Dr. 188. Lord Ferrars 243. 
 Shoekerwiek, Agnes de 56. 
 
 Shore, John, Mary 84. 
 
 Shrewsbury, Lady 89. Earl of 191. 
 Shute, William 100. 
 
 Sibell, Family, Arms 154, 361, 
 Nicholas 361. 
 
 Sidney, Lord 359. Sir Philip 217 
 ped. 
 
 Sifrewast 300. Godfrey 52, see 
 Cifrewast. 
 
 Silverthorn 353. 
 
 Simeon, Sir R. 166. 
 
 Simeon of Durham 198. 
 
 Simms, Anne 38. 
 
 Sindlesham, Arms 222. 
 
 Skeate, Jeffery 205. 
 
 Skilling, H. 380. 
 
 Slade, Alice atte 237, 438. 
 
 Sloper 22, 342. Simon 39. Walter 
 321. 
 
 Smith, (of Cruawell), The Festival 
 215. Sir Drummond, Joshua 299, 
 
 352. Edmund, or “ Rag ” 55. 
 Graham 85. Henry J. 284. John 
 
 353. Mary, (of Soley) 71: of 
 (Tockcnham) 194. Ralph 99. 
 Robert, (of Blackland), Arms 31: 
 (of Chippenham) 67. Samuel, 
 (Stanton St. Quintin) 289. Thomas, 
 (Easton Grey) 85: (of Tockenham) 
 194. Thomas 295, 296. Vincent 
 115. 
 
INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 475 
 
 Smyth, Sir Clement 376. Arms 377. 
 Sir John. (Bristol) 56. (Of Cor- 
 sham), Henry, John 79. Arms 
 445. Robert 67. Thomas “ The 
 Customer” 79. Sir Walter 378. 
 Snacheuburg, Helena 207. 
 
 Snape, R. 23S, 440. 
 
 Snapp, John 207. 
 
 Snell, 121. Arms 134. Pedigree 
 132. Sir Charles 74, 121, 134, 
 237. John 240, 443. Nicholas 43, 
 130, 131, 138, 443. Thomas 240, 
 443. Sir Thomas 135. 
 
 Snow, William Prior of Bradenstoke 
 188. 
 
 Soghill, John 440. 
 
 Somerford, William de 437. 
 
 Somerset, Seymour Duke of 73, 189, 
 378. Charlesl93. Edward8th Duke 
 303. Edward, Protector 111, 
 112, 165, 166, 340, 365, 373, 375. 
 His Arms 377, 379, 387. John 
 4th Duke 165. Lucy 217 ped- 
 Sarah 1). Dow. 165, 335, 336. Wm. 
 3rd Duke 375, 378. 
 
 - Beaufort I), of, Arms 400. 
 
 ■- Carr, Earl of 213. 
 
 •- Fitzroy II., Duke of Rich¬ 
 
 mond and, Arms 413. 
 
 Sore le, Arms 377. 
 
 South, E. 360. 
 
 Southby 160. 
 
 Southcote 331. 
 
 Southwell 249. Lady 378. 
 Spackraan, Thomas 166. 
 
 Spaiu, Alured of 46. 
 
 Spar, Lord 322. 
 
 Speke, Family 56, 85, Arms 57. 
 Elizabeth, George, Margaret 59. 
 Sir George, Hugh 57, 59, Sir 
 Hugh 55, 58, 84. John 443. 
 Spekyngton, William 439. 
 
 Spelman, Sir II. 392. 
 
 Spenser, Arms 71. Jane, Edmund 
 359. IE 368. 
 
 Spigurnell, Henry, Godfrey 125, 
 421. 
 
 Spilman 167, 191, 194. 
 
 Spondel, John 441. 
 
 Squier and Davis 327. 
 
 Stafford, Family 52, 372, 379, 3S1. 
 Arms 348, 370, 399, 401, 402. 
 Alice 347, 401. Countess of 161, 
 302. Edward, Earl of Wilts 85. 
 Elizabeth 399. Emma 348. Sir 
 Humphrey 347, 348, 399, 401. 
 
 Humphrey Duke of Buckingham 
 161. John Archbishop, Arms 28, 
 
 151, 347, 348, 349. Ralph Lord 
 373. Thomas Earl of 104. W. 
 136. 
 
 Stampe, Arms, Simon, Anne 181. 
 Stancombe, W. 116. 
 
 Stanhope, Arms, Sir J. 377. SirE., 
 Anne 374. 
 
 Stanley, Abbot of 30, 113, 122, 141, 
 
 152, ' 183, 185, 203, 436. W. 
 423. 
 
 Stantor 291. 
 
 Stapleton, Arms 212. 
 
 Stapulhill, J. 380. 
 
 Stapylton, Olive, Sir Ralph 92. 
 Staikv 295. 
 
 Staveley, Constance, Mary 217 ped. 
 Staunton, Henry de 438. 
 
 Stawel, Ralph 331. 
 
 Stephen, King 33, 111. 
 
 Stephen, Archd. of Sar. 382. 
 Stephens, Col. 74. William 93. 
 Thus, of Burderop 162, 191, 192, 
 193. Mary 162. 
 
 Stepkin, Theodosia 247 
 Sterkelcy, Ralph 127, 423. 
 
 Steward, C. 43. 
 
 Stewart, G. 299. 
 
 Stewkelev, Arms 445. 
 
 Stigand, Archbishop 391. 
 
 Stiles, Joseph, Beniamin Haskins 79. 
 
 Sir H. E. 94. 
 
 Stillman 353. 
 
 Stock, or Stoke, Arms, Adam de, 
 Geva, Sir Roger de 374, 379. 
 Stokes, (of Titherton) 61. Arms 116. 
 Alice 304. Christopher 132. 
 Edward 99, 100, 117. Edmund 
 132, 166. Jo. 187,304. Thomas 
 134, 187. 
 
 Stone, N. 225. 
 
 Stourton, Arms 27, 47, 231, 232, 
 235, 386, 388, 390, 395, 396, 397, 
 398. Crest 397. Family 305. 
 Botolpli 391, 395. Charles Lord 
 390, 393. Edith 395. Lord 331, 
 385, 393. John Lord 392, 397. 
 Mary 47 ped. Nicholas 392. 
 Thomasine, Edward Lord, Frances 
 397. Margaret, Thomas 398. 
 Sir William 354, 392. William 
 Lord 286, 301, 397. 
 
 Stow 74. 
 
 Stowell, Robert 442. 
 
 Strabolgi, Arms 97, 98. 
 
 Stradling, Pedigree 217. Arms 221. 
 Family 216, 218. Ann 120. Joan 
 216. Sir J. 208, 218, 220, 297. 
 Sir Edward 218, 219. F. 234. 
 An “Abraham man” 394. 
 
 Strange, or Straung, Arms, Jane, 
 Robert 159, 160. Edith 270. 
 Strangways, J. 275. 
 
 Stratford, R. de 349. 
 
 Stratton 209, 281, 282. Adam 150, 
 158. Elizabeth 132. John 30, 31. 
 Richard 132, 166. 
 
 Streechie, Sir John, Elizabeth 
 195. 
 
 Streeten, Rev. T. 154. 
 
 Strelley, Family 392. 
 
 Strenshaw 168, 169. 
 
 Stubbs 370. 
 
 Studley, Alexander of 62. 
 
 Stukeley, Sir Hugh 217 ped. Dr. 
 
 W. 45, 322, 323, 332, 334. 
 
 Stumpe, Arms 259, 280, 351. Brid¬ 
 get, Elizabeth 212. Sir James 211, 
 
 212, 259, 260. John 275. Capt. 
 Thomas, Rev. William 121. Wil¬ 
 liam 212, 243, 260, 267, 280. 
 
 Sturleius 391. 
 
 Sturmy, or Sturmid, see Esturmy. 
 Stutescombe, R. de 339. 
 
 Stutville, Family 152. 
 
 Suckling, Sir J. 4, 87. 
 
 Sudeley, Thomas Lord Seymour of 
 345, 347, 351, 353, 376. Arms 
 377. 
 
 Suffolk, (Grey) Duke of, Arms 73. 
 II. Duke of 378. (Delapole) E. 
 151. (Howard) Earl of 208, 212, 
 
 213, 243, 244, 260, 271. 
 
 Sulden 355. 
 
 Sul yard, Elizabeth 69, 114. 
 
 Sumner, Arms 303, 353. John 302. 
 
 Joan, Edward 303. W. 304. 
 Sussex, Thomas Rateliffe Earl of 
 417. 
 
 Sutton, Thomas (Charter House) 77, 
 335, 368, 369. 
 
 Suyfmore, John 238, 440, 442. 
 Swayne, Arms 177. 
 
 Swey, Robert 437. 
 
 Sweyn, E. 95, 191. 
 
 Swynnow, Arms 268, 277. 
 
 Sydele, J. 380. 
 
 Sydenham, Bampfield 146. 
 
 Sydney, Sir Philip 224. 
 
 Symonds, Captain 196, 198, 199. 
 Syward, John 159. 
 
 3 r 2 
 
476 
 
 INDEX II.—PERSONS. 
 
 T. 
 
 Talbot, Sir John 2, 316. John 90, 
 92. Olive, Sherington 92. 
 
 -- (of Goderich) 191. 
 
 Talboys, Walter 53. Lord 413. 
 Tango Ap, Arras 351. 
 
 Taukerville, W. de 330. 
 Tanner31,46. Thomas, (Bishop) 22, 
 290, 360. Richard 443. 
 Tattersall, Thomas 55. 
 
 Taunton, Family 43. 
 
 Taverner 102. 
 
 Taylor, A. Susannah 352. Joan 132. 
 John 138, 443. Sir J. 352. Silas 
 10. Isaac 137, 443. G. Watson 
 299, 345. Simon 299, 352. Sir 
 Simon 352. S. Watson 299, 352. 
 Telesford, 11. 207. 
 
 Templars 339. 
 
 Temys, J. 354. Joan 89, 355. W. 
 38, 354. 
 
 Tesdale, Susan 366. Christopher 
 367. 
 
 Teutates 171. 
 
 Tewkesbury, Abbot of 108, 109, 334, 
 339. 
 
 Teys, E. 53. 
 
 Thomas, Rev. Y. 159. 
 
 Thoms 145. 
 
 Thomson, Hester 181. 
 Thorneborough, J. 100. W. 101. 
 Thorpe, Ralph 112. J. 356. 
 
 Thoth 171. 
 
 Thurnam, Dr. 74, 149. 
 
 Thynne 26. Sir J. 283, 387. Henry 
 54. H. F. 79. Thomas 53, 54. 
 Tidcombe, E. 19. 
 
 Tilbury, H. Lord Yere 179. 
 
 Tibetot, Tivetot, or Tiptoft 54. 
 Arms 65, 377. John de 66, 110, 
 334. Sir John, Milicent, Sir 
 Robert 64, 65. 
 
 Thorpe, Family 295, 300. 
 Throckmorton, Elizabeth 22. Sir 
 Thomas 22. 
 
 Todenham, Prior of Bradenstoke 188. 
 Toledo, Gomez de 402. 
 
 Tolpeny, Walter 441. 
 
 Tonge, W. N. 78, 168. 
 
 Toni, Alice, Matilda 40. 
 
 Torney 358. J. 367. 
 
 Touchet, Arms 388, 408. 
 
 Townsend, Arms 117. James 299. 
 F. 347. 
 
 Townson, Dr. J. 62. 
 
 Tracy, Elizabeth 61. 
 
 Trappes, Agnes, Joan, Mary, Nicho¬ 
 las 20. Robert 19. 
 
 Tregoz, Family 116, 157, 170. Sir 
 Robert, Sibilla 170 ped. Arms 
 172, 173, 176, 177, 180. 
 
 Trenchard, Family, Arms 347, 348. 
 John 347. 
 
 Trevet, Thomas, William 430. 
 
 Trimnell, Mon. 62. 
 
 Tropenell 53, 122. Arms 81. Tomb 
 231. “The Book of” 2, 19, 80, 
 82, 108, 112, 131, 237. Thomas 
 (1490) 81, 82. Galiena, Lucy, Sir 
 James, Margaret, Sir Osbert,Wal¬ 
 ter 112. 
 
 Trotter, C. 227. 
 
 Troumer, Arms 383, 
 
 Truslowe, Family 342. Thomas, 
 Jane, John 330. 
 
 Trykingham, Lambert 438. 
 
 Tryon, Peter 201. 
 
 Tuck, Captain 78. R. 310. 
 
 Tucker, Charles 337. 
 
 Tudor, Owen 347. Edmund 359. 
 
 Tudway, H. 373. 
 
 Tufton, Cicely 213. 
 
 Tully, Dr. 49, 128, 
 
 Turben, 353. 
 
 Turges, R. 154. Alice 154. 
 
 Turner, Sharon 194. 
 
 Turpyn, J. 98, 116. 
 
 Turri, Elias de 112. Nicholas de 
 130, 425. 
 
 Turville, R. de 152. 195. 
 
 Twentyman, William 290. 
 
 Twopeny, W. 101. 
 
 Twynyho, Arms, Christopher, Mar¬ 
 garet, George 361. 
 
 Tyeys, Barons, Henry le 171. 
 
 Tyler, John 442, 
 
 Tyndale, Arms, Thomas, Dorothy 
 *136, 143, 211. 
 
 Tyse, see Teys. 
 
 U 
 
 Ughtred, Sir II. 376. 
 
 Ulph 379. 
 
 Ulster, Emmeline Countessof195,197. 
 
 Ulward 191. 
 
 Umfreville, ped. 170. Arms 173. 
 
 Unninge 276. 
 
 Urtiaco De, Baron 207. 
 
 V. 
 
 Yalence, William de 112, 191. 
 Aylmer 191. 
 
 Yalers, Nicholas, William de 407. 
 Vaux, Lord 213. 
 
 Venuz, or Venoir, Robert de, J. 228. 
 Vere, Earl of Oxford 41, 42, 126. 
 Horace Lord Tilbury, Katharine 
 \~0 ped., 179. Matilda 217. 
 Verney, Ralph E. 374. 
 
 Vigorous, Henry 444. 
 
 Yilett, Family 192. Arms 193. 
 Villiers, Arms, Alexander 407. 
 Christopher 67. Sir Edward 170 
 ped., 174. Lord Hyde 202. Y. 
 224. Robert (Wright) 217 ped. 
 Vince, Family 103. H. C. 101. 
 
 Roger 38. 
 
 Vincent 2. 
 
 Viner, Robert 47 ped. 
 
 Virgil, Polydore 349. 
 
 Vitalis, a Priest 381. 
 
 Vivonia De, or Vivoin 86. Arms 73. 
 Cicely, Hugh, Joan, John, William 
 86 . 
 
 Vreichfar, Arms 351. 
 
 Vyell, Arms 247. 
 
 W. 
 
 Wace, or Wase, J. 151. Christopher 
 137. Fidena 334. 
 
 Wadard 191. 
 
 Wadham, J. 238, 440, 443. Arms 
 3S6, 388. 
 
 Wadrnan, 299, 302. Family, Arms, 
 Frances, John, Robert 402. Crest 
 corrected 445. 
 
 Waghuens, P. 90. 
 
 Wainhouse 353. 
 
 Wake, Margery 46. 
 
 Waker, Clarice, Nicholas 419. 
 
 Wales, P. of 41, 385. Arms 386, 388. 
 Walker, Arms 43, 119. Clement, 
 Heneage, John 43, 166. George 
 38. T. L. 26, 28, 54, 82, 112. 
 Waller, Edmund 57. Sir William 
 258, 263. 
 
 Wallis, Anne, Bridget, Elizabeth, 
 Susan, Thomas 80. Cecilia 120. 
 Ezekiel 78, 120. J. 366. James 
 119. 
 
 Walloons 304. 
 
 Walmsley, Thomas 217 ped. 
 Walpole, H. 171, 213. 
 
 Walrond, Family 151, 155, 161. 
 
 Sir Adam 437, 444. William 62. 
 Waltham, R. de 158, 436. 
 
 Walton, Isaac 46, 301. John 84. 
 Thomas (of Crudwell) 215. 
 
INDEX II.—PERSONS. 
 
 477 
 
 Wambergh, J. de, Robert 197. 
 Wancy, Family 163, 167. Sir 
 
 Godfrey, Sir William 169. 
 
 Wanda, William de 386. 
 
 Wanton, Arms 114. 
 
 Wantys-ford, J. 244. 
 
 Waibeck, Perkin 231. 
 
 Ward, Bishop Seth 36. Rev. John 
 340, 373, 382. 
 
 Wariu, Abbot 242. 
 
 Warneford, Family 152, 158, 242, 
 436. Arms 244, 259. Ann, 
 Francis, Dr. Samuel W., 159. 
 Catharine 132. Sir Edmund 161. 
 J. 150, 159, 166. John (1393) 
 158, 244, 259. 
 
 Warner 84. Ferdinando, John 310. 
 Warr, Le 157. Clarissa 170. 
 Warren, Arms 199, 411. 
 
 Warwick, Earl of, device 35 (cor¬ 
 rected) 445, 40, 154, 165, 335, 368. 
 Guy Earl of, Arms 28, 41, 90. 
 Marshal Earl of, Arms 73. Neville 
 Earl of 85. Plessetis Earl of 309. 
 
 -Duke of 52. Henry, Duke, 
 
 Arms 28. 
 
 Waryner, John 331. 
 
 Wase, see Wace. 
 
 Washington, Sir Lawrence 242. 
 Arms 243. 
 
 Wastfield, J. 139, 146. 
 
 Water 211, 212. William 437. 
 Waterman, R. 359. 
 
 Waterton, Arms 344. 
 
 Watson, G. 299. 
 
 Watts, Roger 420. 
 
 Waylen, James 163,331,338,339,394. 
 Waynflete, Bishop 197. 
 
 Wayte, 166, 230. Arms 232, 235. 
 Edith, William 141, 142, 281, 
 428—9. Elizabeth 281. Margaret 
 234, 345, Walter 430, 
 
 Web, R. 254. 
 
 Webb 56, 108, 315. Catharine 177. 
 Edmund 156, 170 ped. Arms 177. 
 F. 276. Daniel, Mary 303. Nicho¬ 
 las 417. Thomas 99, 100. W. 
 166. 368. See also “ Richmond.” 
 Webbe, Ambrose 357. George 
 Bishop of Limerick, Hugh 354. 
 Nicholas 417. 
 
 Webber 43. 
 
 Weekes, Arms, J. 209, 257, 260. 
 Weever 20. 
 
 Welby,Arms, Johanna400. Jane401. 
 Errata 445. 
 
 Weld, Humphrey, W T illiam, Sir John, 
 Arms 42, 43, 397. Lady Mary 
 397. 
 
 Weldon’s suit 152. 
 
 Wellet 331. 
 
 Wellington, Duke of 335. 
 
 Wells 103. Arms of See 289. 
 
 Wenman 191. Lord 217 ped. 
 
 Wentworth, Jane 247. Margaret 
 375. Arms 376. Sir H. 377. 
 
 Weoxtan, Earl 37. 
 
 Werstan, Earl 37. 
 
 Wessex, King of, Arms 81. 
 
 West, Lady 35. Reginald 438. 
 
 Westbrook, Arms 403. 
 
 Westbury, William de 56, 63, 354. 
 R. Bethell Lord 403. 
 
 Westley, Sir F. 276, 353. 
 
 Westmoreland, Fane Earl of 92, 94, 
 302. Nevil Earl of, Ralph 98. 
 
 Weston, Godfrey 337. 
 
 Weye, Richard de la, Roger 432. 
 
 Whaddon, Parson 144. Henry de 
 315, 3o4. 
 
 Wharton, Thomas Earl of, Philip 
 Duke of 126. Thomas 5th Duke 
 208. Hon. Thomas (Marquis) 217 
 ped. 
 
 Whatley 353. 
 
 Wheare, Degory 225. 
 
 WTieeler, J. 124. 
 
 Wkethill, Elizabeth, Sir Richard 
 170 ped. Arras 177. 
 
 Whistler, Dr. 156. 
 
 Whitaker 32, 40, 353. 
 
 Whitby, Dr. D. 381. 
 
 White, Arms 47. John 214. Henry 
 97, 98, 100, 128. Lydia, William 
 47 ped. Mary 100. Nicholas 
 272. Priscilla 129. Sir Richard 
 353. Walter 128, 129, 357. Of 
 Poulshot 301. 
 
 Whiting, Abbot 148. John 439. 
 
 Whitlock 45. 
 
 Whitmore, William, Margaret 170 
 ped. Arms 178. 
 
 Whittocksmede 68, 296. Arms 47, 
 48, 361. John 47 ped. 
 
 Wichicote, J. 186. 
 
 Wick, Agnes de 89. 
 
 Wickham, Arms 68. William de 
 75. 
 
 Wildbore, Thomas 217 ped. 
 
 Wilde, Thomas 122. 
 
 Wilfric 146, 149. 
 
 Willeme, Walter 443. 
 
 William, Robert 438. Roger 420. 
 Walter 437. 
 
 Williams, Sir J. 261. 
 
 Williamson, 331. 
 
 Willington 300. John Lord, Ralph 
 39. 
 
 Willis, Browne, Thomas, Rachel, 
 Dr. Thomas 378. His Arms 379. 
 
 Willoughby, Arms 237, 313, 361, 
 390, 400, 401, 402. Cognizance 
 of 404. Anne 401. Edith, Chris¬ 
 topher 313. C. 381. Sir John 53, 
 347, 401. Ralph 239, 443. Robert 
 Lord Broke 347, 400, 401. Sir 
 Thomas 400, 401. 
 
 Wiltshire, Bishops of 311. 
 
 -Edward Stafford Earl of 
 
 85. Stephen Archdeacon of 183. 
 
 Winchester, Bishop of 166, 194. 
 Dean and Chapter 199. Marquis 
 363. St. John, Marquis 376. Des- 
 penser, Earl 157. 
 
 Winchcombe, Sir Henry, Frances 
 170 ped., 244. 
 
 Winchilsea, Heneage Lord 331. 
 Charles Earl of, Countess 338. 
 
 Windesore, Lord 83. Sir W r illiam 
 62. Sir J. 195. See Wyndesore. 
 
 Winford, John 396. 
 
 Winter, Edmund 22. 
 
 Winterburg, J. de 183. 
 
 Wintershull, John 130, 425. 
 
 Wintour, Arms, Elizabeth, Sir Roger 
 414. 
 
 Wintra, Abbot 360. 
 
 Witham, G. 89, 90. 
 
 Withie 68, 70, 117, 204. 
 
 Wodeward, Hugh le 428. 
 
 Wolfe, Morgan 376. Arms 377. 
 
 Wolfdon 242. Arms 243. 
 
 Wood, Anthony 4, 10, 157, ISO, 202, 
 258. 
 
 Woodland 96. 
 
 Woodruffe, W. 139. 
 
 Woolberg, Arms 156. 
 
 Wootton, Nicholas 335, 380. 
 
 Worcester, Percy Earl of 108. Earl 
 of 103. M. of 104. 
 
 Worsley, Bowyer 133. 
 
 Worth, George 47 ped., 126. 
 
 Wotton 157. 
 
 Wraxhall, Wroxhall, or Wrockos- 
 hall, Family, Arms 118, Sir Gef¬ 
 frey, or Godfrey 104, 117, 120, 
 141, 420, 421, 428. 
 
 Wren, Dr. 14. Sir Christopher 8,370. 
 
478 
 
 INDEX II.-PERSONS. 
 
 Wright 194. 
 
 Wriothesley, Maria 363. Thomas ! 
 Earl of Southampton 367. Bar¬ 
 bara, Arms 413. 
 
 Writele, Roger 150. 
 
 Wrofton, or Wroston 334. John 
 336. William 344. See Wrough- 
 ton. 
 
 Wrottesley, Arms 232, 346, 395, 
 396—7—8. Eleanor 57, 186, 346. 
 Thomasine, Sir Walter 397. 
 
 Wroughton, Arms 68, 336. Family 
 157,162, 203, 204, 277, 334. Alice | 
 368. Ann 22. Eleanor 336. I 
 Francis 217 ped. George 47 ped., 
 286, 368. Sir Giles 334. J. 163, 
 191. Mary 286. Thomas 22. Sir 
 Thomas 336. William 167, 195, 
 202, 311, 344. Sir William 334, 
 336. 
 
 Wrox hall, see Wraxhall. 
 
 Wry the, see Wriothesley. 
 
 Wulfhelm 127, 129, 146, 422, 432. 
 
 Wulfhere, King 125. 
 
 Wulfric 129, 424, 432, 435. 
 
 Wullavington, Durand de 430. 
 
 Wyatt 310. Michael 119. 
 
 Wyche 383. 
 
 Wykehampton, Bishop, Thomas de 
 373. 
 
 Wyld 338. 
 
 Wylkys, J. 168. 
 
 Wyly, or Wylly Bishop 293. Agnes 
 38. Alice, Henry 437, 438. Wil¬ 
 liam 439. 
 
 Wyly ton 39. 
 
 Wyndesore, William Lord, Wal¬ 
 ter 112. Andrew 284. See 
 Windesore. 
 
 Wyndham 31, 387. Earl of Egre- ! 
 mont 111, 193. 
 
 Wynter, Arms 344. 
 
 Wynterbourn, William 441. 
 
 Wyson, Walter 444. 
 
 Wythie, see Withie. 
 
 Wyvill, Bishop It. 382. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yate, Arms, John 300. Walter de i 
 96, 420. 
 
 Yeovilton, or Yevilton, Arms 121. j 
 Family 237, 238, 240. Bartholo¬ 
 mew 122. John de 437. Nicholas, ' 
 Peter, Richard, Sir Robert 439, | 
 441. 
 
 Yeven, J. his Seal 204. 
 
 Yewe, J. 283. 
 
 Yonge, of Colleton, Alice 119. 
 Thomas 118. 
 
 York, Edmund of Langley Duke of 
 42, 160, 165, 194, 202. Arms 203. 
 Philippa D. of 42. Cognizance of 
 House of 270. James Duke of 
 227, 316. 
 
 Yorke, Family, (Basset’s Down) 
 Arms 191. John 154,157. Anne 
 Charles, Edward, Hester, Jane, 
 Joyce, Mary, Susan 181. William 
 3, 181, 335. Charles, William 217 
 ped. 
 
 - “The Blacksmith” herald 
 
 213. 
 
 Young, Arms 156. Sir John 56, 58. 
 
 John 133. Nicholas 238, 440. 
 Yowne, see Yeven. 
 
 Yve, Adam 86. Richard, William 
 421. 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zittszchar, P. 186. 
 
 Zouche 388. Arms 404. Lord St. 
 Maur 39. Eudo 32. Ela, Roger 
 195. Alan 195, 197. 
 
INDEX III—PLATES 
 
 N.B. Those marked (*) are not from drawings hj Aubrey, but have been supplied from other sources. 
 
 
 No. of 
 Plate. 
 
 No. of 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 No. of 
 Plate. 
 
 No. of 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 A. 
 
 
 
 
 Arms and Qatarterings 
 
 
 
 
 bury. Fac-similes of John 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Aubrey’s Plans. 
 
 
 
 319 
 
 Barwise (?) 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Arms and Qatarterings. 
 
 
 
 
 Basely 
 
 xxiii 
 
 354 
 
 243 
 
 Abbot, (? Stewkeley) 
 
 ix 
 
 149 
 
 93 
 
 
 355 
 
 
 Albini 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 Baskerville 
 
 xxxii 
 
 448 
 
 344 
 
 
 xxviii 
 
 407 
 
 281 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 Allam, see Hallam 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 458 
 
 
 Almerele, see Aumarle 
 
 
 
 
 Basset 
 
 viii 
 
 145 
 
 89 
 
 Alworth 
 
 xvi 
 
 284 
 
 193 
 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 Angouleme 
 
 xli 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 Bayliffe 
 
 vii 
 
 108 
 
 72 
 
 Anstie 
 
 X 
 
 172 
 
 114 
 
 X 
 
 171 
 
 111 
 
 Arden 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Baynard 
 
 vii 
 
 116 
 
 81 
 
 Arnold 
 
 xlii 
 
 A. A. 
 
 413 
 
 viii 
 
 129 
 
 89 
 
 Arundel 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 Baynton 
 
 vi 
 
 95 
 
 69 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 310 
 
 220 
 
 X 
 
 172(?) 
 
 114 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 476 
 
 362 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 385 
 
 260 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 
 xxviii 
 
 403 
 
 277 
 
 Asb (?) 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 535 
 
 395 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 509 
 
 386 
 
 
 537 
 
 396 
 
 Beauchamp 
 
 iii 
 
 39 
 
 29 
 
 Ashton (?) 
 
 viii 
 
 139 
 
 89 
 
 
 V 
 
 80 
 
 67 
 
 Atford (?) 
 
 iv 
 
 55 
 
 47 
 
 
 vi 
 
 95 
 
 69 
 
 Atbelstan, King 
 
 vii 
 
 114 
 
 81 
 
 
 viii 
 
 136 
 
 89 
 
 xxvii 
 
 386 
 
 258 
 
 
 ix 
 
 166 
 
 108 
 
 Audley 
 
 xxxii 
 
 455 
 
 344 
 
 
 
 168 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 474 
 
 361 
 
 
 X 
 
 172 
 
 114 
 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 
 xiv 
 
 244 
 
 172 
 
 Aumarle 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 553 
 
 399 
 
 
 
 249 
 
 
 
 
 555 
 
 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 Ayala of Spain 
 
 XV 
 
 258 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 252 
 
 176 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 569 
 
 402 
 
 -of ITatch 
 
 XV 
 
 258 
 
 177 
 
 Aytiffe 
 
 xviii 
 
 300 
 
 210 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 487 
 
 376 
 
 
 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 569 
 
 402 
 
 B. 
 
 
 
 
 Beauchampe 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 Badby 
 
 xi 
 
 196 
 
 129 
 
 Beaufort, Cardinal 
 
 • iii 
 
 22 
 
 28 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 468 
 
 357 
 
 -Duke of Somerset 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 560 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 471 
 
 
 Beckington, Bishop 
 
 xxix 
 
 424 
 
 289 
 
 Badlesmere 
 
 V 
 
 i i 
 
 65 
 
 Beere, Abbot- (?) 
 
 xii 
 
 207 
 
 136 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 494 
 
 377 
 
 Beke, or Becke 
 
 Beke 
 
 iv 
 
 62 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 495 
 
 
 xxix 
 
 439 
 
 313 
 
 Barendes 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 555 
 
 399 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 306 
 
 221 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 308 
 
 
 
 
 558 
 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 566 
 
 402 
 
 Barnes 
 
 X 
 
 182 
 
 119 
 
 
 
 570 
 
 400 
 
 Barnston 
 
 | xxxiii 
 
 479 
 
 366 
 
 
 
 571 
 
 
 Barrett 
 
 X 
 
 176 
 
 116 
 
 Bennet 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 481 
 
 370 
 
 3 s 2 
 
480 
 
 INDEX III.-PLATES. 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 rage. 
 
 Arms and Quarterings 
 
 
 
 
 Arms and Qtiarteeings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Bennet (continued) 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 4S2 
 
 371 
 
 Brockhill 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 575 
 
 403 
 
 Brotherton 
 
 xli 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 Berenger 
 
 xxix 
 
 425 
 
 291 
 
 Brouneker 
 
 xxix 
 
 432 
 
 300 
 
 Berington, see Buriton 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 433 
 
 
 Berkeley 
 
 ii 
 
 5,7 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 434 
 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 27 
 
 Browne 
 
 xii 
 
 216 
 
 137 
 
 
 iii 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 
 xxii 
 
 353 
 
 241 
 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 •-(Viscount Montagu) 
 
 xii 
 
 204 
 
 135 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 505 
 
 386 
 
 Bruges 
 
 xxxii 
 
 454 
 
 344 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 516 
 
 388 
 
 Bryan 
 
 X 
 
 181 
 
 119 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 Buekhurst, Lord 
 
 xxii 
 
 351 
 
 240 
 
 
 
 G. 
 
 409 
 
 Bulstrode 
 
 xxix 
 
 427-8 
 
 300 
 
 -of Bruton 
 
 iii 
 
 32 
 
 28 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 497 
 
 383 
 
 
 
 38 
 
 29 
 
 Bur ell 
 
 ix 
 
 152 
 
 96 
 
 
 XX 
 
 323 
 
 231 
 
 
 
 160 
 
 98 
 
 
 
 329 
 
 
 - device 
 
 ix 
 
 158 
 
 98 
 
 
 
 334 
 
 232 
 
 Burgess (?) 
 
 xxxii 
 
 452 
 
 344 
 
 
 xxii 
 
 336 
 
 232 
 
 
 
 457 
 
 
 -of Stoke 
 
 ii 
 
 16 
 
 27 
 
 Burgh, de 
 
 ix 
 
 153 
 
 97 
 
 
 xl 
 
 C. 
 
 408 
 
 Buriton 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 576 
 
 403 
 
 Bernake 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 Burnell 
 
 X 
 
 181 
 
 119 
 
 Bernard 
 
 xvi 
 
 275 
 
 181 
 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 Bernas (?) 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 
 xlii 
 
 T, U. 
 
 413 
 
 Besil 
 
 ii 
 
 3 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 AA. 
 
 
 Bessome (?) 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 470 
 
 357 
 
 
 
 BB. 
 
 414 
 
 Bettesthorne 
 
 XXXV 
 
 508 
 
 386 
 
 
 
 CC. 
 
 
 
 
 516 
 
 388 
 
 
 xliii 
 
 
 414 
 
 Bevile 
 
 xxxii 
 
 465 
 
 348 
 
 Butler 
 
 iv 
 
 61 
 
 57 
 
 Blake 
 
 iv 
 
 46 
 
 37 
 
 -another coat 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 569 
 
 402 
 
 Bluet 
 
 ii 
 
 10 
 
 27 
 
 -(Earl of Ormond) 
 
 xli 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 
 iii 
 
 35 
 
 29 
 
 Button 
 
 X 
 
 180 
 
 119 
 
 
 vii 
 
 116 
 
 81 
 
 
 
 181 
 
 
 
 ix 
 
 148 
 
 93 
 
 
 
 183 
 
 
 Blunt, or Blount 
 
 XV 
 
 254 
 
 176 
 
 
 
 184 
 
 
 
 
 258 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 185 
 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 567 
 
 400 
 
 B. V. M. “M. R.” 
 
 *ix 
 
 165 
 
 102 
 
 
 
 569 
 
 402 
 
 “M.” 
 
 xxix 
 
 441 
 
 312 
 
 -of Essex 
 
 xvii 
 
 292 
 
 203 
 
 
 
 
 
 -of Mangotsfield 
 
 xlii 
 
 W, Z. 
 
 413 
 
 C. 
 
 
 
 
 Bodenham 
 
 xiii 
 
 221 
 
 144 
 
 Calley 
 
 xiv 
 
 238 
 
 162 
 
 
 xxxii 
 
 456 
 
 344 
 
 Caine, Seal of Borough 
 
 iii 
 
 40 
 
 31 
 
 Bolevn, Queen Anne (Mar- 
 
 
 
 
 Calston 
 
 ii 
 
 11 
 
 27 
 
 chioness of Pembroke) 
 
 xli 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 Calthorpe (?) 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 Bonham 
 
 xxix 
 
 427 
 
 300 
 
 Calvert 
 
 XXXIII 
 
 476 
 
 362 
 
 Botetourt 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 Camoys 
 
 xxii 
 
 344 
 
 238 
 
 
 xlii 
 
 T, U. 
 
 413 
 
 Cantilupe 
 
 XXXV 
 
 513 
 
 388 
 
 
 
 AA. 
 
 
 
 
 514 
 
 
 
 
 BB. 
 
 414 
 
 
 
 515 
 
 
 
 
 CC. 
 
 
 
 
 517 
 
 
 
 xliii 
 
 
 414 
 
 Carant 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 500 
 
 386 
 
 -of Mendlesham 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 525 
 
 388 
 
 Botreaux 
 
 V 
 
 86 
 
 69 
 
 
 xxx vi 
 
 546 
 
 398 
 
 
 vii 
 
 121 
 
 81 
 
 Carew 
 
 vii 
 
 107 
 
 71 
 
 
 XV 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 
 vni 
 
 125 
 
 83 
 
 
 xli 
 
 S. 
 
 413 
 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 Botry 
 
 xx vii 
 
 382 
 
 259 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 Bourchier 
 
 V 
 
 73 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 253 
 
 176 
 
 Bower 
 
 xiv 
 
 238 
 
 162 
 
 
 
 255 
 
 177 
 
 Brampton 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Carminow 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 Brancester 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 310 
 
 220 
 
 Braybrooke 
 
 xxix 
 
 433 
 
 300 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
INDEX III.-PLATES, 
 
 481 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Arms and (Jdaetebings 
 
 
 
 
 Abms and Quaeteeings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Carne 
 
 iii 
 
 20 
 
 27 
 
 Courtenay Henry, Marquis 
 
 
 
 
 Cater 
 
 X 
 
 181 
 
 119 
 
 of Exeter 
 
 xlii 
 
 X. 
 
 413 
 
 Cave 
 
 xvi 
 
 265 
 
 177 
 
 Cowdrey 
 
 iii 
 
 34 
 
 29 
 
 Cayley 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 
 Cerne, Matrix of crest 
 
 xix 
 
 318 
 
 230 
 
 
 
 36 
 
 
 -Badge, Shacklebolt 
 
 xii 
 
 215 
 
 136 
 
 Cradock, alias Newton (?) 
 
 xxxix 
 
 579 
 
 404 
 
 - (?) Horse’shead 
 
 XX 
 
 326 
 
 231 
 
 Crane 
 
 xxiii 
 
 373 
 
 259 
 
 Chaderton 
 
 xi 
 
 190 
 
 121 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 380 
 
 
 Chafyn 
 
 XXXV 
 
 520 
 
 388 
 
 Croke 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 538 
 
 396 
 
 
 
 521 
 
 
 Cromwell 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 522 
 
 
 -Gregory Lord 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 492 
 
 377 
 
 Champion 
 
 vi 
 
 99 
 
 69 
 
 Crowke 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 536 
 
 396 
 
 Chandois (?) 
 
 xxvii 
 
 387 
 
 262 
 
 Culme 
 
 xvi 
 
 277 
 
 182 
 
 Chediock 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 532 
 
 390 
 
 Cyfrewast 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 552 
 
 399 
 
 
 
 **540 
 
 397 
 
 
 
 553 
 
 
 Cheney 
 
 viu 
 
 133 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 554 
 
 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 554 
 
 399 
 
 
 
 555 
 
 
 
 
 555 
 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 558 
 
 
 D. 
 
 
 
 
 
 xxxviir 
 
 566 
 
 400 
 
 Danvers, ancient coat 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 
 571 
 
 402 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 317 
 
 2‘>2 
 
 
 
 577 
 
 403 
 
 
 
 
 227 
 
 
 
 578 
 
 
 -later coat (adopt- 
 
 V 
 
 74 
 
 63 
 
 Chester 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 ed, according to Aubrey, 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 221 
 
 Chiche 
 
 xxvii 
 
 392 
 
 268 
 
 from Brancester) 
 
 xviii 
 
 306-8 
 
 
 Chippenham Borough 
 
 v 
 
 79 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 11-12 
 
 
 Chivers 
 
 iii 
 
 44 
 
 35 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 Chorley (?) 
 
 xxxix 
 
 579 
 
 404 
 
 
 xliii 
 
 EE. 
 
 414 
 
 Clare 
 
 V 
 
 86 
 
 69 
 
 Daubeney (?) 
 
 viii 
 
 144 
 
 89 
 
 
 vi 
 
 106 
 
 71 
 
 
 xxii 
 
 346 
 
 238 
 
 
 xvi 
 
 278 
 
 192 
 
 Dauntesey 
 
 xvii 
 
 293 
 
 203 
 
 
 xxix 
 
 426 
 
 291 
 
 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 Clarke 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 471 
 
 357 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 307-8 
 
 221 
 
 Clay 
 
 xxvii 
 
 393 
 
 268 
 
 
 
 310 
 
 220 
 
 Clifton 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 311-12 
 
 223 
 
 Clinton 
 
 xxiii 
 
 362 
 
 248 
 
 
 
 313 
 
 217 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 378 
 
 259 
 
 
 
 315 
 
 221 
 
 Clyvedon 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 499 
 
 386 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 Cobkam 
 
 viii 
 
 140(?) 
 
 89 
 
 Darell 
 
 ii 
 
 11 
 
 27 
 
 
 ix 
 
 148(? 
 
 93 
 
 
 xvi 
 
 289 
 
 201 
 
 
 
 153 
 
 97 
 
 
 XX 
 
 322 
 
 231 
 
 
 
 157 
 
 98 
 
 
 xliii 
 
 DD. 
 
 414 
 
 
 
 164(?) 
 
 102 
 
 
 xl 
 
 B. 
 
 408 
 
 -(Another coat) 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 Davys 
 
 vi 
 
 104 
 
 70 
 
 Coker 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 487 
 
 376 
 
 
 vii 
 
 107 
 
 71 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 497 
 
 383 
 
 Delabere 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 Coleshill 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 310 
 
 220 
 
 Delaford 
 
 XV 
 
 258 
 
 177 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 Delamere (Two Lions) 
 
 ii 
 
 18 
 
 27 
 
 Conham 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 468 
 
 357 
 
 
 V 
 
 80 
 
 67 
 
 Cotel 
 
 ii 
 
 1 
 
 19 
 
 
 vi 
 
 95 
 
 69 
 
 
 xi 
 
 199 
 
 131 
 
 
 ix 
 
 163 
 
 100 
 
 Courtenay 
 
 ii 
 
 9 
 
 27 
 
 
 X 
 
 172 
 
 114 
 
 
 V 
 
 75 
 
 63 
 
 
 xi 
 
 191 
 
 121 
 
 
 viii 
 
 127 
 
 89 
 
 
 XX 
 
 320 
 
 231 
 
 
 ix 
 
 151 
 
 97 
 
 Dennys 
 
 X 
 
 186 
 
 119 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 311 
 
 223 
 
 
 xiii 
 
 223 
 
 145 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 561 
 
 400 
 
 Despenser 
 
 xvii 
 
 290 
 
 203 
 
 
 xl 
 
 E. 
 
 408 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 494 
 
 377 
 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 
 
 495 
 
 
482 
 
 INDEX III.-PLATES, 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Asms and Qrarterings 
 
 
 
 
 Arms and Quarterings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Dethick 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 481 
 
 370 
 
 France and England (con- 
 
 
 
 
 Dixton 
 
 xvii 
 
 296 
 
 203 
 
 tinued) 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 559 
 
 400 
 
 
 xxiii 
 
 361 (?) 
 
 248 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 561 
 
 400 
 
 Drew 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 573 
 
 402 
 
 Furneaux 
 
 X 
 
 1S1 
 
 119 
 
 Driby 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 
 
 Duneh 
 
 X 
 
 182 
 
 119 
 
 G. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 184 
 
 
 Gamon (?) 
 
 
 99 
 
 69 
 
 
 xliii 
 
 II. 
 
 414 
 
 Gascelyn 
 
 V 
 
 79 
 
 67 
 
 Dytnoke 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Gastrell 
 
 xii 
 
 206 
 
 136 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gifford 
 
 xxxix 
 
 580 
 
 403 
 
 E. 
 
 
 
 
 Glanville 
 
 xxix 
 
 446 
 
 337 
 
 Edingdon Priory 
 
 xxxii 
 
 459 
 
 345 
 
 Goddard 
 
 xiv 
 
 239 
 
 166 
 
 Edmund, King 
 
 xxiii 
 
 369 
 
 252 
 
 
 xv i 
 
 280 
 
 192 
 
 Edward Confessor 
 
 vii 
 
 111 
 
 81 
 
 
 xl 
 
 G. 
 
 409 
 
 Egiocke 
 
 XV 
 
 264 
 
 177 
 
 Godwyn 
 
 xxiii 
 
 373 
 
 259 
 
 Ela, Countess of Salisbury 
 
 viii 
 
 137 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 374 
 
 
 Englefield 
 
 xii 
 
 204 
 
 135 
 
 
 
 3 < 5 
 
 
 Erlegh 
 
 XXXV 
 
 522 
 
 388 
 
 Gore 
 
 iv 
 
 50 to 53 
 
 47 
 
 Ernley 
 
 xl 
 
 L. 
 
 409 
 
 
 
 55 to 58 
 
 
 Essex 
 
 xxii 
 
 347 
 
 239 
 
 
 X 
 
 170 
 
 111 
 
 
 
 348 
 
 
 
 xi 
 
 193 
 
 121 
 
 Estcourt 
 
 xxviii 
 
 402 
 
 272 
 
 Gournay 
 
 XXXV 
 
 513 
 
 3SS 
 
 Esturmy, see Sturmy 
 
 
 
 
 Grandison 
 
 xiv 
 
 244 
 
 172 
 
 Exeter, Duke of 
 
 iii 
 
 24 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 246 
 
 
 Ewarby 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 
 
 249 
 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 
 
 259 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 Ewvas 
 
 xiv 
 
 244 
 
 172 
 
 
 
 260 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 245 
 
 
 
 xvi 
 
 272 
 
 ISO 
 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 Grantmesnil 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 Green 
 
 xxviii 
 
 405 
 
 279 
 
 
 
 
 
 Greyville, or Greville 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 550 
 
 399 
 
 F. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 551 
 
 
 Fastolf 
 
 V 
 
 78 
 
 65 
 
 
 
 554 
 
 
 Fauntleroy, or Fontleroy 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 541 
 
 397 
 
 
 
 553 
 
 
 Fenwick 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 Fetti place 
 
 xiv 
 
 239 
 
 166 
 
 Grosse (?) 
 
 xxxii 
 
 451 
 
 344 
 
 
 xliii 
 
 HH. 
 
 414 
 
 Grubbe 
 
 xvi 
 
 281 
 
 193 
 
 Field 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 539 
 
 396 
 
 Guienne 
 
 xli 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 Finett 
 
 xxiii 
 
 360 
 
 247 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fitzalan, (called Mowbray 
 
 
 
 
 H. 
 
 
 
 
 by mistake) 
 
 in 
 
 30 
 
 28 
 
 Hales 
 
 xi 
 
 196 
 
 129 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 511 
 
 388 
 
 Hall (of Bradford) 
 
 ii 
 
 2 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 445 
 
 
 iv 
 
 54 
 
 47 
 
 Fitz Hugh 
 
 xxviii 
 
 405 
 
 279 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 
 
 
 417 
 
 289 
 
 
 xi 
 
 192 
 
 121 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 490 
 
 377 
 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 512 
 
 388 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 
 
 155 
 
 
 Halle (of Sarum) 
 
 xxix 
 
 430 
 
 300 
 
 Fitz Otes (?) 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 
 xlii 
 
 U. 
 
 413 
 
 Fitz Pavne 
 
 xxviii 
 
 404 
 
 278 
 
 Hallam (?) 
 
 xxiii 
 
 367 
 
 250 
 
 Fitzroy H., Duke of Rich- 
 
 
 
 
 Hamlyn 
 
 X 
 
 173 
 
 115 
 
 mond 
 
 xlii 
 
 Y. 
 
 413 
 
 Harold (?) 
 
 xiv 
 
 242 
 
 ' 168 
 
 Find 
 
 X 
 
 181 
 
 119 
 
 Harrison 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 482 
 
 371 
 
 Forneys (?) 
 
 xlii 
 
 BB. 
 
 414 
 
 Hastings 
 
 vi 
 
 106 
 
 71 
 
 Forte 
 
 xxiii 
 
 366 
 
 248 
 
 Hatfield (not Touchet) 
 
 xl 
 
 A. 
 
 408 
 
 Fortescue 
 
 iii 
 
 19 
 
 27 
 
 Haynes 
 
 iv 
 
 60 
 
 54 
 
 
 XX 
 
 333 
 
 231 
 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 538 
 
 396 
 
 France and England 
 
 iii 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 Hedges 
 
 xiv 
 
 236 
 
 161 
 
 
 vii 
 
 115 
 
 81 
 
 Henry YIII. 
 
 xii 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 524 
 
 388 
 
 Hervey 
 
 xxvii 
 
 380 
 
 259 
 
INDEX III.—-PLATES. 
 
 483 
 
 ■ 
 
 No. of 
 Plate. 
 
 No. of 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 No. of 
 Plate. 
 
 No. of 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Arms and Quarterings 
 
 
 
 
 Arms and Quarterings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Heytesbury,(i.e.theearliest 
 
 Y 
 
 68 
 
 63 
 
 Hussey (continued) 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 contused by Hungerford) 
 
 
 69 
 
 
 
 0. 
 
 413 
 
 
 
 71 to 75 
 
 
 -- (Another coat) 
 
 V 
 
 79 
 
 67 
 
 
 vi 
 
 87 
 
 69 
 
 Hyde 
 
 xxix 
 
 434 
 
 300 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 477 
 
 361 
 
 
 
 106 
 
 71 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 521 
 
 388 
 
 
 viii 
 
 134 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 XV 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 I. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 312 
 
 223 
 
 Ivie 
 
 xxi? ; 
 
 359 
 
 247 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 259 
 
 281 
 
 
 
 360 
 
 
 
 xx viii 
 
 408 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 xl-xliii 
 
 
 408 
 
 J. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 Jennings 
 
 iv 
 
 57 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 
 413 
 
 Jordan 
 
 xiv 
 
 240 
 
 166 
 
 Hip'ford 
 
 xlii 
 
 BB. 
 
 414 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hinton 
 
 xvi 
 
 288 
 
 201 
 
 K. 
 
 
 
 
 Hodington 
 
 xliii 
 
 GG 
 
 414 
 
 Keilways 
 
 X 
 
 174 
 
 115 
 
 Holcroit 
 
 xiii 
 
 227 
 
 156 
 
 Kemble 
 
 xiv 
 
 237 
 
 161 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 Kempe 
 
 xvi 
 
 276 
 
 181 
 
 
 
 230 
 
 
 Keynell 
 
 iv 
 
 51 
 
 47 
 
 Holland 
 
 vi 
 
 100 
 
 69 
 
 xi 
 
 188 
 
 121 
 
 Horsey (?) 
 
 xx viii 
 
 412 
 
 283 
 
 
 xii 
 
 203 
 
 134 
 
 Howard 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 
 
 136 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 377 
 
 259 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 387 
 
 262 
 
 -- of Bindon 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Keynes 
 
 xi 
 
 194 
 
 123 
 
 Hulbert 
 
 vii 
 
 110 
 
 80 
 
 
 195 
 
 
 Hungerford (the second 
 
 
 
 
 
 xiii 
 
 225 
 
 153 
 
 coat adopted by Hunger- 
 
 V 
 
 70 
 
 63 
 
 King 
 
 xxx vi 
 
 539 
 
 396 
 
 ford.) See also “ Heytes- 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 Kingswood Abbey Seal 
 
 iv 
 
 59 
 
 51 
 
 bury ” 
 
 
 75 
 
 
 Kuvvett 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 • 
 
 
 86 
 
 69 
 
 
 xxiii 
 
 376 
 
 259 
 
 
 vi 
 
 87 
 
 69 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 377 
 
 259 
 
 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 
 378 
 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 
 379 
 
 
 
 
 96 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 97 
 
 
 L. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9S 
 
 
 Lacv 
 
 xiv 
 
 236 
 
 161 
 
 
 vii 
 
 120-1 
 
 81 
 
 Lambe 
 
 X 
 
 183 
 
 119 
 
 
 xiv 
 
 235 
 
 159 
 
 Landeth 
 
 xxiii 
 
 335 
 
 248 
 
 
 XV 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 Langley 
 
 xiii 
 
 CO. 
 
 414 
 
 
 
 257 
 
 177 
 
 Lasoelles 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 
 
 259 
 
 
 Latimer 
 
 viii 
 
 131 
 
 89 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 303 
 
 215 
 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 558 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 312 
 
 223 
 
 
 xxx viii 
 
 562 
 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 394 
 
 269 
 
 
 
 563 
 
 
 
 
 399 
 
 
 
 
 564 
 
 
 
 xxvii i 
 
 40S 
 
 281 
 
 
 
 565 
 
 
 
 xxix 
 
 429 
 
 300 
 
 
 
 566 
 
 
 
 xxxii 
 
 466 
 
 349 
 
 
 
 571 
 
 402 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 501 
 
 386 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 xviii 
 
 316 
 
 228 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 514 
 
 388 
 
 Lee (?) 
 
 xliii 
 
 MM. 
 
 414 
 
 
 xl-xliii 
 
 several 
 
 408 
 
 Leighton 
 
 xvi 
 
 267 
 
 178 
 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 xxxii 
 
 453 
 
 344 
 
 
 
 
 413 
 
 Leversedge 
 
 xxxix 
 
 580 
 
 404 
 
 -— Device 3 sickles 
 
 iii 
 
 41 
 
 35 
 
 Levett 
 
 xvi 
 
 282 
 
 193 
 
 
 ix 
 
 159 
 
 98 
 
 Lewknor 
 
 xxix 
 
 444 
 
 336 
 
 -Ditto Haven 
 
 vi 
 
 88 
 
 69 
 
 Lexington 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 4S9 
 
 377 
 
 Hnnton 
 
 xiv 
 
 240 
 
 166 
 
 Ley, Earl of Marlborough 
 
 xxii 
 
 340 
 
 233 
 
 Hussey 
 
 V 
 
 69 
 
 63 
 
 
 xxxix 
 
 579 
 
 404 
 
 
 vi 
 
 90 
 
 69 
 
 
 
 581 
 
 
 
 
 96 
 
 
 
 
 582 
 
 
 3x2 
 
484 
 
 INDEX III.-PLATES, 
 
 
 No. of 
 Plate. 
 
 No. of 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Arms and Qtjabterings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Lisle 
 
 Londeth, see Landeth 
 
 ii 
 
 4 
 
 22 
 
 Long 
 
 ii 
 
 7 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 27 
 
 
 iii 
 
 20 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 31 
 
 
 
 iv 
 
 61 
 
 57 
 
 
 Y 
 
 81 
 
 67 
 
 
 XX 
 
 321 
 
 231 
 
 
 
 322 
 
 
 
 
 329 
 
 
 
 
 334 
 
 232 
 
 
 xxii 
 
 336 
 
 232 
 
 
 
 337 
 
 
 
 
 338 
 
 233 
 
 
 xxxii 
 
 460 
 
 346 
 
 - Device, Marshal’s 
 
 
 
 
 lock or Shacklebolt, as 
 
 ii 
 
 6 
 
 23 
 
 owners of Draycote 
 
 iii 
 
 33 
 
 29 
 
 
 iv 
 
 63 
 
 56 
 
 
 XX 
 
 328 
 
 231 
 
 -Device, Stag’s horn 
 
 ii 
 
 8 
 
 27 
 
 iii 
 
 37 
 
 29 
 
 -“ New Crest ” 
 
 xxii 
 
 339 
 
 233 
 
 Longvilliers 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 489 
 
 377 
 
 Lovell 
 
 xiii 
 
 222 
 
 144 
 
 Lncas, Lord 
 
 xviii 
 
 302 
 
 214 
 
 Lucy 
 
 ii 
 
 12 
 
 27 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 494 
 
 377 
 
 
 
 495 
 
 
 
 xl 
 
 K. 
 
 409 
 
 Ludlow of Hill Deverill 
 
 vii 
 
 116 
 
 81 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 
 
 119 
 
 
 
 
 122 
 
 
 
 viii 
 
 123 
 
 81 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 497 
 
 383 
 
 
 
 
 and 
 
 
 
 
 445 
 
 Lupus 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 Lyte 
 
 xii 
 
 216 
 
 137 
 
 
 xxii 
 
 352 
 
 241 
 
 M. 
 
 
 
 
 Macwilliams 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 487 
 
 376 
 
 Malet 
 
 X 
 
 179 
 
 118 
 
 Malmesbury Borough Seal 
 
 xxiii 
 
 368 
 
 252 
 
 -Abbey Arms 
 
 xxiii 
 
 370 
 
 256 
 
 Maltravers 
 
 XXXV 
 
 511 
 
 388 
 
 
 xxxv ii 
 
 551 
 
 399 
 
 
 
 552 
 
 
 
 
 553 
 
 
 
 
 554 
 
 
 
 
 bob 
 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 Malwyn 
 
 iii 
 
 38 
 
 29 
 
 
 XX 
 
 323 
 
 231 
 
 Manlovell 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 489 
 
 377 
 
 Manners 
 
 xxvii 
 
 379 
 
 259 
 
 Manning 
 
 xxviii 
 
 479 
 
 366 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Aejis and Quarterings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Manning (continued) 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Mar my on 
 
 xxviii 
 
 405 
 
 279 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 419 
 
 288 
 
 Marshall (?) 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 494 
 
 377 
 
 
 
 495 
 
 
 Martvn (?) 
 
 xliii 
 
 II. 
 
 414 
 
 Mauduit 
 
 xxviii 
 
 414 
 
 286 
 
 Old 
 
 xxviii 
 
 415 
 
 
 Mayney 
 
 iv 
 
 64 
 
 57 
 
 Meredith 
 
 XX 
 
 332 
 
 231 
 
 Moels 
 
 V 
 
 86 
 
 69 
 
 
 vi 
 
 106 
 
 71 
 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 Mohuu 
 
 xvii 
 
 295 
 
 203 
 
 Molvns 
 
 V 
 
 72 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 69 
 
 
 vi 
 
 97 
 
 
 
 vii 
 
 120 
 
 81 
 
 
 XV 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 
 xli 
 
 Q. 
 
 413 
 
 
 
 R. 
 
 
 Mompesson 
 
 xxviii 
 
 409 
 
 281 
 
 Montagu 
 
 iii 
 
 28 
 
 28 
 
 M onthermer 
 
 iii 
 
 28 
 
 28 
 
 Moody 
 
 xxiii 
 
 356 
 
 243 
 
 
 
 35 / 
 
 
 Moore 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 497 
 
 383 
 
 Moresbv 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 Morgan, (called Gore by 
 
 
 
 
 mistake) 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 545 
 
 398 
 
 Mortimer 
 
 xiii 
 
 220 
 
 144 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 561 
 
 400 
 
 Mountford 
 
 iv 
 
 61 
 
 57 
 
 N. 
 
 
 
 
 Nanfant 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 491 
 
 377 
 
 Neville 
 
 iii 
 
 21 
 
 28 
 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 317 
 
 227 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 562 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 563 
 
 
 
 xl 
 
 P. 
 
 40S 
 
 Neville, Archbishop 
 
 vi 
 
 92 
 
 69 
 
 Newborough 
 
 iii 
 
 31 
 
 28 
 
 
 V 
 
 81 
 
 67 
 
 
 ix 
 
 168 
 
 108 
 
 Newcomen 
 
 xvi 
 
 270 
 
 ISO 
 
 Nicholas 
 
 xvi 
 
 266 
 
 177 
 
 
 xxiii 
 
 364 
 
 248 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 391 
 
 268 
 
 Norhorne 
 
 iii 
 
 44 
 
 35 
 
 Norreys, or Norys 
 
 xxix 
 
 445 
 
 336 
 
 Norton 
 
 vi 
 
 101 
 
 69 
 
 
 xxviii 
 
 411 
 
 281 
 
 P. 
 
 
 
 
 Parr, M. of Northampton 
 
 xxviii 
 
 405 
 
 279 
 
 - Queen Catharine 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 490 
 
 377 
 
 Patishull 
 
 xiv 
 
 244 
 
 172 
 
 
 
 245 
 
 172 
 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
INDEX III.—PLATES. 
 
 485 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Aehs and Qijarteeings 
 
 
 
 
 Arms and Quarteeings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Patishull (continued) 
 
 XV 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 Roche (continued) 
 
 vi 
 
 95 
 
 69 
 
 Pavely 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 549 
 
 399 
 
 
 viii 
 
 132 
 
 89 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 577 
 
 403 
 
 
 X 
 
 172 
 
 114 
 
 
 xxxix 
 
 579 
 
 404 
 
 Roehford 
 
 xli 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 -Device of Rudder 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 557 
 
 400 
 
 Roet (?) 
 
 XXXV 
 
 523 
 
 388 
 
 Pavey 
 
 xvi 
 
 286 
 
 199 
 
 Rogers 
 
 ii 
 
 3 
 
 22 
 
 Paynell 
 
 xiii 
 
 226 
 
 156 
 
 Rolle 
 
 X 
 
 185 
 
 119 
 
 
 xv 
 
 251(?) 
 
 173 
 
 
 
 186 
 
 
 Percy 
 
 vii 
 
 120 
 
 81 
 
 Roos, or Ros 
 
 xxviii 
 
 405 
 
 279 
 
 
 ix 
 
 153 
 
 97 
 
 
 
 421 
 
 288 
 
 
 xli 
 
 R. 
 
 413 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 490 
 
 377 
 
 -or Piers 
 
 xxii 
 
 341 
 
 237 
 
 Rossell (?) 
 
 xxxix 
 
 579 
 
 404 
 
 Petley 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Russell 
 
 V 
 
 66 
 
 61 
 
 Pettey 
 
 xxxix 
 
 582 
 
 404 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 314 
 
 217 
 
 Peverell 
 
 V 
 
 71 
 
 63 
 
 
 xxiii 
 
 363 
 
 248 
 
 
 vi 
 
 89 
 
 69 
 
 
 
 364 
 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 xxviii 
 
 416 
 
 284 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 312 
 
 223 
 
 Rymer 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 497 
 
 383 
 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 P. 
 
 413 
 
 S. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 S. 
 
 
 St. Am and 
 
 iii 
 
 43 
 
 35 
 
 Philipott 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 St. Batbe 
 
 vi 
 
 101 
 
 69 
 
 Picketing 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 St. George 
 
 xv 
 
 262 
 
 177 
 
 Piers, or Percy 
 
 xxii 
 
 341 
 
 237 
 
 St. John 
 
 ii 
 
 18 
 
 27 
 
 Pil king ton 
 
 X 
 
 182 
 
 119 
 
 
 xiv 
 
 244 
 
 172 
 
 Pleydell 
 
 vii 
 
 108 
 
 72 
 
 
 
 248 
 
 
 
 xvi 
 
 270 
 
 180 
 
 
 
 249 
 
 
 Plumer 
 
 xxv ii 
 
 383 
 
 259 
 
 
 XV 
 
 several 
 
 173 
 
 Poole, of Oaksey 
 
 xxviii 
 
 406 
 
 279 
 
 
 XX 
 
 320 
 
 231 
 
 - of Sapperton 
 
 xxviii 
 
 406 
 
 279 
 
 -(with a bend) 
 
 xliii 
 
 FF. 
 
 414 
 
 Poore (?) 
 
 xxix 
 
 415 
 
 296 
 
 St. Maur 
 
 xxxix 
 
 579 
 
 404 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 467 
 
 356 
 
 Sanchez, of Spain 
 
 XV 
 
 258 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 471 
 
 357 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 569 
 
 402 
 
 -Philip, initials of on 
 
 
 
 
 Sandy's 
 
 xiii 
 
 228 
 
 156 
 
 glass 
 
 
 480 
 
 366 
 
 
 xli 
 
 S. 
 
 413 
 
 Pope, The 
 
 ix 
 
 155 
 
 98 
 
 Sarum, Bishop of 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 474 
 
 361 
 
 
 xii 
 
 209 
 
 136 
 
 Sawyer 
 
 xiii 
 
 231 
 
 156 
 
 Popham, of Bradley 
 
 ii 
 
 14 
 
 27 
 
 Scrope 
 
 V 
 
 76 
 
 65 
 
 
 iii 
 
 36 
 
 29 
 
 
 vi 
 
 93 
 
 69 
 
 
 iv 
 
 61 
 
 57 
 
 Selwyn 
 
 xxiii 
 
 371 
 
 256 
 
 
 XX 
 
 325 
 
 231 
 
 Seymour 
 
 ii 
 
 7 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 334 
 
 232 
 
 
 iv 
 
 61 
 
 57 
 
 Power 
 
 xxviii 
 
 422 
 
 290 
 
 
 vi 
 
 105 
 
 70 
 
 Powlett 
 
 ix 
 
 150 
 
 97 
 
 
 viii 
 
 144 
 
 89 
 
 
 xx vii 
 
 381 
 
 259 
 
 
 XX 
 
 324 
 
 231 
 
 
 
 399 
 
 269 
 
 
 
 329 
 
 
 Prater 
 
 viii 
 
 126 
 
 89 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 485 
 
 376 
 
 Prynne 
 
 vi 
 
 102 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 
 
 489 
 
 
 
 
 106 
 
 
 
 xiii 
 
 Z. 
 
 413 
 
 Pulteney (?) 
 
 xxix 
 
 4 2 3 
 
 289 
 
 - Q. Jane 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 486 
 
 376 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Q. Jane’s badge 
 
 xi 
 
 198 
 
 130 
 
 Q* 
 
 
 
 
 Shaftesbury, Abbess of 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 472 
 
 360 
 
 Quintin 
 
 xiv 
 
 241 
 
 168 
 
 Sherington 
 
 viii 
 
 146 
 
 91 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sibell 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 478 
 
 361 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 
 Sifrewast, see Cyfrewast 
 
 
 
 
 Redvers 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 Smvth 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 493 
 
 377 
 
 
 xlii 
 
 X. 
 
 413 
 
 Snell 
 
 xii 
 
 202 
 
 134 
 
 Richmond 
 
 xiii 
 
 234 
 
 157 
 
 
 
 203 
 
 136 
 
 Ring-wood 
 
 vii 
 
 117 
 
 81 
 
 Somery 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 Roche 
 
 V 
 
 80 
 
 67 
 
 Sore, Le 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 491 
 
 377 
 
486 
 
 INDEX III.—PLATES. 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Asms and Quabtebings 
 
 
 
 
 Abms and Qttartebings 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 Speke 
 
 iv 
 
 62 
 
 57 
 
 Tibetot, or Tiptoft (con- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 64 
 
 
 tinned) 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 494 
 
 377 
 
 Spenser 
 
 ix 
 
 167 
 
 108 
 
 
 
 495 
 
 
 Stafford, (Archbishop) 
 
 iii 
 
 23 
 
 28 
 
 Tracy 
 
 V 
 
 65 
 
 61 
 
 
 xii 
 
 203 
 
 136 
 
 Tregoz 
 
 xiv 
 
 244 
 
 172 
 
 
 xxxii 
 
 464 
 
 348 
 
 
 
 249 
 
 
 
 
 465 
 
 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 550 
 
 399 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 
 
 551 
 
 
 
 
 260 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 554 
 
 
 
 xvi 
 
 273 
 
 180 
 
 
 
 555 
 
 
 Trinity Holy, Symbol 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 503 
 
 386 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 Tropenell 
 
 vii 
 
 122 
 
 81 
 
 
 
 558 
 
 
 
 viii 
 
 123 
 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 571 
 
 402 
 
 
 
 125 
 
 83 
 
 Stampe 
 
 xv i 
 
 274 
 
 181 
 
 -Badge, a Yoke 
 
 viii 
 
 124 
 
 82 
 
 Stanhope 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 489 
 
 377 
 
 Troumer 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 496 
 
 383 
 
 Stapleton (?) 
 
 xviii 
 
 304 
 
 215 
 
 Tuiberville (?) 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 Stock de 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 483 
 
 374 
 
 Twvniho 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 473 
 
 361 
 
 Stokes 
 
 X 
 
 175 
 
 116 
 
 Tyndale 
 
 xii 
 
 205 
 
 136 
 
 Stourton 
 
 ii 
 
 13 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 iv 
 
 56 
 
 47 
 
 U. 
 
 
 
 
 
 XX 
 
 327 
 
 231 
 
 TTmfreville 
 
 XV 
 
 250 
 
 172 
 
 
 
 335 
 
 232 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 173 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 506 
 
 386 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 XXXV 
 
 526 
 
 388 
 
 V. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 528 
 
 389 
 
 Vere 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 532 
 
 390 
 
 Yilett 
 
 xvi 
 
 283 
 
 193 
 
 
 
 534 
 
 395 
 
 Yyell (quartered with Ivie) 
 
 xxiii 
 
 360 
 
 247 
 
 
 
 535 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 536 
 
 396 
 
 W. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 541 
 
 397 
 
 Wadham 
 
 XXXV 
 
 507 
 
 386 
 
 
 
 545 
 
 398 
 
 Wadman 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 573 
 
 402 
 
 -Old supporters 
 
 
 542 
 
 397 
 
 
 
 574 
 
 
 -Old Crest 
 
 XXXV 
 
 527 
 
 396 
 
 Wakerley (?) 
 
 ix 
 
 156 
 
 98 
 
 Old Shield 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 529 
 
 389 
 
 Wales, Edward Prince of 
 
 vi 
 
 91 
 
 69 
 
 -Rebus 
 
 
 533 
 
 391 
 
 ■-Threefeathers, 2andl 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 502 
 
 386 
 
 -Device of Sledge 
 
 
 543 
 
 397 
 
 -Plume of feathers 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 572 
 
 402 
 
 Stumpe 
 
 xxiii 
 
 374 
 
 259 
 
 Wanton 
 
 vi 
 
 95 
 
 69 
 
 
 
 376 
 
 
 
 x 
 
 172 
 
 114 
 
 
 xxvii 
 
 381 
 
 
 W arneford 
 
 xxiii 
 
 358 
 
 244 
 
 
 
 382 
 
 
 
 
 375 
 
 259 
 
 
 
 383 
 
 
 Warren 
 
 xii 
 
 N. 
 
 411 
 
 
 
 384 
 
 260 
 
 Warwick, Guy, Earl of 
 
 iii 
 
 25 
 
 28 
 
 Sturmy, or Esturmy 
 
 in 
 
 26 
 
 28 
 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 Waterton 
 
 xxxii 
 
 458 
 
 344 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 487 
 
 376 
 
 Wavte 
 
 XX 
 
 334 
 
 232 
 
 Strabolgi 
 
 ix 
 
 153 
 
 97 
 
 Webb 
 
 xv 
 
 263 
 
 177 
 
 Stradling 
 
 xvii 
 
 299 
 
 209 
 
 Welby 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 564 
 
 400 
 
 
 xviii 
 
 307 
 
 221 
 
 
 
 566 
 
 
 
 
 308 
 
 
 
 
 569 
 
 402 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 Weld 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 544 
 
 397 
 
 Strange 
 
 xiv 
 
 235 
 
 159 
 
 Wentworth 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 488 
 
 376 
 
 Strug (?) 
 
 v 
 
 68 
 
 63 
 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 494 
 
 377 
 
 Swayne 
 
 XV 
 
 258 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 495 
 
 
 Swynnow (?) 
 
 xxvii 
 
 390 
 
 268 
 
 Westbrooke (?) 
 
 xxxix 
 
 580 
 
 403 
 
 
 
 
 277 
 
 Wessex, King of 
 
 vii 
 
 113 
 
 81 
 
 
 
 
 
 Whethill 
 
 XV 
 
 256 
 
 177 
 
 T. 
 
 
 
 
 White 
 
 iv 
 
 58 
 
 47 
 
 Talbot 
 
 ix 
 
 147 
 
 89 
 
 Whitmore 
 
 xvi 
 
 267 
 
 178 
 
 Tateshale 
 
 xvii 
 
 301 
 
 212 
 
 Whittocksmede 
 
 iv 
 
 52 
 
 47 
 
 Tibetot, or Tiptoft 
 
 V 
 
 77 
 
 65 
 
 Wickham 
 
 V 
 
 83 
 
 68 
 
INDEX III.-PLATES, 
 
 487 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Arms and Quaetebings 
 
 
 
 
 Bradfield in Hullavington, old 
 
 
 
 
 continued. 
 
 
 
 
 view of 
 
 xxiv 
 
 
 248 
 
 Willoughby (? on seal) 
 
 xxii 
 
 343 
 
 237 
 
 ‘Bournevale Chapel, Malmes- 
 
 
 
 
 
 xxix 
 
 439 
 
 313 
 
 bury, destroyed 
 
 xxv i 
 
 
 261 
 
 
 xxxiii 
 
 475 
 
 361 
 
 •Burton Hill Chapel, Malmes- 
 
 
 
 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 532 
 
 390 
 
 bury, destroyed 
 
 xxvi 
 
 
 262 
 
 
 xxx vii 
 
 555 
 
 399 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 556 
 
 400 
 
 C. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 558 
 
 
 Caine Church, old figures on 
 
 
 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 563 
 
 
 glass 
 
 iv 
 
 45 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 to 
 
 
 *Cerne, Brass of Sir Edward 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 566 
 
 
 and Lady 
 
 xix 
 
 
 230 
 
 
 
 570 
 
 402 
 
 - Ditto of Philippa 
 
 XX 
 
 318 
 
 230 
 
 
 
 571 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 xl 
 
 F. 
 
 408 
 
 D. 
 
 
 
 
 Wynter (?) 
 
 xxxii 
 
 450 
 
 344 
 
 ‘Devizes : Plan of Divisce, or 
 
 
 
 
 Winter 
 
 xliii 
 
 GG. 
 
 414 
 
 boundaries 
 
 
 
 308 
 
 Wolfe 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 491 
 
 •377 
 
 Diaycote,01d House 
 
 xxi 
 
 
 232 
 
 Wolfe Newton 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 491 
 
 377 
 
 -Church,Monument in 
 
 XX 
 
 319 
 
 230 
 
 Wriothesley 
 
 xlii 
 
 AA. 
 
 413 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wrockeshall 
 
 X 
 
 177 
 
 117 
 
 H. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 178 
 
 
 Hat of antique shape 
 
 xvi 
 
 269 
 
 180 
 
 Wrottesley 
 
 XX 
 
 335 
 
 232 
 
 
 xxix 
 
 436 
 
 305 
 
 
 xxii 
 
 337 
 
 
 Head, between letters on a Bell 
 
 xxvii 
 
 401 
 
 277 
 
 
 xxxii 
 
 460 
 
 346 
 
 Heart with hands joined 
 
 xiii 
 
 22! 
 
 145 
 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 534 
 
 395 
 
 Hobbes, the “ Philosopher,” 
 
 
 
 
 Wroughton 
 
 V 
 
 84 
 
 68 
 
 site of his birthplace in 
 
 
 
 
 
 xvii 
 
 294 
 
 203 
 
 Malmesbury 
 
 xxv 
 
 
 264 
 
 
 
 297 (?) 
 
 204 
 
 -House in which he was 
 
 
 
 
 
 xxix 
 
 443 
 
 336 
 
 born, view of 
 
 xxvii 
 
 388 
 
 264 
 
 
 
 444-5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wry the, see Wriothesley 
 
 
 
 
 I. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 “I. H. S.” Monogram 
 
 ix 
 
 165 
 
 102 
 
 Y. 
 
 
 
 
 
 xii 
 
 217 
 
 137 
 
 Yate 
 
 xxix 
 
 434 
 
 300 
 
 
 xiii 
 
 233 
 
 157 
 
 Yeovilton 
 
 xi 
 
 189 
 
 121 
 
 
 xiv 
 
 243 
 
 168 
 
 - seal of 
 
 xxii 
 
 345 
 
 238 
 
 
 
 
 
 York, Duke of 
 
 xvii 
 
 291 
 
 203 
 
 J. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 295 
 
 
 “JESUS PEER,” on stained 
 
 
 
 
 Yorke 
 
 xvi 
 
 274 
 
 181 
 
 glass 
 
 xii 
 
 217 
 
 137 
 
 Yowne, seal of 
 
 xvii 
 
 A 1 0 
 
 298 
 
 204 
 
 K. 
 
 
 
 
 Yve, seal of 
 
 xi 
 
 187 
 
 120 
 
 •Kingston,orlhe Duke’sHouse, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bradford 
 
 i 
 
 
 21 
 
 Z. 
 
 
 
 
 Kington St. Michael Church: 
 
 
 
 
 Zouche 
 
 xxxix 
 
 579 
 
 404 
 
 Figures of Nye family, for- 
 
 
 
 
 
 xli 
 
 M. 
 
 409 
 
 merly on glass 
 
 xi 
 
 201 
 
 134 
 
 
 
 
 
 - of Kings on ditto 
 
 xii 
 
 212 
 
 136 
 
 A. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 213 
 
 
 Aburv. Fac-simile of John 
 
 
 
 
 - Ancient South door, 
 
 
 
 134 
 
 Aubrey’s “ PL I. 
 
 
 
 
 - Ditto Tower window, 
 
 
 
 134 
 
 Survey of earth- 
 
 
 
 
 - Priory, St. Mary’s, 
 
 
 
 
 work: ” taken about 
 
 
 
 
 view of 
 
 xiii 
 
 218 
 
 143 
 
 A.D. 1G63. 
 
 xxx 
 
 
 319 
 
 - Ancient window, 
 
 
 219 
 
 145 
 
 - Ditto of “his Plate II. 
 
 
 
 
 ditto, 
 
 
 
 
 General Plan,” of 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Avenue, &c. 
 
 xxxi 
 
 
 320 
 
 L. 
 
 
 
 
 Aubrey John, Portrait of 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Lady’s Girdle 
 
 xviii 
 
 309 
 
 221 
 
 - His Birthplace, Easton 
 
 
 
 
 Langley Burell Church, Old 
 
 
 
 
 Piers 
 
 
 
 417 
 
 devices 
 
 ix 
 
 161-2 
 
 98 
 
 
 
 
 
 -Figureof JolrnBurell 
 
 
 152 
 
 96 
 
 B. 
 
 
 
 
 •Leigh Delamere, Old Church 
 
 Frontis- 
 
 
 
 Batterdash, a weapon 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 piece. 
 
 
 101 | 
 
 3 u 2 
 
488 
 
 INDEX III.-PLATES. 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 1 
 
 
 
 No. of 
 
 No. of 
 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 
 Plate. 
 
 Shield. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Long, Monument of a lady 
 
 
 
 
 Slierston Church,effigy of priest 
 
 X 
 
 169 
 
 107 
 
 unknown, in South Wrax- 
 
 
 
 
 *Southwick Court, North 
 
 
 
 
 hall Church 
 
 ii 
 
 5 
 
 23 
 
 Bradley 
 
 xxxii 
 
 
 347 
 
 *- Ditto of Sir Thomas, in 
 
 
 
 
 *Stanton St. Quintin, Old 
 
 
 
 
 Draycote Cerne Church 
 
 XX 
 
 319 
 
 230 
 
 Manor House, destroyed 
 
 xxi 
 
 
 287 
 
 *Longleat House, view of 
 
 xliv 
 
 
 
 Stour river, sources of 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 530 
 
 390 
 
 
 
 
 
 Stourton, Toft of Old Castle 
 
 xxxvi 
 
 531 
 
 390 
 
 M. 
 
 
 
 
 -Old House, view of 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 548 
 
 390 
 
 Malmesbury, prospect of an- 
 
 
 
 
 Sun with eye in centre 
 
 xvi 
 
 268 
 
 172 
 
 cient; 
 
 xxiv 
 
 
 251 
 
 
 
 
 179 
 
 -Plan of Town ; to 
 
 
 
 
 *Sutton Benger Church Tower 
 
 
 
 292 
 
 show Hobbes’s birthplace 
 
 XXV 
 
 
 251 
 
 
 
 
 
 Merchant’s Maik 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 498 
 
 386 
 
 T. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Terret of hound’s collar 
 
 xxvii 
 
 397 
 
 269 
 
 P. 
 
 
 
 
 *Tropenell, Monument of 
 
 
 
 
 Pig with bell, on glass 
 
 xiii 
 
 232 
 
 157 
 
 Thomas, in Corsham Churcli 
 
 vii 
 
 122 
 
 81 
 
 R. 
 
 
 
 
 Y. 
 
 
 
 
 Rudder, device 
 
 xxxvii 
 
 557 
 
 400 
 
 Yillars, effigy of Sir Nicholas 
 
 
 
 
 Rose, a device 
 
 xi 
 
 197 
 
 130 
 
 in Down Ampney Church 
 
 xxxix 
 
 584 
 
 407 
 
 
 xxxviii 
 
 568 
 
 402 
 
 
 
 
 
 - Red and White, for York 
 
 
 
 
 W. 
 
 
 
 
 and Lancaster 
 
 xliii 
 
 MM. 
 
 414 
 
 Walton Thomas, Rebus of 
 
 xviii 
 
 305 
 
 215 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wraxhall North, figure in 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 glass of Sir — de Wrockes- 
 
 
 
 
 S. 
 
 
 
 
 hall 
 
 X 
 
 177 
 
 117 
 
 St. Oswald’s Ring, an earth- 
 
 
 
 
 -South, Monument in 
 
 
 
 
 work 
 
 xxxix 
 
 583 
 
 415 
 
 Church 
 
 ii 
 
 5 
 
 23 
 
 Seagry Church,kneeling figure 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 on glass 
 
 xxviii 
 
 410 
 
 282 
 
 Y. 
 
 
 
 
 Shears, device on shield 
 
 xxii 
 
 350 
 
 241 
 
 Yoke, a badge 
 
 viii 
 
 124 
 
 82 
 
IV—MISCELLANEOUS INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 A. 
 
 Accounts, kept in numeral letters 15. 
 
 Affeerers 440. 
 
 Agonista 421,1. 1. No. vi. 
 
 Ales, Church 10. 
 
 - Clerk’s 11. 
 
 - Herd’s 272. 
 
 - Word,(Worthi.e.village?) 185. 
 
 Almshouses, few before the Refor¬ 
 mation 10. 
 
 Alphabet, taught by flowers 342. 
 
 Ambulutorium 168. 
 
 Amensuratio pastures 423. 
 
 Ammonites, rare 303. 
 
 Anglo-Saxon boundaries 422, 424, 
 431, 435. 
 
 -- architectural remains 
 
 31, 160. 
 
 Animals, Sermon against oruelty to 
 117. 
 
 Anlace 346. 
 
 Anchorite 183. 
 
 Apocalyptical madness 384. 
 
 Armigerulus 431, 1. 10 from foot. 
 
 Ashes in graves 164. 
 
 Au, Ea, or Ay, in names denotes 
 water 322. 
 
 Aubrey’s “ Liber B.” the missing 
 second volume of his Wiltshire 
 Collections: references to 185, 186, 
 309, 360, 409, 415. 
 
 B. 
 
 Band-string 16. 
 
 Bare-ridged 273. 
 
 Barn, large 21, 216. 
 
 Barrows 40, 46, 63, 74, 75, 106, 213, 
 331, 341, 372, 416. 
 
 Batterdash 9. 
 
 Beam of a stag’s horn 27, 29. 
 
 Bells, “ tingle tangle of ” 12, 
 65, 76, 90, 98, 121, 138, 211, 
 213, 241, 268, 277. “ Tintin- 
 nabulum” 236. “To drive away 
 spirits” 255. 
 
 Berberry trees 145. 
 
 Bere, barley 289. 
 
 “ Bis nascitur ” 363. 
 
 Blomaries 5, 44, 94. 
 
 Bonce per hegge 436. 
 
 Bones, large 152, 390. 
 
 Bonhommes 350. 
 
 Bourchier’s Knot 305. 
 
 Brail, meaning of 340. 
 
 Britons Ancient 4. 
 
 C. 
 
 “ Cams ad Nilum ” a proverb 1. 
 Candida Casa 267. 
 
 Carriare bladum, 429,1. 7 from foot. 
 Chalice found in grave 145. 
 
 Chantry deed 436. 
 
 Chapels, destroyed or disused, some 
 domestic. 
 
 - Allington (?) 73. 
 
 - Avene 53. 
 
 - Baynton 350. 
 
 - Beckhampton 331, 
 
 - Berley 26. 
 
 - Bincknoll 167. 
 
 - Bowdon 94. 
 
 -Bradenstoke Priory 187. 
 
 -Bradfield 248, 249. 
 
 -Bradford on Avon 21. 
 
 - Ditto Bridge 21. 
 
 - Ditto Tory 21. 
 
 ■- Brook House 402. 
 
 - Burnevale 261. 
 
 - Burton Hill 262, 265. 
 
 - Chapel Knap 80. 
 
 - Chisbury 381. 
 
 - Corton 165. 
 
 - Dunley 105. 
 
 - Eastcot, or Escote 350. 
 
 - Easton Piers 236. 
 
 —- Easton Priory, near Pewsey 
 
 382. 
 
 - Ewelm 250. 
 
 - Fastem 204. 
 
 -Haselbury 58. 
 
 -Kington St. Michael Priory 
 
 145. 
 
 -Ditto Langley, St. Peter’s 
 
 11, 145. 
 
 - Knowle 380. 
 
 -- Laekham 95. 
 
 - Malmesbury 262. 
 
 -Mere Castle 386. 
 
 - Monkton, near Overton 342. 
 
 -- Oaksey 276. 
 
 -Paveshou 80. 
 
 - Playster 11, 59. 
 
 -- Rood Ashton 354. 
 
 -St. Audoen’s, or Tewen’s 26. 
 
 -Shaw, near Melksham 295. 
 
 -Sherston Pinkney 110. 
 
 -Smitheote 217. 
 
 -Southwick Court 346. 
 
 - Stanley Abbey Church 113. 
 
 - Stourton Old House 391. 
 
 !-Surrenden (?) 115. 
 
 - Wanborough, St. Katharine 
 
 196. 
 
 -Ditto St. Ambrose (?) 
 
 196. 
 
 - Whitchurch 262, 266. 
 
 - Whitlegh, Melksham 285. 
 
 - Wideombe, Hilmerton 167. 
 
 -Yatton, West or Keynes 123. 
 
 Cheese, good from sour herbage 301. 
 
 I Cheminus, a way 429,1. 7 from foot. 
 | Chirothecarum par 434 last line, 444. 
 Christmas customs 16. 
 
 - Day 366. 
 
 Christ’s mml, or mark 125. 
 i Churches, Collegiate 14. 
 
 - Orientation of 10. 
 
 Church house 10, 109, 125, 126. 
 
 - plate recovered 242. 
 
 - tower used as a mew for 
 
 hawks 299. 
 
 Cistercians, exempt from tithes 183. 
 Clack of mill, what 186. 
 
 Classica pitlsari 197. 
 
 Coach, an effeminate conveyance 9. 
 
490 
 
 IV. 
 
 -MISCELLANEOUS INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 Cob-loaf stealing 8. 
 
 Coffin found in a wall 288. 
 
 Collatesto (?) 424, 1. 6 from foot. 
 Colivers 9. 
 
 Collets 321. 
 
 Columns, Aubrey’s word for window- 
 lights 268. 
 
 Compas, for compost 192. 
 
 Confession 11. 
 
 Conigre 78, 83, 123, 165. 
 Consueludinarium 163. 
 
 Cope, Ancient worked 246. 
 Copyholders 7, 131. 
 
 Corodies 13, 152. 
 
 Counters used 15. 
 
 Cow-shorne 192. 
 
 Cromlechs 115, 149, 193, 416. 
 
 Cross flory in window tracery 352. 
 Crucifixes 14. 
 
 Crux in Olympo 431. 
 
 Cup-board side 16. 
 
 Curayulus 422. 
 
 Curricles (boats) 5. 
 
 Custos, a title 32, 197, 203. 
 
 D. 
 
 ‘ ‘ Dafteness depuryd ” 220. 
 
 Dane’s Tump 77. 
 
 Delicate, obsolete use of the word. 
 
 -snake-stones 205. 
 
 -campania 211. 
 
 -country 258. 
 
 -grove of oaks 272. 
 
 -prospect 87, 287. 
 
 -wit 389. 
 
 Den, meaning of 115. 
 
 Dentire, to 123. 
 
 Disempestre 321. 
 
 Dortures, for dormitories 260. 
 Drawning speech 83. 
 
 Dray, badge of Stourton family 398. 
 Dress, ancient 14, 131, 180, 269, 
 305, 409. 
 
 Druids 5, 103. 
 
 Dungeons 7. 
 
 E. 
 
 Eale-hous 273. 
 
 Earthworks 76, 86, 110, 163, 167, 
 189, 266, 366, 380, 415. 
 Education, where and how conducted 
 formerly 13, 15, 16. 
 
 Effigy, lady’s on dexter side of a 
 gravestone 217. 
 
 Elm trees 6. 
 
 Enclosures, few in old times 9. 
 
 Eye, or Ey-ot, Island 216. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fans used by men 17. 
 
 Fardell of land 127. 
 
 Fere 369. 
 
 Fern, sweet 339. 
 
 Ferudellum 436, 1. 3 from foot. 
 Figure of 8, for exercising horses 131. 
 Findellum (?) 442, 1. 27. 
 
 Fire-stone 41. 
 
 Font, with brass tap 209. 
 
 Ford, meaning of 120. 
 
 Formalities, robes 349. 
 
 Fossatum 429, 1. 2 from foot. 
 
 French old, letter 429. 
 
 Fresco painting 85. 
 
 Funeral costly, of Earl of Peter¬ 
 borough 227. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gallant, obsolete use of the word; 
 
 legierbook2: oaks 64: market 192. 
 Gallows manorial 7, 65, 341. 
 
 Garouse 185. 
 
 Gaston, what 107. 
 
 Giant’s cave 106. 
 
 Glass, stained windows 14, 96. 
 Gogges 271. 
 
 Gold and silver thread Patent 176. 
 Gore, Thomas, his Manuscripts 51. 
 Graffe, a ditch 76, 315. 
 
 Gres, a buck 204. 
 
 Guidon 172. 
 
 Gymnasium Jhesu 424,1.7 from foot. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hawking 9. From Turkey 258. 
 Heart between hands 145. 
 
 Heathen Buiials 280. 
 
 Heaume, for helmet 23, 231. 
 Hermitages 21, 263, 288. 
 
 Herons 240. 
 
 Hey, meaning of 141. 
 
 Hide of land 127. 
 
 Hocker Bench 311. 
 
 Holbein’s picture in Surgeon’s Hall 
 209. 
 
 Horn, tenure by 95, 96, 340. 
 Horn-books 131. 
 
 Hour-glass by pulpit 44, 160. 
 Houses, style of old 48. 
 
 House, one in two counties 411. 
 Housekeeping, ancient 8. 
 Uowsebandria 441, last line. 
 Hundreds, Ragged 124, 365. 
 Hungerford’s Coat, a Parietaria 215. 
 
 Hurricanes, violent 31,165, 204, 357. 
 
 I. 
 
 Impnizare 431, 1. 10 from foot. 
 Ingeniose 244, 264. 
 
 Innocents Day, peal of muffled bells 
 on Eve of 268. 
 
 Iron 5, 303. 
 
 Itinerating house 157. 
 
 K. 
 
 Knap 235. 
 
 Knight Templar, effigy of 117. 
 Ivynette, Welsh for scolding 338. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lai th 153. 
 
 Lamprills 262. 
 
 Landholding, like a nest of boxes 7. 
 Lapis Judaicus 183. 
 
 Lazarus, clapper of 186. 
 
 Latimer, Bishop, his oak 87. Pulpit 88. 
 Leaden coffin, Roman (?) 128. 
 Leasowe 55. 
 
 Lesbian’s Rule, what 315. 
 
 Lich-gate 109. 
 
 Limb, for margin 221 (repeatedly). 
 Longevity 38. 
 
 Lot Mead, a 198. 
 
 Low, meaning of 206, 213. 
 
 M. 
 
 Maer, Welsh for governor 203. 
 Mancus of gold 140. 
 
 Mandilion 269. 
 
 Manuscripts destroyed 121. 
 
 Marks, territorial, and markmen 115. 
 Marshal’s Lock or Fetterlock, a 
 badge 24, 25, 229. 
 
 Marterns 5, 288. 
 
 Maud Heath’s causeway 99. 
 
 Milky way, ancient name of 101. 
 Minchin 143. 
 
 Mineral springs 55, 72, 105,139, 216, 
 233, 301, 303, 309. 
 
 Monastic Cartularies 2, Note. 
 
 -Education 145. 
 
 Monks, as Landlords 13. 
 
 Monument of wood 166. 
 
 Muremium 442,1. 6. 
 
 Murder, of Stradling Family 218. 
 Of H. Long 225, 2S4. In Stanton 
 Park 238. Of Hartgill 393. Of 
 Dean of Wells 60. 
 
 N. 
 
 Names, changedby pronunciation 190. 
 
IV.-MISCELLANEOUS INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 491 
 
 Nummi 200. 
 
 Nun’s Boiler 90. 
 
 0. 
 
 Oaks, large 122, 340. 
 
 Obelisk, at Cherkill 41. 
 
 Oil it, fuel 192. 
 
 Ophiouchus 6. 
 
 Oreile 8. 
 
 P. 
 
 Paradise, or Sanctuary 312. 
 
 Parish clerk, his Ale 11. Gown 
 131. 
 
 Peas 364, 381. 
 
 Pecea prati 438, 1. 14 from foot. 
 Pedigrees; or Extracts from : 
 
 Anstie, (by Aubrey) 114. 
 
 Cheney, Stafford, Maltravers and 
 Willoughby, (by the Editor) 401. 
 Dauntesey, Stradling and Danvers, 
 (Ed.) 217. 
 
 Essex, (Aubrey) 239. 
 
 Gore, of Alderton, (Ed.) 47. 
 Hungerford, Extract, (Ed.) 412. 
 Long, ditto, (Aubrey) 234. 
 
 Power, ditto, (Aubrey) 290. 
 Prynnc, ditto, (Ed.) 71. 
 
 Rogers, ditto, (Aubrey) 22. 
 
 St. John, (Ed.) 170. 
 
 Seagry, owners, ditto, (Aubrey) 
 281. 
 
 Snell, (Aubrey) 132. 
 
 Torke, Extract, (Ed.) 181. 
 Penkenol, what 223. 
 
 Perambulation of Parishes 11. 
 Peterman, the 11, 146. 
 
 Petronells 9, 
 
 Peux, old French word 287. 
 Phil-argyria 424, 1. 3 of No. 11. 
 Pilgrimages 11, 59, 105. 
 
 Platea 430, line 16. 
 
 Playplace, in village 59, 293. 
 Pleistor oak 59. 
 
 Portland Rock, in Wilts 191. 
 
 Power, not potestas 291. 
 
 Prices, ancient 238, 433, 434, 440, 
 441. 
 
 Primrose complexion 301. 
 
 Probate, peculiar for 66, 77, 80. 
 Pulpits, stone 11, 44, 121, 148. 
 Purbeck grubbes 191. 
 
 R. 
 
 Rebus, of Oliver St. John 172, 
 
 -of Baynton 352, 
 
 -of Stourton 391. 
 
 -of Walton 215. 
 
 Rector, title of Head of Monastery 
 350. 
 
 Rocks in spinning 13, 144. 
 
 Roman remains, coins, &c., 5, 38, 39, 
 45, 80, 85, 86, 94, 95, 106, 117, 
 128, 152, 194, 195, 341. 
 
 Rudder, a badge 305, 400. 
 
 Rundle 366. 
 
 S. 
 
 St. Thomas a Becket, painting of his 
 murder 203. 
 
 Sallett, corner 16. 
 
 Sanfoin, introduced 119. 
 
 Sarum records arranged by Bishop 
 Seth Ward 253, 
 
 School kept in church 102, 121. 
 Screen, stone 121, 
 
 Secretum Domini 2, 139. 
 
 Sedilia 13. 
 
 Serpent temples, so called 323. 
 Service for lands, old custom 311. 
 
 “ Servant, your humble” when in¬ 
 troduced 5. 
 
 Shakespeare’s parentage 87. 
 Shepherds, how paid 6. 
 
 Sil, (great) 332. 
 
 Silver collar on Esguire’s neck 283. 
 Sii’, as a title 15, 257. 
 
 Sir John, name for priest 264. 
 
 Sleights 10. 
 
 Sorbe apples 209. 
 
 Spigurnels 125, 421. 
 
 Spod 139. 
 
 Statue, gilt 175. 
 
 Stoball playing 77. 
 
 Stone ticket, old 235. 
 
 Sublimatus 426, 1. 1 of No. xiv. 
 
 Susannah, a lily 367. 
 
 T. 
 
 Teeth, cut in old age 123. 
 
 Telesman, a 255. 
 
 Terrett, a 269. 
 
 Therio-phylax 203. 
 
 Tite, to 274. 
 
 Tithes, composition for 183. 
 
 Treen dishes 10. 
 
 Troplieum crucis 422, 1. 22. 
 
 Trumpeters 7. 
 
 Turnips 381. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vigils 10. 
 
 Vineyard 21, 293. 
 
 Virgate, what 127. 
 
 Virginis Anno, instead of Anno 
 Domini 200, 201. 
 
 Vivarium 78, 445. 
 
 W. 
 
 Walloons introduced 304. 
 
 Warectum 420, 1. 3 from foot. 
 
 White Horse 41. 
 
 Wilts, North, under Capricorn 1. 
 
 -a champagne country 255. 
 
 -worm-woodish, and sour 
 
 woodsere 266. 
 
 Wiltshire Rant, the 99. 
 
 Wool staple 65. -4 j it 4» / 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yd or, British for water 216. 
 
 3x2 
 
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 The TforseCair 
 
 House where. JM r _Z/ at truer kepi school 
 The Smith's shop 
 Tie reIcfore IVest -port Gale 
 Hereabout stood, the Castle 
 3Tdlrrtsbury +dbbey Church 
 fit TcluZ’s Church 
 The Crcls in the Church yard . 
 
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 Holloway (fate 
 
 N 7 Yhilchurch Torrnerly a chapel 
 
 the steeple pulled down /675 
 O. Tdurnevale chapel 
 
 P S l John's chapel 
 
 Q S* John's hrtdoe 
 
 R Tburlon chapel 
 
 S The Hermitage [.&*Helen'sJ 
 
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 ls!n of the Town of Msilmsbory; from si ri/oe sketch \isde by John JJubrey to msrk the 
 HOOSE JN WHICH ThO* HOBBES THE Ph/LOSOFHER WFS BORN 
 
PLATE XXV/ 
 
 AUSRKTS WOETH ‘WlIiTSUIK-jE. MA.1LMSBIJJRX HTnSTOIWEjD „ 
 
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 Ciurton- JIM Chapel [ die streyed j Trorro a drawing at /Stourhc-ad■. 
 
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pls/te xxvn 
 
 AUBRJEY^S NORTH 'WILTSHIRE, JVffAlLMBB1JEY fflJNBJREB, 
 
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AU1KEY § NOETH "WILTSHIRE, o MALMSBUR1 MUNDREE 
 
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PLs/TE XXIX. 
 
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 CHANCEL E W/SVDOW 
 
 SOUTH Ji/SLE EJtST W//VDOW 
 
PLATE XX XT. 
 
 AUJBJREX"§ SOUTH WIJLTSEIRE, AMESBl'ST MrKDJiEB ,,&«. 
 
PL SITE XXXIV 
 
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 ON JOHN SEYMOUR ( Y * SON'S J &R/I SS 
 
 Mere Hundred. 
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ELXirE XXX V/ 
 
PLd/TE XXXV//. 
 
 AUBREY SOUTH WILTSHIRE o MEE,E &’ WESTBIHT HUM3REB§o 
 
 Stoukton (cont°) 
 
 
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 AFmETl §OUTI WIJLTSHIKJE . WTBURI H1CM)REI)» 
 
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F>LJ?TE X X X / X 
 
 A'CBE-ETS SOUTH WJJL.TSHERIS » mSTBIDKY HU5BE.EB , &c <, 
 
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PLATE XL . 
 
 UOW AMP1ET CEUJKCMs £©<, ai^OlUCESTEIg-c 
 
 CHJlSfCE L , £ WIST DOW. 
 
 [ Tou.ch.et ?] TTungerforcL ^TayrtM. JTungerford. ^jBerk-cley. TXu.no erforch 
 
 /tr THE JTOfiTH CROSS , OR H U AT E R FO RO'S A/SLE-JHORTH WIJIDOW. 
 
 Courtenay 
 
 IIu nvjrfrrd , 
 
 quartering 
 
 Tteytesbury. 
 
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 2 . [.Harendes j 
 
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 /Sir .ANTHONY HUNQERFORD, died 1558. % his wife DOROTHY DANDERS 
 Oil the JYIomumemt of SIR JOHN HUNQERFORD [died L63X 
 
 FIVE SHIELDS OFT THE CORAH CE 
 
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PLATE XU. 
 
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 12. [dbea.iceham/o] 
 
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 17 [ •Audley ] 
 
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 'Hnruj'erford &[Molines, Molines 
 
 /Sir Thomas __ Joans 
 
 Sir Thomas LcuLy •Anne 
 JTutxgirTord. Tercy 
 
 Waller JLcrd _ JTdlharme. 
 
 JTungtrfo rd Tc-vereXl 
 
 Waller.Lord TlundcrTcrd d/licc 
 
 of JTcyletfbury /Sandys. 
 
 Tldw Xlt© . arxa.Sta.t . 
 
PLSTE XL/I. 
 
 Sir /Edmund 
 llungerlord 
 
 /Margaret 
 
 Burnell 
 
 S’r Thomas _ Christian 
 
 JTunge rf.crri Halle/. 
 
 Sir Jo}i n/ 
 /H/ungerfo rd/ 
 
 /Margaret 
 
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 / /Henri/ Courtenay, 
 
 Earl oi /Devon/ % /Marquis af Extler.J 
 
 Hn iheny _ [Barbara 
 
 IZung'erEord ~ Wriolhesleu ■] 
 
 Hen.r ij Fils roy, 
 
 /Blount = Seymour 
 
 [Thomas _ Elisabeth /Langley Hungert'ord 
 
 HidTord Hungcrfcrd 
 
 f^Lte, anaftat. 
 
PLJ1TE XL/U 
 
 Down Ampney House— Hall windows 'cont?) 
 
 Sir t/Lnihorvy _ Jccrve, LDcl re.ll 
 
 J£unger£ord/ (/ s ? wifc.J 
 
 jSfzr cArblhorvij _ JDorolhy jDanvtrs 1 ’Ectwccrd/ _ SMcvrdurtZ 
 
 Hungr.rforet (ivife, ) JJurLg'erforcL jS* xTchru . 
 
 Rogeir _ HU^abeih Sir Joh?v _ iddei Hettyplaces 
 
 ~Wi?iter Jluno'erlcrd 2£ung&r£orcL '(J st wife J 
 
 JLdtvards _ HricLgct 
 
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