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AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY
ANTIQUARIAN &
GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE.
VOL. II. 1896— 1898.
DEVIZES:
GEORGE SIMPSO.N, JUN., GAZETTE OFFICE.
LONDON : PHILLIMORE & CO., 36, ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1899.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Mural Tablet in Purton Church ...
Clarendon House
Arms of Sibell
Facsimile of Wiltshire Society's Invitation Card
Heraldic Stone at Warminster ...
The Salisbury Giant ...
Pipes drawn on Old Glass at Kendal
Restrop ...
Ancient Map of the Parish of Warminster
Fireplace in Box House
Church Farm, Purton
Purton House, from an old drawing
In Purton Church
King Alfred's Moot -place
Nonsuch House, Bromham
The Ivy House, Chippenham
Stukeley's View of Heddington
Effigy of Francis Rutland, from his Brass at Chiseldon
South wick Court House
Ground Plan of Southwick Court
Monumental Slab in North Bradley Church
Atropos Larva Stung by an Ichneumon
Dovecote at Wick Farm, Notton
Pupre of " Atropos " and " Nerii "
Swinley, Kington St. Michael
Death's Head Moth— Growing its Wings
Ditto Sketched from Life
Ditto With Wings fully spread out
Arms of Edward. Bayliffe
Headless Effigy of Philip Polton, Principal of John's Hall, Oxford
Incised Monumental Effigy in Aldbourne Church
Coat -of -Arms on a Gateway at Corsley Manor
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List of Illustrations.
Hunt-lJrubbe Book-plate
Tropliy-plate
K«'«ne Book-plnto
The Mount, Great Somerfonl
Device in Seend Church
Sfy(iu)ur Arms
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MARCH, 1896.
ANNALS OF PURTON.
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HE sixteenth century in Purton, as elsewhere, was not
only a period marked by those great social and
economic changes to which we have alluded in the
foregoing number, it was essentially the building
era also. The dissolution of the Monasteries and
the general enclosure of the Manors, together with
the rise in wealth and importance of the yeoman class,
had resulted in considerable increase in the number
of landowners in the parish. These would clearly need
houses to dwell in. In one or two instances the manor houses
may have changed hands with the land, but the majority of
the new men, in all probability, acquired with their acres
no dwelling of sufficient convenience to suit their tastes, and
therefore had to build for themselves. And the great number
of Elizabethan and Jacobean farmhouses, scattered through-
out the length and breadth of the country, may reasonably be
considered as the immediate outcome of the social revolution
which then took place.
In the internal arrangements of the houses then built, we
also find evidences of the social progress of the people. No
longer contented with the plan of the older homes of the
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manorial lords, which to their ideas were both comfortless and
inconvenient, they required a home wherein privacy might be
provided by an increased number of rooms. Some such desire
as this doubtless first caused the large hall— the common room
of tlie house— to be divided into two or more smaller cham-
bers, and ultimately to become the mere passage way through
the dwelling. Attention was also bestowed upon the upper
floor, which now extended the full length of the building.
Of these new houses, two, Restrop and the Church Farm,
still remain unaltered, save in unimportant particulars, from
the original design. That there were others built at the same
time in the parish is unquestionable (although vestiges of the
work of that period only appear in two other farmhouses,
viz. : — Pevenhill Farm and the Ponds at Purton Stoke), for the
records show that many families of good position were then
residing in Purton. Of the early histor}' of Restrop we know
nothing. Who was the builder and who were the first resi-
dents are questions that cannot yet be answered. There is a
bare mention of the name, as a boundary, in a deed relating to
the general inclosure, but be^^ond that there is nothing to tell, and
yet it is as pure and good a specimen of Elizabethan architecture
as could be found. The Brydges family owned the Church
Farm^ and also the historic Nele's Place ; the Sadlers were at
Pevenhill, and the Maskelynes at the Down. The Digges,
Chaderton, and Pleydell^ families had also some interest in
the parish at this period.'
I The present house was probably built (after the death of Edmund
Polity in l.'it",;5) by cithor Ednmiul Brydpes, Lord Chandos, or his wife,
Durothy, who afterward.s tuariieil William KnoUys, Earl of Banbury.
• The family of Pledale or Pleydell appear to have been seated at Nele's
Farm, which was lea.sed from the Lady Dorothy Chandos, widow, and
William Brydges, her son, vido Cal. Proceedlnf)x Chan., 2 Eliz., VVw, 18,
No. 54.
' In addition to the above we find mention of a John ]\Iessenger and
'•' ■ -»r. in an unpublished MS. at Longleat, entitled: A Booh of
.Vua . - ... Co. Wiltt, XI Eliz., who.se jiroperty in the parish compelled
them to furnish the billnian and two archers respectively.
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Karly in the seventeenth century the advent in the parish
of lliat most illustrious of Purton families, the Ilydes, took
place. The father of tiie Chancellor— Henry Hyde -had
removed fn)m Dinton, near Salisbury, to Purton, "choosing
rather." to use his own words, "to live upon his own land, the
which he had purchased many years before, and to rent
Dinton, which was but a lease for lives, to a tenant." ^
Thither the Chancellor, whilst still a lad, was sent by his
uncle, Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Chief Justice, to recover from
a serious illness that threatened to end in consumption. The
house -a humble enough dwelling— still exists, standing in the
middle of the village. Inside it contains one feature of in-
terest—a small but elaborate overmantel of plaster, in the
centre of which is a shield bearing the arms of the Chancellor's
grandmother, a member of the Sibell family, viz., a tiger
looking backwards in a mirror. After
his father's death the Chancellor himself
succeeded to this property, and, doubt-
less, occasionally visited, during intervals
of leisure, the home of his father's adop-
tion.
The interest of the other great titled
family — the Shaftesburys — in Purton
does not commence until the reign of
StAell Charles I, when Sir John Cooper, the
father of the first Earl, succeeded the
Hrydgcs in possession of the Manor and advowson. Tliere
is ample evidence to show that Anthony Ashley Cooper,
the first Earl of Shaftesbury, took great interest in his
patrimony here, for we find in the fragments of his diary
that still exist frequent mention made of his own house at
Purton, to which he resorted to hold his Court.* Among the
' A 1 .11 V ami Jackson's Wilt*, p. 154-.5.
* Life of Anthony A. ('. Earl of Shaftesbury, by W. D. Christie,
App. II. Ext. from Piarv.
4u}iah of Pinion.
descendants of Sir John Cooper, who hved at Purton, the most
celebrated was the Hon. Maurice Ashley (who dropped the
surname of Cooper), M.P. for Weymouth, the translator of
Xenophon's Cyropivdia. With his wife, Katharine Popple, h.e
lies buried in the church. His home was the Church Farm,
which after his death without heirs devolved on his relative,
the fourth Earl of Shaftesbury, in whose famil}- it remained
until quite recently.
In the short notice of the Bathes given in the last issue,
another family of much antiquity was incidentally alluded to
--the Maskelynes. Their connection with Purton can be
traced back for centuries, during which they have been con-
stantly resident in the parish. It will be interesting to note
a few particulars of their history.
On the 24th February 1600- 1, Jane Maskel3Mie, who is
described as of "Pyrton, co. Wilts, widow," made her will. In
it she expressed the desire " to be buried in the Chauncell of
the Parish Church of Pyrton aforesaid, wher my grand-
father, Richard Pulley, was interred." Shortly afterwards she
died, and the last entry in the Register of Burials for the year
ending March 24th, 1600-1, runs: "Mistris Maslin, the 21
of March."
She was one of the many children, boys and girls, of
Christopher Richmond, alias Webbe, by Jane his wife, a
daughter of Richard Pulley, the last "farmer" of Purton under
the Abbey of Malmesbury. There is a curious account of these
children in some proceedings in Chancery to enforce an alleged
lease of the neighbouring manor of Studley Grange, to their
father, Christopher. Their father dying when they were all
quite young, some of them, it seems, remained in the custody of
their mother, who had married a second time one John Beck,
while the rest were sent to one of their father's brothers, from
whom however they ran away home again. But no matter
what their bringing up, the lads, Anthony, Nicholas, and
William made their way in the world, and each founded a
family; Anthony at Manningford, Nicholas at Marshficld, and
IVillshire Notes ami Otter ics.
William at Lydiard Millicent. Jane, herself, married George
Maskclyne of Purton, second son, but whose issue became
eventually heirs to William Maskelyne of Purton and Lydiard.
Jane Maskelyne was an old woman when, after a widow-
hood of over sixteen years, spent at the Down in the village
she made her last will, and died soon after. Slic must have
been over seventy years of age at any rate, for she was not the
youngest of her family, and her father had died before 1535.
Thus her memory would carry her back over three-quarters
of a century of profound changes. She was almost to a year
the contemporary of her sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth —
who was born at Greenwich, September 7th, 1533. Reared in
the older faith, she had seen the beautiful Church of Purton in
the full glory of the ancient rite, and the vain longing for one
at least of its accessories, found a pitiful expression in a
clause of her will. "To the Bells of Pyrton, xxs., and the
increase of 405. towards the yearly mayntenance of one
to play uppon the organs in the parish Church of Pyrton
aforesaid, whensoever the parishioners ther shall and will
provide and hire one to playe uppon the same. . . ."
If her wish for burial beside her grandfather had not been
explicitly set down in her will, she would have doubtless been
laid to rest with her husband's people in the south transept of
Purton Church, on the floor of which, at the beginning of this
century, were still to be seen a great many slabs, in almost all
cases surmounted by the Maskelyne arms and crest, though,
even then, for the most part decayed and the inscription illegible
from age. When, in 1623, the Heralds visited Wiltshire, and
recorded these arms, viz. : Sohlc, a fess engrailed or, between
three escallops argent; and the crest— A dcmi-lion rampant
sable, holding an escallop argent; ihcy added the note— " The
Coate in an old window in Pirton Church." This window was
probably in the same aisle. Nothing remains of it at all now.
The glass has long been broken and the slabs torn up, or
neatly covered in with encaustic tiles. In the old parish chest,
amongst the debris of papers and parchment containing many
Records of IVillshirc Parishes.
a story of bygone parish life, are a few much mutilated
remnants of rubbings from the tombs of the Maskelynes, but
to piece together their tattered story now, would need a
craftier hand than mine. Two mural tablets to the memory
of Nevil Maskelyne (Jane's grandson), who died in 1679, and
of his namesake and descendant, who died in 181 1, survive
alone to mark the ancient resting-place of their dead.
Of the elder Nevill — the first of both his names, a further
memorial exists in the parish, in the form of a Good Friday
Charily, which he endowed by deed, shortly before his death ;
while the gratitude of all mariners to the projector of the
Nautical Ahtiaiiac, forms a more lasting memorial, and one
that extends far be3'ond the narrow limits of town or county,
to Dr. Nevill Maskelyne, sometime Astronomer Ro3'aI of Eng-
land, than the mural tablet in the transept of Purton Church.
S. J. Elyard.
(To he coutiiiiied.)
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
CHOLDERTON.
(Continued from Vol. /, p. 5 5 5. J
Feet of Fixes. Wilts. \<:) Edward I ^
A.D. 1280. — At Wilton, in the Octaves of the Holy Trinity.
Between Michael Fitz Walkelyn, plaintiff, and Roger Vslak
and Elena his wife, impediants of a messuage and a virgate
of land with their appurtenances in Chelderinton. Plea of
warranty of deed was summoned. Roger and Elena acknow-
ledged the right of Michael as of their gift, to have and to hold
to him and his heirs of them and the heirs of Elena for ever,
3'ielding therefor yearly a rose at the Feast of the Nativity of
St. John the Baptist for all the sei-vice belonging to them and
their heirs, and to do for them the service belonging to the
chief lord of that fee for those tenements. And Roger and
Elena, and the heirs of Elena, warranted to Michael and his
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heirs, against all men for ever. For this Michael gave Roger
and Elena 5 marks of silver.
Fket of Fines. Divers Counties. [iS Edward I. No. 2.]
.\.i). 12S9.— In the Octaves of the Purification of the B. V.
Marv, at Westminster. Between Ralph the Mareschall and
Isabella his wife, plaintiffs, and Warin de Bassingeburnc, de-
fendant, for a messuage, 2 carucates of land, 12 acres of pas-
ture, and 20s. rent, with the appurtenances in Wynepol,
Baryngton, Maketon, and Wrotsworth in Kent, and of a
messuage, a carucate of land, 135. ^d. rent, with appurtenances
in Chaldryngton in the county of Wylts. Plea of warranty of
deed was summoned. Warin acknowledged the right of Ralph
as by his gift to him and Isabella. For this Ralph and Isabella
granted the said tenements with their appurtenances to Warin
and Margaret his wife, to have and to hold to themselves and
the heirs which Warin shall beget of Margaret, of Ralph and
Isabella and the heirs of Ralph for ever. Yielding therefore
yearly \d. at Easter for all service, aid, and exaction, and doing
all other services for Ralph and Isabella thereto pertaining to the
chief lord of the fee. After the death of Margaret without
heirs begotten of her body, Warin surviving, the said tene-
ments to remain to Warin and the heirs begotten of his own
body to hold as aforesaid. And Ralph and Isabella and the
heirs of Ralph, warranted to Warin and Margaret and their
heirs against all men. If it happen that Warin die without
heirs begotten of his body, then after his decease, the said
tenements shall revert to Ralph and Isabella and the heirs of
Ralph, quit of the heirs of Warin and Margaret, to liold of
the chief lords of that fee by the services belonging thereto
for ever.
Endorsed. —And Sibilla de Thornton put in her claim.
iNytisiTiON Po.sT MoRTKM. [Edivord II, No. 41.]
r.M. Rrt^innld de Argeiileiii.
A.D. 1307. Inquisition taken at Cheldrington the 22nd
March, i Edward II.
Records of IVilishire Partslws.
The jury sa\' upon oath that Reginald de Argentein held
no lands or tenement on the day he died in his demesne as of
fee of the lord the king in the county of Wiltes. They sa}'
also that he held in his demesne as of fee in the same county
on the day of his death, of Aymer de Valence, io5. rent,
receiving it yearly at Michaelmas by the hands of Warin de
Bassingeborn, for the lands and tenements which the same
Warin holds of Reginald in Cheldryngton. Asked by what
service Reginald held the rent, the Jury answer by liomage
to Aymer for the lands and tenements held b}- Warin in
Cheldryngton. They say also that John de Argentein, son of
Reginald, is his next heir, and is 30 years old and more. In
testimony whereof they set their seals.
Parliamentary Writs. [Pt. II, p. 346.]
A.D. 13 16. — In the hundred of Amesbury, Henry le
Spicer is lord of the township of Chaldr3'nton.
Inquisition Post Mortkm. [12 Edivard II, No. 43.]
P. M. John dc Argcntcym.
A.D. 13 iS. — Inquisition taken at Rissheden, Herts, the
Sunday ne.xt after the Feast of St. Luc}' the Virgin, 12
Edward II.
The Jury say John de Argentein on the da}' he died was
seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Little
Wylmundele, which he held of the lord the king in chief,
Item, there are there 105. of the 3'early
rent from the tenements of Warin de Bassingbourn in
Childreton, and they are paid at Michaelmas
Item, they say John is the son and heir of John dc Argentein
and is half a year old and more. In witness whereof they
have set their seal.
Ibid.
A.D. 1323. — Inquisition taken at Baldok, Herts, 13th
Februar}',^ 17 Edward II. The Jury say tliat Jolin de
1 Day of the month nearly illegible.
10 Willslii're Notes and Queries.
Wandlyngton held the manor of Wandhngton with its
appurtenances of John dargenteyme, the day of his death, by
knight service Item, they say that Warin,
son of Warin de Bassingbourne, of Wyncpole, held the manor
f)f Chcdrington with the appurtenances in Wiltshire of the
foresaid John the day of his death by knight service, and the
said manor is worth loos. yearly In witness
whereof the jury have set to their seal.
Inouisitiox Post Mortkm. [22 Edivard III {\st numbers)
No. 41.1
P. M. Warin de Bassyngbourn.
A.D. 1348. — Inquisition taken at Chaldrington, Wiltshire,
2nd August. The Jury say that Warin de Bassingbourne was
seised in his demesne as of fee in the county of Wilteschire
on the day of his death of a messuage and 6 virgates of land
with their appurtenances in Chaldryngton, which messuage is
worth nothing bej'ond the maintenance of the houses. And
they say that the 6 virgates of land contain 8 score acres
whereof 4 score acres can be sown yearly with all kinds of
seed,* which by the year are worth 26s. ^d. at ^d. the acre,
and they were sown when Warin died, and 4 score acres lie
fallow, of which the pasture is worth nothing, which are on
the common. There is a yearly rent of assize 405., due at
the four principal terms of the year in equal portions. Also
there is there a certain pasturage for sheep worth t,;^s. ^d.
yearly. And they say that the aforesaid messuage and land
with the appurtenances are held in chief of the lord king by
knight .service. And that the said Warin held no other lands
or tenements in Wiltshire on the day of his death. And that
the .said Warin died about the feast of Pentecost last, on
which day they know not. And Warin de Bassyngbourne,
his son, is his next heir and is of full age. In witness
whereof they have set their seals.
1 Ad omnia »emiua.
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. ii
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [21-28 Edivard III, No. 52.]
A.N.NO 25 [.\.D. 135 1]. — At Westminster, the day after
the feast of St. Martin, between Robert le Copener, plaintiff,
and John \'yrley of Chaldrynton, deforciant, of a messuage
and 2 virgates of land with the appurtenances in Chaldrynton.
Plea of covenant was summoned. Robert acknowledged the
right of John as of his gift. For this John granted the same
tenements to Robert with the appurtenances. To have and
to hold to him and his heirs of the chief lord of that fee by the
services thereto belonging for ever.
Inquisition post Mortem. [35 Edivard III, Pi. i, Xo. 122.]
A.D. 1361. — Inquisition taken at New Sarum, iStli May.
The Jury say that the Prior of Yuicherche [Ivychurch] held
half a fee in Cheldryngton of Henry, late Duke of Lancaster,
deceased, on the day on which he died.
Feet of Fines. Divers Counties. [5 Richard II, No. 62.]
A.D. 1 38 1. — At Westminster, in the Octaves of St. Martin,
Between John Skillyng and Faith his wife, plaintiffs, by
William Houghton claiming for her, and Thomas Worfton,
clerk, and Thomas Torand, clerk, deforciants, of 3 messuages,
3 carucates and 5 virgates of land, and ^,6 rent, with the appur-
tenances, in Chaldrynton, Charlton, Rusteshale, Upavene,
Netheravene, Hulcote and Manyngford, and the advowson of
the church of Chaldrynton in Wilts, and of land in Shotesden,
Southamptonshire. Plea of covenant was summoned. John
acknowledged the right of Thomas Worfton as of his gift to him
and Thomas Torand. For this Thomas Worfton and Thomas
Torand granted the said tenements and advowson to John and
Faith to hold to themselves and the heirs of their bodies of
the chief lord of that fee by the service thereto pertaining for
ever. To remain, if they die without issue, to the heirs of the
body of John, and if he die without heirs of his body, the
said tenements shall remain to his brother, William Skillyng
and the heirs of his body, to hold as aforesaid ; and if William
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die without heirs of his bod}' they shall remain to the right
heirs of John to hold as aforesaid.
Vy.v.1 OF Fines. Wilts. [12-2^ Richard II, No. \o.'\
Anno \t, [.\.\\ i.^Sq]. — ^At Westminster, in tlie quindene
of the Holy Trinity. Between John Skyllyng and Faith his
wife, plaintiffs, and Robert atte Green and Isabella his wife,
deforciants, of a messuage and T^h acres of land with tlie
appurtenances, in Chaldrynton. Plea of covenant was sum-
moned. Robert and Isabella acknowledged the right of John
as of their gift to him and Faith, and they quit-claimed from
themselves and the heirs of Isabella to John and Faith, and
the heirs of John for ever. And moreover Robert and
Isabella warranted the said tenements to John and Faith, and
the heirs of John, against all men for ever. For this John
and Faith gave Robert and Isabella 20 marks silver.
I.NyuisiTioN Post Mortem. [13 Henry Il\ No. 33.]
P.M. J alia una, -au/c of T/ioinas Hiingcr/ord.
.\.n. 141 1. — Inquisition taken at Trowbrigge, in the county
of Wiltes, 4th April. The Jury say that Johanna, wife of
Thomas Hungerford, knight, held in licr demesne as of fee on
the day she died the manor of Teffount Ewyas and the ad-
vowson of the church of the Earl of Salisbury and in
fee-tail the manor of Estcourt Heyghtrcdebury, and property
in Wolleyc and la Soo, .... and in fee-tail the manor of
Heyghtrcdebury Item, they say that tlie said Johanna
held in dovvery the day on which she died loo.s. rent, with the
appurtenances, in Aldyngton, Chaldryngton, and Brughton,
which are not held of the lord king, assigned to her in dowery
of the freeholds which belonged to the foresaid Thomas, late
her husband, and by him alienated, but which rent is ter-
minated by the death of ihc said Johanna. And Johanna
died on the 2i.st March la.st pa.st, and Walter Hungerford is
her son and heir and is thirty-three years of age and more.
She held no other lands or tenements in Wilts. In testimony
whereof they have set their seal.
Rccon/^i of ]Vilts.hirc Parisihcs. 13
Lay Subsidy. No. ^. [6 Henry /'/.]
A.D. 1427. Inquisition taken at New Saruni, the Tuesday
next after St. Barnabas the apostle, 6 Henry \'l.
All persons herein named are seised in their demesne as
of fee in the hundred of Ambresbury. Item, John Sk3'llyng
holds immediately in his demesne as of fee certain lands and
tenements in Chaldryng[ton], which lately belonged to
Waryny Bass\'ngbourne b}- the service of half a knight's fee.
Item, William Nayl, Richard Cole, John
Doget, Cristina Edward, and Robert Baillyf, hold immediately
in their demesne as of fee certain lands and tenements in Chal-
dryngton, which lately belonged to Walter Garbonell by the
serv'ice of half a knight's fee.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [1-20 Henry VI, No. 115.]
Anno 18 [a.d. 1439]. — At Westminster, three weeks after
Easter Day. Between Thomas Bailly, plaintiff, and William
Nayle and Agnes his wife, defendants, of a messuage, 2^
virgates of land, and 24s. \d. rent, with the appurtenances in
Chaldryngton. Plea of covenant was summoned. William
and Agnes recognised the right of Thomas as of their gift,
and they quitclaimed to the tenements from themselves and their
heirs to Thomas and his heirs for ever. And William and
Agnes and their heirs warranted to Thomas and his heirs
against Walter, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol, and his
successors for ever. And for this Thomas gave William and
Agnes 100 marks of silver.
Clerical Sudsidy. [No. ^.]
A.D. 1450-1. — Account of the Prior and Convent of Maiden
Bradley, collectors of the first half of the tenths from benefices,
whose true value exceeds 12 marks yearly, granted last
Convocation, Julv a.d. 1449, and to be collected at the
feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin a.d. 1450, and at the
same feast in a.d. 145 i ; 6s. Sd. from every secular chaplain
and other religious persons in the various parishes.
Deaner}^ of Ambresbury.
From Dan Hugh, chaplain of Chaldryngton. 6s. 8(f,
14 Willsliire Notes and Queries.
Fkkt OF Finks. Divkrs Countiks. [i-io Edivard IV, No. 2"].]
Anno 4 [a.i>. 1464]. At Westminster, in the qnintlcnc of
St. Hilary. Between John W3'deslade, son of Jolin Wydeslade
and William Estecote, son of Robert Estecote, of B^'deforde,
plaintiffs, ami John Wynard, esquire, and Elizabeth his wife,
deforciants, of the manors of Rolueston, Chaldryngton
Cherelton and Croylboys, with the appurtenances, and of
the bailiwick and custody of the chace of Colyngborne Duels
with the appurtenances, and also of 16 messuages, 13 virgates
of land, 20 acres of meadow, 20 acres of wood, and 5 marcs
6s. 8^. rent, with the appurtenances in Hyllecote, Wyllyfford,
Manyngford, Manyngford Wyke, Netherhaven, Colyngborne
Ducis, Northtudeworth, Ludgarfeld and Budesden, and of the
advowson of the church of Chaldryngton in Wilts ; and of
other property in Hampshire. Plea of warranty was sum-
moned. John Wynard and Elizabeth acknowledged the right
of John Wydeslade as of their gift to him and William
Estecote. And they quitclaimed from themselves and the heirs
of Elizabeth to John Wydeslade and William Estecote and
the heirs of John Wydeslade for ever. And afterwards
John Wynard and Elizabeth for themselves and the heirs of
Elizabeth warranted the said manors, bailiwick and tenements,
with the appurtenances and the foresaid advowson, against
George, Abbot of Westminster, and his successors for ever.
And for this John Wydeslade and William Estecote gave John
Wynard and Elizabeth ^40 sterling.
King's Bench Rolls. [4 Edward IV. Hilary Term, m. 191].
A.n. 1464. — John Wydeslade, son of John Wydeslade,
and William Estcote, son of Robert Estecote of Bydeford,
gave to the lord king for two briefs ^4 for licence to make
agreement with John Wynard, e.squire, and Elizabeth his
wife, concerning the plea of covenant for the manors of
Roluyston, Chaldrington, Cherelton, etc.
Ibid. \M. 317.]
John Wydeslade, son of John Wydeslade, and William
Records of IViltsliirc Parishes. 15
Estecote, son of Robert Estecote of Bydeford, in their own
persons sue John Wynard, esquire, and Elizabeth his wife, and
John Skyllyng, son and heir of Michael Skyllyng, for the
manors of Rolueston, Chaldryngton, Charlton and Croylbo3's,
with the appurtenances and the advowson of the church of
Chaldryngton, with the bailiwick and custody of the chace of
Colyngbourne Ducis with the appurtenances, together with
16 messuages, 13 virgates of land, 20 acres of meadow, 20
acres of wood, and 5 marks, 6s. 8^. rent, with the appurten-
ances in Hillecote, Wyllyford, Manyngford, Manyngford
Wyk, Nytherhaven, Colyngborn Ducis, North Tudworth,
Ludgarshale, and Budesden, as their right and heritage by
Writ of Right. Because Cristofer Worsley, chief lord of that
fee, remitted the tenements to the lord king, and they them-
selves were seised thereof in their demesne as of fee and
lawfully in time of the peace of the present king by taking
thence the esplees.
And John Wynard and Elizabeth and John Skyllyng
come by their attorney, John Salter, and forbid the right of
John Wydeslade and William, and vouch to warranty Robert
Tylbur}', who is present in court in his own person, tenant
by warranty. And Robert aforesaid forbids the right of John
Wydeslade and William, and places himself concerning this
in the great assize of the lord king, whether he or they have the
greater right to hold the said manors, etc., and John Wyde-
slade and William ask licence for imparlance, and they have it
and return the same term into court in their own persons.
And Robert, tenant by warranty, does not return but makes
default. Wherefore it is considered that John Wydeslade and
William should recover their seisin against John Wynard and
Elizabeth and John Skyllyng, and hold the manors, etc., for
ever against John Wynard, etc., and their heirs, and against
Robert and his heirs. And the same Robert is in mercy.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [16 Edward IV.]
A.D. 1476. — At Westminster, in the Octaves of St. Martin.
1 6 Ji 'illshiri' Notes and Queries.
Between Robert Sanser, plaintiff', and Henry Lane and
Christina his wife, and John Shote and Editli his wife, daugh-
ter and heiress of John I^yble, deforciants, f)f 4 messuages,
2 tofts, 30 acres of land, with the appurtenances, aufl of pas-
ture for 40 sheep and 6 beasts in Great Ambresbury and
Chaldryngton. Plea of covenant was suniinoned. Heniy and
Christina and Jolin and Edith acknowledged the right of
Robert as of their gift, and quit-claimed from themselves and
the heirs of Christina and Edith to Robert and his heirs for
ever. And they afterwards warranted the said tenement and
pasture to Robert and his heirs against all men for ever. For
til is Robert gave them 40 marks of silver.
I.NQUisiTio.N Post Mortfm. [22 Edivard IV, No. 16.]
P.M. Tlio))ias IVayte.
.\.n. 1482. — ^Inquisition taken at Ambresbury, 28th October.
The jury say that Thomas Wayte, and Elizabeth his
wife still surviving, on the day of his death, were seised in
their demesne as of fee, and in the right of Elizabeth, of the
manor of Chaldryngton, with the appurtenances, in the county
of Wilts. That the said manor is held of the Prioress of
Ambresbury by fealty and the rent of one red rose to be paid
yearly at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.
And the manor is worth yearly, all deductions being made,
^5 65. 4^/. The same witnesses also say that Thomas Wayte
and Elizabeth, on the day of his death, held the manors of
Charleton and Croyleboys, with the custody of
Colynborn Wodes, a parcel 1 of the manor of Colyngbourne
Ducis in the same county. And Thomas Wayte held on the
day of his death no other lands nor tenements in the same county
of the lord king or of anyone else, either in demesne or by
service. And that he died on the loth May, in the said 22nd
year of the king. And William Wayte his brother is his
nearest heir and he is thirty years of age and more. In witness
whereof the Eschaetor and jury set to their seals.
Records of 1 1 ^illshirc Parishes. 1 7
Chanxery Miscellaneous Roll. No. \. [.\-^ Ed-a'ard III.]
A.D. 137 1. — The certificate of the Sherifi' of Wilts of the
number of churches, chapels and prebends in the county,
pursuant to a writ for levying a subsidy of 225. yi. from every
parish : —
" The parish church of Chaldryngton is in the hand of
Roger Knyght, parson there."
Lay Subsidy Rolls for Wilts, [from Richard II to
Henry VIII.^
A.D. 1388. — Hundred of Ambresbury. s. d.
Chaldryngton.. .. .. .. . . 28 8
.v.D. 1 44 1. — Cheldrington, one of the towns in Wilts
returned as waste and impoverished and
therefore to be excused from the full
share of the payment of the Fifteenths
and Tenths granted, 26 Sept., 24 Henry
VI 30
A.D. 1452. — Chalderyngton, a waste town
T^2S. \d. assessed. 26s. 2\d. deducted.
A.D. 1 5 II. — Chyldryngton,
56s. 8(7. ,, 22s. 2hd. „
A.D. 1522-3. — Chaldryngton, the collector, Nicholas 5. d.
Smyth to gather . . . . . . • • 57 ^
A.D. 1524. — Due from William Clarke of Chaldryngton,
Petty collector 57 10
1 The numbers of these Rolls are 196/49; 196106; 196 120; 196/136;
197,152 ; 197 157. There are many others, but as the sums due and the sums
collected vary only by a few shillings, it has been concluded that the above,
with a few more to appear in the next number, are sufficient examples of the
information contained in them. For the same reason few extracts have been
made from the Clerical subsidies.
i S / / ^iltsliin- Notes and Oiict'ics.
EXTRACTS FROM -THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE"
ki;lating to wiltshiue.
{Conliintcd fro))i ]\)l. i, p. 549.)
VOLUME XX\'l. 1756.
Shcrift' for the year, John Jacob of Tockenham, Esq.
Jan. 7. — Died: Rev. Mr. Fore, Mhiister of Monkton Farleigh,
near Bath.
Jan. 7 —Died : Hen. Read of Ramsbury, Esq. ; aged 88.
/(III. — Bankrupts :— Edw. Sly of Ramsbury, Wilts, leather-
seller; John Rose of Avebury, Wilts, chapman.
Fch. —Mr. Holmes, presented to the Rectory of Langley Abbots,
Wilts.
Rich. Watts, B.A., presented to the X'icarage of Langton,
Wilts.
Feb. — Bankrupts: Geo. Fry of Calstone, Wilts, clothier: Joseph
Hiccocks of Malmesbury, Wilts, inn-holder.
March. Mr. John Lunib}- installed prebendary of Alton
Austral, in the cathedral of Sarum.
ylpril G.—Thc King has been pleased to appoint the Rt. Hon.
the E. of Pembroke, Lieut, and Gustos Rot. of Wilts.
April. —Thomas Simpson, B.A., presented to the Rectory of
Stimlc}', Wilts.
Win. Fletcher, B. A., presented to the Vicarage of Bushey,
Wilts.
.lA/v 6.— Died : Rev. Mr. Blackburn, min. of Northey, Wilts.
.VAi>'.-— Bankrupt : John Lord, sen., of Little Ilinton, Wilts,
malster.
/nnr. Alderman Beckford, ni. to Mrs. March.
June 7.— Died : Rev. Mr. Wishavv, a canon of Salisbury cath.
Jiinr 14. — Died : Rev. Mr. Adam, minister of Ashton, Wilts.
func I.— The King has been pleased to grant unto the Hon.
Tho. Villicrs of the Grove, in the G. of Hertford, Esq.,
and the heirs male of his body by the Lady Gharlotta
Extracts from " The Gentleman's Magazine." 19
H3'de, his present wife, the dignity of a Baron of
Great Britain, by the name, stile, and title of Baron
Hyde of Hindon in the county of Wilts ; and in
default of such issue, the dignity of Baroness Hyde,
of Hindon aforesaid, to the said Lady Charlotta
Hyde, and the dignity of Baron Hyde to her heirs
male.
Jit/y. — Tho. Franklin, B.A., presented to the Vicarage of Long
Ashton, Wilts.
Mr. Rich. Easton. appointed a prebend of Salisbury.
July. — Bankrupt : Joseph Lanham, jun., of Melksham, Wilts,
clothier.
Aug. — Bankrupt: Peter Davis, of Mere, Wilts, chapman.
Sep. i6. — Died: Rt. Hon. Ld. Arundel at Wardour Castle, in
Wiltshire, a Catholick peer.
Sep. — Rich. Simmonds presented to the Vicarage of Compton,
Wilts.
Mr. Philips, R. of Barton, Wilts, appointed chaplain of
the Terrible, 74 guns.
Sep. 22. — Died : Lady Phipps, at Haywood, Wilts.
Oct. — John Baker, m. to the relict of Alderman Richard
Beckford.
Oct. 22. — Died : Lord Drumlanrig, only son of the Duke of
Queensbury, at Amesbury, Wilts.
Oct. — Tho. Read, B.L., presented to the Vicarage of Heckling-
ton, Wilts.
Jonathan Rideout, presented to the \'icarage of Hem-
bury, Wilts.
Wm. Tomblins, M.A., has a dispensation to hold the
Living of Collingburne St. And., Wilts, and the
Rectory of Upham, Hants.
Nov. — Ld. Feversham m. to Miss Frances Bathurst, 7th
daughter of the late Peter Bathurst, Esq., of Claren-
don Park in Wiltshire.
Dec. 23. — The Hessian Camp began to break up. Col. W'atson,
with other English officers, were appointed to conduct
20 IVillsliiir Notes and Queries.
tlic several regiments to their respective quarters,
namely (Inter alia) Gen. Wolfe's to Salisbury.
Dec. — Mr. Bradley appointed to the Vicarage of Linbury,
Wilts.
Mr. Blantl ai>pointcd to the X'icaragc of Amcsden,
Wiltshire.
VOLUME XXVII, 1757.
Sherift" appointed for the 3'ear, W. Coles of the Close,
of New Sarum, Esq.
Jan. 8. —The farmers at Warminster market, who purposed to
have advanced the already exhorbitant price of their
corn, met with a remarkable disappointment :— The
malsters from various parts, together with those of the
town, who assembled together to the number of three-
score and upwards, made an agreement not to buy any
barley that day ; several of them likewise declared that
they were resolved to quit the malting business rather
than sutTcr themselves to be so notoriously imposed
upon. The malsters likewise caused a letter to be
wrote, which was signed by many of them, and sent to
Devizes and other market towns to desire the buyers
of corn to follow their example, for the benefit of all
in general and the poor in particular.
Jan. -Died : Rev. Tho. Pyle, canon res. of Salisbury, 84.
ya;/.— Bankrupt : Wm. inglis, of Chippenham, Wilts, linen
draper.
Ja)i. 29 — Died : Only son of lord Arundel of Wardour.
Feb. — Died : Dr. jolm Clarke, dean of Sarum and prebendary
of Norwich, aged 70.
Feb.— Won. Mr. .Shcrrard appointed a canon of the cathedral
of Salisbury.
Marr/i 27. —Died: Lady of the Hon. Rob. Herbert, Esq.,
member for Wilton.
.March 31.— Died: Hon. Wm. Herbert, Esq., groom of the
bed-chamber to his Majesty, a Major-Gen. -Col. of the
Extracts from " The Gcutlcman's Magazine"
2nd regiment of dragoon guards, and member for
Wilton, Wiltshire.
yJ/»r/7 11.- Died : Sir Paul Methuen, Knt. of the Bath. lie
formerly enjoyed several great posts under tlie
government, but had retir'd several years. He has left
all his domesticks board wages for their lives.
April 30. — A patent is granted to John Ladd, of Trowbridge in
Wilts, for his new method of constructing, on
mechanical principles, wheel carriages, which, without
horses, or other cattle, and with a verv moderate
human force, will move and carry, from place to place,
great weights, where there are not steep ascents, with
the usual celerity ; and with the addition of a much
less number of horses than are now used, will remove
and carry the like weights in all roads, even where
there are steep ascents.
April. — The Duke of Richmond m. to Lady Mary Bruce, sister
to the Earl of Aylesbury.
April. — Bankrupt : G. Paradice, late of Devizes in Wilts,
tallow-chandler.
April 29. — Died : Rev. Mr. Barton, minister of St. Mary's
at Marlborough.
April 30. — The king has been pleased to recommend to the
dean and chapter of York the Rt. Rev. Dr. John
Gilbert, Bp. of Salisbury, to be elected Archbishop
of that See, in room of the Most Rev. Dr. Hutton,
translated to the See of Canterbury.
May 4. — A disturbance happened at Salisbury, for the first
time, on account of the high price of corn. It was
begun by a party of women, but soon quelled by the
activity of the Mayor, and the city officers, who
exerted their authority with great spirit on the
occasion.
May. — Ralph Campbell, Esq. ; m. to Miss Maria Bonham, of
Henly Park, Wiltshire, ^8,000.
May 28. — The king has been pleased to recommend to the dean
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IViltsliire Notes and Queries .
and chapter of Salisbury the Rt. Rev. Dr. John
Thomas, Bishop of Peterborough, to be elected bishop
of that See, in room of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Gilbert,
promoted.
Maw — Bankrupt : T. Brunsdon, late of Marlborough, Wilts.,
shopkeeper.
July 6. — A ball of fire from the clouds fell among the horses in
camp near Salisbury, and bounded along the ground,
which so affrighted many of them tliat they broke
from the pickets and ran from the downs into the
neighbouring villages.
July 1 8. — Died: Joseph Sager, canon resid. of Salisbury.
July 24. — Died: Rev. Mr. Bryan, V. of Highworth, Wilts.
July.— Rev. Mr. Mills, R. of Nettleton, m. to Miss Molly Cock.
Ju/y. — Mr. Trevors presented to the Vicarage of Sutton-in-
the-Moors, Wilts.
Aui^. — -Rev. Charles Tarrant, M.A. (sub-dean of Salisbury)
presented to the Rectory of Tidworth, Wilts, ^200
per annum.
Sep. 14. — Mr. Kirk, a taylor in Salisbury, his wife, daughter, and
journeyman, were in great danger of losing their lives
in a stupor and convulsions, with which they were
seized, in consequence of their eating some stewed
mushrooms for supper, which they had gathered the
same day on the downs near Amesbury. Mr. Kirk
had presence of mind, soon after he found himself
affected, to call an apothecary, or 'tis imagined they
must all have perished by the morning, as 'twas with
the greatest difficulty the daugliter and journeyman
were recovered, after lying some hours quite insensi-
ble.
.SV-/). Rev. Mr. Tarrant, sub-dean of Sarum, m. to Miss Keene
of the Close, Salisbury.
Sc/>. 15.— Died: John Smith, Esq., near Downton, Wilts.
Sep. -James Morley, B.A., presented to the Rectory of Abbot-
stone, Wilts.
Extracts from " Tlw Ccnt/onan's Afagazine." 23
Sep. — John Glover, A.B., presented to the Rectory of Up-
minster, Wilts.
Mr. Ogle appointed a canon residentiary of Sali.sbury.
Sep. — Bankrupts : Randal Malf of New Saruni, chapman ;
James Gilliland, late of Swindon, Wilts, linendraper.
Sep. 28. — Died : Lady Dowager of Wardour, at Salisbury.
Oct. 4. — Died : John Smith, Esq. ; near Barclay, Wilts.
Oct. 12. — Died : Charles Wigner of Wiltshire, Esq.
Oct. — Mr. Ogle appointed can. resid. of Salisbury Cathedral.
John Vanderplank presented to the living of Huminton,
Wilts.
Edm. Bettesworth presented to the living of Highworth,
Wilts.
Nm>. — Mr. Henry Villers, jun., of Golden-square, m. to Miss
Warton, of Salisbury, ^5,000.
Thomas Adams, Esq. ; m. to Miss Adams, of Badon,
Wilts.
Nov. 14. — Died : T. Wanley, Esq., of the Holme, in Wilts.
Nov. 14. — Died : Peter Bower, Esq., at Chippenham.
Dec. — Tho. Clayton, of Newbury, Esq., m. to Miss Marsdon,
of Marlborough.
Capt. Wall, of Lord Cha. Hay's Regt., m. to Mrs. Terry,
of Salisbury.
Dec. II. — Died: Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Baron
Seymour, and bart., warden and chief justice in eyre of
all his Majesty's parks, etc., north of Trent. He married
Mary, the daughter and heiress of Daniel Webb, Esq.,
of Monckton Parley, Wilts, and niece and heiress of
Edward Somner, Esq., of Seen, in the same county,
by whom he hath issue, Edward, now Duke of Somer-
set ; Lord Webb Seymour, who inherits his grand-
father's estate at Monckton ; Lord Wm. brought up
to the law, and called to the bar in 1754 ; Lord Prancis,
a canon of W^indsor, and Lady Mary. His Grace
was descended from Edward, Lord Seymour, eldest
son of the great Duke of Somerset (who was the
24 Willsliire Nolcs ami Queries.
happy instrument of introducing the Reformation
into this kingdom) by his first wife Catharine: he
behaved with the utmost gallantry under his father at
the battle of Musselborough, where the Scotch were
entirely routed, for which he was knighted in the
field, but was disinherited to gratify the pride and
ambition of his father's second wife, Lady Ann
Stanhope, whose issue being extinct in 1750, the
eldest branch succeeded to the title, having been
excluded about 200 years ; the present is the 9tli Duke
of Somerset, and what is very remarkable is the 9th
of the name of Edward, in a direct line from father to
son.
Dec. — Rich. Head, presented to the rectory of Rolstone, Wilts.
James Lewis, presented to the rectory of St. Martin's,
Salisbury.
Dec. — Bankrupts: Benjamin Cue, of Calne, Wiltshire, brewer;
Wm. Archard of Nettleton, W^ilts, mercer; Sam
Sanger, of Melksham, Wilts, clothier.
SOUTHWICK COURT AND ITS OWNERS.
(Cotitinued from Vol. /, p. 560.^
Sir Robert Willoughby, the eldest son of Sir John, by
Anne, the co-heiress of Cheney, with many other Wiltshire
gentry of the time, including Sir Thomas Delamere, Sir Roger
Tocotes, Sir Richard Beauchamp, Walter Hungerford, John
Cheney, and others, joined the Duke of Buckingham in his
resistance to Richard 11 1. ^ Their lands were seized, and the
I The tombs of three of these indivirluals, each bearing a recumbent
effigy, yet remain ; that of Lord Willoughby de Brooke, in Callington
('harch, Cornwall ; Sir Roger Tocotes, in the neighbouring church of
Bromham ; and Sir John Cheney (who was unhorsed by the hand of
Ilichanl III, in hi.s furious charge at the battle of Bosworth) in Salisbury
Cathedral. All wear the Lancastrian collar of SS, and Lord Brooke and
Sir John Chonoy are both represented as wearing, over their armour, the
mantle of the Order of the Garter.
Sou f /muck Court and its Oivncrs.
manors of Southwick and Brooke were bestowed by King
Richard upon his favourite Edward Ratclifte, 15 December
1483 [Har/ MS., No. 443, art. 1621]; but again restored on
the accession of Henry \'I1, two years afterwards. In 1492,
Sir Robert was created Lord Willoughby de Brooke — as
Dugdale says " from his residence at Broke, near Westbury,
called from that little torrent running there." During his
ownership of Brooke Hall [1471-1503] Lord Willoughby de
Brooke made some ver}' considerable additions to an older
building which previously stood on the same site, and in this
state it was seen by Leland, about the year 1540. Aubrey,
fully a century later, describes it as being still "a very great
and stately old howse ", and, in his Collections for North
IVilts, has preserved sketches of the heraldic glass with
which the windows of the principal apartments were then
emblazoned; the shields in one room, called the "canopie
chamber ", illustrating the descent of Greyville, Stafford,
Cheney, and Willoughby, lords of Southwick Court.^ Sir
1 The following is the heraldic blazon, as given by Aubrey, illustrating
the descent of Southwick Court.
I. — Or, a chevron gides within a bordure engrailed sable — Stafkoud ;
impaling, Argent, 6 lioncels rampant gules — Greyville — for the first Sir
Humphrey Stafford, of Southwick (died 1413), and his first wife, the heiress
of Greyville.
II.— Quarterly 1 and 4, Staffokd, 2 and 3, Greyville; impaling.
Sable, a fret or — Maltravers — for the second Sir Humphrey Stafford " with
the Silrer Hand " (died 1442), and his wife Elizabeth, the co-heiress of
Sir John Maltravers, of Hooke.
III. — Gule.'<. four fusils in fesse, each charged with an escallop, sable —
Cheney ; impaling, quarterly, 1, Stafi'ord, 2, Greyville, 3, Maltr.wers,
4, Azure, two bars gemelles ar(/c?i<^CiFREWAST — for Sir Edmond Cheney
(died 1430), and his wife Alice, only daughter of the second Sir Humphrey
Stafford " ivith the Silver Hand ".
IV. — Quarterly, 1 and 4, -SiiWe, a cross engrailed or — Willoughby, 2
and 3, (rules, a cross moline argent — Beke ; with a crescent for difference ;
impaling six quarterings. 1, Cheney, 2, Stafford, 3, Greyville, 4, Mal-
travers, 5, Cifrewast, 6, Per fesse gules and azure, three crescents
argent — Acmarle— for Sir John Willoughby (died 1471), and his wife Ann,
coheiress of Sir Edmond Cheney.
V. — A shield of eight quarterings : — 1, Willoughby and Beke, quarterly,
2, Cheney, 3, Stafford, 4, Greyville, 5, Maltravers, 6, Cifrewast,
a6 J!'i7/s/ii?r A^o/rs and Queries.
Robert was K.G., and Steward uf the Household to Henry
V^II. His will bears date 19 August 1502, and dying in the
following year his remains were interred in Callington
Church, Cornwall, where his recumbent effigy, lying on an
altar tomb, is still to be seen.
By liis wife Blanche, daughter and heiress of John
Champernoun, of Beer Ferrers, he left a son of the same
name, who on his father's death became second Lord
Willoughby de Brooke. He sold Southwick, in 1520, to Sir
David Owen* (a supposed son of Owen Tudor), in the hands
of whose descendants the property became divided — one
portion being sold by Henry Owen to Sir Woolstan Dixie,
Lord Mayor of London, who by will, dated 1592, devised his
lands here, worth £42 per annum, to Christ's Hospital.
Another portion was sold in 1556, by John Owen, to
Christopher Bayley, of Stowford, in the parish of Winkfield —
whose father, Thomas Bayley— the "Old Bayllie" whom
Leland mentions as a rich clothier of Trowbridge, about
1540^ — had a grant from the Crown of the site of the Manor of
Winfield, and other property in Wilts, 30 Henry VIII [1538].
The son Christopher, purchaser of a portion of Southwick
from the Owens in 1556, was also a Trowbridge clothier. In
the previous year he had a lease from Sir Walter Hungerford
and his wife Agne.s, of a farm at Rowley, a dismembered
parish between Farley and Westwood. He married Maud,
daughter of Thomas Horton, of I ford, who seems already to
have possessed one-third of Southwick Manor in her own
right. After her first husband's death, which happened before
7, ArMAKLE, «. WiM.oK.iiisY an<l Beke, as 1— for Sir Robert Willoughby,
created Lord Brooke (died 150.3). There being no impalement to this
shield, it i.s most probable that the heraldic glass in this apartment was
placed here before his marriage with the heiress of Chatnpernowne.
1 In his will, dated 1529, Sir David mentions this manor and chantry.
•Leland, speaking of Trowbridge, says:— " 6^W nayllie buildid of
late yn this toun, he was a rich clothiar. Bailies son now drapeth yn the
toun, and also a 2 miles out of it at a place [Stowford Mill, in Wink-
field, until recently used as a cloth mill] yn the way to Farleij-Castel.
Soutlnvick Court mid its Oivncts. 27
1562, she re-married Walter, second son of John Bush, of
Dilton, near Westbury, and apparently nephew of Paul Bush,
last Rector of the house of Bonhommes at Edyngdon, and first
Protestant Bishop of Bristol [1542-54]. This Walter Bush, in
right of his wife, held Soutlnvick for life, and in 1567 made
some alterations to the house, as may be seen by a stone built
into the wall with his initials, " W. B.", and the above date. In
his will, dated 24th July 1599, he is described as "of Roulie".
He leaves Maud, his wife, and James, his third son, of the city
of Bristol, mercer, his executors, and Edward Horton, of
Westwood, clothier [his wife's brother], and Edward Long, of
Monkton, in the parish of Broughton Gifford, overseers.
On the death of Walter Bush, Southwick reverted to the
family of Christopher Bayley, his wife's first husband, and
another Christopher (second son of the former) became owner,
whose daughter and heiress, Rebecca Bayly, by marriage
with Henry, son of Henry Long, of Whaddon, by Mary,
daughter of Robert May, of Broughton Gifford, conveyed
Southwick into the Whaddon branch of the Long family.
Henry Long, the first owner, did not live long to enjoy the
property which he had thus acquired. His will bears date
1612, and he was buried with his ancestors at Whaddon. His
widow afterwards re-married Henry Sherfield, of Lincoln's
Inn, Recorder of Salisbury, and M.P. for that city in 1623-8.
He was subsequently tried in the Star Chamber, and heavily
fined, for having, in his Puritanical zeal, broken and defaced a
stained glass window in the Church of St. Edmund, Salisbury
[State Trials, 1632].^ He held Southwick for life, and on his
decease it reverted to Walter Long, of Whaddon, his wife's
eldest son by her first marriage. This owner was Sheriff of
Wilts in 1627, M.P. for Bath in the same year, and for
Ludgershall in 1640. He was one of the celebrated members
sent to the Tower, prosecuted in the Star-Chamber, and fined
1 For a full account of this trial see U'. -V. 4' Q-, vol. i, p.p. 183-188.
Notices of Sherfield will also be found at pages 91 and 136 of the same
volume.
a8 Wiltshire Notes and Oticncs.
2,000 marks, in 162S. In 1646 the Parliament voted him ^5,000
as an indemnity. In 1647 the army brought a series of charges
against him, which he refuted. In August of the same year he
and others fled to France, as Holies (his companion in exile)
says, "because the princes of the Philistines loved them not."
At the Restoration he returned to England, and in 1661 was
created a baronet. Clarendon calls liim one of the chiefs of
the Presbyterian party. He commenced his career of patriot-
ism on the Tonnage and Poundage question, continued it by
charging at the head of a troop of horse (raised by himself) at
Edgehill, where his horse was shot under him; and was equally
the opponent of the despotic power both of the King and the
Protector. His will bears date 1672, and his remains were
interred at Whaddon. By his first wife, Mary, daughter of
Joseph Coxe [or Cocks] he had three sons and two daughters.
The eldest son, Sir Walter (second baronet) baptized at
Whaddon in 1627, during his tenure of Southwick Court,
made some alterations to the house in 1697, his initials
" S. W. L.," with this date, being cut on a stone inserted in
the wall. He died, without issue, in his house in James Street,
Covent Garden, and was buried at Whaddon. By will, dated
1 7 10, he left his property to Calthorpe Parker and Sir Philip
Parker (sons of his sister Rebecca, who had married Sir Philip
Parker, of Erwarton, co. Suffolk, hart., the other brothers
and sister having all died without issue), and on failure of issue
to Thomas Long, of Rowden, John Long, of Meseyhampton,
and his brother Thomas in remainder.
Calthorpe Parker, of Whaddon, who took the name of
Long, died without issue in 1729; and was succeeded by his
nephew. Sir Philip Parker a Morley, bart. (only son of his
brother Sir I'liilip, of Erwarton), who also took the name of
Long, and died without male issue in 1740, when Southwick
reverted to the Longs of Whaddon, from whom it has passed
to its present owner, the Rl. I Ion. Walter Hume Long, M.P.,
of Rood Ashton.
The present Southwick Court Farm (occupied by Mr. C.
Fawcoitcr of Salisbtity. 29
W. Reakes), although altered in the earl}' part of Elizabeth's
reign, and again in that of William and Mary, evidently still
retains much of its original character and outline. A deep
and wide moat, well supplied with water, surrounds the entire
area. The stone bridge by which it is now crossed, and the
arched entrance within, seem to perpetuate in form and size
the ancient drawbridge, with its attendant gatehouse and
portcullis.
The house itself, with its gabled roofs and mullioned
windows, probably very nearly represents the original size of
the building. The chapel, which had long been converted into
a cowhouse, was pulled down about the year 1839, when some
of the old oak timbers of the roof were used in framing that
of the present stable.
Edward Kite.
West Aslilon, Troicbridge.
FAWCONER OF SALISBURY.
On the death, intestate, in 1786, of one Henry Fawconer,
his personalty was divided between his aunts ex parte materna,
or their descendants, while his realty passed, as the result of a
trial at Chelmsford, in or about 1789, to his cousin Anne,
daughter of Thomas Harris Fawconer. The authority for
these statements is a Fawconer pedigree drawn up apparently
for the information of claimants who had not been represented
at the hearing of the cause.
This pedigree is undoubtedly in many points erroneous.
It begins with John Fawconer, rector of Britford, father of
Edward, born in 1617, and William, born in 16 18, whereas
we now know from Mr. Bartlett's valuable note (vol. i, p. 421)
that the rector's name was Edward, not John, that his son
Edward was born in 1636, not 161 7, while it seems very
doubtful (see post, circa fine m) whether he had a son William
at all.
3© U'iltshitr Notes and Queries.
But ilicsc are blemishes, and there is a deal of genealogy,
and fairl}' accurate genealogy, respecting an old and reputable
Salisbury family to be recovered from the pedigree, which
moreover is througliout largely confirmed from external
sources. The suggestion contained in it that Samuel and
Edward Fawconer, rectors of Poole and Upwey respectively,
were base born, I believe, from many considerations, to be
false.
I should be grateful to Mr. Bartlett, or other of the cor-
respondents of IV. N. & O., for additions or corrections to
any part of the pedigree. My own notes I have embodied
in it, giving the text of the original in inverted commas. I
should also be glad of any information concerning the Rev.
Thos. Powell, S.T.B. (see Mr. Bartlett's note), and his family.
Edw.ard F.vwconer of Salisbury, co. Wilts, yeoman (see
sons' matrics.) had issue —
1. Edward Fawconer, of whom below.
2. Samuel Fawconer, matriculated at New Inn Hall, in
Oxford, 1 6 March 1637-8, aet. 16, B.A. from
Merton Coll., 13 Nov. 1641.
Edw.\rd Fawconer, matriculated at Magd. Hall, Oxford,
22 Oct. 1630, aet. 20, B.A. from Magd. Coll., 4 May 1631,
rector of Britford, co. Wilts, 1634. Married at Britford, 26
May 1633, Anne d. of Rev. Thos. Powell, B.D., rector of
Britford, and had i.ssue —
1. Katharine, baptised at B., 9 June 1634.
2. Edward, of whom below.
3. Anne, bapt. at B., 29 June 1637.
4. Francis, bapt. at B., 2 Feb. 1640-1.
5. Penelope, bapt. at B., 20 Oct. 1642.
C>. Mary, bapt. at B., 22 Sept. 1644.
7. John, bapt. at B., 2 Nov. 1645.
8. Samuel, born at B., 24 Dec. 1646, buried there 25 April
1 65 1.
9. Elizabeth, bapt. at B., G Feb. 1647-8.
Faivcouer of Salisbury. 3 1
10. Susanna, bapt. at B., 6 Oct. 1651.
11. Thomas, bapt. at B., 4 Nov. 1652.
Edward Fawconer, bapt. at Britford, 26 March 1636,
married there 19 May 1659, Margaret d. of . . . Frowd.
Described as "Alderman of Sarum " in 1680; liis will as
"of the city of New Sarum, co. Wilts, gent.," dated 15 April,
proved 13 Dec. 1691. Admon. of the estate of his relict
" Margaret Fawconer, late of the city of New Sarum, but
dying in the parish of St. Mar3'-le-Bow, London," was granted,
per decrctu})!, 12 Dec. 1692, to Thomasine, wife of Paul Sindry,
her daughter. He appears by his will to have been a ' Lace-
man.' He had issue — ■
1. Edward F'awconer, mentioned in wills of father and
brother Jonathan. "Born in 1660, died a lunatic,
s.p." ped.
2. William Fawconer, mentioned in father's and brother's
wills. " Sword bearer to King William : died in
the Middle Temple, London : left a son who died a
minor," ped. He had issue-
1. Edward Fawconer, mentioned in grandfather's will,
3. Thomasine Fawconer, "bapt. 1662: married one Free-
man, died a widow," /»rrt'. She married Paul Sindry
of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, citizen and mercer (mar.
lie. 23 Dec. 1680, she about 18, he about 25). She
was admin, to her mother, as above. His will,
dated 9 March 1699- 1700, was proved 19 May
1 70 1. They had issue —
1. Edward Sindry.
2. Margaret Sindry.
3. Thomazin Sindry.
4. Elizabeth Sindry.
4. Samuel Fawconer, of whom below.
5. Jonathan Fawconer, "born in Salisbury about 1664:
died in London, buried in St. Edmund's church : a
laceman," pcd. He married at Culliton (mar. lie.
9 Nov. 1687), Mary Stannanow of Culliton, co.
32 IVilishirc Notes and Queries.
Devon, spinster, about 19, parents dead, he being
described as " of New Sarum, co. Wilts, merchant,
bachelor, about 19." His will as " of London, lace-
man," dated 24 June, was proved 1 Dec. 1693, by
his relict Mary. They had issue —
I. Jonathan Fawconcr, "a lapidary, settled in London :
died in London : married three times," pcd.
The mother of his children was Elizabeth,
eldest daughter (her sisters married respectively
Philip HoUingsworth and Herman Meyer) of
Jabez Collier, of Symond's Inn, solicitor {see
Collier Ped. in Miscel. Gen. & Herald.^ vol. iii,
N.S.) They had issue —
1. Henry Fawconer, exor. to uncle Jas. Collier.
He "died at the Hotwells, Bristol, 1786, a
bachelor, without a will : left personalty
and realty worth ^80,000. A Mrs.
Delarne (or Delarue) took the freehold,
and one Meirs and HoUingsworth the
personalty, and as they stated as nearest
of kin, being the children of Jonathan's
wife's sisters, the auntsof Henry. Query,"
ped
T y^ ^ who all prcsum-
2. James rawconer, \ ^
T , T- ably predeceased
3. John hawconer, t
T, T- 1 w I their brother
4. rope Jbawconer, a daughter
I Henry, s.p.
(). Margaret Fawconer^ 1 " stated Id have
7. Joseph Fawconer, r died without is-
8. Margaret Fawconer, ^ sue," prd.
Samuki, Fawconkr, 41I1 child of Edward and Margaret
(Frowd), "kept the Lamb and Flag, High Street, Sarum;
married Ann Fulford in London ; died at Sarum," ped. Men-
tioned in father's and brother's wills He had issue —
I. Samuel Fawconer, of whom below.
Anns of Fitzalaii. 33
2. John Fawconer, "born at Saruin about id^)^: married
Ann Wenterlock about 17 19 and had issue," pcd.
1. John Fawconer, "born at Sarum about 1724."
2. Sarah Fawconer, " married Thomas Biddlecombc,
who left issue," /r<y.
3. WilHam Fawconer, "born about 1696: married and
had issue," pcd.
I. Samuel Fawconer, "stated to have died s./>. in
London, but not clearly ascertained," /»<•</.
4. Thomasin Fawconer, "married about 1721 to one
Dampier and had issue," pcd.
I. Margaret Dampier, "married about 1751 to one
Bury of Stratford-uader-Castle, and left issue,"
ped.
I Bury, "a daughter, married to one
Mead of Stratford," pcd.
5. Paul Sindry Fawconer, " married .... Geay,
and had issue," ped.
1. Martha Fawconer, " died without \ss\xe" ped.
2. Sindry Fawconer, " died without issue," pcd.
3. Jasper Fawconer, " married, first. Miss Mills, mar-
ried secondly .... who is now living,
and has issue by both," pcd.
(To be €0)1 tinned.)
Arms of Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, at Keevil. — In
glancing through the last number of WillsJiire Notes and
Queries, my attention was attracted by a note (page 559) to a
paper by Mr. Edward Kite, in which he adduces the occurrence
of the arms of Fitzalan, painted on the fifteenth century gallery
in the old house at Keevil, as a reason for supposing that it
was originally built by one of that family. Mr. Kite may per-
haps remember that, in conversation with him, I once disputed
that view, on the ground that the original painting did not
appear to be older than the sixteenth century. I have not seen
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34 IVilt shire Notes and Queries.
the house since the restoration was finished, but I understand
that the arms have been repainted in oil. Originally they were
in distemper and there was some other subject, on each side of
them, to the best of my recollection.
My point is this, that the painting was apparently of the
same date as other curious but coarse painting in the house,
which could not be of the date of the original building, for this
reason, that in one place, which must have been the upper room
beyond the hall, where the plaster ceiling had been removed, I
noticed that the painting did not extend to the timbers of the
roof, where they had been concealed by the later ceiling, prov-
ing that the painting had been executed after the place had
been ceiled.
I saw the house twice whilst the restoration was in pro-
gress, and, on the first occasion, I noticed that, at the back of
the hall, there was a stone window, an insertion of the six-
teenth century, which exactly resembled the plainer type of
Sir William Sharington's work at Lacock. That would prove
nothing, beyond the date of that insertion, but 1 would remind
Mr. Kite that he informed me of a curious circumstance, viz.,
that a paving tile of Sharington's was found on the spot, with
which tiles he is very familiar. The restoration was carried
out, by the builder, in a manner which was ver}' skilful, hut
rather too sweeping. When I next saw the house the six-
teenth century window and a porch of the seventeenth
century had been removed.
What I had seen and been told suggested a possible con-
nection of Sharington with the house and reminded me of
another circumstance, viz., that a considerable house in London
(Sharington House, in Mart Lane, now called Mark Lane) is
stated, by Strype, to have passed, on Sharington's attainder,
into the hands of Henry, Earl of Arundel. Sir William did
not, to my knowledge, recover it, though he repurchased the
bulk of his property. What happened, on a large scale, in
London, may have happened, on a small scale, at Keevil, par-
ticularly if the Earl of Arundel already owned much property
: ' .... '''j.Ii.-vt ■«■•:
The IViHsliire Society. 35
in the parish. Sharington certainly had property, not far
off, at Seend. All this is very suggestive, but, I admit, not
conclusive. What I wish to insist upon is this : the arms of
F'itzalan, painted on the gallery at Keevil, can be no evidence
as to the original builder, unless it can be shown that the
original painting was older than the sixteenth century, which I
believe not to have been the case.
C. H. Talbot.
Lacock Abbey.
The Wiltshire Society (vol. i, p. 521). — Since our last
issue, we have received some further information in connection
with this subject. A correspondent sends us a copy of one of
the sermons to which we alluded. The title page runs thus : —
" A Discourse of Friendship, preached at the IVi/ts hire-Feast, in
St. Mary-le-Bozv Church, December the is/, 1684. By Samuel
Masters, B.D., Preacher to the Hospital and Precinct of Brid-
well in London. London, Printed by T. B., for Marm. Foster
and Awnham Churchill, and are to be sold at the Black Swan, at
Amen Corner, mdclxxxv." It is dedicated "to the worthy
Stewards of the Wiltshire-Feast, Mr. John Eyles, Mr. Richard
Holford, Mr. Paul Methuen, Mr. William Gardiner, Mr. Henry
Lambe, Mr. Thomas Phipp, Mr. John Slater, Mr. John Rutland,
Mr. John Wayte, Mr. Edward Smith, and to the rest of my
countrymen of Wiltshire."
From another correspondent we have received a quaint
invitation card, designed and engraved by Thos. Burrough,
doubtless the famous printer of Devizes. This, which we here
reproduce in facsimile, has relation to the later Society, which
held its meetings at Bristol. It may be that the initials "T. B.",
of the printer of Samuel Masters' sermon, stand for a former
printer of the same name, lineage, and residence, but this
must be taken cum grano.
A third correspondent calls our attention to a cutting from
The Swindon Advertizer, concerning a club called "The
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36 Jl^illshirv Notes and Oiicrivs.
Moonies," which, we should gather, is made up principally of
mechanics who have, at one time or another, been employed in
the Great Western Railway Works, at Swindon. It would be
interesting to know whether this annual dinner is kept up for
the sake of charity. The paragraph runs as follows : —
"The Moonies in London."— Wc are asked to state that the annual
"Mounies" ilinnor in London, will take place thi.s year at the Horse Shoe
Hotel, Tottenham Court Road, on Saturday, March 21st next. Swindonians
who intend goinp can obtain tickets (which, by the way. are spcciallv designed
to reprc-scnt the moon, and are very neatly got up) of either of the following:
Mr. F. Wheeler, C^ricketer's Arms, New Swindon ; Mr. A. D. Richards,
Wa'^-on Department ; or from Mr. W. Haggard. Mr. F. Wallington, of
I'lum.'^tcid, is again discharging the duties of hon. sec. to the dinner
committee.
Wiltshire Poll Book for 1713 {vide vol. i, p. 368).— In
the Bodleian Library (Gougli MSS., Wilts) is a copy of the
poll of the freeholders in Wilts, taken at the contested election
in 1713. It is a MS. of fifty leaves in addition to the title
(the last leaf being blank), and is called "A True Coppy of
the 1 Poll j for the Electing of Knights | of the Sheire | for the
Countie of Willts ] taken at Willton the 8th day of Sept : |
1 7 13. I The Candidates were |
Sir Richd. Howe, Barrt. 1 J Edwd : Aish, Esqr.
Robt : Hyde, Esqr. i I Tho : Pitt, Esqr."
The result of the voting gave for Howe 1478, and the
same number for Hyde, while Aish obtained 781, and Pitt 774.
C. H. Mayo.
Heraldic Stone at Warminster. — After the Search or
Scarce Hoop* Inn, in the Market Place, Warminster, had been
burnt down, a carved stone was found, forming probably the
iName inexplicable.
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front of a mantel-piece in .i large mansion. It bore five coats
of arms, and it was at once supposed that this stone marked
the site of the house of the Kingtons or De Kyngstons, who
had a small property' at Newport, on the north side of War-
minster, but none of the shields bear the Kyngston arms.
The York Herald ruled that all the coats are genuine, but
that, in the absence of tinctures, it is almost impossible to ap-
propriate them. The central coat is that of Pormont, co.
Lincoln, as far as the bearings say, but no colour can be
detected on the sculpture. Hoare gives a coat connected with
Warminster or Upton Scudamore ; it carries, however, cinque
foils instead of cstoiles on the chevron. There are a great
many coats charged with lions rampant passant ; but this, and
the other side coat, three lions passant guardant per pale
counter-charged, cannot be attached without knowledge of
tincture.
The stone is now affixed to the wall of the Athenaeum.
John J. Daniell.
[We have placed this item at the head of the Queries^ feeling
sure that the last word on the subject has not yet been said,
and hoping that it may call forth furtlicr remarks. — Ed.
W. N. & 0.\
Causeways. — 1 am not aware of the origin of any other
Causeway in Wiltshire than the one extending from Langley
liurrell to Chippenham as built by Maud Heath. I know of
two of these near Devizes. The first extends from the
Devizes and Bath Road right along Poulshot Lane to the
door of Poulshot Church, and may I suppose be set down as a
church walk, but it would be interesting to know when and
how it originated. The second is more curious. At the
southern extremity of the Old Castle Park at Devizes is a
swampy road called Furze Hill. On one side of it is a raised
causeway, which goes from the top of llic hill to the bottom.
It cannot be a church walk, as it terminates at the section of
Clatford Park. 39
the Furze Hill with the Potterne and Whistlcy Road, known
as Marsh Lane. I may, however, mention that a tract of eight
acres in extent at the side of this road was formerly a com-
mon, but was enclosed under an award in 1S25. The cause-
ways to be met with throughout Wiltshire arc, I feel sure,
deserving of more attention than they have hitherto obtained,
and I trust some of your readers will be able to dilate upon
the subject with examples.
Amos Grange.
Clatford Park. — We often hear this term used as a
parochial division; and it has lately appeared before the public
as a parish council whose meeting consisted of two person.s.
I have looked under Clatford in Mr. Smith's book on the North
Wiltshire Downs, and can find no mention of it. Is there any
park there, or has there ever been one ? If not, what is the
origin of the name ?
John Dyke.
A Remarkable Chancel. — The chancel at Tilshead is of
peculiar construction. The outside walls appear to be per-
fectly straight, but inside the}' fall away as they rise from the
ground, giving a curious appearance to that part of the church.
What is the reason of this, and arc there any other examples
of it in Wiltshire ?
Ephraim Edwards.
i\rplifd.
AN OLD SALISBURY PAGEANT.
{Vol. /, pp. 132, 177.;
Sharp, ill his Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic
Mysteries anciently performed at Coventry, by the Trading
Companies of that City, has published some curious details
40
/ Villshirc Notes aud Queries.
respecting the giants displayed there about the middle of
the sixteenth century.
Of the once popular Salisbury Giant, he tells us that in
1S14 " he saw in that city a figure of a man, ten or twelve
feet high, belonging to the Taylor's Compan}', and called St.
Christopher (by the common people termed the giant). This
was exhibited in the various streets, attended by two men
grotesquely habited, bearing his sword and club ; a drum and
fife played tunes, to which the figure was made to dance in
a solemn unwieldl}' manner, by a man concealed within, and
perfectly hidden by its long drapery. The attendants danced
around the giant, watching carefully to check, by the sword or
club, any deviation from a perpendicular position."^
To the late Mr. F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A., we are indebted
for a sketch of the Salisbury giant as it appeared about the
year 1846. It is engraved as a frontispiece to his interesting
little work, entitled Gog
and Magog, tlic Giants in
Giiildliall ; tlieir real and
legendary history. With
an account of other civic
giants at home and abroad
(J. C. Hotten, 1859). This
sketch, which is here re-
produced, represents the
giant in an earlier costume
than that in which it is
now seen. The figure
was ilu'ii (1846) preserved
in the ancient hall of the
Tailor's Company, and is
described as " mouldering
to decay in that neglected
1 A new.spaper cutting, in the possession of the writer, dated ahout 1780,
describing some peace rejoicings at Salisbury (probably at the close of the
American war), contains a still earlier notice of "St. Christopher, the
A/i Old Sa/isbtny Pageant. 4 1
building. Its substructure was a framework of lath and hoop,
similar to that used for 'Jack-in-the-Green ' on May-day.
The drapery was of coloured chintz, bordered with red and
purple, and trimmed with yellow fringe. The head was
modelled in pasteboard, and coloured, the hair being made of
tow ; a gold-laced cocked hat and yellow cockade completed
the costume. A large wooden pipe was stuck in the mouth,
and a branch of artificial laurel placed in the right hand ;
the club and sword were both carved in wood and painted."
Mythology (as Mr. Fairholt remarks) has always, to a
certain extent, usurped the place of histor}' in the popular
mind. The ancestry of all peoples, by its means, were
either connected with the gods, or supposed superhuman in
size or power. In early art, as in early story, great charac-
ters were literall}' great of body. Thus national heroes, and
the heroes of knight-errantry, were popularly believed in as
men of giant-like proportions, and as such they entered very
largely into the fabulous histories of the middle ages.
This popular love of giants led the municipalities of man}^
cities in Flanders and Belgium to provide figures of gigantic
type for display on grand fete days — and in so doing they
chose preferabl}'' those of individuals connected with the
histor}' of their own particular cit3\ Hence that of Antwerp
is typified in the local giant Antigonus— a figure nearly forty
ancient ffiant." He had been newly dressed for the occasion (his coat alone
taking 34 yards of cloth) ; his attendants, and Hobnob, his esquire, " rrere
also (ufarned in chara<rter." The pageant is described as perhaps one of
the most beautiful ever seen in the west of England — the Mayor, Corporation,
and city officials, the Companies of Woolcombers, Joiners, Shoemakers,
Weavers, and Tailors, and five Friendly Societies, with bands of music and
banners, taking part in the procession. The Woolcorabers, who appeared
for the first time as a society, were preceded by a boy and girl, dressed as a
shepherd and shepherdess ; followed by a band of youths uniformly
dressed in white, with sashes of various coloured wool, and carrying wands ;
next came two mounted figures, on white horses, representing Bishop Blaize
and his chaplain, the former in episcopal robes, attended by pages, and
holding a prayer book and wool comb; then followed the body of combers,
in white uniforms, with sashes of wool, and a banner of the same.
.\2 IFi/fs/iirc No/cs and Queries.
feet in liciglit ; that of Brussels by Jan and Jannika — whilst
Louvaiii, Mahncs, Ghent, Tourna}', Lille, Dunkirk, and other
continental cities, have each their communal giant, which upon
certain occasions is carried in procession through the streets.
These figures are constructed in various styles, and habited in
still more varied costumes, ranging from the Roman, as at
Antwerp, to the court dress of the last century, as at Brussels.
Some are formed of osier, whilst others are elaborately carved
in wood and drawn on wheels.
To the earlier guild observances of the continental cities
may probably be referred the origin of the same custom in
England. The well-known figures of Gog and Magog in the
Guildhall of the city of London^carved about the year 170S —
belong to the same class, and are the successors of two older
perambulating giants made of wicker work and pasteboard,
which anciently figured in the Lord Mayor's shows.^ On
occasions of royal progresses through the city, giants also
kept " watch and ward " at its gates.
Chester and Coventry were noted for displays of this
kind in the olden time. The Drapers' Company, in the latter
city, paid twenty shillings for making a pair of giants in 1556 ;
the Cappers' Company also had its own representative giant.
Dr. Plot, in his History of Oxfordshire, speaks of a giant
and a dragon, which were formerly carried in procession
through the streets of liurford, in that county, on Midsummer
eve.
In England dragons appear to have been as popular as
giants -typifying in some instances, probably, its patron saint
St. George— in others St. Margaret. The last of the English
dragons (with the exception of that at Salisbury) belonged to
the corporation of Norwich, and figured in the Mayor's
processions there until the Reform Bill of 1832. The "head
had its lower jaw furnished with a plate of iron resembling a
1 Representing Go>,'ma;?.><r and Corinseu.s, the two giants which ancient
\"X>-w\ conncct.s with tlie early liistory of the city.
Lushill and Sanibonw Families. 43
horse shoe, and was furnished with enormous nails, which
produced a terrible clatter when the jaws were quickly opened
and shut by means of leather thongs.
As the last of the old perambulating English giants, and
the only one whose figure seems to have been delineated,^ the
" ancient giant " of the Tailors' Company at Salisbury, has
an especial interest. The popularity, during the middle ages,
of the legend of St. Christopher — the patron saint of the
tailors— whose well-known figure appeared in most of our
ancient churches, in the act of fording a river, and bearing on
his shoulder the infant Saviour, would at once point to a
pre-reformation date for the origin of the Salisbury giant.
Although shorn of its proper attribute — by Reformer or
Puritan — it is no doubt the modernised representative of an
early figure of St. Christopher — dating back probably to the
first incorporation of the Tailor's Company by Edward lY, in
1 46 1.
Edw.vrd Kite.
The Lushill and Samborne Families (vol. i, pp. 373 and
564). — Lusteshull, or Lushill, in Castle Eaton, seems to have
been held partly of the duchy of Lancaster, as of the castle,
or manor, of Trowbridge, partly of the barony of Castle
Combe. In Mr. Poulett Scrope's history of the latter place we
find accordingly, in the lists for various dates scattered through
the book, mention made of the names of successive tenants.
Thus (at p. 82) John de Lusteshull held two parts of a knight's
fee in Lusteshull, in 1338. It was seized (p. 156) into the
custody of the lord in 1377, by reason of the minority of
Thomas Lusteshull. In 1404 Nicholas Castel Combe held
it. In 1414 (p. 218) Agnes, widow of Nicholas de Castel
Combe, held it. On her death in 1442 her heir, John Temys,
1 The late Mi.ss Child, in a quarto volume, entitled 7'he iSpinMer at
Home in the Close of Sallsburi/, of which a fourth edition was published
in 18i9, has given an illustration of the Giant and Hobnob passing in
procession through the High Street Gate from the Close.
44 IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
paid loos. for his relief. In 1454 John Temys held one
knight's fee there. In 1525 (p. 316) John Gierke was found
to have died seised of it, and admittance was given to John
Parker. In 1573 it was held b}' Virgil Parker.
Among the Inquisitions post mortem in II.M. Public
Record Office, Chancery, Series I, 18 Richard II, No. 38 relates
to Lushill. The writ of mandamus is dated 24 Feb., 18 Ric. II
(1394-5), and the inquisition was taken at Heyghworth 25 May,
iS Ric. II (1395), before Richard Fode, escheator, the jury con-
sisting of Laurence Hordour, Nicholas Castelcombe, William
Olyver, etc. They found that John Sibille, named in the
writ, held one third of the manor of Lusteshulle by the curtesy
after the death of Joan his wife, daughter of the late John
Lusteshulle, lord of the said manor : that the said manor was
held of John, duke of Lancaster, as of the manor of Trough-
brygge, service unknown : that the said John Sibille died 13
Oct., 17 Ric. II (1393): that William Sibille, son of the said
John and Joan, aged 16 and more, was next heir of the said
John : and that Elizabeth, Lady Luterell, had taken the issues
and profits of the said third part since John Sibille's death, by
what right was unknown.
In vol. ii of the Calologitc of ^Inciciil Deeds preserved in
the Public Record Office, Sir Nicholas dc Lusteshulle occurs as
a witness to a deed, sans date, of land in Biunsdon, the same
man possibly who was sheriff" of Wilts in 1246, 1249, and 1267.
A pedigree of "Temmes of Rode Ashton ", taken from
Hurley MS. 1565, fo. 48b, is printed in Bowles' History of
Laycock. John Temmes of Rode Ashton, who heads the pedi-
gree, is stated to have married Jane, one of the daughters and
heirs of Sir John .son of Sir Symon Lushill, knt., steward of
the household to King Henry VII {sic, but read " Henry IV ")
when carl of Derby, that is to say, between 1380 and his acces-
sion to the throne in 1399.
Mr. Alf T. Everitt, writing under date 12th Feb. 1894,
favoured me with the following: "Sir Edmund Lushill, or
Lusteshillc, co. Devon, marr. . . . Colshill, and had issue,
Lushill Old Sanibonic Families. 45
Sir John Lusliill : he married Agnes Shotesbroke, and left
issue, Agnes, dau. and coheir, who married Nicholas
Dunstanville ; he was the son of John, son of Walter Dunstan-
ville by Ursula, Baroness Castlecomb, one of the daughters
and coheirs of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, an illegitimate son
of Henry I. Nicholas and Agnes had issue Henry Dunstan-
ville, who married Millicent Cornewall, and had issue John
Dunstanville of Ecland, co. Wilts, who by Alice, daughter
of John Rithins, left a daughter and sole heir, Barbara, the
first wife of John Writhe, Garter King of Arms, and grand-
mother of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, ist Earl of Southampton.
The information above given was taken from \Harley MS. 807,
fo. 27, and Noble's History of the College of Anns."
The last male of the Castlecombes, called " John " above,
is usuall}' called " January ", and I have seen the name as
"Januarius" de Castlecombe, heading a list of Jurors at
Chippenham in (?) Henry VII's reign, but have mislaid the
reference.
The Samborne pedigrees are unreliable. The order of
matches was, I believe, Lushill, Cricklade, Drew, a lady un-
known, and Copley. It is at any rate impossible, from a con-
sideration of the dates in the Cricklade pedigree, that Drew
Samborne should, as usually stated, have married Elizabeth
Cricklade. The post nuptial settlement of her grandmother,
Joan Walsh, with John Studley, of Studley near Calne, is dated
26 July 1362. Say that her mother, Alice Studley, was born in
1365, her own birth must have occurred not later than 1395.
Drew Samborn, on the other hand, we know, from his mothei"'s
inquisition post mortem, to have been born in 1450 !
But of the connection of the Sambornes and Parkers with
Lushill, etc., I may have an opportunity of saying something
hereafter. Meanwhile, I hope these notes may be of service
to Mr. V. C. Sanborn.
Anthony S. Maskelyne.
46
IVillsliiri' Notes and Queries.
Gauntlett Family and Early Tobacco Pipes (vol. i, pp.
128, 2;>2, -'Si, 32S, ;,77, 430). In connection witli the notes on
this subject which liave already appeared in the first volume,
Mrs. Story Maskelyne has lately sent us sketches of a couple
of lozenges of old glass let into the modern window of an old
house near Kendal, in W'cslinureland, now the property and
residence of Charles Cropper, Esq. The house is of consider-
able proportions, the original fabric having been erected by
Thomas Tolston, a tobacco manufacturer.
The pipes in our illustration vary considerably in shape,
and would not necessarily be those in fashion in the year
1638, but might typify the different kinds which the
manufacturer had made. The one to tlic left is, however,
somewhat peculiar on account of the great length of the heel,
and we should be glad to hear the opinion of others upon it.
The inscription reminds us of that quoted by Mr. Hissey in
one of his books, from over the door of a cotton-manufacturer's
residence, —
" Wlio'd have tliouf^ht it,
Cotton bought it " —
a similar rhyme being painted by a celebrated snuflf-manu-
facturer of Exeter, named Nathan, on his carriage —
" Who would have thoufjht it,
Noses have bought it."
Heraldry of the IlitJigcrfonis. 47
Wiltshire is pre-eminently connected with the early history
of tobacco, not only by reason of the tobacco-manufactory at
Amesbury, whose fame was once greater than an}' other in the
land, but also because the best collection of the earliest pipes
known to the world is to be found in the Blackmore museum at
Salisbury. It may be necessary therefore to give some slight
account of the history of tobacco for the benefit of those who
have read nothing more about it than has already been pre-
sented to them in the pages of this magazine.
(To be continued.)
Heraldry of the Hungerfords. — A question was asked,
by J. H. j\I., in the September number of IVilishire Notes and
Queries, which was noticed in the last number, but does not
appear to have been answered, viz., whether any of your
readers could "state what the Hungerford Arms were, say,
three hundred years ago ? "
The arms of Hungerford {sable, two bars argent, in chief
three plates) have not been changed for a longer period than
that. They are of common occurrence, all over this part of
the country, on buildings of the fifteenth centur}', often quar-
tered with Heytesbury {per pale indented, gules and vert, a
chevron or). The sickle seems to have been their usual badge.
If J. II. M. will refer to the Wiltshire Archceological Magazine
for June, 1S94 (No. 81, pages 241 to 244) he will find two plates
of Encaustic Tiles at Heytesbur}', which illustrate the subject.
On the centre tiles of No. 2, Plate I, are the arms of Heytes-
bury, quartering Hungerford. It should have been Hunger-
ford quartering Heytesbury, and is probably an instance of
accidental inversion, which is not uncommon. That pattern I
believe to be of the time of Henry the Sixth.
A tile (No. 4, Plate II) shows the three sickles interlaced,
and another tile (No. 9, Plate II) shows the garb between two
sickles, which is the same as the crest of the Hungerford
family.
^8 IViltshitr Notes and Queries.
With regard to the devices on the carved oak panels,
mentioned by ]. II. M.. I am inclined to think that they have
no reference to the llungerford family.
C. II. Talbot.
Lacock Abbey.
We fear that the project of writing a history of Wiltshire
by division has not been successful in the past. Aubrey tells
us of a body of students, including Mr. Wm. Yorke, T. Gore,
Esq., Jeffrey Daniel, Esq., Sir Jos. Erneley, Judge Nicholas,
and himself, meeting together in 1659 and proposing to parcel
out the county between them, but the "design vanished in
f 1(1)10 tabaci". A letter from John Britton appeared in the
Devizes Gazette of 30th July 1840, in which he states the names
of gentlemen who had already " collected topographical mate-
rial and promised the Council to contribute essays on the
places named" i.e., Castle Combe (G. P. Scrope, Esq., M.P.) ;
Corsham (Geo. Alexander, architect) ; N. Damerham (J. Brit-
ton) ; Chippenham (J. Britton and John Morris); Bradford
(Thos. Bush Saunders) ; Cricklade and Staple (Richd. Mul-
lings) ; Geology of Wilts (John Provis) ; Wilts Tradesmen's
Tokens (J. Y. Akerman) ; Melksham (J. L. Phillips and Mr.
John Cochrane).
Another proposed joint undertaking of a like nature,
under the editorship of Miss E. Philipps, has been reported
to us. The scheme is very ambitious, and contains the names
of most of the leading lights in the Wilts Archaeological
Society. Unfortunately we have not space for the details of
it, but we hope it may not " vanish in fumo tabaci^\
__ji^-- ?f' 'IPC ' ' '*y
JUNE, 1896.
otf^C^'i,
ANNALS OF PURTON.
{Continued from p. 7. J
jV/n'rW/ HE period of the civil wars of the ijtli century
[cj; appears to have passed without having an}- serious
^i/
f
vii-;
influence over the fortunes of the Purton gentry.
A tradition, it is true, ascribes the origin of the
name Red Street ' to a desperate engagement sup-
posed to have been fought between the rival parties ; and the
discovery of a round stone, popularly supposed to be a cannon
ball, which was dug up in a cottage garden hard by, lends
colour to the story, but as yet no trustworthy evidence con-
cerning the event has been discovered. Probably the Purton
gentry were not numerous. Indeed, shortly before this period,
in 1630-2, only three names, viz., Henry Maskelin, Henry Hyde,
and Thomas Sadler^ are mentioned as paying compositions
for refusing the honour of knighthood. And in the Eree-
holders' Book of 1637-8, only two residents in the village are
described as gentlemen. The report of the proceedings of
1 Close to the picturesque old house of Restrop which forms the frontis
piece of this number.
0
10
0
2 Henry Maskelin, Purton, £10
Henry Hvde ditto £17
Thomas Sadler d.tto £10
Vide, List of Fines of Wilts
Gentri/. privately printed by
Sir Thos. Phillipps.
50 IViltshire Notes aud Queries.
the committee for compounding only furnishes one name in
connection with Purton, that of William Say, and even he is
described as of Ashton Keynes.^ These facts may partly
account for the absence of evidence concerning Purton in a
struggle that affected the landed gentry, as a class, more
disastrously than any other.
One of the oldest sites in the village is that whereon the
modern Purton House now stands. Of its earlier history little
is known, but in the reign of Charles II it was in the posses-
sion of Francis Goddard,^ who was the younger son of Francis
Goddard, esq., of Cliffe. He married in 1667, Elizabeth
Thorner, of Somerford, about whose parentage it will be
interesting to note something, partly because the names of
two, at any rate, of her ancestors, occur in the parish registers,
and partly because an error has crept into an otherwise care-
fully laboured pedigree of her family.'
By grant from King Richard III, the forfeited estates of
William Collingbourne, "the traitor," were restored to his
daughters and co-heirs, or rather to Edward Chaderton, clerk
of the Hanaper, to their use. Upon a division, Margaret the
elder, wife of George Chaderton, obtained the Bradheld estate
in HuUavington, while Joan, her younger sister, wife of James
Lowther, succeeded to property in Lydiard. This Joan having
no children, settled her moiety on her nephew, Thomas
Chaderton, from whose descendant they were purchased, or
proposed to be purchased, by his cousin, William Chaderton,
of Bradfield.*
1 "William Saj-, A>ht'.n Keynes, Wilts, not having compounded for his
onvinc; the County Committee are to certify if he be in possession of his
Note of hi.s saving to compound for lands in Purton, Wilts, 31 Aug.
\ ... 1 licHC lands he inherited from his father, John Save, whose inquisi-
tion dr'-scribc* them as consisting of a messuage, 2 tofts, and 2 closes, I. P.M.,
« Chii.-. F, pt. 3, No. 9. [G 12: 515 (p. 2676).]
2 His second son, Edward, was baptized in Purton Church, 10 June 1673.
3 I V'/tf Thorner Pedigree, communicated by Kev. F.J. Poynton, in 188(),
to Mi.'n'cllanca Gcncalogico. ct Hcraldica, 2nd series.
* About this property there was a great law-suit, when terrible accusa-
liuna were bandied about.
A)niah of Purlov. 5 1
Without entering further into these matters, which belong
rather to Lydiard than Purton history, certain it is that
William Chaderton, of Bradfield, and Bridget ^ his wife, were
buried at Purton, the former on the 2nd August 1599, and the
latter, 3rd March 1396-7, and also that a year after William's
death, on 3rd November 1600, administration to the estate of
" William Chatterton, late of Purton, co. Wilts, deceased," was
granted to his " natural and lawful daughter," Margaret, the wife
of Simon James. William Chaderton was an elderly man at
the time of his death, and as he advanced in years had probably
found more of the conveniencies of life and a " better neigh-
bourhood" in Purton than out at Hullavington. Meanwhile
his daughter, Margaret, was presumably keeping the house up
at Bradfield. Edmund James, the son and heir of Simon and
Margaret, married Margaret, the heiress of John Richmond,
of Corston, near Malmesbury.^ Of the two sons of Edmond
James, and Margaret his wnfe, Richmond the elder married
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Jacob, and sister to Sibella,
second wife of Nevill Maskelyne, of Purton, but dying
without issue he was succeeded by his brother Edmund, who
is only known to posterity as the owner of a fine collection of
old deeds, which, according to Aubrey, were "the oldest and
the most that I believe any gentleman hath now in this
countrey."' Of the extensive famil}' of Goddard and their
kinsfolk, in their connection with Purton something will be
noted hereinafter. In this place it is necessary to mention
1 She was the daughter of Roger Bassynge, and niece of Francis
Pawne, receiver of Berwick, victualler of the North Fleet, avener of the
Household to King Henry VIII.
' The will of this lady, which however was neither proved nor listed,
mentions amongst many other descendants and relatives the names of her
daughter, " Emm Thorner," and her grand-daughter, Elizaheth Tiiorner,
who two years later became the wife of Francis Goddard, of Purton.
3 Aubrey and Jackson's Wilts, p. 248.
I cannot forbear cherishing a hope that some day these deeds may
come to light and prove just such a glorious "find" as it is suggested in
the prospectus of the new " Wilts Record Society " awaits us.
E 2
52 IVilfsliiic Notes and Queries.
another race less known than tlie Goddards, but nevertheless
of equally ancient standing with them in the village, and of
whom frequent mention is made, viz., the Reads.
From the inquisition ^ taken at Devizes after the death of
William Read, 5th September 1628, it appears that he was
seised "in his demesne as of fee of one messuage and one
virgate of lantl with appurtenances called Puritons, late in the
tenure of Robert Blake alias Jaques, or his assigns, situate in
Pevenhill, within the parish of Purton, of one other messuage
in Pirton aforesaid, and one close of meadow or pasture ad-
joining to the same messuage, of one close called Malford,
newly enclosed, of one other close called Water Furlong, and
of 16 acres of arable land in Pirton and in the fields there, late
in the tenure of Anthony Bathe or his assigns. This entire
properly William Read had, in 16 16, conveyed in trust to
Thomas Sadler, of Pirton, and John Cox, of I'irton Stoke, for
himself and his heirs; the messuage and virgate of land in
the tenure of Robert Blake alias Jaques, "to the use of the
said William Read for life, and after his decease to the use of
William his third son," and the messuage, etc., in the tenure
of Anthony Bathe, " to the use of the said William Read, the
father, for life," and "remainder to I'Mmoiul Read, a younger
son."
William Read was also "seised in his demesne as of fee
of one close of meadow or pasture in Pirton, late in the pos-
session of Robert Hawkins or his assigns," and "of 2 acres
of meadow or pasture in Pirton Stoke, late in the occupation of
the said John Cox, and of one messuage with appurtenances
in Pirton aforesaid, in which he lately dwelt, and of divers
arable lands, meadows, and pastures to the said messuage
pertaining." William Read died on 22nd July 1628, and was
succeeded by John Read, his son and heir, whose name also
appears in the Freeholders' Book of 1637-8.
From another inquisition 2 we obtain further information
1 Tnq. p.ni., 8 Clias. I, pt. 1, No. 92. 2 /wy. ;;.;//., 7 Clia.s. I, vo No. 51.
Exlracls Jroin " The Gcn//i>ii(iii's Magazine." 53
concerning one of the Purton mills, therein called Ayleford's
mill, wliich together with a messuage and two small parcels
of meadow in Sniithe Meade, in Purton, was purchased by
William Holcroft (whose decease is the origin of the inquiry')
of Henry Maskelyn, William Maskelyn, Oliver Webbe, and
John W'ebb, before 1632. This is particularly interesting to
note, because it proves that the ancient name ^ by which the
mill had been known in the days of Edward I was still in use
when Charles I was king. There is also another mill men-
tioned called Elvers Mill, which reads like a contracted form
of Aylefords.
EXTRACTS FROM -THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE."
RELATING TO WILTSHIRE.
{Continued frovi p. 24.)
VOLUME XXVIII, 1758.
Sheriff for the year, Tho. Bennett, of Pithouse, Esq.
Dec. 15 (1757). — Died: James Dawkins, Esq., member for
Hindon, Wilts, well-known for his visit to Palmyra.
Jan. 5. — Died : Morgan Keen, of Salisbury, Esq.
Ja)i. 9. — Died: Rev. Mr. Lumby, rector of Dipden, Hants,
and prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral.
Jan. 28. — The king has been pleased to appoint Jn. Brcttcll,
Esq., to be secretary to the stamp duties, in r. of Wadh.
Wyndham.
Feb. — Bankrupts: Jn. Warner, of Froxfield, Wilts, hop mer-
chant ; Robert Sloper, jun., of Devizes, clothier.
March 13. — Miss Bab. Wyndham, of Salisbury, sister of Henry
1 The name comes from a certain William de Ayleford, who held the
mill of the Abbot of Malmesbury by service and 13s. 4rZ. rent per annum.
William de Ayleford lived about the middle of the i:3lh century.
54 lyUlshitr Nohs aii(f Oitcnes.
Wyndham, Esq. ; of that city, a iiuiidcn lady of ample
fortune, ordered her banker to prepare the sum of jQiooo
to be immediately remitted in her own name, as a present
to the king of Prussia. At Salisbury assizes an indict-
ment was found against John Spragg, miller, and Mary
Elizabeth Spragg, single woman, both of Froxfield, for
conspiring to charge Mi". Walter Gilmore, of Marl-
borough, with a capital felony in counterfeiting the
stamps on parchments, etc., for which offence Mr.
Gill more was committed to gaol, and afterwards tried
for his life and acquitted; and on Friday last they were
taken up by virtue of a warrant from the Hon. Sir John
Eardley Wilmot, knt., one of his Majesty's judges of the
court of king's bench, and carried before Mr. Justice
Batson, who, for want of sureties, committed them on
Saturday last to the count}' gaol at Fisherton-Anger, in
order to take their trials at the next assizes.
March 6.— Tho. Grubb Hunt, Esq., m. to Miss Kecne, of
Salisbury.
March 8. — Died : Lad}' of Sir Robert Long, Bart.
March 20.— Died : Tho. Bakewell, Esq.; at Warminster, Wilts.
March 22. — Wm. Parry, of Easton Grey, Wilts, Esq., m. to
Miss Haskett, of Salisbury, ^8,000.
March 30. — Rev. Mr. Samber, Rector of Si. Martin's, Salisbury,
m. to Miss Eyres, ;^5,ooo.
March. — John Williams, presented to the Vicarage of Dutton,
Wilts. Jn. Chaftey, presented to the living of Broad-
chalk and Alverston, Wilts. Mr. White, Rector of
Chesford, Wilts, appointed chaplain to the Dorsetshire,
70 guns. Ed. Rolle, B.D., has a dispensation to hold
the Rectory of St. John's, Wilts, with the Vicarage of
M oorh uck, Somersetsh i re.
>'//)/'// 13.— An Act for vesting the forest and manors of Sin-
gleton and Charlton in the counties of Sussex and Wilts,
in trustees for the purposes therein mentioned, was
signed by commission.
Extracts from " The Getitlcuiaiis Magazine ^^
April i^. — Will. Ilusscy, of Salisbury, Esq., ni. to Miss jenny
Marsh, of Basinghall Street.
April 27. — John Walker, of Lynehani, Wilts, Esq., hereditary
chief usher of the Court of Exchequer.
May 14.— Edni. Lambert, of Boy ton, Wilts, Esq., 111. to Miss
Bourk, only daughter of Vise. Mayo.
May 20.— A waggon was burnt on Salisbury Plain, laden with
the whole rich wardrobe, scenery, and apparatus of the
Bath theatre ; besides the entire property of each
performer belonging to it. Some miles before the
waggon reached Salisbury, a servant of the theatre told
the driver that the wheel would take fire, entreating him
to stop and unload; but the fellow still persisted in
keeping on his way, and gave for reason that he had
driven twelve miles with his wheels smoking. About
three miles from this city, the flame burst out, and,
before the boxes could be preserved, the whole waggon
was consumed. The damage is said to amount to
;^2,000.
May. — Wm. Atkins, presented to the Rectory of Sutton Regis,
Wilts.
Ju)ie 5.— -A large mob of weavers, labourers, and other dis-
orderly persons assembled at Shaw Hill, in Wilts, and
in a riotous manner cut down and levelled with the
ground the banks and fences of the gardens and
orchards in that neighbourhood, under pretence that
they were purloined from the common.
June. — Tho. Crook, presented to the Rectory of Chaulkly,
Wilts. Geo. Parker, presented to the Vicarage of Nuts-
ley, Wilts. Tho. Smith, D.D., has a dispensation to
hold the Rectory of Codford St. Mary, with the Vicarage
of Swindon, Wilts.
June. — Bankrupts : Robert Wilkins, of Trowbridge, linen
draper; Tho. Cottle, of Trowbridge, Wilts, clothier.
July. — Edw. Harrison, presented to the Vicarage of Borrington,
Wilts.
:;6 ll'illshirc Notes and (Jiicrics.
July. Bankrupts: Wm. Cattle, of Trowbridge, Wilts, linnen-
drapcr ; Benj. Goodman, late of the Devizes, baker.
Aug. 20.— Died : Giles Earlc, at Eastcourt, Wilts, aged 80.
Aui^. 31.— John Ferwin, of Bradford, Wilts, Esq., m. to Miss
Peggy Bumford, of Bath.
^„j^r__-Sani. Wiseman, presented to the Rectory of Musselden,
Wilts.
Sept. 2.— Sir Samuel Fludyer, Knt., and Alderman, member for
Chippenham, m. to a sister of Geo. Brudenell, Esq.,
member for Rutland.
Sept. 28."Died: Germ. Sheppard, of Badenstoke Abby,
Wilts.
Sept. — ]o\m Copeman, presented to the Rectory of Abbots
Loaders, Wilts. John Launder, LL.Pj., has a dispensa-
tion to hold the Rectory of Wingficld, Wilts, with the
Rectory of Addington, Bucks.
Get. 4. Died : Geo. Clifford, Esq., at Amcsbury, Wilts.
Get. 6. —Died : John Bland, Esq., near Chippenham, Wilts.
Get. 20.— Died : Charles Spencer, D. of Marlborough
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lord Trevor
in 1732, by whom he left issue three sons and two
daughters — Lady Diana, married to Vise. Bolingbroke,
Lady Elizabeth, married to E. of Pembroke, George, now
D. of Marlborough, born in 1739, Lord Charles in 1740,
and Lord Robert in 1747.
Gel. 27. At Weyhill Fair, Farnham hops sold from ^7 to
ten guineas ; and other hops from £^4 to ^ guineas.
Gel. Dr. Pattenson, presented to the Rector}- of Marston
Ciieney, Wilts. Tho. Heath, M.A., lias a dispensation
to hold the Rectory of HehiKjrton, Wilts, witli tlic
Rectory of Wellington, Wilts. Edw. Rawlins, LL.B.,
lias a dispensation to hold the Vicarage of Sitcoombc,
Somerset, with the Rectory of Up Lcighton, Wilts.
Dec. I. An oak in Langley Woods, near Downton, Wilt.s,
1 Auioiml undecipherable.
Extraclsjroin *' The Gciiihniaiis Magazine. 57
supposed to be 1,000 years' growth, was sold for ^40.
It was the property of the Bishop of Sahsbury, measured
6 feet 2 inches in diameter, and contained about 10 ton
of timber.
Dec. 7. — Died : Rev. Mr. Powell, Rector of Santon Quintin,
Wilts.
Dec. 23. — Died : Geo. Brent, Esq., at Amesbur}', Wilts.
Dec. — Mr. Newman, presented to the Vicarage of Barton, Wilts.
Mr. Bartlctt, presented to the Vicarage of Church
Eaton, Wilts.
Dec. — Bankrupt : Tho. Read, of Wootton Bassett, brazier.
VOLUME XXIX, 1759.
Sheriff appointed for the year, William Norris,
of Nonesuch, Esq.
fan. 18. — Wife of Wm. Duckett, Esq., delivered of a son.
/fl«. ^Bankrupt : Ben Becket, of Hendon, Wilts, baker.
March i. — Died, Ld. Geo. Bentink, brother to the Duke of Port-
land, member for Malmesbur}', and Colonel of a regiment
of foot, at Bath.
March 2. — Died : Rev. Mr. Hersent, Rector of Barford St.
Martin's, Wilts, aged 80.
Died: Alderman Mullins, of Salisbury.
March 9. — Died : Tim. Tuding, Esq., near Warminster, Wilts.
March 13. — Died: Rev. Mr. Hawes, Rector of Wilton.
March 18. — Died: Tho. Batson, Esq., of Ramsbury, Wilts.
March. — Jos. Newton, M.A., has a dispensation to hold the
Rectory of Little Cheverell, Wilts, with the Vicarage of
Colehil, or Coleshil, Berks.
March. — William Conolly, elected member of parliament for
Malmsbury, in room of Lord Bentink, dec.
April. — James Hutchinson, presented to the Rectory of Dub
Down, Wilts. Wm. Beale, B.L., has a dispensation to
hold the Vicarage of Secombe, Wiltshire, with the
Vicarage of Evely, Wiltshire.
^8 IVillsliDr Notes and Oucrics.
May lo.— Died: Alderman Talk, of Salisbury.
Mtjv 14.— The fane on the top of Salisbury spire, erected in
1673, being decayed, was blown down. It measured
3 feet 6 inches in length, and 2 feet 3 inches in breadth,
made of oak an inch thick.
Mav 23.— Died : Jos. Lambert, Esq., near Malmesbury, Wilts.
Tj/rty. — John Hyde, presented to the Vicarage of Wimbleton
Carey, Wilts. Wm. Biddlescomb, presented to the
living of Monkton Tarwel, Wilts.
Ju^ic. — Rev. Charles Wilkins, presented to the Rectory of
Uppington, Wilts. James Pitcairn, B.L., has a dispen-
sation to hold the Rectory of Compton, Wilts, with the
Rectory of West Kington, Wilts.
June 26.— Died : Relict of Hen. Drax, Esq., and co-heiress
ot the late Gen. Erie, whose jointure of ^^2000 per
ann. descends to her son Erie Drax, Esq. ; and daughter
of the Countess of Berkeley.
/ It ly 2.— Died: Rev. Mr. Squire, Rector of Poulshot, Vicar of
Woodford, Wilts, and subchanter of Salisbury Cath.
/ii/y 19.— Edw. Rudge, of Salisbury, m. to Miss Long.
Jn/y. — Mr. Tarrant appointed subchanter and prebend of
Salisbury Cathedral.
Hum. Henchman, B.D., has a dispensation to hold the
living of St. Martin's Barford, Wilts, with the Rectory
of Folke, Dorsetshire. Rob. Parkinson, B.D., has a dis-
pensation to hold tlie Rectory of Mudgeworth, Wilts,
with the Vicarage of Haslington, Berks,
/w/y.— Bankrupts : Joon Baines, of Bradford, Wilts, clothier ;
Walter Little, of Shalburn, Wilts, chapman.
Aug. 9. — Died : Relict of Francis Blake Delaval, Esq. : her
jointure of ^1200 per annum goes to Era. Blake
Delaval, Esq. ; member for Andover, and her Lincoln-
shire estate to Jonn Delaval, Esq., member for Berwick.
Aitg. 26. — Died : Rd. Payne, Esq., member for Salisbury.
Sep/. 14. — Died: Edw. Grenfcld, of Salisbury, Esq.
Sept.— Dr. Balguy, appointed Archdeacon of Salisbury, in the
Extracts from " The Gentleman s Magazine." 59
room of Dr. Eden, dec. Mr. Alsop, appointed to the
\'icarage of Horton Mombray, Wilts.
Oct. 9. — Died: Harry Powlett, D. of Bolton, Marquess of Win-
chester, Earl of Wiltshire, Baron St. John, of Basing,
Wilts; premier Marquess of England; lord lieutenant;
Custos Rot. of the c. of Southampton, and a privy
counsellor. In June, 1733, he was made a lord of the
Admiralty; in June, 1742, lord lieutenant of the Tower,
and in Aug. 1754, he succeeded his brother as D. of
Bolton, etc. He is succeeded in honours and estates by
his eldest son, Charles, Marquis of Winchester.
Oct. 12.— Edw. Youngc, of Little Durnford, Esq., m. to Mrs.
Thomas, of Salisbury.
Oct. — Jere. Brewerton, presented to the Vicarage of Monk
Tarrant, Wilts.
Nov. 1. — John Cooper, of Cumbcrwell, Wilts, Esq., m. to the
daughter of Edward Baynton, Esq., member for Chip-
penham.
Nov. 19. — John Ayliffe, Esq., was carried from Newgate in an
open cart to Tyburn, and executed there pursuant to
his sentence. He was about 2,6 years of age, born
near Blandford, in Dorsetshire, of a very good family.
He has left a widow and one son, about 1 1 years of age.
Mr. Aylifte, having been steward to Mrs. Horner, a lady
by whose death a considerable fortune devolved to the
Hon. Mr. Fox ; she requested that gentleman to make
some provision for Mr. Aylifte : accordingly, Mr. Fox
executed a lease of an estate in Wiltshire, called Rusley
Park, to Mr. Ayliffe, for the lives of him, his wife, and
son, reserving to himself only jQzS ^ year rent ; the
difference between the reserved rent and the real
annual rent being very considerable. Aylifte being
sometime afterwards obliged to borrow money, and Mr.
Fox's lease with some other things not being sufficient
security for the sum he wanted, he copied Mr. Fox's lease
upon another skin of parchment, putting in only ^5
6o WHtsliire Notis ami Oiicries.
a year rent instead of jQt,<^ a 3'car ; to this lease he
forged Mr. Fox's name, and the names of the witnesses
that had subscribed tlie real lease. To conceal this
transaction from Mr. Fox, and prevent a discovery of
the forger}', he proposed to the persons an oath of
secrecy ; the oath they refused, but it being very easy to
conceive why it should be a secret from Mr. Fox, they
gave their word that they would not disclose it. But
the interest of the money not being regularly paid, the
mortgagee became solicitous about his security and
apply'd to Mr. P^ox to take the mortgage up ; this Mr.
Fox declined, but the rent of ^^5 being mentioned, Mr.
Fox said it was ;^35, and by this the fraud came to be
discovered.
Dec. 5. — A fire broke out at Wilton, near Great Bedwin, by
which two farm-houses and three others were consumed,
with six barns, ten ricks of corn, and all the implements
of husbandry belonging to the farm, except such as
were in the fields, to the value of ^1500.
Dec. — Tho. Dean presented to the Vicarage of Prior's Iladden,
Wilts.
WILTSHIRE TITHE CASES.
{Confiniird fro))i Vol. /, />. 542. j
Stump against hw.wv} -Wiltshire, 2\st Jmir \G()2. The
plaintiff, as rector of tlic ]jat"is]i of Fo.xlcy, in the county of
IVilts, stated that he was entitled, as rector, to all dues and
tithes whatsoever arising witliin tlic parish, and tlie titheable
places thereof.
The defendant pleaded, that by the Statute 21 Hen. 8, c.
13, f. 9, intituled, "Spiritual Persons abridged from having
1 Wood's Tithe Causes, mA. i, p. 294.
IViUsliire Tithe Cases. 6i
Plurality of Livings," it is enacted "that if any person,
having one benefice with the cure of souls of the yearly value
of ;;;^8 or above, accept of any other and be in possession, that
then immediately after such possession liad, the first benefice
shall be void." That the rectory of Foxlcy is a benefice with the
cure of souls, and above the value of ^8 per otDi., viz. of jTGo
per (vni. and upwards; tliat, about the second of Aitgiisl 16S9,
tiie plaintiff accepted of a second benefice, to icit, the vicarage
of Sutton Beiiger, in the said county, being a benefice with the
cure of souls, and was inducted and in possession thereof,
without an}' qualification according to the statute, and there-
fore the first benefice was void, and the plaintifl:' had no right
to an}' tithes of Fo.xley, save such as were due to him before his
induction into the second benefice ; that for that reason he
refused to pay the plaintiff" any tithes other than what were
payable to the plaintiff before his induction into the benefice
of Sutton Bcnger ; that he is willing to pay what is due to the
plaintiff, and if the Court is against him, prayed that the same
might be added to his account.
The plaintiff replied ; the defendant rejoined ; and wit-
nesses were examined on both sides. And upon reading the
proofs in the cause, and full debate of the matter in law,
arising in the pleadings, touching the plaintiff's accepting a
second benefice, and other matters insisted upon by the
defendant's counsel, it was ordered that this cause be further
heard touching the said matter in law.
The Court, on the ^th of December 1692, after hearing
counsel touching the said matter in law, unanimously declared,
that the defendant ought to account for and pay to plaintiff
the said tithes and dues demanded by the Bill.^
1 It seems from the report of this case, from the manuscript of the lord
chief baron, Dodd, Rayner, 72, that the Court determined in favor of the
plaintiff, because, though the real value of the rectory of Foxlcy was above
£8 a year, yet in the king's books (which is the conclusive rule; it is under
that value ; and the same point was determined in the case of Jones, on the
demise of Rascaud v. Sambre, 17 Yin. Abr. ;^62.
62 IVillsliirc Notes aud Queries.
Gaktu agonist Stokks.^ Il'i7ts/iire, ^tli December 1694.
The vicar of Kcwcll,' in tlie county of Wilts, states that the
defendant, for fifteen years past, had occupied a farm and
lands called IVeeke Lease, in the said parish, and fed and de-
pastured such lands with dry and unprofitable and fat cattle,
for which he ought to have paid agistment tithes of 25. in the
pound yearl}', and that he had, for the same time, mowed
eighteen acres yearly of meadow, for which he ought to have
paid Sd. an acre for the aftermath or grass, and for the de-
pasturing and feeding of such land.
The defendant said, that about sixteen years since, and
before he first rented the said farm, there was a modus of
13s. 4^/. a year payable to the vicar for all manner of tithes
of the said farm and lands, and that his landlord did undertake
and agree with him to answer the same ; and he insisted on
the said modus.
Upon reading the proofs taken in the cause, and a receipt
under the plaintiff's hand dated in October last, which the
plaintiff gave to the defendant's landlord, Mr. Blagden ;
It is ordered and adjudged that upon the defendant's pa}'-
ing to the plaintiff the arrears of the modus of 135. ^^d. now due,
the bill, as to the said farm called Weekc Lease, shall stand
dismissed with costs.
NicH. Lechmere.
John Turton.
John Powell.
Harding against Golding.^ — Wiltshire, Stli Mav 1696.
The Bill stated that IVilliam' Nicks, rector and incumbent of
Brougtitoii afford, in the county of IVills, did lease and
demise to the plaintiff the great and small tithes arising there-
1 Wfifxl's Tithe Causes, vf,l. i, p. 328.
2 Kcwrll i.s a ini.stjikofor Keevil. See former Tithe Ca.se and footnote in
Vol. i, i>. 155.
3 Wood's Tithe Causes, vol. i, p. 365.
IViltsliire Tithe Cases. 63
in ; and that he had been legal farmer of the said tithes, and
so entitled to the same, from the 25/// of March 1693, to the
time of filing the bill.
The defendant put in his answer; the plaintiff replied;
the defendant rejoined ; and witnesses were examined ; and
upon hearing the counsel, and reading the proofs,
It is ordered that the defendant shall account with and
pay to the plaintiff the value of his tithe fruit for the two years
demanded by the bill, and the tithe of all fallen apples as well
as other apples, and the value of the tithe hay of the half acre
of land, and of the cock of tithe ha}' taken away by the defen-
dant, and eightpence a calf, according to the custom of the
said parish, for the tithe of every calf which he had fallen
within the said parish during the said time, and the value of
the tithe-lambs which had fallen within the said parish, and
the tithe-wool of the sheep which he shore therein, and had
not paid to the plaintiffs, and for the value of the tithes of the
other things titheable demanded by the said bill ; and it is
referred to the deputy remembrancer to take the said account,
and report the same.
Callow against Vlnes and Powell.^ — Wiltshire, -jth July
1698. The bill stated that the plaintiff, since December 1693,
had been, and then was rector of the parish church and rectory
of Somcrford Parva, in the county of IVi/ts, and entitled to
all tithes in kind ; that the defendant Fines was, in 1694 and
1695, occupier of a farm and lands called Mauditt^s Park Farm,
and also of two closes called Sandey Lease and Pearney Lease,
and other lands which were no part of the said park ; and that
upon the said farm and lands the defendant had yearly cut
hay and corn, and had cows, sheep, calves, lambs, wool, and
other tithes of great value ; that the defendant Powell was
owner of the farm and lands aforesaid, and had set up a modus.
The bill therefore prayed a discovery of the modus, and of the
1 Wood's Tithe Causes, vol. i, p. 385.
64 ]]'illsliire Notes and Queries.
quantities, ijualiiics, and values of the tithes, and for an
account.
The defendant said, that the owners and occupiers of
Man</i//'s Park Farm have, time out of mind, been discharged
from the payment of tithes in kind, and have paid 40s. onl}' in
hcu therefore ; and that tlic defendant Poivell, and all those
whose estate he and his trustees now have therein, have been
freed from the payment of kind, or anything in lieu thereof,
save only the said 405. a year ; and insisted to be discharged
thereof.
The defendant Vines confessed that he occupied Saudey
Lease, and believed the two closes were part of Mauditfs Farm,
and not a late addition thereto.
The plaintiff replied ; the defendants rejoined ; and wit-
nesses were examined.
The defendant Vi)ies died, and left his son executor, who
filed a bill of revivor, and admitted assets ; and by an order
made the 9/// oi Jinie last, the proceedings were revived.
On reading the proofs on both sides touching the modus
insisted upon by the defendants in their answer, an issue was
directed to try whether there be a modus of 405. a year
payable to the rector of Somerjord Parva, for, and in lieu of
the tithes of Maiidilt^s Park Farm, or not ? and on the trial a
verdict was found for the defendants ; but Mr. Baron Hatsell
having, according to the order of the Court, on the sixth of this
instant May, spoken with the judge of assize who tried the
said cause, and reporting that the said judge declared that the
same was proper for re-examination, a new trial was ordered
to be had, on costs, upon the. same issue, only adding, "or any
and what part thereof, or not ? " But the plaintiff not having
complied with the above order for the new trial, by not paying
costs, the cause was put in the paper of causes for further
directions, at the defendant's request, and no counsel appear-
ing for the plaintiff,
It was now, on the 27/// of November 1699, finally ordered
and adjudged that the defendants stand absolutely dismissed
Wiltshire Wills. 65
this Court from the said bills, viz., the original bill and the bill
of revivor.
Edw. Ward.
Littleton Powis.
Hen. Hatsel.
WILTSHIRE WILLS.
Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
(1383-1558).
{Continued from Vol. /, p. 562J.
1444 Gage, Richard, St. Edmund, Salisbury. 34 Luffenam.
1495 Garnese}', Thomas, Kyngeston Deverell,
Wilts. 25 \^ox.
1557 Garratt, Gyles (female), Damerham,
Wilts. F. 53 Wrastley.
,, ,, Gerate, John, thelder, Damerham,
Wilts. 53 Wrastley.
1504 Garter, Writh [Wriothesley], John,
otherwise Garter King of Arms, St.
Gilis crepulgate, London ; Chiches-
ter ; Wilts. 9 Holgravc.
1497 Gatforde, John, Trubrigge, Wilts. F. 15 Hornc.
155S Gawen, Thomas, esquier, Albeston
(Alvesdiston), Wilts. F. 40 Noodes.
1558 M Gawyn, William, esquier, Bar-
wicke Saint John, Wilts ; double
probate June 1598. 57 Noodes.
1509 Gawnt, Katherine, St. Thomas the
martyr, Sarum. 22 Bennett.
1 509 ,, Thomas, St. Thomas the martyr,
Sarum. 22 Bennett.
F
66 IViltshirc Notes ami Queries .
1450 Gayncsborowe, Geynesburgh, sir Hugh,
clerk, Morburgh [Wilts ?], admiuis-
tralion. 12 Rous.
1457 Gefferey, Thomas, Latlon, Wilts. 10 and 11 Stokton.
1532 ,, Jcftcr}', Water, clerk, Langlec
burell, Wilts. 19 Thower.
1529 George rt/s. Hoskyns, John, Steple Lan-
ford, Wilts. 15 Jankyn.
1525 Gerrish, Gyrysshe, William, Mylkesham,
Wilts. 38 Bodfelde.
1504 Gcrvcyse, John, St. Thomas the martyr,
Sarum. 25 Hoi grave.
1492 Gery, Roger, St. Thomas, Sarum. 19 Dogett.
1 50 1 Gibbon, Gibone, John, Wynterbornc
Stoke, Wilts. 23 Moone.
1500 Gilbert, Alice, Fovent, Wilts. 10 Moone.
1547 ,, Gylberd, Otis, esquier, Compton,
Devon ; Cornwall ; Wilts. 38 Alen
1440 ,, Robert, St. Edmund, Sarum. 28 Luftcnam.
1454 Goddard, Godard, John, Polton juxta
Marleburgh, Wilts. lo Rous.
1501 ,, Godarde, John, St. George Oke-
borne, Wilts. 23 Moone.
1557 ,, John, thelder, gent., Aulburne,
Wilts. 5 Noodes.
'507 M Godard, Richard, St. Mildrede
Poultry, London; Ogeborn ,
Wilts. 30 Adeane.
1538 „ Godderd, Thomas, Ogborne saint
George, Wilts. 15 Dyngeley.
1550 M Thomas, Estoverton, Wilts. 21 Coode.
1546 Goddyslonde, John, Barstaple, Devon;
Sarum. 13 Alen.
15 15 Godfraye, John, St. Thomas the martyr,
Sarum. 6 Holder.
IViltshire Wills. 67
1506 Godfrey ols. Hampden, Margery, White
freres, London; Hampden, Bucks;
Essex ; Wilts. i Adeane.
1508 „ William, St. Thomas, Sarum. 5 Bennett.
1505 Godred, Richard, Alborn, Wilts. 36 Holgrave.
1557 Goldsmith, Goldesmythe, Arthure, St.
Edmund, Sarum. F. 19 Wrastley.
1543 Gosselyn, Goslyn, Ricliard, Langley
[Wilts ?] 23 Spert.
1499 Grate, Auelane, St. Thomas the martyr,
.Sarum. 34 Home.
1498 ,, Siluestre, St. Thomas the martyr,
Sarum. 29 Home.
1521 Gra}', Grey, William, clerk, archdeacon
of Berks ; Teynton, etc., Devon ;
Gyllingham, etc., Dorset ; Moreton,
Gloucester; Remesbury, Wilts. 22 Maynvvaryng.
1508 Grendell, John, Dewyse, Wilts. 34 Adeane.
1555 Grene, Willyam, Standlynche, Wilts. F. 28 More.
1558 Grenehill or Grynhyll, Richard, thelder,
Westburie under the playne, Wilts. F. 55 Noodes.
1542 Greveson, John, clerk, Stockton, Wilts. F. 15 Spert.
1543 M Greiveson, sir John, clerk, Stoc-
ton, Wilts. 19 Spert.
Apparently same testator as the preceding.
149 1 Gryce als. Philips, John, Malmesbury,
W^ilts. 41 Milles.
1494 Gryme, John, St. Thomas the mart3'r,
Sarum. 10 Vox.
1553 Grymstone, Willyam, St. Marten, Sarum. F. 18 Tashe.
1557 Gunter, Geoffrey, gent., Milton, Wilts;
Shrivenham, Berks. F. 54 Wrastley.
1557 Gusse, Johan, Chippinham, Wilts. F. 29 Wrastley.
1557 „ Richard, Chippenham, Wilts. F. 29 Wrastley.
1493 Gyan, William, clerk, canon resid. of
Sarum. 3 Vox,
F 2
68
J I 'I'ltsliire Notes and Queries.
1502 Gyane, Fisshere als. Richarde, Wotton
Basset, Wilts.
1510 Gyldoii, Jolin, Koweclic (in par. Helnier-
ton ?), Wilts.
1457 Gylni}'!!, Thomas, Tettebury, Gloucester;
Wilts.
1492 Gylpren, Richard, St. Thomas, Sarum,
19 Blamyr.
36 Bennett.
15 Stokton.
19 Dogett.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
CHOLDERTON.
(Continued from p. 17
)
Lay Subsidy Roll. No.
196
8 •
A.D. 1333. — [Collections of the Fifteenths
and Tenths, 7
Edward in.]
Hundred of Ambresbury.
Chcldryntone.
s.
d
William le Blak
•J
vj
John le Warre
iiij
John Sille
x'j
John Sille
ij
vj
William Cole . .
iij
vj
William Vedyng
iij
iiij
Richard de Buttokesham
ij
vj
Marger' de Buttokesham
•J
vj
William Steuene
ij'j
Walter Walkelyn
ii'j
vj
Master Richard de Thistelden
iiij
Johanna la Wadewe . .
ij
vj
Walter Chyriel
vj viij
Sum. lijs. viijr/.
Lay Subsidy Roll. No.
197
la6-
A.D. 1523-4.— [Assessments, with the sums to be levied
in each parish.]
Records of IVillshirc Parishes. 69
Parish of Chaldryngton.
Nicholas Noys in goods jQzi, subsidy — 215.
Robert Draper in wages^ 20s., subsidy — 4^.
Nicholas Sm3'the in goods 40 marks, subsidy — 6s. 8d.
William Clarke in goods j£i<), subsidy — 9s. 6(f.
Thomas Phillips in wages ^ 205., subsidy — 4^/.
Sum. 575. •jf/. [sic]
State Papers of Henry VIII. [Vo/. IV, Pi. 2.
No. 3665. (3)].
A.D. 1527. — Wilts. The report of the commission for
corn by Sir John Bourghchier, knight, and Charles Bulkeley,
of the hundreds of Am3'sbur3', Elstubb and Everley.
Hundred of Ambrysbury.
In the parishe of Chalderton first Nicholas Nowyse hath
whett for the alowance for the feyndyng of his houssold xvj
quarters and to sell vj quarters.
Item he hath in barley, besydes to sow xxx^ quarters and
for the feynd\'ng of his houssold xx*» quarters and to sell
xiiij quarters. Witness, Nicholas Clarke, Tethyngman.
Nicholas Chamber, other wayse Smyth, hath whett for
the alowance for the feyndyng of his houssold viij quarters
and to sell ij quarters.
Item. He hath in bade}' besydes to sow xiij quarters
and for the feyndyng of his houssold xij quarters and to sell
xvij quarters.
Randell Dawkj'ng hath whett for the alowance for the
feyndyng of his houssold but non to sell.
Item he hath in barly besydes to sow vij quarters and for
the feyndyng of his houssold yj quarters and to sell v quarters.
Sum of all maner of persons men and wemen ] , ..
[within the] said parishe i
Feet of Fines. [lFi//s. 24 Henry VIII.]
A.D. 1532. — At Westminster on the morrow of Ascension
1 la radiis.
70
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Day. Between Richard Gresham, William Gresham and
William Ilardyng, plaintiffs, and Arthur Vuedale, esquire,
deforciant, of a fourth part of 2 messuages, 1000 acres of land,
20 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 40 acres of wood, and
500 acres of gorse and heather with the appurtenances in
Chawrington, Chawlderton or Cholderton. Plea of covenant
was summoned. Arthur acknowledged the said fourth part to
be the right of Richard, and granted for himself and his heirs
that the said fourth part, which Katherinc Troice widow held
for life of the heirs of Arthur at the date of this concord,
shall wholly remain after her death to the said Richard,
William, and William, and the heirs of Richard, to hold of the
chief lord of that fee by the service belonging thereto for
ever; and he and his heirs warranted against himself and
themselves for ever. For this the said Richard and William
and William gave Arthur ^80 sterling.
[Fol. II, pp. 91 and 97.]
Deanery of Ambresbiiry.
Valor Ecclesiasticus
A.D. 1532-3.
Chaldyngton.
Gilbert Burton rector there affirms upon
oath that his rectory is worth in ordinary
years in tenths of grain, of wool, of hay,
and of lambs, with the small tenths and
all other profits
Of which is paid yearly to the arch-
deacon of Wilts for procuration and
synodals
Possessions of llie Priory of Ivychitrcli
Chaldryngton.
In divers rents and farms there yearly. .
Out of which the yearly stipend to
Nicholas Woodson, bailiff and collector
of the rent there, yearly . .
£4
s.
X
d.
IX
>^J
ixv
vnj
Records of IVillsliire Parishes. 7 1
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [27 Henry nil. Mich. Tenn,
No. 6.]
A.D. 1535. — At Westminster, on tlic morrow of All Souls.
Between William Barley, esquire, Francis Southwell,
esquire, William More, esquire, Geoffrey Derse}', esquire,
Edward Hasilwode, Edward Denton, Matthew Colcroft and
William Tucke, plaintiffs, and William Thornburgh, esquire,
deforciant, of the manors of Orcheston, Marylegh, Chalryng-
ton, Charlton, Chelsester and Eynford, with the appurtenances,
and of 40 messuages, i toft, 1000 acres of land, 150 acres of
meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, and 405.
rent, and the rent of ilb. of pepper, ilb. of cinamon, and 3
bushels of wheat, with appurtenances in Orcheston Mary,
Orcheston Vowell, Legh juxta Chastelcombe [? Leigh Delamere],
Chalr3'ngton, and several other places, and of the advowsons of
the churches of Chalryngton, Legh, and Orcheston Mary. Plea
of warranty was summoned. William Thornburgh acknow-
ledged the right of Geoffrey as of his gift to him and to William
Barley, Francis Southwell, and the others ; and quitclaimed to
the manors, etc., for himself and his heirs, to William Barley,
Francis Southwell, etc., and to the heirs of Geoffrey for ever,
and warranted against all men for ever. For this William
Barley, Francis Southwell, William More, Geoffrey Dersey,
Edward Hasilwode, Edward Denton, Matthew Colcroft and
William Tucke gave William Thornburgh ^800 sterling.
Patent Roll. [28 Henry VHI, Pt. i, ;;/. 25.]
A.D. 1536. — The king to all, etc., greeting. Know that
whereas our beloved William Sandys, knight of the garter.
Lord Sandys, our chamberlain, has granted to us his manor of
Chelshith and divers lands and tenements in Chelshith and
Padyngton in Middlesex, worth yearly ^53 sterling, in con-
sideration of the said donation to us we grant to the foresaid
Lord Sandys and Dame Marger}', his wife, the site of the late
priory of the Hol\- Trinity of Motisfount, in the county of
Southampton, with divers lands, etc., and manors belonging to
72 ]l'i/lsliire Notes and Queries.
the said late priuiy, in the county of Southampton, and the
manors of Merton [? Martin], etc., in Wilts, and the rectory of
Bervvyke, etc., in Wihs, and the advowson of the vicarages of
Longestoke, etc., in the county of Southampton, and also all
and every houses, lands, tenements, mills, fields, pastures,
pasturage, woods, underwood, assarts, waters, fish-ponds,
fisheries, commons, rents, annuities, fee-farms, reversions,
knights' fees, wards, marriages, escheats, advowsons of
churches, etc., tenths and oblations, fairs and markets in
Merton, Wolton, Burbage, and Cholderyngton in Wilts, lately
thereto belonging, together with other possessions and
privileges of the late Prior William Shepard alias Cristechurch.
Tested the King himself. 9th November.
Lay Subsidy. [No. |||.]
A.D. 1539. — This indenture made at Ambresbury 21st
January, in the 31st year of King Henry VIII, concerning the
sums received within the deanery of Ambresbury from the
Churchwardens of each parish of the devotion of the people
'* for defence against the Turk."
[The churchwarden's ) " The parishe of Chaldrington Twenty
name illegible] / pens and too pens."
[From the whole deanery £^^ 55. i</.]
Feet of Fines. Double Counties. [Hilary, 2 and 3 Philip
and Mary.]
^•D- 1555-— At Westminster, in the octaves of St. Hilary,
and afterwards in the quindene of Easter. Between Richard
Fuller, plaintiff, and Edward Phylpot, gentleman, deforciant, of
the fourth part of property in Sussex, and of the fourth part
of 2 messuages, 1200 acres of land, 80 acres of pasture with
their appurtenances, in Choldryngton, Wilts, and of the fourth
part of property in the county of Southampton. Plea of cove-
nant was summoned. Edward acknowledged the right of
Richard as of his gift and quit-claimed thereto from himself
and his heirs to Richard and his heirs for ever. And moreover
Records of IViltshirc Parishes. 73
the said Edward granted that he would warrant to Richard and
his heirs against all men for ever. And for this Richard
granted the said fourth parts witli their appurtenances to
Edward and his heirs to hold of the chief lord of that fee by
the sei"vice thereto belonging for ever.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [Mic/iac/inas, i Elizabeth.']
A.D. 1558-9. — At Westminster, on the morrow of the Holy
Trinity, and afterwards in the octaves of St. Michael. Be-
tween Alexander Rede, plaintiff', and Alban Whyte and Alice
his wife, deforciants, of the fourth part of 2 messuages, 2 tofts,
2 gardens, 400 acres of land, 16 acres of pasture, with the ap-
purtenances, in Choldrington, and of the fourth part of the
common of Choldrington. Plea of covenant was summoned
between them. Alban and Alice acknowledged the right of
Alexander, and quit-claimed from themselves and the heirs of
Alban to Alexander and his heirs for ever. And moreover
they granted that they would warrant for themselves and
Alban's heirs to Alexander and his heirs against all men for
ever. For this Alexander gave them ^80 sterling.
Feet of Fixes. Wilts. [Michae/inas, 4-5 Elizabclh.']
A.D. 1562. — At Westminster, in the octaves of St. Michael.
Between Richard Rutter, yeoman, and one of the sons of
William Rutter, plaintiff, and William Rutter, deforciant, of
12 messuages, 300 acres of land, 300 acres of pasture, 100 acres
of meadow, 10 acres of wood, and Gs. 8d. rent, with the appur-
tenances in Choldrington, Crikelayde, Chelwurth, Pytton, and
Broughton. Plea of covenant was summoned. William ac-
knowledged the right of Richard as of his gift and quit-claimed
from himself and his heirs to Richard and his heirs for ever.
And moreover he w^arranted to Richard and his heirs against
all men for ever. For this Richard gave William j£i2o sterling.
Ibid. [Easfer, 16 Elizabeth.']
A.D. 1574. — At Westminster, in the quindene of Easter.
Between Cuthbert Ryves, gentleman, plaintiff', and Thomas
74 IVillshire Notes and Queries.
Kudu, gentleman, dcluiciant, of the fourth part of 2 messuages,
2 tofts, 2 gardens, 500 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow, and
500 acres of pasture, with the appurtenances in Choldrington.
Plea of covenant was summoned. Thomas acknowledged the
right of Cuthbert, and quit-claimed from himself and his heirs
to Cuthbert and his heirs for ever. And moreover Thomas
warranted the aforesaid fourth part to Cuthbert and his heirs
against the said Thomas and his lieirs for ever. For this
Cuthbert gave Thomas 130 marks of silver.
Ibid. \Iiilayy\ 20 Elizabeth.']
A.D. 1577. — At Westminster, in the octaves of St. Hilary.
Between Richard Rutter, junior, plaintiff", and Richard Rutter,
senior, deforciant, of i messuage, 80 acres of land, 20 acres of
meadow, 40 acres of pasture, 30 acres of wood, and t,s. 4^. rent,
with the appurtenances in Cholderton a/ias Choldrington.
Plea of covenant was summoned. Richard Rutter, senior, ac-
knowledged the right of Richard Rutter, junior, as of his gift,
and quit-claimed from himself and his heirs to the said Richard
Rutter, junior, and his heirs for ever ; and moreover war-
ranted to Richard Rutter, junior, and his heirs against all men
for ever. For this Richard Rutter, junior, gave Richard
Rutter, senior, ^^40 sterling.
Patent Roll. [24 Elizabeth, Pi. 10, No. 5.]
A.D. 1581-2.— The Queen, etc.. Know that being moved
thereto by Sir William Brooke, Lord Cobham, we grant in fcc-
farni by these presents to Edmund Froste, gentleman, and John
Walker, and their heirs and assigns, all the manor of Bulbarne
Breamore, in the county of Southampton, lately a parcel of the
possessions of Christopher Hatton, and formerly belonging to
the Priory of Breamore, with the appurtenances, and property
in Warwickshire, Somerset, and Yorks, formerly belonging to
other religious houses and persons, and property at Trow-
bridge, Wilts. And also all that our messuage and house and
enclosure and land containing by estimation a rod, with the
Fawcoucr of Salisbury. 75
appurtenances, in Chauldrington in our said county of Wilts,
now or lately in the occupation of Nicholas Noyes or his
assigns, and sometime belonging to the monastery of Ivy-
churche ; and all those our 4 acres of arable land lying in
Northfeilde, with the appurtenances, in Chauldrington afore-
said, and all those our 4 acres of arable land lying in Westfeild,
with the appurtenances in Chauldrington aforesaid, and all
those our 4 acres of arable land in Southfeild, with the appur-
tenances, in Chauldrington aforesaid ; and property in Lincoln-
shire and elsewhere. To return certain annual payments
to us and our heirs and successors for the premises ; for the
foresaid tenement and the rest of the premises in the parish of
Chauldrington, 6s. Sd. Tested the Queen, Westminster, 19th
January.
FAWCONER OF SALISBURY.
(Continued fro))i p. 2,z)
Samuel Fawconer, eldest child of Samuel and Ann (Ful-
ford), "born 1694 at Sarum, bapt. 25 May: 'tis said left
illegitimate issue," pcd.
1. Frances Fawconer, "a daughter, who died unmarried,"
pcd.
2. Samuel Fawconer, matriculated at Merton Coll., Oxford,
as "son of Samuel Fawconer of St. Edmund's,
Salisbury, pleb.," 3 F'eb. 1743-4, aged 16; B.A. 9
Feb. 1747-8; M.A. 21 Feb. 1752; in Holy Orders;
instituted to rectory of Poole, co. Dorset, 29 June
1767; to the vicarage of Osmington, co. Dorset (on
presentation of Bishop of Sarum), Oct. 1777, both
which he held till his death; to the living of Id-
miston, co. Wilts, in 1768, which he resigned in
1778. His will, in which his second wife Martha is
sole legatee, dated 13 Dec. 1783, was proved 20
J 6 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
March 17SS. I. M. in church of Poole; died 23
Jan. 1788, in 6ist 3'ear ; buried in aisle with first
wife. He married first Elizabeth, d. and coheir of
Sir Sebastian Swale, bart., of Poole : she is buried
in Poole church. He married secondl}' Martha
. . . . She died 24 March 1818; by her will,
proved ist June the same year, she gave ;;^2oo to
her executors for an Easter Monday charity. He had
no surviving issue by either wife. His book-plate
shows the arms of Fawconer, viz., Sab/e, three falcons
ernii/ie, legged and beaked or, with, on an escutcheon
of pretence, Asure, a bend ncbule argent, for
Swale.
3. Edward Fawconer, matriculated at Merton Coll.,
Oxford, as " son of Samuel Fawconer, of St.
Edmund's, Salisbury, pleb." 13 May 1748, aet. 17;
B.A. 7 Feb. 1752 ; post-master of Merton ; published
Aristotle et Pletho dc Virtiitibus, Oxon., 1752. M.A.
from Wadham Coll., 1754; instituted to rectory of
Upway, CO. Dorset (on presentation of Bishop of
Sarum) 1754; to vicarage of Fleet, co. Dorset, on
presentation of Geo. Gould), 1762, both of which he
held till his death. His will, as "of Upway, co.
Dorset, clerk," doted Jan. 24, 1801, was proved by his
daughters and executrices, 15th Dec. 1802. In it he
alludes to his father's wills, and disposesof messuages
in Salisbury. He was twice married, to Elizabeth,
daughter of John Gould, of Upwey, co. Dorset, esq.,
b}' Mary, eldest daughter and coheir of William
Glisson of Marnhull, by whom he had no issue ;
and to (the mother of his children).
He had issue —
I. Samuel Fawconer, matriculated at Merton Coll.,
Oxford, as "son of Edward, of Upway, co.
Dorset, clerk," 14 June 1786, aged 17; B.A.
1790 ; M.A. ... He was instituted, on
Faivcouer of Salisbitty. 77
the presentation of the Crown, to the rectory
of Pentridge near Cranbourne, co. Dorset, 26
April 1797. He died 9 Nov. iSoo. lie left
issue by his wife . . . —
1. James Fawconer, to whom his grandfathergave
certain houses in Salisbury, under the will
of his great grandfather.
2. Eliza Fawconer.
3. Samuel Fawconer.
4. Edward Fawconer.
2. Edward Fawconer, matriculated at Worcester Coll.,
Oxford, as " son of Edward, of Upway, co. Dor-
set, clerk," 18 June 1794, aged 17. A lieuten-
ant in H.M. service at date of father's will. Is
stated to have married a Miss Maskan, or
Maskie.
3. Eliza Fawconer, married, as his first wife, the Rev.
George Speke Payne, son of the Rev. Samuel
Payne, rector of Portland and of Wyke Regis,
CO. Dorset. She died . . April 1824, aged
51 ; and was buried at Stoke Abbas, co. Dorset.
He died 10 April 1862, aged 85, and was buried
at Poorstock, co. Dorset. They had issue —
1. Samuel Henry Payne, died 25 March 1824,
aged 18.
2. George Speke Payne, M.R.C.S., married and
had issue.
3. Edward Payne, died at St. Kitts in W. Indies,
29 Dec. 1830, aged 19,
4. Mary Payne, born at Buckland Ripers, co.
Dorset, 14 June 1805; married, 10 July
1828, Thomas Russell, of Beaminster, co.
Dorset, solicitor, by whom she left issue.
He died 20 May 1872, aged 73 ; she died
21 May 187 1, aged 65; both buried at
Poorstock, CO. Dorset.
78 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
5. IClizabctli Taylor Payne, died 6 Dec. 1888, aged
74, unmarried; buried at Bcaminster, co.
Dorset.
4. Mary Francis Fawconer, unmarried in 1801. Mar-
ried . . . Moody.
5. Sarah Fawconer, married (settlement dated i Feb.
1795), Henry Hayes Tizzard, of Weymouth,
CO. Dorset, solicitor.
In the pedigree, from which the earlier portion of the above
account is derived, the Rev. John [Edward] Fawconer, rector
of Britford, is assigned a second son, William Fawconer, from
whom was descended the successful claimant to the real estate
of the intestate Henry Fawconer, in 1789. It appears from Mr.
Bartlett's note, that the rector of Britford had no son of the
name of William, and it is obvious from the dates given that
the filiation is at fault ; either a generation has dropped out,
or possibly this William was a son, not brother, of Edward
who died in 1691, though the statement about William, son of
Edward, sword-bearer to the king, etc., seems precise. As
given in the MS. the pedigree is as follows: —
"William Fawconer, son of John, rector of Britford,
born in Sarum 1618, died rector of Stratford Toney, and was
buried thereabout. He married Sarah Harris, and had issue —
" Thomas Harris Fawconer, born at Stratford Toney,
about 1697. He married Anna Bullen, about 1724, at St.
Paul's, and had issue —
"Anne Fawconer, born about the year, 1724, married to
Delarne (or Delarue). This person, by a trial at Chelmsford
about the year 1789, obtained, by a verdict, possession of all the
freehold of Henry Fawconer, son of Jonathan the lapidary,
who was the son of Jonathan No. 5. She has left a son who
now enjoys the freehold estates. But query, did his mother or
he belong his heirs to the same."
I may be permitted, perhaps, on a future occasion, to
The IViltsliire Society. 79
subjoin abstracts of the few wills, etc., mentioned above, with
references to the places where they will be found.
Anthony S. Maskelyne.
The Wiltshire Society (vol. i, p. 521 ; vol. ii, p. 35).—
Mr. Charles S. Adye, of Westbury, sends us another invitation
card, similar to the one re-produced in our last number, but
on a larger scale (8^ x 6h inches), and printed along instead
of across the page. The details of the design, which bears the
name of I. Skinner, are evidently copied from Thomas Bur-
rough's earlier ticket, but somewhat differently arranged.
Below, on either side, are two shields, bearing the same in-
signia as appear in the 1734 print, between which are the
words : —
''Bath, 1765.
*' S', You arc desired to meet y' Countrymen Natives of
"y« County of Wilts at y« Guildhall, on Tuesday, June ye nth,
" at ten o'clock, to accompany the President to y« Abbey Church,
"from thence to dinner. Bring this ticket w*^ you. No. 158.
" IValtcr Long, President."
Some light is thrown on the above by the following
extract from the Salisbury Journal for August 27, 1750.
" We learn from Bristol that at the Annual Meeting of the
Wiltshire and Somersetshire Society held last week, there was
a very grand appearance of gentlemen, etc., who after going to
church and hearing a sermon suitable to the occasion, pro-
ceeded to their respective halls to dinner, where upwards of
one hundred pounds were collected, for the laudable purpose
of putting poor boys of each County apprentice."
From the same journal for September 10, 1750, we take
the following : —
" Price 6d. — A Sermon preached at Temple-Church,
Bristol, before the Wiltshire Society, at their Annual Feast,
8o IViltslu'rc Notes and Queries.
held in that city, August i6, 1750, by Joseph Horler, B.A.,
Master of the Free School at Wilton."
Ancient Map of the Parish of Warminster. — The
accompanying draft was made from a pen-and-ink sketch dis-
covered by Canon Jackson among the Longleat papers. It is
a rare memorandum of a parish at so early a date, cir. i
Elizabeth, 1588. Bouram or Burton, now Boreham, was held
by Lord William Pawlet, Marquis of Winton, Lord High
Treasurer of England. Tlie property of the Mauduits, lords of
Warminster, had been broken up into small manors; Small-
brook, a mansion and manor of the Waspails had been bought,
with much other property in the parish, by John Wyso, mer-
chant of London. Most of the names of owners may be found
in the History of IVarniinster, and most of the places noted
in the map retain the same names as now. Dursley, a copse
in Upton Scudamore, is now Durtley ; Cop hye is Cop Heap ;
" Conyngers" (Conigre) are rabbit-warrens.
John J. Danif.ll.
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Breach (Family of). — I shall be grateful to any reader
who will furnish me with any information respecting this
family, for the purpose of tracing the pedigree.
William Breach, surgeon on the staff of the Duke of
Cumberland; born 1723 ; had a son William, also a surgeon in
practice in London; married, in 1780, Susannah, daughter of
Cornelius Bradford, of Midge Hall and Can Court, near Wootton
Bassett.
i. Any record of the marriage of Susannah Bradford,
which possibly took place at Lydiard Tregose or
Broad Hinton ?
ii. The descent of Wm. Breach, born in 1723; believed
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to be descended from the family of Breach of Ciren-
cester, wliose arms have always been borne by my
family. I doubt there being any connection with the
Sussex family of the same name.
iii. If any members of the Cirencester family are living,
and any information respecting them.
iv. If any of this family residing in Wilts (try Calnc) prior
to 1723.
V. Origin of name of lane, " Breach Lane," at Cl3'fle
P}'pard.
F. Arthur Breach.
Bcckctiha>ii, Kent.
Wooden Monument near Devizes.— On p. 283 of Mr.
James Waylen's Clironiclcs of the Devizes 1 fiiul the following: —
A periodical of the las-t century allude.s to an ancient wooden nmnu-
nscnt wliich stood near Devizes, bearing the following singular inscription : —
"A LEG IS INTERRED HERE."
Whereupon the writer moralizes in the fuUowiiig strain.
" A leg alone within a grave !
Graver I fear thou'rt some arch knave,
Or else some dull poetic noddy,
Pray had this leg nor head nor body ?
Tis true some men have such odd notions,
Such real conceit, such false devotions,
From post to pillar ever starting,
In every service to take part in ;
And so addicted are to kicking,
When'ere detected in their picking ;
Of such it justly may be said.
That they are legs without a head."
What periodical is here referred to, and of what date ?
Has anyone ever heard anything further concerning this
peculiar monument ? If so, where did it stand ?
Amos Grange.
Thomas Smith of Wanborough. — Can anyone give in-
formation respecting Thomas Smith of Wanborough, yeoman,
who must have been born early in the 17th century.
In his will (or copy of same), bearing no date, he leaves
land and money to sons Thomas and John, to daughter Ann,
The Maid and the Magpie. 83
and to "son-in-law Thomas Louday's two daughtL , viid 205.
to the poor of Wanborough. The land is described as "which
I bought of Mr. Gooding, which was Wilkinses land." A
descendant used a coat of arms : — Az., a chevron between
three lions passant guardant, or. (six ermines on chevron).
Crest, a helmet with leopard's head erased, collared and
chained, or. Can the family be identified with any other branch
of Smith ?
M. E. Light.
The Maid and the Magpie. -The late Mr. C. A. Wheeler
of Swindon is responsible for the following anecdote: — "The
Maid and the Magpie " used, in the first quarter of the nine-
teenth century, to be performed on the stage of man}^ a theatre.
Somewhere in print we have seen the chief incident related
as of Wroughton origin. A servant girl was being conveyed
to prison, accused of stealing silver spoons, the property of her
employer. Ascending Wroughton hill, she saw a magpie
flying towards the church with apparently a spoon in its beak.
Attention was called to it, and someone on foot, happening to
pass, was asked to follow and watch. Result was the finding
of more than one piece of plate in or on the tower. It has
been suggested that Wanborough was the scene of this
incident. Further information on this subject would, no doubt,
be interesting to others as well as myself.
J. C. P.
Clothiers at Seend. — Aubrey says that when Henry the
Seventh " came to the crown, he sent into Flanders for cloath-
ing manufacturers, whom he placed in the west, and particu-
larly at Seend in Wiltshire, where they built several good
houses 3'et remaining ; I know not any village so remote from
London that can show the like." Can any other evidence be
adduced in support of the above statements ?
Ernest Talman.
An Imber Nickname. — I have heard it said that there is
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nothing whicli upsets a native of Imber so much as the
sobriquet of Bungey, or Bungay, and that the}' obtained the
nickname by roasting a dog so named. Can anyone supply
me witli further information as to this ?
R. James.
A Burial Custom. — There is a Wilts custom of placing a
plate heaped up with salt on the breast of a corpse. What is
the meaning of this ?
L. S. D.
Duchy Ragg Farm, Braydon. -Can anyone explain the
E. J. W.
origin (jf tiiis name ?
Sketch of Fireplace in Box House. — Said to have been
brought from Ashvvick in Marshfield, co. Glouc. The panels
are numbered from left to right. Tlie arms of Richmond
and Webbe occupy the centre panels (3 and 8). Information is
requested as to the other coats, and the occasion of their
presence.
The Buried Village on Salisbury Plain (vol. i, p. 320).
The manor or farm of St. John a Gore lies on the open down
about two miles south of the village of West Lavington, on
the road from Devizes to Salisbury. It is a farm of about
430 acres, and is now a tithing of Market Lavington ; but,
according to ancient records, was formerly a separate vill and
tything in the Hundred of Branch and Dole. The name of
Gore seems to be derived from gdi'ii, an angular point or neck
of land stretching out into the plain— a word which, according
to Kemblc, is itself to be referred to gar, a javelin or pike.
About a quarter of a mile distant is "Gore Cross" — so
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f IRE-PLACE IN ^OX j^OUSE. WlLTS.
(From Pen-and-ink Drawing by Miss Agnes 3f Story-Maskelyne).
The Buried I 'illage on Salisbury Plain. 85
called from the " Ridgeway", a supposed road of the ancient
Britons, which, in following its track along the ridge of the
downs from the neighbourhood of Warminster towards Up-
avon, crosses the turnpike road from Devizes to Salisbury at
this point. The coins and various remains of querns, pottery,
etc., found here seem to indicate an occupation of the site
both by the ancient Britons and Romans.
From the Domesday Survey it appears that in the time of
Edward the Confessor (1041-65) "Gare" was held by a Saxon
named Osward — whose name also occurs as a landholder at
Edyngton^ Deptford in the parish of Wylye, and Easton Piers
in Kington St. Michael — and it then paid geld for three hides.
At the time of the actual compilation of the Domesday
record (1083-86) "Gare "was, together with Market Laving-
ton, held of the king /;/ capitc by Robert Marescal. " The
land/' says the record, " is 3 carucates. Of this there are in
demesne 2 hides, and there are 2 carucates and 6 serfs ; and
there are 3 villans and i bordar, with i carucate ; and there
are 40 acres of pasture. It was worth 30 shillings ; it is now
worth 50 shillings."
In 3 Edw. I (1274) Robert de la Lee occurs as holder of
one fourth part of a knight's fee in " Gares " of Peter Delamere,
and another fourth part of Richard de la Rokcl, both of the
latter holding the same of the King /// cnpHc {Hundred Rolls)}
The Nomina Villaruni^ compiled 9 Edw. II (1316), supplies
the names of two holders of land in Gore at that date — viz.,
John de Combe and the Abbess of Caen [Cadamo] in Nor-
mandy. In 43 Edw. Ill (1368-9) Michael de Poynings, Knight,
and his wife Joan (whose first husband was John, son of John
' In the Hundred Roll 89 Henry III (1251) the names of Richard de
Rokell and Richard Delamere, appear as holders of land in Market Laviiifj-
ton, each by 40 days' service yearly in time of war, or a payment of 20
shillings to the Ward of the Castle of Devizes in time of peace, representing
a tenure of a wliole knight's fee.
In 23 Edward III (1:548-9) Peter Delamere died, seised of two carucates
of land, etc., in Market Lavington, held " as of the Castle of Devizes."— /w;/.
post mortem.
86 H'illsliirc Nohs ami Oi/cr/cs.
dc Molins) were seized of the manor of "la Gore" or "dc
la Gore ", near Lavington, " la Lee" (Lea near Malmesbury),
and other lands in Sussex, Norfolk, Suftblk, and Kent (Ii/q.
post motion).
In 2 1 Richard II (1397) Thomas Plantagenet, of "Wood-
stock," Uuke of Gloucester, sixth son of Edward III, died
seised of Gore, Tilshead, and other manors in Wilts {Ii/q.p. iii.).
At a later date Gore belonged to the family of Danvers,
of Dauntsey. Sir Henry Danvers, earl of Danby, by will dated
1639, charged part of his estates with ;j^5o a year for the re-
pair of the Almshouse at Dauntesey, the maintenance of six
poor people therein, and the salary of a schoolmaster. This
sum is still paid by the owner of Gore Farm.
The Earl of Danby settled his estates on his nephew
Iloury, only surviving son of Sir John Danvers "the
Regicide", by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-
heiress of Ambrose Dauntesey, of West Lavington, Init he
dying unmarried in 1654, at the age of 20, and a year
before his father, left, according to the inscription on his
monument at West Lavington, "all of his great estate in
his power" to his sister Anne, wife of Sir Henry Lee, of
Ditchley, co. Oxon. It seems, however, that before his death
he had made over some of his estates to trustees to pay his
father's large debts— the remainder to go to his sister. Lady
Lee. His father, "the Regicide," who died in 1655, was
attainted after the restoration, 12 July 1661 ; and fearing that
such estates as had been conveyed by the son in 1654 might
be affected by the attainder, a grant of them was obtained
from the Crown, 13 December 1661, to Henry Hyde, Lord
Cornbury, and others, who declared themselves trustees to
carry out the son's arrangements. This applied to much
property in Wiltshire, Northamptonshire, and Chelsea, in-
cluding lands called "John a Gore", in Lavington.
Sir Henry Lee, of Ditchley, had issue by his wife Ann,
sister of I lenry Danvers, two daughters, Eleanor and Arnie,
the eldest of whom eventually became sole heiress, and was
The Buried Village on Salishioy Plain. 87
the first wife of James Bertie, first earl of Abingdon, who died
in 1699.
In 5 George II (173:2) an Act was passed for vesting
several manors in Berks, Bucks, Oxon, and Wilts— the estate
of Montagu, second earl of Abingdon — in trustees, to be sold
for raising money to discharge his debts and incumbrances,
and " the manor or farm of St. John a Gore" was accordingly
disposed of in 1765 (during the tenure of the property by
Wiiloughby, fourth earl) to Richard Low, of Covent Garden,
London, woollen draper, who again conveyed it in 1784 to
Thomas Edwards, of Tilshead, by whom it was settled as a
marriage portion on his eldest daughter Margaret Mary, wife
of John Hayward, of Browfort in the parish of Rowde, whose
representatives sold it in 1867 to Frederick Stratton, its
present owner.
On several occasions, during a dry summer, the partial
failure of the crop in certain places not far distant from the
house, seemed to be an indication of the presence of founda-
tions not far underneath, which was found to be the case ; and
in the spring ot 1877, Mr. Stratton determined on removing
the soil and opening out the remains of a building at the back
of the farm premises, which proved to be the site of the
ancient chapel of St. John,^ traditionally said to have been
destroyed b}' fire, together with the houses belonging to the
tything, many ages ago.
The foundations, which varied in width from 2 ft. 6 in. to
3 ft. 6 in., represented a building consisting simply of nave
and chancel, between which was the foundation of an inner
wall dividing the two, the nave, 24 ft. by 1 1 ft. 6 in., represent-
ing perhaps the original building; to which a chancel 19 ft. by
12 ft. 6 in., may have been subsequently added. Many of the
stones bore distinct traces of fire, but there were scarcely any
remains of carving to fix a date. One fragment of a string-
course might have belonged to the Earl}' English or Decorated
'^ Tlie advowson of the Church of Jlarket Lavington, with the Chapel of
Gore, formerly belonged to Edyngton Priory.
88 I'Viltsliirc Notes and Queries.
period (13th or 14th century); another bore the draught lines
of the mason, and tliere were some coarsely made ridge-tiles,
probably also of the 14th century. One small object of lead,
about the size of a papal bulla, was exhibited at a meeting of
the Societies of Antiquaries of London, and conjectured to
have been either the remaining portion of some rude kind ol
seal, or one of the workmen's passes which enabled them to
travel from one county to another in search of work. The
latter were ordained to be made of lead in the reign of
Richard II.
Edward KriE.
Gauntlett Family and Early Tobacoo Pipes (vol. i, pp.
128, 232, 281, 328, 377, 430 ; vol. ii, p. 46.- In continuation of
our article on this subject in the last number, we now proceed
to briefly trace the history of tobacco up to the time when it
became generally used in ICngland.
Tobacco had been smoked by the American Indians for
centuries before the coming of Columbus, who, with his fol-
lowers, was probably the first to witness the custom which has
now taken such deep root in Europe. The first time, however,
that we hear of it is in an account transmitted from Hayti to
Peter Martyr in 1496. Cortcz, when he invaded Mexico in
1519, found the Aztecs and their unhappy king, Montezuma,
in the full enjoyment of the luxury. Six years later a minute
account of the fragrant weed and its properties was written by
Hernandez de Orvieto, who introduced it into Spain. Still
later, in 1570, Lovel describes it in his Adversaria, and we are
told that the fragrant weed was llicn under cultivation in
England, though Mr. Arber assigns the first mention in ICnglish
to one Frampton, who wrote in 1577.
The date generally assigned for its introduction into
Europe is 1560, when Jean Nicot, sent as an envoy from
Catherine da Medicis to Portugal, purchased, from llie keeper
of the prison at Lisbon, a plant of tobacco wliich had been
brought over from Florida by a Flemish merchant. Having
Gaitiillcll Faiiiily and Early Tobacco Pipes. 89
cultivated it, he gave a plant to the Papal Nuncio, Cardinal
Saint Crove (who introduced it into Ital}-), and carried another
to his queen, who took an immediate fancy to it.
It would appear that the art of smoking was introduced
into England b}- Ralph Lane, who was sent out by Sir Walter
Raleigh, as governor of X'irginia. On his return to England,
in 1586, he is said to have presented Raleigh with an Indian
pipe, showing him how to use it. The latter's powerful
influence was doubtless the cause of its rapid progress, for
Paul Hentzner, who visited England in 1598, tells us, as to his
visit to the bear-garden in Southwark : — "At these spectacles,
and everywhere else, the English are constantly smoking
tobacco, and in this manner : they have pipes on purpose,
made of clay."
Sir James Long (according to Aubrey) set the fashion in
Wiltshire, and other persons doubtless carried it into the
other counties, until in a very few 3'ears it became a national
habit, indulged in by poor as well as rich. Aubrey also tells
us that at first the rich used pipes made of silver, while the
poor contented themselves with a " walnut shell and a straw ",
but the latter contrivance soon gave way to the clay.
It is said that the cost of tobacco was originally worth its
weight in silver, but with the increased demand the manu-
facture of it increased and the price decreased. This may be
fairly gathered from a couple of extracts — the first taken from
A Perfect Description of Virginia, printed in 1649.
" The inferior inhabitants and ordinary sort of men culti-
vated tobacco ; and in tobacco they can make ;^2o sterling a
man, at 3c/. a pound, per annum. And this they find and know,
and the present gain is that, that puts out all endeavours from
the attempting of others more staple and sollid and rich
commodities out of the heads and hands of the common
people."
We also know that smoking went on in the House of
Commons at this epoch. That the price quickly decreased
may be shown from the MS. account of household expenses
90 IVillshire Notes and Queries.
kept by the Rev. William Hamilton, minister of the parish of
Eastwood, near Glasgow, e.g., " Meii, 165 1. It. to Anoro
Carnduff for 4 pound of tobacco j[^\.^^
It must be remembered that this sum of money is of
Scotch currcnc}', the Scotch pound being equal to twenty-pence
sterling.
The above facts concerning the early history of tobacco in
England, will account for the fact that a man like Thomas
Tolston might easily make his fortune out of the sale of
tobacco and pipes.
Raleigh of Downton.— Mr. Rawleigh Humphries' query ^
(vol. i, p. 525) anent the family of Dean Raleigh opens up the
wider question of the existence of male descendants of Raleigh of
Downton, in whom probably centred the male representation
of the immortal Sir Walter, unless Philip, Sir Walter's
only surviving grandson, left issue. This Philip Raleigh
had license to marry, Jan. 15, 1667-S, (Vicar-Gen.), Frances
Greenville of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, spinster. He proved
his mother's will in 1674, and was alive in 1695, after which
date he seems to disappear.
In the hope that some of the genealogical correspondents
of Wiltshire N. & Q. may be disposed to follow out the line
of Raleigh of Downton, 1 append the following few notes, which
contain all that I have been able to collect.
Sir Carew Raleigh, the first of the family who settled
at Downton, entered his pedigree in the Visitation of Wilts
1623. He was knighted in 1601, and sat as M.P. for Wilts
1584-5. 1586-7, Ludgershall 158S-9, Fowey 1601, Downton
1604-11, 1621-2. By his wife, Dorothy Wroughton, he had
three sons —
1. Gilbert, his heir.
2. Walter, afterwards Dean of Wells.
3. George, who probably died young.
1 Mr. Humphries informs us of the following errors in the printing of his
qiiory .—• Sawpits ' should be ' tanpits ' ; ' Eddrels ' should be ' Eddolls.'—
Ed. W. N. .5- Q.
Roleigli of Duiviilun. 91
Gilbert Raleigh of Downton, eldest son, was M.P. for
Downton in 1614. lie married Lucy, dau. of Sir Giles
Wroughton of Broadhinton, knt., and had issue besides two
daughters, two sons, all born before 1623 —
1. Gilbert, his heir.
2. Walter, matric. from Magdalen Coll., Oxford, 12 July
1639, aged 16.
Gilbert Raleigh of Downton, eldest son, aged two in
1623, matric. from Magdalen Coll., Oxford, 9th Feb. 1638-9,
aged 15. Was M.P. for Downton 1661 till his decease in 1675.
He was father of
Sir Charles Raleigh of Downton, knt., who matric.
from Magdalen Coll., 21st May 1669, aged 16. Knighted
I Aug. 1 68 1. M.P. for Downton 1685-7, 1689-90, 1690-5, and
1695, till his death in 1698. His wife was Frances, daughter
of Robert Earnely, of .St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Midx. (lie.
to marry 7 Oct. 1692 — Fac. Office), who after his death married
Francis Cole, of Middle Temple, esq., (lie. 3 Aug. 1699-
Fac. Off.)
They were probably the parents of Carew Raleigh, M.P.
for Downton in 1698-1700, 1 700-1, 1 701-2.
Walter Raleigh, second son of Sir Carew, matric. from
Magdalen Coll., 5 Nov. 1602, aged 16 B.A. 1605. M.A. 160S.
D.D. 1636. Dean of Wells 1642. Died 10 Oct. 1646. Buried
in Wells Cathedral. By his wife Mary, dau. of — Gibbes, he
had issue, besides six daughters —
1. George, bapt. 28 July 1625 ; married Judith Jermyn, of
Rushbrooke, Suffolk (lie. Fac. Off.) 29 Aug. 1663 ; he
"of Chedzey, co. Somerset," aged 30 {sic); she 24.
2. Henry, bapt. 5 June 1626, living 1662.
3. Walter, bapt. 29 May 1630, living 1662.
4. John, bapt. 18 June 1631, living 1662.
5. Carew, bapt. 31 Dec. 1638, buried 1639.
It will thus be obvious that there are several sources from
which the Raleigh descent might be perpetuated.
Leigh, Lancashire. W. D. Pink.
9;; IVillshire Moles and Oiarics.
The Lushill and Samborne Families (vol. i, pp. 373 and
564 ; vol. ii, p. 43). — Since writing my note in the last number,
I have had an opportunity of consulting the valuable and
interesting MS., llarley 807, referred to by Mr. Everitt. Some-
thing of its history is given in a note prefixed to it : — "This
boolce of Pettigrees is the hand vvritinge of Robert Glover,
Esq", Somerset Herald, and from the Executrix of Ralph
Brooke, Esq''^., York Herald, came to the hands of me, Tho.
Cole, Ao. 1629."
Glover, a brilliant representative of the scholarly erudition
and infinite industry, never wholly absent from his Society,^
was born in 1544, and died in 1588. His MS. collections were
dispersed, and his work has been largel}' used, but not
acknowledged, by subsequent authors, better cognisant than
he of the possibilities of print. He is even stated to have
stood in the same relation to Sir William Dugdale, as Brian
Twyne to the Oxford historian Anthony Wood. Wood and
Dugdale have secured themselves imperishable repute, while
Twyne and Glover, from whose vast stores they respectively
borrowed, are forgotten, and their shades, if they resent the theft,
have no consolation but to reflect, like all antiquaries at times
have occasion to, that there is no such thing as private property
in historical facts — a very suitable sentiment for these pages.
No candid person can, 1 think, after examining this MS.
(Harley 807) fail to be convinced that it is founded on another
noteworthy MS. in the same collection, Harley 1074, the
source of those curious tables printed in vol. i of the Collec-
tanea. This latter is, I believe, the work of an earlier herald,
indeed, the parts printed, as above, are referred to the latter
end of Henry VIII's reign ; and certainl}'^ the matter would
have been less " topical " at any subsequent period, for the
tables show the consanguinity through the " Lady Margaret "
and her mother and grandmother, wife and daughter of Sir
John TV iiirhamp of Lydiard Tregoze, of many of the English
' Tlie College of Arms.
Ltisliill and Saniboruc Faini/ics. 93
nobility to that King. I would even go further, and hazard the
suggestion that Harle}' 1047 is of the same authorship as, or
of common origin with, the notes printed by Sir Thomas
Pliillipps from the " Aske Collections", then in his possession.
At least one rare series of descents (of Bitton in Gloucester-
shire) is common to all three texts ; but to this last named MS.
I have not access.
Harley 807 may, therefore, be considered as an edition,
revised by a very competent hand, of genuine early work.
Such is the descent of Lushill and others, at fo. 66 b., from
Shotisbroke, an amplification and correction of a like attempt at
fo. 117 of Harley 1074. I propose to defer any particular
account of this entry, in the hope of obtaining copies of the
tricks of arms which accompany it. I may mention, however,
that the coat of Oliver St. John, who married the heiress of
Beauchamp, is here given as ** Az., a bend G. on a chief of tlie
second two mullets pierced or", a variant which is new to me.
Some entries, on the other hand, are peculiar to Glover's
MS., and the Wriothesley pedigree, with the descent from dc
Dunstanville alias Castle Combe, Lushill, etc., at fo. 27, is one
of them.
Anthony S. Maskelyne.
Banker Smith (vol. i, p. 568). — In the number of Wiltshire
Notes and Queries for December 1895, I mentioned that Mr.
Smith, known as "Banker Smith", had written an amusing
account of a kind of riot — a copy of which I append : —
" ]'>urougli of j The information and complaint of William Hawkins and
Wootton Bassett i John Chivers, son and servant to Mrs. Ann Hawkins of
Wilts. J the Angel Inn, in the said borough, who, on their separate
oaths, saith, that on Tuesday night, the 19th day of this instant, March 1822,
the following persons was assembled at the Angel Inn, aforesaid, namely,
Thomas Short, Thomas Blanchett, Edward Watkins, Marke Heale, William
Cousins, Timothy Cousins, Wm. Hunt, George Jeffries, John Franklin,
Thomas Smith, Richard Titcombe, Thomas Morse, James Horsell, (and several
others) labourers of the said borough, who sat and drank from seven o'clock
till ten the same evening, and got drunk and became tumultuous, and dis-
turbed the peace of the said Inn by rioting, challenging, fighting, and cursing
and swearing most vehemently, and in such a manner as to bid defiance to all
rule and order, and to the great annoyance of His Majesty's subjects in the
said borough. Therefore, on hearing the srlehs and cries vociferating there-
from (sic), I, John Smith, Mayor of the said borough, went to the place from
94 JJ7//s/iir{' Notes and (Jncrics.
whence it appeared the sriclis and cries came from, and the following women
were assembled there in fear to witness the riotous proceedings, namely,
Mary, mother of Thomas Morse aforesaid, and Ann, the mother of Thomas
Short ; and on my arrival. I found many of those persons, hereinbefore de-
scribed, assembled in front of the said Inn, challenging and fighting, against
the peace of our said Lord, the King, and as I had no peace oflicer present, I
entered the said Inn amidst a party of the rioters, demanding peace, and I
saw Thomas Morse with part of his clothes off, fencing with several others
of the party hereinbefore mentioned, who cursed and swore several times in
my presence, and said that he did not care for the Mayor — he may go and be
damned for all he cared — I immediately looked at my watch, and found the
time was between eleven and twelve o'clock, and requested that the house
should be shut up, and the rioters turned out ; and I was informed the next
day, by Mr. William Warman of the said borough, that the said parties
assembled together in or near the Market Place, in the said borough, from
and after I left them on that same night, hallooing and hooting, to the great
annoyance of His ^lajesty's subjects, and against the peace of our said Lord,
the King, at or near the hour of midnight. " Sworn before me.
"J. Smith."
Many of those whose names are mentioned, are well
remembered by me. They were mostly agricultural labourers,
and, as in the year 1822 there was a "dismal depression" in
that pursuit, wages being ver}- low and work scarce, it is not
improbable that these men had not long before had their
" election money ", namely, the gratuity they were accustomed
to receive for voting, which was usually about twenty guineas,
but in 1812 it reached the sum of forty-five. The first-named,
Thomas Short, was a short thick-set man, and a very " ugly
customer" in a fight. On one occasion, there was a desperate
battle between him and Baker Priddy, when it was said the
blows could be heard a long way oft'.^ In the summer of 1803,
there was every indication that Napoleon Bonaparte would
attempt an invasion of England, an army being assembled at
Boulogne. On Sunday, the 24th of July in that year, there
was a meeting in the Town Ilall to enroll volunteers, when
about seventy entered their names, the first signature being
that of Thomas Short, with the word "A Briton ", written after
1 On referring to a list of special constables (eighty in number) .'(worTi in
at the Town Hall, Wootton Bassett, on Thursday the 2r)th of November,
1830, on the occasion of the agricultural riots in this county, I find that
Thomas Short's name appears almost at the top of the roll. Whilst the
swearing in was being proceeded with, a stone came through one of the
windows and struck Thomas Calley, Esq., of Burderop, on the head, drawing
blood.
Banker Smith. 95
his name. All the documents connected with that event (with
many others) were kindly presented to me by the daugliter of
the Mayor, Mr. Hollister, the same clever lady who did the
sketches for the election picture of the procession in 1888.
Among them is the speech written out for his Worship by Mr.
Stephen Stout, an attorney of the place. It is to the following
eflfect : —
"Gentlemen Volunteers.
" Tlie Mayor of this borough addresses you as a servant and subject to
his King and Country, to call on your assistance, when wanting, in defence of
this happy kingilom, now threatened by the prevailing Constitution of
France. Should the enemy obtain the wished-for effect, you, and all true
Brittons must be made sacrifices to French ambition, such as plunder,
massicre, debauchery and other diabollical mischiefs. Let us, my friends
and Brittons, come forward and volunteer our services in defence of our
Country and the Constitution of old England, as prescribed by the several
Acts of Parliament so to do. Our services will be doubly useful in case of
necessity, by being armed and instructed beforehand, and conducted by
experienced officers, approved of by His Majesty, King George the Third,
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The service, it
is hoped, will be short, under the assistance of our Almighty God, and there
is the greatest hope and reason to believe, that the knowledge of the hearts
of all Englishmen, and their fighting the enemy, will be sufficient to prevent
the enemy from putting a foot on the English shore to rob us of our lives
and liberties.
"God Save the King."
The second name on the list of delinquents at the Angel,
is that of Thomas Blanchett. In the early part of the century
he joined Colonel Villiers's Regiment of Fencibles, and after-
wards became servant to Major Wyndham of Salisbury, from
which he used to be called "Major" Blanchett. He lived to be
considerably over ninety, and was for many years beadle in the
town. He was one of the four persons who informed me that
they were witnesses of the ducking of Peggy Lawrence in the
Weir-pond, filled up in 1836. This old lady appears in the
election picture in a red cloak, with a basket of apples which
she is selling to some boys. The other persons who said they
had seen her immersion, were named Wiggins, Knighton, and
Hunt. The third name on the list of those at the Angel, is that
of Edward Watkins. At the Summer Assizes at Salisbury,
in 1819, he was arraigned (being then about 18 years old)
with his brother, Robert Watkins, for the murder and
g6 I Villsliire Notes and Queries.
robbery of Mr. Stephen Rodwa}', of Cricklade, at Purton
Stoke. He was acquitted ; the only thing he had to do with
the matter, being that lie liid tlie pistol in a patch of
potatoes near Noremarsh. His brother was found guilty,
and was hanged near the spot where the murder was
committed, on the 30th July 18 19. Just at the moment
the drop fell, there was the most terrific storm of thun-
der and lightning ever known in these parts, which had
the most profound effect on the ten thousand persons who
witnessed the execution. Although under three years old
(incredible as it may seem), I have a recollection of the dreadful
weather. Edward Watkins lived to a good old age, and was
respected. His brother was innocent of the murder, no doubt,
although he was present and had some of the money, accord-
ing to what he told a gentleman (who informed me) at
Marlborough, tlic night previous to his execution. Mr. Stephen
Stout, came from Marshfield to Wootton Bassett, in 1800. He
died in 181 1, in indigence. On one occasion, he was seen
vapouring about the town with a big stick, and saying, that if
he could catch the scoundrel "he would break every bone in
his skin," for calling him a fool. He said, that "if he had been
called a rogue he would not have cared, but would not be called
a fool."
W. F. Parsons.
Ecclesiastical Memorials in Private Hands (vol. i, pp.
371, 427, 570). — On looking through your first volume it has
struck me that I might add to your list of examples. There is,
or was, some short time ago, in the garden of Mr. Stone at
Winsley, a handsome font, formerly in Winsley Church,
Wilts. There were also in the vicarage gardens at Steeple
Ashton a couple of fonts, formerly in the churches of Keevil
and Seend.
I think it would be also well to mention, although these
are not ecclesiastical, that Bristol High Cross is now in the
grounds of Stourhcad, and that Temple Bar, which originally
A Remarkable Chancel. 97
formed the entrance gate to the City of London, is now to be
seen at the entrance to Dauntsey Park.
Sydenham, Kent. 11. Jf.vons.
A Remarkable Chancel (vol. ii, p. 39).— I am unable to in-
stance any other example? of chancels with receding walls in
Wiltshire, but I have heard two explanations of the formation.
The first is that the church was originally built in the form of
a ship, but the nave would naturally have been of the same
width and character as the chancel. It would be necessary, in
such case, therefore, to assume that the nave had been subse-
quently enlarged. Another theory is that the upward expansion
was intended to convey the idea of the prayers of the faithful
increasing in power as they mounted upward.
Mungwell. Wilts (vol. i, pp. 526, 573).— C. H. M. is quite
right in supposing that this extract from the Gentleman^ s Maga-
zine is an error for Mongewell, Oxfordshire. The Salisbury
Journal for loth December 1750, records the same intelligence,
thus : — " On Monday last, a dispensation past the Great Seal
of England to enable the Rev. Thos. Sadler, M.A., chaplain to
the Rt. Hon. the Lady Vicountess Dowager Balmerino, to hold
the Rectory of Elington {alias Wroughton) in the County of
Wilts and Diocese of Salisbury ; with the Rectory of Mangwell,
in the Countv and Diocese of Oxford."
^^otf^ on ISookei.
County Records of the Surnames of Franxus, Franceis,
French, in England; a.d. i 100-1350. By A. D. Weld
French. Boston : Privately printed. 1896.
In March 1894, we had the pleasure of noticing a former
work by this same author, on the French family, and the
present is the third volume he has devoted to the subject. In
98 IViltsliire Notes and Queries.
it he gathers together the earlier records wliich he collected for
his Index Armorial — every record, in fact, bearing upon the
name. To those who are interested in the family, this stout
volume will be doubly interesting ; but to those who have no
special desire that way, many of the records (which are all
fully translated) are of much intrinsic interest. Take for
instance the first of the records relating to Devizes : — " a.d.
1295. — Gilbertus Fraunceys, junior, burgess, was returned for
Devizes to the Parliament at Westminster, on the 13th of
November, which was prorogued to the 27th of November in
the same year." And yet, Mr. Waylen, in his history of the
town, tells us that all names of representatives before the reign
of Edward II are lost. The FrencJi records relating to Wilt-
shire are numerous, and occupy 23 out of 594 pages, and the
volume is completed with a full index.
iHidrdlnnra,
THE WILTS RECORD SOCIETY.^
Slowly but surely the cause of historical study in Wiltshire
is gaining ground. Valuable as the publications of the Wilt-
shire Archaeological and Natural History Society have been in
the past, never has the Magazine been so efficient as under
its present editorship. A little more than three years ago, on
the analogy of like ventures which have proved successful
elsewhere, the first number of Wilts Notes and Queries ap-
peared. And now the archaeological apparatus which expe-
rience has approved in other counties is made complete for
Wiltshire, by the appearance of the first volume of the newly
formed IVilts Record Society.
1
Churchwardens' Accounts of 6'. Edmund and S. Thomas, Sanim,
(1148-1702), with other documents. By Henry James Fovvle Swayne,
Recorder of Wilton. Salisbury: Bennett Brothers, Journal Office, 189f).
Miscelloiua. 99
For most of the counties in England historical collections
have at one time or another been made, consisting of extracts
from records, etc., and these collections, which in some cases have
been the bases of magnificent county histories, are accessible to
the public in local or in London museums. The individual
labour involved in their preparation was generally enormous.
Years spent in repositories of MSS., themselves not easy of
access, were the necessary preliminary of the author's under-
taking, which, too often, he never even lived to attempt. For
Wiltshire this work has never been done. The dispersion by
auction of the Phillipps' collections and of the memoranda of
the late Canon Jackson, are a reminder that others before us
have conceived the plan, Sir Thomas Phillipps of illustrating
the history of the county from public, and Canon Jackson from
MSS. in private hands. Into the causes of the complete
and comparative failure of the one and the other of these
eminent antiquaries, we need not stay to enquire, but the
differentiation of their methods is highly interesting. Sir
Thomas Phillipps, a man of leisure and fortune, was able to
pursue his investigations in town. From the Heralds' College,
from Doctor's Commons, and from the national records, he
caused whole books and calendars to be transcribed. Canon
Jackson, according to his opportunities, gathered what lay to
his hand in local collections of deeds and the like.
The object of a Record Society is to accomplish almost
mechanically the double enterprise. Until it is accomplished
all attempts at compiling a general History of the County
must inevitably prove futile. Brief jottings will continue
to appear in the pages of Notes and Queries, and finished essays
on definite subjects in the Archaeological Society's Magazine,
but for page after page of crude material relating to the county
as a whole, neither can find space, yet without such material
no real advance in historical study can be made. The " Feet
of Fines", the "Subsidy Rolls", etc., must all be transcribed
by paid agents in London, as has been and is being done for
other counties, from York to Somerset ; the MS. of these agents
loo IVillsliirc Notes and Queries.
may with advantage be revised by local Committees, acquainted
from infancy with tlic place-names of tlicir district, which
cannot, by the greatest experts in ancient handwritings, be
read with certainty from the old rolls. Side by side with this,
the more urgent labour, local records will be disinterred and
edited, and such volumes as the Chtirchivardens' Accounts of
St. Edmund and St. Thomas^ Sarnm, will be the result.
It is a handsome book in imperial 8vo, of 40 pages prefa-
tory matter, and 403 pages text, which does credit to the pub-
lishers. Seldom enough it happens that it is possible for chil-
dren to fulfil a task left unaccomplished by a beloved parent.
The work, which perhaps for years has been recognized as a
family interest, is left incomplete, and if it is to be edited and
presented to the world at all, the aid of strangers has to be called
in. It was Mrs. Straton's happiness to be able to complete
her father, the late Mr. Swayne's, undertaking, and in com-
pleting it, to inaugurate a series, as we hope, of publications
of the utmost value. The book is thus a memorial volume,
and, by a sad fate, of father and daughter alike, for, prior to
its appearance, Mrs. Straton herself had passed away.
We must content ourselves at present with thus
generally calling attention to the new Society; of the contents
of its first volume we shall have more to say hereafter. But
before that opportunity occurs we trust that the Secretary
of the Society, C. R. Straton, esq., West Lodge, Wilton,
Salisbury, will have received from many of our readers more
substantial evidence of their appreciation and support.
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ANNALS OF PURTON.
(Continued from p. 53J
jT*r^ RANCIS, the first of the Goddard family who is
2?tj^T recorded to have held lands in Purton, althousfh he
* 'ir^ .
^f^\ appears to have resided in the village,^ was buried
^-^ at Somerford Parva.^ He died in 1701, aged 62,
"Xj and was succeeded in his Purton estate by his third
son, Anthony, whose name appears as co-executor with John
Harington, of Kelveston, Somerset, under the will of William
White, of Little Somerford, though about this executorship
there seems to have been something not altogether satisfactory,
for we find that "John Harington and Anthony Goddard ", for
divers good and reasonable causes and considerations, re-
nounced execution of the will under date 6 June, 10 George
(1724). Anthony Goddard died in 1753, and was succeeded
by his only son Richard, whose only daughter and heiress
Margaret subsequently (in 1792) became the wife of Robert
Wilson. Margaret's daughter, Sarah, married, on 14th
October 1824, Richard Miles, who purchased the Purton
^ Vide Burke's Commoners, vol. iv, p. 328.
^ Vide Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 2nd series, vol. i, p. 39.
1
IVillshirc Notes and Oiicries.
House Estate from his mother, Mrs. Wilson ^ ; and witli this
purchase, the interest of tliis ancient Saxon race in Purton
passed away. There are a few more interesting details con-
cerning this old house, which forms one of the illustrations to
this number, which may well be stated here.
With the presentation in 1771 of the Rev. John Prower
to the vicarage of Purton began the connection of his name
with the parish, happily not yet wholly severed. He was a
Dorsetshire man, and as such doubtless worthily known to
the patron. Lord Shaftesbury.^ Paternally descended from a
family of long residence at Durweston in that county, until his
father, Robert Prower, M.D., first settled and practised his
profession at Cranborne. Dr. Robert Prower married at
Winterbourne Whitchurch, 23 September 1745, Frances,
daughter and co-heiress of John Mervin, son of Edward
Mervin, of Salisbury, by Frances his wife, sole daughter and
heiress of Francis Sheldon, of Manston, co. Dorset, thus
endowing his children, of whom the vicar was the only male,
with an abundance of ancient descent ; for the manor of
Manston had come by inheritance to Sheldon Mervin, In's
wife's uncle, who died unmarried, without any break, from its
ancient lords the Manstons of Manston in the i3tli century.
John Prower, the vicar, married Anne, daughter and
eventually sole heiress of Christopher Lipyeatt, son of
Thomas Lipyeatt, who was son of another Christopher : all
were of Marlborough in this county. He was born 7 Nov.
1747, died 29 Nov. 1827, and was buried at Purton on the
7th December following, leaving behind him an only son, his
successor in the cure, John Mervyn Prower, better and
affectionately remembered as Canon Prower. He spent well
nigh all his life working in the parish, and died full of years
and honour on the 2nd of April 1869, at the great age of 85.
' Vide Burkc'.s Commoners, vol. iv, p. 328.
■■' It is .stated, however, he was presented by the Bishop on a lap.sc. Vide
Wilt xh ire Ingtitutiorui.
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Father and son they rest in peace near each other in the
graveyard of the parish where for 98 years they had hvcd and
laboured well.
Such was the connection with Purton wiiich prompted
Major Elton Mervin Prower, the only son of Canon Prower,
by Susannah Coles, heiress through her mother to the ancient
famil}' of Elton of March Marcle, co. Hereford, to settle him-
self here by the purchase of Purton House, and later in his
life to make such a splendid donation towards the restoration
of the ancient Parish Church. It was during the restoration
in 1 87 2, to which Major Prower so liberally contributed, that a
remarkable discovery was made, which is described herein-
after, exactly as it was printed in the Purton Parochial Maga-
zine for August 1884. But previous to this discovery another
had been made in the same church rather more than a century
before, a notice of which appeared in the Goitlcnian^s
Magazine for March 1761.^ Concerning this extract we have
no comment to make, but we will simply pass on to the other,
leaving our readers to form their own conclusions concerning
both. From the Purton Parochial Magazine, for August 1884 :
" But the most remarkable discovery made in the restora-
tion of the Church in 1872 was that of an adult skeleton in a
most unexpected position, and under somewhat peculiar cir-
cumstances. In the angle formed by the north transept and
the chancel there is a room or chapel.
"At some time, but when there appears to be no record to
show, the entrance to this chapel was closed up. In course of
the restoration these entrances were reopened, the stonework
on the west or north transept being taken away and a low oak
screen substituted. On the south, or chancel aisle, a doorway
was discovered of plain Saxon workmanship, which would
seem to have been the entrance to the chapel from the church.
This doorway was again closed, and an entrance in the north
wall substituted, and this room or chapel now forms the
> See p. 118 of this number of W. N. 4- Q.
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I04 IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
vestry. When the workmen were engaged in pinning the
end of the cast wall of this chapel into the chancel wall they
discovered the wall to be hollow, and about 5 feet from the
floor, on opening the wall, they found the skeleton above
referred to lying at full length, the head and shoulders lying
in a cavity cut out in the chancel wall, the remainder of the
body being in the chapel wall. The cavities in both walls
had evidently been specially prepared for the reception of the
body, and when it had been deposited in the position intended
for it the face of the wall was built up and no doubt remained
undisturbed till found. There was a vague understanding
formerly that it was a place not to be entered. The tradition
had been handed down from father to son, and that was all.
But there was a reason for this, and it was supposed to be
known to the then vicar, the Rev. Canon Prower, for some
thirty or forty years before his death, when it was suggested
that the room should be put in order to be used for a robing
room, he requested that reference should not again be made
to the place, that its history bore some reference to a former
vicar, and that a dark deed had been committed there. The
discovery of the skeleton will tciul rather to intensify than
explain away the mystery attached to this part of the
Church."
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
CIIOLDERTON.
(Continued from p. 7 5. J
Feet of Fines. iVills. [Michaelmas, ^^ Elizabeth.]
A.D. 1591. — At Westminster in the octaves of St. Michael.
Between Richard Tutt, gentleman, and Humphrey Sidenham,
gentleman, plaintiffs, and Cuthbert Reeves, gentleman, and
Elianor his wife, deforciants of the manor of Choldryngton
with the appurtenances, and of 5 messuages, 5 gardens, 380
Records oj U'lZ/s/iirc Pan's/ws. 105
acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, and 440 acres of pasture,
100 acres of wood, 100 acres of gorse and heather and common
of pasture for all beasts in Choldryngton, Allyngton and
Farley. Plea of covenant was summoned. Cuthbert and
Elianor acknowledged the right of Richard as of their gift to
him and Humphrey, and quit-claimed from themselves and
their heirs to Richard and Humphrey and the heirs of Richard
for ever. And moreover the}- warranted to Richard and
Humphrey and the heirs of Richard, against Cuthbert and his
heirs, and against Elianor and her heirs forever. And Richard
and Humphrey gave Cuthbert and Elianor ^600 sterling.
Ibid. [Eoskf, 41 Elizabeth.^
A.D. 1598.— At Westminster, in the quindene of Easter.
Between John Hardinge, gentleman, plaintiff, and Francis
Swetnam, gentleman, and William Benger, gentleman,
deforciants of 3 houses, 3 gardens, 3 orchards, 400 acres of
land, 30 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture and common
of pasture for all animals, with the appurtenances in Cholderton
alias Choldrington. Plea of covenant was summoned.
Francis and William acknowledged the right of John as of
their gift, and quitclaimed from themselves and their heirs to
John and his heirs forever. And moreover both warranted to
John against themselves and the heirs of each of them for
ever. For this John gave them ;!^4oo sterling.
Proceedings in Chancery in the Reign of Elizabeth.
[Cc II. No. 58.]
Petition to Sir Tliomas Egertou, knight^ Lord Keeper of the
Great Seal oJ England.
A.D. 1599. — Your Orator, John Cowper of Stawntondrewe,
Somerset, esquire, sheweth, That whereas one John Thorne-
burgh, the elder, was seized in fee simple of and in the farm
of Choldrington in Wilts, with all lands, tenements, and
hereditaments thereunto belonging : of which farm and lands,
etc., one Robert Noyes was seized for and during the term of
1 06 IVillslinr Notes and Queries.
his natural life, each being so seized, a concord was had between
the said John Thorneburgh and Robert Noycs concerning the
premises; viz., that the said Noyes should surrender his whole
interest in the premises to the said Thorneburgh in return for
a rent charge of ^^^40 or 40 marks for and during the term of
the life of the said Robert Noyes; which agreement was
afterwards executed on the part of botli of them, or else a
deed was made to that effect by virtue of which surrender
John Thorneburgh was seized of the premises in his demesne
as of fee. Ten or twelve years sithence or thereabouts a new
agreement was made between the same parties, viz., that
Robert Noyes should cancel the grant of the said rent-charge
and relinquish his whole estate in the said rent ; in considera-
tion whereof John Thorneburgh should give him the sum of
^100 ; and also he did gi%'int him the next avoidance and
rectory of the church of Choldrington whereof the said John
riiornchurgh was patron, for and towards the advancement of
one of the sons of Robert Noyes, being a living worth 100
marks yearly and more. Which last agreement was executed
and John Thorneburgh granted to Robert Noyes and his assigns
the next avoidance of the said church, and likewise gave
surety for the payment of the ^100 aforesaid. Whereupon,
because the grant of the foresaid rent-charge was not in his
own hands so that he could not cancel it, Robert Noyes
promised that the same should be discharged and undertook to
get the same deed into his own hands to deliver up to John
Thorneburgh. After which accoin[)lishnicnt of the said agree-
ment, Robert Noyes after that lime being ten or foui'teen years
past as aforesaid, did never challenge the said rent-charge, but
held himself contented as if the grant thereof liad been utterly
cancelled, and so by the true meaning of tlie parties the
premises were thereby discharged of the said annuity of j[,^o
or 40 marks />c;- aniunn. And the said John Thorneburgh on
or about the 24th September, .^o Elizabeth, demised the said
farm of Choldrington, and all other thi; premises thereunto
belonging, to his son, Jolui Tlioiiieburgli the younger, and
Records of IVillsliirc Parishes. lo;
Joyce his wife, for the term of their Hves, and the longer liver
of them, with the remainder after their death to the child of
John Thorneburgh the younger. By virtue whereof John
Thorneburgh, the son, entered on the premises and was pos-
sessed of the issues and profits thereof for two years or
thereabouts, without any challenge for the said rent-charge.
And so being possessed, John Thorneburgh the son, and Joyce
his wife, who pretended some interest unto the said lease, for
and in consideration of the sum of ^700 to them, or one of
them, paid by your Orator, did sell their whole estate in the
premises unto your Orator, for whose better assurance therein,
John Thorneburgh the father, and Margaret his wife, ack-
nowledged a fine of the premises, conveying the premises to
your Orator for the term of 28 years according to the bargain
made between your Orator and John Thorneburgh the son.
At what time your Orator was borne in hand that the premises
were discharged of all incumbrances whatsoever. In virtue
whereof your Orator entered the premises, and yet is thereof
possessed, and in all right and equity ought to enjoy the same
free of the said rent charge. But John Thorneburgh the
father, being lately dead, Margaret his widow, and John his
son, with Joyce his wife, and one Richard Monday, under-
standing that the deed of grant of the said rent-charge was
not dehvered up nor cancelled during the life of John Thorne-
burgh the father, nor any release made by Robert Noyes unto
him to extinguish the said rent-charge according to the strict
course of the common law, have now lately confederated them-
selves together with the said Robert Noyes, and have
thereupon procured Robert Noyes to assign over the said
rent-charge and to deliver the said deed of grant to themselves
or some of them, or to some other person to their or some of
their uses, or to some of their children's or children's children's
uses, and thereupon threaten to distrain on the premises upon
the possession of your said Orator for the said rent-charge and
the arrears thereof, since the time of the agreement made
between Robert Noyce and John Thorneburgh the father,
loS IViltsliire Noles cnid Oiicrics.
notwithstanding that they very well know of the foresaid
agreement made for tlie determining of the said rent, and
albeit John Thorncburgh the father paid several sums of
money in iiis lifetime to Robert Noyes or to some other to his
use in part payment of the foresaid ^^loo, and also the said
John Thorneburgh the son, after his father's decease, for and
in behalf of Margaret his mother, and by her commandment,
did also pay some portion of the same ^loo, which practice is
against equity, and if it shculd take effect will be to the great
loss of your Orator, who hatli dearly bought his interest in the
premises, unless your lordship's accustomed aid be to him
therein extended. In consideration whereof, and forasmuch as
it is against all reason and conscience, that the said rent-
charge, being in true meaning discharged, and the said Robert
Noyes having had satisfaction and assurance for his content-
ment thereof, should be laid upon your Orator, and for that
your Orator liatli no remedy by the ordinary course of the
common law but by your means, may it please your good
lordship to grant to your Orator her Majesty's writ of sub
poena to be directed to John Thorneburgh the son, and Joyce
his wife, Margaret Thorneburgh, widow, and Richard Monday,
commanding each of them on a certain day before your lordship
in the High Court of Chancery, to answer the premises upon
their oaths.
Answer of Margaret Thorneburgh, widow, defendant.
The said defendant saith that tlic bill of complaint
e.xhibited against her in this most honourable court is for the
most part thereof very untrue, and as she tliinkcth devised
rather of purpose to [)ut her to most wrongful costs than
begun on any just cause of suit. She saith there was an
agreement made in December, 23 Elizabeth, between John
Thorneburgh the elder, and Robert Noyes, whereby the latter
surrendered his life-interest in the farm of Choldrington upon
grant of a rent-charge of ^40 or 40 marks yearly, as stated
in the bill of complaint against her, as she hatli heard and
Records of IVillshin' Paris/us. 109
doth believe, and that after the agreement, Robert Xoyes
having yielded up his interest in the following January, the
said John Thorneburgh the elder did yearly pay the said
rent of ^^40 or 40 marks to Robert Noyes, without there being,
to her knowledge, any such new agreement for the cancelling
of the grant of the said rent-charge as said in the bill of com-
plaint ; but if there were any such new agreement then she
reserveth herself unto the writing or witness, if any such
were, in proof thereof. And whereas the complainant saith
that John Thorneburgh the elder did demise to John his son,
and his wife Joyce, the said farm to hold as in the bill of
complaint, and that John Thorneburgh the son, and Joyce his
wife, did sell to the complainant all their interest in the
premises, and that John the elder, and she herself, Margaret,
did acknowledge a fine thereof, conveying the same premises
unto him for 28 years ; she did not so far enter into the pro-
ceedings of her late husband, as she can now call to remem-
brance the lease made by her husband to his son, and his wife
Joyce, but reserveth herself to the writing, nor can she re-
member the fine aforesaid, but nevertheless resei-veth herself
to the record. Nor did she and the other defendants named in
the bill of complaint confederate themselves with Robert
Noyes as said. But the said defendant, Margaret Thorneburgh,
for plain declaration of the truth unto the most honourable
court, saith, that Robert Noyes about the 24th October, 38
Elizabeth, for good consideration assigned over the said yearly
rent-charge of ^{^40 or 40 marks by the year unto Katherine
Thorneburgh, one of the daughters of the said defendant and
her assigns, as was lawful for him to do as this defendant verily
thinketh, and without the said defendants knowing of any
agreement made for the extinguishing of the deed of rent-
charge, or of payments made by the late John Thorneburgh
the elder, as portions of the said ^100 in the supposed new
agreement between him and Robert Noyes, or of payments for
the same purpose made by John Thorneburgh the younger,
in behalf of herself, Margaret Thorneburgh. And unless there
1 lo IVillsliirc Notes and Oiicrics.
be any other matter in the said bill of complaint not herein
sufficiently answered, the defendant prayeth to be dismissed
out of this honourable court with her reasonable costs in that
behalf wrongfully sustained.
A/iswcy of Richard Monday.
This defendant acknowledges the agreements between
John Thorneburgh and Robert Noyes as far as the grant of
the rent-charge; denies any knowledge of its being cancelled;
declares he does not know of the fine between John Thorne-
burgh theelder, and Margaret Thorneburgh and John Cowper,
the complainant, for the assurance of his lease of the premises,
because, at the time mentioned in the bill of complaint, when
the lease for 28 years was supposed to have been made to the
complainant by John Thorneburgh the younger, and Joyce his
Vv'ife, he was not in the service of nor dwelling with the said
John Thorneburgh the elder, nor was privy to the proceeding.
He praj'eth to be dismissed the court with his reasonable costs.
Endorsed. 24 January 1599. By oath of William Cooper
and Mat. Garde.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [Michadnias, 42 Elizabeth.']
At Westminster, in the octaves of Saint Michael. Between
William Stockman and John Putson, plaintiffs, and Augustine
Ilill and Rose his wife, deforciants, of a messuage, 45 acres
of land, 4 acres of pasture, and common of pasture for every
kind of beast, with the appurtenances in Choldrington. Plea
of covenant was summoned between them. Augustine and
Rose acknowledged the right of William, as of their gift, and
quit-claimed from themselves and their heirs to William and
John, and the heirs of William for ever. And, moreover, they
warranted to John and William and the heirs of William for
ever. For this William and John granted the said tenement
and pasture to Augustine and Rose, to have and hold of the
chief lord of that fee by the service thereto belonging for the
term of Rose's life. And after the death of Rose the said
ll'illshirc I Fills.
I 1 1
tenements and common of pasture shall wholly remain to
Augustine and his heirs to hold as aforesaid for ever.
WILTSHIRE WILLS.
Proved i.n the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
(1383-155S).
(Conti'juicd from Vol. i, p. 562 j.
Hacker, John, Christommaleford, Wilts.
Hackhedde, Hakehad or Hackhedde,
John, clerk, canon of Wells ; Sarum.
Hall, Thomas, gent., Freshforde, Somer-
set ; Bradford, Wilts.
,, Thomas, Oxenwood, Wilts ; Berks.
,, Halle, William. Bradeford, Wilts.
Hallum, mr. Gilbert, clerk, canon of
Sarum, administration.
Halmer, William, the younger, St. Mary
Buthalue, London ; St. Thomas the
martyr, Sarum; Ingarston [Essex?]
1506 Hampden, Godfrey, a/s., Margery, White
freres, London ; Hampden, Bucks ;
Essex ; Wilts.
1508 Hainpton, Joan, St. Edmund, Sarum.
1504 Hanley, Roger, Hungerford, Berks.
1445 Hardy ng, Thomas, St. Martin Orgar,
London ; Sarum ; Lekkeford, Hants.
Harrington, lady Cecil, marques Har-
rington and Bonvill, wife of marques
Dorsett and after, of erle of Will-
shere, Ashcley, Warwick ; Corn-
wall ; Devon ; etc., etc.
1506
153'
1514
1556
1550
1449
1493
1530
9 Adeane
1 1 Thower
15 Holder
F. 2 Ketchyn.
F. 2 Bucke.
18 Rous.
24 Dogett
I Adeane.
35 Adeane.
24 Holgrave.
32 Luffenam,
22 Jankyn.
1 12
/ Villshirc Notes and Oiicncs.
1534
1493
1500
1505
1528
1506
•509
15:25
1500
1557
1505
1501
1509
1540
1520
1541
1556
1524
155^^
1528
1442
1404
1502
'405
Harris, Harrys, John, Seynde, Wilts. 14 Ilogcn.
„ Harrys, Margaret, Cliipinham, Wilts. 28 Dogctt.
,, Harrcs, Thomas Bloundesdon
Androwe, Wilts. fo. 20, reg. F, at Canterbury.
Harrisson, als. Brucr, Richard, Fyssher-
ton Ancher, Wilts. 29 Holgravc.
Hart, Harte, John, Northe Wraxall, Wilts. 40 Porch.
,, Harte, Robert, Cherston [Shcrston],
Wilts. 15 Adcanc.
„ Herte, sir Thomas, clerk, Sopworth,
Wilts. 13 Bennett.
„ William, Chippenham, Wilts. F. :^^ Bodfclde.
Hartgill, Hardgill, Henry, clerk, Knoll
ep'i, Wilts.
,, William, esquier, Kyllmyngton,
Somerset; Dorset ; Wilts.
,, Hartgyll, Tliomas, Meere, Wilts,
llarvy, Thomas, Tollard, Wilts.
Haskew, Henry, [Wynfeld ?], Wilts.
Hawles, John, St. Edmunde, Sarum.
Haynes, John, Trowbrige, Wilts
4 Moone.
47 Wrastley.
34 Holgrave
16 Moone.
21 Bennett
F. 21 Alengcr.
3 Maynvvaryng.
Hayter, Haytar, John, Bisshopis Knoyle, Wilts, i Spcrt.
„ William, Tysburye, Wilts. F. 6 Ketchyn.
Hayward, Heywarde, Robert, Hunger-
ford, Berks. F. 27 Bodfclde.
Head, Hedde, Hede, Roberte, Stayninge,
Sussex ; Brodford, Wilts,
llcbard, Hcbard, John, Segre, Wilts.
Hclier, John, St. Martin, Sarum.
Hertham, John, Carmelite friars, Bristol :
Yatysbury, Wilts.
Hcrvest, William, Archefounte, Wilts.
Heterset, Thomas, clerk, archdn. of
Sudbury, Norwich ; Gyllyngham,
Dorset ; Cambridge ; Sarum ; canon
of Rochester. 1 1 Marchc.
F. I Wrastley
39 Porch.
14 Rous.
8 Marche.
10 Blamvr.
IVillshire Wills. 113
553 Hetlicron, Willyam, South Newton, Wilts. 17 Tashe.
41S Mewctt, Huweyt, Alice, Deverellange-
brygge, Wilts. 42 Marche.
521 I licheman. Water, Kemersford, Glou-
cester : Berks ; Wilts. 20 Maynvvaryng.
511 Higgins, Hegyns, William, clerk, vicary
of Shortston [Sherston], Wilts. 2 Fetiplace.
558 Mill, Marie, St. Edmonde, Salisbury. 18 Welles,
sentence of intestacy, 1560. 32 Mellershe.
495 ,, Richard, bishop of London, Cryk-
lade, Wilts. 30 and ^t. Vox
534 Hilley, Richarde, clerk, thesaurer of
Sarum ; St. Dunstan in the east,
London. 20 Hogen.
Hillier sec Helier
507 Hiltoft, H3-ltofte, Thomas, Brodcchalk,
Wilts. 32 Adeane.
502 Hochyns, Howch^-ns rr/s. Forster, Roberte,
Marleburgh, Wilts. 1 1 Blamyr.
470 Holes, Andrew, clerk, chancellor of
Sarum ; archdeacon of York ; airh-
deacon of Wells. 30 Godyn.
494 ,, Roger, St. Tho. the martyr,
Sarum; Pole, etc., Dorset. 18 Vox.
528 Holland, Holand als. Cowper, John,
Chippenham, Wilts. 31 Porch.
558 Holloway, Hollowaye, John, Corsley,
Wilts. F. 23 Noodes.
492 ,, Hollwey, John, Chypenham, Wilts, 23 Dogctt.
547 Holme, John, St. Edmonde, Sarum ;
Holye Rode, Southampton. 40 Alen.
538 Hood, Hode als. Croke, John, Chering-
ton, Wilts. ro Crumwell
558 Hooper, Giles, St. Edmond, Sarum ;
codicil, 1559. F. 6 Welles.
550 Horsey, John, esquier. Marten, Wilts. 15 Coode.
114
Willsliirc Notes and Oncnes.
1492 Hort, John, Nctelton, Wilts. 15 Dogett.
1443 Horton, John, cleik, Tiowbrige, Wilts. 15 Rous.
1497 ,, John, Iforde, Wilts. 17 Home.
1543 ,, dame Mary, Westwoodde in
par. Bradforde, Wilts. I'. 1 Pynnyng.
1530 ,, Thomas, thcldcr, Iford, Wilts;
Somerset ; Gloucester. F. 20 Jankyn.
1549 ,, Thomas, Iford, Wilts; died at
London. F. t,t, Populwell.
1529 Hoskyns, George als. John, Steple Lang-
ford, Wilts. 15 Jankyn.
1474 Houghton, Howton, Houton, George,
gent., St. Olave, Silverstrete, Lon-
don ; Boscombe, Wilts ; Maydeston,
Kent. 26 Wattys.
1457 Hows, William, Marlbourgh, Wilts. 11 Stokton.
1 5 14 Huddesfeld, formerly Rogers, dame
Kateryn, Graye friers, Exeter ; Brade-
forde, Wilts; Birtporte, Dorset. 4 Holder.
1545 Huddesfilde, John, Ambresbur}^, Wilts. F. 4 Alen.
1 53 1 Hulsse, Thomas, clerk, Wissheforth,
Swallowcliff, Wilts ; canon of Sarum. 14 Thowcr.
1504 Hungerford, Edward, esquyer, priory
St. Bartholomew, London ; Somer-
set; Wilts. 27 Adeane, and 1507 17 Holgrave.
1 52 1 ,, Ilungerforde, Edwarde,
knyght, Heightesbury, Wilts. 21 Maynwaryng.
1531 ,, Hungerforde, Edward, esquire,
Windryche, Gloucester ; Wilts. 4 Thowcr.
1455 M Eleanor, countess Arundell
and lady Mautrauers and Hunger-
ford [formerly Poynings, Arundell],
Sussex ; Haitesbury, Wilts. 3 Stokton.
1531 M dame Margaret, Cycestre,
Gloucester ; Wilts. F. 4 Thower
Wiltshire IVilh. 115
1459 Hungerford, Robert Hungerford knight
lord, Heytesbury, Wilts ; Somerset ;
Dorset; Devon ; Cornwall. 17 Stokton.
1558 „ Hungerforde, Robert, esquyer,
Badham [?Cadenham], Wilts. 70 Noodes.
1 5 16 ,, Ilungerfourde, Water, knyght,
Hightredesbury, Wilts.
1542 Hunt, Huntt, Owen, clerk, Shalborn,
Wilts, and Berks. F. 10 Spert.
1434 „ Richard, Wottonbasset, Wilts. 22 Luftcnam.
1544 Huntle}', Huntele}^, syr Richard, prest,
Segrey, Wilts. 21 Fynnyng.
1506 Hurlbat, John, Westbedw3'n, Wilts. 5 Adeane.
1550 Hurrell, Blake ah., Richard, Fyhelldene,
Wilts. F 28 Coode.
1540 Hyette, Hyatte, John, Aldeborne, Wilts. F. 21 Alengcr.
1 41 7 Hy worth, William, clerk, Blakedon,
Somerset; Hyworth, Wilts. 41 Marche.
1487 Ingler, John, St. Edmund, Sarum ; Sussex. 4 Milles.
1538 James, Atkyn, St. Thomas the martir,
Salisbur}'. 17 Dyngeley.
1526 Jane, John, priest, Criklade, Wilts. 11 Porch.
1499 John, Laurence, Crekelade, Wilts. 38 Home.
1488 Jones, Jonys ah. Taverner, William, St.
Thomas the martyr, Sarum. 16 Milles.
1510 ,, Jonys, William, clerk, Marleburgh,
Wilts 36 Bennett.
1516 ,, Jhones, William, Dertford, Kent;
Marden, Wilts. F. 18 Holder.
^ ^^ ^.ys-
1 1 6 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
EXTRACTS FROM "THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE
RELATING TO WILTSHIRE.
Continued from p. 60.
VOLUME XXX, 1760.
Sheriff for the year, George Flower, of the Devizes, Esq.
Jan. 8. — Charles Hily, Esq., m. to Miss Cooth, of Shaston,
Wilts.
Jan. 25. — Henry Lawrence, a lad of 17 years of age, was
committed to Salisbury goal {sic) for setting fire to
his master's house at Wilton, on the 12th of December,
and to another house in the same village the 21st,
both which he confess'd, and said he was moved
thereto by the devil. The damage done to the
sufferers amounts to near ^1,600.
Feb. 26.^Died : John Hill, of West Cholderton, Wilts, Esq.
Feb. — Bankrupt : Thomas Ingram, late of Westbuiy, Taylor.
March 17. — Died: Patrick Fitzgerald, Esq., at Marlbro'.
March. — Ja. Bartlett presented to the Rectory of Whitchurch,
Wilts. John Collier presented to the Rectory of
Charberry, Wilts. Mr. Down presented to the
Vicarage of Monkton Farley, Wilts.
7J/r7;rA.— Bankrupt : Richard Cottle, of Trowbridge, W^ilts,
clothier.
April 7.— Scroop Egerton, Esq., m. to Miss Lindsey, of
Salisbury.
April 24. — Died : at Bath, relict of James Wroughton, Esq.
April. — Jn. Dobson, M.A., has a dispensation to hold the
Vicarages of Market Lavington and Deveril Long-
bridge, Wilts.
May 9.— Died: Rev. Mr. Holland, Vicar of Chippenham.
May 25.— Died : Rev. Dr. Lynch, Dean of Canterbury.
Extracts from '^ The Gentleman's Magazine." 117
May. — Mr. Dodsworth appointed treasurer of Salisbury.
Wm. Green, M.A., lias a dispensation to hold the
Rectories of Brawton and Arlington, Wilts.
July 1 1. — His Royal Highness the Duke of York, who arrived
at Winchester the day before, reviewed the several
regiments encamped near that cit}', consisting of the
34th regulars, and the Bedford, Berks, Wilts, Dorset
and Gloucestershire militia, and afterwards proceeded
to Southampton, where lodgings have been provided
for him.
July — Mr. Hale presented to the Vicarage of Hillsby, Wilts.
Aug. — Mr. Wilkes presented to the Rectory of Stoke by
Monk, Wilts.
Aug. — Bankrupts : Andrew Gauntlett, of the Devizes, clothier ;
William Pearse, of New Sarum, clothier.
Sept. 1 2.- -A terrible fire broke out at Auburne, in Wilts, which
consumed 72 dwellinghouses, besides many barns
full of corn, warehouses, with cotton, fustian, etc.,
to the amount, it is said, of ^20,000.
Nov. 6. — Died : Rev. Mr. Lobb, Rector of Farley-castle, Wilts.
Nov. — Mr. Harper presented to the Rectory of Binbrook,
Wilts.
Dec. — Bankrupts : Rich. Hicks and Jn. Jennings, of New
Sarum, grocers.
VOLUME XXXI, 1 761.
Sheriff for the year. Scroop Egerton, of New Sarum, Esq.
Ian. 8. — Mr. Thomas Mulso, nephew to the Bp. of Salisbury,
m. to Miss Prescott.
Jan. 24. — Hon. and Rev. Dr. Talbot, brother to Lord Talbot,
m. to the Hon. Miss Bouverie, daughter to Lord Vise.
Folkestone.
Bankrupt : Wm. Morgan, of Warminster, Wilts, inn-
holder.
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I iS IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
Feb. 17. — Tho. Holland, of I lemberslcy, Wilts, Esq., m. to
Miss Peachy.
Feb. 17. — Died: Ld. Vise. Folkestone; so created in 1747; he
was president of the Society for encouraging Arts,
Manufactures, and Commerce.
Feb. 21.— Died: Rev. Mr. Sandford, V. of Furton, Wilts.
Feb. — Mr. Fletcher presented to the Vicarage of Compton,
Wilts.
March 30.— Died : Rev. Mr. Yaldcn, R. of Dean, Wilts.
March. — Vise. Folkstone appointed Recorder of Salisbury.
March. — Upon digging a grave in the chancel of Furton
Church, in the county of Wilts, about three feet
under ground, there appeared a stone coffin of six
feet and half in length. In the broadest part it was
22 inches, 11 inches deep, and 3 inches in thickness.
An experiment being made upon it, proved it to be
free-stone. The workmanship had nothing curious in
it but the head, which seemed to be cut with great
exactness to receive that part of the human body.
In tlie bottom there appeared a small hole, probably
intended to let out tlic moisture of the corpse de-
posited therein. Some remains of a board were
found in it, pressed to the bottom by the weight of the
incumbent earth, which may be supposed to have
served for a lid, there being no stone to cover it.
Three sculls of an ordinary size were likewise taken
out of it, but as it did not seem capable of receiving
more than one corpse, 'tis probable they fell into it
accidentally. There was no inscription upon it, to
show the antiquity of it. It is highly credible that it
lic'ul lain there for some centuries ; as, in modern
times, no such enormous and ponderous receptacles
of human bodies have been used. As instances of
this kind are so rare and singular, we have not
sufficient reason to conclude that any such custom
as burying the dead in stone coffins ever prevailed in
Extracts front " The Grnt/ntian's Magazine. " 119
England, though something very similar to it is well
known to have been formerly practised in the Eastern
nations.
April ;^. — Died : Edm. Abbot of Winterborne, Wilts, Esq.
April 20. — Died: relict of late Sir John Eyles, Bart.
April. — Mr. Ray presented to the Rectory of West Dean,
Wilts. Mr. Drake presented to the Vicarage of
Lachinton, Wilts.
May 2. — The King has been pleased to recommend to the Dean
and Chapter of Winchester, the Rt. Rev. Dr. John
Thomas, Bishop of Salisbury, to be by them elected
Bishop of that See (Dr. Hoadly, dec.)
May 6. ^William Blackstone, Esq., member for Hindon, and
professor of common law at Oxford, m. to Miss
Clitherow, of New Grove, Middlesex.
May 6. — Died : John Turner, Esq. ; of the Devizes, receiver
for Wilts.
May 30. — The King has been pleased to recommend to the
Dean and Chapter of Salisbury, the Rt. Rev. Dr.
Robert Drummond, Bishop of St. Asaph, to be by
them elected Bishop of that See (Dr. Squire, prom.)
May. — A list of the Members returned for the ensuing Parlia-
ment. The figure before the name denotes how many
parliaments they have been returned for. The names
without a figure were not in the last parliament : —
Wiltshire — 5 Sir Robert Long; 5 Edward Popham.
New Sarum City — 2 Hon. Edw. Bouverie ; 2 Julines
Beckford.
Devizes — 5 John Garth ; 3 William Willy.
Marlborough— John Montague, Lord Brudenell, 2 Col.
Rob. Brudenell.
Chippenham — 2 Sir Samuel Fludyer, 5 Edw. Baynton
Rolt.
Calne — Daniel Bull, Thomas Ducket.
Malmsbury — Earl of Tylney, 2 Hon. Tho. Conolly.
Cricklade — 6 Thomas Gore, 4 Arnold Nesbit.
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1 20 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
Mindon — Wm. Blackstone, Edward Morant.
Old Sarum — Thomas Pitt, 2 Howell Gwynn.
Heytesbury — 5 Pierce Acourt Ash, 3 Gen. Wm. Acourt
Ash.
Westbury — 3 Peregrine Bertie, 3 Chauncey Townshend.
Wotton Basset — Henry St. John, 2 T. Estcourt Cres-
well.
Ludgershall — Thomas Whateley, John Paterson.
Wilton— 8 Robert Herbert, 4 Nic. Herbert.
Downton — 2 Charles Pratt, James Ha3's.
Great Bedwyn — ^Adm. Tho. Coates, William Woodley.
/line II. — The Rt. Rev. and Hon. Dr. Drummond was con-
firmed Bp. of Salisbury at Bow Church.
June 12. — The Bp. of Winchester, prelate of the order of the
garter, and the Bp. of Salisbury, chancellor of that
order, waited on His Majesty at St. James's, and
received their patents.
June 15. — This day and the next the Berkshire and Wiltshire
regiments of militia, etc., began to encamp at Win-
chester.
June 23. — Howell Gwynne, Esq., appointed lieutenant and
custos rotolorum of the county of Radnor.
Jnlv 2. —Mr. Earle, son of Giles Earle, Esq., m. to Miss
Bowchier.
July 17. — Died: Roger Holland, Esq., at Chippenham, late one
of the Welch judges.
July 17. — Died: Thomas Pitt, Esq., member for Old Sarum.
July i^. — Died: Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas Sherlock, Ld. Bp. of
London, Dean of His Majesty's chapels, a gov. of
the Charterhouse, and a privy counsellor, aged 82.
Consecrated to the See of Bangor in 1728, Salisbury
1734, London 1748. He was also many years Master
of the Temple.
Aug. C). — Wm. Castle, Esq., stationer to His Majesty, m. to
Miss Frome, of Salisbury.
Aug. 9. — Died : His Grace Dr. John Gilbert, lord archbp. of
Extracts Jrotn ''The Gcnt/enian's Magazine." 121
York, primate of England, lord higli almoner, and
a privy councillor. Consecrated Bp. of Landaft' in
1740, Salisbury 1748, York 1757.
Mr. Kawbridge presented to the vicarage of Fighelden,
Wilts.
Aug. 22. — Died : Jonathan Parry, Esq., near Brentford, Wilts.
Sep. 9. — James Stones, Esq., of Chippenham, Wilts, m. to Miss
Wilkins.
Sep. 9. — Died : Rev. Mr. Jones, R. of Little Bedwin.
Sep. 14.— Died : Rev. Mr. Joy, of Milton, Wilts.
Sept. 19. — The King has been pleased to recommend to the
dean and chapter of York, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Drum-
mond, Bp. of Salisbury, to be by them elected
Archbishop of that See (Gilbert, dec.)
Oct. 27. — The King has been pleased to recommend to the
dean and chapter of Salisbury, the Rt. Rev. Dr. John
Thomas, Bp. of Lincoln, to be b}- them elected Bp.
of that See, in room of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Drummond,
Archbp. of York.
Nov. 15. — John Patterson, Esq., member for Luggershal, m. to
Mrs. Hope, with ^30,000.
Dec. II. — Died : Dr. Legg Sambler, at Salisbury.
Dec. 17. — Ambrose Awdry, of Seynd, Wiltshire, m. to Miss
Delme of Earl Stoke.
Dec. 20. — Died : Michael Greenway, of Calne, Wilts, Esq.
Dec. — Mr. Huntly presented to the rectory of Everington,
Wilts. Henry Heath, B.D., has a dispensation to
hold the rectories of Stokes and Hembury, Wilts.
VOLUME XXXII, 1762.
Sheriff for the year, Prince Sutton of the Devizes, Esq.
Dec. 30. — Died: Francis Atkins, aged 10.4. He had been
porter at the palace-gate, at Salisbur}-, ever since
Bp. Burnet's time.
1 2 2 IVillsliirc Notes and Queries.
Jan. II. — Died: Daniel Pearce, for several 3'ears second
serjeant-at-mace, at Salisbmy.
Jan. 26. — Died : Rev. Mr. Leake, R. of Malmesbury, Wilts.
Feb. I. — Two young children died at Fisherton near Salisbury,
in a few hours, after eating some beards /oof, a plant
that had been recommended against worms. — There
are two sorts of this plant, the one two feet high,
with dark leaves and whitish flowers, a little purpled
at the edge, now in flower; this is poisonous. The
other, a low plant, scarce a foot high, with fish-green
leaves and green flowers. This is good against worms.
Feb. 3. — Died : Sir Francis Eyles Styles, Bart., first com-
missioner of the victualling office.
Feb. 8. — Some men grubbing up the roots of an old oak near
Chippenham, in Wilts, the}' dug up an iron pot, in
which were a great number of jacobusses and other
pieces of money in gold and silver coin.
Feb. 12. — Lady of Dr. Moss, Canon of Salisbury, of a son.
Feb. — Mr. Roper, presented to the- Rectory of Bucksted,
Wilts. Mr. Deacon, presented to the living of
Wootton-basset, Wilts.
Feb. — Bankrupt : Edward Read, of Alburne, Wilts, dealer.
March 15. — Died: Wife of Julines Beckford, Esq., member for
Salisbury.
March 17. — Philip Stannard, of Norwich, Esq. ; m. to Miss
Hopson of Salisbury.
March 17. — Died: Rich. Jervoise of Britford, near Salisb., Esq.
March 17. — Bankrupt: Edward Read, of Aldborne, dealer.
March.— Edw. PoUhill, presented to the Rectory of Milston,
Wilts. Montagu Bertie, presented to the Vicarage of
Rawborne Cheney, Wiltshire. Mr. Frampton, pre-
sented to the Vicarage of Westport, Wilts.
April 22. — Edw. Morant, Esq. ; member for Hindon, m. to
MissGoddard, of Conduit Street.
Afiril 22. — Bankrupts: Isaac Gingell, of Sutton Benger, Wilts,
nialstcr : Hugh Macawlcy, of Bredzor, Wiltsh., Hnen-
drapcr.
Extracts from ''The Geiitlciiiaiis Magazine." 123
May 15. — Died: — Thomas, Esq. ; brother to the Bishop of
Salisbur3\
May 15. — Bankrupt : John Waldron, of Stratton St. Margarets,
Wilts, chapman.
May ij. — Hon. and Rev. Mr. Sherard, brother to the E. of
Harborough, and canon residentiary of Sahsbury, m.
to Miss Hearst, of the Close.
July 10. — The king has been pleased to grant unto Edward
Baynton Rolt, of Spye Park, Wilts, and his heirs
male, the dignity of a baronet.
July. — Sam. Down, presented to the Vicarage of Mill Mayne,
Wiltshire.
Ju/y. — Bankrupts : John Silby, of Bradford, Wilts, dealer ;
Wm. Burgess, of the Devizes, Wilts, ironmonger.
Aug. 7. — A farmer at Chilmark, in Wilts, having laid some
bread and butter in the pantry, with arsenic spread
upon them for the destruction of rats, poisoned two
of his men, who, coming in from labour, eat the
bread and butter, and expired in great agonies. — A
necessary caution to prevent such practices.
Aug. 13. — A vane of a new construction was erected on the
spire of Salisbury Cathedral. It is made of copper,
gilt with gold, measures near seven feet in length,
runs on four wheels, and will turn with the gentlest
gale that blows.
Aug. 20. — The Cherokee chiefs set out for Portsmouth, on
their return to America. In their way thither they
visited Winchester camp, and dined with Lord Bruce.
The next day they were conducted to the French
prison, which they viewed with uncommon curiosity,
expressing in the strongest terms their detestation of
a people, from whom tliey had received so many
instances of the most perfidious and cruel usage. In
the afternoon they were shown the college, and were
entertained with fruit and wine by the warden. The
next morning the Wiltshire Militia diverted them
124 IVillslurc Notes and Queries.
with an infinite variety of firings and evolutions for
near two hours, which they beheld with remarkable
attention and satisfaction.
Sep. 4. — The king has been pleased to grant to Rich. Neville
Aldworth, Esq., and his heirs for ever, full license to
take and assume the surname of Neville, and also to
bear the coat-armour of the Nevilles of Billingbear, in
the counties of Berks and Wilts.
Sep. 7. — The king conferred the honour of knighthood on
Alex. Powell, Esq., recorder of Salisbury.
Ocl. 14. — Mr. P'raeme, banker, in Lombard Street, m. to Miss
Dickinson, of Monks, Wiltshire.
Oct. 14. — Henry Foot, of Aston, Wiltshire, Esq., m. to Miss
King, of Compton Chamberlain.
Oct. 18. — At Salisbury fair, Farnham hops sold at £,$ 12s. per
cwt. ; new cheese from 27s. to 325.
Oct. 26. — Died : relict of Robert Eyre, Esq., at Newhouse,
Wilts.
Oct. — Bankrupt : Joseph Sylvester, of Warminster, apothecary.
Nov. — Mr. Baker presented to the rectory of Wingfield, Wilts.
Mr. Blakeman presented to the vicarage of Burton
Bilstone, Wilts.
Dec. II. — Mr. Barford, of St. Clement's Church-yard, m. to
Miss Wheatley of Salisbury, ;^io,ooo.
Dec. 12. — Mr. Cheney and his wife were both murdered in
their house at Hungerford in Wiltshire ; the former
in his chair with his brains beat out ; the latter on the
floor, weltering in her blood, not yet dead but speech-
less, with several stabs and wounds in her body,
of which she expired the next da}'. The villains do
not appear to have got much booty, an old silver watch
and some rings being all that is yet missing ; it was
reported that a large sum of money was in the house,
but that has been since contradicted upon good
authority, a neighbour having applied but a few days
before for the change of a ^30 bank note, which the
OuakcrisDt in IViltsliirc.
old gentleman could not give ; they were both old and
reputed rich, but were ver}' cross and very penurious,
insomuch that the old maid who lived witli them many
years, was often obliged to spend her evening at a
neighbours, because they would not allow her fire to
keep her warm at home. She was abroad on this
account the night the murder was perpetrated, of
which no discovery has 3'et been made, except that
two nights before two strangers were seen in tlic
town, who enquired for the deceased by name, but
did not call upon them, neither could it be learnt
where they lay the night they were taken notice of,
though diligent search had been made throughout the
whole town.
Dec. 17. — Died : James Morgan, Esq., near Salisbur}-.
Dec. — Mr. Townshend presented to the Rectory of Landford,
Wilts.
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
I.
Probably few of the antiquarians of this county are aware
of the store of interesting information concerning the life and
work and sufferings of the Society of Friends in Wiltshire
for nearly two-and-a-half centuries, preserved in the Friends'
Meeting House, King Street, Melksham. It is the aim of the
present articles to introduce the readers of " IV. N. & 0. " to
this store-house of Quaker archives, and to place them among
the circumstances which gave them birth.
The date of the rise of this religious Society, " the
youngest child of the Reformation," as it has been called, is
generally put at 1650. Its founder, George Fox, the son of a
126 ll'illshirc Notes and Queries.
Leicestershire weaver, was born at Fenny Drayton in 1624.^
After mucli religious conflict and many attempts to obtain
satisfaction from the religious teaching of the day, he turned
his mind inward, and had much meditation in solitary places,
receiving, one by one, " openings from the Lord," to speak of
which to others he travelled far and wide in the United
Kingdom and beyond seas with much success, as also much
persecution.
The first few years of Fox's incessant labours were spent
in the North and Midlands, and included imprisonments at
Nottingham, Derby, and Carlisle ; then followed visits to
London and the West, and in 1656 we read in his "Journal ",2
" From Edward Pyot's house [in Bristol] we passed to Slatten-
ford [Slaughterford], where we had a very large meeting. The
First day [Sunday] following, we went to Nathaniel Crisp's
house, who had been a justice of the peace in Wiltshire."
Frequent visits were made to Crisp's house, but as he lived
just over the county-border, at " Tedbury", we must omit
further reference to him. " Next day," Fox writes, " we went
to Marlborough, where we had a little meeting. The Sessions
being held that day, they were about to grant a warrant to
send for me ; but one Justice Stooks, being at the Sessions,
stopped them, telling them that there was a meeting at his
house yesterday at which there were several thousands. So
the warrant was stopped, and the meeting was quiet." In
1662, Fox was in Wiltshire on his way from Bristol to London,
" having great meetings among Friends as I went" ; and in the
following year, after having ridden 20 miles on horseback from
the direction of Hampshire, he arrived at " — Fry's house in
Wiltshire, where a meeting was appointed for the next day."
' See his latest biographer, Thomas Hodgicin, D.C.L., in Methuen's
" Lcaflors of Kcligion " series.
- The Journal of George Fox has passed through many editions. Tlie
eighth (Bi-centenary) is published in 2 vols, by Headlcy Bros., 14, Bishops-
gate Street, Without, E.G.
Oitokcrisiii ill U'i/fs/iin: 127
The Quaker family of Fry, now residing in Bristol, came from
Corston, between Chippenham and Malmesbur}',^ but this place
must be too far from the Hants boundary to be the place
referred to in Fox's "Journal." lie continues, "At — Fry's
in Wiltshire, we had a very blessed meeting, and quiet, though
the oflicers had purposed to break it up, and were on their
way in order thereunto. But before they got to it, word was
brought them that there was a house just broken up by thieves
and they were required to go back again with speed to search
after and pursue them ; by which means our meeting escaped
disturbance, and we were preserved out of their hands."- Fox
visited Slaughterford again in 1663, "where was a very large
meeting in a great barn," and apparently much " convince-
ment" took place as a result. Other visits to Wiltshire were
made in 1666 and 1667 ; in the latter year, in company with
other preachers, Fox passed through the county " establishing
the men's monthly meetings [for business purposes] in the
Lord's power."
In 1669, G. Fox married, in Bristol, Margaret Fell, widow
of Judge Fell, of Swarthmoor Hall, near Ulverstone, and after
a week together they parted to their "several services", Fox
travelling through Wiltshire on his way to London, and his
wife returning northwards. Again, in 1673, after extensive
journeyings in the New World, the great Quaker reached
Wiltshire once more, and had " many blessed meetings". " At
Slattenford we had a very good meeting, though we were met
there with much opposition from some who had set themselves
against women's meetings, which I was moved of the Lord to
recommend to Friends for the benefit and advantage of the
Church of Christ." Despite this opposition women's meetings
' Mr. Arthur Schomberg, of Seend, sends, opportunely, the following
note: — "On Messrs. Fry & Sons' Chocolate Factory, Bristol, is a bronze plate,
with a medallion profile head, inscribed ' In memorj- of | Joseph Fry | of
Sutton Benger, Wilts. | He settled in Bristol | and carried on this business, |
bequeathing it to his | descendants with the far more valuable inheritance
I of the example of | a noble Christian life. | Ob. 1787.'"— [Ed. W. X. .<• C/]
128 IViltslu're Notes and Queries.
were set up in the county, and ever since women have taken a
large share in the pubHc work of the Societ}'. At Marlborough
again a meeting was held, to which some of the magistrates
came, and also at Bartholomew Maylin's, and " a little beyond
Oare." Wiltshire was again visited in 1677; and in 1681 Fox
was once more at Oare, where a very large meeting was held,
but he penetrated no further into the county on this occasion,
and apparently did not again enter it. He died at the house
of Henry Goldnc}' in London in 1690, aged 67 years.
From the foregoing it will be seen that meetings for the
conduct of business connected with this religious body were
established in Wilts in the year 1667, by the founder of
Quakerism himself, but of these early Church meetings there
is no official record until 1677, from which date, however, to
the present the minutes of transactions have been carefully
preserved. As the result of the labours of Fox and others in
the county, meetings were established in all parts of it, and
in a few years we find such in existence at Calne, Charle-
cott, Corsham, Shaw Hill and Melksham, Comerell and
Bradford, Broomham and Rowd, Slatenford, Alderbury and
Hovant, Westbury, Marlebrough, Devizes, Hedington, Kington,
Chippenham, Lavington, Lea and Brinkworth, Purton, Sarum,
Warminster, Stapleford, and other places where Friends met
in a more private way. These were all united into the
"Wiltshire Quarterly Meeting", of which the minutes are
contained in five volumes, and cover a period of rather more
than a century, from 1678 to 1785, at which latter date an
amalgamation with Gloucestershire took place.
This district was sub-divided into several " Monthly
Meeting" areas, of which were "Chippenham M.M.", with
minutes extant from 1678 to 1773, in five volumes 4to;
" Charlcott M.M.", 1677 to 1775, four volumes, folio ; " Southern
or Lavington M.M.", 1704 to 1775, four volumes, 4to, which
last M.M. was a union of several others, as "Sarum M.M.",
and " Melksham M.M.", at a date prior to 1704, but particulars
Seend Briejs. 129
are unfortunately missing. All the then existing M.Ms.,
owing to their reduced membership, were united, in 1775,
into "Wiltshire M.M.", of which the minutes are extant down
to 1S76, in seven volumes of various sizes. Subsequently,
to 1876, as a result of the further shrinkage in membership,
"Wiltshire M.M." was united with "North Somerset M.M.",
and remains so to-day. In its place a subordinate meeting,
" Wiltshire Preparative Meeting", now carries forward much
of its work.
In addition to these principal manuscripts there are many
books and papers of ancient date, including records of births,
marriages and deaths between the years 1648 and 1837, lists
of meeting houses, accounts of sufferings, etc., worthy of the
attention of the antiquarian.
Records of Friends in Wiltshire are also to be found in
the strong boxes at Cirencester, and Yatton, as well as in the
fire-proofrooms at the headquarters of the Society of Friends,
Devonshire House, 12, Bishopsgate Street Without, London.
Betli-scpher, Melksham. Norman Penney.
(To be continued.)
SEEND BRIEFS.
{Transcribed Jroni the Churchwardens' Book.)
1664 Collected and gathered by the Churchwardens
for a breefe by fine for Grantham, in Lin-
colnshire
„ Collected and gathered for Cromer Church
and payd
„ Collected and gathered towards the repayring
of a Church and steeple at Sandwich, in
Kent . .
13° IVillslu're Notes and Queries.
1665 Gathered and collected by a breefe towards
the rep'ing of Leniing Church . . ..200
,, Collected and gathered towards the loss of
Will Butts, gent. . . . . ..200
Collected and gathered by a breefe towards
the losse of James Nicholas, of Ham, in
the county of Gloucester . . ..160
„ Collected and gathered towards the rep'ing of
the Church of Clun, in the county of Salop i 4 o
„ Collected and gathered towards the relife of
Rob. Hamlet of Sheflford Woodlands, in
the county of Barks . . . . ..180
,, Gathered towards a briefe for ffavcrton, in the
county of Northampton, the somme of . . 20
,, Gathered towards a briefe for Market Deeping
in the county of Lincoln, the some of . . 26
„ Gathered towards a briefe for the towne of
Beamister, in the county of Dorsetshire, the
some of . . . . , . . . 50
167S Sept. 23. Gave towards ye rebuilding of ye
cathedrall church of St. Paul's in London,
in ye parish of Seend, by us whose names
are subscribed (20 subscribers) . . . . 164
1680 Aprill 12. Collected towards a Brief for 3'e
redemption of Slavery from Turkey (51
subscribers) . . . . . . . . 2 i o 1 1
1 68 1 Collected towards a brief for ye distressed
ffrench Protestants as followcth (31 sub-
scribers)'. . . . . . . . ..100
,, Collected towards ye repairing ye church of
St. Alban's, in Hartfordshire (12 subscri-
bers) . . . . . . . . . . 511
1686 Sept. Gathered towards a briefe for Merriton,
in the County of Salop . . . . ..160
,, Gathered towards a briefe for White Chappcll
and Stepny . . , . . . ..200
Seend Briefs. 131
1686 Gathered towards a briefe for the citey of
Hereford . . . . ..160
„ Gathered towards a briefe for the p'ish church
of Eynsbury, in the county of Huntingdon i 6 o
1777 Paid to the fire at Colehorn CCo/<?/-//f ?^ •■ 5 5 o
1792 Pd. for Brifes Darnce}' by fier . . ..100
Paid to a loss by Fier . . . . . . 20
1798 April 10. A List of the Inhabitants of this
Chapelrv of Seend, who have Voluntarily
Contributed in aid of the exertions of Go-
vernment to resist the Attempts of France,
who now Insolently and Openly threaten
us with an Invasion for the Avow'd purpose
of Overturning the Religion, the Laws, and
the Establish'd Constitution of this Country.
This List is inserted, etc., as a lasting
Monument of the Zeal and Loyalty of those
who stood forward in Defence of their King
and Country at this important and Critical
Juncture (65 subscribers) . . . . 106 4 o
1824 A Brief in aid of the National Institution for
Educating ye Poor . . . . ..200
Do any of your correspondents know of any clocks, dials,
bells, or other metal work signed by George Newton, of
Seend, " an ingeniose man, who from a blacksmith turned
clockmaker and fiddlemaker"? I believe he and his work
were frequently in request in many places throughout the
county.
Arthur Schomberg.
Note. — In connection with this subject, it may be ap-
propriate to insert here a similar extract from Register
No. I, Salehurst, Sussex, which we have received from Mr.
W. H. C. Chambcrlaine, of 14, Furnival's Inn, W.C. : —
" October y^ 30th, 1653.
" Know all men, &c. I y^ underwritten Edward Allen, of
1 52 Willslu'rc Notes and Queries.
y" Psh. of Salehurst in Co. Sussex, Butcher and Head Con-
stable ofy" hundred of Henhurst, in y* Co. above, &c., of John
Lord of y° Psh., &c., above vicar, and of Mr. Wm. Hawesand
Tliomas Peckham, Churchwardens of y° p.sli. above, y° full
sum of three pounds and nine shillings which was collected in
y^ Psh. Church of Salehurst on y° 2^ day of October according
to y*" date above written ffor y^ reliefe of y° poore inhabitants
(y^ greate sufferers by a lamentable fire) of y® towne of Marle-
borrough in y® county Wilts, to be (by me) delivered to
Thomas Muddle of Battell, in y** County above, Higlie Col-
lectour of y° Parliament taxes for y^ Rape of Hastinge,
hacordinge to an order made by y° Counsel! of State, y^ i8th
day of May, 1653.
"In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand
y* day and year first above written and . . . received y®
full sumeof (entered in margin) 03//. 095. o. In y" p'sence
of (blank)."
As it is not improbable that the kind of "Brief" above
indicated may be unknown to many of our readers, we append
the following paragraph from a new edition of a well-known
guide to parochial records * : —
" Ro3'al Letters Patent, authorising collections for charit-
able purposes within churches, were termed ' Briefs '. Lists
of them, from the time of Elizabeth downwards, are often to
be found on the fly-leaves of old register books, or in church-
wardens' accounts. The repair or rebuilding of churches in
post-Reformation days, until nearly the beginning of the
Catholic Revival, was almost invariably effected by this
• How to Write the Hlstorij of a Parish. Ey the Kev. J. C. Cox.
London: Bemrose & Sons, Limited, 23 Old Bailey; and Derby. 1895.
Price, 3«. ^d.
The mo.st exhaustive account of King's Briefs is given in the learned
Corneiiiis VValfor<l'.s monograph, published in 1882. The subject is also
excellently treated in R. E. Chester Waters's Parish L'egisters in Jingland,
of which a new edition was published in 1883.
Braviluii. 133
method. About the middle of last century, owing to the grow-
ing frequency of Briefs, it was ordered that they should only
be granted on the formal application of quarter sessions.
Much information as to the condition of the fabrics and other
particulars relative to cliurches can be gathered from the
petitions to quarter sessions, in tliose counties where the
documents are accessible. The Briefs themselves were issued
from the Court of Chancery, so we suppose they would be
attainable at the Public Record Office. At the British
Museum is a large collection of original Briefs from 1754,
down to their abolition in 1828. They were presented to the
Museum in 1829, by Mr. J. Stevenson Salt. 'King's Briefs,'
by C. Walford (1882) is a good essay on the subject."
BRAYDON.
The history of the Royal Forests in Wiltshire is very
nearly virgin soil for the antiquary : on the other hand the
materials for such history are super-abundant.
As samples of the picturesqueness and interest attaching
to forest history, take the following : —
Exchequer Depositions. 4 Car. I. Easter. No. 8. JVi//s.
Writ, 12 Feb., 3 Car. (1627-8), directed to Robert Drewe,
esq., John Hungerford, esq., James Dyer, esq., William Bower,
gent., Richard Constable, gent., William Pester, gent., John
Sadler, gent., and William Norden, gent., to take depositions
in the suit of Robert Heath, knt., attorney general, on behalf
of the king, versus John St. John, knight and baronet, Edward
Hungerford, KB., Thomas Warneford, esq., Edward Playdell,
gent., John Packer, and Robert Packer. William Webb, gent.,
to have 14 days' notice of the first sittings of the Commis-
sioners.
Interrogatories to be ministred to the witnesses produced
L
134 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
on behalf of Sir John St. John, knt. and bart, on behalf of
the Crown.
1. Imprimis, do you know the said Sir John St. John
and the manor of Lidiard Tregoze, co. Wilts ; do you also
know Lidiard Millicent in the same county ; do you likewise
know the Forest of Braden in the said county ; how long have
you known the same severally, and whether do you live within
the limits of the said Forest, or claim any common there?
2. Is the said Sir John St. John seised of any estate, in
fee simple or otherwise, in the manor of Lidiard Tregoze, or
of lands in Lidiard Millicent ? Has he any, or how many
copyhold or leasehold messuages or tenements in Lidiard
Tregoze, or leasehold messuages or tenements in Lidiard
Millicent ?
3. Have he or his ancestors or predecessors used common
of pasture in the wastes of the said Forest for all manner of
beasts (except sheep and swine) and for sheep in the wastes
without the coverts, and for swine in all the wastes except in
the time of ... . month yearly, as belonging to his said
lands in Lidiard Tregoze and Lidiard Millicent?
4. Have they driven their beasts into the same, etc. ?
5. Have they ever claimed common of pasture at any
Justices seates, or courts, held in the said Forest, and their
claim tried and adjudged good, and whether records or copies
of records to that effect be true ?
6. Will the leaseing or taking in of the said Forest be a
great prejudice and hurt to the said Sir John St. John ?
(Signed) Ri. Constable.
John Sadler.
Interrogatories to be ministred to the witnesses on behalf
of Sir Edward Hungerford, etc.
I. Imprimis, did you know Sir Edward Hungerford, late
of Farleigh Castle, co. Somerset, knt., deceased ; do you
know the manor of Little Somerford, co. Wilts, etc. ?
Braydou. i35
2. Did the said Sir Edward Hungerford possess a manor
of Little Somerford ?
\Other interrogatories as before.]
Interrogatories, etc., on behalf of Thomas Warneford,
esq., etc.
1. Imprimis, do you know that the said Thomas Warne-
ford is or was lately seised of the manor of Clotely, in the
parish of Hankerton, in fee simple or tail, or of some such
estate of inheritance ?
2. Had he and his predecessors common rights ?
3. Did his father, John Warneford, esq., in August, 9
Jas. (1611), claim at any justice seat, etc. ?
[Other interrogatories as be/ore.]
Interrogatories, etc., on behalf of Edward Pleydell, etc.
2. His lands in Cricklad, Create Chellworth, Little
Chellworth, and Hooke in the parish of Lidiard Tregoze. . .
7. Whether he, his predecessors, farmers and tennants
in Cricklade and Chelworth, but inhabiting within the parish
of St. Sampson in Cricklade, or borough of Cricklade, always
" used and accustomed the Thursdaye before Shrovesundaye
yearely to hunte chase kill and carry awaye the venison and
wilde beastes that the}' shoulde fynde in the place of the sayde
forest called Create Sautridge, Little Sautridge, Keynes
Woodd, Powchers Ragg, Covewood, Woodbreache, the Leighe
fieldes, Brownes, and Hallston, eaven unto the burrough of
Cricklad afforesayde ? And wheather or noe have theye
allwayes used to geive notice to the Raynger or some of the
keepers of the sayde forest and to offer them or some of them
beare to drinke, and after to hunte chase kill and carry awaye
the sayde venison and wilde beastes soe by them taken, and
to applye the same unto the use of the sayde parishe Churche
of St. Sampson in Cricklad afforesayde," etc. ?
S. Whether he and his predecessors, tenants of the
L 2
136 ll'iltsliin' Notes and Oitcrics.
mesuage, etc., called Weast Milles, otherwayes William of the
Milles allwayes used to have " severall and free fishinge in
the meadowes and waters called the Temse ; That is to saye
severall fishinge from the sa3'de mesuage, soe farr foi'th as the
severall groundes of the sayde defendaunte doe extende them-
selves ; And free fishinge unto a pill or corner of the Temse
leyinge and beinge b}' a furlonge of meade in Cerney Meadowe
in the countie of Glouc. : called Temse furlonge," ? etc.
9. Whether the above usage of common hunting and
fishing in the said Forest of Braydon "byn tryed by jury
heretofore at the Justice in Eire seate held and kepte for the
sayde forest, and there founde to be just and righte," ? etc.
Interrogatories, etc., on behalf of John and Robert Packer,
etc.
2. Lands of theirs in Ley, Cricklade, and Chelworth ;
common rights claimed.
Depositions of witnesses taken at Cricklade at the sign of
the "White Harte," 24 April, 4 Chas. (162S), on behalf of Sir
John St. John.
Thomas Browne of the parish of Wroughton, co. Wilts,
yeoman, aged 70 or thereabouts, deposes that Sir John St.
John and his ancestors have used common rights, and that
the inclosure of the said forest would prejudice him.
Anthony Hale alias Carpenter, of Heydon Weeke, in the
parish of Rodborne Cheyney, co. Wilts, aged 70, or there-
abouts, deposes to the like effect.
Walter Beames of Chaddington, co. Wilts, husbandman,
aged 80, or thereabouts, deposes to the like effect.
Depositions, etc., on behalf of Sir Edward Hungerford.
John Mayo of Broade Sumerford, co. Wilts, gent., aged
69, or thereabouts, deposes that the late Sir Edward
Hungerford owned the manor of Little Somerford ; and that
he had seen writings to the effect that .Sir Edward's claim
was made and admitted before the officers of the forest to
Braydou. 137
common rights : he further deposes that the inclosure of the
forest " wilbe the utter undoeinge of many thovvsandes of
poore people, that nowc have right of common, in liis this
deponentes judgment, within the said Forest, and do hve
thereby."
Anthony Comly of Broade Somerford, co. Wilts, yeoman,
deposes the like : the enclosure would be the undoing of
man}' hundreds of poor persons.
Depositions, etc., on behalf of Thomas Warneford.
John Cox of Bourton, co. Wilts, yeoman, aged 68,
deposes to common rights.
Christofer Gabbett of Broad Blunsdon, yeoman, aged 64,
the same.
John Gagge of Hankerton, blacksmith, aged 70, the same.
Richard Munke of Chelworth, husbandman, aged 65; he
claimed rights before Mr. Manwood, and since before Sir
Lawrence Tanfield, knt., Baron of the Exchequer, at the
Justices in Oyer's seats for the forest : and the claim was
admitted.
Depositions on behalf of Edward Pleydell, gent.
Christopher Gabbett, as before, deposes to commoning
and hunting.
Thomas Hardinge of Grundwell, yeoman, aged 67, the
same.
Jenivere Taynter, of Cricklade, yeoman, aged 64, the
same.
Richard Munke, as before, the same.
William Tomes of Latton, yeoman, aged So, the same.
John Clerdewe of North Marston, yeoman, aged 64, the
same.
Depositions on behalf of the Packers.
Gabbett and Clerdewe, as before.
Further particulars of the enclosure and its effects are
I ^8 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
given in the following extracts from the (printed) Calendar oj
State Papers : Domestic : —
1 63 1. June 2.— Symon Kcble to Phil Jacobson, near
Sun Tavern in New Fish Street. The country have combined
for pulling down all the mounds lately erected in Braydon
Forest. They have likewise chopped in sunder all the rails
and cut up the hedges so that all things are now in common.
They threaten to pull down the great lodge and kill the writer
and will not suffer any of his labourers to come to him so
that he can not get any men to depose before the Justices or
come to London to make affidavit. Wishes that Crosse may
have power to break open houses and that the deputy Lieu-
tenants, Sir Edward Baynton and Sir Neville Poole, may
have warrant to call out trained bands. The writer procured
the Sheriff to come over. At his appearing they all fled
away, but 12 were taken and carried to the gaol. Since he
is gone they are gathered together to pull down what is
left, and how to save the lodge or the winter's family he cannot
imagine, etc.
1635. Oct. 15.— Information to Sec. Windebank respect-
ing arrears of rent of ^2,025 due to King from Jacobson, a
DutchiiKui, upon a lease of 4,000 a. of land in Braydon Forest.
The King being indebted to Jacobson eight or ten thousand
pounds for jewels made a bargain with him by Lord Treasurer
Marlborough and Sir Richard Weston, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, for the lease in question to be made to him for 41
years at ;)(^45o rent and on payment of ^20,000, whereof the
debt for jewels was to be taken as part. Jacobson scruples
to pay his rent because his possession has been disturbed.
The informant admits there have been riots, but alleges that
they have been got up by Jacobson's servants to afford him a
pretext for non-payment of rent, although he and his partners
have made about ^3,000 per annum in rent of same premises.
M.
IViltshirc Prisons in 1750. 139
WILTSHIRE PRISONS IN 1750.
"WiiTs TO 1 ^^ ^^ remembered that at the General Quarter
Wit. i" Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King, lield
at Warminster, in and for the said count}' of Wilts, on
Tuesday, the tenth day of July, in the twenty-fourth year of
the reign of our sovereign lord George the second, by the
grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Richard Wil-
loughby, John Garth, James Montagu, esquires, and others,
their fellow justices of the said king, assigned to keep the
peace of the said king, in the county aforesaid ; and also to
hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses, and other
misdemeanours done and committed in the said county,
"This court having examined mto the present state of
the Bridewells in this county, finds, That there is not sufficient,
or, indeed, scarce any means at all for the employment of the
poor persons who are so unhappy to be confined therein, that
they are thereby frequently reduced to a perishing condition,
and their families at home a burthen to the parish.
"To remedy which mischief this court is of opinion that
the prisoners in the Bridewels at Marlborough and Devizes,
may be supplied with sufficient employment by manufacturers
in wooll, hemp, and other things, in and about the neighbour-
hood of those places, provided tliat some method be established
for the making them a reasonable satisfaction for any damage
that they may sustain by the imbezilment or spoiling the
materials and tools by them to be sent to such Bridewels, for
which purpose, as well as for the regulation of the Bridewels
and the prisoners therein, this court doth order and direct as
follows : —
" I. That for the encouragement of manufacturers in
wool, and hemp, and other things, to send their materials to
the Bridewels to be manufactured by the prisoners therein
confined, it is ordered. That upon any complaint made to any
two or more justices of the peace in the neighbourhood of each
14° IVillsliirc Notes and Oiicrics.
respective Bridewel, of any loss or damage sustained by any
such manufacturer in the materials or tools by liim sent to
such Bridewel, and upon proof thereof made by oath, the
said two justices may make an order upon tlic treasurer of this
county for the payment of so much money as shall appear
to them to be a full satisfaction for such loss or damage ;
which order the said Treasurer shall punctually comply with,
and be allowed the same in his accounts ; and for a further en-
couragement to such manufacturers, as aforesaid, it is ordered
That the price of workmanship within the said Bridewels shall
be something under the common rate or standard ; and at the
same time, to prevent as far as may be any hardship upon the
prisoners, and for tlie procuring the best wages that under
such circumstances can be got for them. That the price of
workmanship be settled between the said manufacturers and
Bridewel-keepers, with the approbation of one or more Justice
or Justices of the Peace.
" II. That the keepers of the several Bridewels sliall
receive all such monies as shall be earned by the prisoners
committed to their charge, and shall apply the same for and
towards the suppoit and maintenance of such persons respec-
tively, and of their wives and families at home, in such manner
and proportion as any one Justice, by writing under his hand,
shall order and appoint.
" III. That the keepers of the several Bridewels shall at
every Quarter Sessions pass their accounts, and at the same
time make a report upon oath of the behaviour of the several
prisoners in their custody, earned by their work and labour,
and who particularly have refused to work, or have imbezled,
damaged, or spoilt the work of tools intrusted to them, to the
end that the Justices at such Sessions may order them such
other and further punishment as the Statutes in that case
made and provided do direct.
"IV. That the Bridewel-keepers be acquainted, That at
the end of every year, or oftner, the Court of Quarter Sessions
will take into consideration the extraordinary trouble they
IViltsliiirPrisonsin 1750. 141
shall take by virtue of these orders, and their care and diligence
in the execution thereof, and will reward them accordingly.
•' Lastly, That for the notification of these orders to all
manufacturers and others, the same be published three several
times in the Salisbury and Gloucester Journals.
** By the Court."
The above notice, taken from the Salisbury Journal of
Monday, 13th Aug. 1750, gives a good idea of the prisoners in
our County Bridewells at that time (nearly thirty years before
the coming of Jolni Howard, the Philanthropist), and will prove
a valuable addition to the notes on County Gaols and Houses
of Correction, contributed by the late Canon Jackson and
R. W. Merriman, Esq., to the Wilts Arch. Mag. We regret
with many others that Mr. Merriman's valuable " Extracts
from the Records of the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions," printed
in the above magazine in 1SS2 and 1883, extend no further
than the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, and would express
our earnest desire that the}' may be followed up by other
extracts dealing with succeeding reigns. From the papers to
which we have referred, we have made the following summary,
containing (we believe) all that is yet known of the history
of Wiltshire County prisons up to the time of Howard's visi-
tations. Of the latter, and the changes which have occurred
since then, we hope to speak in the December number.
1 166. The Assize of Clarendon ordains that in each
county the sheriff should provide a gaol, at the king's cost, if
one did not already exist. [The dungeon of the castle at Old
Sarum appears to have been the first Wiltshire county gaol.]
1435. Issue of a royal commission to William Westbury,
Robert Hungerford, knight, John Whyte, Mayor of New
Sarum, and John Westbury, to deliver the gaol at the castle
at Old Sarum. [The next item suggests that in consequence
of the decay of the old castle, the county prisoners were
removed to New Sarum gaol, which then became the county
prison.]
1469. Sir Thomas Hungerford and Henry Courtcnay,
142
IViltshire Notes and Queries.
brother of the Earl of Devon, are taken from tlie " Sheriff's
prison at New Sarum " (where they appear to liave been
incarcerated since 146 1), and hanged for high treason.
1568. The Justices, at Quarter Sessions, resolve to build
a new county gaol at Harnham, but the locality is altered to
Fisherton at the request of the Bishop.
1577. The Justices order that the Churchwardens of the
parishes of Wilts shall contribute weekly, some 2d. and some
\d., out of the " Church box or collection for the poor", towards
the maintenance of the prisoners in the common gaol.
1578. Fisherton Gaol completed. The Justices adjourn
until next year's Sessions the question of " obtayning and
making a house of correction for vagabonndes and Roges", and,
in the meantime, agree to send a letter to the Queen, " for the
obtaining of a piece of the Castell of the Devizes, where the
said house is thought fittest to be."
1 59 1. The Justices order that a house of correction shall
be appointed in every hundred.
1592. The Justices order that "the house of correction
in former tyme within the Devizes, being also within the said
hundred of Pottern and Canninges, shall now alsoe hereafter
be emplo3'ed for the punishment of such offenders as shall be
sent thither by virtue of the said order." Alexander Webb,
appointed corrector, with a salary of 30.9. a year. The Church
house at Erchfont to be a house of correction for the hundred
of Swanborough.
1623. Lord Pembroke (Lord Lieutenant of Wilts) writes
to six of his deputies in South Wilts, complaining " that the
" house already erected at the Devizes is so far off that the
"country is much troubled with vagrant persons in these parts,
" because the trouble and charge is so great of sending them
"thither," and asks them to desire the Justices to resolve upon
the building of another house of correction in the southern
division of the county. [Canon Jackson speaks of " the Bride-
well at Devizes of 1623". Oiiccre : Is this the date of its
erection ?]
Ancient Map of Warminster. 143
Ancient Map of Warminster (pp. So, 81). — This is very
interesting, but it will probably not have escaped the notice
of your readers, that 1588 was not the first year of Elizabeth.
Presumably the date intended b}' Cancn Jackson may have
been 1558. The frequent occurrence, on this map, of the
detached syllable /5, as the mark of the genitive, is curious,
and apparently exemplifies a transition stage, before it was
turned into liis.
Lacock Abbey. C. M. Talbot.
An Amusing Story. —In the year 1833 or 1834, the squire's
daughter of a Wiltshire parish, at the request of a labourer
named Mclntyre, who had resided there for the last forty
years, wrote to his relatives in Scotland to know how many
of them were alive, and how the family was progressing.
When the canny Scotch folk received a letter from a country
seat, bearing a crest, and signed by Mclntyre, they thought it
would be wise to pay some court to him with a view to their
own advantage. They therefore deputed two of their number
to travel south and call upon him. The result can as well be
imagined as described. Can anyone inform me the name of
the parish and squire ?
John Dyke.
Another Amusing Story. -Most persons have heard of
the story of the parson who was accustomed to keep the
service waiting until the squire appeared in church. Neglect-
ing to do so on one isolated occasion, he had begun with,
"When the wicked man ..." wlien the clerk intcnupted
him with, "Please, sir, he hasn't come in 3'ct." In this case
also, I should be obliged if anyone would tell me the name of
parish and squire ?
John Dyke,
144 IVillsliirc Notes a/id (Jinries.
Selling a Yv^ife. — Of lale years, there have been several
books which liave made mention, with examples, of the old
practice of wife-selling which used to prevail amongst the
poor.^ There seems to have been a tradition that if certain
formalities were complied with, a man might lawfully put up
his wife for sale to the highest bidder. In one of Thomas
Hardy's novels, entitled The Mayor of Castcrbridgc, a sale of
this kind is described without the required formalities, but
generally it was considered necessary that the wife should
have a halter put round her neck, and be led into the market by
her husband, and then be put up for public competition. Some
people say the consent of the wife was considered necessary,
and some that it was requisite that she should have committed
some act of unchastity or some other grave offences which
would now bring her within the jurisdiction of the Divorce
Court. However this may be, these sales are now among the
curiosities of the past, and only two Wiltshire examples are
known to me. The first is that described by Mr. William
Morris in his Switidon Fifty Years Ago (p. 500), and was to
have taken place in Swindon market-place, the man who had
arranged to purchase the woman being lier paramour, but for
some reason or other the sale never took place. The second
instance is mentioned in the Devizes and Wilts Gazette of 15th
Aug. 1833, a man having sold his wife by auction at Melksham
market on the previous Monday for 25. Gd. It is believed that
all parties to the transaction were tried at the ensuing Assizes
and convicted, the husband for selling, the purchaser for
buying, and the woman for consenting. I shall be obliged if
some of your readers are able to supply me with further
instances.
Amos Grange.
Jenner of Marston. — Robert Jcnncr, goldsmitli, London,
' E.g., Andrews' Bygone England (dealing almost entirely with northern
cases), and Ashton's Street Ballaih, containing a song descriptive of a sale,
accompanied by a picture of the woman with a halter round her neck.
Jcuiicr of Marston. 145
M.F. for Cricklade, bought the manor of Marston Meysey,
Wilts, on 14 Feb. 1647, for jQ\o^2 12s. <)\(i. He died 1651.
Mary Jenner died 1826, said to be the last owner of the
said manor. Is there any published pedigree of Jenner of
Marston Meysey ?
The Visitatio)i of IVilts mentions, " William Jenner, of
Cainsford, co. Glo'ster, had a daughter married to James Vaulx
a physician of Marston Maisay, co. Wilts. She d. 1617."
Rudder, in his History of Gloucestershire, also states that
" Editha nee Jenner, wife of James Vaulx, lies buried in
Meyse}' Hampton Church; she died in 1617, and on her
tomb are the arms of Jenner, 3 covered cups."
Where is Cainsford ? I have been unable to find it.
John Jenour was seised of a messuage in West Kno3'le,
CO. Wilts, early in the i6th century. The first named Robert
Jenner mentions in his will, 1651, William Jenner the elder of
Marston Moyle. Any notices of early Jenners will oblige.
Sandgate, Kent. R. J. Fvnmore.
Ancient Carriages. — Somewhere about the middle of
this century, at Manton, near Marlborough, were dug up two
very ancient carriages. The panels had armorial bearings,
and the several parts were richly and elaborately worked.
They were supposed to have belonged to the Sheriffs of the
County, about the time of the Commonwealth, and, con-
sequentl}', must be more than two hundred years old. They
were, I am informed, for some time in the possession of Mr.
Baskerxalle of Manton. What has become of them ?
T. Green.
Baynard of Lackham. — I should be obliged by any
information respecting this family, other than that contained
in the Visitation of Wiltshire, 1623. Philip Baynard was M.R
for Chippenham in 1491-92, and William Baynard for Hindon,
in the same Parliament. Edward Baynard, M.P. for Chippen-
ham 1559, was doubtless the Edward Baynard of Lackham,
146 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
with whom the Visitation Pedigree commenced, while Robert
Baynard, M.P. for Chippenham 1534-5. 'i"d for Westbury
1586-7, seemingly would be his eldest son, who received
knighthood at Theobalds in Jan. 1618, and was alive in 1623.
I should be grateful for any confirmation, or otherwise, of this.
Leigh, Lancashire. W. D. Pink.
Penruddock of Compton Chamberlayne.— I should be
greatly obliged by a pedigree of the 17th century generations
of this family. The account given in Burke's Lauded Gentry
seems to be defective — probably by the omission of an entire
generation. Sir John Penruddock (father to the celebrated
Royalist, Colonel John, beheaded by Cromwell in 1655)
matriculated from Queen's College in 1608, aged 17, and died
in 1648. Obviously, therefore, he could not- as said by
Burke— be M.P. for Wilton in 1585, and for Southampton in
1586. Who was Sir Manwood Penruddock "of Wilts",
knighted at Whitehall, 23 July 1603? He was admitted to
Gray's Inn Jan. 30, 1597 8, as "son of John Penruddock".
Leigh, Lancashire. W. D. Pink.
Price of Wheat in Wilts (i 339-1 534).— "Some old re-
cords in Wiltshire state, that in the year 1339, wheat in that
county sold at eight guineas per quarter, and that it continued
so for four months ; that it soon after declined to los. per
quarter; that four years after it fell to 4s. 6d., and remained at
that price, with little fluctuation, for twenty years ; that at the
expiration of this term, it rose to ^^5, and held that price till
near the year 1534, when it fell to 2s. 6d. per qr."
The above paragraph appeared in The Devizes and Wilt-
shire Gazette of 19th Feb. 1839, and we shall be obliged if any
of our subscribers are able to state what " old records " are
here referred to. In the first place, it affects the value of the
information, and secondly it is to be expected that such
records would contain other matters quite as interesting to
the antiquary and historian.— [Ed. W. N. & Q.^
Breach Family. 147
Breach Family (p. So). — Breach is one of the commonest
names in Wiltshire as apphed to particular spots, meaning
sometimes a gap, and sometimes "a plot of land preparing
for another crop " {vide Smith's British and Roma 11 A 11 liquifies
of North IVilts). Landford Lodge was formerh' called Breach
House.
A Robert B., of Wilts, matriculated at St. Mary Hall,
Oxford, in 1581, and another of the same family was vicar of
Monkton, in 1604. Aaron Breach, farmer, voted for the
Melksham division in 1818; his son, Aaron, occupied L3'piatt's
farm, Corsham ; and of the following persons (all, 1 believe,
farmers), now residing in Wilts, there ought to be some one
who can give information as to the family : —
James Breach, Bowden View, Melksham.
James Breach, Jun., Beanacre.
George Breach, Bromham, Chippenham.
John Breach, Chittoe, Chippenham.
John Breach, Tinhead, Westbury.
Ephraim Edwards.
I have no knowledge of the Breach famil^^, but it is quite
certain that " Breach " Lane had no connection with them.
Close by it is the " Breach Copse". To the east of Wootton
Bassett is a large piece of ground called "the Breach", and
at Stratton St. Margaret the "Breach Farm". On Midghall
Farm are fields which in 1540 were called "Church breche",
" Ruch breche", "Yonder breche", " Midle breche", and "Clay
breche", and which are still known by the same names.
W. F. Parsons.
Duchy Rag (p. 84). — There are two or three pieces of land
with tlie name of "Rag", formerly in the forest of Braden
14S IVillshirc Nofts and Otierics.
which once belonged to the Duch}' of Lancaster, hence the
name. One is about two miles to the north of Wootton Bassett,
and is still called the " Rag Copse".
W. F. Parsons.
Ecclesiastical Memorials in Private Hands (p. 96). — We
regret that, by an oversight, Mr. II. Jevon's statement that
Temple Bar " is now to be seen at the entrance to Dauntsey
Park," appeared in our last number, without editorial correction.
It is, of course, a mistake, probably arising from the fact that
Theobald's Park, Herts, where Temple Bar now stands, is
owned by Sir H. B. Meux, who also owns Dauntsey Park.
Several correspondents have written to us pointing out the
error. Editor, W. N. and O.
i^otc<> on ilSooks;,
Genealogical Queries and Memoranda. A Quarterly Maga-
zine devoted to Genealogy, Family History, Heraldry, and
Topography. Edited by George F. Tudor Sherwood.
London, 1896. One Shilling per number, s^. 6d. per
annum. Post free.
The above is the title of a new magazine started in Ma}^ last,
of which the first two numbers have reached us. It is evi-
dently conducted upon a principle which, if it takes, will prove
highly remunerative. It consists of eight pages, of which six
arc devoted to queries, the charge for insertion being " one
shilling for each query of three lines ; fourpence per line after-
wards." Replies are not, it would seem, printed in the
magazine. Doubtless, it may be a good vehicle for obtaining
information on genealogical subjects, but as a magazine, we
find it totally devoid of interest.
Erratum.
P. 69. Note.— " In radiis" should be " In vadiis".
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DECEMBER, 1896.
ANNALS OF PURTON.*
(Continued from p. 104. J
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1
y- N the foregoing numbers, the chief objects of archi-
\ tectural interest in this village have been pointed
^> out as occasion rendered necessary. It now only
'^.^ remains, ere we close this imperfect sketch of
'''T Purton history, for us to detail the main charac-
teristics of the Church of which the villagers are so justly
proud. The chief claim of Purton Church to more
than a passing interest is undoubtedly to be found in
that unique and remarkable feature for a parochial building
which, so far as is known, has never been collegiate — a
central and western tower ! This peculiar form has been
noted by eminent archaeologists as the rarest of any, although
traces, architectural and historical, may be discovered of its
* As this is the concluding number of ray Annals of Purton, I desire
here to express my deep appreciation of the valuable assistance I have
received from those whose interests or possessions enabled them to throw
light ou the unwritten history of the parish. Particularly am I indebted
to the generous kindness of one B'liend, to whose researches the more
valuable portion of the matter published in these articles is due, and who
I cannot sufficiently thank for its use.
M
1 50 JVillsliirc Notes and Queries.
having existed, or at least been contemplated, in several
churches where at present it no longer remains. One other
church in the immediate vicinity exhibits this peculiarity — the
church at Wanborough, but beyond these a third example
would be hard to find. Among more important structures,
Ely Cathedral, Wimborne Minster, and Malmesbury Abbey,
may be mentioned as showing the same design. We have,
therefore, in tliis parish Church a feature only to be found
in four other ecclesiastical buildings in the country.
Of the builders of the various portions of the present
Church nothing is known, only one name has come down to us
from among the Abbot architects of Malmesbury Abbey as
connected with Purton — that of William of Colerne, but he
could have had nothing to do with the earlier portions of the
building, which belong to the 12th century.
The Church itself is dedicated to St. Mary, and consists
of a nave with north and south aisles, central tower,
north and south transepts, a chancel with a north sacristy and
south chapel, a western tower, and a south porch with a
priest's room above. The traces of the transition Norman of
the 12th century are very slight, but early in the succeeding
century tlie nave appears to have been built, though only a
part remains intact. The capitals of the piers present many
varieties of ornamentation, those on the north side being
richly carved with conventional foliage characteristic of the
style, while those on the south arc only moulded. These
piers were seemingly heightened about 200 years later.^ The
chancel was erected rather later than the nave. There is a
piscina with two shelves in the south wall of the chancel, and
a 13th century niche in the south transept. In the chapel on
the south side of the chancel there is a fine 14th century three-
light east window, which is a fine specimen of flowing
tracery. The central tower and spire, and the north and
' Vide yVilti Archeeolofflcal Societies Magazine, vol. xxiii, Churches of
Parton and Wanborough, by C. E. Ponting.
Annals of Fur ton. 1 5 1
south transepts apparently belong to the latter part of the
same century. The squinches of the spire have small square
pinnacles within the parapet. Some way up the tower a
small piece of Norman roll moulding remains, which suggests
the probability that the present central tower replaces an
earlier one. In the 15th century many changes took place,
chiefly due probably to the Builder Abbot of Malmesbury.
The north and south aisles and south porch belong to this
period. In the east wall of the porch is a remarkably fine
niche which shows signs of colouring in red, yellow, and blue.
In the priest's room over the entrance is a fire-place with
carved paterae, and an original chimney with an embattled
coping. At the top of the circular stair leading to this room
is a curious sink stone, with a channel cut through the wall
of the turret and joined to a spout outside. The fine western
tower appears to have been erected about the middle of the
century, and exhibits one striking peculiarity in the employ-
ment of oyster shells, in forming the joints. This character-
istic, according to an authority on Wilts architecture, is
occasionally found in the Perpendicular work in Wiltshire
churches, but is rarely found earlier than the middle of the
14th century.^ The tower is in four stages, and is surmounted
by a very ornamental pierced parapet, with crocketed
pinnacles. On the w^estern face of the tower are three large
niches with crocketed canopies, all richly groined. There are
no less than thirteen niches in the building, a remarkable
number for a parish church to possess. Under the east
window outside a small sculptured panel has been let into
the wall. It is said to represent the Annunciation, but is now
so annihilated as to be indistinguishable. The Church is
supposed by some to have been re-dedicated, and this panel to
have been inserted to commemorate that function, though
' Vide article by C. E. Ponting (as above). To the above quote!
article I wish to express my indebtedness for part of this description of the
Church.
M 2
152 I Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
about the previous dedication there appears to be much
doubt. Local tradition ascribes it to St. Michael, and as the
village feast falls on Sunday within the octave of St.
Michael's da}^, some colour is lent to this view. There are
records of stained glass (partly heraldic) having formerly
been in the windows, but practically all has now disappeared.
Man}' walls show signs of colour, and there are a few
remains of a fresco over the doorway in the south wall. In
the church, and hard by the pathway leading past the porch,
stand the remains of the old churchyard cross, consisting of
the ruined steps, the base, and a portion of the stem.
The parish is fairly rich in charities. In the report of
the Charity Commissioners, issued in 1835, the following are
recorded : —
Nevil Maskelyne, esq., who deceased in or about the year
1679, charged the Pry Pasture with a yearly payment of jQ^
to the poor of Purton, and with a further payment of los.
to a minister for preaching a sermon every Good Friday. The
Pry Pasture ground contained nine acres and was part of
the Down farm. It is now called Wilde's Pry. The money
is paid to all the poor of the parish who attend church on
Good Friday in shillings and sixpences.
deed's C/irtr/(y. —Francis Gleed gave ;^2oo — the rents
and profits to the poor housekeepers of the parish not
receiving weekly alms, 105. once a year. The poor relations
of the benefactor living in the parish should be preferred
before others, whether they receive weekly alms or not. The
^200 was invested in land situate at the Cross Lanes, on
the north side of Hawks Moor Lane, two fields of pasture
containing about 13 acres, called Poor's ground.
Stevens^ Charity. — Miriam Stevens in her will, dated
19 Oct. 1723, charged her Estate in Purton with an annual
payment of ^17 los. for ever, ^16 for a schoolmaster to
teach 20 children reading, writing, and accounts.
Purton Stoke Poor's Land. — King Charles I by letters
patent gave 25 acres of land to the poor of Purton Stoke, in
Ainiols of Piirloii. 153
lieu of their right of feeding cattle and picking wood in
Braydon Forest at the time the forest was disafforested. This
charity was established in its present footing by a decree of
the Court of Exchequer, loth July, Geo. II, whereby it was
confirmed for the sole use of the hamlet of Purton Stoke
with fifteen trustees. The 25 acres are partly in Purton, and
the remainder, consisting of two fields containing 16 acres, in
Cricklade. It is distributed yearly on the first Thursday after
January 6th. The sums given varied from ^i 15s. to ^4.
Applications are made one year before the applicant can
receive the charity. A list is kept, and the poor when once
admitted receive for life (one field was let for ^30 and one
(or jQic) in 1885). In 1834 thirteen persons received in pro-
portion to the size of their families.
"In the Church is the following notice: — Purton, 1778.
It was agreed at a lawful vestry that the rents and profits of
the late Hiscocks lease on the Common shall be given to the
poor every year for ever on Good Friday."
The living of Purton is a vicarage of the reputed yearly
value of ^^620, and is or was lately in the gift of the Earl of
Shaftesbury.
" The commissioners of Edward VI only found a very
small quantity of plate when they visited Purton. A chalice,
weighing 40Z. and i4oz. for the King. The earliest chalice
has a paten cover, and round the rim is inscribed, 'John
Gillam and William Shermur, churchwardens of Purtton,
1666. A paten resting on a foot, circa 1708, underneath is
inscribed " The gift of Fanny Rigby, 1820.' In the centre is
engraved a shield of arms in lozenge with mantling — quarterl}'^,
I and 4, or, a demy lion rampant ; these are the arms of the
Mervyns with some variations, but they seem also to have
been used by the family of Prower ; 2 and 3 gules, a fess or
between three sheldrakes, for Sheldon of Manston, co. Dorset.
Fanny Rigby was eldest daughter of Robert Prower, M.D.,
of Cranbourne, Dorset ; she married Rev. Hew Rigby, Vicar
of Hockley, and died in 1827. A modern service, consisting
154
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
of a chalice, paten, and cruet-shaped flagon, with appropriate
legends enclosed in an oak case, inscribed with : ' Presented
by Cornwallis and Anne Wykeham-Martin. A thank offering
for many mercies, 1872.' " ^
A foundation which perhaps ought to be found amongst
the list of charities, but on account of its more extensive value
demands especial notice is the Cottage Hospital. This hand-
some little building was erected in 1877, and dedicated to the
use of the inhabitants of Purton and the vicinity by the
generous kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Wykeham-Martin. It is
open to all classes of the people, and is entirely supported by
voluntary subscriptions.
At Purton Stoke — now sadly neglected and almost un-
known beyond the bounds of the parish — is a mineral spring.
At one time its virtues were highly approved, but long since
their name and fame has passed away, and now no' visitors
resort to the neighbourhood to drink the waters.
With this number these scanty and imperfect notes on
the Annals of Purton come to an end. Much remains that is
yet untold, and much still is hidden and awaiting the future
historian who will knit together more closely the threads
which form the story of the village. But the disentangling of
these threads and the unravelling of the past with which they
are so closely bound, though a work most admirable and
valuable, will cost time and labour and thought, and will repa}'
the labourer only with the approval of earnest men and the
knowledge of work well done. Nevertheless, it is to be hoped
that in the near future such work will be done, and that the
history of a village so ancient and interesting will be com-
piled, thus handing on to posterity one more evidence of the
Englishman's proud interest in the annals of his country's
past.
S. J. Elvard.
• riie Church Plate of the Couitty of Wilts— Vmion, J. E. Nightingale, F.S.A.
Records oj IV iltshirc Parishes. 155
RECORDS O?' WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
CHOLDERTON.
(Continued front p. \ii.)
Inquisitions post Mortem, [j James I, pi. 2, no. 132].
P.M. Sir George Kingesniyll.
A.D. 1608. — Inquisition taken at Winchester. October 5th,
6 James I. The Jury say that the said George Kingesniyll,
knight, late a judge of the King's Bench, long before he died
was seized in his demesne as of fee of and in the manor of
Choldrington and Enforde with the appurtenances in the
Count}' of Wilts; and of and in the manors of Tangley and
Shodesdon in the County of Southampton, and of and in other
manors and property in Berks, Somerset, Norfolk, Essex, and
of and in a capital messuage, called the Common Hall of St.
Gyles in the parish of St. Giles without Creplegate, London,
and 4 houses in Fletestrette, London, occupied by his servant,
John Corderoy, before the death of the said George. And the
said George granted to Samuel, son of his brother Thomas
Kingesmill, gentleman, a yearly rent of ^20 good and lawful
English money, out of all manors, lands, and tenements held
by the said George, for the term of Samuel's life . . . And
the jury say that the said manor of Choldrington in Wilts is
held and was held at the time of the death of the said George
of they know not whom, and it is worth in all its issues be-
sides its maintenance ^7. He died ... 3 James P at
Tangley. They say William Kingesmill, knight, is the cousin
and heir of the said George, viz., the son and heir of William
Kingesmill, knight, his brother and heir, and he was forty
years old and more at the death of the said George.
' The day of his death is illegible.
156 IViltsliire Notes ami Queries.
And Dame Sarah, late the wile of the said George, now
living at Tangley aforesaid, enjoys the issues and' profits of the
above mentioned property by virtue of a separate conveyance
to her use.
Feet of Fines. IVilts. [Easter, 1 1 James /].
A.D. 1 6 13. — At Westminster Easter Day in three weeks.
Between George Wrotesley, knight, and Thomas Maton, gen-
tleman. Plaintiffs, and Thomas Hardinge, gentleman, deforciant
of the manor of Orcheston Mary and of 9 messuages, 3 cottages,
6 gardens, 4 orchards, 1600 acres of land, 70 acres of mea-
dow, 900 acres of pasture, 200 acres of gorse and heather,
I OS. rent, and common of pasture for all kinds of beasts in
Orcheston Mar}^, Orcheston St. George, Cholderton alias
Choldrington, Laverstock and New Sarum, and of pasture
for 8 cows in Pewsey. Plea of covenant was summoned.
Thomas Hardinge acknowledged the right of George as of
his gift to him and Thomas Maton, and quitclaimed from
himself and his heirs to George and Thomas and the heirs of
George forever. And moreover Thomas Hardinge warranted
to George and Thomas Maton, and the heirs of George against
himself and his heirs forever. For this George and Thomas
Maton gave Thomas Hardinge ^500 sterling.
Feet of Fines. Wills. [Trinity, 11 James I].
A.b. 1613. — At Westminster on the morrow of the Holy
Trinity. Between Richard Payne, plaintiff, and William Lord
Sandys, William Sand3^s, knight, William Sandys, esquire, and
Miles Sandys, gentleman deforciants of a messuage, 44 acres
of land, 2 acres of meadow, 2 acres of pasture, and common
of pasture for every kind of beast, with the appurtenances in
West Choldryngtun. IMea of covenant was summoned. The
deforciants acknowledged the right of Richard as of their gift,
and they quitclaimed from themselves and their heirs to
Richard and his heirs forever. And moreover they each
Records of 1 1 lllsliirc Parishes. 1 5 7
warranted to liim and his heirs against themselves and the
heirs of each ot" them forever. For this Richard gave them
^41 sterhng.
Ibid. [Mic/iae/inas, it, James I].
A.D. 1615. — At Westminster on the morrow of St. Martin.
Between Thomas White, knight, plaintiff", and Thomas Hard-
ing, esq., and Richard Harding, esq., deforciants of 3
messuages 3 gardens, 3 orchards, 400 acres of land, 50
acres of meadow, 500 acres ot pasture, and common of
pasture for every kind of beast, with the appurtenances
in Cholderton a/ias Choldrington, Lauerstock a/ias Lark-
stock, Mylford, and St. Mart3'ns. Plea of covenant was
summoned. Thomas Harding and Richard acknowledged the
right of Thomas White as of their gift, and quitclaimed from
themselves and their heirs to Thomas White and his heirs
forever. And moreover they each warranted to Thomas White
and his heirs against themselves and the heirs of each of them
forever. For this Thomas White gave Thomas Harding and
Richard Harding ^500 sterling.
iNQUisrnoN POST Mortem, [ly James /, pL i, no. 89].
P.M. Sir lVi//iain Ki)igesmill.
A.D. 1619.— Inquisition taken at Winchester [?] 7 April.
The Jury say that Sir William Kingesmill a long time before
he died was seized in his demesne as of fee of the manor of
Woodcott, and of other property there in the county of South-
ampton .... Also that he and his wife Anna, Dame
Kingesmill, in the right of Anna were seized of propert}' in
Warwickshire .... And they also say that long before
he died. Sir George Kingesmill, his uncle, was seized of the
manors of Tangley and Shoddesdon in the county of South-
ampton, and Choldrington and Enford in Wilts, and other
property elsewhere and in London. The same George in
January 2, James I, by indenture between himself on the one
part, and Sir Henry Montague of London, now chief Justice,
15^ ll'Utshirc Nuks and Ouerics
and John Walters, esquire, of the Inner Temple, London, on
the other, in consideration of the marriage between the said
George and Sarah, then widow of Francis [?] Hastings father
of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, now wife of Edward, Lord
Zouche of Harringworth, secured her the profits from property
in Leicestershire and the reversion for her life of his own
property. The same George Kingesmill, Knight, died 20
March 3 James I. And the Jury say that afterwards the said
Dame Sarah married Edward, Lord Zouche of Harringworth,
and in her right he and she were seized of all the manors,
tenements, &c., of Sir George Kingesmill, and thus hitherto
have been seized. And William Kingesmill aforesaid, cousin
and heir of the said George, namely, the son and heir of his
brother William, was seized of the reversion of the said
property after the death of said Dame Sarah. And the said
Sir William Kingesmill, on 9 October 8 James I, by indenture
between himself of the one part, and Sir William Uvedale
and Sir Humphrey May, then Esquire, Chancellor of the
Duch3' of Lancaster, of the other part, in consideration of
the marriage then to be between his son and heir Henry
Kingesmill and Bridget, daughter of John White Esquire, de-
ceased, in compensation for her marriage portion [the figures
are illegible] made certain settlements to the use of Bridget
for life, with the reversion to himself and his assigns on her
death, an item whereof is the said manor of Choldrington
with the appurtenances except the advowson of the church
appropriate to that manor.
[The date of Sir William's death is not mentioned appar-
ently, but the last part of the document is in very bad condition,
and is almost illegible.]
Lansdown MSS. No. 459. [Registers of Church Livings
in Wilts and elsewhere.]
Choldrington, value £60 o o. Mr. Nath. Noyce; he
preached twice every Lord's Day. Patron, Lady Kingsmill.
Reconh of Ulllshirc Parislies. 159
Lav Subsidy. No. jm-
A.D. 1627. — [Assessments with the sums to be levied.]
Almesbury Hundred. 5. d.
(Henry Chfford, gentleman, in goods jQ-^.
subsidy. . . . . . . . ..134
Symon Clifford, gentleman, in goods ^5.
subsidy. . . . . . . . ..134
Humfry Norborne, gentleman, in goods
^5. subsidy 13 4
f Thomas Day in goods ;^3. subsidy . . 80
I Richard Rutter in goods jQt,. subsidy 8 o
Sessors
State Papers of Charles I. [vol. 332, no. 70.]
A.D. 1636. — "Particulars of the farme of Cholderton, held
of Mr. Sands for tlic term of fourscore years, whereof there
are threescore and foure yeares unexpired att Michaelmas
next, viz. : —
£
39
Item. There is of meadow 26 acres, which att |
thirty shillings per acre amounts unto . . i
Item. There is keeping for tenn kine . . 15
Item. There is of arrable to be sowne att every )
season 240 acres at 6s. 2>d. per acre . . J
Item. The sheepe walke worth per annum . . 40
80
1 74 o o
The house, orchard, pigeon-house, and 24 acres
of cops-wood not valued.
The rent being ^174 per annum att 16 yeares for
the lease amounts unto ^2784."
Endorsed 8 Sep*""- 1636. Mr. Ashbournham's particular
about the manour of Cholderton.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [Easter, a.d. 1656.]
A.D. 1656. —At Westminster, from Easter day in fifteen
days. Between William Complin, plaintiff, and Robert God-
dard and Katherinc, his wife, deforciants of a messuage,
i6o IViltsliirc Notes and Oucrics.
200 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 6 acres of pasture, with
the appurtenances in Choldrington. Plea of covenant was
summoned. Robert and Katherine acknowledged the right of
William as of their gift, and quitclaimed from themselves
Robert and Katherine and tJicir heirs to William and his
heirs forever. And moveover they have granted warranty
for them and the heirs of Robert to the foresaid William and
his heirs against all men forever. For this William gave
Robert and Katherine ;!{J"2oo sterling.
Ibid. [Michaelmas, 12 Charles 11.^
A.D. 1660. — At Westminster from the day of St. Michael
in three weeks. Between William Complin, gentleman, plain-
tiff, and Thomas Rutter and Margaret his wife, deforciants of
a messuage, 80 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, and 10 acres
of pasture, with the appurtenances in Choldrington. Plea of
covenant was summoned. Thomas and Margaret acknowledged
the right of William as of their gift, and quitclaimed from them-
selves, Thomas and Margaret, and their heirs to William and
his heirs forever. And moreover Thomas and Margaret,
granted warranty to William and his heirs against themselves
and their heirs forever For this William gave Thomas and
Margaret ;^ioo sterling.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [Trinity, 28 Charles II.]
A.D. 1676.— At Westminster in the quindene of the Holy
Trinit}'. Between Jonathan Hill, gentlemen, plaintiff, and
George Woodroffe, gentleman, and Francis his wife, deforciants
of the manor of Chalderton, alias Choldrington, with its appur-
tenances, and of a messuage, 2 cottages, 3 gardens, 380 acres of
land, 38 acres of meadow, 230 acres of pasture, and common
of pasture for every kind of beast with their appurtenance
in Chalderton, alias West Cholderton, and Laverstock, and of
2S. rent in Shipton. Plea of covenant was summoned. George
and Frances acknowledged the right of Jonathan as of their
gift, and quitclaimed from themselves and their heirs to Jona-
Records of Willsliirc Parishes. i6j
than and his heirs forever. And moreover George and Frances
granted that they will warrant to Jonathan and his heirs
against themselves and the heirs of George forever. For this
Jonathan gave George and Francis ^^320 sterhng.
Ibid. [Mic/iacl»ias, 7 George I.]
A.D. 1720. — At Westminster in the quindene of St. Martin.
Between Henry Hoare, esq., plaintiff, and William Ilulbert
and Anna his wife, John Ford, Joanna Ford, Robert Ford, and
John Martin and Dorothea his wife, deforciants of 4 messuages,
2 barns, i stable, i brewery, 3 gardens, 85 acres of land, 2 acres
of meadow, 6 acres of pasture, and common of pasture for all
animals with their appurtenances in Choldrington. Plea of
covenant was summoned. The deforciants acknowledged the
right of Henry Hoare, and quitclaimed from themselves and
their heirs to Henry and his heirs forever. And each war-
ranted to Henry and his heirs against himself and the heirs of
each of them forever. John Martin and Dorothea warranted
against themselves and the heirs of John forever. For this
Henry gave William and Anna, John, Joanna, Robert, and
John, and Dorothea ^^120 sterling.
Ibid. [Easfer, 28 George II.]
A.D. 1754. — Westminster from Easter Day in fifteen days.
Between Thomas Hayter, esq., plaintiff, and Mordant Crache-
rode, esq., and Mary his wife, deforciants of 4 messuages, 4
cottages, 4 stables, 4 gardens, 4 orchards, 85 acres of land, 4
acres of meadow, 8 acres of pasture, and common of pasture
for all manner of cattle with the appurtenances in West Cholder-
ton, otherwise Choldrington. Plea of covenant was summoned.
Mordaunt and Mary have acknowledged the right of Thomas,
and quitclaimed from them, Mordaunt and Mary, and their
heirs, to Thomas and his heirs forever. Moreover they granted
for them, and the heirs of Mordaunt, that they will warrant to
Thomas and his heirs against Mordaunt and Mary and the
1 62 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
heirs of Mordaunt forever. For this Thomas gave Mordaunt
and Mary jQi2o sterhng.
Ibid. [Hilary, 6 George I/L]
A.D. 1765.— At Westminster, in eiglit days of the Purifica-
tion of the Blessed Mary. Between Thomas Ward, gentle-
man, plaintiff, and Robert Brice, esq., and Elizabeth his
wife, deforciants of the manor of West Cholderton, otherwise
Choldrington, with the appurtenances, and of i messuage, 2
cottages, 3 gardens, 3 orchards, 700 acres of land, 40 acres of
meadow, 400 acres of pasture, and common of pasture for all
manner of cattle, free fishing, free warren, view of frank-
pledge, courts leet, courts baron, waifs, strays, goods, and
chattels of felons, fugitives, felons of themselves, persons out-
lawed waived and put in exigence, deodands, and treasure
trove with the appurtenances in the parish of West Cholder-
ton, othewise Choldrington. Pica of covenant was summoned.
Robert and Elizabeth acknowledged the right of Thomas as of
their gift, and quitclaimed from themselves and the heirs of
Elizabeth to Thomas and his heirs, and granted that they will
warrant against themselves and the heirs of Elizabeth forever.
For this Thomas gave them ;!{^i26o sterling.
Ibid. [Triiiily, 2 George III.]
A.D. 1770.— At Westminster from Easter Day in fifteen
days. Between Joel Sanger, plaintiff, and William Newman
and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants of i messuage, i stable,
I garden, and i orchard, with the appurtenances, in West
Cholderton. Plea of covenant was summoned. William and
Elizabeth acknowledged the right of Joel as of their gift,
and quitclaimed from themselves and their heirs to Joel and
his heirs forever. Moreover William and Elizabeth granted
that they will warrant against themselves and the heirs of
William forever. For this William gave them £60 sterling.
Onakrf'ism in J I 'illshirc. 1 63
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE. ^
II.
SUFFERERS FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE.
I wish now to introduce readers of //'. N. & O. to a folio
volume of about 250 pages of manuscript titled Wiltshire
Friends — Snffcritigs froDi 1653 lo 1756. The first 26 pages are
descriptive of the years 1653 to 16SS and are written b}' a
contemporary hand, under the heading, The Booke of Rigcster
u'heriii is Recorded some of the most materiall Sufferings oj the
People called Quakers in the Countie of J Fills as ffolloives : —
The bulk of the volume, which is in another and more modern
and clear handwriting, after repeating and enlarging upon the
cases previously cited, continues the record down to the year
1725. Then follow statements of "sufferings" for the years
1731-1773 ii^ 'I beautiful copper-plate style of penmanship, the
years 1757 to 1773 having probably been inserted subsequently'
to the date at which the title of the whole book was given to it.
It may be well to divide the extracts which form the
text of this article into various heads, and place in explanatory
footnotes, where possible from contemporary sources, reasons
for the attitude taken by the persons named, which resulted
in so much suffering and hardship, adding here and there
notes of the present position of the Society of Friends
relative to these questions. Great care was exercised to
record sufferings,^ and returns of them were regularly made
' The term "Quaker " had its origin in Derby in 1050, when, according
to one authority. Justice Gervase Bennet, an Independent, observing George
Fox to tremble when the power of God was upon him, called him "Quaker",
or, on the authority of G. Fox himself, it was he who bid the justices
tremble at the word of the Lord, and thus obtained for the new Society the
name by which it has ever been commonly known.
^ In the year 1G85 there was presented to King James II an account of
the number of Friends then in prison in the country, viz. 14G0, of which
Wiltshire contributed 34, as compai-ed with Bristol 103, Devonshire 104,
Yorkshire 279. " The Records of Sufferings " fill over forty manuscript
volumes preserved in London.
164 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
to London to the *' Meeting for Sufferings", a body of Friends
which retains its name to the present day, and, in addition to
its work as the executive of the Society, still deals with
sufferings in various parts of the world.
Non-Attendance at Public Worship.^
1670. Isaac Sclfc of Lavington was on y® sixth da}' of
the 5th 2 month, taken up with a writt de excommunicato
capiendo for not going to the publick worship and cast into
prison, where he remained 2 years and 3 months.
1677. Richard Milliard of y° parish of Alderbury was
imprisoned 3 the 12th day of y° loth month for a contempt of
the Bishop's Court at Sarum. The ground of it was for not
going to their worship.
1682. Richard Livelong of y parish of Compton-
chamberlain was taken up by John Dorter, constable of y°
same parish, with a Sessions Process, for not going to their
worship, and by him brought to prison the 8th of the 2^ month,
and about the 8th of y® 3 month brought to the Quarter Ses-
sions, and for refusing to pay z^. for 3 first days [Sundays]
' By an Act of Edward Vlth's reign " all inhabitants of the realm were
to diligently and faithfully resort to their parish church or chapel", and by
a further act of the next reign a fine of one sliilling was imposed for each
Sunday of non-attendance (hence called "Sunday Shillings"). This was
in force till the passing of the Toleration Act in 1()89, and rested very
heavily upon the Quakers and other Nonconformist bodies, whose conscience
would not permit them to have aught to do with the "priest", or his
ministrations, which George Fox declared to be "forms without power".
All mere formal acts of religion were included in his denunciation, not
Episcopalian only, but those in vogue among the vaiious bodies of dissenters
also, perhaps chiefly.
' Objection was taken in common with the Puritans to the " heathen
names" of the months and days, and the simple numbers were given in their
place. Before the Act rectifying the Calendar came into force in 1752, the
year then V)pginning in March, March was "first month", but subsequent to
the Act, .January took its place as " first month".
' This Friend's name appears among the list of prisoners for several
succeeding years.
Quaker isut i)i JViltsIurc. 165
absence and for the fees of the Court was sent back to prison
and there remains.
Spfakixg in Church.^
1658. Samuel Noysc of the Devizes for going to y°
Steeplehouse in [?] Urchfont, and speaking there a few
wordes in sobernesse to y° people affter y^ prist had donn both
preaching and praying. Cristopher HinHe y" prist being in
a rage called for y° officers, and affterwards y® prist went to
William York called justice who granted him a Warant by
w'*" he was brought before y^ sayd Wm. York, who charged
y* teything man to bring y^ sayd Noyse to y" Quarter Sessions
held in y* Devizes where he was fined five pounds, and for not
paying the fine was commited to Bridewell for three months.
" Nonpayment of Steeple-Repaires." ^
1669. IVilliani Chandler oS. Bugly, in the parish of War-
minster, for refusing to pay towards the repair of the church
(so called) had taken from him by a Levari facias out of the
County Court on the 4th of the loth month, by Wm. Barns
and George Barker, a cow valued at ^4 13s. 4^/.
* It appears to have been permissible for persons in the coni^'regation to
.speak or ask questions when the minister liad concluded (a fact which will
be recognised by readers of Sir Walter Scott's Woodstock), and the
objection therefore to this very frequent action on the part of Friends was
rather to the teaching given than to the place used for the purpose. Fox
says, in his Journal, of a " meeting in a steeple-house ", that after a
woman had asked a question and been refused a hearing because of her
sex, he " stepped up and asked the priest, ' Dost thou call this (the
steeplehouse) a.church 7 or dost thou call this mixed multitude a church?'"
" I told him ' The church was made up of living stones, living members,
a spiritual household, which Christ was the head of: but He was not the
head of a mixed multitude or of an old hou.se made of lime, stones, and
wood.'" Though Friends to-day generally conform to the usage of the times
and speak of the building as well as of the congregation as " the church ",
they hold that in the New Testament the word applies only to a company
of believers.
■•* The Quaker conscience which refused to attend " the publick worship "
would not be likely to be more favourable towards repair of the fabric
of the house where it was held.
N
1 66 i Viltshire Notes and Queries.
1692. William Hiilit o^ S^vnm was arrested and carried
to the County Goale with a Writt dc excommunicato capiendo
by George Tinnam, bayhff, in the suit of Benjamin King,
warden, for non-payment of 2s. to Thomas's ^ Steeplehouse m
Sarum.
Charles Shingles of Chippenham was imprisoned for non-
payment of zs. 4^. to Chippenham Steeple-house.^
1700 James Webb of Wooley, in y« parish of Bradford,
had taken from him for los. demanded for Steeplehouse Rates,
by Nath. Winkenson and Richard Davin, Tythingmen, one
side of bacon, valued at 15s.
1738. Henry Se^le, Jr., of Marlboro, had taken from him
by John Coleman and Jjseph Westbury, wardens, for Church
Rates (so called) by Mayor's warrant, one pound of tea, value
eight shillings, and two shillings and 6d. charges, for four
shillings demanded value.
1773. Wm. Gtindry of Calne had taken from him by
Wm. Wait and Benjamin Hale, per Justice Warrant, for Church
Rates (so called) in yarn, for a demand of £1 is. Sd., value
j£i 12s. Gd.
T1THES.3
1660. Isaac Sel/e, senr., of Market Lavington, was taken
1 Note omission of " Saint "-a word which savoured too much of popery
to be used by Protestant dissenters, though more generally used by tlieir
descendants to-day. . . i.u„„„rrVi
2 These last-named two Friends are reported as being m prison througti
^^ ^ t"thes -^This is the most frequently recurring subject in our list of
suiferings, because the laws which regulated them remained in orce for
many years after the Legislature had been moved by the P^-- ent bu
"Ifve'resistance of the Friends to laws which ^'^^3-leemed un3ust o re^^^^^
other statutes levelled against them, William and Mary's Act of Toleration
alone exempting from the pains and penalties of '^^out thirteen of tbese^
The question of Tithes in its various bearings has ««<^;P^«^\ "^^"^ ^ .^f/^^
of Quaker writings throughout the history of the body. John Wh tmj
a native resident of the neighbouring county of Somerset, who -as unself
imprisoned in Ivelchester (Ilchester) jail for about ^'ght years and who died
in 1722, says in his biographical work called FersecuUon Exposed, that
Otiakcns»i in U'illshirc. 167
by a Writt from the Court of Common Pleas for y" value of
40s. forTythes by John Merryweather, senr., of y' same place,
and on y' 3d. of y* 6 mo. was carried to prison and there re-
mained for the space of six years and five months.
1660. IVni. Bartlct of Market Lavington, for refusing to
pay some petty Tythes to the value of about eighteen pence,
was committed to the County Goal where he remained till he
dyed.
1662. Thomas Phelps of Chiverhill, for refusing to pay
teyth to Edward Hort, prist of Chiverhill aflforsayd, was
arrested and cast into prison, where he remayned untill he
dyed.
1662. William Moxham of Ma.ilai., for refusing to pay
tythes to Wm. Gunn, vicar of Mardon, in whose suitt y® sayd
Moxham was arrested and commited to y° Countie Goal where
he remained a long time, and being a widdower leaving noe
body in his house but two young daflfters, who by reason of
y* cruelty of y^ prist treatening could procure no help to gett
in their fathers corne, but those two girls were forced in time
of harvist one to load and y* other to pitch to y° cart, for which
Wm. Gunn caused both girls to appeare at London before y^
barons of y" Exchequer, who when they understood their
father was a prisoner for tythe told them they were not con-
cerned in it and bid them goe home againe.
Giles Shiirmer writes from Fisherton prison on y^ 14th
of 7 mo. that there are 13 Friends prisonners in y° said Goal
upon the account of Tythes ; and y' y^ Goaler will not suffer
Jesus Christ, being come in the flesh, had put an end to the Levitical law
and priesthood which commanded and took tithes, and which is in no ways
agreeable or suitable to the gospel or ministers of Christ ; but such as are
called of God, fitted thereto, and sent forth into his vineyard, having freely
received of Christ, should freely give, and depend on him for a maintenance
to eat such things as are set before them, as the Lord shall open people's
hearts to receive them." Alteration in the law has largely freed the Friendly
conscience on this question in these days, and the earnest labours of
many ministers of Christ among the various churches of to-day have won
greater esteem for them from those who cannot agree with them in some
points of belief and practice.
N 2
1 68 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
any friends to come into them, etc., and so are kept close
prisoners.
1670. Jone Hale ^ was visited by John Townson, priest
of Brimhill, who told her he would abate of the sum that was
due to him and that he would use a good conscience, she an-
swered that she could not for conscience sake pay him anything
at all because Christ had put an end to the law and disannulled
the commandments by which the priests in old time might lay
claim to Tythe. But he not liking to hear this, served her
with a process unto which she appeared. But he did not
declare the next term, but sues her to y° Hundred Court, and
then he entered three actions against her, which was under
six pounds, for which he took 3 cows. And it was supposed
by some that he would let the suit fall at Common Law
(considering his fair words and great pretence of love and
care to the widow and fatherless children, and her answer
that she could not pay Tythe, etc.) but he not heeding any of
those things proceeded at Common Law and gets an execution
which was sent by bayliffs who said they must have possession
of the house with all that was in it and about it. Answer was
made that there was goods of persons not concerned (viz.) of
her brother's and her servant maids. But of that they would
take no notice, saying that they were to have all but the
cloaths on their backs. So the iith day of y° loth month
they took cattle and household goods as followeth : —
4 cows I brewing kittle
2 heifers 2 flitches of bacon
1 bull 15 cheeses
2 beds I sack
5 coverlids i pair of fire dogs
' Widow of Davifl Hale, of Charlecot, wlio after three years' imprison-
ment in the county jail died there " under the hands of violence " in 1662.
Her name appears again among the list of sufferers. According to the late
Mr. James Waylen of that town, in a MS. " Record of Calne Friends", now in
possession of Kev. \V. 11. J. Page, quoting Bowles's "History of Bremhill", Dr.
Townson was himself a great sufferer for his adherence to the Royalist party.
Onakerisiii in IFiltsliitr. 169
3 bolsters 2 joynt stools
I pillow I pewter disii
3 bolster cases A gown and pettycoat of licr
1 pillow case wearing apparrel
I bedsted Finally they did not leave
1 table cloath bed for the chilldren nor
I pair of curtains and rods cloths to put on, and all
3 blankets this was don while the
1 pair of fire irons widow lay sick of an
1 settle, 6 forms ague and feaver.
2 tables and ftrames
16S4. Jolui Harris ^ gWes an account of his adversary
priest, his cruel threatenings as followeth :— " The envie of
my adversary the Priest is now more manifested then before,
for his endeavour with the keeper is to have me so close con-
fined as that 1 may not have the benefit of the air. And not
only so but he wants the laws to be more severe, that is that
I might be kept with an half-peny loaf a day, and also wants to
have the Laws to be in force as they were in Queen Mary's
days, that I might be burned with fire and faggot, so that in
those things he hath laid open the cruelty of his heart to his
hearers, and as far as I understand they are set much in their
minds against him."
' John Harris, of Goatacre, and his wife Jane Harris, were both heavy
sufferers in body and estate. The husband was imprisoned by Daniel Sallo-
wav", Vicar of Hillmarton, for refusing to pay petty tithes. Daring his
impri.sonment he writes to Charles Marshall (a coadjutor of George Fox, and
well known Friend of the day) of Tetherton, " That through the mercy of
the Lord and his goodness towards him and his fellow prisoners they have
no cause to complaine in their sufferings, for the Lord is pleased to afford
them his powerfuU presence to attend them, which refresheth their souls
and gladeth their hearts, who makes hard things easy and heavy burdens
light." Jane Harris is described as "widow" in 1693. Between that year
and 1703 she was distrained upon to the value of nearly £150 by Daniel
Salloway, priest of Hillmarton, and John Barnard and Roger Jacob, impro-
priators, the articles comprising, in addition to farm produce, " as much
fine yame as was valued at fifty-one pounds and 3 packing cloaths worth nine
shilUngs."
1 70 Wiltshire Notes and (Jueries.
1684. Wni. Moxliam of y° parish of Mardoii, his complaint
against Wm. Gunn, vicar of Mardon : — "Wm. Gun being that
did turnc with the times. Hee had mee before Wm. Bhssett
and Isaac Burges, Oliver Cromwell's commissionars, and there
he demainded thre pounds for teythe and I for conscience sake
refused to pay him, then he conformed to their wills and so
they granted him 8 pounds and gaive him order to take it
from mee, and he sent his son and his own two men and
horses wth his cart and broke open my barnes doors and
threst [threshed] and carried away 21 sack of corne worth
near 2olb.
"Then in y® year 1661 he carried mee to prison where he
kept mee two years, then he carried mee to London and had
me before Judg Hide ^ and then decleared for 100 lb. against
mee, and y® next assize it was brought to a tryall at Sarum
before Judg Arthur, and then it was brought to five pound for
two years teyth. There he was allowed before Judg Arthur ^
treble damages, but after y^ jury brought it to 14 pounds, and
so he came with three bayliffes with an execution and with his
horses and cart into my barne and carried away all my corn in
my barne w''' was worth near 30 pound. Then afterwards he
pretended that did not satisfy him and so gott an execution in
order to outlaw mee and I hcrcing of it I went and yielded my
body to y" shreife and y° shreife sent mee to prison and so
stopt it. But afterwards he outlawed mee in another countie
contrary to my knowledg. Yett (notwithstanding I was a
' An active persecutor of Friends in London, of whose death at the
time of the Plague, Sevvel* says: "He having been seen in the mornnig at
Westminster in health, as to outward appearance, it was told in the after-
noon that he was found dead in his chamber ; being thus summoned to
appear and give accounts of his deeds before a higher court than ever he
presided in."
♦ A Quaker who died about 1725, in his History of the Feojile called
Quakers.
•^ Wiltshire .seems to have been ckar from the presence of any very
prominent persecutor of tlie Friends ; I find no mention of it in a long list
of persecuting Justices and the districts in which they exercised authority.
Quakerism in IViltshire. 171
prisoner at y* same time) yctt I haveing lyberty from y" keeper
to go abroad he tooke mee up with his outlawry and carried
mee to prison and soe I remained a prisoner on that account.
And then an order came from y® King whereby some of my
friends was released and I coming likely to be released also, he
hereing of it threw in a writt against mee called a Laltilat for
60 lb., and so he kept me a prisoner untill I was released by
order of Law.
"Then in about two or three weeks time after I was released
he sued mee in Chancery, and in a little time after that he sued
me in y* Bishop's Court because for conscience sake I would
not pay him privy teyths. And I there appearing before the
Bishopp he tendered mee an oath, and I for conscience sake
refusing to swear was excommunicated for a contempt of their
Court, and by a writt of excommunication through Wm. Gunns
occasion was by aparritor and a baylif haled to prison in y®
prists own cart y^ 26th of y® 5th mo. 1676, and soe have re-
mained a prisonar to this very day. He have sued me in y°
excheaker and in Chancery and in Common Law and in y*
Bishops court. He outlawed, he excommunicated mee, he tooke
mee up seven times w"* ba3'liefs and parritor, he caused mee to
be brought four times to this ffisherton-anger Frisson and once
to be carried a prissoner to London. First and last and in all
I have been a prissoner on his account about two and twenty
years and only for conscience sake, yett notwithstanding my
imprissonment, sense the time he had an execution against
mee, hee hath taken away my goods for teyth every yeare at
his own will contrary to their law. And he being lately dead
hath left me a prissonar and hath taken no care at all for my
releasment for as much as I understand. So I can not finde
that he ever repented of any of his cruell and hard and un-
christianlike dealings towards mee who for conscience sake
could not bow to his unrighteous will.
"Thus it doth appear that Wm. Gun vicar of Mardon was
no minister of Christ, for his fruits hath manifest him to be
contrary to Christ and his ministers clearly, by his persecution
172
Willshirc Notes and Oucrics.
and his evill dealeings towards mee who am willing to live
peaceable with all men.
" William Moxham.
" From ffisherton Frisson y^ 27th of y* 11 mo. 1684."
1 7 13. The Partners of John Rutty turn'd over a Debt to
Bohun Foxi priest of Melksham ovv'd to y° s"* Jno. Rutty and
Compa., w"^ Jno. Rutty did not desire of, the s"* debt Bohun
Fox hath took for Vicars Tythe for some years to y° sum of
;^o6. 00. 8.2
Religious Meetings.^
1660. Many Friends being assembled together at their
^ Bohun Fox was the subject of a book entitled "The ^tctlj- Vricat
of .Melkshasi, his Reasonings, his concessions, and his §clf-(Contvabic-
tioiia," etc. by Thomas Beaven, Jr. — London: Printed and Sold by J.
Sowle, in White-Hart-Court, in Gracious Street. 8vo. 1707." Literature
on the controversy is to be found in the Archaeological Museum at Devizes.
He died in 1750, and left a charity for education in the parish.
-Imprisonments on account of tithes lessen as the seventeenth century
closes, but in 1715 and 1716 the year's account of Sufferings concludes with
"One Prisoner continued at large (viz.) Charles Barret." The money value
of goods taken in lieu of Tithes is carefully totalled each year, and care is
taken to note whether the distraints exceed or not the value of the demand.
Many well-known Wiltshire surnames occur frequently, but space forbids
their mention.
^ I'hough abandoning the public worship of other religious bodies, the
Friends clung very firmly to the principle and practice of united worship
after their own manner, and as the following samples of sufferings shew
were prepared to go to any lengths in its observance, passively resisting any
attempt to upset the meetings. When met together they acknowledged no
head or leader but Christ, and many of their gatherings were (and still are
to-day) held largely in silence, with speech only (whether as prcacliing or
prayer or song) as each worshipper felt himself moved by the Holy Spirit
thereto. Many were the engines of persecution turned against them, one
"Conventicle Act" after another being either .specially enacted to put them
down, or turned against them out of its original purpose. To us the main
point of interest is in the statement that the Conventicle Act of 1(370 (22
Chas. 11) was a result of the disturbance brought about by a Presbyterian
named John Fox, who endeavoured to retain his hold of a village church in
Wiltshire (though Sewel .says Gloucestershire) the name of which George
Fox gives in his Jonrnnl as " Mansfield"— [? Manningford]. The Tolera-
tion Act gave relief from much suffering under tliis head as under others.
It has been computed that the spoils of this Conventicle Act, from its passing
in 1070 until K'.m, as regards Friends alone in England and Wales,
amounted to at least one hundred thousand pounds.
Ouaki'nsHi hi IVilishire. 173
usual meeting place in Cunierwell near Bradford y* 13th of y°
3 mo., there came several troopers commanded by John Ayers,
Lieut, as the}' pretended, who forced into the said mtg. and
pulled one Robert Star and carried him to the sd. Lieut. Ayers,
who after with the sd. party of horse had liim to one Justice
Mitchell who refused to do anything with him as to imprison-
ment and the said R. S. was threatened that he shd. pay
their charges or they should sell his horse, but they did not.
The said justice upon examination not medling with the said
Robert Star, the breach of no law being laid to his charge :
The party of horse took him with them to the city of Sarum
and brought him before the Mayor, who put it off also, to ap-
pear before the Commissioners who were to meet the next day.
So upon examination of him, all that they could find against
him was that he was at an unlawful meeting. And he told
them he knew of no law of God or man expressl}- against
meetings. They said they did judg it to be an unlawful
meeting, and required the said Robert to give security for his
peaceable living : who said he was a peaceable man and no man
could justly accuse him to the contrary and said he would not
give securit}'. Then they would have him say that he would
go no more to such meetings : — he told them he could not say
so. Then they said they would secure him. He answered,
that if they would secure him all the days of his life in prison
he could not say so. And desired them to produce any law or
act now in force that he had broaken, and if he had broaken
any, then they might punish him accordingly, and that so much
blame would not ly upon them as otherwise it would. He told
them he was innocent and they had nothing to charge him
justly withall and if they did do anything to him it would be
upon them. So the said Commissioners of the Militia of that
county (that is to say) Thomas Abbot, mayor, Humphrey
Ditton,^ Wm. Good, Francis Dove and Major Alford command-
' John Whiting tells us, under date 1657, that Katherlne Evans, the wife
of a Friend living near Bath, "for exhorting the people to repentance in the
1 74 IVillsliirc Nnlcs and Queries.
ed him to be sent to the Town Prison and afterwards sent a
Mittimus, y" substance whereof was — That they did judge the
said R. S. to be a dangerous person and a disturber of y^ peace
of the nation and that he was taken in the Parish of Bradford
by some of Captain Huniford's souldiers where he was with
an unlawful assembly of rude and tumultuous People met to-
gether about three or four hundred to y° disturbance of the
peace of the nation, and that they did judge him to be a danger-
ous person, and that he refused to pass his word and give
security for his peaceable living, and requires the keeper to
keep them there till he shall be discharged thence by law.
1661. John Collcus's letter to E. Hooks^ of y° 15th of 8
mo. :
The 13th of y^ 8 mo. there came souldiers to the house of
John Merywcather in Fovant in the county of Wilts, as ffriends
were in the backside parting from each other and some were
gone ; and their warrant being demanded they drew their
swords and with great threatnings demanded us away with
them : which we refusing, one went and fetched their Lieut,
and Ensigne (as they called them) who brought an order under
market place at Salisbury, was by Humphry Ditton, constable, baled before
Humphry Ditton, justice, who, with Robert Good, mayor, and James Abbot,
cau.sed her to be stripped and tied to tlie whipping-post in the market, and
there whipped (for they were notable whippers in those days) ; at which the
beadle trembled : and so sent her with a pass from tithing to tithing." And
again the same year, "for speaking .igain in the market place at Salisbury
she was haled before the mayor, who with H. Ditton and J. Abbot, brethren
in iniquity, sent her to Bridewell and put her into a blind-house, a filthy,
nasty place, where two madmen had lately died ; taking counsel again to
whip her, had not one colonel Wheat told the Mayor they might as well
have whipped the woman of Samaria, who brought the glad tidings of
Christ into the town, and after consulting with the higb-prie.st, John Strick-
land, touching her enlargement, they turned her out, and she could not
get lodo;ing for her money, but sat in the fields all night."
' Ellis Hookes, of London, was the " Recording Clerk", or Secretary, of
the Society for twenty-four jears. He signed documents " j« the name and
on hehalf of the people cii\\c<\ Quakers." He and another were townreprc-
."^entatives of Wiltshire on tlie " Meeting for Sufferings," and their country
correspondent was Thomas Neat, of Chippenham. E. H. died 1681.
Quaker ism in Wiltshire. 175
the hand of Sir John How. So they brought us to their Capt.
Sharpe and so to Wilton that night : where the Capt. demanded
our names to the end to make our Mittimus and they told me
he did. I asked whither they would not think us very indis-
creet to be accessory to our own committment, and also if we
were brought before some in authority (we being not sensible
of any crime) we might then be discharged and not committed,
but the}' were angry. And the next day the Capt. demanded
the same thing again several times, but he not prevailing was
angry and told me we deserved all to be hanged, a company
of Quaking knaves. And so sent us to prison to Fisherton
with a Guard of Musqueteers, who delivered us to y* keeper,
who knowing our names sent them for a Mittimus of Capt.
Sharp's sending with his hand and seal, so we are here until
we shall be delivered by the Deputy Lieuts. of the County.
We are ten apprehended together, several poor men (viz.)
Jolni Mcry-ix'cathcr and his two sons Aticirciv and John, and
one Henry Moon whom the}' took on y° highway, John Jen-
nings, Henry Ingram, Thomas Mercer, Ralph Bennet, James
Abbott, Thomas Bodman, a.nd John Collcns.
1663. Robert Button for being at a meeting in Lavington
to wait upon the Lord ony^ 30th of 3 mo., was by John James,
then Constable of the town, taken and carried before one
Richard Lewis, Justice, who committed him to prison where
he remained eight ^-ears — he being a very poor man.
Edward Gye^ and Joh)i Smith, being at a meeting of y°
People called Quakers at the house of Isaac Self in Lavington,
were by John James, constable, and other rude fellows taken
and brought before Richard Lewis, who committed them to
prison, where they were badly used and lay amongst felons,
by whom Edward Gye had his cloathes stript from his back
to his shirt. After some time they were had to the Quarter
Sessions held for the said County, where Wm. Swanton sitting
' The name of "Gye of Market Lavington " appears almost annually in
the Register down to the year 1754. In 1757 died " Elizabeth Gye of Lav-
ington, a publick Friend."
1 76 IViltsliirc Notes o)id Queries.
as Judge fined them fforty Shillings per man. And because
they could not for conscience sake pa}' it, were re-committed to
prison again, where the}' remained prisoners near ten years.
Jane Selfe, wife of Isaac Selfe, for entertaining a meeting
at their house, it being in the time of her husband's imprison-
ment, was carried before Justice Lewis who without any exami-
nation had of y^ matter, committed her to prison ....
where she remained near ten years.
1670. Severall Friends, being met together upon y^ 22nd
of y° 3 mo. at Chippenham to wait upon the Lord, were fined
for the said meeting twenty-five Pounds ten Shillings for which
their goods were destrained to the value of forty-one Pounds,
eleven Shillings and four Pence. The aforesaid ffriends at
Chippenham being again met together on the 23rd of 8 mo.
were fined twenty-nine pounds fifteen shillings, for which they
had goods taken from them to the value of seventy-three
pounds ten shillings. And soon after were again fined for the
same meeting fort3'-three pounds fifteen shillings. On the
20th of 9 mo. the aforesaid Friends were fined for assembling
themselves in y® highway, being kept out of their house where
they usually met. [On another date being met together for
the same purpose] they were fined twenty-five pounds, for
which they had goods taken away to double the value, but by
appealing they were restored, and being again assembled were
fined fifty-eight pounds, ffor which fine the officers of the
same town did distrain their goods to the value of ninety-nine
pounds, sixteen shillings.
1686 George Harris, Robert Shcrgold and Phillip Pine
writes from Sarum the 29th of the 7 month as followeth : — The
Constables have seized the goods of Phillip Pine, Robert Slier-
gold and Roger Wheeler to a considerable value and have car-
ried them away and valued them, and as we suppose have sold
them. . . . The informers^ are resolved in their minds to
' Informers carried on a very lucrative business under the Conventicle
Acts, and were often very unscrupulous men, delighting in injustice. Their
names are not infrequently given iii the Register of Suflerings.
Quakerism in IViltshire. 177
prosecute us to y" utmost they can. Some of us have been
with the Ma\'or of Sarum, as also with several Justices to per-
swade them to deal friendly by us ; some of them said they
would doe us any kindness, but the Informers coming so hard
upon them, made them afraid that if they did not answer their
wills, they should be made some hundred pounds to loose.
One of the sufferers saying to the informers Its bad work to
ruin ffamilys and take the bread out of our children's mouth,
Thomas Hopkins, informer, Inkeeper in the city of New
Sarum, said We will first strip you of 3'our goods, and let you
bloud, and afterwards we will hang you. The names of the
other informers are Thomas Parice, an officer for the King to
look after uncustomed Goods, Chamberlain, Chiurgeon, living
in the close of New Sarum. For two peaceable Meetings, 1 2
of them (being poor) were fined ^147 — some of whom their
Goods have been distreined and carried into the Towne Hall of
New Sarum, where they still remain, and one poor man hath
upwards of eight pounds worth lying there. The Informers
have not since disturbed ffriends' meetings, nor meddled with
seizing any more goods.
"Sufferings on the Poll Act as Preachers.^ "
1690. Roger Cook^ of Stanly was assessed by George
Scott and Richd. Bayly for a Teacher at the Quakers Conven-
ticle (soe called) to the value of twenty shillings, and took
away a hogg worth thirty shilling.
' Quakerism has never recognised the distinction of " clergy " and
"laity," but all through its history there have been persons who, though they
do not form a separated class of people, or are distinguished by dress or oc-
cupation from their fellow members, have more or less frequently ministered
words of comfort or exhortation in the gatherings of their people ; and such
were known as " publick ffriends " in early and " ministers " in later times.
Under the Conventicle Act of 1670, any one found speaking in the meeting
broken in upon by the authorities was to forfeit for the first offence £20,
and if repeated £^, to be levied on any of the hearers. At times a fine was
imposed when there had not been any preaching.
- Rogrer Cook was a •' Publick Friend "—lie died in 1718.
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Mary Gouldney^ of Chippenham, widow, had seized and
taken from her one great Kettle and a Pott the value of
twenty-eight shillings by Thomas Slade and Joseph Jones, by
vertue of a Warrant from Samuel Ash and Joseph Fitcharbert
commissioners for Twenty Shillings demanded of her as a
Teacher or Preacher.
1693. William Hiilil of Sarum, George Archer of Cors-
ham, and John Sparrow of Langly Burhill, were sufferers on
the Poll Act as Preachers (by distress), and VVni. Goodsheep of
Chippenham was also a sufferer (by imprisonment).
Marriage.2
1679. Ralph Withers of Bishops Cannings having frce-
' Mary Gouldney was also a " Pnblick Friend." Friends have always
acknowledged that women as well as men may be and are called to the
public office of teaclier or preacher. The first preacher of the Society, after
George Fox, was a woman, and the first to preach in London of this sect
was also a woman. The Friends have ever had many " women who laboured
in the gospel." M. G. died in 1713.
2 This the only instance of suffering on account of marriage that I have
come across in the volume, but the question came often to the fore in early
days. By the persistent refusal of Friends to be " married by a Priest," the
legislature has been moved to grant by numerous special Acts of Parliament
permission to them, and to others under their supervision, to marry in accor-
dance with their own religious views, and without the presence of the public
registrar, or even registration of building, provided the marriage take place
in a building regularly used for worship. Great care has always been exer-
cised before permitting contracting parties to proceed to their marriage, as
is evidenced in a little quarto volume before me covering the time between
1009 and 1078, and containing decisions of various Wiltshire meetings on
the question, some of them not hurrieilly arrived at!
Sewel says : " In their methods of marriage they also depart from the
common way. It is their custom that when any intend to enter into mar-
riage, they first having the consent of parents or guardians, acquaint the
respective men's and women's meetings of their intention, and after due
inquiry all things appearing clear, they in a public meeting [for divine
worship, as Friends have always looked upon marriage as a religious and
pot a more civil compact] solemnly take each other in marriage, with a
promise of love and fidelity, and not to leave one another till death separates
them. Of this a certificate is drawn mentioning the names and distinc-
tions of the jiersons thus joined, which being first signed by themselves,
those then that are present sign as witnesses."
Quakerism in IViltsliirc. 179
dom to take a wife according to the good example and anticnt
usage of Holy men of God recorded in the Scriptures of Trutli,
and though his marriage was publickly solemnized and openly
consummated (as God's word and Truth allows), yet for that
he was not married according to the will and pleasure of the
Priests and spiritual court (so called) it was deemed a clandes-
tine Marriage. And without any presentation or due citation
as ever he saw or heard of, he was excommunicated, and al-
though he offered to appear at this Court yet he was denied it,
and by means of George Froom, proctor, or some of y° afore-
said Court, he was cast into prison.
Non-swearing.^
1660. Thomas Neat writes from Chippenham that the
justices of the County of Wilts had out John IVi/kinson, Robert
^ The Society of Friends has throughout its history held firmly that
the New Testament teaching is against swearing of all kinds, judicial
equally with profane, and that its standard of truth -speaking makes an oath
unnecessary, and as a consequence this non-juring body sufifered severely
and long in imprisonment, praemunire, forfeiture of goods, excommunica-
tion, as well as many disabilities in civil life. When all other means failed
to obtain a conviction, the persecuting powers would tender some oath, as
allegiance to the Throne, the supremacy of the King, or abjuration of the
Pope, and because the Friends could not take these oaths, though true to
the Government in all matters where conscientious allegiance to a Higher
Power did not intervene, this last resource rarely failed to add weight to the
patient sufferers' burdens. It is an interesting chapter in the history of the
advance of religious liberty, but we must not linger over it. The Toleration
Act (1 William and Mary), which was the dawn of a day of freedom to
oppressed Quakerism, contained the first instalment of relief on the account
of judicial swearing in a clause specially inserted for Friends ; and from
time to time the door of liberty was more widely opened, till in 1833 (3 and
4 William IV) it was enacted that " the people called Quakers " should
have permission to make a solemn affirmation in all cases where an oath is
usually required. The obligation of a form of affirmation was at first a
little difficulty in the minds of some in a Society abjuring formality, and
this feeling was shared by Wiltshire Friends, who resolved in their
"Quarterly Meeting at the Devizes, y^ 1st day of 11 mo. 1G93," to desire the
Meeting for Sufferings to arrange " \' ffriends bee left to their yea and nay
free from a set forme of speech," but ere long good sense prevailed, and
the Society thankfully accepted this great relief.
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Star, and divers other ffriends to prison, because for con-
science sake they could not swear. And that yesterday y°
souldiers of y** said County Troop pulled the walls of y"
burying place belonging to flfriends downe (which cost about
ftbrty pounds the building it with stone), and gave away and
sold y° Timber, door, and iron work and cramps to a smith for
old iron (ffriends knowing no order for their so doing), likewise
the rude rabble of people took and carried away many things.
1680. The case of Thomas Withers of Bishops Cannings,
is as folio weth (viz.) : T. W. had a considerable estate left
him by his father, at first granted by a Coppy of Court Roll
for three lives and widdows and estate, according to the
custom of the Mannor ; as a Reversioner in this grant he hath
some time enjoyed it, and was presented Tenant by the
homage, and paid his Rent several times as a Tenant. Now
the Mannor belongs to the Bishop of Sarum, and he hath
farmed it out to one John Methwin, Esq., who is now lord of
the Mannor, who hath sometimes favoured Friends hereaways
in such cases, and hath accepted and suffered several to enjoy
their estates without swearing or any trouble. But this
Friend's Estate (probably) seeming to him as convenient to
him as Naboth's vineyard did to Ahab, he takes occasion
(because for Conscience sake he cannot swear fealty, as they
call it) to take it away, and to that end hath proceeded and
sent a declaration of ejectment to which the ffriend is to
appear this Term and to have a tryall next Assizes at Sarum
as they say. Attested by John Bezer, Isaac Self, Edward
Luff, John Gibbons, Wm. Isaac, John Clark, and Ralph
Withers.
1684. John Jay, of the parish of Castlecome, ^ Henry
Pinnel of y" parish of Liealemore, Edward Smart oi Grittleton,
' These names of places are clearly written in the transcript before me,
but if (as is probable) it was made in London, the writer may not have
correctly read all the letters of the original. Z. Fry belonged to Kington
Meeting, and therefore his place of residence must probably be read
Sutton Beiiger. Liealemore may be Leigh Delamere.
Uuakcrism in IVillsliirc. iSi
John Stephens, Joseph Punter, Robert Smith, all of y* parish of
llullavington, Charles Barrel, senr., of Kington St. Michael,
Zephaniah Fry of Stocambanger, all being at a peaceable
meeting, Thomas Stoaks of Kington afores**, churchwarden,
with others, came to the meeting, kept them in by force whilst
he went and got a warrant from a justice, and then kept them
in the same house all night, and y° morrow carried them before
justice Talbot, who tendered them the oath, and for refusing to
swear committed them to prison where the}^ remained three
months.
1684. Joh)i Cotnly, NicJioIas Persons, Jane Hancock, and
Mary Fra>iklin, all of the parish of Melksham, Mary Smith
and Jone Shell, of Rowd, Mary Sel/e, of Broomham, Mary
Gerrish and Mary Martin, of y^ parish of Bishops Cannings,
and Martha Somner and Mary Somner of y^ parish of Sene,
being peaceable met together at Broomham the 1st of y° 12
mo., Gilbert Talbot and Sherrington Talbot, justices, and
Thomas Wyat, priest of Broomham, with others, came to y°
meeting and took y™ prisoners and tendered y™ y® Oath, and
for refusing to swear committed them to prison where they
remained 5 weeks. Witness — John Comly, Jane Shell.
Popish Recusants.^
1682. John Harris of Goatacre being prosecuted in the
Court of Exchequer as a Popish Recusant for 2 thirds of his
Estate to the King, had seizure made upon his goods to the
value of twenty-nine pounds.
Israel Noyse had taken from him eight beasts for eleven
pounds 13' and 4** pretended to be due to the King as a for-
feiture, he being returned into the Exchequer as a Popish Re-
cusant. The cattle were worth nineteen pounds.
Here follows a Copp}' of a Certificate under the hands of
' The Friends were often confused with other bodies less scrupulous in
their methods, and often chartred with being Papists. Here it is seen that
among their enemies there were those who could discern the difference.
O
1 82 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
several Justices of y° Peace and other Gentlemen, concerning
the clearness of Friends upon the account of Popish Recu-
sants. " Wilts. May it please y" Majesty. We whose names
are underwritten being Justices of the Peace and other Gentle-
men in the county of Wilts do hereby humbly certify. That
Israel Noyse of Cain in y° s** county, Sergemaker, Arthur
EastDicad of the same, woolendraper, and John Harris of
Goatacre in the county aforesaid. Clothier, who are prosecuted
in Exchequer as Popish Recusants, etc., are of peaceable and
quiet behaviour and do not give disturbance to the Govern-
ment, and are not reputed Papists nor Popish Recusants, but
are some of those Dissenters called Quakers in the s^ county.
Witness our hands : — James Long, Walter Norborne, George
Johnson, William Duckett, and Henry Chivers."
Holy Days. ^
1 66 1. John Hickman of Studly in y° parish of Cain, for
working at the time called Whitsontide was beaten very much
with a Rcap-hook by John Norborne of Cain in the house of
John Hickman. At which time his wive's brother was sorely
stabbed with a Rapier in the thigh by one of the rude
Company.
Militia. 2
175S. John Bullock, jr.:, of Hullington being drawn a
^ There has been a very general objection taken by Friends to the
"observance of days'' as connected witli formalism and human appoint-
ment.
^ Of all the many " testimonies " Friends have felt called upon to bear,
the one against War is perhaps the best known to others, partly because of
the consistent line of conduct taken by their late honored fellow member,
John Bright (whose ancestors lived near Lyneham in this county), in public
and private life. A public pronouncement of the Society on this subject
states its belief that " all war is utterly incompatible with the plain pre-
cepts of Christ and with the whole spirit and tenor of His Gospel." Nine-
teenth century Quakerism is as strong on this question as either that of the
seventeenth or eighteenth, and has also its tale of sufferers for this bolief
in various parts of the world. The Friends accept the teaching of the
Sermon on the Mount very literally, and believe the standpoint of physical
non-resistance to evil and injury to be the right one for the Christian.
Khig Alfred" s Moot-place. 183
Militia man, and refusing to pay the hire of a substitute had
thirty shillings detain'd by Wni Bishop a farmer of that place,
for work done by the said John Bullock and which money was
paid by Wm Bishop, in lieu of two guineas, to James Field,
the hired substitute.
1760. Joh)i Baker of Melksham had taken from him a
Horse value ten pounds for refusing to swear as a Militiaman,
or hire a substitute, when it fell to his lot by ballot.
In conclusion, there can be no doubt, I think, that the
methods adopted b\' those whom we have in these pages
allowed to tell their tale, and many others in this and other
counties and countries, have brought about changes in the law
and the customs sooner and with less suffering than any
resort to force of arms or insurrectionary movement would
have done. The Quaker poet Whittier says :
" With its gentler mission of peace and goodwill,
Tlie thought of the Quaker is living still,
And the freedom of soul he prophesied
Is gospel and law where the martyrs died."
Norman Penney.
Beth-seplicr, Melksham.
WHERE WAS THE MOOT-PLACE, SWINBEORH, OF
KING ALFRED'S WILL?
So many battles of controversy have been fought over
the battle-fields of Ethelrcd and Alfred, that we may take
comfort in settling down (if so it may be) upon one point
where we may fairly believe that a chief transaction of King
Alfred's lifetime took place within the county of Wilts, and in
the heart of his kingdom of Wessex.
o 2
iS.} ll'illshirc Nolcs and Uiicrics.
I wisli to bring this historic site into some worthy position
of prominence. It is only a few 3'cars since it was for the
first time ascertained, as I believe ; and, as far as I am aware,
no adequate attention has been bestowed upon it.
Happily our nation is in possession of King Alfred's
will, which is contained in the register of his new minster,
Hyde Abbey, which he endowed at Winchester. This
document is in the British Museum {Stoive M.S 960, />. 48.^
It is published b}^ Dr. Pauli at the end of his Life of King
Alfi'ed {/raiis/alion revised by flie author, edited by Thomas
]V right, London, Benthy. 1S52, p. 408); also by Dr. W. de
Grey Birch, in his Cartidariiim Saxonicum.
In a preamble to his will, King Alfred recites some
matters of high interest in his own previous life to this effect:
I. That his father King Ethelvvulf had left estates to
his three sons, Ethelbald, Ethelred, and Alfred, and the
survivor.
II. That on Ethelbald's death the others entrusted
Ethelbert, their eldest surviving brother, with this property
to transfer it to them in due time as he had received it.
This was done " with all tlie West Saxon Witan's
witness." And this he did duly as promised.
III. When Ethelred succeeded, Alfred prayed him before
the nobles to divide the inheritance, but he replied that he
could not easily do so because it was a mi.xed property re-
ceived at different times, but that Alfred should be his heir of
all, " and I was then well satisfied with this ", says Alfred.
IV. Then follows this most interesting clause, which 1
give from Dr. Giles* published translation : — " But it came to
pass that we all by the heathen folk despoiled were. Then
discoursed we concerning our children, that they would need
some support to be given by us out of these estates, as to us
was given. Tiicn ivere we in Council at Swinbeorg ; when we
two declared, in the West Saxon's nobles' presence, that
which soever of us two were longest liver that he would give
to the other's children those lands that wc two ourselves had
King .'llfraVs Mout-plocc. 1S5
acquired, and those lands that Atliulf [Ethchvulf] the king
gave to us two, while Ethelbold was Hving; except those tliat
he to us three brothers bequeathed," etc., etc.
V. Then Alfred recites that Ethclred deceased without
any change in this agreement, and tliat he therefore brought
the will of his Father into the Witan at Langdene and had it
read, and pra^^ed them all for his love to declare the right,
lest any man should say that he had wrongfully excluded his
kinsfolk, whether elder or younger, and they declared all to
be right.
"Now (said they) it is all delivered there into tliy hand :
wherefore thou mayest bequeath and give it, either to a
relation or a stranger, as may be to thee most eligible."
Then follows King Alfred's testamentary disposition of his
estates among his kindred.
Several questions arise out of this narrative, such as
these : —
(A.) IV/icrc was the IVitena-gcniote lioldcn loliich Alfred
describes as being " (el Swlnbeorgum ".^ I had long believed
that this name was to be found in the hundred of Swan-
borough in Wilts, but no place was known to have given its
name to the hundred.
At last, however, Mr. G. Laurence Gomme {^* Priniilive
Folk-Mools." Sampson Low, 18S0, /». loS.) gave the clue
thus : —
" The Rev. R. Nicholson kindly informs me that by the
side of the road between Woodborough and Pcwsey, Wilts,
and in the parish of Manningford Bruce, is a hillock on which
grow two or three ash-trees of no great age, but which ma}'
possibly spring from the site of an old tree. It is called
' Swanborough tump,' or 'Swanborough Ashes.' The name
of the hundred is Swanborough; and within the memory of
an old man who died a few years ago Courts used to be held
there."
The change of the vowel from long / to a seems to be
accounted for if the name were formed from Swain (A. S.
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IViUshire Nolcs and Queries.
Swan) and not from Swine (A. S. Swin). In that case the
country-folk pronounce the vowel as a diphthong (Swain)
■c,„.;
^ING ^LFRED'S yVioOT-PLACE.
which would soon pass into Swan, as the name of a parish
near Bath, Swanswick, is also spelt Swainswick.
King A IJ red's Moot-place. 187
Mr. Gomme writes to me : — " I should certainly think
your opinion on the variant vowel correct, especially as you
illustrate it by local dialect."
Mrs. Story Maskelyne has taken great interest in this
spot, Swanborough Tump, and collected valuable info.imation ;
and Professor Riicker has made a sketch of the mound and
the ash-trees, which is engraved for the present part of
IViltshire Notes and Queries.
The Rector of Woodborough, the Rev. J. Sturton, writes
to me : —
" I have asked the oldest man in the parish, and he says
he thinks the present ash trees are about 40 or 50 years old,
and that they grew up in the place of old ones which preceded
them. I do not know of any other barrows or heaps near the
spot "; and to Mrs. Story Maskelyne's inquiries, the owner of
the land, Mr. A. Grant Meek, writes (Oct. 11, 96): "I have
this day paid a visit to " Swanborough Tump," which con-
sists, as you probably know, of three ash trees at the present
time, one much older apparently than the other two, standing
on a mound. You are rightly informed as to the Tump
standing on my land close to the road leading from Wood-
borough to Pewsey and at the corner of a coppice known as
Frith. The Tump I have never heard of before, though the
people talk of " Swanborough Ash," this having reference, I
presume, to the older of the three trees, which is a good
deal maimed owing to the lapse of years."
The name Frith^ which the copse bears, seems to me very
interesting as well as ancient, for it would denote a sacred
grove, or " sanctuary " (as in the " Frith-stools " at Beverley,
etc.) But it may also guide us to an ancient boundary here,
for the Rev. R. Nicholson sent me an extract from an old
Charter of Milton Abbey (Harl. MS. 436) giving the boun-
dary of North Newnton Parish " along the Frithen path and
Sondbeorgh." Now this parish seems to adjoin the ground
where Frith Wood is.
At any rate, I think those who rest under the shade of
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this venerable ash tree may safely feel assured that they are
on the moot-place of the West Saxon Witan where Ethelred
and Alfred so fraternally settled the business of their family
estates.
We must not omit to notice that the " original hundred of
Swanborough comprised only the east portion of what it now
includes ; it included Manningford Abbas, held by the Abbot of
St. Peter's, Winchester" {notes to Jones's Domesday).
Now Mr. H. Richardson writes to Mrs. .Story Maskelyne
that Swanborough Tump " is in the parish of Manningford
Abbots " [and not Manningford Bruce, as Mr. Nicholson
thought]. Since this parish was held by the Abbey of
Winchester it would surely have been likely to be granted
to that foundation by King Alfred, so that this spot appears
to have been part of his land, of which he possessed so much
in this neighbourhood.
(B.) When did the moot at Swinbeorh take place ?
This is a most interesting question. Perhaps we may
answer it rightly thus : —
After the great victory of Ashdown the invaders seem to
have made across the country into Hampshire, probably to gain
support from the coast, but about a fortnight after Ashdown
fight, Ethelred and Alfred fought them again at Basing, where,
being in force, after a long contest they gained the victory.
"And about two months after this", says the Sa.xon
Clironicle, " Ethelred and Alfred, his brother, fought against
the army at Meretun ; and they were in two bodies, and they
put both to flight, and during a great part of the day were
victorious ; and there was great slaughter on citlier hand; but
the Danes had possession of the place of carnage, and there
Bishop Heahmund was slain, and many good men."
Now where was tliis Meretun? (Merton). I think the
answer to this question is to be found in one of two places in
this part of Wilts. The Rev. R. Nicholson wrote to nic from
Beechingstoke (May 13, 1884): "The ne.xt parish to this is
called Marden (Merhdaencj which is generally identified with
King Al/rcifs Moul-placc. iSy
the Maeretune where Ethelred was mortally wounded. . . .
Close to Marden, and in my parish, is a singular intrenchment
described in Cough's Ounden's Bn'/aiinia, within which stood,
till about forty years ago, the largest barrow in these parts,
next to Silbury.
The barrow was removed for a dressing to the fields by a
Coth of a farmer, but this enclosure was probably like Ave-
bury, a religious enclosure as, like Avebury, the earth was
thrown outward from the ditch, but there are traditions of a
battle. The boundary between Wilsford and Marden is still
called Wilsford Mxv."
On the other hand, the Rev. W. H. Simcox wrote to me
(November i6, 1885) : — " 1 have lately been studying the topo-
graphy of King Alfred's life, and was staying for some days
last June in the Vale of Pewsey ; so I much regret that I did
not then know of your theor3' ; a different one had occurred
to myself — that the ancient Swinburgh is the modern Swin-
don (old Swindon) — the two names being related, as the
Brunanburh of the Chronicle is to the Brundon (I think is the
spelling) of Ethelward ; I cannot find Swanborough in the
map (the old Ordnance Map) of the district: but if, as I
understand, it is west of Pewsey, 1 shall be curious to know
when you suppose Ethelred to hav^e gone there. If, as I
believe, Ethelred's last battle was at Marton, a little to the
east of Savernake forest, it would be intelligible that Ethelred
(who, everybody agrees without very direct evidence, was
mortally wounded there) went to Swanborough after the
battle to make his will : but I don't know at what earlier
stage in the campaign he could have gone so far to the south
west, and surely Alfred implies that, at the time the}- were
there, it was an even chance which of the brothers died first."
I feel deeply indebted to Mr. Simcox, for I was not aware
before of the existence of the little place Marton, which
appears to me to fit well with the data, for Marton, and not
Marden, is the equivalent of Meretun. After the battle of
Basing we may well believe that the reinforced army of the
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Norsemen would make their way again into the heart of
Wessex, working for 30 miles across the rich country of
northern Hampshire. The King and Alfred would have fallen
back once more upon Alfred's own homestead [for Bedwin and
Pewsey and Alton and other places in this part of Wilts be-
longed to him] and the Wiltshire folk flocked to his banner, as
afterwards at Ethandun.
Two months had been gained for these musters. Then
befel the fatal fight at Merton, and the men of Wessex would
fall back westwards, and their council would be summoned to
some well known spot in this great emergency.
1 think Mr. Simcox has explained the matter well.
Dr. Pauli puts the mote at Swi'nbeorgh before the battle
of Mcrton ; but this seems less probable.
Bishop Heahmund's body was taken away to Keynsham
in Somerset for burial ; and King Ethelred when he died was
buried at Wimbornc Minster in Dorset. These places being
far away from the lost battle-field, doubtless to ensure safety
of sepulture.
I trust that thus both the place and time of this most in-
teresting transaction in the life of our greatest king may be held
as ascertained by those who are best acquainted with the data,
IVesloH-SKper-Mare, Henry George Tomkins.
Nov. 30, 1896.
NONSUCH HOUSE, BROMHAM.'
It is stated in T/ic Devizes and IVilishire Gazette of 9th July
1835, that Nonsuch House, Bromham, "was built by Lord Digby
in 1646, of whom there is a portrait suspended in the drawing-
* By the courtesy of Mr. Meredith-Brown, and his solicitors, Messrs.
Keary and Stokes, of Chippenham, we have been permitted to inspect a
number of copies and abstracts of documents from 1717 to 1858, to whom,
and also to Mr. W. H. Barrett of Chippenham, Mr. E. Kite of West Ashton,
and the Rev. E. B. Edgell, rector of Bromham, we desire to express our
indebtedness. We must apologise for the incompleteness of this article,
owing to the haste with which it has been written, as the documents above
referred to reached us too late for a thorough search to supplement the
information derived from them.
'm
^'"^■'f?
Nonsuch House, Broiuliaiu. 191
room, and from whom it descended to the Norris's". We can
find no evidence of the truth of this statement, either in whole
or in part, and it seems unhkely that either John Digby, Earl
of Bristol (1580-1653), or his son, Lord George Digby (1612-
1676), who were among the most zealous supporters of the
royal cause during the civil war, would commence building
operations between the outbreak and the death of the king.
The Norrises of Nonsuch emerge from obscurity in the
person of a certain William Norris, whose epitaph and coat of
arms in Bromham church show that he was born in or about
the year 1656, and claimed descent from the noble family of
Norreys of Speke, co. Lancaster.^ From the Register of
Admissions to the Middle Temple, London, we learn that he
was admitted to that Inn on 23rd October, 1678, as "William
Norris, son and heir of Edward Norris, of Bradford, co. Wilts,
gentleman." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Sclfe
of Benacre (as shown in the following pedigree), by whom
he had three sons (John, William, and Selfe) and two
daughters (Mary and Elizabeth).
Edward Selfe of Melksham =
Mary Fitch of Bath = Isaac of Beuacre, born 1564, died 1656 =
Ruth Roman = Jacob = Mary .Vshe of Freshford Isaac of = 12 daughters
of Hilmarlou of Beuacre
d. 1702, set. 82
Place House,
Melksham.
Will dated 1682
I III
Isaac =^ Penelope d and Elizabeth Jacob of Thomas
b. circa 1665. co-heir of Chas. married Place House Rector of Brom-
of Benacre Lord Lucas, William died 1730 ham 1717-42.
and the Mid- married 1690 Norris
die Temple
Auu, co-heiress = Thos. Mechueu of Bradford, ancestor of the Methueus of
Corsbam.
* Of the tame family, probably, were John Norris, sheriff of Wilts in
1440 and 144S ; Thomas Noreys, patron of Leigh-de-la-mere 1465-1487;
Gabriel Norris, bailiff of Chippenham in 1088, and one of the parties to a
deed of loth April 1698, by which Sir Edward Hungerford, Lord of the
Manor of Chippenham, granted a cottage to John Norris, senr., John
Norris his son, and his brother Gabriel Norris. In the 17th century we find
among the Sarum and P.C.C. wills, testators of the same name at Colling-
bourne Kingston, Wroughton, Cricklade, Clyffe Pypard, Wootton Bassett,
Brinkworth, Wilcot, Broadhinton, Bremhill, Fosbury, and Chippenham.
iy2 IVillshire Notes and (Jnerics.
Whetlicr Nonsuch came to him wilh his wife, or by purchase,
we do not know. It appears to have been settled on llic
marriage of his son John with EHzabeth Thresher of Bradford,
in 1716.^ B}' his will, dated 1 7 1 7, apparently under a power
reserved to him under the last-mentioned marriage settlement,
William Norris left to his wife the use for life of his house and
grounds and household effects at Nonsuch. 2
' Of this settlement, I have no knowledge except its mention in the
settlement of 1747. A fine of the same year is as follows : — 3 Geo. I. Fine
between Isaac Selfe, [esquire,] Richard Long, [esquire,] and John Thresher,
[esquire,] plaintiffs, and William Norris, [esquire,] and Elizabeth, his wife,
John Norris, [esquire,] and Charles Reeves and Mary, his wife, deforciants
of the manor of Chippenham Sheldon, and Lowden. [with the appurte-
nances,] and [various] properties in Broinham, Chippenham, Milkesham,
Avebury, Bishop's Cannings, Chitto, and Bradford.
Canon Jackson says, " From tlie union of the Lowden and Sheldon
estates under tlio Gascelyns [in 1272], the manor of Chippenham came to be
called (as it still continues to be) the manor of Chippenham, Sheldon and
Lowdoii.' It was sold by Sir Edward Hungerford, in 1G8-1, to Richard
Kent, esq., of TiOndon, afterwards Sir Richard Kent, Kt., and .M.P. for
Chippenham, from whom it passed to Sir Richard Hart in 1698, and in 1710
was bought of the latter by William Norris, of Lincoln's Inn.
■■^ By his will of ;51st July 1717 (proved 1st June 1731), William Norris,
"of Lincoln's Inn", gave to his wife "the use of my house and gardens,
stables and outhouses, and liuuselKjld goods at Nonsuch"; to his son
William "all my freeholil and copyhold messuages, lands, and tenements
tliat I purchased of Mr. Henry Kutley (? Rutty), ' Mr. Samuel Self, and
William Ast " ; to his son John '-the lands whicli I purchased of John
Paradice", ' and in tail mnle "all my frcelxild and copyhold lands at
Chitto"; to his son Sclfe - "all my copyhold lands in Bradford which I
hold under the Lady Kingston". Legacies to " Sir William Hanham ^ and
my daughter, his wife" ; " to my undutiful and disobedient daughter
Elizabeth wife of William Smart"; and to " my brother Edward Norris".'
" And I desire ray son John to buy my sister ' Smith's life in the household
estate.s, which her husband now holds under John Hall, late of Bradford,
esquire."
(1) 8 Anne. Fine between William Noni.i, enquire, and John Norria, gentleman,
plaintiffs, and Henry Kiitty and Mary, his wife, Kicliard Coxeter, esquire, and liarbara,
his wife, .Jolm I'aradise and Hannali, liis wife, and Itichard Slump ami ftfaiy, liis wife,
deforciants of three messuages and other property in Melksliani, Seen, Bronihani, and
llowde.
(2) In the diary of Thomas Smith, of Shaw, wo read that on 1st May 1721, he called
on Selfe Norris at Chance Ally, London, in order to consult him.
(.1) Sir William Hanham, of Neston, was the son of Jane, only daughter of William
Eyre, of Neston Tark.
(4) Kdwaril Norris and Mrs. Smith must be classed as unknown, but it seems
protialde that Nicholas Norris, wlio lived at ]j\ ccrofi, near IJcvisies, and in 1727 held
10 acres in the Old I'ark, nearly opposite his house on the Bath Uoad, and a party to
fines o 11 Auue and 2 Geo. II, was another brother of the testator
Nonsuch House, Brotuhaiu. 193
The testator, William Norris, appears to have become
possessed of Nonsuch at the end of the seventeenth, or the
beginning of the eighteenth, century, and we are indebted to
Mr. Edward Kite for the following description of it : —
" At Nonsuch, as at Sheldon,^ Mr. Norris seems to
have indulged his taste for improvements — but to a much
greater extent; for (apparently about the year 1700) the older
house of Lord Digby was partly pulled down, and its remain-
ing portions accomodated to an entirely new front, uniform in
style, and altogether with its entrance gateway, walled court,
and balustrade work, a good specimen of the type of domestic
architecture prevalent during the reign of Queen Anne. The
terrace garden seems also to have been laid out at the same
period. Here are two larch trees, ^ traditionally said to
have been some of the first trees of this kind planted in
England, and brought to Nonsuch in flower pots. From the
brashy nature of the soil they have never flourished there, and,
although now quite old, are comparatively very small speci-
mens of their kind. The stables are perhaps of older date
than the front of the present house, which has continued
to the present time without any material alteration to interfere
with the uniformity of its outline. In the garden front a
projecting window has been added with very good effect.
"To the older building of Lord Digby belongs apparently
a relic still preserved in the house, but at present unfixed.
This is the cast iron back of a fire grate, which the writer
remembers years ago to have seen in use in one of the rooms
on the ground floor, with the date of about 1690. It represents
the full faced figure of a blacksmith, in the costume of the
• •• The house here [i.e. Sheldon], which was almo.«t entirely rebuilt in
its present form in the reign of the first James or Charles, seems to have
undergone considerable alteration at the time of Mr. Norris's purchase, for
many of the windows, two fireplaces in the first floor, and the quaint sun-
dial on the gable of the porch, are of this date."
- In the Sale Particulars of 1844 it was menti(>ned that on the property
were two " Larch Trees'', supposed to be the first planted in England.
194 IVillsliire Notes and Queries.
period, holding a large hammer — a forge and other accessories
being near him."
Mr. Kite also thus explains the ill-feeling of John Rolt,
afterwards Vicar of Bromham, exhibited in a somewhat
peculiar manner against Mr. Norris.
"The following letter, written at about this date b}' a
member of the Danvers family, and addressed to Walter
Grubbe, Esq., Potterne, is here given, as it may help to explain
a history which attaches to the monument of Mr. Norris in
Bromham Church.
" Sib,
" Last post but one, I gave you account of my Intentions concerning
Mr. Norris. 1 wish I had scene you first as I did Sr. Ed. Warneford here.
My desire is that I be noe way an obstruction to y® busines, nor that a snare
to mee. I cannot safely act with a man [who] has deceaved me .soe much.
I can never believe him more, and y^ rather than that he will indeaver to
putt all the quicks and tricks of his profession in my way, as hee has al-
reddye don ; if hee be found soe necessarye as not to be parted with, I shall
be glad to be discharged myselfe, without giving anye offence or hindrance
to those that ar concerned in ye busines, which (I hope) in your integritye
will justifye
" Your most humble servant
" June ye 25." John Da'veks."
Addressed to " Walter Grubb, Esq.,
Att his house in Potterne.
To be left with y^ Post Master
At ye Devizes,
" Franke." Wilts."
"In the year 1691 the then representative of the Baynton
family, who had for nearly two centuries been lords of
Bromham, died at the early age of twenty-seven, leaving two
young children — a son and daughter — under the guardianship
of Walter Grubbe, Esq., of Eastwell House, Potterne, M.P. for
t)evizes. After the death of their mother, in 1703, Mr. Grubbe,
as guardian to these friendless children, took them under his
charge, and they were brought up at Eastwell, where the
accounts for their clothing and education are still preserved.
The son married into the family of Brouncker, of Earlstoke,
and in 17 16, like his father, died 3'oung, leaving no children,
and the sister, the survivor of the two, became the heiress of
Nonsuch House y BromUam. 195
the Broniham estates, which she conveyed by marriage into
the family of Rolt. Of her children one son — Edward — became
her heir, and a younger son — John Rolt — was afterwards
Rector of Bromhani.
"Mrs. Rolt, their mother, died in 1734, Mr. Grubbe, her
guardian, in 17 15, and Mr. Norris the elder, in 1730, and it is
apparently to some business in connection with the Bromham
property and its heiress, which had been entrusted to Mr.
Norris, that the letter from John Danvers to Mr. Grubbe refers.
The Baynton and Danvers families were connected by the
marriage of Sir Henry Baynton, M.P. for Devizes, who
died in 16 16, with Lucy, daughter of Sir John Danvers, of
which lady, buried in Westminster Abbey 162 1, there is a
portrait at Eastwell.
"Mr. Norris died 7th September 1730, at the age of seventy-
four, and was buried in Bromham Church — the Rev. Thomas
Selfe (a cousin of Mrs. Norris) being at that time Rector of
the parish, and a marble monument was erected to his memory
by his eldest son and executor. It was placed in the chancel,
within the altar rail, close to the Beauchamp Chapel contain-
ing the tombs of the Baynton family, and bore the following
eulogistic inscription, surmounted by an urn, and a shield
bearing the arms of Norris impaling Selfe : —
"H. S. E.
Gulielmus Norris Armiger
Hospitii Lincolniensis Socius Legium
Municipaliuni Peritus, Patronus et assertor
Rebus adversis major, par secundis,
Summis et Animi et corporis facultatibus
Spartam quam nactus est ornavit
Qui invidet minor est dum prolis numerosa
Feliciter inserviret commodis laboribus et state confectns
Piacide obdormivit 7 Sept. A.D. 1730
Postquam annos scptuaginta et quatuor impleverat
Ne patris optimi de familia sua amplissime
De pauperibus clientibus quara maxime promerite
Pereat memoria hoc exiguum immcnsi amoris pietatis
Et gratitudinis monumentum f. f.
Johannes Norris Armiger
Hasres executor testamentarius."
196 // iltsliiir Notes and (Jitcncs.
"Ill 1741 the Rev. John Rolt, younger son of tlie heiress
of Ba3'nton, succeeded Mr. Self a- l^cctor of Bromham, and
four 3'ears later he was appointed cliaplain in ordinary to tlie
Prince of Wales. Although he was only nineteen years old
at the time of Mr. Norris's death, he appears to have had a
bitter recollection of some unscrupulous injury, inflicted on his
family by that individual through " the quicks and tricks of his
profession", and in 1775— forty-five years after Mr. Norris's
death— on the erection of a tablet in the church to Dr. Season,
a noteworthy parishioner, the Rector took occasion to write
the following lines, which were sculptured on it, and placed in
the chancel near the Norris monument : -
^ " Henry Season, M.U.,
Who (lied Nov. ye 10th, 1775,
Aged 82 years.
"Tis not the 'J'omb in marble polislied hij^h,
'J'he sculptured Urn, or glittering Troiiliies nigh,
The classic lejuning on an impious .stone.
Where Latin tells what English blushed to own,
Can shroud the guilty from the Eye of God,
Incline His Balance or avert His Rod ;
That Hand can laise the Cripple and the Poor
Spread on the way or gathered at the door.
And blast the Villain tho' to altars fled,
Who robs us living and insults us dead.
" 25, Austin Friars, London. J. ROLT."
" These lines are now i^iitially obliterated, and the Norris
monument has been removed fiom the chancel to the south
wall near the west end of the south aisle."
John Norris appears to have spent the earlier years of
his married life at Batheaston.^ At a later period— probably
about the time of his father's death— he purchased the mansion
and park-like residence of the Scott family at Chippenham,
known as the "The Ivy", or " Ivy Mouse", where he appears
to have resided during the latter part of his life. Two of the
bells in Chippenham Church bear the inscriptions, " The gift
' Vide " Diary of Thomas Smith of Shaw," in Wiltx Arch. Mag." vol. xi.,
under 17 May, 13 July, and 10 Sept., 1721.
Nonsuch House, Bromliam. 197
of John Norris, Esq.," and " John Norris, Esq., and Anthony
Guy, Gent., churchwardens." This same Anthony Guy was,
in 1 741, the oldest of the burgesses of Chippenham and
sheriff of the County of Wilts, and we are informed (on the
authority of the late James Wa3'len) that John Norris and
two other Chippenham gentlemen, fearing his influence in
the then pending election, contrived his arrest on a frivolous
charge, and had him conveyed to Devizes and kept in custody
until the election was over.
John Norris died in 1752, and was followed by his widow
in 1756. His eldest son, William, was born in 1717, matricu-
lated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1735-6, and married
Elizabeth Fox (daughter of John Fox, citizen and haber-
dasher of London) in 1747.^ Among the estates included in
their marriage setttlement were the manors of Chippenham,
Sheldon, and Lowden, with the market and shambles of
Chippenham ; the Ivy House and grounds ; Nonsuch House
and grounds : the manor of Avebury, with Avebury farm and
Brinsden farm ; the farms of Upper Sheldon, Lower Sheldon,
Pipsmore, Starveall, Rowden Down, and Derriards, near
Chippenham ; a couple of farms at Bromham ; and numerous
detached properties in Wiltshire.
William, the son of John Norris, appears to have resided
at Nonsuch. Two years after the death of his mother, he
obtained a private Act of Parliament to free Ivy House from
the trusts of his marriage settlement, as it was " liable to
' The Lease and Release, by which this settlement was made, are dated
25th and 26th November, 1747, and made between John Norris of the Ivy,
&.C., Elizabeth his wife, and William his eldest son, of the first part ; Charles
Lawrence, of Essex Street, Strand, London, of the second part ; Millicent
Neate, of Great Ormond Street [London], John Fox, and Elizabeth his
daughter, of the third part ; Paul Methuen, of Corsham, and John Hulbert,
of St. George's, Hanover Square [London], Chirugeon, of the fourth part ;
and Richard Long, of Rood Ashtoii. Jacob Selfe, of Bradford, Esquire,
Robert Neale of Corsham, Esquire, and Thomas Lawrence, of Essex Street
aforesaid, Doctor of Physic, of the fifth part.
Query : Was this Jacob Selfe, of Bradford, the son of Jacob Selfe of
Place House, Melksham, who died in 1730?
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Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
extensive repairs", and "detached from the other settled
estates", in order that it might be sold. He was Sheriff of
the Count}' in 1759, and died in 1794, leaving behind him a
wife, four sons, and six daughters.^ All his children subse-
quently died unmarried, except John, who married Susannah
Day, and had one child, Mary Ann, born before wedlock and
afterwards married to Colonel Bayl}', and one child, Elizabeth,
born after his said marriage. Another son, Paul Robert
Norris, was a scholar of Winchester in 1773. He afterwards
entered the army, and died a lieutenant in India. The eldest
son, William, who was in the third regiment of Dragoons, on
the death of his father, became possessed of part of the settled
estates as tenant-in-tail, ^ and, being very much in debt, he was
under the necessity of cutting off the entail by a fictitious suit
termed a Recovery, and selling sufficient to satisfy the claims
of his creditors. The estates sold for this purpose, in 1796,
included : —
(i) A farm and lands at Bromham, to John Gaby of
Westbrook.
* The children
of William Norris and Elizabeth Fox were : —
Ann
b. 1:5 Feb., 1751
d. 6 Oct., 1751
Cecilia
b. 24 April, 1765
d. 19 May, 1769
Ellen
b. 22 Nov., 1752
d. 15 Oct., 1771
Paul Robert
b. 1 Sept., 17fil
d. 28 Aug., 1784
John
b. 28 Jan., 1758
d. 28 Nov., 1798
William ...
b. 6 April, 175-1
d. 27 Jan., 1801
Elizabeth ...
b. 25 Aug., 1748
d. 17 March, 1805
George William
b. 24 July, 1707
d. 17 Sept., 1811
Christian ...
b. 19 Sept., 1769
d. 7 Ai)ril, 1819
Millicent Mary
b. 8 Sept., 1749
d. 15 March, 1824
Dionysia ...
b. 23 Feb., 1756
d. 25 June, 1832
Mary Ann ...
b. 13 Nov., 1763
d. 15 July, 1834
James
b. 17 Dec, 1769
d. 3 Jan., 1835
* The property included in the settlement of 1747 was limited to the
first and every other son successively in tail male, as to part thereof
immediately after the father's death, and as to other part thereof, subject to
the wife's life interest.
Nonsuch House, Broiii/iaiii. 199
(2) An Inn, called Beckhanipton House, to William
Edmunds of Kennett.^
(3) Avebury Great Farm, to John Brown of Avebury.
(4) Lower Sheldon Farm, to Matthew Ilumphrys of the
Ivy House.2
On the 27th January, 1801, William Norris, of the
Dragoons, died intestate and without issue, and his estates
(including the house at Nonsuch) descended to his infant
niece, Elizabeth (daughter of his deceased brother, John), as
his heiress-at-law. From this date, therefore, the survivors of
the Norris family became merely tenants at a stated rent of
the old family mansion. Mrs. Elizabeth Norris died on the
31st May, 1805, leaving two sons and four daughters, who all
continued to reside at Nonsuch until the day of their death.
They all died unmarried and without issue, James, the last
survivor, dying on 3rd January, 1835. Of him strange tales
are told, such as are contained in the following already-quoted
paragraph from the Devizes Gazette of 9th July, 1835 : —
"A great number of the inhabitants of Devizes, Calne,
"Chippenham, Melksham, and the adjacent neighbourhood
'* have, during the last few days, been attracted to the sale
" by auction, by Mr. Broxholm, of the effects of the late Mr.
" Norris of Nonsuch-house, a short distance from each of the
"above places — not we believe in consequence of the value of
^ The ground on which this once famous coaching inn was built was
formerly part of Brinsden or Brunsden Farm, Avebury, which was purcliased
by William Norris (then of the Middle Temple), in 1691, from Henry Bayn-
ton of Bremhill, and his mortgagee, Robert Baynton of Avebury. By a
lease, dated 25th March, 1745, John Norris, son of William, let three acres
of land, at the corner of the Calne and Devizes Roads at Beckbampton, to
George Stretch of Avebury for 100 years, upon condition that he should
erect a house on it within two years, and keep it in repair until the end of
the term. The lease had in 1796 become vested in William Edmunds, -who
then purchased the freehold.
■■* Lower Sheldon was purchased of Robert (son of Matthew) Humphrys
in 1816, by James Norris of Nonsuch, and descended to Boucbier Mervin
Marshall, his heir.
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" the effects, but of their having been the property of a gentle-
" manof very pecuHar and eccentric habits. Mr. Norris, who died
" about six months since, was the last of the highly respecta-
"ble Wiltshire family of that name, which family, we have
"been told, had inhabited Nonsuch for a century and a half
" The deceased had, a great number of years ago, been
"troubled with the erysipelas in his face, and the operation of
"shaving was attended with so much pain that he at last
" determined to allow his beard to grow, and it eventually
"hung on his chest. Naturally bashful, he was now averse
" to anyone seeing his person. He entirely secluded him-
" self from society and saw no one but his housekeeper,
" and she but a very few minutes at a time. He lay in bed
" during the day, and roamed about his grounds or read during
" the night. He took his meals in the kitchen, but no one
" saw him eat. A short time before his servants retired to
" rest (at which hour he usually got up) they placed a kettle
" of water on the fire, and some milk and bread and butter on
" the table in the kitchen, of which he partook, and on their
"rising in the morning he went to bed. For several years
" previous to his death he became utterly regardless of
" personal cleanliness. Though possessed of great wealth,
"he clad himself in rags, and scarcely ever consented to a
" change of linen. He had a severe wound in one of his legs,
" but he allowed neither surgeon or anyone else to see it. He
" merely covered it with an old rag. His appearance was
"altogether inhuman. The drawing-room, we have been in-
" formed, had not been unlocked foi* ten years preceding his
"death. He had a good library, and was fond of reading in
"his early years. We have heard that he was a great
"botanist. The house was built by Lord Digby, in 1646, of
"whom there is a portrait suspended in the drawing-room,
" and from whom it descended to the Norris's. The sale,
"which commenced on Tuesday, does not conclude until
"Saturday."
In further illustration of the peculiarities of James Norris
The Ivy House, Chi'ppciihom. 201
we learn from the present Vicar of Bromham that "lie had
"heard of the beauty of Bessy Moore (about 1834), and, in
"order to see her, lay in a ditch by the side of the road, along
" which he had heard she would pass on a certain night.
". . . Mr. F. Locke, Rowdford, a solicitor at Chippenham,
" who had the settlement of the Norris affairs, told me that
"when he entered the house, the filth and stench was such
" that he had to light a cigar. He found five-pound notes
" wrapped up in old shaving papers."
Elizabeth, daughter of John Norris, and heiress of her
uncle William Norris, in 1S20 married the Rev. Bourchier
Marshall, rector of Bow alias Nymet Tracey, in the County
of Devon, and died in 1828, having survived her husband by
a single year. By their marriage settlement, the mansion at
Nonsuch and the other estates inherited with it were entailed
upon the children of the marriage as tenants in common. On
arriving at their majority they severally barred their entail,
and sold Nonsuch to Mr. West Awdry in 1844.^ He again
conveyed it on 29th September, 1849, to the Rev. Meredith-
Brown, on whose death (23rd February, 1895) '^ passed to his
son, Meredith Meredith-Brown, Esq., of llullavington House,
the present owner.
THE IVY HOUSE, CHIPPENHAM.
The late Canon Jackson, in his History of Chippenham,
gives the following account of the origin of the name " Ivy
House ":—
" When King Henry III granted Rowdon to the Husees,
he reserved an annual rent of jQi los. Out of that sum his
successor, King Edward I, granted a pension of ^5 a year to
' The conveyance to Mr. Awdry is dated 30th Dec, 1844. On the death
of James Norris, in 1835, the remainder of the Norris estates came to the
children of Elizabeth Marshall, and were sold, by auction, in 1858.
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the Monastery of Ederose or Ivy-church, near Clarendon. In
the schedule of the property of tliat monastery, taken at the
dissolution, 300 years afterwards, this identical pension of j£s
a year appears as paid out of lands, at Chippenham and
Rowdon, formerly belonging to Nicholas Husee. There
cannot be much doubt which were the particular lands that
provided the pension to Ivy-church monastery. The name
itself seems to indicate that it must have been what is called
' the Ivy House, and the islands in the Ivy,' close to Chippen-
ham Bridge."
On 1st Oct., 1677, the Bailiff and Burgesses of Chippen-
ham leased certain property to "Jonathan Scott of the Ivy,
gentleman", and it seems probable that John Norris purchased
the Ivy-house from John Scott, son of Jonathan, somewhere
about the year 1730. Here he resided until his death in 1752,
and his wife probably succeeded him in occupation until her
death in 1756. Their son William, who resided at Nonsuch,
obtained a private Act of Parliament for the sale of the Ivy-
house in 1758, and from him it was purchased by the tenant,
John Stone, Esquire, who sold it to William Northey. The
latter made it his residence, and died there in 1770. His son
(of the same name) obtained an Act of Parliament in 1788
(29 Geo. Ill) for the sale to Matthew Humphrys, a Chippen-
ham clothier — the conveyance bearing date ist and 2nd June
X791. Matthew Humphrys died in 1810, and his son Robert
in 1839, when the property passed to Essex Humphrys, wife
of Robert, who died in 1868. Under the provisions of her
will, the property was put up to auction in the following year,
and sold to the present owner and occupier, Alexander
Beaumont Rooke, Esquire.
"In the grounds," says Mr. Daniell, "are to be seen
some noble specimens of American trees, the Tulip tree, the
Plane, the Maple, and Robenia (pseudo-acacia), imported
direct from North America by Mr. Northey."
On both mansion and grounds successive owners have
laid out large sums of money.
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0\ Southern English Roads. By James John Hissey.
With sixteen full-page illustrations, and a plan of the
route. London: Bentley & Son. 1S96. Price 165.
This is the third of his eight volumes of inland travel in
which Mr. Hissey has touched upon Wiltshire. On this oc-
casion he journeys from Frome to Andover, passing by the
towns and villages of Beckington, Road, Trowbridge, Seend,
Devizes, Charlton, Rushall, Upavon, East Everley, Ludgers-
hall and Weyhill, about each of which he has something to
say. It is, however, with the latter portion of his drive
through Wilts that we have been most interested, as he has
there devoted many pages to a realistic description of Salis-
bury Plain in its varying moods, and the effect which it
produces upon a visitor by its aspects under cloud and under
sunshine. We apologise for robbing the following pictures of
their context, but the quotations, although cut somewhat short
to fit our space, will serve to show Mr. Hissey's appreciation
of those varying moods, of which we have spoken.
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204 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
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editor who has controlled its contents for the last four years
retires from a task which has rewarded him with much
pleasure and many pleasant friends. To those who, by their
ready help and kind encouragement, have made the position
so much lighter than it was at the first outset, he desires to
offer his most sincere thanks, and regrets that the increasing
importunit}' of his more inmiediate duties has compelled him
to take this step. Having now practically^ no leisure to bestow
upon the object of his enthusiasm, he prefers to withdraw
rather than to lower the standard of the magazine by a merely
superficial attention.
At such a critical moment, it may be well that we should
look to our guns, and ask ourselves whether we have merited
success, and whether we have given satisfaction to those who
have supported us. Is it, in fact, worth while that the
venture should continue, or is it better that it should descend
into the valley of unnecessary efforts known as Oblivion ? In
the first place, as to the text. What have we attempted and
what achieved ? It has been our endeavour to collect and
perpetuate for the use of future writers the waifs and strays
of custom and of history, to elucidate those small points of
historical research to which the coming historian will have no
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get into print some slight portion of those valuable and multi-
tudinous records which the care of ages has preserved, and
which now lie stored in the Record Office, the central and local
Courts of Probate, the great libraries, local archives, and else-
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having to damp the feelings of would-be contributors) to be in
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conclusion that all space given to second-hand material is as if
To Our Readers. 205
wasted. What we have accomplished in our later numbers does
not need recapitulating. The dry-bones of history may be seen
in such articles as those on the " Records of Choldcrton," and
such dry-bones have been clothed by Mr. Elyard with much
success in his "Annals of Purton." Here again let us pause
to consider the manner in which our material has been
published. May wc not speak with pride as well as pleasure
of paper and of print, of type and of illustration, of cover and
of binding. No care or expense has been withheld in these
respects, and it would have been strange if the public, in-
cluding critics, correspondents, and subscribers, had not ap-
plauded our efforts and encouraged our enterprise. This has
been so, and the collected extracts from newspapers and maga-
zines which we have by us in a scrap-book are all in our favour.
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for the first time and somewhat reluctantly, view the matter
from a different standpoint. The students of antiquity, and
particularly' of local antiquities, in Wiltshire are by no means
numerous, for even the old Wiltshire Archaeological Society,
whose magazine has now won the esteem of all who are able
to form a judgment on antiquarian matters, has not yet
attained the number of four hundred members. Nor is it
likely that the collection and arrangement of dry-as-dust
records and isolated facts for the framework of history will
ever attract those members of the community who have no
love for literature, or expend their minds on what is termed
light reading. Nevertheless, we have been pleased with the
growing number of subscribers and contributors, and if the
magazine has never yet paid its expenses, it should be borne
in mind that neither editor nor proprietor were tempted to
embark upon the undertaking by any prospect of pecuniary
gain. The money spent has none of it been grudged, but it
now becomes a question whether those who have cheered us
are willing to bear a share in the expense, and whether an
editor can be found, fitted and willing to carry on the work,
which the present editor is compelled to lay down. Happily,
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been made known, letters have reached us which evidence the
regrets of our supporters, and many have offered pecuniary
and hterary help rather than allow a periodical which has
proved itself of enduring value and interest, to cease to exist.
So far as editor and publisher are concerned, the magazine
would never have been allowed to fail on account of its
pecuniary result.
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all Wiltshire there is no-one willing to give time and attention
to the conduct of the magazine, for it must be remembered
that it is in such a position that a man can best make his
labours of value to the public both now and hereafter. If no-
one should consent to take over the responsibility, then we
are permitted to say that the Editor of The Devizes and Wilt-
shire Gazette has consented to devote a column or two to Wilt-
shire Notes and Queries as frequently as there is sufficient
matter at his disposal. We hope this will not be necessary,
for when we regard the manner in w'hich the present Wiltshire
Notes and Queries are presented to the public, it would be a
sad downfall in point of type and paper, etc., if the items were
printed in the columns of a newspaper bereft of those beautiful
and valuable pictures which render it more charming than it
could otherwise be. One handsome three-years volume lies
upon our bookshelves ; must it be the last? Unless within a
month an editor can be found, the question must be answered
in the affirmative.
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MARCH, 1897.
HEDDINGTONi AND THE CHILD FAMILY.
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jbn^fcVf/ O the Dictionary of National Biography now pub-
* W lishing we arc indebted for what is perhaps the
first ofBcial announcement of the fact that Sir
•r/f!f' Francis Child, the Elder (1642-1713), was the son
V.st^ of Robert Child, of Headington, Wiltshire, clothier.
The entry in the parish register of Heddington,
written probably by Mr. Henry Rogers, the then rector, runs
thus : " Francis Child was baptized the 14th day of December,
1642." Of his parentage and family, we will speak later, as an
examination of the register, dating from 1538, makes it fairly
easy to trace the family, which appears to have been settled
in the parish at least from the commencement of the register.
There is nothing to add to the public history of this
successful man, but as most of the more or less romantic
stories of his career convey the impression that he was a
Londoner born and bred, we will now claim him as a
Wiltshireman and a native of Heddington, though it is certain
' The various ways of spelling the name of this village have now
generally resolved themselves into the above.
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lie went away to London at an early age. Yet, at the risk of
repeating an oft-told tale, one can hardly avoid touching upon
the main points of a trul}' brilliant career, which, starting with
the industrious apprentice, tells of gold and jewels, of gay
pageants, of civic honours, and princely favour.
Arriving towards the end of a long family of sons and
daughters, young Francis Child was clearly not destined to be
a clothier, but was sent to try his luck in London, and at the
age of fourteen was apprenticed to a goldsmith in Fleet Street,
whether a relative or not is not quite clear. In 1671 Francis
married Elizabeth Wheeler, at St. Dunstan's church (marriage
license dated 2 Oct. 167 1, " P>ancis Child, of St. Clement
Danes, citizen, goldsmith, bachelor, about 28, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Wheeler, of same, spinster, about 19, consent of
mother, Mrs. Martha Blanchard, alias Wheeler, in new par.
church or chapel of Westminster "), and succeeded to the
business which had long been carried on by the Wheeler^
famil}', the firm appearing in the first London Directory of
1677 as "Blanchard and Child, of the Marigold, Fleet Street".
The goldsmith had now become a banker, the "father of his
profession" and the founder of Child's Bank, which numbered
among its clients Charles II, Prince Rupert, Nell Gw3'nne,
and Samuel Pepys, and which for more than two centuries
was inseparably associated with old Temple Bar.
The tide of prosperity flowed on, and, as Alderman,
Sheriff, Lord Mayor, Pi-esident of Christ's Hospital, M.P. for
the City of London, and in 1710 for the Borough of Devizes,''
Sir Francis Child must have been a notable figure even in
those stirring times. His portrait hangs in the great hall of
Christ's Hospital (painter unknown), but alas ! it is shrouded in
' About this time (whatever the fact may be worth) there were many
Wheelers in Devizes and the neighbourhood, as well as many Childs in
London, besides families of Child in Hamjishire and Worcestershire, to go
no further, while at the present day in the United States I believe their
name is legion.
'•' See W'aylen's Ilist. of Devizes,
Hcddin^tuii and the Child Family. 209
gloom, and little can be seen or said of it. During his mayoralty
he protected the interests of the public in the corn trade, and in
politics he changed from Whig to Tory, a not unusual fashion of
the period. In 171 1 Sir Francis purchased the family seat
of Osterley Park, Middlesex, but resided chiefly at East End
House, Fulham, where he died in 17 13, and was buried in
Fulham Churchyard under a black marble tomb, where Lady
Child and other members of the family also lie.
Of Sir Francis Child's numerous family three only of his
sons, Robert, Francis, and Samuel (as mentioned in his will),
survived him. Sir Robert, who was Alderman of his ward
and M.P. for Devizes in 17 13, died in 1721, and his next
brother, Sir Francis Child the younger, was a man much
esteemed, and Lord Mayor of London in 1732. He died un-
married^ in 1740, aged 58, when his brother Samuel Child
became head of the bank, and was grandfather, through his son
Robert, of Sarah Child, the story of whose romantic elope-
ment and marriage at Gretna Green in 1782 to the tenth Earl
of Westmorland is well known. The eldest daughter of
this match. Lady Sarah Sophia Child Fane, married the fifth
Earl of Jersey, and, as her grandfather's heiress, was herself
the head of Child's bank, and a very great lady.^
Three daughters are mentioned in Sir Francis's will, Jane,
married to a Mr. Guidott ; Martha, who had married a Mr.
Collins (marriage license dated 8 July 1698, "Anthony
Collins, Middle Temple, bachelor, 22, and Martha Child, of
St. Dunstan in the West, spinster, above 21, dau. of Sir
Francis Child of the same who consents, in par. church of
St. Margaret, aforesaid {sic) or . . .") and died leaving two
* He is said, by family tradition, to have been engaged to the Hon. Miss
Ferrers, and to have given her by " verbal will ", during his short illness of
three days, a bequest of £oO,000.
- One of her daughters. Lady Sarah Villiers, married Prince Nicholas
Esterhazy. one of the foreign ambassadors, who at the coronation of Geo. IV
was so resplendent with diamonds that Sir Walter Scott, describing the
scene, said '• he glimmered like a galaxy ".
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daughters ; and Elizabeth, wlio nianicd T} lingham Backwell
(of another great banking house) and had a large family.
Legacies were left to all these grandchildren, and among other
bequests " ;£'4oo to Tyringham Backwell to rebuild the hall
of Tyringham and to make a ford o\cr the river against the
mill there". The poor of Fulham, of St. Dunstan's, and ot
Heddington "where 1 was born", were also remembered in
the will.
Before journeying back to Heddington mention may be
made of two errors into which some chroniclers have fallen —
that Sir Francis was the " Mr. Childe " of Pepys' Diary, and
that he was the brother of Sir Josiah Child, another celebrit}^
of the period, who was born in 1630, the son of Richard Child, ^
citizen and weaver of London ; but, except for a family
tradition (perhaps true), that there was a cousinship with
the Heddington Childs, there seems no evidence at present to
prove where the link came in.
Francis Child was only a London apprentice of eighteen
years of age in 1660, when, on November 2nd, Mr. Pepys
"took up Mr. Childe in his coach and carried him as far as
the Strand"; and again, on the 17th, dined with him at Lord
Sandwich's with a little music to follow. These two entries
most likely refer to Dr. Wm. Childe, the musician, who had
not then taken his degree of Doctor of Music. Pepys also
seems to have been particular as to tlic spelling of the name,
though one cannot think the final e very material either way.
Dr. Childe was for sixty-five years organist of the Chapel
Royal, Whitehall, and of St. George's, Windsor ; he was born
at Bristol, but his parentage is not easily traced. Besides the
question of age, it is obvious that the other three entries (in
1669) all refer to the same " Child ", who was a merchant, had
much to do with the shipping, and to Pepys' great disgust was
likely to "come in" to the Council of Trade. It is hardly
' The will of Richard Child mentions a brother, Thomas Child, of
Salisbury, and there is a bequest of £10 to the poor weavers of Andover.
Hcddiugton and the Child Family. 211
necessary to insist that this must have been Sir ju.^iah, who
afterwards had a great career both at Portsmouth and in
London, and long " ruled the roost " in the East India Co.
Sir Francis was tlie City magnate, not unknown at Court, and
Sir Josiah the Court financier, not unknown in the City.
But now for a look at Heddington ; and though wc must
still say, as Dr. Stukeley did one hundred and seventy years
ago, " This town is but small at present ", yet it is not without
a record of past importance and busy life in days long gone by.
As usual, the earliest history is wrapped in legend, and the story
of King Edda and his "Play", with the local traditions attaching
thereto, has been charmingly recounted by Mr. Coward in the
Devizes Gazette not long ago. Lying close to the Wansdyke and
the later Roman road which here followed the course of the
great earthwork, the site of Heddington must at times have
been the scene of arduous labour and of savage warfare ; and
when Verlucio arose (which there seems no reason to doubt
stood at or near Heddington Wick) Roman civilization and
luxury must for a period have held sway, their signs to be un-
earthed at a later date, as it is written in Jackson's Aubrey.
With Domesday Book, which assigns Heddington to Edward of
Salisbury, we get into the beaten track of history, and soon
find ourselves in good company with the Countess Ela Longspee
and the nuns of Lacock, who from their abbess and in other
ways acquired a considerable estate in Heddington. Another
part of the manor had come to the Bohuns, and was held of
them in Henry UPs reign by the Barons Cantilupe.^
In early times the patron of the church was the Prior of
Monkton Farleigh, and after the Dissolution there were various
patrons, till in the eighteenth century wc find the Rogers
family owned the living, eight of the name having been rectors
successively from 1605- (829. A John Rogers was a partner
in Child's Bank in its early days, and was remembered in Sir
Auljrev and .Tacksoii.
212 IViltsliiir Notcii and Queries.
Francis's will with " ^^20 apiece to Cousin John Rogers and
his wife" (marriage license dated 23 March 1686-7, "John
Rogers, of Gray's Inn, bachelor, 25, and Elizabeth Child, of
Twickenham, spinster, 21, her father's consent — name not
fiieii/ionrd -a.i Twickenham or feddington "). The living is at
present in tlie gift of and held by the Rev. Francis Housse-
maync Du Boulay, who has kindly supplied the following
description of the church as it stands to-day.
Heddington Church.
"The cliurch, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists
of chancel, nave of three bays, with western tower, north and
south aisles, and a chapel, now used as a vestry, on the north
side of the chancel. Apparently, the earliest portion of the
churcli is the arcade on the south side of the nave, which has
circular columns with moulded capitals of Early English
character. The arcade on the north side, in which the
columns are hexagonal, is of a later date, and decorated in
style. The roof, whicli is tiled with stone, has heavy cross
tie beams, apparently of the seventeenth or eighteenth
century. The bowl of the font is old, but it has been entirely
defaced and covered with modern carving.
"The western tower, with door underneath tlic window,
is early Perpendicular work of a type often found in North
Wilts ; there is a projecting stair-turret on the north side, and
the two diagonal buttresses at the angles only run up to the
height of tiie hrst stage. The tower has battlements and
four pinnacles, and there is a peal of five bells and a turret
clock.
"The windows of the chancel are also of Perpendicular
date. Ihc north porch is a conspicuous feature, with a
canopied niche over the door of the same date.
"The north aisle has two large windows of tour long lights
each, apparently of about the time of Queen Anne.
" In a glass case at the end of the south aisle are preserved
Heddin^ton and tJic Child Fauuly. 213
several objects of interest connected with the churcli and
parish : —
" (i) An old black-letter folio Bible, of which a neighbour-
ing antiquary writes * I think your Bible must be one of the
edition of the " Bishop's Bible", 1568, a revision of the "Great
Bible" from which the version of the Psalms in the Prayer
Book is taken.'
" (2) The old iron chain by which either this Bible or the
Book of Martyrs, which w^as kept in the church, was chained
to the desk. ' The Book of Martyrs was given to this church
in the year 1628 by John and Joan Hutchins.' It was kept
on a table in this corner of the church, with the above inscrip-
tion, which remained till within living memory, the book
having been removed.
" (3) A piece of tessellated pavement, found under the
flooring when the church was re-seated in 1840.
"The church plate is of much interest. In addition to the
chalice and paten-cover of the usual Elizabethan type, hall-
marked 1577 and dated 1578, there is a singularly beautiful
flagon given by the late Rev. James Rogers, D.D., in 1830.
It is of silver gilt, and measures 8| inches in height. It is
elaborately chased and embossed with the characteristic
strap-work and flowers of the period, and may be said to be
unrivalled in the county of Wilts, the flagon belonging to
Fugglestone in South Wilts, although of the same type, being
a good deal less ornate. It is hall-marked 1602. There is
also a paten of 1703.
" On the north side of the churchyard there is a lyche-gate,
erected in 1894, of oak and yew and covered with stone tile.
" The Registers date from 1538."
Besides the objects of interest mentioned as under the
glass case, there are : — a model of the coronation chair at
Westminster, and a " Prospect of Heddington", drawn by Dr.
Stukeley in 1720, here reproduced by the kindness of the
Rector ; the whole forming a most interesting series of links
214 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
with tlic past. In the vestry is a mural stone bearing the
inscription,
i6io
H. T.
II Blessed and Fur Ever Happy Tliou Wilt Bee
Then See Thou Dost Thy Death in Life With Care Foresee.
The rectory, which is not far from the church and close
to the Downs, was built in 1830 b}' the Rev. James Rogers,
and the population of the village may be computed at 450,
reckoning Stockley and Broad's Green, which were added to
the ecclesiastical parish in 1890. Captain Spicer and the
Misses Clark are the principal landowners.
Heddington is distant five miles from Devizes, three from
Calne and seven from Chippenham, and approaching it from
the latter place we enter the parish by a dip in the road,
which is part of the old coaching road from Bristol to London.
High on the left stand two farm-houses, originally inns, the
Bear and the Bell, where passengers stayed the night on the
first stage of the journey, tlie "quality" patronising the Bear
while the rest were accommodated at the Bell. It is a long
way to the village yet, and about lialf a mile further on we
pass a few cottages at a corner where a turnpike once stood,
from which the coaches ran over Beacon 11 ill and on to Beck-
hampton. The steep ascent looks a mere down track now,
but in tlic coaching days there stood a cottage a little way up
the hill where, perhaps a hundred years ago, an old man lived
who made it his business to assist the coaches with a wooden
wedge attached to a long broom handle, used to prop the
wheels when pauses were made in the ascent, no doubt a
common practice in those days. Another stretch and we
come to Ileddington Wick with its small common like a
village green, where some smart biick buildings, a Wesleyan
chapel, and a pillar-box, give an air of inodei'n times. A little
furtlier a sliort private road leads to the Splatts, ilie residence
of the Misses Clark, about which more presently. Here arc
Hi'ddingloii and the Child Fanii/y. 215
a few cottages in twos and threes, but it is nearly another
half-mile before we reach the church and the village street
proper, with its school house, general shop, and workmen's
club, built in 1S81, where are to be found books, newspapers,
and bagatelle, with "tea and coffee at moderate charges".
Many of the cottages in this part of the parish are most
picturesque, and should delight the eye of an artist or any
one in search of ideas for rural architecture. Some are old
timbered buildings with the thatch coming deep down between
the upper windows, the porch also thatched ; and one cottage
covered with dense ivy meeting the thick grey thatch of the
roof reminds one curiously of an old granny muffled up in a
fur hood. On the occasion of this visit to Heddington, a
beautiful September afternoon, the gardens were bright with
autumn flowers and loaded apple trees, and here, close under
the Downs, as sunset fell the great hill seemed to draw nearer
and its rich brown curves and hollows glowed in the departing
sunlight.
Most children who live near the Downs find great amuse-
ment in darting down the long slopes on little sledges
constructed for the purpose ; and from some recollections of
Heddington extending back for seventy years, we find at that
time the favourite chariot, when it could be obtained, was /he
jaiv-bone of a horse.
There are many substantial farm-houses in the parish,
but none presenting any very ancient features. Of these, the
Manor Farm, not far from the church, and standing at the
bend of the road leading to Stockley, is believed on good
authority to have been the old Manor House of Anthony
Brooke, who resided there, and who, in a deed bearing date
1765 (concerning the common lands), is spoken of as Lord of
the Manor; the seal he used shows a bend between two eagles
displayed. Within living memory there was a fine avenue of
trees leading from this house, through Court Close, to the
church.
There do not appear to be any signs left of the clothing
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trade, which must at one time liave been a large industry in
Ilcddington, but there is a tradition handed down that some-
where about i79oorearher a 30ung Mr. Edgeh, a well-to-do
clothier, used to come up from Trowbridge with a pack-horse,
bringing yarn to be woven by the Ileddington weavers. One
more little incident, not however within living memory, and
which can only be given as hearsay, concerns the Pearse
family, some of whom became London merchants and once
upon a time sent out a cadet to seek his fortune abroad where
an opening had been found through an influential patron.
The poor lad did not want to quit the peaceful haunts of
Ileddington, but Madam Pearse, like a true Spartan mother,
rode with him to Portsmouth (it is said she strapped him to the
saddle), and saw him safely off for India, where, it is satis-
factory to add, he acquired the desired riches.
We do not know in what way Francis Child left his
native village, but it can hardly be doubted that in the close
streets of old London and through the stress of Plague and Fire
(of both of which he must have had some experience) his
thoughts often turned back to the breezy Downs he knew
so well, or even, perhaps, to the time when, as a boy of
eleven, he may quite well have assisted at the find of Roman
coins in "Weeke Field by Sandy Lane", which may have
been his first sight of a " pott " of money.
The state of affairs at Ileddington in 1642 and the few
years following can be gathered from Mr. Daniell's stirring
account of " Chippenham during the Civil War ",^ when the
fight at Bromham, the rout of Waller's army on Roundway,
and other fierce contests in the neighbourhood, must have kept
the villagers in a state of constant excitement and terror, and
the Heddington infants (our hero included) must have been
rocked to sleep to the roar of cannon and the clash of steel.
The origin of the name of Cliild, like tliat of Poore, Le
Poer ( pifrr), is said to be a distinguished one, a sort of title
' See History of ChipiJcnhavi by the Rev. J. J. Daniell.
HcddingtoH and the Child Family. 21;
only given to the son of a noble until he had won his spurs.
Hence, Childe Harold, Childe Greville, and if no one has any
objection perhaps we may postulate a Childe Robert some-
where back, say in the days of the Troubadours, not to be too
explicit. The pious founder of Bermondsey Priory in 1081,
Ailewin Childe, is probably the first of the name we can cite
from history, and to come into Wiltshire, I do not know of
any earlier mention of the name than that given in Bowles's
Brtmhill (Baynton documents), of a "grant from John Child,
of Chippenham, to the Abbey of Stanley of all his rights to
common pasture in the wood called the More near the said
Abbey on the south side thereof".^
Thomas Child ^ was M.P. for Chippenham in 1452, and in
Mr. F. Goldney's Rixords of Chippciiliani under " Stanley
and Nethermore ", we find Robert Childe in a list of com-
pounders for " P'vison of the King's Ma'* Householde (Jas. I)",
who ma}' very well have been the Robert Child of the Hed-
dington register, baptized August 29, 1564, or in any case the
entry allows us to assume that the family was located in
Heddington as early as the middle of the sixteenth century,
or when Queen Elizabeth began her glorious reign. There
are two earlier entries in tlie marriages (both perhaps a
little doubtful) Henry Child and Ann (?), in 1556, and
William Child and Joan C^), 1560. The Robert of 1564 was
preceded by an infant also named Robert, who died in
1563, and these, with Thomas, 1565, and John, 1568, may be
regarded as the first family of Child in the register, with
perhaps William and Joan, noted above as the parents ; and
we may venture to add to this list Alse Childe, who was
married to William Brooke in November 1598 the first of
several marriages with the Brooke family. Then between
' Probable date about the time of removal of the Abbey from Lockswell
to Stanley in 1151.
- Some remarks on the Child family have already appeared in this
magazine, vol. i, p. 250.
iS
IVillshirc Notes and Oiicn'cs.
1602 and 1608 we have Robert, Mary, Prudence, Joane, and
Dorothy, the children of Robert and Mary Child; and in 1628
begins the family of Robert and Jane as follows : —
Robert
Thomas
George
Jane
Mary
Henry
Michael
FRANCIS
Edward
baptized
»»
M
Oct. 5, 1628.
Oct. 14, 1630.
July 30, 1632.
July 6, 1634.
April 12, 1636.
Oct. 15, 1638.
Oct. 1 1, 1640.
Dec. 14, 1642.
May 24, 1 65 1.
There were two other sons, Daniel and John, who do not
appear in the Hcddington register, but who doubtless came
between Francis and Edward. Daniel went to London and
was the one most associated with his brother Francis, while
John and his family were long identified with Devizes.
Thomas was spoken of in after years as "eldest son and heir
of Robert Child " (and as brother of Daniel), so the Robert of
1628 may have died in infancy; Jane, Henry, and probably
Mary, also died at an early age.
M. E. Light.
(To be continued.)
JOHN STAFFORD, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
[A.D. 1443-52J
AND HIS WILTSHIRE PARENTAGE.
The following notice of Arclibishop Stafford — his Wilt-
shire parentage — and the mortuary chapel attached to North
Bradley Church, containing the tomb of his mother, will not,
John Sloffoni, Anhhisliop of Candrhury. 219
it is hoped, form an uninteresting sequel to the description
of Southwick Court in a previous number of IViltshirc Notes
and Queries.
Weever, in his Ancient Funerall Monuments, a.d. 1631,
describes him as " an Archbishop, very noble, and no less
learned, one of the honourable familie of the Staffords, a man
much favoured by King Henry the fifth, who preferred him first
to the Deanrie of Wells, gave him a Prebend in the Church
of Salisbury, and made him one of his privie Councell, and
in the end Treasurer of England. And then, although this
renowned King was taken away by vntimely death, yet hee
still went forward in the way of promotion, and obtained the
Bishopricke of Bath and Welles, which with great wisedome
hee governed eighteene yeares, from whence he was removed
to Canterbury, in which he sate almost nine yeares; and in
the meantime was made Lord Chancellour of England, which
office hee held eighteene years (which you shall hardly finde
any other man to have done) vntill, wearie of so painfull a
place, he voluntaril}^ resigned it over into the King's hands;
and about three yeares after that died at Maidstone, July 6th,
Ann. 1452."
Lord Campbell, in his Lives of the Chancellors, traces
more fully his successive promotions.^ " Having," he says,
''with great reputation taken the degree of Doctor of Civil
Law at Oxford [14 13], he practised for some time as an
advocate in Doctor's Commons, when Chicheley, Archbishop
of Canterbury,^ elevated him to be Dean of the Arches, and
obtained for him the Deanery of St. Martin, and a prebend in
Lincoln Cathedral. He then became a favourite of Henry V,
who made him successively Keeper of the Privy Seal [142 1],
^ His public career as Metropolitan and Lord Chancellor has also been
amply treated by the late Dean Hook, in his Lives of the Archbishops of
Canterbury.
- Henry Chichelev, Archdeacon of Sarum [1402], consecrated by
Gregory XII at Lucca to the Bishoprick of St. David's in 1408 — translated
to Canterburv 1414 — died 1443 — when Stafford became his successor.
220 I Ti/ /shire Notes and Oueries.
Prebendary of Sarum [1422J, Treasurer of England [1422],
and Dean of Wells [1423]. He attached himself to the party
of Cardinal Beaufort,^ by whose interest, in 1425, he was ap-
pointed Bishop of Bath and Wells. On the 4th of March
1432, as appears from the Close Roll, the King delivered to
him the gold and silver seals belonging to the office of Lord
Chancellor, which he filled till 1450, a longer period than any
one had before continuously held the Great Seal. On 31st
January in tlie latter year he resigned office, and was suc-
ceeded in the Chancellorship by John Kempe, Cardinal and
Archbishop of York."2
From the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells he was transla-
ted by Papal Bull, dated 15th May 1443,^ to the Archiepiscopal
throne of Canterbury ; and thus, as Primate of England, and
Lord Chancellor, became the first citizen of his native land
both in Church and State. After his resignation of the Chan-
cellorship, in 1450, he retired from politics, but continued to
hold the Archbishoprick of Canterbury until his death, which
took place at Maidstone, co. Kent, 6th July 1452 ; and his
remains were interred in the "Transept of the Martyrdom"
at Canterbury, where an immense sbb — once containing a
magnificent brass, with his full length effigy, /;/ pontificalibns^
beneath a rich canopy — still remains.*
' The windows of the Old Manor House at South Wraxhall— for many
generations the residence of this branch of the ancient Wiltshire family of
Long — were, in Aubrey's time, emblazoned with armorial bc'arin<^s in stained
glass; .some relating to the Long family — others introiluccd in compliment
either to neighbours, or political leaders. One of the windows in the Hall
contained a group of three shields, with the arms of Cardinal Beaufort,
Archbishop Stafford, and Henry [Holland] JJuke of Exeter — illustrating
the political connexion here referred to.
^ Who afterwards became his successor also in the Archbishoprick of
Canterbury.
' In this same year, on the decease of the widow of Robert Andrews,
the Archbishop succeeded to the Manor of Blunsdon St. Andrew, co. Wilts,
held under the Barony of Ca.stle Combe, at a yearly -rent of \\\». \(l.
(^.Scrojfc'.i History of Castle Coiiihe.)
' On a boss in the vaulting immediately above is a shield with the Arms
Jolui Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury.
•21
Such was the public career of a distinguished individual,
the date and place of whose birth seem to have been well
nigh unrecorded, but who, it is believed, may be justly
claimed as a native of Wiltshire. As regards his parentage,
there has been much confusion, some writers describing him
as the son of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham^ —
others, of Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire — neither of which, from
a mere comparison of dates, could have been the case, for
the Archbishop must have been born as early as 1380-90,
and died in 1452, whilst Humphrey Stafford, Earl Stafford,
created Duke of Buckingham, succeeded his father at an
early age in 1403, and died 1459-60, thus making the two
individuals contemporary with each other. Neither could the
Archbishop possibly have been a son of Stafford, Earl of
Wiltshire, who belonged to a generation later, and did not
obtain that title until 1470, eighteen years after the Arch-
bishop's death.
Nicholas Battely {Cantiiaria Sacra, p. 75), although in-
correct in detail, is a little nearer the mark. He says : —
"John Stafford, born at Hooke, in the parish of Abbotsbury,
CO. Dorset, descended of the family of Stafford of Hooke,
son of Sir Humphrey Stafford, called Humphrey Stafford
'wiih the Silver Hand\ by his wife Elizabeth Dynham."
But the Sir Humphrey of Hooke *' with the Si/vcr Hand",
married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Maltravers;
and not Elizabeth Dy)ihain ; and, moreover, in his will, dated
14th December 1441, he makes the following bequest to the
Archbishop, whom he calls his brother, and constitutes one of
his executors :—
of the See of Canterbury, impaling those of the Archbishop — Or, on a chevron
gules a mitre argent, nithin a bordurc engrailed sable — which, with the
exception of the mitre — added by the Archbishop— are the arms borne by
the Staflfords of Southwick Court.
' Bishop Godwin, Dugdale, etc. Riilph Brooke (^Catalogue of Kings, etc.,
p. 69) calls him by mistake Bohert, fourth son; and Milles (^Catalogue of
Honour, p. -132) ninth son of Humphrey. Earl Stafford, afterwards Duke of
Buckingham, which has been copied by Britton.
222 ll'illsltitr Null's and Oucncs.
"Item, I give and bequeath to John, my brother, by Divine mercy
Bishop of Batli and Wells, one pair of flagons of silver gilt.
"Item, to the said Bishf)p, one image of silver gilt, of the beheading of
St. John the Baptist ; and one great piece of Aras [Arras] called doser."
Here a gleam of light breaks through the mist. If Sir
Humphrey "a'//// //ic Silver Hand" was the Archbishop's
brother, the father of both must be looked for in a former Sir
Humphrey, who came out of Staftbrdshire, and by marriage
with the heiress of Gre3aiville became possessed of Southwick
Court, in the parish of North Bradley, where he resided. By
this marriage (which took place before the year 1365), he had
an only child — a son and heir — Sir Humphrey " ivilli llic
Silver Hand:'
Edward Kite.
(To be contitnicd.)
EXTRACTS FROM THE "GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE"
RELATING TO WILTSHIRE.
Continued fro)n p. 125.
VOLUME XXXIII, 1763.
Sheriff for the year : John Talbot, of Laycock, Esq.
Jan. I.— Died: Rev. Mr. Crook, R. of Brinkworth, Wilts,
aged near 100.
Jan. 2. — Died : Dr. Stebbing, aged 76, Chancellor of Sarum
and Archdeacon of Wilts.
/an. 22. — Died: Benj. Hubert, of Breamore, Wilts, Esq.
fan.—]cv. Dyson elected M.P. for Calne, in room of Daniel
Bull.
fan. 30.— Died: Elias Delme, Esq., at Lockridge, Wilts, aged
84.
Feb. 8.— Died : Dr. Ballard, R. of Steeple Langford, Wilts.
Ex/rac/s /'roi/i " /'/ir Crn/Icuian's Mai^dciiir."
Feb. — Hon. Aug. Hervey, Esq., member for St. Edmonds'-
bury, appointed steward of the manor of Old Sarum.
Mr. Goodrich presented to the Vicarage of Kchiiing-
ton, Wilts. Mr. Hicks presented to the living of
BroLighton, Wilts.
March 2. — A violent clap of thunder, attended with lightning,
surprised and alarmed the whole city of Salisbury;
the lightning broke with such violence against the
S.W. side of the cathedral, as forced in a piece of
stone from one of the blank windows of nine inches
long ; several other pieces of stones were also struck
off on the outside of the tower, that fell into the
clo3'sters, but fortunately no other damage was done.
April 31. — Died : Geo. Button, of Troop, near Salisbury, Esq.
April. — Mr. Berrymore presented to the Vicarage of Heather-
ley, Wilts.
May 19. — Wm. Leybourne, Esq., m. to Miss Popham, of
Wilts.
May 30. — A society is forming in Salisbury for raising a fund
sufficient to allow the widow of every person who has
been a member for three years an annuity of ^30 a
year during life.
May T,\. — Lord Arundell, of Wardour, m. to Miss Conquest,
of Great George Street.
May. — Bankrupts: Philip Withers, of Westbury, Wilts, dyer;
Edw. Read, of Alborn, Wilts, fustian-weaver.
June 3. — Rev. Mr. Lloyd, R. of Little-Hinton, Wilts, m. to
Miss Craven.
JtDie 14. — Died: Rev. Mr. Galdwin, R. of Ludgershall, Wilts.
June 18.— Died : Lord Feversham, Baron of Downton ; he was
created a peer in 1747 ; the title is said to be extinct,
he dying without issue male.
June 27. — Died: Dr. Clifton, R. of Boyton, Wilts.
July 26. — Died : Peter Wolverstone, of Calne, Wilts, Esq.
July. — Bankrupt : Edw. Piere, of Westbury, money-scrivener.
Sep. 20. — The annual musical entertainment at Salisbury
R
224 lyillshirc Notes imd Oiiencs.
began to be celebrated, at wliicli were present a most
numerous and polite audience. The ball was opened
each night by Lord March and Lady Pembroke.
Sept. — The Rt. Hon. Tho. Baron Hyde, of Hinden, was sworn
of the Privy Council, and appointed one of the Post-
masters-general.
Oct. 22. — Died : James Bright, Esq., at Warminster.
Oct. — Stan. Bruce presented to the Vicarage of Inglisham,
Wilts. Fred. Dodsworth presented to the Vicarage of
Fighclden, Wilts. Joseph Simpson, B.D., has a
dispensation to hold the Rectory of Garsden, Wilts,
with the living of Weyhill, Hants. A. Gyles, M.A.,
has a dispensation to hold the Vicarage of Hanker-
stone, Wilts, with the Rectory of Chudleigh, Wilts.
I Ion. Wm. Harley, M.A., has a dispensation to hold
the Rectory of Everley, Wilts, with the Vicarage
of Uffmgton, Berks.
Nov. 23.— Died : Rev. Mr. Wightwick, R. ol Ashley, Wilts.
Nov. 27. —Died : John Jeffrey, of Wiltshire, Esq., at Mortlake.
Nov. — Joseph Baylis presented to tlie Rectory of Ludger-
shall, Wilt.s. Bankrupt : Joel Sangur, of New Sarum,
grocer.
Dec. 15.— Capt. Smith, of the Royal Volunteers, m. to Miss
Paterson, of Salisbury.
VOLUME XXXI V, 1764.
Sheriff for the year : Walter Long, of Wraxhall, Esq.
Jan. 6. -Died : George Hungerford, of Wiltshire, Esq.
Jan. 19.— Died: Rev. Mr. Mills, R. of Pewsey, Wilts; a living
worth j£,Goo per ann.
Feb. i.--Died: Rob. Barker of Everley, Wilts, Esq.
Fel). 25. — Henry Timbrell, a petty farmer, near Malmesbury,
in Wilts, was committed to Salisbury gaol for
castrating two lads whom he had undertaken to
breed up for a small sum. These unhappy youths
Extracts from " llic Gcntlcmmis Magazine." 225
the barbarous villain had before endeavoured to
destroy by throwing them in the way of the small-
pox ; but not succeeding, his rapacity at length
suggested to him this operation, by which he thought
to qualify them for singers, and to dispose of them at
a good price. They are both alive, and their wounds
healed. For this fact he was tried at Salisbury
assizes, found guilty of a misdemeanour, the Coventry
Act not reaching his case, as lying in wait could not
be proved against him ; his sentence was four years
imprisonment, a fine of 26s. Zd., and to find security
for his good behaviour during life. This sentence
was thought so unequal to his crime that it was with
the utmost difficulty he was preserved from the rage
of the populace.
March 7. — At Salisbury assizes two persons were capitally
convicted, but reprieved. A clerg3'man had an action
brought against him for beating a young lady and
turning her out of church, and fined ^5, with costs.
March. — Rev. Joseph Paine, D.D., Rector of Woodborough,
presented to the Rectory of Sutton, Wilts.
April 1 1 — Tho. Leigh Bennet, of Aylsham, Norfolk, m. to
Miss Home, niece to Tho. Duckett, Esq., member for
Calne.
April 30. — On Home Hill, an eminence that commands a
most beautiful prospect of North Wiltshire, is now
erecting a tomb for the reception of the remains of
the late Earl of Shelbourne, who often wished, for
the convenience of the neighbouring villages, that a
church might be built there, no place of worship
being near, in consequence of which his countess
dowager is carrying his lordship's pious intimation
into execution, and her son, the present Earl, is
pleased to endow it, and to place a chaplain in it.
April. — Rev. Mr. Simpkinson presented to the Vicarage of
Lushby, Wilts (resignation).
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2 26 IVillsliire Notes and Queries.
Bankrupts: E. Iliscock, widow, and A. Still, spinster,
both of the Devizes, shopkeepers, partners.
iMav 14. — At Cliff-Pypard, in Wiltshire, 31 cwcs, the property
of Edward Goddard, Esq., by feeding only one hour
upon rank broad clover, burst and died instantly.
This fact is inserted by way of caution.
May 28. — William Jaques was committed to Salisbury goal
for the murder of a black sailor whom he had enticed
to accompany him into the country. They had both
sailed together in his majesty's ship, Stagg, and were
both paid oft' about three weeks before the murder
was committed, when each received about ^,28.
Jaques having squandered his money in rioting
among his friends, decoyed the poor black into a
wood, where he dashed his brains out with a hedge-
stake ; but being suspected was pursued and taken
at a public house in the Devizes with sixteen thirty-
six shilling pieces in his pocket, the black's handker-
chief about his neck, and in his hand the bloody stake
with which he perpetrated the murder. He con-
fessed the whole, and signed his confession.
May. — Died: Rev. Mr. Thorp, R. of Ilaughton, near Darling-
ton, and a Prebendary of Salisbury.
May. — Dr. Stonehouse presented to the living of Cheverill,
near the Devizes.
Ju/y 5. — John Butler Harrison, of Amery, near Alton, Hants,
Esq., m. to Miss Ballard, of Steeple-Langford,
Wilts.
Jr//v 15.- A poor woman at Winterbour.i, in Wilts, being
seized with a giddiness in her head, fell asleep, and
continued to sleep seemingly sound till the 19th,
when she expired. During the whole time she
breathed free and easy, and looked healthy and
pleasant.
/ii/y 17.— Rev. Mr. Pocock, R. of Mildenhall, Wilts, Esq., m.
to Miss Long, of Rood Ash ton.
Extracts from ^' The Gentlematis Magazine^ 227
July. — Cha. Compton, presented to the X'icarage of Barton,
Wilts.
Aug. I. — Lady of Per. Bertie, Esq., member for Westbury,
delivered of a son.
-^'^S- 3- — Died : Rev. Mr. Warneford, at Vennington's Place,
Wilts; Rev. Mr. Ashton, R. of Kemble, Wilts.
Aug. 8. — At Salisbury Assizes, Wm. Jacques, the sailor, was
capitall}- convicted for murdering the black ; he not
only confessed the fact, but three other murders, and
the robbery of a man at Ilounslow Heath of ^10.
Aug. — George Cottrell presented to the Vicarage of Cramthorn,
Wilts.
Sept. 7. — Died : Ralph Ellinson, of Wiltshire, Esq.
Sept. 24. -It was agreed between the nobilit}', gentry, and
clergy of the count}' of Wilts and city of Salisbury,
to abolish the custom of giving vails to servants after
the 29th.
Sept. — Geo. Grange presented to the Vicarage of Ilarrowdale,
Wilts.
Oct. 7. — Died : Lancelot Davies, of Wiltshire, Esq.
Oct. 28.— Died : Wm. Burford, of Wiltshire, Esq.
Nov. 25.— Died : Rev. Mr. Laurence, R. of Oakley, Wilts.
Nov. 29. — Cha. Garth, Esq., eldest son of John Garth, Esq.
member for Devizes, m. to Miss Eanny Cooper, of
Camberwell.
Nov. 30. — A melancholy affair lately happened to a young
clergyman, in the neighbourhood of Wootton-Basset,
in Wiltshire, who, being on the point of marriage
with a young lady of family and fortune, on some
slight disgust or jealous}', shot himself in the presence
of his intended bride. The coroner has brought in
his verdict of lunacy, from his frequently having
made use of some expressions which threatened his
own life and that of others. And happy was it, as he
had another loaded pistol by him, he did not do
greater mischief.
228 ll'illshirc Nolcs ami Queries.
Dec. i8. — A travelling gipsey was committed to Salisbury
goal on suspicion of being accessary to the horrid
murder of Mr. Cheney and his wife at Ilungcrford,
in December, 1762.
Dec. 24. — Died : John Garth, Esq., member for the Devizes.
BIRD LIFE IN SALISBURY.
A Royal Visitor.
Amongst other benefits that wc have received Irom the
labours of our ancestors in the building of our cathedral
spire, which is not only the glor}^ of our more immediate
neighbourhood, but a landmark in the history of cathedral
building, there are one or two indirect ones that would not be
likely perhaps to strike the mind unless specially brought
forward. One such benefit is the right of as^'lum, not only to
men in past days in clanger of their lives ; or, in our more
peaceful times, to those often aweary with the press of
secular business, but to those denizens of the air, which, in
these days of our over-crowded population, are ever seeking,
though rarely finding, a really safe place whereon to rest
the soles of their feet, as they continually pass, often un-
noticed and unknown, over the heads of us men, for the most
part too bus}' and pre-occupicd to observe them. To them
the admirable height of our spire suggests such an asylum,
and they are not slow to perceive it
Diverse and curious are some of the species I myself
have noticed on and around the spire ; and one which has
more recently occurred deserves a notice to itself, as it is
by no means an every day occurrence, although I am glad
to say it is not altogether an isolated one. I allude to the
passage of a fine eagle over the Close on Sunday, January
liud Life in Salisbury. 229
31st last., at about 12.30 p.m.; and although il did not
settle on the spire on this occasion, it was doubtless attracted
towards it from a distance, on account of its conmiand-
ing height. A hiend of mine (Mr. W. Edwardes) was first
attracted to it by noticing an unusual commotion amongst
the neighbouring rooks and jackdaws, which he then saw
were mobbing this great bird sailing overhead, not much
out of gun-shot, so that he could see distinctly the large
hooked beak of the bird, and its general colouring, which
appeared to be more or less all over of a dark-mottled
brown. The huge bird passed over with slow flappings of the
wings, and took but little notice of the officious attention of
its neighbours, which is one of the penalties that " Royalty "
is obliged to put up with. My friend put it down to be a
Golden Eagle ; but it was undoubtedly one of the wandering
immature Sea Eagles, which are not infrequently seen in our
southern counties; whereas the Golden Eagle very rarely
wanders from its honie in the Scottish Highlands; but in
flight it was not easy to discern whether the tarsus was
feathered or not ; which would at once have settled the question
as to identit3^ 1 interviewed several other people afterwards
who had also seen the bird pass over, and they all testified
to its enormous size ; while one of them also remarked how
distinctly the large quill feathers of the wings stood out
separately against the sky; a point which is always very
discernible in all our larger birds of prey.
1 remarked to my friend at the time, that we should
be almost sure to hear of the bird again further west, and
a few days later 1 received a letter from Mr. Benett-Stan-
ford, of Pyt House, Tisbury, telling me that he had also
seen the bird ; but from the letter he kindly wrote, I gather
that the bird he saw may possibly have been another
specimen of the same species, as he dated the occurrence
as happening on January 22nd^some ten days previous
to the Salisbury notice — when he was out shooting with
a party at "Great Ridge", on the estate of Mr. Alfred
ajo ll'illsliire iVolcs and Oucrics.
Morrison, of FontliiU. Of course the birds noticed may have
been the same ; but the Sahsbury bird was coming from the
directly opposite quarter at tlie time, i.e., from the south-east,
the Christchurch direction, and that being an. especially
favourite haunt of this species, the same bird may have been
passing backward and forward. This would seem the more
likely, as Hart (the Christchurch naturalist) told me last
month, that though he had not observed one of these birds
there this winter, last year a Sea Eagle frequented the neigh-
bourhood the whole of the winter months; and lie might say
that he knew where he could get a sight of it almost any day
he wanted, so that he began to hope it would have stayed,
and possibly procured a mate, and bred there ; but towards
the end of the spring the bird left 'the neighbourhood and
passed on.
Once again I have been enabled to trace the flight of the
Salisbury bird still further west, as an acquaintance of
mine in Devonshire was stopped by some friends driving by,
who said they had just seen an enormous eagle fly across the
road, with something in its talons, which it dropped in the
corner of the next field ; and on going to the spot pointed out,
it proved to be a rabbit about three-quarters grown. Thus
this specimen up to that tlatc had procured immunity from
the fate which usually befalls a wanderer of this sort in our
inhospitable and overcrowded land.
The eagle, as noticed by Mr. Benett-Stanford on January
22nd, was flying close down to the brush-wood with which
"The Ridge" is mostly covered, mobbed, and persecuted
by three herons. " It was very interesting", writes my cor-
respondent, "to see how the herons pounced down upon
him time after time, and gave liim a thorough chasing."
The bird was only some 100 yards off when tiuis observed.
" I believe ", my correspondent adds, " it is not a very un-
common thing to see one of these eagles on 'Great Ridge';
one was shot there some few years ago." This last bird
mentioned was set up b^- White, of Salisbury; and 1 saw and
Bird Lijc in Salisbury. 231
measured it accurately in tiie flesh. It was a female,
measuring in expanse of wing exactly 8 feet, and 3ft. 4in. from
beak to tail. This bird was in immature plumage ; as was
also another that was sent to me in the flesh at Britford, in
1 87 1, which had been caught alive on the battlefield of Metz,
after having haunted the site for a month or more. It was
a male bird, measuring 7ft. 4in. in expanse and 3ft. from beak
to tail, thus showing the usual difierence of size between the
sexes ; the females of all the Raptores always exceeding the
*
males in size. This bird, now in my collection, was set up by
Hart, who told me that these immature Sea Eagles were far
from uncommon in the Christchurch district, and that from
about i860 to 1876, when birds were not so carefully preserved
as they are now, he had some dozen specimens brought in for
preservation — one of these he exchanged with the then Lord
Malmesbury for an heron in fine adult plumage, which shows
that these immature birds were not considered as any great
rarit}' in that neighbourhood at that period.
The largest specimen of Haliactus Albicilla (or the Sea
Eagle) that I can personally speak to is one in Hart's
Museum, which I saw last month. This bird measured 8ft.
4in. in expanse, as marked on the floor of the Museum before
he skinned it, and he told me that out of the many local
specimens that he has handled he has only measured one
that was larger, and this reached the expanse of 8ft. Sgin. ;
so that 8ft. 6in. may be taken as the full measurement of this
species. This shows the Sea Eagle to be considerably larger
than the Golden Eagle {Aquila Chrysaetos) — a point upon
which there often seems to be a good deal of discrepancy ;
and having had opportunities of carefully measuring myself
several of these latter birds (and accurate measurements
of five or six others shot in the Rocky Mountains in
Colorado having been sent me by a friend), I can only gather
that it is an especially \arge /e»ia/c of the Golden species that
will reach 3 feet in length, or 7 feet in expanse — nine out of
ten will be under, rather than over, that measurement — the
2^2 IViltsltire Noks and Ouerics.
largest specimen I have accurate knowledge of, having been
7 feet in expanse, and 311. lin. in length.
But ere I conclude I should like to mention that our visitor
of the 31st January is not the only specimen of the Sea Eagle
that has been attracted to our spire. I was mentioning the late
occurrence to one of my old St. Nicholas brethren, who was
just 86 years of age (and was gathered to his rest on March
22nd inst.) — Thomas George— and he immediately brightened
up and said, " 1 remember well, sir, as though it were yester-
day, a great eagle settling on the Cathedral weathercock,
and how all the people brought out their glasses to look at
it as long as he stayed there." It was very interesting to find
a person who remembered so clearly this incident, which had
happened nearly 70 years ago. He could not remember the
actual date, but on turning to the Rev. A. C. Smith's Birds
of Wiltshire^'' p. 63, we find it happened in 1828, or '29. Mr.
Smith first mentions an occurrence of the eagle (doubtless //.
Albicilla) in Wilts, as mentioned in the Salisbury Journal
bearing date as long ago as the middle of the last century,
where it is said —
"One summer cveniiifT an cap;lc was observed sailing towards tlie
summit of Salisbury Cathedral ; lie reposed there all uight, and early
in tin- morning set sail northwards."
And then Mr. Smith goes on to mention the occurrence
my old friend so well remembered —
" In the year 1828 or 1829 a similar case occurred, of which a highly-
respected Rector of a Wiltshire parish was an eye-witness. My
informant was at that time a young boy at the celebrated school kept
by Dr. Radcliffe, at Salisbury, and he describes the house and school-
buildings, which have long since disappeared, as entered from Castle
Street, and his bedroom as over the large and lofty school-room, and
its windows as giving a view of the upper part of the spire, unin-
terrupted by the neighbouring houses, h was on a summer evening,
at about five or six o'clock, that an eagle, said to have come from a
northerly direction, took its place on the grand perch it had selected on
the vane al)ove the spire. The night chanced to be that of a full moon,
and the sky was cloudless. Just before bedtime my informant came
into possession, for the first time of his life, of 'Lord Byron's Tales',
which were printed in good bold type, so that he wua able to read
Copy of an Original Conveyance by Maud Heath. 233
them easily by the light of the moon ; and now after an interval of
nearly 60 years he recollects reading for several hours, seated on the
window seat of his bedroom, but frequently raising his eyes to look
at the great bird on the weather-cock of the spire. A plot, it appears,
was made by some to shoot the eagle with a rifle-ball, and a party
went up with that purpose to the 'Eight doors', or in other words, to
the place where the base of the spire rests upon the tower; but
happily their endeavours were baffled by the large ball, which projects
itself below the cross, and early in the morning the eagle floated away
southward unharmed.'
Doubtless our 1S97 specimen is not the only one that has
visited us during the long stretch of years intervening between
1828 and the present date ; nor is the species in itself of such
rarity as to make an occasional visit an unlikely occurrence ;
for the old birds invariably drive the young ones away from
their more immediate neighbourhood directly they can shift for
themselves ; which partly accounts for the wandering propen-
sity so largely developed in these immature birds ; but it is
well that the appearance of a Royal visitor in Wilts should be
duly chronicled in the annals of the count}^, and it will be
difficult to say when next our eyes are to be gladdened with a
similar appearance. The Culver Cliffs in the Isle of Wight,
and Lundy Island, old breeding stations of this species, now
know them no more; but with our " close time " and "Wild
Bird Protection Act " in full force, we may yet recover and
repopulate man}' a deserted breeding haunt with some of our
rarer birds.
A. P. MORRES.
COPY OF AN ORIGINAL CONVEYANCE BY
MAUD HEATH,
June 12///, 1474.
The Rev. J. F. Daniell, of Langley Burrell, has been
lately placed on Maud Heath's Trust, and has kindl^^ forwarded
the following copy of a conveyance, "which was found about
twenty years ago, among a lot of ancient deeds belonging to
Stanley Abbey, where I conclude it was deposited for safety,
234 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
and passed through the Bayntons and Starkeys to Sir Gabriel
Goldne}', Bart. ; it is written on parchment, Sin. x 2J in , in
twelve close lines in very fine script, and now very faint : —
"Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Matilda Hethe de
Tydryngton Kayleway nupcr relicta Johannis Hethe dedi
concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirniavi Johanni Bagot
Roberto Potern Willielmo Wattys Roberto Compton Waltero
Sebeacres Johanni Browan Edwardo Aylewyn Jolianni Baron
Willielmo llorte et Ricardo Wodelondc omnia terras et
tenementa cotagia et tofta ct gardina prata pascua pasturas
redditus revertiones et servitia cum suis pertincntibus que
Habeo die confectionis presentium in Ch3fpenham ct infra
parochia de Ch^'penham Habendum et tenendum omnia
predicta terras el al prefatis Johanni Bagot et al heredibus
et assignatis suis in perpetuum de capitalibus dominicis
feodrill per servitia inde debita et de jure consueta ct ego
vero Matilda predicta et heredes mei omnia predicta terras
ct al prefatis Johanni Bagot ct al contra omnes gentes
warantizabimus acquietabimus et in perpetuum defendemus
In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti carte mee sigillum
meum apposui Hiis testibus Johanne Lybur Villiclmo Hawkes-
bury Johanne Bayle ct niultis aliis Datur apud Chypenham
predictam duodecimo die Junii anno rcgni regis Edwardi
quarti post conquestum quarto decimo."
On the seal attached to the Deed are impressed the
letters M. H. interlaced.
GRANT OF ARMS
To Tiio. J.AcoB, OK Wootton-Bassett, 24 June 1633
(9 Ch. R's.).
\Harlc\ MS. 1470, fo. 155.]
"To all and singulcr as well Nobles as Gentlemen to
whom thcis p'sents shall come Richard St. George Knight
Grant of Anns. 235
Clarenceux, King of Arnies of all the South East and West
parts of the Rcalme of England from the River of Trent
sendeth greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Know yee
that auntiently from the beginning it has been a. custom and
to this day is continued etc. And being required by Thomas
Jacob of Wootton Bassett in the County of Wilts, gent., to
signifie unto him what Armes hee may Lawfully beare (And
having receaved sufficient testimony from honorable per-
sonages of his Worth and Meritt) Therefore I doe publish
and declare that he may beare theise Armes and Creast
following that is to say OR on a Canton Sables a Tyger's
head erased of the second Langued gules And for his Creast
on a Helme and Wreath of his CouUers a Tyger Sables Armed
and Langued gules supporting a Sheilde or mantled gules
doubled Argent as in the Margent ^ hereof more pla3^nely are
depicted All which Armes and Creast I the said Clarenceux
King of Armes, by power and authority to mee comitted under
the greate Scale of England, doe by theise p'sents, give and
graunt ratifie and confirme unto and for the said Thomas
Jacob and to his issue and posterity for ever, observing their
due differences etc. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett
my hand, and fixed the scale of myne office this fower and
twentith daye of June An°. Dmn. 1633 And in the Ninth
yeare of the Reigne of our Souereigne Lord Charles by the
grace of God King of great Brittaine France and Ireland
defender of the faith etc.
" Ri. St. George Clarenceux,
** King of Armes.
'* Coppied by the originall Patent and examined by us
22 January, 1649.
" Nevill Maskelvne,
" JOHN Withy."
' Space is blank.
236 ll'iltsliirc Notes aiul (J it cries.
QUAKERISM IN WILTS.
The following is taken from a book entitled 'Vi Brief
Account of ma)iv of the Prosecutions of the People caWd Quakers
etc.^ London, 1736."
Prosecuted in the Exchequer for Tithes.
1696. John Floiver, by Francis Green, parson of Corshani,
in Fisherton Gaol for a year, discharged by an act of grace.
1700. Francis Broom, by John Horton, parson of Cold-
horne (Colerne ?), a poor man, and had a great family; the
demand was about 16/- for two acres of wheat.
1 70 1. Charh'S Barrett, of Tithcrton, by John Wilson,
parson of Brimhill.
Roger Cooke, near Calne, b}' Joshua Shepherd, of Calne,
Impropriator.
1703. John Somner, of Seen'd Row, near Melksham, by
Bohun Fox, parson of Melksham, 30/- for four years' Tithes.
1704. IVilliam Player, of Grittleton, by Thomas Tetter-
shall, parson of the parish.
1707. Henry Sanger, of Warminster; 10/- for two years
Tithes.
1709. Josiah IVakcnian (arrears of eight years' Tithes,
for a farm formerly held at ^7 10/- per ann., thirty-two weeks
in Fisherton gaol) by John Wilson, parson of Brimhill.
Charles Barrett (for a farm formerh' held, and had been
out of four years, thirty weeks in Fisherton gaol) by same.
Jonathan Scott by same.
1 7 19. John /?////!', of Melksham, to Fisherton gaol 12 May
1724, for not paying ^41 12/- for two years' Tithes, and ^137
Costs) by Bohun Fox.
1726. Jolui Jefferies, by Anne Wilson, widow of John
Wilson, late parson of Brimhill.
Prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
1717. iniliani Price (9/-), Walter Price (4/-) and George
I Wiltshire Briejs. 237
Hilticr (4/2), all of Christian Malford, for Church rate (so-
called), excommunicated.
1 7 19. John Moore, of New Sarum (6 '-) by Richard Glass,
Church rate (so-called), suit dropt in consequence of death of
demandant.
1722. Janus Hobbs of Laycock, a poor labourer, (4^'.)
for sweeping the parish worship-house by Richard Grist,
parish clerk.
17-3- Joseph Hull, of Franklcy, near Bradford, (^2 4/-)
for Tithes by William Sartaine, Impropriator.
WILTSHIRE BRIEFS.
1653, Aug. 7. 8s. towards ye re-edifieinge of Marlbarrowe
in ye county of Wilts.
1664, June 8, for David Long, of Norrington, in the
county of Wiltes. Havergal's Records of Upton Bishop,
Hereford, pp. 56, 57.
The following are from the Register of North Luffen-
ham, CO. Rutland, lately printed by the Parish Register
Society : —
1653, July 31. Collected the day and yeere above written,
at North LuflFenham, towards the reliefe of the Inhabitants
of Marleborough in ye county of Wilts (haveing suffered by a
lame'table fire, burning downe one of ye Churches, ye markett
house, and 224 dwelling houses, exceeding great losses to
the value of three score and ten thousand pounds at the least),
I say, collected the sum'e of twenty-one shillings and sixpence.
Ri. Gierke.
ni t J I Richard Pitts.
ChnrchK'ardens. -^ ^ ^^jj, ^^^^^^,
By a second survey of the losse it was found to amount
to ten thousand pounds more. Sent the money collected as
above by Richard Pitts, one of ye Churchwardens to Mr.
Clipsham, of Morcote (according to Ord'.), being High
238 I Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Constable, wlio gave an Acquitancc for ye receipt of it,
beareing date ye 5th of August 1653.
167 1, Oct. Collected upon ye Brief for ye fire at Meere,
in Wiltshire, the sum of eight shillings sixpence, «& as was
appointed, sent to the High Constable by ye Constables of o'
town.
1694, 10. Collected for ye fire at Nether Havon, in ye
County of Wilts, ye sum of five shillings.
Tho. Mu'ton and Francis Thorp.
c'Ducrifd*
Bourchier. — Susan Bourchier, of Chancery Lane, Middle-
sex, spinster, and Margaret Bourchier, are mentioned in a deed,
dated 1686, concerning the Bayliffie family of Monkton, Chip-
penham, seemingly connected with Walter Grubbe, Esq., of
Potterne. Information requested as to their connexion with
Wiltshire. They appear to have used the Baylifte seal, a
chevron between three hearts, ivith a difference.
Chippoiham. Mary Light.
School Lists of Winchester College. — I am preparing for
publication the early Scliool Lists, or "Long Rolls", as they
are called, of Winchester College. The fact that a large
number of Wiltshire families have always sent their sons to
this school leads me to ask whether any of your readers can
lend me, or put me in the way of obtaining, in order to copy,
any of the Rolls for the following years, viz., 1654-67, both
years inclusive, 1669, 1671, 1682, 1687, 1689, 1703, 171 1, 1713,
1715, 171S, 1722 ?
The Close, Salisbury. C. W. Holgate.
Saniboiinic Bridge. 239
Sambourne Bridge. What is tlie derivation of the name
of this bridge, situated live miles south-west of Cricklade on the
road to Malmesbury ? Is there any feature of the landscape
from which the name might be derived, or is there any record or
tradition of its having been named from the Sambourne family,
who held some considerable property in the neighbourhood ?
La Grange, Ills., U.S.A. V. C. Sanborn.
Wroughton Common.— How many acres was this in
extent ; and when and by whom was it enclosed ?
J. C. P.
Haine. — Can any one favour me with some details as to
the life of a person of this name, who seems to have resided
at Burderop in the earlier part of this century ?
R. K. W.
Hayne, of Burderop. — Who was this wealtliy person,
as to whom I only know that he is said to have trained a very
noted prize-fighter, and to have paid jQz'^oo damages to the
beautiful actress, Miss Foote, for breach of promise of mar-
riage ?
N. SiMMONDS.
White Hand.-W^hat is the legend of the "White Hand"
in connexion with the Manor of Draycot Cerne ?
John F. Daniel.
Morse. — Information wanted as to the family of Anthony
and William Morse, brothers, who in 1635 shipped from
Southampton for New England, in the James, of London, and
are described in the List of Passengers as of " Marlborough,
s
240
IVillshiir Notes and Oiterics.
Shoemakers". An Anthony Morse purchased lands at
Dedham, co. Essex, in 1587.
I S Somerset Slrecf, Henry Dutch Lord.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
Hurle. — Who was James llurle of Edington ? 1 have
his printed Book-label, dated 1855, with some rhymes about
borrowing' books.
Ed.
Whorwellsdown Hundred (vol. i, pp. 131, 18S, 413, 526).
— At the time of the compilation of Domesday Book the lord-
ship of the Hundred was in tlie hands of the " Abbatissa de
Romeseye ", as it was still in 1316 (Noni. VillaniDij. I should
like to ask if there is any connexion between this Abbey and
that of Wherwell, mentioned by Dr. Gro.se; and if the name
of the Hundred can be connected with that of the Abbey.
The following extract from Britton's Hanips/ii/r mentions
the Wood without saying where it is situated : —
"At Whdiwell, or Whcrvvrll, 3 m. S.E. of Aiul()V<'r, was a nunnery,
founded by Elfrida, 2nd wife of King Edgar, in atonement for the murder
of Edward the Martyr at Corfe Castle ; and also for that of Etheiwold,
her first hu.sband, whom Edgar is recorded to have slain in a wood near
Whorwell, that he might obtain her in marriage. In this nunnery Elfrida
took the veil, and was buried. Many privileges were granted to the
foundation by Pope Gregory IX, and its possessions were so numerous
that their annual value at the dissolution was estimated at ;i^339 8j. yd.,
according to Dugdale, and at /■403 \2s. \od., according to Speed. The
site of the nunnery was granted to Sir Tlios. West, Lord Deiawarr.
IViiorivellsdoivn Hundred extends from very near Trow-
bridge, to Semington on the North and to Edington and North
Bradley on the South, and it includes Keevil and Steeple
Ashton, passing not far from Seend.
The name Whorwellsdown is said by the Rev. Canon
Jones to have, perhaps, originally been " Mar wellesdiin, i.e.,
the hill by the hoar, or ancient well ".
T. S. M.
Beiio/l's I'isitation of 1530. 241
Benolt's Visitation of 1630.— It is to Mr. V. A. Carring-
ton tluit \vc arc iiidtbicd lor the best guide to original materials
for Wiltshire Genealogy. In his paper on " The Heralds'
Visitations of Wiltshire and the Pedigrees of Wiltshire
Families", in the second volume of The JVillshirc Archceological
Magazine, we gain some knowledge of this Visitation, viz. :
" A.D. 1530, 25 Hen. \'III, Thomas Benolte, Clarencieux.
The original is in the Heralds' College, London
(H. 20). A cop}- is in the librar}' of Sir Thomas
Phillipps, Bart."
This contains the pedigrees and arms of Chocke, Sey-
mour, Bonam, Boucher, Lylseley, Lanliam, Pye, Barnard,
Stylleman and Borleys.
There is a very mutilated copy of fragments of this \'isi-
tation in the British Museum [Add. MSS., No. 12,479] giving
pedigrees in paragraph form of Bourchier, Page, Borleys,
Hungerford, Horsey ; it is obviously a careless and useless
copy.
My object in writing is, to ask where Sir Thomas Phillipps'
copy now is ? Are there any other copies ? Can any plan be
suggested for getting these old pedigrees and arms into print ?
John Dyke.
King's Evil. — The following is an extract from the Parish
Register of Wilsford, near Pewsey : —
1752. " A. R. Mary Smith {alias) Pudd of Botwellsford was buried
May the 27th. She was said to be 105 years old, and was cured of the
struma or King's Evil in her youth by the Touch of King Charles the
second." '
' On the 18th of May, 1664, the following public advertisement was
issued for the healing of the people by King Charles II : —
" Notice.— His Sacred Majesty having declared it to be his royal will
and purpose to continue the healing of his people for the evil during the
month of May, and then give over till Michaelmas next, I am commanded
to give notice thereof, that the people may not come up to the town in the
interim and lose their labor." — Newes, 1664.
S 2
242 ll'iUsliirc Notes ami Queries.
Are any other entries relating to this subject to be found
among the Parish Registers of Wiltshire ?
WiLTONIENSIS.
Curious Customs of Manors. — Last year I was at Tin-
head, near Edington, and an old man of over 90 years (?) told
me that a manorial court used to be held at the George Inn, in
that village, and that it was necessary that the hayward should
bring his dog in his arms and say, " Here come 1 and my dog
to open this Court ". Whether there is any real evidence of
such a custom I do not know, but it is perhaps well that such
peculiar manorial incidents, which are fast passing away,
should be recorded, and I trust that other such customs may
appear in print from those who know of them.
Fred. Elliot.
Bowood. — I understand a book was written by the late
John Britton on this subject. What was its size and date of
publication ? Can any one supply me with a list of contents ?
There is no copy in the British Museum.
C. Jefferies.
Curious Recovery of Speech. — In the 9th volume of the
Pliilosopliical Transactions of tlie Royal Society of Loudon
a curious case is given by Archdeacon Squire of a person who,
after having been dumb for years, recovered the use of his
speech by means of a dream of this description : —
" One day, in the year 1741, he got very much in liquor, so much so
that on his n-turn home at niglit to Devizes, lie fell from his horse three
or four times, and was at last taken up by a neightxiur and put to bed in
a house on the road. He soon fell asleep ; when, dreaming that he was
falling into a furnace of boiling wort, it put him into so great an agony
of fright, that, struggling with all his might to call out for help, he ac-
tually did call out aloud, and recovered the use of his tongue that
moment, as effectually as he ever had it in his life, without the least
hoarseness or alteration in the old sound oi his voice."
Who was he ?
E. D. W.
Swanborottgli Ashes. 243
Krplifs.
Swanborough Ashes (vol. i, 562, ii, 183). — The following
papers — tlie originals ol which are in my possession — may
serve to add a little additional information on the subject of
the Open-air Court of the Hundred, held from time im-
memorial at this spot.
No. I. — A precept from the Bailiff of the Hundred, to
the Tithingman of Cheverell Parva, requiring him per-
sonally to attend the Court and to pay to the Steward of the
Leet the amount of the Law-day silver due from his tithing : —
" Hundred of Swanborough 1 To the Tithingman of Cheverell
in the County of Wilts. > Parva in the said Hundred of
J Swanborough, These.
" By Virtue of a Warrant to me directed from the Steward
of the Leet for the Hundred aforesaid you are hereby re-
quired to be and appear before the said Steward at a Court
Leet to be holden at Su'miboroiig/i Asli,^ or from thence to be
adjourned to the sign of the Rose and Crown Inn in Wood-
borough in and for the said Hundred on Monday the 15th
day of this instant October by ten o'clock in the forenoon of
the same day And pa}' to the said Steward your Law-day
Silver for the said Tithing being ^o los. 6(L And further
to do and present those things which belong to your said
office, of which you are not to fail, as also of having then there
this precept. Given under my hand the 8th day of October
1764
"W\m. Bruges."
No. II. — Receipt for one year's Law-day Silver, paid at
the same Court : —
' From this it appears that one tree only was standing on Swanborough
Tump in 1764.
244 U''illshi)-c Nolcs and Queries.
"Received the 15th October 1764, of theTything-
nian of Chiveril Parva Ten shillings and sixpence
in full for one year's Law-day Silver, issunig and r 5. d^
payable out of and for the said Tything and due to ^ o 10 6
Sr. Wni. Pynscnt, Baronet, at Michaelmas last, for
whose use the same is now received by me,
" E. Bampfield."
No. III. — A similar Precept to No. i, dated 30th Septem-
ber 1763, and requiring the attendance of the same Tithing-
man, at the same Court Leet for the Hundred of Swan-
borough, " to be holden at Foxly Corner^ at the sign of the
Wheat Sheaf Inn, in the Parish of Urchfont", on Monday the
10th of October following.
From this it would appear that the Court was held
alternately at Swanborough Ash, in the parish of Manning-
ford Abbots, and at Foxly Corner, in the parish of Urchfont,
which may perhaps be thuts explained.
At the date of the "Nomina Villarum"— a.d. 1316 — the
Hundred of Swanborough was much smaller than at present,
including Upavon, Marden, Rushall, Charlton, Wilsford,
Beechingstoke, Stanton St. Bernard, Oare, North Newnton,
Alton Barnes, Woodborough, Wilcot, and the three Manning-
fords only. At some subsequent period the okl Hundred of
Stodfoldc, including Chiiton, Conock, Urchfont, Stert, Etchil-
hampton, Allcannings, and AUington, became merged into it,
as well as both of the Lavingtons and Cheverels from the
extinct Hundreds of Rubergh Regis and Rubergh Episcopi ;
and Alton Priors from that of Elstub. It seems, therefore,
very probable that " Swanborotii^h Ash " represents the site
of the Court Leet of the original Hundred of Szvaiiborough,
and Foxly Conirr that of the old Himdrrd of Slodfolde, and
that after the latter Hundred had merged into the former the
Court was held alternatelv on each of the two ancient sites.
In this case " Foxly Corner", a well-known spot about
five miles from Devizes, on the main road to Salisbury over
Anciciil Carnages. 245
the plain, and at the angle leading from thence into the
village of Urchfont, may be regarded as the site of the open
air Court of the ancient and now extinct Hundred of Stod-
folde.
WlLTONIENSIS.
Ancient Carriages (vol. ii, p. 145). — About forty-two years
ago 1 inspected those in a barn at Manton. The bodies were
slung up on immense leather straps, and the driver's seat was
on a very large tool box. 1 was given to understand that they
had belonged to the Baskervilles of "Richardson" in the
parish of Winterbourne Bassett.
Wm. B. C. Horsell.
" Mansfield" (vol. ii, p. 172, note 3). — Is not this probably
a printer's error, in George Fox's Journal^ for Marsfield,
which would most likely refer to Marshfield, actually in
Gloucestershire but on the borders of Wiltshire ? Marsh-
field is known to be only the modern form of the name, which
was anciently written Marsfield, the name being understood
to have reference to the mere or boundary of the three
counties of Wilts, Somerset, and Gloucester. [In George
Fox's Journal^ ed. 1836, ii, p. 121, it is described as "in
Wiltshire or Gloucestershire ". Mansfield in Nottingham-
shire is frequently mentioned in the Journal. — Ed.]
C. H. Talbot.
Queen Elizabeth's Progresses in Wiltshire and
Gloucestershire in 1592 (vol. i, pp. 467-526). — A memorial
of this progress still remains in Chisledon Church. It is a
monumental brass in the pavement of the cliancel, to the
memory of Francis Rutland, who died on the 27th of August
1592. Aubrey says "he was a courtier and died in the
Progresse" — which is most probably, correct — the Queen
246
IViltshiri' Nolcs and Queries.
having started about the 8th August,^ and towards the end
of that month passed through part of North Wilts, induding
Ramsbury, Burderop, and Lydiard Tregoz, and reached Down
Ampney then the residence of Sir John Hungerford — on
the I St September.
the Countie of
Surrye, Esquier",
and that he
"marryed the
daughter of
Thomas Ste-
phens, Esquier",
which latter fact
probably
counts fov
burial here.
wife Mary
the
The effigy
of the deceased
courtier [vide
woodcut) repre-
sents him in the
long gown of the
period, with
hanging sleeves,
and trimmed with
fur, frills at the
neck and wrists,
and low shoes —
a well known
type of the civil
costume of the
latter pait of
Elizabeth's reign.
From the in-
scription we learn
that Francis Rut-
land was " Sonne
and heire to
Nycolas Rutland,
of Micham, in
daughtei
ac-
his
His
was
- of
Thomas Ste-
phens, of Bur-
derop, to which
family the manor
and advowson of
Chisledon (which
had previously
been part of the
possessions of
Hyde Abbey)
then belonged.
There is a pedigree of Rutland in tlic Herald's visitation
of Surrey {Ilarl. MS., 1561, folio 55) including the two
generations here mentioned. Mitcham, their place of
' From Nichols' Proijresses we learn tliat tlio Queen visited Sir
Ivlwanl Holiy. at I'.isliani Ahbf-y. in IJfrksliire. about tlio 15tli of Aiif,nist ;
and later in the liame month was the K'lesl nf Sir llcnrv Lee, at Qiuuendun,
in the vale of Aylesbury, co. Bucks.
Effigy of Francis Rutland,
FROM HIS Brass at
Chisledon.
The Rev. T/tonias Holland. 247
residence, is described by Aubrc}', in his History of Surrey,
as " well inhabited and much frequented by the citizens of
our Metropolis " ; and Walton, in his Life of Donne, describes
it " a place noted for good air and choice company". The
Parish Register contains many entries relating to the Rutland
family.
The Chamberlain's accounts at Marlborough, for the
same year (1592), contain the following payments : —
"To the Queen's harbinger, at the time of her Majesty's
progress, ;^i.
"To the Queen's trumpeter, los."
P'rom which it appears that the Queen during this progress
also passed through Marlborough.
Edward Kite.
The Rev. Thomas Holland (vol. i, pp. 4, 41, 92). — Two
distinct individuals of this name (no doubt father and son)
appear in the Parish Register of Amesbury. The first occurs
in 1660— if not earlier — and his burial is thus recorded :
1680. "Thomas Holland, Minister, was buryed June 7."
About a year before his father's death is the marriage of
the son [the hydraulic inventor], who seems at that time to
have resided in the adjoining village of Netheravon, and on
his father's death to have succeeded him at Amesbury.
1679.^ " Thos. Holland Jun., Clericus, and Mrs. Grace
Gunter, both of Netheravon, were married with license out
of y" Arches, May 29."
Then follow the burials of three of their children, who
must all have died in their infancy :
1681. "Thomas Gunter, son of Thomas and Grace
Holland, June lo."
' License dated 29 July 167i), and then another one dated 8 May 1679, he
about 31, she about 25, with her mother's consent ; there is also one to Bryan
Holland, of Hitcham, Bucks, clerk, dated 5 June 1()72. Brian Holland, of
North Moreton, aet. 10 in 1609, and Thomas Gunter, of Barton, Ox., a;t. 10
in 1611, were scholars of Winchester. — Ed.
248 Wiltshire Notes ami Queries.
16S2. "Thomas (sic) of Thos. and Grace Holland,
May 8."
1683. "Bryan and Tliomas, sons of Thos. and Grace
Holland, Dec. 31."
Nearly twenty years later is the burial of Mrs. Holland :
1722. "Grace, wife of Thos. Holland, Cler., Jan. 24."
And lastly that of the hydraulic inventor himself, about
fourteen years after the date of his patent :
1730. "The Reverend Mr. Thomas Holland, Curate,
May 13. "Wm. Mundy, Curate."
The father must thus have had the spiritual charge of
the parish of Amesbury for at least twenty years, from the
Restoration until 1680; and the son during the whole of the
succeeding half century.
There was a family of Gunter residing at Milton, near
Pewsey, to whom the wife of the hydraulic inventor most
probably belonged. They bore for arms, Sable, three gauntlets
argent, a Jiiullet for difference, and their pedigree is entered
in the Herald's Visitation of the Count}^, A.n. 1623. The
Christian name of Bryan, given to one of Mr. Holland's
children, is also found in the Gunter pedigree.
The Amesbury Register also contains the following entry
of marriage, which may refer to a sister of liie hydraulic
inventor^ — thus connecting him with the family of Baden,
which is, 1 believe, still represented in the innncdiate neigh-
bourhood : —
1667. "Mr. Robert Baden and Mrs. Jane Holland,
Jan. 16;"
and the baptism a year later of
i66<S. " Robt., son of Mr. Robt. and Mrs. Jane Baden,
III
an. 14.
ScRHiA.
Sihton Astoti. 249
Simon Aston (vol. i, p. 171). — P.C.C.^ 99, Lee. — "1638,
Aug. 2. Wile Elizabeth sole ex'ix, and to her one half or
moiety of my estate personal or real, other half to all my
children equall}', save that I give _;^5o to my eldest son William
Aston — my dear and loving brothers William Wheeler and
Robert Aston, Citizens and Grocers of London, Overseers,
and to each ^lo — Richard Nelme ^^lo on condition he do
aid my said ex'ix and overseers in making the accompts of
the shopp — poor of p'ish where I shall happen to be buried
20 - for 20 poor people of s"* p'ish — my dear mother jQio per
ann. for life, to be paid by my wife — poor of S' Peter's in
Cheape, London, 7!^ 10 for 10 poor people of s** p'ish. — Witn.
Jas. Smith, Thos. Lavender, John Hope. P*^ 15 Aug. 1638,
by Eliz. Aston, the relict."
According to the \'isitation of London 1633-4, which he
signs with his brother Robert, the Testator was the second
-on of Walter Aston, of Longdon, co. Staff., and married
Eliz., dau. of John Wheeler, a London merchant. On floor
of St. Mary's, Devizes, near south door — Argent, a /ess and
in chief three lozenges sable, a crescent charged ivith another for
difference. " Here lieth the body of Simon Aston, Citizen and
Grocer of London, the Sonne of Walter Aston, of Longdon
of Stafford, Gent., w"'' Symon had by Elizabeth, daughter of
John Wheeler, Esq', 5 children, who departed this life the 4th
of August, 163S, being aged 40 yeers." Information is still
required as to his connexion with Devizes.
Ed.
Jenner of Marston (vol. ii, p. 145). — Cainsford is
probably Kempsford, which is near Marston Mcysey, and not
far from Meysey Hampton.
Lacock Abbey. C. H. Talbot.
' Tliis will is kindly supplied by Mr. J. G. Bradford, of London.
250 IViltsliire Notes and Uueries.
Baynard of Lackham (vol. ii, p. 145). — Mr. W. D. Pink's
request lor inforniation respecting this family, other than
tliat contained in the Visitation of Wiltshire, 1623, does not
appear to have been yet answered. Your correspondent may
be referred to a paper on the Baynard Monuments in Lacock
Church, by Mr. Edward Kite, published in 1858 (IViltsliire
Arclicvological Magazine, vol. iv, page i), where he will find
a good deal of information.
C H. Talbot.
Lacock Abbey.
Notes on Books. 25 1
^lotrg on 2book«j.
A Descriptive List of the Deer-Parks and Paddocks
OF England. By Joseph Whitaker, F.Z.S., etc., etc.
London: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. 1S92.
Shirley's Account of English Deer Parks, published in
1867, for the most part an historical summary of the subject,
supplied a felt want, ver}^ soon ran out of print, and is now
very difficult to obtain. Mr. Whitaker's volume — giving cate-
gorical details as to the owner, the acreage, nature of enclosure,
water supply, number, kind, and average weight of deer,
and some slight account of the qualities of the park itself —
became scarce within a few months after publication, and now
sells for much more than its published price.
As we believe it has not hitherto been noticed in any
Wiltshire publication, it will not, perhaps, be too late to
discuss those portions of it which relate more particularly to
this county. Wiltshire is not, indeed, peculiarly favoured in
the number of its deer-parks, but it has the honour of contain-
ing Savernake, the largest, and Castle Combe, one of the most
beautiful and picturesque in England, while these two and
Compton Park may be accounted particularly remarkable for
their great age.
Besides the examples we have already mentioned, the
book contains accounts of Longleat, Spy, Draycot, Pinkney,
Bowood, Wilton, Roundway, Erlestoke, Littlecote, Brickworth
and Bellefield. These are all the deer-parks and enclosures
of the count}', but many others will occur to our readers as
worthy of panegyric for their beauty and extent, though not
containing deer. Since Shirley's account was published,
Stourhead and Charlton have dropped out of the list.
252 IVillsliirc Notes and Queries.
The history of these residential enclosures is a little
uncertain, but Mr. Whitaker sums it up in the following
words : —
"Soon alter the Nnrnuin Coiujiiest, ihc Ikiions and other depen-
dants of the Conqueror, who had settU^d down in tliis country, being
much addicted to liuiiting, began to form parks which were carved
out of the forests, and inchided all the wild animals which could be
driven in at the time of such enclosure. These increased until Crom-
well's time, when they were probably more numerous than at the present
day. The Roundheads were as hostile to Parks as to Cathedrals, and
many were destroyed, the fences being broken down, and the deer
driven out or killed. A great number of existing parks date no further
back than Charles the Second's time, when the owners settled down
again in their own homes, and endeavoured to restore the mischief
caused by the civil war."
Many Wiltshire residences shared the fate last mentioned,
and, indeed, one need not go far to find instances of the many
fine edifices and enclosures destroyed in those years of warfare.
Where, indeed, is Bromham House, once as large as Whitehall,
standing in an enclosure which is marked out in the older maps!
Almost ever}^ village had its noble manor-house before the
Stuart period, but many of these have succumbed, and many
more are sadly neglected and out of repair. Indeed, Wiltshire
must have been full of beautiful houses and enclosures in the
reign of James I, but the loss of tlic woollen industry, followed
by agricultural depression, has deprived it of many of its
most charming features.
C. S.
Visitation of England and Wales. Edited by Joseph
Jackson Howard, LL.D., Maltravers Herald Extra-
ordinary, and Frederick Arthur Crisp, Notes.
Vol. I. Privately printed, 1896.
Since we reviewed the first two volumes of these Visita-
tions, two more have been issued in the same sumptuous
ISiotes on Books. 253
style ; but, containing nothing particular about our Wiltshire
families, we have not thought lit to notice them.
Eighty copies of the present volume of Notes (all sub-
scribed for) have been printed in an uniform manner with the
Visitations themselves, at Mr. Crisp's private press, Grove
Park, Denmark Hill; this handsome book contains 130 pages,
including an index, illustrated with portraits, coats of arms,
book-plates, monuments, and facsimile signatures ; the Notes
consist of pedigrees of collateral relatives, extracts from
registers and bibles, wills and deeds, grants of arms and
monumental inscriptions.
The pedigree of Prior, Halse House, Taunton (Visita-
tions of England and I Vales, i, p. 9) is illustrated, in tliese
Notes by one of Goldne}' with arms, from Gabriel Goldney,
of Chippenham, born in 1732, to the present time; it is
adorned with a drawing of their genealogical monument at
Corsham, and heraldic bookplates of Henry, Francis Bennett,
and Frederick Hastings Goldney, and, above all, with a fac-
simile copy of the frontispiece of " Friendly epistles to Deists
and Jews, by Edward Goldney, sen., gent., widower. London :
Printed for the author and sold by his son, Edward Goldney,
stationer, in St. Paul's Churchyard, the second door from
Watling Street, 1760." This frontispiece (drawn b}' R.
Cosway and engraved by T. Chambers), contains a portrait
of the author in his study, in the act of writing the last line
of his book with an open bible before him, above are the moon
and stars, below is a " Chippendale " coat of arms. Per pale
gules and azure, o)i a bend argent three garbs banded between
two eagles displayed, motto, " Love without Dissimulation " ; on
either side a lighted candle in a tall candlestick ; below all
this a watchman with lantern and dog, calling out, " Past
four o'clock, star-light morn ing." " London New Year's
Morn., istjan., 1759. St. Paul's Church^'ard." In the Notes
to Bradney (Visitations, i, p. i) occurs a will of William
Hopkins, of Cheltenham, 1833, who leaves his son, John
William, his estate at Avebury, and to another son, Rev.
2^4 ll^illsliin- Notes and Ouen'es.
David Hopkins, his freehold estate in Poulshott alios Pollshott,
and a leasehold in same place, called Royalls.
These enterprising genealogists are preparing to issue
modern \^isitations of Ireland and Scotland, uniform with the
above.
v^^^^.^^
1^1^ ...
"^m^mi
3^SLlilt5i)iiT i^otts ant) Oucries
JUNE, 1S97.
JOHN STAFFORD, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
(A.D. 1443-52)
AND HIS WILTSHIRE PARENTAGE.
{Continued from p. 222.)
FTER the death of the Greynville heiress, Sir Hum-
phre}' re-married Ehzabeth, daughter of Sir WilUam
d'Auniarle, of Woodbury, Devon, and widow of Sir
John Maltravers, when he removed from Southwick
Court to her dower house at Hook, in the parish of
Abbotsbury, co. Dorset. Nothing is known of any
issue by this second man'iage, and it is noticeable that this
lady, in a codicil to her will, dated 14 October 14 13 — the day
before her death — makes a bequest to " Master John Stafford "
[the future Archbishop], who had in that year " with great
reputation " taken the degree of LL.D. at Oxford, and also
been collated to the Prebend of Barton, in Wells Cathedral.
Sir Humphrey's own will is dated at Hooke, 5 April 1413,
with codicil 30 October following, but no mention is made
therein of Master John Stafford, as in the will of his second
wife. He had, however, five years previously presented him
to the living of Farnborough, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
T
•s^^
IVillshirc Notes mid Oucn'cs.
But neither of these two wives hore tlie same Cliristian
name as the mother of the Archbisliop for the inscription on
her tomb, in tlie parisli cliurch of North Bradle}-, distinctly calls
her Eiiinia, without any mention either of her surname, or the
name of a husband — which seems to corroborate the statement
of Dr. Thomas Gascoinge (Lewis's Life of Pecock, p. 19), that
the Archbishop was ^' bastardiis origiitc", and not born in
wedlock. This seems distinctly proved by the fact that whilst
SouTHwicK Court
( gROUND PLAN )
ro19
f5
ro*8
E k
3<l
v'
tO'^S
>0'*e
70 fS
his hirtli must be set back as far as 1380 90 (having taken the
degree of LL.D. in 141,0, his mother survived both Sir Hum-
phrey and his last wife nearly twenty-three years.
The close affection that evidently existed between the
Archbishop and his Wiltshire mother must not be unnoticed
as a noble trait in his character. In the latter part of her life
she was admitted to the Sisterhood of the Priory of the Holy
Trinity, at Canterbury, of which the Archbishop himself was
John Stafford, Arclihisliop of Ca)itcrbiiry. 257
a Brother; and at her deatli, 5th September 1446, he doubtless
caused lier body to be conveyed from thence to North Bradley
of which village she presumably was a native — and there
interred in an elegant mortuary chapel, which he speciall}'
added to the parish church for that purpose.
The accompanying pedigree of the Southwick brancli of
the Stafford family, which has been carefull}' compiled from
ever}' available source, and is borne out by the heraldr}'
given by Aubrey from the windows of Brooke Hall, will at
once illustrate the descent of the Archbishop and his Wiltshire
origin, pointing to the parish of North Bradley — the
burial-place of his mother — as most probably the place of
his own birth.*
The plan of the church of North Bradley, dedicated to
St. Nicholas, consists of chancel, with a south chapel ; nave,
with north and south aisles ; western tower, and south porch.
In erecting his mortuar}' chapel the Archbishop enclosed the
east end of the north aisle to the distance of one bay, and
projected his new outer wall northward, giving the appearance
of a transept to the church on that side.
The architecture, as may be supposed from its date, is
Perpendicular, of rich character. The two windows in the
east and north walls, each of four lights, are square headed,
with good tracery. Beneath the east window stood an altar,
the piscina belonging to which still remains, and traces of a
niche on each side of this window, as well as some frag-
ments of stained glass, which ha\x perished in a so-called
"restoration", were seen by the present writer in 1S61.
The window in the north wall projects outward, forming a
* The late Canon Jackson, in a note to Aubrey's Wilts Collections
(p. 347) says: " About Archbishop Stafford's parentage there has been much
confusion, and there is still some mystery." This difficulty was satisfactorily
cleared up by B. W. Greenfield, Esq., F.S.A., \n Notes ajid Queries for 1871 —
nine years after the publication of the Aubrey volume. The pedigree, as
here given, will be found to include the whole of these subsequent re-
searches.
T 2
258 IViltsliirc Notes and Queries.
recess within, 6 feet by 2, extending to the height of the roof.
Tlic lower part of this recess is filled by the memorial of the
Archbishop's mother — an incised slab raised on a tomb of
plain masonry 3 feet 6 inches in height.
On the incised slab is a female figure of tall and slender
proportions, in a long mantle reaching to the feet,^ a wimple
around the neck, and on the head a coverchef, a costume usually
denoting widowhood, but in this case it was most probably
that of the Sisterhood of the Holy Trinity at Canterbury, to
which the deceased had belonged.^ A rich architectural
canopy, the shafts resting on a bracket enriched with geometri-
cal ornament, encloses the effigy, at the feet of which lies a
dog.
The inscription fills the entire margin of the slab, and has
been several times printed, but not in every case quite correctly.
It is as follows: —
Bic . 3Iar£t . bna . CBmma . mater . brnrrabilissimi
patris . ft . bomini . Dni . .^lobir. . .^tafFoib . bti . gra
rantuartfusis . arrhirpi . qur . obitt . qiiinto . hie
iiUnsis . ^fptrmbvis . ^nna . tini . iilillfsimo
cca^'^ . quabrasia . bt . mi . animr . ppirii't . he . am.
[Here lieth Dame^ Emma, mother of the most venerable
Father and Lord, John Stafford, by the grace of God, Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury, who died the fifth day of the month
of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand four
' The mantle is pcrliaps the jjarraent called a cope. In Archbishop
Hubert Walter's Canons made at Westminster, a.d. 1200, he orders: — "Let
not black monks, or canons, or nuns, use coloured copes, but black only."
•^ In the bra.sses of Maria Gore, Prioress [1436], at Nether Wallop,
Hants; Dame Elizabeth Hervey, Abbess [c. 1530], at Elstow, Beds; and
Dame Agnes Jordan, Abbess of Syon [1544], at Denham, iJucks ; we have
examples of the same costume.
' The word " I)o»i>na" has been translated " Lady" — but a female who
had " taken religion " was entitled to the appellation of Domina, or Dame,
which seems to bo the correct meaning in this instance.
John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury.
259
added a shield bearing
the arms of Hungerford
' The illustration here
given is reduced from a
careful drawing of the
original slab, made to scale
on the spot, by the present
writer. The face, which is
much worn, has been slightly
restored. An engraving and
description of this memorial
will also be found in a most
interesting volume entitled
The Strife of the Bases, and
Days of the Tndors in the
Wed, by W. H. Hamilton
Rogers, Esq., F.S.A., published
in l«yO.
hundred and forty six.
On whose soul may God
have mercy. Amen.] ^
The wall and jambs
of the window recess,
above the tomb, are
enriched with tracery
and quatrefoiled panels,
some of which enclose
blank shields. The roof
is of panelled oak, with
carved bosses at the in-
tersection of its principal
timbers, representing
several hunting figures,
the cross and crown of
thorns, and a double
rose, to which may be
26o IViltshhr. Notes and Queries.
— Sable, two bars argent, in chief three plates — as seen by Aubrey
in 1669, but now gone.
Aubrey thus describes the stained glass in tlic windows of
the chapel, as seen by liini at thn same date : —
In the east window the headless effigy of the Archbishop,
in " curious painted glass", in his formalities, with pall, crosier,
and a cope of sky blue colour. The words '* 0) . OiUIS . ©I'tUH
mt . iloljn . ronsfrba . rilina " [O Triune God, save me
John from perdition] could not have been part of the inscription
on the tomb, as given by Aubrey, but were probably on a label
issuing from the Archbishop's mouth in this window. There
were also the remains of a marginal inscription "... ^U|U5
lapfllc . . ♦ Arrbifpi , Cantuar ..." probably
meaning that " This chapel [was founded by John] Archbishop
of Canterbury ", etc.
In the north window, above the tomb, a single shield of
Stafford, Or, a chevron gules — without the ^' engrailed bordurc
sable" of^ the Southwick branch; two other shields, broken, and
consequently of very doubtful appropriation, also some frag-
ments of a marginal inscription, '' (Biumc . lltatriS . . . Dili
.^loljis . Ari'l)irpi . Cantuar ..." [of Emma mother of the
Lord John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, etc.].
In both windows, in scrolls, the motto used by the
Trenchards, a Dorsetshire family, of which a branch resided
at Cuttcridge in North Bradley : but these must have belonged
to a later date, and were probably removed from the windows
of the chapel south of the chancel, which was used as a*
burial place by the Trenchard family.
The outside of the chapel is of good proportions, and of
much richer character than the main fabric of the church.
The angle buttresses have pinnacles at each stage, and the
whole of the wall beneath the north window is enriched with
quatrefoiled panels, some enclosing blank shields, similar to
those on the inner wall. A bold gui'goyle projects from the
string-course over the centre of the north window, and the
whole building terminates in an embattled parapet.
Hiddinglon ami the Child Fanii/v. 261
There is one feature in the cliapcl wortiiy of notice. The
stone carving has never been completed — the crockets on one
of the outer buttresses have been only roughed out, and the
cusping of the panel work above the tomb within bears the
markings of the sculptor to which his chisel never gave the final
touches. The stone shields also lack their heraldic decoration
— suggesting probably the gradual decay and death of the
Archbishop himself in less than six years after his mother,
and before her burial-place, so dear to him, had received its
final enrichment at the sculptor's hand.
Edward Kite,
IVcst Ashtun.
HEDDINGTON AND THE CHILD FAMILY.
(Continued from p. 2 i S.J
The Splatts.
In the absence of evidence that the Childs ever lived
anywhere else in Heddington, we may be allowed to assume
that the family at this time, or soon afterwards, lived at or
near the Splatts, as we know they owned land there as early
as 1687, and it is possible that Sir Francis was born in the old
house which preceded the present one. The private road, the
surrounding trees, and the garden make the Splatts a
" desirable " residence. Over a door at the back of the
c
V PI for Francis and
17-29 I
house is a stone with the inscription
Priscilla Child, and the roof of a shed close by shows some
remains of old woodwork, and rests on four stone pillars
which may have supported the porch of the old house.
A broken sundial in the garden and matu' pieces of old
ornamental stonework covered with moss point unmistakeably
to a former building of some distinction. Several acres of
262 Wiltshire Noks and Queries.
land are attached to the house, and in two of the meadows is a
portion of the Wansdyke, a long straight bank bounding the
property on the north side. Fi-oni various marriage settle-
ments, conveyances, etc., it is clear that before 1696 Thomas
Child, eldest son of Robert, possessed " all that messuage
or tenement in Heddington adjoining a certaine cofhon called the
Splatt, and all that little close of meadow adjoining (2 acres),
with close of pasture ground called Great Nottfield (8 acres) ;
close of pasture called Broad Leaze with lane adjoining (12
acres) ; close called Little Nottfield (2 acres), and Sheepe House
Leaze (12 acres); a messuage or tenement with garden in
possession of one Jane Scott, widow ; close of pasture called
Gould Stones (6 acres) ; meadow called Davy Hay (25 acres),
and meadow called Mobley, with plot adjoining (3 acres)."
Mention is also made of an acre called Cowpening and an
" auncicnt lane " adjoining Great Nottfield. However, the
will of Robert Child, proved in i68S,^ mentions no dwelling-
house or landed property, except " a meadow called Coxes,
Mobley Mead, and the little plot adjoining", all left with ^40
to wife Jane for her life, after which fee simple of Coxes to son
Daniel with ^^60 ; of Mobley Mead and plot to Thomas on
condition that he pay ^40 to John ; to sons George and
Michael ^i^o each ; to son Edward ^20 ; to Daniel's daughter
Hannah ^,\o ; to Elizabeth and Jane, daughters of George, ^20
apiece, after decease of wjfe Jane, on condition " that they or
one of them shall remain with her to aid and assist her during
her life" ; to son Francis various forms, benches, "wainscott ",^
etc., in hall and kitchen, with " 405. to buy him and his wife
each a ring"; rest and residue to wife Jane and son John,
joint executors.
The inventory includes the usual "joynt-stools and tablc-
' No. 52. Archdeaconry of Wilts.
^ A supcrlluoiis hcijucst, one would tliiiik, though Francis had not. as yet
reached the top of the tree ; the gift of " wainscott " also seems peculiar.
Hcddinglon and the Child Family. 263
boards ", with ^390 in money and bonds, whereof ^^20 is a
bad debt ".
The will of Jane Child, proved in 1690,^ consists of various
small bequests, ^10 each to Jane, daughter of son George,
and Jane, daughter of son John, sums for rings to her sons,
and 205. to " my god-daughter, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry
Rogers, rector ". Son John to be sole executor.
Daniel Child did not keep Coxes very long, as by a deed
of ffeoffment ", bearing date December 1692, we find Thomas
Child, of Heddington, gent., eldest son and heir of Robert
Child, late of Heddington, gent., deceased, and Daniel Child,
of St. Andrew's, Holbourne, another son, etc., and Thomasin
his wife, engaged in the sale of Coxes for ^80 to Anthony
Brookes, of Heddington, gent. The " ground " is described as
"35 acres with Barne or Oxhouse belonging, now in posses-
sion of Wm. Whittle, having a messuage on land of Chas.
Wells, Esq., on the north, the king's highway on south, a
messuage and orchard belonging to Henr}' Rogers on east,
and a ground called Scutters, of Charles Wells's, on west."
Henry Rogers, clerk, and Francis Sadlier, of Devizes, gent,
to be attorneys, etc. Among the signatures to this deed are
John, Robert, and Williamson Child, Jno. and Robt. Rogers,
Meliot and Will. Jennings. In later life, Daniel Child is
described as "of Highgate, gentleman", and, having outlived
his wife, made his will^ on the 17th of January 1720 in the
following terms (probate granted to his daughter Lucy, wife
of Edward Stanton, in March of the same year) : —
" Two leasehold houses in Ormond Street, St. Andrew's, Holborne,
one in possession of Mr. Brownjohn, the other of Mrs. Busby, my stable
and coach house in possession of Mr. Stratford, my pew in the middle isle
of St. Georges Chappell, and that in the gallery there mortgaged to me
by Mr. Redford, and all my estate therein to my couzins,^ Mr. Francis
and Samuel Child, upon trust that my son-in-law Mr. Clark may receive
the rents during lives of himself and my daughter, his wife, and after
' No. 84, Archdeaconry of Wilts. - No. 44, Buckingham.
^ They were his nephews, sons of Sir Francis.
264 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
tlicir decease the property to be divided among their children. To my
daughter Lucy Stanton my walnuttree cabinet and great glass witii a
frame of tlie same, one black boy (sic) with gold hinges, an easy chair
covered with cloth, a damask skreen, a corner cupboard, a chints quilt,
a clock, six velvet cushions, one side-saddle with furniture, my muslin
curtains with knotted fringe, my House linnen, with all such plate, rings,
and jewels as are mentioned in a certain writing to be at her disposal.
To brother John Child ;^io to buy him mourning. To Sir Robert
Child, Mr. Francis Child, Mr. Samuel Child, William Guidott, Escjr., Mr.
Collins, Mr. Backwell, Mr. Stephen Child, Mr. John Child, George Child,
Henry Rogers, INIr. Nicholas, Mr. Brooks, Mr. John Morse, Mr. Henry
Morse, and to my sister Bourne' each a gold ring, vahie 20.y. To grand-
daughter Stanton my silver gilt cup and large Bible. To such grand-
children living at my decease the arrear of sallary due to me from the
late King William and Queen Anne, to be cqualh' dividi^l as the same
can be got in. To grandson Henry Clark rest of plate not disposed of,
that is to say, one great silver castor, two little ones, six silver spoons,
three silver castors, and two silver salts, but if my daughter Clark shall
think fit to sell the same then he to have full value in money. Rest
and residue of estate to daughter Lucy Stanton, whom I make sole
executrix."
"Witnesses John Chinnow, William Marsh, G. Noyes."
At the election of Knights of the Shire for Wilts, held at
Wilton in 1705, Thomas Childe voted for Howe and Hide,
or Church and Queen, if we may judge from the Diary of
Thomas Smith of Shaw ^ (though doubtless there are other
ways of knowing), the Poll Book not saying anything about
Whig or Tory.
The children of Thomas and Jane Child were Thomas,
Sarah, 3 Francis, Stephen and John, with dates of baptism
from 1665 to 1679; the only .son whose history we can trace
' Probably a relative on the wife's .side.
^ Wiltx Arrh. Mag., vol. xi. Mr. Smith mentions Ileddington, the
Childs and Brookes, several times in his diary. The other Heddington voters
in the Poll of 1705 were Nicolas Pearce, Wm. Cleveland, John Renolds,
Anthony Brooks and Edmond Edmonds for Howe and Hide. Richard
Chisledcn, .John Hood, Henry Rogers and John Dyer Un- Eridy and Ash. In
the same Poll Book are William Childe of Allington, George Childe,
rector, and Francis Childe of Church Eaton or Easton Kenncll, .lolm Childe
of Devizes, ami William Childe of Heyteslniry.
■'' Anthony Brooku.s and Sarah Child were married April 23, 1G90.
(Hedd. Par. licy.)
Heddington and the Cliild Fatnily. 265
with certainty is Francis ^ (please note that from here the great
man's namesakes begin), who married in 1697, at his uncle
George's church of Yatton Keynell, Mary, only daughter of
John Browning, a wealthy 3eoman of Upper Castle Combe.
There were two sons of this marriage, Francis, baptised at
Heddington in 1698, and Thomas born in 1701. They were
soon left orphans, the mother dying in 1703, and the father in
1708,' aged thirty-six. There is an inscription to their
memory (in which Francis Child is called " clothier "), replac-
ing an older stone in Castle Combe church.
The elder boy, Francis, was brought up at Heddington
by his grandfather, Thomas Child (who died in 17 19), and
came into the property, married his cousin Priscilla, daughter
of Anthony Brooke, and built or rebuilt The Splatts in 1729.
Priscilla died in 1740 aged thirty-three, and most of her seven
children died at an early age. Francis then married a second
wife, another cousin, Elizabeth (daughter of John and Alice
Browning, of Sevington), who had eight children, and died
in 1778 aged sixty-five, her husband in 1780, at the age of
eighty-two ; the old tombstones in Heddington churchyard
commemorating them and several of their children. John
Child "of London ",3 probabl}' eldest son of F'rancis and
Priscilla, sold The Splatts soon after his father's death to
Mr. James Pepler, from whom it passed to the Gundrys, and
was purchased in 1858 by the Misses Clarke, with whom it
now remains. Robert Child, a younger son of Francis and
Elizabeth, however, lived at The Splatts till 1800* (he had
' In 1 "UO Francis is called " son and heir apparent " of Thomas.
- In 170»j he married a second wife, Mary Burombe of Cliipping Sodbury.
' There is said to be a portrait of a John Child in Ironmongers' Hal),
but from the early part of the present century the family name seems to
have dropped out of London annals.
*■ A sale by auction at The Splatts after Roberfs death caused great
interest, and probably dispersed most of the family relics. Mr. Child's blue
coat with broad silver buttons was worn on Sundays by an old Mr. Hazell
for many years afterwards.
266 IViltshire Notes and Oucrics.
it on a lease), where he died at tlie age oi fifty-three, his
widow surviving him till 1819.
In the Green at Calne, behind the White Ilart, arc two
Id houses,^ one of which has a stone inscribed
c
F X K
17">S
which
there is good reason to believe stands for Francis and his
second wife Elizabeth Child. The house and premises at the
back are said to have been occupied by one of the Brookes as
a maltster, and there probably Henry Child lived (a son of
Francis and Priscilla), whose son Francis, born 1764, lived in
Calne till his death in 1835. ^^^ married Catherine Ashley,
who died in i860 aged ninety-four (she also lived in the
Green, but near the Church) ; a son Francis died at an early
age, and their only daughter Catherine married Mr. Joseph
Phillips of Whctham, and died in 1S51 without surviving
issue, thus ending the Heddington and Calne branch of the
Child family.
Thomas Child, ^ the younger of the orphan boys of 1708,
remained at Castle Combe w'ith his grandparents Browning,
and came into their little estate called " Hands ". He married
about 1730 Mary Mountjoy of Biddestone St. Peter, whose
great-grandfather William Mountjoy purchased that small
manor in 1626 of Sir Gilbert Prynne. Their only surviving
son, Francis, married Mary Cullimore of West Yatton, and
' The heavy timbers and general appearance of the intoriur of the roofs
are said to closely resemble the work at The Splatts.
- Family tradition makes tiiis Thomas C'iiild tiie liero of a stirring
adventure. Being cliargud with some liabilities, which he asserted were
paid and should not be exacted again, he resolved to lieetlie country, when
there must have been an exciting chase, for while he tarried for refreshment
at the Bell Inn at Lydeway, he had only time lo escape by one door as the
officers of justice came in at another, One can fanc.v that the direction
taken must have been across the Plain to Portsmouth, as the fugitive got
away to America ; after a sojourn tlicrc of seven years he returned to take
up the peaceful thread of existence again at Castle Combe, where his good
wife had kept things well together in his absence.
H('(i(iingto)i and the Child Family. 267
died in 1820, leaving a large family, whose many descendants
are scattered up and down in Wiltshire.^
George Child, rector of Yatton Kcynell 1662 1706, and of
Littleton Drew from 1676, was another ot the elder sons of
Robert and Jane Child. lie was the "Parson Child" who
told Aubrey that his great-great-aunt (a Kirton^) was the last
Lady Abbess of Amesbury, and was " 140 years old when she
dyed", having received a pension from Henry VIU, and
married "Appleton of Hampshire". George Child's first wife
Elizabeth died in 1666, and in 1673 he married "Mrs. Dorothy
Williamson of Bristol " (?). His eldest son George was rector
of Barrowden, Rutland, 1692, and of Morcott, 1721. There
were two other sons, Robert and Williamson,^ the latter suc-
ceeding on his father's death in 1706 to the rectory of Yatton
Keynell. The daughters were Susannah, Jane, Elizabeth who
married Samuel Crispe, of Marshfield, in 1691, and Dorothy
who married Mr. Richard Paradice,* Devizes, in 1705.
The youngest son of Robert and Jane Child was Edward
(another parson), who matriculated at Exeter College in 1668,
aged seventeen ; was rector of Easton-by-Stamford, Northants,
in 1684, and of Barrowden 1686.*
But perhaps the best known member of the Child family
* One of the old monuments to the Chilrls in Castle Combe church bears
asm all shield, Gules, a chevron enf/railcd ermine, between three ea//fes ardent
each gorged n-lth a coronet or. Crest, on a rock proper an eagle ri.sing, n-ings
endorsed argent gorged (as he/ore J holding in beak an adder proper. The
same coat was used by the Heddington Childs early in the IKth century.
- Xat. Hist., p. 70. If Aubrey got the name correctly, Editli Curtens,
the last sub-prioress of Amesbury, was perhaps the lady in question. The
Childs have been a long-lived family, but this remote ancestre.s.s (?) has an
unbeaten record. Aubrey probably supplied the rest of the information
from his own supposition, as Parson Child could hardly have called his
brother Francis, "the eminent banker", his "cosen-german". Canon Jackson
was also a little mistaken about the points of relationship.
^ The children of Williamson and Rachel Child 1708-14 were John,
George, Susannah, Diana, Rachel, and Robert. (Yatton Keynell Par. Beg.)
' Query, parents of Mr. Francis Paradice who married Mrs. Betty
Harding, of Broughton (iiflord, about 1740.
' Yostex's Alumni Oxonienses.
268 IViltshirc Notes ami Queries.
in Wiltshire at tliis period was John Child, of Devizes, who
(as well as Daniel) was apparently not baptized at Heddington,
but is mentioned frequently in the wills of the family, and was
born probably somewhere about 1645, a younger son of Robert
and Jane Child. In Waylen's History of Devizes (election
petitions, date 1710) there is a notice of him as "one John
Child" brother of Sir Francis; he is spoken of rather more
respectfully further on, and seems to have helped his brother
to secure his seat. This John Child was Mayor of Devizes in
1687,^ in 1694-5, and 1702; he owned several public houses
and other property in Devizes, and lived in a house of his own
in the Brittox. His only daughter Jane^ was the second wife of
Robert Nicholas, Esq., of Roundway, and the names of herself
and her children may be seen upon the handsome monument
in Southbroom Church.
The will^ of John Child, of Devizes, gent., was made Jan.
31, 1721, probate granted to Edward Nicholas, grandson, Nov.
23, 1722. After payment of debts and funeral expenses —
" To grandson Edward Nicholas All those two messuages in the parish
ot St. John the Baptist, Devizes, in the several possessions of William
Mayo, goldsmith, and tiie widow Harris, also messuage with banie and
garden and little parcel of ground, which I lately purchased of John Hill,
for the term of four years next after my decease. And after the expiration
of said term of four years I give and becpieath the said two messuages
in parish of St. John's to my son-in-law Robert Nicholas, Esq., and
Anthony Brookes, of Heddington, gent., during remainder of term and
estate I have to come therein, upon trust for my granddaughter Jane
Nicholas for her life, and afterwards to her children. If Jane Nicholas
shall die without children, then to my grandson Edward Nicholas for
rem. i>f term. Messuage with barne, and garden, and little parcel of
ground, purchased of John Hill, in parish of Blessed Virgin Maiy, now
in possession of Maiy Eden, widow, and of me, the said John Child, or
tenants, after expiration of said four years, to granddaughter Jane
Nicholas and heirs, or in default to Edward Nicholas and heirs, or to own
riglitful heirs. To said granddaughter £s to buy mourning, and one
' Mr. Waylen u.se.s the word senior in connexion with the first mayoralty,
but I have .so far been unable to discover that .h.lui Child had any family
other tiiaii the danfrhtcr Jane.
'^ .lane, daughter nf .John Childe and of Jane his wife, bap. 6 Sept. 1G73.
(St. John'.s, Devizes, Par. licg.) " No. 210, Marlborough.
Hf(i(ilni^to)i and the Child Family. 269
third of liuuscliold goods and platf. To said grandson Edward Nicholas
my fiVc tit'arnu' n-nt issuing out oi borough of Drvizcs and all other my
frcfhold houses, lands, tt'nements, ftc, not bt-fore bccpuMthed To such
servant maid living with me at time of decease 50V. to buy mourning.
To Poor of St. John's and St. I\Iar)''s ;^5 each in bread to be distributed
in one month after decease at discretion of son-in-law Nicholas. All rest
and residue of goods, chattels, and personal estate to grandson Edward
Nicholas, sole executor. Robert Nicholas and Anthony Brookes to
assist executor, each to have a guinea to buy rings to wear in remem-
brance of me, and I desire my exor. to be guided by them."
"Witnesses John Wyatt, Thomas Trimnell, Fran. Sadleir."
Some of Sir Francis Child's money found its way into
Wiltshire, not, we may suppose, without advatitage to himself^:
notably, his loans to Sir Robert Nicholas in the 17th century;
and in 16S4 Francis Child, "citizen and goldsmith of Lon-
don ", was concerned with William Eyre, son and heir of
Wm. Eyre, late of Neston, Esq., deceased, and Alexander
Popham, of Winterbourne Mouncton, Esq., and Wm. Eatwell,
yeoman, in a transfer of mortgage of Neston Park.^ This
property was mortgaged in 1670 to Sir Edward Baintun for
^1000; transferred in 1672 to Samuel Gorges, Esq. ; in 1675
to Ralph Stawell, of Netherham, Somerset, and George Ryves
of Ranston, Dorset, Esqs. ; and in 1680 to Francis Child, who
transferred it, in 1684, to Alexander Popham. Mary Eyre,^
' It is hardly necessary to rcention the fact that the election petitions
and similar literature of the period teem with charges of undue influence,
corrupt practices, and wholesale bribery. It may be as well to note here
that a portrait has lately been discovered (said to be liy Kiicller) with the
inscription 'Mohn Child. Esq.. M.I', for ye Borough of Devize.*. K° Car' 2<>'".
The Parliamentary Return published in 1H78 gives, uiidcr date 14 Nov. 1702,
"John Child, Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, Ww Sir Francis Child,
who elected to .serve for tin- City of London." [A John Childe. second son of
Francis Childe, of St. Dunstau-in-the-west, Knight, wa- admitted to the
Middle Temple, 10 May 1694.] "3 Mar. 1703. Frai.cis Merewether, Esq.,
rice John Child, Esq., deceased.' Who this scion of the race was who
seems to have stepped in to oblige Sir Francis and how to reconcile
the two dates is not yet made clear, but it is evident he could not have
been the John Child, of Devizes, who died in 1722.
- Called -'the Parke in tything of Woodlands in parish of Corsham, l.o<t
acres ", with several closes about 90 acres more.
' She was probably Mary Griffith of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, and a
neighbour of the "goldsmith."
270 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
widow, and Thomas Child of Heddington, gent., did surrender,
etc., and William Eatwell admitted tenant and re-surrendered
lands to Mary Eyre for her life. A Charles Wheeler was one
of the witnesses to Francis Child's signature.
A glance at one or two more old deeds may be of some
interest. In December 1717, Stephen Child,^ of Richmond,
Surre}', gent., bought the manor farm and demesne lands of
Ilcdington als Edington with all rights, courts baron, escheats,
etc., etc., of Henry Wells of Brambridge, co. Southampton,
esq., eldest son and heir of late Charles Wells, esq.,
and William Moore of Wantage, esq., surviving devisee,
etc. Consideration ^^5000, of which ^15°° went to Dorothy
Wells (daughter of Chas.), Thomas Wells a younger son
getting ^800 as by another deed of assignment.
Stephen Child did not keep the property much more than
a year, but in 1719 sold it to Anthony Brooke^ and Joshua
Sheppard, of Eastmanstreete, in the parish of Calne, esq., for
^5500. Trustees, John Kirle Ernie of Whetham, and John
Norris, of Lincoln's Inn, esqs. The manor to be divided be-
tween Mr. Brooke and Mr. Sheppard " as intended convey-
ance shall express." Stephen Child's wife " Pigge " (spelt
" Peggc " in another place) was a party to the transaction.
After the conveyance to Mr. Brooke and Mr. Sheppard
of their several " moyetys ", there was an agreement
between them about the water of a certain pond called
the Hoppyard pond, " a garden on the North side. Court
Close on West, Pidgeon House Close on East, and the High-
way on South ", Joshua Sheppard to have full power to use
so much of the water as could be conveniently spared, and
convey the same through the grounds of Anthony Brooke
called the Garden, Court Close, Smeeths, and the Woods, to a
' Doubtless the Mr. Stephen Child, citizen and goklsmilli. who was ;i
trustee of Sir Francis' will, niul probably his nephew, the second son of his
brother Thomas.
'^ It is obvious that there were two Anthony Brookes succeeding each
other, one whom we hear of first in 1690, the other in 17G5.
Records of IVillshirc Parishes. 271
close of Sheppard's called Rougli Mcadc, on condition that he
should " make a good wall or head and a good .sluice and
make the pond fit and commodious for holding of water".
In closing these few remarks about a family who in their
day must have filled a not unimportant niche in the old Wilt-
shire village, it only remains to express my sincere thanks to
the Rectors of Heddington, Calne, Yatton Keyncll, and
Devizes, and the Vicar of Southbroom for their kindness
in allowing me to see their registers, to the Misses Clark,
of Heddington, and to the late editor of this magazine, for
their valuable aid in various ways towards the completion of
this paper.
M. E. Light.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
BRATTON.
From Asser's Life of Alfred the Great.
The same year [a.d. 878] after Easter, King Alfred, with
a few followers, made for himself a stronghold in a place called
i^thelingaeg [Athelney], and from thence sallied with his
vassals and the nobles of Somersetshire, to make frequent
assaults upon the pagans. Also in the seventh week after
Easter he rode to the Stone of Egbert [Brixton Deverill], which
is in the eastern part of the wood which is called Selwdu
[Selwood], which means in Latin Silva Magna, tlie Great
Wood, but in British Coit-mawr. Here he was met by all the
neighbouring folk of Somersetshire and Wiltshire and Hamp-
shire, who had not for fear of the pagans fled beyond the sea ;
when they saw the king alive after such great tribulation, they
received him, as he deserved, with joy and acclamations, and
U
272 IViltshhr Notes and Queries.
encamped there for one night. When the following day
dawned the king struck his camps, and went to iEcglea [Leigh,
near Westbury], where he encamped for one night. The next
morning he removed to a place called Ethandum [Edington],
and there fought bravely and perseveringly against all the
army of tlic pagans, whom with the divine help he defeated
with great slaughter, and pursued them flying to their fortili-
cation [Bratton castle]. Immediately he slew all the men, and
carried off all the booty that he could find without the fortress,
which he immediately laid siege to with all his army ; and when
he had been there fourteen days, the pagans, driven by famine,
cold, fear, and last of all, despair, asked for peace, on condition
that they should give the king as many hostages as he pleased,
but should receive none of him in return, in which form they
had never before made a treaty. The king hearing that took
pity upon them, and received such hostages as he chose ; after
which the pagans swore, moreover, that they would im-
mediately leave the kingdom; and their king Gothrun promised
to embrace Christianity, and receive baptism at king Alfred's
hands, all of which articles he and his men fulfilled as they had
promised.^
Domesday for Wilts. [Trmislatioji hy Rev. IV. H. Jones.']
A.D. 1080-6. — The King holds Westberie. Queen Editha
held it, and it paid geld for 40 hides. The land is 47 carucates.
In demesne are 17 hides, and there are 7 carucates and 28 serfs
^ From the translation of Asser, by Dr. J. A. Giles, in Bohn-s Anti-
quarian Library ; the spelling of the place-names as given by Asser has
been rctaincfl, however, in the foregoing. The modern form in brackets is
that given by Dr. Giles in his text, or foot notes, of tiie fran.slation. "To a
person acquainted with the locality of the country no doubt can be
entertained as to Alfred's line of march ", says Sir R. C. Himre, in his fliHtor//
of Modem Wiltshire, and most authorities accept the identification of the
sites as supplied by him and by Dr. (Jiles; tlierefore the above may be taken
as the earliest record of Urattmi. Mere it may be noted that there is no
separate survey of Bratton given in the Domesday Book ; it is there included
under Westbury.
Records of IViltsliirc Pan's/ics. 273
and 16 coliberts. There are 38 villans, 23 bordars, and 9 bee-
keepers. Among all of them they have 40 carucates. The
potters pay 20 shillings by the year, and 6 mills pay 70 shillings
and 6 pence ; and there are 80 acres of meadow. The pasture
is three miles long and three miles broad. The wood is three
miles long and half-a-mile broad. There are 29 swineherds
and they have there 7 carucates. This manor pays 100 pounds
by tale.
Of the same land of this manor the church has one hide
and a half. William Scudet four hides and a half. The church
is worth 50 shillings. A certain chaplain holds it.^
Land of the Ki/ig's Officers : — William Scudet holds Wes-
BERiE. Ulward held it in the time of King Edward, and it paid
geld for four and a half hides. The land is 7 carucates. There
are 4 carucates in demesne, and 4 serfs ; and 20 bordars, with
3 carucates. There are 20 acres of meadow and 4 acres of
wood, and 2 mills paying 25 shillings. It was and is worth ^2>.
The Edi.ngdon Chartularv. ^Lansdoume AfS., A'o. 442,
/• 92^]
The Charier of JVi/Iiani de Anasya to Walter de Dene}
Ante A.D. 1 22 1. I, William de Anas3^a, have granted and by
this my present charter have confirmed to Walter de Dena for
his homage and service all the tenement which his father held,
to wit, the mill of Mulebourne and h virgate of land, to hold
freely and in peace of me and my heirs to him and to his heirs
forever ; returning therefore yearly' 2s. at the two yearly terms,
viz., at Christmas izd. and at the feast of St. John the Baptist
i2<'/., for all ser\-ices saving the royal service so much as belongs
to that tenement. I, William de Anasya, and my heirs warrant
to Walter and his heirs against all men. And to confirm this
my donation forever I have set my seal. Witnesses . . .
' Quidam Clericobts tenet. But Clericoltis. or Clericulvs, is explained
by Ducangeas junior clericun, or puer chori , that is, chorister.
- William de Anesva died about a.d. 1221. This charter and the follow-
ing are undated. Mulebourne was a tithing of Bratton.
U 2
2 74 IViltsliire Notes and Oiio'us.
I Bin., /()/. 93.
Chartrr of Wi/Ziaiii dc Anasya to Hunifrcy dc Stokes.
Ante A.n. 1221. I, William de Anasya, have granted to
Humfrey de Stokes and his heirs of Pernel the service of
Walter de Duna, to wit, 25. 3'carly, \2d. at Christmas, and \2d.
at the feast of St. John the Baptist, to hold of me and my
heirs so long as my land of Bratton shall be in mortgage,
because I cannot warrant to him 25. worth of land which
earlier I confirmed to him with my seal. And if meantime
Humfrey shall be able to recover his right, the service of
Walter de Duna shall remain to William de Anasya and his
heirs, unless nevertheless William grant the said service to
Humfrc}' for three years for his trouble [/»ro laborc sua].
Witnesses . . .
Ibid.,/o/. 93.
Charter of lVi//iani de Anesi to Matilda, daughter of Robert
Deturnai.
Ante A.D. 1221. I, William de Anesi, have granted, and
by this my present charter confirmed, to Matilda, daughter of
Robert De Turnai, for her service in free dower the land which
Alfred Frieman held in Mulbourne, with its appurtenances, to
hold to her or her heirs of me and my heirs by hereditary
right well and in peace, every year returning thence to me and
my heirs 25. at Michaelmas for all service belonging to me and
my heirs save the Royal service. In corroboration of my gift
I have set my seal, etc. Witnesses . . .
\v,\D., fo/. 109.
Charter of IVilliain de Anesi to John, son of Rocelin de Bratton.
Ante A.v>. 1 22 1. 1, William de Anesi, have granted, with
the assent of Matilda dc Turnai my wife and of William my
son and heir, to John, son of Rocelin de Bratton, that land
which Brikcrichius de Mulboi lu held with all its aj^purtenances,
in wood, in plain, in parks and in pastures, in ways and by-
Records of IViltshirc Parishes. 275
ways, and in waters ; also that croft held by William Monk,
which lies by the house of Godwin Kene on the south side, to
make his houses upon it ; for service he and his heirs shall
return to me and my heirs 35. 3-early, viz. iS^/. at Christmas
and 1 8^. at the feast of St. John the Baptist. But for this my
donation the said John gave to me in earnest 35., and to my
son and heir William 6d., and to Matilda my wife a silver ring.
Wherefore I will that John and his heirs hold the said land of
me and my heirs quit of pannage, of church-scot, of tolsester,^
and all service belonging to me and m}- heirs save the service
of the lord king. To make firm my donation forever I have
confirmed my charter with my seal. Witnesses Roceline de
Bratton . . . Pentecost the smith . . . and many
others and John son of Thomas who composed this charter.
Fixe Roll. [6 Henry III, in. 8.]
A.D. 1221 — 1222. Richard de Anesy, son and heir of
William de Anesy, has made a fine with the king by loos. for
his relief for 4I hides of land which belonged to the same
William and which are held of the king in chief in Dulton and
Bractun, and the sheriff of Wilts is ordered to take surety for
the 1 00s. to be paid to the lord king, and to cause him [Richard]
to have full seisin.
Dated Westminster, December 3rd.
Charter Roll, [ii Henry III, pi. i, /;/. 15.]
A.D. 1227. Henr)-, King, etc., to the Archbishops, etc..
Know that we by the intention of God have conceded and con-
firmed to the Church of Ferle}' and the monks there serving
God all the lands, churches, and tenths and tenures, which
Humfrey de Bohun, the founder of the place, gave them in
Chippenham, etc. . . . and the 4 hide of land in Bratton
which Roger Cook held with its appurtenances . . .
Witnesses . . . Given at Westminster, i6th May [?].
1 Payment for libertv to brew.
276 IVillshire Notes and Oucries.
Edingdon CiiAKTULARY. [Lnusdowiic iMS. 442, /"o/. 108.]
Charter of the Prior of Farh-igh to Roger Cook.
[Undated]. I, Jolm, Prior of Farlcgh, by the common
counsel of our chapter have granted to Roger Cook, our man,
and his heirs h hide to hold of us in Bratton freely and
honourably as we held it of Harnald de Maundevile and now
hold it of Geoffrey his heir, for one silver mark yearly rent to
our church at these terms, the Feast of St. John the Baptist
and Christmas. And we will warrant the same land against
all men. Witnesses, etc. .
Feet ov Fi.nks. [\ 20 Henry III. Wilts.']
A.u. 1227. At Wilton, three weeks after Easterday, 11
Henry III. Between Richard de Dena, plaintiff, and Rocelin
son of Rocelin and Isabella, the mother of the same Rocelin by
the same Rocelin, in her place tenant of h a hide and 1 \irgate
of land with the appurtenances in Bratton. Assise of Mort
d'ancestor was summoned. Richard quitclaimed for iiimsclf
and his heirs to the foresaid Rocelin and Isabella and the heirs
of Rocelin forever to all the right he had in tlie whole of the
said land witli the appurtenances. And for this Rocelin gave
Ricliard loo^-. sterling.
Edingdon Chartll.\kv. \Lansdoivnc MS., No. 442, /o/. ()3^.]
Charter of Geoffrey de Mandcvill lo Ralplie d: Stokes."^
.lute A.u. 1246. I, Geoflrey de Mandcvill, have gi'anted antl
by tliis my present charter have coniirmed to Ralph de .Stokes
I acre of land with its appurtenances, viz., that which William
Fareman sometime held of mc lying in the western [lart of
Mulbourne next the dwelling of Alditha mother of said Ralph ;
in exchange for i acre of his land, of which -k acre lies in the
eastern part of Twelveacre next the land of John, son of Thomas
' Geoffrey <lu .M.iiiiiilevill died abi)iit A.o. 12U> (vide /''uw Roll, 31
Jlcnrij III).
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. 277
de Bratton, and h acre lies between Bratton and Mulbournc in
Pusside next Tliomas Petit's land. To iiold freely and quietly
to him and his heirs of me and my heirs forever. I, Godfrey,
and my heirs will warrant to Ralph and his heirs against all
mortal men. And 1 have corroborated this exchange with my
seal. Witnesses . . .
Ibid.,/6»/. 96^
Charier of Gcojffrey de Mandevillc to Thomas^ son of Rocelin de
Bratton.
Ante A.M. 1246. I, Geoffrey de Mandeville, have granted to
Thomas, son of Rocelin de Bratton, for his homage and service
\ hide of land in Bratton ; to wit, that which Aubod Pocin
held ; besides this I have given him one acre of land which
William Boterel held, to wit h acre lying by Wichemed and
the other half lying before Rigweie, with all the appurten-
ances, in wood, in plain, in hills, in valleys, in parks, fields,
pastures, in buildings, in waters, in wages, in ways and paths,
in ponds, and in all places, to hold by hereditary right of me
and my heirs for the 3'early rent of 105., to wit 5s. at Michael-
mas, and 5s. at the feast of the Annunciation of B. Mar}', for
all ser\-ice and exaction except the royal service. And if it
happen that I and my heirs cannot warrant, then I and my
heirs shall make an exchange in Bratton to the same value to
Thomas and his heirs. And for confirmation of my charter I
have sealed. Witnesses . . .
Ibid., fol. loS.
Charter of Geoffrey de Mandeville to John, son of Rocelin de
Bratton.
Ante A.D. 1246. I, Geoffrey de Mandeville, have granted to
John, son of Rocelin de Bratton, that virgate which Bricericius,
son of Edward, held; and the whole of my land at Setton which
is between the land of Westbury and of the land of William de
Anesia ; for his homage and service and for los. which he has
27S IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
given to iiic in earnest, and \2(i. which lie gave to Agnes my
wife; to liold of nic and my heirs to him and his heirs quit of
all suits and service save the royal service ; returning therefor
yearl}' 6s., ^s. at the Festival of St John the Baptist, and ^s. at
Christmas. And that I may satisfy the said John, I give him
for his homage and service that part of Riscroft which lies
towards the south part by the second of the tiircc caves which
reaches from the place to the field, and juts out towards the
northern boundary upon my piece of Riscroft. And the said
John and his heirs shall hold of me and my heirs the foresaid
part of Riscroft by free service of four capons to be returned
yearly at Christmas. For confirmation whereof I have sealed.
Witnesses . . .
lBiD.,y. Io8^ The same lo the same.
Ante A.u 1246. I, Geofircy de Mandevillc, have granted the
land which I gave to Alice for her service to marry her daughter
Rose to John, son of Rocelin de Bratton, for his homage and
service in free dower with all the appurtenances in wood, etc.,
as licr mother had it. This donation I have made with the
consent of Agnes my wife and GeoftVey my son, to hold of me
and my heirs to him and his heirs born of the foresaid Rose,
by the service rendered by Alice, to wit i lb. of cummin at
Michaelmas for all service save the royal service. This fore-
said land is that virgate of land which Ailliricus, son of Luniger,
held, and 5 acres Alfric Buucr held. Witnesses . . .
Ibid. The same to the same.
Geoflfrey de Mandevill, sheriff of Wilts, to all the men of
Westbury as well French as English, and especially to iiis nun
of Bratton, greeting. Know that 1 have granted and by this
my charter have confirmed to John, son of Rocelin de Bratton,
for his homage and ser\Mce in free dovvery with Rose his wife
i \irgate of land in Bratton \\iii(h Ailric, .son of Lunyger, held
of mc, to hold (as in the charter above) for 5s. Stirling yearly
Some Notes on ^^ Aclieronlia Alropos'\ 279
rent, ^or/. at Easter and 30^/. at Michaelmas. If I am unable
to warrant 1 will give him laiul of the value elsewhere. In
corroboration whereof 1 have sealed. Witnesses . . .
{To be continued.)
SOME NOTES ON " ACHERONTIA ATROPOS" (THE
DEATHS-HEAD HAWKMOTH).i
As I have for many years taken much interest in forcing
the chrysalides of soine of our larger Sphingidae, I think my
experience may be interesting to those who are fond of
entomology, more especially to our younger collectors ; who, if
they are at all of the same inclinations as I was when a boy,
will prize more than anything a fine well-grown larva of
Ligiistri or Ocellatiis (the Privet and Eyed Hawkmoths), while
a fine caterpillar of the .Itropos (Death's-head) will be to them
a joy for ever.
Now in our Salisbury district the caterpillars of Atropos
are by no means uncommon, and diligent search in the potato
fields will generally be rewarded by a find, sooner or later.
Their numbers naturally vary very much according to the
season, as they require a hot dry spring to make them
abundant, such as we had last year (1896), when these cater-
pillars were very numerous, one might almost say abundant.
In fact, I only remember one other year in which they were
more so. I received caterpillars and chrysalides from Britford,
llarnham, Broadchalke, Wylye, Winterbourne Kingston, and
various other places ; and if one could only get the villagers to
' See ail interesting paper b_v the same writer on the breeding of tliis^
iiistct in Wilts Archaol. Magazine, xxW, 124.
28o IVillshire Notes and Queries.
understand the value tliat you set upon them, there would be
but little difficulty in obtaining as many as you wanted ; but it
is extremely hard to impress on their minds that you really
value them ; and even the promise of 2d. or 3c/. a head for as
many as they can bring in, seems to have but little eftect. All
the villagers know of them, showing that they are not un-
common HI themselves ; but look upon them as noxious
" maggots ", or " palmer- worms", worthy only of destruction.
Now I think there is scarcely a more attractive sight in
nature than a fine full grown ^llropos caterpillar, just before it
begins to change colour, preparatory to burying under the
ground to eftect its transformation into a pupa or chrysalis.
A large caterpillar of this species will be nearly if not quite
five inches long, and as thick as your thumb, being by far the
largest and heaviest larva of any of the British, or, I may say,
of the European Lrpidoplcra, and also of the richest possible
colouring. There are some three distinct types of colouring
in the caterpillars : (i) The commonest perhaps is of a rich
golden yellow all over, inclining to green on the underparts,
with seven diagonal stripes, of a purplish blue towards the
base, but ending in a clear pale blue at the apex on the top of
the back ; the body, above the stripes, being spotted more or
less thickly with well-defined black spots; the three end
segments towards the head being of a somewhat clearer yellow,
with no spots or stripes; the facial disc of the larva being
bordered by two well-defined black lines, (ii) The second
type is of an apple green colour ; more like the colour ot the
caterpillar iA' Li^iis/ri, in many instances the facial disc having
no black stripes at all ; but the sti'ipes and spots being some-
what similar to the first; while (iii) now and then, though
very rarely, you come across a caterpillar of a dark umber
brown, with cream-coloured stripes, edged with a still darker
brown ; and having the three end segments near the head,
of the same creamy colour as the stripes ; the facial disc also
being the same, though striated on ihc surface with delicate
dark interlacing brown lines. This last is such an entirely
Some Notes on '■'■ Achcrontia Atropos".
:Si
difFerciU looking caterpillar altogether, that a person seeing
one for the first time would never believe that it wag nothing
after all but a larva of Atropos. I would mention here that
the difference of colour in the caterpillar would seem to make
no difference at all in the ultimate colouring of the moth.
Now though we cannot in any way account for the different
colouring in the larvae (which wc find obtains also in the
caterpillars of some of the other Sphingidae, especially in those
ol Lonvolvuli and Xoii, the Convolvulus or Unicorn, and
the Oleander Ilawkmoths) we cannot but sec a very striking
282 IViltsliirc Notes and Queries.
purpose carried out by it, /.('., tlic assimilation of colouring to
the natural surroundings of the creature ; and this protective
colouring may be noticed largely in all orders and species of
living creatures. It is strikingly the case in the striped coat
of the Bengal tigci- in tlie jungles of India; and, as I have
lately read in the beautifully striated body of the zebra, on the
plains of Africa. You would fancy that you could not but
distinguish such large animals at once, and at a longdistance ;
but sportsmen assure you that you may approach within a few
yards of them, and even look at them through your binoculars
when close to them, without detecting them, if motionless.
Look again at the sober colouring of the ducks of tlie Eider,
Shoveller, Mallard, and many others of the gorgeously
coloured Eastern drakes ; or at the hens of the Pheasant,
Capercailzie, and Black Grouse, which enables them to sit un-
discovered on tlicir nests, whereas if the males shared in the
incubation the}' would at once be detected many yards away.
Just so is it with the Atropos larvae. How strikingly do the
yellow, green, and brown of these enormous caterpillars match
with tlie three growths of the potato leaves themselves ; the
bright green of the earlier foliage, the yellower tint of the
later leaf, while the brown larva matches so exactly with the
diseased or decaying foliage, that the untrained eye would never
detect it, tliough possibly directly resting upon it ; while the
stripes of the larva amalgamate most wondrously with the
lateral ribs in the potato leaf, carrying out the delusion.
Some years ago the larvae of this species were so numerous
in a large three-acre plot of potatoes close to the town, that I
got a friend to come with me, and have a personal hunt after
them. Now let me say, to be successful, you must make up
your mind to be persevering — a three-acre (ield of potatoes is
no inconsiderable plot ; and you are not going to discover a
caterpillar on the llrsl plant you locjk at; and if, after walking
up and down two or three rows, you are going to give up the
search, you had better stoj) at home altogether. In the case
of the larger Hawkmoths you do not find many «jf their larvae
Some Xok's on " Acheronlia Alropos ". 283
close together ; the moth would seem to flit about, depositing
an egg here, and an egg there, but not many, as a rule, on the
same spot. 1 remember finding eight Privet Hawk caterpillars
all together; while a cousin of mine in Marlborough Forest
found twenty-six on the same bush. But here again you may
see a provision of nature in the general habit of the moth
scattering her eggs at intervals ; inasmuch as the larvae, when
full grown, eat so voraciously that were the eggs deposited
thickly together, the foliage would be entirely stripped oft" the
plant or bush on which they were feeding; thus not leaving
them sustenance enough, if numerous, to complete their
grovv'th ; and also exposing them far too clearly to their
numerous adversaries, whether bird, or ichneumon-fly ; and
may we not add man or boy? On the occasion I mentioned
(and a broiling hot day it was in early August) in an hour's
search I was rewarded by finding three large larvae. The first
I discovered by noticing ai my feet a plant on which the haulm
was much eaten, when, after a closer search, I found the
operator; but it is simply marvellous how these large cater-
pillars will hide themselves, clinging, as they almost invariably
do, to the underside of the stalk, back downwards, so that the
eye might pass over scores of them without observing them,
notwithstanding their size and gorgeous colouring (and let
me say here, when hunting for them, always keep your eyes
on the plant beneath you, and don't look far ahead — the trout,
as often as not, is lying under the bank which is close under
your feet ; don't, therefore, go covetously trying the further
waters, until you have first made the nearest ones good). The
second caterpillar I found simply by observing a leaf slightly
in motion on which my eye happened to rest, while all around
it was still; and on looking closer I just saw the disc of the
caterpillar's face as it was greedily munching its mid-day meal,
but not an atom of the rest of the caterpillar was discernible !
But the third one I detected quite twenty yards oft'. I lifted
up my head to ease myself from the stooping position I had
so long been in, when, many yards oflF, on the row I was
284 irHtshirc Notes and Queries.
searching, there was a monster caterpillar, full-grown and
bright-yellow, clinging to a naked stalk of the haulm, (which
stood up above the rest of the foliage) in that sphinx-like
attitude, which has gained for some of the Hawkmoth tribe the
name of " Sphingidcv". Tlie caterpillar was just on the point
of burying, and was in that comatose state which had
apparently rendered it forgetful of hiding itself as carefully
as usual, though it remained perfectly motionless, as in this
position they always do, nature teaching them that this is the
best and only way to avoid the undesirable attentions of their
hereditary enemy, the ichneumon-fly.
About the year 1877 or 78 the caterpillars of Atropos were
more plentiful than I have ever known them before or since.
I obtained fifty-two from one potato field, while a neighbour
of mine received seventy. In fact, there was a great competi-
tion between us. I was the first to discover them, and offered
2,d. apiece for as many as should be found. My neighbour, on
hearing this, oft'ered ^d. ; I was, therefore, under this hot
competition, obliged to advance to 5^/., to which he immediately
responded by offering 6d. I rose to the occasion and offered
the same, but he still eclipsed me and offered 7<y., on which I
held my hand, and in the end, as said, I obtained fifty-two, and
he seventy, so that neither of us had much cause to complain ;
and almost all the one hundred and twenty-two larvae came
from this one three-acre plot of potatoes. In the past year
(1896) in many places they would seem to have been almost as
plentiful, as it is recorded in one of our entomological journals
that in Lincolnshire, one collector alone had two hundred larvae
sent him from various places in the neighbourhood ; while they
were actually so common that one fine caterpillar was found
clinging to a piece of haulm in Covent Garden market, thrown
aside upon the top of a tub in which the potatoes had been
packed ; while a second was found not far off crawling along
the street.
But before I close this paper on the larvae of Atropos I
will next say a few words on the best way of keeping them
Some Notes on " Acltcrontia A tropes ". 285
when found. Great attention ought to be paid to them, so as
to keep tlieni as far as jX)ssible under the same conditions as
to air, and heat, and light, as they would enjoy in a state of
nature ; and unless this is attended to they will never attain
the full size the}' would otherwise reach. They ought to eat
up to the last nioiiicnt of the caterpillar stage ; and this the}'
will very seldom do in a state of confinement. In fact, I may
say, I never have obtained as fine pupae, either of Ligustri,
Populi, Occllatus, Ncrii, or Atropos, from caterpillars I have
reared in confinement, as those that have been dug up from the
soil and which have changed in a state of nature. This fact,
I have especially remarked in the case of Ncrii (the Oleander
Hawkmoth), of which I found a fair number both in the larva
and pupa stage, during my visits to the Riviera. One Nerii
chrysalis that was dug up was just three inches in length, but
being found as late as February it was alread}' dead (none of
the second brood of Nerii hatched and reared in Europe ever,
or scarcely ever, sur\'iving the winter in a state of nature, the
species being really an African one), but had this turned, it
would have been a truly magnificent specimen : this chrysalis
I have now, stuffed, in my collection. But to return, the best
way to treat them is to procure an old tea chest, or some
other similarly sized box, which will give plenty of room to
hold the potato haulm, without letting it touch the sides of the
box ; then get some small phials with fairl}- large mouths, so as
to hold the stalks of the haulm, keeping the stalks firm in the
bottles by filling up the neck of them with moss, which also
prevents any chance of the caterpillar tumbling into, or becom-
ing saturated with, the water. Then fill the box up with fresh
earth to the level of the tops of the necks of the bottles, so
that the caterpillars can crawl from one batch of haulm to
the other, which they might not be able to do unless the earth
was level with the top of the phial ; cover the whole chest with
muslin, or strong net, which will let the air through and not
exclude the light, and place it somewhere in the open air where
the sun is not too hot upon it, but where it gets free light. Thus
286 JViltsliiir Notes and Queries.
you will have secured for them, as far as possible, the same
surroundings as though they were in a state of nature. The
droppings should be cleaned from the top of the earth every
day, and fresh potato haulm given every night and morning,
whether they have consumed it all or not, as fresh food is one
of their first requirements ; and, if possible, the haulm should
always be gathered from the same plot, or rather from the
same sort of potato. There, then, the caterpillars may remain
until they reach their full growth; but directly they begin to
change colour and show a restless disposition, crawling round
and round the bottom of the chest, they should be at once
removed and treated in the manner described in the ensuing
paper.
Sa/isbtoy. Arthur P. Morres.
(To be contitmed.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
III.
MARRIAGE RECORDS.
From the early days of the Society of Friends its members
recognised the importance of keeping a correct register of
births, marriages, deaths, and burials. The country was
divided for Church purposes into geographical areas called
"Quarterly Meetings", consisting of one or more counties,
which were sub-divided into smaller areas called " Monthly
Meetings". Each Monthly Meeting kept the register of births,
marriages, and deaths, within its limits, commencing by collect-
ing data of such as had already occuircd and then continuing
the work with great care. These registers seldom give events
happening prior to 1650, wliich may be taken as the approxi-
Quakerism in ll'illshirc. 287
mate date of the rise of the Society of Friends ; but there are
occasionally to be found chronicled births of an earlier date,
and at least one baptism as far back as 1 588, a curious entry,
seeing the Society has never admitted the necessity of any but
a spiritual baptism.
The Monthly Meetings keep the registers up still, although
in the case of births and deaths it is not so necessary to do
this, now that the civil register is kept by the properly appointed
officers of the Government. The case of marriages is diflferent
— the "Registering Officer", whose duty it is to register a
marriage taking place at a Friends' Meeting House, is at the
same time an officer of the Society and of the State.^ He is
appointed by a Monthly Meeting, and his appointment is
notified to the Registrar-General by the Secretary of the
Society from its central offices in London. He is obliged by
law to register the marriage in duplicate books supplied by
Government, and to make a quarterly return of Quaker
marriages solemnised in the district in which he acts.
The Society of Friends has good reason to be thankful for
the foresight of its founder, George Fox, and his contemporaries
in this matter of registration. No other religious body outside
the Established Church possesses such full records, and in some
districts they antedate the existing parish records by thirty or
forty years.
When the civil registry was instituted in 1837, the Society
of Friends agreed to surrender the original registers to the
Crown Commissioners of Non-parochial Registers, pursuant to
the Act of 3 and 4 Vict., ch. 92, and they are now kept in one
of the vaults at Somerset House. Before the surrender took
place, however, a digest of the registers was made, involving
an enormous amount of labour and an expenditure of over
;£^3,ooo. The records in the digested form are kept at the
central offices of the Society, Devonshire House, 12, Bishops-
' See M'. X. ,5- Q., vol. ii, p. 178, n. 2.
X
2SS Wiltshire NoU's and Queries.
gate Without, London, E.C., where they may be consulted on
payment of a small fee.
Certified copies ol entries under the hand of the Secretary
are accepted by the Law Courts, Bank of England, etc. Should
it in an}' case be desirable to do so, certified copies of the
original entries can be obtained at Somerset House on presenta-
tion of the reference number of the entry in question, which
reference number can only be had from the Friends' offices, as
the Government has no digest of the registers.
As to this county, all the entries of marriages given
are registered in the " Monthly Meeting of Wiltshire." The
earliest entry is 1657,^ and the entries continue till 1837 ; but
it is proposed in the first instance to take only those which are
dated the seventeenth century, copying them in alphabetical
and chronological order. The spelling is copied as transcribed
from the original records, saving in a few cases where, from
difficulties of decipherment or ignorance of localities, the
names of places are evidently mistranscribed. In the early
days, marriages at times took place in private houses. Further
information can sometimes be obtained by consulting entry
under name of each contracting party.
Bcth-scplm', Mclksham. Norman Penney.
1660-3-17. —Ann Atkins, of Sutton benger, to Nathaniell
CoLMAN, of Hullavington.
1663-6-2. — John AusoN, of Ogbornc, to Margery Clarke, of
Marlboro.
1 666-7-*. — William Amor to Elizabeth Willis.
1666-8-2 1. — Thos. Archard, of Corsham, to Jane Gibbs, jr.,
at Thomas Davis's house, in Pickwick.
1667-11-20. — Ann Amor, of Bromham, to John Sparrow, of
1 lullavington.
1668-1-20.— Mary Amor, of Chippenham, to Samuel Work-
man, of Hullavington.
The earliest entry of birth is 1648, and of death 1650.
Oiiakvrisni in irH/s/iiir. 289
1668-6-10. — Ann Ayres, of Bromhani, to Robert Stevens, of
Rowde.
1671-8-19. — Ketherine Atkins, of Sutton, to John Rogers, of
Headington.
1678-5-7. — Richard Amksbury, of Bathford, co. Soniersett,
blacksmith, to F^ranccs Eli.inou, late of Bidstone,
at Slaughterford.
1 68 1 -3 -1 5. — Joseph Allexander, of Norton, to Mary Smart,
of Grittleton.
1 685-3-1 7. — Martha Attwood, dau. of Thomas Attwood, of
Bidstone, to John Sumpsion, of Slautcrford,
at Slaughterford.
B.
1658-8-10. — Charles Barrett, of Kinton St. Michaell, to
Abigail Huckings, of Grittleton.
1658-8-17. — Abigail Browne, of Marlborough, to Daniel
Smith, of Marlboro'.
1663-12-28. — Wm. Baldwin, of Corsham, to Ann Greene, of
Corsham, at Pickwick.
1664-3-3. — Agnis Blanford, of Martin, to Edward Gye, of
Market Lavington.
1664-8-9. — Wm. Butler, of Corsham, to Jane Flower, of
Corsham, at Pickwick.
1664-8-23. — Faith Box, of Sutton, to Charles Shingles, of
Lavington.
1664-8-28. — Edward Bezer, of Cannings, to Ann Fry, of
Blackland.
1664-11-1. — Susannah Bolwell, of Ditcheridge, dau. of Jane
Bolwell, of Ditcheridge, to John Davis, of
Nettleton, at Vridge.
1664-12-10.— Robert Button, of Calne, to Mary Pearce, of
Chitoway.
1665-2-2. — John Butler, of Slaughterford, to Ellinor Wodam,
of Slaughterford, at Slaughterford.
1665-6-1 1-18. — Wm. Barns, of Xtian Malford, to Ursley
Webb, of Dantsey.
1666-2-8. — John Browne, of Slaughterford, to Mary Mat-
ravers, at Slaughterford.
1 667-1-25. — Edward Browne, of Marlboro, to Frances Bezer,
of Bishop Cannings.
X 2
290 IVillsliire Nolcs atid Queries.
1667-1-25. — Frances Bezer, of Bishops Cannings, to Edward
Brown, of Marlborough.
1670-2-10. — Dorathy Bath to John Sparrow.
1670-5-17. — Jeane Barrett, of Kinton St. Michaell, to jolin
GiNGELL, of Kinton.
1 670- 1 2- [9. — Ahce Butcher to Wm. Darke.
167 1-2-3. — Wm. B.mi.y, of Catcotiih, to Susannali Skeate, of
Foxham.
1 67 1-4-1 1. —Robert Bright to Jane Webr.
1671-4-18. — Jeane Bezkr, of Marlborough, to Thomas Lau-
rence, of Marlborough.
167 I 8-8. — John Beverstock, of Bidstonc, to Elizabeth Sisinii,
late of Sidenton.
1672-4-25.— -Kethcrinc Blanford, of Marten, to Nathanicll
Colman, of Sutten.
1672-12-28.— Elizabeth Barnes to Francis Oliefe.
1673-3-30. — Joane Blanford to Jacob Selfe.
1675-6-22. — John Baskervile, of Malmsbury, to Elizabeth
Wallis, of Slaughterfoixl, at Slaughterford.
1676-3-14. — Mary Baily, of Bromhani, to Isaac Selfe, of
Bromham.
167 7-1-22. — Jane Blicke, of I luUavington, toNathanicIl Marsh,
of Hullavington.
1677-1-25. -Adam HrLLOcK, of Hullavington, to Sarah Gowen,
(jf Didmarton.
1677-9-4.— Joseph BusHELL, of Slaughterford, baker, to Sarah
Webh, of Nettleton, at Slaughterford.
1677-10-23. — Ann Bishop, of Titherton Calaways, to Wm.
Jones, of Brimhill, at Charlcutt.
1678-5-14. — Daniel Bullock, of Marlborough, to Elizabeth
Sloper, of Marlboro'.
1678-8-1. — Elizabeth Bond, of Slaughterford, spinster, dau. of
William Bond, of Slaughterford, to James
Matravers, late of Slaughterford.
1 680-3- 1 2. — Mary Bond, of Bewley, Lacock ph., spinster, to
Wm. Parradice, of Slaughterford, at Bewley.
1680-3-27. -Thomas Barrett, of Hartham, Corsham ph.,
yeoman, son of Thomas Barrett, of Collerne,
to Mary Jeffery, at Corsham.
1680 5-13. — Mary Barnard to Thomas Duckett.
Quakerism in Wiltshire. 291
1680-5-25. — Timothy Brkwer, of Foords, son of Jno. Brewer,
of Foords, North Wearxcll ph., to Abigail
FiFiKi.D, at Slaughtcrford.
1680-8-24. — Mary Biktch, of Catcum, to Robert Rii.y, of
Bristol, at Charlcott.
1682-5-9. — Elizabeth Bkzkr, of Marlboro, to John Mason, of
Painswick.
1682-8-26.- -Francis Broomk, son of Samuel Broome, late of
Cullerne, to Mary Paradisk, at Slaughtcrford.
1683-3-1. — Ann Bri.L, of Shaw II ill, Melksham ph., spinster,
to VVm. Smith, of Bromham, at Shaw Hill.
1686-2-20. —Benjamin Bond, son of Edwd. Bond, of Bewley,
Lacock ph., to Ann Par.vdise, of Slaughterford,
at Slaughterford.
1686-10-12. — Daniel Baiely, of Bromham, to Mary Coole, of
Devizes.
1691-5-13. — Thomas Beaven, of Melksham, sarg maker, son
of Thomas Beaven, of Melksham, to Mary
Hayward, of Chippenham, at Chippenham.
1694-5-12. — Elizabeth Beverstoake, of Bidstone, co. Glos.,
dau. of Jno. Beverstoake, of Bideston, to John
Hayworth, of Bradford, at Slaughterford.
1695-1-29. — Rachell Barrett to James Tockal.
1695-8-23. — Peter Berry, of Wellington, co. Som., yeoman,
son of George Berry, of Wellington, to Eliza-
beth HuLrrT, at Sarum.
1698-10-22. — Elizabeth Bishopp, of Westbury, dau. of Wm.
Bishopp, of Westbury, to Thomas Gingele, of
Ridgside, at Warminster.
1699-2-4. — Sarah Bushell, spinster, dau. of John Bushell, of
Bromham ph., to Wm. Littli:, of Corsham, at
Corsham.
1660-3-17. — Nathaniell Colman, of Hullavinton, to Ann
Atkens, of Sutton benger.
1663-6-2.— Margery Cl.vrke, of Marlborough, to John Auson,
of Ogborne.
1665-10 2. — Mary Cheevers, of Ililpcrton, widdow, to John
Fry, of Calne.
1667-8-6. — Katherine Coaleman, of Marlbro', to John Davis,
of Ogborne.
2<)2 lVillsln')-c Notes and Queries.
1672-4-25. — Natlianiell Colman, of Sutten, to Kctherine Blan-
FORD, of Marten.
1672-11 12. — Hester Coleman, of L^iicham, to Jolm Davis,
of Ogborne.
1673-1-6. -William Alman, of Ilullavinton, to Grace Horf, of
Stanton Quinton.
1673-2-14.^ — Thomas Crap,p,, jr., of Marlborough, to Mary
Pkirck, of Bathcford.
1673-2-21. — Sarah Crabb, dau. of Thos. Crabb, senr., of
Marlbro', to Robert Pocock, of Reading.
1674-6-17. — Ann Crabb, dau. of Thos. Crabb, sen., of Marl-
borough, to Anthony Sharpe, of Dublin.
1677 5-12. — John Clark, of Frame Zellvvood, co. Som., carrier,
to Elizabetli Hood, at Charlcut.
1677 10-16. — John Church, of Lea, to Mary Scull, of Brink-
worth.
1679 6-17. — Wm. CoALE, of Calne Meeting, to Mary Nicholas,
of Calne Meeting.
16S0-1 I 17. — Francis Ch.\dsev, of Ogborne St. Andrew, to
Hester Davis, of Ogborne vSt. Andrew.
1680-10 7. — Henry Churched, of Ringwood, co. Southampton,
cooper, to Klizabeth Oliffe, of Brimhill.
1682- 2 18. — Joane Cassell (alias Cooke), of Tithcrton, to
Andrew Gardner, of Charlcott, at Charlcott.
1686-10 12. Mary Cooi.f, of Devizes, to Daniel Baiely, of
Bromham.
1689 12-37. Wm. CooLE to Mary Spicer, at Adcrbury.
i68*-6-2i.— John Cale, of Cain, sarge maker, son of Jno. Cale,
of Calne, to Joanc Harris, of Foxham, at
Charlcott.
1693 7 6. -Jane Cook to Daniel Wili.ks, at Calne.
D.
1664 II I. — Jolm Davis, of Nettlcton, to Susannah Bolwell,
of Ditcheridge, at X'ridge.
1667-8 6. Jolm Davis, of Ogborne, to Kalhcrine Coaleman,
of Marlbro.
1669 7 19. James Dowse, of Slaughterford, to Martha
Hum FRY, of B().\ ph.
1670-12-19. —William Dakke to Alice Butcher.
Ouakcrisut in ll'illslnrc. 293
1671-2-12-22. — Deborah Day, of Cirencester, to John
SiocKAM, of Suiiierford.
1672-1-31. — Martin Dorrington, of Sutton benger, to Mary
Nick, of Sutton benger.
1672-11-12. — John Davis, of Ogborne, to Hester Coallman,
of Lyneham.
1673-5-20. — ^John Dfwsblrv, of Gloucester, to Joane Wicbu,
of Clack.
1680-5-13. — ^Thonias Duckett to Mar}' Barnard.
1680-1-1-17. — Hester Davis, of Ogborne St. Andrew, to
Francis Chadsey, of Ogborne St. Andrews.
1684-5-17. — John Davis, of Nettleton, carpenter, to Jeane
Smith, of Kinton St. Michaels, at Grittleton.
1 689- 1 -2 1. — Andrew Daniell, son of Thomas Daniell, of South
Wrexel, to Elizabeth Gingei.l, at Slaughtcrford.
1691-3-7. — John Davice, of Nettleton, carpenter, son of John
Davice, of Nettleton, to Elizabeth Smith, at
Slaughterford.
1698-2-28. — John Dark, of Slaughterford, sarg maker, son of
F^rancis Dark, to Mary Paredis, of Slaughter-
ford, at Slaughterford.
E.
1666-2-22. — John Edwards, of Chippenham, to Martha Lau-
rence.
1666-12-7. — Charles Emly, of Welport, to Hannah Stowell,
of Hullavington.
1676-4-29. — John Edwards, of Bidstone, yeoman, to Ann
MuNDAY, of Yatton ph., at Slaughterford.
1678-5-7. — Frances Ellinor, late of Bidstone, widdow, to
Richard Amesbury, of Bathford, at Slaughter-
ford.
1695-8-1. — John Emeat, of Mclksham, broad weaver, son of
John Emart, of Mclksham, to Ann Singer, of
Melksham, at Shaw Hill.
1664-8-9. — Jane Flower, of Corsham, to Wm. Bitler, of
Corsham, at Pickwick.
1664-8-28. — Ann Fry, of Blackland, to Edward Bezer, of
Cannings.
294 JVillshifc Notes a)id Oucrks.
1665-10-2.— John Fry, of Calne, to Mary Ciikf.vers, of Hil-
pcrton.
1 66S-6-9.— Elizabeth Flowi r, of Corshani ph., to Charles
Shingles, ofTitherton.
1680-5-25.— Abigail Fifield, dau. of Martha Fifield, of Bid-
stone, to Timothy Brewer, of Foord, at
Slaughterford.
1681-1-1 9.-"Wm. Forrest, jr., of Warminster, cordwainer, to
Jone Whatly, at Alderbury.
i686-2-8.~Zephaniah Fry,^ of Sutton Benger, cloth-worker,
to Jcane Smfih, of Marden.
i693_4_,-i. Ruth Fry, of Slaterford, spin.ster, dau. of John
Fry, of Blackland, to Thomas Packer, of
Bidestone, at Slatterford.
AN EARLY WILTSHIRE SETTLER IN VIRGINIA PART
OWNER OF THE "MAYFLOWER" IN 1655.
The recent decision of the Consistorial Court of London
to return to the President of the United States the Log of the
once famous .ship "The Mayflower", which, since the War of
Independence, has safely rested in the Library of Fulhani
Palace, seems to suggest a convenient opportunity for intro-
ducing into the pages of Wiltshire Notes and Queries some
notes on a very interesting subject, viz.— the early settlers in
New England from this count}-.
The Fulham MS., which has become once more the
property of the American nation, contains not only the
passenger list of the "Mayflower", but a register of the
baptisms, marriages, and burials in the families of the Pilgrim
Fathers, who were the founders of tlic first Plantations. Of
some of these individuals, who can h( identified as Wiltshire-
' See W. y. .y- <■/. vol. ii, \). IHl. ti. 1.
.hi Early ll'illshirc Sclllcr in Virginia. 295
men, we hope to be able to publish some additional notices.^
The present note relates to a member of a well known Wilt-
shire family, who was one of the early settlers in \'irginia,
and in 1655, was in part the actual owner of the ancient
"Mayflower".
Sir Edmund Ludlow, who in the latter part of Elizabeth's
reign, as well as that of James I, was the representative of
the Wiltshire family long seated at Hill Deverill, and grand-
father of the celebrated Republican of the same name, had
a younger and onl}' brother, Thomas Ludlow, of Dinton,
whose wife was Jane, daughter of Thomas Pyle, and sister of
Sir Gabriel Pyle, Knt., of Bapton in the neighbouring parish
of Fisherton Delamere.
At his death, which happened in 1607, this Thomas Lud-
low left four surviving sons — Gabriel (afterwards a Receiver
of the Duchy of Lancaster), Roger (mentioned in the Memoirs
of the Republican, as his cousin), Thomas (who by marriage
with Jane, daughter of John Bennett, of Steeple Ashton,
became the ancestor of the branch of tlie famil}' settled for
several generations at Warminster), and George Ludlow, tlic
youngest son (the subject of the present note), who was bap-
tized in September 1596, and subsequently became one of
the early settlers in Virginia.
In his will, dated 8 September 1655, with codicil 23 October
following, he is described as "of the count}- and parish of Yorke
in Virginia, Esq." He bequeaths to his nephew Thomas, eldest
son^ of his brother Gabriel Ludlow, deceased "all my whole
estate of land and servants, cattle, sheep, horses, and house-
hold stuff that I have now in possession in Virginia. Also my
sixteenth part of the Shipp Mayjloiocr, whereof Captain William
' Any information on this subject, \%'hich our readers may be able to
supply, will be gladly received by the Editor.
- This Thomas Liullow. baptized at Warminster 1 Nov. 1624, was the
el<iu.>it surrichn/ son at tlie date of his uncle's will in 1055— an elder brother,
Gabriel, baptized in 1622. having been killed at the Battle of Newbury, fcsee
Memoirs of Ednmnti Ludlow the Bepublican.
296 IVillsliirc Notes and Queries.
White is commander, which part I bought of Mr. Samuel Har-
war, of London, Merchant; only this year's fraught [freight]
excepted, which I have reserved for my tobacco. My crop
wholly this year to be consigned to Mr. William Allen, of
London, merchant, and one Mr. John Gray that lives at the
Greene Man on Ludgate Hill."
Administration to Roger Ludlow, Esq. (eldest surviving
brother of testator) i August 1656.
WiLTONIENSIS.
KING'S EVIL.
Extracts from Dnrringtnu Parish Register —
"John Ford, son of John Ford, had a Certificate from the ^Minister
and churchwardens for to repair to the King"s Mat'e for the King Evil
Made September the i6th 1684."
"Edward Long, son of Edward Long of Durington, had a Certificate
from the Minister and Churchwardens for to repair to the King's Ma^'e
for the King evill dated Sept. ye 19th 1684."
C. S. Ruddle.
Katherine Cakes.— At •' Kathern-tide", i.e. the feast of
St. Katherine {25th November), the late parish clerk of Seend,
Mr. William Willsherc, told the writer some years ago that he
remembered small rich cakes, sold at a penny and twopence
each, called " Kattern-Cakes ", carried about and .sold as I lot
Cross Buns still are on Good Friday.
The late Mrs. Jane Butler, of Halfway Farm, Melk.sham,
who died in 1861, at the age of 87, used every year until the
time of her death to make these "Kattern-Cakes", which
were well known to the writer himself.
IIarpC(h)ic. 297
Can any readers of IVillshirc A'o/cs atui Oitcrics supply
further information as to these cakes, and were they made in
other parts of the county ?
E. K.
Harpedene. — Thomas and WilHam de Harpedene were
M.l'.s for SaUsbury temp. Edward II. Is anything known
of this family ?
Leigh, Lancashire. W. D. Pink.
De Upham, Wilts. — I would be glad of any notes of the
family of Hugo de Upham, who in 1208 left "ij acres in campis
de Upham " to church of St. Maria de Bradenstok (vide Hund.
Rolls), or early Wiltshire Uphams, especially any of " Upham",
parish of Aldbourne, which temp. Richard II belonged to John
of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
How came it that one Robert Upham (vide Rolls of Pari.)
was a juryman on the trial, (3 Hen. V) 14 15, of Johnof Gaunt's
nephew Richard, Earl of Cambridge ? Robert was, perhaps,
of Upham near Southampton.
The family spread (from Wilts ?) into Hants, Dorset,
Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall (there being a place or two in
each county bearing the name), also to Ireland. In Devon
before 1300. Information or hints as to sources thankfully
received.
Staple Hill, Bristol. W. R. Upham.
King. — ^Wanted the English ancestry of William Kinge,
born about 1595, who emigrated from Weymouth, Dorset, to
New England in 1635, with wife Dorothy born about 1601, and
children, Mary, Katheryn, W^illiam, Hannah and Samuel, born
between 1623 and 1633.
What relation, if any, was this William Kinge to John
Kinge, gent., of Norwich, Norfolk county, who died 31 May
.98 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
165S, and whose mural tablet in the church of St. Peter Man-
croft bears the arms of King of Wiltshire Sable, on a clievnni
engrailed argent, three escallops of the field? What was the
ancestry of this John Kinge, and where can 1 find a pedigree
of Kinge of Wiltshire with these arms?
Yonkers, Westchester County, Rufus King.
New York, U.S.A.
Bowood (vol. ii, p. 242). — The following is in the Devizes
Museum Library: Boivood and its Literary Associations at the
end of the Eighteenth and to the middle of the Nineteenth Century,
with anecdotes of the Rev. W. L. Boivles, the Rev. G. Crabhe,
and Thomas Moore. Forming part of the "autobiography"
of the author. Twenty-five copies printed for presentation.
Feb. i8s4. 4to. By Mr. J. Britton.
E. II. G.
Archbishop Stafford. -Although 1 cannot pretend to
throw any additional light on the question which Mr. E. Kite
has raised as to the parentage of John Stafford, Archbishop
of Canterbury, I think 1 may be able to add some facts which
may aid him in his research.
The only evidence, as I read Mr. Kite's article, of Arch-
bishop Stafford's connexion with Wiltsliire is "the tomb of
his mother in the mortuary chapel attached to North Bradley
Chuicir', upon wliich we must wait Mr. Kite's further in-
formation, and tlie window in the old Manor House at South
Wraxhall, where the arms of Archbishop Stafford were cm-
blazoned in connexion " with sonic armorial bearings relating
to the Long family, to whom in Aubrey's time it belonged ".
In suggesting a theory upon which the introduction of
Archbishop Slajford. 299
the Stafford arms at Wraxliall may be explained, I may
throw some incidental light on the question Mr. Kite is pur-
suing. Mr. Kite seems clearly to prove that the father of
lohn Stafford couKl not liave been either Humphrey Stafford,
Duke of Buckingham, nor Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire, and
suggests that he was "brother of the Sir Humphrey Stafford
'with the silver hand'". 1 will only remark that at this point
there is no evidence of the Staffords having had property in
Wiltshire, but there was a Sir William Staffoid (also of
Hooke, CO. Dorset) whose only child Humphrey was created
Earl of Devon, but died sine proh' (Burke's Extinct Peerage,
sill). Fi-tzpayne). This .Sir William married Katherine Chid-
eock, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Chideock
(Dorset). "On his death she espoused secondly Sir John
Arundel of Lanherne, Knt., and from this union descend the
Lords Arundel of Wardour. Her sister and co-heiress
Margaret married W^illiam, second Lord Stourton." — {Burke ^
do.)
With this marriage with Katherine Chideock (Lady
Stafford) the Chideock property- and also a moiety of the
Fitzpayne property (Dorset)— passed to Sir John Arundel of
Lanherne in Cornwall ; but there was an outlying manor
which came with this inheritance, or rather the moiety of a
manor, in Wiltshire — the manor of Westbury, and it is in this
direction that light may come in regarding Archbishop Stafford.
The manor of Westbury is named in a Court Roll in the muni-
ment room at Wardour of the time of Henry XTI's reign, but
at the date of the marriage, a.d. 1451, only a moiety of the
manor apparently belonged to the family.
Now the question remains whether the manor of Westbury
came to the Staffords through the marriage with Katherine
Chideock and so to Sir John Arundel, or whether it was
originally the Stafford property, and came to the widow after
the death of her onl}- child. If there had been any other
Stafford descent in this line it would not have so passed. It
must be noted, however, that the Fitzpaynes, from whom the
300 lyUtsliirc Notes and Queries.
Chideocks inherited, had manors in Wiltsliire as well as
Dorset.^
I see tliat the subdivisions of the manor of Westbury
were a matter of some perplexit}' to the late learned Canon
J. E. Jackson in his article on "Westbury under the Plain"
in the II 'ills Arccchologkal nud Natural History Magazine,
No. 73, July 1890, pp. 37, 43, "so that," he says, "what with
moieties, semi-moieties, etc., Westbury territorial history is
somewhat of a labyrinth, abounding, however, in old aristocratic
names — St. Maur, Mauduit, Staftbrd, Arundell, which I believe
still survive as names of different portions of land about the
parish ".
The whole manor (Westbury) would appear, however, to
have belonged to Sir John Arundell, father of Sir Thomas
Arundell who acquired Wardour, and he sold it to Thomas Long
about the same time that Wardour was purchased of Sir Fulk
Greville. Among notes sent me by my friend the late Mr. M.
J. S. Swayne, of the Island, Wilton, after one relating to
Joannes Arundell, Miles, and Thomas Long, from the Register
of Statutes Merchant, Sarum (47), I find the following:
"Thomas Long bought Westbury manor of Sir John Arun-
dell in tliis same year, a.d. 1549. His adopted heir and
nephew Sir Edward Long, of Monkton, sold it to the Eai'l of
' I append dates of Clddoock iiianiaLios from Goicaloglcal ('(illections
Vn'.T. J. Howard, LL.D., Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, collected from the
MSS. at Wardour. " Settlement before marriage with William Stafford, of
Soiithwyke", dated 11 March 15 Henry VI (1437). "Settlement before
marriatre with Sir John Arundel, of Laiihcriie" dated March 5, 2!) Henry VI
A.D. 1 b')l. "William Stafford, of Southwyke, was third .son of Sir
Humphrey Stafford, Southwyke, who marrie<l Elizabeth, second daujrhter
and co-heir of Sir John Maltravers, of Crawell (Oxon), and Hooke (Dorset)."
"William Stafford [as above] w^as Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset 14:57-1441,
and Wilts 144fi — killed in the fight at Sevenoaks against the Kentish rebels
18 June 1450. Admon. granted G Aug. 1450 to Will., Lord Bonvil."
Nicholas Battely'.s statement that Sir Humphrey Stafford married
Elizabeth Dunham may be a confusion with the marriage of William
Stafford's widow's son Sir John with {'. Dyniiam, <laughter of Lord
Dynbam. Vi<le Burke's JCxthict Peerage, •• Dynham ".
Hcddingtoji and the Child Fnnii/v. 301
Marlborough 1614. He (Sir E. Long) bought Rood Ashton,
and from liini descended Thomas Long, of Monkton and
Rowden, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward
Hungerford, whose eldest daughter was my mother's grand-
mother, and his second, who married Richard Long, of
Collingbourne, and to whom Mr. Long, of Bath, left Rood
Ashton, was the ancestress of Mr. Long, now of Rood
Ashton."
This will suggest a reason why Sir E. Long, on selling
a property which had belonged to or passed through the
family of Stafford, should have placed the arms of the Arch-
bishop in his stained glass window at Wraxhall, as must be
assumed on the then knowledge or belief that he was con-
nected with the same family of Staffords who had held it.
I will finally draw attention to the dates given by Dr. J.
J. Howard (see note), for if William Stafford was Sheriff of
Dorset and Somerset before his marriage, and not Sheriff of
Wilts till some time after his marriage, it would be a further
reason for supposing that the Wiltshire property came to him
with his marriage ; and also the fact of his being Sheriff of
Wilts would make it probable that other property in Wilts
passed to him besides the moiety of the manor of Westbury.
I am sorry if the evidence I have adduced does not tend
to confirm the theory of the Wiltshire parentage of Arch-
bishop Stafford, but at any rate it establishes his connexion
with the county.
Aru.ndell of Wardour.
June 19, 1897.
Heddington and the Child Family. The marriage
licence of John Rogers and Elizabeth Child, mentioned in
the above delightful paper (p. 212), does not relate to John
Rogers the cousin, and for a few years the partner, of Sir
Francis Child the elder, though, curiously enough, his marriage
took place in the same year (a.d. 1687), the licence for it being
as follows :
302 IViltsliirc Notes 0)id Queries.
" 1687, Oct. 20. John Rogers, of St. Dunstan's in the
West, London, goldsmith, bachelor, about 30, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Heriott, spinster, about 21, with consent of her
father James Heriott, of St. Bride's, London, goldsmith, at
St. Mary Le Bow, London." — Marriage A/fegatiotis, J7c.-Crn.
Arch. Can/.
There was one child of the marriage of John Rogers and
Elizabeth Heriott, namely James Rogers, esq., whose issue
failed in 1S03.
The connexion of the Child and Rogers families must
probably be sought at Heddington. John Rogers, the gold-
smith, was, I believe, a son of Henry Rogers, rector of
Heddington, who matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford,
in 1627, and grandson of Robert Rogers, also rector of Hed-
dington, who matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1600
as Ji litis pie bis.
Few families, as appears both by printed pedigrees
("Rogers of Rainscombe ") and the registers of the Univer-
sity of Oxford, have a longer or steadier record of professional
distinction than this Heddington family, whether descended,
as frequently stated, from Thomas Rogers, of Bradford-on-
Avon, sergeant-at-law, or not.
Definitely to connect both the great banker and his cousin
John Rogers with the line of Rogers at Heddington, and these
latter with the sergeant-at-law, would be not a little interesting,
and may, I trust, thanks to the interchange of knowledge pro-
moted by these pages, be now accomplished.
A. S. M.
i i ' v./ - V, "r^
©a.© -^ .' ■ ^ Ai. ^,.
^Oiltsljirc Jiotcs auD Oucries.
SEPTEMBER, 1897.
BENOLT'S VISITATION OF WILTS. 1532.
R. DYKE (vol. ii, p. 241) is, I think, rather unneces-
S sarily severe on the text of the above {Add. MS.
12,479) '" the British Museum. It is written in
^ ^'?f two hands, both ancient, and the description of
"^■^ it, in the printed catalogue, as a " contemporary
copy", seems perfectly correct, if indeed it were not a
memorandum book of Benolt's own. Spaces are left in it
for tricks of arms, which have never been supplied. Notes
here and there have undoubtedly been inserted by subsequent
owners of the volume, the latest I have observed being re-
ferable to the year 1572.
Sir I'homas Phillipps' copy of the \'isitation of 1532
contained, according to Mr. Carrington, ten pedigrees. Five
of these (Chocke, Seymour, Boucher, Pyc, not Pye, and
Boriey) occur in the volume under consideration, which con-
tains, moreover, pedigrees of Brydges and Hungerford, and
the strictly Wiltshire descent of Page of Warminster.
Faithful transcripts, as I hope, of all the above pedigrees
are appended, together with a copy of the Braibrooke pedigree,
interesting for the match with Brouncker.
Anthony Story Maskelyne.
Y
304 IViltsliirc Notes and Queries.
[Seymour].
S' jolin Se3'mo"' knight of Wondy in Nedyrwent maiied
tlie doughter and heyr of Bechampe of Hache Beaucliampe
in Somerset sliir and had issue John Seymor esquier. who
was maryed to one of the doughters and heyre of s' Will'm
Estormy. knight of Eluetham and had issue S"" John Seyiiio"'
knight of Wohall. who maryed tlie doughter and heyre of one
Mark will'm of Gloucestrshr,^ who had issue John Seymo'
esquier that was maryed to the doughter and heire of Cocker
of Somerset shr. he had yssue John Seymor of VVolfall
esquyer that was maryed to s' George Darells doughter whose
name is Elsabeth. and he had issue S' John Seymor knight
that was maryed to Margerye one of the doughters of S""
Harry Wentwoorthe and had yssue s' Edwarde Seymor
knight, who maryed Katherine one of the doughters of S""
Will'm Fyllole of Wodlande in the count' of Dorcet and hath
yssue John and Edwarde. Sir Edwarde had to his ij'' wief
Anne doughter to s' Edward Stanapc and had yssue by her
The namys of the children of S' John Seymours
Edwarde, Harry, Thomas, John, Elsabeth, Jane, and
Dorothee Dorothe was maryed to Clement Smythe of Essex.
John Saintmo'. esquier maryed Elsabeth doughter to S'
George Darell and had issue by her S"" John Seintmor that
now ys, George, and Robert. S' John maryed Margery, [fo.
32b. (71b)].
[Bourchier].
John Bourchier Lorde sonne and heyre to the Lorde
P'itzwaren of Fewarrens coorte in the countc of Wiltshr
maryde Dame Cicilc sole doughter to s' Gylys Dabnell.*
' See an interesting article by Mr. Vincent, " A Bristol Ance.stor of the
Dukes of Somerset", Cjenealo(jht, N. 8. XII. 73, Tf) ; Mark Williain was
Mayor of Bristol, and his daughter, Isaljel, married John Seymour, 30 .July
1424; she survived her husband and took the vow of perjietual chastity in
Westbury collegiate church, 3 .Tunc 1 4(i5, dying 14 Ap. 1485. — [Ed.]
^"11" struck out and "ey" written over later.
Bc)iolt\< Vii^ilation of in/ls, 1532. 305
sometyme Lorde Chambrcla3-nc w* Kyng Ilcnr}^ the Vllth and
had issue by her s' John Bourchier knyght, Elsabeth. and
Dorothe.
S' John maryed fyrst Elsabeth onely doughter to s'
Walter Hungerforthe knight of the sayde count' and had
3'ssue by her Elsabeth
The sayde s' John had to his seconde wief Elyenor the
iij** doughter of S' George Maners Lorde Roose and hath
yssue by her John, Henry, Fraunc^'s and Marye. [fo. ^;^ (72)].
[Pike].
John Pic' of Rowdun maryed Elysabeth theldest
doughter to Robert Moore in the count' of Dorcet and hath
yssue by her Cicele and Anne. [fo. 33b. (72b)].
[Page].
Richarde Page of \Vormu?ter in the count' of Wiltshr
maried Annys ^ doughter to John Lyth in the count' of
Sum'erset and had yssue b}' her John and Will'm Elsabeth.
John mar3-ed Christyan doughter to Phillipp Morgon of
Chitterne and hath yssue by her Annys.
Will'm maryed Anne
Annys maryed to Rycharde Brayfylde had issue by her
Elsabeth maryed to Robert Graye in the count' of Dorcet
had yssue John, Robert, and certeyne doughters. John
maryed to [fo. 34b. (73b)].
[Burley].
Robert Borley maryed Elsabethe doughter and pa;te
* Agnes d. of John Lyte (who died circa 1 153) of Lvtescary, co. Somerset,
by Agnes his wife, d. of John Aysshe and Agnes d. of Richard Marleburgh
of Loders, co. Dorset, and cousin and coheir of Gregory Marleburgh,
forester of Grovelegh, co. Wilts.
Richard and Agnes Page were living and mairied, 32 Hen. VI. In an
ancient Lyte pedigree he is described as " Richard Page of the Vies "
(Devizes), and she is stated to have re-married with Sir Philip Morgan. —
The Lytes of Lytescary, Taunton, 1895, by [Sir] Henry C. Maxwell-
Lyte [K.C.B.].
Y 2
3o6 IJ^i/Zshiir Nofcs mid Queries.
inherito' to John Bonam of the counte of Wiltshr. and had
issue b}^ her Jolm, Walter, and Thomas.
John dyed w'out yssue.
Walter maryed Margaret doughter to Thomas Buvvnc of
the counte of Wiltshr. and hath yssue by her Rychard Elsabeth
and Marye.
Richarde maryed Annys doughter to
Elsabeth maricd to Richard Peede had yssue Edwarde,
Margaret and Dorothe.
Mar}' maried Richard Matheu of Denton of the count' of
Thomas maryed Xp'ian doughter to Jolm Peers of Hoi"-
cetshr. and liad yssue Edwarde, John. Annys, Jone Elyenor
and Margarete.
Edwarde maried Jane the iij"* doughter to Walter Mervyn
of Wiltshr and hath yssue George, Elsabeth, Jane, Elysabeth,
El3'enor, Mylycent, and Anne. [fo. 35 (74)].
[Hungerford],
S"" Edmund 1 lungcrfordc, of Douncampncy. in tlic counte
of Gloucestr. brother to s' Robert Lorde Hungerforde of
Farley maryed Margerye doughter and hcyr to s' Edward
Lorde Burnell and had yssue s' Thomas Hungerforde, who
maryed Dame Christyan and had yssue John, Walter Hunger-
forde Edwarde. Edmunde, and Aldam. Katheryne, Beterys,
Jane, Margaret, Anne.
Katheryne maryed John Crekelarde.
Beterys maryed John De La Mere.
Jane maryed to Jamys Vyall.
Margaret maryed John Ferrys, of Blounsdon
Anne maryed to Henry Parker
S' John Hungerforde maryed Dame Margarete doughter^
to Edmonde Blount of the same counte and had yssue S'
Anthony Hungerforde knight, Edwarde, Fresw"*, Elsabeth,
and Christyan.
1 11
Anne " struck out.
Bcno/t's Visitalion of U'ill^, 1532. 307
S' Anthony had to his tyrst wicf Danic Jane eldest
doughter to S' Edvvarde Darrell. and had yssue John,
Edvvarde, Edniunde, Edwarde, Thomas, John, Jone and
Elsabethe.
The aforesayde S' Anthony had to his seconde wief
Dorothe the fyrst doughter of S' John Davers kniglit of
Danzell, in the count' of Wiltshr and had yssue by her,
Henry, and Will'm, Jane, and Anne.
John maryed Briget, seconde doughter to John P^ettplace,
of Belysley, in the count' of Barkshir. [fos. 355.-36 (745-75)].
[Brydges].
Walterus Chandos D'n's de Fowenhope Snodhill, ct Lug-
wardyn et de una parte de WelHngton in comitat' Ilerforde
habuit exitu' Rogeru' Chandos
Rogerus Chandos habuit exit' Thoma' Chandos
Thomas Chandos habuit exit' Johanne' Chandos mihte et
EHsabeth Chandos.
Johan'es Chandos miles obiit sine heredibus de corpore
suo exeu'
Elisabeth Chandos accepit in maritu' Johanne' Barkele}'
of Coberley,^ et h'uerunt exit' Alicia', et Margareta'.
Alicia Barkeley accepit in maritu' quenda' Thoma'
Brugge filiu' Baldewini Brugge de Brugge Solers in comitat'
Ilerforde et h'uerunt exit' Egidiu' Brugge
Margareta Barkeley accepit in maritu' Matisdon et
h'uerunt exit' Robertu' Matysdon
Robertas Matj'sdon obiit sine heredib/<s de corpore suo
I'time procreat/s. Wherfore thinheritaunce remayned to the
aforesa3-de Alyce.
Egidius Brugge accep' in uxore' filia' et et
h'uerunt exit' Thoma'. who maryed Florens doughter to
Dorell. and had yssue by her S' Gilis abruggys knight who
maryed Elsabeth doughter to Thomas Baynerm, of Glou-
» " Of Coberley " added.
3o8 Wiltsliire Notes and (Jiicn'vs.
cestrshr. and had yssue by her s' John Brigg^'5, knight
Tlionias, and Will'm. Florence, Kalheryn, Aimc, and Vrsula.
S' Johu a Briggf'6- marycd Elsabeth doughter to Edmonde
Lorde Gray of Wyhon in the counte of Ilarftbrdeand hath
yssuc by her Edmond, Gylys, Charlys, Stevyn, and Anthony.
Elysabeth, Marye, Katheryn, and Frauncesse.
Thomas marycd Jane the eldest doughter and one of
the heyres of Sybnam and had yssue.
Florens maryed to S' Will'm Morgon, of Southwalys. and
had yssue Thomas.
Katheryne marycd to Leonarde Poole of Gloucestrshr.
and hath yssuc, Gylys, Matheu, and John.
Anne maryed to S' Rysse Maunsell. knight of
had yssue.
Ursela maryed to John Sydnam sonne and heyre to John
Sidnam had yssue John.
Elsabethe, doughter to s' J'h'n ^ maryd sonne and
hc3're to Trassye of in the counte of Gloucestr
had yssue [fos. 37 -37b (76-76b)].
[Hungerford].
Jolni ilnngerforde of Uykelston in the counte of
Gloucester maryed Mawde doughter and one of the hcyrcs to
Ekelston (sic) of D^'kelston of the same counte and
had yssue by her John who had Thomas.
Thomas maryed Elsabeth doughter to .S"" Tliomas Tlungcr-
fordc and had yssue by her Wyll'm
Will'm had to his first vvyef Elsabeth doughter to Will'm
Rcdhall. and hath yssue by her John and Elyenor.
The sayed Will'm had to his scconde wicf Margarctc
doughter to Rychard Ilowgon of Sylv}^!' in tlic count' of
Sonmierset, and had yssuc George, [fo. 40b.]
[Chocke].
Richard Chocke knight of Long Astuii in tiic in (sic)
' " Doughter to s' J'h'n " added.
Bt'iio/l's Visilatiun of Wilts^ 1532. 309
SonKvsliir one of the Justices of the Conimcn Place maryed
doughter to Pavys of Bristowe and liad tssue by her
John Richarde Ehsabethe and Jane.
John maryed the doughter to John Wrowton and
had issue by her John and Alexander.
Richard the younger mar3^ed Alice doughter and hole
heyre to Robert Couentre of Au3aiton and Radley and had
issue by her John and Avys.
John maryed Annys doughter to Thom'^s Newbwche^ and
had yssue by her. Fraunc^\s\ Harry. John. Edmonde. and
Will'm Anne and Anne.
Frauncr5 maryed Katherinc the yonge.st daughter to
s' Edwarde Darrell in the count' of Wiltshir
Anne the yonger maryed to John Stancyall of Westbery
in the same count', and hath yssue by her. Will'm.
M*^ at my commyng to Bristow to resorte to Long Astun
and to veue the place where s' Richaidc Chocke ys buryed
and to take a note of his Armys and Crestc. [fo. 12 (50)].
[Bray brook].
These armes, viz. James Braebrooke of Suff} werr gyven
by Roger Machado al's Richemond King of armes Clarcn-
cieulx bering date at London the vij''' daye of the moncthe of
Marche the yeare of our LordeGod a thousande fyue hundrethe
and foure and the xx" yere of the reigne of our Soucraign
Lorde King H y® vij'^
Jamys Braibrooke of the counte of Suff maryed Margcrye
doughter to Woodkok of Shinfield in the counte of
Barkshire and hath yssue by her Thomas. Elysabethe
Thomas maryed Katheryne doughter to Will'm Barker and
hath yssue by her Will'm
Elysabethe maryed Harry Brunkcer of the counte of
Wiltshir. [fo. 8 (46)].
' Bectius Neuburgh. ^ Marginal note in original.
310 IViltsliirc Notes and Oitcncs.
[Horsey].^
Four shields.
(i). G. 3 cross crosslets ar. over it written " Payne".
(2). B. a chevron or. between 3 horses heads couped «r.,
bridled s. . . . over it written "Horsey", impahng, «r. a
chevron between 3 birds (? plovers) ? s. . . . over it
written " Wike (? of Bindon) of Dorsitsh ".
(3). G. a chevron between 3 swans ar. over it written
" Lyght ".
(4). Barry of 6 rr;;/. & g. over it written " Hussey".
John Horsey of Marten in Wiltsln- tiiarricd Isabell first
doughter to Thomas Hussey of Shapyke, and /tad issue, Edythe,
Jonc, married Thomas Woodshawe of Standligh, Thomas,
and Will'm, eldest son, married Dorothe, first doughter to
John Ludlowe, of Wiltshr, and had issue, John, William,
Bartholomew, Brydgett, Elizabethe. [fo. 48 (87)].
Pedigree of Bonham.
Although 1 cannot answer Mr. D3'kc's question, as to the
whereabouts of Sir Thomas Phillipps' copy of the above
Visitation, the present seems to be a suitable opportunity for
publishing the pedigree of the Bonham family of Haselbury,
in the parish of Box, and Wick, in the parish of Lacock, as
contained in the original Visitation in the Heralds' College,
from a certified copy which 1 obtained in 1893. I saw the
original book, and am under the impression that there are no
arms in it. The pedigree is as follows: —
jolui Bnna" Eskuycr dI' Hasylbcry in y« county of Wyllshear maryed
Anne dowKlitcr and on of y« hierytors to ... . Crooki" and liad
IssIk- by liLT John and Edytli.
John marj'c'd Anne secondc dowghtcr to Rfjbcrte Mocirc and hatli
isshcw by hrr John Antony Edwardo Thomas Robert Anne Mary
Edyth Alycf.
Tabular pcd. in originals.
Bcnolts Visitation uf IVilts, 1532. 311
Anne maryed to Wylla" Busshe soone and heyer to . . . Busshe
of norlech in y® countye of glosset-er and hath isshew Thomas Elyza-
beth and Edyth.
Mary marj'ed to John sone and aeyer to Thomas Bamfylde.
Extracted from the Visitation of the County of Wilts made
in the year 23 Hen. VIII, and examined therewitli this 5tli
day of Sept. 1S93.
(Signed) Charles H. Athill,
Richmond Herald of Arms.
Heralds Collej^e, Ijjndon.
The above pedigree might be very considerably amplified,
from deeds in my possession and others in the Record Office.
In the thirteenth century, as shown by the records of the
abbeys of Lacock and Stanley, the Croke family appear to
have held Haselbury and Wick. The latter, now known as
Wick Farm, belongs to me, having apparently been purchased
from John Bonham, esq., in the reign of Elizabeth, by my
ancestor Sir Henry Sharington. There remain there now an
interesting barn, of the fifteenth century, and a circular
pigeon house,^ of the same date, but altered and no longer used
for its original purpose.
Wick is described, in a document of the seventeenth
century (Settlement by Sir John Talbot, 3rd March 1685, one
of the documents printed in the Shrewsbury Peerage case,
1858), as " all that the manner, or reputed mannor, messuage,
tenement, and farme, with the appurtenances commonly called
or knowne by the name of Charles Weake, alias Weeke, alias
Weake Farme, scituate and being in Laycocke, etc." The
above remarkable form of the name suggested to me, many
years ago, a possible identification of the second Domesday
lordship, or manor, in Lacock, which was held, not b}' Edward
of Salisbury, but by Alured of Marlborough. I thought
' Wick farm is in Lacock, but ni>t in Notton. The doorway shown in the
sketch (facing p. 303) did not exist when the place was in use as a pigeon-
house, but was in.^^eiteil when it was turned into a cow-house. On the
opposite side of the building the small arched doorway of the 15th century
remains with, I think, the original wooden door, but walled up internally.
Pigeons are kept at Wick now, but not in this buihling, and though they
may perch on the roof, the pigeon flying through the doorway, if tliat is
what it is intended to be doing, is, I should say, very unlikely to be seen.
312 ll*iltsliirc Notes and Oucrics.
"Charles Wcake " might be a corruption of "Carlo's Wick",
which compound name I had not, at that time, noticed, but
my conjecture was afterwards abundantly confirmed by the
occurrence of this name, as " Charloweswick ", somewhat
variously spelled, in mediaeval documents, both in my own
possession and in the Record Office. The translation of the
Domesday entry, referred to, is as follows (Jones' Dojucsdav
for IViltshhr, p. 83) :—
" Alured himself holds i virgate of Jaiid in Lacoc. The land is 1
canicate, which is there with 1 bordar, and tliere are 2 acres of meadow.
It was worth 10 shillings; it is now worth 5 shillings.
Carlo held all the before-mentioned lands in the time of King Edward.
This refers to the above, and other lands previously
mentioned. It would appear that the Norman scribe wrote
the Saxon name "Charlowe", of which the Ch was probably
pronounced hard, as if it were an Italian name " Carlo".
The arms of Croke of Wick are shown, by old seals, to be
a bend between six fleurs-de-lis. Burke's General Armory gives
azicrr, a brnd or, betiveen six fleiirs-dc-lis argent for one family
of the name of Crooke.
A deed, in my possession, seemed to show that John
Bonham was of Plumber, in Dorsetshire, which is confirmed
by Lcland's Itinrrarv (vol. vi, fol. 52 and 53) as follows: —
" 'riinrnchid dwellid at Thornehiil yn Staplchridg, and yet dothe.
Pluinlicrs Landes be cum onto the J>oncho>/tcs of Hasilbyri.
They dwellyd at Plumlicrs in Lidlinchc a mile from Thornehiil".
Philippa, younger sister of Anne, the other coheir of John
Croke,^ married William Floyer. They had a brother John,
' Tiie following is a rough pedigree of Croke from deeds in my pos-
.sessioM ; I have given the name of Philippa's husband as Kloyer, which I
believe to be correct. In a .survey of the manor of Lacock (_te»i/i. Hen.
VIII), however, the name occurs as Fleyr. John Fleyr, gentleman, was one
of tlic free .suitors of the Court Leet, 27 March 1545.
Nicholas Croke //«// mue, Alice, and Robert (ob. before Dec. 21, 14:}1),
who married Agnes (mentioned in 1422), and. had is.iuc, Joiosc, a,7id John,
who married Johanna, and had issue,
John (who died young), Anne, co-heir, married to John Bonhaui, and
I'hilippa, co-heir, married to William Floyur.
Records of IVillsliire Parishes. 313
who must have died young. Burke's Genera/ Armory states
that the family of Floyer, of West Staftbrd, in Dorsetshire,
quarter Croke.
C. II. T.VLBOT.
Lacock Abbey.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
BRATTON.
{Continued from p. 279.)
EuiNGDo.N Chaktulary. [Lausdoivn MSS., No. Jt^2^ f. 109.]
Fine for Pasture in Bratton.
At Wilton, \\\ tiie Quindene of the Holy Trinity, 25
Henry III.
A.D. 1241. — Between Richard de Bratton, plaintiff, and
Geoffre}' de Maundevill, deforciant, of pasture for 8 oxen and
100 sheep with the appurtenances in Bratton. A plea was
summoned between them. Geoffrey granted for him and his
heirs that Richard and his heirs should have pasture for 8
oxen on the pasture called Ferendon along with his own
(Geoffrey's) oxen whenever they shall be grazed there. And
he gave to the same Richard moreover 4 acres ot land
with appurtenances in Bratton ; to wit, one acre lying by
the land of Richard de Anesia, which Roger son of Marjory
held, and one acre between the land of the same Richard and
the land of Ralph Marsh ; and one acre next the land of
Isabella who was wife of Rocelin de Bratton, and an acre
lying by the land of Rose de Bratton on the south part of
GodeshuU. To have and hold to liim and his heirs of Geoffrey
and his heirs lor ever. Returning therefore yearly 4 capons
at Easter for all service. And Geoffrey and his heirs will
314 IViltsliire Notes and Queries.
warrant land and pasture to Richard and his heirs forever
against all people. And for this fine and concord, Richard
quitclaimed for himself and his heirs to all his right and claim
in the said pasture for 100 sheep forever.
Fine Roll. [31 Henry III, No. 11.]
A.D. 1246. — The king has received the homage of Ralph,
son and heir of GcoftVey de Maundcvill, for i knight's fee
which the same Geoffrey held of the king in chief in
Hautevvrth and Bratton. And Andrew Cheverel, the king's
eschaetor in Wilteshire, is ordered, having received security
from the said Ralph for the hundred shillings for his relief to
be paid to the king, to put him in seisin of the same fee.
Witness the king at Clarendon. December 4th.
Edingdon Chartulary. [Lansdowne MSS., No. 442, /. 92*".]
Charier of Walter de Pavely to Richard dc Anesia.
Ante A.D. 1249.— I, Walter de Paweyli, have given and by
this my charter confirm to Richard de Anesya and to all the
tenants of my fee and to all the tenants of the fee of Geoffrey
de Mandevill who have and ought to have the common upon
Midon which^ ... a " drove ", ^ which begins at the
eastern head of Swaleclive of Richard de Anesia, to drive their
beasts along as they are accustomed by my concession as far
as the said Hidon, to hold to them and their heirs without
molestation in driving their beasts along the said " drove ".
Returning therefore yearly at Michaelmas four quarters of
oats to me and my heirs for all demands pertaining to the said
" drove ". For this concession they gave me down four marks
and a half. And I and my heirs will warrant the said "drove"
to them without condition. In corroboration whereof I have
set my seal. Witnesses .
' Apparently some words are left out here. ^ JJrauva, in the Latin.
Records of IViltshirr Parislus. 315
Assize Roll, No. 996, m. 4". [7,2, Henry III.]
A.D. i24S-9.--The Assize [at Wilton] came to take
cognizance of Walter Cove, father of Jul[ian ?] Cove, was
seized in his demesne of a messuage and an acre of land with
the appurtenances in Melburne, which house and land hitherto
he holds. Who [Julian ?] comes and calls to warrant Walter
son of Richard Cumpayn, who is within age, by the charter
of his father which he produces. Therefore the imparlance
remains until he [Walter] come of age.
I.NOL-ismo.N Post Mortem. [34 Henry III, No. 43.]
Post Mortem Richard de Auesey.
A.D. 1249.- The Jury say that Richard de Anesy held of
the lord king in Dulton and Bratton 4 carucates of land by
the ser\-ice of serjeanty by being wnth the king's army 40 days
at his own costs and of Avicia de Columbar 7 marks rent in
Cet. And the foresaid 4 carucates of land in domain rents,
vilenage and all other issues of the land, together with the
forementioned rent, is worth ^32 6s. \ohd. Richard Danisye
his son is his nearer heir and he is 12 years old.
Inquisition Post Mortem. [38 Henry III, No. 3.]
A.D. 1253. — The Jury' say that Richard Danesy held of the
lord king in chief at Dulton 2 carucates of land and at Bratton
I carucate of land worth yearly ^12 os. ^d., and he held it by
serjeanty by finding a man at his own costs for 40 days in the
army in England ; and afterwards the said serjeanty was
changed by Robert Passelowe into 10 marks to be rendered
yearly. Richard Danesey, son of the said Richard, is 23 years
old and is his nearest heir.
Hundred Rolls. [IVi/ls. 39 Henry HI, ni. 4.]
Conccniing the words of the Castle of Devizes.
A.D. 1254. — Ralph de Maundevill ought to pay 205. yearly
towards the ward of the castle in time of peace for his tenement
in Bracton.
3i6 IVillslihr Notes and Oncrics.
Ibid. [///. 5.]
Hundred of Wcstbnry.
Ralpli de Maundevill owes ward to the castle of Devizes,
viz., 20s. in time of peace, and in time of war ward for forty
days at his own expense in the same castle for half a knight's
fee in the manor of Bratton.
Of I he Valets and Maidens.
Richard son of Richard de Anasya is below age and in the
ward of the lord king, and his lands in that liundred are worth
^10 iSs. ohd.
Of Scrjeanties.
[William] de Anasya, grandfather of the foresaid Richard,
held his land in Bratton Penlegh [and Dulton] by serjeanty, to
wit, to accompany the lord king in his army for 40 days at his
own expense ; and the same William alienated 4 virgates out
of the same land to Roscelinc de Bratton and h virgate and a
mill to Richard de Dene in Bratton; and to William Pentecoste
J virgate of land there ; to John son of Edmund h virgate of
land; to Matilda dc Thorny a messuage, and 4 acres of land ;
to Richard FitzClerk 3 acres of land ; to John de Bratton 3
acres of land in the same place.
Edingdon Chartularv. [/". 89.]
J''ro}n the Book of Fees ^ in the Jixcheqiier of the Lord King.
Geoffrey de Maundevyle holds one knight's fee in Bratton
and Ileghworth of the king in chief; in Worthe two parts of
a knight's fee of the king, in Bratton the third part of a
knight's fee. And he gives yearly 20.S. to the ward of the
Castle of Devizes.
Richard de Anesye holdes ^h hides in Dulton and Bratton
by the service of finding one man with a hauberk. ^
' That commonly called the Testa de Nevill or Liher Fcudorum.
2 Testa de lYerill, p. I'yl^, has "by .sorjo.anty willi aims at command of
the lord king ".
Records of VVillshitr Parishes. 317
Richard dc Anesyc holds h knight's fee in Dulton and
I>ratton of tlie king and gives yearly 10 marks.
The serjeanty of Richard de Anesy in Bratton and Dulton,
for which he ought to take care of the larder of the lord king,
and vviiich the same Richard in the time of King Henry who
now is on his own authority changed into another service,
scilz., of finding one horseman armed in the king's arm}' for
forty days in England, is in part alienated.
F>om the same Richard, for 19 virgates of land and 435
acres and 4 acres of meadow, 4 messuages and a mill of the
same alienated serjeanty . . . and for the peace which the
same Richard keeps who changed his service as is said, yearly
10 marks. And he does the service of half a fee.
Richard de Dene holds [of the serjeantyj h virgate of land
and a mill worth yearl}' one mark. The chapel of Dulton
holds 8 acres of land worth yearly 2s. dd. Rocelin de Bratton
holds 4 virgates of land worth yearly 24s. John of Oxelborne
holds \ virgate worth 45. yearly. Richard de Bratton holds a
messuage and an acre of land worth 25. yearly. John de
Bratton a messuage and 74 acres of land, worth yearly 2>^.
William Pentecoste k virgate of land worth 55. yearh'. Alan
Fitz Warun a messuage and 16 acres of land worth yearly
I mark. Jolm Sawary 3 acres of land worth yearly 4s. Walter
de Pauely an acre worth yearly Si'/. Richard Burnel a mes-
suage worth yearly \2d. Adam de Greunvell 4 acres of
meadow and an acre of land worth yearly 205. Philip Marmiun
I virgate of land worth yearly 65. Savaric and Clarice his
wife a third part of two virgates of land worth yearly 4s.
Walter Colsweyn holds the third part of 2 virgates of land
worth yearly 4s. Mabel Wabrand holds the third part of 2
virgates of land worth yearly 45. Robert Plugenay holds 2
virgates of land worth yearly 145. Robert de Wei ton holds
I virgate of land worth yearl}' 8s. Thomas de Stoke i virgate
of land worth yearly 85. Ralph Calne h virgate of land worth
4s. yearly. Richard Fitz Thomas a virgate of land worth
yearly 8s, William Laughful and Juliana his wife \ virgate
3i8 IViltsliii'c Notes and Uucn'cs.
worth yearly 2S. Reginald l^istor .\ virgate worth 25. yearly.
Geoffrey de Escudemor a virgate and an acre of land worth
yearly 6s. 6d. The Prior of Farlegh holds k virgate of land
and 5 acres worth yearly 6s. The Church of Westbury i
virgate of land worth yearly 6s. And the sum of the foresaid
alienations is j£S 15s. .\t/. And the said Richard made a fine
for himself and the said tenants therefore, viz., yearly 10
marks, so that the said tenants shall answer to the same
Richard for the third part of tlic value of liis holding yearly.
And Richard himself shall return the remainder for his own
part because he has changed his service as is aforesaid without
warrant, and does the service of half a knight's fee.
iCniXGDON ClI.AKTULARV. [/. 93**.]
Charter of Nicholas Pnitccost to Thomas de Dene.
I, Nicholas Pentecost, have granted to Thomas de Dene
an acre of land and \ meadow with the appurtenances in
Bratton for his service ; viz., that acre which lies between the
land of Rose de Bratton and a certain ditch in the Sculflonde
and reaches to the land of Rocelin de Bratton, and that half
meadow wliich is called Brodemede which lies between
Birreburne and Thurenchint, to hold to him his heirs or
assigns for ever for the yearly rent of 2d. at Michaelmas. And
1 and ni}' heirs will warrant the same against all men for ever,
and if we cannot warrant will make a reasonable exchange in
the same town. I have sealed. Witnesses . . .
[The above and the following Charters are undated, but
probably belong to the time of Henry III to Edwai'd II.]
Ibid. [/ 94.]
Charter of Nicholas Pentecost of Bralio)i to Walter de Docne
of Mnlbournc.
1, Nicholas Pentecost, of Bratton, have granted to Walter
de Doene of Mulbourne for his service all my right in an acre
of arable land in the field of Bratton, viz., \ acre in the field
called Estmerc, between the land of Geoff'rey de Bratton and
Records of IViltslinr Parishes. 319
the land of Richard Mcringof Brattoii, and half of an acre lying
ill la Clcyc in tiie parcel of arable land which is called
Smoklande, between the land of Geoffrey de Bratton and the
land of Kichard Symund of Mulbourne ; to hold to him and
his heirs or assigns for ever from me and my heirs, without
any claim from me my heirs or assigns save ir/. annual rent
at Michaelmas. I and my heirs will warrant the same. I have
set my seal. Witnesses
Charter of the Same to the Same.
I, Nicholas Pentecost de Bratton, grant to Walter de Deone
of Mulbourne ^^ acres and a perch of arable land and a small
uncultivated piece ^ of meadow in Stoke and Mulbourne and
Bratton, and the land of Richard le Whyte of Mulbourne ;
and a half acre in the same field between the land of Geoffrey
de Bratton and the land of Richard Horat ; and that .] acre in
"la langelonde "; and one .7 acre in " le leses " which lies
between the land of William FitzHenry and the land once
belonging to Alice Compayn; and i acre upon PapekehuUeclife
which lies on the west of the land of Thomas Simounde ; and
a perch of land in " heopelize " lying next the land of Thomas
de Bratton which is called " le holeacre" on the east ; and i
acre in "la Cleye" called Smoklonde, viz., 4 of an acre which
lies between the land of Geoffrey de Bratton and Richard
Simond, scilz., the north part ; and the foresaid meadow lies
in the field of Westbury at Purchin, between the meadow of
Robert de Pauntesbury and the meadow of John de Kanterton ;
to hold to said Walter his heirs or assigns of me my heirs or
assigns in peace by hereditary right forever, returning the
yearly rent of 6d., T,d. at Christmas and yl at the Feast of
St. John the Baptist. I and my heirs or assigns will warrant,
etc. I have sealed, etc. Witnesses . . .
' " Unam f rustam. "
320 IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
Ibid. [/. 94^]
( liarlrr of Snra/i dr Dioiir to IJ^allrr dr Dco)i(\
To all Christ's faithful people to whom the present shall
come, I, Sara de Deone, sometime wife of Adam de Moxham,
salutation in the Lord. I have granted in pure widowhood
and in my lawful power,^ and for myself and my heirs quit-
claim forever, to Walter de Deone, son of Ralph de Stoke, my
nephew, my whole right in all lands and tenements, mill, rents,
meadow and pasture, which Isabella, who was the wife of
Walter de Deone senior, held in dowery by the death of the
same Walter in Mulbourne and Bratton and in all other
places in the hundred of Westbury. And I and my heirs will
warrant the same to Walter de Deone and his heirs against
all nimial men forever. In testimony whereof I have set my
seal to the present writing. Witnesses . . .
Ibid. [/. 102''.]
Charter of John dc Cantcrton to Thomas North.
I, John de Canterton of Bratton, have granted to Thomas
North of Bratton 2 acres of land and i perch with their
appurtenances in the fields of Bratton ; of which one acre lies
at Gretedich in the western part of the land of John Smod of
Mulbourne, and one acre lies in Wychemedesforlong in the
western part of the land of William Louerich, and one perch
lies along the ditch between Ralph Whiteleg's land and the
land of the church of Stoke. To hold to him and his heirs by
hereditary right for the yearly rent of one rose at the feast of
St. John the Baptist for all service save the royal service as
much as belongs to that fee. And I and m}- heirs will warrant
the same against all men and women for ever. I have set my
seal, etc. Witnesses. . .
1 u
In pura virlqitate et ligia potestate mea."
Rcconh of Wiltshire Parishes. 321
Ibid.
Charier of IJ^illia/u, sou of IJeury de Hratlou, lo Tluniias North.
I, William, son of llenn' de Bratton, have granted to
Thomas North of Bratton a croft of pasture in Bratton, viz.,
that called Slocrofte, to hold to him his heirs or assigns by
hereditary' right, returning therefore yearly to mc my heirs or
assigns one apple at Michaelmas. And I and my heirs or
assigns will warrant the same against all men and women for
ever. In corroboration whereof I have set my seal. Wit-
nesses. . .
Ibid.
Charter of Richard Conipayn to Ralph de Stokes.
I, Richard Compayn, have granted to Ralph de Stokes, for
his service and one mark paid into my hands, that house with
the whole acre which I held in Molbourne in the time of
Adam Cumpayne my father, scilz., that which lies near the
messuage of Thomas Cumpayn, my brother, on the east, with
all their appurtenances. To hold to him his heirs or assigns
by hereditary right, for the yearly rent to me and my heirs or
assigns of 6d. at Michaelmas for all service saving the royal
service so much as belongs thereto. I and my heirs or assigns
will warrant the same. In corroboration whereof I have set
my seal. Witnesses. . .
Ibid. [/ 104.]
Charter of John de Cantcrton to his daughter Christina.
I, John de Canterton, have granted to Christina my
daughter, for her service, all that tenement which I had of
Nicholas Rose in the town of Bratton lying between the
tenement sometime Richard Clerk's and the tenement of John
Whytle, and one head reaches on to the high way and the
other on to the croft of William de Maundeuile, with the
houses, curtilages, gardens, crofts, arable lands, with all their
appurtenances. Also the tenement which I had of Nicholas
z 2
32 2 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Pcntechost lying between the tenement of William de Bratton,
clerk, and the tenement of John m}' elder son, and it reaches
to the king's way ; together with S acres of arable land and
] acre of meadow with all their appurtenances ; of which one
acre lies in the field of Westbury between the lands of Roger
Cole on either side ; one acre lies at Wodestyghcle between
the land sometime Richard Clerk's and the land of Nicholas
Alfirych ; h acre lies at Twelfacre between the land of lord
Walter de Pavcly and the land of Nicholas Heryng ; one
acre lies in la Clej-e between lands of the lord Walter
de Pavely on either side ; k acre lies on the hill of
Bratton in " la loclonde ", between the land of John Whytle
and the land sometime Richard Clerk's; one acre lies in
"kynges Weysforlourlong " by the land sometime William
Gosland's ; h acre lies on the hill at " la Goldhorde ", between
the land of the lord Walter de Pavely and the land of Nicholas
the Shepherd ; one acre lies at Thorncombe between the land
of Richard Dansy and the land of John Suel ; h acre lies
between Bratton and Mulbourne, between the land of John de
Bratton and the land of John le Battes ; | acre lies at the head
of the tenement which I had of Nicholas Pentechost and it
reaches to the garden of Richard Dansy ; h acre lies at
Motweye between the land of Peter Peter and the king's way ;
and the h acre of meadow lies at Thurnchyne between the
meadow of Dom Roger, the chaplain, and the meadow of
William de Bratton, clerk. Moreover, I have granted to
Christina my daughter my rents and services issuing from
the tenement which John my elder son had of me for the term
of his life (from the tenement sometime Nicholas Pentechost's),
and a farthing yearly rent from a cottage which Nicholas Rose
holds for the term of his life, witli the reversion of the said
two tenements after the deaths of John and Nicholas. To
hold to the said Christina and the heirs of her body of the
chief lords of the fees by hereditary right for ever by the
accustomed services. And I and the foresaid John my heir
will warrant to her all the said lands, etc. And if she die
Some Notes on " Achcrontia Atropos ". 323
without heirs of her body all the said lands, etc., shall remain
to John my younger son. And to this my donation 1 have set
my seal. Witnesses. . .
SOME NOTES ON " ACHERONTIA ATROPOS" (THE
DEATH'S-HEAD HAWKMOTH).
(Continued from p. 286).
In my last paper \vc had supposed the larvae in our chest
to have grown to their full size, and to have begun to show a
great restlessness in their habits. The brightness of their
colouring, too, has changed to a dull hue, somewhat resemb-
ling the patch on a " Bon Chretien " pear, where it is becoming
sleepy, the stripes changing from their bright blue colour to a
dull lilac ; and it is at this juncture that some little difficulty
may be experienced with them. Mine had done feeding, and
I felt it was most important for them to bury under the soil
as soon as possible, so that they should not waste their
strength (and therefore their substance) by inanely wandering
round and round their chest in the vain search of some suitable
burying place. But this they persisted in doing. None of
them u)oul(i bury — which I now attribute to the earth having
become too dry, and perhaps tainted more or less with their
droppings, though these I had carefull}' removed day by day :
and they expended their strength \n galloping — for I can use no
other expression — round the sides of the chest, hour after hour,
climbing over each other as they met face to face in the narrow
track, and wasting away almost visibly in size and bulk. They
must thus have walked, literally, miles, reminding one of some
horse or mule with its eyes bandaged, which, while grinding
corn, or pumping up water, vainl}^ imagines that it is going
324 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
straight forward instead of in an endless circle. Thus these
caterpillars formed a regular track in the mould all round the
sides of the chest, like a rat or rabbit-run in the grass, owing
to their unceasing perambulations. At last a new idea struck
me, and I placed each caterpillar by itself in a largish flower-
pot filled with fresh damp earth, leaving only about an inch of
room to spare between the surface of the soil and the heavy
book I placed on the top of the pot. This, I found, answered
at once, as they one and all buried directly. This is note-
worthy, for 1 am certain that the way in which they spend the
last day or two of their sojourn in the larva stage makes a
great difference in the size of the chiysalis, and therefore
eventually of the moth. On each pot I chalked the date of the
disappearance of the caterpillar beneath the soil, and let them
stay untouched for a fortnight, after which time I carefully
removed the earth and put the chrysalis into the incubator; but
in no case should the pot be moved or shaken wherein the
larva has buried, and this I found to my cost this last autumn.
1 had some seven or eight larvae in their several pots as usual,
but growing too confident by previous success, 1 foolishly placed
them on a table, where they had frequently to be moved back-
wards and forwards, and on turning one of them out at the
expiration of the fortniglit I found the upper part of tlie pupa,
which for several days remains very tender, quite flattened
out of shape ; the walls of the slender cell ihc caterpillar
forms under the eartli, having evidently been shaken down on
the newly turned chrysalis, crushing it out of shape.
The same contretemps happened to a very fine larva of
S. Convolvuli, which I found one autumn at Hyeres ; and
which very nearly equalled the Atropos in size, the caterpillar
being of the brown type of colouring. I carefully placed it in
a small box with some earth, under which it immediately
disappeared. But in a week's time we had to move on to
Bordighera, and during the transit the earth fell all round
the larva in the act of changing, and at once killed it. This
set me thinking, and having several larvae of Nerii about to
Some JSotes on ^^ Aclicroniia Airopos".
325
bury, I put one or two layers of flannel into tlieir box,
instead of any earth ; and, to my great pleasure, they at once
disappeared beneatli it, and spun their slight cocoon between
the folds. I expect that most of the large larvae of the
Sphingidae would do the same, though I have onl}^ experi-
mented on Nerii in this way; but it would be infinitely less
trouble, requiring not one half the room ; and, in the case of
travelling with them, would prevent any chance of the walls
:'J! .-.
,^p./r\.»vr^i-
PfP^ OF " ATROPOS ", AND " NICRH '
(Pencil Drawing over Photograph.)
of the earth-cocoon being shaken down upon them, and so
destroying the pupae ; or in any way causing them to be mal-
formed.
Let us suppose, then, that you have now seven or eight
pupae turned out of their pots at the end of the fortnight, and
ready to be forced ; the necessity of which process I realised
many years ago, in the following way : — In the year 1858 I had
ten fine pupae of Alrupos brought to mc, which had been dug
326 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
up in our liomc potato fields at Wokingham, in Berkshire.
They were the first 1 liad ever obtained, and therefore 1 was
especially delighted with them ; some of^ them being unusually
fine ones. I took them with me, in the October month, to
Wells Theological College, where I was then studying; and
laid them on bran, keeping them in my sitting-room. About
the middle of October I noticed that the pupae were getting
much darker in colour (as they always do a day or two before
emergence), while the markings on the wings were showing
through the wing cases, and the skull mark was plainly
discernible under the shell. Every morning I confidently
expected to find some of them emerged ; but I was doomed to
disappointment. They all ten died simply from lack of
moisture to soften the shell of thcii- prison-house, which had
become too hard for them to break through — though the tem-
perature of the room, having a fire daily in it, was warm
enough to hasten the development of the moth. 1 cannot help
gathering from this that, should the larva have been buried in
an unusually sheltered and warm spot, the moth may, in a
state of nature, not unfrequently emerge in the autumn ;
hibernating through the winter months, as so many of our
butterflies do ; although, generally, I conclude this species
would, as the rest of the Sphingidae, emerge in the spring
months according to the temperature of the season. The
exact time of emergence must in a great measure depend on
the spot in which the larva happens to bury. Apparently
these strong caterpillars bury at a considerable depth below
the surface ; as I invariably found the Atropos in my pots
had buried to the extreme bottom of the pot, however big it
was : while a chrysalis that was brought in last autumn from
the neighbourhood, was found by n man who was digging a
post hole, and he said he thought the chrysalis must have
been quite ln'o feet below the surface ! This doubtless is a
provision of nature which enables them to escape the frost of
our climate ; of which, I expect, a very small degree is
found too much for them. In fact, 1 believe a very small
Souic Notes on '' Ac/icroiilia Airopos'\ 327
proportion of tlie pupte ever change into the perfect insect in
our unequable climate, otherwise the moth would be much
more common than it is ; so that the ardent collector need not
in this case look upon himself as a ruthless exterminator of
species, though he gather as many of these pupae as he can ;
as he is, in a great majority of cases, only saving the pupa
from a natural death. Its enemies also are too numerous to
allow it to become generally abundant. There is the frost and
cold of our ungenial climate that must freely decimate them.
There is the Ichiictimon fly which destroys scores by
depositing its &^^ in the body of the larv^a ; and which when
hatched within the body of the caterpillar feeds upon the
juices of both the larva and pupa of the insect, until it
emerges an Iclnicunwn instead of an Atropos ! There is the
bird which makes a luscious meal of many a luckless cater-
pillar, most likely detected, when hurrying along to find some
safe place to bury in. And there is the inability of many and
many a pupa to free itself from its surroundings at the time
of emergence, from the soil having caked too hard around it ;
or from the shell having become too hard, from lack of moisture,
to allow the moth to burst through. From these, and other
causes, one may feel certain that a ver}'' small percentage ever
reach in perfection the final transformation, compared with the
number of eggs that are laid by the moth, or with the larvae
that are hatched out from them.
One may easily see, then, the advisability of forcing this
species of Hawkmoth, which requires a damp, warm, tempera-
ture ; but here, in passing, let me say that the hardier kinds of
Hawkmoth, such as Ligtistri, Popiili, and Occllaliis, would
seem to refuse to lend themselves to the process; while
Atropos and Nerii seem to revel in it. Ligitstri I have never
been able to force ; though I have been successful with
Euphorbia (hatching 12 moths out of 12 chrysalides sent
me from Gibraltar) ; as also with Dahlii, Galii, Vcspertilio,
and Nicaa ; although these latter species having been sent me
from Breeders in Nuremberg, and knowing nothing about the
328 Willshire Notes and Queries.
age, or former treatment of the pupae sent, I cannot draw any
very accurate conclusions about them.
Having, then, now secured your chrysahdes, how are you
to force them ? I was shown the wa}' by my friend, in the
3'ear before the larvae were so plentiful, when he collected the
seventy against my fifty-two ; although, up to that time,
he told me he had not been very successful at it. In
fact, a friend of mine (the Rev. T. A. Marshall, the great
authority on the Braconidct) on my writing to him to tell
him of my success, replied in the following words: — "I
congratulate 3'ou on your success in breeding Atropos, and I
think you have done wonders. My own experience, and that
of my friends generally, has been failure. 1 have ti^icd warmth,
coolness, and keeping them moderately damp, but all to no
purpose." My own experience, however, is quite the reverse,
and I have no hesitation in saying that there is very little
difficulty indeed in forcing them ; and that the process in no
way causes malformation, or deterioration in the moth itself;
and I would engage to hatch any sound chrysalis of Atropos
in four to five weeks from the time of placing it in the incubator,
without much fear of failure. Remembering then my early
failure in 1858, I resolved to try the forcing process my friend
had told me of My incubator (or rather incubators, for I had
so many pupae that one would not hold them all) consisted of
an earthenware crock, some two and a half inches deep, and
about twelve or thirteen inches wide. In this I first laid a thin
layer of gravel to act as drainage ; and on that, some two inches
of moss, well pnssrd down^ so as to afford a soft but firm
foundation for the pupae to rest on ; for if you have tlic moss too
loose underneath them, there is a danger of the moth on emerg-
ence getting entangled, and working downwards instead of
upwards ; in which case the wings would never fully develop,
although the moth in the end might be able to extricate itself
In fact, I lost two fine moths last autumn from this cause. On
this firm substratum of moss then lay your pupae, handling
them as tenderly as you can ; and then cover them over with
Some Notes on ^^ Aclterontia Atropos^\ 329
an inch or more of loose moss, so that they can easily make
their way through it on emergence. Then on the top of the
moss, balance a tripod of fairly large sticks for the moths to
climb up upon directly they change. This is most important;
as the wings of the newly-hatched moth )iinst hang down per-
pendicularly from the body until they are fully developed
(which takes some hour and a half to effect) ere they acquire
strength to fall back in their normal position on the moth's
body, and so cover up the bright stripes upon it, which would
otherwise render the insects far too conspicuous for safety.
Vou next cover up the whole apparatus with a bell glass, some
twelve or fourteen inches high, and just wide enough to fit inside
the rim of the crock, and your incubator is perfected. Before,
however, you put the moss at all into the crock, you should
soak it in boiling water, and then wring it out as dry as possible ;
and when the moss has grown cool enough, which it does
almost immediately, to lay the back of your hand comfortably
upon it, then deposit the pupae on the top of it ; and by the
way in which the chrysalis invariably wriggles itself into a
comfortable position it seems to say as plainly as possible,
" How kind you are ! Now I am very comfortable indeed."
Then cover them over with more hot moss, as already
directed ; place the glass over all, and there is nothing more to
be done The soaking of the moss, however, in hot water
should be renewed about every third day, so as to keep the
temperature within the bell glass of a consistently moist, as
well as warm, heat. In order to keep the incubators of a
uniform warmth, 1 placed them one in each corner of the
dining-room grate, inside the fender ; making it a rule never
to sit down to any meal until I had turned the incubator round ;
thus insuring that each side of the crock should receive an
equal share of warmth; and, as a precaution against over-heat-
ing, I covered the whole apparatus with a thick piece of brown
paper on the fire-side. Having carried out these instructions
duly, patience alone has to be exerted, and the reward will come.
Salisbury. Arthur P. Morres.
(To be continued.)
;^^o Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
A CALENDAR OF FEET OF FINES FOR WILTSHIRE.
" Feet of Fines ", " Fines ", or " Final Concords ", were one
of the most usual methods for assuring the transfer of land and
tenements from one party to another, and they are described
by Blackstone to be: "An amiable composition or agreement
of a suit either actual or fictitious by leave of the King or his
Justices, whereby the lands in question become, or were
acknowledged to be the right of one of the parties to the suit.
They are so called from the words the document usually com-
mences with, * Haec est finalis concordia', and put an end not
only to the suit thus commenced, but also to all other suits
and controversies concerning the same matter."
Fuller particulars as to the wording and particulars of
these documents will be found in the Introduction to the
Dorset Feet of Fincs^ or to Mr. Scargill-Bird's most useful
Guide to the Public Records, and it must suffice to state
here that these valuable series of documents are preserved at
the Public Record Office, London, and extend for an unbroken
period of over 600 years, from the reign of Richard I (a.d. i 196)
to 4 William IV (1834), in which year they were abolished.
The following calendar commences with the Tudor
dynasty, i Henry VII (a.d. 1485), that date being thought
sufficiently remote for the generality of genealogical researches,
and gives first, the persons to whom the property is conveyed;
secondly, after the word and, the persons from whom it is
conveyed; thirdly, the property itself; and, lastly, the con-
sideration paid for the fine, which, however, does not
represent the purchase money.
The numbers correspond with those on the document
itself, and in the case of the bundles for " Divers Counties", in
which properties in more than one county are treated of in
the same document, only those relating to Wiltshire have
been calendared.
E. A. Fry.
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for IViltshin'. ^^ i
Ulnrv \'1I.
A Bundle coulaiiiing 1-24 Ilniry I'll.
1. Anno 2. —Thomas Tropcncll and John Lyngener and
Joan liis wife; messuages in Chyklade and Hyndon and 4 the
manor of Chyklade. ^40.
2. Anno 3. — William Bokatte, clericus, John Dyar,
clericus, and William Cristmasse and Christiana his wife;
messuages in Domerham. £,Ao.
3. Anno 4. — Thomas Horton and John Owen and
Alianora his wife ; messuages in Yfordjuxta Farley Hunger-
ford. ;/^io.
4. Anno 4. — Hugo Martyn and John Haniond and
Ciena his wife; messuages and land in Chippenham. ^20.
5. Anno 4. — Hugo Martyn and Richard Short, son and
heir of William Short and Johanna his wife; messuages and
land in Brokenburgh Lupe and Charleton, near Malmesbury.
6. Anno 5. — Bartholomew Reed, Henry Woodcok, John
Shaa ayid Thomas West la Warr, knight, and Elizabeth his
wife, the manor of Newtontony and lands in Newtontony,
with the advowson of the church. 600 marks.
7. Anno 6. — William Mundy and John Gylbert and
Johanna his wife ; messuages and lands in Oggeford St. James.
100 marks.
8. Anno 6. — Walter Mundy and Johanna his wife,
Edward Mundy, son of the aforesaid Walter and Johanna,
and Edward Thacham, son of Richard Thacham, prior of the
monastery of Blessed Mary, Ederose, in county Wilts ; mes-
suages and lands in Wodeford, Alyngton, Boscombe, Idmyston
and Wynterbourne Shyrburgh. ^60.
9. Anno 8. — Nicholas Bedford and Margaret his wife and
Thomas Huse, gentleman, John Coweley, gentleman, and
Julia his wife; messuages and lands in New Sarum. 100
marks.
10. Anno 8. — John Bonham and Anna his wife and
;^;^2 IViHslure Notes and Queries.
Alice Croke, the wife of Reginald Croke ; manor of Hasel-
bury, and lands in Haselbury. 200 marks.
11. Anno S. Walter Ilungerford, kiiiglit, Walter
Servynlon, ariniger, niid William Smyth and Edith his wife,
and John Floure and Margaret his wife ; the manor of
Haselbury and lands in Haselbury. ;^ioo.
12. Anno 8. — John Bonham and Anna his wife and
Walter Hungerford, knight, and Walter Servington, armiger ;
manor of Haselbury and lands in Haselbury. ^100.
13. Anno 8. — Richard Beauchamp, knight, John Seynt-
lowe, knight, George Chaterton, Thomas Alderley and
Robert Russell and Alice his wife and William Tomkyns and
Margaret his wife ; messuages and lands in Magna Sherston.
14. Anno 8. — John Tompson and Thomas Alderley
and Johanna his wife ; messuages in Magna Sherston. jQa°-
15. Anno 9. — Richard Cufife, Henry Whitokesmede,
John Sylcok, chaplain, and ]o\\\-\ Aston and Johanna his wife;
manor of Yatesbury. 100 marks.
16. Anno 10. — William Beynam, Christopher Beynam,
Alexander Beynam, knight, and Elizabeth his wife ; manor of
Stepull Lauyngton aud Lauynton Garnon and lands in
Esterton and Lauynton.
17. Anno 10. — Anthony Styleman a)id Pliineas Lonelek
and Agnes his wife, and William Lonelek and Johanna his wife;
messuage and land in le Deuyses. ;^4o.
18. Anno 10. — Thomas Coke rt;;*^ Thomas Hall and Alice
his wife; messuages in New Sarum. 100 marks.
19. Anno II. — Henry Sutton, clericus, Richard Elyot,
a;/fl^ Thomas Husee and Elizabeth his wife and John Husee ;
messuages in New Sarum.
20. Anno 1 1. — Thomas Coke and Robert Brandon, knight,
and Elizabeth his wife, formerly wife of John Catesby, knight ;
messuages and land in New Sarum. 100 marks.
21. Anno 12. —John Williams, armiger, Walter Dunston,
clericus, and Vc\.cv Hunsdon, Jolin Morclcygh and Agnes his
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire. 333
wife, John Frankclyn and Johanna his wife, Wilham Russe
and Katherine his wife ; messuage and lands in Wokyngham.
22. Anno 13. — Thomas Coke and John Sturmy and
Isabella his wife; manor of Knott and lands in Ilynsett,
Tymerigge, Rigge, Teterigge and Bedwyn. 200 marks.
2T,. Anno 13. — John Wylcok, clericus, John Paj'ssion,
clericus, Richard Cuft'e a)id William Cobham and Alice his
wife ; messuages and land in Yatesbury aud Compton. jQ2o.
24. Anno 14. — John Cuflie aud Gilbert Horns and
Johanna his wife ; cottages and land in New Sarum. ^20.
25. Anno 14. — John Gilbert a)id Richard Nowers and
Agnes his wife ; messuages and lands in Warmester, Busshop-
pestrete and Smalbroke. ;!^2oo.
26. Anno 14. — Robert Seburn a)id William Wayfere ;
manor of Wynelesley and lands in Magna Sherston, Wyneles-
ley and Sherston Wyke. 100 marks.
27. Anno 15. — John Gilbert a)id Roger Jakes and
Matilda his wife; lands in Warmestre, Busshoppestrete and
Smalbroke. ;^ioo.
28. Anno 16. — Richard Elyot and John Aprice and
Johanna his wife ; messuages and lands in New Sarum.
29. Anno 16. — John Fisher, John Mordaunt, rt;/<y Richard
Godfray and Margaret his wife ; manor of Fyssherton with
the advowson of the church, messuages and lands in Fyssher-
ton Anger, Grimsted and Dene. ;!^4o.
30. Anno 17. — Bartholomew Rede, citizen and alderman
of London, Robert Fenrother, and Roger Neuburgh, knight,
and Elizabeth his wife; manor of Rokeley, messuages and
lands in Rokeley and Ogburne. 300 marks.
31. Anno 17. — Reginald Bray, knight, John Shaa,
knight, Hugo Oldom, clericus, Henry Wodecok, John Rede,
and George Chaterton and Margaret his wife ; manor of Qued-
hampton and lands in Quedhampton and Elyndon. 200 marks.
32. Anno 17.— William Norrys, knight, John Fetiplace
de Charney, Thomas Unton, John Yeate, a)id John Rydley
334 IViltsliirc Notes and Queries.
and Matilda his wife, Hugo Palmer and Edith his wife, one of
the daughters and heirs of William Couentre ; lands in
Wainborowc. loo marks.
T,T,. Anno 17. — William, Bishop of Lincoln, Reginald
Bray, knight, William Ilody, knight, John Shaa, knight, Hugo
Oldom, clericus, Humfrey Conyngesby, Richard Empson,
William Coope, John Cutte, Nicholas Compton and John
Isburyand Elizabeth his wife; manor of Charleton, "als vocat
Hopgrac", messuages and lands in Charleton. 300 marks.
34. Anno 17. — John Gylbert and Anna his wife and ]o\\x\
Dyer and Katherine his wife ; manor of Chittern, messuages
and lands in Chittern. 100 marks.
35. Anno 18. — William, Bishop of Lincoln, Reginald
Bray, knight, William Hody, knight, John Shaa, knight,
Hugo Oldom, clericus, Humfrey Conyngesby, Richard Emson,
John Cutte, William Coope, Nicholas Compton and Henry
Reynolds and Agnes his wife; manor of Ilenton Pyper,
cottages and lands in Russhecombe, Twyford, right of
fishing in Stanlake. ;^ioo.
36. Anno 18. — Thomas Long, knight, and John Hamont
and Ellen his wife ; messuage and lands in Rodmis, Donn,
Preston, Chypnam, Goteacre, and Hilineston. 40 marks.
37. Anno 18. — Richard Lymber and William Page and
Christina his wife; messuages and lands in Deuise and South-
brome, near Denises. 100 marks.
38. Anno 18. — Reginald Bray, knight, John Shaa, knight,
Hugo Oldom, clericus, Henry Woodcok, John Rede and
James Lanther and Johanna his wife ; manor of Quedhampton,
and lands in Quedhampton and Elyndon. ^100.
39. Anno 18. — John Burghchier de Fitzwaren, knight,
Thomas Frowyk, Justice of King's Bench, Richard Coffyn,
John Newport and Edward Benstede and Jocosa his wife ; a
rental of ^20 in Winterslowe. 40 marks.
40. Anno 18. — Richard Spencer, clericus, John Cuffc, and
William Webbe and Johanna his wife ; messuages and lands
in New Sarum.
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for IViltsliire. 335
41. Anno 19. — Richard Elyot, scrjeant at law, John
Mompesson, John Marvyn, Robert Bowcryng and Henry
Daccombe and Christiana his wife ; messuages and lands in
Warmester, Tederyngton, and Chytteryn. ^40.
42. Anno 20. — Christopher Baynbrygge, clericus, John
Danvers, knight, ani Robert Hogges and Katherine his wife,
and Wilham Kyrkeby and Anna his wife; lands in Tokenham,
and West Tokenham. 20 marks.
43. Anno 2o.^John Mervyn and Robert Hoges and
Katnerine his wife ; messuages and land in Holmerston.
44. Anno 20. — John Mompesson, Henry Mompesson,
Henry Bodenham, Richard Mompesson, Robert Hiscot, John
Coull, and William Kyrkeby and Anna his wife; land in
Holmerston. ^40.
45. Anno 20. — John G3'ldon and Alice his wife and Anna.
Kyrkeby, widow, and Robert Hogges and Katherine his wife ;
messuages and lands in Gotacre, Wydecombe, and Helmarton.
20 marks.
46. Anno 20. — William Vnche and John Huse and
Elizabeth his wife; messuages and lands in New Sarum. 40
marks.
47. Anno 21. — William El3'ot, clericus, Thomas Coke,
Thomas Somers aiid Edward Darell, knight, and Mary his
wife ; a rental of 100 shillings in Ebbcsborn Wake. 100
marks.
48. Anno 22. — William Essex, armiger, and Elizabeth his
wife, John Langford, knight, John Lyle, knight, John Isbury,
armiger, Edmund Tame, armiger, Oliver Hyde, armiger,
Thomas Heydok, armiger, and Giles Daubeney de Daubeney,
knight, and Elizabeth his wife ; manor of Eston-Peres, mes-
suages and land in Eston and Yatton Kaynell. ^200.
49. Anno 22. — Thomas Bussh and John Michell de
Galton, gentilman, son and heir of John Michell ; messuages
and lands in Okbourn St. George. 20 marks.
50. Anno 22. — William Lymbery and William Saunders
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v).>
6 Wiltshire Notes and Oiicries.
and Christina his wife; messuage and garden in Ic Deuyses.
20 marks.
51. Anno 22. — William Ledall and Christina his wife and
Anthony Styleman ; messuage and land in Galston.
52. Anno 24. — Guido Palmer, serjeant at law, Andrew
Wyndesore, arniiger, Brian Palmer, armiger, John Fitzjames,
William Mordaunt, Christopher Seyngerman, John Joynom,
Brian Dufteld, clericus, Thomas Dufifeld, clericus, John
Herlarton, George Stalby, Richard Bunney a)id George, Earl
of Shropshire, and Anna his wife ; manor of Broughton other-
wise called Broughton Gifford ; messuages and lands in
Broughton. ^40.
53. Anno 24. — Thomas Ilorton and John Prior and
Edith his wife, Thomas Squyer and Letitia his wife ; messuage
and lands in Hollauyngton. ;^2o.
54. Anno 24. — Edmund Bury, Robert Egerley, gentleman,
and William Yong, and Alice his wife, daughter and heir of
William Brill and Marjory his wife; messuages and lands in
Lee, Cleverdon, Charleton, Crysten, Malford Magna, Chcle-
worth, Hyworth, and Malmesbury.
55. Anno 24. — John Yate, Thomas Fetiplace, knight,
Richard Fetiplace, and John Fetiplace, armigers, and William
Grenefold and Christiana his wife ; messuages and lands in
Wanborough. 100 marks.
Divers Counties.
A Bundle containing i-io Henry VII.
13. Anno 5. — Thomas Lovell, knight, a}id Edward
Dudley, knight, and Cecily his wife; manor of Radlyngys,
with land in Radlyngys, co. Wiltes. 600 marks.
22. Anno 4. — Robert Shirburn, Clement Harding and
John Verney, knight, and Margaret his wife; land in Wan-
borowe. ^30.
30. Anno 7. — John Arundell, clericus, Thomas Rebeett,
Serjeant at law, John Broun, Robert Nevyli, John Capell,
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire. 337
Thomas Boucher and Edward Burgli, knight, and Anna his
wife, and William Capell, knight ; manor of Langley-Borell, in
CO. Wiltes.
39. Anno 9. — William, Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry,
Hugo Oldham, clericus, Richard Emson, Humfry Con3'ngsby,
William Coope, Nicholas Compton and Reginald Bray, knight,
and Kathcrine his wife, William Hody, knight, and Elenor his
wife ; manor of Staunden, and messuages and land in Staunden
Huse. 600 marks.
51. Anno 3. — King Henry VII and Anna, Countess of
Warwick ; manors of Sherston, Brodton, Chircell, and Henton,
custody of the forest of Wodebere, with the advowson of the
church of Wodebergh, and half a knight's fee in Wodebergh.
A Bundle conlaining 11-17 Henry VII.
4. Anno II. — William Capell, knight, a)id Walter Elmes
and Anna his wife ; two parts of the manor of Beamys and land
in Shenyngfeld, Shalowefeld, Farley, Dydynham, Trunkwell,
Foxhall, and Sheperygge. ^^300.
12. Anno 12. — John Walsh, armiger, William Freine,
Thomas Tyler and Richard Forster, armiger ; half the
manor of Stokks, near Calne, and the half of two messuages
and land in Stokks, Stodeley, Stokley, Comerford, and Black-
lands, CO. Wiltes. ^50.
17. Anno 12. — John Long and Thomas Long, armiger;
land in Shrewston, Netton, Madyngton and Orston George.
29. Anno 15. — William, Bishop of Lincoln, Reginald
Bray, knight, William Hody, knight, John Shaa, knight, Hugo
Oldam, clericus, Humfry Conyngsbj', serjeant at law, Richard
Emson, William Cope, Nicholas Compton and Anna Litell,
widow, formerly wife of John Litell, manor of Henton Pepard,
and lands in Rushcombe, Twyford, with fishing in Stanlak.
^100.
36. Anno 15. — Margaret Stafford, Countess of Wilts,
Johanna Lisle, \'iscountess Lisle, John Grey, Viscount Lisle,
Thomas Grey, armiger, John Brcwcn, clericus, Thomas
A A 2
jjS IViltsliire Nolcs an(/ Queries.
Frowyk, Serjeant at law, Edward Ilungcrford, armigcr, Thomas
Marowc, and John Gardiner c?//,'/ Thomas Cheyne, kniglit, and
Ehzabcth his wife ; manor of Wcstbury and lands in Westbury.
;^I,000.
52. Anno 17. — Richard, Bishop of Durham, Oliver,
Bishop of Bath and Wells, John, Bishop of Coventry and
Litchfield, John, Earl of Oxford, Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney,
knight, Reginald Bray, knight, Thomas Lowell, knight,
Christopher Vrsewyk, clericus, Hugo Oldom, clericus, Richard
Emson mid Hugo Beaumount, armiger, and Elizabeth his wife ;
manors of Calston and Asserton, and lands in Calston and
Asserton, advowson of the Free Chapel of Asserton.
^1,000.
53. Anno 17.— Richard, Ijishop of Durham, Oliver,
Bishop of Bath and Wells, John, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, John, Earl of Oxford, Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney,
knight, Reginald Bray, knight, Thomas Lovell, knight,
Christopher Vrsewyk, clericus, Hugo Oldom, clericus, Richard
Emson and John Bassett, armiger, and Elizabeth his wife ;
manors of Calston and Asserton, messuages and lands in
Calston and Asserton, advowson of the Free Chapel of
Asserton. ^1,000.
54. Anno 17. — Richard, Bishop of Durham, Oliver,
Bishop of Bath and Wells, John, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, John, Earl of Oxford, Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney,
knight, Reginald Bray, knight, Thomas Lovell, knight,
Christopher Vrsewyk, clericus, Hugo Oldom, clericus, Richard
Emson and ]ohn Beaumonte, clericus; manors of Calston and
Asserton, advowson of free chapel of Asserton. ^1,000.
A Bundle containing 18-24 Henry VII .
2. Anno 18. "Thomas Babyngton, Robert Brudenell,
Thomas Jakes, Robert Nevyll and ]o\\x\ Ormonde and Johanna
his wife ; manor of Sealesaylesbury and lands in Sealesaylcs-
bury, in co. Wiltes.
3. Anno 18. — Richard, Bishop of Winchester, formerly
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for IVillsliirc. 339
Bishop of Durham, Ohvcr, Bishop of Batli and Wells, John,
Bishop of Exeter, formerly Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,
John, Earl of Oxford, Giles Daubeney, of Daubeney, knight,
Reginald Bray, knight, Thomas Lovell, kniglit, Christopher
Vrsevvyk, clericus, Hugo Oldom, clericus, Richard Emson and
John Chichester; manors of Calston and Asserton, lands in
Calston and Asserton, and advowson of the free chapel of
Asserton. ^^ 1,000.
6. Anno 19.— Giles Daubney, of Daubney, knight, John
Bourghcliier de Eitz Waren, knight, Hugo Luterell, knight,
Edmund Carne, knight, Nicholas Wadham, armigcr, a)id
George Nevyle, of Burgavenny, knight, and Johanna his
wife; manor of Winterslowe, messuages and lands in Wintcr-
slowe. ;^i,ooo.
16. Anno 20. — Richard, Bishop of Winchester, John, Earl
of Oxford, Giles Daubney of Daubney, knight, Hugo Oldom,
clericus, Thomas Lovell, knight, Christopher Vrsewyk, clericus,
Richard Emson, knight, and John Chechestcr, armigcr, and
Margaret his wife ; manors of Calston and Asserton, messuages
and land in Calston and Asserton, and advowson of the free
chapel of Asserton.
19. Anno 21. — Richard Gerard, junior, a)id Richard
Gerard, senior, and Agnes his wife ; lands in Shenyngfelde and
Swaloughfeld.
32. Anno 21.— John Holden, Edmund Burton, John
Barfote, clericus, and Henry Milborne, armiger, and Margaret
his wife; third part of the manor of Beamys and a third part of
the lands in Shenyngfeld, Swalowefeld, Farle}', Bydenham,
Trunkwell, Foxhill, and Sheprigge. 200 marks.
T,T,. Anno 21. — Giles Daubeney of Daubeney, knight,
John Zouche of Zouch, knight, John Boughchier de Fitz
Waren, knight, William Stourton of Stourton, knight, Thomas
Frowyk, knight, John Zouche, Walter Hungerford, knight,
John Arundell, knight, Robert Brudenell, Giles Capell, John
Rogers, and John Poulet, knight, and Alice his wife ; manors
of Fyssherton, Dalamere, Otcombe, and Burton, an mes-
340 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
suages and lands in Fyssherton, Dalamcrc, Otcombc and
Burton, co. Wiltcs. ^loo.
37. Anno 22. — Giles Daubcney dc Daubcncy, Icnighl, jolni
Bourghchier dc Fitz Warcn, knight, aiid Thomas Brandon,
knight, and Elizabeth his wife, formerly wife of Fulcome
Fitzwaren and William Sandys ; manor of Netherhaven, and
lands in Ilakilston, co. Wiltes.
38. Anno 22. — Henry Colson and Elizabeth his wife, and
Thomas Jower and Matilda his wife; messuages and land in
Swalofcld. 40 marks.
[No More in Henry VII.]
(To he continued.)
MARRIAGE OF A NEW ENGLANDER IN
WILTS, 1722.
The following is an extract from the Parish Register of
Potterne, Wilts :—
" Mr. Wm. Wright, of Nansewood, in Virginia, and Mrs.
Mary Burges were married June 21, 1722, by Licence.
R. G. Bartlett.
WILTSHIRE BRIEFS.
DURRINGTON.
Collected for Brode Chake October the tenth in Durington
five shillings, 1681.
April 9th, 1686. Collected for Ila.xtone £,\ 14s. d,d. in
Durington and Milstone.
March 17, 1693. Collected in Durington the sum of Seven-
Wiltshire Briefs. 341
tccn pounds and one shilling sixpence for Nethcravon and
Fiddleton.
£ s. d.
1710 March 1 ith. Coll. for Twi ford, Wilts (s/c) ..021
i7i4Aug. 4. Collected for Little Amesbury fire .. 282
1715 July 24. Coll. for Dinton and Slimbridge ..032
1724 May 20th. Collected for Lavington fire . . 790
C. S. Ruddle.
WINTERBOURNE STOKE.
Collected for a Fire at Shrewton, vv'^" happend Apl. 8, 1731,
and in w°'' 10 houses were burnt. Loss 450' etc. [27
subscribers.]
Paid y" sum of 2 . 2 . o to Mr. Hai-vvard, Vicar of Shrewton,
for ye use of y" suffrers.
R. G. Bartlett.
LONG BURTON, Co. DORSET.
1720, May 15. Kingswood Church, ^1,800 and upwards,
collected 000.
1 72 1, July 16. South Damerham, loss by fire, ^1,365,
collected 000.
1724, Nov. 29. Cricklade, loss by fire, ;^),624, collected
000.
1724, Dec. 6. (Camps Hall, co. Cambs.,) and Downton,
loss by fire, ^1,067, collected 000.
1725, May 30. Market Lavington, loss by fire, ;^4,735,
collected 000.
1753. June 3. Amesbury, loss by fire, ;!{^3,7oo, collected
000.
i755»June29. Hindon, loss by fire, ^11,890, collected
000.
1758, Oct. 15. Brinkworth (and Canford Magna, co.
Dorset), loss by fire, £\^\^i, collected 000.
1760, June 29. Kingswood fire, ^1,200, to be collected
342 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
from house to house, throughout the counties of Wilts,
Gloucester, and Somerset, and the City of Bristol.
1 76 1, May. Albourne fire, ^10,600. To be collected
from house to house.
1764, April 25. Collingborne (and Abbotsbury, co.
Dorset), fires, ^1,446. Collected from house 10 house, "jd.
1767, Lammas. Heytisbury fire, ^^^^diG. Collected 1/4^.
1767, Lammas. Hailstorm and fires, in Co. Wilts (and
York), ^1,048, collected 000.
1769. Brigmiston fire, ^1,584, collected Zd.
1770. Imbcr (? CO. Wilts), (and Wakefield, co. Ebor.),
fires, ^906.
1783, March 25. Malmcsbury Church, ^2,912, collected
000.
C. H. Mayo.
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
(Cuntiviucd from p. 294. j
111.
MARRIAGE RECORDS.
G.
1660-10-20.- -Wm. Grimes to Ann House.
1663-12-28.— Ann Greene, of Corsham ph., dau. of Margarett
Greene, to William B.m.dwin, of Corsham, at
Pickwick.
1664-3-3. — Edward Gye, of Market Lavington, to Agnis
Blanford, of Martin.
1666-8-21. — Jane Gmns, jr., dau. of Jane Gibbs, of Corsham,
to Thomas Arciiard, of Corsham, at T.
Davis's house, Pickwick.
166S-2-19. — Joseph Glover, of Ilullavington, to Martha
Hathway, of Stanton.
Olio ker ism in U iltshirc. 343
1670-5-17. — John GiNGELL, of Kinton St. Michael, to Jcane
Barrett, of Kinton.
1670-12-5. — Sarah Gale, of Tithcrton Kaloways, to John
Harris, of Tithcrton.
1674-11-24. — Adam Gouldney, of Chippenham, son of Adam
Gouldney, of Chippenham, to Mary Knight,
of Broomham ph.
1675-12-14. — Ann Gardner to Thomas Sanders.
1676-2-20. — Ehzabeth Gale (Geale), of Sutton, to George
Hn.LER, of Avon.
1677-1-25. — Sarah Gowen, of Didmarton, to Adam Bullock,
of Hullavington.
1677-1 2-10.— Ann GuDRiGE to Richard Morse.
1682-2-1S. — Andrew Gardner, of Charlcott, Brimhill ph.,
fuller, to Joane Cassell (alias Cooke), of
Tithcrton, at Charlcott.
1688-5-3. — John Greenhill to Martha Sumner, at Broomham.
1689-1-21. — Elizabeth Gingell, dau. of Daniel Gingell, of
Hartham, Corsham ph., to Andrew Daniel, at
Slaughterford.
1691-1-19. — Jean Gixgle, spinster, dau. of Daniel Ginglc, of
liartham, Corsham ph., to Jonathan Monijoy,
of Bridstone, at Slaughterford.
1 697-5- 1 4. — Wm. GooDSHEEP, of Langlc}' Burrel ph., mason,
to Mar}^ Turtle, of Chippenham, at Chippen-
ham.
1697-7-6. ^George Grant, of Bradford, co. of Wilts, scribler,
son of George Grant, of Bradford, to Ann
Sparrow, at Chippenham.
1698-5-21. — Jane Gouldney, spinster, dau. of Adam and Mary
Gouldney, late of Chippenham, to Michael
Russell, of London, at Chippenham.
1698-10-22. — Thomas Gingell, of Ridg Side, Corsham ph.,
yeoman, son of Daniel Gingell, of Ridg Side,
Corsham ph., to Elizabeth Bishop, of West-
bury, at Warminster.
H.
165S-8-10. — Abigail Huckings [Huggins], of Grittleton, to
Charles Barrett, of Kinton St. Mickaell.
344 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
1658-10-12. — Jane HiBBARD, dau. of Win. Ilibbard, of Chip-
penham, to John RicKETTs, of Corsham, at
Corsham.
1659-9-22. — Wm. HrrciicocKK, of Marlbro, to Bridgett Mitch-
cock, of Prcshut.
1660-10-20. — Anne House to Wilham Grimes.
1662-3-4. — Arthur IIknly to Ahse Player.
1666-4-7. — John Harris, of Charlcott, to Jane (Jeane) Rich-
mond, of Xtian Malford.
1668-2-19. — Martha Hathaway, of Stanton, to Joseph Glover,
of Hullavington.
1669-7-19. — Martha Hl'mfry, of Box ph., to James Dowse,
of Slaughterford.
1670-12-5. — John Harris, of Titherton Kalloways, to Sarah
Gale, of Titherton.
1672-10-8. — John Harding, of Marlboro, servant to Wm.
Hitchcock, to Amy Kinsman, of Marl-
borough.
1 6 73- 1 -6. — Grace Hort, of Stanton Quinton, to William
Colman, of Hullavington.
1675-3-9. — Henry Hunt, of Chittway, to Mary Wilkins, of
Chittway.
1675-9-17. — Hester Hand, of Cullcrn ph., to Edward Wallis,
of Chippenham [married], in Cullcrne ph.
1676-2-20. — George Hilliek, of Avon, to Elizabeth Gale
[Geale], of Sutton.
1677-2-19. — Margrett Hale, dau. of David Hale, of Charlcot,
to Wm. Wigan, of London, at Charlcott.
1677-5-12. — Elizabeth Hoon, dau. of Thomas Hood, of Hed-
dington, to John Clare, of Frame Zellwood, at
Charlcott.
1678-1-24. — Thomas Hicks, of Cullcrne ph., yeoman, to Ann
Si'MsiON, of Cullcrne ph., [married] in Slaugh-
terford ph.
1678-1-31. — Joane Harris, dau. of Richard Harris, of
Titherton Freyleways [? Kalloways], to Thomas
ScATEs, of Foxham, at Charlcott.
1678-3-8. — Edith Hale, of Charlcott, dau. of David Hale, to
Edward Jefferies, of Brimhill, at Charlcott.
1679-4-23. — George Hillier, of Avon, yeoman, to Edith Rily,
of Avon, at Charlcott.
Onakcrism in IViltshire. 345
i67*-9-5. — Abigail Hayward, of Corsham ph., to Richard
Stokes, of Corsham ph.
167*-*-*. — Mary Hooper to Richard Jayner.
16S0-1-15. — Ann Harris, of Titherton Callaways, dau. of
Thomas Harris, of Floxham, to David Jefferies,
of Floxham, at Charlcott.
1680-5-14. — Bridgett Hitchcock, dau. of Wm. Hitchcock, of
Marlboro, to Wm. Loveday, of Painswick.
1688-2-1. — Mary Hort, of Stanton Quinton, spinster, to
Richard Smith, of Marden.
i68*-6-2i. — Joane Harris, of Foxham, Brimhill ph., spinster,
dau. of Thos. Harris, of Foxham, Brimhill ph.,
to John Cale, of Cain, at Charlcott.
1691-5-13.— -Mary Hayward, of Chippenham, dau. of Robt.
Hayward, of Market Lavington, to Thomas
Beaven, of Melksham, at Chippenham.
1694-3-2. — Mary Hanxock, of Melksham, widdow. dau. of
Matthew Radborn, of Wick, Alston ph., co. of
Gloucester, to Walter Joanes, of Melksham,
at Shaw Hill, Melksham ph.
1694-5-12. — John Ha\'\vorth, of Bradford, co. of Wilts, broad
weaver, son of Jno. Hayworth, of Bradford, to
Elizabeth Beverstoke, of Bideston, at Slater-
ford.
1695-8-23. — Elizabeth Hulit, dau. of Wm. Hulit, of or near
Sarum, to Peter Berry, of Wellington, at
Sarum.
1696-10-1. — Peter Hawksworth, of city of Bristol, black-
smith, son of Peter Hawksworth, of Melksham
ph., to Alice Poulsum, at Shaw Hill, Melk-
sham ph.
1696-12-26. — Mary Hellyard, of New Sarum, dau. of
Richard Hellyard, of Moorbury, to Giles
Itchell, of Brislington, co. of Somerset, at
Sarum.
Bcth-seplicr, Melksham.
{To be continued.)
Norman Penney.
34^ IVilishire Notes and Queries.
DOVECOTS.
My attention was lately directed by a farmer in the
county to an old dovecot on his premises, and he informed nic
that it was the general impression that there could only be
one dovecot in any parish. As this was new to me, I looked
to see the origin of it, and I find that formerly no dovecot
could be erected without the sanction of the lord of the manor.
It was afterwards held that any freeholder might build one
on his own land, but that if a tenant put one up without the
lord's consent, an action might be brought against him,
although he was not punishable at the Court Leet for com-
mitting a common nuisance.
This is evidently the origin of the information given me,
and, as very many years must have elapsed since the restric-
tion could have been put in force, the tradition must have
passed orally through many generations.
Pewsey. S. B. D.
REMARKABLE CASE OF LONGEVITY.
The following entry occurs in the Parish Register of
Aldbourne : —
" William Wild was born on Easter Eve, being in the
year 1590; died the 29th of June, 1707, in the hundred and
seventeenth year of his age, and was buried July the 1st,
1707." E. K.
Sa/isbury Flam. 347
cOuriire^.
Salisbury Plain. — I came across the following passage
in a book published 1777: — "The Plain is exceeding fine
pasture land, where it is supposed that more than 5,000,000
(five million) of sheep are constantly feeding." Is this a mis-
print, or was sheep-farming more profitable in those days ?
J. C. P.
•* Mungwell, Wilts "—Wroughton.— Under this heading
(vol. i, 526) it mentions: — " E/ingfon, Wilts, 1750 — E/ing/on
is another name for !Vroug/ifon." I have a tobacco box
engraved, '* Ro/oi, 17 16"; a legal document written, ^^ Ronton,
1728," and another ditto, " Wroughton, 1739." I have heard
it said that the latter was formerly called Ellingdon. From
the above it plainly shows that IVroiiglitnn was named such
before 1750! Can any one show ivlie)i it was so named or
why the change? Had the Wroughton family anything to
do in the matter ?
J. C. P.
Mottoes on "Wiltshire Sun Dials. — North Bradley
Church — over south porch : —
"Tempus fugit. Rawlings, Box, fecit 1777."
Westbury Church — over south porch : —
" 1821. Like to the Hour of the Day
Our time and life soon pass away."
Will any of your readers kindly furnish additional
examples ?
E. K.
348 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
The Ancient Boroughs of Wiltshire. I find in the late
James WaylcMi's I lisloyy of Marlhoroiii^li, the following para-
graph : —
" More than fifty boroughs might be mentioned, which,
either from poverty, rendering them unwilling to pay their
representatives, or from diminished numbers, or from some
other cause, renounced their independency, and were not
again restored. The boroughs in Wiltshire which followed
this ordinary law were Mere, Tilshead, Sutton (Mandeville ?),
Bradford, Highworth, and Warminster."
1 have been trying to check this statement, but can find no
evidence of Tilshead or Sutton having returned members to
Parliament. Perhaps some one may be able to inform me in
what reign, and (if possible) in what year these two places
were represented in the national council.
Cecil Simpson.
Local Almanacks and Directories. — Can any one suppl}^
me with a list of all the local Almanacks and Directories at
present published in Wiltshire ? 1 should also be glad of any
information as to past periodicals of this kind. 1 have one in
my possession which is entitled as follows : —
" The Complete Calendar or Town and Countryman's
Almanack, for the year 1776. By Evan Thomas, Astronomer
in Devizes (Successor to the late celebrated Dr. Henry
Season), and Member of the Hon. Society of Ancient Britons :
Second Edition : Devizes : Printed and Sold by T. Burrough :
Sold also by most Country Booksellers : (Price Nine-Pence,
Stitched)." On the cover is written " Philip Hayward,
Chirton." Wliether the entertaining pieces which make up
the bulk of the Almanack can be taken as an indication of the
morals of that time is perhaps doubtful, hut many of them are
of the kind which booksellers term curious.
I would suggest that the publishers of such local
Kathcrinv Cakes. 349
Almanacks as are now in issue should send copies to the
Editor, and that some general summar}' of their contents
should from time to time appear in IViltshirc Notes and
Oiuries.
G. Wright.
lAfpIlfSl.
Katherine Cakes (vol. ii, 296). — Whether made in other
parts of Wiltshire than Seend or not, Katherine cakes were
made further west. They were, and still are, I believe, one of
the dainties of the Fair of St. Katherine held at Frome Selwood,
Somerset, on the 25th November. She was one of the patron
saints of the town, as she may have been of the neighbourhood
of Seend, which might account for the eating of cakes especially
in her honour there.
E. M. Thompson.
"Mansfield" (vol. ii, 172, n. 3, and 245).— I have con-
sulted Mr. C. T. Spence, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the
question, and he kindly informs me that he "has examined
" the MS. journal of George Fox, and finds that the name
" Mansfield, which twice occurs in the first edition in connex-
" ion with the name of John Fox, has been added by the
" editor from some other source ; there is no place-name in the
"MS."
The name Mansfield occurs also in the editions of Fox's
Journal published in 1765 and 1827, also in the 6th edition
1836, and the 8th edition 1891. In the last edition, the editor
inserts " Manningford ?" in brackets after the word " Mans-
350 ,
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
field " -but on what autliority is not evident. Will any
printed reference to Joliii Fox, the Presbyterian, whicli may
be in the possession of any reader assist ?
Norman Penney.
Thomas Dugdale, "antiquarian" (vol. i, 176). — This
was only the pen-nauic of one William Burnett, who edited
many editions of England and Wales and very careful and
useful volumes they were, and are even now. One great
branch of the Dugdales is at Merivale (and Atherstone) and
old Sir William Dugdale's home, Blyth Hall, is also near here.
There is one of the Lancashire Dugdales now at Wroxhall
Abbey, near Knowle, Warwickshire.
Sam. Timmins, F.S.A.
Bourchier {\o\. ii, 238). — Thomas Grubbe, of Potterne,
Esq., aged 4 years at the Herald's Visitation of Wilts, 1623,
afterwards married Thomazine, daughter of Walter Bouchier,
Esq., of Barnesley, co. Gloucester, and Walter Grubbe, Esq.,
of Potterne, M.P. for Devizes, born 1655, died 1715, was their
eldest son and heir.
WiLTONIENSIS.
Clatford Park (vol. ii, 39).— It may interest Mr. Dyke
to know that this place is referred to as " the ground called
Clatford Park " in the will of Sir Thomas Wroughton, of
Broadhinton, dated 28 May, 1597, and proved 24 May, 1598
[P.C.C. 36 Lewyn]. Cannot some one point out the exact
locality ?
Verax.
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N.
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2:(Llilt£il)irc i^totrs auli (ducries
DECEMBER, 1897.
ESTCOURT OF SWINLEY.
IbfflDl/ ^^ ^^^^ Canon Jackson (name beloved and revered
among Wiltshire antiquaries) says, in his History
of Kington St. Michael, that : —
" Swinley (Swine-lea) is a farm on the \.E. side of the
parish, divided from Stanton St. Ouintin by a grassy
hollow called Stanton Dene along which runs the boundary
brook. It was held under Glastonbury by the Fitzurse family. A
William Westbur>' (Hen. VI) had land here, as also at a neighbouring
farm called Whitman's (now Whitelands). Some Estcourts 'of Swinley '
were buried in Kington Church, 1706. The property was purchased
by the late Mr. Xeeld of Grittleton."
Mr. Jackson also gives the following inscriptions ^ (in
which the date 1706 does not occur) which previous to the
restoration of Kington church in 1857 were in the south aisle.
" Mary, wife of William Alexander, of Great Somerford, 1735,
aet 56." "Anne, wife ofMay Pinchin, gent., of Langley Burrell,
Feb. 1 721. She was one of the daughters of Richard Estcourt,
' According to the Printed Monumental Inscriptions of Wiltahire (1821),
these occur on three separate stones ; Mary died March 22, and Anne
Feb. 14, aged 43 ; no arms are mentioned. — [Ed.]
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352 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
gent., of Swinley, in this parish" (the rest hidden by a pew).
Arms of Estcourt. "George Eastcourt of Swinley, 17 12, aged
29 (?) " As far as one can judge, the remains of these stones
may still be seen as part of the pavement in the church
porch.
We are now able, with the aid of some old family docu-
ments, to trace the modest history of this small estate a little
further, adding a few particulars concerning the Estcourts, who,
for a time, owned Swinley, and who were a branch of the
ancient and influential family of Estcourt of Newnton and
Shipton Moyne. A certain amount of interest is also attached
to the subject from the fact that we are upon Aubrey's favourite
ground, Swinley being not more than two miles from Easton
Percy, and the names of many of the people mentioned by
Aubrey in a neighbourh' way continually cropping up in the
Swinley documents.
The earliest of these under notice (with a slight exception
mentioned later) is a lease dated the last day of July, nth
Elizabeth :—
" Betwene William Lcversagc of Vallys, Frome Scllwoodp, Somset,
esq., and Grace his wife of Thone -pto, and Richard Browne of Saint
Michelle Kington, Wilts, yeomen, Anne Ealie, daughter of John Ealie,
late of Foxhame, Wilts, deceased, and Joane Browne, daughter of said
Richard Brown of thother pte. Wittnesseth, that said William and
Grace in consideration of ^18 paid to them by said Richard, Anne, and
joane, have grauntcd all that their close of pasture in Kington St.
Michaell, known by the name of the .Swyndleaze or .Swyndicy, now or
late in tenure of said Richard Brown or his assigns, together with a parcel
of medowe in the said towne called by the name of Moreshawemede lying
in a place there called the North felde, about 8 acres ; and 36 acres of
arable in the same feld, and 7 acres in the Westfelde, and 49 acres in the
Eastfelde, now or late in tenure of said Richard Browne or of Richard
lirowne, deceased, father of said Richard Browne. All said premises to
Richard Browne, Anne Ealie, and Joane Browne for their lives naturall in
rotation. Yeldinge and payinge to said William and Grace Leversage
2ay. yearly at usual feasts, and also doinge suite of court twyse by the
yere upon reasonable and full somons to the court of the manor of Wm.
and Grace Leversage, holdcn at their manor of Rudlowe, Wilts. Richard,
Anne and Joane to keep premises in needful repair, taking sufficient
hedgbote and fewell for the same. And furdcr, knowe ye that said
Wm. and Grace by these presents have appointed their trusty and well
Esicourt of Szviuhy. 353
beloved in Christ, William Gale of Allington and John light ' of eston
perce, yeomen, to be their true and lawfuU attorneys to take possession,
etc., etc.
(Seals gone). liy mo Wylkym Leversagge."
Tlie deed is endorsed : " Possession and seasin taken and
delivered according to the forme and eftecte of this indenture
the 27th day of January in tlie year within writen at one
pasture ground called Svvynly in the name of the whole in this
lese specyfyed ther be3'ing present Necholes, rober, and John
Kyngton and others."
This lease appears to have held good for fourteen 3'-ears
until William Leversage's^ death in 1582, when his widow Grace
found it necessary to assert herself in the following letter of
attorney, dated 20th June, 25th Elizabeth.^
" Leversage to Cheltnam.
" To all Christen people, etc. Grace Leversage, widowe, late wife
unto Willm. Leversage of Vallis, Som'set, esq., deceased, and Edmund
Leversage, sonne and heire of said Wm., senden greatinge in or lorde
god everlastinge. Whereas said William Leversage and Grace his wife
by their indenture of lease the last day of July, nth Elizabeth, the
queue's ma"" that nowe is, did demise to Richard Browne, Anne Elye,
and Joane Browne certeyne lands in St. Michells Kington, for terms of
their naturall lives, and forasmych as said Grace was then covert baren
to said Wm. her husband, and had an estate in the same lands by waye
of joynture for terme of her life, and was not bounde by said lease, but
at her pleasure for any longer tyme than duringe her coverture and for-
asmych as said lands being then entayled William was not then able
in respect of said joynture to make any lease that might binde his heir,
the rather also that the same lease was by waye of remainder, etc. To
thentent therefore to avoyde the same lease, and utterly to extinguish
and make frustrate the estate, seisin and possession therebye demysed,
Knowe ye that said Grace and Edmund Leversage have appointed their
trusty and well-beloved in Christ, John Cheltnam, yeoman, to be their
true and lawful! attorney into all and singular said lands to enter and
from thens utterly to expel, amove and putt oute all those to whom said
' Married Eleanor Power of Stanton (Aubrey's pedigree of Lyte, of
Easton PercT).
- His will, proved 26th June, 1582 (27 Tirwhite) by Edmund Leversage,
son and exor., contains no mention of Swinley.
' " Moreshall and Swinley in parish of Kington St. Michael, then be-
longing to Edmund Leversage and Grace his mother were held under Seagry
manor in 25th Elizabeth. (Hungerford Cartu.)" Aubrey and Jackson, p.
282, note.
B B 2
354 JViltshirc Notes and Queries.
lease was made and full possession to take to the use and behoofe of
said Grace and Edmund Leversage, accordinge to tlieir lawfull titles.
" P. me Edmimd leversagge, by me Grace Leversagge, in presence
of Roger Leversagge.
" Mem. — That the within named John Cheltnam dj'dde make an outre
into the lese at Swynley accordinge unto the tennor within specified the
XXIII daye of Julye, 1583, in the presence of Richard Tanner, William
Kington and Nycholas farrer."
On the 24th of July, 25th Elizth., the day after the Brownes
were evicted, Grace and Edmund Leversage demised the land
as described before, namel}', the Swines Leaze or Swinley,
Moreshawe Mead, the various plots in the North, West and East
fields, together with the addition of "one Grove or Coppice
called Coneygrove about 12 acres," to William Coller, Anne
his wiefe, and Marierie his daughter, for their natural lives.
Some years before this, on the 14th of January, 9th Elizth.,
William and Grace Leversage, for considerations, "did demise,
graunt, and to farm lett unto Leonard Atkins^ of Sutton
Benger, Wilts, gentleman, and to John and Richard, sonnes of
said Leonard, all that their close of pasture called Swynley,
about 8 acres, then in occupation of said Leonard, for the term
of their naturall lives and the longest liver of them at the
yearly rent of 26s. and 8 pence." It may here be said that the
name of Swinley in its various forms was applied to more than
one plot of ground in the whole acreage, and this particular
close of pasture was sometimes spoken of as Atkins' Swinley,
The years pass on, and now the great Hungerford family
appears upon the scene, as shewn by an indenture of lease
made the 6th of June, 21st James, 1623, between "Edward
Hungerford of Cosham, Esquicr," and William Coller of
Kington St. Michael, yeoman, son of the William Coller to
whom the Leversage lease was made. Both this and the
Atkyns lease are recited,^ and the whole of Swinley, as des-
* See A uhrey and Jaclaon, p. 293, also Nat. Hist., p. 36, for Leonard
Atkins' agricultural experiment, perhaps a grandson of the above.
* The two original Leversage leases both contain the statement that the
" next and ynuiicdiat reversion of all said premises is to Edward Hunger-
ford belonging."
Estcourt of Sivinhy. 355
cribed belore, is granted to William Coller and Thomas his
son for their lives, at a pa3'ment of JQ260 and 46s. and 8 pence
yearly. The representatives of Sir Edward Hungerford, knt.,
deceased, great uncle of the said Edward Hungerford, are
included in the covenant, and the deed is witnessed by Giles
Hungerford, Richard and Anthon}' Wastfeld and John
Power. ^
But perhaps the most interesting of these old deeds is a
verj- voluminous one, dated 28th March, 1629, between Sir
Edward Hungerford,' now a Knight of the Bath, and William
Coller, yeoman, ol Kington St. Michael, whose parents, William
and Anne, were now "deceased", and the right and title of
Marjerie (as well as that of the Atkinses) had lawfully come
into the possession of William Coller "partie to these presentes",
the arable lands and mead or the most part having "bin longe
sithence inclosed into severall inclosures and grounds". After
the various recitals, the lease of Swinle}' w^as extended " from
the feast day of Thannunciation of our Ladie St. Mary the
\'irgin last past unto the full end and term of 99 3'ears, if hee
the said William Coller, Thomas or William his sonnes, shall
happen so long to live". Consideration: "A surrender of previous
leases, ^50 good English money, a yearly rent of 46s. 8 pence,
and 26s. and 8 pence in the name of an herriott". William
Coller to keep the premises in repair, "takeinge sufficient great
tymber, frith, fuell, ploweboote, carteboote, foaldboote and
hedgeboote" for the purpose, and "doe suite and senice to the
Court Baron of Sir Edward Hungerford of his Mannor of
Rudlowe upon reasonable and lawfull somons and be sworne
' In 1625 William Coller mortgaged Moreshall Mead to John Power, of
Stanton Quintin, gent., for £87 for one year. Witnesses, Abraham and Mary
Power (pedigree of Power in Aubrey and Jackson, p. 290). And in 1G26
Moreshall Mead and two grounds called "Atkins' Swinlies" were the
securities for £16 paid to William Coller by a sister, Alice Coller, of
Melsaro. Wilts.
•^ The Parliamentarian general in the civil wars, and M.P. for Chippenham
in the Long Parliament.
356 Wiltshire Notes ami Queries.
of the Homage of the said Courte, and be governed by its
orders and paynes.
" Edward Hungerford.
"Witnesses, Jeffery Tipper, Tho. Ellis, Hugh Floyd.
" Ex. p. me Egidim Hungerford."
The seal attached to this deed, though not sufficiently
clear for reproduction, is in good preservation, showing the
shield with 9 quarterings, the garb and sickles, and motto
"Et Dieu mon appui", as on the stone shield upon the south
porch of Corsham church.
The family of Collcr (or Collar) remained at Swinley for
70 years, and in 1636 it is most likely that William Coller built
at least part of the farm house now standing (see illustration)^
as a stone bearing his initials with the above date, though
much worn, ma}' still be seen on the porch of the front door;
or, as we shall see that about 25 years afterwards the house
was spoken of as "lately erected and new-built" b}' the next
owner, William Coller may perhaps have only made some
additions to an older house. In the same year, 1636, Dec. 19th,
William Coller, yeoman, now become "thelder", executed a
trust-deed of Swinley for the remainder of his lease in favour
of his wife Joane and his children^ William, Richard, John,
Ann and Joane. Trustees, John Winckworth, of Broad Somer-
ford, yeoman, and Margarett James, of Bradficld, in the parish
of IluUavington, widow. Witnesses, Richard Thorner and
Thomas Cam, jun. From a letter of attorne}'^ bearing the same
date as above, it appears that other property was set over in
the same way. Thomas Pickering and John Reeve to be "true
and lawful attorneys over all those lands and pastures in Xt.
Malford commonly called Charwood, sometimes Bekeswood" to
deliver same to Henry Winckworth and Margaret James.'^
' One heriot had evidently been paid, a.s the life of Thomas appears to
have dropped.
' Scft Mr. Sorope'.s " Wiltshire Manors subject lo Castle Cotnbe ", ArelKrol.
Mail., vul. ii, p. 2.h;i, fm nut ire of Margaret James as to claim of wardship
for her son.
Records of Wiltsliitr Parishes. 357
We hav-e next to consider a group of documents, bearing
dates in 165 1-2, all relating in various ways to the passing of
Svvinley to the family of Estcourt. Sir Edward Hungerford
died in 1648^ without issue, and in June, 1651, Anthony Mun-
gerford, of Black Bourton, Oxon., Esq., gave a bond to John
Coller, second son of William, setting forth that
"The above bounden Anthony Hungerford hath for the sum of /"500
lately sold to John Coller and his heirs forever all that messuage with
appurtenances called Swinley, in Kington St. Michael, free and cleere
from all rents and charges of Sir Ed. Hungerford deceased, late brother
of said Anthony Hungerford (except one lease granted to William Coller
father of John, for 99 years and lives of William Thelder and sons
Thomas and William).
" Antho. Hungerford.
" In presence of John Vnwyn, John Ely, Willm. Adye."
M. E. Light.
(To be continued.)
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
BRATTON.
(Continued from p. 323.)
Edington Chartularv, [/ 1066.]
Release of Christina, daughter of J o hide Canterton, iu her Brother.
I, Christina, the daughter of John de Canterton, have
released and quit-claimed for ever to John de Canterton, my
' The will of Sir Edward Hungerford (1)2 Essex) is an interesting and
truly " liunian " document, but a very leugthv one. There i.s no mention of
Swinley, the landed property coming under the comprehensive term of the
" Manor of Corsham ". A large part of the will consists of legacies to
servants, to the poor, and to friends and relatives, with careful provision for
two orphan nieces, and for a Julia Hungerford "who was cast upon us in
time of necessity ", beseeching his wife, "whom God hath made a comfort
and an ornament unto me in the days of my labour and pilgrimage", to have
a "motherly care" of these girls. Brothers Henry and Gile.s, being "the
youngest left by my father, were more particularly our care and partly
trained up in our house ", Giles (the Egidim of the Swinley lease) to
continue managing the property.
35S
lJ^i7/s/iire Nolcs and Oucrics.
brother, and his heirs, for myself and my heirs, to all my right
in all lands and tenements which fell to Margery, my mother,
of her heritage in Bratton and Litelstoke, and in all other
places within the Hundred of Westbury, as in houses, curti-
lages, gardens, arable lands, meadows, pastures and pasturages,
rents and services, with all other appurtenances. To hold to
him and his heirs of the chief lords of the fees by the accus-
tomed services. For this my concession and release the said
John, my brother, at the instance of the lord Walter de Favely,
granted to me for the term of my life all the lands and tene-
ments which John de Canterton, my father, acquired in
Bratton. And I will warrant all tlic foresaid lands to John, my
brother, and his heirs against all men and women for ever.
In testimony whereof I have set my seal. Witnesses . . .
Ibid. [/. 109.]
These are the debtors who should pay the stipend of the
Chaplain of Stoke : —
Of thk Fff, of Rfginald de
Pavely.
William Batel
Riciiard FitzClark .
Nicholas Symond .
Richard de Stoke .
William I loules
John Peter . .
Thomas Hole
I lamond the Chaplai
Saveric de Sches' .
Richard Frankeleyi
Thomas Aylbryse .
Dame Aldryse
Richard Symond
Adam Com pay n
John Symond
Roger Kornyser
Nicholas Pentecost.
ij. <l
ij. d.
ij. d.
ij. d.
ij. d.
Vyd.
\\.d.
ij. d
ij. d.
Vyd
ij. d
ij. d.
J- <f-
iiij. d.
"j. d.
j. d
ii. d.
Of the Fee of Richard
Dansy.
Riciiard Deone
.
i)
Nicholas Pentecoste
ij
John Heres . .
'j
Richard le White
'j
John FitzThomas
ij
John Batte . .
ij
Adam Durant
ij
Walter Goslonde
ij
William Neweman
iJ
Walter Ic Whyte
ij
John Salter . .
ij
John Gool . .
j
John FitzRo.se
j
Sum ij. vS-
Of IMF Fff of Rosely
N
DE
Bratton.
Geoffrey de Bratton iiij. d.
Records of IViltshirc Parishes.
359
Davyd de Redel(
3nd
j. d
William Herbarde . .
iij-
d
Sum
>ij-
s. j. d.
Richard Alvvrys
i.i-
Of the Fee of
Ralph de
Ahvrys
i.i-
Mal-ndevyle.
Adam Hopere
'.i-
Roger Hupcote
\\.d
John King . .
U-
Richard Condyt
ij. d
Adam Pope . .
i.i-
Ralph Whitle
ij. ./.
John Hurell . .
•j-
John Petyt . .
ij. d
Richard Cleke
'j-
Richard Cok
iiij. d.
Nicholas de Hem-
Richard Clerk
, .
iiij. d.
hurst
ii-
Nicholas Joos
, ,
i"j. d
William le Erode . .
ij-
John FitzThomas
, ,
i.M^
John Goslonde
'j'
Dame Rose . .
iiij. d.
Walter Condyt
i.i-
Dame Alice, wic
low
ij. d
Adam Muhvarde
ij-
Lucy Huphulle
ij. d
Sum ij..s-.
vij.
Sum
ij. 5,
. iiij. d.
Sum total X. s.
Meniorandimi of the fee formerly Dansyes, and of the land
of Nicholas Brook in Bratton and Milborne, &c., of the same
fee. First, of the mill with the ponds and all the copses in
Upper Milborne. Item, the place which Andrew Adelelm holds
with the whole land and meadow adjacent. Item, the place
which John Brom held with the whole land adjacent in
"Overmilborn." Item, the place in which William Conduyt
dwells, of the fee Dansyes with the whole land adjacent.
Item the place formerly Robert Forest's with the whole land
adjacent. Item, the meadow called Overwychyme. Item, the
meadow called Stokemede. Item, a croft and pasture called
Schepcroftes. A wood called Burchhangre. Item, 2 acres of
land under " lez Clieues." Item, 4 acres of land in "la Claye "
above " la forerde." Item, an acre of land in the west part of
the garden. Item an acre of land in Geredlonde. Item, 3
acres of land lie at Blakewell. Item, 3 acres by Portweye.
Item, 2 acres called la Weyland, which Roger Sweytapel
holds.
Patent 51. Henry III. [EdyHgdon Chartulary, f. 127.]
A.D. 1266. — Henry King, &c., to all, &c. For the laud-
able ser\-ice which William de Actte has done for us wc grant
360 Wiltsliire Notes a>id Queries.
to him the custody of the lands and heirs of Richard de Anesy,
latel}' deceased, who held of us in chief, to have to him and his
assigns until the legitimate age of the said heirs, together with
the disposal of the said heirs in marriage. Tested by the
King. Keniir, 16 November.
Patent 51. Hexry III. [Ibid.']
Henry, &c. Whereas Robert Passelewe, erewhile dead, in
his Itinerary and that of the others our justices caused the
serjeanty of Dulton and Bratton, which Richard de Anesy
held of us in chief, to be rated at 10 marks yearly, and after-
wards we granted the custody of the lands and heirs of the
said Richard to William de Aette with the said serjeanty until
the lawful age of the heirs, returning yearly to us the 10 marks
at which the serjeanty was rated ; by our special grace we
pardon to the said William the said 10 marks so long as he has
that custody, granting that he may receive the foresaid 10
marks from Richard le Done, chaplain of Dulton chapel,
Roceline de Bratton, John de Mulebourne, Richard de
Bratton, John de Bratton, William Pentecuste, Alan Fitzwarin,
John Savary, Walter dc Pavely, Richard Burnel, Adam de
Greyville, Philip Marmion, Savaric de Dulton and Clarice his
wife, Walter Colewayn, Mabel Walerand, Robert de Plukeny,
Robert de Dulton, Thomas de Stokes, Ralf le Cauf, Richard
FitzThomas, William le Laghful and Juliana his wife, Reginald
de Pestur, Godfrey de Sk^'demor, the Prior of Farlegh, the
Parson of Westbury church, and Nicholas de Aune and Mabel
his wife, tenants of tiie said serjeanty. So that when the
foresaid heirs come to their lawful age they shall answer to us
for the foresaid assessment of rent, as their father was wont to
answer in his lifetime. Tested by the King at Canterbury,
22 April.
Assize Roll. No. 998. [52 Ilciiry III.]
The Hundred 0/ IVcslhury.
A.D. 1267-8. — Of serjcanties they say that William de Aete,
who has the custody of Giles, son and heir of Richard Dancsy,
Records of IVillslurc Parishes. 361
holds 3 carucatcs of land in Dulton and Bratton by the serjeanty
of finding in the army of the king one horseman for 40 days at
his own cost, and returns to the king yearly 10 marks.
Hundred Rolls. [3 Edivard /.]
The Castle of Devizes.
A.D. 1274. — The Jury say that the Lord King receives
yearly towards the ward of his castle of Devises from Bracton
205.
The Hundred of Westbury.
The Jury say that the heir of Richard de Anesy holds half
a knight's fee of the King in chief in Dulton and Bracton.
They say that Arnulph de Mandevil gave to the Prior and
Convent of Ferlize 2 virgates of land in Bratton out of the half
knight's fee that he held there of the Lord King, to the injury
of the King.
Inquisition Post Mortem. [4 Edivard I, No. 7.]
Post Mortem Philip Mariniiin.
A.D. 1276. — Inquisition taken at Westbury on Wednesday
next after the feast of St. Gregory at Bremelrigge. The jury
say that William Dansey held in Bracton and Dulton certain
lands and tenements by serjeanty of the lord King, for which
he took care of the King's larder and the same serjeanty
After the death of William there succeeded to
him Richard Dansey, his son and heir, who changed his service
without warrant into finding at his own costs a horseman to
serve for 40 days in the King's army. Concerning the said
change Richard made a fine for himself and his tenants about
the said tenement before the lord Robert Passelewe, viz., for
the sum of 10 marks which the said tenants are to answer for
to the same Richard yearly for the third part of the value of
his tenements.^ Out of the half knight's
' A great part of the document is nearly illegible, but the sen.se of the
whole passage must be that of f. 89 in the Ediugton Chartulary, vide
Bratton Records, p. 317.
362 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
fee [?]. Philip Marmiun held one virgate of land rented at 25.
to be paid to the lord King b}- the hand of the said Richard,
which virgate of land Peter
FitzWarin claims to have of the gift of the said Philip. After
the death of the said Richard succeeded to him Richard Dansy,
his son, who was in tlic guardianship of the King until his
lawful age, and then he received his lands and tenements ; and
he was poor and powerless to pa}' the foresaid rent \i.e.^ the
10 marks ?] at the three yearly terms as his father had been
accustomed ; therefore [the bailiff?] of Westbury Hundred
was commanded to distrain him and all his tenants for the said
rent, and thus by the distraint the said tenants by their own
hands paid the said rent the
said Philip holds of the lord King. The said Philip had two
legitimate sons, Philip and William ; of whom the eldest, Philip,
who died before his father, kept a certain woman as his wife
while he lived and begot of her a son, Roger, but they do not
know for certain whether he married her first. ^ But they
know well that William, the younger son, married a wife and
begot a son. They say that Philip the father had two legiti-
mate daughters of full age, namely Eva and Isoda.
Inquisition Post Mortem. [8 Edward 1, No. 17.]
P. M. Ralph dc Manndvvill.
A.D. 1280. — Inquisition taken at Salisbury, Thursday next
after the Feast of St. Dunstan. The jury say upon oath that
Ralph dc Maundevill, deceased, held 20/. worth of land of the
King in Chief in Wortli and Bracton, returning thence yearly
to the King 20s. at Devizes Castle in time of peace, and in
time of war providing for 40 days one horseman antl himself
armed in the same castle, omitting the said rent for that year,
' In the Inquisition po.st mortem (in the same bundle) taken at
Westbnry on the feast of the Assumjition of the B. V. Mai y, tlie Jury say
that Piiilip Marniyon, senior, had a cortain .son and heir who of his
affianced {dixpom^nfa) wife begat a son, Roger, wlm is the nearest lieir of
fliilip Alarojyon, ^(•niur, and is 18 years old.
Records of IVillshire Parishes. 363
and he held nothing of any others. Thomas de Maundevill is
nearest heir, and he is 28 years old.
Feet of Fines. [Wilts. <) Ediva/'d I.]
A.D. 1280. — At Wilton 3 weeks after St. John the Baptist's
Da}', 8 Edward I. Between GeoftVey de Bratton, plaintiff, and
John le Lung and Matilda his wife, William Sprakelyng and
Sarra his wife and Margery, Sarra's sister, impediants of a
messuage and 3 virgates of land with the appurtenances in
Bratton. Plea of covenant was summoned. John and Matilda,
William and Sarra and Margery acknowledged the right of
Geoffrey and quit claimed to him and his heirs for themselves
and the heirs of Matilda, Sarra and Margery for ever. For
this Geoffrey gave them 405. sterling.
Assize Roll, IVo. 1248, ;;/. 3. [8 Edivard /.]
A.D. 1280.— Assize at New Sarum on the Feast of St.
Peter in Chains, 8 Edward I. The Assize came to take cogniz-
ance if William Wyrham and Alice his wife and Richard
Fraunkelyn of Little Stokes unjustly disseized Roger, son of
Richard, of Little Stokes, of his free tenement in Little
Stokes, Bracton and Meleburn, a messuage, 21 acres and a
croft of land containing one acre and 2 acres of meadow with
their appurtenances. And William and the others could not
but say that they had disseized him of the foresaid land.
Therefore it is considered that the foresaid Roger recover his
seisin. And the foresaid William and others are committed to
gaol.
Ibid., Nu. 1000, ;;/. 41'^- [9 Edivard /.]
A.D. 1 280-1. — Thomas North, of Bratton, who bore a writ
concerning yearly rent against William, son of Henry de
Bratton, did not prosecute. Therefore he and his pledges
Richard de Stokes and Richard de Drax are in mercy.
Ibid. [/;/. 2'*]
Assize at IVi/tofi.
Robert Plokenet sued against Thomas de Aune and Mabel
364 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
his wife a messuage and k carucate of land with the appurten-
ances in Bratton and against Walter de Wimbervile and
Alienor his wife, a messuage and h carucate of land with the
appurtenances in tlic same township, of which John Danes}',
grandfather of the foresaid Robert, whose heir he is, was
seized in his demesne as of fee on tlie day of his death. And
Thomas and all the others come and say that they hold the
foresaid tenements in dower of the foresaid Mabel and Alienor
of the heritage of a certain Richard de Anesy, and call the
foresaid Richard to warrant. And Richard is present and
warrants the foresaid tenements to them as dower, and defends
by force and injury, and says that the foresaid Robert can claim
no right in them ; for a certain William de Anesy to whom the
said tenements belonged had two sons, to wit the foresaid John
and a certain Richard his brother born afterwards ; John died
in the lifetime of his father William; and William the father
afterwards enfeoffed the said Richard with the foresaid tene-
ments which came to the same Richard by hereditary right.
Wherefore the foresaid John had nothing in the said tenements
nor died seized of them as of fee. And that it was so he puts
himself upon the country.
And Robert says that the foresaid William de Anesy, the
father of foresaid John and Richard, enfeoffed the foresaid John
with the said tenements, and that the foresaid John his grand-
father died seized thereof he puts himself upon the country.
Therefore a Jury was formed ; their verdict was given
against Robert, who " may take nothing by his writ" and is
in mercy for his false claim.
Assizp: Roll, No. 1005, in. 2^^' [9 Edward /.]
A.D. 1280. — Assize held at Wilton at Easter. Thomas
North, of Bratton, sued Walter de Dene for \ acre of land
with the appurtenances in Bratton as his right, by writ of right,
showing, etc.
And Walter came, and called to warrant Alexander de
Dene, who now came by summons warranted to him. And he
Records of IVtlishin- Parishes. 365
further called to warrant Nicholas Rose. He may produce him
at Exeter in the quindene of St. Martin by aid of the Court.
And it is summoned in the county of Somerset, etc.
Ibid. [;;/. 56.]
William de Giselham, prosecuting for the king, sued
Walter le Sonner for a virgate of land with its appurtenances
in Bracton, and Nicholas le Ken for a virgate of land there
with the appurtenances, of which they are unjustly deforciants
of the king ; and of which he says King Richard, predecessor
of the present king, was seised in his own demesne as of fee
and rightly in time of peace by taking thence the esplees to the
value, etc.
And Walter and Nicholas came ; and call to warrant
the Prior of Farley, who is present and warrants to them and
denies the right of the lord king and the seisin of King
Richard and puts himself on the oath of the country at the
great assize of the lord king, whether he himself or the lord king
have right in the said tenements. And the Prior puts in his
place brother Thomas, his own monk, or Walter Sel3^man.
And Robert de Luteshill, Richard de Highwey, Simon Torny,
John Walerand, Roger deWritele, William Wytsend, Geoffrey
de Maundevill, John le Ken, Richard de Marsh, John de Eton,
Hugh Brian, and Thomas le Teyeys, the jury elected, say
upon oath that the Prior has the greater right to hold the
foresaid land by warrant}^, as he does hold it, than the lord
king, because the lord Henry, great-grandfather of the present
king, gave the foresaid land to the Prior of Farley, predecessor
of the foresaid Prior, and after that donation no king was in
seisin thereof. Therefore thence without a day, etc.
Assize Roll, No. 1006, m. 6. [i-j Edward I.]
A.D. 1288-9. — Sibil, daughter of Henry de Bratton, gives
I mark for licence to agree with William Wirram and Alice his
wife, concerning a plea of warranty of charter, by pledge of the
foresaid William. And they have the chirograph.
366 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Ibid. [;//. 33.]
Pleas at JVilto)! on llir niorron' of St. Hillary.
Sana la Dune, of Mullebourne, oftered herself on the 4th
day against Thomas de Maundcvill on a plea for 20 acres of
land with appurtenances in Bratton and Westbury ; and
against Robert atte Wythey and Donicia his wife, on a plea for
10 acres of land with appurtenances in the same towns; and
against Nicholas le Mouner and Beatrice his wife on a plea for
I acre of land with appurtenances in Bratton, which she
together with Roger de Stoke claims as her right. And they
come except the foresaid Roger. And the foresaid Thomas
and the others say that they ought not to answer to Sarra for
her share without Roger. Therefore Roger is summoned to
be at Westminster 3 weeks after Easter and the same day is
given to Sarra and the others.
Ibid. [;;/. 50^- Hundred of IVestbiny.]
Of the ladies They say that Amice, who was wife of
Robert de Maundevile, holds Ixs. worth of land in dower in
Bratton of the heritage of Robert de Maundevile, who held of
the king in chief; and the same Amice was in the gift of the
lord king and now is married to Robert de Salicis they know
not by what warrant ; therefore the sheriff was bidden to make
come the said Robert and Amice. Afterwards Robert and
Amice came and could not but say that Amice was in the
king's gift, and married without the king's writ, as is said.
Therefore the foresaid land is taken into the king's hands so
that the sheriff answer for the proceeds, etc.
William Ic Duk' among other malefactors is solemnly sum-
moned for house breaking ; and does not come and is outlawed :
his chattels are iiivS. iiiir/., whereof the sheriff is to answer, and he
was in the tithing of John Ic Man in Bratton ; therefore he is
in mercy.
Ibid. [No. 1007, ;;;. 25.]
Fines and amercements. Hilary Term, 1 7 Edward 1.
From Geoffrey de Bratton for not prosecuting, and pledges
Records of IViltshirc Pnrishts. 367
Walter de Dene and Walter Cunduyt of Meleburn, rj
mark.
Edingdox Chartl'lary. Lanst/ow/i MS. 442, / 93.
Roger (/(• S/okc to his daughter Agnes.
A.D. 1299. — I Roger de Stoke have granted to my daughter
Agnes, and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten, the whole
tenement, with its appurtenances, which I had by the decease
of Walter de Deone of the fee of Richard de Anesy, in the
townships of Mullbourne, Bratton, Stoke and Westbury, with
the houses, mill, dove-cote, gardens, hedges, arable lands, parks,
pastures, grazing grounds, water-ways, paths, and all other
appurtenances, to hold of Richard de Anesy and his heirs or
assigns, for the yearly accustomed service thereto belonging,
and I, Roger, and my heirs will warrant to her for ever. If
she die without heirs of her body, the said tenement shall
revert to the said Roger and his heirs and assigns. Dulton,
Friday next after Michaelmas, 27 Edward I.
Documents relating to Transactions between England and
Scotland preserved in the Exchequer. CX\T.
[The Rolf of Humphrey dc Bohiin^ Earl of Essex and Here-
ford^ Constable of England, of profers of service made at
the muster of Carlisle on St. John's Eve, 28 Edward /.]
A.D. 1299. Wiltshire. — Richard Danesi acknowledges and
offers ser\-ice of half a knight's fee in Breutton (sic) and
Dunton, to be done by Hugh de Turbevile, groom, with a
horse accoutred.
Lav Subsidies. [IVilts, No. ^.]
A.D. 1 299-1 305. — Particular account of John le Rous and
John Turpin, collectors of the Scutage of the army of Scotland
in 28, 31, and 34 Edward I, in Wilts, viz., from every
shield XLs.
Hundred of I . . . . They render account of LXs. from
Westbury. J half a knight's fee which Richard Dansy holds of
c c
368 IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
the lord king in chief in Dulton and Bratton in the same three
years of his inheritance after the death of Richard Dans}', his
father. And of XLs. from the third part of a knight's fee
which WilHam Maundeville holds in chief of the lord king in
chief in Bratton in the said three years, of his inheritance
after the death of Ralph Maundeville, his father.
BENOLT'S VISITATION OF WILTS, 1532.
Dr. Marshall, Rouge Croix, has very kindly checked the
Pedigrees from "Benolt's Visitation", printed in the last
number, with the original,^ preserved in the College of
Arms. It appears, from his communication, that Add. MS.
12,479 is a trustworthy MS., worth printing, as he suggests,
in its entirety. Of the discrepancies noted by Dr. Marshall,
the most important are : —
(i) The reading " Pye " for "Pic"', at p. 305. " Pic'" is
unmistakeably written in the British Museum MS., and is
undoubtedly wrong. The signature of " John Py " is appended,
as a Subsidy Commissioner, to returns for Chippenham temp.
Henry \'III, presumably the same man, whose will, as "John
Pye of Chippenham, esq.", was proved in the Prerogative
Court in 1557.
(2) In the Mungerford pedigree at p. 306, the reading
"Berber" for "Barber". "Barbci-" is certainly written in
the MS. in the Museum, though, on looking at it again,
' This is called H. 20, and "is a part of the general Visitation of Glouces-
ter, Somerset, and several other counties, and it is difficult to separate one
from the other." Dr. ^larshail ad<ls, tliat Horsey is not in H. 20, nor can he
find Braybrooke, thou^di the reference is in the index to fo. 6. At p. 23 is a
pedigree of Stylleman of Steepleashton. co. Wilts ; he gives another daughter,
Mary, to Edward Borley. and .Jane Mervyn (p. 306); and Elizabeth Wrowton
as the wife of John Chocke (p. 309).— [Ed.]
Be Halt's I'isitatioi of IVilts, 1532. 369
it is not diflicult to see how the error ot transcription
arose. If confirmation were needed, it is supplied by the
pedigree of Hungerford, printed for the Ilarleian Society, in
the late Sir John Maclean's edition of the Visitation of
Gloucestershire in 1623.
The most serious of my errors Dr. Marshall has had the
kindness to pass over in silence. As some excuse I may state
that the name " John Hungerforde " (p. 308) appears in the
MS., so written without contraction, at full length : but even
this is little justification for printing a pedigree of the vv^ell-
known Gloucestershire family of "Hugford", or latterly
^'Higford", in a Wiltshire Magazine. Unless through a
former owner of " D^'kelston ", Richard Dixton (whose will,
full of Wiltshire allusions, is printed in the E. E. T. Society's
lifty Earliest English Wills) they had no connexion, that I
am aware of, with Wiltshire at all.
On the whole, perhaps, if the British Museum MS. be
established as a good one, it may be considered that my tran-
script of it was less faithful than I had hoped.
A. S. M.
Page, of Warminster and Devizes.
To the pedigree printed at p. 305, the following may be
added : —
Thomas Bennett, of Norton Bavant, near Warminster,
married a daughter and coheiress of Page, of Devizes ; and
their grandson Thomas Bennett, D.C.L., who died 1558, was
canon and treasurer of St. Paul's, London ; and precentor of
Salisbury, where his tomb, with effigy as a skeleton, is still to
be seen. See Bennett Pedigree, in Hoare's Modem Wiltshire.
Warminster Hundred, p. 78.
In 1502. William Page and Christina his wife conveyed
to Richard Lymber messuages and lands in Devizes and
Southbroom. — Wilts Fines.
c c 2
Wiltshire Notes and Oncrics.
The following notes are from Devizes deeds of the i6th
century : —
A.D. 1516. William Page, of Uevizes, had a lease ibr 80
years from the wardens of the Old Almshouse (William
Lymber and John Cle}') of a tenement in the Old Port of
Devizes (now St. Mary's parish).
1523. William Page, of Devizes, gent., leased a croft in
Wekefelde, called White Croft, to Margaret Spray, of the same
town, widow.
1545. William Page, of Devizes, leases three cottages
called Blewitt's, with 39 acres i rood of arable land belonging
thereto, in Southbroom, also a grove adjoining to Renge-
born, and two meadows called "broad mead" and "little
mead". In 1570 the same property was again leased for 46
years, by his son Matthew Page, of Shaftesbury, gent.
In other deeds of 1564 and 1568 " a plot of ground of Mr.
Pages" — and " a tenement of Matthew Page, gent.," are men-
tioned as boundaries. E. K.
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
(Conliiiiicd from p. 345. J
ill.
MARRIAGE RECORDS.
I.
1696-12-26. — Giles Ithkll, of Busclton, alias Brislington, ph.,
CO. of Somerset, yeoman, to Mary Hellvard, of
New Sarum, at Sarum.
1698-8-23. — William Isaack, of town of Shastbury, co. of Dorset,
son of Ilcmv Isaack, of llandley ph., co. of
Dorset, to Jane King, at James Caries, in
Combe, Dunhead ph.
Onakcnsiii in IVillshirc. 371
J.
1660- 1-26. — John JAY, of Castlecomb, to Elizabeth iMatravers,
at Slauglitertbrd.
1663-8-25.— Robert Johns, of Shawbridge, co. of Berks, to Mary
Woodward, of Charlcott.
1667-3-5. — Susannah Jeffery, of Brimhill, to John Robins, of
Titherton.
1667-1 1-5. ^Thomas James, of Cahie, to Ehzabcth King, of
Cahie.
1670-4-1. — Agnes Jeanes to WiUiam White.
1670-4-5. — Agnes James, of Sutton, to William White, of
Foxham [Rocksum].
1675-1-23.— Trcsie Jefferies. of Foxham, dau. of David
Jefferies, to Edward Jefferis, of Corsham.
1677-5-1. — Thomas Jeames, of Calne, to Sarah Kingsman, of
Fifields.
1677-10-23. -William Jones, of Brimhill, yeoman, to Ann
Bishop, of Titherton, at Charlcott.
1678-3-8. — Edward Jefj- fries, of Brimhill, yeoman, son of
Richard Jefferies, to Edith Hale, of Charlcott,
at Charlcott.
167*-*-*. — Richard Jayner to Mary Hooper.
16S0-1-15. — David Jefferies, of Foxham, to Ann H.vrris, of
Titherton, at Charlcott.
1680-3-27. — Mary Jeffery, dau. of Robert Jeffery, of Brimhill,
to Thomas Barrett, of Hartham, at Corsham.
1683-2-26. — Stephen James, of Calne, son of Thomas James,
to Friswed Wasfield, of Foxham.
1694-3-2. — Walter Joanes, of Melksham, broad-weaver, son
of William Joanes, of Melksham, to Mary
Hancock, of Melksham, at Shaw Hill, Melk-
sham ph.
1694-5-20. — Joshua Johnson, of Devizes, tin-plate worker, son
of William Johnson, of Cripplegate ph., Lon-
don, to Mary Self, at Isaac Selt"'s house,
Lavington.
K.
1662-3-18. — ^Katherine Kerfoote, of Seagery, to William
Smith, of Kington St. Micaell.
372 ll'iltslurc Notes and Uiierics.
1666-3-27. — Leonard Kf.y, of Reading, co. of Berks, to Eliza-
beth Wright.
1667-1 1-5.— Elizabeth King, of Calnc, to Thomas James, of
Calne.
1 672- 1 0-8. — Amy Kinsman, of Mai-lbro', servant to Wm.
Hitchcock, to John IIakding, of Marlborough.
1674-11-24. — Mary Kmght, of Bi"oomhani ph., spinster, to
Adam Gouldney, of Chippenham.
1677-5-1. — Sarah Kingsman, of Eifield, to Thomas James, of
Calne.
1691-10-10. — Elizabeth Kerkoot, of Scagery, to Samuel Smith,
of Kington.
1694-2-20. — John Kent, of Hartham, Corsham ph., husband-
man, son of Thomas Kent, of Castel Comb, to
Jane Smith, of Hartham, at Slauterford.
1698-8-23. — Jane King, dau. o{ Thomas King, of James ph.,
boro' of Shafbury, co. of Dorset, to ^Vm.
Isaack, of town of Shastbury, at James Caries',
Combe, Dunhead ph.
L.
1663-4-2 1. — John Laurence [Larkance], of Calne, to Grace
Salter, of Langlc3^
1664-3-3. — Edward Lufe to Elizabeth Philpes.
1666-2-22. — Martha Laurence, dau. of Thomas Laurence, of
Marlbrough,toJohn Edwards, of Chip})cnham.
1 67 1 -4- 1 8. — Thomas Laurence, of Marlboro', to Jeane Bezer,
of Marlbro'.
1 675-9-2 1. —Mary Laurence, dau. of Thomas Laurence, of
Marlborough, to Danicll Smith, senior, of
Marlborough.
1680-5-14. — William Loveday, of Painswick, co. of Gloucester,
to Bridgett Hitchcock.
1681-11-3. — John LovELL, son of John Lovell, of Langford,
CO. of Som.,to Mary Wallis, at Slaughterford.
1699-2-4. — William Little, of Corsham, cordwindcr, to
Sarah Busiiell, at Corsham.
M.
1660-1-26.- — Elizabeth Mairaveks, dau. of Dtiminick Matravers,
of Slaughterford, to John Jay, of Castlecombe,
at Slaughterford
Ouakirisni in I J 'i7(s/iin'.
J/.
1666-2-8. — Mar}' Matraveks, dau. of Ilcstcr Matravers, of
Slaugliterford, to John Brownf, of Slaughter-
ford, at Slaughtcrford.
1670-2-10. — Sarali Moody, of Bridge, to Wilham Stokes, of
Cor sham.
1676-4-29. — Ann MuND.w, of Yatton ph., co. of Wilts, spinster,
to John Edwards, of Bidstonc, at Slaughter-
ford,
1677-1-22. — Nathaniell Marsh, of Ilullavington, to Jane
Blicke, of Hullavington.
1677-12-10. — Richard Morse to Ann Gudridge.
167S-8-1.— James Matravers, late of Slaughtcrford, chandler,
son of Hester Matravers, of Slaughtcrford, to
Elizabeth Bond, of Slaughtcrford.
1678-9-28. — Cretian Mills, dau. of John Mills, of Brimhill ph.,
to Henry Rawlins {alias Butler), of Corsham,
at Charlcott.
1682-5-9. — John Mason, of Pains wick, co. of Gloucester, to
Elizabeth Bezer, of Marlborough.
(686-10-26. — Sarah M.\y to Charles Wheeler, at Devizes.
1691-1-19. — Jonathan MoNijov, of Bidston, son of Thos.
Monijoy, to Jane Gingell, at Slaughtcrford.
1692-7-26. — Paul Moon, son of Richard Moon, of Bristol, to
Ann W.\LLici:, of Slaugliterford, at Slaughter-
ford.
N.
1657-8-24. — Israeli Noves, of Calne, to Margery Wallis, of
Slaughtcrford.
1672-1-31. — Mary Nick, of Sutton Benger, to Martin Dorring-
TON, of Sutton Benger.
1 679-6-1 7.— Mary Nicholas, of Calne Meeting, to Wm. Coale,
of Calne Meeting.
1682-*-*. — Mary Noves, dau. of Israel Noyes, of Calne, to
Thomas Withers.
1695-6-5. — John Neate to Elner Seagers, at Calne.
1696-2-20. — John Neat, jr., to Mary Smith.
1698-1 1-19. — Katherine Noyes, of Bradford, co. of Wilts, dau.
of Samuel Hull Noyes, of Bradford ph., to
Jonathan Tyler, of Calne, at Comerwell.
374 Wil/s/iire Notes and Queries.
O.
1672-12-28. — Francis Oliffe to Elizabeth Barnes.
1680-10-7. — Elizabeth Oliffe, of Brinihill, to Henry Churched,
of Ringvvood, at Charlcut.
Bctli-sepher, Melksha>ii. Norman Penney.
(To be continued.)
SOME NOTES ON " ACHERONTIA ATROPOS" (THE
DEATH'S-HEAD HAWKMOTH).
(Continued from p. 329.)
There are one or two other points to mention about
the pupae, ere I go on to describe the emergence of the
moth itself. The amount of heat the pupae will bear is
at times extraordinary. On one occasion the fire having
burned up very bright!}', I found the moss on the side
nearest the fire, actually steaming from the heat; but the
chrysalides took no damage from it in any way, though I
certainly should not advise such a heat as that to be allowed ;
but as long as the moss is duly moist they will bear far more
heat without injury than you would at first have expected.
After they have thus been subjected to heat, however, you
must be careful never to allow them to get chilled. Of this
danger I will give an example. I had hatched out nine or ten
moths successfully, when 1 was called away for a time, and I
became very anxious about the rest of the remaining pupae,
for I felt that no one was likely to treat them exactly in the
same manner that 1 had done myself Several more of the
pupae shovvcd signs of turning, having become increasingly
black in colour, so that I felt that they were bound to emerge
in a short time. On my leaving, therefore, I sent the remaining
pupae in their incubator to an entomological friend, requesting
him to look after them for me until my return ; and asking him
Sonic Xohs UN " Ac/wron/ia A/ropos'\ 375
to keep them as warm as he could. I heard from him a day or
two after, saying, to my surprise, that no more had changed;
and mentioning that he had put them in a cool place, with
some other insects of his, inasmuch as he had always heard
that too great warmth was bad, causing them to emerge
with imperfect wings. I felt at once that their death warrant
had been probably signed. For after the vapour bath I had
subjected them to, 1 thought that any radical change of tem-
perature must be very deleterious, if not actually fatal.
1 wrote back therefore at once, urging upon him that the
proof of the pudding must needs be in the eating ; and that
having already hatched out so many perfect insects, there
could not be a better proof of the right way of treating
them. L'pon this he removed them into his dining-room,
and during the fortnight I was away two more perfect
moths managed to emerge, one other with crumpled v/ings,
while one chrj'salis died. On ni}- return I immediately sent
for my incubator, and on looking at the remaining pupae, I
detected at once a decided change for the worse — one was
quite black, and evidently ought to have changed some days
before, and felt cold and clamm}' ; while the others compara-
tively had but little life left in them. Before I left, the pupae
were, all of them, quite lively ; and indeed the Atropos
chr}-salis, if health}', is the most lively of all the pupae that I
have had to deal with ; so that unless careful in handling them
they will sometimes nearly wriggle out of your hand. I there-
fore immediately set to work, steeped the moss top and bottom
in the hottest water, and placed them once more in their old
corner, inside the fender. On the morrow, the dark chrj'salis,
as I thought, proved quite dead ; but the others fast returned
to their old liveliness, and eventually hatched out quite as
perfectly as the others had done.
I would here remark the great diflference there is in the
apparent life of the chrysalis if it has lain long in the ground
ere you obtain it. Those you place in the incubator
directly you turn them out of their flower-pots are always
37^ IViUsliirc Notes aii</ O/icn'cs.
most lively, evidently enjoying much the vvannlli of the
heated moss. But this is not the case if you receive them,
say a couple of months, after the}' liave been lying in the
ground; they then are often quite quiescent, and scarcely move
at all ; in fact, one that I had sent me latish in the year quite
deceived me. It turned black as they all do in emergence,
but it remained so stift'that I felt sure it was dead, and did not
even take the trouble to put the tripod of sticks on the top of
the moss for the moth to climb up on ; and the next morning
there was the moth on the top of the moss with crumpled
wings, from its having had nothing to cling to after emergence.
It does not do, therefore, to judge altogether of the life of the
pupa simply from its liveliness, although generally speaking it is
the best sign you can calculate on. But I am quite sure of
this, that the sooner you can put them into the incubator after
their change into the pupa state, the surer you may feel of
their due emergence, while the longer they have lain in the
ground the less confidence there is concerning it. One of my
friends last autumn sent mc four fine pupae, which he had
kept shut up in a box nearly six months before he sent them
on. What was the result ? Three of them were quite dead,
and dried up on their arrival, though I cannot account for it ;
while the fourth was only just alive, moving the segments of
its tail almost imperceptibly (much as a pupa of Ligiislri
will do, when you hold it in the warmth of your hand), and
died directly I placed it in the heat of the incubator; in fact,
while I have scarcely ever failed to hatch out those pupae
which I have bred as caterpillars and placed in the incubator
from the very first, I can never feel certain of those which I
receive later in the year, and have already lain some time in
the ground ; and I can only suppose that the rapid transition
from the normal temperature of the ground to the heat of the
incubator may prove too much for them, unless they have
been accustomed to it from the first. And this may account
for the generally received opinion of the difficulty of breeding
Atropos from the chrysalis, though, as I have said, in the case
Some AoA's 0)1 ^' Acheron lia Atropos^\ 377
of those reared b}' hand from the caterpillar, there would seem
to be but little difficult}- at all. I also noticed this further
point in the case of pupa? which have lain any time in the
ground, i.e., that it required just as long a time to force them
as those pupae you had begun with from the first ; their sojourn
in the ground in a state of nature apparently counting for
nothing, and not hastening their emergence any wa}' before
the others.
Having now mentioned the way of treating the larva and
pupa of Atropos, I go on to give some particulars concerning
its last change from the pupa into the perfect insect. As this
moth, with most of the other Sphingidae are night-flyers, it
accounts for their being comparatively so seldom seen as moths,
however common they may be in the neighbourhood'; although
in the larva stage most people will have come across them
now and then (sometimes, perhaps, not knowing what
they were) and should the eye once light upon one of these
fine caterpillars, it could not be passed by without a second
look. But the moth is seldom seen — the only species of
Sphinx which are regular day flyers are the Macroglosscc, com-
prising the Humming Bird Hawk-Moth (M. Stellatarum), and
the broad and narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth (M. Fuciforjuis
and M . Bombyliformis). These are not uncommon (especially
the former species) in the south of England, and the insect may
often be seen hovering over the geraniums in the garden extract-
ing honey from the flowers with its long proboscis, moving
with such rapid vibrations of the wings that it appears, as it
were, in a haze (like the circle of cardboard rotated on its
double string by some school-child), and then vanishing like
magic, only to appear again a few yards off in the same
mysterious manner ; though the actual flight from flower to
flower is too rapid for the e3'e to follow. In the case of
Atropos I onl}' remember two instances of the capture of the
perfect insect : one having flown into the laundry at my old
home at Matthews Green, Wokingham, being attracted by the
lights there in the evening ; while the second I found in my
37S IViltshire Notes and Oitcnes.
garden here at St. Nicholas, Salisbury, and that in a very
peculiar way. I was rolling the lawn when my elbow hit
against an old Irish yew which stood in the middle of the grass,
upon which I heard a loud squealing noise, wliich was quite
new to me, and immediately attracted my attention. On looking
to see what caused it, I saw, as I thought, a hornet in a
spider's web ; but looking closer I saw it was the skull-mark
on the thorax of a fine Atropos, whose mid-day siesta I had
thus unwittingly disturbed, and which was soon safely deposited
in one of my killing bottles. The power of emitting a shrill
squeak, like that of a mouse or bat, is peculiar to this moth
(unless some of the foreign species may also possess it) and is
always emitted when the moth is handled or disturbed, and
there has been a good deal of discussion as to the manner in
which the sound is made. But whatever theory is maintained
about it, it must be one that can apply to the chrysalis as well
as to the moth ; and not only that, but even to the caterpillar
as well. On several occasions when handling the chrysalides
I heard them plainly emit the sound ; and once, though only
once, I heard the same noise proceed from the caterpillar. It
was not so loud a squeak as that made by the moth, but it was
precisely the sniiw sound ; and I could scarcely believe my ears
on hearing it. I almost hoped I might have discovered a new
fact; but on consulting Edward Newman's standard work on
the British Moths, I found it written of the yliropos, "that in
all stages of its existence, whether as caterpillar, chrysalis or
perfect insect, it has the power of uttering a distinct cry or
sound " — but I have never heard of any other amateur who has
noticed the larva emit the sound.
But now to turn to the emergence of the moth from the
chrysalis. One thing is most necessary, i.e., that the newly-
hatched moth should be able, directly on its emergence, to assume
a perpoidiciilar position, for which purpose some rough sticks
must be placed inside the incubator as already described. This
is necessary for the due development and growth of the wings,
which Dinst hang downwards to the ground, for the moisture
Sonic iVo/cs on '* Ac/irronlia Atropos". 379
stored in the body of the motli at once begins to force itself
into the cellular membranes of the wings, causing them to
grow with the most marvellous rapidity. In about half-an-
hour, the wings — which, on the first emergence of the moth,
are but the size of the wing-cases in the chrj'salis — attain
to their full development of two inches or more, the span of a
fine female Atropos reaching quite five inches when the wings
are expanded to their full extent.^ This wonderfully quick
development of the wings is one of the most interesting sights
in Natural History, for it is not in any way an unfolding of the
wings, as many people imagine, but an actual and literal
growth; the wings, when a moth emerges, being perfect in
shape already, but of such a diminutive size that it gives the
impression of deformity, though the markings are quite distin-
guishable on them from the first, and that as accurately as
when they are fully developed. This erroneous idea of a
moth's wings unfolding from the chrysalis shell, instead of
growing, is evidently mistakenly borrowed from the way in
which the wings of cicadae and beetles are arranged in the
perfected state of those insects. The gauzy wings of that
order of insects are beautifully folded up under the Elytra
or wing-case, and are expanded every time the insect flies, and
are re-folded again under the wing-case when at rest. But the
growth of the wings of a moth or butterfly is quite a distinct
phenomenon from this, for you can really call it by no other
name. You can, as it were, see the wings grow ; and the
moisture from the newly-hatched moth is often so excessive
that I have seen it exude from the membranes of the wings
and run down in drops of a clear greenish-coloured fluid from
their tips. I may mention here that the slightest contretemps
to the newly-hatched moth is generally fatal to the due
development of the wings, and prevents them from attaining to
their proper growth. If you forget the sticks for them to climb
' I once heard of a specimen which i-eached the size of seven inches in
expanse, and which was most appropriately caught on a tombstone in a
churchyard.
380 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
up upon, or if the bottom moss be too loose, so that ihc moth
gets entangled in it, good-bye to a perfect insect.
There is another danger also which is rather liard to
be avoided should you have many pupae in the same
crock. If two or more liappen to change in the same night,
they will very likel}' disturb each other in jealously en-
deavouring to find the best position for growing their
wings, for being very active and restless on first leav-
ing their shell, they generally take some minutes in finding
a foothold that suits their fancy ; and in doing this they very
often run over and jostle each other ere they finally settle
down, and should this continue for long they will probably
be deformed. Two moths last year (1896) turned almost
simultaneously after I had retired for the night, and in the
morning I found the wings of the finer one were not fully
developed. It had evidently been the first to emerge, and had
partially grown its wings, wlicn the second must have knocked
it off its perch, and never succeeding in settling itself again
its wings remained in the half-grown crumpled state which
they had arrived at when disturbed. The only wa^- to avoid
this danger is at night to separate an}' pupae that you think
will emerge before morning, and placing them in different
bell-glasses ; with a little experience you will soon be able
to detect when one of your pupae is likely to turn.
And now to describe more accurately the marvellous growth
of the wings of a newly hatched moth. The instant a moth
emerges from the shell, it is impelled by a powerful instinct to
assume, as I have said, a perpendicular position ; and it is
very interesting to note the hurry with which it will run up
the stick until it can gain a proper posture from which its wings
can depend. The larger and rougher the sticks arc in modera-
tion the better. Having fastened themselves in a comfort-
able attitude the moths cling on with the sharp little claws
with which their legs are furnished, and, if undisturbed,
remain perfectly quiet for some hours, until the dusk of" the
next evening wakes them up. At first the moth looks
Some A'oies on " Aclicrovtia Alropos ".
381
entirely out of proportion, and a hasty observer, putting
it down as being a malformed insect, would be inclined
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perhaps to throw it awa}', but only "let patience have her
perfect work", and he will be rewarded with a sight of
382 1 1 'lit shire Notes and Oucrics.
Nature's working well worth the waiting for. For about the
first five minutes or so after the moth has settled down, you
will notice no change or movement, except the palpitation of
its palpi, or the occasional shift of a leg to secure a firmer
foot-hold. When ten minutes, liowever, have elapsed (by
the watch) you will begin to think that the wings arc cer-
tainly somewhat larger than they were at first, and you will
notice that they are getting crumpled in their look, with a
distinct curve towards the tip, and also that they stand out
somewhat further from the body : and again you will have
doubts as to whether the specimen will ever be of any use.
In a quarter of an hour you will have no doubt at all as to the
growth of the wings. They arc now enlarging visibly, and
rapidly, and at the end of half-an-hour they will have attained
their full size— some two inches or more, according to the size
of the individual moth — though even yet they may look some-
what flabby, with a decided curl at the tip. In a few minutes
more, however, they will have become perfectly Hat and stifi",
their tips nearly touching each other, and standing up in an
erect position over the moth's body — in the same position, that
is, that a butterfly's wings assume when at rest — thus showing
the markings of the body, and the under-surface of the wings.
In this position the insect will remain stationary for about a
full hour, ere the wings become strong enough to assume the
natural position on all moths when at rest, forming then, as
they do, a protective covering to its often handsomely-striped
body, and which position of the wings forms one of the
distinctive differences between a moth and a butterfly ; others
being that a moth has palmated antennae, while a butter-
fly has clubbed ones. While the moth again in all ordinary
cases is a night-flier (which accounts for our comparativel}'
seeing so little of them), every entomologist knows that the
butterfly is an uncompromising day-flier, so much so, that if
but a cloud passes over the face of the sun, he may shut up his
net until it shines out again, as of all creatures that exist the
butterfly is the staunchest lover of the sunshine.
Some Notes on " Ac/n'ronlin Alropos."
383
And now supposing an hour and a half has elapsed
since the emergence of the moth, the careful observer will
be rewarded with the final phase of the transformation ; and
should he be narrowly watching tlic moth he will notice that
the tips of the wings, which ivere almost touching each other,
are gradually, very gradually, separating. The motion is at
first scarcely discernible, but it soon becomes more apparent,
and when they are some inch and a half apart there happens a
quivering motion of the whole insect, and the wings suddenly
fall down altogether, entirely covering the body of the moth.
MOTH SKETCHED EROM LIFE.
the stripes on which are now no longer discernible, while the
upper wings present such a peculiar mixture of neutral tints,
that the eye might rest on the insect in any of its natural
hiding places for any length of time without detecting its
presence. There the moth will remain for the rest of the night
(should it turn late in the twenty-four hours), and also for the
whole of the ensuing day. But towards the evening of the
day after its emergence it will begin to show signs of life, by
partially opening and vibrating its wings with a rapid,
tremulous motion for some seconds, when it will suddenly
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384
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
launch itself into the air on its first journey with a strong and
rapid flight. Before I was as much accustomed to them as I
am now I had my case open one evening, and was intently
watching a moth as it began thus to wake up from its diurnal
torpor, and not realising that this quivering of the wings was a
sign of immediate flight, I took no precautions to prevent it,
and away flew tlie motli with such rapidity that, to my chagrin,
I could not detect where it had settled. I liunted the room
MOTH WITH WINGS FULLY SPREAD OUT.
over and over again ; I shook the curtains, looked under the
tables, turned over the chairs, but all to no purpose ; and much
disgusted I was, with thus apparently losing almost my first
Atropns specimen. My consolation, however, was that it must
be somewhere /;' the room, though that was rather an unsatis-
factory one. For many days I continued my search, all to no
purpose, keeping the door shut, and allowing no windows to
be opened. At last 1 gave it up as a bad job, when on the
Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Excler. ^Z-.
seventh evening I found it clinging to the curtains quite
uninjured, and experienced the pecuhar joy of recovering that
which I thouglit I had lost for ever.
1 must now close my papers on this subject, although I
could find more subject-matter which is interesting; and if
anyone will do his best to follow out the plan I have sug-
gested, I have no doubt that he will be quite as successful as
I have been. It only wants care to prevent accidents, and
common-sense to supply the warm moist temperature the pupee
require, and with a,' little patience the perfect insects will
appear.
Salisbury. Arthur P. Morres.
EDMUND STAFFORD. BISHOP OF EXETER.
The interesting paper by Mr. Kite on Archbishop Stafford
can hardly be allowed to pass w^ithout reference to another
distinguished member of the same family, Edmund de Stafford,
Bishop of Exeter from 20th June, 1395. to 3rd Sept., 14 19, and
twice Lord Chancellor of England.
In the Ordinacio, dated at Crediton, ist October, 1408, of
this Bishop's chantry in Exeter Cathedral, he speaks of Sir
Rich"* de Stafford, Kn', and Isabella Stafford, as his father and
mother, and of Ralph de Stafford, Earl of Stafford, as his
uncle. Prayers are to be continually offered for them, for Sir
Humphrey de Stafford, and Elizabeth his wife, for Kino-
Henry I\', and for the Bishop himself, by two fit priests, who
are to be called the annivcUarii^ of Edmund Stafford, Bishop.
A third chaplain, to be called Humphrey de Stafford's, is to be
provided to serve at the same altar in like manner for the
whole state (living or departed) of the Bishop himself and of
' Anmvellaril are Priests who sing anniversary masses for the dead.
D D 2
386 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
the said Humphrey, and of tlie Bishop's relatives, Ralph and
Hugh de Stafford, formerly Earls of Stafford, and of John and
Margaret de Stafford, the parents of the said Humphrey ; for
the King ; and for all the faithful departed ; two lights were to
be provided for Sir Humphrey's tomb.
The manors of Wynterborn West, Bokhampton, and
Swanwych, co. Dorset, were handed over to the Dean and
Chapter of Exeter for this purpose by the Bishop, and the
advowson of the church of Wynterborn West by Sir Humphrey.
By comparing the names in the above Ordinacio with
those in Mr. Kite's Pedigree of the Staffords, the various
relationships are made clear.
The Bishop died 3rd Sept., 14 19; and his will, dated
24th July, T418, was proved iSth Sept., 1419, and is in Arch-
bishop Chichele's Register.
He seems to have been a finished man of affairs. His
registers are admirably kept, and have descended to us almost
intact. When not prevented by his duties as Lord Chancellor
he lived in his diocese, until, having on the 3rd Sept., 1419,
granted Letters Dimissor^^ to one Peter Sturte, he passed
away, leaving a sentence, a word, unfinished : " Noverint
universi quod nos, Edmundus, miseracione Divina Exoniensis
Episcopus, ex " (Let all know that we, Edmund, by Divine
compassion. Bishop of Exeter, from ).
Lord Campbell's verdict on this prelate is grossly incorrect ;
but it confirms the saying that a new terror was added to a
Lord Chancellor's death when Campbell would write his life !
The lordly Courtenay, Primate, consecrated Stafford at
Lambeth on Sunday, 20th June, 1395, assisted by Robt. de
Braybrooke, Bishop of London, and John Waltham, of Sarum ;
and on iSth Dec, 1400, Stafford conferred priesthood on
Richd. Courtenay, the Archbishop's nephew (eldest son of Sir
Philip C, of Powderham, Knt., and his wife Margt. Wake,
ancestors of the present earls), at the early age of 20, after-
wards Bishop of Norwich.
The same Bishop of Exeter ordained Chichele, the future
Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter. 387
founder of All Souls College, Oxford, and Primate, Deacon, in
his private chapel in London, 26th May, 1396.
To Chichele succeeded in tlie Archbishopric another
Stafford, John, he o( whom Mr. Kite has lucidly endeavoured
to trace the parentage — a matter of no small difficulty, as every
authority has a scheme of his own. And when John Stafford
left Bath and Wells for Canterbury, he was succeeded in that
Bishopric by one who had been born not far from his own
(probable) birth-place, by Thos. Beckington. For if the Arch-
bishop were born at Bradley, the new Bishop saw daylight first
at Beckington.
"Beckingtona mihi dedit ortum ; Balnea Pontes
Fasces . . ."
1 have introduced him in order that I may refer to a deed
which perhaps ma}' throw a glimmer of light on the question
of the Archbishop Stafford's birth. Bishop Beckington granted
certain lands to a Dawbridgecourt, who had married Beatrice,
a relative of the Prelate ; and the deed states that these lands
had formerly been held by Emma, who was mother, and Agnes
Bradley, sister, of Bishop John Stafford.
This tends to support Mr. Kite's contention that the Arch-
bishop was, as Dr. Gascoigne — a contemporary, and one who
knew what he was talking about generall}- — maintains,
bastardiis origiiie.
But there are difficulties. The mother retains her maiden
name, or the name of her parish; the son assumes the sup-
posed father's name, and coat of arms, only adding a
mitre in token of his position. The Silver Hand calls the
illegitimate brother in his will, "John, my brother"; and the
wife of the supposed father makes a bequest in her will to an
illegitimate son of her husband's. An Archbishop flaunts his
illegitimacy.
By the way — Where was the Archbishop ordained ? In
the Register of that Bishop would there not be found a
" Dispcnsacio super defectti nataliuni^^? Once more ; would not
a dispensation be required for the marriage of the second Sir
3S8 IViltsliire Notes and Queries.
Humphrey Stafford to Elizabeth Maltravers, on the ground of
consanguinity ?
Torquay. S. Grose, M.D.
SOME LOST TRADES IN MARLBOROUGH.
While going lately through a file of Indentures of the
Apprenticeship of poor boys and girls by the Overseers and
Churchwardens of the parishes of Marlborough St. Mary and
Marlborough St. Peter, I made a note or two, which it may not
prove uninteresting to place on record.
The dates of the Indentures run from 1662 to 1694, and
are principall}' therefore in the reigns of Charles II and
James II.
Among the Trades mentioned the following arc no longer
caiTied on in the Borough, at any rate not as distinct Trades :
" Wyer Drawer ", '* Tyler ", " Cloath Worker ", " Pynmaker ",
" Lyme Burner", "Parchment Maker", "Pipemaker", "Glover",
" Weaver ", " Scrivener ", " Cordwindcr ", " Fustian Weaver "
(this was a resident at Aldborne), " Bodismakcr ", " Wooll-
comber " (this was a resident at Newbury).
The above all refer to the apprenticeship of boys.
The girls were in most cases to be educated and brought
up in " houswifrye ", or household or domestic employment,
and also to knit, sew, make bone lace, and to read the New
Testament in English. E. Ll. G.
Gibbons of Corsham and Warminster. Can any one
give me information respecting the previous family records of
John and Margery ( ?) Gihbons, Quakers, living at
Corsham Ridge 1670 78, and at Warminster 1678 83 ?
Balllfshnry. 389
Their children were, iMary (died at Warminster, Nov.,
1679), y^//// and /anus. John Gibbons, scnr., purchased land in
Penns^-lvania of William Penn in 1681, and in 1682 conveyed
a full moiety thereof to Robert Sntlicry, of Westbury. In his
will, dated 3 11-1720, he leaves money to a brother, Robert,
and sister, Jane, still in England. Jane married Benjamin
Power, in 1677-78, "both of Corsham Meeting". Her brother,
Jo/in Gibbons, signed the permission. " Monthly Meetings "
were held at his house, and after his removal to Warminster
he appears as a delegate to the " Quarterly Meetings " at
Devizes, Cannings, Marlborough, and Calne.
John, b. about 1650, Robert, and Jane Gibbons, children
of ?
Margerv, b. about 1650? Parentage and marriage date?
Rebecca Donaldson Beach.
78, Wall Street,
New Haven, Co)in., U.S.A.
Battlesbury. — In the beginning of this year I had some
correspondence with Mr. J. B. Stair, of Victoria, who left his
native town of Warminster sixty-seven years ago, aged fifteen ;
he is the author of Flotsam and Jetsam, etc., and son of Mr. J.
Stair, who kept a school probably where St. Boniface now is.
His card, printed by Vard}', now lies before me: "Education
by J. Stair, Warminster, Board, and Instruction in English,
Writing, Arithmetic, Merchant's Accounts, Geography, Histor}',
and the Use of the Globes, 24 Guineas per annum. No
entrance required." There are several extras, including
"Single Beds", all at ^£2 25. except "Tea for Breakfast, or in
the Afternoon ", which is £^i is. ; " Day Scholars, ^(^4. 45. per
annum ; Day Boarders on Moderate Terms".
In one of his letters he mentions the existence on Battles-
bury Hill of "a massive block of roughly hewn sandstone,
with a deep socket cut in the centre ; one Shrovetide a party
of lawless fellows dug out this precious old relic and sent it
39© IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
rolling down the hillside, where it was dashed to pieces. The
next time our school excursions took us that way I can
remember the sorrow I felt at its destruction." Can any of
your readers give us any information concerning this stone
and its destruction ?
J. F. Welsh.
57. Boniface, IVarniinstcr.
Sanborn. — I lind by the Eyre Roll, published by the Pipe
Roll Society, that there was a Juliana de Sandeburne in Wilts
in 1194. Have any of your readers come across the name
earlier than that or connectedly later?
At the Harvard College Librar}^ this summer I found
reference to Aiscough's Register at Salisbury, saying that
Hungerford, with the dependent chapel of Sandeburne, was
afterwards alienated and granted to the collegiate church of
Winchester. What was this Sandeburne?
\'. C. Sanborn.
La Graui^(\ Ills., U.S.A.
Edward Long (ii, 300-301). — Here Edward Long, of
Monkton, is referred to as Sir Edward Long. As he is
not so described in the Visitation of 1623, made after his
death, it seems unlikely that he was ever knighted. Is there
any reason to suppose that he was ?
Jacob (ii, 234, 235). — Any information respecting the
Jacob family will be very acceptable to a descendant of
Thomas Jacob.
W. 15. J.
Afiuigii'c//, JVi/ls, JVrougliloii. 391
iUpllfd.
Smoak (i, 527). — I do not remember coming across a
Smoak acre, but I should feel pretty sure that it was an acre
designed for the payment of the Church Scot or Peter's-pence,
which came to be called chimney-money, funiagium, smoke
farthings, and by various Welsh names. There were acres in
some places for paying expenses of Church Ales and other
dues — s^6' Smoke money, Hazlitt's (Blount's) Tenures of Land
and Customs of Manor, and Cowell's Interpreter. Hazlitt cites
churchwardens' accounts for Michinhampton {Arcliccol., xxxv,
430), as to " Peter' s-pence or smoke-farthings some times due to
Antechriste of Roome " {see on Romescot and Peter's-pence,
Yic\wh\e!s Anglo-Saxons in England and LeesRcctitudiuni).
C. I. Elton, Q.C.
Mungwell, Wilts, Wroughton (ii, 347). — This heading,
to a question asked by J. C. P., is misleading, because Mung
well is not in Wilts, but in Oxfordshire. The history of the
mistake is explained in vol. i, 573.
It appears from J. C. P.'s question that Wroughton has
been spelt in various ways, in modern as well as in ancient
days. Wroughton was originally spelt Werston, Werwers-
ton, and in other ways, both as regards the family and
village, and Elendune is another way of spelling Elyngdon.
Canon Jones tells us that "Worton was originally Ufer-
tun, changed in time to Uverton and Worton, a transition
natural enough when you recollect that there was but one
character in early writing for 'v' and 'u'. A similar change
has taken place in the name now spelt Wroughton, which, like
Worton, was originally Uver-tun, meaning the upper town".^
I Wilts Arch. Mag., xii, 12.
392
IVillshirc Notes atid Queries.
Some light is thrown on the position of tlic different parts
of what is now called Wroughton, by the names of the owners
or tenants of these different manors, as recorded in Domesday
Book, the Hundred Rolls, and Nomina Vi/Zarnm, etc.
We find Wertune, Wervetone, Elendune and Elcombe
belonging to different owners, but all four in the same Hundred
of Blackengrave (now merged in Hundred of Kingsbridge) in
the time of Domesday; but in 1316 Wertune was spelt
Werston, and was in the Hundred of Ellestubbe ; Wervetone
spelt Overwerston, in Thornhulle Hundred ; and Elendune
(spelt Elynton) and Elcombe, in Kynebrigge Hundred.
These different parts of Wroughton belonged at successive
dates in this way : —
Temp.
Edward Confessor
Temp.
William Conqueror
Temp.
Henry I.
i3i6Nom. Vil.
Wertune
to Alnud
to Humphrey
do r Isle
Tlie Dunstan-
Werweston
to Alwiii
to Aldrcd
villc family
Elendun
to Bishop of
Wynton
(or Winchester)
to Bp. Wynton
—
Bhiet family
Elcombe
to Azor
to EarlAlbiric
—
Love! „
In the Chartulary of Castle Combe, about the time of
Henry 1, i 100, we find both Woj'ston and Wei'weston mentioned
as belonging to the Dunstanville family, of whom the Abbots
of Tewksbury held a knight's fee : " that they acknowledged
fealty for the town of Werston up to the Dissolution"; and
" held the manor of Over Wroughton in 1537, though another
entry charges it to the tenants of Philip de Combwell, Prior of
St. Swithin at Winchester, from 1523 to 1547".^
We pass on to an answer to J. C. P.'s question concerning
the connexion between the names of Elingdon and Wroughton.
Wilts Arch. Ma;/., ii, 278.
Mitiigivcll, JVil/s, IVroitgliton. 393
We first find them connected as '* Elyndon alias Wroughton,"
or as "Wroughton alias Ehndon", in 1496, when the Bishop
of Winchester, as owner of Elendun (since the time of Edward
the Confessor), appointed the Rector; and it was not till 1696
(200 years later) that the name of Wroughton appears alone
(witliout the alias Elyndon) in the Sarum Registers.^
Thus it was that the Church, situated as it was in Old
Elendun, by bringing together the people from the neigh-
bourhood to its walls, also brought together tlie names of the
two principal parts of Wroughton, which became known
as " Elyndon alias Wroughton " as early as 1496.
The word Elendun is a history in itself; it means, in
Anglo-Saxon, the enclosure or fort " Duji " of Ella.
Traces of the " Dun " can still be seen in the mounds and
ditches (similar to those at Barbury Castle, which are in a
much better state of preservation) around the field called the
Ivory, occupying a very commanding situation.
The same El or Ella is a prefix to other names in the
neighbourhood. El-combe is the combe below the Dun. The
Ely river runs below, and it is possible, though perhaps
not probable, that it forms part of the name of the Hundred
Eltub, which is translated Elder-stump by Canon Jones
(A.-S., Ellen-stub). Elstub is still retained as the name of a
field in the parish of Enford in the Hundred of Elstub.^
With regard to an answer to the second part of J. C. P.'s
question concerning the connexion between the family of
Wroughton and the village, it will be seen above that none of
the four parts of Wroughton belonged to the Wroughton
family. They were settled in Broad Hinton as long ago as
1392, when William Wrofton of Wroughton is said (by Canon
Jackson) to have "died an owner of Brodehinton".^
' Sir T. Phillips' Wilta Institutions.
- Jones' Domcxday for Wilts, p. IT'J. '" This lliuidred is now called
Elstub and Eveiley. It is of larger extent now than formerly — including
manors from various parts of Wilts belonging formeilj' to the Priory of
St. Swithin at Winchester." ^ Wilts Arch. Mag., xix, 111.
394 JVillshire Notes and Queries.
Sir William Wroughton built a great house there in 1540,^
which was burnt by his successor, Sir John Glanville, the
celebrated lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons,
"by his own hands, to prevent ye rebells making a garrison of
it," in the civil wars. 2 He was living in " ye Gatehouse " at the
time Evelyn visited him there in 1654, and wrote the above
in his celebrated Diary.
In 1565, when Sir W. Wroughton was probably living in
his "great house," George and Alice Wroughton were living
at Overtown;3 and another interesting fact may be here
recorded, that the family name was at one time spelt Wcrston^
in the same way as the village name, Isabella Werston (wife of
William Wroughton) being mentioned in one of the old Castle
Combe records of the date 1407.'*
T. S. M.
It may be of interest to J. C. P. to state that at the end of
the 16th century this village was known by both names. Thus
in wills, etc., it is found described as —
In 1569, "parish of Ellingdon alias Holncy Wroughton,
CO. Wilts ".
In 1571, " parish of Elingdon alias Wroughton".
In 1573, " lands in Wroughton EUyngdon alias Wroughton
Turvey ", and
In 1592, "parish of Ellingdon alias Wroughton".
When or why the change took place I cannot suggest.
J. S.
1 Auhrcy 4- Jacltnon, 189 and 334. ^ Evelyn's JDiary, 1654 date.
^ Aubrey ^'- Jaclison 368. * Wilts Arch Mag., ii, 285.
Notes on Books. 395
^lotfd on ISooUd.
The Blazon of Episcopacy : being the Arms borne by
or attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England
and Wales, b^' the Rev. W. K. Riland Bedford, M.A.
Impl. 8vo. Second Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press,
1897.
This handsome volume will be welcomed by all lovers of
episcopal heraldr}-. The first edition, which appeared in 1858,
contained 62 pages of heraldic illustrations, whilst the present
one has increased to 8i pages, including nearly a thousand
different shields of arms. The letter press in the new edition
has also increased fully 100 pages, and contains the heraldic
blazon of the Bishops of each diocese, arranged chronologi-
call}' ; together with an Ordinary of Episcopal arms, on the
plan of Papworth's Dictionary of British Armorials, by
means of which the names of those Bishops whose heraldic
insignia occur on buildings, ancient or modern, monuments,
seals, paintings, plate, etc., can be readily ascertained.
To the student of Wiltshire heraldry the arms attributed
to, or assumed by the Bishops of the Diocese of Salisbury,
sixty-two in number, commencing with Herman, Bishop of
Wilton, a.d. 1072, will be of especial interest. Some of these
were noted by the late Rev. Stephen Hyde Cassan ^ in his
Lives and Memoirs of the Bishops of Sherborne and Salisbury,
published in 1824, but it has remained for Mr. Bedford to
collect, arrange, and classify the whole series in its present
form.
Besides the arms of the Bishops of Salisbury and those of
' Curate of Mere and West Knoyle, and librarian to Sir Richard Hoare,
the historian of South Wilts.
396 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Gloucester and Bristol, which latter diocese also includes a
portion of Nortli Wilts, there are in Mr. Bedford's volume
some other arms of Bishops, wiio were either natives of, or
in some way connected with the county, notably those of
John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1425, Archbishop of
Canterbur}^ 1443-1452, whose claim to a Wiltshire origin has
been the subject of a recent contribution to the pages of
JV. N. & O. The shield of the Archbishop is thus blazoned
by Mr. Bedford, as drawn by Aubrey from stained glass, seen
by him in the windows of the old manor house at South
Wraxhall :
" Argcut (sometimes or), on a chevron gules a tnitre or in
a bordure engrailed sable.''
^^ Supporters eagles."
The mitre here added by Archbishop Stafford to his
paternal coat is an interesting example of an ecclesiastic
differencing the arms of his ancestors [we would be pleased
if any of our readers would inform us whether this was done
by authority or assumption], with an emblem either of his
office, or of the see over which he presided. Other similar
ones will doubtless occur on a careful perusal of Mr. Bedford's
work.^
' The following examples of the same usage, Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 of which
occur in Exeter Cathedral, are kiijdly communicated by W. H. Hamilton
Rogers, Esq., F.S A. :—
1. Bishop Henry Marshall ll'J4-120r) — Or, a lion rampant gules cntoijred
hy a hordure azure with semce of mitres ot\ the first. From Isacke's Antiqui-
ties of Exeter.
2. Bishop William Brewer 1224-44 — Gules, two hcnds wavy or, entoyrcd
hy a hordure azure, with semee of mitres and keys alternate of the second.
The keys relate to St. Peter, to whom the Cathedral is dedicated. In the
east window.
3. Bishop Walter Bronescomh 1258-80. — Ur, on a chevron sable three
cinqucfoils of the first, hetwecn two Iteys erecrt in chief, and a sword in
base of the second. The hegs and sword are the arms of the See. On his
tomb.
4. Bishop John Grandison 1328-70 — I^aly of six argent and azure, a hend
gules, thereon a mitre hetmeen two eaglets disj)layed or. 'the mitre displaces
an eaglet. In several places in the Cathedral.
Ao/rs 0)1 Books. 397
To William de Edington, Bishop ot" Winchester 1346 66,
the well known founder of the College of Bonhomnies at
Edington, his native village.i Mr. Bedford gives three distinct
coats of arms tVom different authorities. To these we shall
probably again refer in the pages of IF. lY. & O.
Among other Wiltshire men who attained to the dignity
of the episcopate, and whose arms are included in the volume
before us, we ma}' notice those of John Still, Bishop of Bath
and Wells 1593- 1608, a native of East Kno3de; John Thorn-
borougli. Bishop of Bristol 1603, and of Worcester 1617-41, a
native of Salisbury ; Thomas Tanner, the painstaking anti-
quary, and author of Notitia Moiias/ica, Bishop of St. Asaph
1732-35, a native of Market Lavington ; George Lavington,
Bishop of Exeter 1747-62, a native of Mildenhall ; Samuel
Squire, Bishop of St. David's 1761-66, a native of Warminster ;
and James Johnson, Bishop of Gloucester 1752, Worcester
1759 74, of the family of Johnson of Bowden Park, and liim-
self buried in Lacock Church, are a few which occur to us on
a perusal of its pages. The volume contains a good index.
Wiltshire Parish Registers. Mr. W. P. W. Phillimore,
who is printing the Marriage Registers of Gloucestershire,
Hampshire, and Nottinghamshire, is very desirous of starting
5. Bishop Edmund Stafford 1395-1419— (?r, a chevron tjnles, entoyred by
a hordvre azure, with semee of vdtre-f of the jivnt. In the eist window and
on his tomb.
6. First window next the quicr in Exeter Cathedral — Argent, tn-o
hendlets ivavy sable, within a hordnrc of the same charged with nine pairs
of key.t, the ivards facing outirards or.
This for Bishop Walter Stapyldon 1807-1327. Symonds' Diary, p. 87.
The keys from arms of the See — St. Peter. It is not now to be found.
' The statement by Bedford (p. 122) that Bishop Edington was buried
at Edington is incorrect. He was interred in his cathedral at Winchester.
398 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
similar volumes for Wiltshire. The feasibility of such a
scheme depends very largely upon the support and help
accorded him in the county, and Mr. Phillimore will be glad
to hear from any who may be interested in the proposal. His
address is 124, Chancer}' Lane, London.
I6^e
i\
B A Y L I F F E, impaling NORBORNE.
(A tracing from a pe^vtcr platter, p. 405. j
^5Llilt6i)ive i^otfs anli ducrirs
MARCH. i8gS.
ESTCOURT OF SWINLEY.
(Continued from p. 357 J
d-f^
^ILLIAM COLLER, the elder, died intestate early
in the next year (admon. granted to his widow
Joane 15th April 1652), and the name of George
Estcourt first appears as witnessing a deed on
the last day of March 1652, by which Johane
CoUer, widow of William, and John, his second son, borrowed
^300 of William Jorden, of Holwell, Oxon, gent., the securit}'
being Swinley, now divided into various parcels called
Swinsell, Hurdens, Sowerlands, Cungrove, Moreshall Mead,
and at least three grounds called Swinley, the money with
interest to be paid in the dwelling-house of Charles Trinder,
gent., of Holwell, who gave a receipt for the same on the
7th of August in the same year. By the 30th of this month
of August 1652, the purchase of Swinley by George Estcourt
was completed, Joane Coller, the widow, getting ^400 for
her life interest in the estate, and John Coller, b}' his deed
of feofment, receiving the sum of " eleaven hundred and
fowerscore pounds." In the final agreement between George
Estcourt, pit., and John Coller and Sarah, his wife, deforcts.,
E E
400 lVi7/s/iiir iXofrs nnti Queries.
the property' is described as " one messuage, one barne, two
gardens, one orchard, 70 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow,
40 acres of pasture, 4 acres of wood and comon of pasture
for all manner of cattcU in Kinton, otherwise Kynton,
Kingeton St. Michaclls, Michaell Kingeton and Swinlye,
Swinley or Swindley," the said George giving John and Sarah
;^ioo sterling for their agreement.^ William Coller, the son,
also released all his title in the estate to "George Estcourt,
of Newnton, in the county of Wilts, gent."
The old adage says "once a clerk, always a clerk", and
though Mr. Estcourt may have been without a "cure" at the
time, he was certainly clerk as well as gentleman, and a few
years later took his degree of doctor of divinity. From
Foster's Aliauni Oxori. we learn that George Estcourt, third
son of Edmund, of Bristol City, armiger, passed his matricula-
tion for Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1624, being then 15 years
of age,2 became B.A. in 1628, vicar of Badgeworth with
Shurington, co. Gloucester, 1639, '^"^ graduated as D.D. at
Trinit}' College in July 1661. His mother, according to Lee's
History of Tetbury^ published in 1857, was Jane, daughter of
Sir George Snig,^ one of the Barons of the Exchequer.
' Among the witnesses to these deeds were John Skelton, Nathaniel
Cripps, Edward Birtby. and Thomas and Richard Estcourt.
'^ The parisli recristers of several of the old Bristol churnhos. as well
as those of Long Newnton, have been searched for tlie baptism of Dr.
Estcourt, but without result, most of them not going back as far as 1609.
Other registers have been looked up, with little success, for particulars
concerning the family, but questions of age have in some cases been settled
by reference to other dates.
•^ Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon.. 1564, B.A. 1.566; of the Middle Temple;
M.P. for Cricklade 1588 9; Recorder (1592-1604). and M.P. (1597-1601-
lt)04) for Bristol, proclaimed .James I at the Civic Cross; buried with his
parents Alderman George Snigg and Margaret (?jee Tayler) in the chancel
of St. Stephen's. Bristol, with wliich city his family had been connected for
over two hundred years ; he died 1 J Nov. 1617, a-t. 7H ; will pd. 11 Feb. 1618;
Exors. Anne R. Young and Thomas Hodges. At the east end of the south aisle
there is a splendid monument with his recumbent fio-nre in robes of office,
" Tilta {sic ! Milliam) Snygge jjosuit et dicavit," restored by his grandson
Thomas Hodges, and again a few years ago. According to Weaver's
Visitations of Somerset, 15.31, 1573, loOl, his wife was Alice, daughter of
Estconrt of Swinlcy. 40 1
From information kindly given by the present vicar of Badge-
worth, it appears that George Estcourt was presented to the
vicarage by Edmund^ Estcourt " pro hac vice " April ist, 1639,
his marriage with Ann Machen being recorded in the parish
register there, April 26th, 1638, as well as the following
entries : —
Edmund Estcourt, baptized Jan. 23rd, 1643.
Mary Estcourt buried Oct. 4th, 1643.
Ann Estcourt baptized Feb. 14th, 1646.
IMie registers are more or less irregularly kept during this
period, and there is no evidence in them or in the Diocesan
Register^ as to when Dr. Estcourt left Badgeworth, or whether
he ma\' or may not have been one of the "ejected ministers"
during those troublous times for Church and State.
However this ma}' have been, we find him described in
\Villiam Yung, of Ogborne, co. Wilts. Arms, Azure, three leopird's faces in
pale or, impaling. Per fess gules and azure, a fess bef/veen three falcon's
heads erased or. Crest, .1 dove volant proper (on the monument it appears
more like An eagle volant or). According to a grant made to " George
>nigg, of Bristol, Coonsellor at Law, 1591," the crest should be, A demi stag
erased or. — Editor.
' Two old deeds, both endorsed " Oldleaze in Kingscott ", are of some
interest ; the first dated August .31st, 1648, being a revocation of a former
irrant (14th Chas.) b_v which " Edmund Estcourt, of Newnton, esq., did
demise all that close of wood in Kingscott. Glo'.s., called Oldleaze, 35 acres,
to Thomas Ivve, of Malmesbury, esq., William Clapton, of Bedminster, esq.,
Thomas Hungerford, of the Lea, Wilts, gent., Thomas Tyndall, of the
Priory, Kington. Wilts, gent., and Jasper Estcourt, of Rodboroughe, Glo's.,
gent., brother of said Edmund, for 10 years after decease of Edmund,"
provided there was no revocation. By the said revocation, Oct. 23rd, 1648,
Oldleaze, now 50 acres, was granted to John Estcourt. of Newnton. gent.,
'one of the soniies of said Edmund for bis better maintenance after the
lecease of his father, and as a reward for service done by said John" for
lives of himself, his first wife and fir.-st son. Oldleaze to be kept as a wood
and not tilled, and no tree to be felled under 14 years' growth. Every year
at Candlemas bounds to be set, with hedge and ditch to divide Oldleaze
frorn lands or wood of the lord oP the manor of Kingscott, commonly called
Horder Wood, adjoining Oldleaze. (There was also some Bristol property,
to be referred to later on.)
* Robert Lawrence appears as vicar of Badgeworth in 1668, four years
after Dr. Estcourt's death.
E E 2
402 ll'iltsliirc Notes and Oiicncs.
1652 as "of Newnton ", and having purchased Swinley in that
year (possibly about the time of his father's death) he perhaps
lioped to spend a few quiet years there, and from the fact of
his taking a doctor's degree soon after the Restoration he may
have looked forward to more work for the church in happier
times. But the next document to notice, though not a will,
has much the same significance, and is endorsed " Deed of
the settlement of the lands at Swinley by Doctor Estcourt ",
13th May, 1 6th Chas. II, 1664, by which George Estcourt,
"Doctor in Divinitie", demised Swinley as described before
and including a "messuage or tenement lately erected and
new-built^ b}' said George Estcourt", in trust for himself for
life, and then to his wife Anne for eight years after his
decease, then to son Richard (with power to settle as jointure
upon a wife) and heirs, or to son Giles and daughters Anne,
Jane and Grace. Trustees, Samuel Kynaston, of Somerford
Magna, clerke; and George Lymell, of Bristol, gent. Witnesses,
George Williamson, senr. (and junior), Christo. Lardge. This
deed gives us a clear idea of the family at Swinley, so soon to
be deprived of its head, for only three months afterwards.
Dr. Estcourt died^atthe age of 55, and administration was
granted Nov. 18th, 1664, to Giles, lawful son of George
Estcourt, Professor of Theology, of Swinley deceased, Anne
Estcourt, widow, liaving renounced.
* From a date which looks like 1701 there may have been some altera-
tions at the back of the house about that time, or else the general
appearance is no doubt the same now as when "lately erected " in IfiGl.
Swinley is a hou.se of two gables, with a porch over the front door, some
good chimney.'--, and two sun-dials, unc upon the "morning" and the other
upon the " afternoon " side of the house. The rooms are large and low, and
the passages wide, and from the ;ittic windows, or from tlic top of the slope
on which the house stands, may be .soon Aubrey's own "delirate prospect",
as from the garret at Easton Piers, " right away to Cotswold", and to Round-
way in the opposite direction, a view only excelled by that from the high
ground at Clapcoto. two or three miles off. Fossil remains, full of minute
shells, are found at Swinley, and one must not forget the great walnut tree
in the orchard, which must have stood for many generations.
^ "Dr. Estcourt Buried at Newnton ye 11th (?) of August, lG(i4." {Long
Newnton Par. J ley.)
Estcoiirt of Swin/n'. 403
Nothing more is known of the daughters or whether the
widow survived beyond the eight years specified, hut just at
the expiration of tliat time, Richard Estcourt,'; eldest son of
George, married Ehzabeth Bayht^e, with a fortune of ^300.
Tlie marriage settlement, March 13th, 1672, was between
" Richard Eastcourt of Swinley, gent., and Elizabeth Baylifife,
spinster, one of the daughters of William Baylifte,^ of Monck-
ton, neere Chippenham, gent." Trustees, John Clarke, of
Alleston, Glo's., gent., and Henry Norborne, of the town and
CO. of Southampton. Swinley settled as jointure upon Eliza-
beth, in consideration of ;^30o paid by her father to Richard
Eastcourt. On Oct. 1st of the same year we have "Brother
Gyles Estcourt's release of Swynley to mee Rich. Estcourt ",
in which "G3'les Estcourt, of Chedglowe, in the parrish of
Crudwell, Wilts, gent, for the appeasinge of differences tliat
were like to growe betweene mee and my Brother Rich. Estcourt
of Swinly, gent., and in consideration of a release by him
made to mee of all his right and title to two grounds in Kings-
cott, Glo's., have demised to said R. E. all my estate and title
in Swinly aforesaid". Many bonds, counter bonds, mortgages,
and such like deeds^ mark Richard Estcourt's short tenure of
Swinley. In 1678, Henry Palmer, Barber Chyrurgion ot
Chippenham, obliged with a loan of ;^8o (Moreshall Mead
the security), and in 1682 Benjamin Talboys, of Doughton,
Tetbury, gent., lent another sum of the same amount. In
January 1683. Susan Bouchier.* of Chancery Lane, spinster,
took up Henry Palmer's mortgage, paid him ^106 145., and
' Mr Richard Estcourt and Mrs Elizabeth Bayliffe were married March
21st (.') 1672 (Chippenham Par. Peg.).
^ Some further remarks upon the Bajliffes and other families mentioned
here belong more especially to another paper.
' Among the signatures at various dales are the names of .John Scott,
Jonathan Rogers, James Baynt'n, Theophilus BaylifTe, A. Martyn, A. Awdry,
and other old Chippenham names mentioned in Mr. Goldiiey's Records of
Chippenham.
' A relative of Walter Grubbe, Esqr., of Potterne, in whose house the
money was to be paid (see ii, 350).
404 IVillshirc Notes and (J 11 cries.
also supplied Richard Estcourt with ^150 upon Sowerlands
and Moreshall Mead But the poor gentleman did not live to
discharge his liabilities, for in 1686 he had become "late" of
Swinley, leaving a widow (administratrix) and three children,
George, Ann, and Mary, whose affairs were taken charge of by
Mrs. Bayliffe, of Monkton, herself just left a widow, and her
sons Henv}' Bayliffe, of Monkton, and Charles Bayliflfe, of
Bernard's Inn. Susan Bourchier was paid off "out of the
moneys" of George Estcourt (a minor), and by the time he
came of age, about 1695, he was in peaceable possession of
Swinley, where he and his two sisters lived for some years. ^ A
measure of the farm, taken about this time, gives the names of
the several parcels of ground as Grove Close, Lower Wood
Lease, Home Wood Lease, Narrow Meade, Home Close, Barn
Close, Bottom Meade, Clay Hill, Congrove Hill, Hurdens, Cow
Lease, Fernny Lease, Swains Hill or Swinsell, Sowerlands
with a way to same, Moreshall^ Mead with a way to same, and
the Wood, the whole about 120 acres.
In 1705 George Estcourt voted at Wilton for Howe and
Hyde, and in that and the three following years his name
appears as churchwarden in the parish register of Kington St.
Michael.
But in this, the third generation, the name of Estcourt was
to disappear from Swinley. Neither his father nor grandfather
had lived nnicli beyond middle life, and George died unmarried
' A "draft not executed" dated Feb. i7th, 16i)l, contains a bit of
genealogy in the recital of certain indentures between " Sir Thomas E.stcourt
of Sherston Pinckney, and Dame Mary his wife, and George Estcourt of
Swinley, pent., son and heir of Richard Estcourt, deceased, who was sou
of George Estcourt, deceased, one of the younger sons of Ediuond Estcourt,
Esqr., late of Newnton, deceased, who was grandfather of said Sir Thomas
Estcourt, and great-grandfather of said George Estcourt". These deeds
conveyed certain messuages in the city and suburbs of Bristol to George
Estcourt, and in 1704 he sold "eight messuages with gardens in the parish
of St. Augustine the lesse, Bristol, now in possession of Edward Hayman ",
to Thomas Wairen, of Bristol, vintner, for £170.
- .Moreshall and Sourlands are now the names of separate adjoining
farms, the latter being sometimes called Lower Swinley.
Estconrl of Sivinlcy. 405
in 171 2, at the age, probabl}'-, of 39, leaving his two sisters joint
owners of the property-, and sole representatives of the name
at Svvinley. The inventory of his goods and chattels was
taken the 5th of May 1712, by jno. Hibbard, of Seagry,
yeoman, and May Finchin, clothier, of Langley Burrell, and
amounted to close upon ^300. There was plenty of "beakcon"
upon the rack, and of cheese upon the "taxkes" in the cheese
"Laught", plenty of corn and a fair amount of cattle, and the
furniture was rather more abundant than was often the case in
those da3^s. "Item, his sword and wearing apparell jQ6 los.",
and "in plate and gold" ^13 55. In the kitchen was an ample
service of pewter, including " 5 pewter platters ", one of which,
seventy-three inches in circumference, is still in existence, and
bears the Bayliffe arms on a lozenge, viz. : A chevron bctvoccn
three hearts, impaling Ermine, a fess ncbiily, in chief (ought to
be on a canton) an imperial crown, for Norborne ; upon the
opposite edge of the dish is the crest — a demi lion on a wreath,
holding a branch, and there is also the inscription " E. B. May
ye 8th 1 686". {See illustration.)
William Baylifte, of Monkton, died in 1685-6, and the
initials upon the platter are almost certainly those of his widow
Elizabeth, the mother of Mrs. Richard Estcourt. An old Bible
with "Mary Estcourt, 17 13" upon the fly-leaf has also an older
inscription, "Elizabeth (Norborne) Bayliffe, her booke, 1641".
The Norborne is inked over, and was undoubtedly Mrs.
Bayliffe's maiden name.^
After their brother's death the sisters Anne and Mary let
the farm to John Pitt, yeoman, of Church Yatton, at a yearly
rent of ^60, reserving for their own use "the two parlours,
the buttery, with chambers over same, part of cellar, the new
orchard and garden, and liberty to use the well and furnace to
wash and brew as often as Anne and Mary, their heirs or
servants, should have occasion". And then lovers came to
Swinley.
' Mr. Norborne, a lawjer (?) Ifi54, in Mr. Goldney's Chippenham Records,
p. 222.
4o6 ll'iltsliire Notes and Oucnes.
One of them {U)V the ladies were not very young) may
not have been prompted by the higliest motives, for lie had
been one of the appraisers of George's goods and cliattels;
but first came Mary Estcourt's suitor, Wilham Alexander, of
Great Somerford, one of whose love-letters has been "laid up
in lavender" till the present da\', and here it is: —
"ffor Madam Mary Estcourt, at Swinley.
" Sweet Madam,
"I am now obliged on request oi my ffather this next morning to
set out on a journey which I cannot perform within four or five days
otherwise would have waited upon you Dear Madam, which as now I
cannot doe iiumbly beg yo'' pardon. I have sent you by my man a
small dish of Fish,' which pray be pleased to accept of from him who is
in sincerity yo"^ affectionate Lover
"William Alexander.
"Somerford, Aprill 13th, 1714."
The Estcourt seal, perhaps a keepsake from Mai"y to
William, was used to close the letter, and tliough partly
broken, the cstoiles and n-niiiic arc plainly visible.
In the same suniincr of 1714 Mary Estcourt became the
wife of William Alexander, he being 2S years of age and
she 35. Two daughters were borii,^ and in 1717 their mother
was left a widow, William Alexander dying in that year.*
Early in the next year, 1718, the remaining sister, Ann
' From the good trout stream at Somerford. where William Alexander,
the father, had nuich landed property.
■•'"Martha _ve daughter of Mr. William Ellizander and Mary his wife
was baptizcil M.iy ye itth 171.'>.
"Elizahetli ye daiiglitcr of j\fr. William Ellizander and Mary his wife
was baptized May ye 80lh 1716.
'• This i.s a trii cnppey of ye Regcster of Kington St. Michaell. Witness
my hand John \V;ist field, Clark of ye Pish." {Extract from old note hook,
verified hy reference to rcf/ixter.)
^ William Alexander, junior, gent., was buried June ISlh, 1717 {Great
Somerford Par. lleij) Renunciation of Mary Alexander, widow of W. A.
the younger, of Somerford Magna, yeoman, who died without making any
will. Full authority given to \V. A. of Kodbourne, father of deceased.
Eskoitrl of Sivinlcy. 407
Estcourt, married May Pincliiii,^ gent., of Northfield, Laiigley
Burrell. Ann and her sister Mary Alexander, widow, being
"seized in copartnery" of Swinley, now in possession of John
Pitt at the yearly value of ;!{^6o; of a messuage and lands in
Easton Town, Sherston Magna, in possession of Thomas and
Francis Goodenough,' gents., yearly value £,2^, and two other
messuages in Sherston, yearly value 45.S., as well as a personal
estate of ready money, etc. Ann's marriage settlement dis-
posed of her moiety of the aforesaid possessions to Henry and
Charles BaylifFe to the use of May Pinchin for his life and
then to Ann and heirs, with some other provisions. A son was
born, the name of George was given him, and he "departed
this life", for him a very short one, in Sept. 1722, as maybe
gathered from tlic fragment of stone in the porch of Kington
church; his mother, as from the inscription quoted before,
having died in Feb. 1721.
Her sister Mary Alexander's death in 1735 placed two co-
heiresses again at Swinley. Martha and Elizabeth Alexander
came of age in 1736-7, purchased May Pinchin's interest in the
estate, and divided their possessions, including some property
at Somerford, between them. Martha married Mr. Richard
Taylor, of Vatton Keynell, about 1742, and a few years later
' An old stone in Chippenham church, now just within the west door,
gives some particulars of the Pinchin family, and in Mr. Goldne3''s book the
name occurs .several times, May Pinchin (father of the above) appearing as
bayliffe of the borougli in 1677. The following entries from the parish
register are also of direct interest : —
May Pinchin and Elinor Ady, widow, were married Oct. 29th, 1676.
May, son of Mr. May Pinchin, bap. Jan. 18th, 1678.
(The name of May as a Christian name for men is of frequent occurrence
about this period.) Northfield is an outlying portion of Langley Burrell
parish, and the old farm-house (pulled down about forty years ago, the well
and orchard still remaining) stood on the south side of the old lane leading
from Langley Burrell to Allington. up which Leland rode on his way from
Malmesbury to Ailing-ton about 1540.
^ An Irish family of some standing who lived at Easton Town, and often
vi.sited Dublin. They have left a few records of their doing.s, and their
names, as men of law, are often to be found in old deeds of the 17th and
18th centuries.
4o8 lyUlsliire Notes and Queries.
Elizabeth becar.i.e the wife of Mi". John Smith, of Broad
Somerford, and mother of Miss EHzabeth Smith, of whom "an
affair at Broad Somerford " was related in this magazine
(i, 407), Swinley, as stated by Canon Jackson, being eventually
purchased by the late Mr. Jos. Neeld, of Grittleton.
Mary E. Light.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
BRATTON.
{Continued from p. 368.)
Feet of Fines. [IVi/ts. 32 Edward I.]
A.D. 1304. — At York in the Octaves of the Feast of St.
John the Baptist, 32 Edward I. Between Walter de Pauely,
plaintiff, and Geoffrey de Bratton, deforciant, of a messuage
and 2 carucates of land with their appurtenances in Bratton
and Mulebourne. Plea of covenant was summoned between
them. Geoffrey acknowledged the right of Walter as of his
gift. For this Walter granted him the same tenements for life
to hold of himself, Walter, and his heirs; returning therefor
yearly a rose at the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the
Baptist, and to do for Walter the service thereto belonging to
the chief lord nf tliat fee during Geoffrey's life. And after
Geoffrey's death the tenements shall wholly remain to Robert,
son of Walter, and the heirs of his body, to hold of Walter and
his heirs for ever; returning therefor yearly ^10, half at
Easter and half at Michaelmas, and the rose at the Feast of
the Nativity of St. John, and doing the service belonging to
the chief lord for Walter and his heirs. But if Robert die
without issue the said tenements shall wholly revert to Walter
Riconis of ll'iltslnrc Parishes. 409
and his heirs quit of the other heirs of Robert to hold of the
chief lord of that fee b}' the service thereto belonging forever.
Chartkr Roll. [^2 Edican/ I, \o. 59.]
A.D. 1304. — Grant to Walter de Pauely and his heirs for
ever of free warren in all their domain lands in Meghenden
and Bratton in Wilts, not within the bounds of the King's
forest ; an\' one entering those lands to chase in them or to
take anything appertaining to the warren without the licence
of Walter or of his lieirs to forfeit ^10 to the King.
Witness Strivelyn, 1st June. By Privy Seal.
Edingdon Chartularv. [Lnnsdowne MS., No. 442, /. 94'']
Charter of Thomas^ Simid of Muleboiirne to Agnes daughter of
Roger de Stoke.
A.D. 1303. — I John^ le Smud de Mulebourne have granted
and quitclaimed to Agnes daughter of Roger de Stoke my
tenement in Mulbourne, with the houses, curtilages, lands,
enclosure, pastures and grazing grounds, and all other appur-
tenances, lying between the tenement of Roger le Saucer, and
the tenement of John le Cornesyr, to hold to her and her heirs
of the chief lord of that fee for the yearly service thereto
belonging forever. And I John and my heirs will warrant to
her forever. For confirmation whereof I have set my seal.
Witnesses Lytel Stoke, Sunday after the Purifica-
tion of the B. V. Mary. 32 Edward I.
Assize Roll, No. 1349, ;//. 27"* [3 Edward II.]
.\.D. 1309. — Assize at New Sarum on Wednesday next
after the Feast of the Nativity of the B. V. Mary.
Nicholas son of Peter le P^itzWarin and Agnes his wife
who bore a wTit of novel disseisin against Roger de Littlestoke
and others named in the writ, concerning tenements in Mule-
burn Littlestoke and Bratton, near Westbury, did not prosecute.
' So copied in the MS.
41 o Willsliiri' Notes and Queries.
Therefore Roger and the others go thence without a day, and
Nicholas and Agnes and their pledges, William Kempe and
Nicholas Lawrenz (fined x^;'. each), arc in mercy.
Parliamentary WRns. [Pa)! II, p. 346.]
A.D. 1316. In the hundred of Westbury William de Man-
devil is lord of the township of Bratton.
Edingdon Chartulary, / 103*'-
Release of John Compayn to Nicholas FitzlVaryn.
A.D. 13 18. — I John Compayn of Over Mulbourne senior
have released for myself and my heirs and assigns to Nicholas
FitzWaryn and Agnes his wife and their heirs all the rent
which I have at any time been accustomed to receive from
them for a certain tenement in Nether Mulbourne. And I bind
myself and my heirs and assigns to warrant the said rent to
Nicholas, etc., forever. In testimony whereof I have sealed.
Witnesses . . . Mulbourne, Monday after the Feast of
St. John the Apostle. 12 Edward II.
Feet of Fines, Wilts. [19 Edward II ^^
A.D. 1325. — At Westminster in the octave of St. Hillary,
19 Edward II. Between Ralph le LongdeCouvelston, plaintiff,
and Robert Snellyges of Tynhyde and Alice his wife, defor-
ciants, of a messuage 35. rent and h virgate of land in Bractone,
Littlestocke and Milebourne. Plea of covenant was summoned.
Robert and Alice acknowledged the right of Ralph, to have
and hold the said tenement to him and to his heirs of the chief
lord of that fee by the service thereto belonging forever; and
they warranted for themselves and the heirs of Alice to Ralph
and his heirs forever against all men. And for this Ralph
gave Robert and Alice 8 marks of silver.
Patent Roll. [ i Edivard III, part 1 , ;;/. 1 6^]
A.D. 1327. — A commission of oyer and terminer is issued to
John dc Anneslcy, Elias de Godcle, and Peter FitzWaryn, on
Records of JVi/fs/ii/r Parishes. 411
complaint by Richard Daiiesey that John de Ticheburn, Jolin
de Gryndenham, Wilham le Poleter, WilUam Brightriche,
Richard Daunteseye, William Trot, William Wither, Robert
atte Hide and Beatrice his wife, John Gunyldesone, Robert de
Brodecombe, Walter de Shurreneton, John le Wollemonger,
Robert le Littel, Walter Wilcok, Richard le Touker, Roger
Cole, William le Rat, John le Fox, JohnGowyne, John Durant,
John Colleswayn, Roger de Upton, John Meriot, Walter Pur-
chas, Richard le Carter, Richard le Milleward, Thomas de Bys,
Hugh le fVaunkelyn, John Michel, Richard atte Funde, and
others, carried away his goods at Dulton and Bratton, in Wilts.
Westminster, March 23rd.
Edingdox Chartulary, / I03''-
Charters of Matilda, ivife of Roger CoDipayn, to Nicholas
Fitz Waryn.
A.D. 1327. — I, Matilda, formerly wife of Roger Compayn of
Bratton, have granted to Nicholas Fitz Waryn and his heirs or
assigns forever a messuage with a curtilage and land adjacent,
and all my pasture belonging to my tenement in Leyedounes
and Grotenes, and a croft of land ; and 6 acres of arable land,
with the reversion of half an acre which Adam Compayn and
Isabella his wife hold of me for a certain term, and the rever-
sion of three perches of land held of me b}- William de
Maundevile and Felicia his wife ; and the reversion of | acre of
meadow held of me by John Compayn son of William
Compayn. And the said messuage is situated at Hemhurste
next the house of Roger le Hoppere on the north. The said
croft lies between Petitescroft and Cokescroft. The 6 acres
lie in the fields of Bratton ; of which i acre lies on the
southern part of the garth of Robert de Pavely ; h acre on the
western part of the said garth ; i acre upon the Mulledich ; |
acre at Thorncumbe ; h acre upon Westmoesdone ; h acre in
Middelfurlang ; and another k acre in the same culture next the
land of John le Couk ; and | acre at RigWeye ; and 3 roods
lie in a parcel on the west of Thomas North's garden; and one
412 IViltshirfi Notes and Queries.
rood lies in parcels in the fields of Bratton. And the | acre of
meadow lies in la Fleete. To Hold of the chief lords of that
fee for the services thereto belonging. And I Matilda and my
heirs will warrant the said Nicholas, etc., against all men for-
ever. In testimony whereof I have sealed. Witnesses ....
Bratton, on the Vigil of St. Andrew the Apostle, i Edward III.
Ibid., f. 104.
I, Matilda, etc., have granted to Nicholas FitzWaryn an
acre of land lying in the fields of Bratton; of which h acre
lies in Middelfurlang between the land of Robert dc Pavely
and the land of John le Couk, near the land of the said
Nicholas ; and the other k acre in Langefurlang, between the
land of William de Maundevyle and the land of John le Couk.
Also I give him k acre of meadow and the whole of my sheep
pasture belonging to my tenement as in Grocenes, together
with the Laydoune, and the h acre of meadow lies in la Floete,
between the meadow of William de Maundevyle and the
meadow of Walter le Rod. To hold to the said Nicholas or
his assigns for the term of his life, returning yearly to me and
my heirs one rose at the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the
Baptist. I and my heirs will warrant to Nicholas or his
assigns against all mortals. In testimony whereof I have
sealed. Witnesses .... Bratton, the Sunday next after
the Translation of St. Thomas, i Edward III.
Ibid., /. 104''
A.D. 1327. — I, Matilda, etc., have granted to Nicholas Fitz-
Waryn and his heirs and assigns a croft which I had of my
inheritance in Bratton, lying between the croft of Nicholas
Petit and the croft of John le Couk. To Hold with all its
hedges and ditches and other a]:)purtenances to him, his heirs,
etc., of the chief lords of that fee for the services belonging
thereto forever. And I and my heirs will warrant to Nicholas,
his heirs, or assigns forever. In testimony whereof I have set
Records of IViltsln'rc Parishes. 413
my seal. Witnesses .... Dated at Bratton the Day of
the Circumcision of the Lord, i Edward III.
^3"-
Ibid., / 10^
Charter of John Compayn to Nicholas FitzWaryn aiu/ his son.
A.D. 1328. — I, John Compayn, of Overe Mulbourne, have
granted to Nicholas FitzWaryn and his son William i| acre of
land; of which i acre lies between the land of Nicholas Fitz-
Waryn and the land of Robert de Pavely ; and the | acre lies
at Shortemusdone, between the land of the foresaid Nicholas
and the land of Ralph le Lange. To Hold to the foresaid
Nicholas and William and the heirs of William or his assigns
of the chief lords of that fee freely and in peace forever,
returning therefor the accustomed services. And I, John, etc.,
will warrant Nicholas, etc., against all mortals forever. For
this grant the said Nicholas and William have paid me 20
shillings sterling. In witness whereof I have set my seal.
Witnesses .... Bratton, the Sunday next after the Feast
of the Purification of the B. Virgin Mary, 2 Edward III.
Ibid., / 103.
Charter of JoJin Ic Cook to Nicholas FitzWaryn.
A.D. 1330. — I, John le Cook, of Bratton, have granted to
Nicholas FitzWar^'n and his heirs forever | acre of arable land
lying on the mount of Bratton in Myddelfurlong, between land
of the foresaid Nicholas on either side. To hold to him and
his heirs forever by hereditary right of the chief lords of that
fee by the service thereto belonging. And I, John, and my
heirs will warrant the said land to Nicholas, etc., against all
mortals forever. In testimony whereof I have set my seal,
etc. Witnesses .... Bratton, Sunday next after the feast
of St. Laurence the Martyr, 4 Edward III.
Ibid., / io4''-
Charter of Matilda, ividozv of Roger Compayn, to lVillia)n
Fitz Waryn.
A.D. 1330. — I, Matilda, formerly wife of Roger Compayn of
414 Wi/fs/iirr Noics and Oiicrics.
Bratton, have granted to William FitzWaryn, son of Nicholas
FitzWaiyn, and his heirs or assigns forever, 6 acres of arable
land lying in the fields of Bratton ; of which 3 roods lie at
Langedich, between the land of Robert de Pavely and the land
of John le Couk, and another 3 perches lie between the land of
William de Maundevile and the land of John le Couk ; and \
acre lies at le Strizele of Bratton, and reaches onto the garden
of Thomas North ; and h acre lies outside the garden of
Robert de Pavely by the land of John le Couk; and 4 acre lies
in the southern part of la Weylonde, between the land of
Robert de Pavely and the land of Matilda de Corniser ; and h
acre lies beyond Thorncombe, between the land of William de
Maundevile and the land of Robert de Pavely ; and h acre lies
at Ilousforlang, between land of William de Maundevile and
land of Robert de Pavely ; and h acre lies on the north part of
Thorncombe, between land of Robert de Pavely and land of
John le Couk ; and .] acre lies betv/een land of John le Couk
and land of Kdvvard Witlegh, and stretches itself onto Rug-
weyesbal ; and h acre lies in Middel furlong, between land of
John le Bratton and land of Robert de Pavely ; and \ acre lies
upon Hendone, between land of William le Bruthere and land
of Jolm le Couk ; and \ acre lies in le Bidelonde, between land
of Robert de Pavely and land of William de Maundevile ; and
1 rood lies before Godeshulle, between land of William de
Maundevile and land of John le Couk. To Hold to said
William, his heirs or assigns, by hereditary right of the chief
lords of that fee for the services thereto accustomed and
belonging. And I, Matilda, etc., will warrant, etc. In testimony
whereof I have sealed. Witnesses .... Bratton, Sunday
next before the Feast of St. Ambrose, Bishop, 4 Edward III.
Ibid., / 105.
Rclcnsr of Matilda Cunipayii In Aic/io/as FitzlVarvii.
A.D. T330. — I, Matilda, etc., have released forever to
Nicholas FitzWaryn, his heirs or assigtis, all the lands,
Records of IViltsliire Parishes. 415
meadows and pastures, together with la Leydone and Grotenes
with all their appurtenances, which I gave to the same Nicholas
for the term of his life to hold of the chief lords of that fee by
the due and accustomed service, so that neither I nor my heirs
nor anyone in our name shall be able to demand any right in
the foresaid lands, etc. And I and my heirs will warrant the
foresaid lands, etc., to Nicholas, etc., against all mortal men
forever. In testimony whereof 1 have set my seaU Wit-
nesses .... Bratton, Friday next before the Feast of All
Saints, 4 Edward III.
Ibid.
Charter of the Same to the Same.
A.D. 1331. — I, Matilda, etc., am bound to Nicholas Fitz-
Warj'n and his heirs or assigns forever in 25. sterling yearly
rent issuing from my tenement in Bratton, viz., from my
houses, curtilages, and all my enclosures in Bratton ; and to be
paid yearly i2fl?. at the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the
Baptist, and i2</. at Christmas, with right to Nicholas, his heirs
or assigns, to distrain me and my heirs or assigns by our
goods, moveable or immoveable, in the foresaid houses, etc.,
for the said rent, and right of free ingress to the premises for
that purpose to Nicholas. And I and my heirs will warrant,
etc. In testimony of which I have set my seal. Witnesses
.... Bratton, Friday, the Feast of St. Petronilla virgin,
5 Edward III.
Ibid., /. 98.
Charter of John North to Nicholas FitzlVaryn and his son
William.
A.D. 1331. — I, John North, have granted and confirmed to
Nicholas FitzWaryn and William his son and their heirs or
assigns \d. yearly rent, which Nicholas Condut and Sarah his
wife are wont to pay me yearly from a certain croft which they
hold of me in Bratton for the term of their lives, together with
the reversion of the said croft after the death of Sarah, which
F F
41 6 IViltsliirc Noks and Queries.
hereditary rent fell to me by the decease of Dom (Sir) William,
vicar of the church of B. Mary of Chitterne, my brother,
together with other tenements in l>ratton. To Hold to said
Nicholas and William, etc., by hereditary right of the chief
lords of that fee. And I, John North, and ni}^ heirs will
warrant, etc. In testimony whereof I have set my seal, etc.
Witnesses .... Bratton, in the Feast of the Translation
of St. Thomas, Archbishop and Martyr, 5 Edward III.
(To be coiifiiiiird.)
A CALENDAR OF FEET OF FINES FOR WILTSHIRE.
Continued from p. 340.
Henry VIII.
1. Anno I. — Robert Styleman f?;/c/ Stephen Toker ; mes-
suages and lands in Steple Assheton and Reveden. 40 pounds
sterling.
2. Anno I. — William Fermour, Richard Fermour and
Peter Reynolds and Robert Crooke and Agnes his wife ; manor
of Polton and lands in Polton, Polton Magna and Myldenall.
200 marks.
3. Anno 2. — Thomas Coke, senior, John Stone and
Thomas Coke, clericus, and John Thacheham, son and heir of
John Thacheham, formerly of Pymston, and Frideswide his
wife ; messuages and land in Little Woodeford, Wynterbourne,
Chirborowe and Wjmterbourne Gummar. 200 marks.
4. Anno 2. — Thomas Newburgh, Philip Baynard, John
Chokke, Robert South, Thomas Chafyn, John West, Thomas
Momford, William Chafyn, Leonard Chafyn and Thomas Hall
and Alice his wife ; manor of Okebourne Moysy and other
messuages and lands in Okebourne Moysy. 200 pounds
sterling.
5. Anno 3.— William Mallom, clericus, Richard Elyot,
A Cal4*)uiar of Feet of Fims for Wiltshire. 417
sergeant-at-law, John Seynesburye and John Westley ;
messuages and lands in Buryngton, and Rodshawe in the
parish of Steple Ayssheton. 100 marks.
6. Anno 4. -John Estmond, clericus, John Warde, clericus,
and William Fctyplace and Elizabeth his wife ; manor of
Leente with other messuages and lands in Leente Hulle,
Mokenhulle, Highworth, and Marleborough.
7. Anno 4. — William Alen and Thomas Letcombe and
Margaret his wife ; messuage and garden in Devizes. 30//.
8. Anno 4. — John Wyntreshull and William Wolfe and
John Skyllycorne and Mary his wife ; messuages and lands in
Marleborough.
9. Anno 4. — Edward Lee, clericus, William Thomson,
clericus, Ralph Copton, clericus, William Frost, William Disney
and Henry Saunders awf/ Adrian Fortescue, knight, and Anna
his wife, one of the heirs of Johanna Ingaldesthrope, widow ;
messuages and land in Bechynstoke and Botwell. 100//.
sterling.
10. Anno 5. — Thomas Mede, clericus, John Curie,
clericus, Walter Godyere, clericus, and Thomas Bentley and
William Woode and Alice his wife ; messuages and lands in
Magna Chelworth, Parva Chelworth, Crikelade and Calcote.
100 marks.
11. Anno 5. — Anthony Stileman <7«a? William Guyscalo ;
messuages and lands in Devizes. 30//. sterling.
12. Anno 5.— Anthony Stileman and Thomas Ryse, of
Warmester, and Ellen his wife ; messuages and lands in
Devizes. 40 marks.
13. Anno 7.— William Page, clothier, Edward Hunger-
ford, knight, Gregory Morgan, John Burleghe, John Skyllyngs,
Anthony Styleman, John Drewe and Robert Bromkar and
Robert Gylbert and Edith his wife ; messuages and lands in
Southbrome, Wyke and Canyngs Epi. 40//. sterling.
14. Anno 7. — William Long and John Grenaker and
Elizabeth his wife; messuage and lands in East Lavyngton.
20//. sterling.
F F 2
41 8 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
15. Anno 7. — William Eston and John Wcbbe and Alice
his wife, cousin and heir of Richard Stalbrigge ; messuages
and land in the town of New Sarum. 100 marks.
16. Anno 7. — William Frost, Edward Lee, clericus,
William Thomson, clericus, Ralph Lepton, clericus, and Henry
Saunders and William Smyth, knyght, and Isabella his wife ;
messuage and land in Bechyngstoke, Pokeshippon and Bot-
well. 200 marks.
17. Anno 7. — William Sandys, knight, Thomas Feteplace,
knight, Henry Long, knight, Simon Harcourte, knight, John
Bruggys, knight, Adrian Fortescue, knight, John Cheyne,
armiger, John Feteplace, senior, armiger, Henry Nores,
armiger, John Home, armiger, Thomas Inglefeild, gentilman,
John Skillyng, gentilman, Henry Pole, gentilman, and
Thomas Elyot, gentilman, and William Feteplace and Eliza-
betli his wife ; messuages and lands in Hyghworth, Esthorpe,
Frefthedon, Mokenhyll Lent and Marleborough. ^500
sterling.
18. Anno 8. — John Brook, sergeant-at-law, and John
Goldney, of one messuage and lands in Chippenham. 20
marks.
19. Anno 7. — Richard Hilley, clericus, Thomas Wrough-
ton, gentleman, and Clement Peruaunt and John Anker als.
John Peyntoure and Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters
and heirs of Nicholas Marley ; messuages and lands in Calne,
Stokkeley, Stokke, Bossebroke and Foxham. 100 marks.
20. Anno 7. ^Edward Lee, clericus, William Thomson,
clericus, Ralph Lepton, clericus, William Frost and Henry
Saunders and Lucy Broun, widow ; messuage and lands in
Bounton. 200 marks.
21. Anno 7. — Martin Flemyng and John Goldney, of the
manor of Coculborowe and lands in Coculborowe, Rawlynges,
Langlay, Byrrell, and Chippenham. 200 marks.
22. Anno 8. — William Byrde, clericus, and Roger Byrde
and Margery his wife ; messuage, toft, water mill, and lands in
Staunton. loo marks.
A Calendar of Fed of Fines for Wiltshire. 419
23. Anno 8. —William Frost, Ralph Lepton, clericus,
William Holgill, clericus, Henry Saunders, William Fletcher
and Richard Bray and Thomas Cresset, armiger ; manor of
Furmyaxe, six messuages and lands in Warminster. 100
marks.
24. Anno 9. — Thomas Chafyn and Philip Chilcote and
Grace his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas Parys and Alice
his wife, daughter and heir of John Paraunt ; messuage in New
Sarum. ^40 sterling.
25. Anno 9. — Henry Saunders and Thomas Coke and
Agnes Harley, widow, Marlow Rithe, gentleman, Nicholas
Rowde and John Rowde ; messuages and lands in Westwelow.
£^,o sterling.
26. Anno 9. — Thomas de la Lynde, knight, Thomas
Trenchard, knight, Leonard Chafyn, gentleman, Thomas Coke,
clericus, William Lane and John Stone and Anna his wife and
John Burdon ; messuage and lands in Semley. ^40 sterling.
27. Anno 10. — Robert Southe and Philip Goldyngham,
gentleman, and Johanne his wife, one of the daughters and
heirs of Richard Freman, armiger ; eight messuages and lands
in the town of New Sarum. 200 marks.
28. Anno 10. — Robert Holme ayid George Gilbert and
Elizabeth his wife, John Lamanva, alias Mason, and Johanna
his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of John Payne and
Edith his wife, daughter and heir of Robert Chynchon ; two
messuages and lands in New Sarum. ^60 sterling.
29. Anno 10. — Thomas Godderd and Thomas Rounte
and Johanna his wife ; a mill in Okebourne St. George. ^^20
sterling.
30. Anno 10. — ^Thomas Ynkpen, William Comptons,
knight, William Barkley, armiger, and William Hawles,
gentleman, and William Ynkpen ; messuage in New Sarum.
100 marks.
31. Anno II. — Sir (Dom) George Grey, clericus, deacon of
the new collegiate church of the Annunciation in Leicester, and
canon of the same, and George Hastynges, knight, Lord
420 JVillslhirc Notes and Queries,.
Hastynges and Anna liis wife ; the manor of Assheley with
messuages and lands in Assheley, also of the advowson of the
church of Assheley. ^400 sterling.
32. Anno II. — Sir (Dom) George Grey, clericus, deacon of
the new collegiate church of the Annunciation, Leycester, and
canon of the same, rt'//c/ Richard Sacheurell, knight, and Mary
his wife, Lady Hungerford Hastynges Botreux and Molyns;
manor of Assheley, messuages, lands, etc., in Assheley, also of
the advowson of the cliurch of Assheley. ^400 sterling.
11. Anno II. — Robert Somner, John Moggerige, John
Hybberd and Henr}- Thressher ami Walter Davy and Mar-
garet his wife, daughter and heir of John London and Johanna
his wife, daughter of Walter Vele ; messuages and lands in
Stockton Woly, Steple Langford and Berford St. Martin.
100 marks.
34. Anno II.- Edward Seymour, armiger, Robert Sey-
mour, armiger, Roger Chomle}' and George Rolle and Alex-
ander Medleand Katherine bis wife; messuages and gardens
in the town of New Sarum. 200 marks.
35. Anno 1 1. — William Hoberds and ]o\-\xi Wysdom, alias
John Carter, and Alice his wife; one messuage and lands in
PoUysholds. 100 marks.
T^(y. Anno 12.- William Birdc, clericus, and Thomas
Horton and William Gylbcrt and Elizabeth his wife ; mes-
suages and lands, a rental of two hundred pence to the bailitt
of the Hundred of Warminster, and lands belonging to a
water mill, in Warminster, Busshoppestrete and Smalbroke.
;^i2o sterling.
37. Anno 12.— William .Southe and Thomas Inkepen ;
messuages in the town of New Sarum. So marks.
38. Anno 12. — Thomas Tymber and John Trewe and
Matilda his wife ; three me.ssuages in Devizes. 200 marks.
39. Anno 12.- William Masklyn and Thomas Milne
r7//<'/ James Louthcr, armiger, and Johanna his wife ; manors of
Lidyard Millicent, Manton near Marleburgh, Pirton, Shawe,
and Bradon, and other messuages and lands in Lidyard
A Cah'fidar of Feel of Fines for IViltshire. 42 1
Millicent, Manton near Maiieburgh, Elcot and Marleburgh,
with tree fishing in Manton.
40. Anno 12. — Henry Long, knight, Maurice Berkeley,
knight, Jolm Seymour, knight, Baldwin Malet, armiger, and
John Ricart «//r/ John Muse, knight, William llusc, son and
heir apparent ot" the said John and son and heir of Margaret,
formerly the wife of the aforesaid John, daughter and heir of
Simon Blount ; messuages and lands in South VVroxhale.
;^ioo sterling.
41. Anno 12. — ^Ambrose Dauntesey, William Willyngton,
Michael Dormer and John Sparke and Nicholas Edwardes and
Grace his wife ; messuages and lands in Lavyngton Epi.
jQi6o sterling.
42. Anno 12. — Elizabeth Marvyn, widow, and William
Hodie, armiger ; manors of Steppe and Fountell Giflfords,
messuages and lands in Steppe, Fountell Giffords, Hyndon,
Barwyk, Tysbury and Bisshops Fountel. ^40 sterling.
43. Anno 12. — Christopher Willoughby and Walter
Edwards and Johanna his wife; messuage and lands in South
Burcomb, near Wilton. ;^3o sterling.
44. Anno 13. — Robert Horte, Richard Harrys, clericus,
and John Staynesmore and Thomas Gore and Elizabeth his
wife ; of half the manor of Yeatton Kaynell, six messuages and
lands in Yeatton Kaynell, Trowbrigge, Suthwyke, Fountel
Epi. and Stipleayssheton.
45. Anno 13. — Robert Brunker rt//^/ Richard Brunyng and
Mary his wife ; messuages and lands in Devizes. jQ6o sterling.
46. Anno 13. — Thomas Sloper, clericus, Robert Brunker,
William Page and Robert Nicholas and Robert Stokes and
Johanna his wife, daughter and heir of Nicholas Passion ;
messuages and lands in Rydlowe, in the parish of Boxc. ^40
sterling.
47. Anno 13. — William Dauntesey, Michael Dormer,
Robert Smyth, Robert Pakyngton and Henry Long, knight;
manor of Semyngton, and six messuages and lands in Semyng-
ton and Aston. ^200 sterling.
IViltshire Notes and Queries.
48. Anno i3.--John Skylling, Robert Wye and William
Dene and William Tliomas and Rose his wife; messuages
and lands in Ayssheton Kaynes, Magna Chelsworthe, Parva
Chelsworthe, Scrnecote and Bakhampton. ^60 sterling.
49. Anno 13. — Thomas Gavven, Baldevvin Malet, Thomas
Coker, armigers, Henry Pauncefote, gentleman, John Meryke,
chaplain, and Thomas Howeper and ]o\\x\ Denge and Elizabeth
his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Osmund Southe,
gentleman ; messuages and lands in Bakerstoke. 40 marks.
50. Anno 14. — Anthony Stileman and Christina his wife,
Thomas Martyn, clericus, and Richard Stileman and Thomas
Swayne, gentleman, and Johanna his wife ; messuages and
lands in Brecor Whitperisshe and Dounton. 100 marks.
51. Anno 14. — Edmund Tame, knight, Thomas Busshe,
William Farmour, armigers, and William Busshe, gentleman,
and Richard Wafer, armiger, and Johanna his wife, daughter
and heir of Anne, wife of John Brocas, armiger ; a third part of
the manor of Berytoun, alias Bery Bloundesdon in Brode-
bloundesdon ; twenty messuages, lands and a rent called
" lofife silver", in Berytoun alias Berybloundeston in Brode-
bloundeston and High worth.
52. Anno 14. — Thomas Coke and John Chafyn and
Johanna his wife ; messuages and lands in Warmester. ;£\o
sterling.
53. Anno 15.— Roger Carpenter and William Toncke
and Elizabeth his wife ; messuages and lands in Hornyngcs-
ham and Hyldevcrcll. 200 marks.
54. Anno 15. -Edward, Bishop of Salisbury, Henry
Rawleyn, clericus, Humphrey Stafford, gentleman, and William
Hanson r?;;^/ Thomas Mountcfordand Margaret his wife; manor
of Walcote, lands, etc., in Swindon "super montem". 200 marks.
55. Anno 15. — John Browne, John Aleyn, John Hyll,
Richard Wastefeld and William Gale and Richard Barons and
Agnes his wife ; messuages and lands in Christemalfords,
Castelcomb, ligh Langley, Langley Burell, South Langley, and
North Langley. ^220 sterling.
A Calendar of Feet oj Fines for IViltslure. 423
56. Anno 15. — William Dauntesey, Ambrose Dauntesey,
Michael Dormer, Robert Smyth, and Thomas Kele and }o\\n.
Longe and Margaret his wife, Elizabeth Halle and Mary
Halle, daughters and heirs of Humphrey Halle, gentleman ;
messuages and lands in Marlborough. ;^6o sterling.
57. Anno 15. — Richard Lyster, armiger, John Mille,
William Thorpe, John Twyselton, John Seyntpoull and
William Smyth, chaplain, <^7;;c/ Anthony Seyntmonds, armiger,
and Anna his wife ; manors of Netherhav}^!, and Hakleston,
ten messuages and lands in Netherhavyn and Hakleston.
jQ^oo sterling.
58. Anno 16. — Henry Longs, knight, William Halls and
Thomas Mounteforde a)id Thomas Fynnemore ; one messuage,
one mill and lands in Westkynton. 100 marks.
59. Anno 16. — John Compton, merchant of the Staple in
the town of Calais, and James Jonys alias James Taverner and
Elizabeth his wife; one messuage in New Sarum.
60. Anno 17. — John Radbard and Philip Goldyngham
and Johanna his wife ; one messuage in New Sarum. jQZo
sterling.
61. Anno 17. — Robert Carter, clericus, Richard Carter
and Robert Carter, junior, and David Style and Johanna his
wife ; messuages and lands in Magna Chelworth, Parva
Chelworth, Crikelade and Calcote. 200 marks.
62. Anno 17. — William Dantesey, Ambrose Dantesey,
William Holes, Michael Dormer and Robert Smyth and Ed-
ward Cobham and Johanna his wife ; manor of Clyff Pyppards
alias Pippards Clyff, with messuages and lands in Clyff
Pyppards. ^{^280 sterling.
63. Anno 17. — -Robert Nicolas and ThomdiS Cowper and
Johanna his wife ; lands in Calne. jQ^)'^ sterling.
64. Anno 17. — Stephen Cawoode, William Barker, John
Barker and Thomas Dacon, clericus, and Thomas Milam and
Alice his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Heniy
Everard ; messuages and lands in Okyngham. ^10 sterling.
65. Anno 18. — Alexander Langford, senior, and Agnes
424 VVillshire Nofcs aiu/ Queries.
his wife, Robert Langford and Alexander Langford, junior,
and Thomas Gore and Ehzabcth his wife ; two messuages
and three mills in Trowbridge. ^{Tioo sterling.
66. AiHio 1 8. --Richard Predy a/u/ William Predy and
Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of John George ; mes-
suages, one mill and lands in Boxe.
67. Anno 18.— Nicholas Affarnewell ^?//^/ Henry Goldeney,
clericus, lands in Chipnam and Langley Burell. ^30 sterling.
68. Anno 18 — Thomas Chafyn and Grace Chilcote ;
messuages in New Sarum. ;^ioo sterling.
69. Anno 18. — John Fitzjames, knight, chief justice of
the common pleas, Henry Longs, knight, and Bartholomew
Husey and Anthony Scyntmounds, armiger ; manor of
Charlton, near Malmesbury, and messuages and lands in
Charlton Fulyngs, Milburn, Brockynborowe and Hank^aiton,
together with a "corody" of seven white loaves, seven loaves
called brown crosse loaves and seven flagons [of wine] issuing
out of the abbey of Malmesbury, also the office of Woodward
in the forest of Bradon near Kings Hayes. ^400 sterling.
70. Anno 18. — Ambrose Dawney, William Willyngton,
Edmund Marvyn and Michael Dormer an(/ Robert Edge and
Margaret his wife; a third part of the manor of Bobeton and
a third part of messuages and lands in Clove Pypard a/ias
Pypard Cleve. ^80 sterling.
71. Anno 18. — Thomas Chafyn, of the town of New
Sarum, mercer, Thomas Chafyn of Mere, and John Mody and
John Bartilmewe, son and heir of Richard Bartilmewe and
Elizabeth, wife of the aforesaid John ; messuages and lands in
New Sarum and Pitton. ;£i4o sterling.
72. Anno 19. — Robert Green, Walter Semer and William
Langford and Ralph Wakeham and Edith his wife; one toft,
one water mill and lands in Wylton and Pulsion, ;^8o
sterling.
73. Anno 19. — Thomas Warneman and John Cornysshe
and Johanna his wife ; lands in Wanborowe, Snappe and
Vppcham. ^40 sterling.
A Calendar of Fed of Fines for IViltshire. 425
74. Anno 19. — John Dudele}', knight, Henry Owen,
knight, John Brygge, knight, Roger Copley, knight, Owen
West, armiger, Nicholas Strelley, armiger, Edward Lewke-
nor, armiger, Thomas Shelley, clericus, Anthony Stileman and
Aldelmus Lambe afid Thomas West, knight, lord Lawarre and
Elizabeth his wife ; manor of Alyngton, and messuages and
lands in Alyngton. ^1^320 sterling.
75. Anno 19. — Bartholomew Husee and Henry Rogers
rt;/*-/ Thomas Broke and Johanna his wife; half a messuage
and lands in Tylsede, alias Tyldeseyde, North Bradley, Magna
Cheverell, Gore and Est lavington. ^40 sterling.
76. Anno 19. — Edward Baynton, knight, John Erneley,
John Bonham and Thomas Seymayn and William Bysses ;
messuage and lands in Estcote and Crudwells.
77. Anno 20. — William Busshe, Thomas Godard, John
Bonham and Thomas Wayneman, junior, and John Grey, son
and heir of Thomas Grey of Rammesbury ; messuages and
lands in Est Bedwin and West Bedwin. f^%o sterling.
78. Anno 20.- -Henry Acton, of New Sarum, and Roger
Bartilmewe, son of Richard Bartilmewe and Alianor his wife ;
messuage in New Sarum. ^80 sterling.
79. Anno 20. — Bartholomew Husee and Christopher
Codryngton and Edward Codrington and Elizabeth his wife
and W'illiam Southe ; manor of Swaloclyflf, with messuages and
lands in Swaloclyff, Toderhull and Tissebury.
80. Anno 20. — John Butler aiid William Danyells and
Ellen his wife ; half a messuage, and lands in Ridclawe near
the parish of Box. 40 marks.
81. Anno 20. — Robert Sowthe and ]o\\vi More and Mar-
gery his wife, Thomas Coke and Johanna his wife ; messuage
and lands in Stratford. ^20.
82. Anno 20. — William Sowthe a)id John Stephens and
Agnes his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of John Balet
and Christine his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of
Thomas Hobbes, and William Stephyns and Edith his wife,
42 6 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
another of the daughters and heirs of the said John Balet and
Christine ; of two parts of a messuage and lands in Little
Ambresbury and Great Ambresbury. ^30 sterling.
E. A. Fry.
(To be conlinued.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
(Continued from p. 374.J
111.
MARRIAGE RECORDS.
P.
1 66 1 -3-4. — Alice Player to Arthur Henly.
1664-3-3. — Elizabeth Philpes to Edward Lufe.
1664-12-10. — Mary Pearce, of Chitoway, to Robert Button, of
Calne.
1673-2-14. — Mary Peirce, of Batheford, co. of Somerset, to
Thomas Crabb, jr., of Marlborough.
1673-2-21. — Robert PococK, of Reading, to Sarah Crabb, sen.
1673-3-25. — Henry Pinnell, of Levington, to Alice Webb, of
Dancy.
1676-1-11. — Alice Punter, ol I lullavington, to Robert SmrrH,
of Hullavington.
1680-3-12. — William Parradice, of Slaughterford, serge-
weaver, to Mary Bond, of Bewley, at Bewley.
1682-8-26. — Mary Parradice, dau. of John Parradice, of
Slaughterford, to Francis Broome, at Slaughter-
ford.
1686-2-20. — [Ann] Paradise, of Slaughterford, spinster, dau. of
John Parradice, of co. of Wilts, to Benjamin
Bond, at Slaughterford.
1 686- 1 0-1. — Alice Poi'Lsum, dau. of Thomas Poulsum, of
Mclksham ph., to Peter I Iawksworth, of
Bristol, at Shaw Hill, Melksham ph.
Quakerism in JViltsliirc. 427
1 693.4-1-1.— Thomas Packer, of Bidestone, yarn-maker, son
of \Vm. Packer, of Bidestone, to Ruth Fry, of
Slattreford, at Slatterford.
169S-2-28.— Mary Paredis, of Slaughterford, widow, to John
Darke, of Slaughterford, at Slaughterford.
1698-5-17.— John Phelps, of Bradford ph., cloth-worker, to
Mary Street, of Bradford ph., at Comerwell.
R.
i658-io-i2.~John RicKETTS, of Corsham, to Jane Hibbard, at
Corsham.
1665-10-9.— John Robins to Jenevara Summers.
1666-4-7.— J eane Richmond, of Xian Malford, to John Harris,
of Charlcot.
1667-3-5.— John Robins, of Titherton Kalloways, to Susannah
Jeffery, of Brimhill.
1667. 8-1-22. —Elizabeth Rogers, of Hedington, to Michael
Smith, of Charlton.
1671-8-19.— John Rogers, of Headington, to Ketherine
Atkins, of Sutton.
1674-1-21.— Henry Rogers, jr., of Hedington Meeting, to
Margarett Scott, of Hedington Meeting.
1678-9-28.— Henry Rawlins {alias Butler), of Corsham, yeo-
man, son of Henry Rawlins {alias Butler), to
Cretian Mills, at Charlcott.
1679-4-23.— Edith RiLY, of Avon, dau. of John Rily, to George
Hillier, of Avon, at Charlcott.
1680-8-24.— Robert Rily, of Bristoll, to Mary Birtch, of
Catcum, at Charlcott.
1698-5-2 1. —Michaell Russell, of London, mercer, son of
Michael Russell, of London, to Jane Gouldney,
at Chippenham.
1658-8-17.— Daniel Smith, of Marlbro.', chandler, to Abigail
Browne, of Marlbro.'
1662-3-18.— William Smith, of Kington St. Micaell, to Kathe-
rine Kerfoote, of Seagery.
1663-4-2 1. —Grace Salter, of Langley, to John Lawr.\nce, of
Calne.
428 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1664-8-23. — Charles Shingler [Shingles], of Seavington, to
Faith Bax [Box], of Sutten.
1665-10-9.-- Jenevera Summers to John Robins.
1666-12-7. — Hanna Stowell, of Ilullavuigton, to Charles
Emly, of Melport.
1667-1-22. — Michaell Smith, of Charlton, to Elizabeth Rogers,
of Hedington.
1667-11-20. — John Sparrow, of Ilullavington, to Ann Amor,
of Bromham.
1668-6-9. — Charles Shingles, of Titherton, cloth-worker, to
Elizabeth Flower, of Corsham ph.
1668-6-10. — Robert Stevens, of Rowde, to Ann Ayres, of
Bromham.
1670-2-10. —John Sparrow to Dorathy Bath.
1670-2-10. — William Stokes, of Corsham, to Sarah Moody, of
Bridge.
1671-2-3.— Susannah Ske.\te, of Foxham, to William Bayly, of
Catcombe.
167 1-3-1. — Giles Shurmer, of Purton Stocke, to Margrett
Sanders, of Cricklett.
167 1-8-8. — ^Elizabeth Smith, late of Sidenton, co. of Gloucester,
to John Beverstock, of Bidstone.
1 67 1-9-5. — Richard Stokes, of Corsham ph., to Abigail Hay-
ward, of Corsham ph.
1671.2-12-22. — John Stockam, of Sumerford, to Deborah Day,
of Cirencester.
1672-7-12. — William Smith, of Bromham House, to Frances
Selman, of Foxham.
1673-3-30. — Jacob Selfe to Joane Blandford.
1674-1-21. — Margarctt Scott, of Hedington Meeting, to Henry
Rogers, jr., of Hedington Meeting.
1674-6-17. — Anthony Sharpe, of Dublin, in Ireland, to Ann
Crabb.
1675-5-18. — William Stockes, of Rowde, to Susan Shelly, of
Rowde.
1675-9-21. — Daniel Smith, sen., of Marlborough, to Mary
Lawrence.
1675-12-14. — Thomas Saunders to Ann Gardner.
1676-1-11. — Robart Smith, of Hullavington, to Alee Punter, of
Hullavington.
Ouakin'siii ill IViltsilurr. 429
1676-3-14. — Isaac Selfe, of Bromham, to Mary Baily, of
Bromliam.
1677-10-16. — Mary Ski'll, of Brinkwortli, spinster, to John
Church, of Lea.
167S-1-24.— Ann SuMSiox, of Cullcrn ph., spinster, to Thomas
Hicks, of CuUerne ph. [married] in Slaughter-
ford ph.
1678-1-31.— Ruben Skuse, of Dantsey, sarg-maker, to Elizabeth
Young, at Charlcott.
167S-1-31. — Thomas Scates, of Foxham, yeoman, son of Wm.
Scates, to Jeane Harris, at Charlcott.
167S-2-3. — Sarah Smith, dau. of William Smith, of Bromham
House, to John Willis, of Calstone.
167S-5-14. — Elizabeth Sloper, of Marlboro, to Daniel Bullock,
of Marlbrough.
1 679- 1 2-3. — Isaac Selfe, jr., of Market Lavington, card maker,
to Mary Smith, dau. of Richard Smith, sen., of
Marden, at Devizes.
1 680-4-1 3. — William Stovey, of Hilperton, yeoman, to Freswith
Yeatell, of Foxham, at Charlcott.
1681-3-15. — Mary Smart, of Grickelton, to Joseph Alexander,
of Norton.
1683-3-1. — William Smith, jr., of Bromham, yeoman, son of
Wm. Smith, of Bromham, to Ann Bull, of
Shawhill, at Shawhill.
16S3-3-17. — Edward Smart, of Grickelton, to Mary White, of
Eeston, Kington ph.
1GS4-5-17.— Jeane Smith, of Kington St. Michaell, spinster, to
John Davis, of Nettleton, at Grittleton.
i6S5-3-i7.^ohn Sumpsion, of Slaughterford, thatcher, to
Martha Attwood, of Slaughterford, at Slaugh-
terford.
1686-2-8. — Jeane S.mith, of Marden, spinster, to Zephaniah
Fry, of Sutton Benger.
1688-2-1.— Richard Smith, of Marden, husbandman, to Mary
Hort [Hart], of Stanton Quinton.
1688-5-3. — Martha Sumner to John Greenhill, at Broomham.
1689-1-13. — Isaac Serjant, Hullaving[ton], to Jane Hale, of
Kington.
1689-12-27. — Mary Spicer to William Coole, at Alderbury.
43° Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
1691-3-7.— Elizabeth Smith, spinster, dau. of John Smith, of
Hartham, Corsham ph., to John Davie, of
Nettleton, at Slaughterford.
1691-10-10. — Samuell Smith, of Kington, to Elizabeth Kerfoot,
of Scagcry.
1694-2-20. — Jane Smith, of Hartham, Corsham ph., spinster,
dau. of John Smith, of Hartham, to John
Kent, of Hartham, at Slaughterford.
1694-5-20. — Maiy Selfe, dau. of Isaac Selfe, Jr., of Market
Lavington, to Joshua Johnson, of Devizes, at
Isaac Selfe's house, Lavington.
1 694. 5-1 -1 3. — Richard Slade, of Warminster, cloth-worker, to
Jone Smith, of Warminster, at Warminster.
1695-6-5. — Elner Seager to John Neate, at Calne.
1 695-8-1. — Anne Singer, of Mclksham, widdow, to John
Emeat, of Melksham, at Shaw Hill.
1696-2-20. — Mary Smith to John Neat, jr., at Calne.
1697-2-4. — Wm. Sartaine, of Holt, Bradford ph., serge weaver,
son of Wm. Sartaine, of Bradford, to Rebecca
Webb, of Woolley, at Comerwell.
1697-7-6. — Ann Sparrow, dau. of John Sparrow, of Langl}'
Burrill ph., to George Grant, of Bradford, at
Chippenham.
1 698-5-1 7. — Mary Streete, of Bradford ph., dau. of Ste :
Streete, of Bradford ph., to John Phelps, of
Bradford, at Comerwell.
1695-1-29. — James Tockal to Rachell Barrett.
1 697-5-14. — Mary Turtle, of Chippenham, spinster, dau. of
John Turtle, of Bidstone, to Wm. Goodsheef,
of Langley ph., at Chippenham.
1698-1 1-19. — Jonathan Tiler, of Calne, sargc-makcr, son of
Charles Tiler, of Calne, to Katherinc Noyes,
of Bradford, at Comerwell.
W.
1657-8-24. — Margery Wallis, of Slaughterford, to Israeli
NoYEs, of Calne.
1663-8-25. —Mary Woodward, of Charlcott, to Robert Johns,
of Shawbridge.
Quakcn's))! i)i iritislnrc. 431
\GGy2-2. — Ellinor WoDOM, of Slaughterford, to John Butler,
of Slaughterford, at Slaughterford.
1665.6-1 i-iS.— Ursley Webb, of Dansey, to Williams Barns,
of Xian Mai ford.
1666-3-27. — Elizabeth Wright, dau. of Andrew Wright, of
Reading, in Berks, to Leonard Rey [Key],
of Reading.
1666-7-*. — Elizabeth Willis to William Amor.
166S-1-20 [25]. — Samuell Work em ax, of Hullavington, to Mary
Amor, of Chippeniiam.
1 6 70-4- 1. — William White to Agnes Jeanes.
1670-4-5. — William Whit[e], of Focksum, to Agnes James, of
Sutton.
1671-4-M. — Jeane Webb to Robert Bright.
1673-3-25. — Alice Webb, of Dansey, to Henr}- Pinnell, of
Lavington.
1673-5-20. — Joane Webb, of Clack, to John Dewsbury, of
Gloucester.
1675-3-9. — Mary Wilkins, of Chittway, to Henry Hu.nt, of
Chittway.
i675-6-2o-[22]. — Elizabeth Wallis, of Slaughterford, dau. of
Elizabeth Wallis, of Slaughterford, to John
Baskervile, of Malmesbury, at Slaughterford.
1 675-9- 1 7. — Edw. Wallis, of Chippenham, tanner, to Hester
Hand, of Cullerne ph. [married] in Cullerne ph.
1677-2-19. — ^William Wigan, of St. Martin's le Grand, sadler,
son of Thomas Wigan, of Silver Street,
London, to Margrett Hale, at Charlcutt.
1677-9-4. — Sarah Webb, of Nettleton, spinster, to Joseph
Bushell, of Slauterford, at Slaughterford.
1678-2-3.— John Willis, of Calstone, to Sarah Smith.
167S-3-27. — Ralph Withers, of Bishop's Cannings, to Mary
Wilkinson, of Salisbury, dau. of Anthony
Wilkinson, of Salisbury.
1680-1-24. — Ann Webb, of Dauntsey, to John Young, of
Hossrat, at Charlcott.
1681-1-19. — Jone Whatly, dau. of Joane Mifline, of Warmin-
ster, to Wm. Forrest, of Warminster, at
Alder bury.
1681-1 1—3. — Mary Wallis, dau. of Elizabeth Wallis, of Slaugh-
terford, to John LovELL, at Slaughterford.
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432 IVi'ltsliirr Notes and Queries.
1682-*-*. — Thomas Withers, son of William Withers, of
Cannings, to Mary Noyes.
1683-2-26. — Friswed Wastefield, of Foxham, Brimliill ph., to
Stephen James, of Calnc, at Charlcott.
1683-3-17. — Mary White, of Eeston, Kington ph., to Edward
Smart, of Grickelton.
1686-10-26. — Charles Wheeler to Sarah May, at Devizes.
1692-7-36. — Ann Wallice, of Slaughterford, to Paul Moon, at
Slaughterford.
1693-7-6. — Daniell Willis to Jane Cook, at Calne.
1697-2-4. — Rebecca Webb, of Woolley, Bradford ph., spinster,
dau. of James Webb, of Woolley, Bradford ph.,
to William Sartaine, of Holt, at Comerwell.
Y.
1678-1-31. — Elizabeth Young, dau. of John Young, to Ruben
Skuse, of Dantsey, at Charlcott.
1 680-1 -24. — John Young, of Hossrat, Linam ph., sarge-maker,
to Ann Webb, of Dantsey, at Charlcott.
1 680-4- 1 3. — Friswith Yeatell, of Foxham, to William Stovey,
of Hilperton, at Charlcott.
Norman Penney.
Bcth-srphcr, Melksham.
(To be continued.)
Curious Entries in Corsley Register. — Orange Cary, son
of Thomas Cary, and Mary his wife, was born June the 2nd
. . . . 1705. His father named him Orange in memory
of Good King William whom God made a glorious instrument
to deliver these nations fiom popery and slavery an {sic) to
set our Gratious Souvrain Quen {sic) Ann on the Throne
whom God Bles {sic), preserve and prosper, Amen.
From the Register of Bishop Hallam, 141 5. — Licensed for
sepultre to Cor.sley, which before that time buried at War-
minster, by a Papal Bull, "Johannes Episcopus servus
servorum Dei," to his beloved children of both sexes dwelling
in Corsley and the hamlets adjoining, " Whereas the Church of
Corsley before this time was parochial in all respects except
only the above right, the Pope, on account of the distances and
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bad roads in winter, now permits them to bury in the Church-
yard at Corsley, and delegates John Cosham, Prior of Benton,
to carry his bull into execution." — William Forent (? Forrest),
then X'icar of Warminster.
R. E. Coles.
1678
1724
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Corfe Castle, co. Dorset.
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Feb.
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1717.
1717.
17.8.
1720.
1721.
1724.
1724.
1724.
1725-
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Cricklade in co. Wilts . .
Worth Matravers, co. Dorset.
Bulford in Wiltshire
Durston, co. Somerset.
31 Mar. Chilmark . .
22 Sep. Great Bedwyn, co. Wilts
Willcott ..
19 June. Kingswood Church, co. Wilts
9 July. Damerham South, in co. Wilts
1 1 Oct. Staverton
1 5 Nov. Cricklade . .
18 Oct. Camp's Hall and Downton . .
9 May. Market Lavington, in co. Wilts : loss
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The following two Nicholas letters and note on Bradford
are taken from the MSS. of the late Mr. James Waylen.
W. C.
Sir Edward Nicholas to Henry Coker, Esq., one of the
Wiltshire Justices, 28th Nov. 1661 : —
"Sir, — I have received your letter of the 22nd instant,
together with the enclosed warrants, and I have acquainted
the King and their Lordships of the Council of it. His Majesty
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434 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
and tlieir Lordships do very much commend your, and the
rest of your worth}' brethren the justices, care and good affec-
tion therein expressed to his Majesty and his government ;
and accordingly I am corumanded to return 3'ou his Majesty's
thanks for your loyal and vigilant endeavours in that parti-
cular ; but there being now a bill depending in Parliament
concerning uniformity in matters of religion, it is wished that
you forbear to issue out such warrants till the said Bill shall
be passed by both Houses of Parliament. I have no more to
add but to desire the continuance of the same care and
vigilance in what may concern the good of his Majesty's ser-
vice and the public, as well from yourself as those other
worthy gentlemen that are joined in the commission with you,
to whom you may please to impart his Majesty's pleasure
herein signified. " I am, Sir, etc.,
" Edward Nicholas."
Richard Dav^^, of Salisbur^^ to Secrctar}^ Nicholas,
Whitehall, 15 January. 1661 : —
"Right Honourable: — I have here enclosed sent the
examination of three boys, and as yet I cannot learn anything
more against him [Wansey]. But when some of Major Clarke's
soldiers searched for arms about the 15th of December,
Wansey's wife called them several cavalier rogues, and said
she should see them hanged before Christmas day. I have
kept a strong guard in Sarum ever since the rebellion at
London, and have taken up near thirty Quakers and other
desperate fellows that were formerly in arms against his
Majesty ; and most of tlicin have taken the oath of allegiance.
But were there any rising, my opinion is they will not value
their oath ; and if you thought fit, I would make all that have
been in arms against his Majesty and that are desperate
fellow\s, give me good security for their good behaviour.
There hath not been any rising in our parts as yet. We know
not as yet our Lord Lieutenant; neither have the deput}'-
lieutenants ordered or done anything in our Salisbury division
since the King's Majesty came into England. Thus with my
Brcidford lh{(fs[i'- 435
true respects and most humble service to Nour Honour and to
your lady. I remain, Sir, your humble servant,
Richard Davy.
Bradford Bridge. — At the Warminster Sessions, 167S,
;^5o was levied on the county for the repair of "the great
stone bridge within the town of Bradford"; and monies so
collected were placed in the hands of Paul Methuen, the
clothier, of Bradford. But it appears from some bundles of
the General Quarter Sessions, held at Devizes on the 6th and
7th of Charles I, that the town of Bradford was alone liable.
The order was quashed, until the inhabitants of Bradford
should show cause otherwise. And Methuen was ordered to
hand over the money in his hand to Sir Edw. Baynton, Will
Eyre, Esq., Will Duckett, Esq., and William Trenchard, Esq.,
or any two of them.
Bath Journal. — On a recent visit to Oxford I copied
the following from a page of this journal, dated Monday,
Aug. 6th, 1 745, which was hanging in the smoking-room of
the Mitre Hotel :—
"Chippenham Races (in the County ot Wilts\on Tuesday the 13th
of August next, will be run for on | West Mead, near the town of
Chippenham, a | Purse of Fifty pounds, by any Horse, Mare, or | gelding
that never won above that sum; to carry twelve | stone, bridle and
saddle included; to be allow'd two pounds | for waste; to pay three
guineas entrance, or double at the \ Post ; but if a subscriber of one
guinea, to pay only one j guinea entrance, or double at the post. To
enter the \ day se'nnight before running, at the sign of the White I Hart
in Chippenham, j A'otc. That if any disputes sliall happen, they are to
be I determined by the majority of subscribers present. | No subscriber
will be allow'd to enter a Horse that is not | truly and bona fida (sic.) his
own."
Amongst others this journal is to be obtained at " W. Gillmore,
bookseller, Marlboro'; Isaac Parradise, bookbinder and
stationer in Calne; W. Leach, shopkeeper, Devizes."
\'l.\TOR.
436 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Ellis of Wilts. — I am writing a histor}- of the Ellis family
of Wilts, and shall be greatly obliged to any correspondent
who will forward me particulars of any of the name in that or
any adjoining county, in any position in life, and at any period.
G. Flowde-Ellis.
Thornley. — Could any of your readers give me an}'
information as to the descent of Elizabeth Thornley, daughter
of Thomas Thornley, born 19th Oct. 1734, who married
Thomas Ellis, of Steeple Ashton, Wilts, and London, West
India merchant, about tlie year 1757 ?
Was there any family of the name of Thornley settled
in Wilts or the adjoining counties in the beginning of the
last century ?
PVidniore, C. Flowde-Ellis.
Bromley, Krul.
Aylsbury. — Any clues to tlic descent of the Rev. Thos.
Aylsbury, of Kingston Deverell, 1657 (ejected) ; James
Champion, of Salisbury, 1730, and his son-in-law, Thos.
Hicks, R.N. ; and Anthony Warton, of Breamore and North
Tidcombe, 1681, will oblige.
A. C. Hersey.
Lacock Church. — What is the origin of its rare dedication,
St. Cyriac ? Has it any connexion with the fact that Arch-
bishop Bourchier took his Cardinal's title from the church of
that saint in Rome ?
How comes it that the Glaziers' Arms occur in the east
window of the north aisle ? A. J. S.
Cloth Marks. 437
Cloth Marks. —Samuel Michell. of Notion, in the parish
of Lacock, clothier, makes the following bequest in his will,
dated 30th May 1694 : —
" To my grandson, Thomas Colborn, )>iy cloth mark called
the Gold Cross, to and for his only use for ever."
John Wilkins, of Dilton, in the parish of Westbury,
woollen clothier, by will -dated 1729, bequeathed to the Baptist
Congregation, then meeting at Westbury Leigh, a fund to
establish a school and to clothe the boys, who were to wear a
mark on their arm like the mark he used on the cloth he made
himself.
Have any specimens of these marks, used by Wiltshire
clothiers, been preserved ? Any further information on the
subject will be acceptable. Wiltoniensis.
Heraldic.— Can any of your readers identify the following
coats, which occur on the screen in the hall of Longleat ?
1. Per fess azure and gules, three crescents argent ; the
4th quartering of Strangeways, with crescent for difference,
impaling Thynne.
2. Quarterly i and 4. Gules, a crescent or. 2 and 3.
Ermine, two piles issuing from the chief gules, over all on a fess
argent five torteaux (? Gataker); Sable, a chevron between
three leopard's faces argent ; Barry of six or and sable, on a
chief of the first two pales of the second, an escocheon barry
of seven . . . (? Mortimer) ; these are respectively the
2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarterings of Thynne impaling Heynes.
3. Argent, a chevron between three raven's heads erased
proper (? Norreys) ; Bendy of six (? eight), azure and or, a
bordure gules; Argent, a chevron gules between three
unicorn's (?) heads erased azure ; these are respectively the
2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarterings of Wroughton impaled by
Thynxe {See Vis. Wilts, 1565).
4. Argent, two pallets engrailed sable ; Argent, on a
saltire engrailed gules, five fleurs-de-lis or; Gules, a lion
rampant, and in chief two mullets or ; Or, an eagle displayed
438 U'll/s/iirc No/cs and Queries.
sable; these are respective!}' the 2nd, ^rd, 4th, and 5tli
quarterings of Hayward inipa/ed by Thynne, with label for
difference.
5. Gules, a chevron between three escallops or (?
Chamberlayne) ; Azure, six lioncels or (3, 2, i) ; Ermine a
chief invected gules; Azure, two lions passant or ; these are
respectively the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th quarterings of Cham-
berlayne with crescent for difference impaling Thynne.
6. Argent, a chevron between three mullets sable ; Gules,
a chevron between three . . . heads, erased argent, a
crescent for difference ; Argent, a griffin sejant sable (? Mom-
pesson) ; Argent, two chevroncls, sable ; Argent, a fess, and
in chief two mullets sable; these are respectively the 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 5th, and 6th quarterings of Cole impaling Thynne.
7. Argent, a chevron gules, a crescent for difference;
Gules, three sheaves of arrows, two in saltire, one in pale or,
barbed and banded sable (? Best) ; Argent, on a bend sable
three leopard's faces or ; Argent (? Ermine), two chevronels
gules (? Ey.namore) ; Per chevron gules and argent three
chessrooks counterchanged ; these arc respectively the 2nd,
3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th (|uarterings of Ernle impaled by
Thynne with mullet of six points for difference.
A. Feilding.
Can anyone kindly identify the following coat : -Argent
three pelicans in their piety, impaling, Sable, a mullet. Crest,
A tent with curtains drawn back ; motto, " Sicut pater filio."
M. E. Light.
Archbishop Stafford. In spite of all tliat has been written
on this subject, wc find in \i>l. liii of the Dictionary of National
Biography (a work likely to be quoted in tlie future as an
authority) published in the present year, a long memoir of
Archbishop Stafford, in which its author (Mr. C. L. Kingsford)
once more repeats the error of Battcly, referred to at p. 221 of
Sir Edicard Long. 439
IV. A', c^ O. — viz., that the Archbishop was the son of Humphrey
Stafford by Elizabeth Dvii/iaiii, which is decisively negatived
b}' the inscription on the tomb of his mother at North
Bradley — stigmatising the statement (bostanUis ongnic) of the
Archbishop's contemporary, Dr. Gascoigne, as " an allega-
tion for which thpre appears to to be no foundation."
Edward Kite.
Sir Edward Long (vol. ii, p. 390). — With reference to Q.'s
enquiry in your last number, I request one line to say that he
was so termed b}' Mr. Swayne in his letter to me, and that I
also find in Metcalfs i5oo^ 0/ K)iights (1426-1660), p 131, "Sir
Edward Longe, of Wiltshire, dubbed anno. 157S". I have to
regret, however, in the paper referred to my inadvertence to
the fact that Southwick Court was in North Bradley parish.
A.
Samborn (vol. ii, p. 390). — In a perambulation of Chippen-
ham Forest, a.d. 1300, the bridge of Samborn is mentioned as
one of the boundaries. It was apparentl}- between Studley
and Lacock, and is another instance of the name occurring in
Wiltshire at an early date.
An obit was held annually in the neighbouring Priory of
St. Mary, Kington St. Michael, on i6th October, for Nicholas
Samborne, and Nicholas his son.
In I Edw. IV (1461-2) John Crycklade, Robert Ba3'nard
[of Lackham], Weaker Samborne, and John Lane, conveyed to
Thomas Fucklechurch, and his wife Agnes, certain lands in
Stokcley, Chittleworth, and Blakelowe, co. Wilts, with other
lands in Ampney Crucis, co. Gloucester. Dated at Ampney and
witnessed by Edmund Hungerford, Edward Stradling, and
others.
These references give us a place and family of this name
in North Wilts — some of whom may have been buried in the
Priory Church of Kington St. Michael, where their obit was
kept.
Henry Samborn is also mentioned in the Inquisition post
mortem of Hugh Speke, as owner of the manor of Box Agard
in 16 13. ScRiBA.
440 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Smoak (vol. i, 527; vol. ii, 391).- In the Churchwardens'
Accounts of Mere is this entry : —
" 1556, Payed for smoke fferthynges to Rome, xix^."
" 1559. Payed for the smoke flferthyngs xx**."
" 1 562, Payed to the Bysshop for smoke fferthyngs vj* j^ ob."
" 1565, for the smoke farthings vj^ j^ ob."
And in those of St. Mary, Devizes: —
"1569, Paid to Mr. Powell for Smoke Farthing xj**."
" i577» June 14. Receaved of the Churchwardens of the
p'ishe of St. Maries of the Devizes iij* xj** ob. for two yeres due
to the prebendarie of the p'bende of the minoris partis altaris^
in the cathedral churche of Sar' ended at the feast of Pentecost
last past ffor the w'ch I do acquite and dischardge the said
churchwardens by these p'sents, Hugh Powell."
" (Of the wich we Steven flow'r & Roger Gregory have paid
the one p't or half to said xxiij'* ob. being Churchwardens of St.
John's Church)."
"Smoke farthings," sometimes known as " Whitsun
farthings" or " Pentecostals ", were in this instance a com-
position in money for offerings in Whitsun week, by every
man w^ho occupied a house with a chimney, to the Cathedral
Church of the Diocese in which he lived. Before the
Reformation the payment had probably been made to Rome.
In some villages near Devizes I have found among
Churchwardens' papers of the last century receipts for small
sums also payable as " Pentecostals " to the Prebend of minor
pars altaris, representing probably the "smoke farthings" of
earlier times.
SCRIBA.
' This was a sub-deacon Prebend of but small value, its income being
derived from a portion of the offerings at the High Altar. In 1226 it was
valued at IG shillings, in 12itO and 1531 at £:$, in the latter year being
subject to the annual payment of £1 to a Vicar-Choral ministering in the
Cathedral. Jones' Fasti Eccl., Sar. p. 101.
Notes 0)1 Books.
44'
iXoXt'o on hm\v.
A History of Pembroke College, Oxford, anciently
Broadgates Hall, in which are incorporated short
historical notices of the more eminent members of this
House. By Douglas Macleane, M.A., sometime Fellow,
Lecturer, and Chaplain, formerly King Charles the First's
Scholar ; Rector of Codford St. Peter, Wilts. Oxford
Historical Society, vol. xxxiii. Clarendon Press, 1897.
Demy 8vo. pp. 544.
In the year 1S37, the late Dr. Ingram, a
native of Codford St. Mary, in this county,
and for many years President of Trinity
College, Oxford, published, in three octavo
volumes. Memorials of that city, illustrated
vith nearly a hundred fine steel plates by
^e Keux, and many woodcuts by the well-
:nown engraver of the day — Orlando Jewitt.
Phis work — the only one which combines the
academical with the civil history of
the city — is, and will remain, not only
a " Memorial of Oxford," but also of its
Wiltshire author.
It is now our pleasing duty to
record the publication of a volume
devoted wholly to the history of Pembroke College — one
of the three founded during the Stuart Period^ — under the
able authorship of the Rev. Douglas Macleane, Rector of
Codford St. Peter — by a singular coincidence the adjoining
parish to the birthplace of Dr. Ingram.^
See Xoie on Page 443.
' The oiheis were Wadliara, fouu'ied in 1610, and Worcester in 1714.
^ The three Wiltshire livings of Codford St. Peter, Brinkworth, and
Lydiard Millicent, are in the gift of Pembroke College.
442 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
The history of Pembroke College — so named from William
Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain and
Chancellor of the University,^ whose fine portrait, after Van
Dyck, forms an appropriate frontispiece to Mr. Macleane's
interesting volume — will be found, on a careful perusal of its
pages, to include the names of many persons more or less
connected with this county, consequently claiming a somewhat
lengthy notice in a Wiltshire publication.
Before its incorporation as a college by James I. in 1624,
it seems to have been a flourishing institution, which Anthony
a Wood and other writers trace back, as a place of Academic
learning, to a very early period. About the year 1254,
Richard Segrym — then of an old Oxford family — completed
a series of gifts to the Priory of St. Frideswide, the original
cradle of the University, by surrendering, under a charter of
quit claim, in perpetual alms, a "great house" in the angle of
St. Aldate's Churchyard, sometime held by him of the canons
of St. Frideswide — they in tui-n to receive liim into their
familiar fraternity, and on his decease to find a chaplain canon
to celebrate for his soul.
To Segrym's " Magna Domus ", afterwards known as
Segrym's or Broadgates Hall, were subsequently added
Cambey's, Minote,'^ SS. Michael and James, Beef, and Dunstan
* The eldest son of Henry, Earl of Pembroke, by Mary, daughter of Sir
Henry Sidney. Pe was baptized at Wilton, 28 April irj58 — Queen
Eli/.alu'tli hoin<j: godmother by proxy, in tho person of Anne, Countess of
Warwick — and died at Baynard's Castle, his house in London, 8 April \{\M).
He lies with his mother, with Sidney, and others of his House, in Salisbury
Cathedral, but without a monument. There is a brass statue of him by
Lesccur, designed by Kubens, formerly at Wilton but now in the Bodleian
Gallery.
2 Minote, or St. John's, was also called Polton IlaUJrom Philip Polton,
its Principal in 1458. The Poltons were a Wiltshire family, taking their
name from the ancient manor of Polton, in the pari.sh of Mildenhall, which
they held, under the Barony of Castle Combe, early in the Fourteenth
Century.
In Wanborougli Clcurch is a brass, with demi-cffigics, to Thomas
Polton, and his wife Edith, l)oth of whom died in 1118. Kite's
Wiltshire Jiraititcs, Plate VI.
The name of Philip Polton (the Principal of Minote, or St. John's Hall,
Notes OH Books. 443
Halls, some of the ancient buildings of which were standing
until 1S44. when the present new quadrangle of Pembroke
was built.
By the University Statutes the Principal of every hall,
and his scholars, were obliged to repair on solemn days to
their parish church for Divine Service, and for this purpose an
aisle or chapel of St. Aldate's, founded as a chantry by John
de Dokelynton, in the time of Edward III, was appropriated
to the scholars of Broadgates, and continued until 1732 to be
the chapel of Pembroke College.
Among the early students of Broadgates Hall was
Nicholas Upton (there was one of this name, ^///Ws He Iyer, of
Downton, scholar of Winchester 1408, scholar and fellow
of New College 1415-24, L.L.B., Rector of Farlcigh),
a mediaeval soldier, writer, and ecclesiastic, the author
of the treatise De Sludio Militari. He served under
the Earl of Salisbury, and was before Orleans when it
was relieved by the Maid. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester,
observing his skill in the laws, is said to have persuaded him
to lay aside the sword, and again follow his studies. He was
Rector of Stapleford, Wilts, 1434, Prebendary (in Jones' Fasti
he is only mentioned as a Precentor) and Chantor of Sarum,
where he built one of the houses in the Close for the
Chantors. In 1452, he made a journey to Rome to obtain the
canonization of Bishop Osmund.
in 1458) one of the sons of Thomas and Edith, also appears on a brass plate
in Wanborough Church, recordin? the erection of the tower there, which
was begun in 1435. This Philip was Archdeacon of Gloucester, and his
now headless efiBgy, engraved on a brass, still remains in the ante-chapel of
.\11 Souls' College, Oxford, where he was buried in Hfil. He built at his
own charges the north aisle, adjoining to St. Aldate's Church, anno 1455, in
which he founded a chantry, settling lands on John Fayrwater (the first
chaplain) and his successors, who were daily to celebrate therein.
Thomas Pol ton, a cousin of this Philip, was Bishop of Hereford, 1420,
Chichester 142'2, Worcester 1426-1433, and died at the Council of Basle in
the latter year. He resided some time at Mildenhall, and among other
bequests left one hundred shillings or more for a tomb to be placed in the
chancel there, with the likenesses of his father and mother, six brothers, and
himself, sculptured thereon.
444 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
Richard Arche, LL.B., Principal 1526, was Vicar of
Ramsbury 151S, and ot'Avebury 1520. He was also Treasurer
and Canon of Sarum 155 1-4.
In 1 6 10, Thomas Tesdale, of Glympton, co. Oxon., by
will, gave ^5,000 to purchase lands, etc., for maintaining seven
Fellows and six Scholars, to be elected out of Roysse's Free
Grammar School, in Abingdon, into Balliol, or some other
Oxford College. About 1623, Richard Wightwick, B.D.,
Rector of East Ilsley, Berks, descended of a Staffordshire
famil}', offered to augment Tesdale's foundation,* and a new
college was erected therewith, bearing the name of the Earl
of Pembroke, the then Chancellor of the University.
Pembroke College does not only stand on tlie site of
Broadgates Hall, but carries on its existence unbroken, taking
over its buildings (of which the chief one, the refectory, until
1847 the dining-hall, and now the library of Pembroke, still
remains), its principal, its students, and its traditions. A
grant of arms also accompanied the instrument of foundations
from James I.^
Either as hall or college, Pembroke records many eminent
and honourable names on its roll.
"Of a succession of great Canonists," says Mr. Macleane in his
preface, " Repyngton, Bonner, and Story played bold parts in the prelude
or drama of the Reformation. Jewell, (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury),
^ From Christopher Tesdale (l."<tl-lU31), first cousin of Thomas the
co-Founder, descended a grandson, Christopher, who was Parson of
Kollestone, Wilts, 1633, Hector of Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants, 1638, and
of Everleigh 164G, where a brass plate records the death and burial of his
wife, Susanna in 1650.
From a collateral branch of the family of Richard Wiglitwick, the other
co-Founder, descend the Wiltshire Wightwicks, of whom were Henry
(Fellow 1715), //6'w»-y (Fellow 1740), Henry (Fellow ITKti), Charles (\W\o^
1803), and Henry (Fellow 1H3!}). See Macleane's Pedigree, p. 179.
■^ Of these arms Mr. Macleane tjives the following as the correct blazon
from the actual Grant in the muniment room -.—Per pale azure and yules,
three lions rampant, two and one, argent (for Hehbert) ; a chief per pale
argent and or, charged on the de.rter side n-ith a ro.-<e gules, and. on the
sinister side ivith a thistle vert (for King James). Burke, and others, give
the chief as or and argent, instead of argent and or.
Notes on Books. 445
resided and taught here at a critical part of his career.' Among the men
of letters, of law, and of action, in the Tudor times, were Heywoode,
Beaumont, Peele, Fitz Geffrey, Dyer, Randolph, and the Carevvs. Pym
and Speaker Rous were leaders in the troubled days that followed.
Camden, Corbet, Browne, Collier, exemplify indifferent ways the Stuart
literature. Chief Justice Scroggs recalls the State trials of "Popish
Plot" days. Lord Chancellor Harcourt links us to the wits and Torj'
politicians of "Great Anna's" Augustine age. In the early Georgian
period there were almost contemporary at Pembroke the greatest
moralist and man of letters, the greatest jurist,- and the most famous
preacher of the eighteenth century ; and of the College days of Johnson
and Whitefield, as also of Shenstone and Henderson, interesting records
are preserved. Finally, an Archbishop has been contributed to each of
the Primatial Sees of Canterbury (Moore, 1783-1805), York (Yonge,
1560-8), and Armagh (Newcome 1795-1S00)."
There is a connexion between Broadgates Hall and the
Wiltshire family of Jones, which doe? not appear to be
noted b}' Mr. Macleane.
Sefton Jones, of Wilts, gen. cond. Broadgates Hall, ma. 26 Jan. 1587,
set. 12, bar. Mid. Temple 1600, as son and heir of William Jones, of
F.dington, Wilts, gen. Foster's Alum. Oxoti.
The Sefton Jones here referred to, born 1575, married
Mary, daughter of Dr. John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells,
and died at the age of 70.2
His father, William Jones, had a grant of arms in 1589.
He rented Edington Priory, and was living there in 1599,
when he purchased Brook House, near Westbury, of Charles,
Lord Mountjoy, to whom it had descended from the Lords
Willoughby de Brooke. He died at Keevil 2 April 1620,
seised of a capital messuage, called Brent Place, otherwise
Barkesdales, and lands in that village. His wife Isabella {nee
Price) survived him, and was living at Keevil in 1624. — Inq.
post mortem.
' Soon after Queen Mary's accession, Jewell, on his expulsion from
Corpus Christi. retired to Broadgates, where he remained for some weeks
before his flight to Frankfort, which he reached 13 March 1554-5.
- Sir William Blackstone, author of Commentaries on the Laws of
England, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, was of a Wiltshire
family. In 1761 he was member for Hindon, and in 1768 for Westbury. In
1754, he presented a silver beaker to Pembroke College.
' See Visitation of Wilts, 1623, where he has a son of the same name ;
in that of Gloucestershire, 1623, Sefton Bromwich is given as the son of
Susan, dau. of Henry Sefton, of Edington.
446 IVillshiri' Notes and Queries.
An earlier William Jones, of Keevil, clothier, who was
dead in 15S3, left a daughter, Margaret, married 4 October in
that year, to Christopher \^ertue, vintner, at St. Botolph's
Church, Aldgate. — Marriage Licenses granted by Bishop of
London.
To the foundation of Tesdale and Wightwick, were
subsequently added the Channel Island Foundations, and
other benefactions. Among the scholars of the Stuart period,
who were more or less connected with Wiltshire, may be
mentioned Charles, son of Sir John Thynne, of Longleat, who
sat in the Jacobean Parliament of 16 14 for New Lymington,
and in 1628 for Westbury ; Roger Kirkham, who represented
Old Sarum in 1646; William Yorke, who sat for Wiltshire in
1654, and for Devizes in 1661 ; and Sir Anthony Hungerford
(half-brother of Sir Edward, of Corsham, the Parliamentary
commander), who sat for Malmesbury in the Long Parliament,
Nathaniel White, ejected from the living of Market Lavington ;
Thomas Anne, who matriculated 1634, was a Lieutenant in tlie
Army of King Charles I and Vicar of Erchfont 1662; Thomas,
son of Thomas Naish, of New Sarum, entered 1684, afterwards
Sub-dean of Salisbury, and Master of St. John's Hospital,
Wilton (conjectured to he the Rev. Mr. Naish who was
Addison's tutor); Nathaniel Sacheverell, uncle of Dr. Henry
Sacheverell, a native of Marlborough, and the famous High
Church champion of Queen Anne's days ; Arthur Collier, the
metaphysician, born at Steeple Langford, and the fourth of his
family who had held that living.
In the later chapters of Mr. Macleane's work will be
found notices of the Chapel and Collegiate buildings, including
a view of the north-west interior angle of the old quadrangle,
and a reproduction of Burgher's print of the College, a.d.,
1700; also extracts from the Commonwealth and Restoration
accounts, College customs, life, clubs and societies, lists of
principals and masters, and other valuable information,
concluding with a general index, which occupies some
twenty-four closely printed pages.
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tiic lacct ^m^ix joliQiinifi
IN'CISEI) MONUMENTAL EFFIGY IN ALDBOURNE CHL'RCH.
2^0ilt2ii)irr jBtotcs auD Clufrirs.
JUNE, 1898.
ALDBOURNE.
■Xr^n
Incised Monumental Effigy in the Church.
/^
yY7'>> N the Church at Aldbourne are preserved the
X k memorials of two contemporary ecclesiastics, both of
'^^ whom died in the first decade of the sixteenth
century. The one is a small brass, with effigy,
to Henry Frekylton, a chantry chaplain (1508), Ij'ing
in the pavement of the chancel ^ ; the other a large slab of
alabaster, bearing the fine incised effigy of an early vicar of the
parish.
This interesting memorial, which is here, it is believed for
the first time, reproduced in facsimile, represents the departed
priest in his eucharistic vestments — the alb, stole, maniple, and
chasuble — the head rests on a richly embroidered cushion, the
left hand holds a chalice, and from the right hand, which is
upheld, issues a label inscribed : —
.^amtr Dni5 sic fortici sic et im'ortar nusi'i'rf
nobis.
[Holy God, Almighty and Eternal, have mercy on us.]
^ Kite's Wiltshire Brasses, plate xiv.
II II
448 JVilisliirc Nolcs a fid Oiien'es.
Around the margin of the slab, beginning at the foot, is
the following inscription : —
liiir 3larrt jHiUuiitrr^ 3loh;inni£i ^tonr (Q[iinnbnm
ITirariir:. i^r Ali) IbLiviir qui qiiiLiriu JIolTaunis nbt|t
. . . Dii imniiiB . . . Annn D*ni iKill'mn
(II(r(r(r{r una (r[iijiiG animrlp'ptrii'tur Dmiii Amrn.
[Here lyeth Master John Stone, late Vicar of Aldbourne,
which said John died the . . . da}', of the month of
. . . Anno Domini 1501. On whose soul may God have
mere}'. Amen.]
The incised slab is raised on an altar tomb abutting
against the north wall of the chancel, in which position it may
also have served as a substructure for the Easter sepulchre, as
was sometimes the case.
From the JVi/is Institutions we learn that John Stone was
presented to the Vicarage of Aldbourne in 1478, by the Bishop
of Salisbury (Richard Beauchamp) ; but as the Register of
Bishop Deane (1500 2) is unfortunately lost, or was never
made, the name of his successor in the Vicarage is unknown.
The absence in the inscription of the da}' and month of de-
cease perhaps implies that the slab was incised before his
death actually took place.
It will be noticed that the whole design — and more par-
ticularly the arrangement of the chasuble— is much less stiff
and conventional than is usually found in the brasses of
ecclesiastics belonging to the same period.
The following extracts are from the Wilts Institutions, a.d.
1 297-18 10, privately printed by the late Sir Thomas Phillipps,
Bart. :—
Patron. Clericus.
A.D. 1478 V. Aldeborne. Episcopus. Johannes Stone
permut' cum
Tlioma Sliorigge.
1544 v. Alborne. Episcopus. WilliL-lmus Hiitton
per mortem Johannis
Edmondes.
' Apparently denoting that, he had taken the degree of M.A.
Aldbotirne. 449
John Edmondes, therefore, probably succeeded John
Stone in the X'icarage of Aldbourne.
The Bell Folndry.
This now quiet village was once celebrated for its bell
foundry, which, for more than a century, supplied bells to
many of our Wiltshire churches. The family of Corr
were founders here as early as 1696, in which year William
and Robert Corr supplied the fourth bell now in the
tower of St. Mary's, Devizes, on which is a shield with the
founders' device— « chevron bcticeen three bells. The third
bell in the same peal was also cast at Aldbourne five years
later, in 1701 ; and among other bells remaining in the church
towers of Wiltshire the following are known to have issued
from the foundry of the Corrs of Aldbourne within the next
quarter of a centur}': —
1703. — Aldbourne (5th bell) . . William and Robert Corr
1704. — East Kennet .. .. „
1706. — Bromham (2nd bell) . . „
1706. —Rowde (ist bell). . .. „
1709. — Chirton (peal of 5) . . „
1709. — Aldbourne (3rd bell) . . „
1 7 10. — Preshute (i, 2, 3, & 5 bells) „
1712. — Ham (ist bell) .. .. „
1 7 19. — Ogbourne St. Andrew (3rd
bell)
1724. — Marlborough St. Mary (5th
bell) . .
1728.— Amesbury (3rd bell) .. John Cotr
1 74 1. — Great Bedwyn (Priest's
bell)
The name of Oliver Corr, of Aldbourne, bellfounder, al-
though not found on church bells,
appears as one of the parties to a
Off" deed of 1703, in possession of the
^>— ^ writer, from which the annexed
autograph has been copied.
li II 2
450 IViltsJiire Notes and Queries.
In some notes made in the year 1850 by the Rev. J. Sea-
gram, then \'icar of the Parish, it is stated that the Corrs were
at one period bell-founders, and afterwards manufacturers of
wooden buttons, and that they lived in the house then occupied
by the \'icar— formerly part of a hunting seat of John of
Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster,^— and that on the premises have
been discovered the " pits" in which the large church bells
were cast ; and when the roof of the house was repaired, about
1830, some beautifully carved large buttons were found, which
he (the Vicar) had seen.
There is a small farm at Aldbourne called " Curr's" to
this day.
The bell foundry was afterwards carried on by the family
of Wells, who were apparently connected by marriage with
their predecessors— the Corrs — until about the year 1825.
The following pedigree is compiled from the Parish
Register : —
No. I. William Corr, bur. 21 Mar. i688.=Mary
^1
Oliver Corr, bap. 3 Jan. 1641. Bur. 10 Mar. i68o.=Elizabeth
sQliver Corr, bapt. Robert Corr, bapt.=Joane Dorothy, bapt.
18 Dec. 1667. 16 Dec. 1671.
29 Nov. 1665.
Robert Corr, bapt. 23 Feb. 1701
No. 2. John Curr=Joane
I
William Curr=Grace Marv, bapt. Anna, bapt
bapt. 8 Nov.
1663.
28 May 1666. 2 May 1669.
Grace Curr, bapt. 14 Oct. 1688.
Robert Corr, buried at Aldbourne 4 February 1671.
Abigail Corr, buried at Aldbourne 12 May 1682.
Oliver Corr, son of Oliver Corr, of London, was buried at Aldbourne 11 June 1697.
Henry Collins and Anne Corr, both of Aldbourne, were married 24 Sept. 1742-
' The Duchy of Lancaster formerly held property in Aklbournc.
- Is this tlie Oliver Corr, born 2.", Oct. l(iC)7, who chan^'cd his name to
Heart, keeper of the Ward of Yoxall, within the Forest of Needwood, co.
Aldbournc. 451
By the deed above mentioned, wliich bears date 1 2tli
January, 2nd Anne [1703], and to which Ohver Corr is a party,
Thomas Collman of Aldborne, yeoman, conveys to Richard
Scory, of tlie same, and George Adams of Beydon, yeomen,
certain properties in trust to be sold for the benefit of creditors
as follows : —
Michael Foster, gent.^ .. .. ;!{^2oo
Alice Stokes, widow . . . . 200
Anne Wheeler, widow . . . . 200
Mrs. Mary Shute (formerly Mary Jones) 1 00
— Hillman
Benjamin Kinton
100
200
50
It. . . . . 60
30
10
Ralph Smith
Edward Goddard, ge
Thomas Blandy
Benjamin Blandy
Elizabeth Knackstone, spinster . . 100
John Thistlethwayte, gent. . . . . 100
Richard Scory . . . . . . 80
Anthony Savery .. .. .. 140
Katherine Glide . . . . . . 80
Thomas Lawrence . . . . . . 50
Mar}' Haynes, widow . . . . 60
Elizabeth Bacon, widow . . . . 120
Richard Gold . . . . . . 20
Dame Elianor Button . . 80
Mrs. Susannah Grove . . . . 100
Stafford. Plaintiff in the cause Corr v. Prideaus. See the Master's Report
dated 6 May 1710. Resided at Yoxall Lodge, buried at Hanbury. co. Staff.,
7 June 1741. He married, 16 Jan. 16'.*!, Mary, eldest daughter and co-
heiress of Edward Allen, Esq., eldest son of Sir Thomas Allen, of Finchley,
Knt., Lord Mayor of London, IGUO. There is a tradition in this family that
the Corrs came from Ireland for political reasons.
^ A Marlborough attorney, born 1658. died 1720. By his first wife Sarah,
dau. of Richard and Mary Coleman, he was father of Sir Jlichael P'oster, of
Stanton Drew, Kecorder of Bristol, and Pui.>.ne Judge of the Court of King's
Bench.
452 Willsliire Notes and Queries.
The property conveyed is described as "all those messuages,
lands and tenements known as the Inn, Grasclls, ffosburyes,
and Iremongers, with appurtenances in Alborne, now in re-
spective possessions of Widow Hayes, John Liddiard, Thomas
Looker, Widow Burford and Richard Fowler ; and the lands,
now in possession of Thomas Collman, are accounted 2 yard
lands, and all tlie aforesaid premises were heretofore the pro-
perty of John Collman, deceased, father of the said Thomas.
And one other messuage and one yard land in Aldbourne,
formerly in possession of John Sexton, gent. And one other
yard land heretofore in possession of Thomas Knackstone.
And those two parcels of land, one half an acre, and the other
a yard, both in Aldborne. Which said last mentioned messu-
age, two yard lands, two little parcels of land, &c., were
purchased by Thomas Collman of Madam Elizabeth Bond^ and
George Bond, Esq., her son."
Edward Kite.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
BRATTON.
(Continued from p. 41O.J
Edingdon Chartulary. [Lansdoivne MS., No. 442, fo/. 97.]
Charter of Thomas North, senior, to Peter Escudcmour ami
others.
A.D. 1 33 1. I, Thomas North, senior, of Bratton, have
granted and confirmed to Peter Escudemour, Margery his wife,
Walter their son, all my lands tenements in Bratton Stoke and
Mulbournc, as in houses, curtilages, gardens, dovecotes, fish-
ponds, marlpits, meadows, pastures and pasturages, homages,
reliefs, wards, marriages, escheats, heriots, rents and services,
as well of freemen as of villains; together with the reversions
' A later deed (1713;, between this Elizabeth Bond, widow, and Robert
Corr, bellfounder, also relates to land in Aldhourne.
Records of IVillshirc Porishes. 453
of a perch of land which Nicholas Heryng holds for the term of
his life, of a croft of land which Sarah, wife of Nicholas
Coundut, holds for her life ; of a rood of land which John
Scherewynd, Joan, his wife, and Nicholas, their son, hold for
their lives; of a messuage with 2 acres of land which Walter
le Rod and Dionisia, his wife, hold for their lives ; of h acre of
land which William Miller, and Edith, his wife, hold for their
lives ; of a piece of land held by Edward Willes for his life ; of
a messuage with 2 acres and i rood of land held by Walter
North for the term of his life ; of h acre held by Thomas
North, junior, for the term of his life ; of a messuage and a
piece of ground held by Thomas le Hoppere, for his life ; and
of a messuage with a garden and 2 acres of land held by John
North, junior, for his life. To hold all and every the foresaid
with all their appurtenances to the foresaid Peter, Margery
and Walter, for the whole of their lives, and to their executors
or assigns for 40 3'ears after their decease ; of me and my heirs ;
Returning therefore yearly to me for the whole of my life 6
quarters and 4 bushels of wheat, 6 quarters and 4 bushels of
barley, and 52s. silver, at the four principal terms, viz. beginning
at Michaelmas next, i quarter and 5 bushels of wheat, i quar-
ter and 5 bushels of barley, and 13s. At Christmas the same,
at Easter the same, at the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the
Baptist the same ; and also a garment for me besides 55. at
Christmas, and another garment besides 55. for Matilda, my
wife, at the same feast, for the whole of my life ; And doing to
the chief lords of that fee all services belonging thereto.
And I Thomas and my heirs, will warrant all the abovesaid
lands and tenements, &c., to Peter, &c. against all people. In
testimony whereof I have set my seal to this indenture.
Witnesses .... Bratton, Wednesday, next before the
•'feast which is called Ad vitictilay 5 Edward 111.
Ibid., fol. gj^. The same to the same.
I, Thomas North, senior, of Bratton, for myself and my
heirs have released and quitclaimed forever to all right which
454 IVillshirc Notes mid Queries.
I could have in all tlic lands ant! tenements, rents and services,
and reversions, which Peter Escudemor, Margery, his wife, and
Walter, his son, lately had by my desire for their lives in
Bratton, Stoke, and Mulbourne, reserving, however, to myself
for my life a certain yearly rent of 525. silver, 6| quarters of
wheat, and 6\ quarters of barley, and two garments as appears
in a certain indenture between us. And I and my heirs will
warrant, e\:c. In testimony whereof I have set ni}' seal, &c.
Witnesses .... Bratton, Sunday next after the feast of
St. Matthew the Apostle. 5 Edward 111.
Ibid., fol. los*".
Charter of John Coiiipayii to Peter Escudemor and his Wife.
I, John Compayn, of Mulbourne, have granted \o Peter
Escudemor, and Margery, his wife, \h acre of arable land in
the field of Bratton on the Mount, which acre lies in the cul-
ture called Lanerk Bergh, between land of Robert dc Pavely
and land of the foresaid Peter; and the h acre lies in "lange
meosdon ", between land of the foresaid Peter and land of
Reginald de Pavely. I give to the same Peter and Margery
()d. yearly rent issuing from a messuage and i acre of land
which John Compayn, son of William Compayn holds in Mul-
bourne ; together with the reversion of a croft called Compaynes
morecroft with the enclosure round about, between the croft of
William dc Maundevile, called le Rischcroft and the croft of
Ralph le lange of Covelstone in Bratton ; which croft William
de Maundevile and Felicia, his wife, hold tor the terms of their
lives. To Hold to said Peter and Margery, their heirs or
assigns, by hereditary right forever of the chief lords of that
fee by the due and accustomed services. And I, John, and my
heirs will warrant, &c. In testimony whereof I have sealed.
Witnesses .... Bratton, the Sunday next after the
feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. 5 Edward III.
IlJH)., fi,l. 95.
Charter 0/ ylgnes de Moxhaiii to her daughter haln'tla.
A.D. 1332. I, y\gnes de Moxham have granted and con-
firmed to Isabella my^daughtcr all my lands and tenements in
Records of IViltsliirc Parishes. 455
Mulcbourne and Bratton, as in houses, curtilages, gardens,
mills, waters, ponds, sluices, meadows, pastures, pasturages,
enclosures, ways, paths, rents, and services, and with all other
their appurtenances. I give also to the same Isabella Gd. yearly
rent issuing from a messuage, an acre of land, and an acre of
meadow which Edith my daughter holds for her life together
with the reversion of the same. To hold to Isabella and her
heirs and assigns of the chief lords of that fee by the due and
accustomed service. And I and my heirs will warrant, &c. In
testimony whereof I have set my seal. Witnesses ....
Mo.xham, Tuesday next after the feast of St. Gregory the Pope.
6 Edward III.
Ibid.
Charter oj Isabella, daughter of Roger de Lye, to Nicholas
FitzWaryn.
I, Isabella, daughter of the late Roger de Lye, have granted
and confirmed to Nicholas FitzWaryn and his heirs or assigns
forever, all my garden in Mulebourne with all its appurtenances,
as in fences, hedges, ditches, waters, ways, paths, and with all
other profits issuing thence ; which garden with its appurten-
ances I had of the gift of my mother Agnes, and it lies partly
between the enclosures of the foresaid Nicholas, and the fields
of Edyngdon, and partly between the tenement of the foresaid
Nicholas and the garden which Margaret de Bradelegh had as
dower by the decease of Walter de Deone, in the same villages,
and that part of it reaches on to the way leading to the mill of
the foresaid Nicholas. To hold to him and his heirs or assigns
of the chief lords of that fee by the due and accustomed service
forever. And I and my heirs will warrant, &c. In testimony
whereof 1 have set my seal. Witnesses .... Mulc-
bourne, Thursday next after the feast of St. John before
the Latin gate. 6 Edward III.
Ibid., fol 95^
Indenture between Isabella, and Nicholas FitzWaryn.
Nicholas FitzWar3'n having agreed to yield to Isabella
half the toll of a mill ; half a parcel of land at "le Ilamme",
45^ IViltshire Notes and Queries.
viz., the eastern part; a half and parcel of land at " forsthuU,"
viz., the western part ; and half a parcel of land at " lociond ",
viz., tlie southern part; and half a parcel of land on the Mount,
viz. the western part ; and in " la Deone Legh " four parcels as
they are bounded ; and upon Twelfacre one suling^ (?) in the
eastern part ; and upon Tysewelle, a parcel as it is bounded ;
and half the pasture belonging to the said tenement on the
Mount of Bratton ; Isabella has released for herself and her
heirs to Nicholas and his heirs or assigns, all other lands, tene-
ments, meadows and pastures which once belonged to Walter
de Deone, and Sarah de Deone, and Agnes, Isabella's mother
in Mulebourne, Bratton and Westbury, and all actions which
she might have against him. She seals. Witnesses . . .
Mulebourne, Friday next before Michaelmas. 6 Edward III.
Ibid.
Charter of Isabella to John attc Legh.
I, Isabella, daughter of Agnes de Moxham, have given and
confirmed to John atte Leghe de Coterugge all my lands and
tenements in Mulebourne and Bratton ; viz., as in houses, cur-
tilages, lands, gardens, mills, waters, ponds, enclosures,
meadows, pastures and pasturages, ways, paths, rents, rever-
sion services, and all other their appurtenances. And I give
him 6d. yearly rent issuing from a messuage, an acre of land,
and an acre of meadow which Edith, my sister, holds for life,
together with the reversion of the said messuage, land and
meadow. To hold to him and his heirs or assigns by heredi-
tary right forever of the chief lords of that fee by the due and
accustomed service. And I and my heirs or assigns will
warrant, &c. In testimony whereof I have set my seal.
Witnesses .... Mulebourne, the Sabbath next after the
feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr. 6 Edward
III.
' Sulloncm in the MS.; perhaps a form of the word Sulini/aiii. Sulinga
terra- was the .same as caruc.ata terra-. In English the word was .spelt
swulling or nuliiig.
Records of IViltsliirc Parishes. 457
Ibid., fol. 98^
Charter oj John Coiiipayii to Peter EscKchiiture and his IVi/e.
I, John Compa}'!!, of Mulbourne, have given and con-
firmed to Peter P3scudemor and Margery, his wife, an acre of
arable land in the field of Mulebourne, lying upon F^atekynhull,
between land of Robert de Pavely and land of William
Paresole of Bratton. To hold with all its appurtenances to
them and their heirs by hereditar}^ right forever of the chief
lords of that fee by the service therefore due and accustomed.
And I, &c., will warrant, &c. In testimony whereof I have set
my seal. Witnesses .... Bratton, Wednesday, next
before the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr.
6 Edward III.
Ibid.
Charter of John Cook to Peter Escudemor.
I, John Cook, of Bratton, grant and confirm to Peter
Escudemore, Marger}', his wife, and Walter, their son, | acre
of arable land in Bratton, lying in " le Estpillond", between
land of John, of Bradelegh, and land of Robert de Pavely, in
exchange for | acre lying in le Geredoelond in the same village.
To hold to them and the heirs of the said Peter, or his assigns
b}^ hereditary right of the chief lords of that fee by the service
therefore due and accustomed. And I, &c., will warrant, Sec.
In testimony whereof I have set my seal. Witnesses . .
Bratton, the Monday next after the feast of St. John before the
Latin gate. 6 Edward III.
Ibid., fol. IOI^
Charter of Christina, daughter of John Conipayn, to Peter
Escudemore and others.
I, Christina, daughter of John Compayn, of Mulbourne,
have granted to Peter Escudemor, Margery, his wife, and
Walter, their son, a perch of arable land in the field of Bratton,
lying in the culture BinortheriggeWeye, between land of
Richard Simoond, and land of the aforesaid Peter, which I had
45 S IViltsliire Notes a)id Queries.
from my foresaid father, John, for the term (){ my life. To
hold to them and the heirs of Peter for the term of my life, of
the cliief lords of that fee. And I and my heirs will warrant,
&c., during my life. In testimony whereof I have set my seal.
Witnesses .... Bratton, Thursday, next before the
feast of St. Vincent. 6 Edward III.
Ibid.
Release of John Compayn to Peter Escudemore, Margery,
his wife, Walter, his son, and the heirs of Peter forever of the
above mentioned perch of arable land granted by Christina, his
daughter. Bratton, Tuesday, next after the feast of St.
Vincent. 6 Edward III.
Ibid., fol. I05^
Release of Matilda Compayn to Nicholas FitoPJ/aryn.
I, Matilda, sometime wife of Roger Compayn, of Bratton,
for myself and my heirs, have released to Nicholas FitzWaryn
and his heirs, all lands and tenements, meadows, pastures,
pasturages, rents, together with the reversion of k acre which
Alice Godhyne holds in Istmersch, and with the reversion of
an acre which Richard Goudhyne holds in the hilly fields {in
eampis montanis) of Bratton, with all other reversions and
appurtenances which the same Nicholas in any way has held
of me, and has acquired in Bratton. In testimony whereof I
have set my seal. Witnesses .... Bratton, Thursday,
next after the feast of the Purification of the B.V. Mary. 6
Edward III.
Ibid., fol. \o\^.
Charter of Jolni Compayn to Peter Eseitdemor, his Wife and Son.
A.D. 1333. I, Jolm Compayn, of Mulbourne, have granted
to Peter Escudemor, Margery, his wife, and Walter, their son,
an acre and rood of arable land in the field of Bratton ; of
which ] acre lies at Patekynllhull, between land of Robert de
Pavely, and land of Richard Condut, and another ^ acre at
Riggeweycsforlang, between land of the foresaid Robert and
Records of I Vi It shire Parishes. 459
land of John of Bratton, and i acre at Thorncumbe, between
land of the foresaid Peter, and land of Ralph de Covelston, to-
gether with the reversion of an acre of land which Edward
Whitle holds for his life, which lies in Thorncumbe, between
land of Robert de Pavely, and land of Adam Compa3-n ; with
the reversion of h acre which Agnes Goudhyne holds for life at
Motweye between land of Adam Goudhyne and the king's way.
To Hold to them and the heirs of Peter by hereditar}' right
forever of the chief lords of that fee by the service therefore
due and customary. And I and my heirs will warrant, &c.
In testimony whereof I have set my seal, «S:c. Witnesses . .
Bratton, next after the feast of the Purification of the B.V.
Mary.
Lay Subsidy, Wilts. [Roll if?].
A.D. 1333. Collections of the Fifteenths and Tenths.
7 Edward III. Hundred of IVestbury.
Bratton.
From William Maundevill . . xx. 5. vj. d.
From Robert de Paveley . . xiiij. s. iiij. d. q*
From Edward Wytche .. .. ij.s.
From Richard Condut . . . . viij. d.
From Roger le Hoppere . . . . ' viij. d.
From Cristina atte Pyle . . . . viij. d.
From Nicholas Heryng . . . . viij. d.
From Thomas North . . . . xij. <-?'.
From Robert Spythe . . . . viij. d.
From Adam Goudhyne . . . . xviii. d.
From Alice Goudhyne . . . . viij. d.
From John Elys . . . . xij. d.
From John Turbulct . . . . viij. d.
From Ralph de Covelston . . v. 5. v. d.
The Sum . . . . L. s. v. d. q*
Inquisition Post Mortem, [j Edward III (ist nos.) /lo. 17.]
P.M. IVilliam de Maundevyle.
A.D. 1333. Inquisition taken at Edyngdon 27th September,
7 Edward III. The Jury say that William de Maundevyle the
day he died held in his domain as of fee a messuage with a
460 JViltshirc Notes and Queries.
little garden, and it was worth, with the easement of the
messuage and the fruit of the garden, yearly, besides deduc-
tions for repairs, &c., \\]d. And there are there 70 acres of
land lying in common whicli are worth yearly 26s. 8r/., at ^d.
per acre; and 7 acres of meadow, worth yearly 75., at iid.
per acre ; and 3 acres of pasture worth yearly i8r/., at 6d. per
acre. And there is there of assized rents of the free tenants
and neifs yearly 1005., to be paid at the four chief terms. And
the tenements aforesaid, which are in Bratton, are held of the
Lady Philippa, Queen of England, as of the Castle of Devizes, by
the service of 205. yearly, to be paid at the said Castle, and of
guarding for 40 days one tower of that Castle in time of war in
England at William's own expenses, William being quit of the
said rent during the performance of his ward. The same
William held in common with his wife Felicia, and after her
death, a messuage with appurtenances in Estrop, near Hey-
worth, with a carucate of land and its appurtenances, as a parcel
of the forementioned holdings in Bratton, of the Queen, by the
same service, bemg worth yearly in all their issues 66s. 8*^/.
John de Maundevyle his brother is his nearest heir and he is
forty years old and more. In testimony whereof the Jury
sealed. Dated at the time and place above-said.
(To be continued).
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
(Continued from p. 432.^
111.
MARRIAGE RECORDS.
Second Series.
Having completed the first series of Marriage Records,
viz., those dated in the seventeenth century, it is now proposed
to take the remainder. These cover the eighteenth century,
Qua ken's in in IVilishirc. 461
and the first tliirty-seven years of the present century, that is,
down to the establishment of the civil registry. For further
particulars the reader is referred to the introduction to the
first series on pp. 286-288.
N.B. — It is important to add that, while all these Marriages were
registered in the " Wiltshire Monthly Meeting," the
boundaries of the Monthly Meeting and of the county
from which it takes its name were not always conter-
minous, and hence some Quaker marriages which took
place in the count}-, especially near its southern limits,
may have been registered in other contiguous Monthl}-
Meetings.
Bctli-scplicr, NoRMA.x Pfxnkv.
Miikshani.
A.
1704-8-26. — Silvester Aldridge, spinster, dau. of John
Aldridge, of Warminster, to Adam Gouldney,
of Chippenham, at Warminster.
1705-S-25. — Ann Arch, of Chippenham, dau. of W^illiam and
Elizabeth Arch, of Chippenham, to Joseph
Hull, of Bradford, at Chippenham.
1720-10-29. — Susannah Amvat, dau. of James Amyat, of
Langle}', to Zachariah Bradrcry, of Charlcot,
at Kington.
1721-10-14. — William Alslep, of Minching Hampton, co. of
Gloucester, serge maker, to Amy Davis.
1723-11-16. — Robert Arch, of Bradford, son of William Arch,
to Elizabeth Collett, at Comerwell.
1 728-1-9. — Robert Applegarth, Jr., of Swallowfield, mealman,
son of Robert Applegarth, of Basingston, co.
of Southampton, to Ann [2] Sanger, at War-
minster.
1731-10-15. — James A.NTiLL, of Nailsworth, Horsley ph., co. of
Gloucester, saddle-tree maker, to Elizabeth
Gardner, of Charlcut, at Charlcut.
'733-5-12.— William Angel, of Kinton Langley, yeoman, to
Mary White, of Bradford, at Corsham.
'75--5-IO- — Thomas Alderwick, of Bradford, son of Thomas
Alderwick, of Bradford, to Lydia Gkkish, at
Bradford.
462 IVillsliire Notes and Queries.
1 752-5-1 7. — Tho : Allen, of Bradford, baker, son of Joseph
Allen, late of Cain, to Joanna Syms, at Bradford.
1 776-1 1-4. — Lj^dia Allf.n, dau. of Thomas and Joanna Allen,
of Bradford, to Isaac Sargkxt, at Bradford.
17S2-12-11. — William Atwood, of Broomham, cordwainer, son
of James and Alice Atwood, of Broomham, to
Sarah Humphreys, of Corsham, at Pickwick.
1796-5-11. — David Alois, of Melksham, miller, son of Daniel
and Mary Aldis, of Dickleburg, co. of Norfolk,
to Martha Bennet, at Pickwick.
1835-2-27. — Henry Alexander, of Cirencester, co. of Glouces-
ter, ironmonger, son of William and Ann
Alexander, of Kennington, co. of Surry, to
Catherine Gundry, at Calne.
1835-9-30. — Samuel Alexander, of Gloucester, ironmonger,
son of William and Ann Alexander, of London,
to Sarah Gundry, at Calne.
B.
1701-4-19. — John Baskervile, of Bradford ph., son of John
Baskcrville, of Purken Hill, Malmsbury ph.,
to Ann Webb, at Cumerwell.
1702-1-8.— Hannah Butler, of Chippenham ph., co. of Glou-
cester [sic\ spinster, dau. of William Butler,
of Chippenham ph., to Thomas Wvly, of
Melksham, at Chippenham.
1702-8-28.— Rebekah Bond, of Bideston, spinster, to James
HoBBS, of Lacock, at Slaughter ford.
1 703-2-1 5. — Richard Baker, of Blackfryers, London, citizen
and woolman, son of Richard Baker, of
Worplcsdon, co. of Suiry, to Mary Gouldney,
Jr., of Chippenham, at Chippenham.
1704-6-31. — Mary Beverstock, spinster, dau. of John Bever-
stocke, late of Bideston, to Roger Earle, at
Commerwell.
1704-10-26.- Hester Bishop, of Wcstbury Leigh, spinster, to
John 0(. BORNE, of S[t]edbury, at Warminster.
1708-5-13. -Dorothy Bayly, of Whitly, Melksham |)li., spinster,
dau. of Daniel Bailey, of Bromham, to John
Read, of Chippenham, at Melksham.
1709-7-27. — Christian Boxn, formerly of Laycock ph., late of
city of London, spinster, to George Grant, of
Bradford, at Melksham.
Quakerism in IViltshin'. 463
1709-8-4.— Christian Brown, ot' Warminster, spinster, to Ed-
ward Seager, of CO. of Wilts, at Warminster.
1 7 10-5-6. — John Baskervile, of Newtown, Bradford ph.,
clotliier, son of John Baskervile, of Burton
Hill, to Rachel Sarjant, at Calne.
1710-S-10. — Martha Bayly, of Langly ph., spinster, to Richard
Truman, of Salisbury, at Chippenham.
171 1-6-7. — Roger Bullock, of Corsham, maltster, son of Roger
Bullock, of Hullavington, to Hester Hart, at
Cumerwell.
17 12-7-1 1. — Mary Bkavan, dau. of Thomas Bcavan, of Devizes,
to Benjamin Coole, Jr., of Bristol.
1713-7-7. — Ann Bayly, of Charlcot, dau. of Jonathan Ba3'ly,
to Anthony Laurence, of Charleton ph., at
Brink worth.
1 7 14-3-6. — John BiDDLE, of Nind, cheesefactor, son of Giles
Biddlc, of Nind, to Rebecca Sarjant, late of
Cain Hill, at Charlcut.
1 7 16-3-3. — Mary Broome, spinster, dau. of John Broome, of
Lyneham ph., to John Hort, of Bristol, at
Charlcut.
1716-9-11. — John Barret, of Devizes, baker, son of Stephen
Barret, of Allcannings, to Sarah Bradford, of
Devizes, dau. of Joseph Bradford, of Potterne
ph. at Devizes.
171S-6-10. — Thos. Beaven, of Melksham, clothier, son of
Thomas Beaven, of Devizes, to Elizabeth
Sanger, [married] in Broomham ph.
1720-2-7. — Ann BowYER, late of Rexall, Bradford ph., widow,
to Stephen Shewrlng, of Bradford, at Comer-
well.
1720-4-29. — Edward Bond, of Calnc, drugget maker, son of
Benj: Bond, of Bidston, to Mary Smith, at
Chippenham.
1 720-6-1 1. — Samuel Bonner, of Bedminster, co. of Somerset,
weaver, son of John Bonner, to Sarah Bond,
dau. of James Bond, of Corsham ph.
1720-10-29. — Zacharia Bradbury, of Charlcut, serge maker, to
Susannah Amyat, at Kington.
1720/1-1-16. — Hannah Brlstow, dau. of Isaac Bristow, of
Fosket, Grittleton ph., to Edward [?] Smart,
of Grittleton, at Hullavington.
I I
464 IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
1721-4-29. — James Bond, son of Wm. Bond, of Westbury, to
Mary Sanger, at Froome.
1 722-7-1 9. — Phillip Bryant, of Eaton Kcnnell ph., weaver, to
Martha Si^mpsion, of Slaughtcrford ph., at
Slautrhtcrford.
1725-3-23. — Mary Bradfeeld, of Devizes, dau. of Jos. Brad-
field, of Pottcrn, to Clare Smith, at Devizes.
1727-2-9.— Jane Baskervile, of Calne, widow, to David
Jaffree, of Stocham, at Calne.
173T-1-18. — Thomas Bath, of Christian Malford, labourer, son
of Nicholas Bath, of Christian Malford, to
Hannah Lea, of Christian Malford, at
Charlcott.
1732-1-16. — Hannah Barret, dau. of Charls. Barret, of
Tetherton, Bromhill ph., to John Heal, of
Charlscott, at Charlcutt.
1732-2-16. — Esther Bayly, spinster, dau. of John Bayly, of
Chippenham, to Andrew Randall, at Sutton.
1732-10-24. — Mary Brewer, dau. of Henry Brewer, of Brom-
ham, to Henry Hunt, of Chitwa}-, at Broomham.
1733-S-i 4.— Rachel Beaven, of Melksham, widow, to James
MooRE, of Melksham, at Bromham.
1 733-8-14. — Susannah Bradbury, of Langley, Kington ph.,
widow, to William Truman, of Calne, at
Charlcott.
1734-4-27. — Katherine Bayly, dau. of Thomas Bayly, late of
Pickwick, to John Harris, Jr., of Fording
Bridge, Hampshire, at Slaughterford.
1736-9-4.— Joseph Blanxhari), of Pickwick, Corsham ph.,
husbandman, to Katherine Taylor, of Pick-
wick, at Corsham.
1737-11-23. Jane Bristow, dau. of Isaac Bristow, of Nettle-
ton, to Simon Collett, of Bath, at Slaughter-
ford.
1 738-2-7. ^Mary Bullock, dau. of John Bullock, of Ilullington,
to Thomas Young, of Grittcnham, at SuttoiL
1739-2-15.— Mary Beaven, dau. of Roger Beaven, of Devizes,
to Samuel Shurmer, of Melksham, at Broom-
ham.
1742-3-25. — Eliz"'. Burgess, of Melksham ph., dau. of John
Burgess, late of Cain, to Thomas Jefferys, Jr.,
of Avon, at Corsham.
Oiiakcn'sm in Willshnr. 465
742-5-4. — Mary Beavf.n, dau. of Thomas Beaven, of Melk-
sham, to Josiah Knight, of London, at Bromliam.
745-3-5— John Bullock, of Ilullington, mason, to Martha
Clapton, at Corsliam.
745-6-15. — Edward Bond, of Cahie, clothier, to Hannah Hf.al,
late of Charlcut, at Charlcut.
749-4-1 1. — John Bennet, son of Thomas Bennet, of Pickwick,
Corsham ph., to Hester Ruttv, at Melksham.
751-2-2S. — Elizabeth Bullock, spinster, dau. of John Bullock,
of Hullington, to Edward Young, of Earthcott,
at Hullington.
752-12-24. — Thomas Beaven, of Melksham, clothier, to Eliza-
beth Clarke, of city of New Sarum, at New
Sarum.
753-5-29- — Betty Bayly, of Corsham ph., spinster, dau. of
Thomas Bayl}', late of Pickwick, Corsham ph., to
John MoxHAM, of Lymington, at Slaughterford.
753-9-13- — John Bell, of Melksham, late of Carlisle in Cum-
berland, draper, to Amy New.man, at Melksham.
754-3-21- — Rebecca Baily, dau. of Joseph Baily, late of
Chippenham, to Thomas Jefferys, of Whitley,
at Corsham.
754-3-31- — Sarah Barrett, dau. of John Barrett, of Devizes, to
Richard James, of Devizes, at Devizes.
754-4-25. — Sarah Bristow, dau. of Isaac Bristow, late of
Nettleton, to Simmons Wlndle, Jr., of Man-
gottisf"* ph., at Slaughterford.
754-7-3-— Martha Bullock, dau. of John and Mary Bullock,
of Hullavington, to Daniel Cottfrrell [?
Morrell], of Painswick, at Sutton Benger.
758-6-29. — Mary B.vskervile, of Pickwick, Corsham ph.,
spinster, to John Rily, of Avon, at Corsham.
763-1 1-17. — Hannah Bond, of Charlcott, Brimhill ph., widow,
to Thomas Jefferys, of VVhitly, at Charlcott.
767-6-17. — John Bradley, of city of Worcester, chandler,
son of Joseph and Hannah Bradley, of Stour-
bridge, CO. of Worcester, to Mary Baily, dau. of
Joseph Baily, late of Chippenham, at Cliippen-
ham.
1 768-8-1 2. — Elizabeth Barrett, dau. of John and Sarah
Barrett, of Devizes, to William Townsend, of
Mildread ph., at Calne.
I I 2
466 IViltsliire Notes and Queries.
1775-8-8. — Mary Bullock, dau. of Roger and Mary Bullock, of
Ilullington, to Joseph Clarke, at Melksham.
1779-4-22. — Mary Bfnnft, dau. of John and Hester Bennct, of
Pickwick, Cor.sham ph., to George Nash, of
Tockington, at Pickwick.
1785-1 1-15.— Thomas Bracher, of Wincanton, co. of Somer-
set, soap boiler, son of William and Jane
Bracher, of Wincanton, co. of Somerset, to
Ann Carrlxgton, of Westwood, at Bradford.
1789-5-13. — Thomas Brown, of Cirencester, co. of Gloucester,
son of James and Elizabeth Brown, of Amwell-
bury, CO. of Herts, to Lucretia Jkeferys, at
Melksham.
1793-S-15. — Grace Bennett, dau. of John and Esther Bennett,
of Pickwick, to Thomas Webb, of Melksham,
at Pickwick.
1 796-5-1 1. — Martha Bennet, dau. of John and Hester Bennet,
of Pickwick, to David Aldis, of Melksham, at
Pickwick.
1700-9-28. — Dorothy Collett, of South Wraxall, Bradford ph.,
to Jacob Hix, of Bradford ph., at Comberwell.
1 701-2-24. — John Cowling, of Walcot, co. of Somerset, clothier,
(whose parents were] of Stanton Drew, to
Lydia Hart, at Comerwell.
1703-1-21. — Thomas C.a.nxon, of Warminster, chandler, son of
John Cannon, of Lullinglon, co. of Somerset, to
Mary Gardener, at Warminster.
1 703-1 2-1 2. — Mary Cool to Joseph Usher, at Devizes.
1705/6-1 1-21. — Hester Clark, of Devizes, to Giles Shurmer,
of Purton Stoak.
1708-4-2. — Joseph Cooper, of Mounton Farlcigh, cordwainer,
son of John Cooper, of Bradford ph., to Sarah
Deverell, of Mounton Farleigh, at Comerwell.
1708-4-8. — Ann Clark, Jun., dau. of John Clark, of Bradford,
to Edward Jones, at Comerwell.
1709-1-5.— John Clark, of Devizes, baker, to Elizabeth P'rv, at
Devizes.
1709-1-31. John Clark, of Bradford, chyrurgeon, son of John
Clark, of Bradford, to Elizabeth Gawen, at
Warminster.
Quakerism in IViltsliirv. 467
1 712-7-1 1. — Benjamin Coole, Jun., of city of Bristol, haber-
dasher, son of Benjamin Coole, of Bristol, to
Mary Beaven.
1713-6-4. — Martha Craab, dau. of Thomas Craab, of Marl-
boro', to Joseph Sarjaxt, of Cain, at Broomham.
1713-9-3. — John CoLEswoRTHY, of Wcstwood, Crediton ph., co.
of Devon, merchant, to Joan Sarjant, of Carl-
cut, at Charlcut.
1714-9-5. — James Care, of Avon, Christian Malford ph., cloth-
worker, son of Richard Care, late of Handly
Castle, CO. of Worcester, to Jane Rily, at
Charlcut.
1715-7-22. — Elizabeth Clark, of Bradford, spinster, dau. of
John Clark, to John Smith, of Broomham
House, at Corsham.
171S-1-15. — Mary Coole, widdow, dau. of Thomas Beaven, of
Devizes, to Phillip Watts, of Greinton, at
Devizes.
1 7 18-6-28. — Josiah CoLLETT, son of Tobias Collett, of Reading,
CO. of Berks, to Rachel Pinnell, at Comerwell.
1720-11-23. — Robert Corxick, of St. Martin's-le-Grand, Lon-
don, taylor, son of Robert Cornick, late of
Bradford, to Joan Foot, at Bradford.
1 72 1-8-26. — Elizabeth Cale, dau. of John Cale, of Cain, to
John Neat, at Calne.
1721 '2-1-16. — Sarah Chapman, dau. of Laurence Chapman, of
Bidestone, to John Edwards, of Bidestone, at
Slatterford.
1722-3-20. — Ruth Chitty, of Marlborough, widdow, to William
Smith, of Broomham, at Marlboro'.
1723- 4-11. — David Cooper, of Bradford, scribbler, son of Jno.
Cooper, of Bradford, to Elizth. Dyer, of
Bradford, at Cumberwell.
1723-11-16. — Elizabeth Collett, dau. of Thomas Collett, of
Reading in Berks, to Robert Arch, of Brad-
ford, at Comberwell.
1724-10-22. — Mary Charles, dau. of Francis Charles, of M elk-
sham ph., to James Payne, of Bradford, at
Melksham.
1726-11-22. — Mary Cape, dau. of William Cape, late of Wel-
lington, to Thomas Shute, of Melksham, at
Warminster.
4.68 IViltsliire Notes ana Queries.
1737-9-3. — Mary Crahb, dau. of Thomas Crabh, late of Marlbro,
to John Willis, at BromhaiiL
1737-11-23. — Simon Collf.tt, of Batli, co. of Somerset, baker,
to Jane Bristovv, at Slaughter ford.
1 740- 1 2-1 1. — Jane Cook, of Biddestone, dau. of Roger Cook, of
Guildford, co. of Surry, to Andrew R.vndall,
Jun., of Chippenham, at Chippenham.
1741-10-27. — Thomas Collktt, of Bath, co. of Somerset, dis-
tiller, to Sarah Rose, at Devizes.
1745-3-5. — Martha Clapton, dau. of Thomas Clapton, of Wrex-
all, to John Bullock, of Hullington, atCorsham.
1752-12-24. — Elizal)cth Clarke, of city of New Sarum, to
Tliomas Beaven, of Melksham, at city of New
Sarum.
1754-7-3. — Daniel Cotterell [? Morrell], of Painswick, co. of
Gloucester, to Martha Bullock, at Sutton Benger.
1755-8-28. — Mary Car Y, dau. of Willm. Caiy, of Cowbridge, to
Richard Fowler, at Hullington.
1757-12-1. — Jeremiah Cox, of city of London, vintner, son of
Jeremiah and Hannah Cox, late of Bristol, to
Joannah Noyes, at Charlcott.
1775-8-S. — Joseph Clark, son of Abraham and Jane Clark, of
Newmarket, co. of Gloucester, to Mary Bul-
lock, at Melksham.
1785-11-15. — Ann Carrington, of Westwood, near Bradford,
dau. of Samuel and Sarah Carrington, of West-
Avood, to Thomas Braciier, of Wincanton, at
Bradfui'd.
D.
1705-5-19. — Alice Dyer, of Chippenham, dau. of William Dyer,
late of Chippenham, to Thomas Harris, of
Chippenham, at Chii)pcnham.
1708-4-2. — Sarah Deverel, of Mountain Faiieigh, spinster,
dau. of John Deverel, of Mountain Farleigh, to
Joseph Cooper, of Mountain l''ai"lcigh, at CV)ni-
erwell.
' 7 ' 7-^-5- — Elizabeth Dancy, dau. of Aquila Dancy, of Charlcut,
Broiiihill ph., to Andrew Gardner, of Brim-
hill i)h.
1721-^,-13. — FJi/abeth Day, of Fovcnt, spinster, to Thomas
Martin, of Fordingbridge, at Salisbury.
Quakerism in irHlsliiir. 469
17J1-10-14. — Ani}' Davis, dau. of Richard Davis, of Miiity ph.,
to VViHiam Alsleep, of Minchg. Hampton, at
Purton Stoak.
•723-3-23- — William Doolk, of North Bradley ph., broad-
weaver, to Mary Evkringham, of Bradford ph.,
at Comber well.
1723-4-11. — Eliz. Dyer, of Bradford, spinster, dau. of jno.
Dyer, of Worly, Rath ford [? Bathford] ph., co.
of Somerset, to David Cooper, of Bradford,
at Cumberwell.
1728-12-26.— Mary Dickinson, dau. of Caleb Dickinson, late of
Monks, Corsham ph., to Truman Harford, of
Bristol, at Corsham.
1735-12-19.— Mary Davis, dau. of Robert Davis, late of Cor-
sham ph., to William Stovev, [married] in
Corsham ph.
1746-3-15.— Vickris Dickinson, of Pickwick, Corsham ph., to
Elizabeth Marcmant, at Comberwell.
E.
1 704-6-3 1.— Roger Earle, son of Robert Earle, of Bradford
ph., to Mary Beverstocke, at Comerwell.
1721/2-1-16. — John Edwards, of Bidestone, yeoman, son of
Francis Edwards, of Bidestone, to Sarah Chap-
man, at Slatterford.
•723-3-23- — Mary Everingham, of Bradford ph., spinster, to
William Doole, of North Bradley ph., at Com-
berwell.
1730-8-28. — Robert Edwards, of Notton, Laycock ph., yeoman,
to Betty RvLY, at Charlcot.
•733-8-1 1. — Robert Edwards, of Notton, Laycock ph., yeoman,
to Mary Tyfield, at Slaughterford.
1736-1-28. — Mary Ellis, spinster, dau. of Moses ElHs, of
Trinnett, Eddington ph., to Daniel Packer, of
Derry Hill, at Chippenham.
•737-3-5- — Joseph Edwards, of Notton, Laycock ph., yeoman,
to Ann West, at Slauterford.
•742-3-19. — Mary Edwards, late of Notton, Laycock ph., widow
of Robert Edwards, to Clare Smith, of Broom-
h.am, at Chippenham.
1744-S-14. — Mary Every, of Calne, widow, to Robert Tanner,
of Cadwain, at Charlcut.
Norman Penney.
(To be con ti 111 led).
470 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
QUARREL BETWEEN THE INHABITANTS OF THE
VILLAGE OF LANGLEY AND THE TOWN OF
CHIPPENHAM.
In his History of the Town of Chippenham, the Rev. J. J.
Daniell, referring to the above, says : —
"A village revel used in olden times to be kept at Langley Fitzurse,
in the week tollowing Saint Peter's Day ; as John Aubrey says — " One ol
the cminentcst feasts in those parts." In 1822 this revel was the occasion
ot one of the emhicntest riots in those parts. Some offence having been
given at the feast to the villagers by a party of lads from Chippenham, on
the 7th September, thirty or forty men from the two Langlcys, armed
with bludgeons, marched into Chippenham, about \ past 10 p.m., went
up and down the streets, shouting, calling the people to come out and
fight, and attacking every one they met. The Constables assembled,
and aided by the men of the town endeavoured to drive back the assail-
ants, and a terrible battle went on lor an hour or two in the dark streets.
The constables were beaten down and wounded, one man died in a few
hours, another shortly afterwards, and not less than 31 men, women, and
even children were more or less seriously injured. The chief actors in
this savage and cowardly outrage fled the country; those who were
apprehended, altera ionj; confinement in Salisbury gaol escaped through
an informality in the prosecution."
In his "Statistics of Crime" i<o\- this County, the late Mr.
Dowding mentions, under date 1823 Lent Assizes, as follows:
" In the case in which eleven persons were committed for murder, two
only were tried (George Thomas and Thomas Pearce). The rest had
true bills found against them, but were at once allowed to be liberated
upon finding the requisite recognizances to keep the peace. It appeared
that a riot took place at Chippenham between the inhabitants of the
village of Langley from simple causes. A party was dancing at the
Bear Inn, Chippenham ; one of them being taken ill, went out into the
street, where he had a fit, and while his wife, brother, and friends were
attending him, a pushing was commenced, and various annoyances re-
sorted to. After the fit was over, Thomas Pearce (the brother) came up
to a man named Jones saying "D your eyes, you are one of tiiem,"
immediately knocked him down, as he did also a man named Bound.
Another person named Higgings tiien remonstrated with Pearce, and
begged him to be quiet, and was also knocked down for his pains. Upon
these occurrences a call was made for the Langley men to come to the
assistance of their ill-used companions, and very shortly after, a great
crowd collected, armed with sticks and stones, which they commenced
flinging in all directions. At this period Pearce was observed to knock
A Cliippenlia))i Oiioryrl. 471
other people down, and George Thomas was also seen to be beating one
Joseph Milsom with a stick, half the size of a person's wrist, Milsom
being nn the ground at the time. Many other persons were seen to be
also put liors-dc-combat by olliers of the mob party. In short there arose
a general battle, arising out of nothing but a little bickering, in which
the Chippenham party succeeded in driving the " Laugleyites' towards
their own village, but not before a vast number had been knocked down,
bruised and wounded, some drove into a ditch, and two persons, viz.,
Mr. Hull, a saddler, and Mr. Reynolds, a brazier, killed. No specific act
could, however, be laid against the Chippenham any more than against
the Langley party, therefore the above were acquitted. How or by whom
the murder was committed was never known."
From the papers relating to the above quarrel, the latter
account appears to be correct, and that the prisoners did not
escape through an informality in the prosecution, as stated by
Mr. Daniell, but rather through the difficulty of bringing the
charge home to the guilty party.
It may, perhaps, be of interest to some readers of W. N.
and O. if the above statement of Mr. Dowdingis supplemented
by a few particulars as to names, localities, etc.
The affair took place on the evening of Saturday, the 7th
Sept. 1S22. The spot where the man was seized with the fit
was in the street between the Bear Inn and the residence of
Dr. Briscoe. The quarrel appears to have been continued up
the road now called the "New Road."
The body of Chippenham men mustered at the corners of
New Road and Marshfield Road, in front of the residence now
occupied by Mrs. Selman, but then by Miss Wastfield. The
Langley men were congregated at a spot near an elder bush
in the New Road, close to the place where Mr. Light's timber
yard now is. The Chippenham body called to their opponents
to " come on," which they did, with the result that the Chippen-
ham party ran round the Marshfield Road, but their opponents
caught them up, and then resulted a terrible struggle between
them, which was continued round the " Old Road," but not
now existing, then running behind the house and premises
belonging to Mr. Gillett, through to Fogham.shire, and the Ivy
and Back Avon Bridge. The effect oi' the fight was that from
the commencement in Timbrel Street to the finish in the Bath
47:
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Road, two persons were killed and thirty injured. Tiie names
of the persons " killed and wounded" were as under : —
A List of the ''Killed and IVoiaidedr
Names.
Particulars.
Joseph Hull
... Killed.
James Reynolds...
...
i»
'Joseph Moore ...
Wounded
severely
in the lu\'ul ; lost his
left eye
George Miles
ti
w
lost his right eye.
James Milsom
M
M
Body and head.
Adam Milsom
t?
)•
Body and head.
James Ruby
II
If
Head.
Ambrose Morris ...
II
n
II
John Robins
II
n
II
Ann Robins
II
»i
Body and Head.
Robert Ely Knight
II
,,
Ear.
Hugh Lawrence ...
II
n
Hands and Knees.
John Higgiiis ...
II
t»
Body.
George Damsell ...
II
slightly
Neck and shoulders.
John Pound
II
ft
Head.
William Pound ...
II
p
Eyes.
Michael Pound ...
II
M
Shoulders.
Cicely Pound
II
If
Eye.
Robert Hay ward ...
II
M
Loss of a tooth.
Henry Wood
11
It
On the cheek.
William Grant
II
U
Leg.
-William Blanchard
II
M
Body and Head.
- Richard Banks ...
II
tt
Head.
James Sperin
II
H
Head.
William Cullis ...
II
It
13ody.
John Matthews ...
II
M
15()dy.
Charles Hayward. . .
II
If
Arm.
Thomas Hulbert ..
II
ft
Groin.
Miss Wastiield ...
II
n
Face.
John Lewis
II
n
Head.
Richard Gale
II
M
Arm.
James I5aily
II
M
Head.
Killed, 2; Wounded severely, 11 ; slightly, 19. Total, 32.
The body of Joseph Hull, a saddler residing in Iligii
Street, was found at a spot in the Marshfield Road near the
bottom of the new street — St. Paul Street — and that of James
Reynolds at the entrance of the footway leading from the Bath
Road to Back Avon Bridge, now called Lover's Walk.
' BailifT and High Constable for the Hundred of Chippenham.
* Constables.
Old IVillsliirc Homes. 473
The names of tlic prisoners committed for trial were : —
Henry Knight, John Mattliews, Junr., James Isaacs,
Benjamin Saher, Junr., George Thomas, Harry Gardner, John
Thomas, Thomas Pearce, James Mountjoy, and Wm. Bryant,
for wilful murder.
Isaac Musk, John Woodman, John Langley, William
Tanner, John Hatherill, and George Bailey, for riot.
Joseph Bailey and Richard Salter, until they should
submit to be examined.
Six others were discharged, and bound over to give
evidence on behalf of the prosecution at the trial.
About 60 witnesses were bound over to appear at the trial
at the Lent Assizes, 1S23, for Wilts, on behalf of the
prosecution.
At the trial before the Hon. Justice Burrough and Baron
Bullock the whole of the prisoners were acquitted.
W. H. B.
OLD WILTSHIRE HOMES.
In the very valuable and sumptuous volume under this title,
published a few years since,^ which gives so excellent a
portraiture of over a score of ancient County residences,
I have detected three quite important errors in the text, which
I venture to point out for correction, in the assurance that, in
so doing, I am supplementing the evident efforts of its editor
to insure historical accuracy in his work.
CoRSLEV Manor, page 34. — It is here stated " That there
is a quaint little gateway, consisting of a single arch of classical
character, bearing a coat-of-arms, now too weatherworn to
decipher, but probably that of the Thynnes." As a matter
' Some Old Wiltshire Uomes. Illustrated by S. John Elyard. London:
1891.
474 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
of fact, this coat is that of the family of Lygh, who were
owners of this Manor, as well as that of Landford, so early
at least as 1284,^ and whose skeleton pedigree has been
printed in Hoare's History of Wilts. ,^ who also gives the
correct reference to the Arms and their tinctures, although he
also omits a very important detail, i.e., the gutted de sang.
Being particularly interested in this subject, I have taken
very considerable pains to obtain an exact cast of the present
condition of the stone, and have had this reproduced very
faithfully in a modern cutting on a similar stone,^ as may
be seen in the accompanying illustration, which shows graphi-
cally the ancient arms and their restoration.
By this it will be seen that the '' tail nowed,'' which is an
essential feature of the Thynne coat, is entirely wanting in
the original, while the gouttes, never used by the Thynnes, and
also omitted by Hoare in his blazon, are perfectly distinct and
unmistakeable.
The unusual shape of the shield is likewise noteworthy as
aiding to fix its date,* which Dr. George W. Marshall, "Rouge
Croix," to whom I have submitted the photographs of the cast,
ascribes to the close of the 1 5th, or early part of the 1 6th century.
Its erection should, therefore, be ascribed to the last Robert
Lygh, of Corsley, who was living so late as 151 5, and whose two
daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, carried tlic estate to the
families of Stanter and Beckett,^ by whom it was no doubt sub-
sequently sold to the Thynnes, who acquired Longleat about
the middle of the i6th century^ and Corsley at probably about
the same time.
1 Wilts Fines, 13 Edw. I.
* Hoare's Wilts, v, 84. Landford. See also Ilarl. MS., iiii, fo. 76.
^ By Mr. E. 15. H. Chapman, of Frome, Somenset.
' See also Gerard IjoikH's Accedence of Armoric, cd. 1597 p. 18, b., and
Grazebrook's Dates of Shields, p. 70 and plate 1.
■' Hoare's Wilts, v, 84.
» Between 1546 and 1580. Vide Tojwg. and Gen., iii, 483.
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Old IViltshirc Homes. 475
Sheldons, page 8. — It is stated that Sir Edward Ilungcr-
t'ord "lived to the very advanced age of 115 years, outlasting
both his son and grandson, and bringing by his death the
direct line of the Hungerfords, as well as their fortunes, to an
end."
This error, which has been so frequently repeated b}'
writers on the Ilungerford family, has arisen from confusing
Sir Edward Hungerford, K.B., of Corsham, born 1596, the
Commander of the Commonwealth forces in Wilts, and who
died s.p. in 1648, with his nephew, Sir Edward Hungerford
(son of Anthony Hungerford, Esq.), who was born in 1652,
squandered the family estates, and died in 171 1, at the ad-
vanced age of 79 — not 115 — years, and was buried at St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, while his uncle was laid in the
family chapel at Farleigh Hungerford.^
Duke's House, Bradford, page 49. — The property of
the Duke of Kingston, who died in 1773, is said to have passed,
after the life estate of his soi-disante widow, the notorious
Duchess of Kingston, in 1789, to his nephew, Evelyn Meadows.
It was, however, Charles Medows (not Meadows), the younger
son of the Duke's only sister, Frances, wife of Philip Medows,
who succeeded to the estates under settlement from his uncle,
took the name of Pierrepont, and was, in 1806, created Earl
Manvers, his inheritance being vainly disputed by his elder
brother, Evelyn Philip Medows.^ J. Henry Lea.
18, Somerset Street,
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
' Sec Jackson'.s Farleiijh ITunijerford, pp. 11 and 12 ; N. and Q., 1th
ser., vol. vi., p. 454; Wilt ^ Arch. Mag., iv, 2 IS.
- Complete Peerage.hj G. E. C, iv, 407; v, 217.
476 Willshirc Notes and Oitcrics.
THE BATTLE OF ETHANDUNE.
{Vol. I, pp. 317, 367; Vol. II, p. 272;.
Though most writers consider Alfred's victory of Ethan-
dune to have been gained at Edington in Wiltshire, I am
inclined to think that the event did not take place in this county,
but in that of Somerset, at the village of Edington, within ten
miles of Athelney.
The Saxoit Chronicle as well as Asser's Life of Alfred,
makes it evident that the movements of Alfred immediately
preceding the battle were executed with great dexterity and
haste, and that they could not have been confined to the
short route from Brixton Deverill to the Wiltshire Edington ;
while it is certain that the enemy were at no great distance
from Athelney, not only previous to tlic battle, but for some
weeks after their defeat. It was in Easter that Alfred fortified
a camp at Athelney, from which he assailed the enemy, with
the assistance of that part of Somerset which was nighest to it ;
and it was not until the seventh week afterwards that he made
the bold ride to Ecgbyrhtes-stane (Brixton), which was to bring
(undoubtedly in accordance with a preconcerted plan) all the
people of Somerset and Wiltshire and the western part of
Hampshire to his flag. He stayed at Ecgbyrhtes-stane but one
night —a circumstance shewing the precision with which the
thing was done and the boldness of the king's designs -pro-
ceeding the next day to Iglea, a place probably situated in the
neighbourhood of llchester, near the River Yeo or Ivel, in
Somerset, which was such a day's march as would be expected
on an occasion when everything depended upon celerity of
motion and suddenness of attack. He encamped at Iglca for
the night, and advanced the next day to Ethandune, where the
decisive contest was fought. The fortress upon which the Danes
fell back was probably their camp in the neighbourhood of
Ethandune, the words of the Sa.xon Chronicle, oS thone geworc,
The Battle of Ethanduuc. 477
without any further attempt to describe the place, discounten-
ancing the idea that it was at any considerable distance. The
recorded subsequent events of the war took place at Aller and
Wedniore, both also in Somerset and within ten miles of the
battlefield — Aller being the place of Gothrun's baptism, and
Wedmore the place of his Chrism-loosing. At the latter place,
Gothrun stayed with Alfred twelve days.
With regard to Ecgbyrhtes-stane, it should be noticed that
the words of the Chronicle, "And he for ymb ane niht of tha)n
wican to Iglea," are translated by Mr. Ingram, "Then within
one night he went from this retreat to Hey." Mr. Ingram's word
*' retreat " conveys the idea of a fixed camp, but the Chronicle
shews that Alfred did not make Ecgbyrhtes-stane a retreat at
all, but a mere place of rendezvous, his stay there being confined
to a single night.
Alfred's hasty ride from Athelney to Brixton, his as hasty
return with a largely increased army, and his immediate attack
upon the Danes, perhaps almost before they were aware of the
movement, demonstrate his daring and ability as a leader,
while showing that it was part of his plan to take the Danes by
surprise.
Mr. Ingram places the battle of ^Ethandune at Heddington
between Devizes and Calne, Wilts, and not at Edington, near
Westbury; and Iglea at Iley Mead, near Melksham. Writers
on the subject, in looking for the site in Wiltshire, seem to
have been mislead by the Chronicler Ethelwerd, who states
that Alfred was opposed at Ethandune to "the army that was
in Chippenham;"^ but the Saxon Chronicle shews that the
Danes, though they made Chippenham their headquarters, did
not keep themselves within it after the winter season, if indeed
at all. " The army stole about mid-winter, after twelfth-night,
to Cyppanhamme and rode over the West Saxons' land a)id
settled there, and drove many people over sea, and rode down
' Bohn's translation.
478 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
the greatest part of the rest and subdued them, except King
Alfred."
Besides claiming to be the scene of Alfred's victory, the
Wiltshire Edington has usually been regarded as the E(Sandune
mentioned in Alfred's will, and is so treated in Mr. Thorpe's
Diphmatarium Angliann JEvi Snxoii., but the E(Sandune of the
will is Ardington, near Wantage, Berks.
Referring to the very common change of the old " ts "
into " 1) ", Mr. Napper expresses surprise (i, p. 318) that the
Saxon Athelings escaped conversion into Adelings. An
instance of such a change is found in one place-name con-
taining the word — iE?)elinga-igge(Athelney) being spelt Adelingi
in Domesday Book ; but it is really no wonder that Atheling
as a separate word has preserved the old " 8 " sound, seeing
that the same sound is still a redundant feature of the English
language, and is retained in many English place-names.
A. W. Whatmore.
Accusation of " Judge " Nicholas, by Thomas Clarke
and John Stokes, 20 Nov. 1664.^ — " Ihese are to give notice
that I being in compraiy, where I heard in discourse that
Robert Nicholas, of Seend, in the co. of Wilts, Esq., late one
of the Barons to the late Usurper, in a bragging and boasting
way, did glory that he was the man that drew up the charge
against his late Majest}' ; and, being reproved thereof, said if it
were to do again, he would do the same, for that his Majesty
was of the Norman race, and unfit to reign. My loyalty to
his Majesty binds me to make this known, and to desire a
warrant against Mr. Nicholas to answer such articles as in his
Majesty's behalf shall be objected against him.
"Thomas Clarke."
"John Stokes makes oath that these words were spoken in
May last, and about Michaelmas term before, at the Holy
' Communicated by Mr. W. Cunnington, who found it amongst the
papers of Mr. James VVaylcn.
Braybrookc and Broiincko: 479
Lane, at the back side of St. Clements, in the Strand, and as
his discourse to others ; which we have heard by Thomas
Flower of the Devizes in Wilts, &c.
"John Stokes.
'* Sworn 3rd Dec. 1 664, before me
"John Cecil, master in Chancer}'."
Endorsed with a note that the deponent Stokes dwells at
Seend, within two miles of the Devizes.
Braybrooke and Brouncker (vol. ii, p. 309).— In Churchill
Church, CO. Somerset, is a brass to Raphe Jennyns and his
wife, with the four following shields : —
(ist). A plain chevron (?) possibly Prideaux.
(2nd). I and 4, Argent, on a fess gules three bezants;
Jennings. 2, Gules, a bull's head caboshed argent armed
or; DusTON (according to the Hertford Visitation, Thomas
Jennings = . . . d & h. ... John Duston). 3, Azure, two
bars or, each charged with three martlets gules ; Burdett.
Crest — a demi-lion rampant erased or, holding in both paws a
spear erect of the same headed azure.
(3rd). Argent, six pellets 3 and 3 in pale, on a chief em-
battled sable a lozenge fessways of the field, charged with a
cross patty of the second ; Brouncker. Crest — An arm
armoured erect holding a tilting spear.
(4th). Defaced, but plain enough to show Brouncker im-
paling. Argent, six lozenges, 3, 2, i gules ; though not the
usual coat. It is supposed to be that of Braybrooke, and is so
given in Aubrey and Jackson, No. 433, which also- gives, in No.
57, Jennings quartering Duston. Marshall's copy of the Wilts
Visitation of 1623 says that Elizabeth, dau. of James Bray-
brooke, and mother of Joan, wife of Raphe Jennings, was the
first wife of Henry Branker.
F. Were.
K K
480 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Extraordinary Stag Run on Salisbury Plain.— The
following was, a few years since, preserved among other sport-
ing memoranda, in the house from whicli the run commenced :
We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do agree that on Sat-
urday, 10th November 1744, an hind turned out of the Paddock at
Netiieriiaven, and killed under Pertwood, on the edge of Dorsetshire,
ran a chase ol forty miles.
(Signed) Beaufort.
RoBT. Lee.
C. Allanson.
W. Paston, Secretary.
Who, with several other gentlemen, were in at the death.
Richard Strikeon, Huntsman.
Seth Osland, Whipper-in.
Viator.
cOurnr«?»
Curious Custom. — In 1S27, wlicn the Rev. W. L. Bowles
wrote his History of Bionhill^ "an annual custom was still kept
up of the villagers assembhng on Palm Sunday on the top of
Silbury, to eat figs and drink cider, a remnant, evidently, of re-
mote antiquity."
This custom probably dates from the days when sacrifices
were made by the heathen inhabitants. To put an end to
these practices "Gregory the Great ordered that at the annual
feast of dedication of Churches the people should build booths
round the church, and there feast themselves in lieu of their
ancient sacrifices."
Is this custom still kept up ? And is there any signifi-
cance in the figs eaten ? T. S. M.
John Norden (1543 1625). -The once voluminous de-
partment of topographical literature, generically known as
"Road Books", may be roughly said to have come in with the
carriages, and to have gone out with the coaches. Of this
School Licences. 481
species of book, John Norden must be accounted the father,
although h\s Eiig/nii(/, an I )itencli'd Gnyde for English TravcUers,
1625, small 4to, is a poor and meagre production, as compared
with those of Agilby and his successors. It is merely a set of
distance tables to accompany the county maps, and is, therefore,
not wholly original, but must, to some extent, be refcired back
to the itinerary of that somewhat mythical traveller Anton-
inus.
In Foster's Alumni Oxonienscs will be found two persons
ol the same name, who graduated at Hart Hall : —
Norden, John; B.A. from Hart Hall 11 Feb., 1568-9, M.A. 26 Feb.,
'57--3 (or 4 Oct. following); an old English writer, surveyor of the
king's lands, died about 1625.
Norden, John; B.A. Irom Hart Hall 26 April, 1631; of Rowde, barrister-at-
law, Middle Temple. 1638 (as second son of William, ol Rowde, Wilts,
gent.), M.P. Wilts, 1654-5, Old Sarum 1660, and Devizes (Dec.) 1666,
until his death in 1669.
The elder Norden, if Foster is right in describing him
as " surve3-or of the king's lands," is also the author of
the Giiyde for English Travellers, and it seems reason-
able to suppose that the two graduates were related as
uncle and nephew. Can Mr. Maskelyne, who has given an ac-
count of the Wiltshire Nordens at some length in the first
volume of this magazine, or some other genealogical student,
bring forward an}- further evidence to support this conjecture?
My reason in asking this question is for the purpose of
settling the balance between Anthony Wood {Athcnce Oxon-
ienscs) and John Foster {Alumni Oxonienscs), who both say
that the "surveyor" graduated at Hart Hall, and Mr. C. H.
Coote {Did. of Nat Biog.), who rejects Wood's statement that
he was a Wiltshire man, and also thinks that it was not the
" survej'or ", but an obscure devotional poet, who took his de-
gree at Hart Hall. John Dyke.
School Licences. — The following is a letter from the Rev.
Thos. Harward, M.A., vicar of Winterborne Stoke, co. Wilts,
K K 2
4S2 IViltsliirc Notes and Queries.
to the official of the Bishop of Sarum : —
For Mr. Theophihis Dyer,
at liis house in
Sarum.
Mr. Dyer,
I have sent this honest man to you for a matrimoniall licence, and it
is to be directed to Madington. I pray use him kindly. I intend to wait
on you for my school licence shortly, but I have not yet finisiied my
school-house ; but as soon as I have I intend to be w''' you in y^ Interim
I am yfs- Tno. Harward.
Stoke, Nov. loth, 1684.
I found it amongst the marriage licence bonds for 1684, at
the Sarum Registry. I should like to know whether it refers
to a parochial school or a private academy. Clergy were
obliged by the Canons to obtain the Bishop's licence, in order
to keep school. Harward was a great builder ; he was build-
ing his schoolhouse at Stoke in 1684, and he built Maddington
Vicarage in 1704, as a stone with the following inscription
testifies: —
D.O.M.
HOC
Donum DEI.
Pij Munificent Patronj
Domicilium
Humilis & Giatabundus
Dedicat
T. H.
1704.
He died 24 Nov. 1722, aged 67, and was buried at Mad-
dington, where he had been curate 41 yeai's, holding therewith
the Rectory of Rollcstone, and the Vicarage of Winterbornc
Stoke. R. G. Bartlett.
William Leach. - His name occurs at p. 435, as the De-
vizes agent for the Bal/i Journal in 1745. In 1 769, the follow-
ing advertisement appeared in the Salisbiirv Joitnial : —
For the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance, London,
from Loss or Damage by Fire.
William Leach, of Devizes, in the County of Wilts, snuff-maker,
their Agent and Receiver for tlie said County and Parts adjacent, is
IVilliaiii Leach.
4S3
ready to receive Proposals from any persons, who desire lo liave any as-
surance made in or near the said County.
N.B.— Hay and Corn, thrashed and untinashed, assun-d; And the
aforesaid Agent may he spoke with at tiie Green Dragon, at Maricet Lav-
ington, on Wednesdays.
Was this Mr. Leach, trading under the name of "William
Leach and Co., snuff-makers, at the Windmill in Devizes,
Wihs," the founder
of the business after-
wards successfully car-
ried on by several
generations of the
Anstie family ? His
trade label, of which
I possess a cop}', is
here reproduced, signed
Milton F., who en-
graved several book-
plates, signed in various
ways ; the editor of
JV. N. Olid O. has, in
his collection, a "Chip-
pendale Armorial" of
" Saml. Pye, Bristol,
1 747," signed as above ;
he executed at least
one other Bristol plate,
and that city being
then a great tobacco
port, would lead us to
•I.F.
believe that this artist belonged to, or at least worked in, that
place. Mr. Fincham, compiler of Artists and Engravers of
' Was this one of the windmills on the mound of Devizes Castle,
shown in Stukeley's plate, " 17 July, 1723" (/</»c/'. Curios., i, 136), and de-
scribed in some letters, written in 1730, by John Strachey, F.R.S., of Sutton
Court, Bristol (Add. MS. No. 0214, Brit. Mus.), as " a late project for grinding
rape." They were afterwards, I believe, used for grinding snuff.
484 Wiltshu'c Notes and Queries.
British and American Bookplates, -wv'xits "that little is known
of Milton, except that he practised in London, and was chiefly
employed by booksellers in illustrations; he died in 1790, and
was buried at Lambeth." Scriha.
i\rplifd.
Ellis, of Wilts (vol. ii., p. 436). — Rev. John Ilardcastle,
vicar of Mere, by his will, dated 1730, gave all his property to a
distant relative, Elizabeth Farrer, who, by her will, dated 1730,
bequeathed all her property to Thomas Ellis, shopkeeper, of
Mere, and a cousin, John Farrer, of London.
In 1787, a fai-in at Burton, in the parish of Mere, belong-
ing to Mr. Ellis (then of Wincanton), was offered for sale.
Other property belonging to the Ellis family was sold
about the same time.
Thomas Ellis was churchwardcPi of Mere in 1736, 1745,
and 1756.
Mere Churchwardens' Book. — "Whereas Thomas l-llis
Errected a pew in the Cliurch all his own Cost in the year
1737, and not mentioning for whose Lives it Should be, Now
the said Thomas Ellis doth agree to hold the said Pew for the
Lives of himself, William and Mary, son and daughter of the
late Jerred Ellis, Thomas the son of Thomas Ellis, Elizabeth
Farrer, and Isabel, the daughter of William Butt, and when
any of the persons aforesaid shall dye, he the said Thomas
Ellis or his Executors shall have full power to name another
Life or Lives in y" room of the Deceased, paying to ll)e
Church the sum of one Shilling for ading each life."
Battlcshury. 4S5
1757. Jolm Ellis, the son of Benjamin Ellis, Bo'' a scat
in Mr. Thomas Ellis's pcvv is., and Thomas,
the son of Benjamin Ellis, Ijo' a seat in Mr.
Thomas Ellis's Pew is.
1764. Frances Norris Bo'- a seat late John Ellis's wife's
seat.
1768. Thomas, the son of Benjamin Ellis, surrendered
his seat in Mr. Ellis's Pew to Thomas, the son
of John Hooper 6d.
1774. Mr. John Hooper Bo'- a seat in Mr. Ellis's Pew
lor his son Christopher Hooper that was late 5. (L
Thomas Ellis's seat . . ..10
William Ellis surrendered his seat in Mr.
Ellis's Pew to James Fry . . . . ..06
1777. John Hooper Bo'- a seat for his son John
Hooper, and one for his son Robert Hooper in
late Mr. Ellis's Pew, No. 82 . . ..10
^779- James Fry Bo'- a seat late his mother's in Mr.
Ellis's Pew for Harry Darknell . . ..10
1787. Mary daughter of John Hooper bought late
Thomas Ellis's seat in Ellis's Pew . . ..10
1800. Mary wife of Adolphus Darknell surrendred in
Ellis's pew to her daughter Hannah wife of
Harry Coleman . . . . . . ..06
1806. Jas. Baverstock sen'- bought late Jas. Fry's seat
in Ellis's pew for his grandson Daniel Bav-
erstock, No. 83 . . . . . . ..26
Mere Duivn, T. H. Bakkr.
Mere, Wilts.
Battlesbury (vol. ii, pp. 3S9, 390). — The oldest inhabi-
tant tells me that about 65 years ago, on a Palm Sunday, some
fellows got the large stone on top of Cley Hill, which had a
socket (meant, my friend thought, for a flag-staff — ? a cross),
486 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
and rolled it down either to the lime-kiln or another side. He
never heard of such a stone on Battlcsbur}-, and he worked
there 60 years ; I have never heard of it being a Palm Sunday
rendezvous, but Cley Hill was. Similar gatherings at Deverill
took place on Cowdown, i.e., the ridge, parallel with the road
from Sutton ; boys, as well as men, went up to " beat the ball",
i.e., pla}' trap. "When was the last time?" "Oh! when I
were a bit of a buoy, they gied over then, 'cos of 'en seed the
devil ; I were up there, but I didn't see 'en, but a were there
like a girt dog, and a did rin about, and the chaps rinned away ;
I seed em rin, and I rinned too ; 'twere gied over ater that."
John U. Powixl.
Edward Long, of Monkton (vol. ii, pp. ^^90, 439).— "A."
will, I am sure, agree with nic, that there is nothing in the
quotation from Metcalfe, given b}- him in your last number, to
identify "Sir Edward Longe, of Wiltshire" with Edward Long,
of Monkton.
Long was, and is, one of the commonest names in Wilt-
shire. The printed Visitation of 1565 (under "Snell") shews
Susan Snell married to " Edward Longe", of the Draycott
family. In other references he is called " Edmond."
In the printed Visitation of 1623 (under "Barret") we find
that Hugh Barret, (living in 1623, aged 84), of Tytherton
Lucas, married Susan, dau. of Nicholas SncU, of Kington, and
widow of " Edm. Longe de Draycott milt.''
So that in the first place we have here a Long of another
family, living about the time in question, who, if the Harl.
M.S. is correct, was called " Edward" in one of the Visitations,
and teas hniiilited.
In the second place, we know that Edward Long, of
Monkton, in the Visitation which took place immediately after
his death, is )iot described as a knight. The evidence of the
Visitations is entirely against Long of Monkton ever having
Fynaniorc. 487
been knighted, and the onus of proof necessarily- hcs with any-
one who says tliat lie was. We arc all hable to occasional
slips, and a casual reference, e\en from the pen of so accom-
plished an antiquary as the late Mr. Swayne, is, of course, no
evidence at all. Q
Fynamore (vol. ii, p. 438). — Ermine, two chevronels gules,
quartered by Ernle, are the arms of Fy.na.more allowed by the
Heralds in 1623 to Sir John Ernie, of Whetham, his father,
Michael Ernie, having married Mary, daughter of Roger Fyna-
more, of Whetham ; no grant, however, of these arms has
been traced at the College of Arms. Mr. Phillimore thinks
that he has discovered the origin of the arms of Fynamore.
Gilbert de Finemere went to Ireland with Gilbert de Clare
1 2 1 o, and held land of the fee of Clare, Earl of Gloucester. The
arms of the Clares were : Or, three chevronels, gules. Boutell
states that " many a red chevron or chevronel, with other de-
vices, charged upon a golden field, or a gold chevron on a red
field, is a sign of feudal alliance with the great house of De
Clare." There is strong presumption, therefore, to derive the
arms of Fynamore from the Clares.
R. J. FVNMORE.
Clatford Park (vol. ii, pp. 39, 350).— In the Local Gov-
ernmenl Boundaries Com. Report for 1888, Clatford Park is
marked as a parish. In KelWs Directory of Wiltshire (under
Preshute Parish), Clatford Park is stated to be two and a half
miles S.W. from Marlborough (and the hamlet of the same name
two miles West of Marlborough). It is now a parish, having for-
merly been extra-parochial. That fact points to its having an
4S8 IViltsliirc Notes and Oiieries.
ecclesiastical history. Under " Ancient Chapels in co. Wilts"
{Hills Aniicrol. Mag., x, 270) Canon Jackson, as also Canon
Jones, in Domesday for Wilts, says that Clatford (in the Hundred
ofSclkley, near Marlborough) was an Alien Priory, subordinate
to St. Victor en Caux in Normandy (referred to as Abbas de
Sco Victoria, in Wilts Arclmol. Mag, xii, 18), founded in the
time of William I by Sir R. de Mortimer. Tlie manor was
granted to the Abbey about the time of Henry III, by one of the
Mortimer family. On the suppression of the Alien Priories it
was granted to Eton College by King Henry VI, but afterwards
b}^ exchange to the Protector Duke of Somerset. And it seems
to have belonged later to Sir W. Wroughton, of Broad Hinton,
as proved by his will dated 1598.
A chapel is mentioned here a.d. 1441.
In the time of Domesday, it was held by Alwin, and con-
tained three carucates, a mill, as at present, pasture, and wood.
Clatford Park was at one time subject to the Forest Laws
relating to Savernake, as shown by a map of Savernake Forest
A.D. 12S0, constructed from perambulations of the time of
Henry III and Edward I— by Canon Jackson, Wilis Archa'ol.
Mag., xix, 39— in the portion called Eastwick Baily, which
reached from Workaway Hill to Braden in Savernake ; and
described in a document of the year 933 relating to a gift of
King Athelstan to the Abbot of Wilton of land that lay between
Oare and Wansd3'ke, lying outside tlie wood called Safernoc.
Wilts Archaol. Mag., xix, 320.
A fresh question here arises, did the land pass from the
Abbot of Wilton to the Mortimer family? or was Clatford Park
separate from Clatford Hamlet? T. S. M.
Archbishop Stafford (vol. ii, pp. 218, 255, 298, 385).— Die
two following extracts from the " Register of the Priory of
SS. Trinity at Canterbury " (perhaps identical with the Priory
Archbishop Stafford. 489
of Christ Church, to which the Catliedral was attached) were
taken from Dodsworth's MS. in the Bodleian Library, and very
kindly forwarded to me by the late Mr. Benjamin W. Greenfield,
F.S.A., of Southampton, who was probably the best authority
on matters relating to Stafford pedigree.
The first is the admission of John Stafford — then LL.D.,
and Treasurer of England— as a brother of the fraternity.
This was nearly twenty years before his elevation to the
Archbishopric.
" Mem'd. q'd a.d. 1424, 7 Jd. Mali recepim' in fratcrni-
tatem n'ram M'g'r Joh'em Staftbrd, Doctor' et Thesaur' Angl',
&c."
[Memorandum that a.d. 1424, on the 7th of the ides of
May we have received into our fraternity Master John Stafford,
Doctor, and Treasurer of England, &c.]
The second entry records the death of his mother, as a
sister of the same Prior}-. She is here called " Dame
Emma", as on her tomb at North Bradley.
" 4th non. Sept. obiit d'n'a Emma Stafford mater D'ni
Joh'is Stafford Ar'epi' soror n'ra."
[4th of the nones of September died Dame Emma Stafford,
mother of John Stafford, Lord Archbishop, our sister.]
" There is no reason," Mr. Greenfield remarks, " for
doubting the assertion of Thomas Gascoigne, in his Didionarium
ThcologiciDiJ, that John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells,
was • origine bastardus '. Dr. Gascoigne was the bishop's
contemporary. He had been several times Chancellor of the
University of Oxford, and was so in 1444 {Anthony a IVood)."
" There is one incident in the archbishop's life, that bears
upon his origin, which has hitherto escaped notice : — On March
9, 14 1 5, John Stafford, LL.D., resigned the church of Farne-
burgh in the diocese of Bath and Wells (Register 'Bubbewyth').
Now as the first Sir Humphrey was patron of the church of
Farneburgh, he must have presented John Stafford (his son) to
the living."
490 IVillsliirc Notes and Queries.
This presentation to the church of Farneburgh has been
previously noticed, by myself, at page 255.
The grant by Bishop Bcckington, (Stafford's immediate
successor in the see of Bath and Wells), of lands formerly
"held by Emma, who was mother, and Agnes Bradley, sister"
of the latter prelate— to which Dr. Grose refers at p. 387 —
seems to point to an illegitimate sister of the bishop — who is
called Agnes Bradley, or de Bradley, thus apparently identify-
ing the village of North Bradley as the place also of her birth.
Another communication on the same subject from Lord
Arundcll of Wardour (p. 29S), is valuable as supplying from
the MSS. in his possession the exact dates of — i, the
marriage of William Stafford of Soulhwick, with the
daughter of Sir John Chideock ; 2, the administration
granted to Lord Bonvil after his death in Cade's Rebellion ;
and 3, the settlement on the second marriage of his widow
with Sir John Arundell. That the Southwick property did not,
however, as his Lordship suggests, come into the hands of the
Stafford family through this marriage with Chideock in 1437,
is clear from the inquisition taken 24 years previously, on the
death of the first Sir Humphrey Stafford, when his son, the
second Sir Humphrey, as heir to his mother, Alice, daughter
of John de Greynville, and then aged 34 years, became
possessed of " the manor, mansion house, and patronage of
the Chapel of St. John Baptist thereto annexed, of Southwyke,
juxta Frome Selwood, in the parish of North Bradley, Wilts;
the manors and advowsons of Glutton and Farmborough,
Somerset, and the manor of Burmington, co. Warwick".
This Alice Greynville, the heiress of Southwick, was aged
9 years in 1353, and then in wardship to the Earl of Hereford
as chief lord of the fee of the manor of Glutton. She had
married the first Sir Humphrey Stafford before 1365, and was
living in 1371.
The exact descent of the manor of Southwick is, I think,
clearly shown by the tabular pedigree, at p. 257, of the present
Lacock Church. 491
volume, and also in a former paper on Southwick Court in
vol. i, p. 556.
The great difficulty with the Stafford pedigree seems to
have arisen with Sir William Dugdale, who, in creating
three Sir Humphrey Staftbrds where really only two existed —
thereby producing further confusion as to their marriages —
propagated an error, which, having been copied by successive
writers on the subject for two centuries, is now difficult wholly
to eradicate.
Edward Kite.
Lacock Church (vol. ii, p. 436). — The dedication of this
church to St. Cyriac has certainly nothing to do with Arch-
bishop Bourchier, who was created Cardinal of St. Cyriacus in
Thermis in 1464. A document, printed in the Wiltshire
Archaological Magazine, vol. xv, p. 297, shows that, as the
outcome of some litigation, the Abbot and Convent of Stanley
formerly paid twelve pence annually to the Rector of Lacock,
on the feast of St. Cyriac, at the altar of the church. Robert,
of Gloucester, was then Rector. Mr. W. de Gray Birch puts
the date between the limits 1206- 12 28, Stephen Langton being
then Archbishop of Canterbury. This shows that the parish
church was dedicated to St. Cyriac before the foundation of
Lacock Abbey in 1232, and probably at a much earlier date.
The occurrence of the Glaziers' Arms, in the east window
of the Lady Chapel, may be considered accidental. Ivory Tal-
bot, to whom the chapel formerly belonged, and who would be
responsible for the repair of the window, possessed not only
ancient glass, belonging to the place, but also other glass,
which he had collected. There is a good deal of the original
glass in the head of the window, patched with some ancient
fragments. C. H. T.vlbot.
Lacock Abbey.
492 JViltsJiirc Notes and Oit cries.
=jlotrs> on BooU??.
The Genealogical Magazine: a Journal of Family History
and Pedigrees. Vol. I, May 1897— April 1898. London:
Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C., 1898. Pp. 702.
Those who arc accustomed to sneer at Genealogy, led away
perhaps by its frequent misuse, more especially in the past,
in creating fictions to feed an ambitious and foolish vanity,
would do well to read an admirable article in this volume
on "Genealogy, a Science," by the Rev. A. W. C. Ilallcn.
We cannot do better than quote its conclusion :
"The most bitter foes to genealogy are those who know least about
it, and who fonnd such an opinion as they are able to form, not on
its use, but its misusi- ; who affirm ignorantly that its object is to gratify
personal vanity and ostentation; who, without having meddled with it,
allege that it is a dry, uninteresting, nay, wearisome business. But I
challenge such ignoramuses to produce an instance ol a genealogist who
has regretted having entered on the study of a science which fascinates
those who use it aright ; and which now more and more flourishes, not
to pander lo vulgar vanity, but to increase our knowledge of men and of
nations."
The number of works on this subject issuing monthly and
annually from the press proves at any rate the interest many
take in it, and we heartily welcome the advent of another
monthly in The Genealogical Magazine. This handsomely
printed serial, ably, but anonymously edited, contains, amongst
other articles, the Sobieski Stuarts, whose remarkable likeness
to their alleged ancestors, and whose somewhat eccentric figures,
were for many years familiar to us when living in London;
Shakespeare Family and its connexion with the Warwick-
shire Ardens ; Nelson Family; Lane of Bcntlcy Hall; I he
Notes on Books. 493
Kttiglils Hospitallers in England; kc, &c. ; amongst the
Wiltshire articles we note one on Littlecote, reprinted from the
St. James' Gazette and another on Great Chaldfiehi by Mr.
Chitty, of Pewsey. There are columns for correspondence,
and *' A Gazette of the month, being a Chronicle of Creations,
Deaths, and other matters." The illustrations are ver}' good,
but the index is not so exhaustive as befits a publication of
this kind. We wish it a happy new year and many of them.
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, edited by
Frederic William Weaver, M.A. (Editor of the Visita-
tions of the Counties of Somerset and Hereford^ Somer-
set Incumbents^ &c.), and Charles Herbert Mayo,
M.A., R.D. (Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest, Canon
Non-Res. of Sarum, author of Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis,
&c.) Issued quarterly. Price to subscribers, 5s. per
annum, payable in advance. Sherborne: Printed by J. C.
and A. T. Sawtell, 1897. Vol. V, pp. 376.
This little quarterl}', one of the best of its class, still runs a
deservedly successful course, being edited by two well-known
masters of their subjects, the latter of whom is a Wiltshireman,
and compiler of a most admirable history of his family.
Although this volume treats of the two counties adjoining our
own, yet we find little or nothing about Wilts. Apropos
of some instructive articles in The Genealogical Magazine on
the Heralds' Visitations and the Right to Bear Arms, by " X",
who seems to have constituted himself a sort of general
Censor Heraldicns, we quote the following from p. 153: —
William Harbin, of Newton-Surmaville, writes,
" hi the year 1672, one Sir Edward Bish, Clarencieu.x King at Arms,
visited this countie, and by the bailiffs of every hundred and I met at
Ilchester in ye same year, and carryed my parchment in whicli my coat of
494 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
arms were granted to my iamily many years ago; at which time one of
Sir Edward Bish iiis servants took my coat of armes, and enquired Iiow
many brothers my father had, &c., &c., and on paying 39 sliiUings and
6 pence, for a confirmation came home again. I oljserved at tin- mci'ting
I saw no justice of tiie peace neither could i learn of anyone yt went
tiie same time, .... and if ever tlie^- come again there is no need
of going near them on their summons, neither can there come any
damages from it : for their coming is more to grant new coats of arms to
new upstart famihes tlian to review the ancient gentlemen's coats;
neither any of the ancients appeared at all in our county, for I was the
best that appeared at Ilchestery?, of thirty at least; and if I had not been
a very young man, not above 18 I believe, I should not have been there,
and parted with my money for nothing."
There is a great improvement in the illustrations, and a good
index.
History of tiik County of Annapolis, including old Port
Royal and Acadia, etc., by the late W. A. Calnak, member
of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. Edited and com-
piled by A. W. Savary, M.A., author of the "Savery
Genealogy," Judge of the County Courts of Nova Scotia,
etc., etc. With portraits and illustrations. Toronto:
William Briggs. London : Phillimore and Co., t,6, Essex
Street, Strand, 1897. Pp. 660 + xiv.
Although the above is not concerned about Wiltshire, yet it is
compiled by one who traces his origin from this County, and is
one of the contributors to and supporters of W. N. & O. ; it is
written in a graphic and picturcs(|uc manner, and should be
read by every student of Greater Britain. There are many
portraits of eminent citizens, with memoirs and pedigrees, but
unfortunately there seems to be little attempt to trace them to
their homes in the Mother Country.
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SOME WILTSHIRE BOOK-PLATES.
^1 1 1 AT is a Book-plate or an Ex-Libris is no longer
asked, and no longer requires an answer, although
it is but a ver^- short time ago that much ignor-
ance prevailed upon this subject ; and some
newspaper writers printed long articles abusing
and ridiculing the collecting of these nugar, comparing them
with post-marks, and asserting "that the collection of even
postage-stamps was superior"! A collection of Book-plates
designed or engraved by such artists as Durer, Gravelot, Pyne,
Vertue, Bartolozzi, Hogarth, Hancock (whose work on
Battersea Enamel, Chelsea, Derby and Worcester porcelain is
so justly admired), Bewick and Faithorneof the past, and many
Masters of the present day, can easily be shown in consequence
of its illustration of art, heraldry, family history, etc., to excel
one of postmarks, as a collection of coins and medals excels one
of postage-stamps.
A Reviewer of a book on this subject only shows his
ignorance, and want of an " enlightened enthusiasm," always a
note of true criticism, when he writes : —
" Let infancy frolic and senile fatuity count its twopenny treasures.
But why, of all things, 'collect book-plates'? Are there not door-
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496 IVillshirc Notes and Queries.
knockers, which a man may collect, or visiting cards of all ages, muffin
bells, old boots, political walking-sticks, or the decayed hair-brushes of
celebrities, all of wliich are instructive and amusing compared to book-
plates, etc. Mr. Hardy writes about the propriety of removing liook-
plates from books ' for the purpose of study and comparison.' Study and
comparison of warming-pans ! Even an old warming-pan is an enviable
piece of portable property compared with a book-plate, etc., etc."
The above stuff is bul a sample of man}' articles con-
taining remarks as much out of place as "dolphins in a sentry-
box."
There is now a large and increasing literature upon the
subject throughout the civilised world, many Societies with
their monthly journals and annual exhibitions, and so many
collectors, that Plates often now fetch heavy sums, which a few
years ago could have been picked up, we will not say for the
price of an old song — for that is sometimes worth a guinea a
verse — but for next to nothing.
Mr. Daniel Parsons, who, if not a Wiltshireman, yet spent
many years in our county, has the credit of being the first English-
man to write upon Book-plates ; he having written a paper
entitled "On Book-plates," which he read in 1836 before the
" Oxford University Archaeological and Heraldic Society."
This has been many times reprinted and, we believe, translated
into more than one foreign language. His intention of writing
a book upon " Ex Libris" was never fulfilled, and we are unaware
whether he ever printed anything else beyond various notes
scattered through genealogical and such-like works.
Mr. Daniel Parsons^ was born at Clifton in 1810, being the
eldest son of the Rev. John Parsons, and grandson of Daniel
Parsons, of Barbados; he matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford,
in 1 828, and in due course proceeded to the usual degrees; he
acted for some years as Curate of Marden, near Devizes, of
^ He was one of those who maintained that the statue of the Blessed
Virgin outside St. Mary's. Devizes, was a post-Reformation or Laiulian
restoration ; we hope in a future number to print some notes on this remark-
able statue.
Some IViltshirc Book-plates. 497
which his father^ was Vicar from 1833 to 1844, but we do not
know whether he held any other curacies or preferments in or
out of Wiltshire ; in 1S45 he married Gertrude (ob. 1891), 4th
daughter of John Hext, of Trenarren, by Elizabeth Staniforth,
but left no issue; he eventually became a Roman Catholic, and
died 5 July 1S87, at Stuart's Lodge, a house he had built for
himself at Malvern, bequeathing his library, book-plates, and
Stuart collections to St. Gregory's Benedictine College, at
Downside, near Bath.
The following now treated of are in the writer's collection.
I. The handsome and beautifully engraved Book-plate
(plate mark 7J by 5^, margin 10 by 7! ; underneath is written
in ink, 1715) which forms the frontispiece^ of this number
belonged to William Hunt, of West Lavington,the son of Thomas
Hunt, of the same place, by Mary the sister and heiress of Walter
Grubbe, M.P. for Devizes ; he married (ist) Margaret, daughter
of Thomas Smith, of Shaw House, near Melksham, and
(2nd) Ann, daughter of Roger Dorchester, of Etchilhampton,
by whom he had a son, Thomas Grubbe Hunt-Grubbe, of
Potterne, who married in 1758 Frances, daughter and co-heiress
of Morgan Keene. of Salisbury Close. In West Lavington
Church, affixed to the east wall of the north transept, close to
the roof, is a fine marble monument with Latin inscription to
several members of the Hunt family, from which we learn that
the owner of this Plate died in 1763, aet. 56; it is surmounted
by Hunt impaling Grubbe, without any coats of pretence, and
with the Crest as in the Plate. The residence of the family in this
' Foster, in A himni Oxonienses, says he was instituted to Marden in 1816,
but refers us to the Gentleman's Mag., for 1825, where we find that John
Parsons, instituted to Marden in 181G lately suddenly died during his usual
after-dinner nap. Were there two Vicars of this name, and if so, what was
their relationship ]
'^ For the loan of the blocks of the two Hunt plates we are indebted to the
kindness of Mr. Wright. F.R.H.S., the Editor of the Ex-Libris Juurnul. See
that Journal, viii, 73, 74.
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IViltshhr Notes and Queries.
village, formerly known as "Hunt's House," and now as "The
Lodge," is near the Bridge Inn on the high road to Tilshead ;
the house was partly re-built by its late owner, Mr. William
Sainsbury, but some of the older building yet remains, and the
ornaments on the pillars of the entrance gateway will at once
be recognised as belonging to the house of the last century. It is
at present occupied by the Rev. H. Carew Palmer. An extensive
lawn laid out in modern fashion has now superseded the older
garden of smaller dimensions, which 50 years ago was planted in
formal style with neatly trimmed hedges of box and yew, and
abundantly stocked with clematis, jessamine, striped roses, white
and red pinks, lavender, cloves, carnations, and old-fashioned
flowers and herbs of all kinds.
The marshalling of the Arms does not seem to be in strict
accordance with the rules of Heraldry; the quarterings are as
follows: — I and 4 Hunt, /// pretence^ Dorchester. 2 and 3,
Sonic IViltshirc Bouk-plaks.
499
Grubbe^, /;/ pretence, Brereton ; iinpali)ig, i and 4, Smith,
2 and 3. Dorchester.
2. The smaller Plate, known as a " troph3^-plate ", pro-
bably belonged to the same person, and was executed apparently
by the same artist ; it would be interesting to learn why the
instruments of war and music are introduced in tlicsc two
Plates.
Jf.
Samxm.
3. This is of an entirely different kind, being a printed
label, and only remarkable for the day of the month being
mentioned: — "Anne Hunt-Grubbe, i Her Book. | Printed at
Salisbur}' | June the fifth. | mdcclv." It has been framed in a
" Chippendale " frontispiece of what seems to have been a
^ The arms borne by Grubbe are very similar to those of Stephens, of
Burdropp; was there any connexion between these families / Walter Grubbe,
M.P., married Bebecca Brereton ; he is described in his marriage licence as
of Gray's Inn, bachelor, about 24, and she of St. Paul, Covent Garden,
spinster, about 18. consent of father, Randolph Brereton, alleged by Brereton
Bourchier, of the Inner Temple — at St. Paul, Covent Garden, or St. Mary,
Savov, 7 Feb. 167^.
500 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
devotional work ; we should be glad to hear something of the
owner of this plate.
4. In Burke's General Armory these arms are given to
Ken ; according to Price in his Description of Salisbury
Cathedral, &c., Mr. Morgan Keene and his wife Grace were
buried under black marble stones in the Cathedral Cemetery,
now unhappily levelled, all the memorial stones having been
also unhappily removed or destroyed; he died 1758, aet. 63;
she, who was a Miss Roberts, of Craven-street, London,
died 1737, aet. 26. Any further information concerning
these families will be most welcome, and the Editor, who is
compiling a descriptive list of Wiltshire Book-plates, would be
obliged to those who would send him any in their possession,
to be returned if desired.
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
BRATTON.
(Continued from p. 460.)
Edingdon Chartulary. [Lansdoivnc MS., 442,/- 98.I
Release of John North, senior, to Peter Escudemor, his wife and
son.
A.D. 1333. — I, John North senior, son and heir of Thomas
North of Bratton, have released and quitclaimed forever for
myself and my heirs, to Peter Escudemor, Margery his wife
and Walter tlicir son and the heirs of Peter ; to all right I have
or could have in all lands and tenements, rents, services, and
reversions, as well of freemen as of villains, with all appurten-
ances which might fall to me in Bratton, Mulbourne, and
Stoke, and in all other places within the Hundred of Westbury.
And I and my heirs will warrant the foresaid lands, tenements,
&c., to the foresaid Peter, &c., against all people forever. In
testimony whereof I have set my seal to this present writing.
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. 501
Witnesses Upton Escudcmor, the Sunday
next before the Feast of St. Margaret. 7 Edward III.
Ibid.,/. 100''.
Charter of Thomas Ic Hoppere to Peter Esciidemor.
I, Thomas le Hoppere of Bratton, for myself and my heirs
have quitclaimed to Peter Escudemor and his heirs or assigns
to a tenement and an acre, with a piece of arable ground in the
village and fields of Bratton, which tenement and acre I some-
time had of Thomas North, senior, of Bratton. To hold to the
foresaid Peter and his heirs or assigns forever of the chief
lords of that fee by the service due therefore and customary.
And I Thomas, &c., will warrant, &c. In testimony whereof I
have set a seal, &:c. Witnesses Bratton, the
Sunday next after the Feast of St. John the Evangelist. 7
Edward III.
Ibid., / 100''.
Charter of Christina, wife of IVilh'am de Bratton, to Peter
Escudemor.
A.D. 1334.— I, Christina, heretofore wife of William de
Bratton, have granted and confirmed to the lord Peter Escud-
emor, knight, or his heirs or assigns, ih acres of arable land
with their appurtenances in the fields of Bratton and Mul-
bourne ; of which i acre lies on " la hulle " on the eastern part
of Burchhangere next the land of the lord Reginald de Pavely ;
I acre lies on the mount in the culture called Rige Weyes for-
lang between land of Robert de Pavely on either side ; \ acre
lies in Thorncombe between land of the foresaid lord Peter
and of Robert de Pavely ; h acre lies upon Shortemeosdon
between land of the lord Reginald de Pavely on either side,
and i acre lies at Wenschirde between land of the said lord
Peter and of Richard Dansy. To hold to the foresaid Peter
his heirs or assigns freely and quietly by hereditary right of
the chief lords of that fee forever by the service due therefore.
And I Christina and my heirs will warrant, «S:c., against all
502 IViltsJiire Notes and Queries.
people forever. In testimony whereof I have set my seal, &c.
Witnesses Bratton, Friday, the Feast of St.
John before the Latin Gate. 8 Edward III.
Ibid.
Release of Walter, son of the above Christina, to Peter
Escudemor, quitting-claim to all right forever in tlie above-
mentioned lands granted by his mother to Peter and his heirs.
Upton Escudemor, the Sunday next before the Feast of St.
Dunstan, Archbishop. 8 Edward III.
Ibid., / I02^
Release of Kalherine de Manndevik to Peter Escudemor.
I, Katherine de Maundevile, have released to the lord Peter
Escudemor, knight, his heirs or assigns all my right in a croft
called Compaynesmorecroft, with all its appurtenances in
Bratton in the Hundred of Westbury. In testimony whereof
1 have set my seal, &c. Witnesses Upton
Escudemor, Tuesday, the vigil of SS. Peter and Paul. 8
Edward III.
Ibid., / 102.
Charter of John Com pay n to the same.
I, John Compaync, of Mulbourne, have granted to the lord
Peter Escudemor, knight, and Margery his wife, h acre of
arable land in the field of Mulbourne lying in the culture called
Meosdone, between land of Richard Dansy and land which
belonged to Beatrice Cole. To hold to them and their heirs or
assigns of the chief lords of that fee by the service thereof
accustomed and belonging by hereditary right forever. And
I and my heirs will warrant, &c. In testimony whereof I have
set my seal. Witnesses Upton Escudemor,
Friday next before the Feast of St. Margaret. 8 Edward III.
Fekt OF Fines. Wn/rs. \^-\ ^, Edward U I .\
A.D. •334-5-— At York, in tlie octaves of St. Hilar}', 8 Edward
111. and afterwards in the quindene of Easter, 9 Edward III.
Between W'illiam Gylct, of Westbury, and Isabella his wife,
and Edith, tiie daughter of Isabella, plaintiffs, and Philip le
Records of IViltshire Parishes. 503
Frankclayn and Walter du Park, deforciants, of 2
messuages, 6 acres of land, i acre of meadow and the fourth
part of 2 messuages, 2 virgates of land with their appurten-
ances in Westbury and Bratton. Flea of covenant was
summoned. William and Isabella recognised the right of
Walter in the tenements, of which Walter and Philip have the
foresaid messuages, land, and the fourth part of one messuage,
and one virgate of land with the appurtenances of their gift.
For this Walter and Philip granted to Edith aforesaid a
messuage and 3 acres of land with the appurtenances of the
said tenements, to have and hold to Edith and her heirs of
the chief lords of that fee by the service belonging forever.
And the said Philip and Walter granted to William and
Isabella one messuage and 3 acres of land, the foresaid
meadow; and the fourth part of a messuage, and a virgate of
land, with the appurtenances of the said tenements, to have and
hold to William and Isabella and the heirs of their body of the
chief lord.«5 of that fee by the service belonging forever. More-
over, the same Philip and Walter conceded for themselves and
the heirs of Walter that the fourth part of a messuage and a
virgate of land with the appurtenances which Beatrix,
formerly wife of Roger Cole, held in dowery of the inheritance
of Walter aforesaid in the said townships at the date of this
concord, and which ought on her death to revert to Philip and
Walter, after her death shall remain wholly to William and
Isabella to hold to them with the foresaid tenements granted
by this fine of the chief lords of that fee b}' the service belong-
ing to that fourth part forever; and if William, and Isabella die
without heirs of their body, the said tenements and fourth
part to remain to the right heirs of Isabella, to hold as
aforesaid.
Inquisition Post Mortem. [9 Edward III. (iiid )ios.) no. 81.]
P.M. John de Maundevyll.
A.D. 1335. — Inquisition taken at Westbury, i6th November,
9 Edward III. The jury say that John de Maundevile being in
504 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
whole and good memory enfeoffed Peter de Testwode with 4
messuages, 2\ carucates of land, 10 acres of meadow, ^4 i6s.
rent, and the rent of 5 capons, and 4lbs of pepper, with appur-
tenances in Bratton, near Westbury, and Esthrop, near Hey-
worth, to hold to him and his heirs of the chief lords of that
fee by the service due therefor and customary. So that the
same Peter having full and peaceful seizin thereof should give
the foresaid tenements to John and Benedicta, then his wife and
the heirs of their body ; by virtue of which enfeoffment Peter
de Testwode, John de Maundevile being alive, was in full and
peaceful seizin of the said lands and tenements until William
de Northo, the king's eschaetor, pretending the said lands
and tenements were held of the king in chief as of the crown,
took them into the king's hands on the occasion of the said
enfeoffment. And they say that the lands and tenements are
held of the Lady Philippa, Queen of England, as of the Castle
of Devizes, by the service of 20s. yearly, to be paid at Michael-
mas, or by the service of guarding one of the towers of the
Castle in time of war, and they are in the king's hands for this
reason and no other, and are worth yearly according to their
true value 10 marks. And they say that no other lands re-
mained to the said John after the said enfeoffment in the
County of Wilts. In witness whereof they seal. Dated in the
year and place above said.
Edingdon Chartularv. / 10 1.
Charter of Cliristi)ia le Brtithcre to Peter Escudemor.
A.D. 1335.— I, Christina le Bruthere, of Mulbourne, have
granted to the lord Peter Escudemor, knight, i4 acre of arable
land in the field of Bratton ; of which the acre is called Fur-
tham, and lies between land of Roger Ic Marmion and land of
the Church of Stoke, and the half acre lies in " la Geredlond"
between land of Edward Whitle on the south and land of the
Church of Stoke on the north. To hold to him, and his heirs
or assigns of me for the term of my life. And I and my heirs
will warrant, &c., for the term of my life. In testimony whereof
Records of IViltshirc Parishes. 505
I have set my seal, «S:c. Witnesses Westbury,
Friday, on the morrow of St. Clement the Pope. 9 Edward
III.
Ibid.
Release of Walter le Bruthere, chaplain, son and heir of
William le Bruthere, of Mulbourne, for himself and his heirs
forever, of the above mentioned property, granted by his
mother Christina to Peter Escudenior. Westbury, the Sabbath
in the Feast of St. Katherine the Virgin. 9 Edward III.
Original Roll. [10 Edward III, in. 22.]
A.D. 1336. — Peter de Testewode made a fine with the king
for ^10 for pardon for acquiring certain tenements with their
appurtenances in Bratton, near Westbury, and Hesthorp, near
Highworth, of John de Maundeville, who held them of Philippa,
Queen of England, as of the Castle of Devizes, which the said
Queen holds for the term of her life, and for having entered
them without the Royal licence.
Westminster, 20 March.
Assize Roll No. 1422, ;;/. 43.
A.D. 1338 — Assize at New Sarum, Friday, 1st week in Lent,
12 Edward III.
I
The Assize comes to take cognizance if Roger Duraunt, of
Bratton, Matilda Cumpayn and John her son, Nicholas le
Prist and John P\lman unjustly disseized Isabella, who was
wife of John de Bradelegh, and Roger de Bradelegh, of their
free tenement in Bratton, 12 acres of land with their appurten-
ances. And Roger Duraunt and the others did not come.
They were not attached because they were not found, and had
no bailiffs nor anything whereby they could be attached.
Therefore the assize was taken against them by default.
The recognitors, with the assent of Isabella and Roger, being
chosen and sworn, say upon oath that Roger Duraunt,
Matilda Cumpayn and John her son, by force and arms, dis-
seized Isabella and Roger of the tenements put in view to
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their damage b}' 40s. They say also that Nicholas le Prist and
John Pylman were not present at the disseizin. Therefore
Isabella and Roger are to recover their seizin, and have the
damages, and Roger Duraunt and Matilda and her son are to
be taken. And Isabella and Roger de Bradelegh are in mercy
for their false claim against the others.
Also if Roger Duraunt, of Bratton, Matilda Cumpayn, and
John, her son, Nicholas le Prist, and John Pylman unjustly
disseized Nicholas Cundut and Sarra his wife of their free
tenement in Bratton, a messuage with the appurtenances.
And Roger and the others did not come, &c. [as above]. The
recognitors chosen, &c., say that Roger, Matilda and her son
disseized Nicholas and Sarra to their damage of 6s. 8^/., and
that Nicholas le Prist and John Pylman were not present at
the disseizing. Therefore, Nicholas and Sarra are to recover
their seizin, and their damages, and Roger and Matilda and
her son are in mercy for the disseizin, and Nicholas and
Sarra for their false claim against the others.
Edingdon Chartulakv, / 98^
Charter of Roger de Bradelegh to Peter Escudemor.
A.D. 1339.— I, Roger de Bradelegh, have granted to the lord
Peter Escudemor and Margery, his wife, half an acre of land
with the appurtenances in Bratton, near Westbury, which lies
between the land of the said lord Peter on either side, and
stretches one head on to a tenement of the said Peter and the
other head on to the king's way. To hold to them, their heirs
or assigns of the chief lords of that fee forever by the ser-
vice therefor due and customary. And I, »S:c., will &c.,
against all people forever. In testimony whereof I have set my
seal. Witness Bradford, Sunday next before
Easter. 13 Edward III.
Ibid.,/ 99.
Charter of John Cook to Peter Escudemor.
I, John Ic Couk, of Bratton, have granted to the lord Peter
Escudemor, knight, and Margery, his wife, h acre of arable
Records of ]] Wiltshire Parishes. 507
land in the field of Bratton lying in "la Geredelonde" between
land of Edward Whitlc on the north and land called "Ic
Churchelonde" on the south, which half acre indeed I formerly
had from the foresaid lord Peter in exchange for 4 acre in la
Pillonde. To hold to him and to Margery his wife and the
heirs of Peter or his assigns by hereditary right forever of the
chief lords of that fee by the service due therefor and cus-
tomary. And I, John, &c., will warrant, &c., against all
people. In testimony whereof I have set my seal, &c. Wit-
nesses Bratton, Sunday on the morrow of SS.
Philip and James. 13 Edward III.
Ibid.
Release of Adam Conipayii to Peter Escudemor and his ivife.
I, Adam Compayn, of Mulbourne, have released and for
myself and m}' heirs quitclaimed to the lord Peter Escudemor
and Margery, his wife, and the heirs of Peter or his heirs all
the right I had or could have to h acre of arable land in the
field of Bratton, lying in "la Geredlond", between land of
Edward Whitele on the north, and land called "le Churchelonde"
on the south. In testimony whereof I have set my seal, &c.
Witnesses Bratton, Sunday next before the
Feast of St. John before the Latin Gate. 13 Edward III.
Feet of Fixes. Wilts. [8-14 Edivard I/l.]
A.D. 1340. — At Westminster in the octaves of the II0I3'
Trinity, 14 Edward III. Between William of Edendon, parson
of the Church of Cheryton, plaintiff, and Thomas de Bracton,
deforciant, of 4 messuages, 65 acres, i rood of land, i| acres of
meadow, and 29 acres of pasture, and 115. gd. rent in West-
bury, Bratton, and Mulebourne. Plea of covenant was sum-
moned. Thomas acknowledged the right of William to the
tenements; of which William has a messuage, 22 acres of land,
I acre of meadow, 12 acres of pasture, and 115. gd. rent, with
the appurtenances of the gift of Thomas to have and hold to
him and his heirs of the chief lord of that fee by the service
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therefor due forever. Moreover, Thomas granted for himself
and his heirs that one messuage, 24^ acres of land, 10 acres of
pasture, h acre of meadow, with the appurtenances in West-
bury and Bratton, which John atte Welle and Alice his wife
and John their son held for their lives ; and that one acre of
land with appurtenances in Bratton, which John of Canterton
held for his life, and that one acre of land with appurtenances
in the same village, which John Sprakelyng held for his life ;
and ^ acre there which the above said John and Alice held for
their lives ; and 7 acres 3 roods of land, 7 acres of pasture,
with the appurtenances there which Roger le Sanser held for
his life; one messuage, 7=} acres of land, with appurtenances in
Mulebourne, which Felicia Petit held for her life; and also a
messuage and an acre with appurtenances in the same village
which William Godhyne held for his life, of the heritage of the
foresaid Thomas at the date of this concord, shall after the
death of the same John atte Welle, &c., wholly remain to
William de Edendon and his heirs. To hold together with the
foresaid tenements, granted to him by this fine of the chief
lords of that fee by the service due therefor and customary.
Moreover, Thomas for himself and his heirs warranted to
William and his heirs the foresaid tenements against all men
forever. For this William de Edendon gave Thomas 40 marks
silver.
[To be coiitinitcd.]
BIRD LIFE IN SALISBURY.
The Peregrine at Home.
There are but few people now in this our city of Sarum,
who do not know of the frequent presence of tlic Peregrine
Falcon on our Cathedral Spire ; and to know of it, is surely to
"take more or less an interest in the fact. The Salisbury Downs
may indeed be said to be the home of the Peregrine, which,
Bird Life in Salisbury. 509
it is no exaggeration to describe, as being one of the most
frequent of all the Rap/ores in Wiltshire ; and though a regular
percentage of them have to pay an annual toll for the depreda-
tions they commit, yet the broad and open nature of our Downs,
the abundance of the food-supply provided thereon, and the fact
of our Spire offering them a safe and favourite retreat, will I
believe, in the future, as in the past, secure their constant
appearance amongst us. There is a strong feeling abroad,
and an increasing one, 1 think, that it is high time to protect
these noble birds, ere we lose them altogether from amongst
us ; and though some specimens are occasionally shot by people
who do not even know what they are, except that they are
some kind of hawk, yet amongst the more intelligent owners of
property, as well as their keepers, there is an inclination to
spare them, which I feel sure all thoughtful people would wish.
Recently I was talking to the keeper at Britford, who has
strict orders from the owner of the shooting in no way to
disturb these birds ; and he was telling me that during the
last winter he could frequently have shot one, and that for
four or five weeks previously he had noticed a pair in the
evening fly regularly in the direction of the Cathedral Spire,
where they again constantly roosted, in no way being
frightened or disturbed by the scaffolding, which then sur-
rounded the tower. In fact, the scaffolding would not seem in
any way to incommode them, for it is not as a rule in the
middle of the day that they frequent the Spire, but rather in
the evening, and early morning ; although in 1866 a pair made
it their favourite place for consuming their prey, a fact which
most unfortunately led to their slaughter ; one of the workmen,
I need not say unknown to the authorities, shooting them off
the Spire, while the then restoration was going on.
It is striking how all species of birds, if unmolested, will
cling to the same spot, when they have once chosen it as their
home, and the great height of the Spire affords such a safe
asylum that there need be no fear whatever of the Falcons
forsaking their favourite haunt, if only a moderate amount of
5IO JFi/fs/ii'rr A'o/rs auf/ Queries.
protection be aftbrded tlicni. Early last year a Red Tiercel
(male of the 3'ear) was picked up dead at the foot of the tower,
and many people thought the poor bird had flown against the
scaftblding and killed itself; a foil}', which any one at all
familiar with a Peregrine, would be very slow to credit it with ;
and on making enquiries, I heard that the bird had been shot
at in the near neighbourhood of the city, when it had evidently
flown to the Spire, and there had succumbed to its injuries.
Some three or four specimens annually reach our bird-stuffers'
hands ; and the other day I was handling a Falcon (female of
the year) shot by a farmer on the Plain, who had not the least
notion what the bird was, except that it was a hawk which was
killing his pigeons, a thing he did not appreciate ; but thinking
it an unusually fine specimen, he brought it into the stuffer's to
be preserved. Nothing indeed strikes you more in handling
one of these fine birds than their extraordinary weight in
comparison to their size, especially in the case of the hen
bird. I had as fine a specimen as I have ever seen, sent into
me from the neighbourhood just two years ago ; it was an
adult female, the measurements of which I took accurately,
and was in the beautiful blue-grey plumage, without a feather
frayed, just having finished its moult. It weighed a good
two and a half pounds, and fairly surprised you as you held it
in your hand, and you at once felt how it was that the stoop of a
Falcon was so irresistible and efli'ective. The muscular de-
velopment of the thighs, and the broad but compact shoulders,
with its depth of body, testified to the enormous striking power
of the bird, from which a wild duck, say, though heavier than
the Falcon itself, would have no chance of escape at all. This
bird was over 19 inches from crown of head to tail, 3 feet 5
inches in expanse of wing, while the long middle claw was
three inches in length. I shortly afterwards weighed a hen
sparrow-hawk, which would be from 15 to 16 inches from beak
to tail, and to my surprise it only weighed io| ounces, so that
the two birds, not so voy dissimilar in apparent size, weighed
respectively 40, and io| ounces, which difference speaks for
Bird Life in Salisbury. 511
itself. The weight of a Tiercel would be about 25 or 26
ounces, it being a much smaller bird than the female, though as
compact in form and as strongly built.
Not long ago, I interviewed the gardener of one of the houses
in the Close, and he told me that two days previously he had
picked up a Pigeon on his lawn, just killed, which had been struck
down b}' one of the Peregrines, and from which he had
evidently- only just disturbed the bird ; showing how little they
regarded the propinquity of man around them ; while another
person gave the information of the Falcons having returned to
the Spire, as he had heard them *' squarking " (as he termed it)
round the tower in the early morning. This will serve to
show that the Peregrine, in spite of the scaffolding and
workmen, had no intention of deserting its accustomed haunts
and favourite roosting-place; while from no less than five personal
friends who have shooting on the surrounding downs, I have
received interesting accounts of their presence last autumn.
All sporting men know the Falcons well, and but few, I
think, would willingly injure them. It was only the other
week that one of our Salisbury Doctors told me he had seen a
fine flight of a Peregrine at a Peewit ; the Falcon separated a
bird out of a large flock, and mounting above it, came down
upon it from above, sending the feathers flying, but not binding
to it ; and then, ere the bird could recover itself, it made an
upward dart, and clutching its victim, flew away with it. Two
great points which would preclude the Peregrine from becom-
ing exterminated are its wandering nature, and its marvellous
power of flight, making distance but of little account, and
though the merely local specimens, which are bred within
hail, are indeed, if any, I am afraid, few and far between — any
known eyrie being watched closely for the sake of obtaining
the 3^oung birds — yet they visit us annually in numbers from
the Continent, so that a fresh supply is constantly at hand.
It was mentioned in The Field only the other day what a
good season the Dutch hawk-catchers had lately had in North
Brabant. They had had more than the usual number of
U'iltsliur Notes and On cries.
orders from English Falconers; so that on Dec. i, Mr. George
Oxer, Falconer to the Old Hawking Club, arrived in London
from Holland, bringing with him no less than 22 Peregrine
Falcons ; of which five were Tiercels (males), three Haggards
(adult birds which have been caught after the first moult is
completed and reclaimed), and 14 Red Passage Falcons (young
females of the year caught during migration) ; and though
the}' had a very stormy passage, the birds all arrived safely,
without having broken any of their feathers ; and on the
arrival of the overdue train at London, they were each and all
claimed by the expectant body of Falconers awaiting them at
the station, and carried off to their respective homes in Hamp-
shire, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, and Ireland.
Let us hope, then, that sufficient interest may be aroused
and sustained in these noble birds, to secure them against
wanton slaughter, and that the boldness which tlicy often
display may not be taken advantage of by the thoughtless
gunner ; for though there are not many places now that give
scope for the ancient and royal sport of Hawking, yet in this
county we are likely to be well rewarded by now and then
witnessing the wild Falcons stoop (as I have myself seen
more than once), and so go home inspirited at having had a
glimpse of the powers of this noble bird still tarrying
amongst us ; a bird that takes no mean advantage of his prey,
but boldly outsoars, and out-manoeuvres it ; and, while
upholding the adage that obtains in the animal creation, "that
Might is Right," yet offers his victim a chance of escape; nor
enforces the penalty that the " weakest must go to the wall",
until such chance shall have been refused, or not taken advan-
tage of Not many counties can claim an equal privilege with
Wiltshire in being capable of affording the Peregrine a home;
let us all do our best then to preserve this, the noblest type of
all the British Falconida; amongst us.
Arthur P. Morres.
Xolt's on Gtrat Sowrrford. 51
J
NOTES ON GREAT SOMERFORD.
The village of Great or Broad Someribrd, called also in old
deeds Somerford Maltravers, is situated on the river Avon four
miles from Malmesbur}', and close to the branch line of railway
connecting that ancient town with the Great Western main
line at Dauntsey. From the platform of the little station one
sees at a glance that the village does not belie its pleasant-
sounding name. Green meadows and winding stream, the
hoary church tower above the trees, and the peaceful church-
yard merging into the lovely rectory garden, help to form a
charming picture.
"The church," to quote from the pen of the rector, the
Rev. F. H. Manley, " is pleasantly situated on a knoll, sloping
down towards the north to the river Avon, and consists of
nave with tower at west end, north aisle and chancel. The
earliest portion is the handsome row of pillars with carved
capitals, which separate the nave from the aisle; these are
late Decorated. The rest of the church is Perpendicular. At
the east end is a handsome four-light window containing
stained glass, the gift of Miss Mary Pyke. The window in the
north wall of the chancel contains stained glass, the gift of
Stephen Demainbray, Esq., in memory of his father, for 55
years rector of the parish. A window in the south wall of the
nave contains stained glass, the gift of W. Beak, Esq., in
memory of his parents. The only piece of old stained glass
left is in the small oblong window above the pulpit. There is
a handsome Perpendicular font in very good condition. The
barrel-vaulted ceiling in the chancel, and the open timber roof
in the nave, are original. The special features of interest
are : —
"(i) A piscina in the north wall of the chancel with a small
stone slab above, apparently intended for the sacred vessels.
"(2) A small vaulted arch, unclosed at the restoration of
the church, connecting the aisle with the chancel ; this served
both for processional purposes and as a squint.
M M 2
514 JViltshirc Notes and Queries.
" (3) The remains of the stone staircase to the rood-loft. A
door near the pulpit leads to this staircase, and another door
higher up opens out where in old times the screen stood.
" (4) The old oak sounding-board of Jacobean work placed
above the modern pulpit.
** The church was thoroughl}- restored from designs by J.
II. llakewell, Esq., in 1S65, when the present oak seats re-
placed the old closed pews. A small organ chamber was added
at the east end of the aisle in 1879. The church is apparently
dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels. The fact that the
village people still regard the Sunday which follows the iith
October as Feast Sunday seems conclusive on this point ; at
the same time, in Phillipps' Iiislilulions, on the only occasion
(1506) when the dedication of the church is mentioned, it is
referred to as St. Peter and St. Paul. The list of rectors dates
from 1323."
Aubrey, quoting his favourite authority, the " Legier book
of March," traces the manor from the Badlesmeres; and in Mr.
Scrope's "Wiltshire Manors subject to Castle Combe" (ll'ilts
Arcliceol. Mag., ii, 280J we can follow the descent of
" Sum'reford ", through the middle ages in the families of
Mautravers and Arundel till the year 1573, when John Yeowe
(or Ewe) was in possession. The family of Jason followed
that of Yewe (with possibly a Thynne intervening), and it is
the object of the present paper, witli the aid of a number of
old documents, the earliest dated 1572, to trace tlie property
from the Yewes and Jasons to the Smiths, who during the
eighteenth century acquired besides a considerable estate in
Great Somerford.^
' In .some "Chancery Proceedings," reign of Elizabeth (no date given), Sir
John Thynne is spoken of as "seized of the manor of 8omerford Mngna."
This tenure, which can liardly have been a very long one, may have occurred
before that of Yewe, but in any case we know that the Marquess of liath had
some manorial property in Sonicrford down till the beginning of the present
century, when it pa.ssed into other hands, and there are traces of at least one
other "manor", which will be referred to as we proceed.
iVoh'S on Great Sonicr/on/. 515
John Yewc was very probably a wealth^' clotliicr from
Bradford-on-Avon, as the " History" of that town, by the
late Canon Jones, contains an inscription from a brass
in Bradford Church to the memory of Anne, "sole daugh-
ter and hcire of John Ycwe, of Bradford, gent., and wife
of G3'lTord Longe, gent., who had issue by her Anne
and Catheryn, their daughters. She dyed the 26th March,
1601." An extract from the pedigree of Long, of Semington,
also contains the name of Anne Yewe as first wife of Gift'ord
Longe, of Rood Ashton. John Yewe, of Somerford, is called
clothier in a deed of 1575, and as there was a Gifford Yewe
(probably a grandson^ of John) in 1607, it seems very probable
that the family was of Bradford extraction ; especially as in
Sir Thomas Phillipps' Institu lions, under date 1605, we find
Thomas Read presented to the living of Somerford Magna by
the patron, Johannes Newe de Bradford, gen., a name which
one can only conclude is intended for Yewe.
The following deed is of sufficient interest to quote at
some length ; it bears date the year before John Yewe is
known to have been in possession of the manor, and doubtless
refers to him or to another of the name who may have
succeeded him.
"A lease from Bridges to John Yew
And Jolin Mayo oi a beaste leaze in newleaze.
"This indenture made the XV. day of Novembre, in the fi'yffthtene
yere of the Reigne of or Sovreigne Lady Elizabeth, &c. Betwene
Willm Brydges of Highworthe, Wiltes, gente, on thone ptie, and John
Yewe, and John Mayo, yeomen, on thother ptie wittnesseth tliat
Whereas or Sovreigne Lady, the Queenes matie, by her highness Ires
patentes under the seale of her Corte of E.xchcqner, beringe date at
Westmr the Vth daye of July, in the ffyffthtene yere ot her reigne for
dyvers consideracons in the said ires patentes specified hath dymised
granted, and to farme letten unt(j tha bove namyd Willm Brydges
amongste dyvers messuages, landes, tentes and otiier hereditaments
situate in dyvers tovvnes, pryshes, hamletts, and places within the said
countie of Wiltes, late from or said Sovreigne Lady the Ouenes matie
conceled (?). The pasturinge goinge and feedinge of and for on covve
' Very little reference can be given in thi.s paper to the parish registers
of Great Somerford, which only date from they(;ar 1707, the previous records
having been accidentally burnt in the psirish clerk's house.
Si6 IVillsliirc No/cs and Queries.
yerly to be taken wtliin the prislie fieldes and coinons of Biode Somfrd
in said cnuntie of Wiltes (Sometymcs geven and assijTncd for the
fyndingre and maynteynance of a light wthin the prishe churche of
Broad Somfrd aforesaid). To have and to lioUl tlie samr premises
unto the said Wilim Brydges Irom tlie feaste of Thannnnciacon of o""
blessyd Lady the virgyn last past before the date of said Ires patentes
unto thcnde and terme of twentie on yeres next follovvinge. Now the
said Wilim Brydges in consideracon of ffortie sliiiiiiiges of lawfull
money of England to hym in the name of a ffyne by the said Joim Yewe
and John Mayo well and truly contentyd and payde, hath dymysed
unto the said John Yewe and John Mayo, the said pasturinge of on
cowe yerly in the said pryshe of Brode Somfrd from the ffeaste of
Seint Michell tharchangell last past unto full ende and t( rnu- of twentie
yeres next to be complete and endyd Yeldinge and payinge therefore
yerly to the said Wilim Brydges twelve pence at tiic ffeasti-s of than-
nnnciacon ol o'' blessyd lady the virgin and Seint Michell tharchangell
by even porcons to be paid. " P. Willm Bridges.
"Sealed and dclyvred in the presence of Willm INIauiulrell, Willm
Jones, John Heme, and Thomas ]irydges."
This deed evidently points to the origin of tiic St. Mary
Lands' trust, a grant of land including the " beaste leaze in
Newleaze " from Queen Elizabeth in the 17th year of her reign
to the people of Broad Somerford, with a reserve for repairs
to the cluirch or similar uses ; it is now vested in trustees for
the benefit of the pari.-^li school which stands on part of the
property. John Yewe, clothier, and John Mayo, yeoman, were
in 1575 the first Somerford trustees of St. Mary lands, and for
the next fifty years the trust deeds contain ([uitc a genealogy
of Yewes and Mayos. Mr. Scrope says that in 158S the death
of John Yeow^e v^^as recorded in the rolls, and that in 1600 the
heir or heirs of John Ewe were on the list as defaulters. From
«ome old copies of Court Rolls of 1607 we find another John
Yewe was then lord of the manor ; his signature is bold and
distinctive, and to his court came William Yewe ^ and sur-
rendered to the lord "one toft, one pasture enclosed i^ acres,
9 acres of arable land, 1 acre of meadow and i stytch (et un le
stytch) of meadow in the moor, and pasture for two beasts in
newleaze, with appurtenances hite in tenure of Alice Bond,
^ See Scrope's " Abririfrcmcnt of Ca.stle Combe," Archa-ol. .\fag.,'\\, 183,
nnder Herrford CurrospoiHlence as to I'rivy Scal.s, date Kill (?), " WilHam
Yew (HiiLjhes) of Sotucrford Magna, £10."
A'o/t's ()// Gnat Sonwrfuni. 517
but then of the said William Vcwc, to the use of Gyftbrd Yewe
his son." Gyfford was then under the age of twelve years,
and from another roll we find he had a brother Richard.^
About this lime, according to Britton (Bcatttus of IVilt-
s/iirc : Soincr/onf Afoi^iia), the manor "seems to have been
claimed by John Thynne," but a few years afterwards
we know that it had passed to the family of Jason, as
in 1637 Samuel Kinaston was presented to the living, the
patron being " Rex pro Robert Jason." The lord of the
manor, who was then as we should suppose an "infant", and was
probably the first baronet of the name, created 5th Sept. 1661,
presented Nathaniel Ask to the rectory in 1667, and died in
1674-52 succeeded by his son, the second Sir Robert, who
' If anyone is interested in tracing this family a little further, it may
be added that in a deed of 1G98 some land is spoken of as late in the tenure
of the widow Yew, and in another document of 1706 relating to some pro-
perty in Soinerford, then belonging to Lord Weymouth, a farm house is
spoken of as late in the occupation of John Yeow, deceased, whose son John
was then living at Beckington.
- The following marriage allegations (British Museum) probably refer
to the first Sir Kohert. "April 2i)th. 1G74, Sir Rnhorl Jason, Kt. and Bart.,
of Broad Somerset {.lic), co. Wilts, widower, and Mrs. Ann Raves, of Dunster,
(?) CO. Oxon , spinster, about 30 and at own disposal at Steeple Ashton,
Oxon."' Also, "Sept. 22nd, IfiTo. Sir Chri.stopher Eyre, Kt., of Xi.rthall,
Middx., widower, and Dame Ann Jason, of Hinton, Glos., widow, at tlinton,
aforesaid, or Lincoln's Inn Chapel, or Temple Church. " A lease bearing date
3rd July, 1675, is signed " Robert Jason, 1675" in a flowing hand, but for
want of knowing the exact date of the first Sir Robert's death, it cannot be
said to which of the baronets the signature belonged ; probably to the
second if Dame Ann was the bride in both the above marriages, but we can
only give the allegations as they stand. The lease referred to was granted
to Richard Lawrence, the elder, of Broad Somerford, yeoman, to whom, in
consideration of £13, was demised "All that messuage witii fower acres of
pasture near the lower marsh at Startley and the feedinge of two beasts
yearly in said marsh," for 90 years and lives of William, Richard, and
Jonathan Lawrence, sons of Richard Lawrence tiie elder, at rent of lis. id.
yearly and 2«. 6^/. asa heriot. Usual suit and service at Court Leets and
Court Baron.s and in another similar lea.se is mention of service at the
•' King's law day" holden within the manor. The endorsements on the back
of the Lawrence lease may be of interest to some. In 1678 the lessee,
Richard Lawrence, for £15 assigned the lease to John Saye, of Crudwell,
gent. In 16»1, Mary, widow of the late Richard Lawrence, on payment of
5iS IVilisliiic Notes and Queries.
after the decision of a law-suit between himself and Sir
Edmund Bruning, of Hambleton, co. Southampton, presented
Richard Browne^ to the living in 1676, died in 1687, and was
buried, Dec. 14th, in the church of Broad Somerford.*
M. E. Light.
(To be continued).
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
(Continued from p. 469.J
F.
1703-7-27. — James Foster, of Andover, in Hampshire, weaver,
to Mary Goodsheep, of Chippenham, at
Chippenham.
1 707-8-1 3. — Ann Fryer, spinster, dau. of John Fryer, of
Winterburne, co. of Gloucester, to George
Grant, of Bradford, at Comerwell.
£20 reclaimed it from John Saye, of Ashton Keynes, gent., and Joane Short,
WoottenBassett, widow, as administratois of goods and chattels of Jolin Saye,
late of Ciudwell, deceased, intestate. A third endorsement, some years later,
runs as follows: — "Inter Josephm Jones, complt. and Marie Lawrence, vid.,
et al., Deft., 19th Oct., 1687. At a commission lield then at Sher.stonc,
Wiltes, att ye signe of tlie Swan, being tlie house of Richard Lea, by vertue
of a commission issued out of the High Court of Chancery to us and John
Kowse and Willm Alway, gent., this parchment writeing was shewed to
Christian Short, spinster, at the time of her examination to the fourth
Interrogatory. — Thomas Petty."
' Aubrey's " ingeniose frieml, Mr. R. Browne, of Magd. Hall, Oxon."
Foster's Alumni- Oxon. gives " Browne, Richard, son of Kicliard, of Minety,
Wilts, minister, Mugdalen Hall, matriculated 22nd Feb., Itjfit)-", aged 16,
B.A. 1670, M.A. from New Coll. 1673, Rector of Somerford Magna 1676."
" I'arson Browne,'' of .Minety. and his son are mentioned several times by
Aubrey. See also tlic will of Thomas Gore the antiquary, Archtcol. Mag.,
vol. xiv, No. xl. "To my dear friend, Mr. Richard Browne, clerk, rector of
Great Somerford, 20a"". Mr. Browne ranrried Elizabeth, daughter of John
Palmer, and grand-daughter of Sir Robert Han.son, Lord Mayor of London,
1672-3, and died in May, 16H7, aged 35 (buried in chancel at Somerford).
His widow afterwards married the next rector, Edmund Wayte (presented
by Sir Robert Jason in 1687), and lived to the age of 80, an old stone in the
tower of the cliurch commemorating her and several children.
■^ I am indebted for many of these particulars to the present rector of
Somerford, and to .Mr. E. .^Iilward S. Parker, of Keynsliam, a descemlantof
the Jason family.
Ouakcnsnt in ll^iltsliire. 519
1709-1-5.— Elizabeth Fry, dau. of Henry Fry, of Blackland, to
John Clark, of Devizes, at Devizes.
17 10-3- 1 7. —John Flower, of Corsham, yeoman, to Sarah
Little, of Corsham, at Slaughterford.
1712-2-15.— Zephaniah Fry, of Sutton Benger, clothier, to
Margret Jefferees, of Bromhill ph., at Charl-
cut.
1720-1 1-23.— Joan Foot, dau. of Robert Foot, late of Bradford,
to Robert Cormck, of London, at Bradford.
1 72 i-S-25.— Margret Fry, spinster, dau. -of Zephaniah Fry, of
Sutton Benger, to Anthony Lawrence, of
Malmsbury, at Hullavington.
1722-2-3.— George Fenell, son of Thomas Fenell, of Hil-
perton, to Rebecca Pinnock, at Melksham.
172S-5-14. — Robert Farnell, of city of Bristol, soap-maker,
son of William Farnell, of Bristol, to Martha
Sanger, at Melksham.
1729-6-24. — Judith Fry, of Calstone, dau. of Henry and
Hannah Fry, late of Ca[l]stone, to Jacob
WiLKLNS, of Tedbury, at Calne.
1 729-8-15. — Christian Fry, of Calstone, dau. of Henry and
Hannah Fry, of Calstone, to John Shurmer, of
Devizes, at Cain.
1 730-8-1. —Sarah F'urnell, dau. of Isaac Furnell, of Marl-
boro, to Jeremiah Harris, at Marlboro.
1734-4-24. — Sarah Flower, of Corsham, to William Stovey, of
Hilperton, at Corsham.
•737-11-22. — Elizabeth Furnell, dau. of Isaac Furnell, of
Marlboro, to Isaac Selfe, of Lavington, at
Bromham.
'738-5-2. — Katherine Furnell, dau. of Isaac Furnell, of
Marlbro, to John Tuffen, of Ringwood, at
Broomham.
1742-12-24. — Susannah Flndl.xy, of Mounkton, Chippenham
ph., widdow, to Thomas Reynolds, of London,
at Corsham.
1 753-1 2-16. — Thomas Fowler^, late of Long Compton, co. of
Warwick, now of Melksham, mercer, to Cath-
erine Rutty, at Melksham.
* Ancestor of Sir Thomas Fowler, Bart., of Gastard, near Corsbaui. See
Hir Robert Fowler, Bart., by John Stephen Flynn.
520 IVi/ls/iire Notes and Queries.
1755-8-28. — Richard Fowler, son of Daniel Fowler, late of
Minchin Hampton, co. of Gloucester, to Mary
Gary, at Ilullington.
1762-9-30. — Richard Fry, Jr., of Galne, clothier, son of
Richard Fry, Sen., of Galne, to Ann Smith,
late of Pickwick, at Slauterford.
1763-10-19. — Katherine Fry, dau. of Richard Fry, of Galne, to
William Gundry, of Galne, at Galne.
1763-12-30. — Joseph FuRNELL, son of Elizabeth Furnell, of
Marlbro, to Elizabeth Hunt, at Broomham.
1772-5-5. — Hester Furnell, dau. of Isaac and Elizabeth
Furnell, of Marlbro', to Richard James, of
Devizes.
1779-11-24. — Mary Fowler, dau. of Thomas^ and Gatherine^
Fowler, of Melksham, to Jolm Matravers, of
Westbury, at Melksham.
1794-2-11. — Ann Fowler, of Melksham, dau. of Thomas and
Gatherine Fowler, of Melksham, to Samuel
Hull, of Uxbridge, at Melksham.
1827-7-18. — Mary Fowler, dau. of Robert^ and RacheP
Fowler, late ot Melksham, to Joseph John
Gurney, of Earlham, at Melksham.
G.
1703-1-21.— Mary Gardener, spinster, dau. of William Gar-
dener, of Warminster, to Thomas Gannon,
of Warminster, at Warminster.
1 703-2-1 5. — Mary Gouldney, Jr., of Ghippenham, dau. of
Adam Gouldney, late of Ghippenham, to
Richard Baker, of London, at Ghippenham.
1703-7-27. — Mary Goodsheep, of Ghippenham, widdow, dau.
of John Turtle, of Bideston, to James Foster,
of Andover, at Chippenham.
T 704-8-26. — Adam Gouldney, of Ghippenham, linen-draper,
son of Adam Gouldney, of Ghippenham, to
Silvester Aldridge, at Warminster.
1707-S-13. — George Grant, of Bradford, shop-keeper, to Ann
Fryer, at Gomerwell.
1707-1 1-6.— Ann Gingell, of Gorsham, spinster, dau. of Daniel
Gingell, of Hartliam, to Jacob Wackham, of
Galne, [married] in Gorsham ph.
' Ancestors of Sir Thomas Fowler, Bart., of Gastard, near Corshatu. See
Sir Mobcrt Fowler, Bart., by John Stephen Flynn.
Oiiakirisni in lllllsliirv. 521
1709-1-29. — John Giles, of cit}- and county of Bristol, cooper,
to Dinali Sklf, of Market Lavington, at
Lavington.
1 709-1-3 1. — Elizabeth Gavven, dau. of John Gavven, of Have-
ridge, to John Clakk, Jr., of Bradford, at
Warminster.
1709-7-27.— George Grant, of Bradford, shop-keeper, to
Christian Bo.nd, late of London, at Melksham.
1709-7-28. — Mary Gerish, of Bromham ph., druget-maker,
dau. of Thomas Gerish, of Bromham, to
Andrew Sealy, of Devizes, at Bromham.
1 7 io-S-27.— William Gardner, Jr., of Warminster, sadler, son
of William Gardner, Sen., of Warminster, to
Margarett Ponton, of Warminster, at War-
minster.
171 1-6-5. — Christian Gerish, spinster, dau. of Thomas Gerish,
of Bromham, to Nicholas King, of Bromham
ph., at Bromham.
1717-6-5. — Andrew Gardner, of Brimhill ph., fuller, to Eliza-
beth Dancy.
1721-10-25. — John GuNDRV, of Devizes, wool-stapler, son of
William and Jane Gundry, of Chard, co. of
Somerset, to Mary Rose, of Devizes, at
Devizes.
1722-2-20. — Thomas Gerrish, son of Thomas Gerrish, of
Hawkshat [? Hawk Street], Bromham ph., to
Sarah Smith, at Broomham.
^-3-5-31- — Mary Gundry, of Devizes, dau. of William and
Jane Gundry, of Chard, co. of Somerset, to
Israel Noyes, of Bradford, at Devizes.
1724-5-9. — Jaramiah^ Goulding, of Bromham, husbandman,
son of Edward Goulding, of Broomham, to Ann
Haskey, of Marlboro', at Marlboro'.
' The original certificate of marriage is under the care of the Society of
Friends, at Melksham, and is headed ihus: — "Jeremiah Goulding, of Broora-
ham, in ye County of Wilts, Husbandman, son of Kdward Goulding, of
Broomham, and Ann Haskey, of Marlborough, School-Mistress, Daughter of
John Haskey. Carpenter, of Stepney Parish, London, Deceased, and of Ann,
his wife, him surviving."' The bridegroom signs himself "Jeremyah
Goldney." There are numerous signatures of witnesses, but no name appears
in the column for " Relations.' The certificate is written throughout.
522 IVillsliire Notes and Queries.
1728-7-22. — Edward Gray, of Lavington, card-maker, son of
Edward Gra}', of Bradford, to Sarah Willis,
widow, of Bradford, at Lavington.
1 728-9-10. — Mary Gye, of Lavington, dau. of Edward Gyc, of
Lavington, to Henry Sanger, of Warminster,
at Lavington.
1 73 1 -9-1 1. — George Grant, of Calne, stay-maker, son of
George Grant, of Brford, to Hester Willls,
at Charlcut.
1731-10-15. — Elizabeth Gardner, of Charlcut, Brimhill ph.,
widdow, to James Antill, of Nailsworth, at
Charlcut.
1 752-5-10. — Lydia Gerish, dau. of Charles Gerish, late of
Atford, to Thomas Alderwicke, of Bradford,
at Bradford.
1 763-7-2 1. — Anna Gouldney, of Chippenham, to Samuel
Neate, of Calne, at Corsham.
1763-10-19. — William Gundry, of Calne, clothier, son of John
Gundry, of Calstone, to Katherine Fry, at
Calne.
1 788-7-16. — Hannah Gundry, dau. of William and Katherine
Gundry, of Calne, to James Neave, of Ford-
ingbridge, at Calne.
1793-12-11. — Maria Gundry, dau. of William and Katherine
Gundry, of Calne, to William Tully Simpson, of
Bristol, at Calne.
1804-11-14. — Ruth Gale, dau. of James and Ruth Gale, of
Chippenham, to Richard Philpott Hyatt, of
Chippenham, at Melksham.
1827-7-18. — Joseph John Gurney\ of Earlham, co. and city of
Norwich, banker, son of John and Catherine
Gurncy, late of Earlham, aforesaid, to Mary
Fowler, at Melksham.
1829-7-10.— Eliza Gundry, dau. of Joseph P>y and Martha
Gundry, of Calne, to Edward Smith, of London,
at Calne.
' J. J. Ourney (1788-18-17) was a noted preacher anioiip; the Friends,
and travelled extensively in the mini.stry in this and other counties. This
was the second of his three marriages. He was a younger brother of
Elizabeth Fry, the prison philanMiropist. See The Gurneys of Earlham, by
Aug. J. C. Hare.
Quakerism in IViltshirc. 523
1835-2-27. — Catherine Gundry, dau. of Joseph Fry and Martha
Gundry, of Cahie, to Henry Alexander, of
Cirencester, at Calne.
1S35-9-30. — Sarah Gundry, dau. of Josepli Fry and Martha
Gundry, of Cahie, to Samuel Alexander, of
Gloucester, at Calne.
H.
1700-9-28. — Jacob Hix, of Franklyn, Bradford ph., broadweaver,
to Dorothy Collktt, of South [Wraxall], at
Commcrwcll.
1 70 1 -2-24. — Lydia Hart, dau. of Paul Hart, of Hcnniton
Charter Houses, co. of Somerset, to John
Cowling, of Wallcut, at Comerwell.
1702-8-28. — James Hobbs, of Leacock, sergweaver, to Rebeckah
Bond, of Bideston, at Slaughterford.
1 705-2-1 2. — Love Harris, of Chippenham, spinster, dau. of
Nathaniel Harris, of Chippenham, to Thomas
Neat, of Bristol, at Chippenham.
1705-5-19. — Thomas Harris, of Chippenham, apothecary, son
of John Harris, of city of Gloucester, to Alice
Dyer, of Chippenham, at Chippenham.
1705-8-25.— Joseph Hull, of Bradford, son of Samuel Hull, of
Bradford, to Ann Arch, of Chippenham, at
Chippenham.
170S-3-18. — -Jone Hele, of Charlcott, Bromhill ph., to Joseph
Sarjant, of Calne, at Charlecott.
1708-11-11. — Sarah Harris of Goteker ph., spinster, to James
Sheppard, of Charlcut, at Charlcut.
1709-7-28. — Nathaniel Hutchens, son of Hannah Hutchens,
of Horsley ph., co. of Gloucester, to Jane
Smith, at Fosket.
1711-6-7. — Hester Hart, spinster, dau. of Paul Hart, of Henton,
CO. of Somerset, to Roger Bullock, of Corsham,
at Cumerwell.
17 II- 1 2-1 5. — Thomas Hunt, son of Henr^' Hunt, of Chitto,
Bishops Cannings ph., to Elizabeth Willis, at
Broomham.
17 12-4-30. — Elizabeth H.wvkins, of Market Lavington ph., dau.
of John Hawkins, of Corsham ph., to William
May, of St. John's ph., Devizes, at Devizes.
5^4 IViltshirc Notes and Oitcrics.
1716-3-3. — John lIoRi, of CO. and city of Bristol, currier, son
of John Hort, of Bristol, to Mary Broomf, at
Charlcut.
1 71 7-1 -I cS. — Elizabeth Hancock, spinster, dau. of John
Hancock, of Chafllbrd, co. of Gloucester, to
Thomas Withers, of Gt. Farringdon, at Purten
Stoke.
1724-5-9. — Ann Haskey, of Marlbro', schoolmistress, dau. of
John and Ann Haskey, of Stepn}' ph., London,
to Jaramiah Goulding, of Broomham, at
Maribro.
1726-8-20. — Grace Hill, dau. of Edward and Mary Hill, of
Wanborougli, to Townly Righv, of Middleton,
at Purton.
1728-12-26. — Trueman Harford, of Bristol, merchant, to Mary
Dickenson, at Corsham.
172*-*-* — Mary Hunt, dau. of Henry Hunt, of Chitway,
Bishops Canons ph., to Phillip Lawrence, of
Melksham.
1730-3-7. — George Hillier, of Avon, Christian Malford ph.,
maltster, to Mary Smith, at Slaterford.
1 730-8- 1. — Jerimiah Harris, son of Moses Harris, of Fording-
bridge, co. of Hampshire, to Sarah Furnell, at
Marlboro.
1732-1-16. -John Heale, late of London, now of Charlcut,
Brimhill ph., to Hannah Barrett, at Charlcut.
1732-10-24. — Henry Hunt, of Chitway, Bishops Canings ph.,
yeoman, son of Henry Hunt, of Chitway, to
Mary Brewer, at Broomham.
'7,37-4-27. — John Harris, Jr., of Fording Bridge, Hampshire,
to Katherine Bayley, at Slaughtcrford.
1737-7-11- — Thomas Hunt, son of Thomas Hunt, of Chalfield,
to Mary King, at Bromham.
1745-6-15. — Hannah Heale, of Charlcut, widdow of John, to
Edward Bond, of Calne, at Charlcut.
1746-5-18. — Elizabeth Harden, of Avon, Brimhill ph., dau. of
Jane Harden, of Churten, to Thomas
Wastfield, of F"oxham, at Charlcut.
Norman Penney.
20, Rusk in Road,
Tottenham, Middx.
(To be continued.)
Sanciitarv at BiillbrMi^c. 525
SANCTUARY AT BULLBRIDGE.
In explanation of the following translation of an extract
from a Coroner's Roll/ toup. Edward III, it may be as well to
make a few introductory remarks as to the practice of sanc-
tuary. The right of asylum in her sacred edifices was allowed
by the Church to fugitives from ancient times, and tliis privi-
lege of mercy to the accused or conderhned man, when death
was the common sentence for all felonies, was recognised by
the English Sovereigns from King Ina onwards, although judg-
ing by the repetition of enactments concerning it in the
Councils of various dates, the sanctuary was not unfrequently
broken by the Ro^'al officers or others. Secular justice in
fact often felt itself baulked ; attempts sometimes were made
to starve out the refugee by seizing the food that was being
brought to him, or preventing the approach of any one bring-
ing it to him ; the Church's remedy for this was excommunica-
tion, which, however, must have been too often without effect,
since it was necessary to get the Crown to make provision
against those who thus, and in other ways, molested "persons
fleeing to the Church." {Vide Articles for the Clergy, g Edw.
II, Statutes of the Realm, vol. i.) The area of the place of
refuge was not always the same ; in some cases its limits ex-
tended beyond, in others were bounded b}', the churchyard ;
elsewhere the church only was the sanctuar}-, as at BuUbridge
evidently, where apparently for still further security the vicar
takes the thief into the chapel of St. Thomas, if indeed the
right of asylum were not confined to that portion, merely, of
the church in question. The felon, however, though avoiding
death, unless he escaped from the church, was not suffered to
elude all punishment ; some time before Edward I it had been
enacted that being brought to the church door in the presence
of the Coroner of the district he must confess his offence and
' Vide, Coroner's Roll, No. 196, Membrane 6, in the Public Record OflSce.
526 IViltshire Notes and Queries.
abjure the realm ; a port and a date for his departure was then
assigned to him, and going forth with a cross in his hand,
journeying by the King's liighvva}-, he was to turn neitlier to
the riglit nor to the left until he reached the appointed destina-
tion. Arrived there, according to the form of his oath, he was
to tarry "but one tide and ebb" if he could have passage ; and
until he could procure the latter he was daily to go into the sea
up to his knees "assaying to pass over" for forty days, at the
end of which time he was to put himself into the church again
as the " King's Felon." From his exile, of course, he was not
to return "without the special favour of the lord king."
Wilton. — Inquest taken there before Robert Sireman,
Coroner of the Borough of Wilton, and Philip le Scryuein, Con-
stable of the same Borough, concerning Roger de Ludynton, of
the Co. of Warwick, who was taken at Fogheleston [Fuggles-
ton] within the foresaid liberty, at the suit of Ralph, Chaplain
of the Church of St. Thomas, Sarum, feloniously prosecuting
against the foresaid Roger in a plea of appeal; viz. : by the
oath of John Michel, Adam Ic Smyth, John Drachelacz, Robert
Cakebred, William Mourpach, Ralp Brudemere, Geoffrey le
Tannere, Walter Denyas, John Schredier, Ralph le Cappere,
John Gilberd, and William Leche ; who say by their oath, that
on Monday next before the Feast of St. Barnabas, the Apostle,
in the 33rd year of King Edward TIT after the conquest, the
foresaid Ralph the chaplain came to Fogheleston foresaid, and
there found pledges for prosecuting in a plea of appeal of felony
against a certain William, chaplain of the church of St.
Thomas of Sarum, and tlic foresaid Roger de Ludynton.
Which William the chaplain, however, for fear of the suit of
the foresaid Ralph the chaplain, fled from a certain house where
Stephen le Cripse, chaplain on the foresaid Monday, dwelt in
Fogheleston foresaid, as far as the church of St. Edith, Wilton,
and in the same church abode through one day and night, and
then afterwards the same William escaped. And the foresaid
Roger dc Ludynton was taken at Fogheleston aforesaid on the
same Monday at the suit of the foresaid Ralph, and then led to
Sanctuary at Biillhri({i!;r. 527
the house of John Bouedon, baihft' of the Hbcrty of the Abbess
of Wilton, and within the liberty aforesaid imprisoned and de-
tained until Wednesda}' next before the Feast of the Nativity
of St. John the Baptist next following. On which day the
same Roger de Ludynton was led by the same John Bouedon,
bailift" to the court of law of the foresaid Abbess, held at Eole-
brigge [BuUbridge], within the liberty of the same Abbess
before John Everard, steward of the same Abbess ; and John
Everard himself sitting there forjudge, and in will to consider
the foresaid Roger according to the law and custom of the
kingdom of England, &c. The forementioned John Bouedon,
however, the bailiff of the liberty foresaid, led the foresaid
Roger de Ludynton prisoner, by the command of the foresaid
seneschal, towards the Court of Bolebrigge ; and when the
same Roger was approaching the church of St. Peter of Bole-
brigge, the said John led the same Roger as far as the
threshold of the gate of the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr
in the same church, and there made the same Roger sit down
within the bounds of holy church; and afterwards, in the
interval of a short space, came one Robert Porter, vicar of the
church of Bolebrigge aforesaid, and opened the gate of the
said chapel, and drew the said Roger into the church, because
he found him sitting within the bounds of the church aforesaid
and seeking the refuge of holy church, wherefore the execution
of the foresaid suit of felony could not be. But the foresaid
Roger abode there in the same church until Thursday next
before the Feast of the Nativity of St. John ; on which day
Robert Sireman, the coroner abovesaid, came, and of the said
Roger inquired the cause of his stay in the said church ; and
the same Roger, in the presence of the said coroner, touching
the sacred Evangels, acknowledged that he had feloniously
stolen a psalter, worth ii*, in the church of St. Thomas, Sarum,
and feloniously carried away the said psalter, now six weeks
ago before the day of the said inquest, and for that cause
claimed the liberty and refuge of holy church ; and sought
from the same coroner licence to abjure, and go forth from the
N N
528 IViltshirc Notes and Uitencs.
kingdom of England, according to the law and custom of the
same kingdom ; and thus continued the same confession before
the same coroner for the three daj's continuously^ following.
And afterwards, on the Sunday, the vigil of the Nativity of St.
John the Baptist, thence next following, the said Roger de
Ludynton, before the same coroner, abjured the kingdom of
England, according to the law and custom of the same king-
dom ; and there was assigned to the same Roger the port of
Plymouth for his passage. And there was taken with the
same Roger a psalter, a knife, and diverse woollen garments,
valued by the xii jurymen aforesaid at x", which goods indeed
remain in the charge of the Abbess of Wilton, lady of the
liberty aforesaid, so that she answers therefore [to the justices]
in Eyre.
On the strip of parchment attached to the foregoing : —
" Chattels of Roger de Ludynton, of the county of Warwyk,
felon, viz. : Diverse woollen garments valued at ix*, and a
psalter of the value of xii'', which remain in the hands of the
Abbess of Wilton.
THE STOKS OF SEEN' CHURCHE.
The following is a copy of an original document entitled as
above (without date) in the possession of the Rev. A. B. Thynne,
the Vicar of Seend, who has kindly allowed it to be printed : —
J Thos stokys hath Alys stoks stoke p's' x"
I the same Thos hathe S' John Webbs stoke p's' xvj'
J Thos Ilys hathe Robr't baldcnh'ms stoke p's' vij*
( the same Thos hathe Will'm loys stoke p's' x"
John Stooks hathe John stooks stoke p's' viij'
John poope hathe Thos stooks stoke p's' xiij" iiij''.
John Curtes hathe Robr't harrs stoke p's* x'
j John Carter hathe water harpers stoke p's' x'
\ the same John hathe C'stian darbe stoke p's' vij'
J Thos Rychar' hathe Thos stykbyrds stoke p's' viij'
[ the same Thos hathe Will'm harp's stoke p's' viij°
Tliv Sloks of Seen' C/iurc/w. 529
■ X
Robr't parcar hathe Will'm p'cars stoke p's' x'
Will'm slooks hatlic Jolin Tvvynn stoke p's' xij^
Will'm Somn' wever hathe a stoke p's' i\^
Will'm Prytyll hathe m' gare dens stoke p's' x\y
John stuvehy hath John Will'ms stoke p's' xij'
I Nicholas stooks hathe Robr't stooks stoke p's' xij'
I the same Nycholas hathe water stoks stoke p's' xiij'' iiij''
Water Sumn' hathe Thos Davyd stoke p's' vij*
J And the same Wat' Sumn' hath John Tynes stoke p's' vij'
[ And also Robr't Collys stoke p's' vij^
John Hart hathe Will'm Chapmans stoke p's' viij'
I Robr't Stooks hath Issabell Stooks stoke p's' x*
< The same Robr't hathe Roger heern' stoke p's' vij'
I The same robr't hathe ij stokys of John harrys p's' xx'
Thos tylly' hathe a stok of John Wyll'ms p's' xij"
Richard franclen a stoke of y* churche p's' xiij' iiij"*
C'styan Sumn' hathe a stoke of the churche p's' xv''
The churche hathe Will'm baldenh'ms stoke p's' vij*
I And also Willyam tuccars stoke p's' vij*
1 And also Will'm wyhetts stoke p's' x'
j John Wyllyams mvst have derige & mas on Whyt sonday
[ the preest iiij'' the Rynghars iij"*
Water stoks mvst have ij lamps brynyng, oon before owr
. lade in sant Nycholas hyle the other before saynt sythe*
I And they mvst byrn at matens, mas and evynsong
' Willm Leze must have dirige & mas the frydae before the
Epyphan\- the preest iiij'' the ryngars iij** saynt N3-cholas
I light ij''
j W^ill'm Harrys must have dirige & mas the fr3^day next after
( holyrood day, the prest iiij**, To saynt Nycholas lyght, ij''
J John tvccar the dawght' of John tvccar mvst have a tap' of
( halfe a pownd before saynt Kataryn every halyday at mas
j Rawlen breyd mvst have a tap' of halfe a pownd of wax
I before the hye cros to bren every hal}' day at mas
* St. Osith, whose fea^t is kept on Oct. 7th, was the daufji.ter of a
Mercian Prince, and for some years lived at Ailesbury ; she was martyred by
the Danes in 870 ; her body was kept for safety at Ailesbury for 46 years,
when it was removed to Chich, in Essex (where she had been Superior of a
religious house), whicli place was for some time called St. Osiths.
N N 2
j
530 irUhhiir Notes and Oucrii's.
\ Robr't Chapman nivst liavc a tap' of halfc a pownd bctbrc the
\ hye cros to bvrn every haly day
Thos davis mvst have a tap' of halfc a pownd before the h3'e
cros to bvrn every hal}- day at mas
Crystyan darbe for a stoke must gyffe evry yeere vj'' to owre
ladys lyght in the chaunsel
Will'm Bald'nas stoke must gyftc every yerc to y* seyd
lyght viij*^
C'styan t3ainys stoke mvst gyffe every yerc to y" seyd
lyght vj"
J Davyth gave a stoke to o' ladyes lyght to fynde a tap'
[ brennyng at matens mas and evynsong
J Henry curtes stoke mvst fynde a lamp br3niyng be fore Saynt
{ C'stofer ev'ry halyday at matens mas and evy'song
J Rob'rt Colles must have a tap' of halfe a pownd burnyng
y before SajMit Nycholas every Sunday at mas
f Robr't Harrys and Margaret his wyfe mvst be p'yd for on
( Wytsunday and the p'est mvst have iij''
J Will'm Parkar mvst be p'yd for the svnday after holyrode day
\ and the preest must have iij''
Robr't bald'na' dirige and mas the mvnda}' In Ester wheyke
the prest iiij*^, sant Nycholas lyght ij'', the ryngars iij"'
Roger hern' gave a cow to maynteyn the pascal and to prayd
for on Ester day and the preest to have iij''
J John Stoks mvst have mas and dirige on myhelmas day the
( preest iiij'' to o'^ ladys lyght viij''
J Wat' harp' mvst have a tap' of halfe a pou'd before the h3^e
[ cros and anoy"" before o"" lade in the porche
{ Thos tuccar mvst have dirige and mas on sant luks day,
\ the preest iiij'' the ryngars iij'' and a tap' be fore o"" lade
I in the sowth hyle Sc to burn at mas on holydays
f Isabel stoks mvst have dirige and mas on palm Svnday
I and the preest mvst have iiij''
I Alys Stokys mvst have dirige and mas the Wedynsday in
\ Ester weyke, the preest iiij'' the ryngars iij''
J Thos stykbyrd dyrige and mas on myhelmas dae the preest
\ WVf the ryngars iij'* ij'' to saynt Nycholas lyght
Will'm chapman a tap' brynyng at s'vs tyme before o' lady
of pety and dirige and mas on saynt m'ks day the
preest iiij'' ij** to saynt Nycholas
J Will'm Tvccar d.yryge and mas the fryday next after saynt
( deonas day the preest iiij''
The Stoks of Sir It' Chitrclu'. 531
Alys prycto' showld have a tap' of a povvnd of wax brynyng
al s'ves tyme before owre lade of pytye and dyrygc and
mas the thursday before mydsumm' dae the prest iiij''
I Margery hyllyar showldc have ij Tap's the oon before o' lade
<^ of {sic.) in the porche the other be fore o"^ lade of pety and
I dyryge and mas on saynt inks evyn, tlie p'st iiij"'
Wyll'm svmn' showld have a lamp before o' lade hi the
porche
f Robrt stoks must have d3-rige and mas on sent andros
I daye the preest iiij'" tlic ryngars iij''
f John harrys mvst have diryge and mas the fryday before
( owre lade day In lent the preest must have iiij''
John Twynye must have diryge and mas the tywysday be
fore Palm svnda}' and the preest iiij'*.
M'' That John tuccar Robr't Collys Wyll'm Eymys and
John Petyt the}' have left to theyre successars of theyre kyn
xiij' iiij"* to exibicion of the lampe before the hye cros there to be
found for ever vnder thys form folooyng, That is to sey the
seyd lampe shal brene iiij p'ncipal feasts of the yeere In the
feast of Ester, The asvmcyon of o' ladye, The feast of al-
halowys, The Natyvyte of o' lord, flfrom the fyrst evynsong tel
hye mas be done and fynyshed, Also the seyd lampe shal bren
every svnday and haly day thorog the yeere at evynsong and
fro the begyngng of matens vntyl hye mas be done w'owght
so be the preest go on vysytacyon betwyxt mas and matens
Then the lampe to be done owght for that tyme.
cOurncfj.
Abbots of Sherborne. Information required of the fol-
lowing Abbots of Sherborne, presumably Wiltshiremen : —
Lawrence, of Bradford, 1246-61.
Peter, of Ramsbury, 1316-29.
William Bradford, 1436-59.
John Mere, 1504-35. A. J. S.
JJ-
IViltslnre Notes and Queries.
A Curious Story. — Tlic following letter from Sharington
Talbot, great grandson of Sir Henry Sharington, and father
of Sir John Talbot, was found amongst the papers of the late
Mr. James Waylen ; perhaps some of your readers could give
some further information concerning the contents. Who was
Mr. Hicks? W. C.
To my very loving friend, Mr. James Hicks
Lichfield, lo Au,mist, 1666.
Fkiknd Hicks,
I have received yours and Mr. Williamson's, and thank you both :
antl I Iiave told my woman the fault of your venison, as I havi' done all
this year. I wish it had been better ordered. Yesterday I received the
most strange news that ever was heard out ofWiltshire. Old Mr. Poulet
of Cotles, my friend there writ it ; t'was thus. .\t the Lady Hungerford's
house at Corsham, not far from Chippenham, a room overnight being
made very clean and shut, in the morning the door being opened and no
noise at all heard, there was found upon the floor the picture of the Lady
Hungerford, drawn in colours to the life ; of which she being informed
would not have it rubbed out, but seemed to slight it, yet it was said she
has since tallen into a hectic fever. But it is prophesied that many
strange things shall happen this year. I rest, your indebted friend,
Sh.vkin'gton T.\ri?OT.
The Warminster Amicable Society. 1 am in possession
of some printed Shuizns in Praise of IViltsliire, written by Mr.
L. Ferris, from Warminster, and sung b}' him at the Warmins-
ter Amicable Society, held at the London Coftee House — date
about 1780. Is anything more known of this Society ?
SCRIBA,
Shrapnel Family and Arms. — In Bradford-on-Avon
Church is a monunuiit to the above, with a canting shield of
a shell bursting marked with an "S"; also in N. aisle a
hatchment with a coat which reads (as far as the darkness and
height could allow me to see), 1 st quarter, azure, crusily croslets a
lion ranipaiit argeiil (?) IIoi,land : the 2nd & 3rd quarters
may be read two or three ways, hut they consist of a
field quarterly argent and azure, (he latter with a bend and over
all a saltire or, which in the 3rd quarters of the ([uarterly is
surmounted by tivo bars gules: 4th quarter, gules a fess (? ) en-
Seymour in Rolli'sloiw Rcgishrs.
graili'd {vrniinc or vrniinois) hctivecn three (nog's or 'a>o//'s) heads
{erased or cotiped) or, and in pretence, Shrapnel as before
without the "S." Will anybody kindly throw furtlicr light
on pedigree and coat. F. Wkre.
[P'rom a memoir in tlie Diet, of Nat. Biog., we learn that
Henr}- Shrapnel, inventor of the Shrapnel shell, was
the youngest child of Zachary Shrapnel, of Midnay Manor
House, Bradford-on-Avon, by his wife Lydia (ne'e Need-
ham), being born 3 June, 1761, marrying 5 May, 1810, at
St. Mary's, Lambeth, Esther Squire (born 1780, died 1852), of
that parish. He died 13 March, 1842, at Peartree House,
Southampton, and was buried at Bradford. ^ — Ed.]
Seymour in Rollestone Registers. — The Registers of
Rolleston, co. Wilts, previous to 1653, are missing, but pinned
into Book HI is the following; evidently copied from the
earlier Register, now missing : —
The ladye Frances Sej'inor, daugliter of the Riglit Honble.
William Erie, of Hartford, was baptized April 21, 1625.
The Lady Jane Seymour, daughter of the Right Honble. S' Will
Seymour, Knight, Baron Beauchamp, and Erie of Hertford, and of the
Lady Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, was baptized July 6, 1637.
Then in its proper place in the same register is entered : —
Mar>', daughter of ye Revd. Lord Francis Seymour & Catherine, his
wife, privately bapt. Sept. loth, 1751, and brought to Church ye 26 of
Feb : following.
Can anyone tell me if there is a complete list of Rectors of
Rolleston published ? I do not see it in Hoare's IVilts.
R. G. B.\RTLETT.
Gierke of Enford. — Can any of your readers aftbrd me
information as to this family ?
Rev. F. G. Lee in his book on Thame Church states that
William Gierke, born c. 1646, was son of Henry Gierke, of
Enford, co. Wilts., Esq. (William's dau. Frances married my
ancestor Thomas Fanshawe, of Parsloes). In IVills. Archa'ol.
Mag.., xxiii, t,t^6, concerning Royalist Composition Papers, Sir
Henry Clarke, Kt., of Enford, settles on his 2nd son, Henry
Clarke, of Enford, the manor of said place by deed, 7 June
534 ll'illslu'rc Notes oik/ Oitcn'cs.
1639, o'l ^^'s marriage with Isabella Warwick — it is also stated
that Henry Clarke came of age, 6 Sept 1642, and compounded
for his estates in 1649; ^ 3'"^ son Edward is aLso mentioned.
In 1652 Sir Henry Clerk, kt., of Enford, was Sheriff of Wilts ;
in 165^ Major Henry Clarke, of Enford, in Penruddocke's
rising is a ringleader and taken prisoner ; Colonel Crooke
also states that one of Sir Edward's (?) sons was a prisoner ;
the writer on this subject in the 3rd vol. of Wilts Archceol. Mag.,
says that Mr. Turner came down to defend his brother-in-law,
Edward (?) at his trial, and adds that probably he was neither
of the Judges of that name, but on reference to that prominent
Royalist Sir Philip Warwick's will, 1682, mention is made of
his two sister.s, Mrs. Arabella (?) Clerke, the elder, and Lady
Joyce Turner, and of their children, Henry Clarke, eldest
son, Philipp Clarke (his Godson), and Edmund Clarke and
Christopher, Henry, Edmund and Charles Turner.
In Geiit/cnian's Mag., 1790, Joice is said to have married
Christopher Turner, of the Middle Temple, knighted at the
Restoration and made a Baron of the Exchequer. In the Book of
Knights, 161 5, Henry Clarke was knighted, as also in 1625
Edward Clerk, of Berks, and in 1627 Edward Clarke; are any of
these my Clerkes ? I have been informed that the Clerkes of
Enford were of the same family as that of the Clerkes of
Hitcham, CO. Bucks., hut the pedigrees do not show the connexion,
although their arms were identical niiiiiis tlic sinister canton. I
am most anxious to find out the wife and ancestry of Sir Henry
Clerke, who, being Sheriff of Wilts, must have been of some
standing in the County. It is curious that his .son fought
for the Royalists, and that (1 suppose) his father was made
Shcrifi by the Cromwellites.
Pnninncc Cottaur, Faluioutli. G. L. Fansiiawe.
Cheese Cross. A parchment pedigree in the possession
of Stratford Eyre, of Eyrevill, co. Gal way, is headed : — "A
branch of the genealogie of the ancient family of Eyre, formerly
fixed in Salisbury, in the County of Wilts, and known by the
Cnmdi'l and Tan-Hill. 5,^5
name of Eyre of the Cheese Cross, drawne dovvne with their
amies, wives, and issue to this present year 1685." I should be
glad if any of your readers could tell me what the "Cheese
Cross " means. I do not find the designation in any published
pedigrees of the Eyres of Wilts.
Hal/icay, Hiingerjord, Berks. A. S. Hartigan.
Crundel and Tan-Hill. —Professor Earle published his
handbook on Saxon Charters in 1S88, where he states that
the word "Crundel" was considered an obscure one by
Kemble, although it occurred sixty times in his Codex Diplo-
maiiciis. He says that Kemble concluded from some examples
that " Crundel " was a British word signifying a tumulus or
barrow, akin to the Welsh "Carnedd", a cairn. Prof. Earle
also gives other inconclusive suggestions.
After these notes on the word " Crundel" were in t3^pe, he
found an allusion to a 12th century homily, when John the
Baptist in tlie wilderness " chose there a crundel for his hall
and an earth-hole for his bower," leaving the derivation as
obscure as Kemble did. Mr. Thorpe's note on the word in his
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary says : " My belief is that the word is
not Anglo-Saxon nor Germanic, but British, and signifies a
tumulus or barrow, and is akin to the Welsh " Carnedd", i.e. a
cairn or heap of stones; thus agreeing with Kemble. There is
a similar Breton word mentioned in the Dictionnaire dc la
Langiic Bretonnc, Paris 1752, b^' Don Louis de Pelletier,
Crughell — Monceau amas de terre colline ; crughcll merien=
an anthill ; crug and crugheim=a tumulus. In an Old English
Dictionary also there is the same allusion to the 12th century
homily, which I have quoted from Prof. Earle'sbook as the only
instance known of the word "crundel". Anne's Crundel \s the
name of one point mentioned in a perambulation of part of the
parish of Stanton Berners (co. Wilts) of the date a.d. 903 (CD.
335)-
A repetition or commentary of this perambulation, 54
years later than the first {CD. 467), is also given by Canon
q-^6 ]Villshirc Notes and Queries.
Joncs,^ from which hght may be thrown on this word. In the
first we read —
"by the Httle barrow to Ann's Stone"
(=?)onne donan on lythan beorg to Ananst'ane),
in the second —
"to Anne's Crundel by the Sloping Stone"
((Sonne on Anne-Crundel on hiSan st'an),
the sloping stone of the second=the barrow; and Anne's
Crundel-^ Ann's stone. This point has not been commented on
by Prof. Earle.
It would be interesting to determine the meaning of this
word, as also of that of the place-name Tan-Hill or St. Anne's
Hill. Canon Jones has suggested that "Anne was the name of
an owner of land in the neighbourhood, the boundary points of
whose property were designated in some cases as Anne's
Thorn." (Thorn Down is still marked on our maps near Tan
Hill.) "Anne's Stone and Anne's Crundell," while Anne's
Hill (or Tan Hill), and various other Annes, such as Glory Ann
and Little Anne, are not far to seek.
Mr. Bowles, of Brcmhill, has suggested that the names
may be derived from "Tanaris", whose worship was altered in
Christian times to that of St. Anne.
The place was of repute in very ancient times as a rendez-
vous of the country, and continues so to this day as the site of
the celebrated Tan Hill Fair.
This supposition would also include the "Anne" theory of
ownership ; all the Annes being derived from the one original
Tanaris.
It is noteworthy that there is another Tan-Hill on which
stands the highest inn in Yorkshire, an account of which is given
in Mr. Kearton's delightful book Ou a Naturalist in St. Kilda
and Elsewhere. Tan field is another place-name in Yorkshire
on the river Ure, which is mentioned in Prof. Phillips's York-
shire, p. 63 (published in 1852).
^ WllU Arch. Mag., vi, p. 8.
Daitii/csrv Anns. 537
It would be very interesting if Yorkshire readers would
help to throw some light on this second of our two questions.
T. S. M.
Dauntesey Arms— Over the entrance doorway of the
Dauntesey Agricultural College at West Lavington, is a
shield of Arms— Per pale two bars ncbiily — intended, I pre-
sume, for those of William Dauntesey, Alderman of London,
the well-known benefactor of school and almshouses to his
native parish of West Lavington, out of the accumulated
surplus funds of which bequest, made in 1542, the new college
has been lately erected and endowed.
The ancient family of Dauntesey, seated at Dauntesey in
North W^ilts, whose heiress married Sir John Stradling, and
died in 1455, bore — Per pale or and argent three bars nebiily
gules; but the connecting link between this family and the
later Dauntseys of West Lavington yet remains to be cleared
up.
I am anxious, therefore, to know on what authority this
latter shield, used by the Stradlings (as representatives of the
earlier Daunteseys) until 1540, and still to be seen on tombs
and carved woodwork in Dauntesey Church — has been shorn
of one of its bars, and placed over the entrance of the new
Agricultural College at West Lavington as the armorial bear-
ing of Alderman William Dauntesey — more particularly so, as
the open benches in West Lavington Church, used by the
almspeople of his original foundation, bear a lion rampant
chasing a wyvern—d\so placed there as his arms.
As Alderman Dauntesey was married, and his wife is
known to have been a Lambert, why are his arms given singly,
and not impaled in either case with those of his wife ?
Wilton lENSis.
Richard Perenchief, D.D. — Is anything known of the
Marlborough origin of this individual. His name is variously
spelt Perenchief and Parincheff. He was one of the chaplains
to King Charles I, and the author of The Royal Martyr^ or
53S IVillsliirc Notes and Queries.
Ihc Life and Dcalli of the said King ; also Prebendary of St.
Paul's, London ; Archdeacon of Huntingdon ; Rector of St.
Mildred, Poultry, and St. Mary, Colechurcli ; Prebendary of
Westminster Chapel, and Sub-Almoner to King Charles II in
1669. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, 2 Sept., 1673.
His will, dated 26 August, was proved 16 October in that year.
Edward Kite.
lUpIifSi,
Anthony Warton (vol. ii, p. 436). — The Rev. Anthony
Warton, B.C.L., rector of Langham, co. Essex, became
perpetual curate of Maddington, co. Wilts, 1675, by exchange
with the Rev. James Nurth, M.A. He left Maddington 1681,
and eventually died vicar of Godalming, 15 Mar. 17 15. He
was grandfather to Poet Laureate Warton. Mr. Hersey will
probably find that his Anthony Warton, of Breamore and
Tidcombe, 1681, was this man or his son. Foster's Alumni
Oxonienscs will no doubt give him the parentage.
R. G. Bartlett.
William Leach ^vol. ii, p. 482). — The following informa-
tion, which has been .very kindly supplied by Messrs. Anstie,
from documents in their possession, will throw some additional
light on the early history of snuff manufacture in Devizes.
By an agreement, dated 8 December 1740, between John
Anstie, of Devizes, grocer and snuff-maker,^ and William
Leach, of the same town, wire-maker, these two gentlemen
became joint partners in the trade of buying and selling snuff.
The partnership continued for one year, when William Leach,
by articles under his hand and seal, dated 31 December 1741,
agreed that the said partnership should cease, on condition
that John Anstie "so lontj as he shall continue to grind, or
' His father, Richard Anstie, clothier, was a freeholder in Devizes,
1705-1712. lli.s will, dated 11 Fel)ruary 172()-7, was proved in the Pre-
rogative Court of Canterbury L'7 February 1727.
IVilliani Leach. 539
cause to be ground, Tobacco Snuff, otherwise Scotch Snuff, at
a certain copyhold mill in Potterne, belonging to William Read
late in the occupation of Richard Til}'," undertakes to supply
William Leach with one ton weight of the said snuff yearly, if
required; the article so supplied being of the same quality as
usually made for his own general sale, and to be ground no
more or longer than one day before the request for delivery
thereof. By the same document it is also agreed that William
Leach, at the costs of John Anstie, shall cause the proper and
necessary machines and works for grinding snuff to be erected
in a complete manner in the aforesaid mill in Potterne, and also
give his attendance at the said mill within the space of one
year next after the first snuff mill shall be finished.
The copyhold mill in Potterne here mentioned must be
Whistley Mill, where the snuff manufacture was for many
years carried on. It was held by the Anstie family of the
Bishops of Salisbury, by copy of Court Roll of their manor of
Potterne on lease of 99 years determinable on lives, which
leases are still in possession of the firm.
The will of John Anstie, the elder, party to the above
agreement, is dated 10 December 1767; with codicil, 2 Dec.
1774. In it are mentioned his wife Mary, and his children,
Sarah, John, Peter, Benjamin Webb,^ and Mary. In 1776 he
took into partnership his two sons, John Anstie, jun. (born
1743, died 1830), and Benjamin Webb Anstie (born 1748, died
181 4), and the firm was then known as *' Anstie and Sons."
Mr. John Anstie, the elder, died in 1779, and in 1784 his
two sons dissolved partnership, John, the elder son, carrying
on the business of clothier, and Benjamin Webb, the younger
son, that of snuff manufacturer.
' So named apparently from bis great uncle. Benjamin Webb, of
Devizes, gent., whose will is dated 1 January 1757, with two subsequent
codicils. He leaves lands in Pmil^hot, co. Wilts, and Woolston, co. War-
wick, and appoints his two nephews, Godfrey Webb, and John Anstie,
executors.
540 IViltshirc Notes and Oiicn'cs.
In 1810, Mr. Benjamin Webb Anstie took into partnership
his two sons Benjamin (born 1787, died 1843), and Paul (born
1796, died 1873), the title of the lii-m being "Benjamin Webb
Anstie and Sons." The father died in 1S14, leaving his two
sons in the firm.
On the death of Benjamin (tlic elder of the two) in 1S43,
his son, Edward Benjamin (born 181 9, died 1S96), was taken
into partnership with his uncle, Paul, the surviving member
of the firm, on the introduction of whose son, William Henry
(born 1830, died 1874), the firm was altered to " Paul, Edward,
and William Anstie."
In 187 1, Mr. Paul Anstie (the elder partner), retired from
business, and the two younger ones continued as "Edward
and William Anstie."
On 7 January, 1S71, William, the younger partner, died,
seven days after joining the firm, leaving his cousin Edward
the only survivor. He died in 1896, leaving his two sons,
Edward Louis, who became partner in 1888, and George
Edmond, in 1895, the present members of the firm.
Aquila.
Heraldic (vol. ii, p. 437). — The following will, I think, help
to identify some of the quarterings of arms on the screen in
the Hall at Longleat :-
1. Strangkways inipaliiig Thvnne.
1. Strangeways.
2. Or, a chevron gules within a bordure engrailed
sable — Stafford.
3. Sable, a fret or — Maltravers.
4. Per fess azure and gules [gules and azure ?]
three crescents argent— D'Aumarle.
2. Thynne impaling Heynes.
I.
Heynes.
2. Ermine, two piles issuing from a chief gules,
over all on a fess argent five torteaux —
Gataker.
3. Sable a chevron between three leopard's faces
argent Blyke.
Heraldic. 541
4. Barry of six or and sable, on a chief of the lirst
two pales of the second— (Burlfy?), witli
Ilrssi:Y (Barry of six ermine and gules) on an
escutcheon of pretence.
3. riiVNNK iiii/)a/i>igW\iini.]\TON.
1. VVroughton.
2. Argent, a chevron between three raven's heads
erased sable— Ravenscroft — adopted by Nor-
nys on marriage with the heiress of that family.
3. Bendy of six azure and or, a bordure gules —
Mi;R BROKE.
4. Argent, a chevron [engrailed ?] gules between
three unicorn's heads erased azure.
(This shield is given by Aubrey from the monument of
Sir Thomas Wroughton in Broad Hinton Churcii.
See Audrey &> Jacksoit, p. 336).
4. Thynne (with label) i))ipali)ig Hayward.
I and 6. 1 Iavward.
2. Argent, two pallets engrailed sable.
3. Argent, on a saltii e engrailed gules five fleurs-
de-lis or — Brocton.
4. Gules, a lion rampant, and in chief two mullets
or — Whitbrook.
5. Or, an eagle displayed sable — Underhill.
5. Chamberlayne (with crescent) impaling Thynne.
1. Chamberlayne.
2. Gules, a chevron between three escallops or —
Chamberlayne (old coat).
3. Azure, six lioncels (3, 2, i) or — Longespe.
4. Ermine, a chief invected gules — Mortayn.
5. Azure, two lions passant guardant or — Ekeney.
6. Coles impaling Thynne.
1. Coles.
2. Argent, a chevron (azure) between three mullets
sable.
3. Gules, a chevron (with crescent) between three
lion's heads erased argent.
4. Argent, a wyvern, sejant sable — Drake ?
5. Argent, two chevronels sable.
6. Argent, a fess, and in chief two mullets sable —
542 Ifi/ls/iirc No/cs aiuJ Oiirrics.
7. Thynm: impaling Ernley.
1. Ernley.
2. Argent [or] a clicvron (with crescent) gules be-
tween three boar's heads erased sable —
Wroughton.
3. Gules, three sheaves of arrows or— Best.
4. Malwyn.
5. Argent (ermine) on a bend sable three leopard's
faces or — Cam bride.
6. Ermine, two chevronels gules — Fynamore.
7. Per chevron gules and argent three chessrooks
counterchanged - Holwell.
(This shii^ld, with an Stii quartering of HAYnocK, tricked
by John Witliie, will l)e found in Harleian MS. No.
1443, Brit. Mus.)
Edward KrrE.
Workaway or Walker's Hill (vol. ii, p. 4S8). — In my
answer re Clatford, I quoted Canon Jackson, who (in a note in
JVilts Archa'ol. Mag., xix, p. 39) gives Workaway as the west
limit of the East Bailywick of Savernoc (a.d. 933).
Workaway is a modern corruption of the ancient name
Weal-a-wege {Cod. Dipt. 1035) or Welsh way. This road was
named the I'Valcway by an old shepherd not very many years
ago. It is the ancient British track way, or Ridgeway, which
extends for miles along the downs, past Barbury Castle, and
so on eastward.
The road divides Alton Berners from Alton Triors, and
passes over, or close to, the hill corruptly named Walker's or
Workaway on old and modern maps.
The road became the division between the Hundred of
Swanborough (which included both the Alton parishes in the
time of Domesday), and that of Elstubbe, when in 13 16 a.d.
Alton Priors, as belonging to the Monks of St. Swithin, at
Winchester, was transferred from Swanborough to Elstubbe
Hundred.
It is incorrectly included in drecnwood's map of 1820 in
Swanborough Hundred. T. S. M.
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7\,
raiUsljivc Sotcs aulj Ourrtcs.
DECEMBER, 1898.
NOTES ON GREAT SOMERFORD.
(Continued frotu p. 518J
7f^/ HE old Manor House (called of late years the Mount,
see illustration) is dose to the church of Great Somer-
ford, and separated from it by a short private road,
leading to what was, evidentl}', the original front,
facing the church ; but about fifty years ago some
alterations were made, and a modern front was
added, with entrance upon the high road, leading through the
village. From the garden on this side there is a fine view
across a fertile valley to the range of hills, with Bradenstoke
Abbey, four or five miles away. An old sun-dial stands on a
stone pillar in the centre of the lawn, and in a corner are some
fragments of another dial, bearing the date 17 13 and the re-
mains of a Latin inscription, of which all that can be deciphered
are the words " vcl Horoscophim tcrtic Die " ; carvings of the
sun and crescent moon appear on each side of the broken in-
dicator, and below is the couplet : —
" The moon and sun
Their course doth run."
o o
544 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
One may also sec in the house some broken stone work (which
might be the remains of an old escutcheon), and the window
slabs with which Mr. Smith circumvented the tax-collector.
But, undoubtedly, one of the most interesting objects at
Somerford is the large mound^ behind the house and close to the
"ford of Avon," noticed both by Canon Jackson and John
Britton, without either of those authorities coming to any very
definite conclusion concerning it ; though, perhaps, the likeliest
conjecture is that suggested by both, that the mound covers the
debris of some former building destro3'ed by fire. Large trees
cover the mound, and have done so for generations, and there
seems no reason why the ruined walls laid bare in iSii may
not have been the remains of some mediaeval mansion of an
early lord of the manor. Certainl}', as one stands by the
hatches down in the Broadmead, where, in winter, the river
often becomes a wide and rushing torrent, it is apparent that
no better site could have been chosen for a lordly residence (if
such ever existed at Somerford) than the spot where the
church tower and the waving trees of the Mount at once at-
tract the eye.
There is no known record or inscription as to the date of
the Manor House (which, apparently, belongs to the Eliza-
bethan period, and may have been built by the Yewes), nor is
there any direct evidence that either of the Jason baronets ever
' [Brittori'.s Bcavtics of Wiltshire and Avhrcy and Jaclison, p. 284.]
From enquiries lately made as to this mound, there seems to be a notion
that it had been utilized in some past time for an ice-house, and a man,
now living, rememVjcrs sorting potatos in an apartment of some kind (not
now visible), which was entered fronj the back of a shed close to the
mound. If this is the spot at which the opening was made in 1811, it is
possible that the walls then disclosed were annexed, and made use of for
some such purpose as the above, but the mound itself is much too large to
be accounted for by an ice-house, grotto, or anything of the kind. More
than 100 years ago there was a summer-house on the top, and a clearing in
the trees, commanding the view towards Bradenstoke, and it is certain that
one, now departed, had recollections of a ''nioaf somewhere upon the
premises at about the same date, but of this there seems no trace or remem-
brance left.
Notes on Great Some r ford. 545
lived there for any length of time, but they are both described
at various dates as " of Broad Sonierford," and it is probable
that the father, as well as the son, was buried there. Hinton,
in Gloucestershire, was another of their residences, and the
second Sir Robert was, in 1678, "of Grayes Inne, Middlesex,"
but from 1673 most of the Sonierford property was let on long
leases, and other families came upon the scene. These will be
best introduced by the following deed : —
John Mayds lease of Sonierford Farm. — "This indenture made 2nd
September, 25th Charles II, 1673, Betweene Sir Robert Jason, of Hinton,
Gloucestershire, Bart., of the one part, and John Mayo, of Broad Somer-
ford, VViltes, yeoman, of the other part, Wittnesseth that said Sir Robert
Jason in consideration of the sum of ;ifSoo in the name of a ffyne to Sir
Robt. Jason by John Mayo, Hath demised and granted to said John
Mayo, all that the Scite, Mannor House, ffarme, and demesne lands and
grounds of Broad Somerford, als. Somerford Matravers, with all and sin-
gular Barns, Stables, Dove-houses, Poundes, fishings, Comon of Pasture
Profitts, &c., &c. Which were in any manner held or occupied by Giles
Bird and Joane his wife or tenants, together with liberty of Hawkeing,
Fishing, and Fowleing within said Mannor. Also one Close of Pasture
or Meadow called Taylor's, 2 acres, in Broad Somerford, heretofore be-
longing to the customary' messuage or tenement lately held by Coppy of
Court Roll by one John Winckworth, deceased, and one other close of
Pasture adjoining to the marsh on the east side, 2 acres^ heretofore held
by lease of said Sir Robt. Jason by one William Knapp, deceased, like-
wise in Broad Somerford, aforesaid, with appurtenances (except bodyes
of all timber trees). To said John Mayo and his assigns from Feast of
Annunciation of our Blessed Lady St. Mary the Virgin, now next en-
suing, till full terme of 99 years, If Rebecca Mayo and Hellen Mayo,
daughters of said John Mayo, and John Browne, son of Lucian Browne,
the younger, of Somertord Parva, Wiltes, yeoman, or either of them
should so long live, paying £\o yearly at two usual feasts. John Mayo
to be allowed sufficient timber for repairs of premises, also hedgeboote,
ploweboote and fircboote to be employed upon said premises. Also to
grant to Sir Robt. Jason admittance, entertainment, and lodgeinge in
said Mannor House, with meat, drink, victualls, horse meate, and all
provisions necessary fitting for himselfe being Lord of the Mannor of
Broad Somerford, or his Steward or fowermen att Livery for and during
the tyme of three dayes and ffower nights upon any occasion whatso-
ever." Usual covenants. John Mayo. Witnesses: John Gastrell,
Michael Baker, Henry Russell.
A few months before his death in 1687, Sir Robert Jason,
in conjunction with Richard Hawkins, esq'®., of London, in
consideration of ;!{^3oo and 25s. yearly, granted to Richard
002
546 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Tuck, citizen and weaver of London, a messuage with lands
(lately held by Thomas Zealy, als. Sealy, and afterwards by
Deborah, his wife, as a copyhold tenement of the Lord of the
Manor) for 99 years for lives of said Richard Tuck, John Tuck,
son of Henry Tuck, of Broad Somerford, yeoman, and Henry
Tuck, son of Samuel Tuck, citizen and silk weaver, of London.
By 1 69 1 another change had taken place, and the manor was
in the hands of trustees,^ as seen by the following deed, which
contains some points of interest: —
Lease for a year of Churches — " This indenture made 6th Aprill,
3rd William and Mary, 1691, Betweene Richard Hackett of Mortlake,
Surrej', gent., Matthew Bluck, of Hunsdon, Hartford, Esqrc., and Rich-
ard Webb, of the Inner Temple, Esqre. (the Devizees and exors. of the
last will and testament of Sir Richard Hawkins ot London, Knt. de-
ceased', and Richard Hawkins, Escjrc., of the one part, and Edmund
Wayte, of Broad Sumerford, cierke, oi the other part, Witnessetli, that
for and in consideration of 5^-. to said exors. (to enable said Edmund
Wayte to take a grant and release of messuage) Have bargained and
sold, all that messuage with appurtenances and one close of pasture \\
acres and 2 Beaste Leazes or common of pasture for 2 Beastes in New-
leaze and i acre of meadow in Southmeade, 5J acres of arable in
Downefielde, 3^ acres in Broadfield, 3^ acres and small plott of land
lying near thereto called an Headend in Westfield, all in Broad Somer-
ford, and late in occupation of Isaac Knapp or his assigns held by said
Isaac Knapp by coppie of Court Roll of said Manor. To said Edmund
Wayte from the f^east of the Annunciation last past for one year next en-
suing."-
On the nth Feb. 1698, Matthew Bluck and Richard
Webb, the surviving trustees of the manor (" their estate de-
vized to them by the last will and testament of Sir Richard
Hawkins, Knt., deceased, being since confirmed by the son and
heir of said Sir Richard Hawkins by his deed inrollcd in
Chancery"), finally disposed of "Somerford Farm" to John
^ Sir Robert Jason had a son and heir, Sir George, the title not becom-
ing extinct till 1738, after the death of the last Sir Robert, who left no
issue ; it is, therefore, apparent that the Manor must have been purchased
by Sir Richard (then Mr.) Hawkins, who was a London lawyer.
2 The various signatures were attested by Thorp Fyke, Wi. White, Ed-
ward and Benjamin Boddicott, John Aysttree, and John Fox. Four good
seals, all alike, show on a shield, a croi's, nith eagle displayed in dexter
chief. [Webb.] Crest, over a helmet, a griffin's head on a winged globe.
Notes on Great Somerjord. 547
Smith, junr., gent., of Overton, Wilts, for the sum of ^1,065.
After describing the " Scite, Mannor House, and Demesne
Lands," with VVinkworth's and Knapp's coppyholds, as before,
the deed goes on : —
"AH which premises are part and parcel of said Manor of Broad
Somerford, and heretofore in tenure of John Mayo, deceased, who held
the same by Lease from said Lord of the Manor, but are now in tenure
of William Alexander, gent., who married the daughter of said John
^L^yo, or of his assigns or under-tenants. Also all that messuage with
appurtenances now or late in tenure of Mary Lawrence, widow of
Richard Lawrence, deceased, with 4 acres of pasture or arable land
thereunto belonging near the Lower Marsh, and also the feeding and de-
pasturing of 2 beests in said Lower Marsh. Also all that Toft and one
close of arable land, 3 acres, heretofore in tenure ot John Ashton and
since in possession of Isaac Knapp, deceased, lying near Hawstreet
abutting on the Westfield, on the north end thereof. And two Beast-
leazes in the Lower Marsh, and one Beast-leaze in Broadmead, all part
and parcel of said Manor. With all and singular Houses, Barns, Gar-
dens, Meadows, Leasows, Feedings, Woods, Wayes, Paths, Water-
courses, Fishings, Profits, Emoluments, and Appurtenances whatsoever
to said Scite, Mannor House, and said Toft and Messuage belonging,
with Revertion and Remainders, To Have and To Hold to said John
Smith and his heirs for ever." Witnesses : William Alexander,
Richard Browne, and Robert Southam.
On the same date, nth Feb. 1698, Henry Tuck, of Broad
Somerford, who had acquired Richard Tuck's lease of 1687,
completed the purchase of Sealy's on payment of ^141 to the
trustees of Sir Richard Hawkins, and this with other lands of
Henry Tuck's eventually became the property of the Smiths ;
but before entering into their history, and as the name of Mayo
is an interesting one in Wiltshire, it is proposed to give some
particulars about this family and their connexions, introducing
a description of some other lands in Somerford outside the
Yewe and Jason Manor.
Will of John M ay Oy the Elder, 1656^" — To all Christian people to
whom this writing shall come, know ye that I, John Mayo the Elder, of
Great Somerford, Wilts, yeoman, being well stricken in years, and in-
firme, but of sound and perfect memory (God be praised therefore), do
make and ordaine this my last will and testament : —
"To eldest sonne, John Mayo i.f.
"To sonne Henrj* Mayo i.y.
' Cons. Sarum, Sth Sept. 1660.
548 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
"To daughter Ann Speckman \s.
" To Sonne Adam Mayo £20 by the yeare for every yeare after tlie de-
cease of Margery,^ my now wife, lor as long as said sonne Adam Mayo
and John Mayo, or eyther of them shall live accoidinge to the intent ot a
proviso in a certaine indentnre made betweene me and Henry Mayo and
others to that purpose. Also to sonne Henry Mayo the other ;^20 by the
year, part of ^40 as provided by said indenture. To daughter Mary, the
wite ot Samuel Kinastone,- is., my executrix to pay to said Samuel Kin-
astone ;i^40 at such time as same ought to be paid, being part of her mar-
riage portion, as yett behinde and unpaid. To daughter Frances Mayo
;,^40 and second best bedsteede and bed with apparell and furniture
thereto. To daughter Hellen Mayo ^1^40 and third best bedsteede, &c.
To Margery, my now wife, all that my chattle lease of 9 beastes feedinge
in the West Marsh of Somerford with all my estate and terme of years
yett to come, and whereas I have in my custody the smn of^^Sto be
paid unto Anne Speckman, my grandchild, in lieu of which ;^8 I do give
to said grandchild the sum of £\o when she shall attain the age of 20
years and if said grandchild die before the age of 20, the said ^^lo to go
to Ann the now wife of Thomas Wigmoare, mother of said Ann Speck-
man.
"To George Wakefield, my servant, one suite of my wearing apparell.
"All the rest of my goods, chattclls, bonds, bills, and household
stuff to wife Margery, whom I do make whole and sole executrix.
2Sth Jan. 1656. John Mayo,
"In presence of Henry Mayo, William Gale, markof Aldem Browne."
The John Mayo who made tliis will may have been the
son, but was probably the grandson, of William Mayo, son of
the John Mayo who has been mentioned (p. 516) as one of the
first trustees of St. Mary Lands in 1575. The only room for
a doubt arises from the number of John Mayos (two of whom
are described at the same time as "junior") in the long list of
succeeding trustees. In the article on " Braydon," in a former
number of this magazine (vol. ii, p. 136) mention is made of
" J(jhn Mayo, of Broad Sumerford, co. Wilts, gent., aged 6y, or
thereabouts," who appeared as a witness on behalf of Sir Ed-
ward Hungcrford. From the date of these depositions (1628)
we must presume that Sir Edward Hungcrford's witness was
the father of the man whose will was proved in 1660.
' A lease of lands in Somerford was granted to John Mayo and Mar-
gery his wife, 2nd May 1G15.
•^ Rector of Great Somerford 1637-67.
Notes on Great Somerford. 549
We now come to the last John Mayo (son of the testator
of 1656-60) who had taken the lease of Sir Robert Jason's
manor house, &c., in 1673, and who made his will in 1682^ as
follows : —
" I, John IMayo, of Broad Siimmcrforcl, yeoman, being of sound mind
and memor}', but calling to mind the frailty of man"s life in this vaine
and transitory world, desire to settle my estate herewith First I com-
mend my immortal soul into the hands of my Gratious God my Creator
and Redeemer, and my body to be interred in the parish church of Broad
Sumerford in such decent and cumely manner as my executrix shall
think tit.
"First, touching the Cite or Mansion House and farme with lands in
Broad Summerford which I lately purchased of Sir Robert Jason,
Barronett, by indenture of lease for lives of Rebecca and Helen Mayo my
daughters and John Browne, sonn of Lucian Browne, of Little Summer-
ford, yeoman, being a chattle lease. Whereas I have sometime since
made a provision and maintenance for Elizabeth, my now wife, out of
said cite of ^30 yearly with some other advantages, in case she shall sur-
vive me. Rest of Cite, farme, and lands, to daughter Heilen Mayo (also
the jf^Tft vested for my said wife in case my daughter Heilen shall sur-
vive her), and after her to her children, or for want of such then the
same lease and lands to John Browne and Thomas Browne, sons of
Lucian Browne, and Rebecca Phelps, daughter of Robert Phelps, to be
equally divided between them during rest of lease. To John and
Thomas Browne and Rebecca Phelps £\o apiece at age of 18 years. To
Rebecca Phelps a bed and all furniture thereto.
"To Lucian Browne £\o 6 months after my decease. To Bridgett
Mayo ;^5 when my executrix thinke most fitt. To Mary and Elizabeth
Mayo, daughters of Bridgett Mayo, £i^ apiece. To Elizabeth Waker my
servant 2o.y. 6 months after my decease. To Thomas Cumely, my
servant, 20.y. To poor of Broad Summerford £^ at discretion of
executrix.
" The Lumber goods I had in house of my now wife Elizabeth shall
remaine unto her, provided she therewith rest herself contented, and not
trouble nor molest my executrix. Also 2 pieces of gold to be paid to
said wife immediately after my decease. Rest and residue to daughter
Heilen Mayo, whom I make my whole and sole executrix.
" I appoint Thomas Thorner and Richard Player, both of Malmesburj',
to be overseers of this my last will and testament, giving to them each
5j". to buy a pair of gloves in token of my love.
4th May, 1682. John Mayo.
" In presence ol Thomas Bond, Simon Picke, the marke of Richard
Freeth."
• Probate 17th May 1682. 44 Arr.b^"y- Wilts.
550 IFiUs/iin- Noics ami Queries.
To refer again to the useful St. Mar}' Land trust deeds,
we find that in 1721 Thomas Browne, of Minety, son of Lucian
Browne, by the daughter and heiress of John Mayo, the last
surviving feoftee of the deed of 1622, was able to prove his
lineal descent from John Mayo by reference to a flat stone in
the middle aisle of tiie church of Somerford Magna, " In
memory of Ann, wife of Lucian Browne, of Little Somerford,^
the daughter of John and Ann Mayo, who departed this life
the 14th April, 1674," This stone is not now visible, but the
recorded inscription informs us that John Mayo, as his will
suggests, was twice married, the first wife Ann being the
mother of his three daughters. The tracing of these family re-
cords may be of interest, or even of value, to someone, and
perhaps no excuse is needed for glancing at the families, who,
by marriage, became linked with the Mayos.
In May 16S4, Hellen Mayo, her father's executrix, mar-
ried William Alexander, son of Robert Alexander, yeoman, of
Rodbourne, and by the marriage settlement (trustees, Lucian
Browne, of Little Somerford, and Robert Phelps als. Bromham,
of Overton, Wilts), William Alexander was to occupy the
Manor House and premises for his life " if Hellen Mayo should
live so long, and as long as they shall live together," under-
taking to carry out John Mayo's will, and pay all legacies due
therefrom. 2 Before another year had expired William Alex-
' Another stone in Little Somerford Church commemorates "John, son
of Lucian Browne, and Ann ins wife, daugliter to John Mayer {sic), of
Somerford Magna. He died J7tli Feb. 1711-12, aged 42." An unaccount-
able niis-spelliDg of a name, whicli, there can be no doubt, was meant for
Mayo, and in every other case was spelt as sucli.
■■^ A curious and quaintly worded old parchment, date 1th Nov. 1G84,
with tlie King's writ attached, sets forth the complaint of John and
Thomas Browne, botl) infants, by their grandfather and guardian, Lucian
Browni', .'Stating that Hellen Mayo, having married William Alexander, liad
conspired with liini atid others to defraud Iheiii of certain annuities, dur
under their motlier's marriage settlement, her name being given as Mar-
garet, a palpable error, as there is plenty of evidence tiiat it was Ann.
Whetlier the suit prospered or not William Alexander evidently paid the
legacies under John Mayo's wdl, as shown by a discharge from Lucian
Browne for the £10 due to Thomas when he reached the age of 18 years in
1691.
Notes on Gnat Somcrford. 551
ander had lost his wife Hellen, and found liimsclf administra-
tor of her effects. From some deeds of assignment with the
persons interested, we may infer that he remained as tenant of
the premises and had an agreement with Mr. Smith after that
gentleman's purchase of the property in 1698 as tenant for a
year at ^80 per annum. Here we will leave William Alexan-
der for the present, but a good deal more may be said about
the family later on.
In March 1675, Rebecca, another of John Mayo's daugh-
ters, became the wife of Robert Phelpsia/s. Bromham, of West
Overton, Wilts. They had a daughter, Rebecca (mentioned in
her grandfathers will), who, in due course, married John
Smith, just before he purchased the property at Somerford, and
their daughter, a third Rebecca, in her turn became the wife of
a fourth Lucian Browne; a very interesting network of inter-
marriages.
We have seen that Ann Mayo, who was probably the
eldest of the three sisters, married one of the Lucian Brownes,
and the will of the patriarchal Lucian himself gives a few facts
about the family : —
"I, Lucian Browne,- of Myntye, in the county of Gloucester but
diocese of Sarum, being of perfect health, do make this my last will and
' Marriage portion £100, meadows called Horsham and Jasses, with
several plots in the common mead, and pasture for 6 Rother beasts in Som-
erford Cowleaze. Robert Phelps' jointure consisted of " all that one yeard
land in arable, meadow and pasture ground in the parishes, hamletts, and
tields of Higliway, Cleeve Ancie, and Hilmarton, co. Wilts." Trustees-
Lucian Browne, of Little Somerford, and William Phelps of London, mer-
chant tailor. Witnesses: Jo. Adye, Henry and Judith Williams, all re-
markably good signatures. The Phelps ah. Bromham family, seem to have
connsted at this time of three brothers ; John, dying intestate in It)83, Wil-
liam, the London tailor, received £280 from Robert, the value of John's
goods and chattels. "Mem.: v' Robert Phelps is to give an account fior
the Cropp of Corne att Avebri y' is in the barne, and for the sheep tliere
unto his brother William Phelps."
- The Minety register, dating from 16G3. is not early enough to give any
clue to the parentage of Lucian Browne, but the following entries refer to
him : —
"Anne, wife of Lucian Browne, senior, burie.l Gth March IGOB. Tiiomas
son of Lucian Browne, senior, buried Sth Jan. IGG'J. Anne, wife of
552 IViltsliire Notes and Queries.
testament, this 24th Feb. 1699/ according to the computation of the
Church of England. Imprimis, all my estate in that land was formerly
Cooles, in the parish of Little Somerford, which my son, Lucian Browne,
now dwelleth in after the term granted to him by Sir Stephen Fox, I
give to my grandson, John Browne, and heirs male, or in default to
grandson Thomas Browne and heirs male.
" To grandson Thomas Browne and heirs male, all my estate in that
land which was formerly Hibbert"s, in Little Somerford, now in posses-
sion of said son, Lucian Browne,'- for term granted by Sir Stephen Fox,
or to grandson John Browne and heirs male, or for want of such issue
all same lands to grandson Lucian Browne'' and heirs male, or to grand-
son Robert Browne, &c. And for want of such issue all aforesaid lands
to right heirs of my son Lucian Browne for ever. And if it please God
to continue heirs male to descend to the tenth generation, and not to be
sold, alienated, mortgaged, or in any way to be made away with, but if
heirs male should fail then it shall descend to next female of kin.
"To my great grandson, Lucian Browne, 'son of my grandson, Lucian
Browne, all that my leasehold wiiich I have in Cloathyard in the parish
of Hankerton by lease from Sir Edmund Warneford, from the time that
he shall accomplish theage of2i years during all therest of hisnatural life.
"To my daughter, AnneThorner, _;^5 in 12 months after my decease.
"To grandson, Anthony Thorner, 20s.
" To granddaughter, Margaret Thorner, 20.y., when she shall accom-
plish 21 years.
"To grandson, Lucian Browne, the house, garden, orchard, and pad-
dock which I bought of Mr. Francis Savage during term of lease. To
great granddaughter, Mary Browne, ;^20 at age of 21 years.
"To granddaugiiter, Ann Browne, all rest and residue of beds and
bedding, brass, and pewter, and all linen and woollen (except my two
best beds and furniture to them and my biggest brass kettle, brass pot
and furnace, and 4 of my biggest pewter dishes). To granddaughter,
Ann Thorner, i.y.
"All the rest of my estate, real and personal, goods, chattels, cattle,
bonds, credits, mortgages, and money to my son, Lucian Browne, whom
1 appoint my whole and sole executor. Lucian Browne.
"In presence of Thomas Buck, Susanna Lacey, mark of Philip and
Elizabeth Norton." ,, /-. t
Mary C. Light.
[To be continued.^
Lucian Browne, senior, buried 7th Oct. 1695." [Marriage licence, 1676.
Lucian Browne, widower, about 50, and Anne Selfe, spinster, about 42.] I
am not aware that there is any evidence of a connexion between this family
and Aubrey's " Parson Browne." The Lucian Brownes seem to have been a
Little Somerford farail}.
' Proved in Feb. 1703. (P.C.C, 31 Ash.)
* Married Anne Mayo, who died in 1671.
^ Married Mary, dau<,diter of Robert Blick. She died 2nd Jan. 1721
(stone in Little Soraerfonl Churchj.
* Married Rebecca Smith, of Great Somerford.
Records of IViltshire Parishes. 553
RECORDS OF WILTSHIRE PARISHES.
BRATTON.
(Coiiti)iiicd from p. 50S.)
Inquisition Post Mortem. [15 Edivard III (2nd Nos.) No. 3. J
Inquisition ad Quod Daninnni.
A.D. 1341. — Inquisition taken at Westbury, 20th April, 15
Edward III. The jury say that it is not to the king's pre-
judice, or to that of any one else, if the king grant Hcence to
WilHam de Grynstede^ of Westbury, to assign a messuage, 40
acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, 3 acres of pasture, and 13s. 4d.
rent, with the appurtenances in Westbury, Brattone, Lye, and
Heilwode, to a certain chaplain to celebrate the divine offices
daily, in the parish church of Westbury at the altar of the B.V.
Mary for the healthful state of William himself and of Alice,
his wife, and of John de Pavely, knight, while they live, and of
their souls after they have migrated from this light, and for the
soul of Elizabeth, former!}' wife of John aforesaid, and of the
souls of their ancestors and heirs, and of all the faithful dead ;
to have and hold to the chaplain and his successors for ever.
And to the said William, to grant for the same purpose, pro-
perty in Westbury, in reversion, after the death of himself and
his wife Alice. And they say that the messuage aforesaid is
held of Walter de Sherreveton for id. yearly rent at Michael-
mas, and it is worth, according to the true value, 25. yearly ;
and the land, meadow, pasture, and rent, aforesaid, is held of
Reginald de Pavely, knight, by the service of one rose returned
thence yearly at the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Bap-
tist, and the true yearly value thereof is 325. The said Wil-
liam, after this donation, will have remaining to him property
• He paid G marks for the licence recorded on the following May -Ith
{vUle Original Roll, 15 Edward III, 2,114 among the (rrossi Fines).
554 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
in Westbury, held of Reginald de Pavely, for 20s. rent yearly,
and for suit of court to Reginald at Westbur3\ In witness
whereof the jury seal. Dated in the year and place abovesaid.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [1^-20 Edivard III. ^
A.D. 1341. — At Westminster, in the octaves of St. John
the Baptist (15 Edward 111). Between Walter Sewale and
Emma, his wife, plaintiffs, by Walter in the place of Emma,
and Richard Wyly, deforciant, of messuage, i carucate, 2 vir-
gates of land, 12 acres of meadow, 10 acres of wood, and 105.
rent, with the appurtenances in Westbury, Heywode, Bratton,
and Lye. Plea of covenant was summoned. Walter acknow-
ledged the right of Richard as of his gift. For this Richard
granted to Walter and Emma the said tenements, with their
appurtenances, to hold to them of the chief lords of that fee by
the service belonging thereto for life, with remainder to Wal-
ter, son of the foresaid Walter, and to the heirs of his body, or
if he die without an heir of his body on his decease to Hugh le
FitzWarin and Joan, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, or,
on the decease of Hugh and Joan without an heir of their
body, to the right heirs of Walter Sewale, to hold, as afore-
said, forever.
Edingdon Chartularv. [Lansdowne MS. 442,/. 99.]
Charier of Margery, widow of Peter Escudemor, to IVilliani
FitzlVaryn.
A.D. 1342. — 1, Margery, who was the wife of Peter Escude-
nior, knight, have granted to William, son of Nicholas Fitz-
Waryn, of Littelstoke, and Matilda, his wife, all lands,
tenements, meadows, pastures, rents, and services, as well (jf
freemen, as of villains, with the reversion of all lands and tene-
ments, which Matilda, who was wife of Thomas North, holds
of me, in dower, with all other reversions whatsoever, with the
appurtenances which I have at the date of the presents in
Bratton and Mulbournc, or elsewhere in the Hundred of West-
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. 555
bury. To hold to them their heirs and assigns for my Hfe for
the yearly rent of 405., viz. 205. at Easter and 20s. at Michael-
mas, for all secular demands and to do for me the due and ac-
customed service to the chief lords of that fee. And I will
warrant, &c., for my life against all mortals. In testimony
whereof we have both set our seals to this indenture. Wit-
nesses : Bratton, Thursday next after the Feast of St.
Dunstan, 16 Edward III.
Ibid.
Release and quitclaim forever for herself and her heirs of
the abovesaid Margery to William, son of Nicholas FitzWaryn,
of all the forementioned property, granted for her life to him
and his wife, as well as of all other property acquired by
Peter, her husband, and herself, from Thomas North, in Brat-
ton, Mulbourne, and Stoke. Dated at Bratton, Friday, the
Feast of St. Petronilla the Virgin, 16 Edward III.
Ibid.
Release and quitclaim forever for himself and his heirs of
Walter Escudemor, knight, to William FitzWaryn and Matilda
his wife and the heirs or assigns of William, of all property in
Bratton, Mulbourne, Stoke, and Westbury, granted by his
mother Margery, and afterwards confirmed by his (Walter's)
consent ; likewise of all lands and tenements which Peter Es-
cudemor, his father, had acquired to himself and his heirs in
the abovesaid villages forever. For which release William
FitzWarjm paid Walter Escudemor ^50 7s. silver. Dated at
Upton, Monday in the Feast of the Conception of the B.V.
Mary. 17 Edward III.
Feet of Fines. Wilts. [14-20 Edward IIII\
A.D. 1343. — At Westminster, in the octaves of St. Michael,
17 Edward III. Between Nicholas Chamberleyn, plaintiff,
and Ralph le Lange, of Coveleston, and Alianor, his wife, de-
forciants, of S messuages, 2 carucates and 3 virgates of land,
556 Wiltshirr Notes and Queries.
30 acres of meadow, 140 acres of pasture, 8 acres of wood, and
205. rent, with tlie appurtenances in Coveleston, Littlestoke,
Bratton, Mullebourne, and Edyndon. Plea of covenant was
summoned. Ralpli recognised the right of Nicholas as of his
gift. For this Nicholas granted to Ralph and Alianor the said
tenements with their appurtenances to have and hold to them
of Nicholas and his heirs for their lives ; Returning therefore
yearly a rose at the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Bap-
tist for all service belonging to Nicholas and his heirs, and per-
forming to the chief lords of that fee all other service belonging
thereto for Nicholas and his heirs; the reversion of the said
tenements on the death of Ralph and Alianor being to the said
Nicholas and his heirs quit of the heirs of Ralph and Alianor
to hold of the chief lords of that fee by the service thereto be-
longing forever.
Coroners' Roll. No. 194.
A.D 1344. — IVherewelP . Inquest at Palmereshamme on the
death of an unbaptized child before William de Whyteclyve,
coroner, on the Tuesday next after Feast of St. Julian, 18
Edward III ; and the four neighbouring townships, Edyndon,
Tynhyde, Coveleston, and Bratton, say that on Thursday night
next after the Feast of St. Scholastica, at Bratton. Edith,
daughter of Agnes le White, of Bratton, begat a girl-child, and
carried her to the water at Wodebridge, in the tithing of Eding-
don, and killed her with a knife, and threw her into the water,
and fled, but whither they knew not. Edith has no chattels.
William Herebard, the first finder, raised the Ime and cry, and
found pledges, John Sweyn and Robert Harald, to come, &c.
Feet OF Fines. [IVilts. 14-20 Edivard III.]
A.D. 1344. — At Westminster, three weeks after Easter, 18
Edward III, and afterwards in the quindene of the Holy
Trinity in the same year. Between John de Edyndon, plain-
tiff", and Nicholas Chamberleyn, deforciant, of 5 messuages, 2^
virgates of land, and 6 acres of meadow, with the appurten-
ances in Bratton, Littlestoke, and Mulcbourne, which Ralph
Records of Wiltshire Parishes. 557
le Lang, of Covelcston and Alianor, his wife, held for life.
Plea of covenant was summoned. Nicholas acknowledged the
right of John, and granted for himself and his heirs that tlie
said tenements with the appurtenances which Ralph and
Alianor held for life of the inheritance of the said Nicholas in
the said townships, at the date of this concord, and which,
after their death, ought to revert to Nicholas and his heirs,
should, after the death of Ralph and Alianor, wholly remain to
Jolm and his heirs, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by the
service thereto belonging forever. And Nicholas and his heirs
warranted to John and his heirs against all men forever. For
this John gave Nicholas ;^2o sterling.
Edingdo.n Chartularv. [/. 100.]
Charter of Robert de Pavely to William FitzWaryn and his Wife.
A.D. 1347. — I, Robert de Pavely, of Bratton, have granted
to the lord William FitzWaryn, knight, Matilda, his wife, and
their heirs or assigns forever, a messuage and a curtilage, with
a croft adjoining, which tenement is situated in Bratton, be-
tween a tenement of the foresaid William on the south, and a
tenement of John Heryng on the north ; also 2 acres of arable
land in the western field of Bratton l^-ing in " la Estpyllonde,"
between land of the same William on the east and land of Rob-
ert le Chamburlayn on the west, with a certain ditch of the
foresaid land adjoining on the west. To Hold to him, his wife,
and heirs or assigns of the chief lords of that fee, by the ser-
vice thereto belonging and by right accustomed, by hereditary
right forever. And I, &c., will warrant, &c., against all people
forever. In testimony whereof I have set my seal. Witnesses
. . . Bratton, Monday next before the feast of St. Elfege
Bishop, 21 Edward III.
Ibid. [/. 142.]
Release of William Marniioii to IVilliatn FitzWaryn.
I, William Marmion, son and heir of John Marmion, have
released and for myself and heirs quitclaimed to the lord Wil-
558 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Ham FitzWaryn and Matilda his wife, his heirs, and assigns
forever all my right and claim in all lands, tenements, meadows,
woods, rents, and services as well of freemen as of native vil-
lains with their followings and suits and all other appurten-
ances with whatsoever reversions, which the same Matilda
formerly had of the gift of the lord William de Fulbourne,
vicar of the church of Upton Skydemor in Bremelrigge, Lye,
Dulton, Westbury, and Bratton ; and in all lands, tenements,
meadows, pastures, woods, rents, services, neifs, reversions,
with all their appurtenances, which could fall to me by heredi-
tary descent by the death of Roger Marmion and of John
Marmion, his son, my father, or of either of them in the Hun-
dred of Westbury. And I, &c., will warrant, &c., against all
mortal men forever. In testimony whereof I have set my seal,
&c. Witnesses . . . Bremelrigge, the Sabbath next after
the Feast of All Saints. 21 Edward III.
Inquisition Post Mortem. [21 Edward III (ist Nos.) No. 26]
P. M. Richard Danseyc.
Inquisition taken at Westminster, 14 January, 21 Edward
III. The Jury say that Richard Danseye, deceased, held in
Wilts the day of his death, of the king in chief, in his domain
as of fee, the manors of Bratton and Dultone, with the appur-
tenances, by serjeantry, of 10 marks, and aid or payment of
4s. \o^d. for half a knight's fee, to the Sheriff at the Castle of
Sarum, to the use of the lord king at the Feast of the Annun-
ciation of the B. Mary. In which manors there arc 2 mes-
suages, worth nothing beyond deductions for repairs yearly,
and a dovecote worth 2s. yearly ; 2 water mills worth 265. 8^.
yearly ; a fulling-mill worth 6s. 8d. yearly And there are in the
said manors 3 carucates of land containing 300 acres of land. Of
which can be sown yearly 150 acres, and thus sown are worth
37s. 6d. at 3d. the acre, and 150 acres lie fallow, the pasture of
which is worth nothing, and they lie in common ; and 17 acres
of meadow worth yearly 25s. 6d. at i8d. the acre. And there
is there a certain several pasture containing 3 acres, worth
r
Records of IViltshirf Parishes. 55 y
yearly 35. ; and 12 acres of several wood in whioli there is no
underwood at present, and in which the pasturage is worth 8s.
5^earl3^ Also several pasture for 300 sheep, worth yearly 25s.
at id. a head. And there are in the said manors assized rents,
60s. yearly to be paid at the Feast of the Annunciation of B.
Mary. And the suits and perquisites of the courts in the said
manors are worth yearly 20s. And they say that Richard
Danseye died the Thursday next before the Feast of the Epiph-
any in the year abovesaid. And John Dansey, son of Richard
Danesey, junior, lately dead, cousin of the foresaid Richard
Danseye, now dead, is his nearest heir, and he is 22 years old
and more. In witness whereof they have set their seal. Given
in the place and year above said.
Edi.ngdon Chartularv. [/96.J
Charter of John dc Mo.xhaiii to Thomas, his son.
A.D. 1348. — I, John de Moxham, have given to Thomas,
my son, all my lands and tenements in Mulebourne and Brat-
ton, as in houses, curtilages, gardens, and mills, waters, ponds,
enclosures, meadows, pastures, pasturage.s, ways, paths, rents,
services and with all other their appurtenances in the Hun-
dred of Westbury. To hold to him, his heirs, and assigns, by
hereditary right torever, of the chief lords of that fee by the
service thereto belonging, and customary. And I, &c., will
warrant, &c., against all mortal men. In testimony whereof, I
have set my seal, &c. Witnesses . . . Moxham, the
Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, 22 Edward III.
1 13 ID.
Charter of Thomas Moxham to William FitzlVaryn.
A.D. 1349. — I, Thomas, son of John de Moxham, have
granted to the lord William FitzWaryn, knight, lord of Bremel-
rigge, all my lands and tenements in Mulebourne, Bratton,
and Westbury, as in houses, curtilages, gardens, arable land.s,
meadow, pastures, and pasturages, a mill, waters, ponds, and
p p
560 ll'illsliirc Notes and Queries.
all other appurtenances of the said mill, rents and services, to-
gether with iSs., issuing from the lands and meadow which
John Swetappel holds for his life, together with the reversion
of the same when it happens. To hold to him and his heirs
or assigns, of the chief lords of that fee by the ser\Mce therefore
due and accustomed. And nevertheless Returning to me and
my assigns, a silver mark 3'early for the term of my life at the
two yearly terms, viz., \ mark at Michaelmas and h mark at
Easter, for all other services and secular demands. And I,
&c. , will warrant, &c., against all mortals forever. In testi-
mony whereof we have both set our seals to this indenture.
Witnesses . . . Mulebourne, Thursday next after the
Feast of SS. Peter and Paul. 23 Edward III.
Ibid. [/. 107.]
Release of Christina Manger to Master Peter FitslVaryn.
I, Christina, daughter of William Mauger, of Lewerton,
have released, and for myself and my heirs quitclaimed forever
to all, my right in a tenement, garden, curtilage, and croft, in
Bratton, which the said Master Peter FitzWaryn and I had by
the demise of Margery de Canterton. In testimony whereof
I have set my seal. Witnesses . . . Bratton, the Sabbath
next before the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul. 23 Edward III.
Ibid.
Charter of Peter FitzWaryn to his brother William.
I, Peter FitzWaryn, Rector of the Church of Litchet Mau-
travers, have granted to the lord William FitzWaryn,
knight, my brother, a tenement, curtilage, garden, and croft
adjoining, which Margery de Canterton latel}' held. To hold
to him, his heirs, and assigns, of the chief lords of that fee by
the service therefore due, and accustomed, by hereditar}'
right, forever. And I, &c., will warrant, &c., against all mortal
men forever. In testimony whereof to this present charter I
have set my seal. Witnesses . . . Bratton, Monday the
Feast of SS. Peter and Paul. 23 Edward III.
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for IVillsliire. 561
Ibid.
C liar tir of Margery, widow of Reginald FitzlVaryii, loiter
Freemen, &c.
1, Margery, late wife of Reginald FitzWaryn, in my pure
widowhood, have granted to Robert, my son, and the heirs of
his body lawfully begotten, all lands, tenements, meadows,
pastures, pasturages, rents, and services, with all their appur-
tenances, which I have, or could have, in any way, in the
Hundred of VVestbury ; to hold of the chief lords of that fee
b}' the service therefore accustomed and due ; with remainder,
on his death without lawful issue, to my freemen, John,
Thomas, Walter, and Agnes, and the heirs of their bodies law-
fully begotten ; and upon their deaths, without heirs lawfully
begotten, to Peter FitzWaryn, the son of Nicholas FitzWaryn
and Christina, the daughter of William Mauger, of Lewerton,
near Hongerford, to hold of the chief lords of that fee as
aforesaid; And paying also yearly to the chaplain of Litelstoke
for the time being 55. sterling for the celebration 3'early of two
trentals in the chapel of Litelstoke, for my soul and the souls
of Reginald, late my husband, of John de Canterton, my father,
and of all ni}- freemen. And I, &c., will warrant, &c., against
all men forever. In testimony whereof I have set my seal, &c.
Witnesses . . . Bratton, Wednesday, the Feast of the
Annunciation of the B.V. Mary. 23 Edward III.
(To be continued.)
A CALENDAR OF FEET OF FINES FOR WILTSHIRE.
{Continued from p. 426.)
Henry VIII.
83. Anno 20.— Alexander Moggeridge and Thomas Rigge
and John Moggeridge and Katherine his wife, one of the daugh-
p p 2
562 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
ters and heirs of Hcnr}- Collett ; messuages and lands in New
Saruni.
84. Anno 20. — Robert P'yre and William Gerard and
Mary his wife; messuages and lands in Stokton. 200 marks.
85. Anno 20. — John Gyrdcler, bruer, and John Gyrdeler,
his son, and William Bedwell, of New Sarum, tanner, and
Elizabeth his wife; two messuages in New Sarum. ^40
sterling.
86. Anno 20. — Bartholomew Husey and Christopher
Codrynton and Edward Codrynton and Elizabeth his wife,
and William South ; manor of Swaloclyff, messuages and
lands, meadows in Swaloclyfife, Toderhull and Tissebury.
87. Anno 20. — Henry Acton, of New Sarum, and Roger
Bartilmewe, son of Richard Bartilmewe, and Eleanor his wife ;
messuage in New Sarum in Castell Street. ^80 sterling.
88. Anno 20. — William Busshe, Thomas Goddard, John
Bonham, Thomas Wayneman, junior, and John Grey, son and
heir of Thomas Grey, of Rammesbury ; messuages and lands
and pasture for 300 sheep in East Bedwyn and West Bedwyn.
jC^o sterling.
89. Anno 21.— Thomas Chafyne, of the City of New
Sarum, mercer, John Stone, mercer, and Henry Acton, mercer,
rtwr/ Thomas Elyot, Arm., and Margaret his wife; messuages,
etc., in New Sarum (New Street). 200 marks.
90. Anno 21. — Oliver Leder and Conrad Strangwayes,
Arm., and Anna his wife; messuages and lands in Milton
Havering in the parish of Milton Lilbone. ;!^ioo sterling.
91. Anno 21. — Stephen Cockis a;/f/ John Westwoode and
Agnes his wife ; i messuage, cottage, and garden, in the town
of Devizes (de Vises), ^^o sterling.
92. Anno 21. — Simon Harecourte, knight, William Essex,
knight, John Cheyney, John Tatton, Arm., and John Yate,
and Richard Clarke, and Alice his wife; messuage and lands
in Wanbrugh. ^100 sterling.
93. Anno 21. -Thomas Wriothcslcy, knight of the Garter,
William Thomas, Thomas Cobbe, chaplain, and ]o\\n Fryday ;
A Calendar of Feet of Fines for VVillshire. 563
messuage and lands and 2 water mills, in Great Chclworth.
100 marks.
94. Anno 21. — Robert Nicholas, Thomas \'yncr, and
Edward Burley, and John Browne & Agnes his wife ; mes-
suage and lands in Cotys in the parish of Bishop Cannynges.
^40 sterling.
95. Anno 21. — Robert Brunkcr, John Lucas, Robert
Berkysdale, William Steph3'ns, John Jones, Alexander Long-
ford, Thomas Long, James Bache, and William Bayly ; mes-
suages and lands in Kevyll, Sende, Lytleton Brew (? Drew),
and Devyses. 200 marks.
96. Anno 21.- — Hugh Acton, Edmund Kempe, William
Lamberd, and Jeremiah Ilunsdon, and John Mcrvyn, Ann. ;
messuage, and lands in Lavington Episcopi, East Lavington,
Gore, and Fydington. ^160 sterling.
97. Anno 21. — Michael Dormer, William Wydyngton,
Edward Kempe, and William Lambert, and Thomas Mompes-
son ; messuage and lands, in Over Segrey. ^80 sterling.
98. Anno 21. John Samborne and Dorothy his wKeand
William Wyndesore, Arm., and Margaret his wife; f^8 per
annum from the Manor of Chippenham, with messuages and
lands and 40 shillings rent in Chippenham, and in hundred of
Chippenham, Langley Burell, South Langley, Byston, Herne-
shewells, Church Yatton, and West Yatton. ^160 sterling.
99. Anno 21. — Thomas Mompesson, gen., and Edward
Gardener ; messuages and lands, 6 shillings rent in Chckes-
grane, Sherynton, Assherton, Stoughton Upton, and Hangyng
Langford. ^140 sterling.
100. Anno 21. — John Forster, clericus, John Hynton,
and John Wylde, and Cowdrey Strangweys and Anna his
wife; manor of Mylton Lylbon and Milton Haverings, mes-
suages and lands, 30 shillings rent in Milton and F3'ffehed.
^440 sterling.
lor. Anno 21. — John Br3'dgis, knight, Henry Long.knight,
Henry Brydgis, Arm., Richard Brydgis, Arm., and George
Baynard, Arm., and Richard Steyj'ne and Agnes his wife ;
564 IViltsliire Notes and Queries.
messuage and lands in Blonsdon Gay and Westwydhyll. 20
marks.
102. Anno 21. — Thomas Chatyn, mercer, John Acton,
and John Browman, and ]o\\\-\ Bartylmew, junior, son and heir
of Richard Bartylmew, and Elizabeth his wife; messuages and
lands in Wynterslowe, Idmyston, and in Gudelstreet, New
Sarum. 100 marks.
103. Anno 22. Thomas Bayly and John Danncy, of
Trowbridge, Arm. ; messuages and lands in Woreweldown,
Studley, and Trobrigge. 100 marks.
104. Anno 22. — John Bruges, knight, Henry Long, knight,
John Grueley, Arm., Leonard Pole, Arm., Henry Bruges, Arm.,
Thomas Bruges, Arm., and John Brotkne, gen., and Agnes his
wife; messuage and lands in Lydyardtreygose. ^100 sterling.
105. Anno 22.— Christiania Yerbery, widow, Thomas
Yerbery, John Millward, Thomas Slagg, and George George,
and William Lobell and Margaret his wife ; messuages and
lands at Trowbridge. 160 marks.
106. Anno 22. — Ambrose Dantesey, Michael Dormer,
Robert Smyth, Anthony Styleman, ««<-/ Henry Longe, knight;
messuages and lands in Scmyngton, Staple Ashton, alias
Stepnlaston, and Milkesham. 400 marks.
107. Anno 22. — Ambrose Dawntesey, William Wyllyng-
ton, Richard Benett, William Bower r7«c/ Constant! nc DarrcU,
Arm. ; messuages and lands in Colyngbourne. ^120 sterling.
108. Anno 22. — Humfrey Pakyngton, William Broket,
Ambrose Dauntese}', William Wedyngton, and Constantine
Darell ; of Manor of Colyngborn Vallannce, messuages and
lands, 10 shillings rent, in Colynborne Vallence, Colynborne
Kyngcston, Boramton, and Aston. ^160 sterling.
109. Anno 22. — Christopher Bursher, Richard Williams,
and Robert Dukett and Elizabeth his wife, and Richard Som-
ner ; one-third of the manor of Bubbeton and Barnardys,
messuages and lands and 20 shillings rent in Bubbeton, Cleve-
pipers, Thornhill, Cotmersh, Brodtown, Brodhenton, Yates-
bury. High Swyndon, Eucn Swindon, and Rowborn, as well as
A Cali'iidar of Feet of Fines for ll'illsliin'. 565
a third part of the pasturage for 76 cows, 346 sheep, in the
marshes of Thornhill, Cotniersh, Cleveswode, Whetehill, Even
Swyndoii, West Lese, and North Lese.
110. Anno 22. — Thomas Gawyn, Arm., and Walter
Jonyns and Margaret his wife; messuages and lands in Bar-
ford. ^So.
111. Anno 22. — Robert Temys, gen., and Robert Bathe,
alias Wheteacre ; messuages and lands in Hylporton and
Weste Aysheton.
112. Anno 22. — John Baldwyn, John Goodwyn, John
Bosse, Richard Colyngborne, John Elings, Richard Ballerd,
awrt' Thomas, Marquess of Dorsett; of the Manor of Westking-
ton, messuages and lands, 100 shillings rent, in Weskington
and Merdythe. ;:^5oo sterling.
113. Anno 22. — Richard Dudley, clericus, Michael Lister,
Arm., Frances Bawtrey, Arm., William Thorpe, Arm., William
Grene, gentylman, Anthony Poney, gent, Alexander Thistil-
thwayte, and Henry Dawbeney of Dawbeney, knight ; Manor
of W3'nterslow, and advowson of Church of Winterslowe ;
messuages and lands, and loos. rent in Wynterslow, Alders-
burj'.
(Here commences another Bundle.)
114. Anno 23. — John Briggys, knight, and William
Wrighter, gen., and Thomas Manby ; messuages and lands, as
well as common pasture for four cows, one horse, and forty
sheep, in Blonsdon Andrew, Blonsdon Gaye, Blonsdon Aylmer,
West Woodhyll, North Woodhyll, and Groundewell. ^40
sterling.
115. Anno 23. — John Rogers, knight, Humfrey Bolland,
gen., David Brokway, gen., Thomas Dacombe, gen., John Da-
combe, gen., Walter Gill, John Mathew, and Thomas West,
knight. Lord Laware (Delaware), and lady Elizabeth his wife ;
messuages and lands, 2 gardens, called Bredners, 6 shillings
rent, and pasturage for 2,000 cattle in Berwyke Seynt John.
;^i2o sterling.
0
66 IViltslii're Notes and Queries.
ii6. Anno 23. — John Okedene and John Lewston and
Philhp Baskerfekl, gen., and Agnes his wife; messuages and
lands and pasturage for 500 sheep in East Verley, Weste Ver-
le}-, and Middle verley. ^,{^100 sterling.
117. Anno 23. — William Blake a)id John Benet ; lands in
Norton Bavent. 40 marks.
iiS. Anno 23. — Thomas Frythe, Thomas Sanger, Walter
Cooke, Thomas Benett, and Edmund Grey, and Walter Syfre-
wastc, and Cecilia his wife ; messuage and lands in Whete-
huls Place and Semeley. ^40 sterling.
A. E. Fry.
(To be continued.)
QUAKERISM IN WILTSHIRE.
MARRIAGE RECORDS.
{Continued from p. 524.J
H (continued.)
1759-S-19. — Mary Hunt, spinster, dau. of Thomas Hunt, of
Hawk Street, Broomham ph., to William
SMrni, at Broomham.
1763-13-30. — Elizabeth Hunt, dau. of Tliomas Hunt, of Road,
to Joseph FuRNELL, at Broomham.
1 7 74-6- 1 4. William Harrison,^ of Marnhull, co. of Dorset,
shopkeeper, son of William and Elizabeth
Harrison, of Poole, co. of Dorset, to Elizabeth
Tyler, of Lavington, at Lavington.
' To shew tlu; care taken in tlie matter of marriages the following,
copied from tlie ori^^inal document, will be of interest: —
"From our Montlily Meeting held at Slierborne the lOtli 1 Mo. 1771
—To Friends of Lavington Monlidy Meeting. D""- Friends. Whereas
William Harrison, Junr., a Member of this Meeting, has now lai<i before
us his Intentions of Marriage with Elizabeth Tyler, a Member of your
Meeting, and pr:)dno'd proper C'ertilicate.s of the Ap])robation of :U1
Parties concerned, This may certify you tliat we have taken the Aliuir
Ouakcnsin in Ulltsliin'. 567
1781-11-13. — John Hl'MPiirkys, of city of New Sarum, shop-
keeper, son of John and Elizabeth Humphreys,
of Stockton, to EHzabeth Miller, of New
Saruni, at Melksham.
1782-12-11. — Sarah Humphreys, of Corsham, shopkeeper, dau.
of Samuel and Hannah Humphreys, to William
Atwood, of Broomham, at Pickwick.
1789-12-22. -Maiy HiGMA.x, of Melksham, dau. of John and
Joan Higman, late of Austle, co. of Cornwall,
to Nicholas Naftel, of Guernsey, at Melksham.
1 79 1-6- 14. — Josiah Hannam, of Gillingham, co. of Dorset,
silkthrowster, .son of Stephen and Catharine
Hannam, of Gillingham, to Mary Rutty, at
Melksham.
1794-2-11. — Samuel Hull, of Uxbridge, co. of Middlx., meal-
man, son of Thomas and Mary Hull, of Ux-
bridge, CO. of Middx., to Ann Fowler, of Melk-
sham, at Melksham.
1800-6-11. — Griffith Hughes, of Upton-on-Severn, co. of Wor-
cester, currier, son of Owen and Catherine
Hughes, late of Llanlorney, Carnarvonshire,
North Wales, to Allice Raggatt, at Broomham.
1804-11-14. — Richard Philpott Hyatt, of Chippenham, clothier,
son of Richard and Ann Hyatt, of Chippen-
ham, to Ruth Gale, at Melksham.
170S-4-8. — Edward Jones, son of Stephen Jones, of South-
wick, North Bradly ph., to Ann Clarke, Jr., at
Cummerwell.
i7i2-2-i5.^Margret Jefferees, of Burnhill [?] ph., co. of
Gloucester, spinster, to Zephaniah Fry, of Sut-
ton Benger, at Charlcutt.
1716-1-27. — Thomas Jeffrees, of Godsill, sargmaker, son of
David Jeffrees, of Godsill, to Lydia Rilee, at
Chaiicott.
into our Consideration, and hope at our next Meeting we shall be able to
give bim our further Certificate in order for the accomplishment of the
said Marriage— and remain your P^r^^- and Bretlircn. Jonah Thompson,
Josiah Sevmer, William Kawes, Sonr., John King, WiUiu. Master, Tlios.
Bracher, VVm. l^wes, Junr., Thus. Thompson."
568 JViltsliiir Notes and Queries.
1724-1 i-i 2. — Mary Jones, of Melkshain, widow of Walter, to
John Tucker, of Melksham.
1727-2-9. — David Jaffree, of Stockham Marsh, Brimhill ph.,
3^coman, son of David Jaffrce, of Stocham
March, to Jane Baskerville, of Cahie, at
Cahie.
1735-2-16. — EHzabeth James, of Stockly, Cahie ph., toWilh'ani
Stovey, of Hilperton, at Calne.
1742-3-25. — Thomas Jefferys, Jr., of Avon, Christian Malford
ph., maltster, to Elizth. Burgess, of Whitley,
at Corsham.
1 754-3-21. —Thomas Jefferys, of Whitley, maltster, son of
Thomas Jefferys, of Christian Malford, to
Rebecca Baily, at Corsham.
1754-3-31. — Richard James, of Devizes, son of John and
Martha James, late of Devizes, to Sarah
Barrett, at Devizes.
1763-11-17. — Thomas Jefferys, of Whitley, Melksham ph.,
baker, to Hannah Bond, of Charlcott, at
Charlcott.
1772-5-5. — Richard James, of Devizes, tallow chandler, son of
John and Martha James, of Devizes, to Hester
FURNELL.
1779-11-9. — John JoNKs, of Newton Tiacey ph., co. of Devon,
son of John and Grace Jones, of Ley, Bishops
Tawton ph., co. of Devon, to Sarah Powell,
at Devizes.
1 7 87-4- 13.^ Rebecca Jefferys, dau. of Robert and Mary
Jefferys, of Melksham, to William Paull, of
Poole, at Melksham.
1789-5-13. — Lucretia Jefferys, dau. of Robert and Mary
Jefferys, of Melksham, to Thos. Brown, of
Cirencester, at Melksham.
18 19-8-18.— Mary Jefferys, dau. of Robt. and Mary Jefferys,
of Melksham, to Wm. Powell, of Nurstcd, at
Melksham.
K.
I 71 1-6-5. — Nicolas Klng, of Broomham ph., son of Geoarg
King, to Christian Gerisii, at Bromham.
1737-7-1 1.— Mar}' King, spinster, dau. of Nicholas King, of
Bromham, to Thomas Hunt, at Bromham.
Quaker istn in IViltshirc. 569
1742-5-4. — Josiah Knight, of London, merchant, to Mary
Beaven, at Broniham.
L.
1702-5-14. — Harry Lydyard, son of John Lydyard, late of
Cainsham, co. of Somerset, to Jane Webb, at
Comervvell.
1 7 10-3-1 7. — Sarah Little, of Corsham, to John Flower, of
Corsham, at Slaughterford.
1 7 1 3-7-7. — Anthony Laurence, of Charleton ph., druggetmaker,
to Ann Baylev, of Charlcott ph., at Brink-
worth.
1720-8-20. — Edward Lockey, of Letchlad, co. of Gloucester,
shopkeeper, son of Edward Lockey, of Far-
rington, co. of Berks, to Elizabeth Zealey, at
Hullavington.
1721-8-25. — Anthon}- Lawrence, of Malmsbury Charlton, serg-
maker, son of Anthony Lawrence, of Malms-
bury jCharlton, to Margaret Fry, at Hullav-
ington.
1 722-2-1 8. — Richard Little, son of Willm. Little, of Corsham,
to Betty Smith, at Chippenham.
172*-*-*. — Phillip Lawrance, of Melksham, son of Abraham
Lawrence, to Mary Hunt.
1731-1-18. — Hannah Lea, of Christian Malford, dau. of Robt.
Lea, of Cain, to Thomas Bath, of Christian
Malford, at Charlcott.
1752-9-24. — Richard Lyne, of city and co. of Bristol, son of
Willm. Lyne, of Bristol, to Mary Rutty, at
Melksham.
M.
1 709-4- 1 4. — William Messenger, of Stoake, Pirton ph., felt-
maker, son of Richard Messenger, of Chel-
worth, Cricklad ph., to Ann Mors, spinster,
dau. of Richard Morse, of Upton Stoak, at
Painswick.
1712-4-30.— William May, of (St.) John's ph., Devizes, baker,
son of William May, of West Lavington ph.,
to Elizabeth Hawkins, of Market Lavington
ph., at Devizes.
570 tViltshirc Notes and Queries.
1716-9-20. — William Miell, of Lavington, basket-maker, son
of John Miell, of Lavington, to Jane Mkrritt,
of Warminster, dau. of William Merritt, of
Marden, at Warminster.
1721-6-13. — Thomas Martin, of Fordingbridge, co. of South-
ton, mercer, to Eliz. Day, of Fovent, at
Salisbury.
1733-8-14- — James Moore, of Melksham, clothier, son of John
Moore, of city of New Sarum, to Rachel
Beaven, of Melksham, at Bromham.
1746-3-15. — Elizabeth Marchant, dau. of Richard Marchant,
of city of Bath, co. of Somerset, to Vickris
Dickinson, of Pickwick, at Comberwell.
1747-3-13 [?].— John Maddock,^ son of Edmond Maddock, late
of Eulbrook, co. of Oxon, to Sarah Waine, at
Purton Stoak.
1753-5-29-— John Moxham, of Lymington, co. of Southton,
merchant, to Betty Bayly, of Corsham, at
Slaughterford.
1754-7-3-— Daniel Merrell [? Cotterrell], of Painswick, co.
of Gloucester, baker, to Martha Bullock, at
Sutton Benger.
1779-6-2. — Joseph Metp'Ord, of city of Bristol, surgeon, son of
Joseph and Hannah Metford, of Taunton, co. of
Somerset, to Hester Matravers, of Westbury,
dau. of William and Elizabeth Matravers, of
Westbury, at Melksham.
^ The original certificate of tliis marriage is among the archives of the
Society of Friends at Molkshaiii, and reads as follows : —
" John Maddock, the Son of Edmund Maddock, late of Fulbrook in the
County of Oxon, and Sarah Waine, Daughter of Edmund Waine, of the
parish of Purton, in the County of Wilts, Having Publickly declared their
Intention of taking each other in Marriage before several i\Ieetings of the
People of God, called Quakers, in the said Counties, according to the Good
Order used among them, whose Proceedings tlierein. after a deliberate Con-
sideration thereof (with Regard unto the Righteous Law of God, and Ex-
ample of liis People Recorded in tiie .Scriptures of Truth in tliat Case) were
approved by the said Meetings, they appearing clear of all others, and hav-
ing also Consent of Parents and Parties concerned.
" ^ofa) these arc to certifie all whom it may concern, That for the ac-
complishing of their said Intentions, this Thirtieth Day of the Third Month
called May in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred and Forty Seven,
They, the said John Maddock and Sarah Waine, appeared in a Publick As-
The Stoks of Seen' Churchc. 571
1779-11-24. — Joliii Matravkrs, of Westbury, grocer, son of
William and Elizabeth Malravers, of West-
bury, to Mary Fowler, at Melksham.
1780-1-2 [?]. — Lydia Moxham, dau. of John and Esther Mox-
ham, of Melksham, to Thomas Sturgi:, of New
Sarum, at Melksham.
1781-11-13. — Elizabeth Miller, of city of New Sarum, dau. of
Felix and Ann Miller, of Alton, co. of Hants,
to John Humphreys, of New Sarum, at
Melksham.
Norman Penney.
TottenJia)>i, Middx.
(To be continued.)
THE STOKS OF SEEN' CHURCHE.
The very interesting document printed at page 528 of the
present volume, under this title, is, evidently, one of very great
rarity, and seems to require some further notice.
It may, I venture to think, be described as the ante-Refor-
mation Bede-Roll of Seend Church — containing, as it does, a
record of the provision made by departed parishioners for
lights, obits, and other special commemorations, in accordance
with the religious belief of the time.
sembly of the aforesaid People and others, met together /or tliat purpose in
their Publick Meeting-Place at Purton-Stoke and in a solemn Manner, He
the said John Maddock taking the said Sarah Wainc by the Hand, did
openly declare as followeth, Friends, In the Fear of God, and Presence of
this Asseinblij (^mhom I desire to be my Witnesses) I take this my Friend
Sarah Wuine to he my n-ife. promising throuffh Divine Assistance to he unto
Hera Loviny and faithful Hushand, untill it shall pUase God, by Death, to
Separate us ; or Words to the same Imports
Sarah Waine says much the same words, with alterations to suit her
case, and they both sign the marriage certificate, as also do numerous rela-
tions and Friends as Witnesses.
The words printed in italics arc written into spaces left for them, the
remainder is in type.
i;72 Wiltsliire Notes and Queries.
Sucli documents, doubtless, in most instances, were
among the first to disappear at the time of the Reformation,
and the accidental preservation of this — the only one of its
kind which I have hitherto met with^ — serves to throw some
additional light on the mediaeval arrangements of the village
church to which it belongs.
The Church of Seend, dedicated to the Holy Cross, was
formerly a cliapel annexed to the parish church of Melksham.
Like the mother church, it probably dates back as far as the
Norman period. It may at first have been simply a chancel
and nave. Later on a western tower was added, as also a
small Lady Chapel, which now forms the eastern portion of
the south aisle, and contained a side altar. Lastly, in the
latter half of the fifteenth century (probably during the reign
of Edward IV), the present nave, with its arcades, clerestory,
and fine timber roof, was rebuilt in the Perpendicular style of
the period, and a north aisle and porch also added (the former
at the cost of John Stokes, a Seend clothier, whose brass, with
effigies of himself and wife, is still preserved within), the
building thus assuming its present proportions.^
It is to the internal arrangements of the village church (or,
rather, chapel) of Seend, as completed at this period, that the
document in question refers. It is neatly written on a small
piece of parchment, 13^ inches by 11. The first thirty-one
entries represent " stocks," or sums of money, varying from
seven to fifteen shillings each— ^and amounting in the whole to
P^i5 i8s., or at Ieastp^i6o at the present day. These "stocks "
' The antiquary Leland, who visited Wiltshire about the year ir)40,
transcribed from a volurue in Salisbury Cathedral, which ho calls the
" Martyrologe Book," a calentlar of obit.'^ or days on which special com-
memoration was made therein of founders and benefactors. A similar
calendar of obits, belonging to St. Mary's Priory, at Kington St. Michael, is
printed by the late Canon Jackson in Wilts Archa-olof/icol 3faf/azi)ie, iv, p. 60
— but nothing of this kind relating to any parish church in Wiltshire has
ever, I believe, been previously met with.
^ The present chancel was rebuilt in 1876 on the old foundations.— pre-
sumably the work of the Decorated period (14th century), some mouldings
The Stoks of Sccii^ C/iiirc/ir. 573
were in the hands of different persons (apparently parish-
ioners, and sometimes relatives of the deceased), who provided
funds thereout for yearly celebrations on certain days, all of
which are enumerated in the remaining items (thirty-two in
number). A final memorandum records a bequest by four
persons of 135. 4^'. for the maintenance of "the lamp before
the hye cros " {i.e., the rood light).
In illustration of the value of some of these separate
" stocks," and the annual payments thereout, the following
items may be quoted, in modernised spelling: —
Robert Harris.
"John Curtes hath Robert Harris' stock, vakie ids."
" Robert Harris and Margaret, his wife, must be prayed for on
Whitsunday, and the priest must have yl!'
Robert Baldenham (now Baldham Mill, in Keevil).
"Thomas liys hath Robert Baldenham's stock, vahie 7s."
" Robert Baldenham must have dirige and mass the Monday in
Easter week. The priest 4</., St. Nicholas light id., the ringers 3rt?."
of this date having been found in the walls, subsequently disturbed by the
insertion of modern windows.
On the wall at the east end of the nave, and within the pulpit, is a de-
vice here drawn to scale l-12th
size of the original. The lines
are slightly incised, and it is
apparently intended to repre-
sent the white rose of the
House of York, surrounded by
rays, as of the sun — a device
assumed as a Royal badge by
Edward IV, after the ominous
parhcllou which appeared in
the heavens on the day of his
victory over the Plantagenets
at Mortimer's Cross, 2 Feb.,
1461. This would fix the date
of the building at about 1161-
1483 — the latter being the year
in which Edward the Fourth's
reign ended. John Stokes —
the contemporary builder of
the north aisle— by will bequeathed a sum of money towards its adornment.
574
Wiltshire Nolcs and Queries.
Walter Harper.
"John Carter hath Walter Harper's stock, vahu- lo^."
"Walter Harper must have a taper of half a pomul liefore the liigli
cross, and another before our Lady in the porch."
In one instance only there is a gift in kind : —
"Roger Hern gave a cow to maintain the Pascal,' and to be prayed
or on Easter Day, and the priest to have 3d. '
The individuals yearly commemorated by Dirige^ and
Mass were : —
*Friday before Epiphany. .
Friday before our Lady Day in Lent.
Tuesday before Palm Sunday..
Palm Sunday
*Monday in Easter Week
*Wcdnesda3^ in Easter Week
St. Mark's Day (25 April)
William Leaze
John Harris
John Twynye
Isabel Stokes
Robert Baldenham
Alice Stokes
William Chapman
Friday before Holy Rood Day (3 May) William Harrys
*Whit Sunday
Thursday before Midsummer Day
Michaelmas Day. .
*Michaelmas Day. .
Friday after St. Dennis Day . .
St. Luke's Eve . .
*St. Luke's Day (18 Oct.)
*St. Andre^^'s Day (30 Nov )
John Williams
Alice Prictor
John Stokes
Thomas Stykbyrd
William Tucker
Margery Hillier
Thomas Tucker
Robert Stokes
' The " Paschal" was a large squared taper of wax, used to give light in
the chancel during the midnight watching of the Sepulchre at Easter; now
it is blessed with fire and water on Ea.stcr Eve, aud first lighted at the
Exultct before the " Alleluia Mass," and at Benediction, and all masses /^w
j/opulo until after the Gospel on Ascension Day. It was enjoined in this
diocese by Uishop Ihidport, A.D. 125B, that the ])arishioners were bound to
provide the paschal light ami other lights in the chancel, and a sufficient
number of candles for the whole year, at matins, vespers, and mass.
^ Dirige — the service for the dead — so-called from its being the first
word of the anthem to the first nocturn in the matins of the office for the
dead, — " Dirige, JJomine Uctis mcu.i, in con.y)ectu tno viam meam " (Direct,
0 Lord my God, my steps in Thy .sight). In the word Dirge we have an
abbreviation of the Latin Dirige.
The Stoks of Seen Church. 575
In each case the celebrant was to receive the sum of four-
pence, and in those marked (*) the ringers were also to receive
threepence.
Three others to be prayed for were : —
Easter Day ... ... ... ... ... Roger Hern
Sunday after Holy Rood Day (3 May) ... ... William Parker
[ T/ie village feast is still kept ofi this day.]
Whit Sunday ... ... Robert Harris and Margaret, his wife
and the priest to have three pence for each.
Of images within the church and porch, and lights burn-
ing before them, mention is made of
1. Our Lady in the Porch. This must have occupied a
niche over the inner doorway of the north porch, now obscured
by the flooring of the more modern room above. William
Somner's stock maintained a lamp to burn before it, Walter
Harper's a taper of half a pound, and Margery Hillier's
another taper.
2. Our Lady in St. Nicholas' aisle, a lamp before which
was provided out of Walter Stokes' stock, to burn at matins,
mass, and evensong.
3. Our Lady in the South Aisle. Thomas Tucker's
stock provided a taper to burn before this image on holy days
at mass. It probably occupied a now mutilated niche at the
east end of the south aisle, where once stood an altar, portions
of the piscina and aumbry belonging to which still remain.
4. Our Lady of Pity. A seated figure of the B.V. Mary
holding on her knees the dead Body of the Saviour. Before
this William Chapman's stock provided a taper, burning at
service time; Alice Prictor's a similar taper of a pound weight;^
and Marger}' Hillier's a third taper.
5. St. Christopher. A figure of a giant, with a huge
staff, fording a river, and bearing on his shoulder the Infant
Saviour. Henry Curtes bequeathed a lamp to burn every
holy day at matins, mass, and evensong.
^ In the Churchwardens' accounts of St. Maiy, Devizes, is a payment in
1499, for two pounds of wax, 21(1. The same amount was again paid in the
following year.
QQ
576 IViltsliirc Notes aiid Queries.
6. St. Katharine. Represented as a crowned figure,
with a spiked wheel and sword, the instruments of her martyr-
dom. A taper of half a pound, bequeathed by Joan, daughter
of John Tucker, to burn every holy day at mass.
7. St. Nicholas. A standing figure of a bishop /// pontifi-
calibiis^ with three children in a tub before him. A taper,
weighing half a pound, out of Robert Colles' stock, to burn
every Sunda}- at mass. Bequests of twopence each to St.
Nicholas' light were also made by William Leze, William
Harrys, Robert Baldenham, Thomas Stykbyrd, and William
Chapman.
8. St. Sythe, or Osyth.^ Walter Stokes' stock main-
tained a lamp burning before this image at matins, mass, and
evensong.
The Lamp before the High Cross. To this lamp, which
hung before the Rood,^ in the loft at the entrance to the chan-
cel, John Tucker, Robert Collys, William Eymys, and Jolin
Petyt, bequeathed the sum of 135. 4d. — the lamp to burn at
Easter, the Assumption B.V.M., Allhallows, and Christmas,
from the first evensong to the end of mass ; also every Sunday
and holy day from the beginning of matins to the end of mass,
unless the priest go on visitation between, then the lamp to be
put out. Rawlence Breyd, Robert Chapman, Thomas Davis,
and Walter Harper, also provided tapers of half a pound each,
to burn before the High Cross every holy day at mass.
' This Saint, whose image in Seend Church I was at first somewhat at a
loss to account for, seems to have been formerly invoked as a protection
against fire and water. Aubrey, in his " Remaines of Gentilismc and
Ju//aisme" (1686-7), .'^peaking of still older times, says : —
" In those dayes, when they went to bed, they did rake up the fire
and make a cross in the ashes, and pray to God and St. Sythe to
deliver them from fire, and from water, and from all misadventure."
* The Hood light, sometimes called the " beam light," and the " dole
light," or " alms light," from its being supported by small contributions or
doles. The rood staircase and doorway still remain in Seend Church, as well
as the mortises in the walls at the cast end of the nave, which formerly held
the two ends of the rood beam.
The Families of Bail and Bylcy.
577
Our Lady's light in the Chancel. To this light Christian
Darbe, for a stock, was to give, every 3'ear, Gd. Wilham Bal-
denham S?/., John Stokes 8^/., and Christian Twynny (^d.
Dav3th also gave a stock to our Lady's light, to find a taper
burning at matins, mass, and evensong.
The name of John Stokes, a Seend clothier, has been al-
ready mentioned as the builder of the north aisle of the church.
He died in 1498. The following pedigree is from his will^ : —
Stokes=== ...
Thomas
Stokes.
4 sons
I daur.
John Stokes, of Seend, clothier,;
will 20 June 1498, proved
II July following: "To be
buried in my Chapel newly
built and constructed in the
Chapel of Sende."
Alice
ex'trix
to her
hushand
Walter
Stokes
4 sons.
I. John
Stok
2. Robert 3. John Stokes, junr.
Stokes. to have "Mayne's
londes" in Kyvell.
Agnes.
As most of the names here given appear also as benefac-
tors to the " Stocks of Seend Church " — the date of the docu-
ment ma}' probably be fixed at about 1 500-1 520. It appears
to have fallen into the hands of some of the Stokes famil}-, and
was found among other documents, which had descended from
them to their present representative, Mrs. Kenrick, of Keevil.
By this lady it was given, in 1S76, to the Rev. A. B. Thynne,
present Vicar of Seend.
THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF THE FAMILIES OF
BATT AND BYLEY. OF SALISBURY,
MASSACHUSETTS.
Under this title a most interesting communication ap-
peared in the Neiv England Histoucal and Genealogical
Register for April 1897, from the pen of a well-known
' Misc. Gen. et Her., 3rd,Series, ii, 133.
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The Families of Bait and Bylcy.
579
American genealogist, Mr. J. Henry Lea -a name already
welcomed as a contributor to the pages of Wiltshire Notes
and Queries.
The warm thanks of Wiltshire genealogists are due to Mr.
Lea for the great pains he has taken in elucidating the pedigree
of two Wiltshire families, both of whose names appear among
the lists of New England pioneers in the reign of the first
Charles.
The names of Batt and Byley occur abundantly in the
registers of the parishes of St. Edmund, St. Martin, and St.
Thomas, Salisbury, during the latter half of the sixteenth, and
the whole of the succeeding century. At Devizes, the name
of Batt also occurs almost from the commencement of the
parish register of St. John, in 1556. Mr. Lea also connects the
name, either through wills, marriage licences, parish registers,
or otherwise, with the Wiltshire parishes of Great and Little
Bedwin, Box, Burbage, Collingbourne Ducis, East Coulston,
Kingston Deverill, Monkton Deverill, Fittleton, Ludgershall,'
Newton Tony, Potterne, Manton in Freshute, Urchfont, and
Warminster.
We quote the following from his introduction :— " In May
1638, the little ship "Bevis", of 150 tons burden, sailed from
Southampton for New England with a notable company of
passengers, having on board, besides the Dummers, the two
cognate families of Batt and Byley, both people of considerable
wealth and standing in their native city of Salisbury, Wilts,
and closely related in blood. They both settled at Newbury,'
and both removed shortly after to Salisbury, Massachusetts,
where, from the first, they assumed a prominent position in
the affairs of their new home."
Of the two Wiltshire emigrants from Salisbury, we learn
that Christopher Batt, tanner (eldest son of Thomas Batt,
gent., by Joan, daughter of Henry Byley, tanner), was bap-
tized at St. Edmund's, 6 July, 1601. In 1629 (Oct. 12), he was
married, by licence, at the same church, to "Mrs. Anne Bain-
ton," spinster, also of St. Edmund's parish, and then aged 26.
5 So IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
In May, 1638, with his wife Ann, his sister Dorothy, aged 20,
and five children under 10 yearsof age, he embarked at South-
ampton, in the " Bevis " for New England, settled first at
Newbury, Massachusetts, where he was freeman 1639, re-
moved to Salisbury, of which he was representative 1640-41-43
and 50 ; and removed again to Boston 1651, where he became a
prominent merchant. He was accidentally killed 10 Aug., (661,
by his own son firing at a mark in his orchard.
His first cousin, Henry Byley, who accompanied him in
the " Bevis " to New England, was then aged 26. He had six
years previously married Rebecca Swayne, by licence, at St.
Edmund's Church, Salisbury, where their three children born
in England were baptized — the last on 26 Aug., 1638 — three
months after the father's departure for America. His wife
followed him, and he dying there before 1641, she eventually
re-married in 1663 — for a fourth and last husband -Deputy
Governor Samuel Symonds,^ and died 21 July, 1695.
Of the Salisbury Batts, and the Byleys, Thistlethwaytes,
Saintbarbes, Hydes, Doves, Swaynes, and other families for-
merly connected with that city, with whom they intermarried,
Mr. Lea has been enabled to work out a full and exhaustive
pedigree ; his extracts from parish registers alone occupying
several closely printed pages, which, together with abundant
abstracts from wills and other evidences, practically complete
the history of this branch of a most interesting Wiltshire
family.
But the Salisbury Batts of the ship " Bevis " were not the
earliest emigrants of that name from Wiltshire to New Eng-
land. Three years before their departure, Nicholas Batt, of
Devizes — described as a linen weaver — had embarked at
Southampton in the ship " James " (April, 1635), and settled at
' Of the same family as Captain Symonrls, an officer in the Royalist
Army, wiiose interesting Diary, preserved in the British Museum (Harl.
MSS. No. 939), and containing {inter alia) many Wiltshire Churcli Notes
taken durin-,' the Civil Wars, was edited for tiie Camden Society by the
late Charles Edward Long, Esq., in 185!).
The Juviii/irs of Ball and Byley. 581
Newbury, Massachusetts — to which place the later emigrants
from Salisbury also went — thus suggesting a closer relation-
ship between them than appears really to have existed.
One of the earliest known members of the Devizes family
was : —
(i). RICHARD BATT. His name appears in a Chan-
try Roll, 38 Hen. VIII (1546-7) as tenant of some property at
that time forming part of the endowment of a chantry in St.
Mary's Church, Devizes, founded by John Coventre.
"vij" viij"* p' redd'u' uiiius domus cu' iino p'vo claus' n'cnon una
acra terr' arabil" jacen" in campo voc' Parke land' in tenur' Ric'i Batte."
[78- S"*- for the rent of one house, with one Httle close, and also one
acre of arable land lying in the field called Parke lands, in the tenure of
Richard Batte.]
And among the property belonging to another chantry,
founded by William Coventre, in the same church, we find : —
"iijs viij^ p' redd'u' unins le p'lor adjacen' ten't" 'WiU'mi Page cu'
uno claus' eod'm adjacen' modo in tenur' Ric'i Batte."
[38- 8<i- for the rent of one parlour adjacent to the tenement of Wil-
liam Page, witii one close to the same adjacent, now in the tenure of
Richard Batte.]
On Michaelmas Day, ist Edward VI (1547), the same
Richard Batt, as Mayor of Devizes, " by the assent and con-
sent of his brethren and burgesses, and also with the consent
and grant of Mr. John Baker and Edward Haynes, stewards
and proctors of, and over, the lands, &c., belonging unto the
service of the altar of our lady, sometime the gift of John
Coventre, in the south side of the Church of St. Mary in the
Devyses," leases a tenement of the said lands to one John
ffelpes, alias Symes, for a term of 30 years, at a yearly' rent of
8s., the property being in the Old Port, or parish of St. Mary.
He again filled the office of Mayor in 1551, as appears
from a deed dated 15 March, 5 Edw. VI, by which he leased to
Robert Truslow,^ "oon of the Com'ens of the said town," a
' He was, no doubt, a member of the family of Truslowe, of Avebury,
a family descended from Beverley, co. York, of whom there is a pedigree in
582 IViltshirc Notes and Queries.
certain tenement known as the " Erode Gate," with a cottage
adjoining called "The Cage," both in the New Port, or parish
of St. John.
His name also appears as a witness to leases of borough
or chantry property in 1552-55-56 and 1562. By iiis wife
(name unknown) lie had one daughter, Johan, married to
Richard Whittacre. He had also an illegitimate son by Agnes
Whittock, to whom he bequeathed his dwelling house and its
contents, with other property in Devizes and Westbury, also
making him residuary legatee and executor. His will, dated
12th May, 1568, was proved 19th February following.
Will of Richard Batt, of Devizes, P.C.C, {Shcffelde 4).
Richard Batte, of the towne of devizes, sicke of body. Dated 12
Maye, 1568. To be buried in the parish of St. John Baptist, within the
devizes aforesaid. To daughter Johane Whittacre all lands in Weste-
burye for life, and ^20. To John the sonne of Agnes Whittocke, com-
monly known and called by the name of John Batt, my house that I
dwell in, with all I have therein. To godson Richard Wyllies the house
that Robert Haseland holdcth. To Mary Wyllies part of a house in St.
Marye parish now in tenure ofHenrye Smythe.^ To Johanne Whittacre,
the Herald's Visitation of Wilts, 162.3, but the name of Robert Truslow does
not occur in it.
John Tru-slowe, of Avebury, gent., who died on Wednesday in Easter
week, being 18 April, 1593, gave £10, to be distributed to the poor of De-
vizes by three yearly instalments of five marks each at Christmas — al.so
another £10 towards the repairing of the Cawseys there, to be yearly em-
plojed by five marks a year. His curious epitaph, engraved on brass plates,
is in Avebury Church. The family is still represented in the United States,
and on the restoration of Avebury Church, a few years since, they most lib-
erally remitted the sum of £25 to the Vicar, towards the conversion of the
old family pew, of carved oak, into choir stalls.
' Of this Henry Smith the writer has met with the following not
very satisfactory memorandum among some papers belonging to St. Mary's
Church:
" The xxiiij''" daye of Marche, in y° yere of (iueenc Elizabeth y«
xx'h [1577], Henry Smyth declared before Mr. Robert Morri.", Maior,
Richard Maundrell, Thomas Baylie, Stephen Flower, John Blanford, w'th
manie more, a sertaine Lease signed and a byll ssygned by y° hands of
John Smvth father to y^ .'<aid Henry w'cli he now before all the foresaid
companye and pisshioners of St. Claries said the foresaid Lease and Bylle
be forgede by forgerye."
Highworth Church.
58:
the daughter ot Richard Whittacre, ^5 at marriaae. and io Thomas, sonn
ot^ said Richard, the same. To -odson, Richard Whittacre. house in
\V estbur>- now in tenure of .Mr. Bennett, vicar of Westburye, after death
of my daughter Joane. To my sisters daughter, Agnes Diiffelde xx"
and a flock bedd. To sarvent, Elianor Tucker, xx» To Joim Wliit'tock
alias Batt. house at the tou-nes end that Robert :\Iarchaunte now dwelleth
in, and house in tenure of Robert Sutton. To Edward Whittacre tene-
ment in Westebur>- in tenure of Owen, a glover there, after decease of my
daughter Joane. To poore of the Devizes xx dozen of breade. To John
Whittock. ahas Batt. two houses in Westebury in tenure of one Greene
and Thomas Hedge, tenants ; and said John Whittock, alias Batt, residuary
legatee and executor. Mr. Henry Grubbe, mayor, and Master
Morris, and Mr. Willes, overseers.' Witnesses : Sir John Batt [Burt '^J
Clarke ; Henrj-e Grubbe, mayor ; Henr>-e Morris, with others. Proved
19 Feb., 156S-9, by Edward App Howell. Attorney for Executor.
(To be cotitinued).
cOunirg,
Highworth Church.— The executors of the late WilHam
Morris, of Swindon, have just returned to the Vicar of High-
worth a cannon ball, formerly suspended in Highworth Parish
^ In these names we at once recognise three Devizes worthies of the
Elizabethan age. Henry Grubbe, mayor in 1568, and M.P. for the borough
m 1577, was the earliest known ance.stor of the faiuilv for three centuries
settled at Eastwell House, Potterne. a fine old mansion dating from about
1570, and modernised in 1760. His will was proved 1582. Henry Morris
mayor in 1559. belonged to a family of Devizes clothier.^ whose name still
survives in Morris' Lane-a narrow passage between Long Street and
Sheep Street. ".Mr. Harrie Morris" was buried at St. John's, 11 Jan., 1573
John Willis, woollen draper, held, in 1516-7, the corner house at the end of
the Brutox (now No. 1). a property then belonging to William Coventre's
Chantry m St. Marys Church, and since forming part of the eiulowmcnt of
the New Almshouse.
In company with them, as witness to Devizes deeds of the period we
sometimes meet with the name of Antony Cleave, the friend of John Maun-
drell. one of the Wiltshire martyrs of Queen Mary's time, who was burnt
between Salisbury and Wilton in 1556. Fox, the martvrologi.st, tells us
that Maundrell, in time of persecution, was wont to find shelter in the house
of his friend Anthony Cley at Devizes.
584 IViltshirc Notes and Oiicries.
Church, by means of hooping iron and hook, and which ball is
said to have been fired at the Church during Cromwell's time by
a party of soldiers. In confirmation of this there is an inden-
tation in the walls of the Church, above the Western door,
pointed out as being caused by the said cannon ball. Is there
any kind of record converting this somewhat legendary account
into an undisputed fact ?
S. P. Morris.
Commemoration Trees. — The Standard lately, in an
article on Commemoration Trees, said :— " I hope I'll be many
a mile from here when those trees is bearin' " was the com-
ment of a labourer when his allotment was planted for him.
The spirit is very different from that in which a new married
lad and lass would have settled down in Wiltshire last century.
It was the husband's custom to plant a walnut, with a view of
obtaining a gunstock from the wood twenty 3'ears or so after.
Can any of your readers corroborate this statement ?
C. V. GODDARD.
Vicarage^ Shrewton.
Melksham Indentures, (i.) By an Indenture, bearing
date 40 Elizabeth, four parcels of land in Melksham parish
are conveyed by Henry Brouncker, of Melksham, to A. B. . . .
and his heirs and assigns for ever.
Three parcels are in Woodrew Tything, and one in
Beanacre.
(ii.j By an Indenture of 6 James I, Sir John Dauntesey
and Ambrose Dauntesey, of Lavington, convey the same par-
cels of land in the same manner to the same A.B. (the parcel in
Beanacre excepted).
No reference is made to the previous grant, and, by way
of addition, A. B. is entitled, inter alia : —
Loduwick Mugghton. 5S:
" To hold asserte plowe eare sowe emprove cutt down.- woode .
m as lardge and beneticial manner and farme as the Kings Maiestie by
letters patent of ,7th Feb , in the fifth year of his reign, granted to John
and Ambrose Dauntesey, except and saved to the King 'free huntin^e
chase and rechase ol beastes of foreste of ye foreste of Melksham with
free impresse. egresse, and regresse, of beastes' according to the terms
of the letters patent. "
Why are two grants made of the same lands by different
parties and under different conditions to the same grantee?
Any information will greatly oblige.
T. G. J. H.
Lodowick Muggleton.— The late Canon Jackson, in a
paper on the history of Chippenham, printed in IVilts
Archaol. Mag, vol. iii, mentions, on the authority of a memoir
of Lodowick Muggleton (HaH. Misccll, viii, 83), that this indi-
vidual—the Founder of the strange sect known as Muggle-
tonians -was a Wiltshire man, born of " poor though honest
parents in the town of Chippenham."
This does not seem to be quite borne out by the following
entries in the parish register of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate,
London, which thus records the baptism of three children of
John Muggleton :
1605, June 23. Margaret, daughter of John Muggleton.
1607, Nov. I, Ruth, daughter of John Muggleton.
1609. July 30, Lodovick, son of John Muggleton.
The last looks suspiciously like that of the person in
question. Can any of your readers help me to clear up the
matter, and transfer Lodowick Muggleton's birth from Chip-
penham to London ?
WiLTONIENSIS.
Turpin's Stone. Bolter —Between Keevil and Bulking-
ton, at the point where the boundary line dividing the two
parishes crosses the turnpike road, is a stone known as " Tur-
pin's Stone," and so marked in the enlarged Ordnance Survey
586 Wiltshire Notes and Oiicnes.
of 1SS5. 1 think I have also heard it called the "The Robber's
Stone." Does local tradition connect it in any way with Dick
Turpin, the highwayman ?
Where can I procure the autobiography of Bolter, the
notorious Wiltshire highwayman ? Is there any evidence of
his alleged connexion with gentle families ?
Hannibal Drew.
iUpIlfSj*
Seymour in Rollestone Registers (vol. ii, p. 533). — The
two baptismal entries here mentioned do not appear to be-
long to Rollestone. They are copied from the earliest volume
of the Register Book of the neighbouring parish of Ames-
bury, which commences in 1599, and ends in 1660.^
1625. "The Ladye Frauncis Seymor, daughter of the
right honorable William, Earl of Hartford,
was baptized April the one & twenteth
daye."
1637. "The Lady Jane Seymour, daughter of the R'-
Ho""- Sir William Seymour, Knight, Baron
Beauchamp and Erie of Hertford, and of the
body of Francis Seymour, Countesse of Hert-
ford, was baptized the 6th daye of Julye."
— (Amesbury Register.)
They were the second and fourth daughters of Sir
William Seymour, Earl of Hertford (who was created Mar-
' This volume, wliich had for many years been missing, was eventually
purcbasef] at a sale in the m-ighbourhoorl, by my laie friend Mr. Job
Edwards, of Amesbury, and i»y him again restored to its proper place among
the parisii records.
SEYMOUR ARMS
Styiiioitr in Rolleslouc Registers. 58 7
quess of Hertford, 3 June 1640, and restored to the Dukedom
of Somerset 25 April 1660), by his second wife, Frances,
eldest sister and co-heir of Robert Devereux, third Earl of
Essex. 1
The Lady Frances — the elder of the two daughters —
baptized at Amesbury in 1625, was thrice married, first to
Lord Molyneux, secondly to the Earl of Southampton, and
lastly to Conyers, son of Lord Darcy, but died without issue.
The Lady Jane, baptised 1637, married Lord Cliftbrd, son
of Boyle, Earl of Burlington.^
During the ownership of their father [162 1-1660] the pre-
sent mansion at Amesbury, said to have been originally de-
signed by Inigo Jones, and erected by his son-in-law, John
' This lady, in ItilO, soon after her marriage presented to Amesbury
Church the bell which forms the fifth of the present peal, and is inscribed
" Be stronge in faythe praycs God well
Francis Countess Hertford's bell."
She died in 1674, and was buried with her husband and four of their
children, in the chancel of Great Bedwyn Church. By her will .«he be-
queaths the "great Pedigree of the Seymours" to Lady Elizabeth Seymour,
her grand-daughter, married two years after to Thomas, second Earl of
Ailesbury ; also " the great rich bud that was Queen Jane Seymour's," the
pictures of the second and third Dukes of Somerset, and the double picture
of the third Duke and his sister, the Lady Elizabeth hcr.self.
- The other children of the Earl of Hertford and Lady Frances Dever-
eux, his second wife, were : —
1. William Seymour, who died unmarried at Chelsea, and
was buried at Great Bedwyn. KJ June, 1G12.
2. Robert, also died unmarried in France, and was buiied at
Great Bedwyn, 30 Jan., l«J45-6.
3. Henry, Lord Beaucharap, born 1630, who married. 2s .Tune,
1648, Mary, eldest daughter of Arthur Lord Capel, of
Hadham, and died in his father's lifetime 14 March,
1653-4, at the early age of 27. He was buried at Great
Bedwyn, from Tilsy, March 30.
" The right honerall lord henry Bechum, who died at
Tilsy, was buryed bear the 30th March." — Parish Register.
The lead coffin containing his remains was found during a re.storation
of Great Bedwyn Church, 24 Feb., 1854, in a brick grave in the chancel, a
few feet in front of Sir John Seymour's tomb. A leaden plate bore the
588
Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Webb, was probably commenced, if not wholly completed. In
the front of the building was the Seymour shield of six quar-
terings carved in stone (see illustration) : —
1. Or, on a pile gules, between six fleurs-de-lis azure,
three lions passant guardant or, armed and lan-
gued azure — Coat of Augmentation granted on the
marriage of Henry VIII ivith Jane Seymour}
lettering " The Lord Henaey Beavchampk, Deyed the 14th day ok
March, 1653. Aged 27."
Upon the breast had been laid a bunch of rosemary and other herbs,
the stems and seeds of which, after an interment of two centuries, still pre-
served their form.
4. Edward, born at Easton Royal,
28 Jlay., lG30,died atColIing-
boiirne Ducis, 28 April, 1631,
and was there buried. His
effigy, 7^ inches in height,
engraved on a brass plate in
the pavement of the chancel,
is interesting as an example
of the infant costume of the
early part of Charles the
First's reign. The following
quaint lines are also en-
graved on a brass plate : —
" Speechless thovgh yet he were,
say all wee can
That saw, he promise did a hope-
fvU man.
Svch frame of body, svch a lively sovle,
Argv'd him written in the long liv'd rovle.
Bvt now wee see, by svch an infant's losse.
All are bvt infant hopes, which death may cross."
5. John, afterwards 4th Duke of Somerset, who married Sarah,
youngest daughter and co-hoir of Sir Edward Alston, and
dying, without issue, in 1675, was buried at Salisbury.
And two other daughters, the eldest of whom, Arabella (named
after the Earl's fir.st wife — Lady Arabella Stuart) died
young, and was buried at Great Bedwyn, 27 March, 16.'}7.
The third daughter, Mary, married the Earl of Win-
chester.
' The blason as here given will correct an error into which Sir Bernard
Burke and others seem to have fallen in describing the three lions on the
Seymour in Rollestom' Rcgistas. 589
2. Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or— Seymour
(old).
3- \'aire argent and azure— Beaucfl^mp, of Hache.
4- Argent, three demi-lions gules— Esturmy.
5. Per bend argent and gules, three roses in bend coun-
terchanged— Macwilliams.i
6. Argent on a bend gules three leopard's faces or—
COKER.
The Amesbury Register also records the burial of a ser-
vant of William, Earl of Hertford, which shows that he was
living there as early as i6io— a year after his first marriage
with the Lady Arabella Stuart -and eleven years before the
death of his grandfather, Edward, Earl of Hertford, eldest son
(by his second marriage) of the Protector Somerset.
1610. "Antony Rimsden, servant to the right ho. the
Earell of Heartford by an evell chance bracke his necke the 4
of September, and was buried the 7 dayeof the same moneth."
Edward Kite.
pile as "lions of England." for which they might verv easily be taken in the
absence of any better authority on the subject. Mr. J. H. Round {Gciealo-
gist, N.S.. viii, p. 190) has drawn attention to a transcript of the grant of
arms to the Protector Somerset (1547) printed at the end of the two volumes
of the "Acts of the Privy Council, A.D. Io47.1550,' p. 532, lately published,
which It IS stated is not on record in the College of Arms. From it we
learn that these lions are " langween et armes d'asur " i.e.. hmgved and
armed azure. The arms, we also learn, were granted not only to the Dukes
of Somerset and their posterity, but totique famiUce et huque vel earn fam-
iltam aliqno gradu sanguinh et cognatwnis accignat."
' According to the generally accepted pedigree. Sir John Sevmour
great-great-grandfather of Queen Jane and the Protector Somerset married
Isabel, daughter and heir of William MacWilliams, of co. Gloucester a
Bnstol merchant of the 15th century, by whom this quartering was brought
into the Seymour shield. A tenement of Sir John Sevmour, Knight in
Redcliffe Street, Bristol, is mentioned in 1454, and one of the Lady de Sey-
mour in 14G9. Sir John died in 1404, and the Lady de Sevmour of 1469
was, probably, his widow, Isabel, daughter of Mark Williams [not William
Mac Williaim], some time Mayor of Bristol. (See above, vol. ii, p. 304.)
590 Wiltshire Notes and Queries.
Richard Perenchief, D.D. (vol. ii, pp. 537, 538). — With
reference to the queiy under this head, John Parrinchiefe was
Mayor of Marlborough in the year 1556. And in a Survey Book
of the Corporation, dated 1565, he is recorded as the occupant
of two closes of land belonging to the Mayor and Burgesses.
E. Ll. Gwillim.
Cheese Cross (vol. ii, p. 534). — The " Cheese Cross " was,
no doubt, one of the old market crosses in Salisbury, where
cheese was formerly sold.^ The Council House of that city,
before the year 1579, is described as being situated at the
south-west corner of the Cheese Cross, thus indicating its ancient
site. Near it, probably, stood the residence of the Eyre
family — ** at the Cheese Cross."
Salisbury still retains its " Poultry Cross," which is men-
tioned in a deed of 1335 as "the high cross where poultry is
sold," identif^iing it also as the market which, in bygone days,
supplied the citizens of New Sarum with this particular
commodity.
Devizes, three centuries ago, also had its " Cheese Cross,"
its " Yarn Cross," and its " Butter Cross," all of which are
mentioned in the Chamberlains' accounts of the borough at
that date, and no doubt stood at the respective places where
these three commodities were formerly sold.
£ s. d.
1599. Itm disbursed for repayring the
Guildhall, yarne crosse, and
butter crosse . . . . 3 9 1 1
1605. For repayringe of the butter
crosse . . . . ..0100
1657. Paid for mending ye Cheese
Crosse and for lime used about
the same . . . . ..015
SCRIBA.
' A writer in Genealogical Magazine, Oct., 1898, p. 269, suggests Chase
Cross, a point where four cross-roads, or chases, meet — as the possible de-
rivation of the name, and instances an example at Wavering atte Bovver,
in Essex, where it has been corrupted into Cheese Cross.
VOL. II.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
[T/tc Quaker Marriages are not lure included, that paper
itself being an index of names].
Abbot, Edmund. 119; Thomas, 173;
Jatnos, 174-0
Abingdon. Earl of, 87 ; Montagu,
Earl of, 87 ; Willoughby, Earl of,
87
Abrnggys. See Brigges, Jiriggys,
Brugge, Brtigggg, Brydges. Brggge
Acton, Hugh, 5ti3; Henry, 425, 502;
John, 564
Adam, Rev., 18
Adams, George, 451 ; Miss, 23 ;
Thomas, 23
Adelelm, Andrew, 359
Ady, Elinor, 407
Adye. Jo . ., 551 ; William, 357
Aette, William de, 359-60
Affarnewell, Nicholas. 424
Ailesbury, Thomas. Earl of, 587
Ailric, son of Luniger, 278
Aiscough, Bishop of Salisbury, 390
Aish, Edward, 36
Akerman, J. Yonge, 48
Alderley, Thomas, .332; Johanna,
332
Aldrys, Dame, 358
Aldworth, Richard Neville. 124
Alen, William, 417
Alexander (or EUizander), Eliza-
beth, 406-8 ; George, 48 ; Hellen,
550-1 ; Martha. 406-7 ; Mary, .351,
406-7; Robert, 5.50; William. 351,
406, 547, 550
Aleyn, John, 422
AlfErych. Nicholas. 322
Alford, Major. 173
Alfred, King. 183-5, 188-90; will of,
184
Alice, Dame, 359
Allanson, C, 480
Allen, Edward, 131, 451 ; Mary, 451 ;
Sir Thomas, 451 ; William, 296
Alsop, Rev., 59
Alston, Sir Edward, 588 ; Sarah. 588
Alway, William, 518
Alwrys, 359 ; Richard, 359
Amesburv, Abbess of, 267 ; Prioress
of, 16 "
Anasya. William de, 27.3-4, 316;
Richard de, 31t)
Andrews, Robert, 220
Anesi, William de, 274-5
Anesia. Richard de, 313-14 ; William
de, 277
Anesv. Richard de. 275. 315, 317,
360-1, .364. 367 ; William de, 275,
364
Anesya, Richard de, 314
Aneyse, Richard de, 316-17
Anker, alia-a Pevntoure, John, 418 ;
Elizabeth, 418"
Anne, Tboma.*, 446
Anne.sley, John de, 410
Anstie family, 483 ; Benjamin Webb.
539-40: Edward Benjamin, 540;
Edward Louis, 540 ; George Ed-
mond, 540 ; John, 538-9 ; Mary,
539 ; Paul, 540 ; Peter, 539 ;
Richard, 538 ; Sarah, 539 ; William
Henry, 540
App Howell, Edward, 583
Aprice, John, 333 ; Johanna, 333
Archard, William, 24
Arche, Richard, 444
Archer, George, 178
Argentein, Reginald de, 8-9; John de, 9
Argenteyn. John de, 9, 10
Arthur, Judge, 170
Arundell, Earl of, see Fitzalan ;
Henry Fitzalan, E;irl of, 34 ; John,
336. 339 ; Sir John, 299. 300. 490 ; Sir
Thomas, 300 ; Lord of Wardour.
19, 20, 299 ; Lady Dowager of. 23 ;
Countess, see Hungerford, Eleanor
Arundell, Lord, 233 ; family of,
514
Ash, Pierce A'Court, 120; Gen.
William A'Court, 120 ; Samuel,
178. See also Ashe, Aijsshe.
Ashbournham, Mr., 159
Ashe, Mary, 191
Ashley, Hon. Maurice, 5 ; Kiitbarine,
5 ; Catherine, 266
B
59^
Index of Persons.
Ashton, John, 547 ; Rev. Mr., 227
Ask. Nathaniel, 517
Ast, William, 192
Aston, Simon, 249; Elizabeth, 249 ;
William. 249; Robert, 249; Walter,
249 ; John, 3;!2 ; Joljanna 332
Atliill, Charles H. (Richmond
Herald). U\
Atkins, Francis, 121 ; John, 354 ;
Leonard, 354 ; Richard, 354 ; Rev.
William, 55
Aubrey, John, 25, 48, 51, 89
Audley, Hugh de,^,'erZ., 257
Aumarle, de, arms of, 25, ped. 257 ;
Sir William, 255; Elizabeth, 255
Aune, Nicholas de, 3G0 ; Thomas de,
3«3-4 ; Mabel de, 360, 3(53-4
Avebury, Vicar of, 444
Awdrv, Ambrose, 121, 403 ; West,
20l"
Ayers, John, 173
Aylbryse, Thomas, 358
Ayleford, Wilham de, 53
Aylesbury, Earl of, 21
Aylewyn, Edward. 234
Ayliff, GO
Aylifle, John, 59
Aylsbury, Rev. Thomas, 436
Aysshe, John, 305 ; Agnes, 305
Aysttree, John, 546
B.
Babyngton, Thomas, 388
Bache, James, 563
Backwell, Mr., 264; Tyringham,
210 ; Elizabeth, 210
Bacon, Elizabeth, 451
Baden, Robert, 248 ; Jane, 248
Badlesmere family, 514
Bagot. John, 234
Bailev, George, 473 ; Joseph, 473
Bailly, Thomas, 13
Baillyf, Robert, 13
Baily, James, 472
Baines, Joon (John ?), 58
Bainton, Anne, 579
Baintun, Sir Edward, 269. See also
IS ay nt on
Baker, John, 19, 183, 581 ; Michael,
545 ; Rev. Mr., 124
Bakewell, Thomas, 54
Baldenham, Robert, 528, 530, 573-4,
576 ; William, 529-30, 577
Baldwyn, John, 565
Balet, John, 425-6 ; Christine, 425-6
Balguy, Rev. Dr., 58
Ballard, Miss, 226 ; Rev. Dr., 222
Ballerd, Richard, 565
Balmerino, Dowager Viscountess, 97
Banifylde, Thomas, 311 ; John, 311 ;
Mary, 311
Banipficild, E., 244
Banbury, Earl of. See Knollys
Banks, Richard, 472
Barford. ]\Ir., 124
Barfote, John, 339
Barkeley, John, 307 ; Elisabeth, 307 ;
Alice," 307 ; Margaret, 307
Barker, William, 309, 423 ; George,
165; John, 423; Robert, 224;
Katheryne, 309
Barkley, William, 419
Barley, William, 71
Barnard pedigree, 241 ; John, 169
Barns, William, 165
Baron, John, 234
Barons, Richard, 422 ; Agnes, 422
Barret, Charles, 172, 181
Barrett, Charles, 236 ; Hugh, 486
Barry, Sir John, ped., 257 ; Isabel
(or Elizabeth), ped., 257
Bartilmcwe, John, 424 ; Richard,
424-5, 562 ; Roger, 425, 562 ;
Eleanor, 425, 562 ; Elizabeth, 424
Bartlet, William, 167
Baitlett, Rev. Mr., 57; Rev. James,
116
Barton, Rev. Mr., 21
Barton, Prebend, in Wells Cathe-
dral, 255
Bartylmew, John, 564 ; Richard,
564 ; Elizabeth, 564
Baskerfeld, Philip, 56() ; Agnes, 566
Baskerville family, 245; Mr., 145
Bab.selt, John, 338; Elizabeth, 338
Bassingeburne, Warin de, 8-10, 13;
Margaret, 8
Bassynge, Roger, 51
Batel, William, 358.
Bath and Wells, bishop of, 445, 489 ;
Oliver, bishop of, 338-9
iJathe fannly, 5
Bathe, Anthony, 52
Bathe alias Wheteacre, Robert, 565
Bathurst, Peter, 19; Frances, 19
Batson, Mr. Justice, 54 ; Thomas, 57
Batt (Bart?), Sir John, 583
Batt, Jolin,y>6v/., 579; Richard, y^er/.,
579, 581-2; Thomas, jted., 579;
Henry, ped., 579 ; Edward, ped.,
579; Nicholas, y^erf., 579 ; Christo-
pher, 579 ; Ann, ped., 579-80 ;
Agnes, ped., 579 ; Elizabeth, ped.,
Index of Persons.
593
579; Jone, pcd., 579, 582-3;
Dorothy, 580 ; Margaret, pcd., 579 ;
Eleanor, jjcd., 579 ; Christabell,
jjcd., 579 ; Lucy, j?ed., 579; Sarah,
jJcd., 579 ; Mary, ^e</., 579
Batte, John. 858
Battes, John le. 322
Baverstock. James, 485 ; Daniel, 485
Bawtrey, Frances, 565
Bayle, John, 234
Bavlie. Thomas, 582
Bayliffe family. 238; Eliz:ibeth, 403,
405 ; William, 403, 405 ; Theophi-
lus, 403; Charles, 404, 407;
Henry. 404. 407 ; and Norborne
arms, 405
Baylis, Rev. Joseph, 224
Bayly, Colonel, 198; Christopher.
26 ; Richard, 177 ; Thomas, 26,
564 ; William, 563 ; Rebecca, 27
Baynard, Edward, 145 ; George, 563 ;
Philip. 145, 416; Robert. 146,
439; William, 145; monuments
at Lacock, 250
Baynbrygge, Christopher, 335
Bavnerm, Thomas, 307 ; Elsabeth.
307
Baynton family, 194, 196, 234 ; Ed-
ward, 59, 425 ; Sir Edward, 138,
435 ; Henry, 199 ; Sir Henry, 195 ;
James. 403 ; Robert, 199
Baynton-Rolt, Edward, 119. See
also Jiainton, Baintun
Beale, Rev. William, 57
Beames. Walter, 136
Beauchamp, Sir John. 92 ; Lady
Margaret, 92 ; Richard, 332 ; Sir
Richard, 24 ; Bishop of Salisbary,
448
Beaufort, Cardinal, 220 ; Duke of,
480
Beaumont, Hugo, 338 ; Elizabeth,
338
Bechampe, heiress of, 304
Beck, John, 5
Becket, Benjamin, 57
Beckett, family, 474
Beckford, Alderman Richard, 18-9;
Julines, 119, 122
Beckington, Bishop Thomas, 387, 490
Bedford, Nicholas, 331; Margaret,
831
Bedwell, William. 562 ; Elizabeth,
562
Beke, arms of, 25
Benger, William, 105
Benet, John, 566
Benett, Richard, 564 ; Stanford,
229-30 ; Thomas, 566
Bennet, Thomas Leigh, 225 ; Justice
Gervase, 163; Ralph, 175
Bennett, John, 295 ; Jane. 295 ;
Thomas, 53, 369 ; Rev. Mr., 582
Benolte, Thomas. 241
Benstede, Edward, 334 ; Jocosa, 884
Bentink, Lord George. 57
Bently, Thomas, 417
Benton, Prior of, 488
Berkeley, Maurice, 421 ; Countess
of, 58
Berks, Archdeacon of, 67
Berkysdale, Robert, 563
Berrymore, Rev. Mr., 223
Hertie, Peregrine, 120. 227 ; Lady of,
227 ; James, 87 ; Rev. Montagu,
122
Best, arms of, 488, 542
Bettesworth, Rev. Edmund, 23
Bevnam. Alexander, 332 ; Christo-
pher, 382 ; William, 382 ; Eliza-
beth. 332
Bezer. John, 180
Biddlecombe, Thomas. 33
Biddlescomb, Rev. William, 58
Bird. Giles. 545 ; Joane, 545
Birde, William, 420
Birtby. Edward, 400
Bish, Sir Edward. Clarencieux, 498
Bishop, William, 183
Blackburn, Rev. Mr., 18
Blackstone. Sir William, 445 ; Wil-
liam, 119-20
Blagden. Mr., 62
Blak. William le, 68
Blake, William. 566
Blake alias Hurrell, Richard, 115;
alias Jaques, Robert, 52
Blakeman, Rev. Mr., 124
Blanchard, William, 472 ; alias
Wheeler, Martha, 208
Blanchett, Thomas. 93, 95
Bland, John, 56 ; Mr.. 20
Blandv, Benjamin, 451 ; Thomas,
451'
Blanford, John, 582
Blick, Robert. 552 ; Mary, 552
Blount, Simon, 421
Bluck, Mathew, 546
Blunt, Edmonde, 306; Dame Mar-
garet, 306
Boddicott, Benjamin, 546 ; Edward,
546
Bodenham, Henry, 335
Bodman, Thomas, 175
594
Index of Persons.
Bohun family, 211 ; Humfrey de,
275, 367. See also Essex and
Hereford
Bokatte, William, 381
Bolinirbroke, Viscount, 56
BoUand, Huiufrey, 5G5
Bonam. pedigree, 241 ; Antony, 310 ;
Edward, 310; John, 306, 310-2;
Robert, 310 ; Tliomas, 310 ; Alvce,
310; Anne, 310-1; Edyth, 310;
Elsabethe. 305; Mary, 310-1.
See also Jionhavi
Bonaparte. Napoleon, 94
Bond, George, 452 ; Thomas, 549 ;
Alice, 516 ; Elizabeth, 452
Bonham, pedigree of, 310 ; John,
311-2, 331-2, 425, 562; Anna,
331-2 ; Maria, 21
Bonvil, Lord, 300, 490
Borley pedigree, 241, 303 ; Edward,
306, 368 ; George, 306 ; John, 306 ;
Richard, 306 •. Robert, 305 ;
Thomas, 306 ; Walter, 306 ; Anne,
306 ; Annys, 306 ; Elsabeth, 306 ;
Eiyenor, 306 ; Jane, 306 ; Jone,
306; Margaret, 306; Mary, 306,
368; Mylycent, 306. See also
Burley
Bosse. John. 565
Boterel, William, 277
Botreaux, William Lord, ped., 257 ;
Anne, j>ed., 257
Boucher pedigree, 241, 303 ; Thomas,
337
Bouchier. Walter, 350 ; Thomazine,
350 ; Susan, 403
Bouedon. John, 527
Bourchier. Archbishop, 436, 491 ;
Brereton. 499 ; Henry, 305; John
Lord, 304 ; Sir Thomas, pcd., 257 ;
Dorothy. 305 ; Elisabeth, 305 ;
Frances, 305 ; Margaret, 238 ;
Mary, 305 ; Susan, 238. 404
Bourghchier, John, 339-40 ; Sir John,
•'.;». See also Jiurghchier
Buurk. Miss, 55
IJourno, — , 264
B(jnverie, Hon. Edward, 119; Hon.
Miss, 117
Bowchier, Miss, 120
Bf)wer, Peter. 23 ; William, 133, 564
r.owerjng, Robert. 335
Bowles, Rfv. William Lisle, 298
Bracton. Thoma.s de, .507-8
Bradford, Corneliu.s, 80; Su.«annah,
HO; Lawrence de, 531 ; William,
531
Bradelegh, John de, 457, 505 ; Roger
de, 505-6 ; Isabella de, 505-6 ;
Margaret de, 455
Bradley, Agnes, 387, 490 ; Mr., 20 .
Braibrooke, pedigree. 303 ; James,
309 ; Thomas, 309 ; William, 309 ;
Elsabeth, 309; Katherine, 309;
Margerye, 309
Brandon, Robert, 332 ; Thomas, 340 ;
Elizabeth, 332. 340
Branker (Brouncker), Henry, 479
Bratton, Rocelin de, 274-8, 313,
316-7, 358,360; John de, 274-8,
316-7, 322.360, 414; Thomas de,
276-7. 319; Richard de, 313-4,
317, 360; GeofYrey de, 318-9, 358,
363. 36(), 408 ; William de, 321-2,
363, 501 ; Henry de, 321, 363, 365;
Walter de, 502 ; Isabella de, 276,
313 ; Rose de, 278, 318 ; Sibil de,
365 ; Christina de, 501-2
Bray, Reginald, 333-4, 337-9 ; Rich-
ard, 419 ; Katherine, 337
Braybrooke, pedigree, 368 ; Robert
de, 386 ; James, 479 ; Elizabeth,
479 ; Joan, 479
Brayfylde. Richard, 305
Breach family, 82; William, 80;
Robert, 147; Aaron, 147 ; James,
147; George. 147; John, 147
Brent, George, 57
Brereton, Randolph, 499 ; Rebecca,
499
Brettell, John, 53
Brewen. John, 337
Brewerton, Rev. Jeremiah, 59
Breyd, Rawlen, 529, 676
Brian, Hugh, .365
Brice. Robert, 162 ; Elizabeth, 162
Bridport, Bishop of Salisbury, 574
Brigges, Sir John a, 308 ; Anthony.
308 ; Charles, 308 ; Edmond, 308 ;
Giles, 308; Steven, 308; Elysa-
beth, 308; Frances, 308; Kathe-
ryn, 308; Mary, 308
Briggys. John, 565
Bright, James. 224; John, 182
Briglitriche, William, 411
Brill, William. 336; Margery, 336
Bristol, Bishop of, 27 ; Earl of, 191 ;
Walter. Abbot of St. Augustine's, 13
Britton, John, IS, 242. 29H
Brooas, Jnlm, 422; Anne, 422
Brode, Williaui le, 359
Brodecombe, Robert de, 411
Broke. 'Ihomas, 425 ; Johanna, 425
Broket. William, 564
Index of Persons.
595
Brokwuy, David, 565
Brom, John, 359
Bromham alias Phelpi^. See Phelps
Broniwich, Sefton, 445
Brook. John. 418 ; Nichoh\s. 359
Brooki-. Anthony. 215; Ralph. 92:
William. 217 ; Sir William. 74
Brookes. Anthony. 263-5, 268-70
Broom, Francis. 236
Brotkne, John. 564 ; Agnes, 564
Brouncker. family. 194 ; arms of,
479 ; pedigree, 3"3 ; HeniT. 584 :
Robert, 417. See also Branker,
Brunher
Browan, John. 234
Browman, John, 564
Brown, John. 336 ; Lucy. 418
Brown, John. 199; Rev. Meredith,
201 ; Meredith Meredith, 201
Browne, Thomas, 136. 549-52 ;
Richard, 352-3, 518. 547; John,
422, 545, 549-50. 552. 563 ; Lucian,
545, 549-52; Aldem. 548; Robert,
552 ; Agnes, 563 ; Ann, 550-2 ;
Elizabeth. 518 ; Joane, 352-3 ;
Rebecca. 551 ; Mary, 552
Browning. John, 265 ; Alice. 265 ;
Blizabeth. 265 ; Mary. 265
Brownjohn, Mr., 263
Broxholm. Mr., 199
Bruce, Lord. 123; Lady Maiy. 21;
Rev. Stan, 224
Brudemere, Ralph, 526
Brudenell, George, 56 ; Robert, 338-9 ;
Col. Robert, 119
Bruer. See Ilarrisson
Bruges, Henry, 564 ; John, 564 ;
Thomas. 564 ; William, 243
Brugge. Baldwin, 307 ; Giles, 307
Sir Giles, 307 ; Sir John, 308
Thomas, 307-8; William. 308
Anne, 308; Elizabeth. 307
Florence, 308; Katherine, 308
Ursula, 308
Bruggys, John. 418
Bruning, Sir Edmund, 518
Brunker. Robert, 421. 563; Harry,
309 ; Elizabeth, 309
Brunsdon. T.. 22
Brunyng, Richard. 421 : Mary, 421
Bruthere. William le, 414. 505;
Walter le. 505 ; Christina le,
504-5
Bryan, Rev. Mr., 22
Bryant. William. 473
Brydges pedigree, 303 ; Edmund,
Lord Chandos, 2 ; Dorothy, Lady
I Chandos, 2; William, 2, 515-16;
I Thoma.s, 516
Brydgis. John, 563 ; Henry, 563 ;
Richard. 563
i'Brygge. John, 425
Buck, rhoma>, 552
Buckingham, Duke of, 24, 299
I Bulkclev, Charles, 69
I Bull, Daniel, 119, 222
Bullen. Anna, 78
Bullock. John. 182-3
i Bumford, Foggy, 56
! Bunney, Richard, 33(i
Burcombe, Mary. 265
Burdett. arms of. 479
Burdon, John, 419
Burford. William, 227 ; Widow, 452
Burges, Mary, 340 ; Isaac, 170
Burgess. William, 123
Burgh, Edward, 337; Anna. 337
Burghchier de Fitzwarren, John, 334
Burleghe. John, 417
Burley. Edward, 563. See also
Borley
Burlington. Bovle, Earl of, 587
Burnel, Richard, 317, 360
Burnell, Edward Lord, 306 ; Margery,
306
Burnett. William, 350
Burrough. Thomas, 35, 79, 348 ; Hon.
Justice. 473
Bursher. Christopher, 564
Burton, Edmund, 339 ; Gilbert, 70
Bury family, 33 ; Edmond, 336
Busby, Mrs., 263
Bush, James, 27 ; John, 27 ; Paul,
27; Walter, 27; Maud, 27
Bussh, Thomas, 335
Busshe, Thoma.s, 311. 422; William.
311, 422, 425, 562; Anne, 311;
Elizabeth. 311 : Edith, 311
Butler. James, Earl of Ormonde.
ped., 257; John. 425 ; Jane, 296
Butt, William, 484 ; Isabel, 484
Buttokesham, Richard de, 68 ;
Margery de, 68
Button, George, 223; Robert, 175;
Dame Elianor. 451
Butts, William, 130
Buuer. Alfric. 278
Buwne, Thomas. 306 ; Margaret. 306
Byley family. 579; Henry. 579-80;
Joan, 579; Rebecca. 5^(0
Bvrde, Roger, 418; Margery, 418;
'William, 418
Bys, Thomas de, 411
Bysses, William, 425
596
Index of Persons.
C.
Cade. Jack, \W ; /led., 2:>1
Caen (Cadamo), Abbess of, 85
Cakebred, Kobert, 526
Calley. Thomas, 94
Callow, Rev., 63
Calne, Ralph, 317
Cam, Thomas, 35G
Cambridtje, Richard, Earl of. 297
Campbell, Ralph, 21
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 21, 260,
298
Canterton, John de, 320-3, 357-8, 508,
561; Christina de, 321-2, 357;
Margery de, 358, 560
Cantilupe, Barons, 211
Capel, Lord Arthur, 587 ; Mary, 587
Capell, Giles, 339 ; John, " 336 ;
William, 337
Cappere, Ralph le, 526
Carde, Mathew, 110
Carne, Edmund, 339
Carpenter, Roger, 422
Carrington, Frederick Augustus, 241
Carter, Richard le, 411 ; John, 528,
574; Richard, 423; Robert, 423;
alias Wysdom. See Wysdom
Cary, Thomas, 432 ; Mary, 432 ;
Orange, 432
Ca.stel (Castle) Combe, Nicholas de,
43-4 ; Agnes, 43 ; Ursula, Baroness,
45 ; " Januarius," de, 45
Castle, William, 120
Catesby. John, 332
Cattle, William, 56
Cauf, Ralph le, 360
Cawoode, Stephen, 423
Chaderton family, 2 ; Edward, 50 ;
George, 50 ; Thomas, 50 ; William,
50-1; Bridget, 51 ; Margaret, 50-1
Chaffey, John, 54
Chafyn, Thomas, 416, 419, 424, 564 ;
Leonard. 416, 419; William, 416;
John. 422 ; Johanna, 422
Cliafyne, Thomas, 562
Chamber, alias Smyth, Nicholas, 69
Chamberiayne, arms of, 438, 541 ;
Robert le, 557; Nicholas, 555-7
Champernonn, John, 2(i
Champion, James, 436
Chandler, William, 155
Chandos. See Bnidgcs ; Walter
Lord, 307 ; John, 3(17'; Roger, .307 ;
Th -mas, 307 ; Elizabeth, 307
Chapman, William, 529-30, 574-6;
Robert, 530, 576
Chaterton, George, 332-3 ; Margaret,
333
Chatterton, William, 51
Chechester, John, 339; Margaret,
339
Cheltnam, John, 353-4
Cheney, John, 24 ; arms of, 25 ; Sir
Edmund, 25, j>ed., 257 ; Alice, 25,
ped., 257 ; Anne, ped., 257 ; Eliz-
abeth, y^Y/., 257; Mr., 124,228
Cherokee Chiefs, 123
Cheverel, Andrew, 314
Cheyne, John, 418; Thomas, 338;
Elizabeth, 338
Cheyuey, John, 562
Chichester, John, 339 ; Bishop of,
443
Chichley, Archbishop Henry, 219
Chideock, Sir iohu, ped., 251, 299,
490; Katherine, ped., 2.'")7, 299;
Margaret, 299
Chilcote, Philip, 419; Grace, 419. 424
Child, arms of, 267 ; Francis, 207-10,
216, 218, 261, 263-6, 269-70; Sir
Francis, 208- 12, 268 9, 301 ; Lady,
209; Robert, 207, 209,217-8; Sir
Robert, 209, 262-5, 267-8 ; Thomas,
210, 217-S, 262-6, 270; Samuel,
209, 263-4; Richard, 210 ; John,
217-8, 262-5, 267-9; Daniel, 218,
262-3, 267; George, 218, 262-5,
267; William, 217, 264; Dr.
William, 210; Henry, 217-8, 266 ;
Sir Josiah, 210-1 ; Michael, 218,
262 ; Edward, 218, 262, 267 ,
Williamson, 263, 267 ; Stephen,
264, 270 ; Ailewin, 217 ; Alse,217 ;
Ann, 217; Diana, 267; Dorothy,
218, 267 ; Elizabeth, 210, 212, 262,
265-7, 3(11 ; Hannah, 2(52; Jane, 209,
21.S, 262-4, 267-8; Joan, 217-8;
Martha, 209 ; Marv, 218 ; Pegge,
270; Priscilla, 26 i, 265-6; Pru-
dence, 218 ; Rachel, 267 ; Saiah,
209, 264; Susannah, 267; Thom-
asin, 2()3
Chin now. John, 264
Chisleden, Richard, 264
Chitterne. Sir William. Vicar of, 116
Chivers, Henry, 182 ; John, 93
Chocke, pedigree, 241, 303; Alexan-
der, 309 ; Edmonde, 309 ; Harrv
309 ; John, 309, 308 ; Richard, 308
William, 3(J9 ; Alice, 309 ; Anne
309; Annys, 309; Avys, 309
Elsabeth, 309 ; Fraunces, 309
Jane, 309
Index of Persons.
597
Chokke. John, 410
Choinlev, Roger, 420
Chynclion. Robert. 4i;t
Chyriel, Walter, G.S
Cifrowa.-^t. arms of, 25
Clapton. William, 401
Clare, arms of, 487 ; Gilbert de, 487
Clark, John, 180
Clarke, William, 17, fi9; Nicholas,
t;9: Jlenrv, 2CA: John. 408; Dr.
John, 20 ; Major. 434 ; Thonia.«,
47?*; Sir Henr\-. 538; M'ljor
Henry, 533-4: Sir Edward, .")34 ;
Philip, 534 ; Edmund, 534: Richard,
562 ; Alice, 562. See also. Clerk,
Clerlie
Clayton. Thomas, 23
Clerdewe, John, 137
Clerk, Richard, 321-2, 35H
Clerke, John. 44 ; Richard. 237 ;
W'illiam. 533 : Sir Henry, 533-4
Clerke, Edward, 534 ; Frances, 533 ;
(?) Arabella. 534
Cleveland, William, 264
Clev, John, 370 ; or Cleave. Anthony,
583
Clifford, George, .56; Henry. 159;
Svmon. 159 : Lord, 587
Clifton. Dr., 223
Clipsham, Mr., 237
Clitherow, Miss, 119
Coate-s Admiral Thomas, 120
Cobbe, Thomas, 562
Cobham, Lord, 74 ; William. 333 :
Alice. 3.33 ; Edward. 423 ; Johanna,
423
Cochrane, John, 48
Cock, Molly, 22
Cocker (Coker). heiress of, 304
Cockis, Stephen, 562
Codryngton. Christopher, 425. 562 ;
Ed'waid. 425, 562 ; Elizabeth, 425,
562
Coell, John. 479
CoflFyn. Richard, .334
Cok.' Richard. 359
Coke. Thomas, 332-3, 335, 416, 419,
422, 425 ; Johanna. 425
Coker. Henrv, 433: Thomas, 422
Col born. Thomas. 437
Colcrofl, Matthew. 71
Co'e, Richard. 13; William. 68;
Francis. 91 : Thomas, 92 : Roger,
322, 411. 503 : Beatrice, .502. See
ali-o Coles, Colics, Colli/s
Coleman. John. 166 ; Richard, 451 ;
Mary, 451 ; Sarah, 451 ; Harry,
485 ; Hannah, 485
Colome. William of, 150
Cules, W.. SheritT. 2<> ; arms of, 438,
541 : Susannah. 103
Colewayn, Walter, 360
Collens, John, 174-5
Coller. William, 354-7, 399. 400;
John. 356-7. 399. 4(H); Richard,
356
Thomas, 355, 357 ; Alice,
355, .Vnne. 354-6; Joane, 35t>,
399 ; Margery, 354-5 ; Sarah, 399,
400
Colles, Collys, Robert. 529-31, 576
Colleswayn, John, 411
CoUett, Henry, 562
Collier, Arthur. 446; James, 32;
Jabez. 32 : Rev. John, 1 16 ; Elisui-
beth. 32
CoUingbourne, William, 50
Collins, .\nthony, 209 ; Henry, 450 ;
Mr., 264
Collman, Thomas, 451-2; John, 452
Colson, Henry, 340 ; Elizabeth, 340
Colsweyn. Walter, 317
Columbar", Avicia de. 315
Colyngborne, Richard, 565
Combe, John de, 85
Comly, Anthony, 137; John, 181
Compavn, Adam, 358, 411. 459, 507;
John, 410-13, 454. 457-8. 502;
Roger, 411. 413. 45.S ; Richard,
321 ; William, 411, 454; Alice,
319 ; Christina. 457-8 ; Isabella,
411; Matilda, 411-5, 458
Complin, William, li)9. 160
Compton. Charles. 227 ; John, 423 ;
Nicholas. 334, 337 ; Robert, 234 ;
William, 419
Condut, Nicholas, 415, 506; Sarah,
415, 506 ; Richard, 458-9
Conduvt, William, .359
Condyt. Richard, 359 ; Walter, 359.
See also Coundut. Cunduyt
Conolly. William, 57 ; Hon. Thomas,
119
Conquest, Miss, 223
Constable. Richard, 133-4
Conyngesby. Humfrey, 334, 337
Cook, or le Couk, John, 506 ; John
le, 413
Cook, John, 457 ; Roarer, 117, 275-6
Cooke. Roger, 236 ; Walter, 566
Coope. William, 334, 337
Cooper, Sir John, 4, 5; •Anthony
Ashley, 4 ; John, 59 ; William,
110; Fanny. 227
Cooth, Mi^s, 116
Cope, William, 337
Copeman, Rev. John, 56
598
Index of Persons.
Copener, Robert de, 1 1
Coplev, RoEcer, 425
Copton, Ralph, 417
Cordcroy, John, l;";)
Cornbury, Lord, SG
Cornesye, John lo, 409
Cornewall, ^lillicent. 45
Corniser, Matilda do. 414
Cornwall, Reginald Earl of, 45
Cornysshe, John, 424; Johanna, 424
Corr, or Curr, Oliver, 449-51 ; Robert, i
449-50, 4.52; William, 449-50;
John, 450 ; Abigail, 450 ; Anna,
450; Anne, 450; Dorothy, 450;
Elizabeth. 450 ; Grace, 450 ; Joane,
450 ; Mary, 450
Cosham, John, 483
Cottle. Richard, 116; Thomas, 55
Cottrell, George, 227
Couk, John le. 411-2. 414
Coull, John, 385
Coundut, Nicholas, 453 ; Sarah, 153
Courtenav, Henry, 141 ; Sir Philip,
386; Richard, 386 ; Margaret, 386
Cousins, Timothy, 93; William, 93
Cove, Walter, 315; Julian (?^, 315
Covelston. Ralph, 459
Covontre, John, 581 : William, 334,
581, 583; Robert. 309 ; Alice. 3u9
Coventry and Lichfield, bishop of,
338
Coweley, John, 331 ; Julia, 331
Cowper al'mx Holland, see Holland ;
John, 105, 110; Thomas, 423;
Johanna, 423
Coz, John, 52, 137
Coxe (or Cocks), Joseph, 28
Coxcter, Richard, 192; Barbara, 192
Crabbe, Rev. George, 298
Cracherode, Mordant, 161-2 ; Mary,
161-2
Craven, Miss, 223
Crekelardo, John, 306
Cresset, Thomas, 419
Cresweil, T. Estcourt, 120
Cricklade, Elizabeth, 45
Cripps, Nathaniel, 400
Cripse, Stephen le, 526
Crispe, Samuel, 257
Cristechurch aliax Shepard. See
Shepard
Cristinasse, William, 331 ; Christiana,
331
Croke alias Hood. See Jlnod; arms
of, 312 ; John, 312 ; Nicholas, 312 ;
Reginald, :!32 ; Rob(-rt, 312 ;
Agnes, 312; Alice, 312, 332 ; Anne,
312 ; Johanna, 312 ; Joisse, 312 ;
Philipixi. 312
Crook, Thomas, 55 ; Rev. Mr., 222
Crooke, Colonel, 534 ; Robert, 41() ;
Agnes, 416 ; Anne, 310
Crycklade. John, 439
Cue, Benjamin, 24
Cuffe, John, 333-4 ; Richard, 332-3
Cullimore, Mary, 26(5
Cullis. William, 472
Cumberland, Duke of, 80
Cumely, Thomas, 549
Cumpayn, John, 505-6 ; Richard,
315 ; Walter, 315 ; Matilda, 505-6
Cumpayne, Adam, 321 ; Thomas,
321
Cunduyt, Walter, 367
Curie, John, 417
Cuites, John, 528, 573 ; Henry, 530,
575
Curteus, Edith, 267
Cutte, John, 334
D.
Dabney (Daubeny), Sir Giles, 304 ;
Dame Cecily, 304
Daccombc, Henry, 335 ; Christiana,
:',3.-.
Dacombe, Thomas, 565 ; John, 565
Dacon, Thomas, 423
Dampier, Margaret, 33
Damsell, George, 472
Dauby, Earl of. Sec Danvcrs
Danesey, Richard, 315, 411
Danesi, Richard, 367
Danesy, Richard, 315, 3()0 ; Giles,
360 ; John, 364
Daniel, Jeffrey, 48
Danisye, Richard, 315
Danncy, Joiin, 564
Dansey, William, 361 ; Richard,
361-2
Danseye, Richard, 558-9 ; John, 559
Dansv" Ricliard, 322, 358, 362, 367-8,
501-2
Danvers (or Davers) family, 86, 194;
Sir Henry, 86 ; Sir John, 86, 195,
307 ; Henry. 86 ; Ann, 86 ; Doro-
thy, 307; Elizabeth, 86; Lucy,
195; John, 194-5, 335
Danyells, William. 425; Ellen, 425
Darbe, Crystyan, 528, 530, 577
Darcy, Lord, 587 ; Conyers, 587
Dareil. See also Darrcll, Dorcll ;
Edward, 335; Sir George, 304;
Elsabeth, 304 ; Mary, 335
Index of Persons.
599
DarkncU, Adolphus. Is,") ; Harry,
485 : Marv. -iSo
Darrell. Sir E.lward, 807, 80".) ; Con-
stantino, of) I; Dame Jane, 307;
Katliorine, 8t)'.»
Daubenoy. Giles, 885, 338-40 ; Eliza-
beth, 885
Dauntesev, arras of, 537 ; Ambrose,
St>, 421," 428, 5t!4, 5^4-5 ; William,
421, 428, 587; Sir .John, 5s4 ;
Elizabeth, 80
Daunteseye, Richard, 411
Davies, Lancelot, 227
Davin, Richard, 16(j
Davis, Thomas, 580, 57t;-7 : Peter, 19
Davy, Richard. 484-5 : Walter. 420 ;
-Mariraret, 420
Davyd (Davyth), Thomas, 529-30,
577
Dawbeney, Henry, 565
Dawbridgecourt, Beatrice, .387
Dawkins, James, 58
Dawkyng, Randell, GO
Dawiiey (Dawncy), Ambrose, 424
Day, Thomas, 159; Susannah, 198;
MaiT Ann, 198
Deacon, Rev. Mr., 122
Dean, Rev. Thomas, 60
Deane, Bishop of Sali.sbury, 448
Delamere, John, 806 ; Peter, 85 ;
Sir Thomas, 24
Delarne (or Delarue). Mrs., 32 ;
Anne, 78
Delaval, Francis Blake, 58 ; John, 58
Delawarr, Thomas West Lord, 240,
881, 425, 565; Elizabeth Lady,
881, 425, 565
Delme, Ellas, 222 ; Miss, 121
Den (Dene?), Margery, 529
Dene, William, 422
Dene, Dcrne, Deone, Dena, Ihina
Walter de, 278-4, 318-20, 364, 8<;7
45.5-6; Richard. 276. 816-7, 858
Thomas, 318 ; Alexander, 364
Isabella, 320 ; Sarah, 320. 456
Denge, John, 422; Elizabeth, 422
Denton, Edward, 71
Denyas, Walter, 526
Dersey, Geoffrey, 71
587
Lady
Devereux, Robert,
Frances, 587
Devizes, Mayor of, 581
Devon, Earl" of, 142, 299
Dickinson, Miss. 124
Digby, Lord. 190, 193, 200; Lonl
George, 191 ; John, 191
Digges family, 2
Disney, William, 417
Uittim, Humphrey, 178-4
Dixie, Sir Woolstan, 26
Dixton, Riehard, 8(;9
Dobson, Rev. Jolin, 1 16
Dods\vorth,Mr., 117 ; Rev. Frederick,
224
Doget, John, 18
Doktlyntoii, .John de, 44;i
Doiie.Richard le, 86')
Dorchester, Roger, 497 ; Ann, 497
Dorell, Florence, 807
Dormer, Michael, 421, 423-4, 568-4
Dorset t, Thomas, Marquess of, .")65
Dorter. John. 164
Dove, Francis, 178
Down, Rev. Samuel, 128; Mr., 116
Downton, Raron of, 228
Drachelacz, John, 526
Drake, Rev. Mr., 119
Draper, Robert, 69
Drax, Richard de, 363; Erie, 58;
Henry, 58
Drewe, John, 417 ; Robert, 188
Drumlaurig, Lord, 19
Drummond, Bishop of Salisbury,
119-21
Duckett, Thomas, 119, 125; William,
57, 182, 48.-,
Dudeley, John, 425
Dudley, Edward, .536 ; Richard, 565 ;
Cecily, 336
Duffeld, Brian, 386 : Thomas, 336
Duffield, Agnes, jicd. 579, 583
Dus^dale, Sir William, 92, 850
Duk', William Ic, 866
Dukett, Robert, 564 ; Elizabeth 564
Dulton, Savaric de, 360 ; Robert,
360 ; Clarice, 360
Dune Sarra le, 366
Dunham, Elizat)eth, 300
Dunstanville, alias Castle Combe, 93,
392; Henn*-, 45; John, 45;
Nicholas, 45 ; Walter, 45 ; Agnes,
45 ; Barbara, 45
Dun.'^ton, Walter, 8.32
Durant, Adam, 358; J.ihn, 411
Duraunt, Roger, 5li5
Durham. Richard, Bishop of, 388
Duston, arms of, 479
Dyble, John, 16
Dyer, Z>yar, James, 138; John, 264,
331, 3'84; Theophilus, 482; Kath-
erine, 384
Dynham, Lord, daughter of, 300;
Elizabeth, 221, 489
Dyson, Jeremiah, 222
C
6oo
Judex of Persons.
E.
Ealie, Eli/, EJi/c, John, 352, 357;
Anne. 3:^2-3 '
Earlf, Giles, 5G, 120
Earnely, Robert, 91 ; Frances, 91.
See also Enwley, Ernie
Eastmead. Arthur, 182
Easton. Richard, 19
Eatwell. William, '2()9-70
E<len, Rev. Dr.. 59 ; Mary. 268
Edendon, William de, 507-8. See
also Edington, Ediindon
Edge, Robert. 424 ; Margaret, 424
Edington, William de, Up. of Win-
chester, 397
Edmondes, John, 448-9
Edmonds, Edmond, 2tj4
Edmunds. William, 199
Edward, Cristina, 13
Edwardcs, Nicholas, 421 ; Grace,
421 ; Mr. W., 229
Edwards, Thomas, 87 ; Walter, 421 ;
Johanna, 421
Edyndon, John de, 55G-7
Egerley, Robert, 33(;
Egerton, Scroop. lltJ-7
Egerton, Sir Thomas, Lord Keeper,
105
Ekelston, Maud, .308
Elings, John, 5G5
Elithorpe, Nathaniel, 2>ed., 579 ;
Mary, y;crZ., 579
Ellinson, Ralph, 227
Ellis, Benjamin, 485 ; Jerred. 484 ;
John, 485; Thomas, 356, 436,
484-5 ; William, 484-5 ; Mary, 484
Ellizander. See Alexander
Elmes, Walter, 337 ; Anna, 337
Elton family, 103
Elyot, Richard, 332-3, 335, 416;
Thomas, 418, 562; William, 335;
Margaret, 562
Ely.s, John, 459
Empson, Richard, 334
Erason, Richard ; 334, 337-9
Erie, General, 58
Erneley, John, 425 ; Sir Jos. (John),
48
Ernie, arms of, 438, 487 ; Sir John,
487 ; Michael, 487 ; J(jhn Kyrlc,
270
Escudemor, Geoffrey de, 318 ;
Peter, 452-4, 457-9, 500-2, 504-7,
554-5; Walter, 4.52-4, 457-8, 500,
555; Margery, 452-4, 457-8, 500,
502, 506-7, 554-5
Essex and Ileroford, Earls of. See
liohun ; William, 335, 562 ; Eliza-
beth, 335
Estecote, Robert, 14, 15; William, 14
Estcourt, arms of, 352 ; Edmund,
400-1. 404 ; George, 352, 399-402,
404, 406; Giles. 402-3; Jasper.
401 ; John, 401 ; Richard. 351,400,
402-4 ; Thomas. 400 ; Sir Thomas,
404 ; Anne, 351, 401-2, 404-5, 407 ;
Grace, 402; Jane, 402 ; Mary, 401,
404-6 ; Dame Mary, 404
Esterhazy. Prince Nicholas, 209
Estmond. John, 417
Eston, William, 418
Estormy, Sir William. 304
Ethelwerd the Chronicler, 477
Ethelred, King, 183
Eton, John de. 365
Evans, Katherine, 173
Evelyn, John, diary of, 394
Everard, Henry, 423 ; John, 527
Exeter, arms of bishops of, 396-7 ;
John, bishop of, 339; dean and
chapter of, 386
Eyers, Thomas, j/^/'rf., 579 ; Jone,
ped.. 579
Eyles, Jol-.n, 35 ; Sir John, relict of,
119; Styles. Sir Francis, 122
Eymys. William, 531, 576
Eyre, Miss, 54 ; Robert, 562 ; relict
"of, 124; William, 192, 269, 435;
Sir Christopher, 517; Stratfoid,
534; Jane, 192; Mary, 269-70
F.
Fairholt, F. W., 40
Fane, Lady Child, 209
Fansliawe, Tiuimas. 533
Farcraan, William. 276
Farley, Farlaih, Prior of, 318, 360,
365 ; John, Prior of, 276
Farmour, William, 422
Farrer, .John, 484 ; Nycholas, 354 ;
Elizabeth, 484
Fawconer, Edward, 29-32, 76-8;
Francis, 30; Henry, 29, 32, 78;
James, 32, 77 ; Jasper, 33; John,
29, 30, 32-3, 78; Jonathan, 31-2,
78 ; Joseph, 32 ; Paul Sindry, 33 ;
Pope, 32; Thomas, 30; Thomas
Harris, 29. 78 ; Samuel, 30-3, 75-7 ;
Sindry, 33; William, 29, 31, 33,
78 ; Anne, 29, 30, 78 ; Eliza. 77 ;
Elizabeth, 30, 76 ; Frances, 75 ;
Katharine, 30 ; Margaret, 32 ;
Imicx of Persons.
60 1
Martha, 3:'., 75-1!; Mary. 30, 32;
Mary Frances, 78 ; Penelope, 30 ;
Sarah, 33, 78 ; Susanna, 30 ;
Thomasine, 31, 33
Fayrwater. John, 443
Felpcs alia.t Syiues, John, 581
Fell rut hiT. l\obert, 333
Fermour. William, 410 ; Richard, 416
Ferrers, Hon. Miss, 20U
Ferris, Mr. L.. 532
Ferrys, John, 3l)G
Ferwin, John, 5tj
Feteplace, John, 418 ; Thomas, 418 ;
William, 418 ; Elizabeth, 418
Fetiplace, John, 33:!, 33G ; Richard,
336 ; Thomas, 3;!6
Fettplace, John, 307 ; Briget, 307
Fetvplace, William, 417; Elizabeth,
417
Feversham, Lord, 19, 223
Field, James, 182
Finemere, Gilbert de, 487
Fisher, John, 333
Fisshere. See Gyane
Fitch. Mary, 191
Fitzalan. arms of, 33; John, Earl of
Arundel, jicd.. 257
Fitcharbert Joseph, 178
Fitz Clerk, Richard, 316, 358
Fitzgerald, Patrick, 116
Fitz Henry, William. 319
Fitzjames. John, 3315, 424
Fitzpayne family, 299
Fitz Rose, John, 358
Fitz Thomas, Richard, 317, 360 ;
John, 358
Fitzurse family, 351
Fitz Walkelyn, Michael, 7
Fitzwarren, see liounjhchicr
Fitzwaren, Fulcome, 340
Fitzwarin, Alan, 317, 360 ; Hugh le.
554 ; Nicholas, 409-16, 455-6. 45s,
554-5, 561 ; Peter lo, 362, 409-10.
560-1; Reginald. 561 ; Robert. 561;
William. 413-6. 554-5, 557-60;
Agnes, 409-10 ; Joan, 554 ; Mar-
gery, 561 ; Matilda, 554-5, 557-8
Flemvng, Martin, 418
Fletcher, William, 18, 419 ; Rev. Mr.,
118
Flevr, or Fluyer, family, 313 ; John,
iiV2 ; William, 312 ; Philippa, 312
Floure, John, 332 ; Margaret, 332
Flower, George, 116; John, 230;
Stephen, 440. 582 ; Thomas, 479
Floyd, Hugh, 356
Fludyer, Sir Samuel, 56, 119
Fode. Richard, 44
Folkeston, Viscount, 117-8
Foot, Henrv, 124
Foute, :Miss, 239
Ford, John, 101,290; Robert, 101;
Joanna, 161
I Fore. Rev. Mr., is
Forent (Forc.>^t ?), William, 433
Forest, Robert. 3."»9
Forstcr. See Hocki/ns; John, 503;
Richard, 337
Fortescue, Adrian, 417-S; Anna, 417
Foster, John, 4s 1 ; Michael, 451 ;
Sir Micha»l, 451 ; Sarah. 451
Fowler, Ricliard, 452; Sir Robert,
519; Sir Thomas, 519
, Fox, John le. 411 ; Rev. Bohun, 172,
1 236; George, 120-7, 103-4, 109,
178, 349; John, 197, 3,-,(i, 540;
Sir Stephen, 552 ; Hon. Mr., 59-00;
Elizabeth. 197
Frampton. Rev. Mr.. 122
Fra;me, Mr., 124
Franclen, Richard, 529
Frankelayn, Philip le, 503
Frankeleyn, Richard, 358
Frankelyn, John, 3.33; Johanna, 333
Franklin, John, 93; Thomas, 19;
Mary, 181
Fraunkelyn, Richard, 363 ; Roger,
363
Fraunceys. Gilbert, 98
Fraunke, Hugh le. 411
Freeth, Richard, 549
Freine. William, 337
Frekylton, Henry, 447
Frenian, Richard, 419
Krieman, Alfred. 274
Frome, Miss, 12t»
Froora, George, 179
: Frost, William, 417-9
I Froste, Edmund, 74
I Frowd, Margaret, 31
j Frowyk. Thomas. 334, 338-9
i Fry, George, 18 ; James, 485 ;
Joseph. 127; Zephaniah, 181
Fryday, John, 502
Fry the, Thomas. 500
Fulbonrne, William de, 558
Fulford, Ann, 32
Fuller, Richard. 72-3
Funde, Ricliarde atte, 411
Fyllole, William, 304 ; Katherine,
304
Fynamore, arms of, 438, 542 ; Roger,
487 ; Mary, 487
Fynnemore, Thomas, 423
6o2
Index of Persons.
G.
Gabbett, Chri.^tol'cr, i;{7
Gaby, John, l!tS
Gage, Richard, (55
Gai^ge, John, 1157
Gaklwin. Rev. Mr., 223
Gale, Richard, 472; William, 353,
422, 548
Garbonell, Walter. 13
(iardener, Edward. 563
Gardiner. John, 337 ; William, 35
Gardner, Harry, 473
Garnesey, Thomas, 05
Garralt, Gyles, 05
Garth, 02 ; Charles, 227 ; .lolm, 119,
139, 227-S
Gascoigiie, Dr. Thomas, 256, 387
Gastrell, John, 545
Gatakcr, arms^ of, 437
Gatforde, John, 05
Gaunt, John of, 297, 450
Gauntlett, Andrew, 117
Gawen, Thomas, 05, 422
Gawnt, Tliomas, 05 ; Katherine, 65
Gawyn, Thomas, 505 ; William, 65
Gaynesborowe, Geyncsburgh, Sir
Hugh, 66
Geay, Miss, 33
Gefferey, Tiiomas, 66
George alias Hoskyns, John, 60 :
John, 424 ; George, 504 ; Tliomas,
232
Gerard. William, 562; Mary, 502;
Richard, 339 ; Agnes, 339
Gerate. John, 05
Gerrish, (ri/n/sxhc, William, 66 ;
Mary, 18l'
Gerveyse, John, 60
Gery, Roger, 66
Gibbes, Mary, 91
Gibbon, (rihone, John, 6()
Gibbons, James, 389; John. 180,
3.S8-9 ; Robert, 389 ; Jane, 389 ;
Margery, 388-9 ; Mary, 389
Gilberd, John, 526
Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 21-2,
120 ; Alice, 66 ; Robert, 0(i ; John,
333; George, 419; Elizabeth, 419
Gill, Walter, 565
Gillam, John, 153
Gilliland, James. 23
Gillmore, W., 435
Gilmore, Walter, 54
Gingell, l.saac, 122
Giselham, Williaiii do, :'>05
Glanville, Sir John, 394
Glass, Richard, 237
Glf'cd, Francis, 152
Glide, Katharine, 451
Glisson, William, 70 ; Mary, 7()
Gloucester, Uobert of, 191 ; de Clare,
Earl of, 487 ; Thomas Plantagenet,
Duke of, 80; Humiihrey, Duke of,
443; Archdeacon of. 443; and
Bristol, arms of Bishops of, 396
Glover, John, 23 ; Robert, 92
Godarde, Ji)hii, 66
Goddard family, 51 ; Godard, John,
00 ; Anthony. lOl ; Edward, 50,
226, 451 ; Francis, 50-1, 101 ;
Richard, 101 ; Robert, 159-(iO ;
Thomas, 06, 502 ; Katherine,
159-60; Margaret, 101 ; Miss, 122
Godderd, Thomas, 419
Goddysloude, John, 06
Godele, Elias de, 410
Godfray, Richard, 333; Margaret, 333
Godfraye, John, 00
Godfrey alias Hampden, Margery, 67
Godhyne, William. 508; Alice, 458
Godred, Richard, (■)7
Godyere, Walter. 417
Gold, Richard, 451
Goldeney, Henry, 424
Golding, , 62
Goldney, Gabriel, 253; Henrv, 128,
253 ; John, 418 ; Edward", 253 ;
Sir Gabriel, 234; Frederick Has-
tings, 253 ; Francis Bennett, 253
(Goldsmith, Guldcsnn/thc, Arthure, 07
Goldyngham. Philip, 419, 423 ;
.lohaiuia, 119, 423
Good, William, 173; Robert, 174
Uoodenough, Francis, 407 ; Thomas,
407
Gooding, Mr., 83
Goodman, Benjamin, 56
Goodrich, Rev." Mr., 223
Goodsheep. William, 178
Goodwyn, John, 505
Gool, John, 358
Gore, Thomas, 48, 119, 421, 424, 518;
Elizabeth, 421, 424; Maria
(Prioress), 258
Gorge, Sanmel, 259
Gosland, William, 322
Goslonde, Walter, 358 ; John, 359
Gosselyn, Goshpi, Richard, 07
Gothrun ((luthrnm) the Dane, 477
Goudliyiic, Richard, 45S ; Adam,
459;" AKnes, 459; Alice, 459
Gould, George, 70 ; John, 7(5 ; Eliza-
beth, 76
Index of Pctsons.
60
Gouldney, Mary, 178
Gowyne, John, 111
Grange, (Jeorgi-, "227
Grant. William, 472
Grate, Avelano. tn ; Silve^tre, (i7
Gray, Grey, William, G7 ; John, 296,
Grave, Robert, 305
Green. Robert atte, 12 ; Isabella. 12 ;
Franci.^. 23G ; Robert, 424 ; Rev.
William. 117
Greenville. Frances, 90
Greenway, Michael, 121
Gregory the Great, 480 ; Roarer, 440
Grenaker, John, 417 ; Elizabeth, 417
Grendell, John. 67
Grene, William, 67, 565
Grenefuld, William, 336 ; Christiana,
336
Grenehill, Grynhyll, Richard, 67
Grenfeld. Edward. 58
Gresham, Richard, 70 ; William. 7(»
Greveson, Greiveson, John, 67
Greville, Sir Fulk. 300
Grey, Edmund, 566; George, 419-20;
John, 337, 425, 562 ; Thomas, 337,
425. 562
Greynville, Grcunvell. Greyvillc,
Adam de, 317, pcd., 257, 360 ;
John de, 2>ed., 257, 490 ; Alice,
ped., 257, 490; Elizabeth, ped.,
257 ; arms of, 25, ped. 'lol
Griffith, Marv, 269
Grist, Richard, 237
Grove, Susannah, 451
Grubbe, arms of, 497 ; Henry, 583 ;
Thomas. 350; Walter. 194-5, 238,
350, 403, 497, 499; Mary, 497;
Hunt Grubbe, Thomas, 497
Grueley (Erneley ?), John, 564
Gryce aliax Philips, John, 67
Gryme, John, 67
Grymstone, William, 67
Gryndenham, John de. 411
Grynstede, William de, 553 ; Alice,
553
Guidott, Mr.. 209 ; William, 264
Gundry, William, 166
Gunn. William, 167, 170-1
Gunter, Geoffrey, 67 ; Thomas, 247 ;
Grace, 247
Gunyldesone, John. 411
Gusse, Johan, 67 ; Richard, 67
Guy, Anthony. 197
Guyscalo, William. 417
Gwynn, Huwell, 12<'
Gwynne, Nell, 208
117; alias
Gyan, William. 67
Gyane aliait Fisshere, Richard, 6S
Gye. Edward, 175; Eliz;ibcth, 175
Gylbert, John, 331, 334 ; Robert.
417; William. 420; Anna, 334;
Edith, 417; Eliza betli, 420;
Johanna. .331
Gylberd, Otis, 66
Gyldon. John, 68, 335 ; Alice, 335
Gyles, Rev. A., 224
Gjlet, William, 502-3; Edith, 502-3 ;
Isabella, 502-3
Gylmyn, Tiiomas, 68
Gylpren, Richard, 68
Gyrdeler, John, 562
11.
Hacker, John, HI
Hackett, Richard, 546
Hackhedde. Hakchad, 3o\m. Ill
Hale. Benjamin, 166 ; David, 168 ;
Jone, 168 ; Rev. Mr.,
Carpenter, Anthony, 136
Half, Randal, 23
Hall. John. 192; Thomas, 111, 332,
416; Alice. 332, 416
Halle, William, HI, 423 ; Humphrey,
423 ; Elizabeth. 423 ; Mary, 423
Hallum, Bishop of Salisburv, 4.32 ;
Gilbert, clerk. Ill
Halmer, William, 111
Hamilton, Rev. William, 90
Hamlet, Robert, 130
Haraond, John, 331 ; Ciena (Elena?),
331 : the Chaplain, 358
Hamotit, John, 334 ; Ellen, 334
Hampden. See Godfrey
Hampton, Juan, HI
Hancock, Jane, Isl
Hanham, Sir William, 192
Hanley, Roger, 111
Hanson, Sir Robert, 518
422
Harald, Robert, 556
Harbin, William, 493
Harcourt, //a r<r«Mr/f. Simon, 4 18. 562
Hardcastle, Rev. John, 484
Harding, , 62; Clement. 336;
Richard, 157; Thomas. 157; Bettv,
267
Hardinge, John, 105; Thoma.s i:'.7,
156
Hardy ng. Tin. mas. 111 ; William, 70
Harington. John, lUl
Harrington, Ljidv Cecil, 111
Harley, Hon. Wil'liam, 221; Agnes, 419
William,
6o4
Index of Persons.
Harpedene, Thomas de, 297; Wil-
liam de. 207
Harper, Rev. Mr., 117; William,
528 ; Walter, 528, 530, 574-G
Harris, //iruvcs, JIarrys, 2tj8; George,
176; Jolm, 112, 1G9, 181-2, 529,
531, 571; Robert, 528, 530, 573,
575; Thomas, 112 ; William, 529,
574, 57G ; Richard, 121 ; Jane,
169; Sarah, 78; Margaret, 112,
530, 573, 575
Harrison, Rev. Edward, 55 ; John
Builer, 22G
Harrissoii alias Bruer, Richard. 112
Hart, Hartc, Herte, Sir Thomas,
clerk, 112; John, 112; Robert,
112; William, 112; Sir Richard,
192 ; John. 529
Hartgill, William, 112; Hardgill,
Henry, clerk, 112 ; Hartgyll,
Thomas, 112
Harvy, Thomas, 112
Harwar, Samuel, 296
Harward, Rev. Mr., oil ; Thomas,
481-2
Haseland, Robert, 582
Ilasilwode, Edward, 71
Haskett, Miss, 54
Haskew, Henry, 112
Hastings, Francis, 158 ; Sarah, 158
Hastvnges, George Lord, 419 ; Anna,
420
Hatherill, John, 473
Hatscl, Henry, 65
Hatsell, Mr. Baron, G4
Hawes, Rev. Mr., 57
Hawes, William, 132
Hawkcsburv, William, 2;M
Hawle.s, John, 112; William, 419
Hawkins, Richard, 545; Sir Richard,
51(;-7; Robert, 52 ; William, 93;
Ann, 93
H;iyes, Widow, 452
Hayman, Edward, 404
Haynes, Edward, 581; John, 112;
Mary, 451
Hays, James, 120
Hayter, Thomas, lGl-2 ; Haytar,
Jolm, 112
Hayward, arms of. l;>8 ; Charles,
472 ; John, S7 ; rhilip, 348 ; Mar-
garet Mary, 87 ; Heywardc,
Robert, 112, 472
Hazell, Mr., 265
Head, Hcv. Richard, 21 ; Hedde,
Jlcdc, Robert, 112
Heahmund, Bishop, 188, 190
Heale, Mark, 93
Hearst, Miss, 123
Heath, Jlcthe, John, 234 ; Matilda,
234 ; Maud, 38, 233 ; Robert, 133 ;
Rev. Henry, 121 ; Thouuis, 5(i
Hebard, John, 112
Hedge, I'homas, 583
Hcern, ]Icrn, Roger, 529-30, 574-5
lleUer, John. 112
Hemhurst, Nicholas de, 359
Henchman, Rev. Humphrey, 58
Herbardc, William, 359
Herbert, Robert, 120 ; Hon. Robert,
20 ; Nicholas, 120 ; WiUiam, 442 ;
Hon. William, 20; Lady, 20
Herebard, William, 55G
Hereford, Bishop of, 443 ; Earl of,
490
Heres, John, 358
Hering, Richard, 319
Heriott, Elizabeth, 302; James, 302
llerlarton, .lohn, 336
Herman, Bishop of Wilton, 395
Heme, John, 516
Hersent, Rev. Mr., 57
Hertford, Edward, Earl of, 589 ;
William, Earl of, 586, 588 ; Fran-
ces, Countess of, 586-7
Hertham, John, 112
Hervest, WiUiam, 112
Hervey, Hon. Augustus, 223 ; Dame
Elizabeth (Abbess), 258
Heryng, John, 557 ; Nicholas, 322,
453, 459
Heterset, Thomas, clerk, 112
Hetheron, William, 113
Hewett, Jluivci/t, Alice, 113
Hext, John, 497 ; Gertrude, 497
Heynes, arms of, 437, 540
Heydok, Thomas, 335
Heytesbury family, arms of, 47
Hibbard, Jolm, 405
Hiccocks, Joseph, 18
Hicheman, Walter, 113
Hickman, Jolm, 182
Hick-s James, 532; Richard, 117;
Thomas, 436 ; Rev. William, 62 ;
Rev. Mr., 223
Hide, Robert atte, 411 ; Beatrice,
411 ; Judge, 170
Higford, llutiford, John, 308 ;
George, 308 ; Thomas, 308 ; Wil-
liam, 308 ; Elsabeth, 308 ; Elyenor,
308 ; Blaud, 308
Higgins, //tv///«.s, William, clerk,
113; John,' 472
Highwey, Richard de, 365
Index of Persons.
605
Hill. Richard, Bishop of London,
113; Autrustine. 110; John, lit!,
2f.s ; Jonathan, IdO-l ; Hose, lUl;
Marie, 118
llilley, Richard, clerk. 1111, US
Hilliard, Richard, 1(!4
Hillier, George, 237
Hillman, , 151
Hiltoft, Iliiltoftc. Thomas. li;{
Hily, Charles, lltj
Ilindon, Haron Hyde of, 19
Hinlie, Christopher, 165
Hiscock, E. (widow), 22G
Hiscot, Robert, 335
Hoare, Henry, IGl
Hobbes, Thomas, 425
Hobbs, James, 237
Hoberds, William, 420
Hoby, Sir Edward, 24tj
Hochyns, Hmvchyns, alias Forster,
Robert, 113
Hodges, Thomas, 400
Hodie, William, 421
Hody, William, 334, 337 ; Eleanor, 337
Hoges, Hogges, Robert, 335; Kathe-
rine, 335
Holcroft, William, 53
Holden. John, 339
Hole, Thomas, 358
Holes, William, 423 ; Andrew, clerk,
113; Roger, 113
Holford, Richard, 35
Holgill, William. 419
Holland, Thomas, 118; Roger. 120;
Rev. Mr., 11(5 ; Holand alias
Cowper, John, 113 ; Henry, Duke
of Exeter, 220 ; Rev. Thomas,
247-8; Thomas. 248; Brvan,
247-8 ; Grace, 247-8 ; Jane, 248 ;
arms of, 532
Ilollingsworth, Philip, 32
Holloway, Hollon-aije. John, 113 ;
I/olhreg, John, 113
Hollister, Mr., 95
Holme, John, 113 ; Robert. 419
Holmes, Mr., 18
Hood, John, 264 ; Hode alias Croke,
John, 113
Hookes, Ellis, 174
Hooper, Giles, 113 ; Christopher,
485; John, 485; Robert, 485;
Thomas, 485 ; Mary, 485
Hope. John, 249 ; Mrs., 121
Hopere, Adam, 359
Hopkins, Thomas. 177; William,
253 ; John William, 253 ; Rev.
David, 254
William. 234
; Jt.hn, 114,236;
331, 336, 420;
Maud, 26
//iiwton.
Hoppere. Thomas le, 453, 501 ; Roger
le. 411. 159
Hopson. Mi.xs, 122
Horat. Richard, 319
Hordour, Laurence, 44
Horlcr. Joseph, 80
Home, John. 4 IS ; Miss. 225
Horner. Mrs., 59
Horns, (iilbert. 333; Johanna, 333
Horsell, James, 93
Horsev, arms of, 310 ; pedigree of,
241,"3H8; John. 113, 310 ; Thomas.
310; William. 310; Dorothv, 310 ;
Edith. 310; Isabell. 310;" Joan,
310
Hort, Edward, 167; John, 114
Hortc, Robert, 421 ;
Horton. Edward, 27
Thomas, 26, 114,
Dame Mary, 114 ;
lloskyns. See (icorgc
Houghton, William, 11
Ihniton, George, 114
Houles, William, 358
How, Sir John, 175
Howard. John, 141
Howe, Sir Richard, 36
Howcper, 'J'homas, 422
Howgon, Richard, 308; Margaret,
308
Hows, William, 114
Hubert, Benjamin, 222
Huddesfeld formcrli/ Rogers, Dame
Kateryn. 114
Huddesfilde, John, 114
Hugh, Dan, chai'lain, 13
Hull, Joseph, 237, 472
Hulbert, John, 197; Thomas, 472
William, 161 ; Anna, 161
Hulit, William, 166, 178
Hul.-ise, Thomas, clerk, 114
Humplirys, Matthew, 199, 202 ;
Robert, 199. 2U2 ; Essex, 202
Hungerford family, arms of, 47,
259-60. 356 ; pedigree of, 241. .303,
369 ; Anthony, 3.")7, 475 ; Sir An-
thony, 306-7." 446; Aldam, 3(I6 ;
Edmund. 307, 4.39 ; Sir Edmund,
306; Edward, 114, 306-7, 338,
354-6; Sir Edward. 133-6. 191-2,
301, 355, 357, 417, 446, 475, 54M ;
George, 224 ; Giles. 355-7 ; Henry,
307, 357 : John. 133, 306-7 ; Sir
John, 246. 306; Robert, 115;
Robert Lord, 115, j>C(i. 257, note
141,306; Thoma.s. 307, 401 ; Sir
Thomas, 12, 111, 306,308; Walter,
6o6
Index of Persons.
12, 24, 306; Sir Walter, 20, 115.
305. 332, 33!) ; William, liOT ;
Agnes, 20 ; Anne, 3(1(5-7 ; Bcteiys,
306; Dame Christyan, 306:
Eleanor, 114; Elsabeth, 305-S ;
Freswith, 300 ; Jane, 300-7 ;
Johanna. 12; Jone. 307; Julia,
357 ; Kathoryne, .'JOd ; Margaret,
301, 30(); Dame JIargaret, 114;
Lady Margaret, pcd. 257, note
532 ; Lady Mary, 420
Huniford, Captain, 174
Hunsdon, Jeremiah, 563 ; Peter, 332
Hunt, arms of, 497 ; /finiff, Owen,
clerk, 115; Kicliard, 115 ; Thomas,
497 ; William. 93, 497
Hunt-Grubbe, Thomas, 54 ; Anne,
499
Huntingdon, Henry Earl of, 158
Huntley, Jfimtclcy, Sir Richard,
priest, 115 ; Rev. Mr., 121
Hupcote, Roger, 359
Iluphulle, Lucy, 359
Hurell, John, 359
Hurrell. See lilalie
Hurlbat, John, 115
Hurle, James, 240
Huse, .lohn, 335, 421 ; Thomas, 331 ;
William, 421 ; Elizabeth, 335 ;
Margaret, 421
Husee, family, 201 ; John, 332 ;
Nicholas, 202 ; Thomas, 332 ;
Elizabeth, 332 ; Huset/, Bartholo-
mew, 424-5, 562
Hussey, Thomas, 310 ; William, 55 ;
Isabel], 310; arms of, 310
Hutchins, John, 213 ; Joan, 213
Hutchinson, Rev. James, 57
Hutton, Rev. Dr., 21 ; William, 448
Hj'atte, Ilifctte, John. 115
Hybberd, John, 420
Hyde. See Ilindon; Henry, 4, 49,
86 ; Sir Nicholas, 4 ; Rev. John,
58 ; Oliver, 3:55 ; Robert, 36 ; Rt.
Hon. Thomas, 224 ; Lady Char-
lotta, 18
Hyll, John, 422
Hyllyar, Margery, 531, 574-5
Hynton, John, 5()3
Hy worth, William, 115
I.
Hys, Thomas, 528
Ingaldesthorpe, Johanna, 417
Inglefield, Thoma.s, 418
Ingler, John, 15
Inglis, William, 20
Ingram, Henry, 175; Thomas. 116;
key. .lames," D.D., 441
Inkopon. Thomas, 420
I-saac, William, 180
Isaacs. James, 473
Isbury, John, 334-5 ; Elizabeth, 334
lyychinch, Prior of. See i uic/icrc/ic
Ivye, Thomas, 401
Jackson, Rev. Canon, 80, 99
Jacob, John. IS ; Thomas, 51, 234-5,
390; Roger, 169; Elizabeth, 51
Jacobson, Philip, 138
Jacques, Jaqucs, William, 226-7.
See Blahe
Jakes, Roger, 333; Matilda, 333;
Thomas, 338
James, Atkyn, 115; Edmund, 51;
John, 175; Richmond, 51; Simon,
51 ; Margaret, 51, 356
Jane, John, priest, 115
Jason, family, 514 ; Sir George, 546 ;
Robert, 517 ; Sir Robert, 517,
545-6, 549; Dame Ann, 517
Jay, John. 180
Jefferies, John, 236
Jeffery, Walter. 66
Jeffrey, John, 224
Jeffries, George, 93
J enuei; Jenour, John, 145; Robert,
144 ; William, 145 ; Editha, 145 ;
Mary, 145
Jennings, arms of, 479 ; John, 117,
175 ; William, 2(53 ; Mcliot, 263
.lennyns, Ralphe, 479 ; Thomas, 479 ;
Joan, 4 79
Jermyn, Judith, 91
Jersey, Earl of, 209
Jervoise, Richard, 122
John, Laurence, 115
Johnson, George, 182 ; James, Bi.shop
of Gloucester and Worcester, 397
Jones, Inigo, 587 ; John, 5(53 ; Joseph,
178, 518; William, 445-6, 516;
Sefton, 445 ; Rev. Mr., 121 ; Isa-
bella. 445; Margaret, 446 ; Mary,
151 ; J/io/ic.t, William, 115; Joiiys,
William, clerk, 115; alias T.aver-
ner, William, 115; James, 423;
Elizabeth, 423
Jonyns, Walter, 565 ; Margaret, 565
Joos, Nicholas, 359
Jordan, Dame Agnes, 258
Jorden, William, 399
Index of Persons.
607
Jower. Thomas. 3i0 ; Matilda, 340
Joy. Rev. Mr , 121
Jovnom. John. 33G
K.
Kanterton, John de, 319. See also
Canterton
Kawbridge. Rev. Mr., 121
Keble. Symon. 138
Keene. Morgan. 53, 497, 500 ;
Frances. 497 ; Grace, 500; Miss,
22. 54
Kele. Thomas, 423
Kempe, Edmund. 5t!3 ; Edward, 5tJ3 ;
John. 220; William. 410
Ken, Nicholas le. 305 ; John, 365
Kene, Godwin, 275
Kent, Sir Richard, 192
Kinaston, Samuel, 517, 548 ; Mary,
548
King, arms of, 298 ; Benjamin. ItJG ;
John. 359; Miss, 124
Kinse. John. 297-8; Samuel. 297;
William, 297; Dorothy, 297 ; Han-
nah, 297 ; Katheryn, 297 ; Mary,
297
Kincresmill, Kingesnujll, Kingsmill,
Sir George. 155-8 : Henry, 158 ;
Samuel, 155 ; Thomas, 155 ; Wil-
liam, 155 ; Sir William, 157-8 ;
Lady, 158 ; Dame Anna, 157 ;
Dame Sarah, 156
Kingston, Lady. 192 ; Duke of, 475 ;
Duchess of, 475
Kington, or De Kvngston, arms of,
38
Kinton. Benjamin, 451
Kirk, Mr., 22
Kirkham, Roger, 446
Kite, Edward, 33
Knackstone, Thomas, 452 ; Eliza-
beth. 451
Knapp, Isaac, 54t)-7 ; William, 545
Knight. Robert Ely, 472 ; Henry, 473
Knollys, William, 2
Knyght, Roger, 17
Kornyser, Roger, 358
Kynaston, Samuel, 402
Kvngton, John, 353 ; Nicholas, 353 ;
Robert, 353 ; William, 354
Kyrkeby, William, 335 ; Anna, 335
Lacey, Susanna, 552
Ladd, John, 21
La^hful. iMuijhful, William le, 317,
360; Juliana le, 317. 360
Lamanva tilias Mason, John. tl9 ;
Johanna. 419
I.^Tmb(', .\di'lnms. 425; H<Miry. 35
Lambert. Edmund. 55 ; Josepli, 58 ;
William, 563
Lancaster, Duke of, 297 ; Honrv.
Duke of, 11 ; John, Duke of, 44 ;
Chancellor of Duchy. 15H
Lane, Henry, 16; Christina. 16;
John. 4.39; R;ilph, 89; William,
419
Lange, Ralph le, 413, 454-7; Alia-
nor, 555-7
Langford, Lonqford, Alexander, 423,
563 ; Agnes, 423 ; John, 335 ;
Robert. 424; William. 424
Langley. John. 473
Langton, Stephen, 491
Lanham, pedigree of, 241 ; Joseph,
19
Lardge. Christopher. 402
Launder. Rev. John, 56
Laurence, Rev. Mr., 227
Lavender, Thomas, 249
Lavington, Bishop of Exeter, 397
La ware (Delaware^, Lord, 565 ; Lady
Elizabeth, 565
Lawrence. Charles, 197 ; Henry. 116 ;
Hugh, 472; Jonathan. 517; Rich-
ard, 517, 547 ; Robert, 401 ;
Thomas. 197. 451 ; William, 517;
Mary, 517-8. 547; Peggy, 95
Lawrenz. Nicholas, 410
Lea, Richard. 518
Leach, William. 435, 482, 538-9
Leake, Rev. Mr., 122
Leaze, Leze, William, 529, 571, 57t)
Leche. William. 526
, Lechmere, Nicholas. 62
I Ledall, William, 336 ; Christina, 336
Leder, Oliver. 562
Lee, Robert de la. 85 ; Edward,
417-8 ; Sir Henry. 86. 246 : Robert,
480 ; Anne, 86 ; Eleanor, 86
Leghe, John atte. 456
Leland, John, 25. 26
Lepton, Ralph. 418-9
Letcombe, Thomas, 417; Margaret,
417
Leversage, Edmund, 353-4 ; Roger,
354; William. 352-4; (Jrace, 3.52-4
Lewen, Elizabeth, pcd.. 579
Lewis, Rev. James, 24 ; John, 472 ;
Richard, 175-6
Lewkenor, Edward, 425
D
6o8
Lidcx of Persons.
Lcwston, John. 506
Lcybourne. William, 223
Lidriiard, John, 452
\.\0\\. John, 353
Lincohi, William, P.ishdp of, 331, 337
Liiulsey, Miss, 11(1
Lipj'eatt, Christopher, 102 ; Thomas,
102
Lisle, John (Grey) Viscount, 337 ;
Johanna Viscountess, 337
Lister, Michael, 5(i5
Litchfield and Coventry, William
Bishop of, 337
Litell, John, 337 ; Anna, 337
Littel, Robert le, 411
Little, Walter, 58
Littlestoke, Roger de, 409-10
Ijivelontr, Richard, 1()4
Llovd, Rev. Mr., 223
Lobb, Rev. Mr., 117
Lobell, William, 564 ; Margaret, 564
Locke, Mr. F., 201
London, John, 420; Johanna, 420;
Bishop of, 113,386; Lord Mayor
of, 26, 518 ; St. Paul's, canon and
treasurer of, 369
Long, Longe, family of, 220, 298;
Ralph le, 410; Ddvid, 237; Ed-
ward, 27. 296, 390, 486 ; Sir Edward,
300-1, 390, 439, 486 ; Gvfford, 515;
Henry, 27, 418, 421, 423-4, 563-4;
James, 182; Sir James, 89; John,
28, 337, 423 ; Richard, 192, 197,
301 ; Sir Robert. 54, 119 ; Lady of,
54; Thomas, 28, 300, 301, 334,
337, 563 ; Walter, 27, 79, 224 ; Sir
Walter, 28 ; Walter Hume, 28 ;
William, 417; Anne, 515 ; Cathe-
ryn, 515; Margaret, 423; Mary,
28 ; Rebecca, 28 ; Miss, 58, 226
Longspee, Ela, 211
Looker. Thomas, 452
Lord, John, 18, 132
Louday, Thomas, 83
Louclek (Lovelock), Phineas, 332 ;
William, 332 ; Agnes, 332 ; Johanna,
332
Louther, Lauther, Lmvther, James,
50, 334, 420 ; Joan, 50 ; Johanna,
334, 420
Lovell, Lomcll, Richard, ped., 257 ;
Thomas, 336, 338-9 ; Maud, y^6YZ., 257
Loverich, William, 320
Low, Richard, 87
Loy, William, 528
Lucas. Charles Lord, 191 ; Penelope,
191 ; John, 5G3
Ludlow, Lvdlowc, Edmund, 295 ;
Bartholomew, 310 ; Gabriel, 295 ;
George, 295; John, 310; Roger.
295-6; Thomas, 295; William, 310;
Brydgett, 310; Dorothc. 310;
Elizabeth, 310
Ludynton, Roger de, 526-8
LuiT" Edward, 180
Lumby, John, 18; Rev. Mr., 53
Lung. John le. 363 ; Matilda, 363
Lushill, L^tsfeshill, Tjustcshidl, family.
93; John de, 43-4 ; Sir John, 44-5 ;
Sir Edmund, 44 ; Sir Nicholas de,
44; SirSymon, 44; Thomas, 43 ;
Agnes, 45 ; Jane, 44
Luterell, Hugo, 339 ; Lady Elizabeth,
44
Luteshill. Robert de, 365
Lybur, John, 234
Lye, Roger de, 455 ; Isabella, 455-6 ;
Agnes, 455-6
Lygh family, 474 ; Robert, 474 ;
Anne. 474 ; EMzabeth, 474
Lyght. arms of, 310
Lyle, John, 335
Lylseley, pedigree of, 241
Lymber. Li/nihcr)/, Richard, 334, 369 ;
'William," 335, 370
Lymell, George, 402
Lynch, Rev. Dr., Dean of Canter-
bury, 116
Lynde, Thomas de la, 419
Lyngener, John, 331 ; Joan, 331
Lyster, Richard, 423
Lyte (Lytli), John, 305 ; Agnes, 305
M.
Macawley, Hugh, 122
Machado alias Richmond (Herald),
Roger, 309
Machen, Ann, 401
Maclean, Sir John, 369
Macwilliams. See Williams
Malet, Baldwin, 421-2
Mallom, William, 416
Malmcsbury, Abbot of, 53, 151 ; Lord,
23 1
Multravers, arms of, 25, pcd. 257 ;
Sir John, 25, 221, 255, ped. 257,
300 ; Elizabeth. 25, 221, ped. 257,
300. 388 ; family, 514
Man, John le, 366
Manl)y, Thomas, 565
Maners (Manners), Sir George, 305 ;
Elyenor, 305
Mansion, family, (of co. Dorset), 102
Index of J^rrsons.
6ot)
Manvers, Earl, 475
Manwodd, Mr., 187
March, Lord, 2lM ; Mrs., 18
Marchauiite, Kobort, 583
Maroscal. Robert, 85
Mareschall, Ralph the, 8 ; Isabella, S
.Marlborough, Alured of, 311-2 ; Earl
of, 300 ; Duke of, 5(5
]\larleburgh, llichard, 305 ; Gregory,
305 ; Agnes, 3ii5
Marley, Nicliolas, 418
ilarmion, Manniun, Marmyon,
Philip, 317. 31)0-2; John, 557;
Roger, 3(52, 504, 558 ; William, 362,
557 : Eva, 3t;2 ; Isoda, 302
Marowe, Thomas, 338
Marsdon, Miss, 23
Marsh, Richard de, 3(55 ; Ralph, 313 ;
William, 2G4 ; Jenny, 55
Marshall, Bourchier Mervin, 199 ;
Rev. Bourchier, 201 ; Charles, 169;
Dr. (Rouge Croix), 368 ; Elizabeth,
201
Martin, John, 161 ; Dorothea, 161 ;
.Mary, 181
Martvn. A., 403 ; Hugo, 331 ; Thomas,
422
Martyr, Peter. 88
Marvyn, Edrrund, 424; John, 335;
Elizabeth, 421. Sec also Mervin,
Afervj/n
Maskan, or Maskie, Miss, 77
Maskelin, Henry, 49
Maskelyn, Henry, 53; William, 53
Maskelyiie, arms of, 6 ; Edmund,
51 ; George, 6 ; Neviil, 7, 51, 152,
235; Dr. Ncvill, 7; William, 6,
420 ; Jane, 5, 6 ; Sibella, 51
Mason, See Lamanra
Masters, Rev. Samuel, 35
Matheu, Richard, 306
Mathew, John, 565
Mathews, John, 472-3
Matisdon, Mati/sdon, Robert, 307
Maton, Thomas, 150
Maudit, family of, So
Mauger, William, 5(;0-l ; Christina,
560-1
Maundevill ^Mandevill, Maundcvylc,
Arnulph de, 361 ; Geoffrey de, 276-
8, 313-4, 316, 3f.5 ; Harnald de.
276 ; John de, 460, 503-5 ; Ralph
de, 313, 315-6, 359. 362, 368 ;
Robert de, 366; Thomas de. 363,
366 ; William de, 321, 368, 410-2,
414, 454,. 459-60; Agnes, 278;
Amice, 366 ; Benedicta, 504 ;
Felicia, 411. 454. 460 ; Katherinc.
502.
Mauiidrell, John, 583; Richard, 5S2;
William. 516
MauDsell, Sir Rysse, 308 ; Anne, 308
May, Sir Iluuiphrev, 15H ; Robert,
27 : Mary, 27
Maylin, Itartholomew, 12S
Mayo, Viscount, 55; Adam, 518;
Henry, 547-8; .Fohn, 131!, 515-6,
545, 547-50; William, 268, .548;
Ann, 548, 550-2; Bridgett, 549;
Elizabeth, 549 ; Frances, 51S ;
Hcllen. 545, 548-50 ; Margery, 5 18 ;
M.ary, 548-9 ; Rebecca, 545, 549,
551
Mead, 33
Mede, Thomas, 417
Mcdle, Alexander, 420; Katherine,
420
Medows, Charles, 475 ; Evelvn, 475
Evelyn Philip, 475; Phifip, 475
Frances, 475
Mercer, Thomas, 175
Mere, John, Abbot of Sherborne, 531
Merewether, Francis, 269
Merry weather, John, 167
Mervweather, Andrew, 175; John,
174-5
ileriot, John, 111
Mervin, Edward, 102; John, 102;
Sheldon, 102; Frances, 102
Mervyn, family, 153; John, 335,
5t)3 ; Walter," 306 ; Jane, 306, 368
Merykc, John, 422
Messenger, John, 2
Methuen, Paul, 35, 197, 435; Sir
Paul, 21 ; Thomas, 191
Mcthwin, John, 1K(»
Merer, Herman, 32
Michel, Michell, John, 335, 411, 526;
Samuel, 437
Milam, Thomas, 423; Alice, 423
.Milborne, Henry, 339; Margaret, .339
Miles. George, 472 ; Richard. 101 ;
Sarah, 101
Mille, John, 423
Miller, William, 453; Edith, 453
Mills, Rev. Mr.. 22, 224; Miss, 33
Milleward, Richard le, 411
Millward, John, 5(54
Milne, Thomas, 420
Milsom, Adam, 172; James, 472;
Joseph, 471
Milton, — (engraver), 483
Mitchell, Justice, 173
Mody, John, 424
6io
Index of Persons.
Moggcridgc, Alexander, oGl ; John,
5(jl ; Katharine, 5(51
MoiTgeiii^e, John. 420
Moliiis, John <\v, 86
Molyncux, Lord, 587
Momford, Tliomas, 416
Mompcsson, John. 835 ; Henry, 335 ;
Richard, 335 ; Thoiua!;, 563
Monday, IMchard, 107-8, 110
Monk, William. 275
Monkton Farleigh, Prior of, 211
Montagu, James, 13!)
Montague, Sir Henrv, 157; John,
Lord Brudenell, 119
Moody, . 78
j\Ioon, Henry, 175
Moore, John, 237 ; Joseph, 472 ;
Robert, 305, 310; Thomas, 298;
William, 270 ; Anne, 310 ; Bessy,
201 ; Elizabeth, 305
Morant, Edward, 120, 122
Mordaunt, John, 333 ; William, 336
More, John, 425 ; William, 71 ; Mar-
gery, 425
Moveleygh, John, 332 ; Agnes, 332
Morgan, Gregory, 417 ; James, 125 ;
William, 117 "
Morgon, I'hillipp, 305 ; Thomas, 308 ;
Sir William, 308 ; Christyan, 305 ;
Florence, 308
Morley, James, 22
Morris, Ambrose, 472 ; Henry, 583 ;
(Provis?) John, 48; Robert, 582;
Master, 583
Morrison, Alfred, 230
Morse, Anthony, 239
John, 264 ; Thomas,
Ham, 2;!9 ; Mary, 94
:Mortimer, Sir R. de, 488
Moss, Rev. Dr., 122
Mouner, Nicholas le, 366 ; Beatrice.
366
Mounteford, Thomas, 422-3; Mar-
garet, 422
Mountjoy, Charles Lord, 445 ; James,
473; William, 266; Mary, 266
Mnurpach. William, 526
Moxham., Adam de, 320 ; Agnes, 454,
456; Edith, 455-6; Lsahella, 454-6;
Sarah, 320; William, 167, 170, 172
Muddle, Thomas, 132
Muggleton, John, 585; Loduwick,
585 ; Margaret, 585 ; Ruth, 585
Mulebourno, John de, 360
Mulborne. Brikerichius de, 274, 277;
Edward, 277
Mullings, Richard, 48
Henry,
93-4 ;
264;
Wil-
Mullins. Alderman, 67
Mulso, Thomas, 117
Muhvarde, Adam, 359
Mundy, Edward, 331 ; Walter, 331 ;
William, 331 ; Johanna, 331 ; Rev.
William, 248
Munke, Richard, 137
Musk, Isaac, 473
Mu'ton, Thomas, 238
N.
Naish, Thomas, 446
Nayle, William, 13; Agnes, 13
Neale, Robert, 197
Neat, Thomas, 174, 179
Neate, Millicent, 197
Needham, Lydia, 533
Neline, Richard, 249
Nesbit, Arnold, 119
Nevyle. George, 339 ; Johanna, 339
Nevyll, Robert, 336, 338
Neuburgh, Roger, 333 ; Elizabeth,
333
Newbwche (Neuburgh), Thomas,
309 ; Annys, 309
Ncwburgh, Thomas, 416
Newe [Yewe ?], John, 515
Neweman, William, 358
Newman, Rev. Mr., 57; William,
162; Elizabeth, 162
Newport, John, 334
Newton, George, 130; Rev. Joseph,
57
Nicholas, Edward, 268-9; Sir Ed-
ward, 433-4; Mr., 264; Robert,
4s, 268-9, 421, 423, 478, 563 ;
Jane, 268
Nichols, James, 130
Norborne, arms of. See Jkiylijl'e ;
Henrv, 403 ; Humphrey, 159 ;
John,' 182; Walter, 182
Norden, John, 480-1 ; William, 133,
481
Nores, Henry, 418
Noreys, Thomas, 191
Norrevs, arms of, 437, 541
Norrvs, William, 333
Norris, Edward, 191-2 ; Gabriel, 191 ;
George William, 198; James,
1!I8-201 ; Joim, 191-2, 196-9,201-2,
270; Nichohus, 192 ; Paul Uoliert,
198; Selfe, 191-2; William, 57,
191-3, 196-9, 201 ; Anne, 198 ;
Cecilia, 198 ; Ciiristian, 198 ;
Dionysia, 198; Eliz;U)eth, 191-2,
197, 201 ; Ellen, 198 ; Frances,
Index of Persons.
6ii
485; Mary, 101 ; Mary Ann, l'.t>;
Millicent Mary, 11)8
North, John, "4ir)-t;, 15;^, .".Oo ;
Thomas. :{1.'0-1. Hr.;{-4, Jll, HI,
452-3. 45!>, 500-1, 551-5; Walter,
453 ; Matilda. 453
Xorthey. William. 202
Northo, William dc. 504
Norton, Philip. 552; Elizaboth, 552
Norwich, Bishop of, 38G
Nouers, Richard, 333 ; Agnes. 333
Nowyse, Nicholas, (J9
Noyce, Nathaniel, 158
Noyes, G., 264
Noyes, Nicholas, 75; Robert, 105-10
Noys, Nicholas, O'J
Noyse, Israel, 181-2 ; Samuel, 165
O.
Ogle, Rev. Mr., 23
Okedene, John. 5()6
Oldham, OUom, Hugo, 333-4, 337-9
Olyver, William, 44
Ormonde, Earl of . SeeJJutlcr. John,
338 ; Johanna, 338
Osland. Seth, 480
Osnmnd, Bishop of Sarura, 443
Owen, Sir David. 26; Henry, 26,
425; John, 26, 331 ; Alianora, 331
Oxelborne, John of, 317
Oxford, John Earl of, 338-9
P.
Packer, John, 133, 136 ; Robert, 133,
136
Page, pedigree of. 241, 303 ; John,
305 ; Mathew, 370 ; Richard, 305 ;
William, 3o5, 334. 369-70, 417, 421,
581; Annvs (Agnes), 305; Chris-
tina, 334, 369; Elsabcth, 305
Paine, Rev. Joseph, 225
Pakyngton, Humfrey, 564; Robert, 421
Palmer, Henry. 403 ; Hugo, 334 ;
Edith, 334 ; "John, 518 ; Elizabeth,
518; (Pa^we.t) Guido, 336 ; Brian,
336
Paradice, Parradise, G., 21 ; Fran-
cis, 267 ; I.saac, 435 ; John, 192;
Richard, 267 ; Hannah, 192
Paraunt, John. 419
Paresole, William, 457
Parice, Thomas, 177
Park, Walter du, 503
Parcar, Par/Mr, Robert, 529; Wil-
liam, 529-30, 575
Parker, George, 55; Henry, 306;
John, 44 ; Virgil. 44 ; ('althor[)e,
2S ; .Sir Philip, 28 ; a Morley, Sir
Philip, 2H
Parkinson, Hev. RolxTt, 58
Parrinciiiefe, Pcrcnchicf, John. 590;
Richard, 537
Parry, Jonathan, 121; William, 51
Parsons, Rev. Daniel, 496; John,
496-7
Parys, Thomas, 419 ; Alice, 419
Pivsselewe, Passelowc, Robert, 315,
360-1
Passion, Pai/ssion, John, 333 ; Nich-
olas, 421 ■
Paston, W., 480
Paterson, John, 120-1; Miss, 224
Patterson, Rev. Dr., 56
Pauncefote, Henry, 422
Paunteshury, Robert de. 319
Pavely. Pairo/li. Walter de, 314,317,
322. 358. :{60, 408-9 ; John de. 553 ;
Reginald de, 358, 454, 501, 553-4 ;
Robert de. 408-9, 411-4, 454, 457-9,
501, 557 ; Elizabeth de, 553
Pdvys, — , 30t»
Pawlet, Lord William, 80
Pawne, Francis. 51
Payne, arms of, 310; Richard, 58;
EiUvard, 77; Rev. George Speke, 77;
Kev. Samuel, 77 ; Samuel Henry,
77 ; Mary, 77; Elizabeth Taylor, 78 ;
Richard', 156-7; John, 419; Edith,
419
Peachy, Miss, 118
Pearce, Daniel, 122 ; Nicolas, 264 ;
Thomas, 470, 473
Pearse family, 216; Madam, 216;
William. 117
Peckham, Tliomas, 132
Peede, Edward, 306; Richard, 306;
Dorothy, 306 ; Margaret, 3ll6
Peers. John, 306 ; Christian, 306
Pembroke, Earl of, 18, 56. 142, 442,
444 ; Henry, Earl of, 442 ; L;idy,
224
Penn, William. 389
Penrudilock, John. 146; Sir .Inhn,
146; Colonel John, 146; Sir .Man-
wood, 146
Pentecost, Poitecosfe, J'cntccuxte,
275 ; Nicholas, 318-9, 322, 358 ;
William. 316-7, 360
Pepler, James, 265
Pepys, Samuel, 208
Persons, Nicholas, 181
Peruaunt, Clement, 418
6l2
iiufcx of Persons.
Pester, William, 133
Pe.stur, Reginald de, 300
Peter, John, 3oS ; Peter, 322
Peti-rborouo;!), Bishop of, 22
Petit. Nicholas, 412; Thomas, 277;
Felicia, 508
Petyt, John, 359, 531, 576
Petty, Thomas, 518
Pevntoure. See Anher
Plielixs Thomas. 1(!7 ; Robert, 519 ;
Rebecca, 549; William, 551 ; alias
Bromham, John, 551 ; Robert,
550-1 ; Rebecca, 551 ; William, 551
Philippa, Queen, 460, 504-5
Philips, sec (rn/cc, Rev. Mr., 19
riiillipps. Sir Thomas, 49, 93, 99, 241,
448
Phillips. J. L.. 48; Joseph, 266:
Tliomas, 69 ; Miss, 48
Phipp [Phipps], Thomas, 35
Phipps, Ladv. 19
Piiylpot, Edward, 72-8
Picke, Simon, 549
Pickering, Thomas, 356
Pie, Pye, John, 305 ; Cicele, 305 ;
Anne, 305
Piere, Edward, 223
Pinchin, George, 407 ; Anne, 351, 407 ;
Mav, 351. 405,407
Pino, Philip, 176
Pinnel, Henry, 180
Pistor, Reginald, 318
Pitcairn. Rev. James, 58
Piit, John, 405, 407 ; Thomas, 86, 120
Pitts, Richard, 237
Plantagenet, Thomas, 86
Player, Richard, 549 ; William, 236
Pleydell family. 2; Platiddl, Ed-
ward. 133, 135, 137
Plokenet, I'lu<ienai/, Plukeni/; Robert
de, 317, 360, 363-4
Pocin, Aubod, 277
Pocock, Rev. Mr., 226
Pole, Henry, 418; Leonard, 564
Polcter, William le, 411
Polhill, Rev. Edward, 122
Polton, Philip, 442-3 ; Thomas, 442-3 ;
Edith, 4 J2-3
Ponev. Anthony, 565
Poole. Sir Neville, 138; Giles, 308 ;
John, 308 ; Leonard, 308 ; Mathew,
308 ; Katheiync, 308
Poope, John, 528 .
Pope, Adam, 359
Popharn. Miss, 223; Alexander, 269;
Kdward, 119
Pormont family, arms of, 38
Porter, Robert, 527
Portland, Duke of, 57
Potcrn, Robert, 234
Poulet, John, 339; Alice, 339; Mr.,
532
Pound, John, 472; Michael, 472;
William, 472; Cicely, 472
Powell, 63, 64, 440 ; Alexander, 121 ;
Hugh. 44U ; John, 62 ; Rev.
Thomas, 30 ; Rev. Mr., 57
Power, Abraham, 355 ; Benjamin,
389 ; John, 355 ; Eleanor, 353 ;
Jane, 389 ; Mary, 855
Powis, Littleton, 65
Powlett, Harry, 59
Poynings, Michael de, S5 ; Joan, 85
Pratt, Charles, 120
Predy, Richard, 424; William, 424;
Elizabeth, 424
Prescott, Miss, 117
Price, Walter, 236 ; William, 236 ;
Isabella, 445
Priddy, Baker, 94
Prideaux, arms of, 4 79
Prior, pedigree, 253 ; John, 336 ;
Edith, 336
Prist, Nicholas le, 505-6
Provis. See Morrig
Prower family, 153; Rev. John, 102;
Robert, 102, 153; John Mervyn,
102 ; Major Elton Mervin, 103 ;
Anne, 102
Prussia, King of, 54
Pryctor, Alice, 531, 574-5
Prynne. Sir Gilbert, 266
Prytyll, William, 529
Pucklechurch, Thomas, 439 ; Agnes,
439
Pudd alioii Smith. Soo Smith
Pulley, Edmund, 2 ; Richard, 5
Punter, Joseph, 181
Piirchase, Walter, 411
Putson, John, 110
Pye, Samuel, 4H3; pedigree of, 241,
303 ; John, 368
Pyke, Thorp, 546
Pylc, Cristina atte, 459 ; Sir Gabriel,
295; Thomas. 295; Jane, 295;
Rev. Thomas, 20
Pylman, John, 505-6
Pynsent, Sir William, 244
Qucensbury, Duke of, 19
Index of Persons.
613
R.
Radbjinl, .Tdin, 42:1
HiidcliftV. Dr.. 2:i2
ftileiorh, Carew, !tl ; Sir Carew. ;»()-! ;
Sir Charles 91 ; Dean, 90; George,
90-1; Gilbert, 90-1; Henry. 91;
John. 91 ; Philip, 90; Walter, 90-1 ;
Sir Walter, 89-90
R.-iin.<burv. Peter of. 531
Rit, Wilfiani le. 411
Ratcliffe. Edward, 25
Raves, Ann. 517
Rawleyn, Henry, 422
Uawlins, Rev. Edward, 5G
Ray. Rev. Mr.. 119
Read family, 52 ; Edniond, 52 ;
Edward, 122, 228; Henry, 18;
John, 52 ; Thomas, 19, 57; William,
52, 589
Reade, Francis, ped., 579; Margaret,
ped., 579
Rcakes. C. W.. 29
Rebeett, Thomas, 38(3
Rede. Alexander, 7;') , Bartholomew,
8.38 ; John, 338-4 ; Thomas, 74
Redelonil. Davyd de, 859
Redford, Mr., 268
Redhall. William, 308; Elizabeth,
.80S
Reed, Bartholomew, 331
Reeve, John, 356
Reeves, Charles, 1h2 ; Mary, 192;
Cuthbert, 104 ; Elianor, 104
Renolds, John, 264
Reynolds, Henry, 384 ; Agnes, 334 ;
James, 472 ; Peter, 416
Ricart, John, 421
Richmond family, arms of, 84 ; alias
Webbe, Anthony, 5 ; Christopher,
5; Nicholas, 5; William, 5. 6;
Jane, 5; Duke of, 21; Herald,
See Machado ; John, 51 ; Margaret,
51
Rideout, Jonathan, 19
Riilby, Rev. Hugh, 153; Fanny. 158
Rigge. Thomas, 561
Rimsden, .Antony. 589
Ritlie, Marlow, 419
Rithins. John. 45 ; Alice, 45
Robins, John, 472 ; Ann, 472
Rod. Walter le, 412. 458 ; Dionisia,
453
Rodway. Stephen, 96
Roger, the Chaplain of Bratton. 822
Rogers, see Hnddexfcld, Henry,
. 263-4. .802, 425 ; Rev. Henry, 207 ;
James, 302; Rev. James, 218
Juhn, 211-2. 268. 801-2. 389. 565
Jonathan. 108; Robert. 268 :J02 ;
Thomas. :{il2; Elizabeth. 2i;8
Rokel. Richard <ie la. 85
RoUe, E.lward, 54 ; George, 420
Roll, Edward, 195 ; John, 194-5 ;
Rev. John, 196
Roman. Ruth, 191
Romsey, Abbess of, 240
Uooke. Alex. Beaumont, 202
Roper. Rev. Mr.. 122
Rose, John, 18 ; Nicholas, 821-2. 865 ;
Dame, 359
Rounte. Thomas, 419 ; Johanna, 419 ;
Rous, John le. 867
R.iwde. John. 419 ; Nicholas, 419
Rowse. John, 518
Ruby, James, 472
Rudge, Edward, 58
Russe, William, 888 ; Kalherine, 388
Russell, Henry, 545; Robert, 332;
Alice, 832 ; Thomas, 77
Rutland, John, 85 ; Francis, 245-6 ;
Nycolas. 246
Rutley, Itnf'cy, Henry, 192
Rutter, Richard, 78-4. 159; Thomas,
160; William, 73; Margaret, 160
Ruttv, Henrv, 192; Marv. 192; John.
17.8, 286
Rychards. Tlioma.s, 528
Rydlev. John, 888: Matilda, 331
Ryse. Thomas, 417 ; Ellen, 417
Ryves. Cuthbert, 78-4 ; George, 269
Sacheurell, Richard, 42U
Sacheverell, Dr. Henry, lit; ;
Nathaniel. 446
Sadler, family. 2; John. 188-4;
Thomas, 49, 52 ; Rev. Thomas. 97
Sad lei r. Sad Her, Francis, 263, 269
Sager, Joseph. 22
St. George, Richard, 234
St. John, Henry, 12ii; Sir John,
138-4, 186; Oliver. 93
Salicis, Robert de, 8i;6. .\mice, 8ri6
Salisbury, Edward [EdmundJ Bishop
of. 422 ; Aruis of Bishops of. 8;i5
Edwanl of. 211, 311; Earl of. 12
448; Bishop of, 21-2, 57, 117, 12(»,
589 ; Dean and Chapter of, 22
Subtlean of, 22 ; Precentor of,
369; Subchanter of, 58; Arch
deacon of. 58; Canon of, 18
20, 22-3 ; Prebendary of, 18, 19
6i4
I/idix of Persons.
53, 58, 22G; Mayor of. 21 ; Alder-
man of, 31 ; Recorder of, 27. 124.
See also iSarum
Salloway, Daniel, 169
Salter, Bonjaiiiin, 473 ; John, l.'S,
358 ; Richard, 473
Sambor, Rev. Mr., 54
Sam bier, Dr. Legg, 121
Samborne, Drew, 45 ; John, 563 ;
Ddrothv. 5G3 ; Hoinv, 439 ; Nicho-
las, 439" ; Walter, 439 ; family, 239
Sandeburne, Juliana de, 390
Sandford, Rev. Mr., 118
Sands, Mr., 159
Sandwich, Lord, 210
Sandys, William, 156, 340, 418;
William, knight, 156 ; William,
lord, 71, 156 ; Miles, 156 ; Dame
Margery, 71
Sanger, Henry, 236; Joel, 162,224;
Samuel, 24 ; Thomas, 566
Sartaine, William, 237
Sarum, Bishop of, 75-6, 180, 482 ;
Dean of, 20; Subdean of, 22;
Treasurerof, 113, 117, 444 ; Chan-
cellor of, 113, 222 ; Canon of, 67,
111, 114, 122-.3, 444; Prebendary
of, 219, 220; Steward of Manor,
223 : St. Thomas, Ralph, Chaplain
of, 526 ; William, Chaplain of,
52(; ; (New), Mayor of, 141
Saucer, Samer, Roger le, 409, 508 ;
Robert, 15
Saunders, Henry, 417-9; William,
335 ; Christina, 336 ; Thomas
Bush, 48
Savage, Francis, 552
Savary, John, 360
Sa%'ery, Anthony, 451
Sawary, John, 317
Say, William, .50
Saye, John. 517-8
Scherewynd, John, 453 ; Nicholas,
453 ; Joan, 453
Sches', Saveric de, 358
Schrcdier, John, 526
Scory, Richard, 451
Scott family, 196; George, 177;
John, 202, 403 ; Jonathan, 202,
236 ; William, 202 ; Jane, 262
Scott, Sir Walter, 209
Scrope. G. Poulett. 48
Scry vein. Phili]) le, 526
Scudet. William, 273
Seagram, Rev. J., 450
Scale, Henry, 166
Sealy. Sec Zealy
164,
191,
191,
Season, Dr. Henry, 196, 848
Sebcacros, Walter, 234
Seburn, Robert, 333
Sefton, Henry, 445 ; Susan, 445
Seiirym, Richard. 442
Self ," .sW/V, P]dward, 191; Isaac,
166, 175, 180, 192 ; Jacob,
197 ; Samuel, 192 ; Thomas,
195 ; Anne, 191, 552; Elizabeth,
191 ; Jane, 176; Mary, ISl
Selyman, Walter, 365
Semer. Walter, 424
Servynton, Walter, 332
Sewale, Walter, 554 ; Emma, 554
Sewgar. Henry, 2
Sexton, John, 452
Seymayn, Thomas, 425
Seymour, Saintmor, arms of, 588 ;
nedigree of, 211, 303; Edward, 23,
304, 420, 588; Lord Francis, 23,
533 ; George, 304 ; Henry, 304,
587; John, 304, 421, .588; Sir
John, 304, 587, 589; Robert, 304.
420, 587 ; Thomas, 304 ; Lord
Webb, 23 ; William, 587 ; William,
Earl of Hertford, 533, 586; Lord
William, 23 ; Arabella, 588 ; Cathe-
rine, 24, 533 ; Dorothy, 304 ;
Elizabeth, 304 ; Lady Elizabeth,
5S7; Ladv Frances," 533, 586-7;
Isabel, 304, 589
Jane, 533, 586
Jane, 3t)4 ; Lady
Queen Jane, 587,
589 ; Mary, 23, 587-8 ; Lady Mary,
23 ; Sarah, 5S8
Seynesburye, John, 417
Seyngerman. Christopher, 336
Seyntlowe, John, 332
Seyntmonds, Anthony, 423-4 ; Anna,
423
Seyntpoull, John. 423
Shaa, John, 331, 333-4, 337
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 4, 5, 102, 153
Sharington. Sir William, 34 ; Sir
Henry, 311, 532
Sharpe, Capt., 175
Shater, Andrew, 2>ed. 579 ; Elizabeth,
pcd. 579
Shel bourne, Earl of, 225
Sheldon family, arms of, 153;
Francis, l(t2
Shell, Jane, 181 ; Jone, 181
Shelly, Thomas, 425
Shepard alias Cristechurch, William,
72
Shepherd, Nicholas the, 322; Shep-
pard, Joshua, 236, 270 ; Germani-
cus, 56
Index of Persons.
6,5
Sherard, Hon. and Rev. Mr., 20, 123
Sherfield, Henrv, 27
Shergold. Robert, 176
Sherlock, Bishop of London, 120
Sherinur, William, 153
Sherreveton, Walter de, 553. See
also Shurreueion.
Shingles, Charles, 166
Shirburn, Robert, 336
Shorigge. Thomas. 448
Short, Thomas, 93-4; Ann, 94;
Richard, 331 ; William, 331 ;
Johanna, 331; Joane, 518; Chris-
tian, 518
Shote. John, 16 ; Edith, 16
Shotesbroke. Agnes, 45 ; family, 93
Shrapnel, arms of. 533 ; Henry, 533 ;
Zachary, 533 ; Lydia, 533
Shropshire, George, Earl of, 336;
Anna, 336
Shurmer, Giles, 167
Shurreueton, Walter de, 411
Shute. Mary, 451
Sibell family, arms of. 4
Sibille, John, 44; William, 44; Joan,
44
Sidenham, Humphrey, 104
Sidnam, Sydnam, John, 308 ; Ursula,
308
Sidney, Sir Henry, 442 ; Marj', 442
Silby, John, 123
Sille, John, 68
Simmons, Richard, 19
Simond, Syniund. Richard, 319
Simoond, Richard, 457
Simounde, Thomas, 319
Simpkinson, Rev. Mr., 225
Simpson, Rev. Joseph, 224 ; Rev.
Thomas, 18
Sindry, Edward, 31 ; Paul, 31 ;
Elizabeth, 31 ; Margaret, 31 ;
Thomazin, 31
Sing, arms of, 401 ; Snygge, Sir
George, 400 ; George, 400-1 ;
William, 400 ; Alice, 4(J0 ; Jane,
400 ; Margaret, 400
Sireman, Robert, 527
Skelton, John, 400
Skillyng, Skyllyng, John, 11, 12, 15,
417-8,422; Faith, 11, 12; Michael,
15 ; William, 11
Skinner, J., 79
Skydemor, Godfrey de. 360
Skyllycome, John, 417; Mary, 417
Slade, Thomas, 178
Slagg, Thomas, 464
Slater, John, 35
SIoix?r, Robert, 53 ; Thomason, 421
Slv. Edward. IM
Smart. Edward. 180; William. 192;
ElizaJvth, 192
Smith, family of, 514; Banker, 93;
Cai)tain, 224 ; Edward, 35 ; James,
249; John. 22-3, 82, Wi, 175, 408.
547, 551 ; Itiilph, 451 ; Robert.
181 ; Thomas, 55. 82, 93, 192, 264,
497; Ann. 82; Eliz;ibcth, 4(18;
Margaret, 497 ; Mary, 181 ; Re-
becca, 551-2 ; Mrs., 192
Smith, alias Pudd. Mary. 241
Smod. John, 320
Smud, John le, 409 ; Thomas le, 409
Smyth, Adam le, 526; Nicholas, 17 ;
Robert, 421, 423, 564 ; William, 332,
! 418, 423 ; Edith, 332 ; Isabella,
j 418. See Chamber
Smythe, Clement, .304 ; Henry, 582 ;
John, 582 ; Nicholas, 69
Snell, Nicholas, 486 ; Susan, 486
Snellyges, Robert, 410; Alice, 410
Somers, Thomas, 335
Somerset, Duke of, 23,304,587; Pro-
tector, 4M8, 589
Somner, Edward. 23; John, 236;
Richard, 264 ; Robert, 420 ; Walter,
529; William, 529. 531, 575;
C'ystyan, 529; Martha, 181;
Mary, 181
Sonner, Walter le, 365
Southam, Robert, 547
, Southampton, Earl of, 587. See also
i Wriothesley
I South, Soutlie, Soivthe. Osmund, 422 ;
Robert, 416, 419, 425; William,
420, 425, 562
Southwell, Francis. 71
Southwick, Baron of, ped. 257
Sparke, John, 421
Sparrow, John, 178
Speckman, Ann, 548
Speke, Hugh, 4.39
Spencer, Charles, 56; Diana, 56;
Elizabeth, 56 ; George, 56 ; Robert,
56 ; Richard, 334
Sperin, James, 472
Spicer, Henry le, 9
Spragg, John, 54 ; Elizjibeth, 54
Sprakelyng, John. 508 ; William,
363 ; Sarra, 363 ; Margery, 363
Spray, Margaret, 370
Spythe. Robert, 459
Squire, Bishop of St. David's, 367 ;
Rev. Mr., 58 ; Esther. 533
Squyer, Thomas, 336 ; Lctitia, 336
E
6i6
Index of Persons.
StafTord, arms of, 25, jml. 257, 39fi ;
Earl of Wiltshire, 221, 8:^7 ; Duke
of Buckingham, 221-2; Ed-
nuind de, ;585-() ; Hugh de, H8() ;
Humphrey, 3S5-6, 422 ; Sir Hum-
phrey, 25, 25a-(;, jK'd. 257, 299,
300, "388, 439, 489-90; Sir John,
ped., 257, 300; Archbishop, 219,
222. 255-G, yycrZ. 257-8; 2G0, 298,
38l")-7, 438, 489 ; Emma [de Brad-
ley], mother of, 256, 258, 2G0, 387,
489 ; Ralph de, 3S5-6 ; Sir Ralph,
ped., 257 ; Sir Richard, ped., 257,
385 ; William of Southwick, ped.,
257, 299, 301, 490; Avice, ped.,
257; Elizabeth, 385,388 ; Isabella,
385 ; Katherine, ped., 257, 299 ;
Margaret, ped., 257, 386
Stalbrigge, Richard, 418
Stalby, George, 336
Stanape, Edward, 304 ; Anne, 304
Stancvall. John, 309 ; William, 309 ;
Anne, 309
Stanhope, Ladj- Ann, 24
Staniforth, Elizabeth, 497
Stfirinanow, Mary, 31
Stannard, Philip, 122
Stanter, family of, 474
Stanton, Edward, 263 ; Lucy, 263-4
Star, Robert, 173, 180
Starky family, 234
Stawell, Ralph, 269
Staynesmore, John, 421
Stebbing, Dr., 222
Stephens, John, 181, 425 ; Thomas,
246 ; Agnes, 425 ; Mary, 246
Stephyns, William, 425, 663 ; Edith,
425
Stevene, William, 68
Stevens, Miriam, 152
Steyyne. Richard, 563 ; Agnes, 563
Stileman, Sfi/lcman, StifUcman, pedi-
gree of, 241, 368 ; Anthony, 332,
336, 417, 422, 425, 564; Richard,
422 ; Robert, 416 ; Christina, 422
Still, A., 226; Bishop of Bath and
Wells, 397; Dr. John, 445; Mary,
445
Stoaks, Thomas, 181
Stockman, William, 110
Stoke, Stokes, Humfrcy de, 274 ;
Ralph de, 276-7, 320-1 ; Richard
de, 368, 363 ; Roger de, 366-7, 409 ;
Thomas de, 317, 360 ; Agnes de,
367, 409 ; Alditha de, 276
Stokes, Stok.'!, iStoki/.f, Stooh.^, (j2 ;
John, 478-9, 528, 530, 572-4, 577 ;
Nvcholas, 529; Robert, 421, 529,
531, 574, 577; Thomas, 528, 577;
Walter, 529, 575-7 ; William, 529 ;
Agnes. 577; Alice, 451, 528, 530,
574, 577; Lsabel, 529-30, 574;
Johanna, 421
Stone, John, 202, 416,419, 562 ; Rev.
John, 448-9 ; Mr., 96 ; Anna, 419
Stones, James, 121
Stonehouse, Dr., 226
Stourton, William, 339 ; Lord
William, 299
Stout, Stephen, 95-6
Strachcv, John, 483
Stradling, Edward, 429; Sir John,
537
Strange ways, arras of, 437, 541 ;
Conrad or Comdrei/, 562-3 ; Anna,
562-3
Stratford, Mr., 263
Stratton, Frederick, 87
Strelly, Nicholas, 425
Stretch, George. 199
Strickland, John, 1 74
Strikeon, Richard, 580
Stuart, Lady Arabella, 588-9
Studley, John, 45 ; Alice, 45
Stump, — , 60 ; Richard, 192 ; Mary,
192
Sturmy, John, 333; Isabella, 333
Sturte, Peter, 386
Stuvehy. John, 529
Stykbyrd, Thomas, 528, 530, 574,
576
Style, David, 423 ; Johanna, 423
Suel, John, 322
Suthery, Robert. 389
Sutton, Henrv, 332; Prince, 121;
Robert, 583"
Swale. Sir Sebastian, 76
Swanton, William, 175
Swayne, Thomas, 422; Johanna,
422 ; Rebecca, 580
Swetappel, John, 560
Swctnam, Francis, 105
Swcyn. John, 556
Sweytapel, Roger, 359
Sybnam, Jane, 308
Syfrewaste, Walter, 566 ; Cecila,
566
Sylock, John, 332
Sylvester, J(>sei)h, 124
Symes, see Fclpc»
Symond. Nicholas, 358; Richard,
358 ; John, 358
Symonds, Samuel. 580
Syon, Abbess of, 258
Iiidfx of Persons.
6,7
T.
Talbot, Gilbert, 181 ; John. 222 ; 8ir
John, oil, 532; Sharing^ton, IHl,
532; Justice, ISl ; Hon."^aiul Uev.
Doctor, 117; Lord, 117
Talbovs, Benjamin, 4U3
Talk, Alderman. 08
Tame. Edmund, 335, 422
Tanfield, Sir Lawrence, 137
Tanner. Bishop of St. Asaph, 397 ;
(ieoffrey le, 426; Richard, 354;
William, 473
Tarrant, Charles. 22 ; Rev. Mr., 22,
58
Tattoo, John, 562
Taverner, see Jones
Taylor. Richard. 407
Taynter, Jenivere, 137
Ternys, Robert, 565 ; John, 43-4
Terry, Mrs., 23
Tesdale, Christopher, 444 ; Thomas,
444 ; Susanna, 444
Testwode, Peter de, 504-5
Tettershall, Thomas, 236
Tewkesbury, Abbots of, 392
Teylj-s, Thomas le, 365
Thacham, Edward, 331 ; Richard,
331
Thacheham, John, 416; Frideswide,
416
Thistelden, Richard de, 68
Thistlethwayte. Alexander, 565 ;
John, 451
Thomas, Bi.shop of Salisburv, 22,
119, 121. 123; Evan, 348; George,
470-1, 473; John, 473; William,
422, 5G2 ; Rose, 422 ; Mrs., 59
Thomson, William, 417-8
'J'hornborough, Bishop of Bristol and
Worcester, 397
Thornburgh, William, 71
Thorneburj^h, John, 105-10; Joyce,
107-10 ; Katherine, 109 ; Margaret, I
107-10 ;
Thorner, Anthony, 552 ; Richard, i
3.j6 ; Thomas, 549 ; Anne. 552 ;
Emma, 51 ; Elizabeth, 50-1 ; Mar-
garet, 552
Thornley, Thomas, 436; Elizabeth,
436
Thornton, Sibilla de, 8
Thorny, Matilda de, 316
Thorp. Francis, 238 ; Rev. :Mr., 226
Thorpe, William, 423, 565
Thresher, John, 192 : Elizabeth, 192
Thressher, Henry, 420
Thynne, arms of, 437-8. 540-2 ;
Charles. 446 ; .Fohn, 514-7 ; Sir
John, 446
Ticheburn, John, di-, III
Tily, l{ichard, 539
Timbrell, Henry. 224
Tinnam, George, 166
Tipper, Jeffcry, 356
Titcombe. Richard. 93
Tizzard, Henry Hay<'s, 78
Tocotets. Sir Rogir, 24
Toker, Stephen, 416
Tolston, Thomas, 46, 90
Tomblins, William, 19
Tomes, William, 137
Tomkyns. William, 332 ; Margaret,
332
Tom|pson, John, 332
Toucke, William, 422; Eli/.ib.lh,
422
Torand, Thomas, 1 1
Torny, Simon, 365
Touker, Richard le. 411
Townshcnd, Chauncey. 120; Rev.
Mr., 125
Townson, John, 168
Trassye, of co. Gloucester, 308
Trenchard family, 260; Thomas,
419 ; William, 435
Trevor, Thomas Lord, 55 ; William,
435
Trevors. Mr., 22
Trewe, John, 420 ; Matilda, 420.
See also Drove.
Trimnell, Thomas, 269
Trinder, Charles. 399
Troice, Katiicrine, 70
Trupenell, Thomas, 331
Trot. William, 411
Truslow, Robert. 5K1-2; John, 5K2
Tuck. Henry, 546-7 ; John, 546 ;
Richard, 516-7; S^imuel, 546
Tucke, William, 71
Tucker, Tuccar, John, .">29, 531, 576 ;
Thomas, 530. 574-5; William.
529-30, 574 ; Elianor, 583 ; Eliza-
beth, perl., 579 ; Joan, .'529, 576
Tuding. Timctthy, 57
Tudor, Owen, 26
Tnrbcvile. Hugh de. 367
Turbulet, John, 159
Turnai. Robert de. 274 ; Matilda de,
274-5
Tamer, John, 119; Charle.s, .'534;
Christopher, .">34 ; Edmund, 534 ;
Henry. 534 ; Lady Joice. 534
Turpiu, John, 367
6iS
Index of Persons.
Turton, John, t)2
Tutt, Uicluird. 101
Tvvyiie, Brian, 1)2
Twynye, Tiri/n>i, Tnu/inje, John, 529,
531,574 ; Christian, 530, 577
Twyselton, John, 423
Tylbury, Kobert, 15
Tyler. Thomas, 337
Tvnv[ng], Thomas, 529
Tyhiey, Earl of, 119
Tymber [Lymbcr], Thomas, 120
Tyndall. Thomas, 401
Tynes, John, 529
U.
Unton, Thomas, 333
Unwyn, John, 357
Upham, Hugo de, 297 ; Robert de,
297
Upton, Nicholas, 443 ; Roger de,
411
Ursew^-k, Christopher, 338-9
Uslak, Roger, 7 ; Elena, 7
Uvedale, Sir William, 158 ; Arthur,
70
Valence, Aylmer de, 9
Vanderi)lank, John, 23
Vaulx, James, 145; Editha, 145
Vedyng, William, tJ8
Vele, Walter, 420
Verney, Jolm, 336 ; Margaret, 336
Vertue, Christopher, 446 ; Margaret,
446
Villers, Henry, 23
Villiers, Colonel, 95 ; Hon. Thomas,
18 ; Lady Sarah, 209
Vines, 63, 64
Vnche. William, 335
Vyall, James, 306
Vyner, Tiiomas. 563
Vyrley, John, 11
W.
Wabrand, Mabel, 317
Wadewe, Johanna la, 68
Wad ham. Nicholas. 339
Wafer, Richard, 422 ; Johanna, 422
Wait, William, 166
Wake Margaret, 386
Wakefield, George, 518
Wakenian. Ralph, 424; Edith, 424
Wakeman, Jo&iah, 236
Waker. Elizabeth, 549
W^ildroD, John, 123
Walorand, Mabel, 360 ; John, 365
Walkelyn, Walter, 68
Walker, John, 55, 74
Wall. Captain, 23
Walsh, John, 337 ; Joan, 45
Walters, John, 158
Waltham, John, 386
Wandlvngton, John de, 10
Wanley, T., 23
Wanscy, — , 434
Ward, Edward, 65; Thomas, 162
Warde, John, 417
Warman, William, 94
Warneford, Sir Edmund, 194, 552;
John, 135 ; Thomas, 133, 135, 137 ;
Rev. Mr., 227
Warneman, Thomas, 424
Warner, John. 53
Warrc, John le, 68
Warren, Thomas, 404
Warton, Anthony, 436 ; Rev. An-
thony, 538 ; Poet Laureate, 538 ;
Miss, 23
Warwick, Sir Philip, 534 ; Anne
(Anna) Countess of, 337, 442 ;
Isabella, 534
Wastefeld, Richard, 422
Wastfeld, Anthony, 355 ; Richard,
355
Wastfield, John, 406 ; Miss, 472
Watkins, Edward, 93, 95-6; Robert, 95
Watson, Colonel, 19
Watts, Richard, 18
Wattys, William, 284
Wayfere, William, 333
Wayneman, Thomas, 425, 562
Wayte, John, 35 ; Thomas, 16 ; Wil-
liam, 16 ; Elizabeth, 16 ; Edmund,
518, 546
Webb, arms of. 546 ; Alexander, 142 ;
Benjamin, 539 ; Daniel, 23 ; God-
frey, 539 ; James, 166 ; John, 53,
588 ; Sir John, 528 ; Richard, 546 ;
William, 133
Webbe, arms of, 84 ; John, 418 ;
Oliver, 53; William, 334; Alice
41S; Johanna, 334
Web.ster, John, /icd., 579 ; knx\, 2)cd.,
579
Wedyngton, William, 564
Welle, John atte, 508 ; Alice atte.
508
Well.s, Charles, 263, 270; Henry,
270; Thomas, 270; Dorothy, 270 ;
dean of, 91 ; canon of, 111
Index of Persons.
619
Welton, Robert de. ;U7
Wenterlock. Ann, 33
Wentwoorthe, Sir Harry, 304 ; Mar-
gery, 304
West, John, 41tj ; Owen, 425;
Thomas, 425. See Delaware
Westbary, John, 141 ; Joseph, 1G6 ;
William, 111, 351 ; Parson of,
360
Westley, John. 417
Wotminstcr, George, Abbot of, 14
Westmorland, Earl of, 209
Weston, Sir Kichard, 13{>
Westwoode, John, 562 ; Agnes, iJ62
Wevmouth, Lord, 517
Whateley. Thomas. 120
Wheiit, Colonel, 174
Wheatley, Miss, 124
Wheeler. See Bla/ichard; Charles,
270 ; John, 249 ; Roger, 17G ; Wil-
liam, 249 ; Anne, 451 ; Elizabeth,
208, 249
Whfteacre. See Bathe
White, )i7((/^d, Thomas, 156; John,
141, 158 ; Bridget, 158 ; Nathaniel,
■446; Capt. William, 296 ; William,
101, 546 ; Rev. Mr., 54 ; Richard
le, 319, 358 ; Walter le, 358 ;
Agnes le, 556 ; Edith le, 556 ; Al-
ban, 73 ; Alice, 73
Whiteleg, Ralf, 320
Whiting, John, 166, 173
Whitokesmede, Henry, 332
Wliittaker, Edward, ped., 579, 583 ;
Richard, y^e</., 579. 582-3; Thomas,
jjcd., 579, 583 ; Juhan, ped., 579,
582-3
Whitte, \V1nttle, Whytle, Edward,
459, 504, 507 ; John, 321-2 ; Ralph,
359 ; William, 263
Whittock, Agnes, jjcd.. 579, 582 ;
alias Batt, John, pcd., 579, 582-3 ;
Elizabeth, yW., 579
Whvteclvve. William de, 556
Wightwick, Kev. Mr., 224 ; Charles,
444 ; Henry, 444 ; Richard, 444
Wigmoare, Thomas, 548 ; Ann, 548
Wigner, Charles, 23
Wikc, arms of, 310
Wilcok, Walter, 411
Wild, William, 346
Wilkes, Rev. Mr., 117
Wilkins, Rev. Charles, 58 ; John,
437; Robert, 55; Miss, 121
Wilkinson, John, 179
William 111. sword-bearer to, 31
WUliam, Mark, 304, 589 ; Isabel, 304
Williams, Wyllyaim, John, 54, 332,
529, 574 ; Henry, 551 ; Judith,
551 ; Richard, 564
Williamson, tieorge, 402 ; Dorothy,
267; Mr., 532
Willis, Wille», Edward, 453 ; John. 5N3
Willoughby, Christopher, 421 ; Sir
John, 24-5, lied. 257 ; Richard,
139; Sir Itobert, 24, 26; Anne
[Cheney], 24-5 ; Blanche [t'hani-
pernoun], 26; arms of, .25; de
Broke, Lord, 25, 26, ped. 257, 445
Willshcre. William. 296
Willy, William. 119
Willyngt.jn. William, 421, 424
Wihnot, Sir John Eaniley, 54
Wilson, John, 236 ; Anne, 236 ;
Robert, 101 ; Margaret, 101 ; Sarah,
101
Wilton, Abbess of, 488, 527-8
Wiltshire, Earl of. 111. See liutler :
Stafford, Earl of, 299
Wimbervile, Walter de, 364 ; Alienor
de, 364
Winchester, Bishop of, 120 ; Richard,
Bishop of, 338-9 ; St. Peter's,
Abbot of, 188; St. Swithin, Prior
of, 392 ; Charles, Marques^j of. 59 ;
Earl of, 588
Winckworth, Henry, 356 ; John, 356,
545
Windebank, Secretary, 138
Winkensun, Nath., 166
Wintersall, Thomas, ped. 579 ;
Eleanor, ped. 579
Wirram, William, 365; Alice, 365
Wiseman, Rev. Samuel, 56
Wishaw, Rev. Mr., 18
Wither, William, 411
Withers, Philip, 223; Ralph. 178,
180 ; Thomas, 180
Withv, John, 235
Witeegh, Edward. 414
Wodeloud, Richard, 234
Wolfe, William, 417; Cienoral, 20
WoUemonger, John le, 411
Wolvestone, Peter, 223
Wood, Anthony de. 92, 442, 481;
Henry. 472
Woode, William, 417; Alice, 417
Woodcok, Wodecok, Henry, 331,
333-4
Woodkok, Margerye, 309
Woodley. William. 120
Woodman, John, 473
Woodroffe, George, 160-1 ; Frances,
160-1
620
Index of Persons.
Woodshawe. Thomas, 310
Woodson, Nicholas, 70
Worcester, Bisliop of. 443
Worslev, Christopher. 15
Worst on [Wroughton], Thomas, 11
Wortlv, W. Will, 237
Writrht. William, 340
Wrighter, William, 565
Wriothesley.yvcrf., 93 ; Thomas, 502 ;
Sir Thomas, 45
WVitelc, Roger de, 365
Writhe, Writh, John, 45, 65
Wrotesley, George, 156
Wroughton, or Wrofton, family,
347, 393; arms of, 437, 542; Sir
Charles. 91 ; George, 394 ; James,
116 ; Thomas, 418 ; Sir Thomas,
350; Sir William, 394, 488; Alice,
394; Dorothy, 90; Isabella, 394;
Lucy, 91
Wrowton, John, 309 ; Elizabeth,
3t)8. See also Wor^toti
Wvatt, Wijhett. John, 269 ; Thomas,
181 ; William, 529
Wydeslade, John, 14
Wvdyngton, William, 563
Wye, Robert, 422
Wykcham-Martin, Cornwallis, 154 ;
Anne, 154
Wylcok, John, 333
Wylde, John, 563
Wyllies. Richard, 582; Mary, 582.
See also Willis
Wyllyngton, William, 564
Wyly, Richard, 554
Wynard, John, 14-5 ; Elizabeth,
14-5
Wyndcsore, Andrew, :!:'.6 ; William,
563 ; Margaret, 563
Wyndham, Henry, 54 ; Wadham,
53 ; Major, 95 ; Mi.s.s Bab, 53
Wyntrc.shull, John, 417
Wyrhani, William, 363 ; Alice. 363
Wvsdom alias Carter, John, 420 ;
Alice, 420
Wyso, John, 80
Wytche, Edward, 459
Wythcy. Robert atte, 366 ; Donicia,
366
Wytsend. William, 3(!5
Wyttou, Edmond, Lord tJrey of, 308
Y.
Yalden, Rev. Mr.. 118
Yate, ieate, John, 333, 336, 532
Yerbery, Thomas, 564 ; Christiana,
564
Yew, Yewp, I'tfon'e, GiflEord, 515, 517;
John, 514-6 ; Richard, 517 ;
William, 516-7; Anne, 515
Ynkpen, Thomas, 419; William. 419
York, Archbishop of, 21 ; Dean and
Chapter of, 21 ; Duke of, reviews
Wilts Militia, 117
Yorke. William, 48, 164, 446
Young, Anne, 400
Younge, Edward, 59
Yuicherche [Ivychurch], Prior of, 11
Yung, Yang, William, 336, 400 ;
Alice. 336, 400 ; arms of, 401
Z.
Zealy alias Scaly, Thomas, 546 ;
Deborah, 546
Zonch, Ziivclte, Edward Lord, 158 ;
John, 339
INDEX OF PLACES.
Abbotsbury (co. Dorset), 221, 255,
342; Hooke in, 221, 255, ped. 257,
299, 300 ; Abbey Church of, ped ,
257
Abbotstone, rectory, 22
Abingdon, 444
Addinerton [co. Bucks], rectory, 5tj
Albeston [.Alvediston], G5
Aldbourne, Alhorn, Avlburne, 6G-7,
115, 117, 122. 223, 342, 346, 3.SS,
451 ; Church. 447 ; Vicarage,
448-9; "Curr's" farm, 450; the
Inn, 452; Gra»ells, 452; Fos-
buryes, 452 ; Iremongers, 452 ;
L'pham in. 297
Alderburv. 128, 164, 292. 294, 429,
431
Aldursbury, 565
Aldyngton. 12
Allcannings, 244, 463
AUer [co. Som.], 477
AUeston [co. Glonc.],403
Allington, 244. 264, 353. 407
Alton, 190; Barnes or Berners, 244,
542 ; Priors, 244, 542 ; [co. Hants],
226, 571
Alverston, 54
Allyngton, 105
.Uyngton, 331. 425 ; Manor of, 425
Amelcote [co. Stafford], ^;erf., 257
Amery [co. Hants], 226
Amesbury, Ambreibnry, 9, 16, 19.22,
47, 56-7, 70, 72, 114, 247-8, 341,
449, 586-7 ; Great, 16. 426 ; Little,
341, 426; Church, 587; Deanery
of, 13, 70; Hundred of, 9, 13. 17,
68-9, 159
Amesden vicarage, 20
.■\mpney Crucis [co. Glouc], 439
.\m well bury [co. Herts], 466
Andover. 58, 203, 210, 240, 518, 520
Archefounte [Urchfont], 112
Ardington [co. Berks], 478
Arlington Rectory, 117
Arundell [co. Sussex], 114
Ashdown, tattle of, 188
Ashelev. Ill
Ashley, 224
Assheley, 420 ; Manor, 420 ; Advow-
son, 420
Ashton. Ays$hetim, Keynes. 50, 422,
51S; Aslun. Long,' 19, 30s.«» ;
Uood, Rode, 44, 226, 301, 515;
A.>isheton, Steeple, 18. 96. 240,295,
368, 416-7,421.436, 564; Steeple
[co. Oxon], 517 ; Aysheton, West,
565
Asserton, manor, 338-9 ; advowson
of Free Chapel. 338-9
Assherton, 563
Aston, 124, 561
Atford. 522
Athelney [co. Som.]. 271, 476-8
Austle [co. Cornwall], 567
Avebury, 18, 189, 192. 253, 444, 581 ;
Church, 582; manor. 197; (Jreat
Farm. 197, 199; Brinsden Farm,
197. 199
Avon [in Christian Malford], 343-4,
427, 464-5, 524, 568
Avynton, 309
Aylesbury [co. Bucks], 246
Aylsham [co. Norfolk], 225
B.
Badgeworth [co. Glouc], 400-1
Badham [Cadenham ?], ll.i
Badon [Baydon], 23
Bakerstoke" [Baverstock], 422
' Bakhampton. 422
\ Baldok [co. Herts]. 9
1 Barbury Castle. 393, 542
Barclay, 23
Harford, 565 ; St. Martin, 57-8, 420
I Barnardys. see Huhhctun
' Barnesley [co. Glouc], ;i50
' Barnstaple [co. Devon], »)6
' Barrowden [co. Rutland], 267
Barton, vicarage, 57, 227 ; [co.
Oxon], 217
Barwick, Jierivyke, St John, 65, 421,
565
Baryngton [co. Kent], 8
Basing, battle of. 189
Basington [co. South.]. Ii',l
Basle. Council of, 443
Bath. 18. 27, 55-7, 116, 173. VJ\, liln.
220, 222, 255, 301, 464, 468, 497,
622
Index of Places.
570 ; St. Gregory's College, Down-
side, 197
Bath Easton, 19G
Batliford, 289, 292-3, 42(5, 4G9
Battcll [CO. Sussex], 132
Battlcsburv Hill, 3S9
Beacon Hill. 214
Ueaininster [co. Dor.set], 130
Beckhampton, 214 ; Inn, 199
Beckington [co. Som.], 203, 387, 517
r.edminster, 401, 4G3
Bedwin. Jicdwi/n, 190, 333; Creator
West. (iO, 115, 120. 425, 433, 449,
502, 579, 587 ; Church, 587 ; Little,
or East, 121, 425, 562, 579
Beechingstoke, Jiechyngstol/e, 244,
417-8
Beer Ferrers [co. Devon], 2G
Belysley [co. BerksJ, 307
Honacre, Beanacre, 147, 191, 584
Bermondsey Priory, 217
Berwick, BenvUie, 58 ; restory, 72.
See also liarn-ick
Beverley [co. York], 581 ; " Frith-
stools " at, 187
Bewley, 290-1, 42ti
Beydon, 451
Biddestone, 468 ; St. Peter. 2G6
Bideston, 345, 462, 4G7, 469, 520. 523
Bide.xtone, 427
Bidston, 463
Bidstone, 289-91, 293-4, 373. 428,
430. See also Bydon
Binbrook Rectory, 117
Bisham Abbey [co. Berks], 24G
Bishopstrow, see Jivsshoppcxtrctc
Bitton [co. Glouc], 93
Black Bourton [co. Oxon], 357
Blackengrave, old Hundred of, 392
Blackland, Blachlands, 289, 293, 337,
519
Blakedon [co. Somerset], 115
Blakelowe. 439
Blandford, 59
Blunsdon, Jilonsdon, Bloundatdon,
44, 306; St. Andrew, 112, 565;
manor, 220 ; Aylmer, 565 ; Broad,
137, 122 ; Bervloun in, 422 ; (iay,
.564-5
Blyth Hall [co. Warwick], 350
Bobeton, 424
r.okhampton [co. Dorset], 386
Bolebrigge [Bullbridge], 527 ;
Cinirch of St. Peter, 527
Borarnton, 564
Borrington Vicarage, 55
Boscombe, 114, 159, 831
Bosscbroke, 418
Boston [Mass.]. 580
Bosworth. battle of, 24
Botwcll, 417-8
Botwellsford, 241
Boulogne, 94
Bounton, 418
Bouram alias Burton [Boreham], 80
Bourton, 137
Bow alias NymetTracey [co. Devon],
201
Bowden Park, 397
Bowood, 251. 298
Box, 292, 310, 344. 421, 424-5, 579 ;
Agard, manor of. 430 ; Haselbury,
Ilasilhj/ri, 310-2 ; manor, 332 ;
Rydlowe, liidelawe, 421, 425
Boy ton, 55, 223
Braden, Bradon, Bray don ; Forest,
134-6, 138, 147, 153, 424 ; Brownes,
135 ; Cove wood, 135 ; Duchy Rag,
147; Great Sautridge, 135 ; Hall-
ston, 135; Keynes Woodd. 135;
Leighe fieldes, 135; Little Saut-
ridge, 135; Powchers Kagg, 135;
Temse furlong, 136 ; Weast Milles,
136 ; Woodbreache, 135
Bradenstoke Abbev, 56, 543 ; Church
of St. Mary, 297*
Brad field, 50-1
Bradford, Bradefordc, 48, 56, 58,
111-2, 114, 123, 128, 166, 174,
191-2, 197, 237, 291, 302, 343, 345,
348, 373, 427, 430, 433, 435, 461-2,
46G-9. 506, 515, 518-23; Church,
515. 532; Duke's House, 475;
Newtown, 463 ; Midnay Manor
House, 5.33; Wooley, 166
Bradley, Maiden, Prior and Con-
vent^ 13; North, 240, 256-7, 260,
387, 425, 439, 469, 490, 567 ;
Church of St. Nicholas, 218, 25(5-7,
298, 347; Cutteridge, Coterugge,
260, 456
Bradon, manor, 420
Brarabridge [co. South.], 270
Branch and Dole, hundred of, 84
Brat ton, Jirnctou, Jiracfun, 271-8,
313-21, 358-68, 408-16, 452-9
500-8, 553-61 ; Castle, 272
manor, 316, 558; le Bideloude
414; Binortheriggc Weye, 457
Birreburne, 31.S ; ' Blakewell, 359
Brodemede, 318 ; Burchhangrc
359, 501 ; " le Churchelonde," 507
" la Claye," 319, 322, 359 ; " lez
Clieves," 359; Cokescroft, 411
Indt'x of Places.
623
Compaynesmorecroft, 454, 502 ;
" la Deone Lcgh," 4.">() ; Estmere,
HIS ; •' la Estpyllontlu," 157, :>:>! ;
Fcrendon, 313 ; la Fleeto or Flocti',
412; "la forerde," 355); "forbt-
hull,"' 456; Furtham, 504; "le
Geredlonde," or le Geredoelond,
351t, 457, 504, 507 ; Godeshull, 313.
414 ; " la Goldhorde, ' 322 ; Grete-
dich, 320 ; Grocenes, Grotcneg,
411-2, 415; •■ le Haitinie," 455;
Hemhurste, 411; Ik-ndone, 414;
"heopelize," 3UI ; Hidon, 314;
" le holeacre," 31J>; Housfoilantr,
414 ; '• la liuUe," 501 ; Istmerscii,
458; Kynges Weysforluurloiig,
322 ; Lanark Bergh. 454 ; Laiigc-
dich, 414 ; Langefurlang, 412 ;
"la langeloude," 31i) ; "lange
meosden," 454 ; Laydoune, la
Leiidone, 411-2, 415; "le leses,"'
319 ; Little Stoke, 358, 3G3, 409-10,
554, 556, see also Stohe ; '• la
locloude," 322, 456 ; Meosdone,
502; Middelfurlang, 411-4;
Nether Milborne, Over Milboine,
Upper Milborne, see Milborne ;
Motweye. 322, 459; the Mount,
454,456; Muliedich, 411 ; Over-
wvclime, 351I ; PapekehuUeclife,
319; PatekynllhuU, 457-8;
Petitescroft, 411; "la Pillonde,"
507 ; Portweye, 359 ; Purchin,
319; Pusside, 277; Rig Weye,
277, 411 ; Riggewevesforlang, 458,
501 ; Kiscroft, le 'jliHcheroft, 278,
454 ; Rugweyesbal, 414 ; Scul-
floade, 318 ; Schepcroftes, 359 ;
Setton, 277; Shortmeosdon, 413,
501 ; Slocrofte, 321 ; Smoklande,
319 ; Stokemede, 359 ; le Strizele,
414 ; Swaleclive, 314 ; Thuren-
chint, Thurnchifne, 318, 322 ;
Thorncunibe, 322, 411, 414, 459,
501 ; Twelfacre. 322. 456 ; Tyse-
well, 456 ; Wenschirdc, 501 ;
Westmoesdone, 411 ; la Weyland,
Weylonde, 359, 414 ; WichcniL-d,
277 ; Wodestyghele. 322 ; Wyche-
medesforlong, 320, 322
Breamore [co. Hants], 222, 436;
Priory, 74
Brecor, 422
Bremelrigge, 361, 558-9
Bremhill, Brimhill. JiromhiU, 168,
191, 199, 236. 290, 292, 343, 345,
371, 373-4, 427, 432, 464-5, 468,
519, 521-4 ; Stockhair Marsh, in.
568
Brickworth, 251
Bridge. 373. 428
Bridgwater, pcd., '257
Bridstone, 343
Bridzor, 122
Brigmiston, 342
Brinkwnrlh, 121. 191. 222. 292, 341,
429, 441. UV.i, 569
Brislington [co. Somerset], 345. .370
Bristol. 27. 210, 214, 267. 291, 3(19,
345, 373. 400-2. 401, 426-7, 463.
467-9, 519. 521-4. .•.69-70. 589; St.
Augustine the lesse, jKirish of,
104. Carmelite Friars, 112; Hi.'h
Cross, 96; llotwelis, 32 ; Red.liiVe
Street, 589; St. Stephens, 400;
Sutton Court, 483; Temple Church,
79 ; Wiltshire Society at, 3.5, 79
Britford, 29-31, 78, 122. 2:'.l. 279,
509
Broadchalk. 54. 113, 279. 310
Broadhintou, 80, 191, 350, 393, 4SS,
562
Brodton, manor of, 337
Brodtown, 564
Brockynborowe, 424
Brokenburgh, Lupe, 331
Bromham, 24, 128, 181, 190, 192,
194-5, 197-8. 216. 288-92, 343. 372,
428-9; 449, 462-9. 519-21. 523-4,
566-70; churcii. 191, 194-5; Beau-
champ Chapel in, 195 ; Norris
monument in, 195; Dr. Sea.son"s
monument in, 196; hou.^e, 2.">2.
428-9, 467; Non.such Hou.-e. 57,
190, 192-3, 197, 199; Hawk Street,
521, 566
BromshuU [co. StafTord], ytv/. 257
Brooke manor [in WestburvJ, 25
Brooke Hall. 25. 257
Broughton. 73 ; GitTord, 27, 62, 267 ;
rector}', 1 1 7, 223 ; manor, 336 ;
Monkton. in. 27. 300-1, 486
Brugge Solers [co. Herforde], 307
Brughton, 12
Buljbeton [and Barnardys], manor
of, 564
Buckland Ripers [co. Dorset], 77
Bucksted, rector)', 122
Budesden [UiddesdenJ. 14-5
Bulbarne Breamore [co. Hants],
manor of. 74
Buiford. 433
Bulkington, 585
Burbage, 72, 579
F
624
Index of Places.
Burcomb, South, 421
Burdevop, Burdropp, f)4, 231), 246,
4l»9
Burfni-d [CO. Oxon], 42
Buriiavenny, W.Vd
Burmingtoii [co. Warwick], manor
of, 490
Bunihill [co. Glouc], 567
Burton, 343 ; manor of, 339
Burton Rilstone vicarage, 124
Buryngton [Bukyngton ?], 417
Busclton. See Brisllngton
Bu.shey, 18
Busshoppestrete [Bishopstrow], 333,
420
Bydeford, 14-5
Bydenhani, 339
Byston [Bydston?], 563
Cad'nam ? [Cadenham]. See Bad-
ham.
Cadwain [Cadenam ?], 409
Cainsford [Kempsford, co. Glouc],
14.^, 249
Cainsham [Keynsham, co. Somerset],
569
Calcote [near Cricklade], 417, 423
Callington [co. Cornwall], 24, 26
Calne, 24, 82, 119, 121, 128, 166, 182,
214, 222, 225, 236, 266, 270, 289,
291-2, 294, 337, 371-3, 389, 418,
423, 426-7, 430, 432, 435, 462-5,
467, 469, 477, 519-20, 522-4, 568 ;
Church, 266 ; Eastmanstreete,
270; Green, 266; White Hart,
266 ; Whetham, 266, 270
Cain Hill, 463
Calstonc, 18, 429, 431, 519, 522;
manor, 338-9
Camp, the Hessian, 19
Cami).s Hall [co. Canib.], 341, 433
Canford Magna [co. D(jrset], 341
Cannings, 289, 29:5. :i89, 4:'.2 ; hun-
dred of Potterne and, 142;
Bi.shop's, 178, 180-1, 192, 289-90,
417,431,523-4; Cotys [Coate], in
563
Canterbury, 219, 360 ; Priorv of the
Holy Trinity at, 25(5, 258, 48,S-9
Carlisle, 465
Castle Combe, 48, 180, 251, 266,
371-2, 422; barony of, 220, 442;
cliartulary of, 392 ; church, 265 ;
Child monument, 267; "Hands,"
266 ; upper, 265
Catcombe, Catcwn, 290-1, 427-8
Cernoy meadow [co. Glonc], 136
Cliaddington, [in Lydiard Trcgoze],
136
Chaffovd [Chalford, co. Glouc], 524
Chalfield, 524
Chaldfield, Great, 493
Charberry, rectory, 116
Chard [co. Somerset], 521
Cliarlcot, Charleutt, 128, 168, 290-2,
343-4, 371, 373-4, 427, 429-32, 461,
463-9, 519, 522-4, 567-9
Charlton [near Pewsey], 11, 203, 244 ;
[near Malmesbury], 251, 331, 336,
463, 569 ; manor' of, 424 ; 427-8 ;
manor of, 146, 54, 71 ; alias Hop-
grac, manor of, 334 ; Fulyngs, 424
Chaulky, rectory, 55
Chedzey, [co. Somerset], 91
Chekesgraue [Chicksgrove, in Tis-
burv ?], 563
Chelmsford, 29, 78
Chelsester, manor of, 71
CheLshith [co. Middx.], manor of, 71
Cheltenham, 253
Chelworth. 73, 136-7, 569; Magna,
135, 336, 417, 422-3, 563; Parva.
135, 417, 422-3
Cherston [Sherston], 112
Cheryton, church of, 507
Chesford, rectory, 54
Chevcrell, 167, 226; Magna, 425;
Parva, 243-4 ; rectory, 57
Chichester, 65
Chilmark, 123, 433
Cliippenham, Chi/pe7ihaiii, Ci/ppan-
hammc. 20, 23, '38, 48, 56, 59, 67,
112-3, 116, 119-22, 128, 145-7, 166,
174, 176, 178-9, 201, 214, 234, 238,
253, 275, 288, 291, 293, 331, 334,
343-5, 368, 372, 403, 418, 424, 427,
430-1, 461-5, 468-9, 477, 518, 520,
522-3, 532, 567, 569, 585; manor
of, 191-2, 197, 563; hundred of,
563; forest, 439; church, 196,
407 ; ■' The Ivy," or Ivy House,
196-7, 201, 471; Deniards, 197;
Lowdcn, 192, 197 ; Pipsmore, 197;
Rowdcn Down, 197 ; Sheldon,
192-3, 197, 199; Starveall, 197;
West Mead, 435 ; Bridge, 202 ;
Back Avon Bridge, 471-2 ; Bear
Inn, 470; White Hart, 435 ; High
Street, 472 ; St. Paul's Street, 472;
Timbrel Street, 471
Ciiipping Sodbury [co. Glouc], 265
Chircell, manor of, 337
Index of Places.
625
I
Chirton, Chcrington, 113, 244, 348,
44!) ; Conook. in. 244
Chisledon. cliurch, 245 ; manor and
advowson, 246
Chitterne, C/ii^tfcri/n, 335; manur of,
334 ; Church of B.V. Mary, 416
Chittleworth, 43!)
Chittoe, Chitwaij, 192, 289, 344, 426,
481, 464, 523-4
Cholderton, Chaldryngton, Chel-
drinqton, Choldrcngton, Chi/ldri/ng-
fon, 7, 13, 16-7, 68, 70, 72, '75, 105,
156-7, 160-1; church, 17; advow-
son, 11, 14, 106, 158 ; manor, 14-5,
71, 104. 155, 157-9; Farm, 159;
We&tfield,75; Southfield,75; West,
116, 156, 160; manor, 162
Christchurch [co. Hants], 230
Christian Malford, Christemalford,
111, 237, 289, 336, 344, 422," 427,
431, 464, 467, 524, 568-9; Char-
wood ur Bekeswood, 356
Cbudleigh, 224
Church Eaton, or Eaton Kennell,
57, 264, 464. See also Yatton
Kei/ncll
Churchill [co. Som.], 479
Churten, 524
Chjklade, 331
Cirencester, Cycestre, 82, 114, 129,
293, 428, 462, 466, 523, 568
Clack, 293. 431
Clapcote, 402
Clarendon, 314 ; Park, 19
Clatford Park, 39, 350, 487-8 ; Alien
Piiory at, 488
Cleeve Ancie, 551
Cleverdon, 336
Cleveswode, 565
Cliffe Pypard, 50, 191, 226, 423-4,
564 ; manor, 423 ; Breach Lane,
in, 82
Clun [co. Salop], church of, 130
Clutton [co. Som.], manor and ad-
vowson, 490
Coculborowe, 418; manor, 418
Codford, St. Mary, 55, 441 ; St.
Peter, 441
Colerne, Colelwrn, Coldhorne, Cul-
ler ue, 131, 236, 290-1, 344, 429
Coleshill [co. Berks], vicarage, 57
Collingbourne, Colynghorne, Colyn-
born, 300, 342, 564; St. Andrew,
19 ; Duels, 14-5, 579, 588 ; manor,
16 ; Kingston, 191, 564 ; Valleuce,
564 ; manor, 564 ; Wodes, 16
Comerford {^Qjiemerford], 337
Compton [co. Devon], 66 ; rectory,
58; vicarage, 19, 118
Compton [JJassett], 333; Chamber-
lain, 124, 161 ; park, 251 ; Long
[co. Warwick], 519
Corfe Castle [co. Dorset], 240, 433
Corsham, 48, 128. 178, 191, 197, 236,
253, 288-91, 293-4, 342-5, 371-3,
427-8. 430, 446, 461-9, 475, 51<)-20,
522-4, 532, 567-70; cliurch, 356;
manor, 357; Gastard, 519;
Lypiatt's Farm, 147 ; Kidge, 388-9 ;
Kidg Side, 343 ; Woodland's
tything, 269
Corsley, 113, 432-3; manor, 473;
church, 432
Corston, 51, 127
Coterugge [Cutteridge]. See North
Bradley
Cotmersh, 564-5
Cotswold, 402
Cottles, 532
Coulston, C'oveleston, Couvchton, 410,
454-7 ; East, 579
Coventry, pageants at, 39 ; Drapers'
Company, 42 ; Cappers' Company,
42
Cowage. See Kowechc
Cowbridge, 468
Cramthorn [? Cranborne] vicarage,
227
Cranborne [co. Dorset], 77, 102, 153
Crawell [co. Oxon], 300
Crediton [co. Devon], 385, 467
Cricklade, Crckelade, Cri/Jdadc, 73,
96, 113, 115, 119, 135-7, 145, 153,
191, 239, 341, 400, 417, 423, 428,
433, 569 ; Church of St. Sampson,
135 ; parish of do., 135 ; the
" White Harte " in, 136 ; hundred,
48
Cromer, church of, 129
Croylboys. manor of, 14-6
Crudwel), 425, 517-8; Chedglowe,
in, 403
CuUiton [co. Devon], 31
Cumbcrwell, Ccmcrwell, Co mere 1 1, 5'.),
128, 173, 227, 373, 427, 430, 461-3,
466-9, 518, 520, 523, 567, 569, 570
D.
Damerham, Uomerham, 65, 331 ;
North, hundred of, 48 ; South, 341,
433
Danzell [Dauntsey], 307
Darlington, 226
626
Index of Places.
Darncey [Dauntsey], 130
Dauntsey, Dancy, Dansci/, Dantseij,
8(), 289, 426, 42U, 4;}l-2, 518 ;
church, 537 ; almshouses, 86 ;
Park, 1»7, 148
Dean, Dene, 118, 333 ; West, IIU
Dcdhain [co. Essex], 24U
Denham [co. Bucks], 558
Denton, 306
Deptfonl [in Wylye], 85
Dertfonl [co. Kent], 115
Deverill, 13n.xton,271, 476 ; Hill, 21)5,
422 ; Kingston, 65, 436, 579 ;
Longbiidge, 113, 116; Monkton,
579 ; Cow-down, 486
Devizes, de Vises, The Vies, le
Devtjses, Beivyse, 21, 35, 38, 52-3,
56, 67, 82, 84-5, 98, 116-7, 119, 121.
123, 128, 165, 179, 194, 203, 208-9,
214, 218, 226-7, 242, 244, 249,
263-4, 267-9, 291-2, 305, 332, 334,
336, 348, 350, 369-71, 373, 389,
417, 420-1, 429-30, 432, 435, 440,
446, 449, 463-8, 477. 479, 481-2,
496-7. 519-21, 523, 538-9, 562-3,
568-9, 578-9, 581-3 ; church of St.
John Baptist, 440 ; register of,
579; pari.sh of St. John, 268-9,
523, 569, 578, 582 ; church of St.
-Mary, 249, 449, 496; Coventre,
Chantries in, 581, 593 ; church-
wardens' Accounts, 440, 575, 582 ;
parish of St. Mary, 268-9, 578 ;
castle, 85, 142, 315-6, 361-2, 4(i0,
483, 504-5 ; park, 38 ; park lands,
581 ; old port, 37ti, 581 ; new
port, 582; bridewell, 139, 142,
165; guildhall, 590; old alms-
house, ;-i70 ; the windmill in, 483 ;
the brittox, 268, 583 ; the *' Erode
Gate," 582; the "Cage," 582;
Morris' Lane, 583 ; the butter
cross, 590 ; the cheese cross,
590; the yarn cross, Wekefelde,
370; the cawseys in, .582; lye-
192.
See also Houtli-
croft,
briwni
Dickleburg [co. Norfolk], 462
Didmarton [co. Glouc], 290, 343
Dilton, Dvlton, 275, 315-7, 360-1,
:'.67-8, 411, 437, 558; Chapel of,
317 ; manor of .558
Dinton, 4, 295, 341
Dipden [co. Hants], 53
Ditcheridge, 289, 292
Ditchley [co. Oxon], 80
Doun, 334
Down Ampney [co. Glouc], 246,
306
Downton, Dounton, 22, 56, 90-1, 120,
341, 422, 433, 443
Draycote Cerne, 239, 251, 486
Dub Down, 57
Dublin, 292, 428
Dunhead [Donhead], Combe in, 370
Dun.ster [co. Oxon ?], 517
Dunton [Dulton], 367
Durnford, Little, 59
Diirrington, 296, 340
Dur.ston [co. Som.], 433
Dutton [Dulton, Dilton ?], 54
Dydynham, 337
Dykelston [co. Glouc], 308
E.
Earlham [co. Norf.], 520, 522
Earlstoke, IMestohc, 121, 194, 251
Earthcott, 465
Eastcourt, 56
Easton Piers [in Kington St.
Michael], 85, 335, 352-3, 402, 429 ;
manor of, 335 ; Grey, 54 ; Royal,
588
Easton-by-Stamford [co. Northants],
267
Ebbesborn Wake, 335
Ecgbyrhtes-stane [Brixton Deverill],
271, 476-7
Ecland, 45
Ederose [Ivy Church], monastery of,
202, 331
Edington [co. Somerset], 476
Edington, Edi/w/ton, Edynqdon, 85,
240, 242, 445, 455, 459, 469, 476-8,
556; College of Bonhomuies at,
27, 87, 397, 415; Chartulary of.
Sec under Jiratton ; Wodebridge,
in 556
Elcombe [in Wroughton], 392-3
Elcot, 421
Elington [alias Wroughton], rectory,
97 ; Ellingdon, Elijmlon, 333-4,
347, 391-4. See also Wroughton
Elstow, [co. Beds.], 258
Elstubbe, hundred of, 69, 244, 892-3,
542
Elvetham, 304
Ely Cathedral, 150
Enford, 155, 157, 533-4 ; manor, 533
Erchfont, 446 ; church house at,
142. See also Archefountc, Urch-
font.
Erwarton [co. Suffolk], 28
Index of P/aas.
62y
Estcote, 425
Estcrton, 3^2
Esthorpo, 41S
Estoverton [East Overton], 66
Etcliilharapton, 244, 41)7
Ethandune, 190, 272, 476-8
Eton College, 488
Evely vicarage, 57
Everington, 121
Everley, Evcrlcigk, 444 ; Rectory,
224 ; Hundred, 69 ; East, 203
Exchequer, Hereditary I'sher of, 55
Exeter Cathedral, Stafford Chautrv
in, 3S5-6
Eynford manor, 71
Eynsbury [co. Hunts], 131
Eyreville [co. Gal way], 534
F.
Falston [in Bishopstonc, S. Wilts].
iSee Fuhton.
Farleigh, Farley. Monkton, 18, 23,
58, 275 ; Hungerford, 26, 117. 134,
306, 331, 443. 475
Farley, 105, 337, 339
Farnborough, Farncburgh [co. Som-
erset] ; manor, 490 ; advowson,
255, 489-90
Farnham [co. Surrey], 56
Farrins-don [co. Berks], 569 ; Great,
.J2t '
Ferlize [Farley ?], Prior and Convent
of, 361
Fewarren's Coorte, 304
Fiddington [in Market Lavington.]
See Fi/dingtoii
Fifield, 371, 372; [near Marl-
borough ?]. See Fiijfehed
Fighelden, Fyhelldeiie, 115, 121, 224
Finchley, 451
Fisherton Anger, 112, 122; manor
and advowson, 333; gaol at, 54,
142, 166-7, 171-2, 175, 236; Dela-
mere, 295, 340; manor, 339;
Bapton in, 295
Fittleton, Fiddleton, 841, 579
Flanders, 83
Fleet [co. Dorset], 76
Folke [co. Dorset], 58
Fonthill. Fountel, 230 ; Bishops, 421 ;
Gifford, 421 ; manor, 421 ; Great
Hidge, 230
Ford [in N. Wraxhali], 291, 2'.t4
Fordingbridge [co. Hants], 464, 468,
522, 524, 570
Fosbury, 191
Fosket [Foscote, in Grittleton], 463,
523
Fovaut, 66, 174, 468, 570. See also
Movant
Fowcv, 90
Foxhall, Fflxhill, 337, 339
Foxhaui, 290, 292, 344-5, 352, 371,
418, 128-9, 431-2, 524
Foxley, 60-1
Frankley, 237
Fretfhedon, 418
Freshford, 111, 191
Frume, Froome, 203, 464 ; Sclwood,
292, 344, 352, 490; fair of St.
Katherine, 349 ; Vallis, Vallys,
352-3
Froxfield, 53, 54
Fugglestone, Foghclcston, 213, 526
Fulbrook [co. Oxon], 570
Fulham, 209-10
Fulston [Falston], 424
Furmyaxe, manor, 419
Fydington [Fiddington], 563
Fyffehed [Fifield], 563
G.
Galston [Calston ?], 336
Garsden, 224
GiUingLam, (rijlh/nghavi [co. Dor-
set], 67, 112, 567
Glastonbury Abbey, yycr/., 257, 351
Gloucester, 233, 431, 462, 523
Gloucestershire, \'isitation of, 369
Glympton [co. Oxon], 444
Goatacre, Gotacre, Gotcker [in Hil-
marton], 169, 181-2, 334-5, 523
Godsill, 567
Gore [in Market Lavington], 425, 563
Grantham [co. Lincoln], 129
Greenwich, 6
Greinton, 467
Gretna Green, 209
Griinsted, 333
Grittenham [in Brinkworth], 464
Grittleton. 180, 236, 2.s9, 293, 343,
429, 432, 463
Groundewell, Grundwcll, 137, 565
Grove, the [co. Hert.s], 18
Grovelegh [forest of], 305
Guernsey, 567
Guildford [co. Surrey], 468
H.
Ilache Beauchampe [co. Som.], 304
Hadham, 587
628
Index of Places.
Ham [near Hungerford], 449 ; [co.
Glouc], 130
Hambleton [co. Hants], 518
Hampden [co. Bucks], G7
Hanbury [co. Stafif.], 451
Handley [co. Dorset], 370
Handly Castle [co. Worcester], 467
Hanken-^tone [Hankerton ?], 224
Hankerton, 137 ; manor of Clotely
in, 135 ; Cloathyard in, 552
Hankyngton [Hankerton], 424
Harnham, 279 ; proposed County
Gaol at, 142
Harrin2;worth, 158
Harrowdale, 227
Hartham, 290, 343, 371-2, 430, 520
Harvard College Library, 390
Haslington [co. Berks], 58
Hastinge, Rape of, 132
Haughton. 226
Hautevvrth, 314
Haveridge [Hawkeridge ?], 521
Haxtone, Hakilston, Hakelston, 340 ;
manor, 423
Heatherley, 223
Hecklington, 19
Heddington, 128, 207, 210-11, 213-8,
261-3, 265-8, 270, 289, 302, 344,
427-8, 477; manor, 211; manor
farm, 215 ; church of St. Andrew,
212: Wick, 211, 214; Bear Inn,
214; Bell Inn, 214; Broad'sGrcen,
214; Broad Leaze, 262; Court
Close, 215, 270 ; Cowpening, 262 ;
Coxe's, 262-3; Davy Hay, 262;
The Garden, 270; Gould Stones,
262 ; Hoppyard pond, 270; Mob-
ley, 262 ; Great Nottfield, 262 ;
Little ditto, 262 ; Pidgeon Close,
270 ; Rough Mead, 270 ; Scutters,
263 ; Sheepe House Leaze, 262 ;
Smeeths, 270; The Splatt's, 214-5,
261-2, 265-6 ; Stocklcy, 211-5 ;
Weeke Field, 216; The Woods,
270
Hembcrsley, 118
Hembury, 19, 121
Henhurst [co. Sussex], hundred of,
132
Henly Park, 21
Henniton Charter Houses [Hinton
Charterhouse, co. Som.], 523
Henton [co. Som.], 523 ; manor of,
337 ; Pepard or Pyper, manor of,
331, 337
Hereford, city of, 131
Hcrneshcwells [Hardenhuish ?], 563
Heytesbury, Haiteshury, Ileijghtrcde-
bvri/, 114, 120, 264, 342; Estcourt,
manor of, 12 ; Hospital, jjed., 257
note
Heywodc, Haywood, Heihvodc, 19,
553-4
Highway, 551
Highworth, Heygluvorth, JIy7vorth,
22-3, 44, 115, 3i6, 336, 348, 417-8,
422, 515; Church, 583; Estrop,
Estlirop, Hesthorj), in, 460, 504-5
Hillecote, Hulcote, Hyllecotc [in
North Newnton], 11, 14-5
Hilineston [Hilmarton], 334
Hillsby vicarage, 117
Hilmarton, Hehnarton, 56, 169, 191,
335, 551
Hilperton, Hylperton, 291, 294, 429,
432, 519, 565, 568
Hindon, Hendon, Hyndon, 53, 57,
119-20, 122, 145, 224, 331, 341, 421,
445
Hinton, Little, 18, 223 ; [co. Glouc],
517, 545. See also Uenton,
Henniton
Hitchara [co. Bucks], 247, 534
Hockle}-, 153
Holme, the, 23
Holmerston [Hilmarton ?], 335
Holt, 430
Hoi well [co. Oxon], 399
Home Hill [in Bowood], 225
Hooke [in Lydiard Tregoze], 135
Ilormington. See Huminton
Hornvngesham. 422
Horsley [co. Glouc], 461, 523
Horton Mombray [Mowbray ?], 59
Hossrat ? [in Lyneham], 432
Hounslow Heath, 227
Hovant [Fovani], 128
Hullavington, Ihdlhuiton, 51, 181-2,
288, 290-3, 336, 342-4, 373, 42{),
428, 431, 463-5, 468, 519-20, 569;
House, 201 ; Bradfield in, 50-1,
356
Huminton [Ilomington], 23
Hungerford, 111-2, 124, 228, 390, 561
Hunsdon [co. Heits], 546
Hurstbouriiu Tarrant, 444
Hyde Abbey, 246
Hynsett, 333
Idmiston, Jdmyston, 75, 331, 564
Iford, 26, 114, i331
Iglea [Iley], 476-7
Index of Places.
629
Ilchester, Ivclchester [co. Som.], 476,
41)4 : jail. 1G6
Ilsley, East [co. Berks], 444
Imber, 84. H42
Ingaiston [co. Essex?], Ill
iDfflisl-.ani [Inglesham, co. Berks ?]
224
Ipswich [Massachusetts], 579
Ivjcliurcii. priory of, 70, 75. See
also Ederosc
K.
Kcevil, Kevyll Kyvell, 33, 62. 96,
240, 445-6, 563 ; Baldham Mill in,
573 ; Brent Place, alias Barkes-
dales. 445 ; Mayne's Lands, 577 ;
Turpin's Stone, 585 ; Weeke Lease,
62
Kelmingtoii [Kilmington], 223
Kelveston [Kelston, co. Som.], 101
Kemble, 84, 227
Kempsford. See Cainsford
Kendal, 46
Kennett, 199 ; East, 449
Kennington [co. Surrey], 462
Keynsham [co. Som.], 190. See also
Caln^ham
Kilmington [co. Som.]. Sec Eel-
m Ington, Kiillmyngton
Kingsbridge or Kyneorkjge, hundred,
392
Kingscott [co. Glouc], 401, 403;
Oldleaze, 401 ; Herder Wood, 401
Kinsrs Haves [in Bradon Forest],
424
Kingswood Church. 341, 433 ; fire at,
341
Kinffton, 461, 463; Langley, 461.
464 ; St. Michael, 128, 181. 289-90,
293, 343, 351-3, 355, 357, 371, 400.
404. 427, 429-30, 486 ; St. Mary's
Priory, 401, 439, 572 ; Church, 351,
407 ; Parish Register, 406 ; Barn
Close. 404; Bottom Meade, 404;
Clay Hill, 404 ; Cone3'grove, Cim-
grin-e. 354, 390; Congrove Hill, 404 ;
Cow Lease, 404 ; Eastfelde, 352,
354 ; Fernny Lease, 404, Grove
Close, 404 ; Home Close, 404 ;
Home Wood Lease, 404 ; Hurden's
399. 404 ; Lower Wood Leas, 404 ;
Moreshawemede or Moreshall
Mead, 352-5, 399, 403-4; Narrow
Mead. 404 ; Northfelde. 352, 354 ;
Sowerlands, or Loiver Sivinley,
399, 404 ; Swains Hill, or Sminsell,
399, 404; Swinlev, 351-7, 399, 400.
402-5, 407 ; Wcstfelde. 352, 354 ;
Whitmans (now Whiteland's
Farm), 451 ; The Wood, 404 ;
^ West. 58, 423, 565 ; Manor, 565
Knoll [Knoyle], episcopi, 112
Knutt. manor, 333
Knoyle, East, 397 ; West. 145, 395
Koweche [Cowiige, near Malmesbury]
68
Kyllmyngton, 112
Lachinton [Luckington ?], 119
Lacock, Lacoc, Laycovhc, 34, 211
222, 237, 290-1, 310-2, 439, 469,
523; Church of St. Cyriac, 397,
491; Abbey, 311, 491; Lackham.
in, 145, 439 ; Notion, in, 437, 469 ;
Wick Manor, now Wick Farm
311-2
Lambeth. 484; St. Mary's Church,
533
Lancaster, Duchv of. 43, 148, 158,
295
Landford, 125
Langford [co. Som.], 372 ; Hangvng,
563; Steeple, 66, 114, 222, 226,
420, 446
Langham Manor [in North Bradley],
2)ed., 257 note
Langley, 67, 372, 422, 427. 430. 461,
463-4; Abbots, 18; Burrell, 38,
66, 178, 343, 351. 405. 407, 41H,
422, 424, 430, 563; Manor, 337;
Northfield, 407 ; Fitzurse, 470 ;
North, 422; South, 422, 563;
Woods [near Downton], 56 «
Langton, 18
Lanherne [co. Cornwall], 299, 300
La Soo, 12
Latton, 66, 137
Laverstock, Larltstock, 156-7, 160
Lavington, 164, 175, 289, 332, 371,
426, 519, 522, 566, 570; East,
Market, or Stepull, 84-6; 116,
166-7, 289, 341-2, 345, 397, 417,
425, 429-30, 433, 446, 521, 523,
563, 569; advowson of church,
87, ; Gore Manor or Farm, 84,
86-7 ; Chapel of St. John a Gore,
87 ; Gore Cross. 84 ; Green Dragon
Inn, 483 ; The Kidgeway, 85 ;
Garnon, manor of, 332 ; Stepull,
manor of, 332 ; West, or Bishop's,
84, 86, 421, 497, 537, 563, 569,584;
630
Index of Places.
Church of, 497; Hunt's House,
498 ; Dauntesey College, 537
Lea, " la Lee " [near jMalmesbuiy],
8G, 12s, 130, 2'>2, 33G, 401, 429
Lechlade, Letchlad [co. Glouc] , 5t)9
Leente, Lent, 418; manor of, 417;
Hulle, 417
Leicester, Collegiate Church, 419-20
Legh '■ juxta Castlecombe " [Legh
Delamere], 71 ; Advowson, 71
Leigh Delamere, 191. See also
Licalemoi'c
Leighton, Up, 56
Lekkeford [co. Hants], HI
Laming Church, 130
Lese, North, 505 ; West, 5(55
Lewerton [near Hungerford], 560-1
Ley [in B'ps Tawton], 568
Lichfield, 532
Lidlinche [co. Dorset], Plumber in,
312
Liealemore [Leigh Delamere], 180
Linbury, 20
Litchet Mautravers [co. Dors.], 560
Littlecote [near Hungerford], 251,
493
Littleton Drew, 267, 563
Llanlorney [co. Carnarvon], 567
Loaders, Abbots, 56
Lockridge, 222
Loders [co. Dorset], 305
London, 80, 144, 164, 167, 171, 174,
178, 197, 208-11, 214. 216, 218,
239, 249, 265, 269, 296, 343-4. 462,
465, 468, 484, 519-22. 546, 5.:i, 569,
585; Wilts Quaker Records in,
129 ; St. Paul's Cathedral, 78, 130;
Churchyard. 253 ; St. Andrew's,
Holborn, 263 ; St. Botolphs, Aid-
gate, 446 ; Bishopsgate, 585 ; St.
Bride's, 302 ; St. Clement Danes,
208; St. Dunstan's. 208-10 ; in the
East, 113 ; in the West, 269, 302 ;
St. Giles, Cripplegate, 65, 155, 371 ;
Hall of St. Giles in, 155 ; St. Mar-
garet's Church, 209 ; St. Martin's
in the Fields, 90-1, 475; Orgar,
111 ; le Grand, 431, 467 ; St. Mary
le Bow, 31. 35, 120, 302 ; Buthalue,
111; St. IMildred, Poultry, 66 ; St.
Olave, Silverstreet, 114 ; St. Peter's
in Cheape, 249 ; We.stminster, new
parish church, or chapel of, 208 ;
St. Bartholomew's Priory, 114;
Guildhall, giants in, 40, 42 ; iler-
ald's Cullogc, 241 ; Temple Bar,
96, 148, 208 ; Child's Bank, 208-9,
211; Tower of, 27; Whitehall,
146, 434 ; Chapel Royal, 210 ;
Christ's Hospital, 26, 208 ; Middle
Temple, 31, 91, 191, 199, 209, 269 ;
Inner Temple, 158,546; Bernard's
Inn, 4(14 ; Gray's Inn, .146, 212,
545 ; Lincoln's Inn, 192, 270 ;
Symond's Inn, 32 ; Whitefriars,
67; Blackfriars, 462; Ironmonger's
Hall, 265 ; Newgate, 59 ; Covent
Garden, 87 ; Chancery Lane, 288,
403; Silver Street, 431 ; Basing-
hall St., 55 ; Change Alley, 192 ;
Ludgate Hill, the " Green Man "
on, 296; Fleet Street, 155, 208;
the "Marigold" in, 208; Holy
Lane, Strand, 479; Mark Lane,
Sharington House in, 34 ; Bay-
nard's Castle, 442 ; Paddington,
71; Stepney, 130, 524; White
Chappell. 130
Long Burton [co. Dorset], 341
Longdou [co. Stafford], 249
Longestoke [co. Hants], 72
Longleat, 2, 80, 251, 446, 474
Ludgarfeld [Ludgershall], 14
Ludgershall, 15, 27, 90, 120-1, 203,
223-4, 579
Luffenham, North [co. Rutland], 237
Lullington [co. Somerset], 466
Lushby, 225
Lushill, Lnsteshull [in Castle Eaton],
43-5
Lydeway, '• Bell Inn " at, 266
Lydiard, 50-1 ; Millicent, 6,134,420,
441 ; manor, 420 ; Tregoze, 80, 92,
134-5, 246, 564 ; manor, 134
Lymington [co. Hants], 465, 570 ;
New, 446
Lyneham, Linavi, 55, 182,292-3,432,
"463
Lytescary [co. Somerset], 305
M.
Maddington, Madyngf.on, 337, 482 ;
Vicarage, 482
Maidstone, Maydedon [co. Kent],
114, 219-20
Maketun [co. Kent], 8
Malniesburv, 18, 51, 57-8, 67, 86,
119, 122," 224, 231, 290, 331, 336,
401,407, 431, 446, 513, 519, 549;
Abbey, 150, 424; church, 342;
Burton Hill, 462-3
Malvern, 497
Index of Places.
631
Mangottisf'd [Mangotsfield, co.
Glouc. ?] 465
Manningford, Manyngfotd, 5, 11,
14-5, 349; Wvke, 14-5; Abbas,
Abbots, 188, 244; Frith Wood,
187; Frithen path, 187; Bruce,
185, 188
JIansfield. Mangotsfield. .Varsh/ield,
172, 245; [co. Notts], 245
Mansion [co. Dorset], 102, 153
Manton [in Preshute], 145, 245, 421,
579 ; manor of, 420
Marden, Mardon, 115, 167, 170-1,
188-9, 244, 294, 345, 429, 496, 570;
"Soudbeorgh" [Sand Barrow in],
187
Market Deeping [co. Lincoln], 130
Marlborough, Marlehvrgh, 22-3, 54,
96, 102, 113-6, 119, 126, 128, 132,
145, 166, 237. 239, 247, 288-92,
344-5, 372-3, 389. 417-8, 420, 423,
426-9, 435, 446, 467-8, 487, 519-21,
524, 590; St. Marv, 21, 388, 449;
St. Peter, 388 ; Borongh of, 388 ;
Bridewell at, 139 ; Fire at, 132
MarnhuU [co. Dorset], 76, 566
Marshfieid [co. Glouc], 5, 96, 245,
267 ; Ashwick, in, 84
Marston Cheney, 56 ; Meysey, 145,
209 ; manor, 145 ; Moyle, 145 ;
North, 137
Marten, 113, 290, 292, 310
Martin, 289, 342
Marton, Merton, battle of, 189-90
Marylegh, manor of, 71
Meghenden, 409
Melksham. Milliesham. Mylliesham
19, 24, 48, 66, 125, 128, 144, 147
172, 181, 183, 192, 236, 845, 355
371, 426. 462, 464-8, 477, 519-22
524,564,567-71,584; Place House
191, 197; Forest, 585; Halfway
Farm, 296 ; Shaw Hill, 291, 293
Shaw House, 427 ; Woodrew Tyth-
ing. 584
Melport. 428
Merdythe, 565
Mere, Meere, 19, 112, 238, 348, 395,
424, 484 ; Church, 484 ; Church-
wardens' accounts, 440, 484 ;
Burton, in, 484
Meretun, 188
Merivale, 350
Merriton [co. Salop], 130
Merton, manor of, 72
Mevsey Hampton, 28, 249 ; Church,
145
Middlcton, 524
Milborne, Mclchurn. Mulbourne [in
Bratton], 273-4, 276-7, 315, 318-22,
3r)9, 363, 366-7, 408-10, 424, 452.
454-8, 500-2, 504-5. 507-8, 554-6,
559-60; Upper, 359; Over, 359,
410, 413; Nether. 410
Mildenhall. MyldcnaU, 226, 397,416,
442-3 ; Polton manor, in, 442
Mildread, 465
Mill Mayne vicarage, 123
Milston rectory, 122
Milstone, 340
Milton. 67, 121, 248
Milton [Wilton] Abbey, 187 ; Lilbone,
Lylbon, 562 ; manor, 563 ; Haver-
ings, 562 ; manor, 563
Minchinhampton [co. Glouc. ], 461,
469, 520; churchwardens' accounts,
391
Minety, 469, 518, 550
Mitcham [co. Surrey], 246
Mokenhulle, Mohenhyll. 417-8
Mongewell, Mangn-ell [co. Oxon], 97
Monks [in Corsham], 124. 469
Monk Tarrant vicarage [co. Dorset],
59
Monkton. See Broughton Gifford
Monkton [in Chippenham], 238,
403-5 ; Farleigb, 116, 146, 466, 468
Moorhuck [co. Som.] vicarage, 54
Moorbury, 345
Morburgh, 66
Morcote, Morcott [co. Rutland], 237,
267
Moreton [co. Glouc], 67 ; North, 247
Mortlake [co. Surrey], 224, 546
Motisfount, Priory of [co. Hants], 71
Much March [co. Hereford], 103
Mudgeworth rectory, 58
Musselborough, battle of, 24
Musselden rectory, 56
MyLford [near Salisbury], 157
N.
Nailsworth, 461, 522
Nansewood [Virginia], 340
Nedyrwent, Wondy in. 304
Needwood [co. Stafford], forest of,
450
Neston Park, 192, 269
Netheravon, Netherhavyn, 11, 14-5,
238, 247, 341, 423; manor, 340,
423 ; paddock at, 480
Netherham [co. Som.], 269
Nethermore, 217
G
632
Index of Places.
Nether Wallop [co. Hants]. 2:'8
Nettlcton. iXctelton, 22, 24, 114,
289-90, 292-3, 429-31, 4(>4-5
Netton, 337
Newbury, 23, 388; battle of, 295;
[Massachusetts], 579, 580-1
Newmarket [co. Glouc], 4G8
Newnton, Long, 352, 400-2, 404;
North, 187, 244; South, 113
Newton Tony, 579 ; manor and ad-
vowson, 331 ; Tunnaville, 493 ;
Tracey [co. Devon], 568
Nind, 463
Norrington, 237
Northall [co. Middx.], 517
Northey, 18
Norton [near Malmesbury], 289,
429 ; Bavant, 366, 369
Norwich, 122, 297 ; prebend of, 20 ;
dragon in Mayor's shows, 42 ;
church of St. Peter, Mancroft, 298
Nursted [in Southbroom], 568
Nutsley vicarage, 55
0.
Oakley [Oaksey ?] rectory, 227
Oare, 128, 244, 488
Ogbourne, Okebourtie, 66, 288, 291-3,
333, 401 ; St. Andrew, 292-3, 449 ;
St. George, 66, 335, 419; Moysy,
manor, &c., 416
Orcheston, manor, 71 ; St. George,
156, 337; St. Mary, 71; manor,
156 ; advowson, 71 ; Vowell, 71
Osmington vicarage [co. Dorset], 75
Osterlev Park [co. Middx.], 209
Otcombe, 339-40 ; manor. 339
Ovortown [in Wroughton], 394
Overton, 547, 550 ; West, 551
Oxenwood, 111
Oxford, University, 489 ; Priory of
St. Frideswide, 442 ; Bodleian
Library, 36 ; St. Aldate's, church-
yard of, 442-3 ; Colleges, All Souln,
387, 443; Balliol, 444; Exeter,
267; Lincoln, 302; Magdalen, 30,
91 ; Merton, 30, 75, 76, 197 ; Oriel,
496; Pembroke, 441-5; grant of
arms to, 444 ; Trinity, 400, 441 ;
Wadham, 76, 441 ; Worcester, 441 ;
Halls, Beef, 442 ; Broadgates, or
Segrym's, 442-5 ; Cambey's, 442 ;
Dunstan, 442 ; Magdalen, 30, 302,
400 ; St. Mary, 147 ; SS. Michael
and James, 442; Minote, St.
John's, or Polton, 442 ; New Inn,
30, 147 ; Mitre Hotel, 435
Painswick [co. Glouc. J, 291, 345,
372-3, 465, 468, 569-70
Palmereshamme [in Wherwells-
down Hund.], 556
Penlegh [in Westbury], 316
Pennsylvania, 389
Pentridge [co. Dorset] rectory, 77
Pernel, 274
Pertwood [co. Dorset], 480
Pewsey, 156, 185, 189-90, 224, 241,
248
Pickwick [in Corsham], 288-9, 293,
342, 462, 464-6, 469, 520, 567,
570
Pithouse [in Hindon], 53
Pitton, Pi/tfon, 73, 424
Plymouth, 528
Pokeshippon [Puckshijiton, in Mar-
den], 418
Polton [in Mildenhall], 66 ; manor,
416; Magna. 416
Poole, 30, 76, 566, 568 ; church, 76 ;
rectory, 75
Poorstock [co. Dorset], 77
Portland [co. Dorset], 77
Portsmouth, 123. 211, 216
Potterne, 238, 350, 463-4, 497. 579;
manor of, 539 ; Eastwell House,
194-5, 583 ; Furze Hill, 38, 39 ;
Marsh Lane, 39 ; Whistley, 39 ;
Mill, 539 ; and Cannings Hundred,
142
Poulshot, Pollshott, 38, 58, 254, 420,
539 ; Royalls, in, 254
Powderham [co. Devon], 386
Preshute, 344, 449, 487, 579
Preston, 344
Priors Hadden vicarage, 60
Purton, Pirton, Pyrton, 1, 4-6, 9,
50-3, 101, 118, 128, 149, 152-4, 524,
569 ; manor, 420 ; and advowson,
4 ; house, 50, 103 ; church, 5-6,
103, 118, 149, 150; bells, 6 ; Ayle-
ford's or Elver's Mill, 53 ; Church
Farm, 2, 5; Common, 153; Cottage
Hospital, 154 ; Cross Lanes, 152 ;
The Down, 2, 6 ; Down Farm, 152;
Hawks Moor Lane, 152 ; Hiscock's
lease, 153 ; Malford, 52 ; Nele's
Place, 2 ; Pevenhill, 52 ; Farm, 2 ;
Poor's ground, 152 ; Pry Pasture,
or Wilde's Pry, 152 ; Puritons, 52;
Red Street, 49 ; Restrop, 2 ; house,
49 ; Smithe Meade, 53 ; Water
Furlong, 52
hidcx of Places.
(>ii
Purton Stoke, 52. 96, 152-4, 428, 466,
469. 524, 569-70; Poor's land,
152; Noreuiarsh, 96; Ponds, 2
Pymston, 416
Quarendon [co. Bucks], 246
Quedhampton, manor and lands in,
333-4
Quemerford. See Comerford
R.
Radley, 309
Radlyngys, manor and land in, 336
Rimsburv, llamvieshury , liemeshury,
18, 57, "67, 246, 425, 444, 562
Ranston [co. Dorset], 269
Rawlvnges, 418
Reading [co. Berks], 292, 372, 426,
431, 467
Reveden, 416
Richmond [co. Surrey], 270
Ridgeway, the, 542
Rigge, 333
Ringwood [co. Hants], 292, 374, 519
Rissheden [co. Herts], 9
Road [co. Somerset], 203, 566
Rodbourne. 406, 550; Cheney, 122;
Heydon Weeke in. 136
Rodboroughe [co. Glouc], 401
Rodmis, 334
Rodshawe, 417
Rokeley [Rockley], manor and lands
in, 333
Rolleston, Rolveston. Rolryston, 444;
manor, 14-5 ; rectory, 24, 482 ;
parish register, 533. 586
Roten, or Iloaton [Wroughton], 847
Roundway, 251, 268, 402 ; Hill,
Waller's defeat on, 216
Rowbora, 564
Rowde, 121. 181, 192. 289, 428, 449,
481, 579 ; Browfort, in, 87
Rowdeford, 201
Rowden, 28, 201-2, 391
Rowley, 26-7
Rubergh Episcopi, old hundred of,
244 ; Regis, old hundred of, 244
Rudlowe [in Box], manor, 3.'J2, 355
Rushall. IlHstcshale, 11, 203, 244
Rushbrooke [co. SufiEolk], 91
Rushcombe, 334, 337
Ruslev Park, 59
Rutland, 56
S.
Salehnrst [co. Sussex], church of,
132
Salisbury, Saruni, Nem Saruni, 13,
19, 20-3, 30-3, 53-5, 57-9, 75, 77-S,
84-5, 95, 111-2 117, 119-25, 128,
156, 170, 177-8, 210, 22.3-5, 227,
229, 232, 237, 244, 291, 297, 331-5.
345,362-3, 370, 3'JO, 397, 409, 418-
20. 423-25, 431, 434, 436, 446, 463,
465, 468, 497. 499. 505, 534. 562,
567, 570-1, 588, 590; Cathedral.
18. 24, 53, 58, 123, 232, 440, 442,
572 ; struck by lightning, 223 ; new
vane on, 123 ; spire. Peregrine
Falcons on, 508-9, 511 ; cemetery,
500; Hungerford chapel, 7^i?rf., 257
jwte; close, 22, 497; Chantors'
House, 443; St. Edmund, 27. 31,
65-7, 75-6, 111-3, 115, 579-80;
chuchwardens" accounts, 100 ; St.
Martin, 24, 54, 67, 112, 579 ; St.
Thomas, 65-8, 111, 113, 115, 166,
526-7, 579 ; churchwardens' ac-
counts, 100 ; Bishop's court at, 164;
gaol, 116, 141-2, 224,226,228,470;
market place, 174 ; town hall,
177; council house, 590; cheese
cross, 534-5, 590; poultry cross, 250,
Blackmore museum, 47 ; fair, 124;
plain, 55. 203 ; Taylor's giant. 40 ;
Castle Street, 562; Gudelstreet,
564 ; High Street, Lamb and Flag
Inn, 32, New Street, 562; (Massa-
chusetts), 579-80
Sandeburne, chapel of, 390
Sandwich church [co. Kent]. 129
Sandy Lane, 216
Sarum. old, 120, 446, 481; gaol at,
141 ; manor, 223 ; castle of. 558
Savernake, Savernoc, Forest, 251,
488 ; F.raden, in, 488, 542
Sealesaylesburv, manor of. 338
Seagry. Segre,' 112, 115, 371, 405,
427, 430 ; manor, 353 ; over, 563
Secombe vicarage, 57
Seend, Sende, Sei/nde, 23, 35. 83, 96,
112, 131, 181, 192, 203, 240, 296,
349, 478, 563; church, 571-2;
Bede Roll, 571 ; row, 236
Selkley. hundred of, 488
Selwood [Selwdu], 271
Semington, Semymjton, 240, 515, 564 ;
manor, &c.. 421
Semley, Scmcley, 419, 566
' Sernecote [Sharncote], 422
634
Index of Places.
Sevenoaks [co. Kent], ^?e<7., 257 ;
battle of, 800
Sevington [in Leigh Delamere], 265,
428
Shaftesbury [co. Dorset], 370
Shalborn, Shalburn [co. Berks], 58,
115
Shapyke [Shapwick, co. Dorset], 310
Shawe [in Overton ?], manor, 420
iShaw House [Melksham], 192, 2G4 ;
hill, .-)5, 128, 845, 371, 42fi, 429
Shawbridge [co. Berks], 371, 430
Sheepridge, Sheperygge [part of
Wilts, in Berks] , 337', 339
Sheflord Woodlands [co. Berks], 130
Sheldons [in Chippenham], 475
iShcrston, Shortston, 113, 518 ; manor,
337; Wyke, 333; Magna, 332-3;
Easton Town, in, 407 ; Pincknej',
404; park, 251. See also C'herston
Sherynton [Sherrington]. 563
Shinfield, Shenynqfcld, [co. Berks],
309, 887, 389
Shipton, 160 ; Moyne [co. Glouc],
352
Shodesdon, Shotesden, [co. Hants],
11 ; manor, 1.55, 157
Shrewton, 387, 841
Shrivcnham [co. Berks], 67
iShurington [co. Glouc], 400
Sidenton [Siddington, co. Glouc],
290, 428
Silbury Hill, 480
Singleton [co. Sussex], forest and
manor, 54
Sitcombe vicarage [co. Som.], 56
Slaughterford, 126-8, 289-94, 343-5,
371-3, 426-7, 429-82, 462, 464-5,
467-9, 519-20, 523-4, 569-70
Slimbridge, 341
Smalbroke, 383, 420
Snappe. 424
Somerford, 50, 293, 428; Great,
Broad, or Maltravers, 136-7, 851,
356, 402. 406-8, 513-8, 543-9, 552 ;
manor, 514; manor house, or the
mount, 543, 545, 547, 549-50;
farm, 545-6, 549 ; church, 513, 516,
518, 549; St. Mary Lands, 516,
548, 550 ; beast leazes, 516, 546-7 ;
new leaze, 546 ; cow leaze, 551 ;
"Ford of Avon," 544; broadficld,
546 ; broadmead, 544, 547 ; downe-
field, 546 ; Hawstreet, 547 ; Hor-
sham meadows, 551 ; jasses, 551 ;
lower marsh, 517, 547; south-
meade, 546 ; Startley, 517 ; Taylor's
close, 545 ; west marsh, 548 ; west
field, 547 ; headend, in, 546 ;
Little, 63-4, 101, 184-5, 545, 549-
52; manor, 134-6; church, 550;
rectory, 63 ; Mauditt's park farm,
63-4 ; Code's, 552 ; fearney lease,
63 ; sandey lease, 63-4
Sopworth [co. Glouc], 112
Southampton, 146, 239, 403, 579-80;
Peart rce House, 533
Southbroom, Southhrome, 334, 369-70,
417 ; church of St. James in, 268 ;
Blewitts, in, 370 ; Rengeborn, 370 ;
Broad mead, 870; Little mead,
370. See also Nursteed
Southwick, Suthn-yhc, 300, 421, 567;
manor, 25-7, 490 ; chapel of St.
John, at, 490 ; court, 25, 28, 219,
221, 255, 439; chantry at, 2>ed.,
257 ; farm, 28
Spye Park, 123, 251
St. Alban's [co. Herts], church of,
130
Standligh, 310
Standlynche, 67
Stanlake, 334
Stanley Abbey, 217, 233, 311, 491 ;
wood called the More, 217
Stanly, 177
Stanton Berners, or iSi^. Bernard,
244 ; Anne's Crundel, 535 ; Dene,
851
Stanton Drew [co. Som.], 105, 451,
466; St. Quintin, 57. 292, 342,
344-5, 351, 853, 355, 429
Staple, hundred of, 48
Staplebridge [co. Dorset], Thornehul
in, 312
Stapleford, 128, 443
Star Chamber, the, 27
Stauiiden Huse, 387 ; manor, 337
Staunton, 418
Stavcrton [near Trowbridge], 483 ;
[co. Northants], 130
Stayningc [co. Sussex], 112
S[tjedbury, -162
St. Edmonds" bury, 228
Steppe, manor of, 421
Stert [m Urchfont], 244
Stimley [Semley ?] rectory, 18
St. Kitts [West Indies], 77
Stockley, StoJdcy [near Calnc], 337,
418. 489, 568 '
Stockton, 67, 420, 562, 567
Stodfolde, old hundred of, 244-5
Stoke by Monk, rectory, 117
Stokes rectory, 121
Index of Places.
635
Stoke Abbas [co. Dorset], 77 ; [or
Litelstoke in Bratton], 319, 3(37,
452, 454, 500, 555 ; church land,
320, 504 ; chapel of, 561
Stokke [near Calne], 418 ; manor,
337
Stourbridge [co. Wore], 465
Stourhead, 96, 251
Stourton, 339
Stowford mill, [in Winkfield], 26
Stratford, 425 ; under castle, 33 ;
Toney, 78
Stratton St. Margaret, 123; Breach
Farm, in, 147
Strivelyn, 409
Studley, Stodeley [near Calne], 45,
182, 337, 439; [in Trowbridge],
564
Studley Grange [near Purton],
manor of, 5
Sutton, Sutten, 289-90, 292, 343-4.
371, 427-8, 431, 464, 486; Benger,
61, 122, 127, 181, 288, 291, 293-4,
354, 373, 429, 465, 468, 519, 567,
570 ; [Mandeville, co. Dorset ?],
348 ; in the Moors, 22 ; Regis, 55 ;
[Veny 7] rectory, 225
Swallowcliff, Swaloclyff, 114 ; manor,
425, 562
Swallowfield, 337, 339-40. 461
Swanborough [Swinbeorgh]. 184-5,
188-90; hundred of, 142, 185, 188,
243-4. 542 ; Ashes, or Tump, 185,
187-8; 243-4
Swanwych [Swannage, co. Dorset],
manor of, 386
Swindon, 23, 422; Swyndon, Even,
564-5 ; high, 564 ; vicarage, 55 ;
" Moonie's " Dinner in London,
36
Sylvyn' [co. Som.], 308
T.
Tan Hill, or St. Anne's Hill, 536;
Anne's Crundel, 535-6 ; Anne's
Stone, 536 ; Anne's Thorn, 536 ;
Thorn Down, 536
Tangley [co. Hants], manor of, 155,
157
Taunton [co. Som.], 570 ; Halse
house, 253
Teddington [co. Middlesex], 212
Teffont Ewyas, manor and advowson,
12
Tetbury [co. Glouc], 68, 408, 519
Teterigge, 333
Toynton [co. Devon], 67
Theobald's Park [co. Herts], 148
Thornhill, 564, 565 ; or Thornhulle,
hundred of, 392
Tidcombe, North, 436
Tidworth rectory, 22; North, 14-5
Tilshead, Tylsede, Tylcsedc, 39, 87,
348, 425 ; manor, 86
Tilsy, 587
Tinhead, Tynehyde, 410, 556 ;
"George" Inn, 242
Tisbury. Tyshury, 230, 421, 425, 562;
Pyt House, in, 229
Titherton. Tedcrynyton, 169, 236,
292, 294, 835, 371, 428, 464;
Kalloways, 234, 290, 843-5, 427;
Lucas, 486
Tockenham, 18, 335; West, 335
Toderhull, 425, 562
Tollard [Royal], 112
Trenarren, 497
Troop (?), near Salisbury, 223
Trowbridge, Trovyhhryqye, Tro-
hriage, 12, 21, 26, 55-6, 65, 74. 112,
114, 116, .203, 216, 240, 421, 424,
564 ; castle or manor, 43-4 ; Belle -
field, 251
Trunkwell, 337, 339
Turkey, redemption of slavery in,
130
Twickenham [co. Middlesex], 212
Twyford, [co. Berks], 334, 337, 341
Tyburn, 59
Tymerigge, 388
Tyringham, hall of, 210
U.
Ufertun, or Uverton [Worton], 391
Uffington vicarage [co. Berks],
224
Ufford, Oggeford St. James, 331
Upavon, i'pavcnc, 11, 85, 203, 244
Upham [co. Hants], 19, 297
Uppeham [in Aldbourne?], 424
Upminster rectory [co. Dorset], 23
Uppington rectory, 58
Upton, 555 ; Scudamore, Kseudemor,
38, 501-2 ; church of. 558 ; Dursley,
or iJnrtlcy, 80 ; on Severn [co.
Wore], 567 ; Stoak, 569 ; Stough-
ton. 563
Dpway [co. Dorset], 30, 77 ; rectory
of, 76
Urchfont, 165, 244-5, 579; Foxlcy
corner, 244 Wheat Sheaf Inn,
ez(>
Index of Places.
244. See also Archefounte, Ercli-
font
Uxbridge [co. Middlesex], 520, 567
Vcniiington's Place, 227
Verley, East, 566 ; Middle, 566 ;
West, 566
Verlucio, Roman Station of, 211
Vridge, 289, 292
W.
Wiikefield [co. York], 342
Walcot [co. Som.], 466, 523 ; manor
of, 422
Wanborough, Wanbun/Ji, 82, 334,
336, 424, 524, 562 ; 'church, 150,
442-3 ; Wilkinses land, 83
Wandlington. manor of, 10
Wansdyke, 211, 262, 488
Wantage [co. Berks], 270, 478
Wardour Castle, 19, 223
Ware [co. Herts], church of, ^;cr/.
257
Warminster, 20, 54, 57, 80, 85, 117,
124, 128, 139, 224, 236, 294-5, 303,
333, 335, 343, 348, 369, 388-9, 397,
417, 419-20, 422, 430-3, 435, 461-3,
466-7, 520-2, 532, 570, 579 ; Athe-
nu;um, 38 ; Battlesburv, 486 ;
Bugly, 165; Cley Hill,' 485-6;
Hundred of, 420; Newport, 38;
" Scarce Hoop " Inn, 36 ; VVaspail's
manor, 80
Wavering atte Bower [co. Essex],
Chase Cross at, 590
Wedmore [co. Som.], 477
Wellington, 345, 467 ; rectory, 56 ;
[co. Som.], 291
Wellow West, 419
Wells Cathedral, 91 ; Bishoprick of,
219-20, 222 ; Deanery of, 219
Welport, 293
Werston, or Werrversto7i [Wrough-
ton], 391
Wessex, kingdom of, 183
Westbury, 116, 120, 128, 146-7, 223,
227, 272-3, 277-8, 291, 309, 343,
366-7, 389, 409, 437, 446, 456, 464,
477, 502-8, 520, 553-5, 558-9,570-1,
579, 582-3 ; manor, 299, 301, 338 ;
church, 318, 347, 553; Inindrcd,
316, ;^20, 3.58, :560-2, 366-7, 410,
459, 500, 502, 554, 558-9, 561 ; field
of, 319, 322; St. Maur, 300; Mau-
duit, 300 ; Stafford, 300 ; Arundoll,
300; "under the playne," 67, 300 ;
Brooke house, 445 ; Leigh, Lye,
437, 462, 553-4, 558; [on Trym]
collegiate church of, 304
Westbrook [in Bromham], 198
Westminster, 8, 11-5, 69, 71-5, 98,
104-5, 110, 156-7, 159-62, 275, 366,
410-1, 505, 507, 515, 554-6, 558;
abbey, 195
Westport vicarage, 122
Westwood [near Bradford], 26, 27,
114, 466, 468; [in Crediton], 467
Weyhill [co. Hants], 203, 224 ; fair,
56
Weymouth, 5, 78
Whaddon, 27-8
Whetehill [Widhill ?], 565
Whetehuls Place, 566
Whetham [in Calne], 487
Whitchurch rectory, 116
"Whiteparish, 422
Whitley, 462, 465, 568
Wherwell Nunnery [co. Hants],
240
Whorwellsdown, 556, 564 ; hundred,
240
Wick [in Alston, co. Glouc], 345
Wilcot, Willcott, 191, 244, 433
Wilsford, Wiillysford, 14-5, 241, 244 ;
"Micr," 189
Wilton, Wylton, 7, 21, 36, 57, 60, 80,
116, 120, 146. 175, 251, 264, 276,
313, 315, 363-4, 366, 404, 421, 424,
442 ; borough of, 526 ; abbey, see
Milton ahhcij ; church of St. Edith,
526 ; St. John's Hospital, 446
Wiltsliire Feast, 35 ; freeholders, 36 ;
Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotu-
lorum, 18; militia, 117, 120, 123;
poll for Knights of the Shire, 36 ;
Record Society, 98; sheriffs, 18,
20, 5;^, 57, 116-7, 121, 222. 224;
society at Bristol, 35 ; sermon,
79 ; tradesmen's tokens, 48
Wimbleton Carey, vicarage, 58
Wimbornc Miii.stcr, 150, 190
Wincanton, 1(;6. 468, 484
Wincliester, 155, 157, 198, 247;
Collegiate church of, 390 ; priory
and monks of St. Swithin, 393,
542 ; college, 238 ; camp, 123 ;
Hyde abbey, near, 184
Windryche [Windrush, co. Glouc],
114
Windsor, 23 ; St. George's Chapel,
210
Index of Places.
637
Winkfield, Wintj field, 124 ; manor,
2G ; rectory, 5t)
Winsley, 9(5 ; church, 9f>
Winterbourne, Wi/ntcrhornc, 119,
226 ; Bassett, 245 ; Richardson,
in, 245 ; Chirborowe, Sfii/rhiir;/li,
HHl, 416 ; gunner, 41G ; Kins^ston,
279 ; Monkton, 269 ; Stoke, W,, 341,
481 ; vicarage, 482 ; Whitchurch,
102 ; [co. Glouc], 518
Winterslowe, Wyntcrslon\ 334, 564 ;
manor, &c., 339 ; manor, advowson,
&c., 565
Wissheforte [Wishford], 114
Wodebere, or Wodehenjh, custody of
forest, 337; advowson, 337
Wodeford, 331
Wodlande [co. Dorset], 304
Wokynghaiu, Ohinqham, 333, 423
Wolfall [Wolf hail]," 304
Wolton [Wilton, in Great Bedwin ?],
72
Woodborough, 185, 225, 244 ; " Rose
and Crown " Inn, 243
Woodbury [co. Devon], 255
Woodcott [co. Hants], manor of, 157
Woodford, 58 ; Little, 416
Wolleye. Woly [Wvlye?], 12, 420
Woodhyll [Widhill 7], West, 565;
North, 565
Woolley [near Bradford], 430
Woolston [co. Warwick], 539
Wootton Bassett, 57, 68, 96, 115,
120. 122, 191, 227, 234, 518;
Borough of, 93-4 ; market place,
94; town hall, 94; "Angel" Inn,
weir-pond, 95 ; Can Court, near,
80 ; farm, 147
Worcester, 465
Workaway Hill, 488
Worly [Worlc. co. Som.]. 4«;9
WorpK'sdnii [co. Surrey], 462
Worth [Highworlli ?]," 362 ; Matra-
vers [co. Dorset], 433
Wraxhall, Wrcxhall, U'rox/iall, MIH ;
North, 112, 291; South, 224. 29.3.
421, 463, 466, 523; old manor
house, arms in windows of, 220,
298-9. 301.396
Wrotsworth [co. Kent], 8 ,
Wroughton, 83. 136. 191, .347. .391-3.
See also Werston, Iloten
Wydecombo, 335
Wydhyll [Widhill], West, 564
Wyke [Wick, in Soutlibrooni]. 417;
Regis [co. Dorset], 77
Wylmundele. Little, manor of. 9
Wylye, 85, 279
Wynelesley, manor, &c., 333
Wynepol [co. Kent], 8, 10
Wynfold / [Wingfield], 112
Wynterborn. West [co. Dorset],
manor and advowson, 38G
Yatesbury, Yatsbnry, 112, 333, 564;
manor, 332
Yatton, 129, 293, 373; Kaynell. or
Church Eaton, 265-6, 335, 405,
407, 563 ; manor, 421 ; church,
265 ; West, 266, 563
York, 502
Yoxall [co. Stafford], ward of, in
Need wood forest, 450; lodge, 451
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