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UNIVERSITY  OF 
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LACKHAM  HOUSE,   1684. 


LTSHIRE 
NOTES  AND 
QU  ERI  ES. 


AN  ILLUSTRATED  QUARTERLY 

ANTIQUARIAN  & 
GENEALOGICAL  MAGAZINE. 


VOL.  III.     1899—1901. 


DEVIZES  : 

GEORGE    SIMPSON,    GAZETTE   OFFICE. 

LOXno.N  :    PHILLIMORE    &    CO.,    124,    CHANCERY    LANE,    W.C. 

1902. 


DA 
670 


V.3 


LIST  OF   ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Old  Lackham  House,  from  a  sketch  by  Dingley,  1684        ...  ...       i 

Old  Lackham  House,  from  drawing  by  Grimm,  1790         ...  ...      2 

Arms  of  Barrett,  from  old  manor  house  at  Tytherton  Lucas  ...     30 

Arms  of  Andrews  impaling  Townsend,  from  ditto  ...  ...     31 

Autograph  of  Henry  Brouncker,  of  Melksham,  1597  ...  ...     39 

Autograph  of  James  Ley,  afterwards  Earl  of  Marlborough  ...  40 

Arms  on  Monument  of  Edward  Baynard,  1575,  in  Lacock  Church  ...  49 
Baynard  shield  of  six  quarterings,  and  crest,  from  Harleian  MS., 

1443,  Brit.  Museum  ...  ...  ...  -...  ...     51 

Effigy  from  the  Baynard  Brass,  1501,  in  Lacock  Church      ...  ...     57 

Autograph  of  Montague,  Earl  of  Abingdon,  1699  ...  ...  ...     63 

Autograph  of  John  Smith,  1757  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...     66 

Ditto  of  William  Darell,  1584    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...     66 

Ditto  of  Sir  John  Darell,  1621-28  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...     66 

Monument  of  an  Ecclesiastic,  in  Edington  Church  ...  ...     97 

Full-faced  sketch  of  recumbent  effigy  on  ditto      ...  ...  ...   100 

Monogram  on  ditto  (2  designs)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...   103 

Arms  of  Edington  Monastery  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...   105 

Autograph  of  Thomas  Ivy,  of  West  Kington,  1579  ...  ...   137 

Amesbury  Monastery.  Heraldic  and  other  paving  tiles,  13th 

century,  found  on  the  site  in  1860  (Plate  I)    ...  ...  ...   145 

Funeral  penon  of  the  Hon.  James  Montagu,  formerly  in  Lacock 

Church       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...   173 

Autographs  of  Gabriel  and  Oliver  Pledell,  of  Monkton,  and  William 

JBaylyffe,  1566          ...  ...  ...  ...  ...   "        ^~"i77 

Arms  of  Hungerford  and  Moels,  from  a  Breviary  of  I4th  century   ...   183 
Slab  with  indent  ot  Brass  of  Archbishop  Stafford,  1452,  in  Canter- 
bury Cathedral       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  193 

Seal  of  Margaret,  Lady  Hungerford  and  Botreaux,  died  1478-9      ...  226 
Autograph  of  ditto        ...  ...  ...  ..  •••  •••  227 

Monument  of  Mary  [Bowell],  second  wife  and  relict  of  Sir  Edward 

Baynton,  of  Bromham,  1667,  in  the  Mayor's  Chapel,  Bristol  ...  241 
Autographs  of  Edward  Martyn,  of  Upham,  and  Hugh  Hawkins,  of 

Newbury,  1634         ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  •••  274 

Trade  Label  of  Benjamin  Webb  Anstie,  of  Devizes,  Snuff  Maker 

and  Tobacconist,  1789         ...  ...  ...  283 

Amesbury  Church.  Ground  plan,  showing  gravestones,  with  stone 

coffins  and  slabs  uncovered  in  1853  ...  ...  ...  289 

Amesbury  Church.  West  window  of  nave,  removed  in  1853  ...  304 


List  of  Illustrations. 


Amesbury   Church.      Dripstone   terminations   of   east   window   of 

Chancel,  now  used  to  support  the  credence  table        ...  ...  305 

Brass  of  Sir  William   Huddesfield,  1499,  and   his  wife  Katherine 

[CourtenayJ,  in  Shillingford  Church,  Devon  ...  ...  ...  337 

Arms  of  Huddesfield  impaling  Courtenay,  from  ditto        ...  ...  343 

Heraldic  Seal  of  Sir  Philip  Courtenay,  1435-6       ...  ...  ...  344 

Device  on  "Old  Sarum  Kettle"  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  379 

Autograph  of  Mary  [Webb],  Duchess  of  Somerset,  1759  ...  ...  383 

Portrait  of  "Counsellor  Goodenough"  from  an  oil  painting  ...  385 

Autograph  of  Richard  Goodenough,  1689  ...  ...  ...  393 

Autograph  of  Francis  Goodenough,  of  Sherston,  died  1728  ...  397 

Autograph  of  Richard  Goodenough,  ot  Great  Sherston,  1752  ...  400 

Amesbury    Monastery.     Plan   of   foundations   uncovered   in    1860 
(Plate  IV)  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  439 

Amesbury  Monastery.     Design  on  set  of  four  paving  tiles  ...  440 

Amesbury    Monastery.      Objects  discovered   on   the   site   in    1860 

(Plate  V) 440 

Amesbury  Monastery.    Tile  paving  from  do.  (Plates  II  and  III}  ...  441 
Design  on  Border  tiles  formerly  in  the  Chancel  of  Great  Bedwyn 

Church       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  442 

Amesbury  Monastery.     Pattern  from  border  tiles  to  paving  found  in 

situ,  1860  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  443, 

Amesbury  Monastery.    Two-handled  vessel  of  red  unglazed  ware  /^/| 
Amesbury  Monastery.    Yellow  glazed  crest  tile  and  section  ...  445 

Amesbury  Monastery.     General  plan  of  the  site  (Plate  VI}  ...  446 

Baynton  shield  of  six  quarterings  and  crest         ...  ...  ...  466 

Portrait  of  Benjamin  Goddard,  of  Boston  and  Brookline,  Massa- 
chusetts, 1766-1861  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  481 

Book-plate  of  Rainald  William  Knightley  Goddard  ...  ...  521 

Autograph  of  Judge  Robert  Nicholas,  1637  ...  ...  ...  540 

Arms  of  Halle  impaling  Merchants  mark  of  John  Halle,  of  Salis- 
bury, who  died  1479  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  561 


jHotes  auto  <auertesu 

MARCH,  1899. 


OLD  LACKHAM  HOUSE  AND  ITS  OWNERS. 


HE  present  mansion,  known  as  Lackham  House,  in 
the  parish  of  Lacock,  is  described  by  Mr.  Britton  l 
as    "  a   plain   modern    edifice,    situated    in    a    rich 
f(r[       and  fertile  vale,  near  the  banks  of  the  Avon." 


It  is  not  to  this  building,  however,  that  the 
following  notes  refer,  but  to  its  predecessor — a  fine  old  manor 
house  dating  at  least  from  mediaeval  times — for  many  ages 
the  residence  successively  of  the  Bluet,  Baynard,  and 
Montagu  families — but  now  numbered  among  the  historic 
houses  of  Wiltshire  past  and  gone.  A  few  gleanings,  there- 
fore, relating  to  its  history,  as  well  as  that*>f  its  owners,  may 
not  be  unworthy  of  a  record  in  the  pages  of  Wilts  N.  &>  Q. 

The  earliest  sketch  of  Old  Lackham  House  known  to  the 
present  writer  appears  in  Dingley's  History  from  Marble,  a 
most  interesting  manuscript  in  the  possession  of  Sir  Thomas 
E.  Winnington,  of  which  a  facsimile  in  photo-lithography  was 
published  in  two  volumes  by  the  Camden  Society,  with  intro- 
duction and  notes  by  the  late  Mr.  John  Gough  Nichols,  F.S.A., 
in  1867-8.  Dingley's  sketch,  which  is  here  reproduced,  was 

1  Beauties  of  Wiltshire,  Vol.  iii,  p.  246— published  in  1825. 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


taken  at  the  close  of  the  reign  of  Charles  II,  probably  in  1684, 
his  sketch  of  Lacock  Abbey  being  dated  30  April  in  that  year. 
It  represents  the  house,  an  irregular  structure,  evidently  of 
various  dates,1  enclosed  within  a  large  courtyard,  and  com- 
pletely embosomed  in  woods.2  The  river  (the  lower  Avon) 
close  by,  formed  the  ancient  boundary  of  the  royal  forest  of 
Pewisham,  in  which  the  lords  of  Lackham  enjoyed  the  right  of 
hunting  by  grant  from  Edward  III — which  grant  continued  in 
force  until  the  disafforesting  of  Pewisham  in  the  reign  of 
James  I. 

The  second  sketch,  which  more  fully  illustrates  the  details 
of  the  central  portion  of  the  building,  is  from  a  drawing  by 
Grimm,  taken  in  August  1790,  and  now  in  the  British  Museum 
(Additional  MSS.  No.  15,547).  The  porch,  which  is  here  shewn 
in  perspective,  forms  a  principal  feature.  A  shield  on  the 
gable  is  apparently  carved  with  the  arms  of  BLUET  and  BAY- 
NARD — and  another  shield  at  the  base  of  the  projecting  window 
over  the  entrance3  bears  BAYNARD  quartering  BLUET,  with  two 
unicorns  as  supporters. 

The  great  hall  was  apparently  to  the  left  on  entering  the 
porch.  Its  embattled  parapet  and  large  windows  of  three 
lights,  occupying  the  whole  height  of  the  wall,  are  shown  more 
clearly  in  the  earlier  sketch  by  Dingley.  It  was  hung  round 
with  armour,  and  was  evidently  in  Aubrey's  mind  when,  at 
Easton  Piers,  in  1670,  he  wrote  the  well-known  masterly  and 

1  Some  portion  of  the  old  building  is  traditionally  said  to  have  belonged 
to  the  Norman  period. 

2  The  arms  in  a  lozenge  underneath — MONTAGU  impaling  HUNGEBFORD 
— are  those  of  the  widow  of  James  Montagu,  the  late  owner  of  Lackham, 
who  had  died  at  an  early  age  in  1676.     She  was  the  daughter  of  Anthony 
Hungerford,  of  Farley  Castle. 

3  The  hatchment  which  nearly  covers  this  window  is  that  of  James 
Montagu  (grandson  of  the  lady  whose  arms  are  given  by  Dingley).     He  was 
buried  at  Lacock  3  May  1790— three  months  before  the  date  of  Grimm's 
drawing.    The  arms  are  those  of  MONTAGU  and  MONTHEKMEB  quarterly, 
impaling   HEDGES  quartering  GOKE — his  wife  Eleanor,   who  predeceased 
him,  having  been  the  daughter  of  William  Hedges,   of  Compton  Basset,  by 
the  heiress  of  Gore,  of  Alderton. 


Old  Lack/mm  House  and  its  Owners. 


delightful  preface  to  his  Wiltshire  Collections.  Speaking  of 
lords  of  manors  and  their  houses  in  still  older  times,  he  says : — 
"The  lords  of  manners  never  went  to  London  but  in  Parliament 
time,  or  once  a  yeare  to  do  their  homage  and  duty  to  the  king. 
They  kept  good  howses  in  their  countries,  did  eate  in  their 
great  gothique  halls,  at  the  high  table,  or  oriele,  the  folke  at  the 
side  tables."  "Orie/e,"  he  adds  in  a  note,  "  is  an  eare,  but  here 
it  signifies  a  little  roome  at  the  upper  end  of  the  hall,  where 
stands  a  square  or  round  table :  perhaps  in  old  time  was  an 
oratorie.  In  every  old  gothique  hall  hereabout  is  one,  as  at 
Dray  cot,  Lekham,  Alderton,  &c." 

The  gable  immediately  on  the  right  of  the  porch,  with  its 
large  projecting  window  and  buttress,  most  probably  included 
the  banqueting  room  in  which  Henry  VIII  was  entertained 
when  visiting  Lackham  for  several  days  on  his  way  to  Wolf- 
hall,  before  his  marriage  with  his  third  and  Wiltshire  queen — 
Jane,  the  daughter  of  Sir  John  Seymour.1  The  room  was 
newly  floored  for  the  occasion  with  oak  grown  on  the  estate, 
and  on  the  stonework  underneath  the  window  is  seen  the 
royal  badge  of  Henry  VIII — a  crowned  rose,  with  lion  and 
dragon  as  supporters— no  doubt  introduced  here  in  com- 
memoration of  the  royal  visit. 

At  Lackham,  as  well  as  in  the  immediate  neighbourhood, 
distinct  traces  of  Roman  occupation  have  been  discovered 
from  time  to  time.  The  Roman  road  from  Bath  (Aquce  Soils} 
to  Marlborough  (Cunetio)  passed  a  short  distance  to  the  south 
of  Lacock,  and,  near  it,  at  Wick,  were  found  traces  of  a  Roman 
villa.  The  frequent  discoveries  of  Roman  coins  here  are  also 
mentioned  by  Leland,  Camden,  and  Aubrey. 


1  This  must  have  been  in  1536— for  Henry's  marriage  with  Jane 
Seymour  took  place  on  the  20th  May  in  that  year — the  day  after  his  second 
wife,  Anne  Boleyn,  had  been  brought  to  the  block.  There  is  said  to  be 
extant  a  curious  old  print  representing  in  different  compartments  the  pre- 
parations at  Lackham— the  rats  and  mice  running  away  from  the  servants, 
who  with  mop  and  broom  are  cleansing  the  house  in  readiness  for  the 
reception  of  the  royal  guest. 

B    2 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


At  the  time  of  the  Domesday  Survey  (1083-6),  "  Lacham  " 
belonged  to  William  de  Ewe,  a  Norman  baron,1  who  was  sub- 
sequently attainted  of  treason. 

In  the  reign  of  Henry  III  (1216-72)  the  family  of  Bluet 
appear  as  owners.2  They  were  also  lords  of  Silchester,  co. 
Hants,  and  Leland's  notes  relating  to  the  latter  place  may  here 
be  quoted  as  referring  also  to  the  descent  of  Lackham  : — 

"Silchester  lordship  after  the  Conquest  came  to  one 
Blueth,  and  then  one  of  the  Blueths  leavyng  no  sons,  the  land 
not  entaylid  to  the  heire  (male  or  generale)  came  by  mariage 
to  one  Peter  de  Cusance,  and  after  to  one  Edmunde  Baynard, 
cumming  out  of  the  house  of  the  Baynards,  of  Essex,  whose 
name  is  now  [1540]  ther  obscured.  The  lands  of  the  Blueths 
entaylid  to  heyre  male  of  that  name  yet  remayning  in  Devon- 
shere.  Leccham  longgid  to  Blueth  [and  was  used  by  Bayn]ard<? 
as  his  principale  how[s^]."3 

Edward  I  granted  to  John  Bluet*  the  privilege  of  holding 
a  fair  at  his  manor  of  Helmerton  (Hilmarton)  and  free  warren 
in  his  lands  there,  and  at  Lackham.  This  was  confirmed  to 
one  of  the  Baynard  family,  his  successors  i  Henry,  IV  (1399). 
Patent  Rolls. 

Attached  to  the  manor  of  Lackham  was  a  Chapel  dedicated 
to  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary.  By  an  undated  deed  preserved  in 
the  Lacock  Cartulary,  Edward  Sweyn,  of  Lacock,  gave  to  the 
nuns  there  the  land  and  tenement  which  Richard  his  father 


1  This  William  de  Owe,  or  Ewe,  also  held,  at  the  same  date,  the  lordship 
of  Hilmarton,  which  afterwards  passed  with  the  Lackham  estate  to  its  later 
owners — the  Bluets  and  Baynards. 

2  They  probably  held   here  under  Bigod,   Earl   Marshal;   for  in   the 
Inquisitions  post  mortem  35  Edw.  I.  (1306-7)  we  find  Roger  le  Bigod,  Earl  of 
Norfolk  and  Marshal  of  England,  and  Alice  his  wife,  seised  of  knights'  fees 
in  Lackham,  Hilmarton,  Goatacre,  and  other  places  in  Wilts. 

3  Itinerary,  vi,  p.  53. 

4  The  arms  of  BLUET — Or,  an  eagle  with  two  heads  displayed  gules —in 
stained  glass  were  formerly  in  one  of  the  hall  windows  of  South  Wraxhall 
Old  Manor  House  (Aubrey  £  Jackson,  P.  I,  No.  10);  and  those  of  COWDKEY 
impaling  BLUET  in  a  chamber  there  (/*.,  P.  Ill,  No.  35). 


Old  Lack/mm  House  and  its  Owners.  5 

had  of  the  gift  of  Richard  de  Wyck  in  Lacock  and  Lacham, 
and  the  land  which  his  father  had  of  William  Clovegiffre,  and 
two  acres  of  land  in  Stretforlonga,  and  one  croft  called 
Wodecroft,  in  Lacock  and  Lacham,  paying  thereout  yearly  to 
the  heirs  of  Richard  de  Wycke  twelve  pence — and  one  half- 
penny (obolus)  to  the  heirs  of  William  Clovegilofre — and  half 
a  pound  of  cummin  to  the  heirs  of  Richard  White  (Albi) — and 
one  halfpenny  to  the  heirs  of  Sewell — and  one  penny  to  the 
Chapel  of  Lacham,  to  the  light  of  the  Blessed  Mary — and  one 
halfpenny  to  the  heirs  of  John,  the  son  of  Jordan,  for  all  ser- 
vice, &c. 

By  another  deed,  now  in  the  British  Museum  (Add.  Charter 
No.  1533),  dated  2  Edward  II  (1308),  Sir  John  Bluet,  knt, 
granted  to  Robert  Delebrig'  (of  the  Bridge),  clerk,  certain  rents 
for  his  life,  subject  to  a  yearly  payment  of  two  pounds  of  wax 
to  the  Chaplain  of  the  Blessed  Mary  the  Virgin,  of  Lackham. 

"Sciant  presentes  et  futuri  quod  Ego  Joh'es  Bluet  Miles  & 
Dominus  de  Lack'm  dedi  concessi  &  p'senti  carta  mea  confirmavi 
Roberto  Delebrig'  clerico1  duos  solidos  &  sex  denar'  annui  reddit'  in 
feodo  meo  de  Lack'm  papiend  annuati  videlic'  de  Matild'  hobekins 
octodeci  denar'  &  de  Joh'e  le  Colt  duodecim  denar'  p'  mestiag'  & 
curtilag'  que  de  me  tener'  consueverunt.  •  Preterea  dedi  concessi  p'dicto 
Roberto  septemdecim  cum  dimidia  acra  terre  arrabil  p'nt  jacent  in 
diversis  locis  quar'  sex  acr'  jacent  sup'  le  Leye  &  una  acr'  cum  dimidia 
sup'  Nethe'cote  &  una  acra  sup'  Cockelegh  &  una  acra  apud  Godelegh 
cum  Rammesbrok  &  ap'd  Manneslane  dimidiam  acram.  Et  apud 
pensedone  una'  acr'm,  &  apud  Wynt  Welle2  una'  ac'm  sup'  Elrig' 
duas  acr'  &  jux'  terr'  damehawys  in  le  inlond  una'  ac'm  &  juxta  le 
Weylete  una'  ac'm  &  sup'  fflexlegh  una'  ac'm  &  di'am.  Preterea 
dedi  concessi  predicto  Roberto  una'  ac'm  prati  que  vocat  le  Meleh'mme. 


1  Among  some  early  grants  to  the  Cistercian  Abbey  of  Stanley,  printed 
in  Bowies'  History  of  Bremhill,  is  one  (p.  105)  from  Robert  de  la  Hebrigge 
conveying  to  the  monks  his  right  to  common  of  pasture  in  the  wood  called 
the  More,  without  the  said  Abbey,  on  the  south  part  thereof. 

2  Samuel  Michell  the  elder,  of  Notton,  clothier,  by  will  dated  1694, 
bequeaths  to  his  grandson,  Thomas  Colborne,  his  term  in  two  grounds  at 
Wintern-ell  in  Lacock,  purchased  of  Nicholas  Gore  and  John  Grist;  "and  the 
lease  of  the  grounds  at  Winterwell,  and  the  little  ground  at  Notton,  which 
I  purchased  of  Sir  Edward  Hungerford ;    in  trust  for  the  use  of  my  daugh- 
ter, Anna  Warn,  and  her  children." 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Habend'  &  tenend'  p'dictum  Reddit'  annul  Reddit'  cu'  p'dcis 
septemdecim  cu'  di'a  acr'  terr'  &  cu'  una'  acr'  p'ti  de  me  &  heredibus 
vel  meis  assignat  p'fato  Roberto  ad  terminum  vite  sue  libe  quiet'  bene 
&  in  bona  pace.  Reddend'  inde  &>  fac'  annuatim  ad  Capellani  be 
Mar  -virginis  de  Lack'm  duos  libras  Cere  &  michi  &  he'dibus  meis 
sex  denar'  p'  mesuag'  sup'i  p'noiat.  Et  ego  vero  p  d'ctu'  Joh'es  Bluet  & 
heredes  mei  p'dictum  Redditum  annui  Reddit'  cum  p'dictis  septemdecim 
cum  di'a  acr'  terr'  arrabil  et  cum  una'  acr'  prati  ut  predictum  est  predicto 
Roberto  del  Elrigg  clerico  ad  terminum  vite  sue  warentizabim' 
acquetabim'  &  defendem'  In  cui'  rei  testimonium  huic  p'sent  scripto 
ad  mod'  Cyrog'phi  confecto  sigilla  n'ra  a'ra  alternatim  sunt  appensa  hiis 
testibus  Alano  Brecon,  Alexand'r  de  fraxino  cl'ico,  Will'o  Thomas,  Thorn' 
le  Whyte,  Nicho.  Page  et  aliis.  Dat'  anno  r'  r'  Ed  nT  Ed'  s'c'do  (tto 
seal). 

(To  be  continued). 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 
(Continued  from  Volume  //,  p.  561.) 


EDINGDON  CHARTULARY.     \Lansdowne  MS.,  442,  /  96b-] 
Release  of  Thomas  de  Moxham  to  William  FitzWaryn. 

A.D.  1351. — I,  Thomas  de  Moxham,  have  released  and  for 
myself  and  heirs  quitclaimed  to  William  FitzWaryn,  knight, 
all  lands  and  tenements  in  Mulbourne,  Bratton  and  Westbury, 
as  in  houses,  mills,  rents,  services,  meadows  and  pastures, 
with  all  their  appurtenances,  which  the  said  William  had  of 
my  gift,  as  appears  by  a  charter  made  between  us  ;  To  Have 
and  Hold  to  him,  his  heirs  and  assigns  for_ever,  of  the  chief 
lords  of  that  fee  by  the  due  and  accustomed  service  therefore. 
In  testimony  whereof  I  have  set  my  seal,  &c.  Witnesses.  . 
.  .  .  .  Malmesbury,  Friday  next  after  the  Feast  of  St. 
Andrew  the  Apostle.  25  Edward  III. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  7 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [29  Edward  III  (ist  Nos.), 
No.  20.] 

P.M.  John  Dansy. 

A.D.  1355. — Inquisition  taken  at  Edyndon,  Friday  next 
after  Michaelmas,  29  Edward  III.  The  Jury  say  that  John 
Dansey,  now  dead,  held  of  the  king  in  chief  in  his  domain,  as 
of  fee,  on  the  day  of  his  death,  the  manor  of  Dulton,  with  its 
appurtenances,  and  a  messuage,  and  a  carucate  of  land,  with 
their  appurtenances,  in  Bratton,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  by  the 
service  of  paying  to  the  king  yearly,  into  his  treasury,  by  the 
hand  of  the  Sheriff  of  Wilts,  10  marks  of  great  serjeanty  ;  but 
what  and  how  much  that  serjeanty  is  they  know  not.  The 
said  manor  and  land,  with  the  appurtenances,  is  worth  yearly, 
besides  the  said  rent,  12  marks.  And  the  said  John  held 
nothing  else  in  the  said  County,  in  his  domain,  as  of  fee.  And 
he  died  on  Tuesday,  the  morrow  of  the  Exaltation  of  the  Holy 
Cross  last  past.  William  Dansey,  his  brother,  is  his  nearest 
heir,  and  he  is  16  years  old.  In  witness  whereof  they  seal. 
Dated  in  the  place  and  year  abovesaid. 

ASSIZE  ROLL,  No.   1448,  m.  33.     [31  Edward  III.} 

A.D.  1357. — Assize  at  New  Sarum,  Saturday  before  the 
feast  of  St.  Margaret,  31  Edward  III.  The  Assize  comes  to 
take  cognizance  if  John  Alurych  and  Edith  his  wife  and 
Robert  Forest  and  Agnes  his  wife  unjustly  disseized  John 
Nyweman  and  Alice  his  wife  of  their  freehold  in  Bratton,  a 
messuage  and  an  acre  of  land,  with  the  appurtenances. 

John  Alurych  and  Edith  and  the  others  did  not  come. 
And  John  and  Edith  were  attached  by  William  Danyel  and 
Walter  Sewale.  Therefore  they  are  in  mercy.  Robert  and 
Agnes  are  not  found,  nor  have  bailiffs  nor  anything  by  which 
they  can  be  attached.  Therefore  the  assize  is  taken  against 
them  as  against  John  and  Edith  by  default.  The  Recognitors, 
by  the  assent  of  John  Nyweman  and  Alice  chosen  and-  sworn, 
say  on  their  oath  that  John  Nyweman  and  Alice  were  seized 


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of  the  foresaid  tenement  with  the  appurtenances  as  of  freehold 
until  John  Alurych  and  Edith,  and  Robert  and  Agnes,  unjustly 
disseized  them  to  the  damage  of  203.  Therefore  John 
Nyweman  and  Alice  are  to  recover  their  seizin  and  damages, 
and  John  Alurych  and  all  the  others  are  in  mercy. 

EDINGDON  CHARTULARY,  f.  90. 

Charter  of  Benedicta,  widow  of  John  de  Maundevillc,  to  the 
Rector  of  Edyndon. 

A.D.  1361. — I,  Benedicta,  late  wife  of  John  de  Maundeville, 
have  granted  to  Friar  John  de  Aylesbury,  Rector  of  the 
Conventual  Church  of  Edyndon  and  the  Convent  there,  and 
their  successors,  my  manor  of  Bratton  and  my  manor  of 
Estrop,  with  all  their  rights  and  appurtenances  in  the  County 
of  Wilts.  To  Hold  to  the  said  Rector  and  convent  and  their 
successors  for  the  term  of  my  life  of  the  chief  lords  of  that 
fee  by  the  service  therefore  due  and  customary,  returning  to 
me,  or  my  assigns,  yearly  £20  sterling  at  three  yearly  terms 
at  Bratton,  viz.,  at  the  Feast  of  the  Purification  of  the  B.V. 
Mary  next  following  10  marks  sterling,  at  the  Feast  of  the 
Ascension  then  next  ensuing  10  marks  sterling,  and  at 
Michaelmas  10  marks  sterling,  and  thus  yearly  for  the  term  of 
my  life ;  the  said  rent  being  in  arrears  in  whole  or  in  part  for 
one  month  after  any  of  the  fore-named  terms.  Benedicta  or 
her  assigns  may  distrain  in  the  foresaid  manors  and  keep  the 
distraints  until  satisfied  and  also  enter  the  foresaid  manors  and 
keep  them  in  their  pristine  state.  And  I,  &c.,  will  warrant, 
&c.,  during  my  life.  In  testimony  whereof  to  this  indented 

charter    we    have    set    our     seal.       Witnesses 

Bratton,  the  Sunday  next  after  the  Feast  of  All  Saints.  35 
Edward  III. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [35  Edward  III  (2  Nos.\ 
No.  44.]     (Inquisitio  ad  quod  damnuni). 

Inquisition   taken  at  Bratton    the  last  day  of  November, 
35  Edward  III. 


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The  Jury  say  that  it  is  not  to  the  prejudice  of  the  king  or 
of  any  other  if  the  king  grant  licence  to  Benedicta,  formerly 
wife  of  John  de  Maundeville,  to  give  her  manors  of  Bratton 
and  Estrop  with  the  appurtenances  to  the  Rector  and  friars 
of  the  House  or  Monastery  of  Edyndon  to  have  to  them  and 
her  successors  during  her  life.  The  said  manors  are  held  of 
the  lord  king  in  chief  by  the  service  of  205.  yearly,  and  there 
is  no  mean  between  Benedicta  and  the  king.  The  said  manors 
of  Bratton  and  Estrop  are  worth  yearly  10  marks  sterling 
beyond  deductions  for  repairs,  and  no  more,  because  the  land 
is  poor  for  cultivation.  In  witness  whereof  they  seal. 

EDINGDON  CHARTULARY,  f.  go. 

Release  of  Nicholas  atte  Hoke  and  his  Wife  to  the  Rector 
of  the  Manors. 

A.D.  1362. — We  Nicholas  atte  Hoke  and  Joan  my  wile, 
cousin  and  heiress  of  John  de  Maundeville,  have  released  and  for 
ourselves  and  our  heirs  quitclaimed  to  the  Rector  and  Brethren 
of  Edyndon  all  our  right  in  the  manors  of  Bratton  and  Estrop, 
with  their  appurtenances,  which  they  hold  for  the  life  of 
Benedicta  wife  of  the  said  John  by  her  demise,  licence  of  the 
lord  king  being  obtained  for  this.  And  we,  &c.,  will  warrant, 
&c.,  against  all  men  for  ever.  In  testimony  whereof  we  have 

set  our  seal,  &c.     Witnesses Wilton,  Tuesday 

next   after   the    feast  of   the  Circumcision  of  the   Lord.     35 
Edward  III. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [35  Edward  III  (2nd  Nos.), 
No.  44.]     (Inquisitio  ad.  quod  damnum.} 

A.D.  1361.— Inquisition  taken  at  Edyndon,  30  November, 
35  Edward  III.  The  Jury  say  that  it  is  not  to  the  prejudice  of 
the  king  or  of  any  other,  if  the  king  allow  John  de  Edyndon, 
knight,  to  grant  12  messuages,  12  tofts,  12  carucates  of  land, 
20  acres  of  meadow,  and  20  acres  of  pasture,  with  their 
appurtenances,  in  Edyndon,  Tynhyde,  Coterigge,  Bratton, 
Melbourne,  Stoke  and  Erlestoke,  to  the  Rector  and  Friars  of 


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the  Monastery  of  Edyndon  to  hold  to  them  and  their 
successors  for  ever.  All  the  land  and  tenements  aforenamed 
are  held  of  the  Abbess  of  Romesey  as  of  her  manor  of 
Edyndon  by  the  service  of  505.  yearly,  and  she  holds  of  the 
king  in  chief;  Except  a  virgate  of  land  held  for  55.  yearly  of 
the  lord  of  Westbury,  that  manor  being  held  of  the  king,  so 
that  the  lord  of  Westbury  is  mean  between  the  king  and  John 
de  Edyndon  :  And  except  a  messuage  and  2  virgates  of  land 
held  of  the  manor  of  the  late  John  de  Maundevill  by  the 
service  of  2|lbs.  of  pepper  and  5  capons  yearly  rent,  therefore 
the  lord  of  the  manor  of  Maundevill  is  mean  for  that  messuage 
and  land  between  the  king  and  John  de  Edyndon,  and  it  is 
worth  2os.  yearly  and  no  more,  because  the  land  is  sterile  and 

lies  here  and  there  in  several  parcels.     Item it 

is  not  to  the  prejudice,  &c.,  if  the  king  allow  William  Dendyng 
and  John  Clarke,  chaplain,  to  grant  that  3  messuages,  i  mill, 
3  tofts,  1 1  carucates  of  land,  10  acres  of  meadow,  10  acres  of 
pasture,  with  their  appurtenances  in  Bratton,  Melbourne,  and 
Stoke,  held  by  William  FitzWaryn,  knight,  for  life,  shall  after 
his  death  revert,  instead  of  to  themselves,  to  the  Rector  and 
Friars  of  Edyndon  to  hold  to  them  and  their  successors  for 
ever.  And  the  aforesaid  three  messuages,  &c.,  are  held 
of  the  lord  of  the  manor  of  Westbury  by  the  service 
of  225.  Q\d.  yearly,  the  lord  of  Westbury  being  the  only 
mean  between  the  king  and  William  and  John.  Except 

*     held    of   the    fee  of    Dansys    by    the   service 

of  65.  yearly  ;  and  except  10  acres  of  land  held  of 
the  manor  of  Maundevill  by  the  service  of  us.  and  ilb.  of 
pepper  yearly,  and  the  manor  of  Maundevill  is  held  of  the 
king.  And  the  yearly  value  of  the  said  land  and  tenements  is 
no  more  than  205.,  because  the  land  is  sterile.  And  the 
foresaid  John  de  Edyndon  and  William  Dendyng  and  John 
Clarke  have  other  property  remaining  to  them  after  the  said 

*  Illegible. 


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donation.      In  witness  whereof    the  Jury    seal.      Dated  as 
abovesaid. 

EDINGDON  CHARTULARY,  /.  61. 
The  Charter  of  Sir  John  de  Edyngdon. 

A.D.  1362. — Know  that  I,  John  de  Edyndon,  knight,  at  the 
request  of  the  venerable  father  and  my  lord,  the  lord  William 
Bishop  of  Winchester,  my  uncle,  and  for  the  welfare  of  the 
souls  of  John  de  Edyndon,  my  father,  and  of  all  my  ancestors, 
and  of  all  the  faithful  departed,  have  given  and  by  this  my 
present  charter  confirm  to  John,  Rector  of  Edyndon,  and  the 
Convent  there,  and  to  his  successors,  all  my  lands  and 
tenements,  with  all  reversions,  services  and  rents  of  my 
tenants,  with  all  their  appurtenances  in  Edyndon,  Bratton, 
Mulbourne,  Coterugge,  and  Tynhyde ;  To  have  and  hold  all 
the  foresaid  lands,  &c.,  for  ever  in  free  and  perpetual  alms  : 
Returning  therefore  to  the  chief  lord  of  that  fee  the  customary 
service  belonging  therefore.  And  I  and  my  heirs  will  warrant 
to  the  Rector  and  Convent  and  their  successors  against  all 
men  for  ever.  In  witness  whereof  I  have  set  my  seal,  &c. 
Witnesses,  &c.,  Edyndon,  20  February,  36  Edward  III. 

IBID.,  /  6ib< 
Release  of  William  de  Edyndon,  Bishop  of  Winchester. 

To  all  Christians,  &c.  I,  William  de  Edyndon,  By  the 
Divine  permission  Bishop  of  Winchester,  send  greeting  in  the 
eternal  lord.  Know  that  we,  for  ourselves  and  heirs,  have 
remitted  and  quit-claimed  for  ever  to  the  Rector  and  Friars  of 
their  house  or  monastery  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine  of 
Edyndon  all  our  right  in  all  those  lands,  tenements,  meadows, 
grazing  grounds  and  pastures,  with  all  their  appurtenances, 
lately  acquired  by  us  in  Edyndon,  Tynhyde,  Bratton,  and 
Mulbourne,  so  that  neither  us,  nor  our  heirs,  nor  any  of  our 
name  may  in  future  have  any  right  in  the  said  lands,  &c. 
And  we  and  all  our  heirs  will  warrant  the  foresaid  lands,  &c., 
to  the  Rector  and  brethren  against  all  men  for  ever.  In 


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witness  whereof  we  seal.     Witnesses London, 

22nd  March,  36  Edward  III. 

IBID.,  f.  90"' 
[Also  FEET  OF  FINES,  WILTS.     29-38  Edward  III.] 

At  Westminster,  in  the  quindene  of  Easter,  36  Edward 
III.  Between  the  Rector  of  the  House  or  Monastery  of 
Regular  Friars  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine  of  Edyndon, 
plaintiffs,  and  Nicholas  atte  Hoke  and  Joan  his  wife,  defor- 
ciants,  of  the  manors  of  Bratton  and  Estrop,  with  their 
appurtenances.  Plea  of  warranty  was  summoned.  Nicholas 
and  Joan  acknowledged  the  right  of  the  Rector,  and  they 
quit-claimed  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Joan  to  the  said 
Rector  and  his  successors  for  ever ;  and  warranted  from  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Joan  to  the  Rector  and  his  successors 
the  said  manors,  with  their  appurtenances,  against  all  men 
for  ever.  For  this  the  Rector  gave  Nicholas  and  Joan  200 
silver  marks. 

IBID.,  /  91. 
Release  of  William  Thurstayn  to  the  Rector  of  Edyndon. 

A.D.  1363. — I,  William  Thurstayn,  son  of  the  heretofore 
Joan  Thurstayn,  of  Stepelham,  in  the  Hundred  of  Domerham, 
Wilts,  have  released  and,  for  myself  and  my  heirs,  quit-claimed 
for  ever  to  the  Rector  and  Friars  of  the  House  or  Monastery 
of  Edyndon  and  their  successors  all  my  right  and  claim  in  all 
lands,  tenements,  meadows,  pastures,  pasturages,  rents,  and 
services  which  John  Maundeville  lately  had  in  Bratton  and 
Estrop.  And  I,  &c.,  will  warrant,  &c.,  against  all  men  for 
ever.  In  testimony  whereof  I  have  set  my  seal,  &c. 
Witnesses Edyndon,  4th  February,  37  Ed- 
ward III. 

IBID. 

Release  of  the  same  to  the  same  repeated,  William 
Thurstayn,  or  Thursteyn,  here  describing  himself  as  "  son  of 


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Joan  Thurstayn,  daughter  of  the  heretofore  Richard  de  la 
Rivere,  of  Stepelham,  in  the  Hundred  of  Domerham."  Dated 
at  Westbury,  Monday  next  after  the  Feast  of  St.  Peter's 
Chains,  37  Edward  III. 

IBID.,  /  9ib- 

Charter  of  Walter  Dansy  to  Robert  Gundewyne  and 
Thomas  Jordan. 

A.D.  1364. — I,  Walter  Dansy,  of  Dulton,  Wilts,  have 
granted  to  Robert  Gundewyne  and  Thomas  Jordan,  chaplain, 
my  manor  of  Bratton,  with  its  appurtenances,  To  Hold  to 
them,  their  heirs  and  assigns,  of  the  chief  lords  of  that  fee  by 
the  service  therefore  due  and  accustomed  for  ever :  And 
Returning  therefore  yearly  to  the  lord  king  and  his  heirs  10 
marks  of  lawful  money  at  the  Feast  of  the  Annunciation  for  a 
certain  yearly  rent  belonging  to  the  manor  of  Dulton  and 
Bratton  aforesaid,  due  to  the  lord  king  and  his  heirs,  and  also 
paying  to  the  Sheriff  of  Wilts  for  the  time  being  yearly  45.  Bd. 
at  the  same  Feast  for  me  and  my  heirs  for  ever.  And  I,  &c., 
will  warrant,  &c.,  against  all  men  for  ever.  In  testimony 

whereof  I   have   set   my   seal,   &c.     Witnesses 

Bratton,  roth  October,  38  Edward  III. 

IBID. 

Release  and  quitclaim  of  Walter  Dansy  to  Robert 
Gundewyne  and  Thomas  Jordan,  chaplain,  of  all  his  right  in 
the  manor  of  Bratton.  Dated  Bratton,  24th  October,  38 
Edward  III. 

IBID.,  /.  89"' 
Royal  Patent  to  the  Rector  of  Edyndon. 

Edward,  &c.,  King  of  England,  &c.  To  all,  &c.  Know 
that  whereas  we  have  lately  given  licence  for  ourselves  and 
our  heirs  to  our  beloved  in  Christ,  the  Rector  and  brethren  of 
the  House  or  Monastery  of  Regular  Friars  of  St.  Augustine  of 
Edyndon,  to  acquire  in  pure  and  perpetual  alms  for  their 


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maintenance  and  the  support  of  their  house  or  monastery, 
lands  and  tenements  and  rents,  with  the  appurtenances  and 
advowsons  of  churches,  held  of  us  or  any  one  else,  as  well  of 
their  own  as  of  an  alien  fee,  to  the  value  of  100  marks,  accord- 
ing to  the  extent  and  value  of  the  same,  the  statute  of  lands  in 
mortmain  notwithstanding  :  We  have  granted  that  Benedicta, 
who  was  the  wife  of  John  de  Maundeville  and  held  the  manors 
of  Bratton  and  Esthrop,  with  the  appurtenances,  for  the  term 
of  her  life  of  the  inheritance  of  Joan,  wife  of  Nicholas  atte 
Hoke,  may  give  her  estate  in  the  foresaid  manors  held  from  us 
in  chief,  and  worth  in  all  the  issues  according  to  their  true 
value  10  marks,  by  the  inquisition  made  by  our  eschaetor  in 
Wilts,  John  de  Estbury  ;  and  that  the  foresaid  Nicholas  and 
Joan,  by  virtue  of  the  donation  of  Benedicta,  may  release  their 
right  in  the  said  manors  to  the  Rector  and  brethren  ;  and 
that  the  Rector  and  brethren  may  receive  the  manors  from 
Benedicta,  Nicholas  and  Joan.  Witness,  the  King  himself. 
Westminster,  25  October,  38  year  of  his  reign. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM. 
[38  Edward  III.  (2nd  Nos.\  No.  21  (Inquisitio  ad  quod 

damnum).] 

Inquisition  taken  at  Westbury,  in  Wilts,  nth  November, 
38  Edward  III.  The  Jury  say  that  it  is  not  to  the  prejudice  of 
the  lord  king,  or  of  any  other,  if  he  concede  to  Robert 
Gondewyne  and  Thomas  Jurdan,  that  whereas  they  have 
acquired  the  manor  of  Bratton,  with  the  appurtenances,  from 
Walter  Dansy,  who  held  that  manor  and  the  manor  of  Dulton, 
with  the  appurtenances,  of  the  king  in  chief,  by  the  service  of 
10  marks  to  be  paid  yearly  by  the  hands  of  the  Sheriff  of 
Wilts  for  the  time  being,  and  45.  &d.  yearly  to  the  Sheriff;  by 
virtue  of  which  acquisition  the  said  Robert  and  Thomas  entered 
into  the  manor  of  Bratton  and  its  appurtenances,  not  having 
obtained  the  king's  licence  may  recover  possession  of  the 
said  manor  of  Bratton,  of  the  gift  of  the  king  to  hold  of  him  in 
chief,  by  the  service  of  10  marks  for  the  said  two  manors,  by  the 


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hands  of  the  foresaid  sheriff,  and  45.  8d.  to  the  same  sheriff, 
by  reason  of  his  office,  to  be  paid  yearly  for  ever ;  and  that 
they  may  assign  the  manor  of  Bratton,  with  its  appurtenances, 
for  ever  to  the  Rector  and  Friars  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine 
of  Edyngdon  to  have  and  hold  to  themselves  and  their 
successors  of  the  king  by  the  same  service  for  ever.  And  they 
say  that  in  the  manor  of  Bratton  is  one  capital  messuage  with 
a  garden,  worth,  beyond  deductions  for  repairs,  yearly  23.  6d. 
There  is  there  a  carucate  of  land  in  domain,  containing  104^ 
acres  of  arable  land,  of  which  29  acres  lie  under  the  hill,  and 
are  worth  6d.  the  acre  yearly,  and  75^  acres  lie  on  the  hill,  and 
are  worth  no  more  than  2d.  the  acre  yearly,  lying  in  the 
common  field  and  being  unable  to  be  sown  except  in  alternate 
years.  There  are  there  14  acres  of  meadow  worth  yearly 
1 5 of.  ;  and  3  acres  of  pasture  in  severally  worth  izd.  yearly. 
There  is  there  pasture  in  common  and  severally  •  for  300 
sheep,  worth  205.  There  is  there  715.  id.  and  3|lbs.  of  pepper 
of  assized  rents  yearly,  as  well  of  the  free  as  of  the  native 
tenants,  and  every  Ib.  of  pepper  is  worth  2  is.,  wherefore  they 
say  that  the  total  sum  thereof  is  ^7  55.  Sd.  And  the  said 
manor  of  Bratton  is  worth  besides  the  fore-said  rent  of  10 
marks,  45.  Sd.t  75.  8d.,  according  to  the  true  value.  No  other 
lands  or  tenements  remain  to  the  said  Robert  and  Thomas 
after  that  donation.  In  witness  whereof  they  have  sealed. 
Dated  in  the  place  and  year  abovesaid. 

(To  be  continued.) 


The  Paschal  Candle. — In  reference  to  a  note  on  this 
subject  on  p.  574  of  our  last  volume,  a  correspondent  writes,  that 
this  candle  is  not  a  taper  and  should  not  be  lighted  at  Benedic- 
tion, which  is  not  a  liturgical  service.  Properly  speaking  it  is 
not  blessed,  for  it  represents  Christ  and  His  Life  during  the 
the  great  forty  days,  and  is  used  to  bless  the  Font,  and  from 
it  all  the  lights  in  the  Church  are  taken. 


1 6  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

MARRIAGE    RECORDS. 
(Continued  from  Vol.  II,  p.  571.) 


N. 

1705-2-12. — Thomas  NEAT,  of  city  of  Bristol,  merchant,  to  Love 
HARRIS,  of  Chippenham,  at  Chippenham. 

1706-4-27. — Elizabeth  NEAT,  of  Chippenham  ph.,  dau.  of  John 
Neat,  late  of  Chippenham,  to  Robert  READ,  of 
Chippenham,  at  Chippenham. 

1709-5-6. — Elizabeth  NARRAWAY,  of  Wootton  Basset,  to  William 
STOAKES,  of  Sands,  at  Charlcut. 

1712-6-3. — Thomas  NASH,  of  Melksham,  woolcomber,  son  of 
Thomas  Nash,  of  Chippenham,  to  JaneSANGER, 
of  Melksham,  at  Melksham. 

1721-8-26. — John  NEATE,  son  of  John  Neate,  of  Calne,  to 
Elizabeth  CALE,  at  Calne. 

1723-5-31. — Israel  NOYS,  of  Bradford,  clothier,  son  of  Israel 
and  Catherine  Noys,  of  Bradford,  to  Mary 
GUNDRY,  of  Devizes,  at  Devizes. 

1724-10-29. — Deborah  NEWMAN,  dau.  of  Paul  Newman,  Senr.,  of 
Melksham,  to  Amos  SUMTION,  of  Melksham,  at 
Melksham. 

1743-1-27. — Thos.  NEATE,  of  Cain,  clothier,  to  Mary  SARJANT, 
at  Calne. 

1753-9-13. — Amey  NEWMAN,  dau.  of  Paul  Newman,  of  Melksham, 
to  John  BELL,  of  Melksham,  at  Melksham. 

1755-6-4. — Dennis  NEWMAN,  of  Melksham,  son  of  Paul  and 
Elizabeth  Newman,  of  Melksham,  to  Rachel 
ROSE,  at  Devizes. 

1757-12-1. — Joannah  NOYES,  dau.  of  Israel  and  Joanna  Noyes, 
of  Calne,  to  Jeremiah  Cox,  of  London,  at 
Charlcott. 

1762-5-4. — John  NEWMAN,  of  Melksham,  clothier,  son  of  Paul 
Newman,  late  of  Melksham,  to  Mary  TYLEE,  at 
Broomham. 

1763-7-21. — Samuel  NEATE,  of  Calne,  to  Anna  GOULDNEY,  of 
Chippenham,  at  Corsham, 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  17 

1779-4-22.— George  NASH,  of  Tockington,  Olveston  ph.,  co.  of 
Gloucester,  son  of  Ambrose  and  Elizabeth  Nash, 
of  Old  Sodbury,  to  Mary  BENNET,  at  Pickwick. 

1788-7-16.— James  NEAVE,  of  Fordingbridge,  co.  of  Hants, 
woolstapler,  son  of  Josiah  and  Elizabeth 
Neaves,  of  Fordingbridge,  co.  of  Hants,  to 
Hannah  GUNDRY,  at  Calne. 

1789-12-22. — Nicholas  NAFTEL,  of  Peter's  Port,  Island  of 
Guernsey,  clockmaker,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  Naftel,  of  Peter's  Port,  Island  of 
Guernsey,  to  Mary  HIGMAN,  of  Melksham,  at 
Melksham. 

1832-5-9. — Edmund  NAISH,  of  Flax  Bourton,  co.  of  Somerset, 
tanner,  son  of  Edmund  and  Mary  Naish,  of 
Flax  Bourton,  co.  of  Somerset,  to  Mary  WITHY, 
at  Portishead,  co.  of  Somerset. 

O. 

1704-10-26. — John  OGBORNE,  of  Tedbury,  co.  of  Gloucester, 
joiner,  to  Hester  BISHOP,  of  Westbury  Leigh, 
at  Warminster. 

1706-5-10. — Jone  ODEY  to  Saml.  STINCHCOM. 

1707-9-17. — Jeremiah  OWEN,  of  Warminster  ph.,  broadweaver, 
son  of  John  Owen,  of  Warminster  ph.,  to 
Elizabeth  WRENCH  (alias  HOBBS),  of  War- 
minster ph.,  at  Warminster. 

P. 

1710-8-27. — Margarett  PONTON,  of  Warminster,  spinster,  dau. 
of  Andrew  Ponton,  of  Westbury,  to  William 
GARDNER,  Jr.,  of  Warminster,  at  Warminster. 

1715-2-29. — William  PRICE,  of  Christian  Malford,  maltster,  son 
of  Henry  Price,  of  Christian  Malford,  to 
Elizabeth  RILY,  of  Eavon,  at  Charlcut. 

1718-6-28. — Rachel  PINNELL,  dau.  of  Jefrey  Pinnell,  late  of 
Bristol,  to  Josiah  COLLETT,  at  Commerwell. 

1719/20-11-31. — Jno.  PAYNE,  of  Bridgwater,  co.  of  Somerset, 
son  of  Simon  Payne,  late  of  Weston  Banfield, 
co.  of  Somerset,  to  Elizabeth  SMITH,  of  Brad- 
ford, at  Bradford. 

1722-2-3. — Rebecca  PINNOCK,  dau.  of  Richard  Pinnock,  of 
Melksham  ph.,  to  George  FENELL,  at  Melksham. 

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1 8  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1722-11-22. — Richd.  PINNOCK,  of  Inmarsh,  Melksham  ph., 
yeoman,  to  Jone  SHEWRING,  of  Melksham,  at 
Melksham. 

1724-10-22. — James  PAYNE,  of  Bradford,  broadweaver,  son  of 
Robert  Payne,  to  Mary  CHARLES,  at  Melksham. 

1725-2-7. — Walter  PRICE,  of  Xtian  Malford,  maltster,  son  of 
Henry  Price,  late  of  Xtian  Malford,  to  Catherine 
TRUMAN,  at  Cummerwell. 

1731-8-17. — Stephen  PALMER,  of  Purton  Stoke,  feltmaker,  to 
Mary  TAYLER,  late  of  Thornbury,  at  Purton 
Stoake. 

1736-1-28. — Daniel  PACKER,  of  Derry  Hill,  weaver,  to  Mary 
ELLIS,  at  Chippenham. 

1750-10-25. — Edith  PINNOCK,  dau.  of  Thomas  Pinnock,  late  of 
Melksham  Park,  Melksham  ph.,  to  Wm.  ROSE, 
at  Melksham. 

1753-8-2. — William  PRISE,  of  Sutton  Benger,  yeoman,  to  Grace 
TRUMAN,  of  Purton  Stoke. 

1773-4-13. — William  POWELL,  of  Nursted,  son  of  James  and 
Mary  Powell,  of  Wick,  Bishops  Cannings  ph., 
to  Mary  TOWNSEND,  of  Devizes,  at  Devizes. 

1779-11-9. — Sarah  POWELL,  dau.  of  James  and  Mary  Powell, 
of  Devizes  Wick,  to  John  JAMES  [?  JONES],  of 
Newton  Tracey  ph.,  at  Devizes. 

I786-2-20.1 — Ann  PARADICE,  of-  Slaughterford,  spinster,  dau.  of 
John  Paradice,  of  co.  of  Wilts,  to  Benjamin 
BOND. 

1787-4-13. — William  PAULL,  of  Poole,  co.  of  Poole,  linen  draper, 
son  of  Richard  and  Sarah  Paull,  of  town  and 
co.  of  Poole,  to  Rebecca  JEFFERYS,  at  Melksham. 

1819-8-18. — William  POWELL,  of  Nursteed,  near  Devizes,  son 
of  James  and  Mary  Powell,  of  Devizes  Wick, 
to  Mary  JEFFERYS,  at  Melksham. 

R. 

1700-7-22. — Thomas  REYNOLDS  to  Sarah  YOUNG,  at  Brink- 
worth. 


1  Probably  this  marriage  is  erroneously  inserted  here,  as  it  has 
previously  been  given  under  a  date  exactly  a  century  before,  see  vol.  ii,  pages 
291  and  426.  Among  the  records  of  Births,  children  of  Benj.  and  Ann  Bond 
appear  in  due  coarse  after  the  earlier  date, 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  19 


1706-4-27. — Robert  READ,  of  Chippenham,  comber,  son  of 
John  Read,  of  Chippenham,  to  Elizabeth  NEAT, 
of  Chippenham  ph.,  at  Chippenham. 

1708-5-13. — John  READ,  of  Chippenham,  worsted  comber,  to 
Dorothy  BAYLY,  of  Whitly,  at  Melksham. 

1712-1-5. — John  REEVE,  of  Brumham,  husbandman,  son  of 
William  Reeve,  of  Blackland,  Cain  ph.,  to 
Elizabeth  ROBBINS,  of  Bradford,  dau.  of  Matthew 
and  Elizabeth  Robbins,  late  of  Calne,  at 
Melksham. 

1714-9-5. — Jane  RYLY,  dau.  of  Daniel  Ryly,  late  of  Avon, 
Christian  Malford  ph.,  to  James  CARE,  of 
Avon,  at  Charlcut. 

1715-2-29.— Elizabeth  RYLY,  of  Eavon,  Christian  Malford  ph., 
to  William  PRICE,  of  Christian  Malford,  at 
Charlcut. 

1716-1-27. — Lydia  RYLEE,  spinster,  dau.  of  Daniel  Rylee,  of 
Eavon,  to  Thomas  JEFFREES,  of  Godsill,  at 
Charlcott. 

1720-8-6. — Amy  RAWLINS,  of  Bradford  ph.,  to  William  SPARROW, 
of  Bradford  ph.,  at  Comberwell. 

1721-10-25. — Mary  ROSE,  of  Devizes,  dau.  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Rose,  of  Devizes,  to  John  GUNDRY,  of 
Devizes,  at  Devizes. 

1722-3-24. — Samuel  RUTTY,  grocer,  son  of  John  Rutty,  of 
Melksham,  to  Mary  TYLER,  at  Bradford. 

1726-8-20. — Townly  RIGBY,  Esqr.,  of  Middleton,  Lancashire, 
son  of  Elaxander  and  Ann  Rigby,  late  of 
Middleton,  to  Grace  HILL,  at  Purton. 

1728-10-19. — Mary  RYLY,  of  Suttin  Banger,  dau.  of  Daniel  and 

Elizth.  Ryly,  of  Avon,  to  Thomas  TAYLER,  of 

Ashen  Cains,  at  Charlcott. 
1730-8-28.— Betty  RYLEY,  dau.  of  Daniel  Ryley,  late  of  Avon, 

Christian  Malford  ph.,  to  Robert  EDWARDS,  of 

Notten,  at  Charlcot. 
1732-2-16.— Andrew   RANDALL,   son  of  Andrew   Randall,   of 

Chippenham,  to  Esther  BAYLY,  at  Sutton.      _ 
1732/3-1-12.— Hannah  RILY,  of  Lavington,  widdow,  to  Jacob 

SELF,  at  Lavington. 
!  735-7-7 —Ann    ROSE,    dau.  of  Thomas  and    Mary    Rose,  of 

Devizes,  to  Joshua   TYLEE,  of  Widecomb,    at 

Devizes. 

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20  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

17  o-12-ii. — Andrew  RANDALL,  Jr.,  of  Chippenham,  weaver,  to 
Jane  COOK,  of  Biddlestone,  at  Chippenham. 

1741-10-27. — Sarah  ROSE,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Rose,  of 
Devizes,  to  Thomas  COLLET,  of  Bath,  at  Devizes. 

1742-12-24. — Thomas  REYNOLDS,  of  London,  clothworker,  to 
Susannah  FINDLAY,  of  Mounkton,  at  Corsham. 

1749-4-11. — Hester  RUTTY,  dau.  of  Samuel  Rutty,  of  Melk- 
sham,  to  John  BENNET,  at  Melksham. 

1750-10-25. — Wm.  ROSE,  son  of  Joseph  Rose,  of  Bradford,  to 
Edith  PINNOCK,  at  Melksham. 

1752-9-24. — Mary  RUTTY,  dau.  of  Samuel  Rutty,  of  Melksham, 
to  Richard  LYNE,  of  city  of  Bristol,  at  Melksham. 

1753-12-16. — Catherine  RUTTY,  dau.  of  Samuel  Rutty,  of  Melk- 
sham, to  Thomas  FOWLER,  of  Melksham,  at 
Melksham. 

1754-9-25. — Jonathan  RUTTY,  of  Melksham,  son  of  Samuel 
Rutty,  of  Melksham,  to  Hanh.  SANGER,  at 
Melksham. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 

(To  be  continued.) 
Ruskin  Road, 

Tottenham,  Middx. 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  II.,  p.  566.^ 


HENRY  VIII. 

119.  Anno   23. — James   Moore  and   Elizabeth   his  wife, 
Ralph    Lancaster,    Maurice    Rogers,    John    Weyer,    Robert 
Weyer,  junior,  William  Pecok,  and  John  Mathewe,  and  Chris- 
tian  his  wife  ;  messuage  and  lands   in   Marleborough.     ^33 
sterling. 

120.  Anno  24. — Clement  Yong  and  Mary  his  wife  and 
John  Beverley  de  Beverlaco  and  Agnes  his  wife;  messuages 
and  land  in  Merleburgh.     ^40  sterling. 


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121.  Anno  24.-^David  Lewys  and  Thomas  Gawen,  Arm., 
messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum.     80  marks. 

122.  Anno  24. — John  Bordon  and  John  Neyt  and  Agnes 
his  wife,  daughter  and  heir  of  John  Balowe ;   messuage  and 
lands  in  Al  Cannyngis.     £40. 

123.  Anno    24. — Richard   Gresham,    William   Gresham, 
and  William  Hardyng,  and  Arthur  Uvedale,  Arm.;  fourth  part 
of  messuages  and  lands    in  Chawryngton,  Chawlderton,  and 
Cholderton.     ^80. 

124.  Anno    24. — John    Abarrow,    Arm.,   John    Hawles, 
Thomas  Marten,  Thomas  Sharpe,  Hugh  Thomas,  and  David 
Lewys,  and  John  Horsey  and  William  Horsey ;  messuages 
and  gardens  in  New  Sarum.     ^100. 

125.  Anno  24. — Thomas  Englefeld,  knight,  justice  of  the 
king's  bench,  Edmund  Marvyn,  serjeant-at-law,  Bartholomew 
Huse,   John   Cervyngton,  Charles  Bulkeley,  John  A'Barowe, 
John   Stone,    and  Thomas   Chaflfyn,  and  Margaret   Gerberd, 
widow ;  of  the  Manor  of  Odestoke,  messuages  and  lands  in 
Odestoke,    Highmede,    and    Birtford,   with   advowson  of  the 
church  at  Odestoke. 

126.  Anno   24. — John    Brygges,   knight,   John   Seymere, 
knight,  Leonard  Pole,  Arm.,  Richard  Brigges,  Arm.,  and  Robt. 
Sewy,  gen.,  and  John  Tucket,  Lord  Audeley,  manor  of  Brough- 
ton  Gyffbrd  and  Assheton  Gyfford ;  messuages  and  lands  and 
30  shillings  rent,  in  Broughton  Gyfford  and  Assheton  Gyfford. 
£240  sterling. 

127.  Anno  24. — John  Ewstas  and  Phillip  Godfrey;  mes- 
suages and  garden  in  New  Sarum.     ^20  sterling. 

128.  Anno  24. — Thomas  Holme,  of  New  Sarum,  tanner, 
and  John  Bulkeley  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Esmond  Sowthe ;  messuages  in  New  Sarum.     £30. 

129.  Anno  24. — Richard  Lyster,  knight,  William  Thorp, 
John  Mylle,  John  Sentpole,  and  William  Smyth,  chaplain,  and 
Anthony  Seyntmonds,  knight,  and  Anna  his  wife;  manor  of 
Wodrewe,   messuages  and  lands,  and  pasture  for  100  sheep, 


22  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

and  100   shillings   rent,  in    Wodrewe,   Milkeshin,   Bromehin, 
and  Ambresbury.     ^400  sterling. 

130.  Anno  24. — John  Erley,  Arm.,  Robert  Balfront,  cleri- 
cus, and  Thomas  Fitzjames,  Arm.,  and  Mary  his  wife  ;  mes- 
suages and  lands,  40  shillings  rent,  in  Heightredesbury  and 
Fenny  Sutton.     ^220  sterling. 

131.  Anno   25. — Michael    Dormer,    William    Danntesey, 
Robert  Pakyngton,  William  Baldwyn  and  Ambrose  Danntesey, 
and   William    Bekett  and  Thomas  Bekett ;   messuages   and 
lands,  one  water  mill,  and  10  shillings  and  4  pence  halfpenny 
rent,  in  Lanford,  with  advowson  of  the  church   of  Lanford. 
;£i2o  sterling. 

132.  Anno  25. — Robert  Larder,  gen.,  and  John  Forthey; 
messuage  and  garden  in  Malmysbury.     ^40  sterling. 

133.  Anno    25. — John    Mordaunt,  of  Mordaunt,    knight, 
Giles  Strangways,    knight,  Edmund  Mervyn,  serjeant-at-law, 
John  Marvyn,  Arm.,  Henry  Strangways,  Arm.,  Edmund  Mom- 
pesson,  Arm.,  Bartholomew  Husey,  Thos.  Mompesson,  William 
Mervyn,    Richard    Mompesson,    William  Thornhill,    William 
Hill,    clericus,   and   Thomas    West,    knight,    Lord    la   ware 
(Delaware),  and  Elizabeth  his  wife;  manor  of  Fountell  de  la 
Ware,  messuage  and  lands ;  6  shillings  and  8  pence  rent,  in 
Fountell  Gyfford  als.  Nether   Fountell  Stoppe,  and  Berwyke 
Seynt  Leonarde,  and  lands  in  Tesbury,  Assheldowne.     ^40. 

134.  Anno  25. — William  Willyngton,   Michael   Dormer, 
Bartholomew  Hussey,  Ambrose  Danntesey,  Thomas  Mompes- 
son, and  Thomas  Walwyn  and  Elizabeth  his  wife ;  messuages 
and  lands,  and  pasture  for  two  cows  and  40  sheep,  in  Lavyng- 
ton  Ep.     100  marks. 

135.  Anno    25. — Edward,    Archbishop    of    York,    John 
Gaynsford,  knt.,  John  Baker,  recorder  of  London,  John  Legh, 
armiger,  Thomas  Arundell,  arm.,  Geoffrey  Legh,  arm.,  William 
Muschamp,   generosus,    Ralph   Legh,    gen.,    Richard    Deane, 
clericus,   and    Edward    Paynton,    knt. ;    manor    of    Compton 
Chamberleyn,  Fallersdon,  Tollard  and  Fernam  ;  messuages  and 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire,  23 

lands  in  Compton  Chamberleyne,  Fallersdon,  Tollard,  Fernam, 
Combe  and  Croucheston.  ^800. 

136.  Anno  25. — Robert  Lewen  and  Anthony  Styleman, 
arm.,  and  Richard  Styleman ;  messuages  in  Devizes.     ^20. 

137.  Anno    25. — Thomas    Leman    and    William    Ryle ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Calne,  Studley  and  Stoke  in  the  parish 
of  Calne.     ^60. 

138.  Anno  26. — Richard  Baker,  and  Richard  Lykeman  and 
Johanna  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Lugersale.     ^30. 

139.  Anno  26. — John  Ussher  and  William  Gawen  ;  lands 
in  Hawkerige  mead,  parish  of  Westbury. 

140.  Anno    26. — Thomas    Chaifyn,    John    Stone,    John 
Acton,    and   Christopher    Chaffyn    and    Dorothy    his    wife ; 
messuages  in  Warmyster.     ^80. 

141.  Anno  26. — William  Beynton,  Thomas  Hargrave,  and 
Robert  Dalamere,  gen. ;    manor  of  Hardwyke,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Elfeld.     ^280. 

142.  Anno  26. — Richard   Bryan,  John  Blacket,  William 
Willyams,  and  John  Rylbek  and  Agnes  his  wife ;    messuages 
in  New  Sarum.     ^40. 

143.  Anno  26. — Richard  Mytton,  Nicholas  Vynar,  Robert 
Brunker  and  John  Floure,  and  Gregory  Nicholas  and  Cecilia 
his   wife;    messuages  and  lands  in  Wodlondyslelyes  (?)  and 
Eddesmcan  (?),  parish  of  Calne.     ^30. 

144.  Anno  26. — Edmund  Pulley,  and  John  Knyght  alias 
Shepard,   and  Julia    his    wife,  kinswoman  and   heir  of  John 
Wevyngs;    messuages  and  lands  in  Asheton   Keynes,  Great 
Chelworth  and  Calcott.     ,£80. 

145.  Anno  26.— William  Dauntesey,  John  Henton,  John 
Gat,  Thomas  Henton  and  William  Duper,  gen.,  and  Henry 
Apulby  ;    messuages   and  lands  in  Alborne  alias  Aldiborne. 

£40- 

146.  Anno  27.— William  Barley,  arm.,  Francis  Southwell, 

arm.,  William  More,  arm.,  Geoffry  Dersey,  arm.,  Edward 
Hasilwoode,  Edward  Denton,  Mathew  Colcroft,  and  William 
Tucke,  and  William  Thornburgh,  arm.  ;  manors  of  Orcheston 


24  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Mary,  Legh,  Chalryngton,  Charlton,  Chelsester  and  Eynford, 
messuages  and  lands  in  Orcheston  Mary,  Orcheston  Vowell, 
Legh  near  Castelcomb,  Chalryngton,  Charlton,  Chelcester 
near  Calne  als.  Calne,  High  Swyndon,  Estcote,  Westcote, 
Walcote,  West  Swyndon,  Myhenden,  Netherwroghton,  Sutton 
Benger,  Calne,  Calne  Stoke,  Stokley,  Beysbroke,  Beversbroke, 
Eynford,  Lyttlecote,  Chesynbury,  Combe,  Homyngton, 
Netherhaven,  Ludgersale,  Hylcote  als.  Holcote,  Manyngford 
Wyke,  Wyllford,  Wyllyngford  Wyke,  North  Tudworth, 
Semyngton,  and  Rydloo ;  with  advowson  of  the  churches  of 
Chalryngton,  Legh,  and  Orcheston  Mary.  ^800. 

147.  Anno  27. — Henry  Brunker,  and  Simon  Baker  and 
Margaret  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Bubton  Dotemarsh 
and  Thornhill.     ^40. 

148.  Anno  27. — John  Rous,  Robert  Tetherley,  and  Roger 
Yorke,   sergeant-at-law,  and   Margaret   his  wife ;    messuages 
and  lands  in  New  Sarum. 

149.  Anno  28. — William  Goddard,  and  William  Prater 
and  Agnes  his  wife ;    messuages  and  lands  in  Glorysse  and  in 
the  parish  of  Lacock.     ^10. 

150.  Anno    28. — Anthony   Hungerford,    knt.,   Lodowick 
Fortescu,     arm.,    and     Henry     Clyfford,    arm. ;      manor     of 
Burdenysvall,  messuages  and  lands  in  Fulston  and  Wilton. 

151.  Anno  28. — Richard   Awsten,  John  Stocker,  senior, 
and  Jacob  Mesurer,  and  John  Tucket,  knt.,  of  Awdeley,  and 
George  Tucket,  son  and  heir  of  John ;    manor  of  Cowssefeld 
Lobereys,  messuages  and  lands  in  Cowssefelde  Lobereys  and 
Whyt  parysshe.     ^140. 

152.  Anno  28. — Robert  Balfront,  clerk,  Thomas  Westley, 
gen.,  and  Robert  May,  alias  Hewsten,  and  Margaret  his  wife  ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Great  Hornyngsham,  Little  Hornyns- 
ham,    Anstie,    and     Hill     Deuerell,    next     the     hundred    of 
Haytrysbury,  alias  Heytysbury.     ;£no. 

153.  Anno     28.— John     Burchyer,     knt,     Bartholomew 
Hussee,  Charles  Bulkeley,  John  Palmes  and  Richard  Palmes, 


Notes  on  Great  Somerford.  25 

and  Edward   Crowche;    messuages  and  lands  in  Stocketon 
Welye  and  Stepellongford.  '  ,£40. 

154.  Anno  27  and  28.—  Anthony  Hungerford,  knt, 
Edward  Seymer,  knt.,  Thomas  Yorke,  arm.,  Richard  Andrew, 
gen.,  and  John  Waren,  and  Roger  Young,  gen.  ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  Loght  Wynkworth,  Cleverdon,  and  Pirton. 


155.  Anno  27  and  28.  —  Anthony  Pleydall,  and  Elizabeth 
his   wife,    and  Thomas    Button,  gen.,   and   Agnes   his   wife; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Staunton.     ^200. 

156.  Anno  28.  —  Walter  Twynborow,  and  Peter  Morgan, 
son  and  heir  of  Edward  Morgan,  arm.  ;    messuages  and  land 
in  Chitterne  Manor.     100  marks. 

157.  Anno  28.  —  John  Marven,  arm.,  and  Thomas  West, 
knt.,  Lord  De  La  Warr  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;    manor  of 
Wyke,  messuages  and  lands  in  Wyke  and  Tysbury.     ,£300. 

158.  Anno  28.  —  Walter  Hungerford,  knt.,  Lord  Hunger- 
ford   of    Haytesbury,    and    Peter   Morgan,    son    and    heir  of 
Edward  Morgan  ;    messuages  and  lands  in  Warminster  and 

Knoke.     £200. 

E.  A.  FRY. 

(To  be  continued.) 


NOTES  ON  GREAT  SOMERFORD. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  II,  p.  552.) 

About  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  William 
Alexander  acquired  a  good  deal  of  landed  property  in  Somer- 
ford, most  of  which  eventually  came  to  the  Smiths.  Part  of 
this,  an  estate  called  Blanchard's,  was  purchased  of  the 
family  of  Browning  or  Bruning,  being  a  portion  of  their 
manor  of  Somerford  Bolles,  a  name  of  which  there  is  now 
scarcely  any  trace  left  unless  it  be  in  the  name  of  a  large 


26  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

field  called  the  Bolsey  meadow,  near  the  railway.  A  few 
extracts  from  some  old  deeds  may  help  to  identify  Blanchard's, 
but  there  have  been  many  exchanges  and  divisions  in  the  lands 
at  Somerford,  and  one  can  hardly  expect  to  find  all  the  various 
plots  and  fields  still  retaining  their  old  names.  In  1652,* 
Anthony  Bruninge  (Browning  in  endorsement)  of  Woodcott, 
co.  Southton,  esq.,  and  Edmund  Bruninge,  gent.,  son  and 
heir  apparent  of  said  Anthony  Bruninge,  in  consideration  of 
^250,  did  demise  to  Theodore  Chelton,  yeoman,  of  Rod- 
bourne,  in  the  parish  of  Malmesbury, 

"  All  that  messuage  or  tenement  with  appurtenances  in  Somertord 
Bolls,  otherwise  Great  Somerford,  called  Blanchard's,  wherein  one 
William  Browne  now  dwelleth,  with  all  barns,  stables,  &c.,  to  said 
messuage  belonging,  also  common  of  pasture  for  six  Rother  beastes  in 
Somerford  Marshe  every  year  from  the  feast  of  Invention  of  Holy  Crosse 
until  the  feast  of  St.  Peter  ad  Vincula,  commonly  called  Lammas  Daye. 
To  said  Theodore  Chelton  and  his  assigns,  immediately  after  the  death 
of  said  William  Browne,  for  term  of  99  years  or  lives  of  said  Theodore 
Chelton,  Thomas  Chelton  his  sonne,  and  Thomas  Browne,  nowe  of 
Sutton  Benger,  sonne  ot  John  Browne,  of  Somerford  aforesaid.  Yearly 
rent  243.,  and  the  tenant  for  time  being  to  do  suit  and  service  at  the 
Court  of  Anthony  and  Edmund  Bruninge  for  the  manor  of  Somerford 
Bolls.  Witnesses,  Richard  Thorner,  J.  Warnetorde,  Thomas  Chelton." 
Seal : — Two  bends  wavy  ;  crest,  a  leopard's  head  crowned.  BRUNING. 

After  the  purchase  of  Blanchard's  by  William  Alexander, 
a  "  collateral  security  against  quit  rents  "  gives  a  few  more 
particulars  of  the  Bruning  manor. 

"This  indenture,  ist  December  1693,  between  Edmund2  Bruneing, 
of  Hamildon,  co.  Southton,  esq.,  and  Richard  Bruneing,  gent.,  sonn 


1  In  1655  there  was  a  ratification  of  this  lease  by  three  trustees,  John 
Caryll   of  Hartinge,   Sussex,   esq.,  Laurence  Hyde   of   Hynton  Dawbney, 
esq.,  and  Arthur  Bold  of  Petersfield,  esq. 

2  Wrongly  given  (vol.  i,  p.  518)  as  Sir  Edmund  Bruning ;  there  is  no  autho- 
rity for  any  other  designation  than  that  of  Esquire.     The  foot  of  a  fine  (reign 
of  Elizabeth)  levied  between  William  Brunynge,  plaintiff,  and  his  mother 
Elianor  Brunynge,  widow,  deforciant  of  a  house  and  garden,  12  acres  of 
land,   11   acres  of  meadow,  17  acres  of  pasture  and    common  of  pasture 
for  every  kind  of  beast  in  Somerford  Magna,  probably  refers  to  a  portion  of 
the  property  mentioned  above. 


Notes  on  Great  Somerford.  27 

and  heire  apparent  ot  said  Edmund  of  the  one  part,  and  William 
Alexander,  of  Broad  Somerford,  gent.,  Michaell  Wicks  of  the  parish  of 
St.  Mary  Axe  in  the  Citty  of  London,  esq.,  and  Thomas  Evans  ot 
Malmesbury,  mercer,  of  the  other  part.  Whereas  said  Edmund  and 
Richard  Bruneing  have  sold  and  conveyed  to  said  William  Alexander,  a 
messuage  called  Blanchard's,1  &c.,  parcel  of  the  manor  of  Somerford 
Boales,  als.  Bolles,  situate  in  or  near  Broad  Somerford  and  held  by  some 
lease  determinable  upon  the  death  of  one  Thomas  Chelton.  Also  to 
said  Michaell  Wicks,  a  messuage  or  tenement  called  Mayo's  Farme, 
and  to  said  Thomas  Evans  a  messuage  or  tenement  called  The  Grove, 
and  several  closes,  meadows,  lands,  and  appurtenances  to  same,  and 
also  an  enclosed  ground  called  the  Great  Velver,  als.  the  Great  Ffernfeild, 
about  four  acres,  heretotore,  parcel  of  before  mentioned  Mayo's  farme. 
Now  this  Indenture  wittnesseth  that  Edmund  and  Richard  Bruneing  have 
bargained  and  sold  to  said  William  Alexander,  Michaell  Wicks,  and 
Thomas  Evans,  All  that  the  Manor  or  Lordshipp  of  Somerford  Boales, 
als.  Bolles,  and  all  that  tarme  called  Rummings,  held  for  the  lives  of — 
Seltes  two  daughters,  and  all  that  farme  called  Serjeant's,  and  all  that 
farme  calied  Lee's  living,  now  or  late  in  the  possession  of  the  widow 
Lee,  all  part  of  said  manor  of  Somerford  Boales  situate  in  Great  or 
Little  Somertord,  or  in  one  of  them."  All  parties  to  be  indemnified  from 
rent  charges,  quit  rents,  &c.  Witnesses,  Francis  Bruninge  and  Robert 
Southam. 

Another  of  William  Alexander's  possessions,  Cotterills  or 
Cockrells  (now  West  Street  farm),  had  formerly  belonged  to  the 
Mompessons,  who  also  appear  to  have  held  "  one  moyetye  or 
halfe  parte  of  the  manor  of  Somerford  Magna."  The  house  is 
an  ancient  building  and  has  probably  undergone  many  changes. 
In  the  front  wall  are  two  small  carved  stones,  much  worn,  but 
one  evidently  has  borne  the  lion  rampant  of  the  Mompessons  ;2 
there  is  also  some  zigzag  ornamentation,  but  all  these  stones 
appear  to  have  been  removed  from  their  original  positions  and 


1  In  1703  there  was  a  mortgage  on  Blanchard's  (its  various  parcels  of 
ground  minutely  described)  to  Mary  Gore,  of  Aldrington,  widow  (of  Thomas 
Gore,  the  antiquary),  for  £200.     Signature  and  seal  of  Mary  Gore,  on   a 
lozenge,  three  bull's  heads  caboshed,  impaling  a  lion  rampant. — MEBEDITH. 
Witnesses — Francis  Gore,  John,  Rachel  and  Francis  Goodenough. 

2  The   manor  of  Seagry,  adjoining  Somerford,  was  held  till  1648  by 
descendants  of  a  branch  of  the  Mompessons,  and  in  Aubrey  and  Jackson, 
under  "  Seagre  vulgo'  Segarey  "  (note,  p.  282),  is  mention  of  some  property 
called  "  Segre  Cockerel's."     See  also  Aubrey's  Armorial  Plates,  xxviii,  409,  for 
coat  of  Mompesson. 


28  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

may  have  belonged  to  some  other  building.  Previous  to  1 603 
Cotterills  was  in  the  occupation  of  Philip  Batten,  whose  will1 
takes  us  back  to  the  time  of  the  Yewes  in  Somerford,  and 
dating  as  it  does  from  the  first  year  of  James  I,  speaks  of  a  life 
which  had  probably  extended  at  least  through  the  whole  of 
Queen  Elizabeth's  reign. 

"  In  the  name  of  God,  Amen,  the  2ist  August,  1603.  I,  Philip  Batten 
of  Broad  Somerford  in  the  county  ot  Wilts  and  diocese  of  Sarum,  yeoman, 
hole  in  bodie  and  of  perfect  memorie  (God  be  thanked  therefore)  doe 
make  my  last  Will  and  Testament  in  manner  and  forme  following,  ffirst 
I  bequeathe  my  soule  being  departed  from  my  bodie  to  Almightie  God 
the  Father,  the  Sonne  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  my  bodie  to  be  buryed  in 
the  church  or  churchyard  of  Broad  Somerford. 

To  our  Lady  Church  of  Sarum  2s. 

To  prsh.  church  of  Broad  Somerford  one  load  of  paving  stones. 

To  Margery  my  daughter  my  lease  of  Starkley  grove  and  10  of  my 
best  kine,  20  of  my  best  sheep«,  one  ot  my  best  beddes  with  the 
furniture,  and  the  third  part  of  my  silver  spoones.  Owt  of  the  which 
ground  of  Starkley  grove  and  stocke  of  kine  I  reserve  lx.u  of  loful 
english  money  hereafter  to  be  bequeathed. 

To  Ellen  my  daughter  my  lease  of  the  Church  house  and  threescore 
pounds  to  be  paid  by  £10  yearly  out  of  Starkley  grove,  40  sheep,  2  kine, 
my  second  best  bed  furnished  and  a  third  part  of  my  silver  spoons. 
Provided  allwayes  that  yt  eyther  of  my  said  daughters  shall  happen  to 
depart  this  lief  befor  the  day  of  her  marriage  or  the  age  of  21  yeres  then 
legacies  shall  be  to  the  survivor  of  them. 

To  Arthur  Taplin  3  sheepe. 

Item,  I  doe  earnestly  request  and  heartyly  desire  Richard  Atwood, 
clerk,  John  Stratton,  yeoman,  John  Batten,  my  brother,  and  William 
Knappe,  my  kinsman,  to  be  overseers  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament, 
giving  unto  them  or  the  more  part  of  them,  power  to  determine  any 
variance  or  controversie  which  shall  arise  about  the  same.  All  the  rest 
of  my  goods  and  chatalles2  unbequeathed,  my  debtes  paid,  my  funeralle 


1  Proved  January,  1604  (Archdeaconry  Wilts,  File  I,  No.  113). 

2  The  inventory  of  "  gooddes  and  chattalles  "  comprised  the  "  testator's 
apparrell     and    a    corslet    pike,     furnished    with     other    arms,"     priced 
at  £9  13s.  id.     In  the  "  halle  "  and  "p'lor"   and  in  the  various  chambers 
was  the  usual  substantial  furniture,  beds  for  two  servants,  "  10  payre  of 
sheets,  6  doz.  of   napkins,   6   payre  of  pillowe  beres,   7  table  cloathes,  2 
carpets  and  4  cushins,"  the  linen,  &c.  valued  at  £16  17s.  4rf.     A.  doz.  silver 
spoons,  £4.     Brass  "  poyter  "  and  iron  stuff,  wool  and  yarn.     Concluding 
with  the  cattle,  "6  oxen,  6  calfes,  10  yong  beastes,  12  kine,  100  sheepe  and 
the  horse  beastes  ",  the  whole  amounting  to  £399. 


Notes  on  Great  Somerford.  29 

and  legacies  dischardged,  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  Margerie  my  wief, 
whom  I  ordeyn  and  make  the  sole  and  only  executrix  of  this  my  last 
will. 

In  presence  of  Richard  Attwoodde,1  Humfry  Mayo,  Willm.  Knapp. 
John  Batten's  mark.  Thomas  Batten's  mark." 

A  few  years  after  Philip  Batten's  death  came  the  sale  of 
the  Mompesson  property  in  1609,  introducing  the  families  of 
Barrett  and  Bayliffe  as  owners  of  Cockrells  and  other  lands  in 
Somerford.  Forty  years  afterwards  copies  were  made  of  the 
deeds  pertaining  to  this  transaction,  and  form  a  thick  roll, 
which  contains  much  interesting  matter,  but  from  which  one 
can  hardly  do  more  than  give  extracts.  A  note  at  the  be- 
ginning informs  us  that  on  January  ist,  1649,  "This  indenture 
was  exa'i'ed,  by  Sam  Webley  and  myselfe,  with  the  indenture 
itselfe  in  the  presence  of  Mr.  John  Wells,  whoo  looked  on  this 
coppie  when  it  was  in  exa'i'ason.  N.  Barrett,  John  Wells, 
Samuel  Webley." 

The  first  indenture  sets  forth  that  on  Jan.  29th,  ;th  James 
(1609),  Thomas  Mompesson  of  Gorton,  co.  Wilts,  Esq.,  in 
consideration  of  ^280  from  Nicholas  Barrett,  gent.,  of  Tyther- 
ton  Lucas,  and  William  Baylieff,  the  younger,  of  Mounckton, 
in  Chippenham, 

"  Hath  granted  and  sold  to  said  Nicholas  Barrett  his  heires  and 
assigns  for  ever  all  that  messuage  or  tenement  in  Somerford  Magna, 
late  in  tenure  of  Philipp  Batten  deceased,  commonly  called  Cockrells,  with 
all  appurtenances,  Also  all  that  messuage  late  in  tenure  of  said  Philipp 
Batten  called  by  the  name  of  Fletchers  or  the  Church  House2,  all  that 
messuage  late  in  tenure  of  Thomas  Hoskyns,  and  all  that  messuage 
which  sometymes  was  one  Barne  called  Lucas  now  or  late  in  tenure  of 


1  Rector  of  Great  Somerford  1578—1(505  ("  Richard  Woodde,  rector,"  in 
deed  of  1586).     This  is  the  gentleman  who  was  "  drowned  coming  home," 
and  who,  also  according  to  Aubrey  and  Jackson  (p.  284),  must  have  known 
something  about  the  murder  of  Harry  Long  by  Sir  Henry  and  Sir  Charles 
Danvers.     The  signature  of  Charles  Danvers  appears  several  times  in  these 
old  deeds.     The  rectory  was  partly  rebuilt  some  years   ago,  but  still  incor- 
porates Mr.  Attwood's  parlour. 

2  There  is  a    field  called  "Church's"    not  far  from  the  church,  but 
no  other  trace  now  of  a  church  house,  in  Somerford. 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


said  Thomas  Hoskyns  at  any  time  within  the  last  20  years,  which  were 
the  inheritance  or  possession  of  Thomas  Mompesson,  Esqre,  deceased, 
father  of  said  Thomas  Mompesson,  party  to  these  presents,  or  which 
before  that  were  the  inheritance  or  possession  of  Thomas  Mompesson, 
Esqre,  deceased,  grandfather  of  said  Thomas  Mompesson,  party  to  these 
presents,  situate  in  Somerford  aforesaid,  with  all  and  singular  wood, 
trees,  reversion  and  remaynder,  &c.,  &c.  And  also  the  one  moyetye  or 
one  halfe  parte  of  the  mannor  ot  Somerford  aforesaid,  together  with  the 
one  moyetye  of  the  Rights,  Royalties,  services,  Court  Barren,  Court 
Leetes,  &c.,  &c.,  to  said  mannor  belonging,  in  possession  of  said'  Thomas 
Mompesson." 


BARRETT. 

By  far  the  greater  part  of  this  long  deed  deals  with  the  exceptions, 
which  were :— two  messuages  late  in  tenure  of  William  Knappe,  one 
called  Culverhouse  Place  and  the  other  Blewette,  one  tenement  in 
occupation  of  Alice,  widow  of  Thomas  Poleridge,  deceased,  and 
several  leases,  namely:  one  indenture  bearing  date  2jth  July,  4oth 
Elizabeth,  made  by  said  Thomas  Mompesson,  Henry  Mompesson  of 
Gorton,  and  Drewe  Mompesson  of  Knock,  to  Philip  Batten,  being  a  lease 
of  Fletchers  or  the  Church  House  for  lives  of  himself  and  his  daughters 
Hellen  and  Margery;  one  lease  of  Cockrells,  dated  2nd  May,  3rd  James, 
to  Margery,  widow  of  Philip  Batten,  her  daughter  Margery,  and  William 
Baylieff  for  their  three  lives  :  and  two  other  leases  to  Thomas  Hoskyns 


Notes  on  Great  Somerford. 


of  his  house  and  the  barn  called  Lucas  for  lives  of  himself,  his  wife 
Hellen,  their  son  John,  and  Margery  and  Margarett  their  daughters. 
Constance,  wife  of  Thomas  Mompesson,  and  his  brothers  Henry  and 
John  were  included  in  the  guarantee,  and  Giles  Parslowe,  citizen  and 
grocer,  of  London,  was  also  a  "  party."1 


ANDREWS  impaling  TOWNSEND. 

Nicholas  Barrett  died  the  year  following  his  purchase  of 
the  Mompesson  property,  his  will  and  other  papers  shewing  the 

1  The  following  names  occur  among  the  many  witnesses  to  these  deeds  : 
—Henry  and  John  Bay  lien*,  Kichard  Bielbye,  Anthony  Neate  (bayliffe  of 


32  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

part  William  Bayliffe  had  in  the  transaction.  In  the  garden 
wall  of  the  old  manor  house  at  Tytherton  Lucas  (West 
Tytherton)  may  be  seen  the  shield  of  BARRETT,1  evidently 
removed  to  make  way  for  the  more  imposing  coat  of  ANDREWS 
impaling  TOWNSEND,  date  1702,  now  over  the  iront  door  of  the 
house. 

Will  of  Nicholas  Barrett  the  sonne  of  Hugh  Barrett2  and 
father  unto  Edward  Barrett. 

"  I,  Nicholas  Barrett,  sonne  and  heir  apparent  of  Hugh  Barrett  of 
Tytherton  Lucas,  gentleman,  being  sick  in  body,  but  ot  good  and  perfect 
memory,  doe  make  and  ordeigne  this  my  last  will  and  testament,  I4th 
August,  1610  (Proved  2ist  November,  1610,  P.C.C.  97  Wingfield),  My 
body  to  be  buryed  in  the  church  or  chappell  of  Tytherton  Lucas  by  the 
discretion  of  my  well  beloved  father,  and  concerning  my  worldly  substance 
my  will  and  meaning  is  that  all  land  and  tenements  which  were  settled 
upon  me  by  my  so  loving  father  by  conveyance  upon  my  marriage  shall 
goe,  be,  and  come  after  my  decease  according  to  the  true  intent  and 
meaning  of  the  first  conveyance. 

"  Item. — Where  diverse  lands  and  tenements  scytuate  in  Broad  Somer- 
ford  are  conveyed  unto  me  and  my  heires  by  Thomas  Mompesson,  esqre. 
which  were  so  conveyed  unto  me  at  the  instance  of  my  brother-in-law 
Mr.  William  Baylieff,  partly  because  my  said  brother-in-law  having  a 
former  interest  for  his  life  in  some  part  of  the  same  premises  would  not 
have  the  same  conveyed  unto  himself  lest  the  said  interest  for  life 
should  be  thereby  extinguished  and  drowned,  and  partly  because  myself, 
standing  bound  for  my  said  brother-in-law  in  divers  somes  of  money,  it 


Chippenham,  1629),  Zacheus  Isham,  William  Proudlove,  clerk  (1610),  vicar 
of  Chippenham,  George  Wrottesley,  Rich.  Longe,  Peter  Porter,  Charles 
Snell,  Josias  Taylor,  Thomas  Stoakes,  Thomas  Hawkins  (bayliffe  of  Chip- 
penham, 1607),  Edward  Berry,  Charles  Danvers  and  Jo.  Pepyes. 

1  Aubrey's  Armorial  Plates,  X,  176.     On  a  chevron  between  three  mullets, 
as  many  lions  passant  guardant. 

2  See  Daniell's  History  of  Chippenham,  p.  187.     The  full  inscription  on 
the  tablet  to  Hugh  Barrett,  in  West  Tytherton  church,  runs  as  follows : — 
"  Hie  jacet  Corpvs  Hvgonis  Barrett,  |  Generosi,  qvi  |  obdormivit  in  domino 
vicesimo  |  secvndo  die  |  Ivnii  anno  aetatis  |  svae  octogesimo  qvinto  an'o  | 
domini  millesimo  |  sexcentesirno  vicesimo  |  septimo."     In  notes  to  pedigree 
of  Snell,  Aubrey  and  Jackson,  p.  133,   we  see  that  Hugh  Barrett  married 
Susan,  widow  of  Edmund  Long,  of  Keilwey  (Kellaways),  and  daughter  of 
Nicholas   Snell,  esq.,  of  Kington  St.    Michael,    who    at    the    Dissolution 
managed  to  acquire  the  "  Grange  of  the  [Lord  Abbot  of  Glastonbury,"  his 
late  master. 


Notes  on  Great  Somcrford.  33 

was  ment  that  the  said  lands  and  premises  should  be  unto  me  for  my 
security  in  respect  of  said  sums  of  money,  1  doe,  therefore,  give 
and  bequeath  all  said  land  and  premises  in  Somerford  unto  my  father 
Mr.  Hugh  Barrett,  upon  this  trust  and  confidence  that  my  executor,  being 
saved  harmlesse  and  indempriifyed  of  all  such  debts  for  which  I  stand 
bound  for  my  said  brother-in-law,  my  father  shall  settle  said  lands  in 
Somertord  eyther  upon  my  said  brother-in-law  and  his  heirs  or  unto  such 
persons  as  my  said  brother-in  law  shall  appoynt  by  act  or  deed  in  his  life 
tyme  or  by  his  last  Will  and  testament. 

"  To  my  well-beloved  wife  Elizabeth  the  one  halfe  of  all  my  howse- 
hold  stuff e,  and  the  rest  of  all  my  goods  and  chattells  to  my  loving  father 
whom  I  appoynt  executor  of  this  my  will,  humbly  desiring  him  to  pay 
such  debts  as  I  owe,  and  to  provide  for  and  bring  up  my  children  in  such 
sort  as  by  true  intent  of  said  conveyance  made  upon  my  marriage  he  hath 
most  lovingly  undertaken  to  doe.  My  well-beloved  brother-in-law  Mr. 
Henry  Bayliffe  and  my  brother  Mr.  Richard  Barrett  to  be  my  Over- 
seers." 

William  Bayliffe's  liabilities  are  made  clear  in  an  indenture  made  4th 
December,  1617  "between  John  Baylieff,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  esqre., 
and  William  Baylieff,  late  of  Sambourne1  farm  in  the  parish  of  Chippen- 
ham,  gent.,  and  Margery,  his  wife,  and  Hugh  Barret,  gent.,  of  Tytherton 
Lucas,  of  the  one  part,  and  Richard  Barrett,  sonne  of  Hugh  Barrett,  and 
John  Stratton,  of  Segrey,  gent.,  of  the  other  part.  Witnesseth  that  said 
John  Bayliffe,  William  Bayliffe,  Margery,  his  wife,  and  Hugh  Barrett,  in 
consideration  of  2  sums  of  ^140  and  ^100  paid  by  Richard  Barrett  to 
Otho  Nicholson,2  esq.,  due  by  bond  of  said  William  Baylieff;  and  ^123 
more  to  Alice  Knapp  ;  ^125  to  William  Thorneburgh,  gent. ;  £50  i^s.qd. 
to  John  Mayo  ;  £18  14.?.  <)d.  to  James  Townsend ;  ^24  to  Phillipp  Baynard, 
gent. ;  £"]  to  John  Scott,  and  ^3  to  Isack  Gale,  all  paid  by  Richard 
Barrett  for  debts  of  said  William  Baylieff.  And  also  for  ^520  paid  by 
Richard  Barrett  to  said  John  Baylieff,  and  \os.  to  Hugh  Barrett,  have 
bargained  and  sold  to  said  Richard  Barrett,  his  heirs,  &c."  Here  follows 
a  full  description  of  the  property  purchased  by  Nicholas  Barrett,  namely, 
Cottrells,  the  Church  House,  Hoskyns'  messuage,  and  Lucas  "  Moyety 
of  mannor  "  and  exceptions  as  before  ;  with  an  additional  exception  of  a 
lease  granted  2nd  May,  i3th  James,  to  John  Mayo  and  Margery,  his 


1  Enquiries  have  been  made  in  this  magazine  (vol.  i,  pp.  374,  565)  as  to 
the  name  of  Sambourne,  and  though  the  name  is  now  almost  forgotten  in 
Chippenbam,  there  are  those  who  can  remember  the  old  house  of  Sambourne 
farm  which,  when   the  railway  was  constructed,  had  to  make  way  for  the 
great  embankment  between  the  station  and  the  village  of  Lowden.     The 
farm   land  extended  into  the  district  called  Foghamshire,  and   has  since 
become  the  property  of  various  owners. 

2  Receiver    of   the   King's    "  composition   money ".     See    Records    of 
(Jhippenham,  p.  324. 

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34  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


wife  by  John  Baylieff  (wife's  name  Magdalen)  and  William  Baylieff. 
Also,  except  such  "advantage  as  may  accrue  by  reason  ot  a  Recognizance1 
of  ,£2,000  acknowledged  by  Thomas  Mompesson  to  Sir  George  Kings- 
mill  and  others  to  use  of  Sir  John  Thorneburgh  by  reason  of  any  extent 
or  assignment  of  same." 

John  Stratton  to  hold  Thomas  Mompesson's  bond  of  ^"500  to 
William  Bayliffe. 

Finally,  in  1621,  Edward  Barrett,  son  and  heir  of  Nicholas  Barrett, 
deceased,  on  payment  of  ^"600  to  his  uncle  Richard  Barrett  (wife's  name 
Edith)  was  put  in  possession  of  Cottrell's,  &c.,  &c.,  Constance 
Mompesson's  "release  of  dower,"  for  which  she  received  100  marks, 
closing  the  transaction. 

The  further  steps  by  which  Cottrell's  at  last  came  into  the  posses- 
sion of  William  Alexander  may  be  briefly  stated  as  follows: — In  1627 
Edward  Barrett'sold  it  to  John  Wells;  in  1654  it  passed  to  Henry  Grail, 
of  Malmesbury,  gent.,  who  charged  some  part  of  the  property  with  a 
rent  of  £10  a  year  for  apprenticing  poor  children  of  Malmesbury,  and  in 
1687  William  Alexander  purchased  Cottrell's  of  Thomas  Davys,  gent.,  of 
the  Bourne,  Stroud,  Gloucester,  grandson  and  heir-at-law  of  Henry 
Grayle. 

(To  be  continued}. 

M.  E.  LIGHT. 


1  Three  long  deeds  with  dates  1612-13  are  concerning  this  "  Recog- 
nizance in  the  nature  of  a  Statute  Staple  "  and  introduce  a  host  of  names, 
some  of  note  and  others  only  interesting  in  Somerford  Annals.  They 
relate  that  on  Nov.  20th,  1596,  Thomas  Mompesson,  of  Gorton  ah.  Cortington, 
before  Sir  John  Popham,  then  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  Court  of  Pleas,  became 
bound  in  the  sum  of  £2,000  to  Sir  George  Kingsmill,  knt.,  late  Justice  of 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  by  the  name  of  George  Kingsmill,  esq.,  serjeant-at-law, 
and  to  Sir  Edward  Cooke  (Coke),  knt.,  Lord  Chief  Justice,  by  the  name  of 
Edward  Cooke,  esq.,  then  attorney  General,  and  to  Nicholas  ffarrer,  of 
London,  merchant;  which  recognizance  was  upon  trust  to  the  use  of  Sir 
John  Thorneburgh,  knt.,  of  Leckford,  co.  Southampton.  "  Sythence  which 
time "  Sir  George  Kingsmill  had  died  and  the  recognizance  had  become 
forfeited,  whereupon  the  other  two  trustees  had  "  sued  out  execution,"  the 
manors  of  Calne,  Witchampton,  Somerford  Magna  and  Cheesegrove,  als. 
Chixgrove,  being  "  extended  and  taken  in  extent,"  said  extent  being  in  due 
course  set  over  to  Thomas  Atkins  of  Chippenham  (bayliffe  of  the  borough  in 
1603)  and  John  Baylieff  of  the  Middle  Temple,  esq..  whereupon  John  Mayo's 
house  in  Broad  Somerford  was  entered  on  March  8th,  1612,  by  William 
Toope,  gent.,  of  Corton,  as  by  virtue  of  Sir  Edward  Coke's  letter  of  attorney, 
and  the  new  trustees  were  placed  in  possession.  Other  trustees  in  respect 
of  the  Hoskyns  leases,  for  benefit  of  William  Yewe,  clothier,  and  Aldelm 


The  Families  of  Batt  and  Byley.  35 


THE  ENGLISH  ANCESTRY  OF  THE  FAMILIES  OF 

BATT  AND  BYLEY,  OF  SALISBURY, 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  II,  p.  583.^) 

(2.)  THOMAS  BATT.  In  September  1658,  tour  months 
after  the  date  of  Richard  Batt's  will,  Henry  Grubb,  mayor, 
leased  to  Thomas  Batte,  weaver,  for  40  years,  at  a  yearly  rent 
of  45.  a  tenement  and  garden  in  the  Old  Port  [St.  Mary's  parish] 
the  boundaries  being  thus  described  : — a  tenement  of  Matthew 
Page,  gent,  south — tenement  of  Mayor,  &c.,  north — abutting 
on  the  town  ditch  called  "  Lulle  Diche  "  east — king's  highway 
west.  Witnesses,  Henry  Grubb,  Henry  Morris,  Anthony  Cley, 
John  Willes  and  others. 

(3.)  JOHN  BATT.  Son  of  Richard  Batt  (i)  by  Agnes 
Whittocke.  He  was  legatee  of  property  in  Devizes  and 
Westbury  by  will  of  his  father.  In  1591,  as  John  Batte  of 
Devizes,  clothman,  he  obtained  a  lease  for  60  years  from 
William  Brunker,  of  Earlstoke,  John  Drew,  of  Southbroom, 
and  others,  feofees  of  St.  Mary's  Church  lands,  of  a  tenement 
and  garden  in  the  Old  Port — was  Mayor  of  Devizes, 
1595 — and  sold  lands  in  or  near  Westbury  to  James  Ley,  Earl 
of  Marlborough,  who  died  seised  thereof  i4th  March,  1629. 
Inq.  post  mortem.  His  burial  is  thus  recorded  in  St.  John's 
parish  register — 

1600,  March,  "  Mr.  John  Bat  ye  27  daye." 


Comlye,  yeoman,  were  Roger  Warre,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  Richard  Atkins 
of  Sutton  Benger,  and  Adam  Tuck  als.  Pedington,  of  Clack.  By  another 
indenture,  John  Bayliffe  was  to  hold  all  such  lands  in  the  deed  of  extent  as 
were  of  the  inheritance  of  Hugh  Barrett  and  others  till  the  £2,000  should  be 
raised.  Any  fine  or  composition  for  such  lands  to  be  paid  at  Leckford  by 

William  Bayliffe. 

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36  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

His  Will,  dated  23  March  1599,  is  as  follows — 

WILL  OF  JOHN  BATT,  OF  DEVIZES,  P.C.C.  (Wallopp  2ij. 

John  Batt,  of  the  Devizes,  co.  Wilts.,  sicke.  Dated  23  March,  1599 
[42  Elizabeth].  To  be  buried  in  church  of  St.  John  Baptist.  To  sonn 
Richard  Batt  lease  in  Westburie,  called  Chalcott.  To  daughter  Margaret 
^"20  and  30  shillings  a  year  for  life  and  a  bedd.  To  daughter  Elianor 
£20.  To  brother  Tucker  four  nobles  yearelie  out  of  house  where  Alex- 
ander Webb  nowe  dwelleth.  To  daughter  Christiball  £20  at  age  of  26 
yeares.  To  daughter  Elizabeth  £10  at  marriage  and  other  £10  at  age  of  26. 
To  godsone  Samuel  Kente1  a  yewe  and  lambe.  To  Marie  Batt  10  sheepe. 
To  son  John  Batt  house  in  Devizes  where  Alexander  Webb  dwelleth,  and 
other  houses  in  Devizes  and  in  Westburie,  and  20  ewes  and  lambs.  To 
repairs  of  Almshouses  in  Devizes  409.  To  daughter  Margaret  after 
decease  of  her  mother,  my  silver  bolle  and  a  cowe.  To  daughter  Ellinor 
a  little  silver  goblett.  To  Thomas  Eire,  his  sone,  house  in  devizes  where 
Pavey  dwelleth,  after  decease  of  my  wife.  To  son  John  Batt  ictf. 
yearely,  while  sonn  Richard  shall  enjoye  lands,  &c.,  wherein  Hedges  now 
dwelleth.  Wife  Elizabeth  and  son  Richard  residuary  legatees  and 
executors.  Robert  Drewe,  gent.,2  and  John  Kente,  gent.,3  overseers. 


1  Samuel,  third  son  of  John  Kent,  Esq.,  baptised  at  St.  John's,  Devizes, 
18th  Dec.,  1591.     See  subsequent  note. 

2  Robert  Drewe,  of  Southbroom,  esq.,  born  1574,  died  1644.     He  married 
Jane  2nd  daughter  of  John  Jackman,  citizen  and  grocer  of  London,  son  and 
heir  of  Edward  Jackman,  alderman  and   sheriff,  who  died  1596.     In  the 
Wilts  Visitation  she  is  wrongly  described  as  "  Jane,  daughter  of  Alderman 
Jackman,  of  London." 

There  seems  to  have  been  a  relationship  between  the  Batt  and  Drew 
families.  Samuel  Batt,  rector  of  East  Coulston,  Wilts,  in  his  will  dated 
1684,  gives  to  his  son  Samuel  £5  over  and  above  £20  given  him  by  his  aunt 
Drew ;  and  to  his  own  wife,  Mary,  "land  called  Belle  Inne,  in  South  Broome 
in  Bishop's  Cannings."  The  wife  Mary,  by  Will  1689,  gives  to  the  same  son, 
Samuel,  £20  at  the  age  of  21,  on  condition  that  he  convey  all  his  right  "  to 
my  messuage  and  Inne  in  the  Devize  Greene,"  now  in  possession  of  William 
Hiscocke,  to  said  Hiscock. —  Wills.  Peculiar  of  Sub  Dean  of  Sarum. 

3  John  Kent,  son  of  Roger  Kent,  of  Copenhall,  co.  Chester.     See  Heralds' 
Visitation.     He  settled  in  Devizes,  was  successively  Mayor,  Town  Clerk  and 
M.P.  for  the  Borough.      He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wyatt,  of 
Calne,  and  built  the  house  No.  16,  Market  Place,  Devizes,  on  one  of  the 
gables  of  the  west  front  of  which  are  the  initials  "  I  ,,  K " — John  and  Mary 

Kent— and  date  "1619."  He  died  1st  Oct.,  1630,  aged  72,  and  his  Monu- 
mental Brass,  with  effigies  of  himself  and  wife,  is  still  to  be  seen  in  St.  John's 
Church,  where  he  was  buried, 


The  Families  of  Batt  and  By  ley.  37 

I  owe  brother  Tucker  ^"10.  Father-in-lawe  oweth  me  £10.  Sundry 
small  debts,  &c.  Proved  23  April,  1600,  by  Richard  Goodall,  Not.  Pub., 
Attorney  for  executors. 

His  wife  Elizabeth  (ne'e  Elizabeth  Tucker  ?)  survived  him, 
and  the  following  entry  in  St.  John's  register  seems  to  record 
her  burial  : — 

1603,  Dec.  20,  Mres.  Bat. 

(4.)  RICHARD  BATT,  of  St.  John's,  Devizes,  clothier, 
son  of  John  Batt  (3).  Legatee  of  lands  in  Westbury,  called 
Chalcott,  by  Will  of  his  father.  Churchwarden  of  St.  John's, 
Devizes,  1605,  in  which  year  the  older  registers  from  1556 
were  "  newelie  ingrossed  and  written  out "  by  John  Davis, 
then  Rector.  Will  dated  9  Nov.,  1611. 

WILL  OF  RICHARD  BATT,  OF  DEVIZES,  P.C.C.  (Capell  8). 

Richard  Batt,  of  the  devizes,  co.  Wilts,  clothier.  Dated  9  Nov. 
9  James  I.  To  be  buried  in  St.  John's  neere  father  and  mother.  To  the 
church  of  or  Ladie  at  Salisbury  \~2d.  To  church  of  St.  John's  5^,  and  like 
sum  to  poor  of  the  parish.  To  sons  Richard,  Henry,  and  Nicholas,  each 
^"30  at  age  of  24.  To  daughter  Mary  ^30,  and  great  brass  pann.  To 
sonn  Henry  sundry  houses  in  Devizes.  To  sonn  Richard  house  where 
I  now  dwell.  To  Thomas  Wintersell  £6.  To  brother  John  Batt  ,£5  for 
use  of  sister  Christable,  and  to  brother  John  40.?.  Wife  Agnes  residuary 
legatee  and  executrix.  Friends  Thomas  Grubbe1  and  William  Carr, 
gent,  overseers.  Witnesses,  John  Walker,  Thomas  Winter,  ffraunces 
Reade,  John  Batte  and  William  Car.  Proved  u  Feb.  1612  by  Executrix. 

In  St.  John's  register  we  find  the  following  entry  of 
burial  : — 

1611,  Mr.  Richard  Bat  was  buried  the  13  November. 

(5.)  JOHN  BATT.  Son  of  John  Batt  (3)  and  younger 
brother  of  Richard  (4).  He  was  baptized  at  St.  John's,  12  Jan. 
1583,  and  in  1622.  is  described  as  "  of  St.  Maries  in  the 
Devizes,  Inholder,  and  a  widower."  On  25  May  in  this  year 
he  obtained  a  licence  to  marry,  as  a  second  wife,  Elizabeth 
Lewen,  of  the  neighbouring  village  of  Rowde,  widow— at  St. 

1  Thomas  Grubbe,  of  Potterne,  son  of  Henry  Grubbe,  M.  P.  for  Devizes. 
See  former  note.  He  married  Susan,  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Hart, 
Alderman,  of  Bristol. 


38  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Mary's,  Devizes.  (Marriage  Licences  in  Sarum  Registry.)  At 
the  Heralds'  Visitation  of  Wilts  in  1623,  John  Batt  was  one  of 
the  Master  Wardens  of  the  fraternity  of  Clothiers,  Weavers, 
and  Drapers  of  Devizes.  His  will  has  not  been  found. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  registers  of  St.  John's 
parish  refer  mostly  to  this  and  the  suceeding  generation  : — 
Baptisms.     1563 — Dec.,  Bridget  Bat  the  5  daye. 
1568— Jone  Bat  the  14  of  ffeb. 
1574 — May,  Margaret  Bat  the  8  daye. 

„    — July,  Steven  Bat  the  4  day. 
1576 — March,  Elnor  Bat  the  loday. 
1580— William  Batt    and  Christabell  White1  the  25 

day  of  December. 
1583 — John  Batt,  ye  12  of  Januarie. 
1587 — Dec.,  Elizabeth  Bat  the  10  daye. 
1594 — Richard  (sic),  the  8  day  of  Octobr. 
1596 — Jan.,  Henry  Bat  the  15  daye. 
1598 — ffeb.,  Edward  Batt  the  11  daye. 

Marriages.     1590— Nov.  23,  Thomas  Heires  [Eyers]  and  Jone  Bat. 
1600 — Sep.  22,  ffrauncis  Reade  and  Margaret  Bat. 
1601 — Oct.  14,  Thomas  Wintersall  and  Elnor  Bat. 

(6.)     RICHARD  BATT.     Of  Devizes,  yeoman,  (baptized 
8  Oct.   1594  ?),   eldest  son   of  Richard  (4).     His   Will   is  as 
follows : — 
WILL  OF  RICHARD  BATT,  OF  DEVIZES  (Cons.  Court  of  Sarum,  file  14). 

Richard  Batt,  of  the  Burrough  of  Devizes,  co.  Wilts.,  yeoman. 
Dated  31  Oct.,  1669.  To  wife  Jane  profitts  of  all  lands  and  houses 
during  the  time  my  tenant  Thomas  Paradise  have  to  come  in  his  house, 
and  after  she  shall  enjoy  the  backer  part  of  my  house  next  the  garden 
during  her  life.  To  cosen  Joane  Holloway  ^20.  To  cosen  John  What- 
ley  _£2o  and  rent  of  tenement  the  widow  Gardener  liveth  in  during  her 
life.  To  cosen  Robert  ffranklyn  .£20.  To  cosen  John  Bise2  all  my  lands 


1  Apparently    some    mistake.     The   entry   should   perhaps   have   been 
"  William  White  and  Christabell  Batt."     Christabell,  the  daughter  of  John 
Batt,  is  mentioned  in  his  will  dated  1600. 

2  This  bequest   to    "Cousin    Bisse "    seems   quickly  to  have  become 
matter  for  litigation.     He  died   some   twelve  months  after,  and  his  son 
Thomas  Bisse,  of  Westbnry  under  the  Plain,  co.  Wilts,  broadweaver,  filed  a 
Bill  in  Chancery,  30  June,  1671,  setting  forth  that   "Richard  Batt,  late  of 
the  Borough  of  Devizes,  yeoman,  by  Will  dated  31  Oct.,  1669,  gave  to  his 
cousin  John  Bisse,  lands,  <fcc.,  in  the  said  borough — said  John  died  about 
November  last,  and  your  orator  is  his  son  and  heir." 


The  Families  of  Batt  and  By  ley.  39 

and  houses  at  South  end  of  the  town.  To  cosen  Elizabeth  Stratford, 
widow,  £20.  To  cosen  Samuel  Batt  55.  My  wife  Joan  Batt  res.  legatee 
and  sole  executrix.  My  friends  John  ffreeme  and  Thomas  Paradise  to  be 
overseers.  Witnesses — Elizabeth  Paradise,  Gilbert  Cleeue  and  John 
ffreeme. 

Inventory  taken  8  Nov.,  1669,  by  John  ffrene,  Thomas  Paradise  and 
George  Slopen  (Sloper?).  Total  £341  145.  Proved  20  Nov ,  1669,  by 
executrix  above  named. 

He  died  without  issue,  and  as  no  descendants  are  men- 
tioned in  the  will  it  is  probable  that  his  younger  brother 
(7)  NICHOLAS  BATT,  who  had  emigrated  to  America 
some  thirty-five  years  previously,  and  settled  at  Newbury, 
Massachusetts,  was  at  that  time  the  only  surviving  male  repre- 
sentative of  the  Devizes  Batts.  By  his  wife  Lucy,  whom  he 
probably  married  in  New  England,  he  had  three  daughters — 
Sarah— Mary,  married  to  Nathaniel  Elithorp,  of  Ipswich, 
Mass. — and  Ann,  married  to  John  Webster,  of  Newbury,  Mass. 
The  Devizes  emigrant  lived  to  nearly  or  quite  the  age  of  four- 
score, surviving  his  elder  brother,  Richard,  ten  years — and 
died  on  the  6th  Dec.,  1679 — -his  wife  having  predeceased  him 
on  26  January  in  the  same  year. 


DUGDALE  OF  SEEND. 


From   a   Deed,    now   in   possession   of  Mr.  Coleman,   of 
Tottenham,  we  learn  that  Christopher  Dugdale,  of  Coulston, 


and  Clerk  of  the  same  place,  purchased  for  £80  the  lands 
mentioned  in  the  Indenture  printed  in  vol.  i.,  p.  194,  from 
Henry  Brouncker,  of  Melksham,  son  of  Sir  William  Brouncker, 


40  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

knt.,1  deceased  ;  it  is  dated  28th  June,  1597  ;  signed  and  sealed 
(the  seal  is  lost)  in  the  presence  of  Willm.  Aubrey,  Bartholomewe 
Cromwell,  ffrauncis  Bower,  and  Thomas  fflower.  The  deed 
itself  is  signed  by  Henry  Brouncker  alone. 

The  Memorandum  of  enrolment  is  signed  by  James   Ley, 
Esq.,   J.P.   (is    this    the    future   Earl   of    Marlborough  ?),   in 


presence  of  Samuel  Apleford,  Esq.,  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  on  the 
29th  of  July,  1597. 

The  Memorandum  that  Christopher  Dugdale  entered 
upon  these  lands,  26th  of  October,  1598,  is  witnessed  by, 
amongst  others,  William  Goodyere,  Clerk. 


WILL  OF  JONATHAN  CHILD,  WILTS. 


In  searching  for  wills  of  the  Child  and  Estcourt  family  I 
found  the  following  unexpected  conjunction  of  the  two  names 
in  the  will  of  Jonathan  Child,  Wilts  (144  Buckingham),  which, 
short  and  without  preamble  just  as  it  is  given  here,  seems  to 
tell  its  own  story  : — 

"  To  Mrs.  Beata  Estcourt,  executrix,  all  my  stock  of  hay  and  corne 
and  all  live  cattle,  and  my  watch  and  three  rings.  To  cousins  John  and 
Edward  Hill  and  cousin  Sarah  Stafford  4/.  each.  Daniel  Chelshire,  of 


1  See  Vol.  ii.,  p.  486,  where  Q.  urges  that  the  fact  that  in  the  Visita- 
tions, Edward  Long,  of  Monkton,  is  not  described  as  a  knight  is  a  proof 
that  he  was  not  one  ;  here,  in  a  legal  document,  Brouncker  is  called  a 
knight,  but  he  is  not  so  called  in  the  printed  Visitations  of  Wilts,  1565,  and 
1623.  Perhaps  some  of  our  readers  can  tell  us  whether  he  is  so  described  in 
the  original  Visitations  in  possession  of  the  College  of  Arms. 


Will  of  Jonathan  Child,   Wilts.  41 


Rodbourne,  10  guineas.  Thos.  Talboys  this  best  gray  suite  of  cloaths 
with  frosted  buttons.  Feb.  2nd,  1720,  the  above  was  wrote  by  direction 
of  Mr.  Jonathan  Child,  and  read  to  him,  and  he  was  asked  if  he  would 
give  any  other  legacies,  and  he  declared  he  would  not  give  any  more 
from  Mrs.  Estcourt.  Witnesses,  John  Cove,  Henry  Smith." 

M.  E.  LIGHT. 


From  the  London  Gazette,  from  Thursday,  Sept.  22  to 
Saturday,  Sept.  24,  1709.  [Printed  by  J.  Tonson  at  Grays-Inn 
Gate.] 

"Whereas  Henry  Bishop  of  the  Borough  of  Devizes  in 
Wiltshire,  being,  for  a  notorious  riot,  committed  to  the  Prison 
of  the  said  Borough  ;  two  persons  in  Vizards,  did  on  the  night 
between  the  third  and  fourth  of  August  last,  assault  the  watch 
near  the  said  Prison,  break  open  the  Prison  Door,  and  rescue 
the  Prisoner ;  her  Majesty  does  hereby  strictly  charge  and 
command  all  persons  who  shall  have  any  knowledge  who  the 
two  men  in  Vizards  were  (as  they  will  answer  the  contrary  at 
their  utmost  peril)  to  discover  the  same  to  one  of  her  Majesty's 
Secretaries  of  State,  or  to  the  Mayor  and  Bailiffs  of  the  said 
Town,  to  the  end  the  said  Offenders  may  be  prosecuted  accord- 
ing to  Law,  and  brought  to  condign  Punishment.  And  as  an 
Encouragement  to  such  Discovery,  her  Majesty  has  ordered 
a  Reward  of  2o/.  to  be  paid  by  the  Sheriff  of  the  County 
of  Wilts,  who  is  hereby  required  to  pay  the  same  to 
any  Person  or  Persons  that  shall  make  such  Discovery,  for  one 
or  both  of  the  Offenders  by  him  or  them  discovered,  so  as  he 
or  they  may  be  apprehended,  in  order  to  be  proceeded  against 
according  to  Law. — SUNDERLAND." 


42  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


(Queries. 


Waylen  Book-plates. — Can  anyone  inform  me  whether 
the  late  Mr.  James  Waylen  designed  any  other  Book-plates 
besides  that  of  the  late  Rev.  E.  Wilton,  of  West  Lavington  ? 
Can  anyone  supply  me  with  the  names  of  any  other  Book-plate 
designers  and  engravers  of  Wiltshire  origin  ? 

EDITOR. 


The  Missing  Register  of  Addison's   Baptism,   Where 

is  it? — The  village  of  Milston,  near  Amesbury,  claims  the 
distinction  of  having  been  the  birthplace  of  the  Rt.  Hon. 
Joseph  Addison,  sometime  Secretary  of  State,  whose  name  is 
justly  celebrated  in  the  annals  of  English  literature.  He  was 
the  son  of  the  Rev.  Lancelot  Addison,  who  became  Vicar  of 
Hilmarton  in  1662,  on  the  presentation  of  the  King,  and  in 
1670  was  also  presented  by  Frederick  Hyde,  knt.,  Serjeant-at- 
law,  to  the  Rectory  of  Milston.  He  resigned  the  former  living 
in  1680,  and  died  about  the  year  I703.1 

His  son  Joseph  was  born  at  the  Rectory,  at  Milston,  on 
ist  May,  1672.  Dr.  Johnson  says  that  appearing  unlikely  to 
live  he  was  christened  on  the  day  of  his  birth.  The  baptism 
was  duly  entered  in  the  Parish  Register  at  the  time,  but  has 
since  been  cut  out,  and  is  still  missing. 

The  late  Mr.  Charles  E.  Rendall,  who  was  lord  of  the 
manor  of  Milston,  told  me,  many  years  ago,  that  he  well 


1  He  was  apparently  the  author  of  the  following  works :  "  West 
Barbary,  or  a  short  Narrative  of  the  Revolutions  of  the  Kingdoms  of  Fez 
and  Morocco,  with  an  Account  of  the  present  Customs,  Sacred,  Civil,  and 
Domestick,  by  Lancelot  Addison."  Oxford,  1671,  8vo.  Also  "  An  Introduc- 
tion to  the  Sacrament,  or  a  Short  and  Plain  and  Safe  Way  to  the 
Communion  Table,  by  L.  Addison,  D.D."  1686,  12mo. 


Register  of  Addisoris  Baptism.  43 

remembered  the  entry  in  the  Parish  Register,  and  that  he  saw 
it  there  for  the  last  time  in  1816.  Soon  afterwards  it  disap- 
peared, as  well  as  some  small  fragments  of  stained  glass  from 
the  Church  windows,  and  it  was  found  that  both  had  been 
given  by  the  then  Rector  of  Milston  to  Mr.  Charles  Bowles, 
of  Shaftesbury,  the  historian  of  the  Hundred  of  Chalke,  as 
objects  of  antiquarian  interest. 

Mr.  Bowles  dying,  an  application  was  afterwards  made  to 
his  representatives  for  a  return  to  the  parish  of  the  missing 
register  if  it  should  be  found  among  his  papers ;  but  this 
meeting  with  an  uncourteous  reply  the  matter  dropped. 

This  occurred  just  at  the  time  of  a  Coursing  Meeting  at 
Amesbury,  at  which  Charles  Dickens  happened  to  be  present, 
who,  breakfasting  with  Mr.  Rendall,  and  hearing  his  relation 
of  the  matter,  is  said  to  have  reproduced  it  in  one  of  his  Works 
under  the  title  of  "The  Missing  Register." 

As  the  cutting  from  the  Register  may  still  remain 
undestroyed,  and  its  owner,  on  knowing  its  history,  may  be 
glad  to  restore  it  again  to  the  book  from  which  it  was  taken 
in  1816,  it  is,  I  think,  well  thus  to  record  its  loss  in  the  pages 

of  W.  N.  &  Q. 

E.  K. 

The  following  is    from    The    Times,  June    25th,   1898:— 

ART  SALE. — Messrs.  Christie,  Manson,  and  Woods  sold 
yesterday  a  small  collection  of  interesting  objects  and  old 
English  furniture  from  Bilton-hall,  Rugby,  formerly  the  resi- 
dence of  Joseph  Addison,  and  property  from  other  sources. 
The  Addison  articles  included  an  octagonal  snuff-box,  of  silver 
and  mother-o'-pearl,  containing  an  oval  miniature  in  oils  of 
Joseph  Addison  when  a  young  man — ^io(Colnaghi  and  Co.); 
a  miniature  portrait  of  Joseph  Addison,  in  blue  coat  and  full- 
bottomed  wig,  by  Zincke — 30  guineas  (Ushant ) ;  an  old 
English  walnutwood  arm-chair,  arms  carved  with  scroll  foliage 
— 21  guineas  (James) ;  an  old  English  bench,  boldly  carved 
with  scroll  foliage— 26  guineas  (Eyles) ;  a  panel  of  old  English 


44  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

needlework,  representing  a  stag  hunt — £20  (Grose) ;  an  old 
inlaid  walnutwood  cabinet,  carved  with  Moses  with  the  Tables 
of  the  Law,  Spin,  by  poin. — 44  guineas  (Simpson) ;  and  a  pair 
of  Chippendale  mahogany  folding  card  tables — 32  guineas 
(James). 


Westbury  Cup  -Colonel  Wanklyn. — The  only  mention 
of  this  Cup  in  Nightingale's  Church  Plate  of  the  County  of 
Wilts  is  an  extract  from  Hoare's  Hundred  of  Westbury.  On 
the  27th  of  June  last  year  it  was  sold  at  Messrs.  Christie, 
Manson  and  Woods'  Auction  Rooms  for  ^69  175.  6d.,  being 
at  the  rate  of  555.  per  oz.,  and  is  thus  described: — "Lot  78. 
A  silver-gilt  standing  Cup  and  Cover,  in  the  form  of  an  acorn  ; 
i  of  in.  high,  London  hall-mark,  1589.  Engraved,  Given  to  the 
Church  of  Westbury  by  Collonel  Wancklen  and  Mary  Contes  of 
Marlbrou,  1671.  It  was  sold  by  the  Churchwardens  of 
Westbury,  Wilts,  in  1848.  Colonel  Wancklen  was  a  Cavalier 
officer  in  the  wars  of  Charles  I's  time.  He  afterwards 
became  steward  to  the  Earl  of  Marl  borough,  and  after  the 
Earl's  death  married  the  widow.  Vide  History  of  Wiltshire, 
and  Cokayne's  Complete  Peerage.  This  Cup  is  noticed  in 
Nightingale's  Wiltshire  Chalices." 

When,  to  whom,  and  at  what  price  was  it  first  sold,  and  what 
is  its  history  ?  Its  sale  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Westbury 
Churchwardens'  Books,  nor  is  it  referred  to  in  the  Memoir  of 
Mr.  Brown,  Vicar  at  the  above  date,  who  is  said  to  have  sold 
it  to  procure  new  Communion  plate  ;  in  whose  possession  is 
it  now  ? 

Further  information  as  to  Colonel  Wanklyn  would  be 
acceptable. 

A.  J.  S. 

[G.  E.  C,  in  his  Complete  Peerage,  calls  Thomas  Wanklyn 
son  of  "  a  Smith,"  and  in  a  note  refers  to  "  Anthony  a  Wood's 
Life  "  for  an  account  of  this  marriage,  etc. — ED.] 


Jones  of  Keevil.  45 


Jones  of  Keevil. — Can  any  of  your  readers  give  me 
information  respecting  this  family,  additional  to  that  contained 
in  the  review  in  vol.  ii.,  p.  445  ?  What  was  their  connexion 
with  the  Seftons  of  Edington,  and  with  the  Founder  of 
Broadgates  Hall  ?  Contemporary  Jones  wills — those  I  have 
seen  at  any  rate — do  not  mention  the  Seftons. 

WALTER  JONES. 
Wendy  Rectory, 

Royston. 


Replied. 


Turpin's  Stone. —Boulter  (vol.  ii,  p.  585). — Some  account 
of  Boulter  will  be  found  in  The  •  Highwaymen  of  Wiltshire, 
with  notes  of  Goldwell  and  other  matters,  by  N.  B.  Randle, 
Market  Place,  Devizes.  Robber's  Stone  is  not,  I  think, 
connected  with  Dick  Turpin. 

C.  P. 


Ellis  of  Wilts  (vol.  ii,  pp.  436,  484). — Looking  through 
the  first  book  of  the  Mere  Registers,  I  have  found  the  follow- 
ing entries : — 

CHRISTENINGS. 

1676.     John    Ellis,  the  son  of  Thomas  Ellis,    November 
the  Qth. 

1678.  Jean  Ellis,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Ellis,  Decem- 

ber the  26th. 

1679.  An  Ellis,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Ellis,  ffebruary 

the  6th. 

1 68 1.     Thomas  Ellis,  the  son  of  Thomas  Ellis,  ffebruary 
the  26. 


46  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1683.  Jeane  Ellis,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Ellis,  Decem- 

ber the  23. 

1685.     Mary,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Ellis,  July  the  ipth. 
1687.     Richard,  the  son  of  Thomas  Ellis,  December  the 

26. 
1689.     Christopher,    the    son  of  Thomas    Ellis,    March 

the  3. 

WEDDINGS. 

1675.     Thomas   Ellis  &  Jeane  ffisher,    married  January 

the  24th. 
1657.     Richard  Pitman  and  Eddith  Ellish,  of 

was  published  three  lord  daies,  May  ye  ioth,  i7th, 

24th.     Richard  Pitman   and   Eddith   Ellish  was 

married  the  12th  of  June. 

BURIALLS. 
1631.     Thomas  Ellis,  of  the  parish  of  Gillingham,  ye  xxvij 

of  November. 

1638.     John  Ellis,  January. 
1678.     Jeane  Ellis,  ye  daughter  of  Thomas  Ellis,  January 

the  1 6th. 

1684.  Jeane  Ellis,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Ellis,  October 

the  first. 

In  the  Churchwardens' Accounts  for  1632  is  the  following 
entry  :— 

"To  Mr.  Poore  the  Corroner  for  that  the  bodie  of  Thomas 
Ellis  received  of  us  such  holie  rites  as  did  not  belong  unto 
him  before  the  Corroner  had  viewed  him  ffor  wch  offence  the 
Corroner  would  have  laied  a  great  ffine  uppon  the  Towneshipp 
if  we  had  not  agreed  wth  him  and  gave  him  vjs.  viij<^." 

And  in  1633,  "To  Thomas  Cowley  for  moneys  laied 
out  to  the  Crowner  about  the  body  of  Thomas  Ellis, 
Cooper,  and  one  Thomas  Dally  more,  both  of  the  p'ish    }  xijs. 
of  Gillingham,   whoe  tooke   their  Deathes  within  this 
p'ish." 

THOS.  H.  BAKER. 


Dauntsey  Arms.  47 


Dauntsey  Arms  (vol.  ii,  p.  537). — As  architect  for  the  new 
college  at  West  Lavington,  it  fell  to  me  to  design  the  achieve- 
ment of  William  Dauntsey,  the  founder  of  the  charity,  which 
is  placed  over  the  doorway,  and  I  took  some  pains  to  ascertain 
the  arms  borne  by  him. 

As  Mr.  Kite  says  (Wilts  Brasses,  p.  82)  the  Dauntsey 
Arms  vary  very  considerably,  and  in  a  letter  to  me  he  stated 
that  he  had  never  met  with  any  coat  known  actually  to  have 
been  borne  by  William  Dauntsey  himself. 

The  arms  of  the  Dauntseys  of  West  Lavington,  as  given 
in  the  Heralds'  Visitation  of  Wilts,  1623,  are  a  lion  rampant 
chasing  a  wyvern.  The  arms  borne  by  John  Dauntsey,  nephew 
of  William  (and  who  died  in  1559),  as  painted  on  a  piece  of 
glass  found  near  Deptford  Inn,  near  Wylye,  are  given  by 
Mr.  Kite  as  party  per  pale,  or  and  argent,  three  bars  dancctty  gules. 

The  shield  on  the  monument  of  Joan  Dewale  in  Dauntsey 
Church  (the  heiress  of  Sir  Walter  Dauntsey,  Kt,  whose  will 
is  dated  26th  August,  1420)  has  three  bars  nebuly.  Canon 
Jackson  says  (Aubrey,  p.  297,  note},  that  the  North  Wilts 
Dauntseys  used  three  bars  nebuly,  and  the  South  Wilts  branch 
dancetty,  but  the  Sir  Walter  referred  to  above  held  property  in 
both  (Dauntsey  and  Winterbourne  Dauntsey). 

In  the  window  of  Mercers'  Hall,  London,  the  arms  intended 
for  Alderman  Wm.  Dauntsey's  are  portrayed  as  two  bars 
dancetty  gules,  within  a  bordurc  argent  and  gules. 

The  shields  on  the  benches  at  West  Lavington  Church 
bearing  the  lion  rampant  chasing  a  wyvern,  cited  by  Wiltoniensis, 
were  only  set  up  in  1847,  by  the  Rev.  E.  Wilton,  who  at  the 
time  was  not  aware  that  any  other  arms  had  been  used  by  the 
Dauntseys,  and  therefore  cannot  be  considered  as  a  precedent. 

In  the  face  of  the  many  changes  which  have  taken  place 
in  the  arms  of  the  family,  I  applied  to  the  College  of  Arms  for 
information  as  to  the  arms  (if  any)  granted  to  Alderman 
William  Dauntsey,  and  the  following  letter  from  the  Richmond 
Herald  is  my  authority  for  the  shield  set  over  the  entrance  to 
the  new  Agricultural  College  at  Lavington  : — 


48  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

"  College  of  Arms, 

"  Queen  Victoria  Street,  E.G., 

"4th  February,   1895. 

"DEAR  SIR, — The  Armorial  Bearings  recorded  in  the  books  of  this 
office  to  Alderman  William  Dauntsey,  who  was  Sheriff  of  London,  1530, 
and  who  died  in  1543,  are — Per  pale  or  and  gules  two  bars  ncbuly 
counter-changed. 

"  I  am,  dear  Sir,  yours  faithfully, 

"  (Signed)  CHARLES  H.  ATHILL, 

"  Richmond  Herald." 

CHAS.  E.  PONTING,  F.S.A. 


Wiltshire  Society  (vol.  i,  p.  521). — It  would  appear  that 
the  date  of  this  Society  is  1654,  not  after  the  restoration  of 
Charles  II,  for  the  title  page  of  a  pamphlet  having  reference  to 
a  meeting  of  this  kind  in  the  first  year  of.  Cromwell's  Pro- 
tectorate is  as  follows  : — "  The  first  dish  at  this  Wiltshire 
Feast,  9  November  1654,  Or,  a  Sermon  preached  at  Laurence 
Jury  to  those  that  there  offered  their  peace-offerings,  and  went 
thence  to  dine  at  Marchant  Taylors'  Hall.  By  Samuel 
Annesley,  LL.D.,  minister  of  the  Gospel  at  John  Evangelist's, 
London. — Printed  for  Nathaniel  Webb  and  William  Grantham, 
at  the  Black  Bear  in  Paul's  Churchyard,  1655." 

The  text,  from  I.  Chron.  xii,  32,  describing  the  children  of 
Issacher  as  men  who  had  understanding  of  the  times  and  knew 
what  Israel  ought  to  do,  Mr.  Annesley  adopts  as  applicable  to 
the  Gentlemen  of  Wilts  "who  had  the  honour  to  give  the 
nation  a  precedent  "  in  these  county  gatherings. 

The  above  is  taken  from  a  manuscript  of  the  late  Mr. 
James  Waylen,  who,  amongst  the  pamphlets  bequeathed  to  our 
County  Archaeological  Society,  left  a  very  rare  copy  of  a 
sermon,  preached  at  St.  Paul's  before  the  Gentlemen  of  Wilts, 
Nov.  10,  1658,  it  being  the  day  of  their  yearly  feast,  by 
Thomas  Pierce,  Rector  of  Brington. 

W.  C. 


COWARD   BAYNARO  Esq. 

(     DIED       1575    ) 

IN   L'ACOCK   CHURCH- 


Jtotes  antj  ©items* 


JUNE,  1899- 


OLD  LACKHAM  HOUSE  AND  ITS  OWNERS. 

(Continued from  p.  6.) 


IR  JOHN  BLUET  had,  with  the  Abbess  of  Lacock, 
the  alternate  right  of  presentation  to  the  rectory 
there,  which  right  he  gave  to  the  Abbey.  His  tomb 
was  in  the  Lady  Chapel  of  the  Abbey  Church,  where 
an  obit  was  celebrated  until  the  Dissolution.  See 
Valor  Ecclesiasticus.  , 

In  the  Nomina  Villarum,  compiled  9th  Edward  II  (1316), 
we  find  other  names  of  Bluet  as  owners  of  property  in  Wilts  :* 


1  A  Devizes  deed,  dated  26  Henry  VI  (1447-8),  also  mentions  "  Bluette's 
Court,"  in  Southbroom.  This  document  came  into  the  hands  of  the  writer 
with  some  leases  relating  to  the  Drevve  family,  from  which  it  may  perhaps  be 
inferred  that  "  Bluette's  Court "  afterwards  passed  to  Drewe  and  became 
part  of  the  Southbroom  property. 

By  this  deed  Alice,  daughter  and  co-heir  of  John  Gilbert,  sen.,  late  of 
Southbrome,  near  Devizes,  deceased,  quit-claimed  to  Richard  Gilbert, 
Margaret  his  wife,  and  their  heirs,  her  right  and  claim  of  and  in  the  whole 

E 


50  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Kingsbridge     . .  . .  . .  j  Will'us  et  Johannes 

Elyngdon,  in  parish  of  Wroughton  \  Bluet. 

Littlecote,  near  Hilmarton  . .     Radulfus  Bluet. 

From  an  Inquisition  taken  1347-8  on  the  death  of  Alianora, 
wife  of  John  Bluet,  it  appears  that  she  was  seised  of  Silches- 
ter  manor,  co.  Hants,  of  the  manors  of  Lacham  and  Hilmarton, 
with  Chippenham  forest,1  co.  Wilts,  and  lands  in  Berks  and 
Essex  ;  also  of  fees  in  Gataker  (now  Goatacre),  Cherloweswyk 
(now  Wick  Farm,2  in  Lacock),  and  Natton  (now  Notton). 
Inq.  post  mortem,  22  Edw.  Ill,  No.  30. 

Leland,  in  his  brief  notes  on  the  descent  of  Silchester, 
mentions  Peter  de  Cusance  3  as  owner  there,  in  right  of  his 


of  that  court  called  Bluette's  Court,  with  its  appurtenances,  in  Southbrome, 
in  the  Hundred  of  Canynges  Episcopi,  between  a  tenement  late  of  Henry 
Clakke  on  one  part,  and  a  tenement  late  of  Henry  Webbe  and  the  King's 
highway  on  the  other.  Witnesses:  John  Coventre,  sen.,  of  Devyzes  afore- 
said, Thomas  Coventre,  John  Spycer,  John  ffauconer,  Thomas  Haukyn', 
Peter  Dayster,  William  Rede,  and  many  others.  Broken  seal  of  red  wax 
(circular),  with  shield  bearing  apparently  a  chevron,  and  part  of  marginal 
legend  illegible. 

Three  cottages,  called  Blewitt's,  with  land  in  Southbroom,  were  leased 
by  William  Page,  of  Devizes,  in  1545. 

1  Probably   the  assart   lands    (i.e.,  lands    reclaimed   from  a  forest  or 
waste,  and  cultivated)  in  Pewisham  forest,  mentioned  in  later  Inquisitions 
post  mortem  of  the  Baynards. 

2  The  name  of  Richard  de  Wyck  occurs  in  one  of  the  early  deeds  above 
quoted.     In  some  interesting  notes  on  the  pedigree  of  Croke  and  Bonham, 
later  owners  of  Wick  Farm  (Wilts  N.  and  Q.,  vol.  ii,  p.  311),  Mr.  Talbot, 
its  present  owner,  identifies  this  property  with  a  second  manor  at  Lacock, 
mentioned  in   Domesday,  as   having  been  held   by  Carlo  in   the  time  of 
Edward  the  Confessor.     An  accompanying  illustration  of  the  old  dovecote 
at  Wick,  from  a  well-executed  drawing  by  Mr.  Alexander,  also  faces  page 
303. 

3  William  de  Cusancia,  knt.,  was    seized,  19  Edw.  Ill  [1344-5],  of  the 
manors  of  Wyke,  Dounamney  and  Kynemaresforde,  in  co.  Gloucester.  Inq. 
post  mortem.     The  same  name  occurs  in  the  Inq.  post  mortem  of  Thomas  de 
Holand,  Earl  of  Kent,  and  his  wife  Alesia,  20  Rich.  II  [1396],  as  holder  of 
a  fee  at  Temple  Button,  co.  Essex.     A  Gerald  de  Cuzance  was  presented  to 
Rectory  of  Hilperton  in  1299.     Wilts  Institutions. 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners. 


wife.1  He  also  appears  at 
Lackham  in  1352,  and  the 
arms  of  BLUET  and 
CUSANCE— the  latter  Sable, 
a  bend  lozengy  argent — were 
afterwards  quartered  by  the 
Baynard  family  as  their  repre- 
sentatives. The  accompany- 
ing sketch  of  the  Baynard2 
shield,  as  tricked  by  John 
Withie  (Harletan  MS.  No. 
1443),  includes  also  thequar- 
terings  of  UFFORD  alias 
WILLOUGHBYandBEKE, 
with  the  Baynard  crest — 
a  demi-unicorn  rampant — 
and  motto  "  VIVE  UT 
VIVAS." 

In  1346  the  name  of 
John  de  Peyton  occurs  as  an 
intermediate  occupier  be- 
tween Bluet  and  Cusance. 


1  Bishop  Gibson,  in  his  edition  of  Camden's  Britannia,  published  1695, 
thus    describes    three   shields  of   arms   seen    by  him  in   the  windows   of 
Silchester  Church  : — 

"  In  a  small  church  of  modern  building  (Silchester)  I  searched  for 
ancient  inscriptions.  I  found  nothing  but  some  coats  of  arms  in  the 
windows,  viz.,  in  a  field  sable,  seven  fusils  argent  bendwise  ;  as  also,  in  a 
field  sable,afesse  between  two  chevrons  or,  and  in  a  field  or,  an  eagle  displayed 
with  two  heads  gules.  I  find  these  last  to  be  the  arms  of  the  Blewets,  to 
whom  this  estate  came  after  the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror ;  the 
second  are  the  arms  of  the  noble  family  of  Bainard,  of  Leckham ;  and  the 
first  is  the  coat  of  the  family  of  Cusanz,  by  whom  this  estate  pass'd 
hereditarily  from  the  Blewets  to  the  Bainards." 

2  In  a  paper  entitled  "  Notes  on  the  Walpoles,"  which  appeared  in  the 
Genealogical  Magazine  for  May,  1899,  the  writer  suggests  that  the  Baynards 
probably  derived  their  arms — a  fess  between  two  chevrons — from  the  Fitz 
Walters,  under  whom   they  appear   to  have  held   at  an   early  date — the 
bearing  itself  being  derived  in  turn  from  the  three  well-known  chevrons  of 
De  Clare. 

E  2 


52  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

In  that  year  he  obtained  a  licence  from  Robert  Wyvil,  Bishop 
of  Salisbury,  to  hear  divine  service  in  his  house  at  Lackham.1 

About  the  year  1349  Edmund  Baynard,  of  an  Essex 
family,  seated  at  Dunmow,  married  Elinor,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  John  Bluet,2  and  their  descendants  in  the  male 
line  continued  for  ten  successive  generations  owners  of 
Lackham  and  the  other  estates  of  the  Bluets.  He  obtained  a 
grant  from  Edward  III,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  of  the  right  of 
hunting  in  the  neighbouring  forest  of  Pewisham,3  with  power 
to  kill  and  carry  away  either  stag  or  fallow  deer,  as  also  to 
command  the  King's  keepers  to  assist  in  the  chase  after  the 
deer  was  wounded  by  cross-bow,  &c.,  notice  being  given  to 
the  lodge*  by  winding  a  horn,  &c."  The  exact  date  of  his 
death  has  not  been  ascertained,  but  his  son  and  heir, 

Philip  Baynard  presented  to  the  Chapel  of  Lackham,  as 
lord  of  the  manor,  in  1410.  His  will,  in  the  Prerogative  Court 
of  Canterbury  (32  Marche),  was  proved  in  1415.  From  an 
Inquisition  post  mortem  taken  in  the  same  year,  it  appears  that 
he  died  seised  of  Lacham  manor  and  advowson  of  Chapel, 
held  as  of  the  manor  of  Hampsted  Marshall,  a  moiety  of  the 
manor  of  Silchester,  under  the  same  tenure,  Hilmarton  manor, 


1  A  similar  licence  was  granted  by  Bishop  Wyvil,  in  the  same  year,  to 
Galfridus  le  Eyr,  at  Bromham. 

2  Sir  John  probably  had   several    daughters,  on   the  death  of  one  of 
whom,  without  issue,  the  property  passed  to  the  other,  and  eventually  came 
to  Baynard  and  his  heirs.     This  would  account  for  the  temporary  ownership, 
through  marriage,  of  Cusance,  and  also  perhaps  for  that  of  Peyton. 

3  See   Britton's  Beauties  of    Wiltshire,  iii,  p.  247,  where   the  name  is 
printed   Edward    Baynard.      Aubrey,  writing   1659-70,  gives   a  somewhat 
different  version,  but  apparently  from  hearsay.     "  There  is   a  report,"  he 
says,  "  that  if  the  king  should  happen  to  kill  a  deer  in  the  forest,  so  near  to 
the  river  Avon  that  one  might  throw  a  home,  the  lord  of    Lackham,  by 
custome,  could  challenge  it  for  his  own,  which  Sir  Robert  Baynard  did  in 
King  James'  time,  and  alleged  his  graunt  for  it  from  a  King — query  his 
name."     "  0  my  soule,"  said  King  James,  "  he  was  a  wise  king  that  made 
such  a  graunt." —  Wilts  Collections,  p.  95. 

1  Mr.  Britton  mentions  two  buildings,  on  the  banks  of  the  river  Avon, 
opposite  to  Lackham,  known  as  the  Great  and  Little  Lodge ;  formerly 
lodges  in  Pewisham  forest. 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners.  53 

and   assart  lands  in   the  forests  of  Pewisham  and  Pambere, 
the  latter  in  co.  Hants. 

Robert  Baynard,  his  son  and  heir,  by  a  deed  now  in  the 
British  Museum  (Add.  Charter,  No.  1534),  dated  9  Hen.  VI 
(1430),  enfeoffed  his  manor  of  Lackham,  with  his  appurtenances, 
to  William  Brocas,  John  Swetcok,  clerk,  and  John  Benger,  on 
condition  that  they  should,  when  required,  re-enfeof  the  same 
to  the  said  Robert,  Jocosa  his  wife,  and  their  heirs  male ;  and 
if  it  happen  the  said  Robert  to  die  without  an  heir  male,  then 
the  manor  of  Lackham  to  remain  to  his  own  right  heirs  for 
ever : — 

"  Per  istam  indentur'  factam  apud  Lach'm  in  com'  Wiltes  die  Jovis 
prox'  ante  festu'  apostolor'  Simon  &  Jude  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  sexti 
nono  testat'  quod  licet  Rob'us  Baynard  p'  cartam  suam  feoffamenti  dedit 
&  concessit  Will'o  Brocas  Joh'i  Swetcok  cl'ico  &  Joh'i  Benger  manerium 
suum  de  lacham  cum  p'ti'n  p'nt  in  quadam  carta  inde  consecta  plenius 
continet  sub  tali  condicione  tamen  quod  predicta  Will'm's  Joh'es  & 
Joh'es  Benger  refeoffabunt  aut  unus  eorum  refeoffabit  p'fat'  Robertum 
&  Jocosam  uxorem  suam  &  hered'  mascul'  p'dictu'  Roberto  quando 
cunque  requisit  fu'int  aut  unus  eorum  requisit  fuit  p'  p'fat'  Robertum  & 
Jocosam  uxorem  suam.  Et  si  contingat  p'dictum  Robertum  sine  herede 
masculo  de  corpore  suo  legitime  procreat'  obiere  tune  predictum 
manerium  cum  omnibus  suis  pertin'  remanebit  rectis  heredibus  predicti 
Roberti  in  perpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  p'tes  p'dicte  sigill'  sua 
alternatu'  apposuer'.  Dat  die  loco  &  anno  sup'dict'."  (Circular  seal  of 
red  wax,  broken,  with  arms  of  Bluet,  and  part  of  marginal  inscription 
in  black  letter—" ne  .  rofaertu  .  tmgna  .  .") 

The  inquisition  taken  on  the  decease  of  this  Robert,  and 
his  wife  Jocosa,  is  dated  16  Hen.  VI  (1437).  His  property 
included  Lackham  manor  ;  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Silchester, 
with  advowson  of  the  church ;  and  assart  lands  within  the 
forest  of  Pewisham. 

The  south  transept  of  the  parish  church  of  Lacock  appears 
to  have  been  used  for  many  ages  by  the  owners  of  Lackham 
as  a  place  of  burial,1  and  some  of  their  funeral  achievements 
and  penons  were  hanging  there  when  the  church  was  visited 
by  Dingley  in  1684.  In  his  History  from  Marble,  vol.  ii,  p. 

1  Aubrey,  Wilts  Collections,  p.  93,  calls  it  "  Baynard's  Aisle." 


54  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

cccccxiii,  he  gives  a  drawing  of  an  altar  tomb  of  which  no 
visible  portion  now  remains.  He  describes  it  as  standing 
"against  ye  south  wall  of  the  south  cross  isle,"  the  inscription 
on  the  verge  cutt  in  stone : — 

SEQUERE  .  IVSTITIA'  .  ET  .  INVENIES  .  EAM  .  AVDI  .  ALTERA'  .  PARTE'. 
In  the  front,  in  three  compartments,  as  many  shields,  with 
these  arms  : — 

•     i.    A  fess  between  two  chevrons — BAYNARD  ;    impaling  a  chevron 
engrailed  between  three  fleurs-de-lis — BROWN. 

2.  Quarterly,  i  and  4— BROWN  ;  2  and  3  a  chevron  between  three 
pears  pendant — STEWKLEY. 

3.  An  eagle  with  two  heads  displayed— BLUET  ;  impaling  BROWN. 

At  the  end  of  the  tomb,  in  another  compartment,  is  a  shield 
with  the  arms  of  BAYNARD,  quartering  BLUET,  and  two  unicorns 
as  supporters.1 

The  late  Mr.  John  Gough  Nichols,  F.S.A.,  the  able  editor 
of  Dingley's  manuscript,  ascribes  this  tomb  to  Philip  Baynard, 
but,  from  a  careful  comparison  of  its  heraldry,  as  given  by 
Dingley,  with  that  still  remaining  on  the  wooden  tablet  to 
Edward  Baynard  (who  died  1575),  also  in  the  south  transept  of 
Lacock  Church,  the  present  writer  is  rather  inclined  to  believe 
that  Robert  Baynard,  who  died  in  1437,  and  his  wife  Jocosa 
(Brown  ?)  were  the  individuals  commemorated  by  this  now 
missing  tomb. 

Philip  Baynard,  the  second  of  that  name,  appears  to  have 
inherited  Lackham,  as  son  and  heir  of  Robert  and  Jocosa. 
His  name  occurs,  22  Hen.  VI  (1443),  as  witness  to  a  deed 
relating  to  the  manor  of  Easton  Piers,  in  Kington  St.  Michael. 
(Wilts  Collections,  Aubrey  and  Jackson,  p.  441).  Six  years  later, 


1  Aubrey,  Wilts  Collections,  p.  93,  notices  the  same  monument,  but 
appears  to  have  been  much  less  successful  than  Dingley  in  deciphering  its 
heraldry.  He  describes  it  as  "a  gothique  altar  monument  of  ... 
Bluett,"  without  even  noticing  the  principal  coat  of  Baynard,  with  sup- 
porters at  the  end.  It  was  probably  seen  by  him  in  a  hurry  and  by  a  bad 
light,  for,  in  his  notes  on  the  Abbey,  he  writes,  "  Mem.  Desire  my  brother 
William  to  visit  this  for  me,  for  it  was  late  when  I  was  there,  and  could 
not  stay." 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners.  55 

28  Hen.  VI  (1449-50),  he  filled  the  office  of  Sheriff  of  Wilts. 
From  the  heraldry  on  the  later  monument  of  Edward  Baynard 
in  Lacock  Church,  it  appears  that  his  wife  belonged  to  the 
family  of  Abarow,  whose  arms,  Azure,  two  swords  in  saltire 
between  four  fleurs-de-lis  or,  also  appear  quartered  on  the  fine 
brass  of  John  Webbe,  A.D.  1570,  in  St.  Thomas'  Church, 
Salisbury,  his  mother  having  been  an  heiress  of  Abarow. 

Robert  Baynard,  son  and  heir  of  Philip,  married  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  John  Ludlow,  of  the  family  of  the  name  long 
seated  at  Hill  Deverill.  His  arms — BAYNARD  and  BLUET 
quarterly,  impaling  LUDLOW,  Argent,  a  chevron  between  three 
marteris  heads,  erased  sable — were  formerly  in  Corsham 
Church,  in  the  north  window  of  the  Neston  Chapel.  x  (Wilts 
Collections,  p.  81.)  In  i  Edw.  IV  (1461-2)  he,  with  John 
Crycklade,  Walter  Samborne,  and  John  Lane  (probably  as 
trustees)  granted  lands  in  Stokeley,  Chittleworth,  and  Blake- 
lowe,  co.  Wilts,  to  Thomas  Pucklechurch  and  his  wife  Agnes, 
also  other  lands  in  Ampney  Crucis,  co.  Gloucester.  The  deed 
is  dated  at  Ampney,  two  of  the  witnesses  being  Edmund 
Hungerford  and  Edward  Stradling. 

His  will  is  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  (3 
Blamyr).  He  died  26  August,  1501,  and  his  fine  brass  in  the 
pavement  of  the  south  transept  of  Lacock  Church  represents 
him  bare-headed,  with  long  hair  reaching  to  the  shoulders,  and 
wearing  over  his  suit  of  armour  a  tabard  as  worn  by  the 
Heralds,  embroidered  with  the  arms  of  BLUET  and  BAYNARD 
quarterly.  His  wife  is  also  represented  in  an  heraldic  mantle 
reaching  to  the  feet  and  bearing  the  arms  of  BAYNARD 
quartered  with  those  of  her  own  family  LUDLOW.  From 
the  inscription  (in  Latin)  we  learn  that  he  was  "vir 


1  Aubrey  says  that  this  shield  and  two  others  were  taken  out  of  the 
window  of  Corsham  Church  in  1675,  and  placed  in  the  great  parlour 
windows  of  Neston  House,  by  William  Eyre,  Esq.,  its  then  owner.  From 
Neston  they  were  afterwards  removed  again  by  Sir  William  Hanham  to  his 
house  in  Dorsetshire. 


56  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

egregius  et  legis  peritus  in  armis  bellicis  multum  strenuus 
dapifer  precipuus  inter  primes  pacis  conservator  diligentissi- 
mus" — a  distinguished  man  and  skilled  in  the  law,  a  very 
active  soldier,  an  excellent  housekeeper,  and  a  zealous  pro- 
moter of  peace.  In  looking  for  a  moment  at  the  historical 
events  of  the  time  we  find  that  his  father's  term  of  office 
as  Sheriff  of  Wilts  (1449-50)  was  marked  by  the  breaking  out 
of  Jack  Cade's  insurrection,  and  the  consequent  murder  of 
the  Bishop  of  Salisbury  (Ayscough),  which  took  place  at 
Edyngdon  (a  few  miles  from  his  own  residence  at  Lackham) 
in  June  of  the  latter  year.  Next  followed  the  wars  of  the 
Roses,  in  which  his  two  near  neighbours  at  Bromham — the 
Lord  St.  Amand,  and  Sir  Roger  Tocotes — taking  part  with 
the  Duke  of  Buckingham  against  Richard  III — were  both 
attainted,  and  sacrificed  their  estates.1  In  some  of  these 
struggles  of  his  earlier  days  between  the  rival  Yorkists  and 
Lancastrians  the  lord  of  Lackham  himself,  as  an  active 
soldier,  may  also  have  been  engaged.  His  advancing 
years,  however,  saw  more  peaceable  times,  and  the  accession 
of  Henry  VII  in  1485,  with  the  quiet  which  followed 
until  his  own  death  in  1501,  must  have  given  him  an  oppor- 
tunity of  attending  to  the  requirements  of  his  numerous 
household,  and  to  the  dispensing  of  his  hospitality  among  his 
neighbours  as  well  as  the  more  immediate  dependants  of  his 
Wiltshire  manor,  justifying  the  words  of  his  epitaph,  which  de- 
scribe him  as — "  dapifer  precipuus  " — an  excellent  house-keeper. 


1  Richard  Beauchamp,  of  Bromham,  son  and  heir  of  William  Beau- 
champ,  buried  at  Market  Lavington  in  1457,  by  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter 
of  Gerard  Braybrooke,  and  heiress  of  the  Barony  of  St.  Amand,  which  had 
previously  been  in  abeyance  since  the  death  of  her  great  grandfather, 
Almeric  de  St.  Amand,  without  male  issue,  in  1402.  She  married  secondly 
Sir  Roger  Tocotes,  of  a  Yorkshire  family,  whose  fine  altar  tomb,  with  effigy, 
is  still  in  the  centre  of  the  Lady  Chapel  at  Bromham,  where  by  his  will, 
dated  1492,  he  desires  to  be  buried.  Both  Sir  Roger  and  his  son-in-law, 
the  Lord  St.  Amand,  were  among  the  "  greate  compaigny  of  noble  menne  " 
mentioned  by  Richard  Grafton,  in  his  continuation  of  Harding's  Chronicle, 
who  in  1496  went  with  Edward,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  to  meet  King  Henry 
VII  at  Taunton,  the  latter  being  then  in  pursuit  of  Perkin  Warbeck. 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners. 


57 


By  Elizabeth  Ludlow,  "  devotissimam  uxorem  " — his  most 
devoted  wife, — he  appears  to  have  had  no  less  than  eighteen 
children — thirteen  sons  and  five  daughters, — all  of  whom,  in 
accordance  with  a  singular  custom  often  indulged  in  by  the 
mediaeval  engravers  of  monumental  brasses,  are  represented 
of  precisely  the  same  height, 
excepting  the  eldest,  who  appears 
much  taller  than  the  rest,  and 
wears  the  gypctere,  or  large 
external  purse  of  the  period,  sus- 
pended from  his  girdle — an  ap- 
pendage which,  together  with  his 
additional  stature,  may  have  been 
intended  to  denote  his  heirship. 

Of  the  whole  of  the  effigies  on 
this  brass  a  drawing  and  descrip- 
tion, by  the  present  writer,  will 
be  found  in  Wilts  Archceological 
Magazine,  vol.  iv,  and  Wilts 
Brasses,  plate  xi,  p.  39.  That 
of  the  second  son — an  ecclesiastic 
— has,  however,  been  reproduced 
here  on  a  larger  scale  for  the 
purpose  of  shewing  a  peculiarity 
in  his  costume,  of  which  very  few 
examples  are  to  be  met  with. 
Instead  of  the  hood  and  cape 

usually  worn  over  the  cassock ;  a  kind  of  short  scarf  is  here 
thrown  over  the  shoulders  arid  fastened,  apparently  by  a 
button,  to  the  front  of  one  of  them.1  A  rosary  is  also  repre- 
sented hanging  from  the  right  side  of  the  girdle. 

1  The  late  Kev.  Herbert  Raines,  of  Paddock  House,  Gloucester,  in  the 
second  edition  of  his  Manual  of  Brasses,  1861, — the  most  valuable  work  on 
the  subject  hitherto  published — has  noted  ten  instances  only  of  the  hood  thus 
worn,  in  slightly  varied  forms,  between  the  years  1500  and  1530 — the  Lacock 
example  being  the  earliest.  In  one  of  them,  at  Northleach,  co.  Gloucester, 
the  hood  is  represented  fastened  to  the  surplice  instead  of  the  cassock. 


58  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Some  of  the  eighteen  children  may  have  died  young. 
Three  of  them  only  are  mentioned  in  the  Heralds'  Visitations 
of  A.D.  1565  and  1623,  viz. : — Philip  the  eldest,  a  younger  son 
George,  and  a  daughter  Jane,  married  to  William  Temmes, 
of  Rood  Ashton,  to  which  family  also  belonged  Johanna 
Temmes,  the  last  Abbess  of  Lacock — a  preferment  which  she 
might  have  owed  to  this  connexion  through  marriage  with 
the  Lackham  family.  To  these  three  we  may  perhaps  add 
Richard,  a  Winchester  scholar,  admitted  1479;  William,  who 
was  M.P.  for  Hindon  1491-2;  and  Henry,  to  whom  Sir 
Edward  Hungerford,1  in  1520,  confirmed  land  in  .Sheldon, 
near  Chippenham.  The  will  of  Henry  Baynarde,  gent., 
Lacock,  was  proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury 
in  1551  (F.  35  Bucke).  There  is  also  in  the  same  office  the 
will  of  Elizabeth  Baynard,  Chippenham,  proved  in  1540  (F. 
15  Allenger). 

Philip  Baynard,  the  third  of  that  name,  and  next  heir  of 
Lackham,  appears  to  have  been  M.P.  for  Chippenham  in 
1491-2,  during  his  father's  lifetime.  In  1519  he  was  trustee, 
with  Sir  Edward  Hungerford,  just  mentioned,  and  John 
Ernley,  of  Bourton,  in  Bishops  Cannings,  for  a  minor  of  the 
Tropenell  family — to  whom  Great  Chalfield  owes  its  fine  old 
mediaeval  manor  house,  still  standing.  (Additional  MSS.}  No. 
6363,  p.  175.)  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Nicholas 
Stewkeley,  of  Affeton,  co.  Devon.  His  will  was  proved  in 
the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  1522  (3  Ayloflfe). 

Robert  Baynard,  his  son  and  heir,  was  Sheriff  of  Wilts 
26  Hen.  VIII  (1534),  and  his  will  was  proved  in  P.C.C.  (i  and 
7  Crumwell)  two  years  later.  He  married  Ann,  daughter  of 


1This  Sir  Edward  Hungerford  died  in  1522,  leaving  a  second  wife, 
Lady  Agnes,  who  a  year  afterwards  was  hanged  at  Tyburn  for  the  murder 
of  a  former  husband.  In  the  inventory  of  her  goods,  etc.,  forfeited  to  the 
Crown,  she  mentions  a  debt  from  one  of  the  Temmes  family,  mentioned 
above : — 

"  Item.  Robert  Temmes,  gentleman,  dwelling  in  Red  (Rood)  Aston, 
owyng  to  me  xviijft  and  more  to  be  payd  at  Penticost  last  past." 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners.  59 

Robert  Blake,  a  family  who  resided  for  some  four  hundred 
years,  until  the  last  century,  at  Pinhill,  an  old  moated  dwelling 
in  Calne.1  He  had,  according  to  the  Heralds'  Visitations,  one 
sister — Mary  Baynard — married  to  Roger  (or  Robert)  Blake, 
also  of  Pinhill.  His  own  family  consisted  of  five  sons  and 
three  daughters  : — i,  Edward  ;  2,  Robert,2  of  Silchester,  who 
married  and  had  issue  ;  3,  Lawrence  ;  4,  Richard,  died  without 
issue ;  5,  Thomas,  of  Barton,  co.  Gloucester,  whose  descen- 
dants were  at  Wanstrow,  co.  Somerset,  Colerne,  Wilts,  and 
Cliff  House,  co.  Dorset.  Of  the  three  daughters,  Gertrude, 
Ann  and  Cicely,  the  first  married  Ambrose  Adlaine,  of  West- 
bury,  Wilts  ;  the  second,  John  Willoughby,  of  Turner's  Piddle, 
co.  Dorset ;  and  the  third  was  twice  married,  first  to  Robert 
White,  secondly  to  Thomas  Berington,  of  co.  Herts.  To 
these  may  be  added  another  daughter,  Jane,  who  married 
Leonard  Knoell,  of  Sandford  Orcas,  co.  Somerset,  and  appears 
in  the  pedigree  of  that  family,  although  not  entered  in  the 
Visitation  of  Wilts. 

Edward  Baynard,  the  eldest  son  and  heir,  was  born  about 
the  year  1512,  and  must  have  been  nearly  or  quite  24  years 
of  age  when  he  succeeded  to  the  Lackham  estate  in  1536 — the 
same  year  that  the  marriage  of  Henry  VIII  with  Jane 
Seymour  took  place — and  the  royal  visit  here  is  presumed  to 
have  been  paid.  In  1539,  three  years  afterwards,  upon  receipt 
of  information  that  the  Pope  had,  by  means  of  Reginald  Pole, 
incited  the  Princes  of  Christendom  to  invade  the  realm,  King 
Henry  visited  the  coasts  in  person,  caused  block-houses  and 


1  In   the  British    Museum   (Hurl.   MS.,  No.  1443,  fol.  258)  there  is  a 
drawing  of  two  kneeling  figures  copied  by  John  Withie,  in  the  year  1616, 
from  the  chancel  windows  of  Calne  Church.     The  male  figure  is  represented 
in  a  tabard  with  the  arms  of  BLAKE  singly.     On  the  mantle  worn  by  the 
female  is  Gules  a    bend   argent,  with  a   crescent  for  difference.     See  also 
Aubrey,  Wilt's  Collections,  plate  iv,  p.  37,  who  adds  a  portion  of  an  inscrip- 
tion:— "OEATE  .  P   .    .   .   .   BLAKE  .  DB  .  PINHILL  .  A   .   .   " 

2  Robert  Baynard.  aged    11,   was   admitted  a    Winchester   scholar   in 
1532,  was  scholar  of  New  College,  Oxford,  and  Fellow  in  1541. 


6o  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

fortifications  to  be  made,  put  the  navy  in  readiness  at  Ports- 
mouth, under  the  Great  Admiral  of  England,  the  Earl  of 
Southampton,  and  issued  commissions  throughout  the  kingdom 
for  the  muster  of  the  people,  and  view  of  harness  and  weapons. 
From  "  the  Certyfycatt  of  the  vewe  of  abull  men,  as  well 
Archars  as  Byllmen,"  for  several  of  the  hundreds  in  North 
Wilts,  taken  loth  April,  1539,  by  virtue  of  the  royal  commis- 
sion, and  preserved  in  the  Public  Record  Office,  we  learn  that 
upon  this  occasion  the  "  Tithing  of  Lackham  "  was  prepared  to 
furnish  seven  archers,  and  eight  bill  men,  and  had  in  readiness 
a  horse  and  harness,  with  other  small  weapons.1 

This  lord  of  Lackham,  following  the  royal  precedent  of 
his  day,  was  thrice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Mary,  daughter 
of  Leonard  Poole,  of  Sapperton,  co.  Gloucester ;  the  second, 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  Edward  Walsingham,  of  Chislehurst,  co. 
Kent,  both  of  whom  died  without  issue.  The  latter  was  buried 
at  Lacock,  2oth  August,  1559.  He  subsequently  married  for 
a  third  wife  a  Wiltshire  lady,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John 
Warneford,  of  Sevenhampton,  near  Highworth,  who  became 
the  mother  of  ten  children,  all  baptized  at  Lacock  between  the 
years  1561  and  1575.  i  Edmund,  2  Robert,  3  Nicolas,  4  John, 
5  Giles,  6  Philip,  7  Edward,  8  Benjamin,  9  Mary,  10  Anne. 
Of  these,  Edmund,  the  eldest,  died  an  infant,  Robert  became 
the  heir,  Giles  and  Edward  married  and  had  issue.2  Of  the 
two  daughters,  Mary  and  Anne,  the  first  married  Edward  Perce 
(Pierce  ?),  the  second  Edward  Reade,  of  Corsham. 3 


1  Lacock  could,  on  the  same  occasion,  muster  22  archers,  27  billmen, 
2  horses,  6  harness,  4  bows,  4  sheafs  of  arrows,  and  other  small  weapons. 

2  Edward  had  lately  died  in  1636,  leaving  an  only  son  of  the  same  name. 
Giles,  who  was  living  in  Ireland  in  1623,  also  left  an  only  son  Robert,  and  the 
following  entry  in  the  Parish  Register  of  Rowde  apparently  records  a  collec- 
tion made  there  for  his  widow  in  1647 : — 

"  Aug.  15,  Collected  for  Mr.  Giles  Baynard's  widdow  9s.  3d." 

3  She  died  23  August,  1615.  On  her  monumental  tablet  in  Corsham 
Church,  she  is  described  as  "  ex  inclyta  familia  Baynardorum  de  Lecham 
Oriundae." 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners.  61 

Within  a  few  days  of  the  death  of  King  Edward  VI,  on 
the  6th  July,  1553,  followed  that  of  Sir  William  Sharington, 
the  grantee  from  the  Crown  of  the  site  of  Lacock  Abbey,  as 
well  as  other  monastic  property  in  the  neighbourhood.  Sir 
William  was  at  the  time  .Sheriff  of  Wilts,  and  there  is  still 
extant  among  the  Public  Records  an  order  dated  i4th  July, 
J553.  f°r  the  making  of  letters  patent  to  constitute  Edward 
Baynard,  the  Lord  of  Lackham,  Sheriff  in  the  place  of  Sir 
William  Sharington,  late  sheriff,  deceased.  This  document 
is  signed  "  Jane  the  Queene,"  and  is  of  especial  interest  from 
the  fact  of  its  being  the  only  signature  of  Lady  Jane  Gray  as 
Queen.  It  was,  of  course,  superseded  by  another  similar 
order  from  Queen  Mary,  antedated  6th  July,  1553,  the  day  of 
Edward  Vlth's  death,  and  the  claim  of  Lady  Jane  Grey  to  the 
throne  having  been  set  aside,  the  lord  of  Lackham  became 
Sheriff  of  Wilts  for  the  first  year  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary. 
He  was  M.P.  for  the  neighbouring  borough  of  Chippenham 
in  X559»  and  dying  in  1575  was  buried  with  his  ancestors  in 
the  Baynard  aisle  of  Lacock  Church. 

His  monument  is  a  curious  one.  It  is  a  mural  tablet,  not 
of  stone  or  marble,  but  of  panelled  oak,  well-seasoned,  and 
doubtless  the  growth  of  the  Lackham  estate.  It  was  erected 
by  his  eldest  surviving  son  in  1623,*  nearly  half-a-century 
after  his  father's  death,  and  in  the  very  year  of  one  of  the 
Heralds'  Visitations  of  the  county.  Its  armorial  display  was 
evidently  arranged  under  the  superintendence  of  a  skilled 
officer  of  arms.  Around  the  central  inscription  are  eight 
shields,  with  single  impalements,  showing  the  marriages  of 
the  deceased,  and  five  generations  of  his  ancestors,  the  whole 
being  surmounted  by  the  quartered  shield  and  crest  of  the 
Baynard  family,  as  shown  in  the  accompanying  illustration. 


1  On  the  occasion  of  the  death  of  his  own  wife,  which  happened  in 
that  year — and  to  whom  he  erected  a  similar  memorial  emblasoned  with  the 
heraldry  of  her  own  family. 


62  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

The  epitaph  is  a  quaint  production  of  the  time  of  James  I. 

"  Heare  lyeth  ye  Body  of  Edward  Bainarde 
Esquire  who  for  the  space  of  many  yeares 
Yeven  to  his  dyinge  day  was  Justice  of 
Peace  and  Corum  and  sometimes  Gustos 
Rotulorum  and  Hygh  Sherriffe  of  the 
County  of  Wiltes  :  A  Bountifull  friend 
to  his  brethren  and  sisters  and  to 
his  servants  liberal! ;  and  an  enemy 
to  noe  man  :  he  lyved  to  the  age  of 
63  yeares  and  dyed  l  and  was  buryed 
the  21  day  of  December  1575. 

Lett  envy  saye  what  it  can, 
This  was  an  honest  man  : 
Whoe  in  his  life  did  many  goode 
And  to  the  trueth  firmely  stode  : 
Religious,  wise,  and  just  was  hee, 
And  ever  lyved  worthylie." 

(To  be  continued.) 


NOTES  ON  GREAT  SOMERFORD. 

(Continued  from  page 


Previous  to  the  connexion  with  Somerford  the  family  of 
Alexander  was  located  in  the  neighbouring  parish  of 
Rodbourne.  A  copy  of  Court  roll,  28th  April,  1682,  stating 
that  to  the  Court  Baron  of  James,  Lord  Norreys,  Baron  of 
Rycot,  co.  Oxon  (Dauntesey  Brouncker,  steward),  came 


1  The  day  of  his  decease  had  evidently  been  forgotten,  and  that  of  burial 
was  supplied  from  the  Lacock  Parish  Register. 


Notes  on  Great  Somerford.  63 

Robert  and  David  Alexander  and  surrendered  a  customary 
messuage  and  one  virgate  of  land  in  the  manor  of  Rodbourne 
(Cowfold),  the  same  being  re-granted  for  lives  of  the  said 
Robert  Alexander  and  William  and  Anne,  his  son  and 
daughter.  Again,  in  1699,  to  the  court  of  Montague,  Lord 

Norreys  and  Earl  of  Abingdon, 
came  William  Alexander  and 
surrendered  the  same  messuage 
and  virgate  of  land,  then  in 
<^O  the  occupation  of  his  mother, 

Alice    Alexander,    widow,    and 

re-granted  for  lives  of  the  said  William  and  his  sons, 
Robert,  aged  three  years,  and  William,  aged  thirteen.  Most 
of  these  persons  are  mentioned  in  the  following  will  of 
Robert  Alexander,  of  Rodbourne,  yeoman,  dated  26th  Oct., 
1696,  proved  in  Dec.,  1697  (P.C.C.,  267  Pyne) : — 

To  daughter  Anne  Godwyne1  u.,  and  to  her  sonne  Hugh  those  two 
bedsteads  that  are  in  the  chamber  wherein  the  said  Anne  now  usually 
lodgeth. 

To  daughter  Alice  Smith  is.  and  5^.  apiece  to  her  children. 

To  sonne  William  Alexander's  five  children  5^.  apiece.  Rest  and  resi- 
due to  said  sonne  William  on  condition  nevertheless  that  he  shall  pay  to 
my  daughter  Mary  the  sum  of  ^8  yearly  by  quarterly  payments  so  long  as 
she  shall  live  and  not  attempt  to  alyen,  assigne  or  convey  away  the  same 
to  the  intent  that  she  shall  have  a  competent  maintenance  as  long  as  she 
liveth  and  not  have  it  in  her  power  to  squander  away  the  same,  said  son 
to  secure  said  annuity  by  way  of  rent  charge  out  of  some  of  his  fee 
simple  or  other  lands  of  inheritance  by  good  conveyance,  &c.  If  said 
sonne  refuses  to  secure  said  annuity  with  a  condition  that  the  same  shall 
be  made  voyde  on  her  attempting  to  alyen  or  sell  the  same,  then  such 


1  Married  Walter  Godwin,  of  Wilsley,  Sherston  Magna.  Marriage 
settlement  6th  January,  1690,  the  various  parties  being  Jeremy  Godwin  of 
Rodbourne,  Jonathan  Godwin  of  Holt,  Edith  Deverell  of  Wilsley,  widow, 
Walter  Godwin,  her  son,  by  her  first  husband  ;  Hugh  Godwin  and  Robert, 
William  and  Anne  Alexander.  Marriage  portion  £150,  with  equivalent  of 
a  life  interest  in  a  messuage  and  20  acres  of  land  called  Beanclose  and 
Homeclose  in  Stanley  in  the  parish  of  Chippenham,  held  by  the  Godwins 
tinder  a  lease  from  Henry  Baynton,  esq.,  of  Spye  Park  ;  Edith  Deverell,  to 
have  £7  a  year  for  next  10  years  out  of  Beanclose. 


64  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

bequest  of  residue  of  estate  shall  be  voyde,  and  said  sonne  be  no  longer 
residuary  legatee  but  said  daughter  Mary  shall  have  residue  of  estate  for 
her  use  only.  Beloved  wife  Alice  and  sonne  William  to  be  executors. 

We  may  presume  that  William  Alexander  carried  out  the 
provisions  for  his  sister  Mary's  maintenance  without  giving 
her  the  chance  of  more  money  to  "  squander  away."  He  had 
already  become  a  man  of  substance  himself,  had  lost  two 
well-dowered  wives,  and  was  at  this  time  occupying  the  manor 
house  at  Great  Somerford  with  his  third  wife,  Joan  Vines,  of 
Mauditt's  Park.  After  the  death  of  Helen,  his  first  wife,  the 
heiress  of  John  Mayo,  who  only  survived  her  marriage  a  few 
months,  William  Alexander  married  in  June,  1686,  Martha 
Lawrence,  one  of  the  daughters  of  Jonas  Lawrence,  clerk,  of 
Broad  Somerford,  with  a  dower  of  ^500.  Foster's  Alumni 
Oxon.  gives  "Jonas  Lawrence,  B.A.,  from  Magdalen  College, 
26th  June,  1634,  M.A.,  6th  July,  1637,"  but  the  name  does  not 
appear  in  the  list  of  Somerford  rectors.  The  will  of  Daniel 
Lawrence,  one  of  the  sons  of  Jonas,  is  rather  an  interesting 
document,  dated  i8th  May,  1692,  containing,  as  it  does, 
bequests  to  a  number  of  relatives : — 

I,  Daniel  Lawrence,  of  Somerford  Magna,  gent.,  being  sick  and  weak 
in  body  but  of  sound  and  disposing  mind,  &c.  Body  to  be  buried  at  dis- 
cretion of  executors  but  not  pompously,  and  as  for  the  worldly  goods  it 
has  pleased  God  to  ensteward  me  with  here  on  earth  : — To  honored  and 
deare  mother  Mrs.  Mary  Lawrence  £20  to  buy  mourning.  To  loving  and 
deare  brother  Mr.  Richard  Lawrence  .£50.  To  sisters  Mrs.  Mary 
Hollister  and  Mrs.  Margaret  Packer  £10  apiece.  To  nephew  Mr.  Guy 
Willcox,  son  of  said  sister  Mary  by  her  first  husband,  .£40.  To  nephew 
Richard  Yealfe  ^5.  To  Lawrence,  Edward  and  Ezekiel  Hollister  ,£40 
apiece,  to  Daniel  Hollister  .£100,  all  sons  of  said  sister  Mary  by  Edward 
Hollister1  her  now  third  husband,  to  be  paid  when  each  attain  21  years. 
To  Daniel  and  Obadiah  Burgess  ^50  apiece,  the  same  to  be  put  out  at 
interest  in  trust  to  the  end  that  Isaac  Burgess  their  father  may  not  inter- 
meddle nor  have  anything  to  do  with  the  same.  To  William  Alexander, 
jun.,  son  of  William  Alexander,  by  my  sister  Martha,  deceased,  £10, 
and  to  Mary  and  Alice  Alexander,  daughters  of  said  William,  ^100 
apiece  at  16  years  of  age.  To  John  Packer,  jun.,  £10,  to  Mary 
Packer,  daughter  of  said  sister  Margaret,  £100  at  16  years  of  age. 
To  cozens  Mary  and  John  Yealfe  2s.  apiece.  To  Mr.  Edward 

1  Query,  a  Wootton  Bassett  family. 


Notes  on  Great  Somerford.  65 

Hollister,  Mr.  William  Alexander  and  Mr.  John  Packer  a  guinea  apiece 
to  buy  a  ring  who  together  with  my  brother  Mr.  Richard  Lawrence  I 
make  executors  of  this  my  Will  desiring  them  to  see  it  performed  in  all 
things  discharging  their  consciences  towards  my  cozens  under  age  for 
God's  sake  according  to  my  meaning.  Within  three  months  after  my 
decease  they  are  to  call  in  all  my  money  out  at  interest  on  bond  or  other- 
wise and  put  out  the  same  in  their  own  names  in  trust  tor  the  several 
legatees.  Each  executor  for  himself  is  to  keep  a  book  of  account,  all 
to  meet  twice  a  year  at  Malmesbury  for  incerting,  settling  and  stating 
such  accounts  in  said  books  which  accounts  shall  be  signed  and  sealed 
by  all  said  executors  as  my  cozen  Guy  Willcox  or  some  other  attorney 
by  them  to  be  chosen  shall  advise. 

Besides  the  three  children,  William,  Mary  and  Alice, 
mentioned  above,  William  Alexander  had  by  his  third  wife 
three  more  children,  Robert,  Martha  and  Eleanor.  William, 
the  elder  son,  married  Mary  Estcourt,  of  Swinley,  and  died 
in  1717,  leaving  two  daughters,  Martha  and  Elizabeth.1  The 
following  extracts  are  from  the  Great  Somerford  parish 
register : — 

Mr.  John  Parham  of  Woot'ton  Bassettand  Mrs.  Mary  Alexander  were 
married  21  Oct.  1714. 

Mr.  Roger  Gauntlett  of  the  Lea  and  Ellice  Alexander  were  married 
16  June  1715. 

Mrs.  Joan  Alexander  was  buried  19  July  1721. 

Mr.  William  Alexander  was  buried  25  July  1724. 

The  will  of  William  Alexander,  proved  3ist  July,  1724 
(155  Bolton),  disposed  of  his  property  as  follows  : — 

To  daughters  Eleanor  and  Martha  Alexander  .£200  each,  half  of 
household  stuff  equally  divided,  40$.  each  within  6  months  and  40^. 
within  12  months  after  my  decease. 

To  grandchildren  Martha,  Ugenie,  William  and  Mary  Parham, 
Martha  and  Elizabeth  Alexander,  Sarah,  Martha,  Alice  and  Roger 
Gauntlett  los.  apiece. 

Rest  and  residue  of  real  and  personal  estate  to  son  Robert  Alexander 
whom  I  make  whole  and  sole  executor. 

Robert  Alexander,  clothier,  died  unmarried  in  1738,  leaving 
everything  to  be  equally  divided  between  his  two  sisters, 
Eleanor  and  Martha.  These  survivors  of  the  family  inhabited 
"Cottrell's  Homestead,"  the  inventory  of  Robert's  effects 

1  See  Estcourt  of  Swinley,  vol.  ii,  p.  406. 


66  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


amounting  to  ,£550,  and  including  a  large  quantity  of  wool 
and  yarn,  as  well  as  farm  stock,  four  yoke  of  oxen,  &c. 
Martha  Alexander  died  unmarried  in  1742,  after  which  Eleanor 
married  Henry  Aland  and  died  a  widow  in  1757,  leaving  over 
;£i,ooo  to  be  divided  between  her  nephews  and  nieces — the 
Taylors,  the  Gauntletts,  Roberson,  Ugena  and  Alice  Parham, 
Eleanor  daughter  of  Mr.  Joshua  Ralph,  of  Wootton  Bassett, 

and  Martha  daughter  of  Jonas 
Alloway;  £10  to  the  poor  of 
Somerford;  John  Smith,  gent, 
to  be  executor  and  residuary 
legatee. 

At  last  the  family  of  Smith  claims  our  attention,  connected, 
as  it  was,  from  generation  to  generation,  with  many  of  the 
other  families  which  have  been  noticed  in  these  annals  of 
Somerford.  The  name  of  "John  Smith"  is  not  one  of  the 
easiest  to  handle  in  genealogical  research,  especially  when  one 
finds  him  apparently  prevailing  through  a  couple  of  centuries, 
and  it  is  rather  a  relief  in  turning  to  one  of  the  oldest  docu- 
ments under  notice  (a  copy  of  Court  roll  of  the  manor  of 
Wanborough)  to  find  that  there  was  an  Anthony  Smythe  in 
the  27th  year  of  Elizabeth,  who  came  to 
the  Court  of  William  Darell,  esq.  (William 
Curteys,  steward),  and  surrendered  the 
reversion  of  a  messuage  and  one  virgate 

of  land  "in  le  East  field,"  then  in  the  tenure  of  Katherine 
Smythe,  widow,  the  same  holding  figures  in  a  succession  of 

copies,  Sir  John  Darell 
being  the  lord  in  1621-28, 
after  which  date  the  Court 
for  that  part  of  the  manor 
was  held  by  the  President  and  "scholars"  of  Magdalen  College, 
Oxford.1  Other  members  of  the  Smith  family  upon  the 


1  "  Accepti "  Frewen  was  president  in  1634-7,  Thomas  Goodwin  in  1659, 
and  Thomas  Pierce  in  1663-5.     Canon  Jackson's  notes  to  "  Wanborough  " 


Notes  on  Great  Somerford.  67 

rolls  were  Hellen,  widow  of  Anthony,  Thomas  and  John 
their  sons,  and  Thomas  and  Mary,  children  of  Thomas 
Smith  the  elder,  the  following  will1  being  almost  certainly 
that  of  the  above  Thomas  Smith  the  younger,  of  Wan- 
borough,  yeoman  : — 

Imprimis,  to  poor  of  Wanborough  20.?.  To  daughter  Ann  2os.  To 
son  John,  all  that  land  which  I  bought  of  Mr.  Gooding  which  was 
Wilkinses  land  formerly  to  him  and  his  heirs  for  ever,  also  .£300  to  said 
son  John  within  3  months  after  my  decease. 

To  said  son  John  all  the  corne  and  grase  that  shall  be  growing  at 
my  decease  upon  the  two  halfe  partes.  One  bedstead  in  the  Chamber 
over  the  hall  with  all  furniture  to  a  bed,  a  joyne  Tabell  and  six  joyne 
stouls  in  the  new  house  and  one  joyne  oaken  chaire  to  son  John. 

Item,  I  give  unto  my  loving  wife  one  shilling. 

To  my  son-in-law  Thomas  Loudays  (Loveday)  two  daughters  Mary 
and  Alyce  ^10  apiece  when  they  shall  attain  21  years.  To  my  son 
Thomases  two  daughters  Ann  and  Sarah  £10  at  21  years  of  age. 

To  my  son  Thomas  all  my  lands,  goods  and  chattels  not  before  given 
making  him  my  whole  and  sole  executor. 

John  Smith,  of  Wanborough,  yeoman,  "being  weake  in 
body  but  of  sound  and  perfect  memory,"  made  his  will  in 
April,  1702,2  in  the  following  terms  : — 

To  poore  people  of  Wanborough  40$. 

To  my  loving  wife  £40  and  all  my  household  goods  except  one 
feather  bed  and  all  that  doth  belong  to  it  which  I  give  to  my  grand- 
daughter Mary  Edwards  and  ^50  in  money.  To  my  granddaughters 
Elizabeth  and  Dorothy  Edwards  £20  apiece.  To  grandson  Thomas 
Edwards  £2.0.  To  daughter  Mary  Edwards  £20.  To  granddaughter 
Rebecca  Smith  £20  and  one  feather  bed.  Son  John  Smith  to  be  executor 
to  discharge  debts  and  pay  legacies  to  grandchildren  at  age  of  21. 

The  next  John  Smith,  executor  of  the  above  will,  is  easily 
identified  as  "John  Smith,  junior,  of  Overton,  gent."  (described 
as  "of  Wanborough"  in  deed  of  1697)  who  purchased  the 
"  Scite,  manor  house  and  demesne  lands  "  of  Great  Somerford, 
of  the  trustees  of  Sir  Richard  Hawkins  in  1698  (vol.  ii,  p. 

(Aubrey  and  Jackson,  p.  194)  give  much  information  about  the  manor,  in 
connexion  with  which  a  "Surveigh  of  Wanborough"  1720,  in  MS.,  found 
among  the  Smith  documents  and  containing  their  name  many  times  over,  is 
an  interesting  study. 

1  Proved  5  May,  1690  (Archdeaconry  Wilts,  No.  11). 

2  Proved  29  Oct.  1702  (Archdeaconry  Wilts,  No.  40). 

F  2 


68  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

547),  having  married  the  year  before,  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
Robert  Phelps  als.  Bromham,  of  West  Overton,  and  grand- 
daughter of  the  last  John  Mayo.  Of  their  four  children,  a 
daughter  Mary  married  John  Sweetapple,  of  Overton ;  Rebecca, 
as  already  stated,  became  the  wife  of  Lucian  Browne,  of 
Minety,  and  a  son  Thomas  is  believed  to  have  died  at  an 
early  age,  so  that  at  the  father's  death,  in  1724^  the  remaining 
son,  John,  born  in  1709,  succeeded  to  the  property.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Alexander,  granddaughter  of  Richard 
Estcourt,  of  Swinley,  thereby  joining  that  and  the  other 
Alexander  estates  to  his  own  purchases.  Two  sons,  both 
named  John,  died  in  early  infancy,  and  yet  a  third  John  grew 
to  be  a  bright,  promising  boy  of  16,  when  he  fell  a  victim  to 
that  scourge  of  the  time,  small-pox.2  His  mother,  Madam 
Smith  as  she  was  called,  was  left  a  widow  in  1765,  and 
after  her  son's  death  she  and  her  daughter  Elizabeth 
(born  in  1754)  were  the  sole  survivors  of  the  family  in  Somer- 
ford.  In  her  young  days  Miss  Smith  used  to  say  "Jack  will 
have  the  dirty  acres  and  I  shall  have  the  gold,"  but  poor  Jack's 
early  death  placed  her  in  possession  of  both,  which  no  doubt 
formed  the  bait  that  prompted  the  singular  and  audacious 
attempt  to  carry  her  off  bodily  on  a  September  evening  in  1774 
which  has  been  described  in  a  former  issue  of  this  magazine 
(vol.  i,  p.  407).  Miss  Smith  died  unmarried  in  1798  and  her 
memory  was  long  revered  in  Somerfprd.  In  seeking  an  heir 


1  "Mr.  Jobn  Smith  was  buried   1st  December,  1724."    "  Mr.  Thomas 
Smith  was  buried  1st  December,  1724."     (Great  Somerford  Parish  Register) 
These  were  probably  father  and  son.     The  Somerford  voters  in  the  Poll  of 
1705  were  John  Smyth,  Isaac  Reeks  (rector),  William  Alexander.  Richard 
Smyth,  John  Leonard,  William  Knap,   Richard  Lawrence,  Samuel  Knap, 
John  Pike,  Francis  Baskervil  and  Robert  Jacob,  for  the  candidates  Howe  and 
Hide.     Henry  Tuck,  John  Mills,  Edward  Sowthby  and  John  Collingborn,  for 
Ernie  and  Ash. 

2  Some  lines  upon  his  monument  in  Somerford  Church  describe  him  as 

"Of  manners  gentle  and  in  judgement  sound,"  but  "too  venturous  he 

through  human  art,"  perhaps  an  allusion  to  the  way  in  which  the  disease 
may  have  been  contracted. 


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her  choice  fell  upon  William  Jones  (who  took  the  name  of 
Smith),  a  son  of  a  first  cousin  on  the  Alexander  side.  He 
practised  as  a  surgeon  (for  the  most  part  gratuitously),  and  if 
the  monument  erected  by  his  "  neighbours  and  friends  "  in 
Somerford  Church1  can  be  trusted,  the  name  of  "  Dr.  Smith  " 
must  have  been  gratefully  remembered  by  many  whom  he  had 
benefited.  At  his  death  in  1833  the  property  passed  to  his 
sister  Mrs.  Mary  Birtill,  of  Bristol,  in  whose  family  it  still  y 
remains. 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 

(Continued  from  p.   15.^ 


PATENT,  39  Edward  III,  pt.  i,  m.  38;  and  EDINGDON 
CHARTULARY,  /  92. 

For  the  Rector  and  Friars  of  Edyndon. 

A.D.  1365.  —  Edward,  &c.,  King,  &c.,  &c.  We  have 
pardoned  Robert  Gundewyne  and  Thomas  Jurdan  for  their 
transgression  in  having  acquired  to  them  and  their  heirs  the 
manor  of  Bratton  with  its  appurtenances  from  Walter  Dansy, 
who  held  the  same  manor  and  the  manor  of  Dulton  of  us  by 
the  service  of  10  marks  paid  to  us  yearly  by  the  hands  of  the 
Sheriff  of  Wilts  and  45.  8d.  to  the  same  Sheriff  by  reason  of 
his  office  ;  and  for  entering  the  said  manor  of  Bratton  without 
our  licence.  And  we  grant  for  ourselves  and  our  heirs  to  the 


1  The  monument  was  fh-st  placed  upon  the  rood  screen,  but  removed  to 
its  present  position  over  the  doorway  when  the  church  was  restored  some 
years  ago.  The  coat  of  arms  above  the  inscription,  as  well  as  on.  Mr.  Smith's 
book-plates,  is  Azure,  a  clierron  engrailed  ermine  between  three  lions  passant 
gardant  argent.  Crest.  A  leopard's  head  erased,  chained  collared  argent. 
The  John  Smiths  of  the  17th  and  18th  centuries  used  various  armorial  seals, 
but  all  with  the  same  leopard's  head  crest. 


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Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


foresaid  Robert  and  Thomas  to  have  and  hold  to  themselves 
and  their  heirs  the  foresaid  manor  of  Bratton  of  us  and  of  our 
heirs  by  the  service  of  paying  10  marks  for  the  said  two 
manors  to  us  by  the  hands  of  the  Sheriff  of  the  county  afore- 
said and  45.  Sd.  to  the  same  Sheriff  yearly  forever.  Moreover 
we  concede  to  the  same  Robert  and  Thomas  that  they  may 
give  and  assign  the  said  manor  of  Bratton,  with  the  appur- 
tenances, which  is  worth  yearly  75.  Sd.  besides  the  foresaid 
rent  of  10  marks  and  45.  8d.  according  to  the  inquisition  thereof 
taken  by  John  Evesham  our  Eschaetor  in  Wiltshire ;  to  the 
Rector  and  Friars  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine  of  Edyndon ; 
to  Have  and  to  Hold  to  them  and  their  successors  of  us  and 
of  our  heirs  by  the  service  of  paying  10  marks  for  the  said 
two  manors  to  us  by  the  hands  of  the  Sheriff  of  the  county 
aforesaid,  and  45.  8d.  to  the  same  sheriff  by  reason  of  his  office 
yearly  in  value  one  mark  beyond  the  foresaid  service  ;  in  part 
satisfaction  of  100  marks  of  land  and  rent  which  we  have 
permitted  the  same  Rector  and  Friars  to  acquire.  And  we 
give  licence  to  the  Rector  and  Friars  to  receive  the  said 
manor  from  the  foresaid  Robert  and  Thomas.  Witness,  the 
King  himself,  at  Westminster,  28  January. 

EDINGDON  CHARTULARY,  f.  92. 

Charter  of  Robert  Gundewyne  and  Thomas  Jurdan, 

Chaplain  to  the  Rector. 

We  Thomas  Jurdan  and  Robert  Gundewyne  have  granted 
to  the  Rector  and  Friars  of  the  House  or  Monastery  of 
Edyndon  our  manor  of  Bratton  with  its  appurtenances  which  we 
lately  had  of  the  gift  of  Walter  Dansy.  To  Hold  to  them  and 
their  successors  of  the  chief  lords  of  that  fee  by  the  service 
therefore  due  and  customary  forever.  And  by  paying  yearly 
to  the  king  and  his  heirs  10  marks  and  to  the  Sheriff  of  Wilts 
for  the  time  being  45.  8d.  at  the  feast  of  the  Annunciation  for 
the  said  manor  and  the  manor  of  Bratton.  And  we,  &c.,  will 
warrant,  &c.  In  testimony  whereof  we  have  set  our  seals,  &c. 
Witnesses  ....  Bratton,  loth  February,  39  Edward  III. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  71 

FEET  OF  FINES.     WILTS.     [39-51  Edward  III.] 

A.D.  1366-71. — At  Westminster  in  the  quindene  of 
Michaelmas,  40  Edward  III,  and  afterwards  in  the  Octaves  of 
the  Holy  Trinity,  45  Edward  III.  Between  John  Mareys,  of 
Bradeforde,  and  Edith  his  wife,  plaintiffs,  and  John  Renger, 
of  Yatesbury,  and  Emma  his  wife,  deforciants,  of  20  messuages, 
4  carucates  of  land,  30  acres  of  meadow,  60  acres  of  pasture, 
30  acres  of  wood,  and  6s.  8d.  rent,  with  the  appurtenances  in 
Bradeforde,  Wyneslegh,  Bradelegh,  Southewyk  Yondebrok, 
Westbury,  Bratton,  Lye,  Hankrigge,  Shotestret,  and  Hewode. 
Plea  of  covenant  was  summoned.  John  Renger  and  Emma 
acknowledged  the  right  of  John  Mareys  to  the  said  tenements, 
of  which  John  and  Edith  have  19  messuages,  the  said  land, 
meadow,  pasture,  wood,  and  r-ent,  with  the  appurtenances,  of 
the  gift  of  John  Renger  and  Emma,  except  16  acres  of  land 
out  of  the  same  carucates  ;  to  have  and  hold  to  them  and  the 
heirs  of  John  Mareys  of  the  chief  lords  of  that  fee  by  the 
service  thereto  belonging  forever.  And  further,  John  Renger 
and  Emma  granted  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Emma  that 
the  one  messuage  of  land,  with  their  appurtenances,  above 
excepted,  which  John  Talbot  held  for  life  of  the  heritage  of 
Emma  in  Lye  aforesaid,  at  the  date  of  this  concord,  and  which, 
after  his  death,  ought  to  revert  to  John  Renger  and  Emma  and 
the  heirs  of  Emma,  after  his  death  shall  remain  wholly  to 
John  Mareys  and  Edith  and  the  heirs  of  John,  to  hold  together 
with  the  foresaid  tenements  of  the  chief  lords  of  that  fee  by 
the  service  thereto  belonging  forever.  And  John  Renger  and 
Emma  and  the  heirs  of  Emma  warranted  to  John  Mareys  and 
Edith  and  the  heirs  of  John  the  said  tenements  against  all  men 
forever.  For  this  John  Mareys  and  Edith  gave  John  Renger 
and  Emma  200  marks  silver. 

EDINGDON  CHARTULARY,  /  9ob< 

Release  of  Isabella  Peres  de  Langecote  to  the  Rector  of 

Edyndon. 

I,  Isabella  Peres  de   Langecote,  have  released  and  quit- 
claimed for  myself  and  heirs  to  John,  Rector  of  Edyndon,  and 


72  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

the  Convent  of  the  same  place  all  my  right  in  the  manors  of 
Bratton  and  Estrop,  with  the  appurtenances.  I  and  my  heirs 
will  warrant,  &c.,  to  the  Rector  and  Convent  and  their 
successors  forever.  In  witness  whereof  I  have  set  my  seal, 

&c.     Witnesses Estrop,  i6th  June,  46  Edward 

III. 

IBID.,  /  91.     FINE  OF  THE  SAME.     [Feet  of  Fines,  Wilts. 
39-51  Edward  III.] 

At  Westminster,  in  the  quindene  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  46 
Edward  III.  Between  John,  Rector  of  the  House  of  Edyndon, 
plaintiff,  and  Walter  Maryner,  of  Langecote,  and  Isabella  his 
wife,  deforciants,  of  the  manors  of  Bratton  and  Esthorp,  with 
appurtenances.  Plea  of  covenant  was  summoned.  Walter 
and  Isabella  recognised  the  right  of  the  Rector  and  his  House 
aforesaid.  And  they  quit-claimed  from  themselves  and  the 
heirs  of  Isabella  to  the  Rector  and  his  successors  and  his 
House  aforesaid  for  ever.  Moreover,  Walter  and  Isabella,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Isabella,  warranted  to  the  said 
Rector  and  his  successors  the  said  manor  against  all  men  for 
ever.  For  this  the  Rector  gave  Walter  and  Isabella  ,£200 
sterling. 

IBID.,/!  96.     [Feel  of  Fines.     Wilts.     39-51  Edward  III r.] 

A.D.  1373. — At  Westminster,  in  the  quindene  of  Easter,  47 
Edward  III.  Between  John,  Rector  of  the  Church  of 
Edyndon,  plaintiff,  and  John  Videln  and  Joan  his  wife, 
deforciants,  of  a  messuage,  40  acres  of  land,  8  acres  of 
meadow,  7  acres  of  pasture,  and  half  of  a  mill,  with  appur- 
tenances, in  Mulbourne  and  Bratton.  Plea  of  covenant  was 
summoned.  John  Videln  and  Isabella  acknowledged  the  right 
of  the  Rector  and  his  Church  of  B.  Mary  and  All  Saints  of 
Edyndon,  and  quitclaimed  from  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Joan  to  the  Rector  and  his  successors  and  the  Church  afore- 
said forever.  For  this  the  same  Rector  gave  John  Videln  and 
Joan  100  silver  marks. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  73 

GAOL  DELIVERY  ROLL.     No.  156,  nt.  n. 

A.D.  1373. — Gaol  delivery  of  Old  Sarum  at  New  Sarum, 
Monday  next  before  the  feast  of  St.  Peter-in-chains,  47 
Edward  III. 

Edward  le  Skynnere,  of  Bratton,  taken  before  the  Justices, 
because  at  Bratton,  in  the  Hundred  of  Westbury,  on  Sunday 
next  after  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  in 
46  Edward  III,  in  the  night-time,  he  entered  the  house  of 
Nicholas  de  Broke  and  broke  a  coffer  of  Nicholas,  and 
feloniously  carried  off  a  piece  of  silver  worth  105.  and  deeds 
and  divers  muniments  to  the  value  of  ^10,  with  other  chattels. 
The  Jury  acquit  him. 

LAY  SUBSIDY.     1~.     WILTS. 

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A.D.  1377. — William  Don,  one  of  the  collectors  of  the 
subsidy  of  iiija?.,  granted  in  the  last  Parliament,  in  the  County 
of  Wilts,  received  of  William  Conduyt,  constable,  James 
Swetappel  and  Andrew  Athelelme  of  the  townships  of  Bratton, 
Mulbourne  and  Stoke,  xlixs.  v'ujcf.  for  169  lay  persons  dwelling 
there  beyond  the  age  of  14  years.  April,  51  Edward  III. 

EDINGDON  CHARTULARY,  /  io7b> 

Charter  of  John  Herbelot  and  Christina  his  wife  to 

Augustine  her  son. 

A.D.  1379. — We,  John  Herbelot  de  Crofton  and  Christina 
my  wife,  have  granted  to  Augustine,  son  of  the  foresaid 
Christina,  all  our  lands  and  tenements,  with  meadows,  pastures 
and  pasturages,  and  all  other  their  appurtenances  in  Bratton, 
Mulbourne,  Lytelstoke,  and  in  all  other  places  in  the  Hundred 
of  Westbury  To  Hold  to  him,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever, 
of  the  chief  lords  of  that  fee  by  the  service  therefore  due  and 
accustomed.  And  we,  John  and  Christina,  will  warrant,  &c., 
against  all  people  forever.  In  testimony  whereof  we  have 
set. our  seals,  &c.  Witnesses Bratton,  Thurs- 
day next  after  the  feast  of  the  Nativity  of  the  B.V.  Mary,  3 
Richard  II. 


74  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

IBID. 
Charter  of  Augustine  to  Thomas  Bonham  and  others. 

A.D.  1382. — I,  Augustine,  son  of  Christina,  daughter  of 
William  Mauger,  of  Lewerton,  near  Hungerforde,  have 
granted  to  Thomas  son  of  Nicholas  de  Bonham,  John  Mareys, 
Thomas  Ode,  chaplain,  and  Andrew  atte  Watre,  all  my  lands 
and  tenements,  with  meadows,  pastures,  pasturages,  and  all 
other  their  appurtenances  in  Bratton,  Mulbourne,  and 
Lytelstoke,  and  in  all  other  places  in  the  Hundred  of 
Westbury  To  Hold  to  them  and  their  assigns  forever  of  the 
chief  lords  of  that  fee  by  the  service  due  therefore  and 
customary.  And  I,  Augustine,  and  my  heirs  will  warrant, 
&c.,  against  all  people  forever.  In  testimony  whereof  I  have 

set    my    seal,    &c.      Witnesses Bratton,    23rd 

May,  5  Richard  II. 

IBID. 

Release  of  John  Herbelot,  of  Crofton,  in  the  parish  of 
Bedeivynd,  and  Christina  his  wife,  to  Thomas,  son  of  Nicholas 
de  Bonham,  and  the  other  grantees  above-mentioned  and  quit- 
claim of  all  their  right  in  all  lands  and  tenements  with 
meadows,  pastures  and  pasturages,  and  all  other  their 
appurtenances  in  Bratton,  Mulbourn,  Lytelstoke,  and  all  other 
places  in  the  Hundred  of  Westbury.  Bratton,  26  May,  5 
Richard  II. 

CORONER'S  ROLL,  No.  204,  m.  7  &  m.  8. 

A.D.  1380. — Inquest  taken  at  Mulebourne  on  the  death  of 
Alice  Prute,  on  Monday  next  after  the  feast  of  the  Translation 
of  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr,  4  Richard  II.  The  Jury  say  that 
it  happened  in  the  tithing  of  Bratton  on  Sunday  in  the  Feast 
of  the  Translation  of  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr  in  the  year  above 
said,  that  the  foresaid  Alice  crossing  into  the  kitchen  of  John 
Bole,  looking  into  a  certain  cooking-pot  half  full  of  water,  fell 
into  it  by  misfortune,  and  thus  was  drowned.  The  first  finder 
thereof  was  Agnes  Prowete.  She  found  pledges  John  Bright 
and  Richard  Bat,  &c.  The  value  of  the  said  cooking-pot  was 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  75 

xiiof.     Whereof  the  township  of  Bratton  is  therefore  answer- 
able to  the  king. 

A.D.  1381. — Inquest  taken  at  Bratton  on  the  death  of 
Thomas,  son  of  Robert  Forest,  on  Monday  next  after  the 
Feast  of  the  Purification  of  the  B.V.  Mary,  4  Richard  II.  The 
Jury  say  that  it  happened  at  Bratton  in  the  Hundred  of 
Westbury,  the  sabbath  next  before  the  Feast  of  the 
Purification  in  the  year  above  said,  that  the  said  Thomas, 
being  in  his  Mother's  arms  about  the  hour  of  the  first  quarter 
of  the  night,  fell  by  mishap  from  her  arms  into  the  fire  and 
burnt  his  feet  and  legs,  by  which  he  died  on  the  Friday  next 
following. 

ASSIZE  ROLL.     No.  1502. 

A.D.  1391. — Suit  at  Salisbury,  Wednesday  next  before  the 
feast  of  St.  Matthias  the  Apostle,  14  Richard  II.  The  Assize 
come  to  take  cognizance  if  John  Bole,  senior,  and  John  Bole, 
junior,  disseised  John  Compayn,  junior,  of  his  freehold  in 
Nethermulbourne,  a  messuage,  a  toft  and  8^.  rent,  with  their 
appurtenances.  Richard  Grene  answered  for  the  defendants 
that  there  is  no  tenant  and  was  none  at  the  date  of  the  writ, 
20  January,  14  Richard  II,  and  that  there  was  no  disseisin  of 
the  said  tenements,  and  that  they  put  themselves  on  the 
assize.  Likewise  John  Compayn,  junior,  puts  himself,  &c. 
The  Jury  say  that  John  Compayn,  senior,  is  and  was  tenant, 
and  that  John  Compayn,  junior,  was  in  seisin  thereof  until  the 
defendants  disseised  him  with  force  and  arms,  to  the  damage 
of  405.  Therefore  John  Compayn,  junior,  is  to  recover  his 
seisin  and  damages,  and  John  Bole,  senior,  and  John  Bole, 
junior,  are  to  be  taken. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [16  Richard  II,  pt.   i,  No.  151. 
(Inquis.  ad  Quod  Damnum.)] 

A.D.  1392. — Inquisition  taken  at  Werminstre,  Saturday, 
August  3ist,  1 6  Richard  II.  The  Jury  say  that  it  is  not  to 
the  prejudice  of  the  king,  &c.,  if  he  allow  Thomas  Bonham  and 
John  Mareys  to  assign  10  messuages,  4  cottages,  4  tofts,  2 


76  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

carucates,  9  virgates  of  land,  4  acres  of  meadow,  and  pasturage 
for  24  oxen  and  300  sheep,  55.,  and  the  rent  of  ilb.  of  pepper, 
with  the  appurtenances,  in  Edyndon,  Covelston,  Beynton, 
Stepel-lavyngton,  Immere,  Bratton,  Bradelegh,  Asshton,  and 
"la  leese  "  near  Edyndon,  to  the  Rector  and  Friars  of  the 
monastery  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine  at  Edyndon  in  the 
diocese  of  Salisbury,  lately  founded  ;  to  hold  to  them  and 
their  successors  in  aid  of  their  maintenance  forever  .  .  . 
.  .  .  .  Whereof  i  messuage,  i  virgate  of  land,  and  pasture 
for  1 6  oxen  and  300  sheep,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Bratton, 
are  held  of  the  said  Rector  by  the  service  of  55.  &d.  yearly,  and 
are  worth  yearly  6s.  8d.,  and  with  a  messuage  and  a  virgate 
of  land  in  Stepellavyngton  he  holds  it  of  the  king  by  what 
service  they  do  not  know.  And  i  messuage,  2  tofts,  and  a 
carucate  of  land,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Immere,  are  held 
of  the  foresaid  Rector  for  205.  yearly,  and  he  holds  them  of 
John  Rous,  and  John  of  the  king,  by  what  service  they  know 

not,   and    they    are    worth    35.    ^d.   yearly And 

besides  this  donation  there  remains  to  Thomas  Bonham  half 
the  manor  of  Wychford  in  the  same  county,  held  of  the  Duke 
of  Lancaster  ;  and  to  John  Mareys  certain  lands  and  tenements 
in  Bradford,  held  of  the  Abbess  of  Shaston  ...  In 
witness  whereof  the  Jury  have  sealed.  Dated  in  the  year  and 
place  as  above. 

LAY  SUBSIDY.     ^  WILTS,     [cf.  EDINGDON  CHARTULARY, 
/  236.] 

A.D.  1402.- — [Inquisition,  3  Henry  IV,  in  aid  of  the  marriage 
of  Blanche  the  king's  daughter.] 

Inquisition  taken  at  New  Sarum,  Tuesday  next  after 
Palm  Sunday,  3  Henry  IV,  for  the  Hundred  of  Westbury. 

The  Rector  of  Edyndon  holds  the  manor  of  Bratton  and 
Dulton,  which  were  lately  Walter  Dansye's,  of  the  lord  king, 
immediately  by  the  service  of  half  a  knight's  fee. 

The  same  Rector  holds  the  manor  of  Bratton,  lately 
belonging  to  William  Maundevill,  immediately  of  the  king,  by 
the  service  of  half  a  knight's  fee. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  77 

INQUISITION  AD  QUOD  DAMNUM.     [7  Henry  IV,  No.  32.] 

A.D.  1405. — Inquisition  taken  at  Edyndon,  Wilts,  loth 
November,  7  Henry  IV.  The  Jury  say  that  it  is  not  to  the 
king's  prejudice,  &c.,  if  the  king  license  John  Elye,  clerk,  to 
assign  7  messuages,  i  virgate,  15^  acres  of  land,  i  acre  of 
meadow,  and  &d.  rent,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Stepullavyn- 
ton,  Dulton,  Lye,  Mulbourne,  Bratton,  Westhrop,  and  Fifhide, 
to  the  Rector  and  Friars  of  Edyndon  to  hold  to  them  and 
their  successors  in  aid  of  their  maintenance  forever.  Item, 
they  say  that  2  messuages,  i  yirgate  of  land,  and  8d.  rent, 
with  the  appurtenances  in  Stepullavynton,  i  messuage,  9  acres 
of  land,  and  i  acre  of  meadow,  with  appurtenances  in 
Mulbourne,  Bratton  and  Dulton,  of  the  foresaid  tenements  are 
held  of  the  said  Rector  and  Friars  as  of  their  manors  of 
Stepullavynton,  Dulton  and  Bratton,  by  the  service  of  35. 
yearly,  and  that  the  Rector  and  Friars  hold  the  said  manors 

of  the  king  in  chief  by  knight's  service 

The  foresaid  messuages,  lands,  meadow,  and  rent  in  Stepul- 
lavynton, Dulton,  Lye,  Mulbourne,  Bratton,  Westhrop,  and 
Fifhide  are  worth  yearly  according  to  the  true  value  135.  $d. 
The  said  John  holds  property  at  Teffont  of  the  Abbess  of 
Shaston,  which  is  sufficient  for  the  customs  due  for  the  fore- 
mentioned  lands  and  tenements,  as  well  as  for  what  remains 
to  him  after  this  assignment  is  made. 

In  witness  whereof  the  Jury  have  sealed.  Dated  as 
above. 

FEET  OF  FINES.     WILTS.     [1-14  Henry  IV. ~\ 

A.D.  1409. — At  Westminster,  three  weeks  after  Michael- 
mas, 10  Henry  IV.  Between  John  Westbury,  senior,  and 
Robert  Richard,  plaintiffs,  and  William  Westbury  and 
Katherine  his  wife,  deforciants,  of  3  messuages,  3  tofts,  3 
carucates,  and  2  acres  of  land,  24  acres  of  meadow,  100  acres 
of  pasture,  20  acres  of  wood,  and  405.  rent,  with  the  appur- 
tenances in  Westbury,  Hewode,  Bratton,  Lye,  Boxe, 


78  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Redelawe,  and  Kyngton.  Plea  of  covenant  was  summoned. 
William  and  Katherine  acknowledged  the  right  of  John  to  the 
foresaid  tenements  ;  of  which  the  same  John  and  Robert  have 
2  messuages,  2  tofts,  2  carucates  of  land,  12  acres  of  meadow, 
40  acres  of  pasture,  10  acres  of  wood,  and  20$.  rent,  with  the 
appurtenances,  of  the  gift  of  William  and  Katherine.  For  this 
John  and  Robert  granted  to  William  and  Katherine  the  same 
tenements  and  rent  with  the  appurtenances  to  hold  to  them 
and  the  heirs  of  their  bodies  of  the  same  John  and  Robert  and 
the  heirs  of  John  forever  ;  Returning  therefore  yearly  a  rose 
at  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  for  all  the 
service  and  custom  belonging  to  the  chief  lords  of  that  fee  for 
John  and  Robert  and  the  heirs  of  John  forever.  Moreover, 
John  and  Robert  granted  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  John 
that  the  one  messuage,  one  toft,  one  carucate  and  2  virgates  of 
land,  12  acres  of  meadow,  60  acres  of  pasture,  10  acres  of 
wood,  and  205.  rent  of  the  foresaid  tenements,  with  the 
appurtenances,  which  John  Megre  held  for  life  of  the  heritage 
of  John  Westbury  in  Westbury,  Hewode,  Bratton,  and  Lye 
at  the  date  of  this  concord  ought  to  revert  to  John  Westbury 
and  Robert  and  the  heirs  of  the  same  John,  after  the  death  of 
John  Megre,  shall  wholly  remain  to  William  and  Katherine 
and  their  heirs,  to  hold  together  with  the  foresaid  tenements 
and  rent  remaining  to  them  by  this  fine,  of  John  Westbury 
and  Robert  and  the  heirs  of  John  by  the  foresaid  service 
forever.  If  William  and  Katherine  die  without  heirs  of  their 
body,  the  said  tenements  and  rent  shall  wholly  revert  to  John 
Westbury  and  Robert  and  the  heirs  of  John,  quit  of  the  heirs 
of  William  and  Katherine,  to  hold  of  the  chief  lords  of  that 
fee,  by  the  service  belonging  forever. 

(To  be  continued.) 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  79 

QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

MARRIAGE  RECORDS. 


(Continued  from  p.  20.) 

R  (continued). 

1755-6-4. — Rachel  ROSE,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Rose,  of 
Devizes,  to  Dennis  NEWMAN,  of  Melksham,  at 
Devizes. 

1758-6-29. — John  RILY,  of  Avon,  Christian  Malford  ph., 
yeoman,  to  Mary  BASKERVILLE,  of  Pickwick, 
at  Corsham. 

1791-6-14. — Mary  RUTTY,  dau.  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  Rutty, 
late  of  Melksham,  to  Josiah  HANNAM,  of 
Gillingham,  at  Melksham. 

1800-6-11. — Allice  RAGGATT  to  Griffith  HUGHES,  of  Upton-on- 
Severn,  at  Broomham. 

S. 

1703-8-12.— Sarah  SELFE,  of  Lavington,  dau.  of  Isaac,  of  co.  of 
Wilts,  to  John  WILLIS,  Jr.,  of  Calston,  at 
Devizes. 

I7o3~i2-i4[?]. — Hannah  SKULL,  dau.  of  Thomas  Skull,  of 
Brinkworth,  to  William  WALKER,  at  Brink- 
worth. 

1705/6-11-21. — Giles  SHURMER,  of  Purton  Stoake,  to  Hester 
CLARK,  of  Devizes. 

1706-5-10. — Samuel  STINCHCOM  to  Jone  ODEY. 

1708-3-18. — Joseph  SARJANT,  of  Calne,  woollen  draper,  to 
Jone  HELE,  of  Charlcot,  at  Charlcott. 

1708-11-11. — James  SHEPPERD,  of  Charlcut,  Brimhill  ph., 
yeoman,  son  of  Thomas  Shepperd,  of  Poulset 
ph.,  to  Sarah  HARRIS,  of  Goteker,  at  Charlcut. 

i 709-1-29.  —  Dinah  SELF,  of  Market  Lavington,  to  John  GILES, 
of  Bristol,  at  Lavington. 

1709-5-6. — William  STOAKES,  of  Sands,  yeoman,  to  Elizabeth 
NARRAWAY,  of  Wootten  Bassett,  at  Charlcut. 

1709-7-28. — Jane  SMITH,  dau.  of  Catherine  Smith,  of  Miles 
Kington,  to  Nathanl.  HUTCHINS,  at  Fosket. 


80  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


1709-7-28. — Andrew  SEALY,  of  Devizes,  woolstapler,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  Sealy,  of  Whitston,  co.  of 
Devon,  to  Mary  GERISH,  of  Bromham  ph.,  at 
Bromham. 

1709-8-4. — Edward  SEAGER,  of  Mere,  shephard,  to  Christian 
BROWN,  of  Warminster,  at  Warminster. 

1710-5-6. — Rachel  SARJANT,  dau.  of  Joseph  Sarjant,  of  Calne, 
to  John  BASKERVILE,  of  Newtown,  at  Cain. 

1712-6-3. — Jane  SANGER,  of  Melksham,  dau.  of  Thos.  Sanger, 
to  Thomas  NASH,  of  Melksham,  at  Melksham. 

1712-7-16. — Benjamin  STILES,  of  Speen  Mills,  Speen  ph.,  co. 
of  Berks,  papermaker,  son  of  Joseph  Stiles,  of 
"Speen  ph.,  co.  of  Berks,  to  Lucy  WHEELER,  at 
Charlcut. 

1713-6-4. — Joseph  SARJANT,  of  Cain,  woollendraper,  son  of 
Joseph  Sarjant,  of  Calne,  to  Martha  CRABB,  at 
Broomham. 

1713-9-3. — Joan  SARJANT,  of  Carlcut,  Brimhil  ph.,  to  John 
COLESWORTHY,  of  Westwood,  at  Charlcut. 

1714-1-31. — John  SMITH,  of  Calne,  clothworker,  son  of  Robert 
Smith,  of  Hullavington,  to  Margery  STOAKES, 
dau.  of  William  Stoakes,  of  Sands,  Calne  ph., 
at  Cain. 

1714-3-6. — Rebecca  SARJANT,  of  Calne  Hill,  within  the  liberty 
of  Charlcut  M.  Meeting,  dau.  of  Joseph 
Sarjant,  of  Calne,  to  John  BIDDLE,  of  Nind,  at 
Charlcut. 

1715-6-8. — Joseph  SARJANT,  of  Calne,  woollendraper,  son  of 
Joseph  Sarjant,  of  Calne,  to  Ruth  SMITH,  dau. 
of  Daniel  Smith,  of  Marlbro,  at  Marlbro. 

1715-7-22. — John  SMITH,  of  Bromham  House,  Bromham  ph., 
maltster,  son  of  William  Smith,  of  Bromham, 
to  Elizabeth  CLARK,  of  Bradford,  at  Corsham. 

1718-6-10. — Eliz.  SANGER,  dau.  of  Henry  Sanger,  of  Warmin- 
ster, to  Thos.  BEAVEN,  of  Melksham,  at 
Bromham. 

1719/20-1-8. — Mary  SMART,  of  Michaels  Kington,  spinster, 
dau.  of  Edward  Smart,  of  Grittleton,  to  Jacob 
YOUNG,  of  Rough  Earthcott. 

1719/20-11-31. — Elizabeth  SMITH,  of  Bradford,  dau.  of  John 
CLARK,  of  Bradford,  to  Jno.  PAYNE,  of  Bridg- 
water,  at  Bradford. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  81 

1720-2-7. — Stephen  SHEWRING,  of  Bradford,  taylor,  son  of 
Phillip  Shewring,  of  Collerne,  to  Anne  BOWYER, 
late  of  Rexall,  at  Comerwell. 

1720-4-29. — Mary  SMITH,  dau.  of  Mary  Smith,  of  Chippenham, 
to  Edward  BOND,  of  Calne,  at  Chippenham. 

1720-8-6. — Wm.  SPARROW,  of  Bradford  ph.,  husbandman,  to 
Amey  RAWLINS,  of  Bradford  ph.,  at  Comberwell. 

1720/1-1-16. — Danl.  [?]  SMART,  of  Kington,  son  of  Edwd. 
Smart,  of  Grittleton,  to  Hannah  BRISTOW,  of 
Fosket,  at  Hullavington. 

1721-4-29. — Mary  SANGER,  dau.  of  Henry  Sanger,  of  War- 
minster,  to  James  BOND,  at  Froome. 

1722-2-18. — Betty  SMITH,  dau.  of  Mary  Smith,  of  Chippenham, 
to  Richd.  LITTLE,  at  Chippenham. 

1722-2-20. — Sarah  SMITH,  dau.  of  Wm.  Smith,  of  Broomham 
house,  to  Thomas  GERRISH,  at  Broomham. 

1722-3-20. — William  SMITH,  of  Bromham,  yeoman,  to  Ruth 
CHITY,  of  Marlbro,  at  Marlbro. 

1722-7-19. — Martha  SUMPSION,  of  Slaughterford  ph.,  to  Phillip 
BRYANT,  of  Eaton  ph.,  at  Slaughterford. 

1722-11-22. — Jone  SHEWRING,  of  Melksham,  widow  of  Simon 
Shewring,  to  Richd.  PINNOCK,  of  Inmarsh,  at 
Melksham. 

1724-10-29. — Amos  SUMTION,  of  Melksham,  joiner,  son  of 
Wm.  Sumtion,  late  of  South  Wrexell,  to 
Deborah  NEWMAN,  at  Melksham. 

1725-3-23. — Cleare  SMITH,  son  of  William  Smith,  of  Broomham 
house,  Broomham  ph.,  to  Mary  BRADFEELD,  of 
Devizes,  at  Devizes. 

1726-11-22. — Thomas  SHUTE,  of  Melksham,  chandler,  to  Mary 
CAPE,  at  Warminster. 

1728-1-9. — Jane  [?]  SANGER,  daughter  of  Henry  Sanger,  of 
Warminster,  to  Robert  APPLEGARTH,  Jr.,  of 
Swallowfield,  at  Warminster. 

1728-5-14. — Martha  SANGER,  dau.  of  Henry  Sanger,  of  War- 
minster, to  Robert  FARNELL,  of  Bristol,  at 
Melksham. 

1728-9-10. — Henry  SANGER,  of  Warminster,  maltster,  to  Mary 
GYE,  of  Lavington,  at  Lavington. 

1729-8-15. — John  SHURMER,  of  Devizes,  mealman,  son  of 
Giles  and  Hester  Shurmer,  of  Devizes,  to 
Christian  FRY,  of  Calstone,  at  Cain. 

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82  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1730-3-7. — Mary  SMITH,  dau.  of  Richard  Smith,  of  Harden,  to 
George  HILLIER,  of  Avon,  at  Slaterford. 

1731-11-31. — Isaac  SARJANT,  son  of  Isaac  Sarjant,  of  GrickJ 
stone,  Horton  ph.,  co.  of  Gloucester,  to  Mary 
YOUNG,  at  Hullington. 

x732/3-i-i2. — Jacob  SELF,  son  of  Isaac  Self,  late  of  Lavington, 
to  Hanah  RILY,  at  Lavington. 

1733-5-19. — Henry  SIMS,  of  city  of  Canterbury,  co.  of  Kent, 
linen-draper,  to  Martha  WALDERN,  at  Laving- 
ton. 

1734-3-20. — Sarah  SANGER,  dau.  of  Henry  Sanger,  of 
Warminster,  to  Charles  TYLER,  of  Bearfield,  at 
Comerwell. 

1734-4-24. — William  STOVEY,  of  Hilperton  Marsh,  Hilperton 
ph.,  yeoman,  to  Sarah  FLOWER,  of  Corsham, 
at  Corsham. 

1 735-2- 1 6. — William  STOVEY,  of  Hilperton  Marsh,  Hilperton 
ph.,  yeoman,  to  Elizabeth  JAMES,  of  Stockley, 
at  Calne. 

1735-I2-19- — William  STOVEY,  of  Corsham  ph.,  baker,  son  of 
William  Stovey,  of  Hilperton,  to  Mary  DAVIS, 
at  Corsham. 

1737-11-22. — Isaac  SELFE,  of  Lavington,  shopkeeper,  to  Eliza- 
beth FURNELL,  at  Broomham. 

1739-2-15. — Samuel  SHURMER,  of  Melksham,  apothecary,  son 
of  Giles  Shurmer,  of  Devizes,  to  Mary 
BEAVEN,  at  Broomham. 

1742-3-19. — Clare  SMITH,  of  Broomham  House,  Broomham 
ph.,  yeoman,  to  Mary  EDWARDS,  late  of  Notion, 
at  Chippenham. 

1743-1-27. — Mary  SARJANT,  dau.  of  Joseph  Sarjant,  of  Calne, 
to  Thomas  NEATE,  of  Calne,  at  Calne. 

I752-5~I7- — Joanna  SYMS,  dau.  of  Matthew  Syms,  of  Bradford, 
to  Thomas  ALLEN,  of  Bradford,  at  Bradford. 

1753-12-2. — Obadiah  SMITH,  son  of  Richard  Smith,  of  Ashley, 
Bradford  ph.,  to  Mary  SPENCER,  of  Ashley, 
Bradford  ph.,  at  Bradford. 

1 754-9-25- — Hanh.  SANGER,  dau.  of  Saml.  Sanger,  of  Melksham, 
to  Jonathan  RUTTY,  of  Melksham,  at  Melksham. 

1759~8-I9- — William  SMITH,  son  of  Clare  Smith,  of  Bromham 
House,  Broomham  ph.,  to  Mary  HUNT,  at 
Broomham. 


Old  Lackhain  House  and  its  Owners.  83 

1762-9-30. — Ann  SMITH,  late  of  Pickwick,  Corsham  ph.,  widow 
of  John  Smith,  to  Richard  FRY,  Jr.,  of  Calne, 
at  Slauterford. 

1765-5-21. — Benjamin  SAWYER,  of  Attworth,  yeoman,  to  Jane 
WEBB,  late  of  Corsham  side,  at  Corsham. 

1772-12-17. — Mary  SARGENT,  dau.  of  Daniel  Sargent,  of 
Griddleton,  to  Charles  TRUSTED,  of  Stoke 
Gifford,  at  Hullavington. 

1776-11-4. — Isaac  SARGENT,  son  of  Daniel  and  Jane  Sargent, 
of  Grittleton,  to  Lydia  ALLEN,  at  Bradford. 

1777-10-14. — Joseph  STURGE,  of  Elberton,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Frances  Sturge,  of  Olveston,  co.  of  Gloucester, 
to  Sarah  SARGENT,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Jane 
Sargent,  of  Grittleton,  at  Hullington. 

i78o-i-26[?]. — Thomas  STURGE,  of  city  of  New  Sarum,  oil 
leather-dresser,  son  of  Joseph  and  Frances 
Sturge,  of  Olveston,  co.  of  Gloucester,  to  Lydia 
MOXHAM,  at  Melksham. 

1793-12-11. — William  Tully  SiMPSON,1  of  city  of  Bristol, 
apothecary,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  Simpson, 
of  city  of  Bristol,  to  Maria  GUNDRY,  at  Calne. 

1829-7-10. — Edward  SMITH,2  of  Haymarket,  London,  chemist, 
son  of  Frederick  and  Sarah  Smith,  of  London, 
to  Eliza  GUNDRY,  at  Calne. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 
Ruskin  Road,  Tottenham,  Middx. 

(To  be  continued.) 


Mr.  W.  Cunnington  has  a  Quaker  Marriage  Certificate 
dated  1699,  of  Thomas  ROSE,  of  Devizes,  son  of  William  Rose, 
"  Wheler,"  to  Mary  FRY,  of  Bath,  daughter  of  Samuel  Fry, 
of  Trowbridge,  signed  by  the  father  and  eight  relatives,  and 
twenty-six  other  witnesses.  It  has  a  55.  stamp.  "The  differ- 
ence of  date  between  the  marriage  of  the  son,  and  that  of  the 
daughter  Sarah,  1741,  is  remarkable." 

1  Wm.  Tully  Simpson  (1769-1808)  removed  to  Melksham  shortly  after 
his  marriage,  and  became  the  ancestor  of  the   Quaker  family  of  Simpson, 
once   numerous  and    still  represented  at   Melksham,   with   a    branch    at 
Devizes. 

2  Edward  and  Eliza  Smith  are  believed  to  be  pourtrayed  in  the  well- 
known    Quaker   picture,    "The    Quiet    Hour,"  painted    by    Haydon,   and 
engraved   by  J.  E.  Coombs.     The  husband   is  also  pictured   in    "  London 
Yearly  Meeting,"  an  oil  painting  by  Samuel  Lucas,  of  Hitchin,  about  1840. 

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84  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  25.) 


159.  Anno  28.  —  Alexander  Longford  and  John  Townsende 
als.  Syms,  son  and  heir  of  William  Townsende  als.  Syms,  and 
Edith  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Hilprington  and 
Whadon.  ,£50. 

1  60.  Anno  28.  —  Alexander  Walker  and  Charles  Wryothes- 
ley,  Wyndesor,  one  of  the  King's  Heralds  ;  messuages  and 
lands  in  Crekelade  Magna,  Chelworth  parva,  Chelworth  and 


161.  Anno    28.  —  William    Shelley,    knt.,    justice    of   the 
King's    Bench,    and    Alice    his    wife,    George    Shelley,    cler., 
Richard  Shelley,  arm.,  and  Edward  Shelley,  arm.,  and  Thomas 
West,  knt.,  Lord  de  la  Warr  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  manor  of 
Eston  alias  Eston  Basset  and  Lucyes,  messuages  and  lands  in 
Eston  alias  Eston  Bassett,  Lucyes,  Cotyes  Donyet  Andrewe, 
and   Berwicke   Seyntjohn,   Barwikescombe,   and  Asshecombe. 
^340. 

162.  Anno  29.  —  Thomas  Mompesson,  gen.,  and  Thomas 
Ingram  ;  lands  in  Sheryngton.     20  marks. 

163.  Anno  29.  —  Ambrose  Dauntesey  and  John  Abayth 
als.  Wheytacre  and  Anna  his  wife  ;    messuages  and  lands  in 
Heywood  in  the  parish  of  Westburye.     ^£40. 

164.  Anno    29.  —  Thomas    Semayne,    gen.,    and  Thomas 
Mompesson,  gen.  ;    lands  in  Calne  called   Breche,  near  Port- 
marsshe.     10  marks. 

165.  Anno  29.  —  Walter  Moham  and  Edith  Poole,  widow; 
messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum,  Fisherton  Anger  juxta 
Madyngton,  Rolleston  and  Dymerton.     ,£40. 

1  66.  Anno  29.  —  Robert  Southe  and  John  Donkeley  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  sister  and  heir  of  Edward  South  ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  New  Sarum.  80  marks. 

167.  Anno  29.  —  William  Willyngton,  arm.,  and  John 
Peyto,  arm.,  and  Margaret  his  wife;  half  the  manor  of  Est 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire  85 

Lavington,  otherwise  called  Lavington  Garnam,  otherwise 
called  Lavington  Forum,  otherwise  called  Esterton  in  the 
parish  of  Est  lavington,  messuages  and  lands  in  Lavington. 

^200. 

1 68.  Anno     29. — William     Goddard     and    Christopher 
Morgan,  gen.,  and  Johanna  his  wife  ;  a  third  part  of  the  manor 
of  Bury  Blondesdon,  messuages  and  lands  in  Bury  Blondesdon. 

^200. 

169.  Anno  29. — William  •  Dauntesey    als.  Lord    William 
Dauntesey,  citizen  and  alderman  of  London,  and  George  Earl 
of  Huntingdon  and  lady  Anna  his  wife,  and  Francis  Hastings, 
knt.,  Lord  Hastynges,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  the  said  Earl ; 
manors  of  Boxe,  Warminster  and  Gowre,  messuages  and  lands 
in  Gowre,  Henley  alias  Hynley  and  Bowram,  also  the  advow- 
son    of    the    churches    of    Boxe    and    Warminster.      ,£600. 
[Mutilated.] 

170.  [Anno  29?] — Anthony  Wyllughby,  knt.,  and  Eliza- 
beth his  wife,  Walter  Wyllughby,  [?  son  and  heir]  of  the  same 
Anthony,  and  Henry  Marquess  of  Exeter ;    manor  of  Warder, 
messuages  and  lands  in  [WJarder.     [This  document  is  much 
mutilated.] 

171.  Anno  29. — Edward  Dene,  of  New  Sarum,  mercer, 
and  Thomas  Chaffyn,  of  New  Sarum,  mercer  ;    messuages  and 
lands  in  Warminster,  Bugley  Whitbourne,  Corsley,  Bischop- 
trowe  and  Crowchiston. 

172.  Anno  29. — Thomas  Chaffyn  and  Edward  Dene,  and 
John  Chaffyn  and  Johanna  his  wife ;    messuage  in  Warmester. 
^40. 

173.  Anno    30. — Robert    Holme,  John    Hawles,    Robert 
Southe  and  John  Hawles,  junior,  and  Edward   Bircher,  son 
of  John  Bircher,  gen.  ;    messuages  and  land  in   New  Sarum 
called  The  Falcon  in  Castle  Street.     ,£40. 

174.  Anno    30. — Richard    Jervys,    and  George    Earl    of 
Huntingdon  and  Anna  his  wife,  Francis  Hastyngs,  knt.,  Lord 
Hastings,    son    and     heir-apparent    of    the    said    Earl,    and 
Katherine  his  wife;    manor  of  Britford,  messuages  and  lands 


86  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

in   Britford,    Pencherd,    Alderbury,    Combe   and    Alvedeston. 

^I0°- 

175.  Anno    30. — Edward    Baynton,    knt.,    and    Thomas 
Hanley,  chaplain  of  the  chantry  of  Master  Gilbert   Kymer, 
formerly    dean    of    Sarum     Cathedral,    Richard     Bishop    of 
Winchester,   treasurer   of  the   Cathedral,   and    Peter   Vanne, 
dean  ;  manor  of  Westhacche.     ,£160. 

176.  Anno    30. — John    Godard    and    William    Busshe; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Est  Bedwyn  and  West  Bedwyn,  ,£80. 

177.  Anno  30. — Walter  Hungerford,  knt.,  Lord  Hunger- 
ford,  of   Haytysbury,   and   Peter   Morgan,    son    and   heir    of 
Edward  Morgan  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Boram,  Warminster 
and  Bussheupstrowe.     ^36. 

178.  Anno      30. — William      Dauntesey     and      Edmund 
Walwyn ;  messuage  and  land  in  North  Tudworth.     ,£200. 

179.  Anno    30. — William     Essex,     knt.,     and    William 
Sandys,    knt.,    Lord     Sandys,    chamberlain    of    the     King's 
Household,  and  Margery  his  wife;    manor  of  Charleton  alias 
Hopgrace,  messuages  and  lands  in  Charleton  alias  Hopgrace 
and  Hungerforde.     ,£200. 

1 80.  Anno  30. — Henry  Bruges,  arm.,  and  John  Browne, 
gen.,  and  Agnes  his  wife ;    messuages  and  lands  in  Lyddyard 
Tregos,  Lyddyard  Mylsent,  Mordon  and  Pirton.     ^200. 

181.  Anno  30. — The  King   and  John  Coope,  arm.,  and 
Margery  his  wife ;    a   rental  of  £22  and    appurtenances    in 
Heyle  and  Woodford.     ,£22. 

182.  Anno   31. — William   Stumpe   and    Henry    Pudsey, 
arm.  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Vpaven.     100  marks. 

183.  Anno  31. — Stephen  Sharpe  and  Roger  de  la  Lynde, 
gen.,   and  Anna  his    wife,  daughter  and    heiress  of   William 
Lythfote,  deceased ;  messuages  in  South  street  in  the  borough 
of  Wilton.     20  marks. 

184.  Anno  31. — Edmund    Foxe  and    Alianore  his  wife, 
and  Roger  de  la  Lynde,  gen.,  and  Anna  his  wife,  daughter 
and   heiress    of  William    Lythfote,    deceased ;    messuages  in 
Winchester  Street  and  Brown  Street  in  New  Sarum. 


Dugdale  of  Seend.  87 


185.  Anno  31. — Robert  Nicholas  and  John  Zouche,  knt., 
Lord   Zouche    Seyntmawre   and   Cantelupe  ;    messuages  and 
lands  in  Calne.     40  marks. 

1 86.  Anno  31. — Walter  Semar  and  John  Zouche,  knt., 
Lord  Zouche   Seyntmawre  and  Cantelupe  ;  a  fourth   part  of 
the  manor  of  Immer  alias  Imber,  and   a  fourth    part  of  the 
lands  in  Imber.     ,£40. 

187.  Anno    31. — Thomas    Dynham,   gen.,    and  Johanna 
Fitzwylliam,  widow  ;  a  third  part  of  the  manor  of  Scalesayles- 
bury,  messuages  and  lands  in  Scalesaylesbury.     ,£140. 

1 88.  Anno  31. — Michael  Dormer,  arm.,  and  George  Earl 
of    Huntingdon  and  Anna  his  wife,   and    Francis   Hastings, 
knt.,    Lord    Hastings    and    Katherine    his    wife ;    manors    of 
Rowdon  and  Chyppingham,  messuages  and  lands  in  Rowdon 
and  Chyppingham.     ^380. 

189.  Anno  31. — William  Howbere  and  Edith  Whyttokes- 
mede,  widow ;  messuage  and  lands  in  Pollesholds.     50  marks. 

190.  Anno  31. — John  Marshe,  gen.,  John  Soon,  Robert 
Aschec,    William    Wygge    and     Robert    Cottell,    and    John 
Brownesmithe  and  Margaret  his  wife ;    messuage   and   lands 
in  Magna  Schypryge.     ^"40. 

191.  Anno  31. — William  Webbe  and  John  Urrye,  senior, 
and    Elizabeth    his    wife,   daughter    and    heiress  of    Richard 

Martin ;  messuage  in  New  Sarum.     ^40. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.) 


DUGDALE  OF  SEEND. 

(See  Vol.  I)  pp.  174,  194,  and  Vol.  II,  p.  39.) 


We  are  enabled,  by  the  kind  permission  of  Mr.  Coleman, 
of  Tottenham,  to  give  extracts  from  some  more  Dugdale  deeds, 
and  also  to-add  some  monumental  inscriptions,  printed  many 
years  ago  in  the  Genealogist,  which  will  further  elucidate  and 
illustrate  the  pedigree  of  this  family. 


88  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1609.  May  1 4th.  William  Geerishe,  of  Senehead, 
clothier,  grants  in  exchange  to  Christopher  Dugdaile,  clerk,  a 
meadow  called  Northcroft  and  an  acre  and  120  perches  of 
pasture,  &c.,  in  Broods,  in  Seenerewe,  for  a  plot  of  meadow 
in  Readings  mead,  2  acres  and  3  yardes  in  Seenerewe  afore- 
said, signed  by  William  Geerishe.  Witnesses,  William 
Ranger  and  Thomas  Dugdaile.  Seal  missing. 

1639.  March  24th.  Indenture  between  Thomas  Dugdale 
the  elder,  of  Seend  Row,  yeoman,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife, 
Christopher  their  eldest  son,  Thomas  their  second  son.  That 
the  following  lands  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the  said  Thomas 
Dugdale  the  elder  during  his  life,  and  afterwards  to  the  use  of 
his  wife  Elizabeth  for  her  life,  and  afterwards  to  Thomas 
Dugdale  the  younger  and  his  heirs,  &c.,  in  default  of  such  to 
Christopher  their  son  and  his  heirs,  &c. ;  messuages  and 
orchard,  2  acres  and  a  close  called  Dunhams  lying  by  Millpond 
side  over  against  said  orchard ;  z\  acres,  now  or  late  in  tenure 
of  Margaret  Geerishe,  widow;  tenement  (i  rood)  near  Balde- 
nam  Bridge,  now  or  late  in  tenure  of  Daniell  Twenny ;  4  acres 
of  arable  land  in  an  enclosed  ground  of  5  acres,  taken  out  of 
a  •  field  called  Thorneham,  shooting  upon  Rye  ditch,  and 
dwelling-house  of  said  Daniell  Twenny  (William  Usher's  acre 
in  the  centre) ;  i  acre  of  4  Ridges  in  Little  Sandfield  shooting 
down  to  said  Daniell  Twenny's  dwelling-house  ;  6  acres  of 
pasture  called  Honyes  adjoining  the  orchard  of  Thomas 
Dugdale  the  elder's  now  dwelling-house ;  k  an  acre  of  meadow 
ground  called  Rowhamme  by  the  waterside  below  Little 
Sandfield ;  i  rood  of  arable  by  the  wayside  shooting  to 
Pittwell  near  Seend  Head  ;  2  acres  of  a  meadow  called  the 
Lyntch  by  the  Millpond  of  Seend  Head;  i|  acre  in  Little 
Sandfield  lying  on  west  side  of  an  acre  belonging  to  Thomas 
Basdall  (?  Barkesdale) ;  i  acre  in  Little  Sandfield  shooting 
from  the  way  by  Pittwell  down  upon  the  Lyntch  and  lying 
on  the  east  side  of  piece  of  land  of  Thomas  Sumner ;  i  acre 
in  same  Sandfield  shooting  from  the  Highway  down  to 
Ryeditch.  Signed  by  Christopher  and  Thomas  Dugdale  the 


Dugdale  of  Seend.  89 


younger;    amongst  the  Witnesses  is  John  Trimnell,  perhaps 
Elizabeth  Dugdale's  father.     Seal  missing. 

1680.  March  loth.     Indenture  in  which  Thomas  Dugdale 
the  elder,  of  Seend,  gent.,  surrenders  the  lands  mentioned  in 
the  previous  deed  to  his  son  Thomas  Dugdale  the  younger,  of 
Seend,  clothier,  upon  condition  that  he  pay  to  his  father  at  his 
dwelling-house,  at    Seend,  ^2000,  on    the  following    2oth  of 
January.     Signed  by  Thomas  Dugdale,  senr.     Seal  missing. 

1681.  Aug.    a6th.      Release    and    quitclaim   signed   by 
Thomas  Dugdale    the  elder  and  witnessed    by  Thomas    and 
John  Somner,  and  Thomas  Child. 

1685.  July  4th.  Thomas  Dugdale,  of  Seend  Head, 
clothier,  in  contemplation  of  a  marriage  between  him  and 
Jane  the  daughter  of  Ambrose  Awdry,  of  Melksham,  mercer, 
in  consideration  of  ^600  marriage  portion,  conveys  the  above 
lands,  or  some  of  them,  as  well  as  5  acres  in  the  Westfield, 
near  Baldenam  Mill,  shooting  east  and  west,  having  John 
Parradice's  lands  on  south,  and  John  Jones'  east  and  north, 
lands  formerly  of  Robert  Nicholas,  Esq.,  on  the  west,  pur- 
chased by  Thomas  Dugdale  the  elder,  deceased,  from  John 
May  and  Jane  his  wife,  and  another  5  acres  (lately  enclosed 
out  of  Westfield)  formerly  in  possession  of  John  Wadman,  of 
Imber,  gent.,  to  Thomas  Goddard  the  younger,  of  Rudloe,  in 
Box,  gent.,  John  Awdry,  of  Melksham,  mercer,  and  the  said 
Ambrose  Awdry,  to  the  use  of  the  said  Thomas  Dugdale,  and 
after  his  death  to  that  of  Jane  his  wife,  and  after  death  of 
survivor  to  the  use  of  eldest  son,  &c.,  &c.  Signed  by  Thomas 
Goddard,  John,  Ambrose  and  Jane  Awdry,  and  witnessed  by 
George  Awdry,  Ambrose  Awdry,  junr.,  Robert  Blackmore. 
Four  seals,  one  missing,  a  fleur-de-lys ;  I.  A.  interlaced  ;  and 
on  a  fess  between  three  Moor's  heads  in  profile  couped  as 
many  crescents.  Crest,  a  Moor's  head  couped  and  gorged  at 
the  neck.  Was  not  the  above  the  father  of  Sir  Richard 
Blackmore,  born  at  Corsham,  a  well-known  physician  and 
author  in  the  reign  of  William  III  ? 

(To  be  continued?) 


90  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Wiltshire  Briefs. — Great  Longsdon,  co.  Derbyshire,  1653, 
Aug.  7,  collected  in  the  Church  the  sum  of  gs.  and  id.  for  the 
inhabitants  of  Maryborough. 

Clent,  co.  Worcester,  1679,  March  30,  coll.  for  a  fire  at 
Lurgishall  in  ye  Cou'ty  of  Wilts,  35.  lod.  ob. 

1691.  Collected  upon  a  Briefe  for  a  fire  at  B'ps  Lavinton 
in  Wiltsh.,  45.  6d. 


A  Chippenham  M.P.  in  Newgate. — Among  the  Petitions 
in  Parliament,  i4th  Edward  IV  (A.D.  1473-4),  is  one  from 
William  Hyde,  Esq.,  "  Burges  of  the  Toune  and  Burgh  of 
Chippenham  in  Wiltshire  electe,"  who  "came  by  your  high 
commaundement  to  this  your  present  Parliament,"  and  whilst 
attending  the  same  was  arrested  at  Lambeth  by  colour  of  a 
capias  ad  satisfaciend'  directed  to  the  Sheriff  of  Middlesex, 
and  "by  myschevous  men,  murtherers,  unknowen  for  any 
officers,  withoute  the  shewyng  of  any  warant,"  taken,  carried 
to  London  at  the  suit  of  John  Marshall,  citizen  and  mercer, 
for  ^69,  imprisoned  in  the  counter  there,  and  from  thence  had 
to  Newgate  "  as  and  he  had  bee  a  traitour,"  and  then  brought 
to  your  Bench  before  your  Justices,  and  by  them  remitted  to 
Newgate,  where  for  the  said  £69  and  costs,  and  also  for 
£4  65.  8d.  to  Thomas  Gay  the  younger,  citizen  and  tailor,  he 
is  still  detained  "  to  grete  delay  and  retardation  of  procedyng, 
and  goode  expedition  of  such  matiers  and  bosoignes,  as  for 
your  Highnes,  and  the  commen  wele  of  this  your  Reame,  in 
this  present  Parlement  were  to  be  doon  and  spedde." 

He  prays  the  King's  Highness  by  the  advice  and  assent 
of  the  lords  spiritual  and  temporal,  in  Parliament  assembled, 
to  ordain  that  the  Chancellor  of  England  have  power  to  direct 
the  King's  writ  to  the  Sheriffs  of  London  commanding  them 
to  have  the  said  William  Hyde  before  him,  without  delay,  and 
then  to  dismiss  him  at  large,  "  so  that  the  said  William  may 
attende  to  this  your  Parlement  as  his  duetie  is  to  doo."  And 
that  by  the  said  authority  neither  Chancellor,  Sheriff,  or  any 


Thermuthis.  91 


other  person  be  hurt  or  damaged  by  such  dismissal ;  and  also, 
by  the  same  authority,  to  ordain  that  the  right  and  interest  of 
the  crown  be  saved  in  this  behalf;  and  that  the  said  creditors, 
Marshall  and  Gay,  have  writ  or  writs  of  execution,  on,  of,  and 
from  the  premyses,  after  the  dissolution  of  this  present 
Parliament  as  fully  and  effectually  as  if  the  said  William  Hyde 
never  had  been  arrested  ;  the  said  arresting  and  committing 
of  him  to  ward  nothwithstanding,  &c. 
Response. — The  King  wills  it. 


©ueries. 


Thermuthis. — This  unusual  Christian  name  occurs  in 
the  case  of  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Martin,  esq.,  of  Kennett,  who 
married  Robert  Cooke,  esq.,  and  died  2ist  Dec.  1823,  aged  76 
years.  (See  tablet  in  Langley  Burrell  church.) 

It  also  occurs  in  the  case  of  a  daughter  of  Rev.  James 
Mayo,  Vicar  of  Avebury,  born  lyth  March,  1776,  died  i8th 
October,  1798,  aged  22. 

Are  any  other  instances  of  the  occurrence  of  this  name 

known  in  Wiltshire  ? 

C.  H.  M. 


Barbara  Mayo. — The  Rev.  John  Mayo,  B.C.L.,  Rector  of 
Beechingstoke,  married,  circa  1740,  Barbara  -  — ,  surname 
not  known.  If  this  marriage  is  entered  in  any  Wiltshire 

Register,  I  shall  be  glad  to  hear  of  it. 

C.  H.  M. 


Rev.  James  Mayo,  Vicar  of  Avebury,  married  (i)  Mary 
Blanchard,  circa  1751,  and  (2)  Ann  Rose,  circa  1769.  I  shall 
be  glad  to  know  when  and  where  (in  Wiltshire)  these  marriages 

were  celebrated. 

C.  H.  M. 


92  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

An  Old  House,  Sarum. — Where  can  I  find  any  history  or 
account  of  a  very  interesting  old  house  in  High  Street,  Salis- 
bury, now  in  occupation  of  Mr.  F.  Sutton,  the  confectioner  ? 
Is  there  any  truth  in  the  statement  that  it  was  once  a  pil- 
grimage inn  ? 

H.  D. 


Stonehenge  Jackdaws. — Gilbert  White   speaks  of  jack- 
daws  breeding  among   the    stones   at  Stonehenge ;    do  they 

breed  there  still  or  frequent  the  stones  in  any  way  ? 

H.  D. 


Conigre. — Is  it  probable  that  this  term  was  always  used 
to  imply  a  rabbi  ts'-warren,  and  would  the  last  syllable  be  an 
abbreviation  of  "ground"?  Congrove,  from  Coneygrove, 
seems  to  be  a  similar  term.  Also,  what  are  the  derivations  of 
Halve  and  Ham,  and  are  they  local  terms  ?  L. 


Sir  Edward  Hungerford,  K.B.  (1632-1711).— This  gentle- 
man, known  as  "The  Spendthrift",  was  the  last  of  the 
Hungerfords,  of  Farley  Castle.  He  squandered  his  patrimony 
amidst  the  follies  and  vices  of  the  reign  of  Charles  II,  and 
afterwards,  with  the  hope  of  retrieving  his  lost  fortunes, 
obtained  from  that  monarch,  in  1681,  a  charter  to  convert 
Hungerford  House,  the  old  metropolitan  residence  of  his 
family,  into  a  market — but  the  project  was  unsuccessful. 
About  the  year  1830  its  revival  was  attempted,  and  new 
buildings  erected  at  a  cost  of  .£97,000 — but  Hungerford  Market 
the  second  was  not  much  more  fortunate  than  its  predecessor, 
and  on  its  site  now  stands  the  Charing  Cross  terminus  of  the 
South  Eastern  Railway.  If  I  remember  rightly,  there  was  in 
the  old  Hungerford  Market,  a  bust  of  Sir  Edward  Hungerford, 
its  founder — the  present  whereabouts  of  which  I  should  be  glad 
to  discover.  Can  any  reader  of  Wilts  N.  &  O.  help  me  in 
the  matter  ?  WILTONIENSIS. 


Lodowick  Muggleton.  93 


Lodowick  Muggleton  (vol.  'ii,  p.  585).— The  Dictionary  of 
National  Biography  says  this  "  heresiarch  " — rather  a  big  name 
for  so  small  a  man—  was  born  in  Walnut  Tree  Yard  (now  New 
Street)  off  Bishopsgate  Street  Without,  in  July  1609,  and  on 
the  3oth  day  following  was  baptized  at  St.  Botolph's,  Bishops- 
gate,  by  Rev.  Stephen  Gosson,  who,  before  he  took  orders,  was 
a  well-known  playwright.  Muggleton's  family  came  from 
Northamptonshire,  where  the  name  can  still  be  found ;  he  died 
4  March,  1698,  and  was  buried  on  the  i;th  in  Bethlehem 
New  Churchyard. 

A.  J.  S. 

Kinwardstone  (vol.  i,  p.  139). — "Z.'s"  suggestion  that  this 
name  is  personal  may  deserve  consideration,  but  the  reasons 
quoted  in  support  of  it  from  Mr.  Gomme's  Local  Institutions, 
would  not,  I  think,  stand  the  test  of  enquiry.  It  is  probable  that 
the  older  aspect  (or  rather,  one  of  the  older  aspects)  of  the 
hundred-district  is  military,  and  Mr.  Gomme's  theory  may  be 
true  that  these  districts  had  their  origin  in  some  association 
of  the  colonists  into  groups,  each  group  consisting  of  a  hun- 
dred families  ;  but  I  fail  to  see  how  the  theory  is  supported 
by  the  fact  that  many  of  the  modern  hundred-names  are  not 
repeated  in  the  names  of  the  townships.  "Z."  quoting  from 
Mr.  Gomme,  says  : — "  The  names  of  the  ancient  personal 
hundreds  would  be  derived  from  some  tribal  or  clan  chief,  who 
led  the  ancient  families  making  up  the  hundreds ;  and  the 
names  of  the  territorial  hundreds  so  far  meet  this  view  as  to 
be  to  a  great  extent  independent  names  of  territory  at  the 
present  day."  If  modern  hundred-names  really  meet  this 
view  to  a  great  extent,  we  naturally  look  to  a  county  like  Wilts 
(which  contained  many  hundreds)  for  confirmatory  evidence 
on  the  point.  The  evidence  afforded  by  Wiltshire,  however, 


94  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

is  by  no  means  confirmatory.  It  would  be  interesting  to  know 
what  Wiltshire  hundred-names  "Z."  or  Mr.  Gomme,  con- 
sider to  be  personal. 

A.  W.  WHATMORE. 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 


Turpin's  Stone  (vol.  ii,  p.  585,  vol.  iii,  p.  45). — This  stone 
stands  in  a  ditch  close  by  the  side  of  the  road  leading  from 
Bulkington  to  Keevil,  some  70  or  80  yards  from  the  bridge 
marked  "  Pantry  Bridge"  in  the  Ordnance  Survey — but 
perhaps  better  known  locally  as  "  Brass  Pan  Bridge."  It  is 
evidently  a  boundary  stone,  marking  the  point  at  which  the 
boundary  between  the  two  parishes,  after  following  for  some 
distance  the  course  of  the  brook,  breaks  out  into  the  open  field, 
and,  taking  the  line  of  an  adjacent  hedgerow  for  about  250 
yards,  here  crosses  the  road  at  "Turpin's  Stone",  and  again 
returns,  by  the  ditch,  to  the  brook  at  "  Pantry  Bridge." 

On  one  side  of  the  stone  is  a  partly  obliterated  inscription, 
which,  when  perfect,  is  said  to  have  been : 

"  Dick  Turpin's  dead  and  gone 
This  stone's  put  up  to  think  upon." 

But,  on  looking  carefully  at  the  letters  which  remain,  it  appears 
to  me  that  the  first  three  words — DICK  TURPIN'S  DEAD  " — were 
the  whole  of  the  original  inscription,  and  that  the  rest  was 
afterwards  added  by  a  different  hand. 

Why  the  boundary  stone  close  to  the  highway  here  should 
have  been  made  use  of  to  record  Turpin's  death,  may  perhaps 
be  explained  by  the  fact  that  two  contemporary  knights  of  the 
road  were  closely  connected  with  the  neighbourhood.  Boulter,1 
a  well-known  highwayman,  was  the  son  of  a  Poulshot  miller, 
and  Blagdon,  an  accomplice,  is  said  to  have  belonged  to  a 
respectable  family  of  that  name  who  were  landowners  close  by. 

1  "  Boulter's  Lane,"  a  bye-way  leading  out  of  the  turnpike  road  near 
Bowerhill,  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  his  haunts — and  "Boulter's  Coppice,' 
close  by,  is  still  well  known. 


Brouncker.  95 

The  record  of  Turpin's  death  on  the  gallows  may  therefore  have 
been  placed  here  as  a  warning  to  his  fellow  highwaymen  in 
Wiltshire,  as  he  does  not  appear  himself  to  have  been  con- 
nected with  any  particular  robbery  here. 

EDWARD  KITE. 


Brouncker  (vol.  iii,  p.  40) — Long  (vol.  ii,  p.  486  ;  vol.  iii, 
p.  40). — Sir  William  Brouncker  was  knighted  between  the 
years  1588  and  1593,  as  evidenced  by  his  return  to  Parlia- 
ment for  Wiltshire  in  those  years,  in  the  first  year  as  Esq. 
only,  but  afterwards  as  Knight.  No  record  of  the  exact 
time  or  place  when  he  received  the  honour  has  so  far 
met  my  notice.  The  accolade  may  have  been  given  to  him 
in  Ireland.  It  is  thus  clear  that  he  could  not  have  been 
called  Knight  in  the  visitation  of  1565,  but  he  ought  to  have 
been  thus  described  in  that  of  1623.  A  careful  examina- 
tion of  many  Visitations  in  connexion  with  this  subject  of 
Knighthood  has  convinced  me  that  they  are  not  absolutely 
reliable,  and  that  the  milites  is  sometimes  omitted,  although 
when  attributed  it  is  generally  accurate.  I  do  not  know  any- 
thing of  the  Wiltshire  Visitation  of  1565,  but  that  of  1623  has 
always  struck  me  as  being  very  loosely  and  carelessly  drawn 
up.  For  precise  genealogical  purposes  its  value  is  feeble.  As 
another  instance  of  its  inaccuracy  may  be  noted  the  reference  by 
"  Q."  (vol.  ii,  486).  In  the  Visitation,  Susan,  dau.  of  Nicholas 
Snell,  is  described  as  the  widow  of  Edmund  Long,  of  Draycott, 
milt.  Now  Edmund  was  not  a  Knight,  nor  is  it  correct  to  style 
him  of  Draycott.  He  was  the  third  son  of  Sir  Henry  Long,  of 
Draycott,  but  himself  resided  at  Kelwayes,  alias  Titherton 
Galloway.  He  was  an  entirely  different  person  from  Edward 
Long,  of  Monkton,  who  was  certainly  not  a  Knight  when  he 
made  his  will  in  1622. 

The  identity  of  "  Sir  Edward  Long,  of  Wiltshire,"  knighted 
in  1578,  I  have  failed  to  make  out,  but  have  thought  that  this 
one  might  have  been  inaccurately  given  for  Sir  Robert  Long,  of 
Draycott,  who  was  knighted  about  that  time.  In  his  will  proved 


96  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

in  P.C.C.  in  1581,  he  is  described  as  a  Knight,  but  he  was  not 
a  Knight  in  1575,  when  he  served  as  Sheriff  of  Wilts. 

An  accurate  and  exhaustive  list  of  Knights — if  only  from 
the  accession  of  the  House  of  Tudor — would  be  invaluable  to 
genealogists,  but  is,  I  fear,  almost  impossible  to  obtain. 

W.  D.  PINK. 
Leigh,  Lancashire. 


I  see  it  stated  in  your  last  number  (p.  40)  that  "  Q."  urged 
"  that  the  fact  that  in  the  Visitations  Edward  Long,  of  Monk- 
ton,  is  not  described  as  a  Knight  is  a  proo/ihat  he  was  not  one." 
Permit  me  to  point  out  that  "  Q."  did  nothing  of  the  kind.  He 
said  (vol.  ii,  p.  486)  that  the  evidence  of  the  Visitations  was 
against  Long,  of  Monkton,  having  been  knighted,  and  that  "  the 
onus  of  proof  necessarily  lies  with  anyone  who  says  that  he  was.11 

Q. 


The  following  note  on  Knighthood  by  Mr.  Grazebrook, 
F.S.A.,  may  prove  of  interest;  it  is  copied  from  Miscellanea 
Gen.  et  Her.,  3rd  series,  iii,  118  : 

The  history  of  knighthood  is  really  very  little  known — it  seems  that  the 
possession  of  a  certain  income  before  some  fixed  date  entailed  the  right, 
perhaps  the  necessity  of  knighthood.  Other  facts  would  seem  to  restrict 
it  entirely  to  those  who  personally  went  to  the  wars.  Of  course,  in  all 
ages,  Kings  and  great  Commanders  and  great  Clergy  constantly  created 
knights,  but,  in  addition  to  that,  there  are  many  cases  of  knights 
creating  other  knights,  their  own  sons  and  others  (see  Selden's  Titles  of 
Honour,  pp.  638,  642,  650).  It  is  manifest  that  no  list  of  such  wide-spread 
creations  could  ever  be  kept !  For  what  reason  I  know  not,  but  there 
are  many  instances  of  persons  known  to  have  been  knights  who  do  not  so 
describe  themselves  even  in  their  wills!  It  is  stated  positively  that  a 
knight  on  his  creation,  unless  he  already  had  paternal  bearings,  always 
assumed  a  coat  of  arms,  and  there  are  many  instances  which  make  this 

more  than  probable In  a  comparatively  few  charters  of  all 

dates  the  witnesses  are  divided  into  Dominis  and  Militibus,  .... 
but  in  by  far  the  greater  number  no  ranks  are  given,  and  many  witnesses 
appear  whom  we  know  to  have  been  persons  of  great  consequence,  but, 
nevertheless,  have  not  such  titles  attached  to  their  names 

EDITOR. 


MONUMENT    OF   AN    ECCLESIASTIC    IN    EDINGTON    CHURCH. 


anli  <©uertes» 

SEPTEMBER,    1899. 


SOME  NOTES  ON  THE  MONUMENT  OF  AN  ECCLESIASTIC 
IN  EDINGTON  CHURCH. 


F  the  particular  class  of  Monks  known  as  Bon- 
hommes  there  were  two  establishments  only  in 
England ;  one  at  Ashridge,  in  Buckinghamshire, 
the  other  at  Edington,  in  this  County.1 

The  College  of  Bonhommes  at  Ashridge  was 
founded  by  Edmund,  son  of  Richard  Plantagenet,  Earl  of 
Cornwall  (younger  son  of  King  John),  about  A.D.  1276-83  ;  that 
at  Edington,  by  William  de  Edington,  Bishop  of  Winchester 
(a  native  of  the  village),  A.D.  1352-61  f  the  earlier  foundation 

1  Dallaway,  Antiquities  of  Bristol   (p.   59   note),  mentions  St.  Mark's, 
or  the  Mayor's  Chapel,  on  College  Green,  in  that  city,  as  a  third  establish- 
ment of  this  order  ;  but  apparently  without  sufficient  authority. 

2  During  the   latter   part    of   his   episcopate   (A.D.   1345-1366)  Bishop 
Edington  appears  to  have  commenced  the  great  work  of  transforming  the 
early   nave  of  Winchester   Cathedral  as  it  then  existed,  into  the  pointed 
style  of  his  own  time — a  work  which  was  afterwards  carried  on  by  his  suc- 
cessors Bishops  Wykeham,  Beaufort  and  Waynflete.     By  his  will,  dated  1366, 
"  praecepit  ut  de  bonis  suis  expenderetur  ad  perfectionem  navis  Ecclesiae 
Cathedralis  Winton,  a  se  inchoatse,  et  ad  subsidium  downs  sive  Cantarice  de 
Edyngdon  a  se  fundatce." — Langham   Register,  cited  in  Ang,  Sac.,  i,  317. 
Canon  Jackson,  Wilts  Collections,  p.  351,  says  that  Bishop  Edington's  will 
has  not  been  met  with. 

H 


98  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

at  Ashridge  supplying  that  at  Edington  with  two  monks,  one 
of  whom  (John  de  Aylesbury)  became  its  first  Rector.1 

Both  establishments  survived  until  the  general  dissolution 
of  Monasteries  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  Much  of  the 
monastic  building  at  Ashridge  (including  a  fine  cloister, 
and  some  good  i3th  century  work,  with  considerable  remains 
of  fresco  painting)  remained  until  the  commencement  of  the 
present  century,  but  soon  afterwards  met  with  a  sweep- 
ing destruction  at  the  hands  of  its  owner,  the  Earl  of 
Bridgewater;  the  whole  having  been  pulled  down  and  the 
materials  disposed  of  in  lots.8  Thus  ended  the  architectural 
remains  of  the  earlier  of  the  two  foundations. 

The  remains  of  the  later  foundation  of  Bishop  Edington, 
in  his  native  Wiltshire  village,  are  well  known.  Of  the 
monastic  building  spared  at  the  dissolution,  part  was  converted 
into  a  mansion,  by  the  Pawlett  family ;  the  remains  of  which 
are  now  a  farm  house,  known  as  "  Priory  Farm  " ;  and  in  the 
fine  conventual  church,  of  almost  cathedral-like  proportions, 
dedicated  in  1361 — (on  the  necessary  repair  of  which  the  sum 
of  ^8,000  has  recently  been  expended) — Wiltshire  possesses 


1  Leland  says  that  the  order  of  Bonhommes  was  introduced  here  by 
Bishop  Edington  at  the  desire  of  the  Black  Prince,  on  his  return  from  the 
French  wars.     This  was  probably  after  the  battle  of  Poictiers  in  1356,  as 
the  first  tonsure  of  the  brethren  took  place  in  1 358,  and  the  Church  was  dedi- 
cated in  1361. 

We  do  not,  however,  in  the  Will  of  the  Black  Prince,  dated  1376  (ten 
years  after  Bishop  Edington's  death),  find  any  mention  of  Edington  Mon- 
astery ;  but  to  that  of  Ashridge  he  makes  the  following  bequest : — "  Item, 
nous  donnons  et  devisons  notre  grand  table  d'or  et  d'argent  tout  pleyn  dez 
precieuses  reliques,  et  en  my  lieu  un  croiz  de  ligno  sancte  crucis,  et  la  dite 
table  est  garniz  de  perres  et  de  perles,  c'est  assavoir,  vingt  cynq  baleis,  trent 
quatre  safirs,  cinquant  oyt  perles  grosses,  et  plusours  autres  safirs,  etneraudes 
et  perles  petitz,  a  la  haut  autier  de  notre  meson  d'  Assherugge  q'est  de  notre 
f  undacioun,  a  servir  perpetuelement  au  dit  autier,  sanz  jamez  le  mettre  en 
autre  oeps  pur  nul  meschief ;  et  de  ce  chargeons  les  armes  [almes]  du 
Kectour  et  du  Couvent  de  la  dite  meson  a  respondre  devant  Dieu." 

2  Ot  a  sumptuous  folio  volume  on  the  History  of  the  College  of  Bon- 
hommes, with  a  description  of  the  later  Mansion  at  Ashridge,  by  the  Rev. 
J.  H.  Todd,  70  copies  were  privately  printed  by  the  Earl  of  Bridgewater,  in 
1823,  at  a  cost  of  £5,000. 


Monument  of  an  Ecclesiastic  in  Edington  Church.          99 

not  only  the  earliest  and  best  authenticated  example  of  the 
architectural  transition  from  the  Decorated  to  the  Per- 
pendicular style,  which  took  place  at  that  period,  but  the 
only  ecclesiastical  relic  of  the  Bonhommes  in  England. 

But  it  is  not  to  the  Church  of  Edington  itseli  (the  bold 
outline  and  elegant  details  of  which  are  well  known  as  an 
architectural  study),  that  the  following  notes  are  intended  to 
refer;  but  to  a  monument  in  the  south  transept — the  somewhat 
remarkable  memorial  of  a  member  of  the  adjoining  monastery 
— and  the  only  known  example  of  the  habit  of  the  particular 
order  to  which  he  belonged. 

The  monument  (shown  in  the  accompanying  illustration)  is 
at  the  end  of  the  south  transept,  underneath  the  large  three- 
light  window  in  the  south  wall.  It  belongs  to  the  Perpen- 
dicular period — apparently  the  latter  half  of  the  isth  century1— 
and  consists  of  an  altar  tomb,  enclosed  within  a  rich  canopy, 
and  bearing  a  recumbent  effigy,  in  stone,  5  feet  6  inches  in 
length,  the  head  resting  on  a  large  cushion,  with  tasseled  corners, 
and  the  feet  on  a  barrel,  or  tun.  On  the  outer  end  of  the  barrel 
are  two  initials  having  at  present  the  appearance  of  I.E.  (but 
which,  as  will  presently  be  shown,  must  originally  have  been 
T.B.),  and  on  the  other  end,  towards  the  wall,  a  triangle — a 
symbol  of  the  Holy  Trinity. 

The  habit  of  the  departed  monk,  which  is  more  distinctly 
shown  in  the  second  sketch  (full-faced)  taken  from  within  the 
canopy,  is  of  especial  interest.  The  effigy  has  been  usually 
described  as  that  of  a  Canon  of  the  order  of  St.  Augustine, 
which  is  not  strictly  correct,  as  the  Bonhommes  appear  to 
have  followed  that  rule,  but  with  such  variations  as  rendered 
them  perfectly  distinct  from  the  ordinary  Monks,  known  as  Canons 
Regular  or  Austin  Canons.  Here  we  apparently  have  the 
exact  difference  in  the  habit  of  the  two.  The  ordinary  monk, 
or  Canon,  of  the  order,  wore  a  long  black  cassock,  with  a 


r1  The  rose  and  sun,  introduced  into  the  panels  of  the  tomb,  may  point 
to  the  reign  of  Edward  IV,  after  the  battle  of  Barnet  (1471—1483). 

H  2 


IOC 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


shorter  white  rochet  over  it.  The  monks  were  generally 
shaven,  but  these,  being  under  a  less  strict  rule,  wore  beards, 
and  caps  on  their  heads. 

The  monk  at  Edington,  on  the 
contrary,  is  bare  headed,  closely 
shaven,  and  wears  the  tonsure.  His 
pointed  shoes  are  partly  seen  beneath 
the  folds  of  a  long  under  garment, 
with  close  sleeves,1  girded  with  a 
flat  belt  at  the  waist.  Over  this, 
in  front,  is  the  scapular,2  eight 
or  nine  inches  in  width,  quite 
plain,  hanging  from  the  shoul- 
ders, and  reaching  almost  to  the 
feet.  The  upper  garment  is  the 
long  monk's  cloak  with  hood,  which 
was  apparently  put  on  over  the 
head,  and  laced  together  below  the 
neck  with  a  long  cord  having  at  its 
ends  two  large  tassels,  which  are 
seen,  over  the  scapular,  a  little  below 
the  middle  of  the  effigy.  Round 
the  neck  is  the  edge  of  an  under 
garment,  apparently  slightly  frilled. 

Having  investigated  the  details 
of  his  particular  habit,  the  question 
which  will  next  be  asked  is — who 


1  The  hands,  which  were  uplifted  in  the  attitude  of  prayer,  are  both 
broken  off  and  gone.     This  was  probably  done  in  removing  some  of  the 
now   missing   masonry  at  the  back  of  the  tomb  within   the  canopy — on 
which  may  have  been  sculptured  some  subject   offensive  to  Reformer  -or 
Puritan,  perhaps  a  mediseval  representation  of  the  Holy  Trinity. 

2  In  this  we  recognize  the  habit  of  an  Austin  Friar,  rather  than  that  of 
an  Austin  Canon.     The  friars,  known  also  as  Friars  Eremites,  wore,  at  home, 
a  white  gown,  with  a  scapular ;  abroad,  or  performing  service  in  the  choir, 
a  black  cowl  with  large  hood,  and  black  leathern  girdle. 


Monument  of  an  Ecclesiastic  in  Edington  Church.        101 

was  the  departed  monk  to  whose  memory  this  costly  memorial 
was  erected  ?  That  he  was  some  person  of  consequence  con- 
nected with  the  monastery  is  clear  from  the  introduction  of  the 
effigies  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul  (as  represented  on  the  monastic 
seal)1  into  the  upper  part  of  the  tomb.  His  monogram  and  rebus 
(which  together  are  repeated  no  less  than  ten  times  on  different 
parts  of  the  tomb)  ought  to  be  sufficient  to  identify  him;  but  even 
here  a  slight  difficulty  presents  itself  as  to  what  the  initials  of 
the  monogram  really  were ;  sometimes  they  have  been  printed 
I.E.,  and  occasionally  T.B.,  and  this  has,  in  itself,  been  the 
cause  of  much  uncertainty  and  random  speculation  as  to  the 
real  name.2  The  case  appears  to  be  simply  this  :  the  initials, 
as  seen  in  the  most  conspicuous  place  on  the  tomb,  and  the 
one  that  would  first  catch  the  eye,  i.e.,  on  the  outer  end  of  the 
barrel  at  the  monk's  feet,  appear  at  first  to  be  I.E.,  but,  on 
looking  more  closely,  it  will  be  seen  that  their  conspicuous 
position  alone  has  led  to  their  being  tampered  with,  and  partly 
defaced.  We  must  therefore  omit  to  take  these  for  evidence, 
and  look  further  on  the  face  of  the  tomb,  below  the  effigy, 
where  the  same  initials  are  again  twice  repeated,  and  still  in  a 
perfect  state ;  we  shall  then  be  able  at  once  to  recognize  in 
them  a  small  black  letter  t  for  the  Christian,  and  a  capital  *$ 
(somewhat  of  Lombardic  character)  for  the  surname,  leaving 
T.B.  and  not  I.E.  as  the  correct  solution. 

Next  comes  the  rebus,  viz.  three  leaves  springing  out  of  a 
cask  or  tun,  but  these  leaves,  although  often  repeated,  are  not 
in  every  case  alike ;  making  it  difficult  to  decide  whether  they 


1  The  church  appears,  in  the  first  instance,  to  have  been  dedicated  to 
St.  James,  St.  Catherine  and  All  Saints.     Had  the  monastery  a  different 
dedication  ?  or,  was  there  a  re-dedication  to  SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  after  the 
murder  of  Bishop  Ayscough,  which  happened  on  the  feast  of  SS.  Peter  and 
Paul  [29  June]  1450? 

2  The  late  Mr.  Britton,  Beauties  of  Wilts,  iii,  p.  363,  says  "  The  mono- 
gram T.B.,  and  the  figure  of  a  tun  or  cask,  with  a  bolt,  imply  that  it  com- 
memorates   T.   Bolton,   who   was   a   priest  of   the   adjoining    College   of 
Bonhommes."     But  the  bolt  is  simply  imaginary,  and  the  name  of  T.  Bolton, 
as  a  priest  of  the  college,  is  unknown. 


102  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

were  intended  to  represent  oak,  ash,  elm,  bay,  or  beech.  But 
with  the  initial  B  before  us  for  that  of  the  surname,  we  have 
bay,  beech,  or  some  other  tree  or  shrub  only  to  choose  from 
the  name  of  which,  in  one  way  or  another,  represents  that  letter. 
If  bay,  the  rebus  would  read  Bay-in-tun,  and  there  happens  to 
be  a  well-known  Wiltshire  family  of  that  name  ;  but,  although 
the  tomb  has  often  been  assigned  to  an  imaginary  John 
Bqynton,  we  do  not  really  find  the  name  in  any  way  connected 
with  the  monastery,  either  as  Rector  or  otherwise,  until  some 
time  after  its  dissolution.1 

Two  other  solutions  of  the  rebus,  not  hitherto  suggested, 
may  be  a  bur,  or  shrub,  and  a  fun,  for  Burton  ;  or  a  bush  and 
tun,  for  Bushton  ;  but  neither  of  these  names  have  been  found 
in  connexion  with  Edington  monastery. 

The  most  probable  suggestion  as  to  the  real  name  is  that 
made  by  the  late  Canon  Jackson  (in  a  note  to  Leland's  Journey 
through  Wiltshire  in  1540,  Wilts.  Arch.  Mag.,  i,  p.  188),  that 
the  rebus  is  Boc-in-tun,  the  word  "Boc"  signifying  beech. 
Here  we  have  the  name  of  the  almost  adjoining  village  of 
Bulkington,  spelt  in  the  Nomina  Villarum,  A.D.  1316, 
"  Bukkington,"  and  still  pronounced  "Bookintun."  From  this 
small  parish  a  family  of  importance  took  its  name  at  an  early 
date ;  for  Michael,  and  Peter  de  Bulkington,  are  named  among 
the  Wiltshire  Fine  Rolls  as  early  as  the  reign  of  Henry  III. 
(A.D.  1253). 

For  the  hint  that  the  correct  solution  of  the  rebus  was  to 
be  found  in  the  name  of  Bulkington,  or  Bukkington,  Canon 
Jackson  was,  it  is  believed,  indebted  to  the  Rev.  Edward 
Wilton,  then  curate  of  Erlestoke,  and  Master  of  the  Dauntsey 

1  Lady  Isabella  Baynton,  of  Edyngdon,  widow,  was  patron  of  the  living 
of  Fovant,  in  1554.  She  was  daughter  of  Sir  John  Leigh,  of  Stockwell,  co. 
Surrey,  and  second  wife  of  Sir  Edward  Baynton,  the  builder  of  Old  Brom- 
ham  House,  and  grantee  of  Stanley  Abbey,  with  other  monastic  property  in 
Wilts,  at  the  dissolution.  He  died  in  1544 ;  and  his  widow  must,  in  1554, 
have  been  a  tenant  at  Edington  under  Sir  William  Pawlett — then  owner 
of  the  monastic  property  by  a  second  grant  from  the  Crown  after  the 
attainder  of  Thomas,  Lord  Seymour  of  Sudeley,  in  1549. 


Monument  of  an  Ecclesiastic  in  Edington  Church.        103 

Grammar  School  at  West  Lavington,  as  well  as  a  native  of  the 
village  of  Edington.  The  Canon,  however,  subsequently  misled 
by  the .  mutilated  initals  seen  by  himself  on  the  end  of  the 
barrel  at  the  monk's  feet,  and  overlooking  those  repeated  on 
the  face  of  the  tomb  beneath,  came  again  to  the  wrong 
conclusion  that  they  were  I.E.,  and  thus  writes  in  another  note 
to  Aubrey's  Wilts  Collections  (p.  352),  published  in  1862  : 

"  The  letters  of  a  monogram  upon  the  tomb  appear  to  be  I.E.  (not 
T.B.  as  stated  by  a  mistake  ot  the  present  writer  in  Wilts.  Archceol.  Mag. 
i,  1 88) ;  and  a  rebus,  or  device,  ot  a  branch  of  bay  issuing  from  a  tun, 
seem  to  indicate  a  John  Baynton  ;  but  there  is  no  known  member  of  the 
Priory  who  bore  that  name  "- 

thus  leaving  the  difficulty  to  be  "  threshed  out  "  on  a  future 
occasion. 

Omitting  therefore  the  imperfect  monogram  on  the  barrel ; 
the  two  perfect  examples  in  the  front  of  the  tomb  are  here  repro- 


duced ;  and,  with  these  before  him,  the  reader  will  at  once 
observe,  in  the  crossing  of  the  first  initial,  that  a  small  black 
letter  ®,  and  not  an  |)L,  was  the  letter  originally  intended  by 
the  1 5th  century  sculptor  of  the  decorations  on  the  tomb. 

In  looking  elsewhere  for  a  similar  memorial  to  that  in 
question,  we  shall  at  once  find  that  costly  tombs  of  this  kind 
are  very  rarely  to  be  met  with  in  the  case  of  members  of  the 
monastic  orders,  owing,  no  doubt,  to  the  strict  rules  of  poverty 
by  which  many  of  them  were  bound.  That  the  individual  here 


104  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

commemorated  (who  had  evidently  taken  the  habit  and  tonsure1 
of  a  monk  at  Edington)  was  a  benefactor  to  the  monastery,  and 
was  formerly  commemorated  by  an  obit,  may  be  gathered  from 
the  fact  that  the  present  writer,  more  than  forty  years  ago,  on 
removing  from  the  two  niches  at  the  head  and  feet  of  the  effigy, 
within  the  canopy,  some  of  the  accumulated  Churchwarden's 
periodical  lime-wash  of  several  centuries,  found  underneath  it, 
on  the  original  colouring  of  the  monument,  distinct  traces  of 
smoke,  as  well  as  the  actual  runnings  of  discoloured  wax,  from 
the  two  tapers  which  must  have  burnt  here  during  the  mass  of 
requiem.  This  fact,  coupled  with  the  solution  of  the  rebus  and 
monogram,  here  given,  if  it  does  not  clearly  identify  the  indi- 
vidual himself,  will  at  once  afford  a  strong  clue,  and  reduce  the 
enquiry  into  a  very  narrow  compass ;  for  the  Valor  Ecclesiastic  us 
of  A.D.  1534  contains  a  list  of  the  obits  maintained  here  at  that 
date,  one  name  only  among  which  corresponds  at  all  with  the 
correct  initials  T.B.  on  the  tomb.2  This  is  "  Thomas 
Bukyngton  "  who  is  specially  mentioned  by  Leland,  six  years 
later  (in  1540)  as  one  of  four  principal  benefactors  to  the 
monastery  ;3  and  to  him,-  therefore,  in  the  absence  of  any  posi- 
tive proof  to  the  contrary,  the  present  writer  seems  bound 
unhesitatingly  to  assign  this  most  interesting  memorial. 

Edington  Monastery  is  known  to  have  possessed  property 
in  Bulkington  and  Keevil  ;*  part  of  which  was,   no  doubt,  the 

1  In  some  cases  a  benefactor  to  a  monastery  (not  being  an  actual  monk) 
was  buried  in  monastic  habit,  but  the  tonsure  in  this  case  seems  to  indicate 
that  the  deceased  had  taken  the  full  habit  of  the  order. 

2  If  the  initials,  on  the  contrary,  were  I.E.,  and  not  T.B.,  we  have  obits 
to  John  Bleowbury,  Prebendary  of  Sarum,  and  executor  to  Bishop  Edington, 
a   benefactor,   who,  according   to   Leland,    was   buried    here.     Also   John 
Botham,  or  Botuham ;  both   the  latter  names  occurring  among  the  minor 
obits,  but  to  neither  of  these  does  the  rebus  in  any  way  refer. 

3  Benefactors :  "  Penley  and  Kowse  ;  knights.    Jerberd  and  Bultington  " 
— Leland.    Sir  Richard  Penley,  knight,  John  Rous,  Thomas  Jereberd  and 
Thomas    Bukyngton,    all    had    chantries    or    obits    at    Edingtou. —  Valor 
Ecclesiasticus. 

*  The  advowson  of  the  Church  at  Keevil  was  purchased  by  the  Rector  of 
Edington  from  the  Abbess  of  Shaftesbury,  about  the  year  1395. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  105 

gift  of  Thomas  Bukyngton,  but  on  this  point  the  Cartulary  of 
Edington,  some  valuable  extracts  from  which  have  already 
appeared  in  the  pages  of  Wilts.  N.  &>  Q.,  will  it  is  hoped,  in  a 
future  number,  supply  some  additional  information. 

The  whole  of  the  fine  brasses  which  once  enriched  the 
floor  of  Edington  Church,  have  been  ruthlessly  torn  from  the 
slabs  of  stone,  or  Purbeck  marble,  to  which  they  were  affixed. 
Among  these  were  doubtless  memorials  of  some  of  the  Rectors 
of  the  Monastery ;  which  would  have  been  interesting  as  illus- 
trating more  fully  the  details  of  their  habit.  In  some  MS. 
notes  by  the  late  Mr.  Britton,  dated  16  Oct.,  1820,  he  mentions 
five  or  six  large  slabs  then  lying  in  the  pavement  of  the  chan- 
cel, all  of  which  had  contained  brasses.  One  of  these  .slabs, 
measuring  7  feet  by  3^,  had,  in  the  centre,  the  matrix  of  a  large 
figure,  evidently  that  of  an  ecclesiastic  ;  and  of  the  four  shields 
at  the  angles,  three  were  remaining,  and 
bore  the  arms  of  the  monastery,  as  here 
engraved — viz.,  Or,  on  a  cross  engrailed 
gules  five  cinquefotls  of  the  field.  Part, 
if  not  all,  of  these  slabs  are  believed  to 
have  been  subsequently  used  in  paving 
the  vault  beneath  the  chancel,  made  by 
the  late  Mr.  George  Watson  Taylor,  as 
a  family  burial  place  ;  and  here,  in  all  probability,  they  still 
remain.  EDWARD  KITE. 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 

(Continued  from  page  78). 


LAY  SUBSIDY,  ^  WILTS. 

A.D.  1411.  [Transcript  of  the  certificate  of  all  men  and 
women  with  lands  and  tenements  and  rents  in  Wilts  to  the 
value  of  ^20  per  annum  beyond  deductions.  13  Henry  IV.] 


io6  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Thomas,  Rector  of  Edyndon  has  in  the  said  County  lands, 
tenements  and  rents  to  the  value  of  cvu>  xiijs.  iiij^.,  viz.,  .  . 
the  manors  of  Bratton,  Bremubrig,  Dulton  and  Penlegh  to  the 
value  of  xxxiiju'  vjs.  viijd. 

FEET  OF  FINES,  WILTS.     [1-20  Henry  VI.] 

A.D.  1425.  At  Westminster,  a  month  after  Easter,  3  Henry 
VI.  Between  Henry,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  plaintiff,  and 
John  luyn  and  William  Westbery,  deforciants,  of  13  messuages, 
a  toft,  a  mill,  197^  acres  and  a  rood  of  land,  2i|  acres  and  a 
rood  of  meadow,  25 1  acres  of  pasture,  7  acres  of  wood,  and 
2S.  Sd.  rent,  with  appurtenances  in  Westbury,  Bratton,  and 
Mulbourne.  Plea  of  covenant  was  summoned.  John  and 
William  acknowledged  the  right  of  the  Bishop  as  of  their  gift, 
and  they  quit-claimed  from  themselves,  John  and  William,  to 
the  said  Bishop  and  his  heirs  forever.  Moreover  they  granted 
that  they  will  warrant  to  the  Bishop  and  his  heirs  the  foresaid 
tenements  with  their  appurtenances  against  Richard  Abbot  of 
Westminster,  and  his  successors  forever.  For  this  the  Bishop 
gave  the  foresaid  John  and  William  200  marks  of  silver. 

CLERICAL  SUBSIDY.     Sarum  Diocese  ||  \temp.  Henry  Vl\ 

Taxation  of  a  clerical  subsidy  throughout  the  entire  Diocese  of 

Salisbury. 

DEANERY  OF  POTTERN. 
Brattone,  Prior  of  Farle ; 
Taxation,  cxiiij.  s.  i.  d.  • 
Tenth,  xj.  s.  v.  d.  ob  q*. 

IBID.,  f5. 

A.D.  1449.  Account  of  Prior  and  Convent  of  Mayden 
Bradlegh,  collectors  of  the  subsidy  of  6s.  Sd.  from  every  secular 
chaplain  serving  brethren  and  other  religious  men  in  parish 
churches  or  receiving  stipends  or  yearly  payments,1  and  from 
whatsoever  other  chaplains  having  chantries  not  taxed  in  the 

1  annualia. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  107 

archdeanery  of  Sarum  and  Wilts  granted  last  convocation  at  St. 
Paul's,  London,  sitting  from  ist  July  1449  to  the  28th  of  the 
said  month,  to  be  levied  at  the  Feast  of  the  Annunciation  next, 
28  Henry  VI. 

ARCHDEANERY  OF  WILTS. 

Deanery  of  Pottern. 

From  Dom  Thomas  Hode  chaplain  \    .      '  ...     , 
of  the  parish  of  Litelstoke       J 

EDINGDON  CHARTULARY,  f.  no. 

Royal  Licence  to  John  Frank,  clerk,  and  others,  to  assign  property 
to  the  Rector  of  Edyndon. 

A.D.  1427.  Henry,  &c.,  to  all  to  whom  these  letters 
patents  shall  come,  &c.  Whereas  our  ancestor  Edward  III 
licensed  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  the  Rector  and  Friars  of  the 
House  or  Monastery  of  Edyndon  to  acquire  land,  tenements 
and  rent,  &c.,  to  the  value  of  100  marks  yearly;  We  give 
licence  for  ourself  and  our  heirs  to  John  Frank,  clerk,  Thomas 
Touke  of  Hornyngesham,  John  Franklayns  of  Covleston,  and 
John  Spendour  of  Immere,  that  they  may  assign  to  the  now 
Rector  and  Friars  of  the  House  aforesaid  1 3  messuages,  a  toft, 
a  mill,  317^  acres  and  a  rood  of  land,  2i|  acres  and  a  rood  of 
meadow,  5!  acres  of  pasture,  7  acres  of  wood,  and  25.  id.  rent, 
and  pasture  for  one  bull,  24  oxen,  180  sheep,  with  appurten- 
ances in  Westbury,  Bratton  and  Mulbourne  in  Wilts,  which 
are  held  of  the  Rector  of  the  house  aforesaid,  and  which  are 
worth  by  year  in  all  issues  according  to  their  true  value  405., 
as  by  the  inquisition  made  before  Robert  Assheley  our 
Eschaetor  in  Wilts.  To  Hold  to  them  and  their  successors  in 
free,  pure  and  perpetual  alms  in  value  10  marks  in  part  satis- 
faction of  the  100  marks'  worth  of  lands,  &c.  And  we  give 
licence  to  the  said  Rector  and  Friars  and  their  successors  to 
receive  the  said  messuages,  &c.,  from  the  foresaid  John  Frank, 
&c.  Witness,  the  King  himself  at  Westminster.  20  May,  5th 
year  of  his  reign. 

For  ^20  paid  into  the  treasury. 


io8  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

IBID.,/  ioib. 

Charter  of  John  Frank,  clerk,  Thomas  Touke,  of  Horny  rig- 
sham,  John  Frankelyn,  of  Covleston,  and  John  Spendour, 
Immere,  to  Thomas  Culmer,  Rector  of  the  House  or  Monastery 
of  Edyndon,  granting  property  as  detailed  in  the  foregoing 
royal  licence.  Bratton,  loth  of  June.  5  Henry  VI. 

IBID. 

Release  and  quitclaim  of  the  same  to  the  same  of  all  their 
right  in  the  property  as  above  said.  2oth  June.  5  Henry  VI. 

IBID.,  /    in. 

Letters  of  Attorney  to  John  Culmer  and  John  Ussher. 

We,  John  Frank,  clerk;  Thomas  Touke,  of  Hornynges- 
ham  ;  John  Frankelyn,  of  Coveleston,  and  John  Spendoure,  of 
Immere,  have  appointed  our  attorneys  our  beloved  in  Christ 
John  Culmer  and  John  Ussher  together  and  separately  to 
deliver  to  Thomas  Culmer,  Rector  of  the  Monastery  of  Edyndon 
and  the  Friars  of  the  same  House  full  and  peaceful  seisin  of 
and  in  13  messuages,  &c.  (see  above)  in  Westbury,  Bratton  and 
Mulbourne  in  Wilts,  according  to  the  form  and  effect  of  our 
charter  to  the  same  Rector  and  Friars.  In  testimony  whereof 
we  have  set  our  seals,  &c.  loth  June.  5  Henry  VI. 

FEET  OF  FINES,  WILTS.     [1-20  Henry  VI.] 

A.D.  1437-8.  At  Westminster  in  the  quindene  of  St.  Martin, 
1 6  Henry  VI,  and  afterwards  in  the  octaves  of  St.  Hilary  in 
the  same  year.  Between  John  Goweyn,  John  Gayl,  and 
Richard  Clerk,  plaintiffs,  and  John  Gybbes  and  Margaret  his 
wife,  deforciants  of  the  half  of  a  messuage,  16  acres  of  land, 
i  acre  of  meadow  and  pasturage  for  four  oxen  and  one  horse1 
with  the  appurtenances  in  Bratton  and  Stoke.  Plea  of  cove- 
nant was  summoned.  John  Gybbes  and  Margaret  acknow- 
ledged the  said  half  of  a  messuage,  &c.,  with  the  appurtenances 
to  be  the  right  of  the  said  John  Goweyn,  as  that  which  the 

1  affrus. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  109 

same  John,  John  Gay]  and  Richard  have  of  the  gift  of  John 
Gybbes  and  Margaret.  And  they  quitclaimed  from  themselves 
John  Gybbes  and  Margaret,  and  the  heirs  of  Margaret,  to  the 
foresaid  John  Goweyn,  John  Gayl  and  Richard  and  the  heirs 
of  John  Goweyn  forever ;  moreover  they  conceded  for  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Margaret  that  they  will  warrant  to  the 
foresaid  John  Goweyn,  John  Gayl  and  Richard,  and  the  heirs 
of  John  Goweyn,  the  foresaid  half  messuage,  &c.,  against  all 
men  forever.' 

INQUISITION    POST  MORTEM.     [12   Henry   VII ",   C.  Series  If, 
Vol.  ti,  No.  21.] 

Calendar  of  Inquisitions  of  Henry  VII,  vol.  t,  p.  513. 
Post  Mortem,  Edward  Leversegg. 

A.D.  1496.  Inquest  taken  at  Devizes  the  last  day  of 
October.  12  Henry  VII.  The  Jury  say  that  Edward 
Leversegg  was  seized  in  his  demesne  as  of  fee  of  property  at 
Hewode,  Westbury,  Fytyngdon  and  Estlavington,  and  of  a 
messuage,  24  acres  of  land,  3  acres  of  meadow  in  Bratton, 
worth  yearly  265.  8d.,  held  of  the  Rector  of  the  House  of 
Edyngdon  as  in  right  of  their  church,  by  what  service  they 
know  not.  He  gave  all  his  property  to  John  Colles,  now 
deceased,  and  Richard  Lymbury,  and  John  Frippe,  who 
survive,  to  the  use  of  his  last  will,  as  expressed  in  his  testa- 
ment, produced  to  the  Jurors.  He  died  17  August  last,  and 
Edward  Leversegge,  aged  1 1  years  and  more,  is  his  cousin  and 
heir,  viz.,  the  son  of  his  elder  brother  William. 

COURT  ROLLS.     [Portfolio  208,  No.  14.] 

A.D  1522.  BRATTON.  Court  held  there  25th  day  of 
September,  14  Henry  VIII.  The  homage  came  there  by 
Ralph  Alridge  and  presented  that  the  Abbess  of  Lakocke  .  . 
.  .  .  .  came  and  presented  that  William  Alrigge  j  attached 
in  Faringdowne  ...  .in  Faringdowne.  John  Bowcher 
[vj.  d.]  iij.  attached  with  vii  (?)  oxen  .  .  .  .  vj  oxen  there. 
Richard  Abache  (?)  [iii.  d.~\  with  vj  oxen  there.  Edward 


no  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Trowe  (?)  j  attached  with  iij  oxen.  Item  it  presented  that 
John  Bowecher  [j  d.\  when  he  brake  the  lord's  pinfold  .  .  . 
Therefore  they  are  in  mercy.  Item  it  presented  that  the  same 
John  Bowcher  [iij.  </.]  .  .  .  attached  with  six  oxen.  Item 
it  presented  that  John  Bowcher  junior  is  a  common  trespasser 

at  ....  Item in  mercy.  Item  John 

Bowcher,  senior,  is  a  common  .....  trespasser  with 
his  pigs  ....  and  William  Rawlyns  (?)  is  a  trespasser 
with  his  pigs.  Richard  Badkock  is  a  trespasser  with  his 
pigs,  John  Adams  [j.  </.],  John  Tynker  [j.  d.\  Richard  Ballerd  (?) 
.  .  .  .  Baddekocke,  William  Allrigge,  William  Bla  .  .  . 
are  common  trespassers  also  with  their  swine. 

Item  it  presented  that  Ralphe  Alrigge  [iiij.  d.]  broke  the 
lord's  pinfold  and  there  took  5  sheep  empounded  by  the  reaper 
for  trespass  done  to  the  lord's  .  .  . 

Item  it  presented  that  Rowland  Robyns  [ij.  d.]  ij  attached 
with  ij  mares  .  .  ,  John  Halys  j  attached  with  vj  .  .  John 
Bowecher,  senior,  ij  attached  with  his  horses.  Therefore  they 
are  in  mercy.  John  Robyns  by  the  hands  of  Hugh  Norman 
gives  to  the  lord  to  be  released  from  his  suit  by  the  year  as 
appears  before.1 

Item  that  William  Harman  has  not  repaired  his  tenement 
as  ...  in  the  order.  Therefore  he  is  in  mercy.  .  .  . 
further  he  is  bidden  that  the  said  tenement  be  sufficiently 
repaired  .  .  .  the  next  court  under  .... 

Item  it  presented  that  John  Abache,  who  had  in  the  last 
court  sufficiently  to  repair  his  mill  [before  ?]  this  under  the 
penalty  of  xs.,  hitherto  has  not  repaired  the  said  mill.  There- 
fore he  is  in  mercy.  And  further  he  has  a  day  with  the  next 
court  for  repairing  the  said  mill  under  pain  of  xx.  s.  And  thus 
he  is  in  mercy  as  appears  above.8 

Item  it  presented  that  Thomas  Alrigge  [j.  dl],  customary 
tenant,  makes  default. 


.  *  The  amount  was  entered  on  some  part  of  the  roll  now  lost,  or  illegible. 
2  The  fine,  written  as  usual  over  the  name,  is  obliterated. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  1 1 1 

Item  Thomas  Toweker  [j.  dJ\  et  John  Mellis,  tenants  by 
custom  of  the  manor,  make  default.  Item  William  Clase  and 
Richard  Paty,  tenants  also  by  custom  of  the  manor,  make 
default. 

Item  it  presented  that  William  Rawelyns  [vj.  d.~\  sur- 
charged the  common  with  xl  sheep.  Item  Rowland  [ij.  d.~\ 
with  xx  sheep. 

To  this  [court]  came  William  Wanncy  and  received  of  the 
lord  j  cottage  with  vj  acres  and  a  half  of  land  and  an  acre  of 
meadow  for  the  rent  of  v.  s.  yearly  to  him  for  the  term  of 
his  life,  according  to  the  custom  of  the  manor.  And  he  gives 
to  the  lord  of  the  fine  viii.  5. 

To  this  [court]  came  John  Dyner  alias  Mellis  and  received 
of  the  lord  a  cottage  and  a  garden  or  empty  plat  of  land  adjacent 
newly  built  by  the  foresaid  John  ;  to  have  and  hold  to  the  same 
John  for  the  term  of  his  life  according  to  the  custom  of  the 
manor  used  there,  returning  vj.  d.  And  he  gives  nothing  to 
the  lord  of  the  fine  because  he  has  newly  built  the  foresaid 
house.  And  he  did  fealty  to  the  lord  and  thus  was  admitted 
tenant  thereof. 

Afferrers  I  RALPH  ALRIGGE        1      , 

s  1  RICHARD  BALLARD  j    Jury> 

BRATTON.  Court  of  the  manor  held  there  on  the  Sabbath, 
28th  March.  14  Henry  VIII. 

The  homage  came  there  by  Richard  Wheteacre  and 
Richard  Ballard,  jurymen,  and  present  that  the  Abbess  of 
Laycock  [iij.  d.],  William  Couk  [ij.  </.],  William  Howper  alias 
Badcock  [  j.  d.\  and  William  Blacke,  free  tenants,  owe  suit  and 
make  default,  therefore  they  are  in  mercy  as  appears  above 
their  heads.1 

And  whereas  in  the  preceding  court  William  Harman 
was  commanded  to  repair  his  tenement  totally  in  decay, 
sufficiently  by  this  court,  under  pain  of  forfeiting  his  estate. 


1  The  fines,  written  in  the  original  above  the  names,  are  here  throughout 
put  in  brackets  after  the  names. 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


And  he  has  not  yet  repaired  it  as  he  had  in  the  command,  but 
permits  to  be  totally  in  decay.  Therefore  let  proclamation  be 
made  at  present  for  another  tenant.  And  William  Wawncy 
is  bidden  sufficiently  to  repair  his  cottage  and  also  to  be  a 
resident  upon  the  same  before  the  next  court  under  pain  of 
vj.  s.  viii.  d. 

And  that  William  Clace  his    ...     .     .     .     stable  and  also 

bakehouse  and  barn  in  the  roofing  and  walls  of  the  same, 
Hugh  Williams  his  barn  in  the  roofing,  John  Adams  his  hall  in 
the  roofing  and     ....      of  the  house  in   like  manner, 

Thomas  Alrigge  his  barn  in  the  roofing  and  wattles  and  walls, 
and  his    ....     in  the  roofing,  Thomas  Graunt  his  hall  in 

"growncelle"  and  roofing,  allow  to  be  ruinous;  who  are  bidden 
to  sufficiently  repair  all  the  foresaid  defects  by  the  next  court. 

And  similarly  that  no  tenant  shall  lead  any  male  calf 
beyond  the  age  of  ij  years  on  the  marsh  under  the  pain  afore- 
said .....  John  Bowecher,  senior  [iij.  d.~],  is  a  common 
trespasser  with  his  swine.  Therefore  he  is  in  mercy.  .  .  . 
.  '  .  .  .  feast  of  St.  Michael  the  Archangel  ...... 


Affeerers{JR°™AH--HETAcRE}jury. 


LAY  SUBSIDY,  WILTS  ~jj?  [14  and  15  Henry  VIII]. 

A.D.  1522-3.  To  be  received  of  Richard  Ballard  of  Bratton, 
petty  collector  there  and  of  Mylbourne  —  1045.  zd.  ;  thereof  paid 
to  Edward  Darell  and  Anthony  Hungerford,  knights,  by 
Richard  Wheteker  of  Bratton  —  505.  by  anticipation. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [19  Henry   VIII.   C.   Series   II, 
vol.  46,  No.  120]. 

Post  Mortem  of  John   Fetypase. 

A.D.  1527.  Inquisition  taken  at  New  Sarum  15  November, 
19  Henry  VIII.  The  Jury  say  that  John  Fetypase  is  a  natural 
idiot  and  is  son  and  heir  of  a  certain  Margery  Fetypase,  wife  of 
a  certain  John  Fetypase,  gentleman  ;  and  that  the  said  John 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes. 


and  Margery  were  seized  of  and  in  a  messuage,  10  acres  of 
land,  2  acres  of  meadow,  2  acres  of  pasture,  with  their  appur- 
tenances in  Bratton,  and  land  in  Westbury  and  Hewode  as  in 
right  of  Margery  ;  and  that  the  premises  in  Bratton  are  held 
of  the  Rector  of  Edyngton,  but  by  what  service  they  know  not, 
and  are  worth  yearly  in  all  their  issues  IDS.  (7).1  And  that 
John  Fetypase,  senior,  died  10  July,  15  Henry  VIII,  and  that 
the  said  Margery  died  20  August,  16  Henry  VII  (sic).  And 
that  John  Fetypase,  junior,  is  son  and  heir  of  the  said  Margery 
and  was  16  years  old  and  more  at  the  death  of  Margery. 


VALOR  ECCLESIASTICUS.     [Vol.  II,  pp.  105,  141,  142.] 

Westbury  Vicarage  in  the  Deanery  of  Wyly. 

George  Dudley  vicar  there  with  2  chaplains —     ^xliiij.  xvj.  s. 

Thereof  he  pays  for  stipend  to  two  priests  -\ 

celebrating  services  in  the  chapels  of  Bratton  I   nothing. 

and  Dylton 

ARCHDEACONRY  OF  SOUTH  WILTS. 

DEANERY  OF  POTTERN. 

RECTORY  OF  ALL  SAINTS  IN  EDYNGDON. 

John  Ryve,  Rector  there. 


Worth  yearly 

In  rents  and  farms 

And  in  profit  of  the  \ 
demesne  land  being  I 
in  the  hand  of  the  j 
rector 

And  in  perquisites 
of  the  court  in 
common  years 


Manor  of  Bratton. 

xij.  s.  vij.  d.  qr. 

vij.  iiij.  s.  iiij.  d. 
xij.  s. 


xlj.  viij.  xj.  qr. 


1  There  is  a  hole  here  in  the  parchment. 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


RENTS  AND  PAYMENTS  WITHOUT. 

Manor  of  Bratton. 
To  the  Lord  King  \ 
by    the    hands    of  I  yj.  xiij.  iiij. 

the  Sheriff  of  Wilts.) 
To  the  heirs  of  St.  j  _  xyij    ix 

Maur  J 

To  John  Arunddl,  j  _  xiiij  ob 

knight  [ 

To  the  Hundred  of  1  x       — 

Westbury  j 

To   the   Castle   of  "| 

Devizes  J 

And  to  the  foresaid  \ 
sheriff  of  Wilts  for  I  xxd. 

cert  money 

(To   be   continued).- 


£    s.        d. 
ix  xiiij.    viij 


NOTES    ON    AMESBURY    MONASTERY,    WITH    AN 

ACCOUNT  OF  SOME  DISCOVERIES  ON  THE 

SITE  IN  1860. 


"  It  has  long  been  my  conviction,"  said  the  late  Canon 
Jackson,  in  a  letter  to  the  present  writer,  many  years  ago, 
"  that  the  site  of  the  old  Monastery  at  Amesbury  is  one  of  the 
most  ancient  places  of  interment  in  England ;  and  I  should  feel 
the  greatest  interest  in  any  opportunity  that  should  be  pre- 
sented, of  bringing  any  of  those  interments  to  light." 

"  A  great  deal,"  he  adds,  "went  on  at  Amesbury  in  very 
remote  times,  of  which  the  history  is  lost  to  us  above  ground. 
Perhaps  under  ground  some  traces  of  it  might  yet  be  dis- 
covered." It  is  with  much  pleasure,  therefore,  that  the  follow- 
ing notes  on  the  history  of  Amesbury  Monastery,  as  illustrative 


Notes  on  Ames  bury  Monastery.  115 

of  some  discoveries  made  on  the  site  in  1860,  and  hitherto 
unpublished,  are  now  contributed  to  the  pages  of  W.  N.  &  Q. 

The  Welsh  Triads  mention  Amesbury  as  one  of  three 
great  religious  centres,  established  in  the  very  earliest  times  of 
Christianity.  "The  three  chief  perpetual  choirs  of  the  isle  of 
Britain — the  choir  of  Llan  Iltud  Vawr,  in  Glamorganshire; 
the  choir  of  Ambrosms,  in  Amesbury  ;  and  the  choir  of  Glaston- 
bury — in  each  of  these  three  choirs  there  were  2,400  saints  ; 
that  is,  there  were  100  for  every  hour  of  the  day  and  night  in 
rotation,  perpetuating  the  praise  of  God  without  rest  or  inter- 
mission." 

That  a  religious  foundation  of  some  magnitude  existed 
here  in  remote  times  is  by  no  means  improbable.  The  imme- 
diate neighbourhood  of  Stonehenge,  which  must  have  been  well 
known  at  least  throughout  the  southern  part  of  Britain  as  a  spot 
sacred  to  Pagan  rites,  would  probably  be  one  of  the  first  places 
selected  for  religious  purposes  in  early  days  of  Christianity.1 

In  Saxon  times,  about  the  year  980,  a  Benedictine  Nun- 
nery was  founded  here  by  Ethelfrida,  Dowager  Queen  of  King 
Edgar,  as  an  atonement  for  the  murder  of  her  son-in-law, 
Edward  the  Martyr,  at  the  gate  of  Corfe  Castle.  She  after- 
wards, in  986,  founded  a  second  Nunnery  (also  of  Benedictines) 
at  Wherwell,  co.  Hants.  The  circumstance  is  thus  alluded  to 
in  the  ancient  rhyming  chronicle  of  Robert  of  Gloucester : — 

"  Yet  Elfred  the  luther  queene  that  Seynt  Edward  slough, 
Of  hure  trespas  bifore  hure  dethe  repentant  was  ynoug ; 
And  rered  two  Nonneryes,  Whorwell  that  one  was, 
And  Ambresbury  that  othere,  to  beete  hure  trespas." 


1  The  following  account  given  by  Bishop  Tanner,  in  the  folio  edition 
of  his  Notitia  Monastica,  A.D.  1744,  also  points,  although  perhaps  rather 
dimly,  to  some  very  early  religious  foundation  at  Amesbury : — 

"  Here  is  said  to  have  been  an  ancient  British  monastery  for  300 
monks,  founded  (as  some  say)  by  Ambrius,  an  abbot ;  as  others  by  the 
famous  prince  Ambrosius  (who  was  therein  buried) ;  and  destroyed  by  that 
cruel  pagan,  Gurmundus.  who  overran  all  this  country  in  the  sixth  century. 
It  has  been  thought  that  here  was  one  of  the  two  monasteries  which  were 
given  to  the  learned  Asserius,  by  King  Alfred." 

I  2 


n6  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

The  church  of  Amesbury  nunnery  was  dedicated  to  SS. 
Mary  and  Meliorus — the  latter  being  an  extremely  rare  dedica- 
tion. St.  Meliorus  or  Melior,  son  and  heir  of  Melianus,  duke  of 
Cornwall,  having  embraced  Christianity,  is  said  to  have  been 
cruelly  murdered  and  mutilated  by  his  brother-in-law,  a  pagan, 
about  the  year  411.  His  remains  were  interred  at  Linkinhorn, 
co.  Cornwall,  the  church  of  which  place  is  dedicated  in  his  honour. 
He  was  subsequently  canonized,  and  is  commemorated  on  the 
3rd  January.  Leland  says  "  the  relics  of  S.  Melorus,  son  of 
Metian,  Duke  of  Cornwall,  were  deposited  at  Amesbury.^  The 
church  of  Linkinhorn,  his  first  burial  place,  and  that  of  Ames- 
bury,  which  subsequently  became  a  receptacle  for  his  relics, 
are,  it  is  believed,  the  only  two  known  dedications  to  this 
particular  saint. 

In  the  year  1177  the  Abbess  and  Nuns  at  Amesbury  fell, 
from  some  cause  or  another,  under  the  heavy  displeasure  of 
the  first  of  the  Plantagenet  Kings  of  England.  "  The  convent," 
says  Mr.  Hubert  Hall,2  "had  long  enjoyed  an  unenviable 
notoriety  through  the  wit,  beauty,  and  gallantries  of  the  abbess, 
and  the  daughters  of  noble  families  whom  she  had  gathered 
round  her.  It  was  also  whispered  that  these  fair  recluses  had 
intermeddled  with  other  worldly  matters  connected  with  the 
disagreement  between  the  King  (Henry  II)  and  his  imperious 
consort.  Already,  in  the  preceding  spring,  after  the  great 
council  held  at  Northampton,  two  bishops,  acting  as  royal  com- 
missioners, had  visited  the  nunnery  to  effect  a  resumption 
of  the  foundation  into  the  King's  hands ;  and  now  the  King 
himself,  accompanied  by  the  primate  and  an  imposing  train 


1  It  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  nothing  further  has  been  met  with 
respecting  either  the  date  or  the  cause  of  the  removal  of  these  relics  out  of 
Cornwall  to  so  great  a  distance.     If  some  additional  information  on  the 
subject  were  forthcoming  it  might  probably  turnish  an  interesting  link  in 
the  early  history  of  Amesbury  monastery. 

2  Court  Life  under  the  Plantagenets,  1890,  p.  163. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  117 

^|* 

of  bishops,1  went  thither  to  assist  in  person  at  the  deposition 
of  the  abbess  and  suspected  nuns,  and  the  installation  of  a 
new  abbess  and  convent  drafted  from  the  exemplary  house  of 
Font  Evrault,  whose  arrival  at  Southampton  had  already  been 
notified." 

"  These  somewhat  undignified  proceedings,  however,  only 
formed  a  part  of  the  King's  project  of  dissolution  ;  for  simul- 
taneously with  the  first  visitation  of  this  nunnery,  the  King 
had  required  the  surrender  of  the  College  of  secular  Canons  at 
Waltham,2  upon  an  equally  vague  charge  of  irregular  living ; 
though  here,  too,  it  was  suggested  that  the  worthy  Canons  had 
incurred  more  displeasure  through  their  devotion  to  their  here- 
ditary patroness,  the  Queen,  than  through  the  neglect  of  eccle- 
siastical discipline.  But  whatever  point  might  be  given  to  the 
scandal  by  the  King's  present  relations  with  the  Church  in  the 
matter  of  his  divorce,  the  real  motive  for  his  present  action  was 
nothing  less  than  want  of  funds  to  provide  for  a  new  founda- 
tion, in  fulfilment  of  his  recent  vow  made  at  the  shrine  of  St. 
Thomas  the  Martyr,  and  therefore  the  son  of  Nigel  had  main- 
tained that  the  King  was  justified,  on  the  eve  of  foreign  war,  in 
appropriating  two  religious  foundations,  being  the  actual  pro- 
perty of  the  Crown,  to  satisfy  the  demands  of  national  piety, 
and  to  further  the  supposed  interests  of  the  Church  at  large  by 
a  reformation  of  alleged  abuses." 

The  nuns  expelled  from  Amesbury  by  Henry  II  appear  to 
have  numbered  about  thirty.  Their  cause  of  offence  is  des- 
cribed in  the  preamble  to  subsequent  charters  of  King  John  as, 
"  vitae  suae  turpitudinem,  et  ordinis  sui  dissolutionem,  et 
infamiam  quae  divulgabatur  public  " — the  baseness  of  their  lives, 


1  Richard,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  the  Bishops  of  Sarum,  Exeter, 
Worcester,  London,  and  others,  with  many  magnates  and  barons,  are  men- 
tioned in  a  charter  of  King  John  as  his  father's  principal  advisers  in  the 
matter. 

2  Waltham  Holy  Cross,  Essex.  Harold,  son  of  Earl  Godwin,  had 
founded  a  College  of  Secular  Canons  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine  in  1062, 
and  for  these  Henry  II  now  (1177)  substituted  Canons  Regular. 


i 1 8  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

the  dissoluteness  of  their  order,  and  the  disgrace  which  they  had 
openly  spread  abroad.  Certainly  they  must  have  very  seriously 
transgressed,  either  in  word  or  deed,  if  they  were  at  all  deserv- 
ing of  this  royal  censure.  The  erring  nuns  were,  we  are  told, 
distributed  amongst  other  religious  houses  under  a  stricter 
discipline  ! 

Johanna  de  Gennes  was  the  name  of  the  new  abbess 
introduced  into  Wiltshire  from  the  great  Abbey  of  Font 
Evrault  in  Normandy.  She  was  inducted  at  Amesbury  on  the 
nth  of  the  Kalends  of  June,  1177,  by  Richard,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury  (Apostolic  Legate),  in  the  presence  of  the  King, 
the  Bishops  of  Exeter,  Norwich,1  and  others.  She  brought 
with  her  twenty-four  nuns,  who  were  to  be  the  new  occupants 
of  Amesbury  Monastery. 

The  order  of  Font  Evrault  was  founded  about  the  latter 
end  of  the  nth  century,  by  Robert  d'Arbrissel,  who  is  said  to 
have  been  born  of  poor  parents  in  a  village  of  Brittany,  in  the 
diocese  of  Rennes,  from  which  he  derived  his  name.  It  was  a 
variation  of  the  Benedictine  rule,  the  dress  of  the  sisters  being 
a  black  habit,  with  a  white  veil.  The  order  included  religious, 
of  both  sexes,  presided  over  by  an  Abbess,  in  whom  the  whole 
authority  was  vested,  the  monasteries  being  exempt  from  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  Ordinary.2  The  Founder  caused  Petronilla 
de  Craon  Chemille  to  be  appointed  as  general  and  head  of  the 
order,  of  which  he  drew  up  the  statutes,  and  so  great  was  the 
success  which  attended  its  foundation,  that  before  his  death,  in 
1117,  no  less  than  three  thousand  nuns  had  been  received  into 
the  abbey  of  Font  Evrault  alone. 

On  the  introduction  of  the  new  French  abbess  and  nuns 
into  Wiltshire,  Henry  II  gave  the  Chnrcli  of  St.  Mary  and 

1  The  Bishop  of  Old  Sarum,  Jocelin  [de  Bohun]  had  at  this  time,  owing 
to  increasing  age  and  infirmity,  been  compelled  to  withdraw  from  active 
work,  and  was  assisted  in  his  diocese  by  a  suffragan.     John  of  Oxford,  the 
newly-elected  Bishop  of  Norwich,  had  been  Dean  of  Sarum. 

2  This  will,  perhaps,  account  for  the  absence,  in  the  Wilts  Institutions, 
of  the  induction  of  any  of  the  Abbesses  of  Amesbury. 


Quakerism  in   Wiltshire.  119 

Meliorus  at  Amesbury,  with  other  possessions,  to  their  parent 
Abbey  at  Font  Evrault ;  the  gift  being  confirmed  by  subsequent 
charters  of  King  John  and  Henry  III,  printed  in  Dugdale's 
Monasticon  and  Hoare's  Modern  Wilts ;  and  thus,  fostered  by 
royalty,  the  two  monasteries  increased  in  splendour,  and  became 
a  retreat  for  ladies  of  royal  or  noble  birth,  as  well  as  a  burial 
place  for  several  generations  of  the  early  Plantagenet  Kings 

and  Queens  of  England. 

EDWARD  KITE. 

(To  be  continued.) 


QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  83.) 


MARRIAGE    RECORDS. 

T. 

1710-8-10. — Richard  TRUMAN,  of  Salisbury,  weaver,  son  of 
Thomas  Trueman,  of  Christian  Malford,  to 
Martha  BAYLY,  of  Langley  ph.,  at  Chippenham. 

1715-6-3. — Hannah  TRUEMAN,  dau.  of  Tho :  Trueman,  of 
Foxham,  Brimhill  ph.,  to  Edmond  WAINE,  at 
Calne. 

1722-3-24.- — Mary  TYLER,  dau.  of  Jonathan  Tyler,  of  Bradford, 
to  Samuel  RUTTY,  at  Bradford. 

1724-11-12. — John  TUCKER,  of  Melksham,  to  Mary  JONES,  of 
Melksham,  at  Melksham. 

1725-2-7. — Catherine  TRUMAN,  dau.  of  Tho:  Truman,  late  of 

Foxham,    to   Walter    PRICE,   Xian   Malford,  at 

Cummerwell. 
1728-10-19. — Thomas  TAYLER,  of  Ashen  Cains,  potter,  son  of 

Thomas  Tayler,  of  Ashen  Cains,  to  Mary  RILY, 

of  Suttin  Benger,  at  Charlcott. 

1731-8-17. — Mary  TAYLER,  late  of  Thornbury,  co.  of  Gloucester, 
spinster,  to  Stephen  PALMER,  of  Punten  [Pur- 
ton],  at  Purton  Stoak. 


i2c  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


1733-8-11. — Mary  TYFIELD,  dau.  of  John  Tyfield,  late  of  Bidde- 
ston,  to  Robert  EDWARDS,  of  Notton,  at  Slau- 
terford. 

1733-8-14. — William  TRUMAN,  of  Calne,  woolcomber,  to  Sus- 
annah BRADBURY,  of  Langley,  at  Charlcott. 

1734-3-20. — Charles  TYLER,  of  Bearfield,  Bradford  ph.,  clothier, 
son  of  Jonathan  Tyler,  of  Bradford  ph.,  to  Sarah 
SANGER,  at  Comerwell. 

1735-7-7. — Joshua  TYLEE,  of  Widecombe,  co.  of  Somerset, 
baker,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Tylee,  of  Wins- 
comb,  co.  of  Somerset,  to  Ann  ROSE,  of  Devizes, 
at  Devizes. 

1736-9-4. — Katherine  TAYLOR,  of  Pickwick,  Corsham  ph., 
spinster,  to  Joseph  BLANCHARD,  of  Pickwick, 
at  Corsham. 

1738-5-2. — John  TUFFEN,  of  Ringwood,  co.  of  Hants,  maltster, 
to  Katherine  FURNELL,  at  Broomham. 

1744-8-14. — Robert  TANNER,  of  Cadnam,  yeoman,  to  Mary 
EVERY,  of  Calne,  at  Charlcut. 

1753-8-2. — Grace  TRUMAN,  of  Purten  Stoke,  spinster,  to 
William  PRISE,  of  Sutton  Banger. 

1762-5-4. — Mary  TYLEE,  dau.  of  Joshua  Tylee,  late  of  city  of 
Bath,  co.  of  Somerset,  to  John  NEWMAN,  of 
Melksham,  at  Broomham. 

1768-8-12. — William  TOWNSEND,  of  Mildread  ph.,  Bread  Street, 
London,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Town- 
send,  of  Preston,  in  Lancashire,  to  Elizabeth 
BARRETT,  at  Calne. 

1772-12-17. — Charles  TRUSTER  [TRUSTED],  of  Stoke  Giffbrd,  co. 
of  Gloucester,  grazier,  son  of  Charles  and  Eliz- 
abeth Trusted,  of  Walford,  co.  of  Hereford,  to 
Mary  SARGENT,  at  Hullavington. 

1773-4-13. — Mary  TOWNSEND,  of  Devizes,  dau.  of  Charles  and 
Mary  Townsend,  of  West  Pennard,  co.  of 
Somerset,  to  William  POWELL,  of  Nurstead,  at 
Devizes. 

1774-6-14. — Elizabeth  TYLER,  of  Lavington,  dau.  of  Charles 
and  Susan  Tyler,  of  Lavington,  to  William 
HARRISON,  of  Marnhull,  at  Lavington. 

U. 
1703-12-12. — Joseph  USHER  to  Mary  COAL  [COOL],  at  Devizes. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  121 


W. 

1701-4-19. — Ann  WEBB,  of  Bradford,  spinster,  [whose  parents 
were]  of  Wolly,  Bradford  ph.,  to  John  BASKER- 
VILE,  of  Bradford  ph.,  at  Comerwell. 

1702-1-8. — Thomas  WYLY,  of  Melksham,  maulster,  son  of  John 
Wyly,  of  Colraine,  province  of  Ulster,  Ireland, 
to  Hannah  BUTLER,  of  Chippenham,  at  Chippen- 
ham. 

1702-5-14. — Jane  WEBB,  dau.  of  James  Webb,  of  Bradford  ph., 
to  Harry  LYDYARD,  at  Comerwell. 

1703-8-12. — John  WILLIS,  Jr.,  of  Calstone,  Calne  ph.,  to  Sarah 
SELFE,  of  Lavington,  at  Devizes. 

1703-12-4  [?].— William  WALKER,  son  of  William  Walker,  of 
Brinkworth,  to  Hannah  SKULL,  at  Brinkworth. 

1707-9-17. — Elizabeth  WRENCH  (alias  HOBBS),  of  Warminster 
ph.,  spinster,  to  Jeremiah  OWEN,  of  War- 
minster  ph.,  at  Warminster. 

1707-11-6. — Jacob  WACKHAM,  of  Cain,  sadler,  son  of  Josiah 
Wackham,  of  Catcom,  Hilmarton  ph.,  to  Ann 
GINGELL,  of  Corsham,  [married]  in  Corsham  ph. 

1711-12-15. — Elizabeth  WILLIS,  dau.  of  John  Willis,  of  Little- 
cut,  Enford  ph.,  to  Thomas  HUNT,  at  Broom- 
ham. 

1712-7-16. — Lucy  WHEELER,  dau.  of  John  Wheeler,  of  Nether 
Segrey,  to  Benjamin  STILES,  of  Speen  Mill,  at 
Charlcut. 

17^6-3. — Edmond  WAINE,  son  of  William  Waine,  of  Chel- 
worth,  Cricklet  ph.,  to  Hannah  TRUEMAN,  at 
Calne. 

1717-1-18. — Thomas  WITHERS,  of  Great  Farringdon,  co.  of 
Barks,  bodismaker,  son  of  Thomas  Withers,  of 
Great  Farrington,  co.  of  Barks,  to  Elizabeth 
HANCOCK,  at  Purton  Stoke. 

1718-1-15. — Phillip  WATTS,  of  Greinton,  co.  of  Somerset,  to 
Mary  COOLE,  at  Devizes. 

1728-7-22. — Sarah  WILLIS,  of  Lavington,  widdow,  dau.  of  Isaac 
SELFE,  of  Lavington,  to  Edward  GRAY,  of 
Lavington,  at  Lavington. 

1729-6-24. — Jacob  WILKI.NS,  of  Tedbury,  co.  of  Gloucester, 
cheesfactor,  son  of  Robert  Wilkins,  of  Ted- 
bury,  to  Judith  FRY,  of  Calstone,  at  Calne. 


122  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


1731-9-11. — Hester  WILLIS,  dau.  of  Daniel  Willis,  of  Calne,  to 
George  GRANT,  of  Calne,  at  Charlcut. 

1733-5-12. — Mary  WHITE,  of  Bradford,  spinster,  to  William 
ANGEL,  of  Kin  ton  Langley,  at  Corsham. 

1733-5-19. — Martha  WALDERN,  spinster,  dau.  of  Edward  Wal- 
dern,  late  of  Andover,  co.  of  Hants,  to  Henry 
SIMS,  of  city  of  Canterbury,  at  Lavington. 

1737-3-5. — Ann  WEST,  dau.  of  Richard,  late  of  Corsham  ph.,  to 
Joseph  EDWARDS,  of  Notion,  at  Slaughterford. 

1737-9-3. — John  WILLIS,  son  of  Jacob  Willis,  of  Calne,  to  Mary 
CRABB,  at  Broomham. 

1746-5-18. — Thomas  WASTEFIELD,  of  Foxham,  Brimhill  ph., 
carpenter,  son  of  Grace  HANNAH,  of  Foxham,  to 
Elizabeth  HARDEN,  of  Avon,  at  Charlcut. 

1747-3-13  [?]. — Sarah  WAINE,  dau.  of  EdmondWaine,  ofPurton 
ph.,  to  John  MADDOCK,  at  Purton  Stoak. 

1754-4-25. — Young  Simmonds  WINDLE  [i.e.  Simmonds  WINDLE, 
Jr.],  of  Mangottisfield  ph.,  co.  of  Gloucester,  to 
Sarah  BRISTOW,  at  Slaughterford. 

1765-5-21. — Jane  WEBB,  late  of  Corsham  side,  widdow  of  Thos., 
to  Benjamin  SAWYER,  of  Attworth,  at  Corsham. 

1793-8-15. — Thomas  WEBB,  of  Melksham,  grocer,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Joice  Webb,  of  Bristol,  co.  of 
Somerset,  to  Grace  BENNETT,  at  Pickwick. 

1832-5-9. — Mary  WITHY,  dau.  of  George  and  Lydia  Withy,  of 
Melksham,  to  Edmund  NAISH,  of  Flax  Bourton, 
at  Portishead,  co.  of  Somerset. 

Y. 

1700-7-22. — Sarah  YOUNG  to  Thomas  REYNOLDS,  at  Brinkworth. 

1702-2-3. — Thomas  YOUNG,  of  Charlton,  wheelwright,  to  Mary 
YOUNG,  dau.  of  Daniel  Young,  of  Brinkworth, 
at  Brinkworth. 

1719/20-1-8. — Jacob  YOUNG,  of  Rough  Earthcot,  Olveston  ph., 
co.  of  Gloucester,  yeoman,  to  Mary  SMART,  of 
Michaels  Kington. 

1731-11-31. — Mary  YOUNG,  dau.  of  Thomas  Young,  of  Gritten- 
ham,  Brinkworth  ph.,  to  Isaac  SARJANT,  at 
Hullington. 

1738-2-7.— Thomas  YOUNG,  of  Grittenham,  Brinkworth  ph., 
yeoman,  to  Mary  BULLOCK,  at  Sutton. 


A  Calendar  of  feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  123 

1751-2-28. — Edward  YOUNG,  of  Earthcott,  Avelstone  [Olveston] 
ph.,  co.  of  Gloucester,  son  of  Jacob  Young,  of 
Earthcott,  to  Elizabeth  BULLOCK,  at  Hullington. 

Z. 

1720-8-20. — Elizabeth  ZEALEY,  dau.  of  Joseph  Zealey,  of 
Starkly,  to  Edward  LOCKEY,  of  Letchled,  at 
Hullavington. 

Tottenham,  Middlx.  NORMAN  PENNEY. 

(To  be  continued). 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p. 


192.  Anno   32. — John    Kent    and  Roger   Basyng,    arm.; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Chippenham.     ^40. 

193.  Anno  32. — Thomas  Whyt,  gen.,  and  William  Stile- 
man  and   Alice   his   wife ;    lands    and   tenements    in    Henton, 
Lytylton,  Stepleashton,  and  Christian  Mallefords. 

194.  Anno  32. — John  Warneford,  gen.,  and  James  Yate, 
gen.,    &    Johanna    Flower,    widow ;    messuages    and     lands 
in  Rowde  and  Foxaunders  alias  Foxhangers. 

195.  Anno  32. — Thomas  Bayly  and  Richard  Styleman, 
son  and  heir  of  Anthony  Styleman  ;  messuages  and  lands  in 
Stepleasheton,  and  the  old  porte  of  the  Boro'  of  le  Devises  and 
Revedon.     ,£100. 

196.  Anno  32. — Thomas    Wenman,   armiger,  and  Simon 
Seyms,    gen.  ;   manor    of  Evyn    Swyndon,    messuages,    and 
lands  in  Rodborne  Chaynewe  and  Evyn  Swyndon.     ^200. 

197.  Anno  32. — Richard  Jerveys,  of  London,  mercer,  and 
John    Barkley,    of  Stoke,    in    co.    Glouc.,    armiger ;  manor   of 
Melston,  als.  Myldeston  and  Bryghtmerston  als.   Brygmarston, 
messuages  and  lands  in  Melston  alias  Myldeston  and  Bryght- 


124  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

marston  als.    Brygmarston,  with  advowson  of  the  church  of 
Myldeston.     ;£6oo. 

198.  Anno  32. — William    Webbe   and  William  Gerberd 
formerly  of  Odestoke,  in  co.  Wilts,  arm.,  son  and  heir  Richard 
Gerberd,    armiger,  deceased  ;  manor  of  Odestoke,  messuages, 
and  lands  in  Odestoke  and  Byrtford,  advowson  of  the  church 
of  Odestoke.     ^800. 

199.  Anno  32. — William  Dauntesey  and  Ambrose  Daun- 
tesey  and  John  Gilbert,  son  and  heir  of  George  Gilbert ;  mes- 
suages   and   lands   in     Lavyngton,    Cannynge    and    Worton. 
400  marks. 

200.  Anno    32. — Christopher     Cheverett,    armiger,    and 
John  Abarrowe,  armiger,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  Bemerton,    Stoford,   Lytyllwysshfords,  Stratford 
Undercastell,  Madyngton,  Alderbury,  Fenny  Sutton,  Gorseley- 
fforest,  and  Sutton  Mawndfyld. 

201.  Anno    33. — John     Mervyn,      armiger,     and     Hugh 
Apharry  and  Elianore  his  wife ;   manor  of  West  Knoyle  als. 
Knoyll  Odyerne,  messuages  and  lands  in  West  Knoyle  alias 
Knoyll  Odyerne.     ^50. 

202.  Anno    33. — Richard    Bruges,    armiger,    and   John 
Browne,  gen.,    and   Agnes  his   wife ;  manor   of  High    Swyn- 
don,  messuages  and  lands  in  High  Swyndon,  West  Swyndon, 
Estcott  and  Westcott.     ^71. 

203.  Anno  33. — Thomas  Davye  and  Francis  Butler,  armi- 
ger; messuages  and  lands  in  Cokynton  and  Sherston.     50  marks. 

204.  Anno  33. — John  Marvyn   and  John  Gary,  armiger, 
son  and  heir  of  Robert  Gary,  formerly  of  Cokynton,  co.  Devon, 
armiger;  a  third  part  of  messuage  and  land  in  Peertwode  als. 
Peert  worth.     ^46. 

205.  Anno   33. — Richard   Batte   and  Richard  Styleman, 
gen.,  son   and  heir  of  Anthony  Styleman,  formerly  of  Styple 
Asheton,    gen. ;    messuage    and   land    in    Westbury    "  subtus 
le  playne."     ^30. 

206.  Anno   33. — Jeremiah    Grene   and    William    Popley 
and  Peter  Morgan  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  manor  of  Chitterne 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  125 

called  Morgans,  messuages  and  lands  in  Chitterne  All  Saints, 
and  Chitterne  (St.  Mary).     ^220. 

207.  Anno  33. — William  Popley  and  Peter  Morgan  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  manor  of  Mulbourne  Courte,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Chitterne  All  Saints  and  Chitterne  St.  Mary.     ^220. 

208.  Anno   33. — Giles    Brugge    and   John    Galley    and 
Isabella  his  wife,  manors  of  Hyghway  and  Clevauncye  ;  mes- 
suages and  lands  in   Highway,  Clevauncye,   and   Helmerton. 

^3°°- 

209.  Anno  33. — John  Ade  and  William  Stourton,   knt., 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife ;  manor  of  Eston  Grey,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Eston  Grey.     ^250. 

210.  Anno   33. — William  Button  and  William  Stourton, 
knt.,  Lord  Stourton  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  manors  of  Bakan- 
ton  and    Stanmer,    messuages   and    lands   in    Bakanton    and 
Stanmer,  advowson  of  the  free  chapel  of  Bakanton.     260  marks. 

211.  Anno   33. — Henry    Brunker,    Richard   Woodcokys, 
Roger  Blade,  and  John  Warnesford  and  Peter  Morgan,  armi- 
ger,   and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Orches- 
ton    St.    Mary,    Tyleshyde,    Pottern,    Marston,    and    Stepull 
Assheton.     ^140. 

212.  Anno  33. — William  Dauntsey,  citizen  and  alderman 
of  London,  and  Edmund  Walwyn,  gen.  ;  messuages  and  lands 
in  Compton.     ,£100. 

213.  Anno  33. — William  Dauntsey,  citizen  and  alderman 
of  London,  and  George,    Earl   of   Huntingdon,    and    Francis 
Hasty ngs,  knt.,  Lord  Hastings,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  the 
said  Earl,  and  Katherine  his  wife ;  manor  of  Chyppenham  and 
Rowdon,    messuages  and  lands  in  Rowdon  and  Chyppenham. 
^400. 

214.  Anno  33. — John  Yate  and  Milo  Abowen  and  John 
Hyll ;  messuage  and  lands  in  Wynterborne  Erles. 

215.  Anno  33. — Alice  Martin,  widow,  and  Thomas  Rodes 
and  Johanna  his  wife,  Roger  Thornborough  and  Johanna  his 
wife,  two  of  the  daughters  and  heiresses  of  Richard  Pynker ; 
messuage  and  garden  in  Mylford. 


126  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

216.  Anno  33. — Robert  Tyderley,  junior,  gen.,  and  William 
Fawconer,    arm.;    messuages    and    lands    in    the    parish    of 
Chyclade.     ^40. 

217.  Anno    34. — John  Abbot  and  John   Tompson,    and 
Edith  his  wife  ;  messuage  and  lands  in  Marborough.     £20. 

218.  Anno  34. — Richard  Barowe  and  Edward  Chafyn  and 
William  Webb ;  manor  of  Odestoke,  messuages  and  lands  in 
Odestoke,  Hyggemede   and  Birtforde,  with   advowson  of  the 
church  of  Odestoke. 

219.  Anno  34. — William  Grene,  gen.,  and  Thomas  Wood- 
shawe,     gen.,     and    Johanna     his     wife ;     half    the     manor 
of    Stanlynche,     messuages     and    lands    in   Stanlynche    and 
Downton. 

220.  Anno  34. — Edward  Baynton,  knt.,  Geoffry  Danyell 
and  John  Pye  and  Stephen  Apharry,  armiger,  and  Johanna  his 
wife  and  Roger  Bodenham,  armiger,  son  and  heir  of  Johanna ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Pyrton,  Alburn,   Vpham,  Snape  and 
Wootton  Bassett.     ,£280. 

221.  Anno  34. — John  Kente  and  John  Mervyn,  armiger; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Chyppenham,  Devyses,  and  Erlestoke. 
100  marks. 

222.  Anno  34. — Thomas   Brynde  and  George  Delalynd, 
and   Mary   his   wife ;    manor  of  Staunton  Fitz-Herbart,  and 
advowson  of  the  church  of  Staunton  Fitzharbert,  messuages 
and  lands    in    Staunton    Fitzharbert,    Marston,  and    Castell 
Eyton.     £226. 

223.  Anno  34. — William  Aleyn  and  Richard  Dauntesey; 
one  half  a  water  mill  and  lands  in  Calne.     ^30. 

224.  Anno   34. — Francis  Morgan,  armiger,   and  Thomas 
Seymour,  knt.,  John  Gates,  armiger,  and  George  Bourchyer, 
armiger ;    manor  of  Sende,    messuages   and  lands  in  Sende, 
Sendrewe,  Melksham  and  Wolmere.     ^£1,100. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.} 


Dugdale  of  Seend.  127 


DUGDALE  OF  SEEND. 

(Continued  from  page  89.^ 


MONUMENTAL  INSCRIPTIONS. 

SEEND. 

To  the  memory  of  Thomas  Dugdale,  second1  of  that  name, 
in  this  parish  of  Seend,  Gentleman,  who  lyeth  underneath 
interr'd,  and  of  Prosper,  his  vertuous,  only,  and  beloved  wife, 
daughter  and  heire  of  the  learned  and  pious  Mr.  John  Awdry, 
of  Melksham,  Minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  Katharine2  his  wife, 
daughter  of  William  Tipper,  of  this  parish,  Gentleman.  The 
said  Thomas  and  Prosper  had  issue  five  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters. Thomas  Dugdale  was  interr'd  the  16  of  Feb.  1684,  aet. 
54.  Prosper  Dugdale  was  interr'd  (entering  into  the  Chancel) 
the  ryth  of  March  1676,  aet.  44. 
ARMS. — Argent,  a  cross  moline  gules,  in  the  dexter  quarter  a 

torteau,  impaling,  Argent,  on   a  bend  azure  three 

cinquefoils  or.     AWDRY. 


Prosper  Dugdale,  wife  of  Thomas  Dugdale,  of  this  Parish, 
Gent,  was  underneath  interred  March  the  17,  1676.  ^Etatis 
XLIIII. 


Thomas  Dugdale,  de  Seend  Head,  Gen.,  Qui  primus  ex 
antiqua  ejusdem  cognominis  familia  de  Clithero,  apud  Lancas- 
triensis,  in  hac  Parochia  sedem  fixit ;  filius  erat  Revrendi 
Christopher!  Dugdale,  olim  de  Polshot,  et  Ecclesiae  ibidem 
Rectoris,  cui  Christophero  ex  fratre  nepos  fuit  Gulielmus 


1  He  was  in  reality  the  third  of  that  name,  his  elder  brother  Thomas 
having  been  baptised  at  Seend  3rd  March,  1622,  and  buried  there  on  the 
following  16th. 

2  Apparently  the  daughter  of  William  Tipper  by  his  first  wife  Mary 
(Sheappard),  whose  marriage  took  place  at  Seend  29th  Sept.,  1622,  and  her 
burial  at  the  same  place  21st  Feb.,  1632. 


128  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Ott  cries. 

Dugdale,1  Eques  Auratus,  de  Blythe  Hall  in  Comitatu 
Warwicensi,  Rei  Antiquariae  peritia  Illustris.  A  quo  ortus 
est  Johannes  Dugdale,  eques,  de  Coventry  in  praedict.  Com. 
Thomas  Dugdale  Uxorem  habuit  Elizabethan!,  Johannis 
Trimnel  de  Earlstoak  in  hoc  Comitatu  Wiltoniensi  Filiam, 
unde  natus  est  Thomas  Dugdale,  Gen.,  Qui  pater  fuit  Thomae 
Dugdale,  civis  Londinensis. 

Thomas  Dugdale,  senior,  sepulchre  conditus  est  Aprilis  3 
Anno  Dom.  1669,  ^Etatis  85.  Elizabetha,  Uxor,  Aprilis  26, 
1664,  ^Etat.  70. 

Ann,2  the  first  Wife  of  Thomas  Dugdale,  of  the  City  of 
London,  Sole  Daughter  of  Mr.  Jacob  Selby,  of  Bradford,  was 
Underneath  interred  Dec.  5,  1682,  JEt.  23.  Also  the  Son  of 
the  said  Thomas  and  Ann  Dugdale  was  interred  Dec.  1682, 
JEt.  30  days. 

ARMS. — DUGDALE. 


ST.  LAWRENCE  JEWRY,  LONDON. 

Hie  inhumatur  Corpus  Janae,  Uxoris  Tho.  Dugdale,  Civis 
Londini,  Filiae  Ambrosii  Audry  de  Melkham  in  Com.  Wilts., 
Generosi,  Quae  obiit  Sept.  17,  1692,  ^Etat.  31. 

Also  the  Body  of  Tho.  Dugdale,  Dyed  Dec.  2,  1711,  ^Etat. 
52.  And  his  Daughter  Jane,  who  dyed  7  April,  1713. 


1  John  Dugdale,  of  Clithero,  ancestor  of  these  Dugdales  (See  Vol.  I,  p. 
174),  in  the  second  year  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  received  a  grant  of 
a  crest,  viz.,  " A  Griffin's  hedd  with  winges  couped  or,  langued  gules";  in 
the  printed  Visitation  of  London,  1633-5  this  crest  is  charged  with  the 
difference  of  the  3rd  son  of  a  2nd  son,  viz.,  that  of  Robert  Dugdale,  of 
London  (who  signs  the  pedigree),  3rd  son  of  Christopher  Dugdale,  showing 
that  the  latter's  eldest  brother  Henry,  of  Codford,  or  his  representatives, 
were  still  living ;  information  as  to  this  branch  will  be  gladly  welcomed; 
it  will  be  remembered  that  Robert's  eldest  brother  was  Rector  of  Codford. 
In  the  Grant  it  is  said  that  John  Dugdale  was  one  of  those  who  have  long 
borne  the  ancient  arms  of  DUGDALE;  his  exact  relationship  to  the  great 
Garter  has  not  yet  been  made  out,  the  (at  present)  accepted  pedigree 
stating  that  Sir  William  was  an  only  son  of  an  only  son. 

-  Brad  ford-on- Avon    Register:— 1681,   Oct.    5.     Thomas    Duggdall    to 
Anne  Silby. 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  ojf  Bromham.  129 

UPMINSTER,  co.  ESSEX. 
(History  and  Topography  of  Upminster,  by  T.  L.  Wilson.) 

To  the  memory  of  Elizabeth  Dugdale,  the  virtuous  and 
most  affectionate  wife  of  Thomas  Dugdale,  of  London,  Mer- 
chant, daughter  of  Richard  Gbodlad,1  of  London,  Woollen 
draper,  who  departed  this  life  April  8th,  1701,  get.  37,  and 
with  Elizabeth  an  infant  daughter  of  the  said  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth,  who  departed  this  life  August  ipth,  1701,  lyeth 
underneath  interred.  Also  one  Sister  and  two  Brothers  of 
the  said  Elizabeth,  viz.,  Mary  Goodlad  deceased  July  pth  1674, 
aet.  3;  Willm.  Goodlad  deceased  March  4th  1678,  aet.  19; 
Abram  Goodlad  deceased  April  29th  1685,  aet.  19.  All  waiting 
for  a  glorious  resurrection. 

ARMS. — A  cross  molme,  impaling,  On  a  bend  cotised  azure 
three  mullets. 


DEED  RELATING  TO  THE  MANOR  OF  BROMHAM, 
A.D.  1535-1579. 


For  permission  to  print  the  following  document  we  are 
indebted  to  the  kindness  of  its  owner,  Mr.  Coleman,  of  Totten- 
ham. It  contains  an  interesting  -fragment  of  unpublished 
history  relating  to  the  ecclesiastical  manor  of  Bromham,  for 

1  This  family  was  of  Leigh,  co.  Essex,  where  they  were  settled  for 
many  generations.  The  arms  they  displayed  in  the  church  there,  Per  pale 
vert  and  ermine,  an  eagle  displayed  or,  are  certainly  the  arms  we  find 
assigned  to  a  family  of  this  name.  There  is  a  coat  impaled  with  Dugdale, 
which  ought  and  probably  is  intended  to  denote  his  marriage  with 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Goodlad,  who  lies  buried  with  his  ancestors 
at  Leigh,  but  its  correct  appropriation  to  the  Goodlad  family  is  extremely 
doubtful.  [In  the  sketch  of  these  arms  that  appear  on  this  monument, 
which  was  sent  me  some  years  ago  by  Mr.  J.  G.  Bradford,  16,  Listria  Park, 
London,  DUGDALE  has  the  torteau,  and  the  mullets  in  the  impaled  coat 
are  pierced ;  perhaps  on  a  closer  inspection  these  mullets  would  prove  to  be 
cinque/oils,  in  which  case  the  coat  might  be  meant  for  that  borne  by 
AWDBY. — ED.] 

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130  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

nearly  half  a  century,  from  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII  to  that  of 
Queen  Elizabeth. 

The  lordship  of  Bromham,  which  had  previously  belonged 
to  Earl  Harold,  was,  at  the  time  of  the  Domesday  Survey,  in 
the  hands  of  the  Crown.  By  William  Rufus,  the  manor,  and 
afterwards  the  advowson  of  the  church,  were  given  to  the  Bene- 
dictine Monastery  of  St.  Martin  at  Battle,  co.  Sussex,  which 
had  been  founded  by  his  father  A.D.  1067,  and  to  this  establish- 
ment they  continued  to  belong  until  the  general  suppression, 
31  Henry  VIII  (1539). 

From  the  valuation  of  the  property  belonging  to  the  Mon- 
astery of  Battle  contained  in  the  Valor  Ecdesiaslicus,  made 
A.D.  I5341  (five  years  before  the  suppression),  it  appears  that 
the  Abbot  and  Convent  were  then  in  receipt  of  ^34  ios.  3d. 
yearly  from  their  Bromham  estate ;  the  farm  of  the  manor  was 
leased  for  a  term  of  years  to  John  Slade,2  a  portion  of  tithe 
there,  called  Sextry,  was  held  of  the  Abbey,  by  the  Rector  ot 
Bromham,  William  Gittyns,  and  the  remaining  two  thirds  of 
the  income  made  up  from  the  rents  of  divers  tenant  farmers, 
and  smaller  holders. 

"  WILTES.    Bromham. 

Firma  manerij  ib'm  cum  pertinen'  vocat'  Bromham  in  tenura  Joh'is 

Slade  per  indentura  pro  termi'o  annorum  re'  per  annum    ...     £9. 
Redditus  divers'  tenen'  et   divers'  parvarum  firm'  ibidem  collect' 

per predict' abbis  per  annu' ...  ...    ^23  ioy.  &/. 

Porcio  decime  ib'm  vocat'  Sextry  in  tenura  Will'mi  Gittyns  reddendo 

inde  p'  a'm       ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...    £-2." 

Besides  this  ecclesiastical  manor,  known  as  "  Bromham 
Battle,"  there  was  also  a  lay  manor,  called  "  Roches  manor",8 
from  a  family  of  De  la  Roche  who  were  owners  here  at  the 
close  of  the  fourteenth  century.  From  two  co-heiresses  of  Sir 
John  Roche,  who  died  about  the  year  1400,  this  latter  property 

1  Vol.  I,  p.  347. 

2  John  Slade,  of  Bromham,  gent.,  was  patron   of  Hilperton  in  1554. 
He  left  a  son,  of  the  same  name,  a  minor,  and  the  advowson  of  Hilperton, 
with  some  cottages  there,  to  which  he  was  heir,  were  for  some  time  in  the 
hands  of  the  Court  of  Wards  and  Liveries,  temp.  Queen  Elizabeth. 

3  See  Inquisition  post  mortem  of  Sir  Walter  Beauchamp,  9  Hen.  VI. 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  of  Bromham.  131 

came  successively  into  the  families  of  Beauchamp  and  Baynton. 
By  the  Beauchamps,  as  descendants  of  the  elder  co-heiress,  it 
was  held  until  the  death  (without  legitimate  issue)  of  Richard 
Beauchamp,  Lord  St.  Amand,  in  1508,  when  the  Bayntons 
inherited  as  representatives  of  the  younger  co-heiress  of 
Roche. 

The  latter  family,  before  succeeding  to  the  Bromham  pro- 
perty, had  long  been  seated  at  Fallersdown,  or  Falston,  a 
moated  mansion  in  the  parish  of  Bishopstone,  in  South  Wilts. 
The  first  inheritor  of  Bromham  was  John,  son  and  heir  of  Sir 
Robert  Baynton,  of  Falston,  who  having  fought  at  Tewkesbury 
under  the  banner  of  Henry  VI,  was  taken  prisoner,  and 
attainted.  The  attainder  being  subsequently  reversed,  his 
estates  were  recovered,  and  his  son  restored  in  blood  by  Henry 
VII  in  1503.  He  died  in  1516,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest 
son  Edward  (afterwards  knighted).  This  Sir  Edward  rose  high 
in  favour  with  Henry  VIII,  and  was  vice-chamberlain  to  no  less 
than  three  of  Henry's  queens.  On  his  estate  at  Bromham,  and 
on  the  site  of  what  is  now  Bromham  House  Farm,  he  built  a 
new  mansion,  partly  with  the  spoils  of  Devizes  Castle,  and  an 
old  manor  house  at  Corsham.  It  is  said  to  have  cost  ^15,000 
(an  enormous  sum  at  that  time)  and  to  have  been  "  nearly  as 
large  as  Whitehall  in  Westminster  and  fit  to  entertain  a  king." 
Standing  close  on  the  old  western  road  it  became  one  of  the 
usual  halting  places  for  the  nobility  and  gentry  on  their  way  to 
Bath.  James  I  visited  here  in  1616,  and  again  in  i6iSl  and  1621. 

1  The  Devizes  Corporation,  on  the  second  occasion,  lent  certain  articles 
to  the  owner  of  Bromham  House,  as  appears  from  the  following  entries  in 
the  Chamberlains'  books  of  that  date : — 

"  1618 — Paid  William  Hellier  for  his  paynes   in   looking  to  such 
goods  as  were  sent  to  Bromham  to  be  imployed  in  the  kings' 
s'rice     ...  ...  ..  ...  ...  ...  ...2s. 

Paid  John  Thrusten  for  a  form  lost  in  the  King's  s'vice  ...  ...  I6d. 

Paid  John  Dicke  for  another  form  lost  in  the  said  s'vice  ...  16^. 

Paid  for  wyne  given  to  the  King's  Mats  Trumpetters       ...  ...     3s. 

Paid  David  Joyner  for  worke  by  him  don  at  the  King's  Mats  com- 
ing throughe  the  towne    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...     8d. 

Paid  William  Dicke  for  carryinge  the  King's  Mats  wyne  to  Charlton  2s." 

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132  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

The  house  was  burnt  during  the  Civil  Wars,  in  1645,  and  only 
part  of  one  wing  now  remains  in  situ,  the  picturesque  Tudor 
gateway1  having  been  subsequently  rebuilt  at  the  entrance  to 
Spye  Park  when  the  Baynton  family,  forsaking  the  site  of  their 
old  mansion,  adopted  this  as  their  new  residence  at  the  time 
of  the  Restoration. 

It  is  to  this  Sir  Edward  Baynton,  the  builder  of  Old 
Bromham  House  and  the  owner  from  1516  to  1544  of  the  pro- 
perty there  known  as  Roche's  Manor — afterwards  Bromham- 
Baynton — that  the  commencement  of  the  following  deed  refers. 
With  his  interest  at  Court  he  was  no  doubt  able,  at  the  sup- 
pression of  monasteries,  to  make  easy  terms  with  the  Crown 
for  the  purchase  of  some  of  their  property.  In  1536  he 
obtained  a  grant  from  Henry  VIII  of  the  site  of  the  Cistercian 
Abbey  of  Stanley,  a  royal  foundation  of  Henry  II  and  the 
Empress  Maud,  with  the  principal  part  of  the  estate  belonging 
thereto,  and  other  lands  in  the  counties  of  Wilts,  Berks,  and 
Somerset.  In  1540  he  had  further  grants  from  the  Crown  of 
the  manors  of  Bremhill  and  Semley  in  this  county.  At  Brom- 
ham, being  steward  of  the  ecclesiastical  manor  belonging  to  the 
monks  of  Battle,2  and  foreseeing,  no  doubt,  the  approaching 
dissolution  of  the  monastery,  he  obtained  from  the  Abbot  and 
Convent  a  lease  for  89  years,  from  Michaelmas  1535,  of  the 
whole  of  their  property  in  the  village,  including  the  manor, 
previously  leased  to  John  Slade,  the  advowson  of  the  Church 
of  Bromham,  and  also  the  manor  of  Clench  in  the  parish  of 
Milton  Lislebonne  (formerly  Milton  Abbots)  near  Pewsey,  at 
a  yearly  rental  of  ^34,  payable  by  half-yearly  instalments  at 
the  house  of  the  said  Abbot  and  Convent  in  Southwark.  But 
little  of  this  rent  did  either  "said  Abbot  or  Convent"  receive, 


1  It  bears  the  royal  arms  of  the  Tudors  beneath  the  oriel  window  in  the 
upper  storey,  and  in  the  spandrels  of  the  arch  forming  the  gateway  those 
of  Sir  Edward  Baynton,  its  original  builder,  and  his  first  wife  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Sulyard,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas. 

2  See    Valor  Eeclesiasticus.      For  this  office   he   received    an   annual 
payment  of  26s.  8d. 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  of  Bromham.  133 

for  the  long  lease,  as  in  many  similar  instances,  had  been 
obtained  merely  as  a  stepping-stone  to  an  easy  purchase,  and 
three  years  later  in  (1538)  Battle  Abbey  had  been  dissolved 
and  its  property  at  Bromham  had  become  the  freehold  of  its 
new  lessee,  Sir  Edward  Ba}'nton,  by  a  grant  from  the 
Crown.1 

By  this  arrangement  Sir  Edward  became  owner  of  both 
Roche's  Manor,  afterwards  Bromham  Bqynton,  and  the  manor 
of  Bromham  Battle.  By  deed  dated  nth  Nov.,  1538,  he  gave 
to  Andrew  Baynton,  his  eldest  son  and  heir  apparent,  all  his 
estate,  term,  title,  and  interest  in  the  latter  manor,  with  the 
advowson  of  the  Church  of  Bromham,  and  the  manor  of  Clench, 
as  leased  to  him  by  the  Abbot  and  Convent.  He  is  supposed 
to  have  died  in  France  whilst  attending  the  king  in  one  of  his 
expeditions  there  in  1544-5. 

Andrew  Baynton,  his  heir,  probably  by  way  of  security, 
obtained  a  further  grant  from  Queen  Mary,  on  her  accession 
in  1553,  of  the  two  manors  of  Bromeham  Baynton  and  Brome- 
ham  Battle?  He  presented  to  the  living  of  Bromham  in  1554. 
(Wilts.  Insf).  By  deed  3  Elizabeth  (1560)  he  entailed  his  land 
on  his  brother.3  He  was  twice  married,  first  to  a  French- 
woman, Philippa,  daughter  of  William  Brulet,  embroiderer  to 
Henry  VIII,  and  secondly  to  Frances,  daughter  of  Ralph  Lee, 
by  whom  he  left  an  only  daughter,  Ann,  aged  12  years  at  her 
father's  death  21  Feb.,  1564-5,  and  afterwards  married  to 
William  Aristie,  some  of  whose  descendants  appear  to  have 
lived  at  Stanley  Abbey. 

Andrew  Baynton  probably  died  at  Rowden,  for  he  lies 
buried,  not  with  his  ancestors  at  Bromham,  but  beneath  an 
altar  tomb  in  Chippenham  Church.  The  tomb  bears  the 


1  Originalia,  30  Hen.  VIII.     Roll  91.     (See  Jones'  Index.) 

2  Originalia,  1  Mary.     Roll  33.     (See  Jones'  Index.) 

aThe  Baynton  pedigree  in  Hurl.  MS.  No.  1111,  says  he  "married  a 
french  woman  and  sould  his  land  to  his  brother."  See  also  A.  S.  Ellis'  litho- 
graphed pedigree. 


134  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Baynlon  shield  of  six  quarterings,  and  crest,   the  date  1579 
(perhaps  that  of  its  erection),  and  this  inscription  : — 

"  Armiger  hoc  tumulo  jacet  hie  generosus  opaco, 

Andreas  Baynton  qui  nominatus  erat. 
Quern  genuit  miles  bene  notus  ubique  Edoardus 
Hujus  erat  heres :  mine  requiescit  humo." 

Administration  of  his  goods,  chattels,  &c.,  was  committed 
to  his  next  brother,  the  second  Sir  Edward,1  who,  by  the  name 
of  Edward  Baynton  of  Rowden,  by  deed  dated  31  March,  12 
Elizabeth  (1569),  in  consideration  of  certain  sums  of  money  and 
"other  good  causes  and  considerations  him  especiallie  mov- 
inge",  assigned  the  property  previously  leased  to  his  father  by 
the  Abbot  of  Battle,  to  Thomas  Ivye,2  of  West  Kington,  who  by 
this  deed,  dated  20  December,  22  Elizabeth  (1579),  again  assigns 
his  interest  therein  to  Thomas,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  Thomas 
South,  of  Swallowcliffe,  and  Richard  Mompesson,  of  Knook, 
in  co.  Wilts ;  no  consideration  or  uses  being  mentioned.  The 
freehold  of  the  manor  of  Bromham  Battle,  with  the  advowson 
of  the  church,  continued  in  the  hands  of  the  Bayntons  and  their 
representatives;  and  the  late  Mrs.  Starky,  of  Battle  House, 
was  in  possession  of  a  carved  oak  chair,  with  an  oak  table 
of  large  dimensions,  both  traditionally  said  to  have  been  used 
at  the  Abbot's  Court  Leet  for  Battle  Manor. 

To  ALL  trewe  x'pen  people  to  whome  this  p'sent  writinge  shall 
come  Thomas  Ivye,  of  Kyngton  in  the  Countie  of  Wiltes  esquior  sendeth 
greetinge  in  or  lorde  god  eu'lastinge  WHERE[AS]  John  late  Abbot  of 
the  late  dissolved  monastery  of  S*  Martyn  of  Battell  in  the  Countie  of 
Sussex  and  the  Co'vent  of  the  same  place  w01  one  assente  and  consent 
Dyd  by  theire  writinge  indented  made  the  thirde  day  of  December  in 
the  yere  of  or  lorde  god  one  thowsande  fyve  hundreth  thirtie  and  fyve, 
and  in  the  seven  and  twentith  yere  of  the  Raigne  of  or  late  sou'eigne 
Lorde  of  famous  memory  Kinge  Henry  the  eight  Demise  graunte  and  to 


1  He  presented  to  the  living  of  Bromham  in  1573. 

-  This  Thomas  Ivye.  by  his  wife  Eliza,  daughter  of  ...  Mallett,  of  co. 
Somerset,  had,  among  other  children,  a  son  Sir  George  Ivye,  of  West, 
Kington,  who  married  Susanna,  youngest  daughter  of  Laurence  Hyde,  of 
West  Hatch,  and  aunt  to  Lord  Chancellor  Clarendon.  He  died  1639.  See 
his  monument  in  Bath  Abbey. 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  of  Bromham.  135 


ferme  lette  vnto  Sr  Edward  Baynton  knight  deceased  All  that  theire 
manor  of  Bromeham  wth  th'app'tenanc's  in  the  saide  Countie  of  Wiltes 
together  wth  th'advowson  of  the  churche  of  Bromeham  And  also  all 
that  theire  rnano'  of  Clenche  againste  Wyke  wth  th'app'tenanc's  in  the 
said  Courtie  of  Wiltes  And  all  other  landes  ten'tes  rentes  reu'cons 
services  and  other  hereditam*8  whatsoeu'  wth  all  and  singler  their 
app'tenanc's  set  lyenge  and  beinge  in  Bromeham  Clenche  and  Wyke 
aforesaid  To  HAVE  AND  TO  HOLDE  the  said  manors  landes  ten'tes  and 
all  other  the  p'misses  wth  theire  app'tenanc's  vnto  the  saide  Sr  Edward 
Baynton  his  executors  and  assignes  from  the  feaste  of  S*  Michaell 
th'archangell  laste  paste  before  the  date  of  the  said  deede  Indented 
vnto  the  ende  and  terme  of  ffowre  score  and  nyne  yeres  from  thence 
next  insuynge  and  fullie  to  be  compleet  and  ended.  YELDINGE  and 
payinge  therefore  yerelie  vnto  the  said  Abbot  and  Co'vent  and  to  theire 
success018  duringe  the  said  terme  thirtie  and  fowre  powndes  of  lawfull 
money  of  Englande  at  the  feastes  of  Easter  and  St.  Michaell  th'archan- 
gell by  even  porcons  in  the  howse  of  the  said  Abbot  and  Co'vent  in 
Southwarke  in  the  Countie  of  Surrey  yerelie  to  be  paide  wth  divers 
other  clawses  and  covenants  in  the  said  deede  Indented  conteyned  more 
playnlie  appearinge  AND  WHERE[AS]  the  said  Sr  Edward  Baynton  by 
his  deede  bearinge  date  the  eleventh  day  ot  November  in  the  thirty 
yere  of  the  Raigne  of  or  said  late  sou'eigne  lorde  Kinge  Henry  the  eight 
Dyd  geve  and  graunte  vnto  Andrewe  Baynton  his  sonne  and  heire 
apparant  All  his  estate  terme  title  fferme  and  interest  of  and  in  the  said 
manor  ot  Bromeham  wth  th'app'tenanc's  together  wth  th'advowson  of 
the  Churche  of  Bromeham  and  also  of  and  in  the  said  manor  of  Clenche 
against  Wyke  wth  th'app'tenanc's  in  the  saide  Countie  of  Wiltes  And 
also  ot  and  in  all  other  the  said  landes  and  ten'tes  rentes  reu'cons 
services  And  all  other  hereditaments  whatsoeu'  wth  all  and  sing'ler 
theire  app'tenanc's  set  lyenge  and  beinge  in  Bromham  Clenche  and 
Wyke  aforesaide  wthin  the  said  Countie  of  Wiltes  woh  he  the  said  Sr 
Edward  Baynton  had  of  the  demise  and  graunte  of  the  said  Abbot  and 
Co'vent  as  is  before  specified  And  dyd  further  by  the  said  laste  recited 
deede  geve  and  graunte  vnto  the  said  Andrewe  Baynton  All  and  singler 
the  said  manors  advowson  landes  ten'tes  and  other  the  p'misses  wth 
theire  app'tenanc's  in  the  saide  Countie  of  Wiltes  To  HAVE  AND  TO 
HOLDE  vnto  the  saide  Andrewe  Baynton  his  executors  and  assignes  to 
the  vse  and  behoufe  of  the  said  Andrewe  his  execute'8  and  assignes  in 
as  full  large  and  ample  mann'  and  forme  as  the  said  Sr  Edward  Baynton 
then  had  or  coulde  have  the  said  manors  advowson  landes  ten'tes  and 
other  the  p'misses  by  vertue  of  the  said  Demise  and  graunte  to  him  the 
said  Sr  Edward  made  as  is  aforesaide  as  by  the  said  last  recited  deede 
more  at  large  and  playnelie  appeareth.  AND  WHERE[AS]  the  said 
Andrewe  Baynton  was  amongest  other  thinges  lawfullie  possessed  of 
the  said  manors  advowson  landes  ten'tes  and  other  the  p'misses  by 
the  said  Indenture  as  is  aforesaid  demised  and  graunted  vnto  the  said 
Sr  Edward  Baynton  by  the  said  late  Abbot  and  Co'vent  and  afterwardes 
died  possessed  of  the  same  AND  WHERE[AS]  the  administracon  of  alj 


136  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

the  goods  Chattells  and  leases  of  the  said  Andrew  Baynton  was  lawfullie 
comitted  vnto  Sr  Edward  Baynton  knight  nowe  livinge  brother  of  the 
said  Andrewe  AND  WHERE[AS]  the  said  laste  named  Sr  Edward  Baynton 
by  the  name  of  Edwarde  Baynton  of  Rowdon  in  the  Countie  of  Wiltes 
esquior  by  his  deede  bearinge  date  the  laste  day  of  Marche  in  the 
twelveth  yere  of  the  Raigne  of  or  sou'eigne  Lady  the  quenes  matle  that 
nowe  is,  as  well  for  and  in  consideracon  of  divers  somes  ot  money  vnto 
him  paide  by  me  the  saide  Thomas  Ivie,  as  for  divers  other  good  causes 
and  consideracons  him  especialle  movinge  Did  geve  graunte  bargayne 
sell  assigne  and  set  over  vnto  me  the  said  Thomas  Ivye  aswell  the  said 
seu'all  manors  of  Bromham  and  Clenche  advowson  landes  ten'tes  rentes 
reu'cons  services  and  other  hereditam'8  whatsoeu'  wth  all  and  singler 
theire  app'tenanc's,  to  the  said  seu'all  manors  of  Bromham  and  Clenche 
and  to  eu'ie  of  them  belonginge  and  appertayninge  As  also  all  his  estate 
right  title  vse  possession  interest  terme  of  yeres  clayme  and  demaunde 
woh  he  the  said  Sr  Edward  Baynton  laste  named  had  or  of  right  mought 
or  ought  for  to  have  had  of  in  and  to  the  said  seu'all  manors  of  Bromham 
and  Clenche  and  in  the  said  Advowson  of  the  churche  of  Bromeham 
aforesaid  And  also  of  in  and  to  all  and  singler  the  said  landes  ten'tes 
rents  reu'cons  services  and. other  hereditam'8  whatsoeu'  wth  all  and 
singler  theire  app'tenanc's  to  the  said  seu'all  manors  of  Bromham  and 
Clenche  and  to  eu'ie  of  them  belonginge  or  appertayninge  To  HAVE  AND 
TO  HOLDE  all  and  singler  the  said  manors  and  advowson  landes  ten'tes 
and  hereditaments  and  other  the  p'misses  wth  all  and  singler  theire 
app'tenanc's  and  eu'ie  part  and  p'cell  thereof  And  also  all  the  estate  right 
title  vse  intereste  possession  terme  of  yeres  and  Demande  of  the  said 
laste  named  Sr  Edward  of  in  and  to  the  p'misses  and  eu'ie  parte  and 
parcell  thereof  vnto  me  the  said  Thomas  Ivye  myne  executors  and 
assignes  to  th'onelie  vse  and  behoufe  of  me  the  said  Thomas  Ivye  myne 
executors  and  assigns  in  as  large  and  ample  mann'  and  forme  as  the 
said  last  named  Sr  Edward  ought  to  have  had  and  enioyed  the  same 
p'misses  as  by  the  said  laste  recited  deede  more  playnelie  appeareth 
NOWE  knowe  ye  me  the  said  Thomas  Ivye  for  divers  good  causes  and 
consideracons  me  especiallie  movinge  To  have  assigned  and  set  over, 
and  by  this  my  p'sent  writinge  to  assigne  and  set  over  vnto  Thomas 
South  the  yonger  sonne  and  heire  apparant  of  Thomas  South  th'elder 
of  Swallowcliffe  in  the  Countie  of  Wiltes  esquior  And  vnto  Richard 
Mompesson  of  Knooke  in  the  said  Countie  of  Wiltes  gent  All  and 
singler  the  said  manors  landes  ten'tes  and  hereditam*8  aforesaid  wth 
their  app'tenanc's  And  also  all  myne  estate  right  title  interest  and  terme 
of  yeres  yet  to  come  of  in  and  to  the  same  To  HAVE  AND  TO  HOLDE  the 
said  manors  and  all  other  the  p'misses  wth  th'app'tenanc's  vnto  the  said 
Thomas  South  and  Richard  Mompesson  theire  executors  and  assignes 
tor  and  duringe  all  the  terme  of  yeres  yet  to  come  in  the  said  Indenture 
of  lease  made  by  the  said  Abbot  and  Co'vent  as  is  aforesaid  AND  I  THE 
SAID  Thomas  Ivye  do  Covenant  and  graunte  by  theis  p'sents  to  and  wth 
the  said  Thomas  South  the  yonger  and  Richard  Mompesson  theire 
executors  and  assignes  to  acquite  and  discharge  or  save  harmeles  the 


Parish  of  Shrewton.  137 


said  manors  and  other  the  p'misses  of  and  from  all  former  bargaynes 
sales  giftes  grauntes  charges  and  encombrances  whatsoeu'  h£d  made 
comytted  or  done  by  me  the  said  Thomas  Ivye  IN  WITNES  whereof  to 
this  my  p'sent  deede  I  have  set  my  seale  Yeven  the  twentith  day  of 
December  in  the  two  and  twentith  yere  of  the  Raigne  of  or  sou'eigne 
Lady  Elizabeth  by  the  grace  of  god  quene  of  Englande  ffrance  and 
Irelande  defendor  of  the  faith  &c. 


(Circular  seal  of  red  wax,  with  a  stag's  head  cabossed  between  two 
initials— perhaps  T.  P.) 

Endorsed — "20  December,  22  Eliz. :  Mr.  Ivie's  conveyance 
to  Thomas  South,  esq.,  and  Richard  Mompesson,  gent.,  of  the 
Manor  of  Bromham  Battell,  and  Clench,  for  the  remainder  of 
the  term  of  99  years1  granted  by  the  Abbott  and  Convent  of 
Battell  in  Sussex." 


(©times;* 


Parish  of  Shrewton. — In  the  Overseers'  accounts  for  the 
Parish  of  Shrewton  appear,  about  the  beginning  of  this  century, 
many  sums  simply  described  as  paid  so  and  so  "  Pr  Yard 
Land,"  or  "  on  the  stem."  What  do  these  terms  signify  ?  The 
former  was  not  stone  picking,  as  that  is  mentioned  in  neigh- 
bouring entries. 

C.  V.  GODDARD. 


Shrewton  Church.— The  ancient  piscina  in  Shrewton 
Church  has  a  plain  roll  moulding  running  round  over  the  tre- 
foil head  which  terminates  on  the  right  in  a  simple  volute  ;  on 
the  left,  however,  it  rises  into  two  things  like  fir-cones,  or 

1  Fourscore  and  nine  years  in  the  text  of  the  deed. 


138  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

narrow  pineapples,  the  scales  being  marked  by  cross-cuts,  and 
(?)  roots  indicated  below.  Can  anyone  suggest  a  meaning  ? 
Is  it  a  rebus  ?  The  Church  is  dedicated  to  St.  Mary. 

C.  V.  GODDARD. 


Dates  of  Quaker  Marriages. — Can  Mr.  Norman  Penny 
or  some  other  correspondent  enlighten  me  on  the  question  of 
Quaker  dates  ?  Prior  to  1752  which  month  did  Quakers  regard 
as  the  first  month  of  the  year  ?  In  the  marriage  records  in  the 
June  number  of  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries,  under  "S",  there 
are  the  following  dates  1703-12-14;  1709-1-29;  and  1722-11-22. 
Convert  these  into  the  ordinary  way  of  expressing  dates,  are 
these  i4th  February,  1703/4;  March  29th,  1709;  and  22nd 
January,  1722/3  respectively?  Or  are  they  i4th  December, 
1703;  29th  January,  1709/10,  and  22nd  November,  1722?  The 
dates  on  page  80  (W.  N.  &  Q.)  1719/20-1-8  and  1719/20-11-31 
inextricably  confuse  the  chronology  to  me.  "1719/20-1-8" 
can  only  refer  to  January,  February  or  March,  1719/20,  for  they 
are  the  only  months  that  can  have  a  two-year  date. 
"  1719/20-11-31  "  can  only  refer  to  January  or  March,  1719/20, 
for  February  has  only  28  days  (29  in  1719/20).  But  there 
never  was  such  a  date  as  March  3ist,  1719/20,  for  by  every  com- 
putation March  25th  commenced  the  new  year  if  January  ist 
did  not.  "1719/20-11-31"  must  therefore  be  January  3ist, 
1719/20;  and  "1719/20-1-8"  must  be  March  8th,  1719/20 — 
nearly  two  months  later.  The  announcement  of  the  later  date 
however  appears  first.  Again,  supposing  the  notices  have 
been  accidentally  misplaced,  and  that  January  was  regarded  as 
the  nth  month,  February  the  i2th,  and  March  the  ist  month, 
how  comes  it  that  the  Quakers  could  agree  to  calling  the 
month  after  the  i2th  (February)  in  the  same  year,  the  first? 
If  March  24th,  1719/20,  would  be  written  by  the  Quakers 
"1719/20-1-24,"  how  would  the  next  day  be  written,  March 
25th,  1720?  Again,  if  the  date  1719/20-1-8  on  page  80  means 


An  Old  House,  Sarum.  139 

March  8th,   1719/20,  does  1728-1-9   on  page  81  mean   March 
9th,  1727/8,  or  March  gth,  1728/9  ? 
Northampton.  K. 


Replies;. 


An  Old  House,  Sarum  (vol.  iii,  p.  92). — In  reply  to  H.D., 
there  are  references  to  the  ancient  building  in  High  Street,  in 
Hall's  Memorials  of  Salisbury  (1834),  and  the  History  of 
Salisbury,  K.  Clapperton,  Salisbury  (1834).  The  latter  speaks 
of  it  as  being  probably  at  first  a  hostelry  for  the  reception  of 
pilgrims  visiting  the  Cathedral,  afterwards  attaining  consider- 
able celebrity  as  an  Inn,  which  (says  Hall)  was  certainly  a 
resort  of  jovial  repute  among  the  cavaliers  and  gallants  of 
fashion  of  the  period.  The  ornamental  woodwork  of  the  gate- 
way may  be  ascribed  to  the  i5th  century,  and  the  passage 
under  it  conducted  to  a  court,  round  which  ran  one  of  those 
covered  galleries  often  seen  in  the  court-yards  of  old  inns. 
The  premises  are  mentioned  as  far  back  as  the  year  1406,  in 
the  City  Register,  as  the  "  George  Inn";  and  homes  for  the 
accommodation  of  pilgrims  visiting  the  shrines  of  England  are 
said  to  have  been  dedicated,  like  that  of  Glastonbury,  to  her 
patron  Saint.  Pepys  visited  the  house  in  1668.  He  writes  : — 
"Came  to  the  George  Inn,  where  lay  in  a  silk  bed,  and  very 
good  diet;"  but  the  diarist  bears  record  to  a  most  unwelcome 
bill  of  charges  at  his  departure,  "at  which,"  he  adds,  "  I  was 
mad,  and  resolve  to  trouble  the  mistress  about  it,  and  get 
something  for  the  poor,  and  came  away  in  that  humour." — 
(Diary,  vol.  ii,  p.  237.) 

The  Elms,  71,  Ashley  Road,  F.  H.  FULFORD. 

Bristol. 


140  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


The   Missing  Register  of  Addison's  Baptism.    Where 

is  it?  (vol.  iii,  pp.  42,  43)- 

If  the  late  Mr.  Charles  E.  Rendall  saw  the  entry  of  the 
baptism  of  Joseph  Addison  in  1816,  which  was  soon  after  his 
father  bought  the  Milston  estate,  he  saw  the  second  Register 
Book,  which  has  long  been  missing.  Richard  Webb,  the 
rector  of  Milston,  who  died  in  1862,  never  saw  it;  so  his 
widow  told  me.  And  there  is  a  memorandum  in  the  first 
Register,  signed  by  Rev.  J.  J.  Toogood,  that  he  never  saw  the 
entry  of  the  baptism  in  question.  Dr.  Toogood  was  rector  of 
Milston  for  the  first  quarter  of  this  century. 

The  last  baptism  in  the  first  Milston  register  is  in  1653. 
The  first  entry  in  the  next  book  is  in  1703.  Now  Lancelot 
Addison  was  rector  of  Milston  for  a  short  time  in  1660.  This 
is  shewn  by  the  transcript  for  that  year  in  the  Diocesan 
Registry.  "Jane,  the  daughter  of  Lancelot  Addison,  rector, 
baptised  the  23  of  April,  1660."  The  transcript  is  signed  by 
Addison,  and  attested  by  Roger  Pinckney  and  John  Milles,  the 
churchwardens.  Addison  must  have  resigned  soon  after. 
Then  he  went  to  Dunkirk,  and  as  chaplain  to  Lord  Teviotdale 
to  Tangier;  and  in  1770,  for  the  second  time,  was  rector  of 
Milston.  In  1778  he  was  made  a  prebendary  of  Salisbury,  and 
shortly  after  Dean  of  Lichfield  and  Archdeacon  of  Coventry. 
He  published  several  books  besides  those  mentioned  in  the 
note  on  page  42.  No  doubt  he,  and  his  curate  when  he  ceased 
to  be  resident,  duly  kept  the  missing  Register.  With  him  it 
ended.  The  next  existing  register  was  begun  by  his.  successor 
in  1703  as  soon  as  he  became  rector.  Unfortunately  the  trans- 
cript for  1672  which  should  contain  Joseph  Addison's  baptism 
is  also  missing.  Those  of  1671,  1673,  1674,  1675,  1676,  1677, 
are  all  there,  and  in  them  are  recorded  the  baptisms  of  Joseph's 
brother  and  sisters,  Gulstone,  Dorithea,  and  Anna,  and  the 
burial  of  Jane.  So  that  in  addition  to  asking  where  is  the 
missing  register,  one  may  say  "  Where  is  the  missing  transcript? 

C.  S.  RUDDLE. 
Durrington,  Salisbury. 


Notes  on  Books.  141 


THE  GENEALOGIST,  a  quarterly  Magazine  of  Genealogical, 
Antiquarian,  Topographical  and  Heraldic  Research.  New 
Series.  Edited  by  H.  W.  FORSYTH  HARWOOD,  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  Barrister-at-Law.  London:  George  Bell 
and  Sons,  York  Street,  Covent  Garden.  Exeter:  William 
Pollard  and  Co.  Vols.  xi,  xii,  xiii,  xiv. 

The  Genealogist,  ever  since  it  first  saw  the  light  in  1877, 
under  the  able  editorship  of  Dr.  Marshall,  now  Rouge-Croix, 
has  always  maintained  the  high  character  of  excellence  it  still 
bears  ;  perhaps  it  is  the  best  serial  on  the  subjects  of  which 
it  treats,  for  Dr.  Howard's  Miscellanea  Gen.  et  Her.,  most 
valuable  as  it  undoubtedly  is,  is  of  rather  a  different  nature. 

We  have  chosen  these  four  Volumes  for  notice,  because 
amongst  other  many  well-written  and  learned  articles  there 
is  much  concerning  our  own  County.  First  in  importance  is 
Mr.  Metcalfe's  printed  copy  of  Harvey's  Visitation  of  Wilts, 
1565  (Harl.  MS.  1565),  with  the  blazon  of  all  the  arms;  it 
contains,  besides  some  eleven  additional  ones  from  various 
Harl.  MSS.f  106  pedigrees,  i.e.,  72  less  than  Marshall's  printed 
copy  of  the  Visitation  of  1623  ;  in  the  former  is  a  long  list  (88) 
of  those  who  were  "  no  gentlemen,"  some  of  whom  in  1623 
had  secured  their  place  amongst  the  gentry.  In  examining 
these  Visitations  we  cannot  help  thinking  there  must  have 
been  not  a  few  entitled  to  gentle  rank,  who  neglected  or 
refused  to  appear  before  the  Heralds,  e.g.,  Dugdale,  an  account 
of  whose  family  has  found  a  place  in  our  pages,  being 
strengthened  in  this  opinion  by  observing  how  many  of  those 
who  are  recorded  in  the  former  Visitation  are  not  recorded 
in  the  latter.  Again,  how  is  it  so  few  of  the  higher  nobility 
are  recorded  ? 


142  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

In  Dugdale's  Visitation  of  Yorkshire,  1665,  with  additions 
often  up  to  date  by  Mr.  Clay,  illustrated  with  blazon  and  arms 
in  trick,  our  County  is  represented,  amongst  other  Wiltshire 
notices,  by  the  Lacock  descent  of  Olive  Sharington  and 
Robert  Stapylton,  of  Wighill.  Amongst  the  Inquisitions  post 
mortem  (Hen.  VIII — Chas.  I)  and  Grants  and  Certificates  of 
Anns  (Stowc  MSS.)  Wiltshire  names  frequently  occur.  We 
find  also  The  Monumental  Inscriptions  ofCalne  Church,  with  all 
the  heraldry;  and  in  The  Parish  Registers  of  Street,  co.  Somerset, 
is  the  Institution  to  that  Parsonage  of  Walter  Raleigh,  the 
second  son  of  Carew  Raleigh,  of  Downton,  in  our  Count}',  and 
nephew  of  the  famous  Sir  Walter  ;  in  a  long  note  with  pedi- 
gree he  is  stated  to  have  been  Chaplain  to  William,  Earl  of 
Pembroke,  and  to  have  held  the  livings  of  Wilton  St.  Mary 
and  Wroughton.  The  record  of  his  marriage  has  not  been 
discovered,  but  he  impales  his  arms  with  Argent,  three  battle- 
axes  sable  (GIBBS),  and  in  the  Visitation  of  Wilts,  1623,  his 

wife  is  called  filiam Gibbes ;    his  Will  was  proved  in 

London  by  his  widow  23rd  June,   1648  ;    he  became  Dean  of 
Wells  in  1641 : 

"  He  is  recorded  to  have  been  plundered  as  a  Royalist ;  taken 
prisoner  at  Bridgevvater  and  murdered  loth  Oct.,  1646,  and  was  buried 
within  his  Cathedral  Church  at  Wells,  but  no  monument  to  his  memory 
ot  any  kind  remains,  and  the  Registers  prior  to  1660  are  lost  or  have 
been  destroyed." 

Mr.  V.  C.  Sanborn,  whose  name  is  well-known  to  our 
readers,  contributes  an  article,  exhibiting  careful  and  indus- 
trious research,  on  The  Samborne  Ancestry,  commencing : — 

"  The  ancient  family  of  Samborne  was  early  settled  in  Wiltshire,  for 
which  reason  my  theory  is  that  family  name  was  taken  from  Sambourne, 
now  a  district  of  Warminster,  but  formerly  a  detached  manort.  or 
possessing  manorial  privileges." 

The  Count  de  la  Poer  writes  on  Le  Poher,  but  his  con- 
clusions do  not  seem  to  meet  with  the  approval  of  some  of  his 
fellow  contributors ;  when  he  Bays  that  if  Roger,  Bishop  of 


Notes  on  Books.  143 


Salisbury,  was  descended  from  the  Breton  Pohers  (an  opinion 
which  he  inclines  to  hold),  the  tomb  in  Salisbury  Cathedral 
by  some  thought  to  be  that  of  Bishop  Joceline,  may  be  that 
of  Bishop  Roger,  it  seems  to  us  apparent  that  had  a  man  so 
famous  in  his  time  been  connected  with  the  ancient  and  noble 
family  of  Le  Poher  it  would  have  been  well-known  in  his  day, 
and  so  great  a  builder  would  have  stamped  some  evidence 
of  his  descent  upon  his  work. 

Messrs.  Round  and  Vincent,  well  known  as  destroyers  of 
many  traditions,  or  rather  myths,  held  sacred  by  some  of  our 
gentle  families,  approach  their  subjects  scientifically  and 
seriously,  careful  not  to  wound  the  feelings  of  those  who 
naturally  and  in  good  faith  cherish  these  myths,  unlike  some 
recent  writers,1  who  sometimes  intruding  into  sacred  family 
precincts  are  careless  of  the  wounds  they  may  inflict  by  their 
surgical  operations.  The  former,  in  The  Earldom  of  Glamor- 
gan (1644-5),  seems  to  demolish  that  title,  which,  with  many 
other  doubtful  ones,  is  credited  to  the  Dukes  of  Beaufort  in 
our  peerages.  In  another  critical  article,  where  he  claims  to 
be  senior  heir-general  of  the  Thynnes,  he  comes  to  the 
conclusion  that  neither  the  generally  received  origin  of  the 
name  of  that  family,  nor  their  identity  with  the  Botfields,  has 
been  in  any  way  proved ;  Mr.  Rye  suggests  in  a  note  that 
Thynne  is  probably  a  corruption  from  "  Le  Theyne,"  saying 
that  the  name  is  still  plentiful  in  East  Norfolk  corrupted  into 
"  Thaine." 

We  have  more  than  once  in  W.  N.  &>  Q.  alluded  to  Mr. 
Vincent's  article,  where  he  shows,  in  a  conclusive  manner, 
that  Mark  William,  sometime  Mayor  of  Bristol,  not  Mac- 
Williams  (whose  arms  are  generally  quartered  on  the  Seymour 
coat)  was  an  ancestor  of  the  Dukes  of  Somerset. 


1  See  a  justly  scathing  criticism  on  these  writers  in  the  August  number 
of  the  Contemporary  Review. 


144  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

The  editing  and  printing  of  these  volumes  are  all  one 
could  wish,  and  the  indexes,  so  important  and  necessary  in 
works  of  this  kind,  as  ample  and  good  as  one  might  expect 
them  to  be. 


WINCHESTER  LONG  ROLLS,  1653 — 1721.  Transcribed  and 
edited,  with  an  historical  introduction  on  the  development 
of  Long  Roll,  by  CLIFFORD  WYNDHAM  HOLGATE.  Win- 
chester :  P.  &  G.  Wells,  Booksellers  to  the  College,  1899. 

We  heartily  congratulate  Mr.  Holgate  on  the  production 
of  this  book,  accompanied  by  an  exhaustive  introduction. 
The  earliest  Roll,  1653,  as  yet  known  to  exist,  and  of  which 
at  present  only  one  copy  has  been  found,  is  supplied  by  Mr. 
Lee,  of  Seend,  a  member  of  a  well-known  Wykehamical 
family,  and  of  kin  to  the  Founder,  after  which  is  a  gap  until 
1667;  the  following  are  also  wanted,  1669,  1671,  1682,  1687, 
1689,  1703,  1705,  1711,  1713,  1715,  1718,  1722  ;  it  seems 
unaccountable  that  a  complete  series  has  been  preserved 
neither  in  the  archives  of  Winchester  or  New  College.  So 
many  Wiltshiremen  have  been  educated  at  this  famous  School 
that  there  ought  to  be  no  difficulty  in  Mr.  Holgate  receiving 
the  biographical  details  he  appeals  for,  of  those  mentioned  in 
these  Long  Rolls  and  in  his  Winchester  Commoners  (1800 — 
1830). 


PLATE  1. 


E.  K.  del. 


PAVING  TILES   (i3TH  CENTURY),   FOUND  ON  THE  SITE   OF  AMESBURY 
MONASTERY,   IN   1860. 


Jtotes  an*  ©tieries. 

DECEMBER,    1899. 


AMESBURY  MONASTERY,  WITH  AN  ACCOUNT  OF  SOME 
DISCOVERIES  ON  THE  SITE  IN  1860. 

(Continued from  p.  1 1 9.) 


HE  remains  of  Henry  II,  with  those  of  his  queen 
Eleanor  of  Aquitaine,  and  their  son  Richard  Coeur 
de  Lion,  all  within  fifteen  years  (1189-1204)  found  a 

JS&tQ       resting-place   within   the   Abbey    Church    of  Font 
TKH 
^^        Evrault.     King  John,  by  a  charter  dated  from  his 

Wiltshire  Palace  at  Clarendon,  2  May,  1203,  and  witnessed  by 
the  Bishop  of  Old  Sarum  (Herbert  Poore),  and  Geoffrey  Fitz 
Piers,  Earl  of  Essex,  granted  to  the  Abbess  of  Font  Evrault  a 
yearly  payment  of  fifty  shillings  at  Michaelmas,  out  of  the 
'  treasury,  by  the  hand  of  the  Prioress  of  Amesbury,  for  the 
maintenance  of  a  chaplain  to  celebrate  for  the  soul  of  his 
mother,  queen  Eleanor,  within  the  chapel  of  St.  Laurence,  of 
which  she  was  the  foundress. 

The  heart  of  King  John  was  interred  at  Font  Evrault, 
as  was  also  the  body  of  his  sister  Johanna,  Queen  of  Sicily, 
and  afterwards  wife  of  Raymond,  Count  of  Toulouse. 

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Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  147 

Henry  III  confirmed,  by  Charter,  to  the  same  Abbey  the 
gift  of  the  Church  of  St.  Mary  and  Meliorus  at  Amesbury  by 
his  grandfather  Henry  II,  with  all  things  pertaining  thereto 
whether  in  spiritual  or  temporal  possessions.  At  Amesbury 
he  founded  an  obit  for  the  souls  of  his  first  cousins,  Prince 
Arthur  and  his  sister  Eleanor,  the  two  children  of  Geoffrey, 
Earl  of  Bretagne  (killed  in  a  tournament  at  Paris  in  1189),  as 
well  the  souls  of  himself  and  his  queen,  when  they  should 
die.1  Prince  Arthur  had  been  murdered  at  Rouen  by  his 
uncle,  King  John,  1203,  on  account  of  his  pretensions  to  the 
Crown,  and  his  sister  Eleanor  confined  in  Bristol  Castle  by 
the  same  monarch.  On  the  death  of  the  latter  in  1240-41  she 
was  interred  at  Amesbury  according  to  her  own  request. 
Bishop  Tanner  (Notitia  Monastica,  p.  479)  mentions  a  Patent 
Roll  of  25  Hen.  Ill  recording  the  removal  of  her  body  from 
St.  James'  Priory  of  Benedictines  at  Bristol,  to  the  Monastery 
of  Amesbury  for  interment.8 


1  The  history  of  this  foundation  is  interesting.     Richard  Plantagenet, 
Earl  of  Cornwall,  younger  brother  of  Henry  III,  married,  as  his  first  wiie, 
Isabel,  daughter  of  William  Marshall,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  widow  of 
Gilbert  de  Clare,  fifth  Earl  of  Gloucester  and   Hereford.     By  her  first  hus- 
band (Gilbert  de  Clare)  this  lady  had  amongst  other  children  a  daughter 
Amice  married  to  Baldwin  de  Redvers,  seventh  Earl  of  Devon.     On  this 
Countess  of  Devon,  Henry  III  settled  the  manor  and  hundred  of  Melksham, 
for  her  life  at  a  yearly  rent  of  £48  payable  to  the  Crown.    This  rent  made 
up  to  £50  out  of  the  Exchequer  was  subsequently  bestowed  on  the  Prioress 
and  nuns  of  Amesbury  for  the  purpose  of  founding  the  obit  here  mentioned, 
with  reversion  to  them  of  the  manor  at  the  Countess   of  Devon's  death. 
The  manor  itself  was  subsequently  given  to  the  Prioress  and  nuns  of  Ames- 
bury — they  to  keep  £50  a  year  thereout  for  their  own  use,  and  pay  the 
income  in  excess  of  that  sum  to  the  Countess  of  Devon  for  her  life,  and 
afterwards   to   the   Crown.     See    Wilts    Collections,  Aubrey  and  Jackson, 
p.  294-5. 

The  Countess  of  Devon  died  in  1296  (25  Edw.  I).  She  had  a  daughter 
Margaret,  a  nun  at  Lacock ;  to  which  Abbey  she  gave  her  manor  of  Shor- 
well,  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and  her  heart  for  interment  in  the  Abbey 
Church. 

2  Rot.  Pat.  25  Hen.  Ill,  m.  1.     But  this  Roll  is  not  mentioned  in  the 
Calendar  of  Patent  Rolls  subsequently  printed  by  the  Record  Commissioners, 
in  1802. 

L  2 


148  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Henry  III  was,  as  is  well  known,  the  first  of  the  English 
Kings  interred  at  Westminster ;:  but  we  learn  from  the  Patent 
Rolls  that  on  the  Monday  next  before  the  feast  of  St.  Lucy  the 
Virgin  [13  Dec.]  1291 — and  nearly  twenty  years  after  his 
burial — the  Abbot  of  Westminster,  before  divers  nobles  in  the 
Abbey  Church  there,  by  order  of  the  King  (Edward  I),  de- 
livered the  heart  of  his  father  to  the  Abbess  of  Font  Evrault 
(who  had  purposely  come  into  "England)  ;  to  be  taken  thence, 
and  buried  in  her  monastery,  according  to  his  own  promise. 
Rot.  Pat.  2c  Edw.  I,  m.  28. 

We  next  come  to  Eleanor  of  Provence,  the  Queen  Dowager, 
who  in  her  widowhood  retired  to  end  her  days  as  a  "humble 
nun  of  the  order  of  Fontevraud,"  in  the  convent  of  Amesbury. 
Her  dower  was  confirmed  to  her,  and  her  profession  took 
place  in  July  1286,  after  a  farewell  visit  to  her  relations  on  the 
Continent ;  and  here  during  the  five  remaining  years  of  her 
life  she  appears  wholly  to  have  devoted  herself  to  works  of 
religion.  From  a  contemporary  chronicler  we  learn  that  she 
filled  her  hands  with  good  works  ;  that  she  spent  her  whole 
time  in  orisons,  vigils,  and  works  of  piety ;  that  she  was  a 
mother  to  the  neighbouring  poor,  especially  to  the  orphans, 
widows  and  monks.2  Besides  other  large  charities,  she  dis- 
tributed to  the  poor  every  Friday  five  pounds  in  silver — a  very 
considerable  sum  in  those  days. 

Two  of  her  letters,  written  from  Amesbury,  to  her  son, 
King  Edward  I,  are  preserved  in  the  Tower  of  London  {Royal 
Letters  Nos.  1106  and  1411).  Both  are  in  Norman  French,  and 
undated,  but  they  must  have  been  written  between  1286  and 
1291.  In  one  of  them  she  requests  the  King  to  intercede  with 
the  King  of  Sicily,  on  behalf  of  the  Abbess  of  Font  Evrault, 
"  that  the  things  which  the  Abbess  holds  in  his  lordship  may 


1  In  the  Chapel  of  St.  Edward  the  Confessor,  for  whose  relics  he  had 
three  years  before  his  death  erected  a  new  shrine,  the  mutilated  remains 
of  which  still  occupy  the  centre  of  the  chapel. 

2  Chron.  Anon.  Royal  MS.     13  E.  VI,  fol.  64,  col.  2. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  149 

be  in  his  protection  and  guard,  and  that  neither  she  nor  hers 
may  be  molested  or  grieved."  In  the  other  she  pleads  on 
behalf  of  Dame  Margaret  de  Nevile,  companion  of  Master 
John  Giffard,1  "who  has  not  for  a  long  time  past  seen  her  child, 
in  the  keeping  of  Dame  Margaret  de  Weyland  ;"  and  requests 
that  the  King  will  command  and  pray  the  said  Margaret  de 
Weyland  that  the  mother  may  for  a  while  have  the  solace  of 
her  son  after  her  desire.2 

Much  of  Queen  Eleanor's  correspondence,  scattered  over 
many  years,  is  still  preserved  in  the  Tower  of  London.  A 
small  portion  only  has  been  printed  by  Rymer,  in  the  Fadera. 

We  learn  from  Speed  that  during  the  residence  of  the 
Queen  Dowager  in  Amesbury  Monastery,  she  was  in  the  habit 
of  receiving  a  royal  visit  from  her  son,  King  Edward  I,  when 
spending  his  Easters  at  Devizes  Castle.  The  King  is  said  to 
have  been  at  Devizes  in  1282,  when  he  heard  of  the  rebellion 
of  David  the  Welsh  Prince's  brother,  and  having  issued  prompt 
orders  for  the  equipment  of  his  army,  he  rode  privately  to 
Amesbury  to  offer  his  salutations  to  the  Queen  mother  3  before 
entering  on  his  campaign  in  the  Marches  of  Wales.  From 
this  it  would  appear  that  Queen  Eleanor  must  have  retired  to 
Amesbury  for  some  years  before  she  actually  took  the  veil  in 
1286.  She  died  25  June  1291,  her  body  being  buried  at 


1  Perhaps  Griffard  of  Brimmesfield.      John   Giffard    was   at    this  time 
much  concerned   in  Welsh  affairs.     He  held  the  Castles  of  St.  Briavels  in 
1262.  and  Dynevor  in  1289  ;  and    had  a  son   of  the  same  name,   who  may, 
during  his  minority,  and  the  absence  of  his  father  in  Wales,  have  been  in 
charge  of  Dame  Margaret  de  Nevile. 

2  See  Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladles  of  Great  Britain,  by  M. 
A.  Everett  Wood.     1846. 

3  Walsingham  relates  that  the  Queen  Dowager,  naturally  prepossessed 
in  favour  of  her  late  husband,  introduced  to  the  King  a  man  who  pretended 
to  hare  received  his  sight  at  the  tomb,  and  by  the  intercession,  of  his  father, 
Henry  III.     She  imagined  doubtless  that  the  King  would  be  pleased;  but 
to  her  great  surprise  he  replied,  that  "  he  was  so  well  persuaded  of  his 
father's  justice  and  probity,  that  he  fully  believed,  had  it  been  in  his  power, 
he  would  rather  have  deprived  the  impostor  of  his  sight,  than  restored  it  to 
him." 


150  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Amesbury,  and  her  heart  in  the  church  of  the  Friars  Minors, 
London.  King  Edward  came  from  Scotland  to  give  her  a 
sumptuous  funeral.  It  must  have  been  on  the  occasion  of  her 
death  that  the  heart  of  her  husband  (Henry  III)  was,  nearly 
twenty  years  after  his  burial,  delivered  by  the  Abbot  and 
Convent  of  Westminster  to  the  Abbess  of  Font  Evrault,  as 
already  mentioned. 

With  the  Queen  Dowager  in  Amesbury  Monastery,  were 
three  of  her  grand-daughters  ;  the  Princess  Mary,  a  younger 
daughter  of  Edward  I,  by  his  first  wife,  Eleanor  of  Castile  ;  her 
half  sister,  the  Princess  Leonora,  also  Edward's  daughter,  by 
his  second  wife,  Margaret  of  France ;  and  Eleanor,  daughter 
of  John  de  Dreux,  Earl  of  Richmond,  and  Duke  of  Bretagne, 
by  Beatrice,  younger  daughter  of  Henry  III.  For  the  main- 
tenance of  the  latter  (Eleanor  of  Bretagne)  during  her  life,  and 
afterwards  in  pure  alms,  her  grandmother,  Queen  Eleanor, 
appears  to  have  given  to  the  Prioress  and  Convent  of  Ames- 
bury  the  manor  of  Chadelworth,  with  the  advowson  of 
Poughley  Priory  (founded  by  Ralph  de  Chadelworth  1160) 
both  in  co.  Berks.  Eleanor  of  Bretagne  afterwards  became 
Abbess  of  Font  Evrault,  and  was  living  in  1317. 

The  Princess  Mary,  born  n  March  1278,  took  the  veil  at 
Amesbury,  in  company  with  thirteen  young  ladies  of  noble 
birth,  in  1283-4.  During  the  earlier  years  of  her  profession 
she  was  under  the  governance  of  her  grandmother,  Queen 
Eleanor ;  but  as  she  advanced  in  years  she  was  by  no  means 
confined  within  the  walls  of  the  cloister.  She  paid  frequent 
visits  to  the  Courts  of  her  father  and  brother  (Edward  I  and  II)  ; 
she  went  on  pilgrimages  to  the  most  famous  shrines  j1  nay, 
when  the  state  of  her  health  required  it,  she  was  even  per- 
mitted to  change  her  residence  for  the  sake  of  the  air.  On 
two  occasions  she  undertook  a  singular  office  for  a  veiled  lady 
— she  attended  her  step-mother,  Queen  Margaret,  on  the  birth 

1   Wardrobe  book,  34  Edw.  I,  Queen's  Remembrancer  Office. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  151 

of  her  second  son,  Edmund  of  Woodstock,  in  1301,  and 
afterwards  accompanied  the  royal  mother  on  a  pilgrimage  of 
thanksgiving.  A  few  years  afterwards  she  performed  the 
same  good  office  for  her  niece,  Elizabeth  de  Burgh.  In  the 
affairs  of  the  Convent  the  nun  Princess  took  an  active  part ; 
but  though  she  appears  never  to  have  attained  to  the  rank  of 
prioress,  she  was  invested  with  power  to  visit  all  the  establish- 
ments of  the  same  order  in  England,  and  to  administer 
discipline,  reproof,  or  correction,  as  she  thought  fit.1  (Rot. 
Claus,  10  Edw.  II,  pt.  ii,  m.  7.) 

Prynne  (Papal  Usurpations,  p.  937)  says  that,  in  1301, 
manors  to  the  value  of  £200  a  year,  including  that  of  Corsham, 
co.  Wilts,  were  settled  by  the  Crown  on  the  Princess  Mary 
towards  her  maintenance  in  Amesbury  Monastery.  The 
Patent  Rolls  from  1284  to  1326-7  also  record  further  grants 
from  the  Crown  of  forty  oaks  yearly  out  of  the  forests  of  Chute 
and  Bokholt,  for  firewood,  casks  of  wine,  and  on  one  occasion 
the  sum  of  ,£266  135.  $d.  in  money,  towards  the  sustentation 
of  her  Chamber. 

The  manor  of  Corsham,  given  her  by  her  father,  was  sub- 
sequently granted  by  her  brother,  Edward  II,  to  his  favourite 
Piers  de  Gaveston,  when  the  Princess  Mary  received,  in  ex- 
change, the  manor  of  Swainton  in  the  Isle  of  Wight.  In 
1316  another  Wiltshire  manor — -that  of  Sherston  Magna — was 
also  settled  on  her  by  the  Crown,  as  part  of  her  maintenance. 

In  Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladies  oj  Great  Britain, 
already  referred  to,  there  is  a  translation  of  a  letter,  in  Norman 


1  A  Patent  Roll  of  later  date  (1462-3),  confirming  certain  manors,  lands, 
and  liberties  to  the  then  Prioress  of  Amesbury,  distinctly  mentions  the 
Princess  Mary  as  having  formerly  been  Prioress  of  that  House — "  in  qua 
Maria  filia  Edivardi  Primi  fuit  Prlorissa  ejusdem  domus" '.  Rot.  Pat.  3 
Edw.  IV,  Tertia  Pt.,  m.  3.  But  this  is  perhaps  the  only  mention  of  her 
as  such,  and  being  of  a  date  so  long  after  her  death,  it  cannot  be  regarded 
as  contemporary  evidence.  The  grants  from  the  Crown  during  her  lifetime, 
recorded  in  the  Patent  Rolls,  all  describe  her  as  "  moniolis  "  or  "  sancti- 
monialis  de  Ambresbury." 


152  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

French,  from  the  Tower  Collection,  written  by  her  to  her 
brother  Edward  II ;  as  it  relates  wholly  to  Amesbury  Monas- 
tery it  is  here  given  in  full. 

"  To  the  very  high  and  noble  prince,  her  very  dear  lord  and  brother, 
my  lord  Edward,  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of  England,  his  sister  Mary 
sends  health  and  all  manner  of  honour  and  reverence. 

"Very  dear  sire,  as  a  long  time  has  passed  since  God  did  His  will 
upon  our  prioress  Dambert,  we  immediately  after  her  death,  sent  to  our 
very  dear  cousin,  the  Lady  Abbess  of  Fontevraud  (Eleanor  of  Bretagne), 
both  on  my  part  and  on  that  of  the  convent,  asking  for  a  lady  from  this 
our  convent,  to  wit,  for  the  Lady  Isabella,  whom  we  understand  to  be 
well  able  and  sufficient  for  the  office,  that  she  might  be  granted  to  us 
for  our  prioress.  And  we  thought,  dear  sire,  that  she  (the  abbess)  would 
have  willingly  granted  us  our  request,  for  she  is  bound  to  do  so  since  she 
was  brought  up  and  veiled  amongst  us,  and.  so  she  should  neither  wish 
nor  permit  that  the  church  should  be  so  long  without  prelates  ;  but  as 
yet  we  have  had  no  answer,  only  we  understand  from  certain  people 
that  she  intends  to  send  us  a  prioress  from  beyond  the  sea  there,  and  a 
prior  by  her  counsel  out  there.  And  know,  certainly,  my  very  dear 
brother,  that  should  she  send  any  other  than  one  belonging  to  our  own 
Convent,  it  would  prove  matter  of  discord  in  the  Convent,  and  of  the 
destruction  of  the  goods  ot  the  Church,  which  I  know  well,  sire,  that  you 
would  not  suffer  willingly  and  wittingly;  wherefore  I  pray  you,  dearest 
lord  and  brother,  and  require  you,  both  for  the  love  ot  me  and  of  our 
Convent,  which  after  God  trust  surely  in  you,  that  you  would  please  to 
send  word  to  my  said  lady  abbess,  that  she  do  not  undertake  to  burden 
our  church  with  any  prioress  out  of  the  Convent,  nor  with  prior  other 
than  the  one  we  have  now ;  but  that  she  would  grant  us  her  whom  we 
have  requested.  Do  this,  most  dearest  brother,  that  our  Convent  may 
receive  your  aid  and  sustenance  in  this  case  as  they  have  always  done  in 
their  needs.  May  Jesus  Christ  give  you  a  long  life,  my  dearest  brother. 
Written  at  Swainton  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  the  ninth  day  of  May." 

The  letter  bears  no  date  of  year,  but  was  evidently  written 
about  1315-17 — after  Swainton  had  been  granted  to  the  Princess 
Mary,  and  before  her  cousin,  Eleanor  of  Bretagne  (educated 
and  veiled  at  Amesbury),  ceased  to  be  lady  abbess  of  Font 
Evrault.  The  grievance  to  which  it  alludes  must  have  been 
one  common  to  all  the  religious  houses  throughout  England, 
which  were,  like  the  Monastery  at  Amesbury,  under  conti- 
nental rule — viz.,  the  frequent  appointment  of  a  superior 
imposed  upon  them  from  the  parent  abbey  "  beyond  the  sea", 
instead  of  one  selected  by  the  Convent  from  amongst  its  own 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  153 

members.  This  intrusion  of  a  foreigner  was,  no  doubt,  in 
many  instances,  looked  upon  as  a  burden,  and  proved,  in  due 
course,  "  matter  of  discord  in  the  convent",  as  depicted  by  the 
nun  Princess  in  this  earnest  appeal  to  her  brother,  the  King. 
Who  the  "  Lady  Isabella  ",  selected  by  the  Amesbury  Nuns  as 
their  Prioress,  at  this  date,  really  was,  has  not  yet  been  ascer- 
tained. 

The  Princess  Mary,  having  survived  by  some  years  the 
whole  of  her  family,  appears  to  have  closed  a  life  of  unwearied 
activity  about  1330;  for  in  6  Edward  III  (1331-2)  the  King 
granted  to  Edward  de  Bohun  (ancestor  of  the  Earls  of  Here- 
ford and  Essex)  the  manor  of  Sherston  Magna,  co.  Wilts, 
"late  belonging  to  Mary,  nun  of  Amesbury,  aunt  of  the  King, 
deceased."  Rot.  Pat.  6  Edw.  Ill,  2nd  p.,  m.  17. 

Of  the  history  of  the  Princess  Leonora,  daughter  of 
Edward  I  by  his  second  marriage,  very  little  is  really  known. 
She  lived  at  Amesbury  Monastery  with  her  half  sister,  the 
Princess  Mary,  and  dying,  at  an  early  age,  in  1311,  was  buried 
in  the  Cistercian  Monastery  of  Beaulieu,  in  the  New  Forest, 
founded  a  century  earlier  by  her  great-grandfather,  King 
John. 

Leland  mentions  another  lady  of  Plantagenet  birth  as 
Prioress  of  Amesbury.  He  says  "  Isabelle  the  4th  daughter 
of  Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  and  Maude  daughter  to  Duke,  of 
York,  was  prioress  of  Ambresbyri  (1202)";  but  neither  his  date, 
nor  his  genealogical  details,  are  quite  accurate.  The  lady  to 
whom  he  refers  was  Isabella,  grand-daughter  of  Edmund 
(Crouchback),  Earl  of  Lancaster,  younger  brother  of  Edward 
I ;  her  mother  being  Maud,  daughter  (not  of  the  Duke  of  York, 
but)  of  Sir  Patrick  Chaworth.  She  is,  no  doubt,  the  "Domtna 
Isabel/a  de  Lancaster",  who,  with  35  other  nuns,  was  con- 
secrated at  Amesbury  in  1327  ;  but  it  is  doubtful  whether  she 
was  Prioress  here  at  all — Aconbury  in  Herefordshire,  a  house 
of  Augustines  founded  by  King  John,  and  Margery,  wife  of 
William  de  Lacy,  and  not  Amesbury,  being  claimed  as  the 


154  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Convent  over  which  she  really  presided.  See  Notes  and 
Queries,  3rd  series,  vol.  vii,  p.  76.  Leland's  date  (1202)  also  is 
very  incorrect;  her  father  having  died  in  1345. 

EDWARD  KITE. 

(To  be  continued.) 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 
(Continued  from  p. 


MUSTERS  IN   WILTSHIRE.       30   Henry   VIII  [State  Papers   of 
Henry  VIII,  vol.  xiv,  pt.  I,  No.  652,  m.  24  (i)  (n).] 

A.D.   1538.     Hundred  of  Wesbery. 

TITHING  OF  BRATTON  AND  STOKE. 

William  Howper 

James  Welshe 

JohnSepe  [•    Archers. 

John  Peyton 

Robert  Ballard 

John  Alrig 

Ralph  Alridge  \ 

William  Buckes  billmen. 

William  Whetlyn 


) 

The  said  Tething,  i  harnes,  a  bowe  and  sheffe  of  arrowes. 


LAY  SUBSIDY  ^a. 

A.D.   1549.     [Account  of  the  second  payment  of  the  Relief 
granted  3  Edward  VI.] 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes. 


WESTBURY  HUNDRED. 
Raff  Alrige  in  goodes        xx//.  relief  xxs. 


Bratton 

and 
Stoke. 


Richard  Alrige  in  goodes  x//.  relief  xs. 
John  Balard  in  goodes  x//'.  relief  xs. 
John  Boocher  the  youn- 


ger in  goodes  x/i.  relief  xs. 

FEET  OF  FINES,  WILTS.     [3  Edward  VI.} 

A.D.  1549.  At  Westminster  in  the  Octaves  of  St.  Michael. 
Between  Thomas  Long  plaintiff  and  John  Arundell  knight 
deforciant,  of  24  messuages,  4  gardens,  24  orchards,  i  flour  mill, 
i  fulling  mill,  80  acres  of  land,  100  acres  of  meadow,  50  acres  of 
pasture,  too  acres  of  wood,  100  acres  of  broom  and  heath,  and 
2os.  rent,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Westbury  under  the  Playne,1 
Bratton,  Imber  and  Edyngton.  Plea  of  covenant  was  sum- 
moned. John  acknowledged  the  right  of  Thomas  as  of  his  gift 
and  quitclaimed  for  himself  and  his  heirs  forever  to  Thomas 
and  his  heirs,  and  warranted  against  all  men  forever.  For  this 
Thomas  gave  John  £40  sterling. 

PATENT  ROLL.     [4  Edward  VI,  part  2.] 

A.D.  1550.  The  King,  etc.  We  have  granted  to  William 
Earl  of  Wiltshire,  High  Treasurer  of  England,  all  the  demesnes 
and  manors  of  Tynehede  and  Edyngton  Romseys,  with  all 
their  members  and  appurtenances  in  Wiltshire  sometime 
belonging  to  the  monastery  of  Romsey  in  Southampshire, 
and  afterwards  parcels  of  the  lands  and  possessions  of 
Thomas  Seymour,  knight  late  Lord  Seymour  of  Sudley,  at- 
tainted of  High  Treason.  Together  with  the  site  of  the 
monastery  of  Edyngton,  with  all  houses,  buildings,  etc.,  and  the 
demesnes  belonging  thereto ;  and  other  property  in  Wiltshire 
and  Dorsetshire  belonging  to  the  said  Thomas  Seymour  and  in 
Middlesex,  etc.  We  have  granted  also  to  the  said  William 
Earl  of  Wiltshire  all  our  grange  and  farm  of  Bratton  in  Bratton, 
co.  Wilts,  late  parcel  of  the  lands  of  the  said  Thomas  Seymour, 
and  all  those  arable  lands  containing  by  estimation  346^  acres, 
and  all  those  10  acres  of  pasture  and  37  acres  of  meadow  in 

1  Subtus  le  Playne. 


156  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Bratton,  and  all  that  our  meadow  containing  by  estimation  12 
acres,  and  the  first  vesture  of  three  acres  of  meadow  in  Bratton. 
Also  pasture  and  pasturage1  for  24  oxen  and  70  sheep  yearly 
to  be  grazed  in  the  fields  of  Bratton  aforesaid.  And  all  those 
lands,  meadows,  pastures,  and  pasturages,  called  Broademeade, 
little  Broadmede,  Oxencroftes,  and  Great  Oxencrofts,  in  Bratton, 
with  their  appurtenances ;  which  granges,  lands,  etc.,  were  lately 
by  us  granted  to  Edward  Hastynges  knight  and  Dame 
Isabella  Baynton  widow,  for  a  term  of  years,  and  which  lately 
were  a  parcel  of  the  possessions  of  the  said  Thomas  Seymour. 
Further  we  have  given  to  the  foresaid  William,  etc.,  the  whole 
site  and  capital  messuage  of  our  manor  of  Inmer  alias 
Imber,  co.  Wilts,  late  parcel  of  the  possessions  of  Thomas 
Seymour.  And  all  houses,  buildings,  barns,  stables,  dove- 
cotes, fish-ponds,  gardens,  orchards,  fruit  gardens,2  lands  and 
soil  adjacent  and  belonging.  And  all  those  lands,  meadows,  pas- 
tures, and  pasturages,  and  hereditaments,  called  "  lez  demeane 
landes"  of  the  said  manor  of  Inmer  or  Imber,  in  Inmer  or  Imber, 
in  co.  Wilts,  lately  in  the  tenure  of  Walter  Carewey,  and  all 
those  lands  containing  by  estimation  60  acres  lying  in  the 
fields  called  "Chaperton  feldes  "  in  Inmer  aforesaid.  And  the 
pasture  and  pasturage  for  300  sheep  in  the  fields  of  Inmer, 
sometime  in  the  tenure  of  the  Rector  of  Edyngton.  And  other 
parcels  of  the  possessions  of  the  said  Thomas  Seymour,  with 
all  liberties  and  emoluments  enjoyed  in  the  premises  by  the 
Abbots,  priors,  prioresses,  or  other  governors  of  the  late 
monasteries,  or  by  the  said  Thomas  Seymour.  To  have  and 
hold  to  him  and  his  heirs,  assigns,  forever  in  chief  by  the  service 
of  the  4oth  part  of  knight's  fee  and  for  the  yearly  rent  for  the 
manors  of  Tynhede  and  Edington  and  the  other  premises  in 
Wilts  of  ^93  45.  legal  money  of  England,  at  the  Court  of 
Augmentation  at  Michaelmas.  Tested  by  the  King  at  West- 
minster, May  i st.3 

1  Pasturatio.  2   Gardina. 

3  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  printed  a  Charter  dated  10th   May,  4  Edward  VI, 
for  the  same  grants  to  the  Earl  of  Wiltshire. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  157 

PATENT  ROLL.     [4  Philip  and  Mary,  pt.  14.] 

A.D.  1557.  The  King  and  Queen  restore  the  knights  of  St. 
John  of  Jerusalem  with  the  site  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John 
in  Clerkenwell  and  a  number  of  other  estates  in  various 
counties  in  England ;  and  grant  all  those  lands,  tenements, 
meadows,  pastures  and  pasturages,  rents,  reversions,  services 
and  hereditaments,  extending  to  the  yearly  value  of  2  is.  g^d.  in 
Calne,  Burbage,  Warminster,  Bratton,  Brodechalk  and  else- 
where, lately  belonging  to  the  preceptory  of  Anstye,  which 
preceptory  and  the  other  premises  in  Wilts  erewhile  belonged 
to  the  late  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  in  England  and 
were  parcel  of  the  possessions  and  rents  of  the  said  late 
Hospital.  Tested  by  the  King  and  Queen  at  Greenwich,  2nd 
April. 

CHANCERY  PROCEEDINGS.1     [Elizabeth,  P.p.  ^.] 

A.D.  1571.  To  the  right  honourable  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon, 
knight,  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal.  Sheweth  unto  your 
right  honourable  Lordship,  your  daily  orator  Thomas  Patie  of 
Bratton  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  husbandman  :  That  where 
one  Richard  Patie,  father  of  your  orator,  deceased,  did  take  in 
the  Lord's  court  of  Bratton  by  copy  of  court  roll  bearing  date 
i4th  March,  36  Henry  VIII,  of  one  Rector  Reeve  deceased, 
then  lord  of  the  monastery  of  Edynton,  the  reversion  of  one 
close  and  one  croft  of  land  with  the  appurtenances  commonly 
called  Deane  Lee,  after  the  decease  of  one  Richard  Wheatacre 
and  Joane  his  wife,  now  being  both  deceased,  for  and  during 
the  lives  as  well  of  the  said  Richard  Patie  as  of  said  Thomas 
Patie,  his  son,  now  complainant,  and  also  for  and  during  the  life 
of  Margaret  Patie,  daughter  of  the  said  Richard,  and  the  longer 
liver  of  them  successively.  But  now  one  Adam  Wheatacre, 
son  of  the  said  Richard  Wheatacre  deceased,  supposing  him- 


1  The  petition  is  undated,  but  in  another  hand  at  the  top  of  the  MS.  is 
written,  14  June,  13  Eliz.  K,  1571. 


158  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

self  to  have  a  copy  of  the  said  lands,  hath  wrongfully  entered 
into  the  same,  and  thereof  doth  take  and  receive  the  profits, 
and  in  nowise  will  suffer  your  said  orator  to  have  and  enjoy  his 
lawful  right  and  interest  in  and  to  the  same,  to  the  utter 
undoing  not  only  of  him  but  likewise  of  his  poor  wife  and 
children  unless  your  Lordship's  favour  be  shewn  unto  him  in 
this  behalf.  And  for  as  much  as  the  said  Adam  Wheatacre  is 
very  well  "  frendid,  kynned  and  alied  "  with  the  homagers  of 
the  said  manor,  by  whom  the  said  title  is  to  be  tried,  and  also 
the  Steward  of  the  said  manor  is  his  special  friend.  Therefore 
your  Orator  feareth  the  indifferent  trial  of  his  interest  to  the 
premises  in  the  said  court.  May  it  therefore  please  your 
lordship,  the  premises  considered,  to  grant  unto  your  Orator 
the  Queen's  Majesty's  most  gracious  writ  of  subpena  to  be 
directed  unto  the  said  Adam  Wheatacre,  commanding  him  to 
appear  before  your  lordship  in  the  Court  of  Chancery,  then 
and  there  to  make  answer  to  the  premises  and  to  abide  such 
order  therein  as  by  your  Lordship  shall  be  thought  to  stand 
with  right  and  equity.  And  your  said  poor  orator  shall  daily 
pray,  &c. 

Answer  of  Adam  Wheatacre,  defendant. 

The  said  defendant  saith  that  the  said  bill  of  complaint 
against  him  unto  this  honourable  court  exhibited  is  untrue 
and  insufficient  in  the  law  to  be  answered  not  showing  that 
the  lands  and  tenements  claimed  by  the  plaintiff  are  customary 
lands  of  any  manor  demisable  by  copy  of  Court  Roll  of  the 
said  manor,  &c.  Nevertheless,  if  the  said  defendant  shall  be 
by  the  order  of  this  honourable  court  compelled  to  make  any 
further  answer  thereunto,  &c.,  he  saith  that  true  it  is  that  the 
said  Richard  Whytacre  and  Johan  his  wife  deceased  were 
seized  of  an  estate  of  and  in  the  same  close  and  croft  of  land 
called  Dean  Lee  mentioned  in  the  said  bill  of  complaint,  for 
the  term  of  their  lives,  which  said  Richard  Whitacre  enjoyed 
the  same,  and  the  issues  and  profits  thereof  did  receive  during 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes. 


his  life,  and  the  said  Johan  "  him  overliving",  likewise  enjoyed 
the  same  and  the  profits  thereof  to  her  own  use,  did  receive 
until  after  the  said  Johan  surrendered  up  her  estate  and 
interest  therein  into  the  hands  of  the  Queen's  Majesty,  then 
and  yet  lady  and  owner  of  the  manor  of  Bratton,  of  which  said 
manor  the  said  premises  are  parcel  of  the  customary  lands. 
Who  after,  by  her  Grace's  Steward  or  surveyor  of  her  said 
manor  thereunto  lawfully  authorised  by  copy  of  Court  Roll  of 
the  said  manor  dated  i2th  April  in  the  3rd  year  of  her  High- 
ness's  reign,  granted  the  said  premises  with  the  appurtenances 
unto  this  defendant  to  have  and  hold  for  the  term  of  his  life 
according  to  the  custom  of  the  said  manor  as  by  the  said  copy 
at  large  doth  appear.  By  virtue  whereof  the  said  Defendant 
entered  and  is  of  the  said  premises  seized  accordingly,  and  the 
profits  thereof  doth  take  as  well  and  lawful  was  and  is  for  him 
to  do  without  that  there  was  ever  any  such  grant  made  of  the 
premises  in  reversion  to  the  said  Richard  Patie,  the  complainant, 
and  Margaret  Patie,  in  such  form  as  in  the  bill  of  complaint  is 
very  untruly  surmised.  And  although  there  had  been  any 
such  copy  so  granted  in  reversion  the  same  by  the  custom 
could  not  be  of  any  validity  in  law,  for  that  the  same  grant  is 
not  warranted  by  the  custom  of  the  said  manor,  both  the  same 
doth  contain  more  lives  than  the  custom  of  the  said  manor  doth 
allow,  and  being  made  in  reversion,  not  taking  effect  in  the  life 
of  the  grantor  thereof,  by  the  laws  of  this  realm  and  for  divers 
other  manifest  causes  is  utterly  void,  &c.  And  without  that 
the  said  Defendant  hath  wrongfully  entered  into  the  premises 
or  doth  wrongfully  receive  the  profits  and  issues  thereof  as  in 
the  said  bill  of  complaint  is  alleged.  And  without  that  there 
is  any  other  thing  in  the  said  bill  to  be  answered  and  not  in 
this  answer  sufficiently  answered,  &c.,  all  which  the  said 
Defendant  is  ready  to  answer  and  prove  as  this  honourable 
Court  shall  award,  and  prayeth  to  be  dismissed  from  the  same 
with  his  reasonable  costs  and  charges  in  this  behalf  wrongfully 
sustained. 


i6o 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


CLERICAL  SUBSIDY,  |g3. 

A.D.  1570.     [Names  of  Stipendiary  Priests  liable  to  the  first 
payment  of  the  subsidy,  13  Elizabeth]. 

Sir  William  Unfery1  of  Bratton,  vjs.  v'njd. 

IBID.,  25|8.     [19  Elizabeth.} 
Bratton.     William  Dyer      -    -    vjs.  v'rijd. 

IBID.,  j|j.     [21  Elizabeth.] 
Bratton.     Richard  Goldinge    -    vjs.  viijW. 


A.D.  1575. 
1 8  Elizabeth}. 

BRATTON. 
Landdes. 


Gooddis. 


LAY  SUBSIDY.     [WILTS,  j||.] 
[Assessment  of  the  ist  payment  of  the  subsidy, 

WESTBURY  HUNDRED. 

Wylliam  Bannocke   xixs.  —  ijs.  v\\]d.  [subsidy] 
Wylliam  Alredge 
Henry  Wheataker 


xxs. 


ijs.  \u]d. 
xxs.  —  ijs.  viijW. 
Sum.  —  viijs. 
vjti.  —  xs. 
vj//.  —  xs. 
iiij/z'.  —  vjs. 


Jame  Ballard 
Richarde  Axeford 
Agnes  Alredge 
John  Bowecher,  senr.  iij//.  —  vs. 
Rycharde  Tytworthe  iij/j.  — vs. 
John  Alredge  iij/z'.  —  vs. 

Rycharde  Aplegaidge  iij//'.  —  vs. 
Thomas  Gardener  iij/z'.  —  vs. 
John  Rawlyns  vij/r'.  —  xjs.  virjW. 

John  Bucher  vij/z.  —  xjs.  viijW. 

Sum.  —  Ixxvs. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [34  Elizabeth,  pt.  i,  No.  82.] 

P.M.  Sir  Christopher  Hatton. 

A.D.   1592.     Inquisition  taken  at  Northampton,  29  August, 
34  Elizabeth.     Sir  Christopher  Hatton  died  seized  with  other 


In  roll  sir  of  the  same  year,  he  is  called  Sir  William  Humfreys. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes. 


161 


property  of  and  in  the  manor  of  Streat,  in  Somerset,  and  of  and 
in  the  manor  of  Bratton,  with  its  members  and  appurtenances 
in  Wilts.  The  manors  of  Streat  and  Bratton  with  their 
appurtenances  are  held  of  the  Queen  in  chief  by  the  service  of 
the  2oth  part  of  a  knight's  fee,  and  are  worth  in  all  their  issues, 
beyond  deductions,  ^77  ris.  o|</.  He  died  2oth  November, 
34  Elizabeth,  at  Hatton  House  in  the  parish  of  St.  Andrew, 
Holborn,  in  the  ward  of  Farringdon  without,  within  the  suburb 
of  the  city  of  London.  And  William  Hatton  alias  Newport, 
knight,  is  his  cousin  and  nearer  heir,  i.e.,  son  and  heir  of  John 
Newporte  and  Dorothy  his  wife,  sister  of  Christopher,  and  the 
said  William  at  the  taking  of  the  Inquisition  was  26  years  old 
and  more. 

LAY  SUBSIDY.     Ji^  WILTS. 

J17 

A.D.   1592,     [Subsidy  35  Elizabeth]. 

HUNDRED  OF  WESTBURY.     BRATTON. 


In  Lands^ 


In  Goods 


John  Alridge  senior 
William  Newman 
John  Alridge  junior 

Sum  of  the  shares 
Maud  Smarte 
John  Gardner 
William  Ballard 
William  Alridge 
Agnes  Alridge,  widow 
Richard  Bromewich     . . 
William  Butcher 
James  Ballard 

Sum  of  the  shares 

(To  be  continued). 


xxs.     iiijs. 

xxs.     iiijs. 

xxs.     iiijs. 

xijs. 

iij//.     viijs. 
\\}li.     viijs. 
iij/z.     viijs. 
iiij/z.  xs.  viijdl 
vj/z'.     xyjs. 
xiij/z.  xxxiiijs.   viijV. 
v')li.     xvjs. 
vj//'.      xvjs. 
vlt.  xviis.  iiijd. 


M 


1 62  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  123.^ 


III.— BIRTH     RECORDS. 
FIRST  SERIES. 

Having  concluded  the  transcription  of  the  Marriage  Records 
down  to  1837,  I  begin  (by  desire  of  the  Editor)  the  Records  of 
Births,  taking  in  the  First  Series  those  registered  from  the 
earliest  date,  1648,  to  1699.  It  may  be  well  to  remind  those 
who  consult  these  Records  of  what  I  have  previously  stated 
(see  W.  N.  &  O.,  ii,  286)  that,  although  all  the  names  given 
refer  to  the  county  of  Wilts,  the  whole  of  the  county  is  not 
included,  as  part  of  the  southern  district  was,  and  is,  attached 
to  Meetings  in  contiguous  counties,  and  therefore  outside 
"Wiltshire  Monthly  Meeting." 

I  transcribe  from  the  copy  of  the  original  entries,  which 
was  made  in  London  for  the  use  of  Wiltshire  Friends,  and  it  is 
probable  that  the  writers  of  this  London  copy,  who  would  not 
have  very  exact  local  knowledge,  did  not,  in  every  case,  cor- 
rectly read  the  original.  This  is  clearly  so  in  several  places, 
as,  e.g.,  under  James  Baskervile. 

With  regard  to  the  spelling  of  surnames  I  have  followed 
the  Register  which  I  arn  transcribing,  which  gives  these  sur- 
names in  the  case  of  the  child  only,  so  that  the  re-appearance 
of  the  name  in  connexion  with  the  parents  must  not  be  taken 
as  any  original  confirmation  of  the  spelling. 

Prior  to  the  year  1737,  the  children  of  members  were  per- 
mitted to  attend  Church  meetings  when  old  enough  and  other- 
wise suitable,  but  from  that  year  children  of  Quaker  parents 
have  received  membership  in  the  Society  as  a  birthright.— Of 
later  years  this  method  of  admission  has  met  with  considerable 
disapproval,  and  some  change  is  probable. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  163 


A. 

1664-3-14. — John  AUSON,  son  of  John  Auson,  of  Ogborne. 
1666/7-12-26. — Mary  AUSON,  dau.  of  John  Auson,  of  Ogborne. 
1668-3-21. — Ambrose  AUSON,  son  of  John  Auson,  of  Ogborne. 
1668-8-20. — William  AMOR,  son  of  William  Amor,  of  Bromham. 
1670-3-12. — Isaac  AUSON,  son  of  John  Auson,  of  Ogborne. 
1671/2-1-2. — Sarah  AUSON,  dau.  of  John  Auson,  of  Ogborne. 

1674-10-2. — Robert  ARCH,  son  of  William  Arch,  of  Chippenham 
Meeting. 

1676-4-21. — Susanna    AMYATT,     dau.    of    James    Amyatt,    of 
Langley. 

1678-3-14. — William  ARCH,  son  of  William  Arch,  of  Chippen- 
ham Meeting. 

1678-9-3. — John  AMYATT,  son  of  James  Amyatt,  of  Langly. 

1680-12-12. — Ann  ARCH,  dau.  of  William  Arch,  of  Chippenham 
Meeting. 

1681-10-28. — James  AMYATT,  son  of  James  Amyatt,  of  Langley. 
1687-3-1. — William  AMYATT,  son  of  James  Amyatt,  of  Langley. 
1695-11-25. — Ruth  ANGELL,  dau.  of  John  Angell,  of  Calne. 

B. 

1659-5-20. — Charles   BARRATT,   son  of   Charles    and    Abigail 
Barratt,  of  Kinton  St.  Michaell  [Gritlington]. 

i66o-io-i3[23]. — Rachell  BARRETT,  dau.  of  Charles  Barrett,  of 
Grittleton. 

1660-11-19. — Jane  BUSHELL,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Bushell, 
of  Cullerne  ph. 

1663-11-26. — Elizabeth  BULLOCK,  dau.  of  Adam    Bullock,    of 
Hullavington. 

1664-2-26. — Israeli  BARRETT,  son  of  Charles  Barrett,  of  Kinton. 

1664-5-30. — Abigail  BUSHELL,  dau.  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Bushell, 
of  Slaughterford. 

1665-5-18. — William  BUTLER,  son  of  William  and  Jane  Butler, 
of  Corsham. 

1665-9-22. — Jacob  BUTTON,  son  of  Robert  Button,  of  Calne. 

1665-11-30. — Sarah  BUTLER,  dau.  of  John  and  Ellinor  Butler, 
of  Slaughterford. 

M  2 


164  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1666-4-21. — Elizabeth  BEZER,  dau.  of  Edward  Bezer,  of  Bishop's 
Cannings 

1666-10-29. — Joseph  BROWNE,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Browne, 
of  Slaughterford. 

1666-11-16. — Jane  BUTLER,   dau.   of  William  and  Jane  Butler, 
of  Corsham. 

1666/7-1-1. — Edward  BEZER,  son  of  Edward  Bezer,  of  Bishop's 
Cannings. 

1667-1-23. — Robert  BLANCHETT,  son  of  Robert  Blanchett,    of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1667-9-24. — Nathaniell    BURDGE,    son   of  William    Burdge,  of 
Cricklade. 

1668-4-6. — David  BUTTON,  son  of  Robert  Button,  of  Calne. 

1669-2-27. — Mary  BUTLER,  dau.  of  William  and  Jane  Butler,  of 
Corsham. 

1670-5-23. — Hester  BAILY,   dau.  of  Nathaniell  Baily,   of  Chip- 
penham. 

1671-2-23. — Joseph  BLANCHETT,  son   of  Robert  Blanchett,    of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1671-3-30. — Hannah  BUTLER,  dau.  of  William  and  Jane  Butler, 
of  Corsham. 

1671-7-17. — Jane  BUTLER,  dau.  of  John  and  Ellinor  Butler,  of 
Bidstone. 

1671-7-24. — John  BAILY,  son  of  Edward  Baily,  of  Compton. 

1672-6-29  [30]. — Elizabeth  BEVERSTOCK,  dau.  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth Beverstock,  of  Bitstone  [Slaughterford]. 

1673-9-10. — Martha  BAILY,  dau.  of  William  and   Susan   Baily, 
of  Catcombe. 

1673-11-14. — Mary  BAYLY,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Mary  Bayly,  of 
Compton. 

1673-11-16. — Sarah  BUTLER,  dau.  of  William   and  Jane  Butler, 
of  Corsham. 

1674-5-17. — Sarah  BEZER,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Ann  Bezer,  of 
Rowde. 

1674-7-11. — John   BEVERSTOCK,    son  of   John   and   Elizabeth 
Beverstock,  of  Bidstone. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 
Tottenham,  Middx. 

(To  be  continued.) 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  165 

A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  126.) 


225.  Henry  VIII.     Anno  34. — Richard  Bruges,  armiger, 
and  William  Walton;  messuage,  garden,  and  lands  in  Stratton 
St.  Margaret.     ^40. 

226.  Anno  34. — John  Mody  and  Henry  Long,  knt. ;  mes- 
suages and  lands  in  Malmysbury  and  Brokynborowe.     ^40. 

227.  Anno  34. — Antonio  Long,  gen.,  son  of  Henry  Long, 
knt,   and  John  Turney,  gen.  ;  lands  in    Assheley   and    Dye- 
harygge  called  the  Rock  Benecrofts  and  Helbrocks.     ,£200. 

228.  Anno   34. —  Robert  Byngham,  armiger,  and  Robert 
Coker,  armiger,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands 
in  Alderbury  and  Grymstede.     100  marks. 

229.  Anno    34. — Henry    Lawrence,    gen.,    and    Leonard 
West,    arm.,  manor  of   Sutton  Maundefelds,  als.  Maundfeld ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Sutton  Maundefeld,  alias  Maundfeld, 
Haselden  and  Tysbury,  except  the  advowson  of  the  church  of 
Sutton  Maundefeld,  als.  Maundfeld. 

230.  Anno    34. — William    Button   and    Jocosa    Lambe; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Devises  and  Nustede.     100  marks. 

231.  Anno  34. — Roger  Bodenham,  arm.,  son  and  heir  of 
Johanna,  wife  of  Stephen  Apharry,  armiger,  and  Stephen  Ap- 
harry,  armiger,  and  Johanna  his  wife;  manor  of  Elthrope,  als. 
Elthorpe,  messuages  and  lands  in  Elthrope,  a/5.  Elthorpe,  and 
Rammesbury,  als.  Remesbury.     ^400. 

232.  Anno  34. — John  Mervyn,  arm.,  and  Thomas  Weste, 
knt.,   lord   Caware  and    Elizabeth  his    wife,   Anna   Clynton, 
widow,  lady  Clinton  and  Saye,  Owinn  Weste,  knt.,  and  Mary 
his  wife,  and  Leonard  Weste,  arm.;  manors  of  Swaleclyffe  and 
Esthatche,    messuages   and    land    in    Swaleclyffe,    Esthatche, 
Donnehede  and  Tysbury.     ^400. 


1 66  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

233.  Anno     34. — John     Berkeley,     arm.,     and   Richard 
Jerveys,  of  London,  mercer,  and  Winifred  his  wife ;  manors  of 
Melston,  als.  Mildesdon,  and  Brightmarston,  als.  Brigmarston  ; 
messuages   and   lands   in    Melston   and    Brightmarston,  alias 
Brigmarston,    and    advowson    of  the   church    of  Mildeston. 
;£6oo. 

234.  Anno  34. — Thomas  Cryppes  and  John  Warneford 
and  Susannah  his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Malmesbury, 
Thornehyll,    Mylburne,    Fylyngs   and    Brokynborough.      200 
marks. 

235.  Anno  34. — Thomas  Walton,  gen.,  and  Henry  Long, 
knt.  ;  lands  in  Crowdwell.     80  marks. 

236.  Anno   34. — William    Green,   armiger,    and  Thomas 
Gaynysford,    armiger,  and  Julian  his  wife,  and  William  Fry, 
armiger;  half  the  manor  of  Standlynche,  messuages  and  lands 
in  Standlynche  and  Downton. 

237.  Anno  35. — George  Prater  and  Roger  Yonge,  armiger; 
messuages   and  lands  in  Cryklade,   Chelworth  magna,   Chel- 
worth  parva,  and  Coldcott.     190  marks. 

238.  Anno  35. — William  Baylye  and  Walter  Baylye  and 
Thomas  Bampfyld,  John   Bampfyld  and  Mary  his  wife ;  mes- 
suages and  lands  in  Rowde,  Brougham,  and  Devyses.      ^300. 

239.  Anno  35.     William    Planner  and  William    Kyrke- 
ham  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Wokyngham.     ;£8o. 

240.  Anno  35. — -Thomas  Chaffyn,  senior,  and  John  Felt- 
ham,  alias  Lambe,  and  Johanna  his  wife,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Christopher   Edmundys ;    messuage    in   the    city   of   New 
Sarum.     ^40. 

241.  Anno  35. — Richard  Snell  and  Richard  Blake  and 
Johanna   his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Crettylton,  alias 
Crettelyngton.     130  marks. 

242.  Anno  35. — Robert  May,  alias  Robert  Hayton,  and 
Richard    Brigges,    armiger;    fourth    part    of    the    manor    of 
Broughton    Gyfford,    messuages     and    lands     in    Broughton 
Gifford.     £166. 

243.  Anno  35. — John  Goddard  and  Geoffrey  Danyell  and 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  167 

Margaret  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Alborne,  Vpham, 
Snape,  and  Wandeburogh.     ,£145. 

244.  Anno  35. — -Thomas  Cryppys  and  John  Cryppes  and 
Edmund  Tame,  knt. ;  manor  of  Syrescourte,   messuages  and 
lands  in  Castell   Eaton,  alias  Eton  Maysey  and  Lyshyll,   also 
third  part   of  the  advowson  of  the  church  of  Castell   Eton. 
220  marks. 

245.  Anno  35. — William  Sharyngton,  armiger,  and  Grace 
his    wife   and  Edward    Darell,    armiger ;    manor    of  Bewley, 
messuages  and  lands  in  Bewley,  Laykoc,  Notton  Nasshe  Hill, 
Lackham,  and  Bowdon. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.} 


OLD  LACKHAM  HOUSE  AND  ITS  OWNERS. 

(Continued  from  p.  62.) 


Two  years  after  Edward  Baynard  had  succeeded  to  the 
Lackham  estate  came  the  dissolution  of  monasteries,  but  from 
this  source  he  does  not  appear,  like  some  of  his  near  neigh- 
bours, to  have  profited  by  any  direct  grant  of  Abbey  lands 
from  the  Crown.  His  forty  years'  ownership  saw  the  close  of 
Henry  VHIth's  reign,  with  those  of  Edward  Vlth,  Mary,  and 
the  first  two  decades  of  that  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  the 
successive  changes  in  our  national  religion  which  took  place 
during  this  unsettled  period.  He  seems  to  have  maintained 
his  own  private  chaplain  at  Lackham,  for  in  the  parish  register 
of  Lacock  we  find  the  following  entry  of  burial : — 

"  1 565,  Sir  Michael  Brickett,  Chaplain  to  Edward  Bay- 
nard, Esq.,  May  7." 

Of  his  family,  the  eldest  son,  Edmund,  baptized  at  Lacock, 
3  January  1561,  died  an  infant,  and  the  second  son,  Robert, 


1 68  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

afterwards  Sir  Robert  Baynard,  who  was  about  twelve  years  old 
at  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  became  heir  to  the  Lackham 
estate.  He  was  M.P.  for  Chippenham  1584-5,  and  for  West- 
bury  1586-7.  In  January,  1618,  he  was  knighted  at  Theobalds 
by  James  I1;  the  monarch  who,  whilst  hunting  on  one  occasion 
in  Pewsham  Forest,  is  said  to  have  been  challenged  by  Sir 
Robert  for  a  deer  which  he  happened  to  kill  within  a  certain 
distance  from  the  river  Avon,  the  latter  alleging  a  royal  grant 
from  Edward  III  to  his  ancestor,  as  already  mentioned  at 

P-  52. 

Sir  Robert  married  a  lady,  who,  although  descended 
paternally  from  an  old  Yorkshire  family,  must  have  been 
tolerably  well  acquainted  with  the  neighbourhood  of  Lacock. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Stapilton,  of  Wighill  [or 
Wighall],  co.  York,  by  his  second  wife  Olive,  daughter  and 
co-heir  of  Sir  Henry  Sharington  of  Lacock  Abbey,2  and  widow 
of  John  Talbot,  Esq.,  of  Salwarpe,  co.  Worcester. 

By  the  Lady  Ursula  [ne'e  Stapleton],  who  was  baptized  at 
Chelsea  10  July,  1587,  Sir  Robert  Baynard  had  two  children, 
Edward,  baptized  at  Lacock,  19  August,  1616,  who  died  an 
infant;  and  Mary,  baptized  26  March,  1621,  who  subsequently 
became  heiress  of  Lackham.  Two  years  after  the  birth  of  the 
latter,  their  mother,  the  Lady  Ursula,  died  at  the  early  age  of 
36,  and  was  buried  at  Lacock,  9  November,  1623. 

It  was  on  the  occasion  of  his  wife's  death  that  Sir  Robert 
caused  to  be  set  up  on  the  east  wall  of  the  "  Baynard's  Aisle" 
in  Lacock  Church,  two  quaint  wooden  tablets  emblazoned 


1  James  I  appears  to  have  been  in  this  neighbourhood  in  1616,  1618, 
1621,  and  1624.     Pewsham  was  soon  afterwards  disafforested. 

2  Sir  Robert  Stapilton  was  M.P.  for  Yorkshire,  and  High  Sheriff  in  1580. 
He  died  1606,  and  Lady  Olive  appears  to  have  resided,  during  her  second 
widowhood,  at  Lacock  Abbey,  and,  dying  at  an  advanced  age  in  1646,  she 
was  buried  at  Lacock.     Besides  Lady  Ursula  Baynard,  she  had  four  sons 
and  three  daughters.     Her  second  son,  Robert  Stapilton,  who  matriculated 
at  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  19  June  1607,  aged  17  [see  Foster],  was,  in  1616, 
presented  by  her  to  the  rectory  of  Lacock. 


Old  Lackhatn  House  and  its  Owners.  169 

with  heraldry,  one  of  which,  to  the  memory  of  his  father,  has 
been  already  described  (p.  6:).1  The  second  tablet,  the 
memorial  of  the  Lady  Ursula,  is  precisely  similar  in  outline. 
The  eight  shields,  around  the  central  inscription,  bear  single 
impalements  showing  the  successive  marriages  of  the  Stapilton 
family,  the  whole  being  surmounted  by  the  quartered  shield  of 
STAPILTON  and  FITZALAN  DE  BEDALE,  enclosed  within  a  Garter, 
with  the  crest  of  the  former — Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  or,  a 
Saracen's  head  ajffronty,  round  the  temples  a  wreath  knotted 
behind,  all  proper. 

1.  STAPILTON — Argent,  a  lion  rampant  sable;  impaling,  Sable, 

fretty  or—  BELLA  AQUA. 

2.  STAPILTON  ;  impaling,    Cheeky  or  and  azure,  a  canton  ermine 

within  a  bordure  gules — BRITTANY. 

3.  STAPILTON  ;   impaling,  Barry  of  six  or  and  gules — FITZALAN 

DE  BEDALE. 

4.  STAPILTON;   impaling,   Bendy  of  six  argent  and  azure — ST. 

PHI  LI  BERT. 

5.  STAPILTON  ;  impaling,   Argent,  on  a  fess  azure  three  fleiirs- 

de-lis  or — USFLETE. 


1  The  writer  has  already  remarked  that  the  armorial  display  on  these 
tablets  must  have  been  the  work  of  a  skilful  hand.  The  Baynards  were,  it 
appears,  in  possession  of  a  vellum  pedigree,  drawn  up  by  John  Philipott, 
Somerset  Herald  temp.  James  I,  showing  their  Norman  descent  (see  Gents. 
Mag.,  May  1826,  p.  418);  but  he  would  here  suggest  that  the  arrangement 
and  execution  of  the  heraldry  on  the  Lacock  tablets  was  probably  the  work 
of  John  Withie,  "Citizen  and  paynterstayner  of  London",  the  transcriber 
of  the  fine  manuscript  volume  now  in  the  British  Museum  (Harleian  MS. 
No.  1443)  containing  a  copy  of  the  Wilts  Visitation  of  1623,  engrafted  on 
the  earlier  one  of  15(55,  with  the  arms  beautifully  tricked — a  manuscript  well 
known  to  Wiltshire  genealogists.  Withie's  father,  through  a  first  marriage 
into  the  family  of  Nicholas,  of  Calne,  resided  in  that  town,  as  did  also  his 
own  half-brother,  by  the  same  marriage.  His  grandmother  was  a  sister  of 
Jewel,  Bishop  of  Salisbury  [1560-1571],  the  friend  of  Sir  Henry  Sharington, 
of  Lacock  Abbey,  the  grandfather  of  Lady  Ursula  Baynard  ;  a  link  which, 
at  least,  seems  to  connect  him  pretty  closely  with  the  neighbourhood.  He 
made  some  Church  notes  at  Calne  in  1616,  and  was  30  years  of  age  in  1623, 
when  the  heraldic  tablets  in  Lacock  Church  were  set  up.  He  obtained 
from  Richard  St.  George,  Clarenceux,  a  confirmation  of  arms — Per  pale 
ermine  and  or,  a  lion  rampant  gules—  previously  granted  to  his  family,  in 
1615,  by  the  antiquary  Camden. 


170  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

6.  STAPILTON  ;     impaling,     Ermine,    a     lion    rampant    azure — 

PICKERING  \_Dmgley^\. 

7.  STAPILTON  ;  impaling,  Or,  three  bars  azure — ASKE  \_Dingley\. 

8.  STAPILTON  ;    impaling,    Gules,    between  two  flanches    cheeky 

argent  and  azure,    as    many  crosses  patty  in  pale  of  the 
second  fimbriated  or—  SHARiNGTON.1 

The  inscription  is  as  follows  : — 

"  Heare  lyeth  the  Body  of  the  Lady 
Vrsula  Baynard,  Daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Stapilton  of  Wyghall  in  the 
County  of  Yorke,  Knight,  and  wife 
to  Sir  Robert  Baynard,  Knight,  by 
whome  shee  had  Issue  Edward  her 
Sonne  heare  buryed,  and  Mary  hir 
Daughter.  She  lyved  to  the  age 
of  36  yeares,  and  departed  to  God 
in  most  firme  fayth  in  Christ  in 
the  yeare  of  our  Lorde  God  1623. 

Gods  goodness  made  her  wise  and  well  beseeming, 
Discreet  and  Prudent,  Constant,  True  and  Chaste, 
Hir  virtues  rare  won  her  much  esteeming, 
In  Courte  and  Country,  still  with  favour  graste, 
Earth  could  not  yelde  more  pleasing  earthly  blisse, 
Blest  wth  two  babes,  though  Death  brought  hir  to  this." 

Sir  Robert  was  Sheriff  of  Wilts  in  1629  [5  Charles  I]. 
His  will  is  dated  16  March,  1635-6,  and  dying  soon  after,  he 
was  buried  at  Lacock,  on  7  June2  in  the  latter  year,  without 
either  monument  or  inscription. 


1  In  a  paper  on  the  Baynard  Monuments  in  Lacock    Church  by  the 
present  writer  (  Wilts  Arch.  Mag.,  iv,  p.  6)  the  coats  No.  2  and  7,  here  impaled, 
are  ascribed  to  DB  RICHMOND  and  CONSTABLE.    The  subsequent  publication 
of  Dingley's   History  from  Marble,  and  the  pedigree  of  Stapilton,  in  the 

Genealogist,  makes  it  more  probable  that  they  are  BBITTANY  and  DB  ASKE, 
as  here  given. 

2  See  Lacock  Register ;  but  the  Inq.  p.  m.  gives  14  April  as  the  date  of 
his  death. 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners.  171 

From  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Marlborough,  6  October, 
1636,  it  appears  that  besides  his  manor  of  Lackham,  Sir 
Robert  died  seised  of  "  divers  messuages,  lands,  tenements, 
pastures,  woods,  etc.,  in  the  fields,  parishes,  and  hamlets,  of 
Laycocke,  Lackham,  Notton,  Bewley,  Reybridge,  Chippenham, 
and  Bowdon,  parcels  of  the  said  manor ;  divers  closes  or 
parcels  of  pasture  situated  within  the  parish  of  Laycocke, 
called  Dene  Hill,  Pennesdowne,1  the  Pyke  and  the  Lukehorne, 
containing  217  acres,"  given  to  his  father  by  [Sir  William  or 
Sir  Henry]  Sharington,2  of  Lacock  Abbey,  in  exchange  for  other 
lands  within  the  parish,  then  parcel  of  Lacock  manor  ;  also  the 
tithes  of  grain,  and  hay  of  all  the  demesne  lands  of  Lackham 
manor,  likewise  given  by  Sharington  to  Edward  Baynard, 
deceased  [father  of  Sir  Robert],  and  his  heirs.  The  whole  of 
this  property  is  stated  by  the  jurors  to  have  been,  at  that  time, 
of  the  value  of  ^41  65.  8d.,  and  held  of  the  king  in  chief  by  the 
service  of  one  twentieth  part  of  a  knight's  fee. 

By  deed  16  February,  1628,  eight  years  before  his  death, 
Sir  Robert  gave  to  Anne  Fisher,  spinster,  daughter  of  Joan 
Fisher,  of  Lacock,  apparently  his  housekeeper,  who  survived 
him,  an  annuity  of  ^"10  out  of  a  messuage  and  land  in  Lacock, 
called  Arnoldes,  to  have  the  same  immediately  after  his 
decease,  full  possession  thereof  being  given  her  on  payment  of 
sixpence. 

The  writer  of  these  notes  was  for  a  long  while  in  posses- 
sion of  a  vellum  roll,  sixteen  feet  in  length ;  the  original 
Inventory  of  all  goods,  chattels,  catties,  heirlooms,  etc.,  in 
Lackham  House,  taken  in  1637,  after  the  decease  of  Sir  Robert 
Baynard.  This  document  has  now  found  a  more  appropriate 
place  among  the  many  valuable  records  preserved  in  the  muni- 
ment room  at  Lacock  Abbey.  It  enumerates  in  detail  the 


1  Spelt  "  Pensedone  "  in  a  deed  of  1308.     See  p.  5. 

2  Both  names  appear  in  the  inquisition.     Edward  Baynard,  of  Lackham, 
and  Sir  William  Sharington,  of  Lacock  Abbey,  had  both  married  into  the 
family  of  Walsingham. 


172  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

contents  of  the  old  mansion  with  its  private  chapel  and  many 
apartments,  the  massive  old  oak  furniture,  and  rich  hangings, 
the  arms  in  the  great  hall,  the  old  fashioned  vessels,  wooden 
trenchers,  etc.,  in  the  kitchen,  buttery,  and  minor  offices, 
together  with  the  goodly  array  of  pewter,  which  alone  consti- 
tutes a  very  considerable  item. 

Mary  Baynard,  the  surviving  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of 
Sir  Robert,  shortly  before  her  father's  death,  and  when  only 
fourteen  years  old,  married  Captain  the  Hon.  James  Montagu, 
third  son  of  Henry,  first  Earl  of  Manchester.  The  marriage 
took  place  at  Lacock,  n  November,  1635.  Her  father,  by  his 
will,  bequeathed  the  manor  of  Lackham,  with  its  appur- 
tenances, and  all  other  his  lands  in  Wiltshire,  to  them  both  for 
their  lives,  with  remainder  to  their  eldest  son  and  his  heirs 
male,  for  default  successively  in  tail  male  to  their  second  and 
younger  sons,  for  default  to  the  use  of  all  the  sons  successively 
of  the  said  Mary  by  any  other  husband,  for  default  to  her 
daughters  by  any  other  husband,  and  their  heirs,  for  default 
to  his  nephew  Robert,  only  son  of  his  brother,  Giles  Baynard, 
and  his  heirs  male,  for  default  to  another  nephew,  Edward, 
only  son  of  his  younger  brother  Edward,  lately  deceased,  and 
his  heirs  male,  and  lastly  for  default  to  his  own  right  heirs  for 
ever. 

But  Lackham  was  not  without  a  male  heir,  and  that  in  the 
direct  line,  for  Captain  James  Montagu  had  issue  by  his  wife 
Mary,  eleven  sons  and  two  daughters,  the  names  of  the  eldest 
ten  of  which,  viz.,  (i)  Walter,  (2)  James,  (3)  George,  (4)  Robert, 
(5)  Henry,  (6)  Sidney,  (7)  Edward,  (8)  Charles,  (9)  William,  and 
Mary,1  appear  among  the  additions  to  the  printed  Wilts  Visita- 
tion of  1623,  which  continue  the  pedigree  to  the  year  1650. 
Two  younger  sons,  Thomas  and  John,2  with  another  daughter, 


1  She  afterwards  married  Thomas  Ewer,  of  the  Lee,  co.  Herts. 

2  He  became  Rector  of  Upton  Scudatnore,  near  Warminster,  where  he 
was  buried  in  1(591. 


Old  Lackham  House  and  its  Owners. 


173 


Katharine,  are  mentioned  on  a  monumental  tablet  in  Lacock 

Church. 

The  Hon.  James  Montagu  died  in  1665, 
at  the  age  ot  57,  his  widow  surviving  him 
nearly  twenty  years.  The  funeral  penon, 
here  reproduced,  was  at  the  time  of  Dingley's 
visit  to  Lacock  Church,  in  1684,  hanging  in 
the  Baynard  Aisle.  It  bore  at  the  staff  end, 
the  arms  of  MONTAGU — Argent,  three  lozenges 
conjoined  in  fess  gules,  within  a  bordure  sable 
(differenced  by  a  mullet  for  a  thirdson)  impal- 
ing BAYNARD,  as  already  blazoned.  Dingley 
has  also  preserved  sketches  of  other  shields 
which  he  saw  on  the  funeral  achievements 
and  streamers  of  Montagu,  in  the  Baynard 
Aisle — 


1.  MONTAGU,  with  bordure  and  mullet,  as  on  the  penon, 

quartering  Or,  an  eagle  displayed  vert,  beaked  and 
membered  gules — MONTHERMER. 

2.  MONTAGU  singly,  and  crest,  with  mullet,  but  without 

the  bordure  sable.1 

Of  Captain  Montagu's  eleven  sons,  Walter,  the  eldest,  died 
young,  and  James,  the  second  son,  aged  12  in  1650,  and  conse- 
quently about  27  at  his  father's  death,  became  the  heir.  He 


1  These  arms,  either  with  or  without  the  bordure  sable,  were  borne  by  the 
Montacutes,  Earls  of  Salisbury.  John  de  Montacute,  Lord  Montacute, 
second  son  of  the  first  Earl  of  Salisbury  of  that  name,  married  the  heiress 
of  Monthermer,  and  they  appear  with  the  bordure  on  his  tomb  in  Salisbury 
Cathedral.  He  died  in  1389-90 ;  since  which  time  all  succeeding  Monta- 
cutes, and,  on  questionable  authority  the  Montagus,  have  quartered  the 
arms  of  Monthermer. 

Dingley  notes  that  the  coat  of  Montagu  in  the  heraldry  at  Lacock  is 
given  both  with  and  without  the  bordure  sable.  He  also  remarks  that  the 
griffin's  head  in  the  Montagu  crest  is  here,  in  one  instance,  beaked  sable  and 
langued  gules,  and  in  the  other  is  all  or — a  kind  of  fanciful  variation  by  no 
means  unknown  in  other  instances  of  undertaker's  heraldry. 


174  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

married  in    1671,  Diana,  daughter  of  Anthony  Hungerford,  of 
Black  Bourton,  afterwards  of  Farley  Castle.1 

"James  Montagu,  of  Lackham,  co.  Wilts,  Esq.,  bachelor,  about  32, 
and  Mrs.  Diana  Hungerford,  of  Black  Bourton,  co.  Oxon.,  spinster,  21  ; 
consent  of  mother,  Mrs.  Rachel  Hungerford,  widow,  at  Black  Bourton 
aforesaid,  30  May,  1671."— Chester's  Marriage  Licences. 

EDWARD  KITE. 
(To  be  continued.) 


DEED  RELATING  TO  THE  MANORS  OF  BREMHILL, 

STANLEY,  BROMHAM  BATTLE,  AND  CLENCH, 

A.D.  1566. 

We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Coleman,  of  Tottenham,  for  per- 
mission to  print  another  document  relating  to  the  above 
property  of  the  Baynton  family  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth. 

The  several  manors  included  in  the  present  deed,  had,  on 
the  dissolution  of  Monasteries,  come  successively  by  grant 
from  the  Crown  into  the  hands  of  Sir  Edward  Baynton,  as 
previously  mentioned  p.  131-133.  Stanley,  with  the  site  and 
principal  part  of  the  Abbey  estate,  in  1536 — Bromham  Battle, 
and  Clench,  part  of  the  possessions  of  Battle  Abbey,  co. 


1  Son  of  Sir  Anthony  (of  the  Down  Ampney  Branch  of  Hungerford),  who 
settled  at  Black  Bourton,  by  a  second  marriage,  and  half-brother  of  Sir 
Edward,  of  Corsham,  the  Parliamentary  Commander.  He  sat  for  Malmes- 
bury  in  the  Long  Parliament  until  disabled  in  1644,  when  he  was  heavily 
fined  for  delinquency,  though  he  had  not  borne  arms  for  the  king,  and 
thrown  into  the  Tower.  In  1648  his  estates  were  seized.  Cromwell  wrote 
him  a  sympathetic  letter  dated  30  July  1652,  which  was  formerly  in  the 
chapel  at  Farley  Castle  (see  Carlisle's  Cromwell,  p.  216).  The  next  year  he 
succeeded  to  Farley,  and  dying  in  1657,  was  buried  in  Black  Bourton  Churcb. 
His  widow,  Rachel,  was  a  Jones,  and  his  spendthrift  son,  Edward,  who 
sacrificed  a  noble  fortune  to  the  follies  and  vices  of  the  reign  of  the  second 
Charles,  sold  Farley  Castle,  which  had  been  for  three  centuries  the  residence 
of  the  Hungerfords,  in  1686. 


Manors  of  Bremhill,  Stanley,  Bromham  Battle,  &c.      175 

Sussex,  in  1538 — and  Bremhill,  which  had  belonged  to 
Malmesbury  Abbey,  in  I540.1 

Part  of  this  property,  as  we  learn  from  a  previous  deed 
(p.  134-137),  was  given  by  Sir  Edward,  the  grantee,  to  Andrew 
Baynton,  his  eldest  son  and  heir  apparent,  several  years  before 
his  death,  which  happened  in  1544-5. 

Andrew,  the  heir,  who  was  twice  married,  had  an  only 
daughter,  and  by  deed  3  Elizabeth  (1560)  entailed  his  land  2  on 
his  next  brother,  Edward,  to  whom,  on  Andrew's  death  in 
1564-5,  administration  of  his  goods,  etc.,  was  also  committed. 

The  present  deed  apparently  refers  to  this  transaction. 
It  is  a  general  release  from  Gabriel  Pleydell,  of  Monkton  (in 
Chippenham),  gent.,3  Oliver  Pleydell,  his  son  and  heir  apparent, 
and  William  Bayliffe,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  gent,  (probably 
as  trustees)  to  Edward  Baynton,  esq.  (afterwards  Sir  Edward, 
of  Rowden),  his  wife,  Agnes,4  and  their  heirs ;  of  the  manors 


1  Bremhill  afterwards   became  one  of  the  residences  of  the  Bayntons, 
some    of   whom   were   baptized  there.     In   a   deed  of   1677,   Sir   Edward 
Baynton  (the  builder  of  Spy  Park,  about  1661)  mentions  his  two  capital 
messuages,  or  mansion  houses,  of  Spy  Park  and  Bremhill. 

2  Andrew  Baynton,  during  his  early  ownership  of  Bremhill,  in   1555, 
endowed  the  chapel  at  Foxham,  in  that  parish,  with  two  houses,  Church 
house  and  Priest  house,  and  two  parcels  of  land  called  Chapel  Hay  and 
Butt  Hay. 

3  The   printed   Visitation   of   1565    gives    Gabriel   as    fourth    son    of 
William   Pleydell,  of  Coleshill,  gent.,    by  Agnes,  daughter  and    co-heir  of 
....  Reason,  of  Corfe  Castle,  co.  Dorset.     In  the  later  one  of  1623  is  a 
pedigree  of  Bayliffe,  including  the  marriage   of  William,  of  Monkton,  in 
Chippenham,  with    Agnes,    daughter  of  Gabriel  Pleydell,  of  Midghall,    in 
Lydiard  Tregoze.     Aubrey  gives  the  arms  of   BAYLIFFE,  impaling  PLEY- 
DELL  and   REASON  quarterly,   from   Chippenham    Church.     Aubrey   and 
Jackson,  PI.  vii,  No.  108.     In  1623  the  arms  of  Bayliffe  were  respited  for 
better  proof. 

4  This  lady  was  the  daughter  of  Sir  Griffith  ap  Rhys,  K.B.,  of  Carew 
Castle,  co.  Pembroke,  by  Katherine,  daughter  of  Sir  John  St.  John,  and  aunt 
to  the  first  Lord  St.  John  of  Bletshoe.  Before  her  marriage  with  Sir  Edward 
Baynton,  she  claimed  to  have  been  previously  married  at  Stourton  Chapel, 
6  Jan.  1545-6,  to  William,  sixth  Baron  Stourton,  by  whom  she  had  a  daughter 
Mary,  who  married,  1st,  Richard  Gore,  esq.,  of  Alderton,  and  2nd,  George 
Wroughton,  esq.  She  died  in  1620,  and  was  buried  at  Alderton.  The 


176  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

of  Bremhill,  Stanley,  Bromham  Battle,  and  Clench,1  "late  the 
possessions  or  inheritance  of  one  Andrew  Baynton,  esq., 
deceased,  brother  of  the  said  Edward."  It  is  dated  13  June 
1566,  but  was  not  executed  until  the  19  July  following.2 

"  To  ALL  X'PEN  people  to  whome  this  p'sente  wrytinge  shall  come 
Gabryell  Pledall  ot  Mouncketon  in  the  countye  of  Wiltes  gent.,  Olyver 
Pledall  of  the  same  towne  and  countie  gent,  sonne  and  heir  apparante 
of  the  saide  Gabryell,  and  Will'm  Baylyff  of  the  Myddle  Temple  in 
London  gent,  sendeth  greetinge  in  or  Lorde  God  eu'lastinge.  KNOWE 
YOU  vs  the  aforesaide  Gabryell  Olyu'  and  Will'm  for  diu's  and  sundrye 
good  causes  and  considerac'ons  vs  specyallie  movinge  to  haue  remysed 
released  and  allwayes  for  vs  and  eu'y  of  vs  and  for  o'r  heires  and  for  the 
heires  of  eu'y  of  vs  to  have  quyte  clamyd  and  by  theis  p'sents  we  and 
eu'y  of  vs  doe  remise  release  and  quyte  clayme  tor  vs  and  for  o'r  heires 
and  lor  the  heires  of  eu'y  of  vs  vnto  Edwarde  Baynton  esquyer  and 
Agnes  his  wiffe  in  theire  full  and  peaseable  possession  beynge  and  to 
th'eires  and  assignes  of  the  saide  Edwarde  for  ever  all  o'r  righte,  tytle, 
clayme  interest  and  demaunde,  and  the  righte,  tytle,  clayme,  interest 
and  demaunde  that  we  eu'y  or  any  of  vs  or  o'r  heires  or  th'eires  of  eu'y 
or  of  any  of  vs  at  any  tyme  haue  had,  haue,  or  by  an  meanes  maye  haue 
of  in  and  to  the  Manno'rs  of  Bremell  al's  Bremelhill,  Staneley,  Bromeh'an 
al's  Bromeham  Battell,  and  Clench  in  the  saide  countye  of  Wiltes  and  of 
in  and  to  all  messuages  lands  tenements  rents  reu'cons  s'vices  medowes 
fedings  pastures  woods  and  all  other  heredytaments  whatsoeu'  with  all 
and  singler  theire  app'ten'nc's  to  the  same  Manno'rs  of  Bremell  al's 
Bremelhill,  Staneley,  Bromeham  als  Bromeham  Battell,  and  Clenche, 
and  to  eu'y  or  any  of  theym  belonginge  or  app'teyninge  And  also  of  in 
and  to  all  other  messuages  lands  tenements  rents  reu'cons  s'vic's 
medows  fedings  pastures  woods  and  all  other  heredytaments  whatsoeu' 
with  all  and  singler  theire  app'ten'nc's  Scytuat  lyinge  or  beinge  in 
Bremell  al's  Bremelhill,  Staneley,  Bromeham  al's  Bromeham  Battell,  and 
Clenche,  or  in  any  of  theym,  or  ells  where  within  the  saide  countye  of 
Wiltes  which  late  were  the  possessions  or  inherytaunce  of  one  Andrewe 

brass  effigies  of  Sir  Edward  Baynton  and  Agnes  [Ryce]  his  first  wife  (by 
whom  he  had  no  less  than  thirteen  children)  still  remain  in  Bromham 
Church. 

1  It  will  be  noticed  that  the  advowson  of  the  Church  of  Bromham, 
part  of  the    Battle    Abbey  property,    and  included   with   the    manors    of 
Bromham  Battle  and  Clench  in  the  former  deed   (p.  134-137),   does  not 
appear  here. 

2  Of  the  witnesses,  the  names  of  John  Somner,  and  William  Wilkins 
appear  soon  afterwards   as   clothiers  in   Seend.     Richard  Mompesson  was 
party  to  a  later  deed  of  1579  relating  to  Bromham  Battle  and  Clench  (see 
p.    136).      Ryce    ffloyde    and    Walter    Jenkins    were,    like    Sir    Edward 
Baynton's  wife,  Agnes  [Ryce],  apparently  of  Welsh  origin. 


Manors  of  Bremhill,  Stanley,  Brornham  Battle,  &>c.       177 

Bayneton  esquier  decessid  brother  of  the  .said  Edwarde,  Soe  that  neyther 
we  the  saide  Gabryell,  Olyu',  and  Will'm,  nor  any  of  vs,  nor  o'r  heires, 
nor  th'eires  of  any  of  vs,  nor  any  other  p'sonne  or  p'sonnes  by  or  for  vs, 
or  in  o'r  names,  or  by  for  or  in  the  name  of  any  of  vs,  any  righte,  tytle, 
clayme,  intereste  or  demaunde,  of  in  or  to  the  foresaide  manno'rs,  or  any 
of  theym,  or  of  in  or  to  the  said  p'misses  with  th'app'ten'nc's,  or  of  in  or 
to  any  p'te  or  p'cele  of  the  same  p'misses  with  th'app'ten'nc's,  at  anytime 
hereaffter  doe  or  maye  clayme  or  challenge,  but  that  we  and  eu'y  of  vs 
and  o'r  heires  and  the  heires  of  eu'y  of  vs  be  from  hencefourth  of  the 
saide  Manners  and  of  all  other  the  p'misses  with  th'app'ten'nc's  and 
of  eu'y  p'te  and  p'cell  thereof,  and  of  all  ac'cons  righte  tytle  clayme 
interest  and  demaunde  thereof  and  of  eu'y  p'te  and  p'cell  thereof  vtterlye 
excluded  for  ever  by  theise  p'sents  fftirthermore  knowe  yo'u  vsthe  afore- 
saide  Gabryell  Olyu'  and  Will'm  and  eu'y  of  vs  to  have  remised  released 
quyte  claymed  vnto  the  said  Edwarde  Baynton  and  Agnes  his  wiffe  and 
to  either  of  theym  and  to  theire  heires  and  executo'rs,  and  to  the  heires 
and  executo'rs  ot  either  of  theym,  all  and  all  maun'  of  ac'cons  sut's 
quarrells  debts  trespaces  execuc'ons  and  demaunds  whatsoeu'  that  we  or 
any  of  vs  haue  had,  haue,  or  by  any  meanes  whatsoeu'  may  haue, 
againsste  them  the  saide  Edwarde  and  Agnes,  or  any  ot  theym,  eyther 
as  executo'rs  or  administrators  to  any  other  p'sonne  or  p'sonnes,  or 
otherwise  from  the  begyn'inge  of  the  worlde  vntill  the  makinge,  sealinge 
and  delyu'y  hereof.  En  SSSttness  whereof  we  the  saide  Gabryell  Olyver 
and  Willm  to  this  p'sente  dede  haue  sett  o'r  hands  and  seales.  Yeven 
the  xiijth  daye  of  June  in  the  nynthe  yere  ot  the  raigne  of  o'r  Sou'aigne 
Lady  Elizabeth  by  the  grace  of  God  Quene  of  Englande  ffraunce  and 
Irelande  defendo'r  of  the  iaith  &c." 

Signed, 


The  seal  of  William  Bayliffe  bears  a  Chevron  between  three  hearts, 
differenced  by  a  label  of  three  points. 

N 


178  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Endorsed — "A  gen'all  release  from  Gab'  Pledell,  Olliver  Pledell, 
and  Wm  Bailiff." 

"  Memorand'  that  this  Dede  of  Release  was  sealed  and  signed  and 
Delyu'ed  the  xixth  Day  of  July  in  the  yeare  w'th  in  written.  In  the 
p'sence  of  John  Gyldon,  John  Somner,  Richard  Mompesson,  Thomas 
Wyld,  Wyll'm  Wylkins,  Ryce  ffloydde,  Walter  Jeinkeins,  and  John 
Sessyons  w'th  other. 

"p'me  Thoma'  Wyld  Cl'icum." 


MOZLEY'S  REMINISCENCES. 


When  I  first  read  the  two  delightful  volumes  of  Mozley's 
Reminiscences  of  Towns  and  Villages,  I  was  particularly  struck 
with  the  following  paragraph  in  chapter  109  of  that  work : — 

"  Four  years  ago  there  came  out  Clerical  Reminiscences  by 
"  Senex",  with  a  chapter  headed  "Wiltshire".  It  is  a  lively  and  amusing 
work,  and  it  was  appreciated  by  the  public,  at  least  by  the  newspapers 
and  their  readers.  The  chapter  and  name  seemed  to  have  a  particular 
attraction  for  them.  It  is  short ;  and  it  pictures,  as  in  a  most  amazing 
state  of  neglect,  "a  pleasant  town  on  the  Wiltshire  downs,  with  its 
Mayor  and  Corporation,  its  market-place,  its  town-hall,  its  four  thousand 
inhabitants,  and  its  rectory  and  vicarage".  It  then  relates  how  the 
writer  gathered  a  congregation,  restored  harmony,  built  a  vicarage,  and 
paid  for  it,  all  in  two  years,  only  leaving  when  called  to  a  much  more 
important  charge,  as  well  as  one  lie  could  live  on,  in  the  north.  After 
long  trying  everybody's  patience  to  the  uttermost,  the  author's  pre- 
decessor had  chiselled  out  from  a  new  gravestone  the  words  "  Prepare 
to  meet  thy  God";  for  he  would  have  no  Methodism  in  his  Churchyard. 
The  Bishop  had  ordered  him  to  replace  the  words,  and  rather  than 
do  this  he  had  thrown  up  the  living.  The  description  reads  very  like 
Devizes,  where  in  my  time  were  some  great  lights  of  the  Unitarian 
community,  and,  on  the  other  hand,  two  very  remarkable  churches  in 
very  different  styles  of  architecture.  It  is  altogether  a  mixed  and  border 
place,  and  it  seemed  to  me  scarcely  fair  to  present  it  as  a  sample  of 
Wiltshire." 

Devizes  being  my  native  town,  I  was  well  acquainted  with 
its  history  during  the  present  century,  and  felt  quite  sure  that 
Mr.  Mozley's  conjecture  had  no  basis  in  fact;  but  it  was  not 
until  I  applied  for  the  Reminiscences  of  "  Senex  "  at  the  Reading 


Dugdale  of  Seend. 


Room  of  the  British  Museum  the  other  day  that  I  was  able  to 
correct  the  error.  I  found  in  the  Catalogue  that  "Senex"  was  a 
pseudonym  adopted  by  the  Rev.  Josiah  Bateman,  his  volume 
being  published  in  1880.  The  book  itself  added  little  of  any 
local  interest  to  the  particulars  mentioned  by  Mr.  Mozley,  but 
on  my  return  home  I  consulted  Foster's  Index  Ecclesiasticus 
(1800-40)  and  found  that  the  Rev.  Josiah  Bateman,  M.A.,  was 
on  nth  September  1838  instituted  to  the  living  and  vicarage 
of  S.  Mary's,  Marlborough.  What  was  the  name  of  his  prede- 
cessor I  do  not  know,  as  I  am  not  aware  of  any  published  list 
of  Marlborough  incumbents  during  the  present  century,  but  I 
am  pleased  to  be  able  to  shift  the  onus  of  Mr.  Mozley's  con- 
demnation from  Devizes  to  Marlborough.  Litera  scripta 
manet,  and  it  is  well  that  an  erroneous  suggestion  in  a  popular 
book  should  be  publicly  and  permanently  corrected. 

CECIL  SIMPSON. 


DUGDALE    OF    SEEND. 

(Continued  from  p.  129.^) 


WILL    OF    CHRISTOPHER    DUGDALE,    1606. 
(Register  f.  120,  Dorset). 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen.  The  fyrst  day  of  Marche  Anno  Domini 
one  thousand  six  hundred  and  six,  I  Christopher  Dugdale  parsonne  ot 
Pollesholte  in  the  Dioces  of  Sarum  beinge  of  good  and  perfect  memorie, 
praised  be  God,  doe  make  and  ordaine  this  my  last  will  and  Testament 
in  manner  and  fourme  followinge.  Firste  and  before  all  thinges  I  most 
hartelie  commend  my  soule  into  the  handes  of  allmightie  god  hopinge 
to  be  saved  by  his  free  grace  and  mercie  through  the  merrittes  of  his 
sonne  my  Saviour  Christe  Jhesus.  As  concerninge  my  bodie  my  will  is 
that  it  be  buried  in  semely  sorte  in  the  Chauncell  of  the  Churche  of  the 
parrishe  of  Pollesholte  aforesaide.  And  my  worldlie  goods  I  give  and 
bequeathe  as  followethe.  First  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  the  poore 

N  2 


180  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


people  of  the  parrishe  ot  Pollesholte  to  be  distributed  according  to  the 
discreation  of  my  Executor  twentie  shillinges  ot  current  Englishe  money. 
Item,  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  my  sonne  Christopher  Dugdale  my  goulde 
ringe  vvayinge  one  ounce.  All  my  bookes  savinge  such  bookes  as  I  shall 
dispose  of  in  this  my  last  will.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  my  said 
sonne  Christopher  my  best  cloak  faced  with  vellett,  my  grograine 
cassocke,  my  square  table  in  my  studie,  one  round  chaire  stoole  of  oak, 
my  cubborde  of  boxes,  my  best  deske,  my  box  tor  bands  and  my  standing 
bedsteede  wherein  I  lie.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  my  sonne 
Thomas  Dugdale  all  the  implementes  of  howsholde  stuff  and  bedsteedes 
tables,  formes,  cubbordes,  stooles,  cubbordes,  timber  or  whatsoever  in  or 
about  my  house  at  Senerowe.  And  my  will  is  that  my  wile  Bridgett 
Dugdale  shall  have  the  use  of  the  same  howshold  stuffe  and  goodes 
duringe  the  tyme  that  she  shall  continewe  and  dwell  in  the  said  house. 
Item,  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  him  all  Byshopp  Jewelles  his  workes  in 
one  volume,  the  poore  mans  librarie,  one  booke  of  statutes  collected  by 
Pulton,  one  muskett  furnished,  my  best  gunne  and  all  my  armor  that 
belongeth  to  a  Petronell.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  my  sonne 
Robert  Dugdaile  fower  kine  to  be  delivered  unto  him  at  his  age  of  one 
and  twentie  yeares  to  stocke  his  coppie  houlde  at  Cheverell.  And  my 
will  is  that  the  yearlie  Rente  of  the  said  Coppie  houlde  shall  dischardge 
the  fyftie  poundes  due  to  the  Almeshouse  tor  theire  Fyne.  Item,  I  give 
and  bequeath  to  him  Calvine  his  institutions  in  Englishe,  his  commen- 
taries vppon  the  psalmes,  heminge  postle  in  Englishe,  one  booke  of 
Statutes  by  Rastell,  my  Rapier,  my  bowes  and  arrowes,  my  second  deske 
and  my  chaire  of  Apletree.  Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  sonne 
William  Dugdaile  twentie  poundes  of  lawful  Englishe  monie,  one  bed 
furnished  with  bedsteed  as  it  standeth  in  the  Chamber  over  the  butterie, 
one  bible  in  Englishe,  Peter  Martir  his  comon  places  in  Englishe,  and 
Doctor  Reynoldes  his  conterence  with  Harte.  I  give  and  bequeath  to 
my  daughter  Thomasine  Dugdale  twentie  poundes  ot  curraunt  monie  of 
Englande,  one  silver  salte  gilte,  six  silver  spoones,  my  second  basonne  and 
Ewer,  my  second  great  chardger,  one  teatherbed  furnished  with  boulster 
pillowes,  pillowe  beers,  sheetes,  coverlett  and  blanckettes,  one  standinge 
bedsteede,  Luther  vppon  the  Galathe,  and  Becons  postell,  and  Heminge 
his  postell  in  Englishe.  Item  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  Bridgett  Geerish 
one  heifer  of  three  yeares  olde.  And  my  will  intente  and  meaninge  is 
that  the  said  leagacies  beiore  bequeathed  shalbe  delivered  and  paide 
to  my  said  children  when  they  shall  come  to  the  age  of  twentie 
and  one  yeares  or  daie  of  theire  marriage  which  shall  firste  happen.  And 
my  will  is  that  my  wife  Bridgett  Dugdale  shall  have  the  vse  of  the 
legacies  before  bequeathed  in  the  meane  time  Provided  allwaies  and  my 
will  is  that  yt  auie  of  my  said  children  shall  happen  to  decease  before  they 
or  anie  of  them  shall  accomplishe  the  age  of  twentie  and  one  yeares  or 
daie  of  theire  marriage,  that  then  the  leagacies  of  them  soe  deceased 
shall  remaine  wholly  to  my  children  then  livinge  and  to  the  survivors  of 
them  equallie  to  be  divided.  All  the  rest  of  my  goods  andchatell  move- 
able  and  vnmoveable  whatsoever  not  bequeathed,  my  debts  paide  and 


Monument  on  Etchilhampton  Hill. 


funerall  expenses  discharged,  I  give  and  bequeathe  to  my  lovinge  wife 
Bridgett  Dugdaile  whome  I  do  make  and  ordaine  my  sole  executrix  of 
this  my  laste  wille  and  testament.  Lastly  I  desier  my  well  beloved 
frendes  Mr.  William  Goodier  and  my  sonne  William  Geerishe  to  assiste 
and  helpe  my  said  executrix  in  the  execution  of  the  premises.  To  everie 
of  them  as  a  token  of  my  love  I  give  tenne  shillinges  a  peece.  In  witnes 
whereof  I  have  subscribed  my  name  and  sette  my  scale  By  me  Chris- 
topher Dugdaile. 

Proved  at  London  8th  September,  A.D.  1609,  and  the  administration 
granted  to  Bridgett,  relict  of  the  deceased. 


THE  MONUMENT   ON   ETCHILHAMPTON   HILL, 
NEAR   DEVIZES. 


The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  circular  issued  in  1771,  inviting 
subscriptions  towards  the  cost  of  the  erection. 

Devizes,  May  9th,  1771, 

"ADVERTISEMENT. 

"  Last  year  a  Subscription  was  opened  for  raising  a  Sum  of  Money 
to  erect  an  Obelise  or  other  Edifice,  in  memory  of  JAMES  LONG,  late  of 
Wedhampton,  Esq.,  for  his  unwearied  assiduity  in  planning,  promoting, 
and  completing  the  NEW  ROAD  between  Nursteed  and  Lydeway, 
whereby  the  iormer  disagreeable,  tedious,  and  dangerous  way  over 
Itchelhampton  Hill,  is  not  only  avoided,  but  the  length  much  contracted, 
which  renders  it  advantageous  as  well  as  agreeable  to  every  Traveller. 

"  The  great  Benefit  accruing  to  those  whose  Waggons,  or  other 
Carriages  pass  this  Road,  is  so  obvious,  that  all  who  remember  the 
former,  must  acknowledge  it;  therefore  as  the  Subscriptions  fall  greatly 
short  of  a  Sufficiency  to  erect  as  handsome  a  Structure  as  was  first  agreed 
to,  and  concluded  upon,  'tis  hoped  many  more  will  be  speedily  added 
without  turther  Solicitations,  as  it  is  for  public  as  well  as  private  Emolu- 
ment ;  and  that  those  who  have  already  subscribed  will  condescend  to 
weigh  properly  the  great  Advantage  they  continually  receive  from  the 
said  Road,  and  be  pleased  to  advance  their  Subscriptions  in  Proportion 
to  the  Building,  which  is  in  great  Forwardness,  and  will  be  entirely  com- 
pleted by  Midsummer  next. 


1 82  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

"The  Expence  at  a  modern  Calculation  (exclusive  of  Iron  Pallisa- 
does  for  Defence)  will  be  about  forty  Guineas,  and  there  are  not  twenty 
Pounds  subscribed. 

"  Subscriptions  continue  to  be  taken  in  by  T.  BURROUGH,  Goldsmith 
in  Devizes  ;  to  whom  those  who  have  not  paid  their  Donations  are 
requested  to  pay  them,  on,  or  before  the  ist  ot  next  June. 

"N.B. — The  above  Monument  is  to  be  erected  near  the  Direction-Post 
leading  to  Itchelhampton ,  which  is  about  the  Middle  of  the 
said  New  Road,  and  on  the  greatest  Eminence." 

The  "  Iron  Pallisadoes  "  do  not  seem  to  have  been  erected, 
probably  for  lack  of  funds.  From  the  Crest  which  crowns  the 
Monument  Mr.  James  Long  appears  to  have  been  a  member  of 
the  ancient  Wiltshire  family  of  that  name.  To  which  branch 
did  he  belong  ? 


HUNGERFORD  YORK  BREVIARY. 


The  following  interesting  Manuscript  has  appeared  in  the 
late  Mr.  Quaritch's  most  recent  Catalogue ;  his  representative 
says  that  he  does  not  know  to  whom  it  formerly  belonged,  and 
gives  there  particulars  as  to  the  Arms  mentioned  below  : — 
Shield  No.  i,  on  the  verso  of  leaf  42,  is  Sable,  two  bars  argent, 
in  chief  three  plates,  HUNGERFORD;  Shield  No.  2,  on  the 
verso  of  leaf  119,  is  Or,  two  bars  engrailed  gules,  in  chief  three 
torteaux,  MOELS,  [the  bars  are  generally  blasoned  plain], 
and  are  the  work  of  the  original  calligrapher,  about  1390. 
On  the  margin  of  one  of  the  leaves  elsewhere,  an  i8th  century 
hand  (about  1740)  has  redrawn  the  shield  with  two  trees  for 
supporters  and  added  the  words,  "  The  arms  of  Sir  George 

Hungerford,  Bart,  of  Farley  Castle sable,  two  bars 

argent,  in  chief  three  plates."  The  size  of  the  original  shields 
is  somewhat  smaller  than  that  of  these  accompanying  illustra- 
tions. Perhaps  some  of  our  readers  can  tell  us  something  of 
the  history  and  pedigree  of  this  valuable  book,  which  is  priced 


Hungerford  York  Breviary.  183 

at  ^40.     Who  was  James  Hungerford  ?     Who  was  William 

de  Areton  ? 

BREVIARIUM  MONASTICUM  AD  USUM  EBORACENSEM. 
MS.  on  vellum,  152  leaves  in  double  columns  with 
painted  capitals,  illuminated  initials,  and  grotesque 
in  the  figures  ornamental  pen  and  ink  borders;  old  red 
morocco.  About  1390. 


The  service  from  Advent  to  the  24th  Sunday  of  Quad- 
ragesima occupies  the  first  61  leaves.  Leaves  62,  63,  64 
contain  the  Calendar.  Next  begins  the  Psalter,  which  ends 
with  the  Litany  on  leaf  98.  Next  follows  the  Sanctorale  and 
Supplement,  leaves  99-152.  Although  this  is  a  York  book, 
with  all  the  special  indications  of  that  use  (the  Offices  of 
Wilfrid  and  William,  and  their  names  in  the  Calendar  and 
the  Litany),  there  are  two  coats  of  arms  in  the  marginal 
borders  which  show  that  the  volume  belonged  about  1390-1400 
to  a  member  of  the  great  Wiltshire  house  of  Hungerford.  At 
the  end  of  the  Psalter  there  is  an  inscription  which  says  :  "  Do 
Jacobo  Hungerforde  meum  amictum  si  contingat  eum  presby- 
terari,  aliter  erit  liber  domini  Willelmi  de  Areton.  Sic  quod 
non  vendatur  sed  transeat  inter  cognatos  meos.  Si  fuerint 
aliqui  inventi,  sin  autem  ab  uno  presbytero  ad  alium."  This  is 
quite  clear,  in  spite  of  its  rusty  Latin  and  its  confusion  between 
"amictus"  and  "liber".  This  was  written  about  1480. 


184  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Queries* 


Ballard  of  Bratton. — The  Frowd  pedigree  states  that 
Anne  Frowd  (born  at  Rolston  in  1 703)  married  John  Aldridge 
Ballard  of  Bratton,  son  of  John  Ballard.  Ten  shillings  reward 
is  offered  to  the  first  person  who  will  give  the  date  and  parish 
of  John  Aldridge  Ballard's  birth  and  marriage  respectively. 
Before  her  marriage,  Anne  Frowd  is  stated  to  have  lived  at 

Erlestoke  and  Devizes  successively. 

A  STUDENT. 


Jouillin. — Mr.  F.  Harrison  asks  in  London  Notes  and 
Queries  whether  this  name  occurs  elsewhere  than  in  the 
register  of  marriages  at  South  Wraxall,  where,  26  Feb.  1749, 
Joseph  Brokenbrow  is  married  to  Hannah  Jouillin. 

EDITOR. 


French  in  Westbury,  A.D.  1246  (vol.  ii,  pp.  278-9).— 
In  the  Charter  of  Geoffrey  de  Mandeville  to  John,  son  of 
Roscelin  de  Bratton,  the  following  language  occurs  : — "  To  all 
the  men  of  Westbury,  as  well  French  as  English."  Is  it  to  be 
inferred  that  the  Hundred  "of  Westbury  at  that  date  (1246) 
contained  a  colony  of  natives  of  France,  or  Normandy  ?  Or 
was  the  designation  "  French"  applied  in  that  day  to  people 
who  were  not  natives  of  France,  but  merely  descended  from 
those  Normans  who  followed  William  the  Conqueror  to 
England,  or  formed  part  of  that  Norman  migration  which 
must  have  continued  in  a  large  volume  for  a  considerable 
period  after  the  conquest  ? 

2.  Is  it  definitely  known,  or  can  antiquaries  plausibly 
conjecture,  when  the  French  or  Norman  colony  was  estab- 


Books  by  Wiltshire  Authors.  185 

lished  at  Westbury,  or  in  the  places  adjacent  to,  or  within  the 
Hundred,  Dulton,  Bratton,  &c.  ? 

3.  Does  Domesday  Book,  A.D.  1086,  give  the  names  of 
inhabitants  or  landholders  at  Westbury  at  the  date  of  its 
compilation?  A.  W.  SAVARY, 

Author  of  Savory  Genealogy. 
Annapolis  Royal,  Nova  Scotia. 


Books  by  Wiltshire  Authors. — In  1752  was  published 
a  work  entitled  The  Wiltshire  New  Phenomenon,  or  the  Free- 
thinking  Christian  Philosopher,  being  the  philosophical  essays 
of  Mr.  Charles  White,  hostler  at  the  King's  Arms,  Sarum,  on 
the  following  subjects: — i.  The  Being  and  Attributes  of  God. 
2.  Accidents  and  Comets.  3.  The  Resurrection  of  the  Body. 

Is  anything  further  known  either  of  this  book  or  its 
author.  There  is  no  copy  in  the  British  Museum. 

SCRIBA. 


Hock-tide. — In  a  recent  account  of  these  festivities  at 
Hungerford,  mention  is  made  of  "  John  of  Gaunt's  horn," 
What  is  this  ?  C.  V.  G. 

[Hock-tide  and  Tuttimen  are  explained  in  our  ist  Vol. — ED.] 


Nicholas  of  Roundway  &  Manningford. — There  is,  in 
the  British  Museum,  a  parchment  copy  of  a  post-nuptial 
settlement  made  by  Edward  Nicholas  of  Manningford  Bruce, 
on  6th  May  1687,  in  anticipation  of  his  then  intended  marriage 
with  Susannah,  the  widow  of  William  Salter.  This  settle- 
ment appears  to  have  come  into  the  hands  of  Robert  Nicholas, 
of  Ashton  Keynes,  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Excise,  who 
wrote  on  the  back  of  it : — "  Extremely  curious  and  worth 
"  preserving  as  a  family  paper — and  the  more  so  as  the 
"  estate  went  away  from  the  Nicholas's  by  marriage  of  the 


1 86  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

"daughter  Mr.  Nicholas  had  so  long  forborne  to  acknow- 
"  ledge,  and  whose  descendant  married  Sir  William  Desse, 
"  knight,  who  was  first  a  Dancing  Master  and  then  a  Banker, 
"  afterwards  a  Bankrupt,  and  is  now  a  Pauper  in  London. 
"  Mr.  P.  Sutton,  clothier  of  the  Devizes,  purchased  the 
"estate.  "Rx.  NICHOLAS, 

"3  January,  1785." 

This  information  is  so  curious  and  interesting  that  I 
should  be  glad  to  know  more  as  to  this  daughter  and  her 
husband.  I  see  in  Price's  Directory  of  London  Bankers  that 
Desse  was  a  Banker  in  1774,  but  nothing  more  is  added. 
The  documents,  of  which  the  above  forms  part,  were  given 
to  the  British  Museum  by  Admiral  Collier,  who,  I  believe, 
married  the  only  daughter  of  Robert  Nicholas. 

C.  SIMPSON. 

[According  to  a  pedigree  of  "  Collier "  in  Miscell.  Gen.  et 
Her.,  New  Series,  iii,  p.  1 29,  the  late  Admiral  married  Harriet,  4th 
dau.  of  Robert  Nicholas,  of  Ashton  Keynes  ;  she  died  in  1850, 
and  was  buried  at  Hove,  near  Brighton  ;  her  husband  died  in 
1870. — Eo.J 


The   Missing  Register  of  Addison's  Baptism,  Where 

is  it? — (vol.  iii,  pp.  42,  43,  140.)  "Joseph  Addison,  born 
on  the  first  day  of  May,  1672,  at  Milston,  of  which  his  father, 
Lancelot  Addison,  was  then  Rector,  near  Ambrosbury  in  Wilt- 
shire, and  appearing  weak  and  not  likely  to  live  he  was 
christened  the  same  day." — Dr.  Johnson,  Lives  of  the  Poets, 
p.  73,  vol.  xxx,  1799. 

I  should  like  to  place  on  record  in  your  pages  my  recollec- 
tion of  a  statement  made  by  the  Rev.  Richard  Webb,  M.A., 
Rector  of  Milston  and  Incumbent  of  Durrington,  respecting 


The  Missing  Register  of  Addisoris  Baptism.  187 

the  loss  of  the  entry  of  Addison's  birth  and  baptism,  i  May, 
1762,  from  the  Milston  Registers,  on  Tuesday,  n  Nov.,  1852, 
to  Prebendary  Tufnell  (afterwards  Bishop  of  Brisbane),  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Caswell  and  myself.  We  had  assisted  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  S.P.G.  at  Durrington.  After  the  meeting  we 
returned  to  the  Parsonage,  where,  no  one  else  being  present, 
Mr.  Webb  stated  that  "  on  becoming  Rector  of  Milston  he  had 
removed  the  Milston  Registers  for  greater  security  to  his 
house  at  Durrington.  Not  long  before  he  had  received  a  visit 
irom  a  person  whom  he  had  never  seen,  but  whose  card 
showed  him  to  be  of  rank  and  position,  and  worthy  of  all 
respect  and  honour.  He  explained  that  the  object  of  his  visit 
was  to  see  the  Addison  entry  in  the  Milston  Register.  Mr. 
Webb  immediately  fetched  the  register  book  and  showed  it  to 
him.  He  was  pleased  and  grateful,  and  he  then  requested  the 
Rector's  permission  to  make  a  copy  of  it,  and,  as  he  was 
particular  about  it,  he  wished  to  be  left  alone  while  he  made  it. 
Mr.  Webb  gave  him  writing  materials  and  left  the  room.  On 
his  return  he  found  the  visitor  sitting  at  the  table  with  his 
hands  resting  on  the  closed  register  book  before  him.  He 
immediately  rose,  returned  the  book,  closed,  to  Mr.  Webb, 
with  many  thanks  for  his  kindness  and  courtesy,  and  took  his 
leave.  Mr.  Webb,  without  looking  into  it,  put  the  book  back 
into  its  place.  Not  long  afterwards  he  had  occasion  to  refer  to 
the  same  Register,  and  he  found  to  his  horror  that  the  leaf 
containing  the  Addison  entry  had  been  cut  out  and  stolen, 
and  the  only  person  who  could  have  done  it  was  his  late 
visitor.  No  other  person  had  access  to  the  book  which  was 
kept  by  the  Rector  under  lock  and  key."  Mr.  Webb  made  his 
statement  with  much  emotion.  We  expressed  our  very  hearty 
sympathy  with  him,  and  the  incident  terminated.  My  diary 
shows  that  I  slept  at  Durrington  that  night,  and  probably 
Bishop  Tufnell  did  so  also.  I  have  no  recollection  of  ever 
discussing  the  subject  with  him,  but  some  years  afterwards 
Dr.  Caswell  mentioned  the  circumstance  to  me,  and  expressed 
his  admiration  of  the  tact  with  which  Mr.  Webb  had  made  his 


1 88  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

statement,  without  giving  the  slightest  hint  by  which  we  might 
identify  the  abstractor.  They  are  at  rest.  The  Rev.  Henry 
Fowler  (St.  Albans,  Herts)  had  lately  been  ordained  Deacon, 
as  curate  of  Milston.  He  was  not  at  the  Durrington  S.P.G. 
meeting,  and  Mr.  Webb  never  mentioned  the  Addison  entry  to 
him,  nor  had  he  seen  the  old  Registers.  In  fact,  the  incident 
was  suppressed  as  much  as  possible. 

The  Rev.  F.  A.  Radcliffe,  Rector  of  Milston,  in  a  letter  to 
me  of  5  July,  1899,  writes  :— 

"  As  regards  the  entry  of  Addison's  Baptism,  the  late  Mr.  Kendall 
assured  me  that  he  had  seen  it,  and  gave  me  very  much  the  same 
version  of  its  loss  as  that  of  Mr.  Webb.  The  extraordinary  thing, 
besides  stealing  the  entry,  is  that  the  person  who  did  so  tried  to  con- 
ceal his  theft  by  forging  a  declaration  as  follows : 

The  several  leaves  of  this  Register  were  cut  before  1  saw  the  book  ;  also 
the  other  Registers. 

J.  J.  TOOGOOD." 

"  The  signature  claiming  to  be  that  of  Dr.  Toogood  appears  to  me  to 
be  a  very  poor  imitation  of  Dr.  Toogood's  writing.  Ruddle  is  inclined 
to  think  that  there  were  two  copies  of  the  Register,  but  I  think  the 
declaration  was  forged  to  hide  the  theft." 

Exmouth.  FREDERICK  BENNETT. 

[On  p.  40  the  dates  1770  and  1778  should,  of  course,  be  1670 
and  1678. — ED.J 


Crundel  and  Tan-hill  (vol.  ii,  pp.  535-7). — This  place- 
name  has  been  supposed  to  be  derived  from  that  of  an  ancient 
owner  of  adjoining  land,  named  Anne,  by  the  late  Prebendary 
Jones,  in  his  history  of  the  Parish  of  All  Cannings  (quoted  in 
W.  N.  &  O.,  ii,  536). 

I  have  lately  received  valuable  information  on  this 
supposed  name  from  Mr.  W.  H.  Stevenson  (of  Exeter  Coll., 
Oxon),  pointing  out  that  the  word  Anne,  as  it  stands,  is  an  error 
of  the  scribe  of  the  document  (Cod.  Dip/.,  483,  referred  to  by 
Mr.  Jones). 

He  says  "  The  scribe  of  the  Wilton  Chartulary  copies 
" '  Anne '  for  the  accusative  singular  of  the  indefinite  article, 
"  and  '  Anan'  looks  like  some  comfusion,  and  may  therefore 
merely  mean  an  'A.'" 


Crundel  and  Tanhill.  189 

Thus  the  " Anne-Stan",  "Anne  Torn",  "Anne  Crundel" 
of  the  document  in  question,  would  only  mean  "a  stone", 
"a  thorn",  "a  crundel",  instead  of,  as  supposed,  an  owner's 
name. 

The  question  as  to  whether  St.  Ann  or  Tan  was  the  older 
name,  remains  unanswered. 

The  present  dedication  of  the  Church  of  All  Cannings  to 
St.  Anne  must  be  disregarded  in  considering  the  old  history  of 
the  locality,  for  the  idea  that  the  Church  was  so  dedicated  in 
the  past  is,  as  Mr.  Jones  says,  "  an  opinion  based  on  tradition 
"  and  by  no  means  proves  that  this  was  the  case  originally." 
In  Sir  Thos.  Phillipps'  Wilts  Institutions,  under  the  year  1492 
(the  institution  of  Richard  Warwyn),  we  meet  with  the  entry 
"  Ecclesia  Cannyngs  Omnium  Sanctorum",  i.e.,  Cannyngs  All 
Saints. 

The  neighbouring  parish  Church  of  Stanton  St.  Bernard 
is  also  dedicated  to  All  Saints,  and  there  the  name  of  an 
owner,  Berners  or  Barnes,  has  been  added  to  the  name  of 
the  parish  in  the  form  of  St.  Bernard,  a  fact  known  to  Miss 
Arnold  Forster,  who  classes  this  parish  under  Spurious 
Dedications  in  her  admirable  Studies  in  Church  Dedications,  just 

published  by  Skeffington,  1899. 

T.  S.  M. 


Parish  of  Shrewton  (vol.  iii,  p.  137). — The  yardland 
was  a  virgate,  usually  30  acres,  and  the  fourth  part  of  a 

hide. — "  On   the  stem"   was   by  day-work. 

C.  R.  S. 

The  ancient  division  of  arable  into  Yard-lands,  in  this 
part  of  Wilts,  of  about  20  acres,  still  existed  after  1800.  For 
example,  in  1809,  Maddington  Farm  (which  is  close  to  Shrew- 
ton)  was  in  the  auctioneer's  proposals  for  sale  described  as 
composed  of  these  Yard-lands. 

a.  r.    p.  a.  r.    p.  a.  r.  p.  a.  r.  p. 

1 1  =  31  2  33:     2  =  40  o  24:  2  =  40  i  36  :  2  =  39  o  30: 

i|  =  43  3     o:   \\  =  31   i     o  :  i  —  20  2  22  :   i  =  19  3  20 


1 90  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

No  doubt  there  were  here  and  there  pieces  of  land  which 
still  for  some  local  cause  retained  the  name  where  the  parish 
had,  under  some  enclosure  Act,  abolished  its  old  division.  In  a 
Terrier  of  North  Tedworth,  1783,  occurs  "a  short  head  land 
called  a  Yard.  But  in  that  parish  enclosure  does  not  seem  to 
have  been  then  made. 
"  On  the  Stem." 

At  a  meeting  of  "  The  Select  Vestry  for  the  care  and 
management  of  the  concerns  of  the  Poor"  of  the  parish  of 
Durrington,  under  the  old  Poor-law,  held  April  4th  1835, 
appear  the  names  of  1 1  "  Stem  or  Roundsmen  set  to  work  on 
Farms1'.  Nine  of  them  are  allotted  to  six  masters.  The 
remaining  two  were,  no  doubt,  to  go  round  where  required. 
It  is  added,  "These  men  are  to  be  paid  by  the  parish".  The 
stem  men  were  the  able-bodied  labourers,  who,  being  unable  to 
find  employment,  were  maintained  on  the  stem  of  the  parish  to 

which  they  belonged. 

C.  S.  RUDDLE. 


MISCELLANEA  GENEALOGICA  ET  HERALDICA.  Edited  by  JOSEPH 
JACKSON  HOWARD,  LL.D.,  F.S.A.,  Maltravers  Herald 
Extraordinary.  Third  Series,  Vols.  I,  II,  III.  1894-99. 
London  :  Mitchell  and  Hughes,  140,  Wardour  Street,  W. 

THE  above  quarterly  publication  having  frequently  been 
quoted  from  in  our  pages,  we  think  it  only  right  that  a  more 
detailed  notice  of  this  handsome  and  valuable  work  should  be 
laid  before  our  readers. 

It  has  had  an  almost  continuous  existence  since  1874, 
during  the  whole  of  which  period  Dr.  Howard  has  edited  it 
with  his  well  known  ability.  It  is  a  work  which  no  genealogist 
can  do  without,  being  certain  that  by  consulting  its  pages,  he 
will  be  able  to  fill  up  some  of  the  lacunce  in  his  collections. 


Notes  on  Books.  191 


Unlike  the  Genealogist,  it  has  no  learned  articles,  but  confines 
itself  to  printing  Registers,  Wills,  Charters,  Deeds,  Grants  of 
Arms,  Funeral  Certificates,  Pedigrees  from  various  Visita- 
tions and  elsewhere,  Monumental  Inscriptions,  entries  from 
Family  Bibles,  in  many  cases  accompanied  by  valuable  notes ; 
a  few  Notes  and  Queries  occur  in  each  number,  with  short 
Reviews  of  Books  that  treat  on  such  or  cognate  subjects.  It  is 
profusely  illustrated  with  arms,  bookplates,  (the  editor  has 
perhaps  the  largest  collection  in  the  world),  monuments,  auto- 
graphs, and,  above  all,  with  many  beautiful  facsimile  reproduc- 
tions in  colour  of  grants  of  arms,  charters,  etc.  Public  bodies  and 
private  individuals  could  do  worse  than  spend  a  few  pounds  in 
reproducing  some  of  their  valuable  documents  in  the  same  way, 
which  could  then  be  displayed  to  the  public,  without  risk  of 
loss  by  fire,  or  otherwise,  of  the  priceless  originals.  The 
exhaustive  indexes  are  a  pattern  to  all  index-makers. 

Amongst  Wiltshire  matter  are.  the  monumental  inscriptions 
of  Beechingstoke,  Harden,  Ditcheridge,  Great  Chaldfield  and 
Hewish;  in  the  pedigree  of  the  once  well  known  family  of 
Dunch,  of  Berks,  occurs  the  descent  of  Dunch,  of  Avebury, 
with  its  relations  to  our  county  families  of  Mervyn,  Modye, 
Button,  and  Lambert ;  in  one  of  Priaulx,  of  Hants,  we  find  a 
branch  settled  at  Salisbury  connected  with  Mompesson  and 
Bouverie,  one  of  whom,  Peter,  was  vicar  of  Melksham  in  1668, 
"  who  left  his  estate  of  Greenhurst  in  Surrey  to  William  Priaulx, 
of  London,  and  Peter  Priaulx,  of  Sarum,  who  sold  it  to  John 
Priaulx  before  1692"  ;John,  the  uncle  of  the  Vicar  of  Melksham, 
was  successively  Rector  of  Fovant,  Long  Newnton,  and 
Berwick  St.  John,  D.D.  1660,  Canon  and  Archdeacon  of  Sarum, 
where  he  was  buried  with  his  wife  (ob.  1695)  in  1674,  M.I. ;  in 
that  of  Barker,  of  Bucks  and  Berks,  kin  through  Danvers 
to  William  of  Wykeham,  by  Mr.  Cokayne,  Clarenceux,  we 
think  the  estoile  on  the  stone  in  Salisbury  Cathedral 
of  Mary  (Barker)  ob.  1665,  wife  of  Dr.  William  Hearst,  of 
Sarum,  should  be  a  sun  in  splendour,  and  that  Jane  Goddard, 
wife  of  Hugh  Barker,  should  be  described  as  of  East  Woodhay, 


192  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

instead  of  Woodbury.  The  same  writer  contributes  Skinners' 
Company  Apprenticeships,  in  which,  amongst  other  Wiltshire- 
men,  may  be  found  the  following  : 

1625,  William  Awbrey,  s.  of  William,  of  Chadenwick,  gent. 
1675,  John    Gary,   s.    of  Henry,   of  Maribrd,  haberdasher 

of  hats. 
1669,  Edward  Curie,  s.  of  John,  late  of  Buttermere,  gent., 

deceased. 
1684,  Rowland  Davenant,  s.  of  John,  late  of  New  Sarum, 

gent.,  deceased. 
1669,  William  Estcourt,  s.  of  Giles,   late  of  Newton,   knt. 

and  bart.,  deceased. 

1654,  Joseph  Forman,  s.  of  Henry,  of  Calne,  yeoman. 
1635,  Richard  Goddard,  s.  of  Edward,  late  of  Barwick,  Esq., 

deceased. 
1659,  William  Hyde,  s.  of  Edward,  late  of  Sarum,  clerk, 

deceased. 
1645,  Charles  P  ley  dell,  s.  of  Sir  Charles,   late  of  Mudge 

Hall,  knt. 
1621,  Edward  Smyth,1  s.  of  Henry,  late  of  Corsham,  Esq., 

deceased. 

We  find  also  the  Latin  will  of  John  Stokes,  of  Seend,  1498, 
who  has  a  brass  at  that  place,  as  also  that  of  another  John 
Stokes  of  the  same  village,  clothier,  1664,  with  one  of  Gilbert 
Garrard*  of  Shinfield,  1654  (Visitation  of  Berks,  1664-6),  who 
married  the  former's  daughter  Sybil  at  Seend  in  1616  ;  he  and 
his  brother  Richard  seem  to  have  resided  there  for  a  time,  as 
the  births  of  some  of  their  children  are  recorded  in  the 
Registers.  The  above  are  fair  samples  of  what  may  be  found 
in  this  invaluable  work  of  reference.  There  are  two  items  in 
the  Queries,  on  which  some  of  our  readers  may  be  able  to 
give  information : — on  the  family  of  James  Lvie,  Rector  of 
Tollard  Royal,  ob.  1710,  and  as  to  the  connexion,  if  any, 
between  Maton,  of  Milston,  and  Sir  Isaac  Newton. 

1  Ts  this  a  grandson  or  nephew  of  the  "  Customer." 

2  He  was  Exor.  to  the  will  of  William  Tipper,  the  Seend  benefactor. 


CNT    OF   THE 
iRASS    OF 
ICHB1SHOP 
•VFFORD    IN 
iNTERBURY 
VTHEDRAL. 


jHotes  auto  (Queries  > 


MARCH,    1900. 


STAFFORD  OF  SUTHWYKE  IN  NORTH  BRADLEY,   WILTS, 
AND  OF  HOKE,  DORSET. 


HE  following  Pedigree  of  Stafford  of  Suthwyke, 
and  Hoke  (hodie  Hook)  and  their  immediate  descen- 
dants, was  given  the  transcriber  about  ten  years 

f5r'       since,  when  he   was  investigating   the  subject,  by 

$&*  his  late  kind,  much-valued  friend,  and  unequalled 
authority  on  west-country  genealogy,  Mr.  B.  W.  Green- 
field, who  had  himself  written  comprehensively  thereon, 
clearing  up  several  obscure  points  that  had  remained  unex- 
plained. It  has  been  arranged  for  convenience  in  paragraph 
form,  the  details  and  dates  (with  the  exception  of  a  few 
additions)  being  given  verbatim.  Some  supplementary  notes 
have  been  added  where  such  seemed  desirable,  and  were  avail- 
able. 

PEDIGREE. 

I. — &iv  Qoljn  gjtrtfforJx,  Hint.,  of  Amelcote  and  Bromshull,  co. 
Stafford.  He  was  living  in  1361. 

He  married  first,  ®li?abetij,  second  daughter  of  SIR  PHILIP 
SOMERVILLE,  of  Whichnor,  co.  Stafford,  about  1340.  By  her  he  had  an 
only  child  Matilda,  born  29  Dec.  1340,  married  before  1355,  Edmund 
Vernon,  and  died  before  1379,  s.p.  Lady  Elizabeth  Stafford  died  before 

1355- 

O 


194  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries, 


Secondly,  he  married  gabij  jplarfjai-ct,  daughter  of  RALPH,  first 
EARL  OF  STAFFORD,  who  was  of  Amelcote  in  1374.  By  her  he  had  two 
sons,  Humphry  and  Ralph,  of  Grafton,  co.  Worcester,  from  whom  the 
Staffords  of  Blatherwick,  Tottenho,  Bradfield,  and  Malwood. 

II.  —  g*iv  4*)untpl)vt)  gtrtfforb,  f^ttt.,  senior,  of  Suthwyke  in  right 
of  his  first  wife,  and  of  Hoke,  Dorset,  in  right  of  his  second  wife, 
which  she  held  in  jointure  from  her  first  husband. 

He  married  first,  ^lice,  daughter  and  heir  of  JOHN  GREINVIL,  or 
GREYVYLE,  of  Suthwyke,  in  North  Bradley,  co.  Wilts.  She  was  aged 
nine  years  in  1353,  married  in  or  before  1365,  and  was  living  in  1377. 
John  Greiivvil  held  the  manor  of  Suthwyke,  and  patronage  of  the 
Chapel  of  St.  John  Baptist  in  North  Bradley,  manors  and  advowsons  of 
Farmburgh  and  Glutton,  co.  Somerset,  and  Burmington,  co.  Warwick. 
His  arms,  Argent,  six  lions  rampant  gules.  By  her  Sir  Humphry  had 
one  son,  Humphry,  his  heir. 

Secondly,  he  married  ©litabetij,  second  daughter  of  SIR  WILLIAM 
D'AUMARLE,  ot  Wodebury,  Devon  (ob.  1361),  and  was  co-heir  of  her 
brother  William  in  1362,  when  she  was  aged  seventeen  years.  Sir 
William  D'Aumarle  held  the  manors  of  Wodebury,  Devon,  Middle- 
Chynnock,  Somerset,  and  Alvredeston,  Isle  of  Wight  ;  and  in  1395,  this 
Elizabeth,  as  cousin  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  de  Meriet,  knt.  of  Meriet 
(with  her  cousin  Margaret,  wife  of  Sir  William  Bonville,  through  their 
mother  Agnes  or  Ellen  de  Meriet,  aunt  of  Sir  John  de  Meriet)  inherited 
a  moiety  ot  the  manors  of  Meriet,  Great  Lopen,  and  Stratton,  co. 
^Somerset.  His  arms,  Perfesse,  gules  and  azure,  three  crescents  argent. 

She  was  then  the  widow  of  SIR  JOHN  MAUTRAVERS,  knt.,  of  Hoke, 
Dorset,  and  Crowel,  co.  Oxon.  He  was  born  at  Hoke,  n  Nov.  1337,  his 
will,  dated  16  May  1386,  proved  at  Sarum  19  July  1386.  He  died  15  June 
1386,  and  was  buried  in  the  Chapel  of  St.  Andrew,  in  the  Abbey  Church 
of  Abbotsbury.  He  also  held  the  manors  of  Stapelford  and  Over  Kent- 
combe,  &c.,  in  Dorset.  His  arms,  Sable,  a  fret  or.  By  him  she  had  two 
daughters,  Maud  and  Elizabeth. 

Maud,  eldest  daughter  and  coheir,  aged  eighteen  in  1386,  and  then 
the  wife  ot  Peter  de  la  Mare,  of  Offlegh,  Herts,  who  died  about  1395,  s.p. 
She  married  secondly,  as  his  first  wife,  Sir  John  Dinham,  knt.,  of  Boke- 
land  Dinham,  Somerset,  who  died  about  7  Henry  VI,  1428-9,  when  his 
son  John  was  of  full  age,  and  he  married  secondly  a  daughter  of  Lord 
Lovel.  She  {Maud)  died  2  Nov.  1402,  s.p. 

Elizabeth,  younger  daughter  and  co-heir,  married  her  mother's 
second  husband's  son  Humphry  Stafford. 

Elizabeth  UAumarle  was  married  to  her  first  husband  Sir  John 
Mautravers,  about  1365,  and  to  her  second  husband  Sir  Humphry 
Stafford,  before  Hilary  (January)  1387-8,  her  will  dated  18  Sept.  1405, 
and  codicil  13  Oct.  1413,  was  proved  29  Nov.  1413. 

She  died  15  Oct.  1413,  leaving  no  issue  by  her  second  husband  Sir 
Humphry,  and  was  buried  beside  both  her  husbands  in  the  Abbey 
Church  of  Abbotsbury, 


Stafford  of  Suthwyke.  195 


Sir  Humphry's  will  dated  5  April,  and  proved  29  Nov.  1413.  He  died 
31  Oct.  1413  (surviving  his  wife  a  fortnight  only),  and  was  buried  beside 
her  in  Abbotsbury  Abbey  Church.  His  arms,  Or,  a  chevron  gules ;  within 
a  bordure  engrailed  sable. 

Sir  Humphry  had  another  son   named  John,  (destined  to  be  the 
most  celebrated  of  the  race  that  bore  the  name  of  this  branch  ot  Stafford) 
by  a  mother  named  <J5mma,  of  parentage  unknown,  but  who  were  pro- 
bably located  in  the  neighbourhood  of  North  Bradley.     She  was  admitted 
to  the  sisterhood  of  the  Priory  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Canterbury,  of  which 
her  son,  the  Archbishop,  was  a  Brother.     She  died  5  Sept.  1446,  and  was 
buried  in  a  mortuary  chapel  in  the  church  of  North  Bradley. 
[Note. — Her  effigy  is  incised  on  the  cover-stone  of  the  tomb,  she  is  clad 
in  long  robes  with  wimple  and  cover-chief;    there  is  a  dog  at 
her  feet,  over  her  head  a  rich  canopy,  whose  side  supports 
rest  on  a  pedestal.     On  a  ledger  line  is  this  inscription : — 
Hicjacetd'na  Emma  mater  Venerabilisimi patris  et  domini  Dni  Joh'is 
Stafford  dei  gra'  Cantuariensis  Archiepf  que  obiit  qttinto  die 
Mensis  Septembris  anno  d'ni  Millesimo  CCCCm°  quadra's' mo 
i>j°  cuf  anime  p'picief  de'  am' . 

Her  son,   although  born  under  what  are  termed  such  adverse  circum- 
stances, rose  rapidly  in  the  Church,  as  also  the  State,  even  to 
the  highest  position    in    both,   being  successively  Dean  and 
subsequently  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury— a  Privy  Councillor  and  Lord  Chancellor;  a  very  remark- 
able career.     He  died  on  the  6  July  1452.     He  was  buried  in  the 
"Transept  of  the  martyrdom,"  in  Canterbury  Cathedral,  under 
a  very  large  marble  stone,  on  which  was  inlet  a  splendid  brass, 
where,  under  a  fine  canopy,  his  effigy  in  complete  episcopal 
costume,  with  mitre  and  crozier  was  shown.     Nothing  but  the 
indent  now  remains.     (See  frontispiece).     The  inscription  was 
on  a  ledger  line,  and  is  thus  given  by  Weever  : — 
Quis  fuit  enuclees  quern  celas  saxea  moles  ? 
Stafford  Antistes  fuerat  dictusque  Johannes. 
Qua  sedit  sede  marmor  queso  simttl  ede  ? 
Pridem  Bathonie,  Regni  totiiis  et  inde 
Primas  egregius.    Pro  preside  fiinde  precatus 
Aiireolam  grains  huic  det  de  Virgine  natus. 
Dr.  Grose,  in  a  note  on  Edmund  Stafford,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  page  387, 

in  Vol.  ii,  of  these  Notes  &°  Queries,  says : — 

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)  birthplace,  by  Thomas  Beckington. 
For  if  the  Archbishop  were  born  at  Bradley,  the  new  Bishop 
first  saw  the  light  at  Beckington.  I  have  introduced  him  in 
order  that  I  may  reter  to  a  deed  which  perhaps  may  throw  a 
glimmer  of  light  on  the  question  of  the  Archbishop's  birth. 

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196  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Bishop  Beckington  granted  certain  lands  to  a  Davvbridgecourt, 
who  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." 

From  this  additional  information,  we  learn  the  Archbishop  had  a  sister, 
her  name  Agnes,  also  that  with  her  mother  Emma,  they  had 
been  possessors  of  lands,  and  so,  presumably,  persons  of 
some  position,  and  that  Bishop  Beckington  acquired  them. 
The  appearance  of  Bishop  Beckington  here,  merits  exami- 
nation. He  was  born  in  the  adjoining  parish  of  Beckington, 
and  it  is  quite  probable  that  the  Archbishop  and  himself, 
being  such  near  neighbours,  and  both  in  the  Church,  were 
great  friends,  and  as  Beckington  succeeded  Stafford  in  the 
See  of  Wells,  it  may  be  fairly  inferred  that  the  Primate  used 
his  influence  for  the  promotion.  Was  Beckington  the  family 
name  of  the  Bishop,  or  did  he  adopt  it  ?  The  latter  the  more 
probable,  as  he  is  described  as  Thomas  de  Beckington,  LL.D., 
consecrated  to  Wells,  13  Oct.  1443,  and  died  14  Jan.  1464-5. 
So  in  the  grant  of  lands  by  him  to  Dawbridgecourt,  the  name 
of  the  parish  in  which  the  previous  possessors  presumably 
lived,  Bradley,  was  adopted,  and  it  is  quite  surmisable  to 
prevent  further  identification.  The  Primate,  his  mother  and 
sister,  had  probably  no  heirs  or  representatives  to  bequeath 
them  to,  and  their  transfer  to  Beckington  would  be  a  friendly 
arrangement. 

The  Primate  placed  no  surname  to  his  mother  on  her  tomb — himself 
boldly  assumed  his  presumed  father's  name  and  arms,  appar- 
ently without  protest  trom  the  family,  with  whom  he  was  on 
terms  of  friendship  ;  and  his  distinguished  position — the  first 
in  the  land — disarmed  any  captious  exception  trom  others. 

One  more  interesting  fact  has  been  added  to  his  history,  but  here  the 
clue  to  further  identification  ends  for  the  present.  An  exami- 
nation of  the  diocesan  muniments  at  Wells  may  further  help 
to  clear  up  this  curious  bit  of  mediaeval  romance. 

The  illustration  is  from  a  drawing  by  Mr.  Roscoe  Gibbs. 

Sir  Humphry  Stafford,  senior,  was  sheriff  of  Dorset,  10  Richard  II, 
1387,  and  7  Henry  IV,  1406.  He  was  one  of  the  Knights  of  the 
Shire  for  that  County  12  Richard  II,  1389,  at  Cambridge,  and 
13,  1 6,  20,  of  the  same  King,  1390-7,  also  i,  5,  8,  Henry  IV, 
I399-I4°7»  at  Westminster.] 

III. — §iv  |l)Mm?»l)vtj  g»tafforh,  |£nt.,  junior,  ot  Suthwyke  by 
inheritance,  and  Hoke  jure  nxoris, — "WiTH  THE  SILVER  HAND,"— 
was  aged  34  years  and  more  at  his  father's  death  in  1413. 

He  married  GBlijaUetlj  pjlautcawer*,  second  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  SIR  JOHN  MAUTRAVERS,  KNT.,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  D'Aumarle,  who 


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subsequently  became  the  second  wife  of  his,  Sir  Humphry's,  father. 
She  was  aged  eight  years  in  1386,  heir  of  her  mother  and  aged  thirty- 
three  years  and  more  in  1413.  She  was  married  in,  or  before  1399,  died 
about  1420,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Anne's  Chapel  in  the  Abbey  Church  ot 
Abbotsbury. 

By  her  he  had   four   children  —  Richard,  John,   and    William,    and 
one  daughter,  Alice. 

His  will  was  dated  14  Dec.  1441  ;  and  he  died  27  May  1442.  He 
founded  the  Chapel  of  St.  Anne  in  the  AbbeyaChurch  of  Abbotsbury, 
wherein  he  desired  to  be  buried  with  his  wife. 

\Note.  —  He  was  a  Sheriff  of  Dorset,  n  and  12  Henry  IV,  1410-11,  and 
Knight  of  the  Shire,  2  and  5  Henry  V,  1415-8,  at  Leicester, 
and  i  Henry  VI,  1422,  at  Westminster.] 


IV.—  «?ir  liicljavh  Sptafforb,  fUnt.,  eldest  son. 

He  married  about  1415  (as  her  first  husband)  ifclaufc,  daughter  and  heir 
of  ROBERT  LOVELL,  ESQ.,  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heir 
of  Sir  Guy  de  Briene,  Knt.,  junior. 

By  her  he  had  one  daughter,  Avice,  sole  child  and  heir.  She  was 
born  4  Dec.  1423,  was  aged  eighteen  and  married  before  September  1442, 
on  the  death  of  her  grandfather  Sir  Humphry. 

She  married  about  1438,  Sir  James  Butler,  Knt.,  fifth  Earl  of  Ormond, 
created  Earl  of  Wilts  1449,  and  K.G.  He  was  taken  prisoner  after  the 
battle  of  Towton,  and  beheaded  at  Newcastle,  i  May  1461,  s.p.  His  wife 
Avice  Stafford  having  predeceased  him,  he  had  married  secondly,  Eleanor, 
daughter  of  Edmund  Beaufort,  Duke  ot  Somerset,  and  she  married, 
secondly,  Sir  Robert  Spencer,  ot  Spencer-Combe,  Devon.  She  had  issue 
by  him  two  daughters,  and  died  16  Aug.  1501. 

Avice  Stafford  died  3  June  1457,  s.p.,  when  Humphry,  son  of  her 
uncle,  Sir  John  Stafford,  was  found  her  next  heir 

Secondly,  MAUD  LOVELL-STAFFORD  (her  mother)  married  JOHN 
FITZALAN,  K.G.,  EARL  OF  ARUNDEL,  who  proved  his  age  in  1429  ;  his 
will  is  dated  8  April  1430,  proved  15  Feb.  1435.  By  him  she  had  one  son 
Humphry,  Earl  of  Arundel,  aged  six  1435,  and  who  died  a  minor,  24 
April  1438. 

Her  will  was  dated  1  1  May,  and  proved  25  Oct.  1436.  She  died  19 
May  1436,  and  was  buried  with  her  first  husband  in  St.  Anne's  Chapel,  in 
the  Abbey  Church  of  Abbotsbury.  Sir  Richard  had  died  about  1427,  and 
was  there  interred. 

{Note.—  He  was  Knight  of  the  Shire  for  Dorset,  2  and  3  Henry  VI,  1424-5.] 

V.  —  gjtv  Holm  gktafforfc,  &ni.»  second  son. 

He  married  about  June  1426,  —  the  marriage  contract  dated  16  March 
1425-6,  when  he  was  abroad,  —  gUwe,  daughter  of  WILLIAM,  third  LORD 
BOTREAUX  (of  North  Cadbury),  by  his  first  wife  Elizabeth  Beaumont,  and 
she  died  about  Oct.  1427. 


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By  her  he  had  one  son  Humphry,  died  5  Nov.  1427,  and  was  buried 
at  Abbotsbury  Abbey  Church. 


VI.-  •Qumpljvu  £ttaffart»,  ©act.,  only  child  and  heir,  heir  also  to 
his  cousin  Avice,  Countess  of  Wilts,  in  1457. 

He  was  born  at  Michaelmas  1427,  and  died  in  Scotland  6  Aug.  1461, 
s.p. 

VII.  —  IJJtUtatn  ^tafforb,  CBsq.,  of  Suthwyke,  third  son. 

He  married  ^atljeriite,  daughter  and  coheir  of  SIR  JOHN  CHIDIOCK, 
about  1437,  the  marriage  articles  dated  1  1  March  1436-7.  By  her  he  had 
one  son  Humphry. 

She  married  secondly  (as  his  second  wife)  SIR  JOHN  ARUNDELL,  KNT., 
ot  Lanhern,  Cornwall,  the  marriage  settlement  dated  5  March  1457.  His 
first  wife  was  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lord  Morley,  married 
April  1446,  died  about  1447.  Sir  John  Arundell  died  12  Nov.  1473. 

She  married,  thirdly,  SIR  ROGER  LEWKNOR,  KNT.,  who  died  4  August 
1478.  She  died  14  April  1479. 

William  Stafford  was  killed  fighting  against  the  rebels  under  Jack 
Cade  at  Sevenoaks,  Kent,  18  June  1450. 

[Note.  —  He  was  Sheriff  of  Dorset,  20  Henry  VI,  1442.  Sir  John  Chidiock 
died  28  Henry  VI,  1450,  his  wife  was  Katherine,  daughter  of 
Ralph  Lumley,  died  i  Edward  IV,  1461.] 


VIII.  —  £ii?  iSttmpljru  gjtafforcb,  Ijtnt.,  of  Suthwyke,  only  son 
and  heir. 

He  was  born  about  1440,  and  next  heir  to  his  cousin  Humphry  in 
1461.  He  was  created  by  Edward  IV  Baron  Stafford,  of  Suthwyke,  1464, 
and  EARL  OF  DEVON,  7  May  1469. 

He  married  gtsabel,  daughter  and  heir  of  SIR  JOHN  BARRE,  KNT., 
and  she  married  secondly  SIR  THOMAS  BOURCHIER,  KNT. 

For  acting  treasonably  at  Banbury  against  Edward  IV,  the  Earl  was 
apprehended  and  beheaded  at  Bridgewater,  17  Aug.  1469:  s.p.  He  was 
buried  under  an  arch  of  the  central  tower  in  Glastonbury  Abbey.  She 
died  i  March  1487-8,  s.p. 

[Note.  —  His  wife  was  buried  with  her  second  husband  at  Ware,  Herts, 
and  Weever  has  preserved  the  following  inscription  :  — 

"Hie  iacet  Thomas  Bourchier  miles,  filius  Henrici  Comitis  Essex;  ac 
Isabella  vxor  eius  nuper  Comitissa  Dcuon,  filia  et  heres 
Johannis  Barre  militis  ;  qui  obiit  ...  1491  .  .  .  et 
Isabcllaob:  i  die  Marcii  1488,-  quorum  animabus  .  .  .  ." 

He  was  Sheriff  of  Dorset,  i  Edward  IV,  1461.] 

IX.—  3Utce  gttaffovb,  only  daughter  of  Sir  Humphry  Stafford,  ot 
Suthwyke,  junior,  ob.  1442,  and  sister  to  the  three  preceding  brothers, 
Richard,  John,  and  William. 


Stafford  of  Suthwyke. 


She  married  first  SIR  EDMUND  CHENEY,  KNT.,  of  Broke,  Wilts,  about 
1424.  He  was  born  4  Dec.  1401  ;  and  died  30  May  1430.  By  him  she 
had  two  daughters  Elizabeth  and  Anne. 

Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  and  co-heir,  was  born  Nov.  1424.  She 
married  before  1438,  Sir  John  Coleshill,  Knt.,  of  Duloe,  Cornwall,  who 
was  of  age  before  1437,  and  died  30  March  1484,  s.p.  She  died  about 
1492,  s.p. 

[Note.— He  is  buried  at  Duioe,  where  is  his  tomb  with  effigy  in  a 
Chantry  of  the  Church.] 

Anne,  second  daughter  and  co-heir,  born  26  July  1428,  and  married 
before  1445,  Sir  John  Willoughby,  Knt.,  who  was  aged  fifteen  in  1437. 
He  was  killed  at  Tewkesbury  3  May  1471.  By  him  she  had  four  sons 
and  two  daughters,  Robert,  William,  Richard,  Ed-ward,  Cecily  and 
Elizabeth. 

Sir  Robert  Willoughby,  eldest  son,  created  Lord  Willoughby  de 
Broke,  and  K.G.  12  Aug.  1492.  He  married  Blanche,  eldest  daughter 
and  co-heir  oijohn  Champerno-wne,  of  Beer -Ferrers,  who  died  in  1475  ; 
and  she  was  living  in  1480.  His  will  was  dated  19  Aug.  1502,  proved  21 
Dec.  1502. 

[Note. — He  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  Callington  Church,  Cornwall, 
under  a  fine  tomb  whereon  is  his  effigy  in  alabaster,  clad  in 
full  armour,  and  insignia  of  the  Garter.] 

William,  second  son,  was  of  Turners-Piddle,  Dorset.  Richard, 
third  son,  was  of  Silton,  Dorset.  Edward,  fourth  son,  was  Dean  of 
Exeter  Cathedral,  and  Canon  of  St.  George's  Chapel,  Windsor.  He  died 
in  1508.  Cecily,  was  Abbess  of  Wilton,  and  died  in  1528.  Elizabeth, 
married  William  Carrant  of  Toomer  in  Henstridge,  Somerset,  and  was 
living  in  1501. 

Secondly,  ALICE  STAFFORD,  married  (as  his  second  wife)  WALTER 
TAILBOYS,  ESQ.,  of  Newton  Kyme,  Yorkshire,  and  Golthawe,  co.  Lincoln. 
He  died  13  April  1444. 

By  him  she  had  one  daughter  Alianore,  sister  of  the  half  blood  of 
Elizabeth  and  Anne  Cheney,  and  co-heir  with  them  of  her  cousin 
Humphry  Stafford,  Earl  of  Devon,  in  1469,  when  she  was  aged  twenty 
seven  years  and  more,  and  wife  of  Thomas  Strangewayes. 

She  married  first  Thomas  Strange-ways,  Esq.;  his  will  dated  18  Dec. 
1484,  and  proved  24  March  1484-5.  By  him  she  had  two  sons,  Henry, 
eldest  and  heir,  and  Thomas,  and  one  daughter,  Joan. 

Thomas,  second  son,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Reginald 
Wal-wyn. 

[Note. — He  appears  to  have  been  the  Thomas  Strangeways,  who  as 
executor  to  his  mother  Alianore,  in  Feb.  1505,  confirmed  the 
foundation  of  the  Strangewayes  Chantry  or  Mass,  which  she 
had  endowed  previous  to  her  death  in  Abbotsbury  Abbey 


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Church,  "  in  consideration  of  which  the  Abbot,  &c.,  obliged 
themselves  to  find  for  ever  a  monk,  being  a  priest  of  the  con- 
vent, to  celebrate  a  daily  mass  in  the  Chapel  of  St.  Mary  in 
the  Monastery,  for  the  souls  of  Alianore,  Foundress  of  the 
Mass,  her  late  husbands,  and  all  her  ancestors  and  descendants 
(therein  named),  they  were  bound  to  pray  for ;  the  monk  that 
celebrates  it,  to  receive,  at  the  end  of  every  week,  fourteen 
pence  for  his  salary." — (Hutchins). 
Joan,  only  daughter,  married  Henry  Champneys. 
Secondly,  she  married  John  Twynyho,  who  died  about  November, 
1485,  s.p. 

\Nole. — The  Twynyho's  were  of  Turnworth,  Dorset,  and  there  was  a 
branch  in  co.  Gloucester.  A  John  Twynyho  of  Cirencester, 
12  Edward  IV,  1473,  founded  a  perpetual  Chantry  for  one 
Chaplain  at  the  altar  of  St.  Blase  in  the  church  of  Lechlade. 
Their  arms — Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  lapwings  sable.'} 

Thomas  Strangewayes  died  in  1484 — his  wife  Alianore,  her  will  dated 
ii  Feb.  1500-1,  proved  15  Apl.  1502,  died  2  April  1502,  and  both 
were  buried  in  the  Lady  Chapel  of  the  Abbey  Church  of  Abbotsbury. 

\Note. — Thomas  Strangewayes,  senior,  born  1430,  is  described  as  of 
Stinsford,  "  and  was  the  first  that  settled  in  this  county,  being 
brought  into  these  parts  by  Thomas  Grey,  Marquis  of  Dorset, 
who  married  Cicely  Bonville,  the  great  heiress  of  Shute,  in 
Devon.  He  married  i  Edward  IV,  1460,  and  by  his  wife  had  a 
great  part  of  the  estate  of  the  Staffords.  His  relict  lived  to  be 
a  very  great  age,  and  parted  not  the  lands  (between  the  issue 
of  Sir  Edmund  Cheney,  her  mother's  first  husband,  and  her 
own),  till  1492 — 7,  Henry  VII,— her  household  goods  being 
parted  after  her  death  in  1502." — (Hutchins.) 

He  appears  to  have  had  two  other  sons,  John  and  James. 

James  Strangeways — "  he  married  Lady  Catherine  Gordon,  then  widow 
of  Matthew  Cradoc,  of  Cardiff.  His  will,  dated  30  Nov.  1516, 
proved  9  Jan.  1516-17,  orders  his  body  to  be  buried  in  the 
Abbey  Church  of  St.  Mary  Overie,  Southwark,  but  he  seems  to 
have  been  buried  in  Abbotsbury  Abbey  Church.  His  wife  re- 
married Christopher  Asheton,  of  Fyfield,  Berks — her  will,  dated 
12  Oct.,  and  proved  5  Nov.  1537,  ordered  her  body  to  be  in- 
terred in  the  church  there.  Dugdale  has  preserved  his  epitaph 
formerly  in  the  Abbey :  — 

Hicjacet  corpus  Jacobi  Strangways,  armigeri,  qui  obiit  octavo  idus  Dec. 
A.D.  M.CCCCC  .  .  n,  pro  cujus  anima  celebrabitur  ad  praesens 
altare,  in  perpetiiam  missa  cotidiana,  ex  ordinatione,  etfunda- 
tione  dominae  Katerinae  Gordon,  consortis  suae:  quorum 
animac perpetua pace  quiescant.  Amen.  (Hutchins).] 


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Henry  Strangeways,  Esq.,  eldest  son,  was  ot  Melbury  Sampford, 
Dorset,  and  married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Artendell,  of  Lau- 
herne,  Cornwall,  by  his  wife  Katherine,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  John 
Chidiock;  his  will  was  proved  10  May  1504. 

\Note. — He  was  the  first  that  possessed  Melbury  Samptord.  He  appears 
to  have  married  first,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Wadham, 
by  whom  he  had  a  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  to  Sir  Thomas 
Trenchard,  of  Wolveton,  as  his  first  wife,  and  three  children 
by  Katherine  Chidiock— Giles,  his  heir,  ob.  1547,  John  and 
Mary.~] 

The  Benedictine  Abbey  of  St.  Peter  at  Abbotsbury, 
appears  to  have  been  founded  by  Orcus,  a  native  of  Rouen, 
about  A.D.  1026,  in  succession  to  a  religious  establishment  that 
had  existed  on  the  same  spot  "from  the  very  infancy  of 
Christianity  among  the  Britons."  It  was  well  endowed,  and 
presided  over  by  a  succession  of  about  twenty  Abbots,  termi- 
nating with  Roger  Roddon  alias  Gorton,  who,  with  the  Prior 
and  ten  Monks,  surrendered  the  Monastery  to  Henry  VIII, 
12  March  1539.  Almost  immediately  after,  the  site  of  the 
Monastery,  Manor,  and  lands  around,  were  granted  to  Sir  Giles 
Strangeways,  Knt.  (the  son  of  Henry  Strangeways,  ob.  1504), 
with  whose  descendants  its  possession  still  remains.  The 
dismantling  of  the  Abbey  and  Church  appears  to  have  at  once 
taken  place,  but  "  the  Chapel  of  St.  Mary  at  the  east  end,  of 
most  excellent  workmanship,  Sir  Giles  Strangeways  preserved 
this  curious  Chapel  for  his  place  of  sepulture,  but  it  was  after- 
wards demolished."  Included  in  this — the  Lady  Chapel — 
was  the  Clopton  Chantry,  founded  by  a  family  of  that  name  of 
whom  there  is  little  record,  but  who  appear  to  have  been 
identified  both  with  Dorset  and  Somerset,  a  Baldwin  Clopton, 
of  Clopton,  being  mentioned  as  early  as  temp.  Henry  III, 
1216-72,  (their  arms — -Argent^  a  chevron  between  three  eagles 
displayed  azure),  the  Chapel  of  St.  Andrew,  and  the  Chapel  of 
St.  Anne,  founded  by  Sir  Humphry  Stafford,  wherein  so  many 
of  their  race  had  been  interred,  as  also  several  of  the  Strange- 
ways,  but  Sir  Giles  was  buried  at  Melbury,  where  is  his 
tomb  with  effigy.  The  arms  of  the  Abbey  were — Azure,  six  keys 
addorsed  in  three  pairs,  or. 


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Only  a  few  comparatively  insignificant  portions  of  these 
edifices  now  remain  ;  and,  speaking  of  the  Conventual  Church, 
Hutchins  says  (edition  1774): — 

"  It  seems  to  have  stood  a  little  north  of  the  Abbey,  and  parallel 
to  the  parish  church,  between  both  (as  at  Muchelney)  as  may  be 
judged  by  an  ancient  low  gate — probably  one  of  the  porches— on  the 
north  side  opposite  the  Abbey  house.  A  little  west  of  the  said  gate  is  a 
large  heap  ot  ruins,  under  some  large  elms,  where  perhaps  the  tower 
stood ;  so  that,  it  being  entirely  destroyed,  we  are  left  to  judge  of  its 
beauty  and  grandeur,  by  the  fondness  of  the  nobility  and  gentry  of  these 
parts  being  buried  there,  and  for  erecting  chantries  and  chapels  in  it." 

Thus  from  this  life  the  name  and  succession  of  the 
knightly  family  of  Stafford,  erstwhile  of  Suthwyke  and  Hook, 
lapsed  to  extinction;  and  the  stately  edifice,  within  which  at 
death  they  found  their  last  resting-place,  also  disappeared,  both 
becoming  a  memory  of  the  Past  only. 

"  Where  stood  the  tower,  there  grows  the  weed, 

Where  stood  the  weed,  the  tower, — 
The  present  hour  no  likeness  leaves, 
To  any  future  hour." 

W.  H.  H.  ROGERS. 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 
(Continued  from  p.  161). 


COURT  OF  AUGMENTATIONS.     PROCEEDINGS  [Bundle  15, 
No.  18.]     [temp.  Henry  VIII?] 

To  the  Ryght  honorable  Sir  Richard  Rytche  Kynght  (sic) 

Chauncelour  of  Kynges  Courte  of  the  Augmentation 

oj  the  revenues  of  his  graces  Crowne. 

Compleyning  sheweth  vnto  your  good  mastership  your 
dayly  oratores  and  pore  bedemen,  Richard  Ballard  and  Jamys 
Welche,  as  well  for  them  sylves  as  the  other  pore  inhabi- 


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tanttes  of  the  township  of  Bratton,  lately  belonging  to  the 
rector  of  Eddyngton,  in  the  county  of  Wyltshere,  and  nowe 
within  the  surveye  of  thys  honorable  courte  that  Wheras 
tyme  out  of  mynd  the  inhabitanttes  and  fermoures  of  cer- 
teyn  places  and  stedys,  named  Rodlandes  Stortones,  the 
thykkettes  Rowbrechis  lyddes  hedynghill,  with  other  landes 
and  tenementtes  and  serteyn  smale  close  and  pasturages  to 
the  premissez  appertinent  the  Which  fermoures  of  Rod- 
londes  and  other  places  above  rehersyd  lyen  and  byn 
scituat  wythin  the  precynkt  of  the  parisshe  of  Bretton 
Foresayd  have  byn  chargyd  and  byn  contributorie  vnto  the 
charges  of  the  XVth  and  subcides  and  other  imposicions  at 
suche  tyme  as  the  sayd  XVth  subsidie  or  other  imposicions 
were  to  be  lymytted  evenly  with  your  pore  oratores  ac- 
cordynge  to  the  proporcion  rate  and  value  of  ther  sayd 
Fermys  and  landes,  and  other  the  premissez,  and  have  byn 
rated,  valued  and  taxid,  at  the  tyme  and  tymyes  before 
sayd  for  the  sayd  XVth  subsidies  and  other  imposicions 
within  the  sayd  parisshe  of  Bretton,  and  not  ellys 
where  as  parisshioners  of  barton  (sic),  and  as  occupiores 
and  Fermoures  of  the  premissez  lying  and  being  within 
the  parisshe  of  breton  beforesayd.  Vntyll  now  of  late,  that 
is  to  say  at  the  Feast  of  Saynt  Michell  tharchaungell  last 
past  and  the  Feast  of  Ester  Allso  nowe  last  past  that  one 
Thomas  Pryver,  Henry  Long,  Robert  Wattes  and  Nicholas 
Clerke  with  diverse  other  Inhabitanttes  of  the  towne  of 
Westbury  vnder  the  playne  within  the  county  before  sayd 
comfortyd  and  supportyd  by  the  lord  Mountjoy  have 
Forsably,  riotously,  and  wrongfully  entryd  into  the  comon 
pasture  belongyng  vnto  the  sayd  towne  and  Parisshe  of 
Bretton  and  to  the  Inhabitanttes  of  the  same,  and  then  and 
there  toke  lede  dryve  oute  of  the  sayd  Comon,  the  catell 
going  and  departyng  vpon  the  sayd  Comon,  perteyning  and 
belongyng  to  your  pore  oratores  and  them  impowndyd  in 
Westerbury  foresayd,  and  wold  in  no  wyse  suffer  your 


204  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

sayd  pore  oratores  to  have  agayn  there  sayd  catell,  ail- 
though  they  were  therunto  requiryd  vntyll  suche  tyme  as 
they,  your  sayd  pore  oratores,  dyd  toward  the  charge  of 
the  XVth  of  the  sayd  towne  of  Westerbury  become  contri- 
butories  and  chargable,  that  is  to  saye,  to  the  summe  of 
xxxs.  ageynst  all  ryght  equite  and  good  consience,  and 
agaynst  the  auncient  vsage  and  custome  of  the  levying  and 
gatherynge  of  the  XVth,  and  vnto  the  great  disquietinge 
losse  and  hindrance  of  your  sayd  pore  oratores,  the  Inhabi- 
tanttes  of  the  sayd  parisshe  and  towne  of  bratton  before 
sayd.  In  consideracion  whereof  it  maye  please  your  good 
mastership  to  graunt  Forthe  the  kynges  most  gracious 
letters  of  privye  scale  vnto  the  sayd  Thomas  Priver, 
Henry  Longe,  Robert  Wattes  and  Nicholas  Clerke  to  be 
directed  willinge  and  enjoyninge  them  by  vertue  of  the 
same  at  a  certeyne  daye  and  vnder  a  certeyne  payne  by 
your  good  mastership  to  be  prefixed  and  appoynted  not 
only  personally  to  appere  before  your  good  mastership  to 
make  answere  vnto  thys  byll,  but  further  to  stand  to  and 
abyde  by  suche  order  direccion  and  finall  determynacion 
in  the  premyssez  as  shall  seme  and  appere  vnto  your 
Mastership  to  stand  with  equite  and  consience,  and  your 
pore  oratores  shall  dayly  [pray]  to  God  for  thencrese  of 
your  honor  to  goddes  pleesure  long  to  endure. 

Answer  of  Thomas  Pryver,  Henry  Long,  Robert  Wattes  and 
Nicholas  Clark  to  the  bill  of  complaint.1 

The  defendants  say  that  the  said  bill  hath  been  con- 
trived only  of  malice,  &c.  And  further  answer  that  the 
said  certain  lands  called  Storton's  mentioned  in  the  said  bill 
is  the  inheritance  of  the  Lord  Sturton,  and  that  Richard 
Ballard,  one  of  the  plaintiffs,  holdeth  the  same  in  farm  of 
the  said  Lord  Sturton,  and  the  lands  and  farm  called  the 
"thykketts  Rowbreches  and  lydes,"  is  the  inheritance  of 

1  Abstract  of  the  original. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  205 

Sir  John  Arundell,  knight,  and  that  James  Welche,  the 
other  plaintiff,  is  farmer  thereof;  also  that  a  farm  called 
Semers,  not  mentioned  in  the  said  bill,  is  the  inheritance 
of  1  Stowell,  and  l  Barnfelde,  the  king's 

wards  being  in  their  minority  ;  and  that  the  foresaid  farms 
be  between  Bretton  and  Westbery  under  the  pleyne.  And 
the  defendants  say  that  Bretton  is  but  a  hamlet  belonging 
to  Westbery,  and  that  the  lands  and  farms  before  men- 
tioned belong  to  the  Town  of  Westbery  and  not  to  the 
hamlet  -of  Bretton.  Which  Westbery  and  the  hamlets  of 
the  same  is  one  hundred  in  itself,  belonging  to  Lord 
Mountjoy,  Lord  Storton,  and  Sir  John  Arundell  and 
others.  And  they  say  that  Lord  Storton,  Sjr  John 
Arundell  and  the  said  Stowell  and  Barnfelde  be  lords  of 
Westbury  and  the  hamlet  of  Bretton,  without  that  the 
township  or  hamlet  of  Bretton  did  lately  belong  to  the 
Rector  of  Edyngton,  or  is  within  the  survey  of  this  Court 
as  in  the  said  bill  is  untruly  alleged.  Further,  they  say 
that  time  out  of  mind  the  said  farms  have  been  always 
charged  and  been  contributory  for  the  XVth  when  levied 
on  the  Inhabitants  and  Township  of  Westbery ;  the  said 
farmers  being  certainly  rated  what  they  shall  pay  at  every 
XVth,  that  is  to  say,  each  farmer  xs.:  and  so  the  said 
farmers,  time  out  of  mind  of  man,  at  every  XVth  granted 
by  parliament,  have  vsed  to  pay  to  the  said  town  of 
Westbery,  the  said  fermes  between  them,  xxxs.  without  any 
denial  thereof  made.  The  Defendants  say  also  that  because 
the  complainants  and  the  farmer  of  Semer's  farm  denied 
at  the  said  feasts  mentioned  in  the  bill  to  be  contributory 
to  and  with  the  said  Defendants  and  the  other  par- 
ishioners of  Westbury  and  to  pay  the  said  xxxs.,  the  said 
Defendants  to  the  intent  to  levy  the  said  xxxs.  according 
to  old  usage,  in  the  name  of  all  the  other  inhabitants 

1  Blank  in  the  original. 


206  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

distrained  the  cattle  of  the  complainants  and  of  the  farmer 
of  Semer's  farm,  going  upon  the  said  Common  which 
belongeth  as  well  to  the  inhabitants  of  Westbery  as  to  the 
inhabitants  of  Bretton,  and  impounded  the  cattle  in  the 
pound  at  Westbery  as  was  lawful  for  them  to  do;  without 
that  the  said  places,  land  and  farms  called  Stortons,  &c., 
be  within  the  precinct  of  the  parish  of  Bretton ;  or  that 
there  is  any  such  parish  called  Bretton  or  Bracton,  but 
only  a  chapel,  which  belongeth  to  Westbury,  because 
Bratton  is  within  the  parish  of  Westbyre,  or  that  the  said 
farmers  are  contributory  to  the  XVth  according  to  the  value 
of  their  farms  and  lands  within  the  supposed  parish  of 
Bretton.  Or  that  the  Defendants  distrained  for  any  XVth 
for  the  places  called  Rodlands  and  Heddinghill  or  for  any 
parcell  of  the  same.  Or  that,  &c.,  &c.,  as  the  complainants 
most  falsely  and  slanderously  have  alledged.  And  they  say 
that  the  bill  is  determinable  at  the  Common  law  and  not 
within  the  survey  of  this  Court,  wherefore  they  pray  to  be 
dismissed  with  their  reasonable  costs  in  this  behalf  sus- 
tained. 

THE  WILL  OF  RALPH  ALDRIDGE.     [P.  C.  C.  Wills, 
55  Noodes.] 

A.D.  1558.  In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  In  the  xviiith 
daye  of  September  in  the  yere  of  cure  lorde  God,  a  thou- 
saunde  five  hundred  fiftie  and  eight,  I,  Raaf  Alridge,  and 
of  the  parrishe  of  Brattone,  in  the  countie  of  Wilshire, 
husbandman,  seeke  in  bodie  but  parfite  in  mynde  and 
remembraunce,  laude  and  praise  be  geven  vnto  God,  doe 
make  and  ordeyne  this,  my  wille  and  testamente,  vnder 
the  fourme  hereafter  followinge,  that  is  to  say.  First  and 
principally,  I  give  and  bequeath  my  soule  vnto  allmighti 
God,  my  Redemer  and  Saviour,  vnto  our  blessed  Ladie  and 
vnto  all  tholly  company  of  heaven,  And  my  bodie  to  be 
buried  in  the  church  yarde  of  my  parrishe  churche  of  litell 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  207 

Stoke  in  Bratton  aforesaid.  Item,  I  bequeath  to  my  mother 
churche  of  Sarum,  vjW.  Item,  I  bequeathe  to  the  mayn- 
tenance  of  my  parishe  Churche,  vjs.  viijV.  Item,  I  be- 
queathe to  the  reparacionnes  of  the  hiegh  wayes  in 
Bratton,  twoo  loades  of  Stone  in  the  hie  waye  at  Thomas 
Adames  doore,  At  Pittrowe  one  loade,  At  the  places  going 
towards  Berye  one  load.  Item,  I  bequeath  to  my  daughter, 
Agnes  Axford,  my  yeeres  of  my  parte  in  the  ferme  of 
Bratton,  and  so  after  the  deathe  of  the  saide  Agnes,  in 
case  the  yeres  be  not  expired  and  ended,  the  Residewe  of 
them  to  Richard,  her  eldest  sonne  during  his  life.  And  if 
the  said  Richard  depart  afore  the  yeres  be  fully  expired, 
that  then  the  Residewe  of  the  yeres  to  the  next  sonne  of 
the  said  Agnes,  and  so  from  one  sonne  and  daughter  to 
another  during  the  yeres  in  the  lease  expressed.  Provided 
alwaies  that  the  saide  Agnes  or  her  assignees  or  any  of 
the  said  children  shall  not  geve  it  nor  selle  itt  during  the 
yeres.  Further,  I  will,  that  in  case  the  said  Agnes  Axford 
or  her  assignees  cannot  fulfille  and  stoore  her  grounde 
herself  that  thenne  she  shall  permitte  and  suffer  their 
brother  Richard  for  his  monney  to  stuff  it  before  any  other 
man.  Furthermore,  I  wille  that  my  sonne  in  lawe,  Robert 
Kingston,  to  have  going  vppon  the  said  ground  of  the  said 
ferme  xl  sheepe  for  the  space  of  tenne  yeres,  paying  no 
pay  for  them  so  going.  Item,  I  bequeathe  to  the  said 
Agnes  Axforth,  iij/z.  vjs.  v'md.  in  money  or  mony  worthe, 
and  xl  sheepe  to  ronne  at  the  Leete.  Item,  I  bequeath 
to  my  daughter,  Margarett  Kyngton,  \\\li.  vjs.  v'riid.,  and  xl 
sheepe  to  ronne  at  the  Leete.  Item,  I  bequethe  to  every 
one  of  my  daughters  childers  [children]  twoo  sheepe  apece 
at  discracion  and  the  deliveraunce  of  my  sonne  Richard 
Allridge.  Item,  I  bequeath  to  Master  Vicar  off  Westburye 
iijs.  iiijd.  Item,  to  Sir  Robert  Hill,  Curate,  iijs.  \\\]d.  Item,  I 
bequeathe  to  Alice  Myntie,  my  servaunte,  an  heckforth.  Item, 
to  Joane  Vstys  a  Cowe.  Item,  to  Agnes  Myntye  an  hecforth. 


208  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Item,  to  Alice  Tocre  and  Joane  White  iiij  busshelles  wheate  a 
pece.  Item,  I  bequeath  to  Nicholas  Parker,  my  servaunt,  x\s. 
in  money.  The  Residewe  of  my  goodes  moveable  and 
vnmoveable,  my  legacies  contented  and  paid  I  geve  and 
bequeathe  to  my  sonne  Richard  Alridge,  whome  I  make  and 
ordayn  my  full  and  hole  executor  to  see  this  my  will  and 
testament  truly  perfourmed,  and  my  bodie  honnestlie  brought 
in  erthe.  Witnesses  herunto  I  make  my  Welbeloved  neigh- 
bours, Walter  Markes,  thelder,  John  Sheppard  alias  Bouchar, 
John  Rawlins,  John  Bouchar  the  youngar.  Sir  Robert  Holl, 
curate. 

[The  above  written  will  was  proved  at  London,  14 
October,  A.D.  1558.] 

EXCHEQUER  BILLS  AND  ANSWERS.     [Elizabeth.     Wilts.     No.  5.] 

To  the  right  honorable  the  Lord  Treasurer  of  England,  and  to 
the  Chancellor  and  Barons  of  the  Court  of  the  Exchequer. 

Showeth,  as  Gilbert  Gerrarde,  attorney-general  to  the 
Queen.  That  where  the  late  King  Edward  VI  was  seized  by 
the  right  of  his  crown  of  England  of  and  in  the  manors  of 
Steple  Asheton  and  Bratton,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  and  also 
of  the  manor  of  Northstoke,  in  the  county  of  Somerset ;  and 
also  of  and  in  divers  messuages,  lands,  and  hereditaments  in 
Steple  Ashton  and  Bratton  and  Northstoke,  of  the  clear  yearly 
value  of  cxl.  //,  and  the  said  late  king  died  so  seized.  After 
whose  death  the  said  manors  and  other  the  premisses  came  to 
the  lale  Queen  Mary  as  his  sister  and  heiress.  By  force 
whereof  the  said  late  Queen  Maty  all  the  profits  thereof  did 
receive  and  take  to  her  own  use  until  the  day  of  her  death. 
After  whose  death  the  said  manors  and  other  the  premisses 
descended  to  our  sovereign  lady  the  Queen's  majesty  that  now 
is,  as  her  sister  and  heir.  By  force  whereof  our  said  sovereign 
lady  the  Queen  is  now  thereof  seized  accordingly,  and  ever 
since  the  death  of  the  said  late  Queen  Mary  hath  been  yearly 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  209 

answered  of  all  the  rents  and  profits  of  the  said  manors,  lands, 
and  tenements,  with  the  wood  sales  and  casualties  thereof, 
amounting  to  the  clear  yearly  value  of  cxl//'.  or  thereabouts, 
over  and  above  all  charges  and  reprises.  And  yet  nevertheless 
so  it  is  that  diverse  evidences,  letters  patents,  deeds,  and 
writings  touching  the  said  manors,  lands,  and  tenements  are 
casually  come  to  the  hands  or  possession  of  the  right  honour- 
able John,  Marquis  of  Winchester,  by  colour  whereof  the  said 
Marquis  at  sundry  times  hath  not  only  by  open  speech  pub- 
lished that  he  hath  some  right  and  interest  of  inheritance  in 
the  said  manors,  lands,  and  tenements  by  force  of  some  letters 
patents  and  writings  in  his  custody,  or  by  some  enrolments 
thereof,  but  also  hath  caused  divers  other  persons  at  several 
times  openly  to  affirm  the  same  to  be  true  against  all  equity 
and  conscience,  and  thereupon  the  Marquis  hath  practised  by 
some  means  not  only  to  make  privy  and  secret  entries  in  and 
upon  the  said  manors,  lands,  and  tenements,  but  also  to  take 
some  part  of  the  profits  thereof  to  the  disinheritance  of  our 
said  sovereign  lady  if  speedy  remedy  therein  should  not  be 
provided.  In  consideration  whereof  and  for  the  better  pre- 
servation of  the  inheritance  of  our  said  sovereign  lady  the 
Queen  in  the  said  manors  and  other  the  premisses,  and  also 
forasmuch  as  the  true  dates  of  a  certain  number  of  the  said 
letters  patents,  deeds  and  writings  now  remaining  in  the 
custody  of  the  said  Marquis  be  not  certainly  known  nor 
wherein  the  same  be  contained,  And  therefore  by  order  of 
the  common  law  cannot  specially  be  demanded  against  him. 
The  said  attorney-general  prayeth  for  and  in  behalf  of  our 
said  sovereign  lady  the  Queen  that  the  Marquis  of  Winchester, 
by  process  of  subpoena  to  be  directed  out  of  their  Court,  may  be 
called  not  only  to  make  answer  to  all  the  premisses,  but  also 
by  the  same  process  may  be  commanded  to  bring  with  him 
into  the  Court  all  such  letters  patents,  deeds,  and  writings  as 
he  or  any  other  to  his  use  hath  in  his  or  their  possession  or 
custody  touching  the  said  manors,  lands,  and  tenements  or  any 
part  thereof.  And  that  thereupon  such  further  order  may  be 

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taken  in  all  the  premisses  as  to  equity  and  conscience  shall 
appertain. 

[Signed]     G.  GERRARD. 

The  Answer  of  John,  Marquis  of  Winchester,  to  the  Information 
of  Gilbert  Gerrard,  Esquire,  Attorney-General  to  the  Queen. 

The  said  Marquis  until  the  time  of  the  said  bill  of  informa- 
tion exhibited  against  him  did  not  understand  certainly  what 
title  he  had  unto  the  manors,  etc.,  but  since  upon  search 
thereof  made  hath  found  that  the  said  several  manors  were 
granted  by  the  late  King  Edward  VI  unto  William,  Marquis  of 
Winchester,  deceased,  father  unto  the  now  Marquis,  and  his 
heirs,  for  his  services  and  for  other  considerations  as  in  the 
enrolment  of  the  letters  patents  is  mentioned,  but  what  rents 
and  profits  of  the  said  manors  were  received  by  the  said 
William,  late  Marquis,  or  for  how  long,  or  for  what  causes 
he  at  any  time  did  forbear  the  receipt  thereof,  the  defendant 
for  want  of  sufficient  time  to  inquire  knoweth  not  as  yet.  And 
as  touching  the  letters  patents  concerning  the  said  several 
manors  of  Steple  Ashton,  Bratton,  and  Northstoke,  supposed 
to  be  come  to  the  possession  of  the  said  Marquis,  the  said 
now  Marquis  saith  that  he  hath  not  to  his  remembrance  at  any 
time  seen  the  said  letters  patents,  nor  doth  know  where  the 
same  remain.  And  as  unto  other  the  premisses  in  the  towns, 
parishes,  and  fields  of  Steple  Ashton  and  Bratton,  mentioned 
in  the  said  Bill,  the  said  defendant  saith  that  the  late  King 
Edward  VI  by  letters  patents  under  the  great  seal  of  England, 
now  in  the  defendant's  hands,  dated  ist  May,  4  Edward  VI, 
did  grant  the  said  grange  and  farms  of  Steple  Ashton  and 
Bratton,  and  other  the  premisses  unto  the  said  William,  the 
late  lord  Marquis  of  Winchester,  and  to  his  heirs  for  ever. 
After  which  the  said  late  Marquis  was  lawfully  seized  of  the 
premisses  in  his  demesne  as  of  fee,  and  the  issues  and  profits 
thereof  received  until  his  death  about  three  years  ago.  After 
whose  death  the  said  Court  remembered  premisses  descended, 
and  of  right  ought  to  descend  unto  the  said  now  Marquis,  as 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  2  \  i 

son  and  heir  of  the  said  William,  and  by  force  thereof  is  now 
lawfully  seized  of  the  said  last  remembered  premisses  in  his 
demesne  as  of  fee,  without  that  King  Edward  VI,  died  lawfully 
seized  of  the  said  site,  capital,  messuage,  or  manor  house  of 
Steple  Asheton,  and  other  the  said  premisses,  &c.,  or  that  the 
said  late  Queen  died  seized  thereof,  &c.,  or  that  the  same  by 
and  after  her  death  descended  to  the  Queen's  Majesty  that 
now  is,  or  that  she  hath  been  or  ought  to  be  yearly  answered 
of  the  rents.  For  true  it  is  that  the  said  defendant  and  the 
late  Marquis,  his  father,  have  taken  the  profits  of  divers 
parcels,  sometime  parcels  of  the  said  manors  of  Stepleashton 
and  Bratton  (and  as  he  taketh  it)  by  virtue  of  the  other  letters 
patents,  other  than  the  said  first  mentioned  letters  patents,  the 
certainty  whereof  for  lack  of  sufficient  search  before  this 
answer  made  he  certainly  cannot  vouchsafe,  howebeit  if  it  shall 
otherwise  fall  out,  viz.,  that  such  profits  as  they  have  taken  of 
any  part  of  the  said  manors  cannot  be  satisfied  by  any  other 
letters  patents  than  are  mentioned  in  the  said  bill,  the  said 
defendant  trusteth  that  he  ought  not  to  be  impeached  therefore. 
.  .  .  .  All  which  matters  the  said  defendant  is  ready  to 
answer,  &c.,  and  prayeth  to  be  dismissed,  &c. 

The  replication  of  Gilbert  Gerrarde,  Esquire,  &c.,  to  the  answer 
of  the  Marquis  of  Winchester. 

The  said  attorney-general  in  behalf  of  the  Queen  saith  in 
all  things  as  before,  and  further  for  replication  saith  that  true 
it  is  that  by  the  enrolment  of  letters  patents  yet  in  record  that 
the  said  late  King  Edward  VI  by  letters  patents,  dated  26  June 
[?  January]  in  the  3rd  year  of  his  reign,  granted  to  William, 
late  Lord  Marquis  of  Winchester,  and  his  heirs,  by  the  name 
of  William,  Lord  St.  John,  and  Earl  of  Wiltshire,  among  other 
things  the  said  manors  of  Stepleashton,  Bratton,  and  North- 
stoke,  as  by  the  said  enrolments  not  cancelled  nor  made  void 
more  plainly  doth  appear.  But  immediately  after  that  grant  so 
made  the  said  late  Marquis,  in  consideration  of  another  grant 

of  some  part  of  the  said  manors  and   divers  other  manors, 

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lands,  and  tenements  to  him  to  be  made  by  King  Edward  VI 
by  other  letters  patents,  did  fully  agree  to  surrender  to  the 
said  late  king  not  only  the  former  letters  patents,  but  also  all 
his  interest  of  and  in  the  said  manors,  lands,  and  tenements 
therein  contained.  And  thereupon  King  Edward  VI  by  his 
other  letters  patents,  dated  i  May  in  the  fourth  year  of  his 
reign,  did  grant  unto  the  late  Marquis,  by  name  of  William, 
Lord  St.  John,  &c.,  all  that  the  grange  of  Bratton  and  the 
capital,  messuage,  and  demesne  lands  of  Steeple  Asheton,  in 
the  county  of  Wilts,  and  also  the  manors  of  Imber,  Tynehede, 
and  Edington  Romseyes,  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  and  divers 
other  lands  mentioned  in  the  said  letters  patents  to  hold  to 
him  and  his  heirs.  By  force  whereof  the  said  late  lord  Mar- 
quis entered  into  all  the  said  manors,  &c.,  so  given  by  the  said 
last  letters  patents.  And  after  his  death  the  same  descended 
to  the  said  now  Marquis,  who  at  present  doth  enjoy  the  same. 
Further  the  attorney  saith  that  it  is  evident  by  many  records 
of  accounts  that  the  said  late  Marquis,  according  to  the  said 
surrender  of  the  letters  patents  of  the  3rd  year,  did  content 
himself  with  the  manors,  &c.,  to  him  given  by  the  second 
letters  patents,  and  did  always  during  his  life  suffer  as  well  to 
the  said  late  King  Edward,  as  also  the  late  Queen  Mary  and 
the  Queen's  Majesty  that  now  is,  all  the  manors,  lands,  and 
tenements  expressed  in  the  former  letters  patents,  except  such 
parcels  thereof  as  were  given  in  the  second  letters  patents. 
By  force  whereof  the  said  late  King  and  Queen  and  the 
Queen's  Majesty  that  now  is  have  yearly  been  answered  of  all 
the  yearly  profits  of  the  said  manors,  &c.,  except  before 
excepted,  without  any  let  or  claim  by  any  person  until  now  of 
late  that  the  said  now  lord  Marquis,  by  himself  or  some  of  his 
servants  or  officers,  by  colour  of  the  said  enrolment  of  the 
former  letters  patents  yet  uncancelled,  hath  secretly  published 
some  right  in  and  to  the  said  manors  of  Steeple  Ashton,  &c., 
mentioned  in  the  former  patents.  Wherefore  the  premisses 
considered  and  forasmuch  as  the  now  Marquis  in  his  answer 
maketh  no  claim  to  the  said  manors,  &c.,  mentioned  in  the 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  213 

bill  of  information,  the  said  attorney-general,  in  behalf  of  the 
Queen,  prayeth  for  the  better  assurance  of  her  Majesty's  title 
that  the  said  Marquis  be  enjoined  not  only  to  confess  in  the 
High  Court  of  Chancery  that  the  said  former  inrollments 
may  be  made  void,  but  to  deliver  to  this  Court  the  said  former 
letters  patents  if  they  be  in  his  custody,  according  to  the 
intent  of  the  late  lord  Marquis,  his  father. 

[Signed]     G.  GERRARD. 

The  Rejoinder  of  the  Marquis  of  Winchester. 

The  Defendant  not  acknowledging  the  truth  of  the 
replication,  saith  that  the  late  Marquis  did  receive  the  profits 
of  divers  parcels  of  the  said  lands  and  tenements  to  him 
conveyed  in  the  former  letters  patents,  and  not  expressly  men- 
tioned in  the  second  letters  patents,  as  namely,  from  certain 
woods,  &c.,  in  Steeple  Ashton,  and  of  another  wood  in  the 
parish  of  Bradley,  co.  Wilts,  whereof  the  late  Marquis  was 
seized  by  virtue  of  the  first  letters  patents  from  the  time 
of  the  date  of  the  same  until  his  death,  but  whether  by  virtue 
of  the  former  or  later  letters  patents  the  Defendant  knoweth 
not.  And  this  Defendant  also  took  the  profits  thereof  until 
now  of  late  he  was  injoined  to  the  contrary.  And  forasmuch 
as  agreement  to  surrender  his  right  cannot  be  proved  other- 
wise than  that  the  late  Marquis  did,  as  is  surmised,  forbear  to 
take  the  profits  thereof,  and  forasmuch  as  it  is  evident  he  did 
not  forbear  the  taking  of  the  profits  in  the  woods  mentioned, 
the  said  Defendant  prayeth  to  be  allowed  to  continue  his 
possession  in  the  same  according  to  his  right,  and  for  all  such 
manors,  lands,  and  tenements  mentioned  in  the  former  letters 
patents  now  remaining  in  her  Majesty's  hands,  the  Defendant 
upon  the  true  understanding  of  the  certificate  of  the  said  John 
Myllesent  upon  his  oath  and  of  the  accounts  of  the  said  Lord 
Chidiock  Pawlett,1  supposed  to  be  made  of  the  manor  of  Imber 


1  These  are  not  mentioned  by  name  in  the  foregoing  replication. 


214  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

mentioned  in  the  replication,  and  also  of  the  said  records  of 
accounts  whereby  the  said  late  Marquis  should  charge  himself 
to  the  late  King  Edward  by  ....  in  his  own  name  of 
the  rents  of  assize  of  the  free  and  customary  tenants  for  the 
same  year  due  for  the  manor  of  Imber  granted  to  him  in  and 
by  the  first  letters  patents,  and  of  all  other  things  not  (?)  fully 
alleged  in  the  said  Replication,  this  Defendant  is  ready  to 
stand  to  such  order  as  this  honourable  Court  will  award. 

(70  be  continued.) 


WILLIAM    OF    EDINGTON, 

FOUNDER  OF  EDINGTON  PRIORY,  BISHOP  OF  WINCHESTER, 

AND   FIRST   PRELATE   OF  THE   MOST  NOBLE 

ORDER  OF  THE   GARTER. 


A.D.    1300-1366. 

This  great  Englishman — we  have  read  somewhere  that  it 
was  mainly  through  his  influence  that  English  was  first  sub- 
stituted for  Latin  or  Norman-French  in  Parliament  and  the 
Law  Courts — has  been  somewhat  lost  sight  of,  eclipsed  by  his 
disciple  and  successor,  William  of  Wykeham,  to  whom,  as 
Milner  remarks,  he  was  alone  inferior  in  virtues  and  talents  ; 
the  same  writer  goes  on  to  say  that  "justice  has  never  been 
done  to  the  memory  of  so  great  a  benefactor  to  Winchester 
Cathedral ;  of  this,  his  Chantry  is  a  convincing  proof,  which  has 
been  mutilated  in  former  times,  and  is  consigned  to  dust  and 
oblivion  in  this." 

He  was  born  about  1300  in  or  near  Edington,  from  which 
place  his  family  seems  to  have  taken  its  name  ;  we  learn  from 
the  Cartulary  of  that  Priory  that  Sir  John  of  Edington  was  his 
brother,  whose  son  John  was  Rector  in  1351,  and  that  Roger 
and  Avise  were  the  names  of  his  parents.  In  Bedford's  Blazon 
of  Episcopacy  three  coats  of  arms  are  assigned  to  him,  viz., — 
i.  Or,  on  a  cross  engrailed  gules  five  cinque  foils  (  ?  pierced)  of 


William  of  Edington.  2 1 5 

the  field;1  2,  Three  bars  wavy;  3,  Azure,  two  lions  passant  or, 
a  bordure  argent.  By  tracing  these  coats  it  might  be  possible 
to  discover  to  what  family  he  belonged  ;  is  there  extant  an 
example  of  the  Arms  of  his  parents  or  brother?  In  1344  he 
obtained  the  prebend  of  Netheravon,  1345-56  he  was  the  King's 
Treasurer,  and  then  Chancellor,  an  office  which  he  held  for 
six  years ;  in  1346  he  was  appointed  to  the  See  of  Winchester 
by  Pope  Clement  VI  at  the  King's  request.2  In  1366  he  was 
elected  to  Canterbury,  but  declined  from  humility  and  advancing 
years,  although  his  detractors,  quoting  his  alleged  words, 
"  Canterbury  is  the  higher  rack,  but  Winchester  is  the  richer 
manger,"  have  credited  him  with  avarice,  contradicted  by  his 
life  and  works.  His  obit  was  kept  at  Salisbury  on  Oct.  n. 

Both  Bedford  and  the  writer  of  a  somewhat  unappreciative 
memoir  in  the  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,  repeat  the 
frequent  error  of  his  having  been  interred  at  Edington,  whereas 
it  is  well  known  that  he  was  buried  in  his  Cathedral,  south  of 
the  choir  steps,  in  a  chantry  where  his  effigy  in  pontificalibus 
can  be  seen  lying  on  an  altar  tomb  of  alabaster  or  white 
marble,  as  Dingley  says,  who  also  adds,  that  he  was  a  favourite 
of  Edward  III,  and  "  the  first  caused  Groats  and  Twopences 
to  be  coin'd  in  England  1350";  around  the  edge  in  blue  enamel 
is  the  following  inscription  : — 

Edyndon  natus  Wilhelmus  hie  est  tumulatus 
Praesul  praegratus  in  Wintonia  cathedratus 
Oui  pertransitis  ejus  memorare  velitis 
Providus  et  mitis  ausit  cum  mille  peritis 
Pervigil  Anglorum  fuit  adjutor  populorum 
Dulcis  egenorum  pater  et  protector  eorum 
MC  tribus  junctum  post  LXV  sit  I  punctum 
Octava  Sanctum  notat  hunc  Octobris  inunctum. 

1  Canon  Jackson  mentions  another,  Or,  on  a  cross  engrailed  five  mullets 
pierced  (probably  meant  for  the  above)  as  occurring  on  a  private  deed  of 
the    Bishop's   in   the    Archives    of  Winchester   College;    the    Bursar,    Mr. 
T.  F.  Kirhy,  writes  that  there  are  three  or  four  examples  of  the  Bishop's 
secretum  bearing  the  first  of  the  three  coats  assigned  to  him  by  Bedford,  and 
a  power  of  attorney  (26  Edw.  Ill)  from  Edington  to  dilecttim  clericum  suum 
Willelmum  de  Wykfiam  to  receive  seisin  of  lands  at  Meon  Stoke  in  Hants, 
attached  to  which,  however,  is  the  well  known  seal  of  Henry  Esturmy,  and 
not  that  of  the  bishop. 

2  For  his  other  benefices,  see  Aubrey  and  Jackson,  p.  Sli), 


216  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


His  statue  has  recently  been  placed  in  the  Cathedral 
reredos ;  he  is  in  full  episcopal  habit,  and  in  his  right  and  left 
hands  respectively  are  his  two  great  architectural  works, 
Edington  Priory  and  Winchester  Cathedral. 

We  append  his  Will  (never  before,  we  believe,  published), 
which  Canon  Jackson,  writing  in  1862,  says  has  not  been 
found. 

Will  of  Bishop  Edington,  1366  (no*   Langhorne). 

In  nomine  et  honore  sancte  et  individue  Trinitatis  patris  et  filii  et 
spiritus  sancti  Amen.  Ego  Willelmus  de  Edyndon  miseratione  divina 
Wyntoniensis  Episcopus  anno  domini  millesimo  CCCmo  lxvjto  mensis 
Septembris  die  vndecimo  compos  mentis  existens  laudetur  deus,  con- 
siderans  tamen  conditionem  fragilitatis  humane  et  qualiter  omni  creature 
tarn  sublimi  quam  humili  pretereuntibus  suo  cursu  diebus  presentis  vite 
finis  apparebit  prevenire  cupio  quantum  mihi  ex  alto  permittitur  diem 
mortis  mee,  et  de  me  et  bonis  meis  disponere  ac  etiam  ordinare.  Vnde 
de  me  ipso  et  rebus  mihi  a  deo  collatis  ante  condendi  testamentum  sic 
ordino  et  dispono  et  testamentum  meum  condo  et  facio  in  hunc  modum. 
In  primis  lego  et  commendo  animam  meam  omnipotenti  deo  creatori  meo 
et  corpus  meum  terre  ad  sepeliendum  me  in  ecclesia  mea  Cathedrali 
Wyntoniensis  in  naui  dicte  ecclesie  vbi  monachi  ejusdem  diebus 
dominicis  et  festinis  stare  solent  in  processione  aut  alibi  in  dicta  ecclesia 
vbi  prior  ejusdem  et  executores  mei  duxerint  ordinandum  et  me  fore 
tumulandum.  De  bonis  autem  que  mihi  contulit  dementia  salvatoris 
sic  dispono  et  ordino.  Videlicet  quod  post  expensas  ad  honorem  dei 
ratione  funeris  mei  serui  sui  factas  quas  committo  disposicioni  et  dis- 
crecioni  executorum  meorum  omnia  debita  mea  primo  soluantur  deinde 
legata  prout  inferius  scribuntur  legatariis  persoluantur.  Item  lego 
venerabili  patri  domino  Simoni  Ecclesie  Cantuariensis  electo  confirmato 
Cancellario  Anglic  vnum  annulum  aureum  cum  vno  rubie  et  vnum  iocale 
ad  valorem  xx/z.  Item  lego  venerabili  patri  domino  Johanni  Bathoniensi 
et  Wellensi  Episcopo  Thesaurario  Anglic  vnum  anulum  aureum  cum 
vno  rubie  et  vnum  iocale  ad  valorem  xx/z'.  Item  lego  domino  Willelmo 
de  Wykham  clerico  priuati  sigilli  domini  Regis  vnum  anulum  aureum 
cum  vno  rubie  et  vnum  iocale  ad  valorem  xx/z.  Item  lego  domino 
David  Wollore  vnum  iocale  valoris  xx/z'.  Item  lego  venerabili  patri 
domino  Roberto  Episcopo  Sarum  vnum  anulum  aureum  cum  vno  rubie 
et  xl/z'.  de  pecunia  quam  michi  debet.  Item  lego  C  marcas  in  subsidium 
et  augmentacionem  Cantarie  apud  Wappenham  in  Archidiaconatu 
Northampton  pro  anima  magistri  Gilberti  de  Middleton  fundate  et 
ordinate  conuertendas  juxta  discrecionem  executorum  meorum.  Item 
lego  centum  marcas  ad  distribuendas  inter  pauperes  de  parentela 
domini  Ade  Wyntoniensis  predecessoris  mei  immediati  et  inter  alios 
pauperes  per  consilium  domini  Thome  Roffensis  Episcopi  et  iuxta 
discretionem  executorum  meorum.  Item  lego  fratri  Hugoni  Priori 


William  of  Edington.  2 1 7 


ecclesie  mee  Sancti  Swithini  Wyntoniensis  xx//.  ad  orandum  pro  anima 
mea.  Item  lego  cuilibet  monacho  ejusdem  ecclesia  in  ordine  sacerdotali 
constitute  ad  celebrandum  missas  et  orandum  pro  anima  mea  centum 
solidas.  Item  lego  cuilibet  altero  monacho  de  dicta  ecclesia  in  ordine 
presbiteratus  non  constitute  quinque  marcas  ad  orandum  pro  anima  mea. 
Item  lego  domino  Thome  Abbati  de  Hida  juxta  Wynton,  ad  celebrandum  et 
orandum  pro  anima  mea  xx  marcas..  Item  lego  cuilibet  monacho  pres- 
bitero  in  dicta  domo  de  Hida  ad  celebrandum  et  orandum  pro  anima  mea 
Ixs.  Item  lego  cuilibet  altero  monacho  in  dicta  domo  non  presbitero  ad 
orandum  pro  anima  mea  xly.  Item  lego  domine  Isabelle  Abbatisse  de 
Romeseye  vnum  anulum  cum  vno  rubie  ad  orandum  pro  anima  mea  et 
xx//.  Item  lego  conuentui  de  Romeseye  xx//.  inter  eas  distribuendas 
ad  orandum  pro  anima  mea.  Item  lego  Abbatisse  et  Conventui  Sancte 
Marie  Wyntoniensis  ad  orandum  pro  anima  mea  xx  marcas  inter  eas 
distribuendas.  Item  lego  Abbatisse  et  Conventui  de  WhereWell  ad 
orandum  pro  anima  mea  xx  marcas  inter  eas  distribuendas.  Item  lego 
fratri  Johanni  Rectori  Domus  mee  de  Edyndon  ad  celebrandum  et  oran- 
dum pro  anima  mea  xx//.  et  vnam  cuppam  argenteam  cum  cooper- 
culo.  Item  lego  cuilibet  fratri  Religioso  in  dicta  domo  ad  cele- 
brandum et  orandum  pro  anima  mea  Cs.  Item  lego  Ricardo  de 
Lauynton  et  Edithe  vxori  sue  et  liberis  eorundem  xl//.  Item  lego 
eidem  Edithe  vnam  robam  meam  integram  furratam.  Item  lego  Johanni 
Butesthorn  et  Gonde  vxori  sue  quinquaginta  //.  quas  michi  debent.  Item 
lego  eidem  Gonde  vnam  robam  meam  bonam  integram  furratam. 
Item  lego  Abbati  et  Conuentui  de  Certesia  ad  celebrandum  et  orandum 
pro  anima  mea  et  ad  taciendum  inter  eos  exequias  die  sepulture  mee  in 
die  tricesimo  a  die  mortis  mee  et  anniversaria  mea  xx  marcas  inter 
eos  distribuendas.  Item  lego  Priori  et  Conuentui  domus  sancte  Marie 
de  Suthwerk  sub  forma  consimili  -x.lt.  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  lego 
Prori  et  conuentui  de  Merton  sub  eadem  forma  xx//.  inter  eos  diuidendas. 
Item  lego  Priori  et  Conuentui  de  Nouo  Loco  sub  forma  consimili  x//.  inter 
eos  diuidendos.  Item  lego  Abbati  et  Conuentui  de  Wauerle  sub  forma 
consimili  -x.lt.  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  lego  Priorisse  et  conuentui  de 
Wynteneye  sub  forma  predicta  x  marcas  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item 
lego  Priori  et  conuentui  de  Selebourne  sub  forma  consimili  Gy.  inter  eos 
diuidendas.  Item  lego  Abbati  et  conuentui  de  Ouarrera  in  Insula  vecta 
sub  forma  consimili  x  marcas  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  lego  Abbati  et 
conuentui  de  Lettele  sub  forma  consimili  x  marcas  inter  eos  diuidendas. 
Item  lego  Priori  et  conuentui  de  South  Wyk  sub  forma  consimili  -x.lt. 
inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  lego  Abbati  et  Conuentui  de  Ticchefeld 
sub  forma  consimili  -x.lt.  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  Priori  et  conventui 
domus  sancti  Dionisii  iuxta  Southampton  sub  forma  consimili  x  marcas 
inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  Priori  et  conuentui  Christi  ecclesie  de 
Twynham  sub  forma  consimili  x//.  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  Priori  et 
conuentui  de  Brommore  sub  eadem  forma  C  solidos  inter  eos  diuidendos. 
Item  Priori  et  conuentui  de  Motefonte  sub  forma  consimili  x  marcas 
inter  eos  diuidendos.  Item  Priori  et  conuentui  de  Shirebourne  sub 
forma  consimili  Cs.  inter  eos  diuidendos.  Item  lego  Priori  et  conuentui 


2i8  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


fratrum  predicatorum  Wyntoniensium  ad  celebrandum  et  orandum  pro 
anima  mea  sub  eadem  forma  x//.  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  Gardiano 
et  fratribus  minoribus  Wyntoniensibus  sub  forma  consimili  x  libras  inter 
eos  diuidendas.  Item  Priori  et  fratribus  de  ordine  sancti  Augustini 
Wyntoniensis  sub  forma  consimili  x  marcas  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item 
Priori  et  fratribus  Carmelitis  Wyntoniensibus  sub  eadem  forma  x  marcas 
inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  Gardiano  et  fratribus  minoribus  Suthampton- 
iensis  sub  forma  consimili  x  marcas  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  lego 
fratribus  minoribus  Londoniensibus  sub  forma  predicta  xx//.  Item 
fratribus  predicatoribus  Londoniensibus  sub  forma  consimili  xx//.  inter  eos 
distribuendas  ad  celebrandum  et  orandum  pro  anima  mea.  Item 
fratribus  Augustinis  Londoniensibus  sub  forma  consimili  x//.  Item 
fratribus  Carmelitis  Londoniensibus  sub  eadem  forma  x//.  inter  eos  con- 
similiter  distribuendas.  Item  fratribus  predicatoribus  Oxoniensibus  sub 
forma  consimili  x//.  Item  fratribus  minoribus  Oxoniensibus,  sub 
eadem  forma  x//.  Item  fratribus  Augustinis  ibidem  sub  forma  consimili 
x  marcas  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  fratribus  Carmelitis  Oxoniensibus  x 
marcas  sub  forma  prelibata.  Item  lego  fratribus  predicatoribus  Sarum 
sub  forma  consimili  x  marcas.  Item  fratribus  minoribus  ibidem  sub 
eadem  forma  x  marcas.  Item  lego  Canonicis  vicariis  et  ministris  in 
ecclesia  Cathedrali  Sarum  ibidem  existentibus  ad  celebrandum  et  orandum 
pro  anima  mea  et  ad  faciendum  exequias  meas  die  sepulture  mee  et  in 
die  tricesimo  a  tempore  mortis  mee  xx//.  inter  presentes  in  eisdem 
exequiis  meis  diuidendas  iuxta  disposicionem  executorum  meorum. 
Item  lego  Priori  et  monachis  domus  Cartusiensis  in  Selewode  sub  forma 
consimili  x  marcas.  Item  Priori  et  monachis  Domus  Dei  de  henton 
eiusdem  ordinis  x  marcas  sub  forma  consimili.  Item  lego  Abbati  et 
conuentui  de  Belloloco  sub  forma  consimili  xx  marcas  inter  eos  diuiden- 
das. Item  lego  xx  marcas  pro  vno  vestimento  emendo  ad  ecclesiam 
de  Cheriton  ibidem  perpetuo  mansuro  pro  anima  mea.  Item  lego  x//. 
ad  distribuendas  inter  pauperes  parochialos  dicte  ecclesie  iuxta  ordina- 
cionem  executorum  meorum.  Item  lego  pro  vno  vestimento  emendo 
ad  ecclesiam  de  Middelton  iuxta  Banneburi1  ibidem  perpetuo  mansuro 
x  marcas.  Item  lego  Cy.  ad  distribuendos  inter  pauperes  parochialos 
ibidem.  Item  lego  pro  vno  vestimento  emendo  ad  ecclesiam  de 
Dalyngton  iuxta  Northampton  ibidem  perpetuo  mansuro  x  marcas. 
Item  lego  Cs.  ad  distribuendos  inter  pauperes  parochialos  ibidem. 
Item  lego  pauperibus  monialibus  sancti  Egidii  in  Hamstede  ad  orandum 
pro  anima  mea  x//.  Item  lego  domui  Sancte  Margarete  de  luyngho  pro 
reparacione  domus  vestimentorum  ornamentorum  et  aliorum  vtensilium 
dicte  domus  xx//.  Item  lego  magistro  Johanni  Wormenhale  Officiali 
meo  xl//.  et  vnum  ciphum  Argenteum  cum  co-operculo  ad  celebrandum 
et  orandum  pro  anima  mea.  Item  lego  domino  Nicholao  Kaervvent 
xl/*".  et  vnum  ciphum  argenteum  cum  cooperculo.  Item  domino 
Johanni  Blebi  xl//.  et  vnum  ciphum  argenteum  cum  cooperculo.  Item 
lego  Magistro  Waltero.  Seuenhampton  xl//.  et  vnum  ciphum 

1  Bannebury,  now  Bambrough,  in  Northumberland,  probably. 


William  of  Edington.  219 


argenteum  cum  cooperculo.  Item  magistro  Johanni  Benbie  xl.  marcas 
et  vnum  ciphum  argenteum  cum  cooperculo.  Item  lego  Magistro 
Johanni  Corf  xl//.  et  vnum  ciphum  argenteum  cum  cooperculo.  Item 
lego  domino  Thome  Derle  Custodi  Capelle  mee  xx//.  Item  lego  Rogero 
atte  More  xx  marcas.  Item  lego  domino  Ricardo  Hampton  xx  marcas. 
Item  lego  domino  Ricardo  Chauntour  x//.  Item  domino  Johanni  Payn 
x//  Item  lego  domino  Willelmo  Falewell  x//.  Item  lego  domino 
Johanni  Crabbe  xx  marcas.  Item  lego  domino  Johanni  de  Sancto 
Neoto  xx  marcas.  Item  lego  domino  Ricardo  Lyntefford  xx//.  et  vnum 
ciphum  argenteum  cum  cooperculo.  Item  domino  Nicholas  Waleys 
xx//.  et  vnum  ciphum  argenteum  cum  cooperculo.  Item  domino 
Johanni  Fairford  x  marcas.  Item  magistro  Johanni  Essex  x//.  Item 
domino  Willelmo  de  Leneryngton  x//.  Item  Johanni  Twyford  Cs. 
Item  Roberto  Dounton  clerico  capelle  Cs.  Item  Waltero  de  Guldeford 
clerico  x  marcas.  Item  Roberto  Chaumberleyn  clerico  Capelle  Gy. 
Item  Ricardo  Waltham  clerico  Capelle  Cs.  Item  lego  Thome  Hunger- 
ford  senescallo  meo  1  marcas  et  vnam  cuppam  cum  cooperculo.  Item 
Johanni  Roches  Constabulario  meo  de  Taunton  xx  marcas.  Item 
Rogero  Manyford  balliuo  meo  de  Dounton  x//.  Item  lego  Rogero  hay 
Wode  xx//.  et  vnum  ciphum  argenti.  Item  Rogero  Gernays  xx//.  Item 
Thome  Warenner  xx//.  Item  domino  Willelmo  Rectori  de  Splene 
balliuo  meo  de  Clere  xx  marcas.  Item  Thome  Austyn  xx//.  Item 
Johanni  de  Eveshem  xx//.  Item  Willelmo  de  Neudigate  Constabulario 
meo  de  Farnham  xx  marcas.  Item  Waltero  Hay  Wode  xx//.  et  vnum 
ciphum  argenti.  Item  Michaeli  Skillyng  xx//.  et  vnum  ciphum  argenti. 
Item  Willelmo  Houghton  xx  marcas.  Item  lego  domino  Radulpho  de 
Norton  militi  xx//.  quas  michi  debet.  Item  lego  domine  Margarete 
uxori  sue  xx//.  Item  lego  Nicholas  Wodelok  et  uxori  sue  xx//.  Item 
lego  domine  del  Isle  matri  domini  Johanni  del  Isle  vnum  anulum  cum 
vno  rubie  et  vnum  ciphum  argenti  cum  cooperculo.  Item  lego  domini 
Johanni  del  Isle  militi  predicto  et  vxori  sue  xl//.  Item  lego  Ricardo 
Sutton  Janitori  meo  de  Woluesia  et  vxori  sue  xx//.  Item  vxori  sue 
vnam  robam  meam  integram  furratam.  Item  lego  Johanni  Bray  de 
scaccario  domini  Regis  robas  meas  gerenti  xxx/z.  Item  lego  domino 
Roberto  de  Lyncoln  xx//.  et  vnum  ciphum  argenti.  Item  lego  domino 
Rogero  de  Chesterfield  vnam  cuppam  bonam  argenti.  Item  lego  domino 
Ricardo  Rauensere  vnam  cuppam  bonam  argenti.  Item  lego  domino 
Ricardo  Chestrefeld  vnam  cuppam  bonam  argenti.  Item  lego  proposito 
et  Capellanis  et  aliis  ministris  in  Capella  domus  sancte  Elizabethe  ad 
faciendum  exequiis  pro  me  vt  prefertur  et  ad  celebrandum  et  orandum 
pro  anima  mea  x  marcas  inter  eos  diuidendas.  Item  lego  domino 
Roberto  Rectori  de  Pateneye  clerico  meo  de  Taunton  xx  marcas. .  Item 
Johanni  Harewell  seruienti  meo  de  West  Wycombe  x//.  Item  lego 
Ricardo  seruienti  meo  de  luyngho  x  marcas.  Item  lego  Roberto  Erheth 
marescallo  domus  mee  x//.  Item  Thome  Mucheldeuere  xx//.  Item 
Stephano  Carre  xx//.  Item  Johanni  Motesfonte  xx  marcas.  Item 
Andree  Gerucis  xl  marcas.  Item  Nicholao  coco  meo  x//.  Item 
Petro  Falewell  x//.  Item  Thome  Farendon  x//.  Item  Willelmo 


22O  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Gueldeford  x/z'.  Item  filio  Nicholao  Wodelok  x/z".  Item  Radulpho 
Whithors  ~x.lt.  Item  lego  Roberto  Gerkyn  camerario  meo  ~x.lt.  Item 
Johanni  Barbour  aliter  vocato  Mounpalers  Cs.  Item  Willelmo 
Forde  x  marcas.  Item  Henrico  Weston  ~x.lt .  Item  Rogero  Lachebroc 
~x.lt.  Item  Waltero  Grene  x  marcas.  Item  Johanni  Forneax  x  mar- 
cas. Item  Johanni  Man  x  marcas.  Item  Johanni  Neel  x//.  Item 
Thome  Squiller  x/z.  Item  Rogero  Pulliter  x  marcas.  Item  Rogero 
Spark  x/z.  Item  Willelmo  Pistori  meo  x  marcas.  Item  lego  Gilberto 
de  Olrefford  x  marcas.  Item  Willelmo  Ferrour  x  marcas.  Item  Roberto 
Papelvvykes  x  marcas.  Item  Johanni  Blount  x  marcas.  Item  Thome 
Chariotter  seniori  x/z.  Item  Thome  Ropele  Char[iotter  ?]  x  marcas. 
Item  lego  Johanni  Hunte  x/z'.  Item  Johanni  Romes'  Barbour  Cs.  Item 
Laurentio  Piscotori  v  marcas.  Item  lego  Luce  Mainteld  C.y.  Item  lego 
Rogero  Dene  janitori  de  Taunton  x  marcas.  Item  lego  Roberto  de 
camera  meajuniori  x/z.  Item  lego  Stephano  de  Camera  mea  x/z".  Item 
lego  Roberto  Botiller  x  marcas.  Item  lego  Ricardo  de  Panetria  Cs.  Item 
Johanni  Colbrouk  Cs.  Item  Thome  Bergeueneye  Cs.  Item  Johanni  atte 
Halle  Cs.  Item  Johanni  Pichelse  x  marcas.  Item  Ricardo  Clerico  x 
marcas.  Item  Johanni  de  Pulletr'  Cs.  Item  Willelmo  garconi  pistrine 
Cs.  Item  Philippo  et  Thome  duobus  garconibus  bracini  cuilibet  eorum 
Cs.  Item  Waltero  Dodde  x  marcas.  Item  Johanni  Coumbe  x  marcas. 
Item  lego  Ricardo  Somersete  x  marcas.  Item  Willelmo  Wylot  x 
marcas.  Item  Edwardo  garconi  x  marcas.  Item  Michaeli  garconi  Cs. 
Item  Willelmo  Harold  Cs.  Item  Willelmo  Pinfold  Cs.  Item  Stephano 
Yatele  Cs.  Item  Johanni  de  Esshe  Cs.  Item  Roberto  Rykeby  Cy.  Item 
Ricardo  atte  Churche  iiij/z".  Item  Willelmo  Garconi  prime  Chariotter  Cs. 
Item  Johanni  Garconi  secunde  Chariotter  Cs.  Item  Willelmo  Boor  Cs. 
Item  Johanni  Lauender  ~xls.  Item  Johanni  Custodi  animalium  quinque 
marcas.  Item  lego  garconi  venatoris  v  marcas.  Item  socio  suo  xlj. 
Item  garconi  janitoris  v  marcas.  Item  Simoni  garconi  de  Esshe  x\s. 
Item  lego  pagetto  pistrine  ~xls.  Item  pagetto  bracini  \s.  Item  pagetto 
de  la  Squilerie  xly.  Item  Willelmo  Wergraver  \s.  Item  payetto  de 
Pulletr'  x\s.  Item  ij  pagettis  Char'  iiij/z.  inter  eos  equaliter  diuidendas. 
Item  lego  Johanni  Moul  pagetto  palefridorum  meorum  lx.y.  Item  pagetto 
saliuar'  x\s.  Item  pagetto  venatoris  x\s.  Item  lego  Johanni  Marche 
ballivo  meo  de  South  Werk  si  bene  et  fideliter  se  habuit  habeat  et  habuerit 
in  officio  suo  et  tidele  compotum  reddiderit  de  toto  tempore  suo  et 
satisfecerit  fideliter  de  arreragiis  per  testimonium  executorum  meorum 
x/z.  alioquin  adhenio  sibi  legatum  predictum.  Et  si  quid  residuum 
fuerit  de  bonis  meis  non  legatis,  illud  lego  executoribus  meis  vt  de  eo 
ad  perfeccionem  operis  navis  ecclesie  sancti  Swithini  Wyntoniensis  per 
me  inchoati  ei  indigeat,  et  ad  subsidium  domus  siue  Cantarie  mee  de 
Edyndon  si  indigeat,  et  in  distribucione  pauperum  et  celebracione 
missarum  et  aliis  piis  operibus  et  vsibus  pro  anima  mea  ordinant  et 
disponant  secundum  quod  anime  mee  saluti  possit  proficere  et  executori- 
bus meis  videbitur  expedire.  Hujus  autem  testament!  me!  ordino  iacio 
et  constitute  executores  meos  videlicet  Dominum  Nicholaum  Kaerwent 
Rectorem  ecclesie  de  Crumdale  dominum  Johannemde  Bleoburi  Rectorem 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  221 

ecclesie  de  Wytteneye  Thomam  Hungerford  senescallum  meum  Magis- 
tros  Walterum  de  Seuenhampton  Rectorem  ecclesie  de  Alreford  et 
Johannem  Corf  Rectorem  ecclesie  de  Colyngbourne  Abbatis.  Datum 
apud  Southwaltham  in  manerio  nostro  ibidem  situate  die  et  anno  domini 
supradictis. 

[In  a  more  modern  hand  : — "  Summa  legata  in  clara  pecunia  attingit 
ad  summam  3000/2'.] 

Proved  at  Lambeth,  20  October,  A.D.  1366. 


AMESBURY    MONASTERY,    WITH    AN    ACCOUNT    OF 
SOME  DISCOVERIES  ON  THE  SITE  IN  1860. 

(Continued  from  p.  154.,) 


In  1327,  the  Prioress  and  Convent  of  Amesbury  having 
represented  to  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  (Roger  de  Mortival) 
that  "  certain  Nuns  of  the  said  Priory,  being  virgins,  and 
having  made  profession,  being  of  suitable  age,  and  otherwise 
qualified  according  to  canonical  rules,"  were  seeking  con- 
secration, that  prelate  issued  a  commission,  dated  5  May,  to 
John  de  Drokenford,  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells,  to  consecrate 
them  accordingly,  on  the  next  ensuing  feast  of  the  Ascension.1 
They  numbered  thirty-six,  including  the  Lady  Isabella 
Plantagenet,  already  mentioned  at  page  153,  as  afterwards 
Prioress  of  Aconbury,  co.  Hereford  ;  Margery  de  Pyrebroke, 
who,  in  1349,  had  become  Prioress  of  Amesbury;  and  other 
names — as  Le  Rous,  of  Imber,  De  la  Foley,  Aucher,  De  la 
Mere,  and  Mautravers,  which  may  be  identified  with  Wilt- 
shire ;  whilst  De  Horncastel,  De  Oxenford,  De  Donestaple, 
and  De  Wyncester,  seem  to  point  to  families  of  more  distant 


1  Register  of  Bishop  Drokenford,  at  Wells.     Wilts  Arch.  Magazine,  vol. 
xviii,  p.  286. 


222  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

origin.  In  1344-5  (19  Edw.  Ill)  Margaret  Cobham,  of  the 
well  known  Kentish  family  of  that  name,  was  a  Nun  here. 

To  the  Plantagenet  Kings,  the  Prioress  and  Nuns  of 
Amesbury  were  indebted  for  many  important  privileges.  In 
addition  to  the  earlier  charters  of  Henry  II,  John,  and  Henry 
III,  we  find,  in  1285,  a  grant  from  Edward  I  to  the  Prioress, 
of  free  warren,  &c.,  in  many  of  her  Wiltshire  manors,  and 
others  in  the  adjoining  counties  of  Berks  and  Hants  ;  and, 
later  in  the  same  reign,  a  grant  also  of  common  of  pasture  and 
pannage,  in  the  Royal  forest  of  Melksham. 

Edward  II,  in  1316,  besides  confirming  other  liberties, 
granted  a  market  and  fair  at  Amesbury.  From  Edward  III 
the  prioress  also  obtained  charters ;  whilst  to  the  last  of  the 
Plantagenets  (Richard  II)  the  Convent  was  also  indebted, 
in  1391,  for  a  grant  of  firewood  from  the  neighbouring  forests 
of  Chute  and  Groveley.1 

During  the  Wars  of  the  Roses,  in  the  succeeding  century, 
we  meet  with  comparatively  little  Amesbury  history.  From 
one  of  the  Lancastrian  kings  (Henry  VI),  on  his  accession  to 
the  throne,  in  1422,  the  Prioress  obtained  a  full  confirmation 
of  all  her  manors,  lands  and  liberties  ;8  which  were  again 
confirmed  to  her  by  Edward  IV,  soon  after  the  tide  had 
turned  in  favour  of  the  House  of  York.  It  was  probably 
about  this  time  that  the  Prioress  and  Convent  succeeded  in 
finally  severing  the  connexion  which  had  existed  for  more 
than  two  centuries  between  their  Wiltshire  monastery, 
and  the  parent  abbey  of  Font  Evrault — which  must  at  all 
times  have  been  more  or  less  distasteful  to  them,  and  after 
the  death  of  the  Princess  Mary  (who,  during  her  long  residence 
here,  had  freely  used  her  interest  with  the  Crown  on 


1  Quod  Priorissa  de  Ambresbury  habeat  duos  carectas  ducentes  qualibet 
die  focale  unam,  viz.,  in  foresta  de  Chute  et  alter'  in  foresta  de  Groveley, 
et  in  qualibet  carecta  tres  equos,  &c.     Patent  Rolls,  15  Richard  II,  p.  2,  m.  3. 

2  Peramplissima    confirmatio     manoriorum     terr'    ac    libertatum    pro 
Priorissa  de   Ambresbury;  in   qua  de   56   Chart.  H.  III.     Vide   17  Chart. 
Edw.  III.     Ibid.,  1  Hen.  VI,  p.  5,  m.  11. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  223 

behalf  of  the  Monastery  and  its  inmates)  may  have  become  still 
more  intolerable. 

Bishop  Tanner,  in  his  Notitia  Monastica,  without  men- 
tioning any  date,  merely  says  that  at  length  the  house  was 
"made  denizen  and  became  again  an  Abbey";  the  word  denison 
or  denizon  being  explained  in  Martin's  Dictionary  (1748)  as  "  an 
alien  enfranchised  in  England  by  the  King's  charter."  Now, 
in  1462-3  (3  Edward  IV)  it  happens  that  the  Prioress  and 
Nuns  of  Amesbury  paid  a  fine  for  the  confirmation  of  certain 
charters,  Jones'  Index  to  Memoranda]  the  actual  confirmation  of 
manors,  lands  and  liberties  being  itself  preserved  among  the 
Patent  Rolls  of  the  same  date.1  Bishop  Tanner  also  mentions 
another  Patent  Roll,  two  years  later,  relating  to  the  liberties 
of  the  Abbess  late  of  Font  Evrau/t,  in  her  manor  of  Leighton 
Buzzard.  (Patent  5  Edward  IV,  p.  i,  m.  4.) 

In  addition  to  their  ordinary  use  as  a  retreat  for  Nuns, 
the  Abbeys  of  the  middle  ages  were  extensively  used  for 
the  purpose  of  education.  Aubrey,  writing  in  the  year  1670, 
and  contrasting  the  education  of  his  own  day  with  that  of 
earlier  times,  says :  "  The  young  mayds  were  brought  up 
(not  at  Hakney,  Sarum  Schools,  &c.,  to  learn  pride  and 
wantonnesse,  but)  at  the  Nunneries,  where  they  had  ex- 
amples of  piety  and  humility,  and  modestie  and  obedience, 
to  imitate  and  to  practise.  Here  they  learned  needlework, 
the  art  of  confectionary,  surgery  (anciently  no  apothecaries 
or  surgeons — the  gentlewoemen  did  cure  their  poore  neigh- 
bours ;  their  hands  are  now  too  fine),  physick,  writing, 
drawing,  &c."  They  also  often  afforded  a  temporary  asylum 
for  females  who  were  advanced  in  age,  or  whose  natural 


1  The  writer  has  not  yet  had  an  opportunity  of  consulting  the  original 
document,  which  is  thus  described  in  the  Calendar—  "  Perampla  confirmatio 
maneriorutn  terrarum  ac  libertatum  pro  Priorissa  de  Ambresbury ;  in  qua' 
Maria  filia  Edwardi  primi  fuit  Priorissa  ejusdem  Domus,  56  Chart, 
H.  III.  Vide  17  Chart,  Ed.  III."  Ibid.,  3  Edw.  IV,  p.  3,  m.  3.  Why  the 
name  of  the  Princess  Mary  should  be  introduced  here,  some  130  years  after 
her  death,  does  not  appear.  (See  previous  note  at  p.  151.) 


224  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

protectors  were  either  removed  by  death  or  necessarily 
absent  in  their  country's  service.1 

It  was  probably  in  the  early  part  of  Edward  IVth's 
reign  that  Amesbury  Monastery  became  in  this  way  a  place 
of  temporary  safety  for  a  lady  whose  connexion  by  marriage 
with  this  county  has  a  more  than  usual  interest.  This  was 
Lady  Margaret,  widow  of  Robert,  second  Lord  Hungerford, 
of  Farley  Castle  and  Heytesbury;  herself  daughter  of 
William,  third  and  last  Lord  Botreaux,  of  the  ancient  Cor- 
nish family  of  that  name,  and  eventually  sole  heiress  to 
the  large  property  and  titles  of  Botreaux  and  Moels.2 

Lady  Margaret  appears  to  have  married  Lord  Hunger- 
ford  about  the  year  1430.  He  died  in  1459,  and  in  accord- 
ance with  his  will  she  afterwards  founded  the  Hungerford 
Chapel  which  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  Lady  Chapel 
of  Salisbury  Cathedral,  and  was  destroyed  by  Wyatt  in  his 
mischievous  alterations  to  that  building  in  1789. 

Robert,  third  Lord  Hungerford,  eldest  son  of  Lady 
Margaret,  who  had  married  the  heiress  of  Molines,  took  an 
active  part  (as  did  also  many  Wilts  gentry  of  the  time)  on 


1  In  1314  the  Prioress  and  Nuns  of  Cannington,  co.  Somerset,  obtained 
permission  from  the  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells  to  receive  the  wife  and  two 
sisters  of  John  Ffychet,  of  whose  good  and  honest  conversation  he  was  in- 
formed, for  sojourn  in  their  house  during  the  absence  of  the  said  John  in 
foreign  parts,  or  as  much  of  that  interval  as  should  be  agreeable  to  them. 
The  ladies  were  to  live  at  their  own  proper  cost,  and  their  presence  was  not 
to  attract  other  strangers  to  the  burden  of  the  house  or  suspicion  of  scandal. 

2  By  his  first  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John,  Lord  Beaumont.     The 
supposed  tomb  of  Lady  Margaret  Hungerford's  father  and  mother,  bearing 
their  recumbent  effigies,   is    in    North    Cadbury    Church,    co.    Somerset. 
William,  Lord  Botreaux,  died  in  1462,  possessed  of  no  less  than  fifty  manors 
in  the  western  counties — inherited  through  the  heiress  of  Moels — amongst 
them  North  Cadbury — and  in  that  church  (which  they  probably  re-built) 
he  desired  in  his  will  to  be  buried.     His  supposed  tomb,  formerly  on  the 
north  side  of  the  chancel,  is  now  removed  to  the  west  end.     The  male  effigy 
is  in  complete  plate  armour,  with  the  Lancastrian  collar  of  SS,  his  head 
resting  on  a  helmet,  with  crest,  and  at  his  feet  a  lion.    The  lady  in  a  richly 
ornamented  horned  head  dress,  and  mantle  fastened  with  cordon  and  tassels, 
head  resting  on  a  cushion,  and  feet  on  two  lions. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  225 

the  Lancastrian  side,  in  the  Wars  of  the  Roses,  and  on  the 
defeat  of  his  party,  in  the  battle  of  Hexham,  in  1463-4,  he  was 
beheaded  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  and  attainted.  His  son,  Sir 
Thomas  Hungerford,  of  Rowden,  near  Chippenham,  also 
perished  in  the  same  cause.  He  was  tried  at  Salisbury 
for  High  Treason,  on  a  charge  of  attempting  to  restore 
Henry  VI  to  the  throne,  for  which  he  was  condemned  and 
beheaded  at  Bemerton  gallows  in  1469. 

Lady  Margaret  having  thus,  within  ten  years,  lost  her 
husband,  son  and  grandson,  the  two  latter  in  their  efforts 
to  deprive  Edward  IV  of  the  throne,  it  is  not  improbable 
that  she  also  fell  Under  suspicion  as  an  abettor,  and  in- 
curred what  she  herself  describes  as  the  king's  "high  dis- 
pleasure." In  a  document  which  she  calls  "  a  writing 
annexed  to  her  will,"  she  quaintly  details  the  expenses  she 
had  incurred,  as  well  as  the  various  personal  hardships  she 
had  undergone  during  the  troublous  times  in  which  she 
lived.  For  a  while  she  became  an  inmate  of  Amesbury 
Monastery,  and  her  misfortunes  here  will  be  best  described 
in  her  own  words — 

"Stem,  at  such  tyme  as  I  was  by  the  Chanceler  of  Inglond  put  in 
the  Abbay  ot  Amesbury,  and  ther  kept  by  the  Kyng's  commandement, 
by  fortune  of  fyre  all  my  moveable  goods,  that  is  to  say,  beddis  of  cloth 
of  goolde,  beddis  ot  aras  and  of  silke,  hangyngis  of  aras  for  hallis  and 
chambris,  plate,  money,  and  other  stuffe  to  the  value  of  a  Thousand 
pounds  and  more,  and  the  chief  loggyng  of  the  same  place  where  I  was 
in,  cover'd  with  lede  by  the  said  infortune  was  brent  [burnt]  and  pulled 
downe,  of  which  the  new  bildyng  and  amendyng  cost  me  ^200 — sum 
£1200." 

On  one  occasion  it  appears  that  Lady  Margaret  was 
actually  under  arrest,  and  in  this  matter  "one  William 
Baker",1  a  Devizes  man,  figures  rather  prominently. 


1  The  name  of  William  Baker  occurs  in  a  deed  of  about  the  year  1460  as 
one  of  the  feoffee?  of  lands,  &c.,  belonging  to  St.  Mary's  Church,  Devizes. 

Q 


226 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


"  Item,  I  was  arrested  by  the  Sherve  of  Wilteshire  at  the  King's 
commandement  by  a  suggestyon  made  to  his  highnes  by  a  servaunte  of 
the  Lord  Montague  is,  havyng  but  oone  ye  [one  eye],  and  by  oone 
Will'm  Baker,  of  the  Vise  [Devizes],  at  which  time  all  my  lands  and 
moveable  goods  were  taken  into  the  King's  hands,  and  I  lived  only  upon 
the  costs  of  my  friends;  and  or  I  could  be  declared  in  that  behalf,  and 
restored  to  my  said  lands  and  goods,  it  cost  me  ^"400." 

Lady  Hungerford  was  foundress  of  the  Hospital  at 
Heytesbury,  in  which  place  she  resided  during  the  latter  part 
of  her  life,  and  on  her  death  in  1478-9,  her  remains  were  in- 
terred in  Salisbury  Cathedral  beneath  a  tomb  in  the  centre 
of  the  Chapel  already  mentioned,  which  she  had  built  and 
endowed  to  the  memory  of  her  husband. 


Her  seal,  of  which  there  is  a  very  fine  impression  at 
Longleat,  is  a  beautiful  example  of  this  particular  branch 
of  mediaeval  art.  It  is  circular,  and  nearly  three  inches  in 
diameter.  In  the  centre  is  the  seated  figure  of  a  female 
holding  on  her  knees  an  open  book.  Above  her  head  on 
a  label,  the  motto  "  mqne  trcmtlj  itssurefc";  and  on 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  227 

either  side  a  lion  and  griffin  each  support  a  banner  bearing 
(i)  HUNGERFORD  impaling  BOTREAUX  ;  (2)  BEAUMONT  im- 
paling BOTREAUX. 

Legend — '  SIGILLUM  :  MARGARETE  :  D'NE  :  DE  :  HUNGER- 
FORD:  ET  .  DE  :  BOTREAUX." 

The  remarkably  bold  autograph  of  Lady  Margaret  also 
may  not  be  without  interest. 


EDWARD  KITE. 
(To  be  continued.} 


Johanne  de  Gennes,  Prioress  of  Amesbury  (vol.  iii, 
p.  118). — I  notice  that  Mr.  Kite,  in  his  "  Notes  on  Amesbury 
Monastery",  repeats  a  statement,  made  by  the  late  Canon 
Jackson  in  The  Wiltshire  Archceological  Magazine  (vol.  x,  p.  61), 
to  the  effect  that  the  first  head  of  the  Amesbury  convent,  sent 
from  Fontevraud  in  1177,  was  Johanna  de  Gennes.  When 
recently  writing  a  paper  on  the  same  subject,  I  found  Canon 
Jackson's  statements,  on  this  point,  quite  unintelligible,  and 
on  consulting  Sir  Richard  Hoare's  account  of  Amesbury  in 
Modern  Wilts,  I  noted  that  Canon  Jackson  had  made  a  con- 
fusion between  the  first  Prioress  of  Amesbury  and  a  much 
later  Prioress,  Johanne  de  Gennes,  also  sent  from  Fontevraud, 
in  1294.  If  Mr.  Kite  will  refer  to  Sir  Richard  Hoare's  work, 

he  will,  I  think,  find  that  that  is  so. 

C.  H.  TALBOT. 
Lacock  Abbey. 


Q  2 


228  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.   164.) 


III.— BIRTH     RECORDS. 
FIRST  SERIKS. 

B. 

1675-8-14. — Thomas  BAYLY,  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  Bayly, 
of  Compton  Basset. 

1675-9-26. — William     BAILY,     son     of    William      Baily,      of 
Catscomb. 

1676-4-4. — John  BASKERVILE,  son  of  John  Baskervile,  of  Burton 
Hill. 

1676-7-5. — Ruth   BEZER,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Ann  Bezer,  of 
Rowde. 

1676-12-15. —  William  BAYLY,  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  Bayly, 
of  Compton  Basset. 

1677-2-12. — Rebecca  BASKERVILE,  dau.  of  John  Baskervile,  of 
Burton  Hill. 

1677-2-25. — Sarah  BEZER,  dau.  of  William  and  Sara  Bezer. 

1677-3-7. — Martha  BUTLER,  dau.  of  William  and  Jane  Butler, 
of  Corsham. 

1677-4-25. — Mary  BLANCHETT,   dau.   of  Robert    Blanchett,    of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1678-5-7. — John  BASKERVILE,  son  of  John  Baskervile,  of  Burton 
Hill. 

1678-10-22. — Mary  BEVERSTOCK,  dau.   of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Beverstock,  of  Bidstone. 

1679-6-12. — William  BEAZEN   [?  BEZER],  son  of  William   and 
Sarah  Beazen, 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  229 

1680-1-17. — Ezekiel  BASKERViLE,1   son  of  John  Baskervile,  of 

Burton  Hill. 
1680-7-15. — Elizabeth  BEARE,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth 

Beare,  of  Devizes  Meeting. 
1681-1-17. — Ezekiell  BASKERVILE/  son  of  John   Baskervile,  of 

Leacnd    Brintoworth    [Lea    and    Brinkworth] 

Meeting. 

1682-7-10. — Mary  BEZER,  dau.  of  William  and  Sara  Bezer. 
1683-2-2. — James    BASKERVILE,    son    of  John    Baskervile,    of 

Leacnd    Brintoworth    [Lea    and    Brinkworth] 

Meeting. 
1683-8-29.— Charles  BROOM,  son  of  Francis  and  Mary  Broom, 

of  Cullern. 
1 68. .-..-.  ..2 — John  BROOM,  son  of  Francis  and  Mary  Broom, 

of  Cullern. 
1684-1-24. — Joseph  BISHOPP,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Bishopp, 

of  Christian  Malford. 
1685-2-25. — Mary  BROOME,  dau.  of  Francis  and  Mary  Broome, 

of  Slaughterford  Meeting. 
1685-3-19. — Elizabeth  BASKERVILE,  dau.  of  John  Baskervile,  of 

Burton  Hill. 

1685-5-24. — John  BARTLET,  son  of  Robart  Bartlet,  of  Calne. 
1686-11-31. — Thomas  BASKERVILE,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 

Baskervile,  of  Burton  Hill. 
1687-8-27. — John  BISHOPP,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Bishopp, 

of  Christian  Malford. 
1689-3-14. — Joseph  BARTLET,  son  of  Robart  Bartlet,  of  Calne. 


1  There  would  appear  to  be  some  error  in  these  records,  as  no  death 
of  EZEKIEL  BASKEEVILE   is  given   between   the  dates,    and   the   original 
sources  are   different.     The   death   of  EZEKIEL   BASKERVILE  is  given  as 
1756,  but  age  is  not  added. 

2  I    insert    this    name   here   in   absence   of   exact   date  because   the 
reference  to  the  original  record  of  the  birth  is  to  the  next  page  to  the  one 
on    which    CHARLES    BROOM    occurs.     The    name    JOHN    BROOM    does 
not  occur  in   the  list  of  Wiltshire  Deaths. 


230  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1689-11-23. — Hannah    BISHOPP,    dau.    of  Thomas   and   Mary 

Bishopp,  of  Ch.  Malford. 
1690-3-20. — Jacob   and    Ruth   BALMER,   twin  son  and  dau.  of 

William  Balmer,  of  Calne. 

1691-7-1. — Robart  BARTLET,  son  of  Robart  Bartlet,  of  Calne. 
1692-4-12. — Mary  BRISTOW,  dau.  of  Isaac  Bristow,  of  Troscut. 
1692-4-27. — Roger  BEAVEN,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Beaven, 

of  Melksham. 
1692-12-8. — Jeames  BOND,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Ann  Bond,  of 

Slaughterford  Meeting. 

1693-6-28. — Eddy  BARTLET,  son  of  Robart  Bartlet,  of  Calne. 
1693-9-9. — Thomas  BEAVEN,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Beaven, 

of  Melksham. 
1694-5-10. — Rebekah  BOND,  dau.  of  Benjn.  and  Ann  Bond,  of 

Chippenham  Meeting. 
1694-12-8.— Mary  BEAVEN,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Beaven, 

of  Melksham. 

1695-1-27. — James  BRISTOW,  son  of  Isaac  Bristow,  of  Troscut 
1695/6-12-4. — Thomas    BARTLET,    son   of  Robart   Bartlet,   of 

Calne. 
1697-3-29. — Edward  BOND,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Ann  Bond, 

of  Bidstone. 
1697-8-29. — Thomas    BEAVEN,1   son    of    Thomas     and    Mary 

Beaven,   of  Melksham. 
1698-5-20. — Ratchiel  BARET,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Katern  Baret, 

of  Titherton. 
1698-12-20. — Mary  BOND,  dau.  of  Benjamin  and  Ann  Bond, 

of  Bidstone. 


1  There  are  five  THOMAS  BEAVENS,  of  Melksham,  in  direct  descent, 
mentioned  in  records  of  Births  and  Marriages,  but  curiously  not  one  of 
these  is  recorded  among  the  Deaths.  Smith's  Catalogtie  of  Friends 
Bonks  gives  titles  of  a  number  of  books  by  THOMAS  BEAVEN  and  THOMAS 
BEAVEX,  JB.,  published  between  the  years  1696  and  1728,  including  "The 
High  Priest  of  Melksham,"  see  W.  N.  $  Q.,  ii,  172,  note  1.  There  was  a 
branch  of  the  BEAVEN  family  at  Devizes. 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  231 

1699-3-2. — Richard     BURNLEY,     son    of    Richard    and    Mary 
Burnley,  of  Luckington. 

C. 

1648-8-28. — Mary  COOLE,  dau.  of  Henry  Coole,  of  Devizes. 
1648/9-1-1. — Thomas    CRABB,     son    of    Thomas     Crabb,     of 

Marlbro'. 

1650-2-24. — Henry  COOLE,  son  of  Henry  Coole,  of  Devizes. 
1651-11-18. — Susannah    COOLE,     dau.     of    Henry    Coole,    of 

Devizes. 

1652-2-7. — Sarah  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thomas  Crabb,  of  Marlbro'. 
1653-2-2. —  William  COOLE,  son  of  Henry  Coole,  of  Devizes. 
i654~4r23. — Sarah  COOLE,  dau.  of  Henry  Coole,  of  Devizes. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 
Tottenham,  Middx. 

(To  be  continued.) 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  167). 


246.  Anno  36  Hen.  VIII.  —  Agnes  Sloper  widow,  and  Chris- 
topher Dysmaris  alias  Dyamer  and  Johanna  his  wife;  messu- 
ages and  lands  in  Wynterbourne  Mounton  ?     ^60. 

247.  Anno   36.  —  Richard   Vffenham    and  Richard  Maye 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  messuage  and  lands  in  Henton  and 
Stepleashton.     ^15. 

248.  Anno  36.  —  John  Goddard,   gen.,  and  John  Warne- 
ford,   gen.,  and   Susanna   his   wife;  messuage   and   lands    in 
Chelworth  Magna,  Chelworth  Parva,  Colcote  and  Crykelade. 


249.  Anno  36.—  Robert  Maye  and  Henry  Longe,  knight; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Benacre,  Broughton  Gifford,  and 
Whytley.  160  marks. 


232  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

250.  Anno  36.  —  William  Bryan  and  George  Ludloo,  arm., 
and  Edith  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  called    "  the  Blewe 
Bore  "  in  New  Sarum  and  Fisherton  Anger.     ^200. 

251.  Anno  36.  —  Ralph  Emmett  and  John  Warneford  and 
Susanna  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Chelworth  in  the 
parish  of  Cryklade.     ^30. 

252.  Anno  36.  —  Lodowick  Robins  and  Roger  Hopkins  ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Marleborough.     ^100. 

253.  Anno  36.  —  Robert  Eyer  and  Henry  Longe,  knight; 
messuages   and   lands  in    Castle   Street,    New    Sarum.     no 
marks. 

254.  Anno  36.  —  Thomas  Trender  and  John  Warneford, 
and  Susanna  his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Chelworth  in 
the  parish  of  Crekelade.     ,£40. 

255.  Anno   36.  —  Thomas    Long   and  William    Stourton, 
knight,    Lord    Stourton    and   Elizabeth    his  wife;   manors   of 
Westassheton  and  Hylperton,  messuages  and  lands  in  Slogrobe 
and  Albury,  West  Assheton,  Stepleashton,  Hylperton,  Buck- 
ington  and  Whaddon,  advowson  of  the  church  of  Hylperton. 


256.  Anno  36.  —  William  Button,  arm.,  and  Robert  Tyder- 
leygh,  junior,  gen.,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife;  half  the  manor  of 
Lytelton  Paynell,  and  the  half  of  messuages  and  lands,  etc.,  in 
Lytelton  Paynell  and  West  Lavington.     ,£160. 

257.  Anno  36.  —  Walter  Baylyff  and  George  Worthe  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  and  Giles  Goure,  son  and  heir  apparent  of 
Elizabeth  ;  messuage  and  lands  in  Trowbridge  and  Stoodelegh. 


258.  Anno  36.  —  Alexander  Longford,   senior,   gen.,   and 
Alexander  Longford,  junior,  gen.,  and  George  Worthe,  gen., 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  and  Giles  Goure,  gen.,  son  and  heir 
apparent   of  Elizabeth,    and   Edith  his   wife;  messuages  and 
lands,  water  mills,    fulling  mills,  free  fishing  in  the  water  of 
Bysse,  as  well  as  half  the  messuages  and  lands  in  Trowbridge. 

4- 

259.  Anno  36.  —  Richard  Buckland,  citizen  and  merchant 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  233 

tailor,  ol  London  and  John  Barkeley,  arm.,  and  Isabella  his 
wife;  manors  of  Melston  alias  Mildeston  and  Briginston  alias 
Bryghtinston,  messuages  and  lands  in  Melston  alias  Mildeston, 
Bryghtinston  alias  Briginston,  and  advowson  of  the  church  of 
Mildeston  and  Bryghtinston.  ^600. 

260.  Anno    36. — Robert   Southwell,    knight,    master    in 
Chancery  and  Francis,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and  Katherine  his 
wife;  manors  of  Chippy ngham  and   Rowdon,   messuages  and 
lands  in  Rowdon  and  Chippyngham.     ,£400. 

261.  Anno  36. — Thomas  Hereford  and  Thomas  Wykys 
and  Roger  Hereford,  gen.,  and  Margaret  his  wife ;  manor  of 
Knoll,  messuages  and  lands  in  Hynsett,  Tymerygge,  Rygge, 
Tyterygge,  and  Bedwyn. 

262.  Anno  36. — Henry  Brouncker,  arm.,  and  Giles  Goore, 
gen.,     and     Elizabeth    his   wife ;    messuages    and    lands    in 
Melkesham,    Whytley,    Shawe,    Benacre,    Sende,    Sendrowe, 
Woodrowe  and  Wolmere.     ,£90. 

263.  Anno  36. — William  Holme  and  Thomas  Woodshawe 
and   Johanna   his   wife ;   messuages   and   lands  in    Burtford, 
Charleton  and  Downton.     ^80. 

264.  Anno   36. — William    Richeman    alias  Webbe    and 
Edward  Baynton,  knight;  messuage  and  land  in  Overwroughton 
and  Chesyldfn.     ^£162. 

265.  Anno  36. — Thomas  Chaffyn  and  George  Ludlowe, 
son  and  heir  of  William    Ludlowe   and  Catherine   his  wife ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Fisherton  Anger  and  New  Sarum.  ^120. 

266.  Anno   36. — William    Bayllye    and    Robert    Throg- 
merton,    arm.,    and    Lady    Elizabeth    Hungerford    his    wife; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Wynfeld,  Farley  and  Slughe.     ^69. 

267.  Anno     36. — Thomas      Mompesson      and     Thomas 
Danffeld,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  the  said  Thomas ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  Easthache  next  the  pariah  of  Tysseburye.     ^40. 

268.  Anno   36. — Robert   Tyderleygh,  junior,    gen.,    and 
William  Fawconer,  arm.,  manor  of  Vpton  Knoyle;  messuages 
and   lands   in   Vpton  Knoyle,   Mylton,   and  Lie  in  parish   of 
Estknoyle.     ,^100. 


234  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


269.  Anno  36. — Thomas  Marten  and  Christopher  Tomson 
and  Alice  his   wife,  and  John  Urry  and  Elizabeth  his  wife, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Richard  Marten;  messuages  and  lands 
in  New  Sarum.     50  marks. 

270.  Anno    36. — Thomas    Longe,    William    Longe    and 
Henry  Longe  and  William  Stourton,  knight,  Lord  Stourton  ; 
manors    .of    Powlesholte,     Madington     alias     Wynterbourn 
Madington,  Awlton   and   Ablington,  messuages  and  lands  in 
Powleshote,    Worton,    Merston,    Potern,    Chetowe,   Chendelk, 
Hurste,    Awlton,    Madington   alias   Winterbourn    Madington, 
Ablington,  Chesyngbury,  free  fishing  in  the  waters  of  Awlton 

and  Ablington.     ^1,254. 

E.  A.  FRY. 

(To  be  continued.} 


(fineries. 


A  Stonehenge  Curiosity. — In  Cooke's  Topographical  De- 
scription of  Wiltshire  occurs  the  following  : 

"  Among  other  curiosities  dug  up  in  one  of  the  barrows,  was  a 
curious  piece  of  sculpture  in  alabaster,  of  an  oval  form,  about  two  feet  in 
length,  and  one  in  the  broadest  part  of  the  diameter.  In  the  middle  is 
represented  a  woman,  habited  as  a  queen,  with  her  globe,  sceptre,  crown, 
and  mantle  of  state :  in  a  compartment  over  her  head  are  three  figures, 
supposed  to  represent  the  three  persons  of  the  Holy  Trinity ;  and 
round  the  sides  are  angels  intermixed  with  some  of  the  apostles.  The 
exquisite  workmanship  of  the  woman,  who  seems  intended  for  the 
Virgin  Mary,  the  strong  as  well  as  tender  expression  in  her  features,  and 
the  elegance  of  the  drapery,  shew  it  to  be  the  work  of  a  very  skilful 
artist.  This  curiosity  was  seen  by  the  person  who  describes  it,  in  a 
public-house  at  a  small  village  called  Shrewton,  about  six  miles  to  the 
north-west  of  Stonehenge." 

What   is  it  and  where  is  it  ? 

IBEX. 


Sir  William  Courtenay,  Bart.,  of  Newhouse.  235 

John  Clare,  S.  J. — Of  what  family  and  place  was  he  ?  He 
is  described  as  born  in  Wiltshire,  1577,  dying  probably  abroad 
in  1628,  having  taken  the  final  vows  of  the  Society  of  Jesus  in 
1618;  a  very  learned  man,  and  author  of  The  Converted  Jew, 
which  was  published  after  his  death.  H.  D. 


The  Friendly  Brothers  of  St.  Patrick. — This  Society, 
partly  political  and  partly  social,  was  at  one  time  (and 
perhaps  is)  spread  rather  widely  through  England  and  Ireland, 
its  head  Knot  (as  the  lodges  were  called)  being  held  in  Dublin  ; 
were  or  are  there  any  Knots  in  our  county,  and  where  can  I 

obtain  a  list  of  the  members  ? 

SAGE. 


Sir  William  Courtenay,  Bart.,  of  Newhouse,  Wilts. — 

In  the  Court  and  Testamentary  Business  of  Maryland  (Lib. 
B.  Ill,  182)  there  is  a  power  of  attorney  from  him,  20  Nov. 
1655,  to  Robert  Thimbleby,  gent.,  to  dispose  of  two  tracts  of 
land  in  Maryland,  which  had  belonged  to  his  mother  Elinor 
Hawley.  Can  you  identify  him,  and  where  is  Newhouse?  In 
the  pedigrees  there  is  a  William  (b.  1611,  when  did  he  die?), 
but  there  is  no  mention  of  him  being  a  baronet,  son  of  Thomas 
Courtenay,  a  son  of  the  Powderham  Family,  and  Elizabeth 
(Brereton),  she  afterwards  marrying  James  Hawley,  of  Brent- 
ford, in  Middlesex,  whose  three  brothers,  Henry,  Captain 
William,  and  Colonel  Jerome,  were  landowners  in  Maryland, 
the  last  being  one  of  its  most  important  Founders. 

C.  H.  BROWNING. 
Ardmore,  Pennsylvania. 


236  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Replies. 


Nicholas  of  Roundway  (vol.  iii,  p.  185). — In  Burke's 
General  Armory,  I  note  arms  of  DESS — Azure  a  chevron  en- 
grailed between  three  owls  or;  Crest,  On  a  chapeau  gules  turned 
up  ermine,  an  owl  or.  Also  of  DESSE — the  same  arms  but  chevron 
plain.  Similar  crest  except  that  the  wings  of  the  owl  are 
expanded — motto,  Vigile. 

On  reference  to  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  I  see  that  these 
are  the  arms  and  crest  of  NICHOLAS,  whose  motto  is 

Vigilantia  et  Constantia. 

R.  J.  FYNMORE. 
Sandgate. 


The  Missing  Register  of  Addison's  Baptism— Where  is 

it?  (vol.  iii,  pp.  42-3,  140,  186-8). — I  am  glad  to  find  that  my 
query  (p.  42-3)  has  produced  some  further  correspondence.  I 
was  quite  aware  that  there  was  more  than  one  version  of  the 
matter,  and  my  object  in  introducing  the  subject  in  IV.  N.  &  O. 
was  to  endeavour,  if  possible,  to  place  on  record  the  real  facts 
as  to  when,  and  by  whom,  the  Parish  Register  of  Milston  was 
robbed  of  the  baptismal  entry  of  its  most  celebrated  native. 

That  the  history  of  the  missing  register  as  related  to  me, 
many  years,  ago  by  the  then  lord  of  the  manor  and  patron  of  the 
living — the  late  Mr.  C.  E.  Rendall — and  printed  at  p.  43,*  is 


1  From  a  note  made  at  the  time.  To  the  very  brief  description  of 
Milston  Church  given  by  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare,  I  may  here  add,  also  on  the 
authority  of  Mr.  Rendall,  that,  the  chancel  was  once  four  feet  longer  than 
at  present — that  the  church  was  repewed  and  newly  roofed  in  1786 — and 
that  of  the  two  bells  formerly  here,  one  is  said  to  have  been  taken  away  to 
Netheravon  House. 


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strictly  correct,  seems  to  be  further  confirmed  by  tbe  following 
additional  details. 

In  the  first  place  I  may  add  the  list  of  Patrons  and  Rectors 
of  Milston  from  the  institution  of  Addison's  father's  prede- 
cessor— the  Rev.  Wm.  Gulston — in  1663,  to  the  death  of  Dr. 
Toogood  in  1834 — 


Patron.  Rector. 

1663.     Frederick  Hyde        ...        ...     William   Gulston    [Rector  of    Sy- 

mondsbury,   co.  Dorset;    Bishop 
of  Bristol,  1678,  died  1684.] 

1670.    The  same        Lancelot  Addison,   on  the  cession 

of  Gulston  [his  wife  was  Mary, 
sister  ot  William  Gulston,  D.D., 
Bishop  of  Bristol.] 
1703.    The  Bishop  by  lapse  ...     William   Mundy,   on  the  death  of 

Addison. 
1757.     Edward  Polhill,  of  Heale   ...     William  Bowles,  on   the  death  of 

Mundy. 
1762.     William  Bowles,  clerk         ...     Edward  Polhill,   on  the  resignation 

of  Bowles. 
1801.    William     Bowles,    Esq.,    ot  I  John  James  Toogood,  on  the  death 

Heale;  died  1826  ...  J      of  Polhill. 

1834.     Peter  Templeman,   Esq.  (by  1  Peter  Hall,  on  the  death   of  Too- 
purchase)  ...  J      good. 


According  to  Mr.  Rendall,  the  entry  of  Addison's  baptism 
was  taken  from  the  Parish  Register,  and  given  by  the  Rector 
to  Mr.  Charles  Bowles,  of  Shaftesbury,  whilst  on  a  visit  to 
Milston,  about  the  year  1816.  Some  fragments  of  stained 
glass  were  also  taken  out  of  the  church  windows,  and  carried 
away  by  Mr.  Bowles,  at  the  same  time. 

It  will  be  seen  from  the  institutions  to  the  Rectory  of 
Milston,  here  given,  that  the  Bowles  family  had,  in  1816,  been 
for  some  sixty  years  closely  connected  with  the  living,  either 
as  patrons  OP  incumbents  ;  and  that  to  one  of  them  (William 
Bowles,  Esq.,  of  Heale,  Sheriff  of  Wilts  1782,  and  then  living) 
the  Rector  of  the  time,  Dr.  Toogood,  was  indebted  for  his 
preferment.  Mr.  Charles  Bowles  may,  perhaps,  in  this  way, 
have  had  a  certain  interest  which  enabled  him  to  obtain  the 


238  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

more   easily  from  his  friend,    the    Rector,   the  two   historical 
relics  in  question. 

Mr.  Charles  Bowles  was  a  younger  brother  of  the  Poet, 
and  Recorder  of  Shaftesbury.  Sir  Richard  Hoare  was  con- 
siderably indebted  to  him  as  the  historian  ot  the  Hundred  of 
Chalk.  That  Mr.  Bowles  was,  before  the  year  1826,  in  posses- 
sion of  stained  glass  taken  from  Milston  Church,  is  actually 
recorded  by  Sir  Richard,  in  his  history  of  the  Hundred  of 
Amesbury,  published  in  that  year.  He  says  : — 

"  There  was  formerly  [in  Milston  Church]  some  painted  glass  in  the 
east  window,  with  this  inscription— Orate  pro  bono  statu  Magistri 
Roberti  Herrys,1  in  decretis  Bacalo.urii.  Penes  Charles  Bowles, 
Shaston." — Modern  Wilts,  Amesbury  Hundred,  p.  39. 

thus  fully  confirming  this  part  of  Mr.  Rendall's  statement. 

But  on  the  subject  of  Addison's  baptismal  register  (which 
must  also  have  been  missing  in  1826,  and  the  history  of  its 
recent  disappearance,  one  would  imagine,  not  unknown  to 
him),  Sir  Richard  is  silent.  He  omits  lo  print  any  extracts 
from  the  Register  here  (a  source  of  information  from  which,  in 
the  case  of  other  parishes,  he  has  quoted  freely),  and,  in  speak- 
ing of  Milston  as  Addison's  birthplace,  merely  says  (p.  40) : — 

"  Lancelot  Addison  had  a  son  Joseph,  who  was  born  at  Milston,  and 
whose  character  and  writings  are  too  generally  known  and  admired  to 
need  any  further  illustration." 

Mr.  Charles  Bowles  had  an  only  child,  Margaret  Amy, 
born  in  1793,  who  afterwards  became  the  wife  of  the  late 
Judge  Earle ;  and  it  was  to  him,  Mr.  Rendall  told  me,  that  he 
had  written  a  courteous  letter,  relating  the  circumstance  of 
the  missing  register,  and  asking  him,  if  such  should  be  found 
among  Mr.  Bowies'  papers,  kindly  to  return  it  to  the  parish. 
The  Judge,  in  reply,  threatened  legal  proceedings,  and  the 
matter  dropped.  It  was  at  this  point,  and  from  Mr.  Rendall's 


1  Robert  Herrys  was  Rector  of  Milston ;  instituted  1497,  died  1508.  Is 
this  glass  still  preserved  in  the  late  Mr.  Bowies'  house  at  Shaftesbury,  which, 
I  believe,  formerly  contained  many  similar  relics  collected  by  him  ? 


The  Missing  Register  of  Addisoris  Baptism.  239 

relation,  that  Charles  Dickens  wrote  an  article  entitled,  The 
Missing  Register. 

If  Mr.  Rendall  had  not  been  thoroughly  satisfied  as  to 
the  real  facts  of  the  case,  he  would  scarcely,  I  think,  have 
ventured  to  make  such  an  application. 

But  how  is  the  later  version  of  its  loss  during  Mr.  Webb's 
incumbency,  as  related  by  Canon  Bennett  at  p.  186-8,  to  be 
explained  ?  and  still  more  the  statement  by  his  widow  to  the 
Rev.  C.  S.  Ruddle  (p.  140)  that  he  had  never  seen  even  the 
volume  which  should  have  contained  it  ?  If  Mr.  Webb  never  saw 
the  missing  entry,  or  the  volume  which  should  have  contained  it} 
how  could  he  have  shown  the  one  to  a  visitor,  or  suspected  that 
visitor  of  purloining  the  other  ? 

The  Rev.  Richard  Webb  became  Rector  of  Milston  in 
1850,  and  the  statement  respecting  the  loss  of  the  entry  of 
Addison's  baptism  was  made  to  Canon  Bennett  and  others  two 
years  afterwards.  He  must  certainly  have  been  in  possession 
of  the  volume  dating  from  1653  to  1703  (which  should  have 
contained  the  entry  of  1672),  or  he  could  not  have  shown  it  to 
any  other  person.  What  I  am  inclined  to  think  is,  that  Mr. 
Webb,  in  the  early  days  of  his  incumbency,  might  not  up  to 
that  time  have  had  occasion  to  look  for  this  particular  entry, 
and  consequently  had  not  missed  it.  After  the  departure  of 
his  visitor,  his  attention  having  thus  been  drawn  to  the  subject, 
his  own  interest  became  aroused — he  looked  himself,  and  not 
suspecting  its  previous  absence,  but  finding  the  entry  gone,  put 
the  blame,  very  innocently,  on  the  wrong  shoulders  ;  taking  also 
upon  himself  the  responsibility  of  its  loss,  when  it  must  at  that 
time  have  been  already  missing  for  more  than  thirty  years.  The 
position  in  which  he  found  his  visitor,  sitting  with  his  hands  rest- 
ing on  the  closed  volume  before  him,  might  have  simply  indi- 
cated his  utter  disappointment  at  not  being  able  to  find  therein 
what  had  been  the  sole  object  of  his  visit  to  Milston.1  This  seems 

1  Or  he  may  possibly  have  either  heard  of,  or  suspected  the  removal  of 
the  entry,  and  wished  to  satisfy  himself  of  the  fact  by  a  careful  perusal  of 
the  volume. 


240  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

to  me  the  only  way  in  which  the  whole  matter  can  be  satis- 
factorily explained. 

The  undated  memorandum  and  signature  claiming  to 
have  been  written  by  Dr.  Toogood,  and  containing  the 
vague  statement  that  "  the  several  leaves  of  this  Register 
were  cut  before  I  saw  the  book;  also  the  other  Registers", 
would,  if  not  a  forgery,  as  suggested  by  the  present  Rector 
of  Milston  (the  Rev.  F.  A.  Radcliffe),  apparently  refer  to 
some  earlier  mutilation  of  more  than  one  volume  of  the 
Milston  registers,  which  had  happened  before  Dr.  Toogood's 
induction  to  the  living  in  1801  ;  and  not  to  the  removal  of 

the  Addison  entry  in  1816. 

EDWARD  KITE. 


[The  Rev.  F.  A.  Radcliffe  (29  March  1900)  writes: 
"  The  Registers  seem  to  indicate  Dr.  Toogood's  absence 
from  Milston  from  1813  to  1817,  and  from  May  1827  to 
1830.  When  here  he  took  charge  of  other  parishes  as  well, 
and  therefore  the  name  of  a  Curate  in  the  Registers  here 
does  not  actually  prove  his  absence." — ED.] 


Crundel  and  Tan  Hill  (vol.  ii,  pp.  535-7  ;  vol.  iii,  pp. 
188-9). — An  inquisition  taken  at  New  Sarum,  after  the  death  of 
Thomas  Eyre,  Esq.,  in  1629,  may  perhaps  help  to  throw  some 
light  on  the  word  "Tan,"  as  applied  to  the  well  known  hill  in 
the  parish  of  All  cannings. 

Part  of  Mr.  Eyre's  property  in  Salisbury  is  described  as  a 
"messuage  or  inn  called  the  Bell,  opposite  the  Tann  Gate,  in 
the  said  city ";  meaning  apparently  St.  Anne's  Gate,  in  the 
Close.  In  this  case  we  seem  to  have,  in  the  word  Tann,  simply 
a  corrupt  form  of  St.  Anne,  as  adopted  probably  in  Puritanical 

times. 

WILTONIENSIS. 


M.  W,  Dunscombe,  Bristol.]  [Copyright. 

A   BAYNTON   MONUMENT   IN  THE  MAYOR'S  CHAPEL,    BRISTOL. 


®Btlt£ftnre  Jlotes  anti  (Queries 


JUNE  1900. 


A    BAYNTON    MONUMENT 

IN  THE  MAYOR'S  CHAPEL, 
BRISTOL. 


,f  T  the  east  end  of  the  South  Chapel  in  St.  Mark's,  or 
Mayor's  Chapel,  otherwise  called  the  Gaunt  Chapel, 
;a/ji&      perhaps  the  most  ancient  Church  in  Bristol,  there  is 
what  Mr.  Barker  in  his  book  on  this  building  calls 
«a  pretentious   monument,   commemorating    Maria 
Baynton,  which  fills  the  greater  part  of  the  wall  space  there 

in  the  position  once  occupied  by  the  altar  of  the  chapel 

Barrett  describes  it  as  being  in  the  West  Aisle  next  the  pulpit ; 
it  was  probably  removed  when  the  plaster  canopies  were 
erected  in  1820."  This  handsome  and  highly  coloured  monu- 
ment, unadorned  with  heraldry,  has  the  following  Latin  in- 
scription : — 

Mem.  sacra  hie  sita  sunt  ossa  ornatissimae  Faerminae,  Dominae  Mariae 
Dom.  Edvardi  Baynton  nuper  de  Bromham  in  Comitatu  Wiltoniae 
Relictae.  Faemina  fuit  ad  antiquum  morem  Composita,  Illibataa 
Vitae  pietate,  Forma  et  omni  Laude  maternal!  Virtute  muliebri 
ornata  Quae  postquam  vitam  nimis  eheu  brevem  nee  a  molestiis 
penitus  liberam,  piam  tamen  pudicam  castam  generosam  hospitali- 

R 


242  Wiltshire  Notes   and  Queries. 

tate  charitate,  aliisque  quam  plurimis  virtutibus  excultam  omnibus, 
etiam  egenis,  caram  egisset ;  earn  cum  ingenti  omnium  utriusque 
sexus  aut  fama  aut  facie  nota  fuit ;  luctu  ac  dolore  reliquit,  pro 
feliciori  commutavit,  et  Christo  placide  obdormivit  setatis  suae,  anno 
quadragessimo  secundo  anno  Domini  salvatoris  M.D.CLXVII. 

Sordes  Terra  tenet,  tenet  Ingens  spiritus  aethra. 
Huic    ejus    filii  dom.    Robertus    et    dom.    Nicolaus,     quos    utero 
conjugal!  fructifero  peperit  hoc  maerentes  posuere  monumentum. 

The  chapel  which  contains  this  monument  is  so  dark  that 
an  exposure  of  two  whole  days  and  a  night  was  required  before 
a  satisfactory  photograph  could  be  obtained. 

Mary  Baynton  was  the  daughter  of Bowell,  and 

second  wife  of  Sir  Edward  Baynton  of  Bromham  (this  second 
marriage  is  not  recorded  in  Marshall's  printed  Visitation  q/ 
Wilts,  1623),  who  died  in  1656.  Her  son  Robert  is  said  to  have 
died  unmarried,  Nicolas  to  have  been  married  to  a  daughter  of 
Sir  ....  Osbaldiston,  of  Chadlington,  Bart.,  by  whom  he 
had  issue,  and  to  have  been  M.P.  for  Chippenham  in  1689  ;  she 
also  had  a  daughter  Ann,  who  died  without  issue.  Any  in- 
formation about  her  family,  and  why  she  was  buried,  and  this 
memorial  erected  to  her,  in  the  Mayor's  Chapel  would  be 
welcome. 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 
(Continued  from  p.  214.) 


THE  WILL  OF  JOHN  RAWLINGS.     [Register,  23  Darcy.] 

A.D.  1580. — In  the  name  of  god,  amen.  The  yeare  of  oure 
lorde  god  1580,  and  the  seaventhe  daie  of  Marche.  I,  John 
Rawlings,  of  Bratton,  in  the  Dioces  of  Sarum,  beinge  sicke  in 
bodye,  but  thanckes  be  vnto  god  of  perfecte  mynde  and  good 


Records   of  Wiltshire   Parishes.  243 

remembraunce  doe  make  my  laste  will  and  testamente  in 
manner  and  forme  followinge.  Firste  I  bequeathe  my  sowle 
vnto  allmightie  god  my  redemer  and  saviour  Jesus  Christ. 
And  my  bodye  I  commend  vnto  the  earthe  willinge  it  to  be 
buried  in-the  churche  or  churchyarde  of  Bratton.  Item  I  geve 
to  our  mother  churche  of  Sarum  sixe  pence.  Item  I  geve  unto 
the  mayntenaunce  of  my  parlshe  churche  of  Bratton  sixe 
shillinges  eight  pence.  I  bequeathe  vnto  Martyn  Croome,  my 
sonne  in  lawe,  and  Johan  his  wieffe,  my  daughter,  twentie 
poundes,  which  is  a  debte  that  I  didde  geve  him  to  his  mar- 
riage. I  bequeathe  vnto  Richard  Axforde,  my  sonne  in  lawe, 
and  Edith  his  wieffe,  my  daughter,  thirteene  poundes  sixe 
shillinges  eighte  pence.  I  bequeath  vnto  Richard  Newman, 
my  sonne  in  lawe,  and  Margerye  his  wieffe,  my  daughter,  tenne 
poundes.  I  bequeathe  vnto  John  Rawlinges,  the  sonne  of 
William  Rawlinges,  sixe  poundes  thirtene  shillinges  foure 
pence.  Also  I  bequeathe  vnto  the  said  John  Rawlinges  my  beste 
brason  pott.  Also  I  bequeathe  vnto  the  same  John  my  best  panne. 
I  bequeathe  vnto  Margerye,  my  daughter,  the  beste  gowne 
that  was  her  mother  in  lawes.  I  bequeathe  vnto  every  one  of 
my  daughters  sixe  sheepe  a  peece,  sixe  pewter  vessels  a 
peece,  and  to  cache  one  of  theme  a  brassene  candlesticke.  I 
bequeathe  vnto  Richarde  Axeforde's  twoe  childrenne,  John 
and  William,  twelve  weather  sheepe.  I  bequeathe  vnto  Mar- 
garette  Aldridge,  my  servaunte,  one  flockebedde,  a  bolster,  a 
paire  of  sheetes,  a  paire  of  blanquettes.  I  bequeathe  vnto  the 
same  Margarette  twelve  sheepe.  I  bequeathe  vnto  Richard 
Tittforde,  my  servaunte,  one  heiffer  of  three  yeares  of  age  and 
two  chilver  sheepe.  I  bequeathe  vnto  Jone  Hales  my  ser- 
vaunte twoe  chilver  sheepe.  I  bequeathe  vnto  Richarde  Car- 
penter my  beste  freese  coate.  I  geve  vnto  Elizabethe  Carpenter 
twoe  busshelles  of  barlie.  I  geve  vnto  Agnes  Aldridge,  of  Courte, 
thirteene  shillinges  fower  pence.  I  geve  vnto  Annyes  Taber 
one  busshell  of  barleye.  I  bequeathe  unto  Thomas  Harris  the 
elder,  one  bushelle  of  barleye.  I  bequeathe  vnto  Walter  Tucker 

one  busshell  of  barleye  and  my  oulde  freese  coate.     All  the  reste 

R  2 


244 


Wiltshire   Notes   and  Queries. 


of  my  gooddes  movable  and  vnmovable,  nor  heretofore  geven 
nor  bequeathed,  I  doe  also  geve  and  bequeathe  vnto  my  sonne 
William  Rawlyns,  whome  I  doe  make  my  full  and  whole 
executor,  and  to  see  my  legacies  trewlie  paide  and  dischardged. 
Be  it  provided  and  also  playnelye  to  vnderstande  that  I  doe 
institute  and  ordayne  my  welbeloved  in  Christe,  William 
Yerberye  and  William  Butcher,  to  be  my  overseers  of  this 
my  will  and  testamente  as  to  see  the  performaunce  of  all  suche 
thinges  as  I  didde  by  the  prefermente  of  god  dispose.  Wit- 
nesses to  this  my  laste  will  and  testamente,  Harrye  Whetaker, 
John  Aldridge,  Harrye  Godpathe. 

[This  will  was  proved  at  London  the  last  day  of  May,  A.D. 
1581.] 


In  Lands 


In  Goods* 


ADDITIONAL  LAY  SUBSIDIES.     WILTS  ?£f. 

M 

[Subsidy,  29  Elizabeth.] 
BRATTON. 


Henry  Whetaker  . .  . .  xxs.  ijs. 

Robarte  Smarte  . .  . .  xxs.  ijs. 

John  Wheataker  . .  . .  xxs.  ijs. 

Christofer  Wheataker  . .  xxs.  ijs. 

William  Bowcher,  junior  . .  xxs.  ijs. 

Richard  Axford  . .  . .  xxs.  ijs. 

William  Gardyner  . .  . .  xxs.  ijs. 

Sum  of  the  shares  . .  xviijs. 

William  Rawlins  . .  . .  vijV*.  xjs. 

Agnes  Alridge  . .  . .  vli.  viijs. 

John  Alridge,  senior  . .  iij/i.  vs. 

William  Alridge  . .  . .  iij/i.  vs. 

William  Ballard  . .  . .  iij/i'.  vs. 

William  Bowcher,  senior  . .  vij/i'.  xjs. 

Jeames  Ballard  . .  . .  vli.  xs. 

Sum  of  the  shares  . .  lyjs. 


v\\]d. 
\\\]d. 
vu]d. 
v'rijd. 
viijW. 
v'rijd. 
v'rijd. 
\i\jd. 
iiyW. 


v'rijd. 


Records   of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  245 


RECOVERY  ROLL.     [Michaelmas,  40  and  41  Elizabeth.     Roll  86.  | 

WILTS,  A.D.  1597-8. — Charles  Blount,  knight,  &  Joseph 
Garth,  gentleman,  in  their  own  persons  sue  against  Walter 
James,  gentleman,  and  Henry  Batten,  the  manor  of  Brook, 
with  the  appurtenances  and  100  messuages,  1,000  acres  of  land, 
1,000  acres  of  meadow,  1,000  acres  of  pasture,  200  acres  of 
wood,  200  acres  of  heath  and  broom,  200  acres  of  moor,  and 
200  acres  of  marsh,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Brook,  Hawke- 
ridge,  Heywood,  Bratton,  Leigh,  Penley,  Bremebridge,  and 
Dilton  ;  and  view  of  frank-pledge,  hundredes,  liberties  and 
franchises,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Westbury,  Brook, 
Hawkeridge,  Heywood,  Bratton,  Leigh,  Penley,  Bremebridge 
and  Dilton,  as  their  right  and  heritage,  and  in  which  Walter 
and  Henry  do  not  have  ingress  unless  after  the  disseisin  which 
Hugh  Hunt  unjustly  did  to  the  foresaid  Charles  and  Joseph 
within  30  years  now  last  past.  And  whereof  they  say 
that  they  themselves  were  seized  of  the  manor,  tenements, 
view  of  frankpledge,  liberties,  and  franchises  aforesaid,  with 
the  appurtenances  in  their  demesne  as  of  free  and  rightly  in 
time  of  peace  of  the  Queen  now  by  taking  the  explees  to  the 
value,  &c.,  &c.  And  thereof  they  produce  suit,  &c. 

And  the  foresaid  Walter  and  Henry  come  in  their  own 
persons  and  defend  their  right,  &c.  And  call  thence  to  war- 
rant Charles  Blount,  knight  of  the  noble  order  of  the  Garter, 
Lord  Mountjoye,  and  who  is  present  here  in  the  Court  in  his 
own  person,  and  warrants  to  them  the  said  manor,  tenements, 
&c.  And  upon  this  the  foresaid  Charles  Blount,  knight,  and 
Joseph  sue  against  the  same  Charles  Lord  Mountjoye,  tenant 
by  his  warranty  the  manor,  &c.,  aforesaid.  And  whereof  they 
say  that  they  themselves  were  seized,  &c.,  &c.  And  the 
foresaid  Charles  Lord  Mountjoye  calls  to  warrant  Richard 
Humfrey,  who  is  present  here  in  Court,  and  warrants  to  him, 
&c.  And  the  foresaid  Charles  Blount,  knight,  and  Joseph  sue 
against  Richard  holding  by  his  warranty  the  manor,  &c.  And 
the  said  Richard  defends  his  right  and  says  that  the  foresaid 


246  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Hugh  did  not  disseize  the  foresaid  Charles  Blount,  knight,  and 
Joseph,  of  the  manor,  tenements,  &c.,  aforesaid,  with  the 
appurtenances  as  the  same  Charles  Blount,  knight,  and  Joseph, 
by  the  writ  and  their  narration  deposed.  And  concerning  this 
he  places  himself  upon  the  country. 

And  the  foresaid  Charles  Blount,  knight,  and  Joseph,  seek 
licence  to  imparl  thereof,  and  have  it.  And  afterwards  they 
come  back  here  into  court  in  their  own  person  s  this  same  term. 
And  the  foresaid  Richard,  although  solemnly  put  in  exigent 
does  not  return,  but  has  withdrawn  from  the  Court  and  makes 
default.  Therefore  it  is  considered  that  the  foresaid  Charles 
Blount,  knight,  and  Joseph  recover  their  seizin  against  the 
foresaid  Walter  and  Henry  of  the  manor,  tenements,  &c., 
aforesaid,  with  the  appurtenances.  And  that  the  same 
Walter  and  Henry  shall  have  of  the  land  of  the  foresaid 
Charles  Lord  Mountjoye  to  the  value,  &c.  And  that  the  same 
Charles  Lord  Mountjoye  shall  have  of  the  land  of  the  foresaid 
Richard  to  the  value,  &c.  And  that  the  same  Richard  shall 
be  in  mercy.  And  upon  this  the  foresaid  Charles  Blount, 
knight,  and  Joseph,  ask  for  a  writ  of  the  Queen  to  make  them 
have  full  seizin  of  the  said  manor,  &c.,  to  be  directed  to  the 
sheriff  of  the  county  aforesaid.  And  it  is  granted  to  them 
returnable  hither  fifteen  days  after  S.  Martin's  day.  On 
which  day  they  come  hither  in  their  own  persons.  And  the 
sheriff,  viz.,  Sir  James  Mervyn,  gives  the  information  that  by 
virtue  of  the  foresaid  writ  directed  to  him  on  the  i8th  Novem- 
ber last,  he  caused  the  foresaid  Charles  Blount,  knight,  and 
Joseph  to  have  full  seizin  of  the  manor,  tenements,  view  of 
frank  pledge,  hundred,  liberties,  and  franchises  aforesaid,  with 
the  appurtenances  as  was  commanded  him  by  the  said  writ. 

RECOVERY  ROLL.     \Trinity,  41  Elizabeth.     Rollg-]J\ 

WILTES.  A.D  1598. — John  Moore,  esquire,  and  Giles 
Tooker,  esquire,  in  their  own  persons,  sue  against  James  Ley, 
esquire,  John  Kent,  gentleman,  and  Michael  Titcombe,  gentle- 
man, the  hundred  of  Westbury,  with  the  appurtenances  and 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  247 

17  messuages,  4  tofts,  12  gardens,  200  acres  of  land,  60  acres 
of  meadow,  200  acres  of  pasture,  50  acres  of  wood,  50  acres  of 
heather  and  broom,  50  acres  of  moor,  100  acres  of  marsh,  £S 
rent,  and  common  of  pasture  for  every  kind  of  animal,  with  the 
appurtenances  in  Hawkeridge,  Heywood,  Brooke,  Penley, 
Bremebridge,  Dilton,  Bratton,  Westbury,  Northbradlye  and 
Steepleashton,  and  view  of  frankpledge,  and  whatever  belongs 
to  view  of  frankpledge  in  Westbury,  as  their  right  and  heritage. 
And  in  which  James,  John  Kent  and  Michael  have  no  ingress 
except  after  the  disseisin  done  by  Hugh  Hunt  to  the  foresaid 
John  Moore  and  Giles  within  30  years  now  past.  And  whereof 
they  say  that  they  themselves  were  seized  of  the  said  hundred, 
&c.,  in  their  demesne,  as  of  free  and  rightly  in  time  of  peace 
in  the  time  of  the  Queen  now  by  taking  thence  the  explees  to 
the  value,  &c.,  &c.  And  thereof  they  produce  suit. 

And  the  foresaid  James,  John  Kent  and  Michael  in  their 
own  persons  come  and  defend  their  right.  And  they  call 
thence  to  warrant  Charles  Blount,  knight  of  the  Garter,  Lord 
Mountjoye,  who  is  present  here  in  court  in  his  own  person, 
and  warrants  to  them  the  said  hundred,  &c.,  with  the  appur- 
tenances. And  upon  this  the  foresaid  John  Moore  and  Giles 
sue  against  Charles  Lord  Mountjoye  himself  tenant  by  his 
warranty  the  foresaid  hundred,  &c.,  in  the  form  aforesaid. 
And  Lord  Mountjoye  holding  by  his  warranty  defends  his 
right  and  further  calls  to  warrant  Richard  Humfrey,  who  is 
present  here  in  court  in  his  own  person,  and  warrants  to  him 
the  said  hundred,. &c.  And  upon  this  the  foresaid  John  Moore 
and  Giles  sue  against  Richard  himself,  tenant  by  his  warranty 
the  said  hundred,  &c.,  with  the  appurtenances  in  the  form 
aforesaid.  And  the  foresaid  Richard,  tenant  by  his  warranty, 
defends  his  right.  And  says  that  the  foresaid  Hugh  did  not 
disseise  the  foresaid  John  Moore  and  Giles  of  the  hundred, 
&c.,  as  deposed  against  him.  And  concerning  this  he  places 
himself  upon  the  country. 

And  the  foresaid  John  Moore  and  Giles  ask  licence  to 
imparl  thereof.  And  they  have  it.  And  afterwards  John  and 


248  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Giles  return  into  the  Court  this  term  in  their  own  persons. 
And  the  foresaid  Richard,  although  solemnly  put  in  exigent 
does  not  return,  but  has  withdrawn  in  contempt  of  the  court 
and  makes  default.  Therefore  it  is  considered  that  the  foresaid 
John  Moore  and  Giles  shall  recover  their  seisin  against  the 
foresaid  James,  John  Kent  and  Michael  of  the  foresaid 
hundred,  &c.,  with  the  appurtenances.  And  that  James,  John 
and  Michael  shall  have  of  the  land  of  the  foresaid  Lord 
Mountjoye  to  the  value,  &c.  And  that  the  foresaid  Lord 
Mountjoye  shall  have  of  the  land  of  the  foresaid  Richard,  &c. 
And  the  same  Richard  shall  be  in  mercy,  &c.  And  upon  this 
the  said  John  Moore  and  Giles  ask  for  the  royal  writ  for  the 
full  seisin  to  them  of  hundred,  &c.,  aforesaid.  And  afterwards 
on  27th  June  in  the  same  term  John  Moore  and  Giles  come 
here  into  Court  in  their  persons.  And  the  sheriff,  Edward 
Penruddock,  esquire,  now  announces  that  by  virtue  of  the 
writ  directed  to  him  on  2oth  June  last  he  caused  the  foresaid 
John  Moore  and  Giles  to  have  full  seisin  of  the  foresaid  hun- 
dred, tenements,  rents,  common  of  pasture,  view  of  frankpledge, 
with  the  appurtenances  as  he  was  commanded  in  that  writ. 

[The  following  have  been  accidentally  omitted  from  the 
earlier  numbers  of  Bratton  Records.] 

CURIA  REGIS  ROLL,  No.  25,  m.  5.     [Michaelmas,  10  John.\ 

A.D.  1208. — Geoffrey  de  Mandevill  summoned  Master 
Eustace  de  Faukenbrige  to  warrant  his  charter  of  the  land  of 
Bratton  ;  he  came  and  warranted  the  charter  and  convention 
between  them  upon  the  ground  of  Bratton  according  to  the 
tenor  of  his  charter,  as  did  the  same  Eustace. 

IBID.     ROLL  169,  m.  gb.     [Michaelmas,  44-54  Henry  III.] 

A.D.  1259-60. — Robert  de  Plukkeneye,  and  Isabella  his 
wife,  by  their  attorney  sought  against  Richard  de  Anesy  | 
carucate  of  land  with  the  appurtenances  in  Bretton,  and  again 
Nicholas  de  Aune  and  Matilda  his  wife  |  carucate  of  land  in 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  249 

the  same  township  as  their  right.  And  Richard  and  the 
others  came  and  sought  to  have  view  thereof.  A  day  is  given 
them  from  the  day  of  S.  Hillary  in  fifteen  days. 

IBID.     No.  176,  m.  zzb.     [Michaelmas,  50  Henry  III.} 

A.D.  1265. — Isabella,  who  was  wife  of  Walter  de  Dene,  by 
her  attorney  sought  against  Ralph  de  Mandevill  the  third  part 
of  31  acres  of  land,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Bratton,  and 
against  Nicholas  Pentecost,  the  third  part  of  5  acres  of  land, 
with  the  appurtenances  in  Stoke,  and  against  John  le  Eyr,  the 
third  part  of  3  acres  of  land  with  the  appurtenances  in  the 
same  township,  and  against  John  Severy  the  third  part  of 
2  acres  of  land  with  appurtenances  in  Westbyry,  as  her 
dowery.  Ralph  and  the  others  come  by  their  attorney  and 
say  that  the  foresaid  Isabella  ought  not  to  have  dower  thereof, 
because  the  said  Walter,  formerly  her  husband,  neither  on  the 
day  he  married  her  nor  ever  after  held  the  foresaid  tenements 
in  fee  so  as  to  endow  her  therewith  ;  and  concerning  this  they 
put  themselves  on  the  country,  and  Isabella  likewise.  There- 
fore the  sheriff  is  bidden  to  summon  12  recognitors  in  his 
presence  to  inquire  thereof,  and  to  make  the  inquest  known 
here-  [at  Westminster]  in  the  octaves  of  S.  Hillary.  After- 
wards on  that  day  the  sheriff  sent  the  inquest,  which  says  that 
the  foresaid  Walter,  husband  of  Isabella,  on  the  day  he  wedded 
her  nor  ever  after  held  the  foresaid  tenements  in  fee  so  as  to 
be  able  to  endow  her. 

Therefore  it  is  considered  that  Ralph  and  the  others  go 
without  a  day,  and  Isabella  is  in  mercy. 

IBID.     No.  183.     [Stars  of  Hillary  Tcrm}  52  Henry  ///.] 

A.D.  1267.  WILTS. — Benedict,  son  of  Salmon,  of  Cam- 
bridge, acknowledges  by  his  star  that  he  sells  and  demises  to 
William,  son  of  Rocelin,  of  Bracton,  all  right,  power,  demand 
and  claim  which  he  had  in  a  charter  for  eight  pounds  of  the 
fee  which  is  under  his  own  name,  and  that  of  Richard,  son  of 


250  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Ralph  de  Stokes,  whereof  the'wax1  of  the  foresaid  charter  is  in 
the  archives  at  Wilton,  and  all  the  foresaid  charter,  chattel, 
and  profit  which  was  accruing  or  for  the  rest  accrues  until  the 
day  of  the  making.  Of  this  star  and  all  the  foresaid  charter 
he  sold  and  demised  for  himself  and  his  heirs  to  the  foresaid 
William,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  the  sale  being  stable  and  per- 
manent. So  that  the  foresaid  William  and  his  heirs  and 
assigns  have  power,  as  it  was  his  power  to  acquire,  pardon, 
sell,  give,  distrain,  raise,  seize,  and  do  according  to  the  will  of 
William,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  with  all  the  foresaid  charter, 
chattel,  and  profit,  according  to  the  use  and  custom  of  the 
Jews.  And  if  the  foresaid  William,  his  heirs  or  assigns,  need 
to  perpetrate  a  writ  of  the  king  to  distrain,  &c.,  the  tenements, 
land  and  rents  of  the  said  Richard,  son  of  Ralph,  which  are 
pledged  for  the  debt,  the  foresaid  Jew  is  held  for  himself  and 
his  heirs  to  perpetrate  the  writ  at  the  costs  of  William,  his 
heirs  and  assigns.  And  the  foresaid  Jew  swears  that  he  has 
not  made  any  star  hitherto  nor  makes  any  for  the  rest,  which 
could  hurt  or  eloign  William,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  from  the 
whole  of  the  foresaid  debt  or  from  a  part  unless  by  the  will  of 
the  foresaid  William,  his  heirs  or  assigns.  And  the  foresaid 
Jew  granted  for  himself  and  his  heirs  that  he  would  warrant 
to  William,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  the  charter  and  the  debt  not 
paid  at  the  day  of  the  making  of  this  star,  and  the  wax  is  in 
the  archives  at  Wilton  according  to  the  use  and  custom  of  the 
Jews.  This  star  was  made  on  the  vigil  of  the  Purification  of 
the  Blessed  Mary,  52  Henry  III. 

MINISTERS' ACCOUNTS.     Bundle  1,145.    No.  12.    [15  Edward II .] 

A.D.  1322. — The  account  of  John  de  Ticheburne,  sheriff  of 
Wilts,  of  all  manors,  lands,  and  tenements,  together  with 
goods  and  chattels  which  belonged  to  Thomas  Mauduyt  and 
other  contrariants  of  the  lord  King,  seized  into  the  king's  hands 
from  nth  Feb.  to  24th  of  March,  15  Edward  II. 


Cera. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  251 

MULEBURNE  AND  BRACTONE  which  were  Nicholas 
FitzWarin's. 

From  the  nth  day  of  February  to  the  24th  day  of  March. 

Of  rent  he  [the  sheriff]  is  not  charged,  because  no 


J  rent  is  leviable  there  within  the  term  abovesaid. 
Of  pasture  within  enclosures  or  without  in 
divers  places,  he  is  not  charged  for  defect  of 
buyers. 

1     The  same  renders  account  of  xs.   from 

hay  and  fog  sold  there,  and  of  xiiW.  from 
goods  &  chattels 

'      a  chest  sold. 

Sum  of  receipts  —  xjs. 

)     The  same  returns  account  of  3  acres  there 
Lands    sown     >  . 

i     tound  with  corn  price  of  the  acre  ijs.  vja. 

And  in  delivery  to  Robert  Hungerford  by 
»          indenture  — 

And  nothing  remains. 


COURT  ROLLS.     Portfolio  208.     No.  29. 

A.D.  1502.  WESTBURY.  Sheriffs  tourn  held  there  5  April, 
17  Henry  VII.  The  tithing  of  Bratton  came  fully  and  gave 
of  the  cert  iiijs.,  and  presented  that  Walter  Godpath,  Philip 
Blache,  Thos.  Aprice,  John  Browne,  John  Hales,  Thomas 
Meryweder,  Richard  Browne,  Henry  Busshop,  John  Alrigge, 
William  Ranger,  William  Whete,  Stephen  Badcake,  Thomas 
Alrigge,  John  Taunton,  Thomas  Wynke,  Thomas  Gibbes,  and 
all  the  tenants  of  the  Rector  of  Edyngdon  made  default. 

AUGMENTATION  OFFICE.     MISCELLANEOUS  BOOKS,  vol.  514. 

[The  certificate  [A.D.  1553]  of  all  the  Chirche  goods  within 
the  counteye  of  Wiltes  ....  as  well  receavid  to  the  Kinge 
his  Maiestes  use,  as  also  remaininge  in  Churchis  and  Chappellis 
.  .  .  .  for  conveniaunte  and  comelye  ministration  of  the 
holy  Communion  .  .  .  .] 


252  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


THE  HUNDERDE  OF  WESTBURYE. 

Delivered  to  John  Bowcher] 

and  to  Raffe  Alridge  j  cvppe  |      Ovncis  bellis 

or  chalis  by  Indenture  of  xj  (  xj  ovnces  (sic)  bellis  iiijr 


ovnces  di.  and  iiij  bellis. 

In  plate  to  the  Kinges  vse  -  ij  ovnces  di. 

(To  be  continued.} 


QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  231.) 


III.— BIRTH     RECORDS. 

FIRST  SERIES. 

C.  (continued) 

1655-1-2.— Ann  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thomas  Crabb,  of  Marlbro. 
1655-8-18.— Jeane  COOLE,  dau.  of  Henry  Coole,  of  Devizes. 
1657-1-29. — Laurence  CRABB,  son  of  Thomas  Crabb,  of  Marlbro. 
1658/9-1-22. — Joseph  COOLE,  son  of  Henry  Coole,  of  Devizes. 
1659-2-10. — Laurence  CRABB,  son  of  Thomas  Crabb. 

1659-1 1-16. — James  CLEMENT,  son  of  William  &  Sarah  Clement, 
of  Ditcheridge. 

1660-10-15. — Alice  COOL,  dau.  of  John  Cool. 

1661-2-10. — John  CRABB,  son  of  Thomas  Crabb,  of  Marlbro. 

1661-4-22. — Anne  COLMAN,  dau.  of  Nathan  :  Colman,  of  Hullav- 
ington. 

1663-10-23. — Rachell  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thomas  Crabb. 

1663-6-14. — Nathaniell    COLMAN,    son  of  Nathani  :  Colman,  of 
Hullavington. 

1664-5-25. — Benjamin  COOLE,  son  of  Henry  Coole. 


Quakerism  in    Wiltshire.  253 

1664/5-12-25. — Isaac  CRABB,  son  of  Thomas  Crabb,  of  Marl- 
brough. 

1666-4-18. — Keatherine  COLMAN,  dau.    of  Natha :  Colman,   of 
Sutten  benger.1 

1666-9-5. — J°hn  CHAMP,  son  of  John  Champ,  of  Mildenhall. 
1667-9-9. — Hester  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thomas  Crabb,  of  Marlbro. 
1667/8-11-30. — Anne  CHAMP,  dau.  of  John  Champ. 
1668-9-24. — tester  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thomas  Crabb,  Senr. 

1669-4-16. — Elezebeth    COLMAN,    dau.    of   Nath  :    Colman,    of 
Sutton  Benger. 

1669/70-1-10. — Martha  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thomas  Crabb,  Senr. 

1671-12-14. — -Mary  CHAMP,  dau.  of  John  Champ,  of  Charlcutt 
Meeting. 

1673-3-2. — Thomas    COLMAN,   son  of  Nathaniell    Colman,   of 
Sutton. 

1673-11-18. — William    COLMAN,   son   of  William   Colman,    of 
Hullavington. 

1673/4-12-12. — Elizabeth  CHAMP,  dau.  of  John  Champ. 

1674-7-16. — Mary  CEARD,  dau.  of  Robert  &  Frances  Ceard,  of 
Calne  Meeting. 

1674-10-12. — Samuell  COLMAN,  son  of  Nathaniell  Colman,  of 
Sutton  benger. 

1675-11-14. — Martha  CEARD,  dau.  of  Robert  &  Frances  Ceard, 
of  Calne  Meeting. 

1  The  name  COLMAN,  of  Hullavington  and  Sutton  Benger,  appears  not 
unfrequently  in  the  Records  of  Wiltshire  Quakerism,  and  not  always  in 
a  favourable  light.  NATHANIEL  COLEMAN,  of  Sutton  Benger,  was,  with 
other  Wiltshire  Friends,  concerned  in  the  Wilkinson  and  Storey  controversy 
and  secession,  which  greatly  disturbed  the  peace  and  work  of  George  Fox 
and  his  co-adjutors.  I  copy  the  following  thereanent  from  the  Quarterly 
Meeting  minute  book  — "  At  Charlcott,  4th  of  8mo.,  1680.  Whereas  ye 
people  of  the  Lord  in  the  county  of  Wilts,  in  particular  ye  Quarterly 
Meeting  thereof,  have  been  beyond  expression  exercisad  with  a  sadd  and 
lainmentable  sisme  and  divission,  first  fomented  and  stirred  up  by  John 
Storey  and  John  Wilkinson,  of  Westmoreland,  and  afterwards  carried  on  by 
severall  in  this  county,— the  cheef  whereof  was  AHTHUB  EASTMEAD  [woolen 
draper  of  Calne],  NATHANIEL  COLEMAN,  JOHN  JENINGS  and  JOHN 
MATRAVERS,  whoe  appeared  for  many  moneths  with  all  their  endeavours 
to  scatter,  devide,  and  to  lay  weast  our  Quartely,  Monthly,  and  Womens 
Meetings,  which  they  wer  in  times  past  very  zealous  for  ....  a 
particular  account  of  which  divissions,  and  sepperations  is  intended  to 
be  recorded  in  a  written  booke  intitulated,  A  perticular  account  of  ye 


254  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1676-2-25. — Thomas  CRABB,  son  of  Thomas  Crabb,  Junr. 
1676-5-15. — Sarah  CHAMP,  dau.  of  John  Champ. 

1676-11-18. — Samuell  COLMAN,  son  of  Nathaniell  Colman,  of 
Sutten. 

1677-6-19. — Samuel  CHIVERS,  son  of  Samuel  &  Grace  Chivers, 
of  Slaughterford. 

1677-7-3. — Robert  CEARD,  son  of  Robert  &  Frances  Ceard,  of 
Calne  Meeting. 

1677-8-10. — John    CLARKE,    son   of  John,   Junr.,    &    Deborah 
Clarke,  of  Devizes. 

1678-2-13. — Elizabeth  COOK,  dau.  of  Roger  &  Jeane  Cook,  of 
Voxham. 

1678-8-16. — John  CHURCH,  son  of  John  Church,  of  Cleaverton, 
Lea  ph. 

1679-8-5. — Hester  CLARKE,   dau.    of  Jno.,   Junr.,   &   Rebecca 
[Deborah]  Clark,  of  Devizes. 

1679-8-24. — Sarah  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thomas  Crabb,  Junr. 

1679-10-8. — Sarah  CHIFFERS,  dau.  of  Samuel  &  Grace  Chiffers, 
of  Slaughterford. 

1680-4-22.— John  CHURCH,  son  of  John  Church,  of  Cleaverton. 
1681-8-6. — Mary  CRABB,  dau.  of  Thos.  Crabb,  Junr. 
1682-9-11. —  Mary  CHURCH,  dau.  of  John  Church,  of  Cleaverton. 

1682-10-31. — Frances  CEARD,  dau.  of  Robert  &  Frances  Ceard, 
of  Calne  Meeting. 

1683-6-15. — Joseph  CEALE,  son  of  John  &  Jone  Ceale,  of  Calne 
Meeting. 


rise,  beginning,  carrying  on  and  progress  of  ye  devision  and  sepparation, 
which  is  the  worke  of  Beliall  and  his  instruments  in  the  County  of  Wilts, 
etc.  .  .  ."  The  minute  is  signed  by  37  Friends.  ***** 
In  a  little  book  of  Marriages  and  Burials,  among  the  Friends 
who  sign  the  record?  appeared  originally  the  name  of  Nathaniel  Coulman, 
but  in  more  than  thirty  places  where  it  occurs,  beginning  9mo.  1671,  it  has 
been  almost  obliterated  by,  apparently,  a  contemporary  hand.  This  some- 
what spiteful  and  altogether  unusual  proceeding,  has  not,  however,  suc- 
ceeded in  removing  the  name  entirely  from  the  book,  for  the  name  has 
been  overlooked  in  a  few  places,  and  thus  escaped  molestation.  On  the 
other  hand  we  read  that  "Nathaniel  Coulman,  of  Sutton  Benger,  because  he 
could  not  pay  Tythes,  was  proceeded  against  in  the  County  Court,  and  had 
taken  from  him  2  cows,  one  of  them  worth  three  pounds,  ten  shillings, 
which  they  sold  ;  the  other,  after  some  time,  was  returned  back  again,  but 
never  prospered,  for  it  pined  away  and  dyed." 


A    Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for   Wiltshire.         255 

1690-4-10. — Water  (sic)  COLMAN,  son  of  William  Colman,  of 
Langley. 

1692-10-27. — James    CLARK,    son   of  John   &   Ann    Clark,    of 
Bradford. 

1694-8-19. — Jane  COOK,   dau.  of  Roger  &  Patience  Cook,   of 
Chippenham. 

1695-9-26. — At  Bradford,  Elizabeth  CLARK,  dau.  of  John  &  Ann 
Clark,  of  Bradford,  chymist. 

1696-3-6. — Sarah  COLEHORNE,  dau.   of  Phillip  &  Sarah  Cole- 
horne,  of  Chippenham  Meeting. 

1696-5-29. — Charles  COOK,  son  of  Roger  &  Patience  Cook,  of 
Chippenham. 

1697/8-12-20. — William  CLARKE,  son  of  John  &  Ann  Clarke,  of 
Bradford,  chymist. 

1698-7-19. — Job  COOPER,  son  of  John  Cooper,  of  Bradford  ph., 
scribbler. 

1698-10-5. — Roger  COOK,  son  of  Roger  &  Patience  Cook,   of 
Chippenham. 

1698-11-20. — Jane    CERTAINE,    dau.    of    William   &   Rebecca 
Certaine,  late   of  Holt. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 
(To  be  continued.) 

20,  Ruskin  Road, 

Tottenham,  Middsx. 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  234.) 


271.  Anno  36. — Thomas  Horton  and  Nicholas  Halswell 
and  Margery  his  wife;  half  of  certain  messuages  and  lands 
in  Tyleshedde,   North  Bradley,   Gore  and  Chenell.     ^60. 

272.  Anno  36. — Edmund  Mompesson,   arm.,    and  James 
Morys,  gen.,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife;  messuages,  lands,  etc., 
in  Staunton.         ..Marks. 


256  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

273.  Anno  36. — Thomas  Arundel,   knt.,   &   Henry  Law- 
rence, gen.,  and  Thomas   West,   knt,    Lord  Le  War,   Owen 
West,  knt.,  Leonard  West,  arm.,  and  Barbara  his  wife  ;  manor 
of  Sutton  Maundefeld  als.  Maundfeld  Haseldon,  and  Tisbury, 
with  advowson  of  the  church  of  Sutton  Maundefeld. 

274.  Anno  36. — John    Gerysshe   and  Andrew    Baynton, 
arm. ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Shalke  and  Melkysham. 

275.  Anno  36. — John  Holmes  and  Thomas  South;  mes- 
suages and  lands  in  New  Sarum.     ^140. 

276.  Anno  36. — Robert  Browne  and  John  South,  knight, 
Lord  Zowche,  Seyntmor  and  Cantlow ;  lands  in  Summerlees, 
Godwyns  and  Calne.     ^56. 

277.  Anno  36. — Thomas  Horton  and  Thomas  Bamfyld, 
arm.,  and  Anna  his  wife,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs 
of  John   Savery,    arm. ;    messuages   and   lands  in    Cricklade, 
Chelworth  and  Chalfield,  advowson  of  the  free  chapel  of  St. 
Blase  in  Chalfield.     ,£300. 

278.  Anno  36. — Walter  Graunt  and  Henry  Long,  knt. ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Bradford.     ^40. 

279.  Anno  36. — Robert    Kellway    and    Edward    Darell, 
knt.,    and   John    Thynne,    arm.;    manor    of    Knyghton    near 
Broadchalke,  and  lands  in  Knygton  and  Broadchalke. 

280.  Anno  36. — Giles  Mores  and  John  Mascall  and  Ellen 
his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Hyghworth.     ^30. 

281.  Anno  37. — William  Paradyse  and  Thomas  Erie  and 
Christina  his  wife,  and  Thomas  Hoskyns  and  Elizabeth  his 
wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Bromeham.     40  marks.  - 

282.  Anno  37. — John    Secolle    and  Milo    Partriche   and 
Johanna  his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Kingswood.     ^200. 

283.  Anno  37. — William    More    and   Andrew    Baynton, 
arm.,  and  Robert   Kaylway,   arm.  ;  manor  of  Estwinterslow, 
and  lands  in   Estwinterslow  and  Alderbury. 

284.  Anno  37. — Michael  Dormer,  knt.,  and  Walter  Shan- 
gulton,  gen. ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Shalborne  and  River, 
as  well  as  the  advowson  of  the   Rectory  of  the  church  of 
St.   Margaret  in  Shalborne.     ,£100. 


A    Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for   Wiltshire.        257 

285.  Anno  37. — John  Abyn  and  John  Harwarde  ;  messu- 
ages and  lands  in  New  Sarum  in  the  street  called  Winchester 
Street  and  Broune  Street.     ,£60. 

286.  Anno  37. — Thomas  A  Vale  and  William  Chaderton, 
gen.,   son  and  heir  of  Edmund  Chaderton,  arm. ;   messuages 
and  lands  in    Marlebourgh.     £30. 

287.  Anno  37. — William     Button,     arm.,     and    William 
Smyth   and    Maria   his   wife,    dau.    and    heiress    of    George 
Clevedon,    defunct;    a    third    part   of  the   manor   of  Wood- 
borowe ;    messuages    and    lands    in   Woodborowe,    Manyng- 
ford   and    Boundes.     ,£80. 

288.  Anno  37. — William  Planner  and  William  Kyrkeham 
and  Johanna  his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Wokingham. 
^80. 

289.  Anno  37. — Thomas  Chafyn,  of  Mere,  and  Thomas 
Vawtard   and   Agnes   his   wife,    and   John    More,    arm.,    and 
Katherine  his  wife ;  manor  of  Sealyscleudon,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Over  Seales,  Nether  Scales,  Wolverton,  Hache  and 
Lynley.     ^320. 

290.  Anno  37. — John  Gerysche  and  Edward  White  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife ;  manor  of  Shaw  and  lands  in  Melksham. 
^40. 

291.  Anno  37. — Anthony   Passion  and  Giles  Gore   and 
Edith  his  wife;  half  of  certain  messuages  and  lands  in  Henton 
and  Lytteltone.     ,£48. 

292.  Anno  37. — Thomas  Cater  and  Thomas  Stanter  and 
Katherine  his  wife,   John    Mogryge   and   William    Mogryge ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  the  city  of  New  Sarum  in  the  High 
Street  and  Town  ditch.     200  marks. 

293.  Anno  37. — Thomas  Champneys,  gen.,  and  Richard 
Kyrton,  arm.,  &  Elizabeth  his   wife  and  Christofer  Kyrton; 
manor  of  Cutteryge,  messuages  and  lands  in  Cutteryge,  Hony- 
bryge,  Southwyke,  Bradley,  Brokers,  Brockers  Wood,  Dyche- 
ryche,  Lydvreokes  and  Box.     .£560. 

294.  Anno  37. — John  Mychell  and  William  Wroughton, 


258  Wiltshire  Notes   and  Queries. 

knt. ;  messuages  and   lands  in   Calston,    Cokylboroughe   and 
Alberdmede.     ^80. 

295.  Anno  37. — William  Popley  and  Edward  Twenow 
arm.,  and  Edith  his  wife ;  manor  of  Chettern,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Chetterne  All  Saints  and  Chetterne  St.  Mary. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued). 


AMESBURY  MONASTERY,  WITH  AN  ACCOUNT  OF  SOME 
DISCOVERIES  ON  THE  SITE  IN  1860. 

(Continued  from  p.  22^.) 


In  the  year  1501,  Katherine  of  Arragon,  on  her  arrival  in 
England,  was  a  visitor  here.  She  landed  at  Plymouth  October 
2nd,  and  on  her  progress  thence  from  Exeter  to  London, 
reached  Shaftesbury  Abbey  on  the  3oth  of  the  same  month, 
being  Saturday.  Here  she  remained  until  the  following  Tues- 
day, 2nd  November,  when  another  stage  of  the  journey  brought 
her  over  part  of  the  Wiltshire  downs  to  Amesbury  Monastery,1 
where  she  lodged  for  a  night,  and  the  next  day  set  out  again 
for  the  Angel  at  Andover.  Her  first  marriage  with  Prince 


1  At  Amesbury  the  Duchess  of  Norfolk,  with  certain  ladies,  were  in 
attendance  to  receive  her ;  and  she  was  met  on  her  journey,  several 
miles  out  of  the  place,  by  the  Lord  Treasurer  with  several  Bishops, 
abbots,  lords  and  knights,  the  latter  including  two  Wiltshiremen, 
Sir  John  Seymour  and  Sir  Christopher  Wroughton.  After  her 
offering,  my  Lady  of  Norfolk  was  to  receive  her  in  some  convenient  spot 
between  the  place  of  meeting  and  her  lodging  in  the  Monastery,  and  one 
William  Hollybrand  to  welcome  her  in  Spanish  song,  and  in  the  name  of  the 
Duchess,  with  such  words  as  be  delivered  to  him. 

A  "  chare"  to  be  ready  at  Amesbury,  same  time,  to  put  her  in  the  next 
day,  or  any  other  time  when  it  shall  please  her. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  259 

Arthur  was  solemnized  on  the  i4th  of  the  same  month.1  From 
the  two  first  Tudor  monarchs  the  Prioress  and  Nuns  obtained 
further  Charters  confirming  their  lands  and  liberties.  It 
appears  from  Jones'  Index  of  Memoranda  that  fines  were  paid 
to  the  Crown  for  confirmation  of  letters  patent  in  1488  and 
1512  ;2  and  in  1499  Henry  VII  confirmed  divers  charters 
granted  to  the  Abbess  by  former  Kings  of  England.3  Their 
last  Royal  Charter  must  have  been  that  granted  by  Henry 
VIII  in  1532.4 

In  1534  the  opposition  of  the  clergy  to  the  King's  matri- 
monial speculations  led,  as  is  well  known,  to  the  severance  of 
the  English  Church  from  the  spiritual  supremacy  of  the  See 
of  Rome.  The  Pope  having  refused  to  sanction  the  divorce  of 
his  outraged  queen,  Henry  quickly  resolved  to  break  off  all 
connexion  with  him,  and  to  declare  himself  Pope  in  his  own 
dominions.  The  great  body  of  the  clergy,  who  were  opposed 
to  his  wishes,  was  therefore  to  be  coerced  into  seeming  ap- 
proval, and  the  statute  which  declared  the  Royal  Supremacy 
was  the  instrument  employed  to  effect  this  purpose.  Of  the 
declaration  itself,  which  was  a  most  carefully  prepared  docu- 
ment, a  blank  form  was  carried  to  every  religious  community, 
spaces  being  left  for  the  insertion  of  the  name  and  style  of  the 
House,  and  also  for  the  signatures  of  its  inmates.  It  con- 
cluded with  an  oath  of  obligation  and  faithful  and  perpetual 
observance  of  the  whole  of  its  contents — being  sealed  with 
their  common  seal,  and  compulsorily  attested  in  the  Chapter 
House  of  each  community  by  the  whole  of  its  inmates. 


1  She  afterwards  married  his  younger  brother,  Henry  VIII,  in  1509. 

2  Amesbury.     Priorissa  et  Moniales  ibid'.     Finis  solutus  pro  confirma- 
tione  quarumdam   Literarum  Patentium.     Original,  4  Hen.  VII,  Roll  56. 
Idem,  4  Hen.  VIII,  Roll  117. 

3  Confirmatio    diversarnm    Cartarum    Progenitorum    Regis  Abbatissse 
ibid'  factarum.     Michael  Record,  15  Hen.  VII,  Roll  14.     {Exparte  Bememer- 
atorls  Thesaurari-i.) 

4  Carta  Regis  Priorissas  et  Monialibus  confecta  de  maneriis  et  liberta- 
tibus.     Michael  Record,  24  Hen.  VIII,  Roll  10, 

T  2 


260  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

The  declaration  of  the  King's  supremacy  was  the  first 
step  towards  the  spoliations  which  followed.  It  was  presently 
enacted  that  every  possessor  of  any  ecclesiastical  dignity, 
office,  or  place,  should  surrender  to  him  the  first  fruits,  re- 
venues, and  profits  for  one  year,  and  further  should  pay  to  him 
every  year  a  tenth  of  all  his  revenues,  emoluments,  and  profits; 
the  first  payment  to  be  made  at  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity  1535. 
Commissioners  were  accordingly  appointed  by  Parliament  to 
enquire  into  and  report  upon  the  value  of  all  ecclesiastical 
possessions  throughout  the  country,  and  the  returns  made  on 
this  occasion  constitute  the  well-known  Valor  Ecclesiasticus, 
published  by  the  Record  Commissioners  in  six  folio  volumes, 
A.D.  1810-34.  The  Valor  of  Amesbury  Monastery,  printed 
in  the  second  volume  (p.  93),  furnishes  a  complete  view  of  the 
possessions  of  the  house  during  its  last  few  years  of  place  and 
power.1 

The  compilation  of  the  Valor  was  quickly  followed  by  the 
appropriation  of  the  property  which  it  represented.  Cromwell, 
an  old  servant  of  Wolsey,  soon  after  proposed  a  so-called 
Visitation  of  the  Religious  Houses,  the  real  object  of  which, 
besides  plunder,  was  perhaps  to  bring  an  evil  report  upon  these 
places.  Being  himself  constituted  General  Visitor,  his  plans, 
with  the  assistance  of  Doctors  Layton,  Legh,  Petre,  London, 
and  others,  were  soon  carried  into  effect,  and  during  the  year 
1535,  whilst  this  visitation  was  actually  in  progress,  two  acts 


1  In  the  time  of  William  the  Conqueror  the  Monastery  possessed  lands 
in  Allington,  Boscombe,  Bulford,  Cholesbanestone  [Choulston — Sir  R.  0. 
Hoare  prints  Cholderton\t  Winterbourne,  and  Winterslow ;  as  well  as  HiJ  hides 
in  co.  Berks.  To  its  possessions  in  Wilts  the  Nomina  Villarum  of  A.D.  1316 
adds  Amesbury,  Maddington,  and  the  manor  and  hundred  of  Melksham 
given  by  Henry  III  (see  ante  p.  147).  The  Valor  Ecclesiasticus  of  1534,  and 
the  Minister's  Accounts  of  1540,  further  add  either  property,  or  church 
patronage,  in  Aldbourne,  Alton,  West  Amesbury,  Benacre,  Berford,  Biddes- 
den,  Durrington,  Enford,  Ludgershall,  Milston,  Orcheston  St.  George,  liab- 
son  (in  Winterbourne  Basset),  Rothfenne  [Radfyn  ?],  Sarum,  Seend, 
Seendrew,  North  Tidworth,  Wanborough,  Whitley,  Woodrew,  and  VVoolmore  ; 
with  other  property  in  the  counties  of  Berks  and  Southampton. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  261 

were  passed,  by  the  first  of  which  all  the  monasteries  of  less 
value  than  ,£200  per  annum  (in  all  more  than  370  in  number) 
were  suppressed,  and  their  possessions  of  every  kind  granted 
to  the  Crown ;  whilst  by  the  second  a  court  was  established, 
"  commonly  to  be  called  the  Court  of  the  Augmentations  of 
the  Revenues  of  the  King's  crown,"  for  the  purpose  of  manag- 
ing the  immense  income  thus  acquired,  and  also  dispensing 
"some  convenient  charity"  to  such  of  the  displaced  religious 
as  might  chose  to  return  to  the  world,  instead  of  entering  the 
so-called  honourable  great  monasteries,  yet  unsuppressed ;  but 
whose  overthrow  was  the  next  object  of  the  King's 
attention. 

The  name  of  the  Prioress  of  Amesbury  at  the  time  of  the 
compilation  of  the  Valor  Ecclesiasticus,  in  1 534,  was  Florence 
Bonnewe,  or  Bormewe.  As  early  as  1535  or  1536,  on  the 
Visitation  of  the  Monastery  by  Dr.  Tregonnel1  and  other  of 
Cromwell's  emissaries,  an  attempt  had  been  made  to  persuade 
the  Prioress  voluntarily  to  resign  the  government  of  her  house 
into  the  King's  hands  ;  but  this  for  awhile  she  steadily  refused, 
and  Tregonnel  and  his  fellow  commissioners  thus  wrote  to 
Secretary  Cromwell : — 

"  We  came  to  Ambresbury,  and  there  communed  with  the  Abbess 
lor  the  accomplishment  of  the  King's  highness  commission  in  like  sort ; 
and,  albeit  we  have  used  as  many  ways  with  her  as  our  poor  wits  could 
attain,  yet,  in  the  end,  we  could  not  by  any  persuasions  bring  her  to  any 
conformity,  but  at  all  times  she  rested  and  so  remaineth  in  these  terms, 
'  If  the  King's  highness  command  me  to  go  from  this  house,  I  will  gladly 
go,  though  I  beg  my  bread;  as  for  pension  I  care  for  none'.  In  these 
terms  she  was  in  all  her  communication,  praying  us  many  times  to 
trouble  her  no  farther  herein,  for  she  had  declared  her  full  mind,  in  the 
which  we  might  plainly  gather  of  her  words  she  was  fully  fixed  before 
our  coming."— Miscellaneous  Letters  (State  Paper  Office),  second  series, 
vol.  43,  fol.  227. 


1  Sir  John  Tregonnell,  of  Milton,  co.  Dorset,  held  the  manor  and 
rectory  of  Pottern,  with  glebe,  lands,  &c.,  by  demise  from  John  (Salcott  or 
Capon)  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  2  Edward  VI  [1547-8].  In  2  and  3  Philip  and 
Mary  [1554-5]  Tregonnell  again  demised  the  same  to  Adhelm  Lambe, 
of  Coulston,  and  his  assigns. 


262  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

It  appears,  however,  that  being  in  ill  health,  and  harassed, 
no  doubt,  by  the  continued  importunity  of  the  Royal  Com- 
missioners— foreseeing  also  the  speedy  fall  of  the  monastery, 
and  the  ejection  of  its  inmates — she  was  soon  afterwards 
induced  to  resign  her  office  of  Prioress,  on  the  promise  from 
the  Commissioners  of  a  yearly  stipend  for  life  ;  but  not  feeling 
herself  justified  in  depending  wholly  on  such  promise,  she  thus 
addressed  Lord  Cromwell  himself,  relying  on  him  for  its  due 
performance : — x 

"Right  honourable  my  singular  good  lord, 

I  humbly  recommend  me  unto  your  good  lordship,  and  have  received 
the  King's  most  gracious  letters  and  yours  touching  the  resignation  of 
my  poor  office  in  the  monastery  of  Ambresbury ;  according  to  the 
purport  of  which  letters  and  your  good  advertisement,  I  have  resigned 
my  said  office  into  the  hands  of  the  King's  noble  grace,  before  the  com- 
missioners thereto  appointed ;  trusting  that  such  promises  as  the  same 
commissioners  have  made  unto  me  for  assurance  of  my  living  hereafter 
shall  be  performed.  And  so  I  most  humbly  beseech  your  good  lordship, 
in  the  way  of  charity,  to  be  means  for  me  unto  the  King's  highness,  that 
I  may  be  put  in  surety  for  my  said  living  during  the  little  time  that  it 
shall  please  God  to  grant  me  to  live.  And  I  shall  continually  during  my 
time  pray  to  God  for  the  preservation  ot  the  King's  most  excellent  no[ble] 
grace,  and  your  honourable  estate  long  to  endure.  At  the  poor 
monastery  [of]  Ambresbury  the  loth  day  of  the  present  month,  August. 

By  your  poor  O[ratrice] 
FLORENCE  BO[NNEWE] 
late  Prioress  [there]. 
To  the  Right  Honourable  and  my 

singular  good  lord,   my  Lord 

Cromwell  and  Lord  Privy  Seal.' 

Endorsed: — "Florence  Bonnewe,  Prioress  of  Ambresbury,  desiring  to 
have  her  stipend  for  life." 

This  letter  was  apparently  written  on  the  loth  August  1536, 
— but  the  writer,  being  removed  by  death  almost  immediately 
after,  was  spared  the  sight  of  the  evil  days  which  followed, 
and  the  dissolution  and  destruction  of  the  House  over  which  it 
had  been  her  lot  to  preside. 


1  Miscellaneous    Letters,    second    series,-  vol.    i,    No.    117,    printed  in 
Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladies,  by  M.  A.  Everett  Wood,  1846. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  263 

The  resignation  of  this  Prioress  paved  the  way  for  an 
unconditional  surrender,  in  due  course,  of  the  Monastery  itself; 
and  it  only  remained  for  Cromwell  in  the  meantime  to  appoint, 
as  her  temporary  successor,  a  lady  who  would,  in  exchange  for 
a  liberal  pension,  resign  her  office,  and  quietly  surrender  the 
House  into  the  King's  hands,  when  called  upon  to  do  so. 

The  individual  thus  selected  was  Joan  Darell,  probably  a 
member  of  the  Littlecote  family.  She  was  appointed  before 
the  2oth  of  January,  29  Hen.  VIII  (1537),  for  Sir  Richard 
Hoare  (Amesbury  Hundred,  p.  68)  has  printed  a  grant  to  one 
John  Butler,  made  by  her  as  Prioress,  and  dated  in  the 
Chapter  House  of  Amesbury  Monastery  on  that  day. 

Three  years  after  the  downfall  of  the  smaller  Monasteries, 
another  Act  was  passed  by  which  the  greater  ones  were  to 
share  the  same  fate ;  and,  in  compliance  with  the  Royal 
mandate,  the  Prioress  and  Nuns  of  Amesbury,  thirty-four  in 
number,  met  for  the  last  time,  in  their  Chapter  House,  on  the 
4th  December  1539,  and  signed  the  instrument  of  surrender, 
by  which  the  Monastery  was  on  the  same  day  "  clearly  dis- 
solved and  suppressed." 

Three  days  after  the  surrender  (Decembef  7)  the  follow- 
ing letter  was  addressed  by  the  Commissioners  at  Amesbury 
to  Lord  Cromwell,  and  sent  to  him  by  the  hands  of  Sir 
Anthony  Hungerford1 : — 

"  Ower  humble  dewties  observyd  vnto  your  gudde  lordshippe.  It 
may  lyk  the  same  to  be  advertised  that  we  have  taken  the  surrendre  of 
the  late  monastery  of  Amesbury  wher  we  founde  the  late  Priores  and 
herre  sisters  very  honest  and  conformable  persones.  Sir  Anthony  Hunger- 
ford  oon  of  the  kingis  highnes  commissioners  thys  berar  have  be  present 
ther  at  all  our  doings  and  can  farther  declare  vnto  your  lordeshipp  the 
same,  to  whom  we  beseke  your  lordshippe  therein  to  geve  credance.  And 
now  we  be  in  iorney  towardis  Bristow,  where  we  shall  apply  our  selfes 
with  all  deligens  to  accomplish  and  execute  the  residew  of  our  commis- 


1  Sir  Anthony  Hungerford,  of  Down  Ampney  [1524-1558].  Sheriff  of 

Gloucestershire,   1552.     Buried  at  Great  Bedwyn  19  Nov.  1558.  His  first 

wife  was   Jane,   daughter  of  Sir   Edward    Darell,  of  Littlecote,  and  most 
probably  a  near  relative  of  the  last  Prioress  of  Amesbury. 


264  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

sions  ther.  And  thus  we  besek  almyztie  Ihesus  longe  to  preserve 
your  gudde  lordeshippe  with  increse  of  moche  honour.  At  Amysbery 
vij°  decembris. 

your  lordshippis  humbly  to  command, 

(signed)        ROBERT  SOWTHWELL, 
EDWARD  CARNE,1 
JOHN  LONDON, 
RYCHARD  POULET, 
WILLIAM  B.ERNERS. 

To  our  right  honorable  and  synguler  gudde 
lorde  the  lord  privie  seale." 

Endorsed : — "Robt.  Sowthwell,  and  other  the  commissioners  the  viith  ol 
December."  (/«  another  hand)  "declaring  the  surrendour  of  the 
nuns  of  Amysbery." 

State  Papers,  Henry  VIII,  vol.  xiv,  pt.  ii,  No.  646. 

PRIORESSES  OF  AMESBURY. — The  following  list  will  be 
found  to  include  all  that  are  at  present  known  to  have  pre- 
sided over  the  Monastery  : — 

A. D.  1177.  [At  page  uSofthe  present  volume  the  name  of  Johanna  de 
Gennes  was,  by  an  oversight,  wrongly  given  as  that  of  the 
first  Prioress  sent  over  from  Font  Evrault,  on  the  annexation 
of  Amesbury  to  that  Abbey,  at  the  above  date.  The  mistake, 
which  did  not  originate  with  the  present  writer,  may  be 
corrected  here.  Johanna  de  Gennes  came  over  from  Font 
Evrault,  as  Prioress  of  Amesbury,  but  at  a  later  date,  as 
given  below.  The  actual  name  of  the  French  Prioress  of 
1177  has  not  yet  been  ascertained.] 

121 1.     EMELINA;  mentioned  in  Hunter's  Berkshire  Fines,  p.  145. 

1297.  JOHANNA  DE  GENNES.  An  inspeximus,  dated  from  the 
Royal  palace  of  Clarendon,  6th  March,  25  Edward  I  [1297], 
is  printed  in  Hoare's  Modern  Wilts  (Amesbury  Hundred, 
p.  69),  by  which  the  King  confirms  her  appointment  as 
Prioress,  in  accordance  with  letters  patent  of  recommendation 


1  Edward  (afterwards  Sir  Edward)  Came  was  an  active  agent  in  the 
matter  of  Henry  VIII  and  Queen  Katherine's  divorce.  They  were  of 
Wenny,  co  Glamorgan.  Sir  Robert  Long,  of  the  Wraxhall  and  Drayeote 
line,  married  Barbara,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Came,  of  Wenny. 
Their  arms — LONG,  impaling — Gules,  a  pelican  in  piety  or — CARNE,  with 
date  1598,  are  on  the  chimney  piece  in  the  hall  of  South  Wraxhall  Old 
Manor  House. 

Edward  Carne,  Doctor  of  Decretals,  was  vicar  of  Melksham  in  1534. 
Valor  Ecclesiasticus.  He  resigned  in  1536. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  265 

in  Norman-French,  by  the  Abbess  of  Font  Evrault.1  The  date 
of  this  document  has  hitherto  been  incorrectly  printed  as  1294. 

1308.  JOHANNA  ;  presents  to  the  Church  of  Biddesden  [in  Ludger- 
shall],  of  which,  as  Prioress  of  Amesbury,  she  was  Rector. 
Wilts  Institutions. 

c.  1315-17.  DAMBERT;  mentioned  as  "late  Prioress"  in  a  letter  from  the 
Princess  Mary  to  her  brother,  Edward  II  (see  ante,  p.  152). 
The  nuns  of  Amesbury  had,  at  this  time,  petitioned  the 
Abbess  of  Font  Evrault  to  appoint  a  certain  Lady  Isabella, 
one  of  their  number,  as  Prioress  ;  but  whether  their  request 
was  granted  does  not  appear. 

c.  1330.  PRINCESS  MARY,  daughter  of  Edward  I,  a  nun  here 
[1283-1330],  is  mentioned  in  a  Patent  Roll  of  later  date  as 
having  been  formerly  Prioress  (see  ante,  p.  151  note).  She 
died  about  1330. 

LADY  ISABELLA  PLANTAGENET,  daughter  of  Henry,  Duke  of 
Lancaster.  She  was  consecrated  a  nun  here  in  1327,  and 
Leland  says  she  was  Prioress ;  but  this  is  uncertain  (see 
ante,  p.  153). 

1349.  MARGERY  DE  PIREBROOKE  ;  also  consecrated  a  nun  here  in 
1327.  She  presented  to  the  Church  of  Biddesden,  as 
Prioress,  in  1349.  Wilts  Institutions. 

1410.  SIBILLA  DE  MONTACUTE,  of  the  family  of  Montacute,  Earl  of 
Salisbury.2  The  tenants  of  Sibyll,  Prioress  of  Amesbury,  in 
her  manor  and  hundred  of  Melksham,  are  mentioned  in 
Hilary  Record,  12  Henry  IV  (1410).  She  died  in  1420,  when 
the  following  licence  issued  from  the  Crown,  dated  10 
September,  for  the  election  of  a  successor : — 


1  It  is  printed  by  Sir  Richard  Hoare,  not  from  the  original,  but  from 
Prynne's  Papal    Usurpations,  p.  769.     The  latter  writer,   who  was   by   no 
means   favourable   to  the  monastic  orders,  prefaces    the  Norman-French 
document  with  a  paragraph  of  his  own,  in   which   he  describes  the  newly 
elected  lady  (Johanna  de  Gennes)  as  a  Prioress  to  reform  and,  correct  the 
abuses  and  disorders  of  the  nuns  and  friars  in  that  monastery,  instead  of 
(as  in  the  deed  itself)  a  wise  and  vigorous  person,  in  whose  ability  to  govern 
the  monastery  the  Abbess  of  Font  Eerault  had  great  confidence.     Prynne's 
incorrect  version,  reprinted  by  Hoare,  may  (without  consulting  the  entire 
document)  have  been  taken  as  referring  to  the  expulsion  of  the  former 
nuns  by  Henry  II,    in    1177,   thus  connecting  the  name   of  Johanna  de 
Gennes  with  that  date,  instead  of  the  reign  of  Edward  I. 

2  Was  she  daughter  of  John  de  Montacute,  third  Earl,  beheaded  in 
1399-1400,  and  attainted  ?     In  Hilary  Record,  3  Henry  IV  [1401J,  roll  23,  is 
"  de  Priorissa  de  Ambresbury  exoneranda,  de  diversis  bonis  et  catellis  que 
fuerunt  Johar.nis  nuper  Comitis  Sarum  ". 


266  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


A.D.  1420.     De  licencia  eligendi  1    "  Rex    dilectis    sibi    in    Christo    Sup- 

Ambresbury  j      priorisse  et   Conventui    de  Ambros- 

bury  salutem.     Ex  parte  vestra  nobis 

est  humiliter  supplicatum  vt  cum  ecclesia  vestra  predicta 
per  mortem  bone  memorie  Sibille  de  Monte  Acuto  vltime 
priorisse  loci  illius  pastricis  sit  solacio  destituta  et  quod  ex 
ordinacione  primaria  domus  siue  monasterii  vestri  predict! 
obeunte  ejusdem  domus  priorissa  que  pro  tempore  loret  Abba- 
tisse  Monasterii  Fontis  Ebraldi  in  Normannia  sub  cuius  religione 
et  ordine  divino  famulamini  fauore  et  assensu  mediantibus 
licencia  et  assensu  regiis  irrequisitis  priorissam  vobis  eligere 
consueueritis  et  deberetis  ac  per  auctoritatem  parliament! 
nostri  apud  Leycestre  nuper  ten'ti  ordinatum  existat  quod 
possessiones  prioratuum  alienigenorum  in  regno  nostro  Anglic 
existentes  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  imperpetuumdebeant  re- 
manere  iuxta  tormam  ordinacionis  supradicte  aliam  vobis 
eligendi  in  priorissam  et  pastricem  domus  vestre  predicte 
racione  temporalium  ipsius  Abbatisse  in  Anglia  occasione  par- 
liament! predicti  in  manu  nostra  existencium  licenciam  conce- 
dere  dignaremur  Nesoccasionibuspremissis  precibusvestris  in 
hac  parte  fauorabiliter  inclinati  licenciam  illam  vobis  duximus 
concedendam  mandantes  quod  talem  vobis  eligatis  in 
Priorissam  et  pastricem  que  deo  denota  ecclesie  vestre  neces- 
saria  nobisque  et  regno  nostro  Anglie  vtilis  et  fidelis  existat. 
In  cuius,  &c.  Testex  die  Septembris."  Patent,  8  Henry  V, 
m.  9.  (Rymet,  old  edition,  x,  19^). 
1438.  JOHANNA,  presented  to  the  Church  of  Biddesden,  as  Prioress 

of  Amesbury.     Wilts  Institutions. 

1486.  ALICE  FISHER;  elected  16  May.  Aubrey  copied  an  inscrip- 
tion, date  1485,  which  remained  in  his  time  in  the  east  window 
of  the  Chancel  at  Wanborough  ;  of  which  church  the  Prioress 
of  Amesbury  was  Rector.  The  name  had  disappeared,  but 
he  gives  it  from  hearsay  as  Emma  Fisher.  The  window 
may  have  been  the  gift  of  this  Prioress. 

JOAN  HORNER  ;  described  as  "sumtyme  High  Prioress,"  was 
pensioned,  with  other  inmates  of  the  monastery,  on  its 
dissolution. 

1534.     FLORENCE    BONNEWE,   or    BORMEWE  ;    mentioned    in    Valor 
Ecclesiasticus,  vol.  ii,  p.  93,  as  Prioress  at  this  date.     See  her 
letter  to  Lord  Cromwell  at  p.  262,  supra. 
1537.    JOHANNA  DARELL;  surrendered  her  Monastery  4th  December, 

1539- 

THE  MONASTERY  AFTER  THE  DISSOLUTION. — With  its  sur- 
render into  the  hands  of  the  Crown,  the  history  of  Amesbury 
Monastery  as  a  religious  establishment  comes  naturally  to  a 
close.  Nothing  remained  but  the  appropriation  of  the  spoil — 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  of  Aldbourne.  267 

the  ejection  and  dispersion  of  its  inmates — the  destruction  of 
the  superfluous  buildings — and  the  disposal  of  the  site.  All 
these  were  easy  matters,  and  accustomed  as  the  Royal  Com- 
missioners, and  their  deputies,  must  have  been,  at  that  time, 
to  transactions  of  a  similar  kind,  we  may  easily  imagine  that 
they  found  but  little  difficulty  in  winding-up  the  affairs  of 
Amesbury  Monastery ;  for  three  days  after  its  surrender 
(Dec.  7)  they  were  "  in  journey  towards  Bristol  "  on  a  similar 
mission  ;  and  eight  days  later  (Dec.  15)  the  great  mitred  Abbey 
of  Malmesbury,  the  last  of  the  religious  houses  remaining  in 
Wiltshire,  also  fell  into  the  King's  hands,  and  was  likewise 

dissolved  and  suppressed. 

EDWARD  KITE. 

(To  be  continued.} 


DEED  RELATING  TO  THE  MANOR  OF  ALDBOURNE, 
A.D.  1615-1634. 


Rainald  William  Knightley  Goddard,  esq.,  of  Denmark 
Hill, .London,  very  kindly  contributes  the  following  copy  of  a 
document  in  his  possession.  From  original  records  of  this 
kind,  in  the  hands  of  private  individuals  —  the  contents  of 
which  may  perhaps  be  little  known,  or  the  documents  them- 
selves, in  some  instances,  little  valued  by  their  present  owners 
— the  future  historian  of  North  Wilts  may,  in  compiling  the 
yet  unwritten  history  of  this  part  of  the  County,  be  enabled 
to  glean  many  details  relating  to  the  descent  of  manors  or 
estates,  not  obtainable  from  any  other  source.  Meanwhile 
the  pages  of  Wilts  N.  &>  Q.  offer  a  fitting  receptacle  for 
bringing  together  and  preserving  reliable  copies  of,  or  extracts 
from  documents  of  this  kind,  the  originals  of  which  may  at  any 
time  be  mislaid,  destroyed  by  fire,  or  otherwise  irrecoverably 
lost. 


268  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

In  the  case  of  the  manor  of  Aldbourne,  to  which  the 
present  deed  refers,  no  attempt  seems  yet  to  have  been  made 
to  trace  its  history.  It  is  not  included  among  the  parishes 
mentioned  by  Aubrey  in  his  Wiltshire  Collections,  and  the  late 
Mr.  Britton,  Beauties  of  Witts,  iii,  p.  255-6,  merety  says  that 
the  Royal  Chase  here  was  granted  by  Henry  VIII  to  his 
brother-in-law,  Edward  Seymour,  Duke  of  Somerset,  omitting 
altogether  any  details  as  to  the  descent  of  the  manor,  which  at 
the  time  of  the  Domesday  Survey1  was  in  the  hands  of  the 
Crown,  and  afterwards  became  parcel  of  the  Wiltshire  posses- 
sions of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster. 

From  an  inquisition  taken  in  1310,  it  appears  that  the 
manor  of  "  Aldeburne",  parcel  of  the  Earldom  of  Salisbury, 
then  belonged  to  Henry  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Lincoln,  whose  late 
wife,  Margaret,  was  great  granddaughter  of  William  Longespee, 
who  held  the  Earldom  of  Salisbury,  in  right  of  his  wife  Ela,2 
granddaughter  and  heiress  of  Patrick  de  Evreux,3  created  Earl 
of  Salisbury  by  the  Empress  Maud. 

In  the  Nomina  Villarum  (A.D.  1316)  we  find  that  Aid- 
bourne  then  belonged  to  the  Earldom  (afterwards  Duchy) 
of  Lancaster  ;*  Thomas  Plantagenet,  the  eldest  son  of  Edmund 
Crouchback,  by  his  second  wife  Blanche,  Queen  Dowager  of 
Navarre,  who  succeeded  his  father  as  second  Earl  of  Lancaster 


1  A  church  and  priest  are  both  mentioned  at  this  date. 

2  Foundress,  in  1232,  of  Lacock  Abbey,  and  Hinton  Charterhouse. 

3  Son  of  Walter,  founder  of  Bradenstoke  Priory  in  1142,  and  grandson 
of  Edward  of  Salisbury,  sheriff  of  Wilts. 

4  The  following  names  appear  in  the  Inquisitions  Post  Moi-tem,  during 
the   reign   of  Edward  III,  as  holders  of  "  Aldeborne "  manor,  under  the 
Duchy: — 

A.D.  1326-7.     John  de  Meriet  and  Mary  his  wife. 
1346-7.     John  Lovel,  knt. 

John  de  Warren,  Earl  of  Surrey.     The  Nomina  Villarum 

says  it  was  held  in  chief  by  military  service. 
1354-5.     Bartholomew  de  Burghersh. 
1359-60.  Philip  de  Upton. 
1360-61.  Joan,  wife  of  John  de  Warren,  Earl  of  Surrey. 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  of  Aldbourne.  269 

in  1296,  having  married  the  heiress  of  Lacy,  and  thus  become 
possessed  of  the  inheritance  of  that  richly  endowed  family. 

Henry  Plantagenet,  the  nephew  of  Thomas,  who  became 
fourth  Earl  on  the  death  of  his  father  in  1345,  was  created 
Duke  of  Lancaster  by  Edward  III,  in  1351,  and  his  daughter 
conveyed  the  title  to  her  husband,  John  of  Gaunt,  Earl  of 
Richmond,  fourth  son  of  Edward  III,  with  whom  Aldbourne 
Chace  is  said  to  have  been  a  favourite  hunting  ground,  and 
his  name  is  still  traditionally  connected  with  the  old  Elizabethan 
mansion  of  the  Goddard  family  at  Upper  Upham,  as  well  as 
another  house  which  stood  on  the  site  of  the  Court  House 
near  Aldbourne  Church. 

On  the  accession  of  Henry  of  Bolingbroke,  son  of  John  of 
Gaunt,  to  the  throne  of  England,  as  King  Henry  IV,  in  1399 — 
the  year  after  the  death  of  his  father — the  Duchy  of  Lancaster 
became  merged  in  the  Crown,  but  has  always  remained  under 
"a  separate  guiding  and  governance"  from  its  other  inheri- 
tances. 

A  survey  of  the  manor  of  Aldbourne,  taken  10  August, 
33  Elizabeth  [1590],  will  be  found  in  Wilts  Arch.  Magazine,  vi, 
p.  1 88.  It  was  contributed  by  the  late  Charles  Edward 
Long,  esq.,  from  the  original  in  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster 
Office. 

The  revenues  of  the  Duchy,  afterwards  very  much 
augmented,  constituted  a  considerable  part  of  the  civil  estab- 
lishment of  the  country  in  the  early  times  of  James  I,  but  the 
subsequent  wants  of  that  monarch  induced  him  to  raise  money 
by  granting  long  leases  of  the  Duchy  estates,  and  it  is  to  a 
transaction  of  this  kind  with  the  manor  of  Aldbourne,  that  the 
following  deed  apparently  refers.  The  preamble  recites  a  99 
years  lease  granted  by  King  James  in  1615-16  to  six  of  his 
courtiers — Sir  Francis  Bacon,  Sir  John  Daccombe,  Thomas 
Murrey,  Sir  James  Fullerton,  Sir  John  Walter,  and  Sir 
Thomas  Trevor— one  of  them  being  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy, 
and  the  rest  belonging  to  the  establishment  of  his  son  Charles, 
as  Prince  of  Wales, 


270  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

By  indenture  dated  20  June,  4  Charles  I  (1628),  the  three 
surviving  lessees — Fullerton,  Walter,  and  Trevor — assigned 
the  manor  with  its  appurtenances  (parcel  of  the  possessions  of 
Edward,  Lord  Clinton,  exchanged)  to  William  Williams, 
Robert  Michell,  Walter  Marks,  and  Robert  Marshe,  citizens  of 
London,  to  hold  during  the  residue  of  the  term  of  99  years,  at 
a  yearly  rent  of  ^135  155.  o^d.  payable  to  the  King's  Receiver 
General,  or  the  Receiver  of  the  County  for  the  time  being. 

Three  years  later,  the  said  Williams,  Michell,  Marks  and 
Marshe,  by  indenture  i  July,  7  Charles  I  (1631),  again  assigned 
their  interest  in  the  lease  of  the  Aldbourne  property  to  Hugh 
Hawkins  and  Anthony  Martyn. 

By  the  present  indenture,  made  10  May,  10  Charles  I 
(1634),  between  Edward  Martyn,  of  Upham,  esq.,1  Hugh 
Hawkins,  of  Newbury,  and  Anthony  Martyn,  of  Purton,  gents., 
of  the  one  part,  and  Edward  Goddard,  of  Upham,  esq.,2  John 
Doyley,  of  Aldbourne,  esq.,  Richard  Goddard,  of  Balden,  co. 
Oxon.,  gent.,  and  Henry  Gearinge,  of  Lechlade,  mercer,  of  the 
other  part ;  the  said  Hugh  Hawkins  and  Anthony  Martyn,  in 
consideration  of  £500  paid  to  the  said  Edward  Martyn, 
by  Edward  Goddard,  and  by  the  direction  and  appoint- 
ment of  the  said  Edward  Martyn,  again  assigned  the  lease  to 
John  Doyley,  Richard  Goddard,  and  Henry  Gearinge,  and 
thus  apparently  the  manor  of  Aldbourne  came  into  the  hands 


1  Edward  and  Anthony  Martyn  were  sons  of  Henry  Martyn,  who  died 
15  July  1626,  seised  of  the  manor  of  Nethercote,  Eastcote,  and  Westcote, 
in  the  parish  of  Swindon ;  a  capital  messuage  and  4J  virgates  of  land  in 
Upham ;   a  tenement   and   half  a  virgate  in   Snappe ;  ten  acres  of  land 
and  pasture  in  Snappe  called  the  Breach ;  and  five  messuages  and   forty 
acres  of  land  in   Alborne — the  premises  in   Upham  and  Snapp  being  held  of 
Richard  Digges  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  as  of  their  manor  of  Upham  ;  and 
those  of  Alborne  of  the  King,  as  of  his  manor  of  Aldbourne,  parcel  of  his 
Duchy  of  Lancaster.     See  Wilts  Inq.  Post  Mortem,  temp.  Charles  I. 

2  Priscilla,  wife  of  Edward  Goddard,  of  Upham,  died  15  June  1681,  and 
is  buried   at   Box.     Their  fourth   son  Thomas,  of  Eudloe  House,  in  Box, 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Ambrose  Awdry,  of  Melksham.     She  appears  to 
have  died  in  London,  and  was  buried  in  the  Church  of  St.  Lawrence,  Jewry. 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  of  Aldbourne.  271 

of  the  Wiltshire  family  of  Goddard,  who  had  long  held  pro- 
perty there,  for  in  1531  John  Goddard,  of  Aldbourne,  acquired 
Upper  Upham,  and  the  old  house,  which  tradition  still  connects 
with  John  of  Gaunt,  bears  on  its  front  the  initials  of  Thomas 
Goddard  (son  of  the  above  John),  who  purchased  the  Swindon 
property  in  1562,  and  his  wife  Ann,  sister  of  Sir  George  Gifford, 
as  also  on  the  porch  those  of  Richard  Goddard  (son  of  Thomas) 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  with  date  1599. 

®l)ia  ginbenture  made  the  Tenth  day  of  May  in  the  Tenth  yeare 
of  the  Reigne  of  our  Sou'eigne  lord  CHARLES  by  the  grace  of  God 
of  England  Scotland  ffraunce  and  Ireland  Kinge  defender  of  the  faith 
&c.  fjtetweene  Edward  Martyn  of  Upham  [co.  Wilts]  Esquier,  Hugh 
Hawkins  of  Newbury  [co.  Berks]  gent.,  and  Anthony  Martyn  of  Purton 
[co.  Wilts]  gent.,  of  th'one  parte  ;  and  Edward  Goddard  of  Upham  afore- 
said Esquier,  John  Doyley  of  Alborne  [co.  Wilts]  Esquier,  Richard 
Goddard  of  Balden  [co.  Oxon]  gent.,  and  Henry  Gearinge  of  Leachlade 
[co.  Glouc.]  mercer,  ot  th'other  parte.  fiUtjereas  our  late  Sou'eigne 
lorde  Kinge  James  in  and  by  one  Indenture  bearinge  date  the  Tenth  day 
of  January  in  the  ffowretenth  yeare  of  his  highnes  Reigne  of  England  &c. 
made  betwene  his  said  late  Ma'tie  of  th'one  parte,  And  Sir  ffrancis  Bacon 
Knight  sithence  deceased  then  his  Ma'ties  Attorney  gen'all,  And  then 
one  of  his  Maj'ties  most  hono'ble  privie  Councell,  and  late  Chancellor  to 
the  King's  Ma'tie  that  nowe  is,  beinge  then  Prince  of  Wales  Duke  of 
Cornewall  and  of  Yorke  and  Earle  of  Chester,  Sir  John  Daccombe  knight 
sithence  allso  deceased,  then  Chauncellor  of  the  Dutchie  of  lancaster, 
Thomas  Murry  Esquier  since  allso  deceased,  Secretary  to  the  said 
Prince  his  highnes,  Sir  James  ffullerton  Knight,  one  of  the  gent'  of  his 
Ma'ties  Bedchamber,  then  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  his  Bedchamber, 
beinge  Prince,  and  then  his  highnes  Surveyor  gen'all,  Sir  John  Walter 
Knight  late  cheiffe  Baron  of  his  Ma'ties  Co'rt  of  Exchequer  nowe  allso 
deceased  by  the  name  of  John  Walter  Esquier,  Attorney  gen'all  to  the 
said  Prince,  and  Sir  Thomas  Trevor  Knight,  one  of  the  Barons  of  his 
Ma'ties  Co'rt  of  Exchequer,  by  the  name  of  Thomas  Trevor  Esquier, 
Solicitor  gen'all  to  the  said  Prince  ot  th'other  parte.  His  said  late 
Ma'tie  of  his  speciall  grace  certeyne  knowledge  and  meare  moc'on,  And 
att  the  request  and  by  the  no'iac'on  of  the  said  then  most  excellent 
Prince,  and  to  and  for  th'onely  use  and  benefitt  of  the  said  Prince  fpifr 
demise  gr'unte  and  to  farme  lett  unto  the  said  Sir  ffrancis  Bacon,  Sir 
John  Daccombe,  Thomas  Murrey,  Sir  James  ffullerton,  Sir  John  Walter, 
and  Sir  Thomas  Trevor  (emongest  other  thinges),  All  those  his  said  late 
Ma'ties  Lord'ps,  Manno',  fforrests,  Parkes,  Chases,  Townes,  Hamletts, 
ffarms,  graunges,  Rents,  Revenues,  ffarmes,  ffee  ffarmes,  lands,  Tenem'ts, 
Warrens  and  heredittam'ts  of  Alborne  al's  Auborne  or  Awburne  or  called 
Alborne  or  Awberne  or  Awburne  Chase  with  theire  rights  members  and 
appurten'nc's  in  the  said  County  of  Wiltes,  parcell  or  reputed  parcell 


272  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

of  the  lands  and  possessions  of  the  Dutchie  ot  Lancaster,  ((Rrcept  as  in 
and  by  the  said  Indenture  is  menc'oned  to  be  excepted)  @To  holde  the 
said  Lord'ps,  Manners,  Chases,  landes  and  p'misses,  with  th'appurten'nc's 
(except  before  excepted)  unto  the  said  Sir  ffrancis  Bacon  [and  others], 
theire  executors  administrators  and  assignes  from  the  ffeast  of  St. 
Michaell  Th'archangell  last  past  unto  the  full  ende  arid  tearme  of  ffowre- 
score  and  Nyneteene  yeares  from  thenceforth  next  ensueinge,  As  by  the 
same  Indenture  emongest  div'se  other  thinges  thearein  conteyned  more 
att  lardge  yt  doth  and  may  appear,  3Uti»  n>ljer?as  the  said  Sir  John 
Walter,  Sir  James  ffullerton,  and  Sir  Thomas  Trevor,  the  survivinge 
lessees,  by  theire  Indenture  of  Assignem't  bearinge  date  the  Twenteth 
day  of  June  in  the  ffowrth  yeare  of  the  Reigne  of  our  said  Sou'eigne,  lord 
Charles  by  vertue  of  his  Ma'ties  warrant  of  privye  sealle  to  them  in  that 
behalf  directed  bearinge  date  the  Thirteenth  day  of  May  last  past  before 
the  date  of  the  said  Indenture  of  Assignem't,  ^nt»e  by  the  no'i'ac'on  of 
the  Maior  and  Co'i'alty  and  Cittizens  of  the  Cyttie  of  london  gr'unted 
bargained  sold  assigned  and  sett  over  unto  William  Williams,  Robert 
Michell,  Walter  Marks,  and  Robert  Marshe,  Cittizens  of  london, 
emongest  other  things,  All  that  the  Mannor  parcell  of  the  possessions  ot 
Edward  Lord  Clinton  exchanged  of  Alborne  al's  Auborne  with  the  rights 
members  and  appurten'nc's,  in  the  said  County  of  Wiltes,  parcell  or 
reputed  parcell  of  the  lands  and  possessions  of  the  auncient  Dutchie 
of  Lancaster,  and  all  and  singuler  Messuag's,  ffarmes,  howses,  Edifices, 
buildings,  Orchardes,  gardens,  landes,  Tenem't,  meadowes,  feedings, 
pastures,  woodes,  underwoods,  Com'ons,  profitts,  Comodittyes  and 
appurten'nc's  whatsoever  to  the  said  Mannor  of  Alborne  al's  Awberne 
belonginge  or  apperteyninge,  (Crcept  the  Chase  theare  called  Alborne 
Chase  with  the  lyb'tyes  and  priviledges  theareto  belonginge,  And  except 
all  other  things  which  by  the  said  Indenture  are  excepted  9Ca  Ijoibe 
the  said  Mannor  of  Alborne  al's  Awborne,  landes  and  p'misses,  with 
the  appurten'nc's,  (except  before  excepted),  unto  the  said  Williams, 
Michell,  Marks,  and  Marshe,  theire  executors,  &c.,  duringe  the  residewe 
ot  the  said  tearme  of  ffowerscore  and  Nynteene  yeares  gr'unted  by  his 
said  late  Ma'tie  and  then  unexpired,  ffor  and  under  the  yearly  Rent  of 
One  hundred  thirty  five  pownds  ffyfteene  shillings  and  a  halie  penny  of 
lawfull  mony  of  England,  payeable  to  the  handes  of  his  Ma'ties  receiver 
generall  of  that  revenue,  which  he  had  when  he  was  Prince  of  Wales,  or 
to  the  hands  of  the  receiver  of  the  County,  in  wich  the  p'misses  doe  lye 
for  the  tyme  beinge.  Att  the  ffeasts  of  St.  Michaell  T'archangell  and  the 
Annu'ciac'on  of  our  blessed  lady  St.  Mary  the  virgin  by  equall  porc'ons, 
And  under  such  Coven'nts  excepc'ons  and  agream'ts  as  are  conteyned  in 
the  recited  Indenture,  which  on  the  said  Assignees  parte  ought  to  be 
performed,  As  by  the  same  Indenture  emongest  other  things  thearein 
conteyned  more  playnly  yt  doth  appeare.  And  wheareas  allso  the  said 
Williams,  Michell,  Marks,  and  Marshe,  by  theire  Indenture  bearinge  date 
the  first  day  of  July  in  the  Seaventh  yeare  of  the  Kings  Ma'ties  Reigne, 
that  nowe  is  made  betwene  them  of  th'one  party,  and  the  said  Hugh 
Hawkins,  and  Anthony  Martyn  of  th'other  parte,  for  the  Considerac'on 
thearein  menc'oned  by  the  nominac'on  of  the  said  Edward  Martyn 


Deed  Relating  to  the  Manor  of  Aldbourne.  273 


fully  gr'unte,  bargaine,  sell,  assigne,  and  sett  over,  unto  the  said  Hawkins 
and  Martyn,  All  those  parcells  of  land,  meadovve,  and  pasture,  lyeinge  in 
Snapp  and  Upham,  [co.  Wilts]  conteyninge  Twoe  Carucates  or  plough 
landes  of  lande,  called  Heydon,  And  all  those  Six  acres  and  a  halfe  of 
meadovve,  called  Milne  Meade  lyeinge  att  Wanborough,  in  the  said 
County,  with  th'appurten'nc's  And  also  all  those  Twoe  yard  lands  of 
Custumary  landes  lyeinge  in  Upham,  called  Pratts  and  Rounts,  which 
p'misses  then  or  late  weare  parcell  of  the  said  Mannor  of  Alborne,  And 
all  and  singuler  theire  howses,  edific's,  buildings,  landes,  Tenem'ts, 
woods,  underwoode,  grownde  and  soile,  Com'ons,  wayes,  waters, 
proffytts,  Com'odities,  heredittam'ts,  and  appurten'nc's,  whatsoever  to 
the  said  landes  and  p'misses  belonginge  or  apperteyninge,  or  as  parte 
parcell  or  member  of  the  same  p'misses  att  any  tyme  hearetotore  taken, 
reputed,  knowen,  used,  letten,  or  e'ioyed,  soe  fully  freely  and  clearely, 
and  in  as  lardge  and  ample  maner  and  forme,  to  all  intents  and  purposes, 
as  the  said  Williams,  Michell,  Marks,  and  Marshe,  or  any  of  them,  by 
force  of  th'above  recy ted  Indenture  or  Assignem't  to  them  made  of  the 
said  Mannor  of  Alborne  with  th'appurten'nc's  emongest  other  things  as 
aforesaid  can  or  may  graunte  and  assigne  over  the  same  lands  and 
p'misses,  And  all  th'estates,  rights,  tytles,  interests,  tearme  of  yeares 
then  to  come,  Rev'c'on  and  Rev'c'ons,  claymes  and  demaundes  whatso- 
ever of  them  the  said  Williams  [and  others]  and  ev'y  of  them  of  in  and 
to  the  said  landes  and  p'misses,  with  th'appurten'nc's  and  ev'y  parte  and 
parcell  theareof  OBtfcept  as  by  the  said  deed  is  menc'oned  to  be  excepted 
ST/cr  ijcme  tjoifce  ant*  etttoue  the  said  lands  and  other  the  p'misses 
with  theire  appurten'nc's  (except  before  excepted)  unto  the  said  Hugh 
Hawkins,  and  Anthony  Martyn,  theire  executors  &c.  from  the  day  of  the 
date  of  the  said  deed,  duringe  the  residewe  then  unexpired  of  the  said 
tearme  of  ffowerscore  and  Nynteene  yeares,  gr'unted  by  the  said  Inden- 
ture of  lease  first  above  menc'oned.  tJlouJe  Ujis  |(ttt>e«twve  further 
witnesseth,  That  the  said  Hugh  Hawkins,  and  Anthony  Martyn,  for  and 
In  considerac'on  of  the  some  of  ffive  hundred  powndes  of  good  and 
lawfull  mony  of  England,  to  the  said  Edward  Martyn,  by  Edward 
Goddard  of  Upham,  co.  Wiltes  Esquier,  in  hand  paied,  wheareof  he 
the  said  Edward  Martyn  doth  acknowledge  the  receipt,  and  for  div'se 
other  considerac'ons  theire  especially  moveinge  &ave  by  the  direcc'on 
and  appointm't  of  the  said  Edward  Martyn,  bargained,  sold,  assigned, 
sett  over,  And  by  these  p'sents  doe  fully  freely  and  absolutely  bargaine, 
sell,  assigne,  and  sett  over,  unto  the  said  John  Doyley,  Richard  Goddard, 
aud  Henry  Gearinge,  All  and  singuler  the  p'misses  with  theire  appur- 
ten'nc's in  and  by  the  last  recyted  deed  menc'oned  or  intended  to  be 
gr'unted  as  aforesaid,  Togeather  with  the  said  last  recyted  deed  of 
Assignem't  3lnb  allso  all  th'estate,  right,  tytle,  interest,  tearme  of  yeares 
yet  to  come,  clayme  and  demaunde,  whatsoever  of  them  the  said  Hugh 
Hawkins,  and  Anthony  Martyn,  of  in  and  to  the  same  p'misses  and  ev'y 
parte  and  parcell  theareof  ©rcept  as  is  therein  menc'oned  to  be 
excepted.  tfru  ljctt»c  anfc  to  tjolbe  All  and  singuler  the  said  p'misses 
with  theire  appurten'nc's,  d^vceyt  thearein  excepted,  Togeather  with 

U 


274  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


the  said  deed  of  Assignem't  3lni»  all  th'estate,  right,  tytle,  interest, 
tearme  of  yeares,  clayme  and  demaund,  whatsoever  of  them  the  said 
Hawkyns  and  Martyn,  of  in  and  to  the  said  p'misses  with  theire  appur- 
ten'nc's,  and  ev'y  parte  and  parcell  theareof,  unto  the  said  John  Doyley, 
Richard  Goddard,  and  Henry  Gearinge,  theire  executors  &c.  duringe  the 
residewe  ot  the  said  tearme  yet  unexpired  3Utt>  the  said  Edward 
Goddard,  for  himselfe  his  executors  &c.  doth  coven'nte  and  gr'unte  to 
and  with  the  said  Hugh  Hawkins,  and  Anthony  Martyn,  and  theire 
executors,  by  these  p'sents,  That  he  the  said  Edward  Goddard,  his 
executors  &c.  shall  from  tyme  to  tyme  duringe  the  said  tearme  yeild, 
doe,  pay  and  performe,  the  Duties,  Rents,  Coven'nts,  and  agreem'nts, 
which  on  the  parte  and  behalfe  of  the  said  Hugh  Hawkins,  and  Anthony 
Martyn,  theire  executors  &c.  are  or  ought  to  be  yeilded  don  payed  and 
performed,  And  theareof  shall  acquite,  exon'ate,  and  dischardge  the  said 
Hugh  and  Anthony,  theire  executors  &c.  and  ev'y  of  theire  landes  and 
Tenem'ts,  goods  and  Chattells.  3V*tb  the  said  Edward  Martyn,  tor 
himselfe,  his  heyres  executors  &c.,  doth  Coven'nte  and  gr'unte  to  and 
with  the  said  Edward  Goddard  and  his  executors,  by  these  p'sents, 
That  yt  shall  be  lawfull  for  the  said  Edward  Goddard  and  his  executors, 
or  the  said  John  Doyley/  Richard  Goddard,  and  Henry  Gearinge,  and 
theire  executors,  from  tyme  to  tyme  hereafter  duringe  the  residewe  oi 
the  said  tearme  yt  unexpired,  peaceably  and  quietly  to  have,  hold,  occupie, 
possesse  and  enioy,  All  and  singuler  the  p'misses  in  and  by  the  last 
recyted  deed  ot  Assignem't  menc'oned  to  be  gr'unted  and  ev'y  parte 
theareof  with  th'appurten'nc's  CBrcept  as  is  thearein  menc'oned  to  be 
excepted),  without  the  lett,  trouble,  hindrance,  molestac'on  or  denial!,  of 
the  said  Edward  Martyn,  his  executors,  &c.,  and  of  the  said  Hugh  Hawkins, 
and  Anthony  Martyn,  and  theire,  and  eyther  of  theire  executors,  And 
of  all  and  ev'y  other  person  and  persons  clayminge  in  by  from  or  under 
them  or  any  of  them  theire  or  any  of  theire  tytle  assent  meanes  or 
procurem't,  gn  n»itne»  wljmveof  the  partyes  aforesaid  to  these  p'sent 
Indentures  Interchandgably  have  sett  theire  handes  and  sealles,  Dated 
the  day  and  year  first  above  written. 


Seal — A  wheatsheaf  in  an  oval. 


Seal — On  a  chevron  between  three 
saltires,  as  many  roundels  (?) 


Oram's  Grave.  275 


Sealled  and  deliv'ed  by  the  within  named  Edward  Martyn  in   the 
p'sence  of 

HENRY  DAVISON  p.  Jo.  STRATTON. 

GABRIELL  MARTYN          p.  Jo.  SLADE. 
WILLIAM  JONES 

Sealed  and  delivered  by  the  within  named  Hugh  Hawkins  In  the 
presence  of 

THOMAS  MARTYN. 
SAMUELL  BRUNSELL. 

Indorsed:  "Assignement  from  Hugh  Hawkins  to  Doyley  et  al :  10 
May,  10  Caroli  i." 


ORAM'S  GRAVE  (CHITTERNE  ST.  MARY). 


At  the  intersection  of  the  old  track  from  Salisbury  to 
Warminster  across  the  Downs,  with  that  from  Maddington 
to  Codford  St.  Mary,  on  the  boundary  line  of  Maddington  and 
Chitterne  St.  Mary,  is  a  barrow  marked  "  Oram's  Grave  "  on 
the  Ordnance  6in.  Map.  The  Bishop,  on  his  visit  to  us 
(23  March  1893),  pointed  out  this  name  to  me,  of  which  I  was 
previously  ignorant,  and  suggested  that  it  was  the  corruption 
of  some  British  or  Saxon  name,  which  I  doubted.  Afterwards, 
on  looking  at  the  map,  it  occurred  to  me  that  as  the  grave  was 
situated  at  the  cross  roads,  Oram  was  probably  the  name  of  a 
suicide,  buried  .there  according  to  the  old  custom  and  law. 

A  conversation  with  widow  Sarah  Cook  (aged  81)  on  28 
March  1893,  proved  that  this  was  the  case.  She  told  me  that 
in  1849  she  and  her  husband  were  living  in  one  of  the  Mad- 
dington Manor  Down  Barn  Cottages,  and  in  the  other  the 
shepherd  lived,  James  White  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  (formerly 
Windsor),  a  very  good  woman,  aged  61,  both  of  Chitterne. 
Elizabeth  White  told  Sarah  Cook  that  when  she  was  a  child 
she  was  coming  home  with  her  father  from  Salisbury  (or 
elsewhere)  and  when  they  were  near  the  crossways  by  the 

Clump,  they  saw  many  people  coming  from  Chitterne  to  bury 

u  2 


276  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Oram  in  the  barrow  there,  for  he  had  hung  himself  with  his 
own  rope,  and  was  to  be  buried  there.  Her  father  told  her 
that  "  her  maunt  be  vraughten  at  what  she  saw  for  they 
wouldn't  hurt  she",  and  so  she  saw  Oram  buried.  She  did 
not  tell  Sarah  Cook  whether  his  body  was  in  a  coffin  or  not, 
but  Sarah  Cook  thinks  there,  was  a  coffin  ;  certainly  there  was 
no  parson  and  no  service.  The  barrow  has  ever  afterwards 
been  called  "Gram's  Grave",  and  the  name  is  now  perpetuated 
in  the  Ordnance  Survey. 

8  May  1893. — The  Rev.  A.  C.  Pinhorn,  Vicar  of  Chitterne, 
told  me  the  circumstances  of  Gram's  burial  are  forgotten  in 
Chitterne,  except  that  the  cause  of  his  suicide  was  disappoint- 
ment in  love,  and  that  a  stake  was  driven  through  the  body, 
which  I  think  proves  that  though  he  may  have  been  carried 
to  the  grave  in  a  coffin,  he  was  not  buried  in  one.  There  is 
no  record  of  the  funeral  in  the  Register,  nor  any  charge  for  it 
in  the  parish  accounts. 

FREDK.  BENNETT. 


A  WILTSHIRE  WIZARD. 


So  far  we  have  the  authority  of  the  renowned  and  famous 
Mr.  Baxter,  who  makes  this  knocking  of  the  spirit  at  the  bed's- 
head,  though  what  we  commonly  call  frivolous,  an  important 
errand.  Another  relation  of  this  kind  was  sent  to  Mr.  John 
Beaumont,  whom  I  myself  personally  know,  and  which  he  has 
inserted  in  his  account  of  Genii,  or  Familiar  Spirits,  in  a  letter 
by  an  ingenious  and  learned  clergyman  of  Wiltshire,  who 
had  given  him  the  relation  likewise  before,  by  word  of  mouth. 
It  is  as  follows : — 

Near  eighty  years  since,  in  the  parish  of  Wilcot,  which  is  by  Devizes, 
in  the  vicar's  house,  there  was  heard  for  a  considerable  time  the  sound 
of  a  bell  constantly  tolling  every  night.  The  occasion  was  this :— A 


Collapse  of  the  Spinning  Industry  in  Wiltshire.        277 

debauched  person  who  lived  in  the  parish  came  one  night  very  late  and 
demanded  the  keys  of  the  church  of  the  vicar,  that  he  might  ring  a  peal, 
which  the  vicar  refused  to  let  him  have,  alleging  the  unseasonableness 
ot  the  time,  and  that  he  should,  by  granting  his  desires,  give  a  disturb- 
ance to  Sir  George  Wroughton  and  his  family,  whose  house  adjoined  to 
the  churchyard.  Upon  this  relusal,  the  fellow  went  away  in  a  rage, 
threatening  to  be  revenged  of  the  vicar,  and  going  some  time  after  to 
Devizes,  met  with  one  Cantle  or  Cantlow,  a  person  noted  in  those  days 
for  a  wizard,  and  he  tells  him  how  the  vicar  had  served  him,  and  begs 
his  help  to  be  even  with  him.  The  reply  Cantle  made  him  was  this  . 
Does  he  not  love  ringing?  he  shall  have  enough  of  it  :  and  from  that 
time  a  bell  began  to  toll  in  his  house,  and  continued  so  to  do  till  Cantle's 
death,  who  confessed  at  Fisherton  gaol,  in  Sarum,  where  he  was  con- 
fined by  King  James  during  his  life,  that  he  caused  that  sound,  and 
that  it  should  be  heard  in  that  place  during  his  life. 

The  thing  was  so  notorious  that  persons  came  from  all  parts  to  hear 
it ;  and  King  James  sent  a  gentleman  from  London  on  purpose  to  give 
him  satisfaction  concerning  the  truth  of  the  report.  Mr.  Beaumont  had 
likewise  this  story,  as  he  tells,  from  the  mouth  of  Sir  George  Wrough- 
ton's  own  son ;  with  this  remarkable  circumstance,  that  if  any  in  the 
house  put  their  heads  out  of  the  window  they  could  not  hear  the  sound, 
but  heard  it  immediately  again  as  soon  as  they  stood  in  the  room.  The 
reader  here  sees  that  good  and  bad  genii  exercise  themselves  upon  very 
little  functions,  knocking  at  bed's-heads,  and  ringing  of  bells.  For 
proof  of  this  we  have  the  testimonies  ot  two  divines,  of  a  man  ot 
quality  and  probity  and  the  same  satisfaction  that  a  learned  king  had, 
who  sent  to  enquire  into  the  matter,  and  after  this  there  can  be,  I  think, 
no  room  for  doubt. 

The  above  is  taken  from  the  Life  and  Adventures  of  Mr. 
Duncan  Campbell,  published  by  Thomas  Tegg,  43  Cheapside, 
London,  in  1841.  Pages  83,  84  and  85. 

W.  CHITTY. 


The  Collapse  of  the  Spinning  Industry  in  Wiltshire 
Villages. — Among  papers  in  the  keeping  of  the  Vicar  of 
Winterbourne  Stoke,  Wilts,  is  a  printed  report  or  appeal, 


278  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

dated  Dec.  1826,  from  the  "  London  Committee  for  the  Relief 
of  Distressed  Manufacturers,"  sent  "  to  the  Resident  Clergy- 
man," and  franked  by  "  F.  Freeling."  The  extracts  from 
reports  from  Lancashire  and  Yorkshire  describe  a  pitiable 
state  of  utter  destitution,  the  weaving  industry  having  ap- 
parently been  at  a  standstill  during  the  whole  of  1826.  The 
wool-workers  in  the  south  were  in  no  better  case,  as  this  ex- 
tract shows  : — "  Uley,  Gloucestershire,  Dec.  8,  1826.  *  *  The 
landed  property  and  houses  in  the  Parish  are  burdened  with 
poor's  rates  in  a  proportion  by  the  year  amounting  to  155.  in 
the  pound  on  a  valuation  of  the  parish  made  in  the  year  1822." 
The  following  local  names  appear  in  a  "  List  of  places  and 
sums  remitted  between  3rd  May  and  2ist  Dec.  1826  "  : — Bisley, 
Glos. ;  Bradford  and  Townships,  Wilts  ;  Charterhouse  Hinton, 
Bath ;  Dursley,  Glos. ;  Uley,  Glos.  ;  Heytesbury,  Horningsham, 
Hilperton,  Melksham,  North  Bradley,  Trowbridge  and  Town- 
ships, and  Westbury,  in  Wilts  ;  Frome,  Freshford,  Nunney, 
Roeberrow,  Road  and  Taunton,  in  Somerset.  The  old  spinning 
industry  in  villages  on  Salisbury  Plain  came  to  nothing  before 

1800. 

C.  V.  G. 


Roman  Remains  Found  in  Making  the  Amesbury  Light 
Railway.— Three  Roman,  or  Romano-British  vases  of  reddish 
ware,  together  with  iron  nails  and  a  curved  iron  blade  of  some 
sort,  have  lately  been  found  near  the  proposed  Ameshury 
station.  Also  close  to  the  edge  of  the  valley  bank  several 
skeletons,  well-preserved,  and  near  them  a  horse's  skeleton 
with  two  iron  shoes  of  different  shapes.  Two  of  the 
vases  were  whole  and  have  been  taken  home  by  the 

Contractor. 

C.  V.  G. 


Filling  up  of  a  British  Ditch.  279 

Filling  up  of  a  British  Ditch.— The  proprietor  of  the 
Druid's  Head  racing  stables  has  filled  in  three  crossings  for 
gallops  in  the  big  ditch  on  Winterbourne  Stoke  down  between 
two  British  villages.  In  the  silting,  which  varied  from  18  to 
46  inches  deep,  were  found  fragments  of  blue  Delft  ware, 
ivory  handled  table  knives  (old  round  shape  of  handle),  some 
bones  (not  identified),  and  fragments  of  a  clasp-knife,  and 
gimlet — all  pointing  apparently  to  a  former  filling  in  with 
domestic  rubbish.  Unfortunately  no  competent  person  saw 
the  sections  of  silting  when  excavated.  The  ditch  must  be  well 
known  to  persons  going  to  Stonehenge  from  Shrewton,  as  it 
runs  away  from  the  road  southward  over  the  steep  down,  in 
the  deep  bottom,  about  half-a-mile  from  Rollestone. 

C.  V.  G. 


Finds  at  Yarnbury  Castle. — In  digging  a  pond  on  the 
east  of  Yarnbury  Castle  a  number  of  bones,  said  to  have  been 
human,  were  found  last  year.  A  handsome  Roman  vase,  now 
in  the  County  Museum,  was  found  here  at  another  pond  on  the 
west  side.  A  burial  urn  was  got  out  of  a  barrow  near  the 
"  Bustard "  (one  of  a  group  of  three  eastward)  in  levelling 
rabbit  burrows ;  unfortunately  the  pick  broke  it.  The  frag- 
ments found  their  way  to  Capt.  Hawley  at  Figheldean. 

C.  V.  G. 


Stafford  of  Southwick. — The  pedigree  contributed  by 
Mr.  W.  H.  H.  Rogers  in  the  March  number  states  that  the  last 
male  Stafford — Sir  Humphrey — created  Earl  of  Devon  in  1469 


280  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

and  beheaded  in  the  same  year,  died  s.p.,  while  Mr.  Kite's 
pedigree,  printed  in  vol.  ii,  p.  257,  shows  that  he  left  two 
daughters,  both  of  whom  died  unmarried.  The  difference  is 
not  of  any  great  importance,  but  as  both  these  gentlemen  have 
gone  so  fully  into  the  history  of  the  family  and  have  given  us 
so  much  valuable  information  on  the  subject,  I  think  your 
readers  would  be  further  indebted  to  them  if  the  point  were 
cleared  up — if  only  to  make  the  accounts  correct  in  all  their 
details. 

J.  S. 


Thomas  House.— A  relative  of  mine  possesses  an  oil 
painting,  being  a  portrait  of  a  hale  old  gentleman,  in  the  dress 
of  the  seventeenth  century,  bearing  the  following  inscription  : — 
"Thomas  House,  of  Westwood,  aetat.  99 — A.D.  1673." 

This  painting  has  been  in  the  possession  of  the  Newmans 
of  Castle  Combe  and  their  descendants  for  an  unknown  period. 
Is  anything  known  respecting  this  individual,  or  is  there  any 
record  of  his  death  ? 

JOHN  HARDING. 
Milford  Grove, 

Salisbury. 


Henry  drivers  of  Quemerford. — He  was  M.P.  for  Calne, 
1689  to  1705.  Was  he  the  son  of  Seacole  Chivers,  who  is  said 
(Vis.  Wilts.,  1623)  to  have  had  in  1651  an  only  child,  Elizabeth  ? 
Whom  did  Henry  Chivers  marry  ?  When  did  he  die  ? 
When  did  the  name  cease  at  Quemerford  ?  It  disappears 
from  the  Oxford  Matriculation  Registers  after  the  first  half 
of  the  1 7th  century. 

W.  D.  PINK. 
Lancashire. 


Alexander  Chokke.  281 


Alexander  Chokke. — He  was  M.P.  for  Westbury,  1605, 
until  his  death  in  1609.  Another  Alexander  Chokke  was  M.P. 
for  Ludgershall,  1621-22.  Any  information  as  to  these  will 
oblige.  What  was  their  precise  connexion  with  Chokkes  or 
Chocks,  of  Somerset  ? 

W.  D.  PINK. 


Thomas  Longe. — Are  any  descendants  known  of  Thomas 
Longe,  of  Trowbridge,  to  whom  arms  were  granted  in  1561, 
and  whose  grandson  William  was  living  at  Stratton  in  Somer- 
setshire in  1623,  having  then  two  sons  and  five  daughters? 

Q. 


fte  plies. 


Quaker  Dates  (vol.  iii,  p.  138). — In  reply  to  "K.,  North- 
ampton", who  seeks  enlightenment  on  this  subject,  I  may 
say  that  I  have  in  my  possession  one  of  the  original  printed 
notices  on  the  subject  of  the  rectification  of  the  Calendar, 
addressed  "To  the  Quarterly  and  Monthly  Meetings  o/Friends 
in  Great  Britain,  Ireland  and  America",  by  the  "Meeting 
for  Sufferings"  held  in  London  in  Seventh  Month,  1751. 
It  was  decided  by  the  Yearly  Meeting  of  that  year  "That 
in  all  the  Records  and  Writings  of  Friends,  from  and  after 
the  last  Day  of  the  Tenth  Month,  called  December,  next  [,] 
the  Computation  of  Time  established  by  the  said  ACT, 
should  be  observed;  and  that  accordingly  the  first  Day  of 
the  Eleventh  Month,  commonly  called  January,  next,  shall 
be  reckoned  and  deemed,  by  Friends,  the  first  Day  of  the 
first  Month  of  the  year  1752."  Then  follows  a  table  shew- 
ing the  new  designation  of  each  month,  e.g.,  the  eleventh 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


month  called  January  "shall  be  reckoned  and  stiled"  the 
first  Month— and  as  a  consequence  the  twelfth  month  called 
February  becomes  the  second,  the  first  month  called  March 
becomes  the  third,  etc. 

With  regard  to  the  double-date,  as  the  months  of 
January,  February  and  March  (to  use  their  "  Heathenish 
names")  could  alone  have  this,  or,  to  be  more  correct 
January  i  to  March  24,  so,  in  Quaker  parlance,  eleventh, 
twelfth  and  first  months  were  in  a  similar  position  as  alone 
correctly  having  the  two-year  date,  but  I  do  not  find  that 
the  Friends  were  very  clever  dataries,  for  frequently  the 
double-date  is  omitted,  with  the  consequent  doubt  as  to 
which  year  is  intended,  while  at  times  it  appears  attached 
to  tenth  and  second  months,  and  even  to  sixth  and 
eighth  ! 

It  does  not  appear  as  though  any  notice  was  taken  of 
the  commencement  of  the  Legal  Year  on  March  25,  for  the 
whole  ot  that  month  is  given  as  first  month,  that  is,  in- 
cluding the  25th  to  the  3ist — and  I  find  even  such  dates 
as  1745/6-1-26.  It  seems  as  though  "K."  has  pointed  out 
a  weakness  in  the  generally  very  exact  records  of  the  Society 
of  Friends,  but  possibly  further  research  may  throw  more 
light  on  the  question.  I  am  looking  for  documents  instituting 
the  nomenclature  of  the  months,  cancelled  in  1752. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 
Tottenham,  Middx. 


Sir  William  Courtenay,  Bart.,   of  Newhouse,   Wilts— 

(vol.  iii,  p.  235). — Mr.  Browning  may  be  able  to  find  some- 
thing about  him  in  the  ist  vol.  of  The  Complete  Baronetage,  by 
G.  E.  C.,  just  issued  to  the  subscribers. 

IBEX. 


William  Leach. 


283 


William  Leach  (vol.  ii,  pp.  482,  538).— We  are  indebted  to 
Messrs.  Anstie  for  the  loan  of  the  accompanying  block,  repre- 
senting the  trade  label  of  "  B.  W.  Anstie,  snuff  maker  and 

tobacconist,  Devizes,  1789."  It  is 
reproduced  from  a  probably 
unique  copy  in  the  Banks  Col- 
lection, British  Museum;  and,  in 
addition  to  the  trade  label  of 
"William  Leach  and  Co.,  snuff 
makers  at  the  Windmill  in 
Devizes,  Wilts,"  already  repro- 
duced in  Wiltshire  N.  &>  O.,  vol. 
ii,  p.  483,  is  interesting  as  a 
further  illustration  of  the  early 
history  of  snuff  manufacture  in 
Devizes. 

Mr.  Benjamin  Webb  Anstie, 
as  previously  mentioned  (vol.  ii, 
P-  539)»  first  became  partner 
with  his  father  and  elder  brother  in  1776.  The  father  died  in 
1779,  and  in  1784  the  brothers  dissolved  partnership,  the 
business  of  snuff  maker  and  tobacconist  being  continued  by 
Benjamin  Webb,  the  younger  of  the  two,  until  1810;  when  the 
title  of  the  firm  became  "  Benjamin  Webb  Anstie  and  Sons." 

Whistley  Mill,  where  for  many  years  the  snuff  grinding 
was  carried  on,  is  apparently  the  building  represented  on  the 
trade  label.  The  miller  is  seen  bringing  out  bags,  one  of  them 
on  his  back  being  labelled  "  SNUFF."  To  one  of  the  snuff 
millers  at  Whistley  belongs  the  following  anecdote,  which  may 
be  worth  recording  here.  He  lived  in  Devizes,  and  on  return- 
ing home,  one  summer's  evening,  across  the  fields,  by  a  still  well- 
known  footpath,  he  found  himself  suddenly  confronted  by  a 
vicious  bull,  which  had  been  turned  out  during  the  day.  The 
animal  proceeded  to  make  a  charge,  and  the  miller,  having  no 
stick,  suddenly  bethought  himself  of  another  expedient.  He 
snatched  off  his  wig,  which  was  saturated  with  snuff,  and  threw 


284  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

it  straight  at  the  bull's  eyes.  The  miller's  hastily  extemporised 
method  of  defence  proved  to  be  a  perfect  success ;  for  the 
animal,  blinded  with  plain  Scotch,  rushed  wildly  about  the  field  ; 
whilst  the  miller  secured  his  wig  and  quietly  resumed  his 
journey  towards  Devizes. 

It  is  believed  that  Calstone  Mill  was,  about  the  year  1777, 
used  for  awhile  by  Messrs.  Anstie  as  a  snuff  mill,  but  no  papers 
in  proof  of  this  seem  to  be  at  present  in  possession  of  the  firm. 
Poulshot  Mill  is  also  traditionally  said  to  have  been  once  used 
for  grinding  snuff. 

AQUTLA. 


Heralds'  Visitations  (vol.  iii,  p.  141). — "  How  is  it  so  few 
of  the  higher  nobility  are  recorded  ?  "  i.e.  at  the  Visitations. 

The  answer  is  simple,  viz.,  that  the  deputies  of  the  Kings 
of  Arms  (Clarenceux  south  and  Norroy  north  of  the  Trent)  were 
only  instructed  to  summon  the  lesser  nobility,  such  as  baronets, 
knights,  and  gentlemen. 

Q. 


James  Long  (vol.  iii,  p.  182). — The  following  question 
has  been  asked — "  From  the  crest  which  crowns  the  Monu- 
ment, Mr.  James  Long  appears  to  have  been  a  member  of 
the  ancient  Wiltshire  family  of  that  name.  To  which  branch 
did  he  belong  ?"  I  presume  the  family  meant  is  that  of 
Wraxall  and  Draycott.  The  crest  on  the  Monument  may 
be  meant  for  that  of  the  former,  but  the  last  known  male 
descendant  of  that  branch  died  in  1731,  the  Draycott  branch 
(the  only  other  one  known)  continuing  till  1805,  when  the 
family  became  extinct.  Mr.  James  Long,  cannot,  therefore, 
have  belonged  to  the  former  branch,  and  it  seems  unlikely 


Etchilhampton  Monument.  285 

that  he  could  have  been  of  the  latter,  as  the  pedigree  is 
well-known.  Perhaps  the  parish  register  might  throw  some 
light  on  his  parentage.  In  any  case,  the  crest,  whatever 
it  may  be  meant  for,  is  valueless  as  evidence  of  descent. 

Q. 


Etchilhampton  Monument  (vol.  iii,  pp.  181-2). — I  should 
like  to  place  on  record  that  the  writer  of  the  inscription 
on  the  Monument  on  Etchilhampton  hill — which  is  as  follows  : 

Qui  coluere  coluntur 
An :  Dom:  1771. 
This  Monument 

from  a  general  Sense  of  Gratitude 
was  erected  to  the  Memory  of 

JAMES  LONG 

Late  of  Wedhampton,  Esq. 

whose   publick    Spirit   and    Benevolence 

which  he  ever  exercised  for  the   service 

of   Mankind,    were    remarkably    exerted 

in  planning,    promoting    &   compleating 

this  new  Road 

An:  Dom  :  1768 

By  which 

A  former  tedious  and  dangerous  way 
over  the  adjacent  Hill 

is  avoided 

To  the  great  Pleasure 

and  Convenience  of  Travellers 

In  Recto  Decus. 

On  another  side  is  inscribed  : — 

By  Permission  of 

MICHAEL  TICHBOURNE, 

Esq. 

—was  the  Rev.  Charles  Gibbes,  B.A.  (died  Nov.  1794), 
Rector  of  Chitterne  All  Saints  and  Chitterne  St.  Mary,  but  a 
resident  in  the  parish  of  Urchfont,  where,  in  conjunction  with 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Jaques,  his  brother-in-law,  he  conducted  a  school 
for  the  sons  of  neighbouring  gentry.  This  information  I  had 


286  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

some  years  ago  from  my  cousin,  the  late  Rev.  Heneage 
Gibbes,  M.B.,  at  one  time  Incumbent  of  All  Saints,  Sidmouth, 
great  grandson  of  the  aforesaid  Rev.  Charles  Gibbes,  and 
grandson  of  the  latter's  only  child,  Rev.  George  Gibbes,  D.D., 
Rector  of  Woodborough,  whose  only  son,  my  informant's 
father,  was  Sir  George  Smith  Gibbes,  knt.,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  &c., 
of  Bath. 

C.  H.  MAYO. 


The  Missing  Register  of  Addison's  Baptism:   Where 

is  it?  (vol.  iii,  pp.  42-3,  140,  186-8,  236-240). — The  paper  of 
Mr.  Kite,  in  the  last  number  of  W.  N.  &  Q.  deserves  respectful 
consideration,  and  I  should  like  to  make  an  addition  to,  and  an 
observation  on  it.  The  addition  is  to  the  list  of  the  rectors  ol 
Milston.  Lancelot  Addison  was  first  rector  in  1660.  The 
transcript,  in  the  Diocesan  register,  contains  under  that  date 
"  Jane  the  daughter  of  Lancelot  [sic]  Addison,  rector,  baptised 
23  of  April,  1660."  Addison  signs,  and  Roger  Pinckney,  John 
Millip,  attest. 

In  the  same  year  was  another  rector,  William  Bean, 
whose  tenure  must  have  been  very  brief.  On  his  cession  came 
Robert  Harris.  On  the  floor  in  the  chancel  is  a  stone  in- 
scribed "  Here  lyeth  the  Body  of  Robert  Harris,  Rector  of 
this  place,  who  dyed  4th  of  November,  1662." 

Mr.  Kite,  after  referring  to  a  statement  of  mine,  says  that 
the  Rev.  R.  Webb  "  must  certainly  have  been  in  possession  of 
the  volume  dating  from  165310  1703,  which  should  have  con- 
tained the  entry  of  1672,  or  he  could  not  have  shewn  it  to  any 
other  person."  But  Mr.  Webb  never  complained  of  losing  a 
volume.  Moreover,  when  I  succeeded  Mr.  Webb  at  Durring- 
ton,  and  very  early  enquired  about  Joseph  Addison's  baptism, 
I  was  at  once  shewn  the  old  Milston  Register,  beginning  1540, 


The  Missing  Register  of  Addisoris  Baptism.          287 

as  that  which  had  contained  it,  and  from  which  it  had  been 
abstracted.  That  half  a  century  was  missing,  and  that  it 
implied  abstraction  of  three  sections  (for  baptisms,  marriages 
and  burials  were  not  intermixed)  seemed  never  to  have  been 
observed.  Two  things  contributed  to  the  error.  L.  Addison 
had  noted  in  it  the  birth  of  a  daughter,  and  a  collection  made 
for  the  redemption  of  the  English  that  are  captives  in  Barbary, 
Oct.  30,  1671.  This  is  one;  the  other  was  the  very  imperfect 
condition  of  the  registers  in  the  i8th  century.  There  was  no 
marriage  register  to  be  found  from  1734  to  1813.  To  my  mind 
there  is  nothing  strange  in  any  loss  of  Registers  before  Dr. 
Toogood's  time.  Mr.  Edward  Polhill  was  at  Milston  40  years, 
"  what  manner  of  man  he  was  the  day  of  judgment  will 
declare "  was  placed  on  his  tombstone.  The  only  record  of 
baptisms  and  burials  in  his  time  is  stated  on  the  cover  not 
to  be  a  register.  "  This  was  designed  for  an  Account  Book 
and  not  a  Parish  Register."  It  begins  "  Milston  and  Brig- 
miston  Rectory,  Wilts.  An  account  of  Burials  from  June  ist, 
1760,  that  is  to  say  from  the  time  that  Edward  Polhill  first 
entered  on  the  Cure  of  ye  said  Parish."  The  latter  half  of  the 
book  contains  "An  account  of  Baptisms  from  ist  June,  1760." 
There  could  have  been  no  other  register  of  Baptisms  and 
Burials  found  when  Mr.  Polhill  died,  because  the  same  book 
was  used  by  Dr.  Toogood's  curates  till  the  law  required  new 
registers  in  1813.  But  the  Marriage  Register  under  Lord 
Hardwicke's  Act  has  disappeared.  It  is  not  improbable  that  a 
Bowles  may  have  borrowed  and  never  returned  it.  In  extenua- 
tion it  may  be  said  that  Mr.  Wm.  Bowles  was  a  banker  at 
Salisbury,  and  his  security  would  be  supposed  to  be  good ;  but 
he  and  his  partner  failed.  Heale,  Milston,  and  all  his  property 
was  sold,  and  in  the  chaos,  certain  things  may  have  dis- 
appeared. This  was  in  1813. 

Dr.  Toogood  did  not  reside  at  Milston  till  1816.  He  was 
rector  of  a  parish  in  Somerset  until  then,  but  in  1816,  having 
been  appointed  to  Broad  Hinton,  he  made  an  arrangement 
by  which  the  incumbent  of  Durrington,  who  was  also  resident 


288  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

curate  of  Milston,  and  he  exchanged  places — my  predecessor 
going  to  Hinton. 

I  think  that  credence  is  to  be  given  to  Dr.  Toogood's 
statement  in  its  entirety ;  and  as  shewn  above,  "  the  other 
Registers,"  vaguely  referred  to,  were  missing  when  he  came  to 
Milston. 

C.  S.  RUDDLE. 


John  Clare,  S.  J.  (vol.  iii,  p.  235). — He  probably  belonged 
to  a  South  Wilts  family  of  this  name — one  of  whom — Robert 
Clare  alias  Dominick — was,  about  the  year  1638,  tenant  of 
Chicklade  Farm,  near  Hindon — rented  at  that  time  of  the 
Bennett  family. 

In  1698,  William  Clare,  of  Heytesbury,  gent,  purchased 
lands  at  Upton  Lovel,  and  from  him,  I  believe,  descended 
William  Clare,  of  Devizes,  surgeon,  and  for  50  years  one  of 
the  Coroners  for  this  County.  He  died  in  1829,  aged  82.  See 
monumental  tablet  in  St.  James'  Church,  Devizes.  His  late 
residence,  No.  23,  Market  Place,  still  retains  the  figure  of 
^Esculapius  in  a  recess  over  the  doorway. 

WILTONIENSIS. 


Cljurrlj  of  ££.  4Eary  antr  flUUorus,  ^nwsburg. 


GROUND  PLAN, 

showing  arrangement 

of  grave  stones,  with 

stone  coffins  and  slabs 

uncovered  in  1853. 


E.  Nave. 

F.  South  Aisle. 

G.  Porch  (now  gone). 

[To  these  portions, 
which  seem  to  have 
served  during  the 
Middle  Ages  as  the 
Parish  Church,  the 
Monastic  Church  be- 
came annexed  soon 
after  the  Dissolution. 
Part  of  the  nave  is  of 
early  Norman  date. 
This  was  apparently 
re-modelled,  and  an 
aisle  added,  in  the 
1 5th  century.] 


A.  Chancel. 

B.  Tower. 

C.  C.  Transepts. 

D.  Chapel. 

[This  part  of  the 
building  dates  from 
the  early  part  of  the 
I3th  century,  and  is 
believed  to  have 
formed  the  Monastic 
Church  until  the  Dis- 
solution, in  1539.] 


SCALE,  30  Feet  to  an  Inch. 


REFERENCES. 


a.  Recess  with  canopy. 

b  b.  Doorways,  now  closed  up. 

c.  Recess   in    outer    wall,    ap- 

parently an  aumbry. 

d.  Double  piscina. 

e  e.  Arches  in  east  walls  of  tran- 
septs, now  blocked  up. 

f.  Low  arch,  blocked  up. 

g.  Doorway  leading  into  cloister. 


h.  Piscina. 

i.  Doorway,  blocked  up. 
k.  Jamb  of  Norman  doorway 

[entrance  to  cloister  ?] 
/.  Remains    of    Holy    water 

stoup. 
m.  Oak  screen  [i5th  century] 

removed  in  1853. 


GRAVESTONES,   &c. 


1.  George  Cuthbert.  18. 

2.  Jane  Stokes.  20. 

3.  Rev.  Thomas  Holland.  22. 

4.  William  Rigdon,  gent.  19. 

5.  William  Cousins.  21. 

6.  Henry  Cox,  gent.  23. 

7.  Henry  Cox,  gent.  24. 

8.  Mary  Keene.  25. 

9.  Rev.  Thomas  Neale.  26. 
10.  John  Cousins.  27. 
n.  Rev.  Henry  Head.  28. 

12.  Giles  Sadler,  gent.  29. 

13.  Entrance  to  vault.  30. 

14.  Mary  Head.  31. 

15.  Rev.  Richard  Head.  32. 

1 6.  Brassless  slab  of  Purbeck  33. 

marble.  34. 

17.  Edith  Matyn  (brass  plate)  35. 

36. 


I  Inscriptions  worn  out. 

Vault. 

Eugenia  Nugent. 
)  Coffin  slabs  of  Purbeck 
J      marble. 

I  Inscriptions  worn  out. 

Incised  slab. 
Plain  slabs. 

Eleanor  Stallord. 
William  Stallord. 
Purbeck  marble  slab. 

Stone  coffins  and  lids. 
Stone  coffin. 


IBtltstnre  Jlotes  atiti  (Euertes. 

SEPTEMBER,  1900. 


AMESBURY    MONASTERY,    WITH   AN     ACCOUNT     OF 
SOME  DISCOVERIES  ON  THE  SITE  IN  1860. 

(Continued  from  p. 


a 

LL  monastic  property  surrendered  to  the  King  came, 
as  a   matter   of  course,  into  the  Court  of  Augmenta- 
tions,  which   had   been   newly   called   into   existence 
to    deal    with  its    revenues ;    and    from   a   very    full 
survey    among    the    documents    of  this  Court,    now 
preserved    in    the    Public    Record    Office,1    we    are 
enabled  to  glean  a  little  more  about  the  doings  of  the  Royal 
Commissioners,  and  what  took  place  at  Amesbury  immediately 
after  the  suppression. 

The  yearly  revenues  of  the  Monastery,  spiritual  and 
temporal,  according  to  the  valuation  given  by  Speed,  produced 
at  this  time  a  gross  sum  of  ^'558  IDS.  2d.,  from  which  certain 


1  Exchequer  Augmentation  Office.     Miscellaneous  Books,  vol.  494,  ff. 
31-36. 

X 


290  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

fees,  annuities,  pensions,  and  corrodies,1  granted  to  divers 
persons  by  letters  patent  of  the  House,  amounting  to 
^59  i2S.,  had  to  be  deducted,  which  gives  a  net  sum  not  far 
from  Dugdale's  estimate,  viz.,  ^495  155.  id?  Out  of  this 
the  thirty-four  "  late  religious  women  of  the  Monastery " 
were  allotted  pensions  for  life.  Joan  Darell  (late  Prioress), 
^100 ;  Joan  Horner  (sometime  High  Prioress),  Cristian 
Iddersley  (late  Prioress  of  the  Cloister),  and  Margaret  Beche,3 
(one  of  the  nuns),  £6  135.  ^d.  each;  Edith  Curtens  (late 
Sub-prioress),  and  four  nuns,  £6 ;  ten  other  nuns,  ^5  ;  and 
the  remaining  fifteen  ^4  each ;  amounting  in  all  to  ^260  per 
annum  ;  and  leaving,  on  this  portion  of  the  Commissioners' 
account,  an  almost  equal  balance  to  the  use  of  the  Crown. 

From  the  same  Survey  it  appears  that  the  ornaments, 
goods,  and  chattels,  belonging  to  the  Monastery,  were  sold  at 
once  by  the  Commissioners,  and  produced  ,£147  55.  zd.  With 
this  money  in  hand  they  proceeded  to  "  dispatch  "  the  in- 
mates of  the  House,  distributing  amongst  the  thirty-four  "  late 
religious"  the  sum  of  ^74  135.  4^.,  by  way  of  gratuity  "of 


1  A  Corrody  is  described  by  Cowel  (Lam.  Diet.)  as  "  a  sum  of  money,  or 
allowance  of  meat,  drink,  and  clothing,  due  to  the  King  from  an  Abbey,  or 
other  house  of  religion,  whereof  he  is  the  founder,  towards  the  reasonable 
sustenance  of  such  a  one  of  his  servants,  being  put  to  his  pension,  as  he 
thinketh  good  to  bestow  it  on."    The  question  of  corrodies  became  of  very 
general   interest  on  the   dissolution  of   religious    houses,   and   the    34-35 
Hen.  VIII,  cap.  19,  provides  for  "  pensions,  portions,  corrodies,  indemnities, 
sinodies,  and  proxies."     On  the  dissolution  of  Malmesbury  Abbey  Sir  Henry 
Long,  the  then  owner  of  the  Wraxhall  and  Draycote  estates,  claimed  for  him- 
self and  his  heirs,  a.  corrody  of  seven  white  loaves  and  seven  conventual 
flagons  of  beer,  to  be  allowed  weekly  out  of  the  Abbey. 

2  In  the  money  of  those  days,  which  would  equal  perhaps  nearly  or 
quite  as  many  thousands  at  the  present  time ;  but  the  returns  then  made  of 
Abbey  lands  were  notoriously  under  the  mark,  being  made  by  the  stewards, 
who  wished  to  be,  and  in  many  instances  became,  the  principal  purchasers. 
The  income  of  Amesbury  Monastery  was,  at  this  time,  exceeded  only  by  two 
other  Houses  in  Wiltshire— the  great  Abbeys  of  Malmesbury  and  Wilton. 

3  Among  the  list  of  names  we  find  also  those  of  Alleyne,  Bulkeley,  Eyre, 
Fettiplace,  Gifford,  Goddard,  Hunton,  and  other  families  either  belonging  to, 
or  connected  with  Wiltshire. 


Notes^on  Amesbury  Monastery.  291 

the  King's  Majesty's  reward";  and  a  further  sum  of  ^31  8s.  ^d. 
to  four  priests,  and  twenty-three  servants,  for  their  wages  and 
liveries.  The  Commissioners  had  arranged  with  the  Prioress 
to  receive  and  discharge  the  debts  of  the  House,  and  on  this 
account  ,£20  145.  $d.  owing  to  divers  persons  for  victuals  and 
other  necessaries,  was  also  disbursed ;  leaving  a  balance  to  the 
King  of  ^20  195. 

The  whole  of  the  Monastic  plate,  weighing  659  ounces  of 
silver,  nearly  half  of  which  was  either  gilt,  or  parcel  gilt,  also 
fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Crown. 

The  records  and  evidences  of  the  House  remained  in  the 
Treasury  there,  safely  to  be  kept  to  the  use  of  the  King ;  the 
keys  whereof  were  delivered  to  the  charge  and  custody  of 
Richard  Paulett,  esq.,  receiver.1 

From  the  same  Survey  we  also  learn  that  the  habitable 
portion  of  the  Monastic  buildings,  assigned  to  remain  unde- 
faced,  were  the  Lodging  called  the  late  Priory  Lodging,  the 
Hall,  Buttery,  Pantry,  Kitchen,  and  Gatehouse  as  it  was 
enclosed  within  one  quadrant  unto  the  Convent  Kitchen,  the 
Long  Stable  with  the  Hay  Barn  adjoining,  the  Wheat  Barn, 
the  Baking-house,  and  the  Gate  with  the  Gatehouse  in  the 
Base  Court.2 

The  buildings  deemed  to  be  superfluous  were  the  Church, 
Cloister,  Fratry  [or  Refectory],  Dormitory,  and  Chapterhouse, 
the  Convent  Kitchen,  with  all  the  houses  adjoining  to  the  same, 
the  Old  Infirmary  with  the  Chapel,  Cloister,  and  Lodgings 
adjoining,  the  Sextry,  with  houses  joining  the  same,  the 
Steward's,  Receiver's,  Auditor's,  and  Priests'  lodgings,  and  all 
other  houses  in  the  Base  Court  not  above  reserved. 

The  weight  of  the  lead  remaining  upon  the  Church,  Quire, 
Aisles,  Steeple,  Chapels,  Vestry,  Cloisters,  Fratry,  Hall  and 


1  If  these  records  and  evidences  had  come  into  the  hands  of  the  Crown 
they  would  probably  be  found  in  the  Public  Record  Office,  but  no  Chartulary 
of  Atnesbury  is  known  to  exist,  and  it  is  to  be  feared  that  many  of  the 
other  monastic  documents  here  must  also  have  perished. 

2  The  outer  yard  appropriated  to  stables,  offices,  &c. 

X  2 


292  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Chambers,  with  the  gutters  belonging  to  the  same,  was  esti- 
mated at  230  fothers  ;  and  that  of  the  four  bells  in  the  steeple 
at  14  hundred  weight.1 

Thus  far  the  survey  made  for  the  Court  of  Augmentation. 
The  Ministers'  Accounts,  32  Henry  VIII  [1540-1],  also  pre- 
served among  the  Public  Records,  contain  a  list  of  the  posses- 
sions of  Amesbury  Monastery,  with  their  value,  during  the 
short  time  which  they  remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Crown. 
But  the  sites  of  the  dissolved  monasteries,  with  their  estates, 
were  soon  granted  one  by  one,  either  altogether  or  piecemeal, 
to  courtiers  or  speculators ;  and  Amesbury,  with  much  other 
monastic  property,  came  to  the  share  of  an  individual  destined 
to  become  a  great  historical  personage  of  his  day — the  King's 
own  brother-in-law— Sir  Edward  Seymour,  successively  Earl 
of  Hertford,  Duke  of  Somerset,  and  Lord  Protector  of  England. 

The  marriage  of  Henry  VIII  with  his  Wiltshire  queen, 
Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Seymour,  of  Wolfhall,  took  place 
in  1536.  With  this  introduction  at  Court,  and  the  Seymour 
family  then  enjoying  the  full  tide  of  royal  favour,  it  is  not 
surprising  that  her  elder  brother,  Sir  Edward,  became  a 
recipient  of  liberal  grants  from  the  King,  of  lands  which  were 
then  falling  into  the  Royal  hands,  on  the  dissolution  of 
monasteries.  In  the  year  of  his  sister's  marriage  Sir  Edward 
became  owner  of  two  Wiltshire  Houses,  viz.,  Monkton  Farley, 
a  cell  to  the  great  Cluniac  Priory  of  Lewes,  in  Sussex ;  and 
Easton,  near  Pewsey,  one  of  the  few  establishments  (numbering 
twelve  only  throughout  England)  of  the  Maturins  or  Friars  of 
the  Holy  Trinity.2  Next  year  (1537)  Maiden  Bradley  Priory 

1  The  Inventories  of  Church  goods,  taken  1552,  include  these  four  bells, 
which  were  then  remaining  in  Amesbury  Church. 

8  The  Seymour  family,  and  their  ancestors,  the  Esturmies  of  Wolfhall, 
had  been  patrons  of  Easton  Priory,  which  they  used  as  a  burial-place ;  Sir 
John  Seymour,  father  of  Queen  Jane,  was  buried  here  in  1536,  as  was  also  a 
son  of  the  same  name,  who  died  young,  in  1510;  but  the  Priory  Church 
afterwards  becoming  ruinous  during  his  minority,  Edward,  the  next  Earl  of 
Hertford  (son  of  the  Protector)  on  succeeding  to  the  estates,  re-built  Easton 
Church  in  1591,  having  previously  removed  their  bodies  to  Great  Bedwyn, 
and  re-interred  them  in  the  chancel  of  that  church. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  293 

(originally  founded  as  a  Hospital  for  Lepers),  also  fell  to  his 
lot,  and  two  years  later,  on  the  suppression  of  the  greater 
monasteries,  that  of  Amesbury  likewise  came  into  his  hands. 

But  this  included  only  his  Wiltshire  share  of  the 
monastic  spoil,  for  the  same  nobleman  was  also  grantee  of 
Muchelney,  in  Somersetshire;  Ottery,  in  Devonshire;  Wim- 
borne,  in  Dorsetshire ;  Shene,  in  Surrey1;  Sion,  in  Middlesex ; 
and  other  religious  houses,  together  with  lands  thereto  be- 
longing. 

Although  the  actual  grant  of  Amesbury  from  the  Crown 
to  the  Earl  of  Hertford  bears  date  7  April  1541,  he  was 
probably  in  possession  of  the  site  soon  after  its  surrender 
(sixteen  months  previously),  for  the  survey  above  referred  to 
states  that  the  whole  of  the  monastic  buildings,  whether 
"  deemed  superfluous  "  (i.e.,  sentenced  to  be  destroyed),  or  not, 
were  committed  by  the  Royal  Commissioners  to  the  custody  of 
John  Barwick,  "  servant  to  the  Earl  of  Hertford",  and  we  find 
the  Earl  mentioned  as  owner  31  Henry  VIII,  i.e.,  before  22 
April  1540. 

Some  very  interesting  papers  relating  to  Amesbury 
Monastery,  at  this  date,  were  found  at  Longleat,  in  1866,  by 
the  late  Canon  Jackson,  and  printed  in  the  Wilts  Archaeological 
Magazine,  vol.  x,  pp.  61-84.  One  of  them,  a  survey  of  the 
lead  on  the  roofs  of  the  monastic  buildings,  will  give  some  idea 
of  their  respective  proportions. 

Content  of  the  lead  upon  the  late  monastery  of  Amesbury,  viewed 
by  Christopher  Dreye  and  George  Hynde,  plumbers,  at  the  command- 
ment of  Thomas  Cumine,  the  King's  Sergeant  Plumber,  22  September, 
32  Hen.  VIII  (1540). 

1  The  dissolved  Priory  of  Carthusians  at  Sheen  (founded  by  King 
Henry  V  in  1414)  soon  became  a  residence  of  the  Earl,  for  in  some 
Amesbury  papers  at  Longleat,  date  1541-2,  we  find: — 

"For  a  basket  of  quynses  [quinces]  that  MaisterThyn  caused  to  be  send 
[from  Amesbury]  to  my  Lord's  place  at  Sheen." 

"  Maister  Thyn" — afterwards  Sir  John  Thynne,  the  builder  of  Longleat 
— was  secretary  to  the  Earl.  The  Amesbury  quinces  must  have  been 
something  special,  for  there  is  a  further  payment  for  "a  horse  load  of  quinces," 
also  sent  from  thence  to  Sheen. 


294  Wiltshire   Notes   and  Queries. 

THE  CHURCH.  A  steep  roof  over  the  High  Altar  and  Quire,  51  feet 
long  and  24  feet  in  depth  on  either  side. 

North  Aisle  [this  apparently  refers  to  the  North  Transept]. 
Steep  roof  40  feet  long,  and  20  feet  deep  on  each  side. 

South  Aisle  [South  Transept].  Steep  roof  39  feet  long,  and  24 
feet  deep  on  each  side. 

Spire.  Octagonal,  61  feet  high,  each  of  the  sides  10  feet  wide  at 
bottom,  7  teet  in  the  middle,  and  tapering  to  6  inches  at  the  top. 
[This  spire  would  represent  a  tower  at  least  24  feet  square]. 

Body  of  Church.  Steep  roof  120  feet  long,  and  24  feet  on  each 
side. 

Lady  Chapel.    Flat  roof  32  feet  long,  by  13  feet  on  one  side  and 

12  on  the  other. 
St.  John's  Chapel.     Flat  roof,  six  times  10  feet  square,  and  50 

other  feet. 

Vestry.    Flat  roof  22  feet  long,  and  over  16  feet  deep. 
The  CLOISTER.     Flat  roof  of  four  squares,  each  104  feet  long  and  12 

feet  deep. 
The  DORMITORY.     Flat  roof  200  feet  long,  and  in  depth  on  either 

side  1 8  feet. 
The  FRATRY,  or  REFECTORY.    Flat  roof  1 10  feet  long,  and  on  either 

side  15  feet. 

The  JESSYE.1     Flat  roof  no  feet  long,  and  on  either  side  16  feet. 
The  HALL.    Flat  roof  70  feet  long,   and  on  either  side  14   feet. 

[Little  entry  from  Hall  to  Kitchen,  with  spiral    staircase   also 

mentioned.] 

KENT'S  CHAMBER.     Flat  roof  65  feet  long,  and  on  either  side  10  feet. 
The  ABBESS'  CHAMBER.     Flat  roof  24  feet  long,  and  on  either  side 

14  feet. 
The  OLD  PARLOUR.     Bastard  roof  22  teet  long,  and  on  either  side 

22  teet. 


1  "  Mastris  Wardour's  chamber  in  the  lower  end  of  the  Jesse,"  is  also  men- 
tioned in  the  Longleat  papers.  Margaret  Wardour  was  a  nun  here  at  the 
dissolution  of  the  Monastery.  The  Jessye  at  Amesbury  (an  apartment  110ft. 
by  30,  of  the  same  length  and  a  little  wider  than  the  Refectory),  perhaps 
derived  its  name  from  a  representation,  either  in  sculpture,  or  stained  glass, 
of  what  is  known  as  the  Tree  of  Jesse — a  mediaeval  representation  of  our 
Lord's  genealogy  under  the  semblance  of  a  vine  springing  from  a  recumbent 
figure  of  Jesse ;  spreading  in  luxuriant  foliage,  disposed  so  as  to  sustain 
and  surround  a  long  succession  of  royal  personages,  among  which  the  kings 
David  and  Solomon,  appear  conspicuous ;  and  terminating  with  our  Lord 
in  the  arms  of  his  Mother,  in  glory  and  surrounded  by  angels.  The  effect 
of  this  as  sometimes  executed  must  have  been  remarkably  striking.  It  was 
common,  during  the  13th  and  Hth  centuries,  in  illuminations  of  manu- 
scripts, stained  glass,  sculpture,  and  embroidery. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  295 

JOAN  HORNER'S  CHAMBER  [late  Prioress].     The  root   crested  with 

lead. 
The  LEADEN  CHAMBERS.    A  little  chamber,  the  roof  covered  with 

lead. 

The  weight  of  this  lead  was  estimated  by  the  King's 
plumbers  at  230  fothers  [218^  tons],  nearly  doubling  in  quan- 
tity that  on  the  roofs  of  the  great  Abbey  of  Malmesbury. 
Lead  being,  at  the  time,  a  very  marketable  commodity,  the 
Crown  officers  evidently  knew  well  how  to  dispose  of  it  to  the 
best  advantage,  and  it  was  sold  separately  by  the  Chancellor 
of  the  Court  of  Augmentation  [Sir  Richard  Rich],  to  the  Earl 
of  Hertford,  "  ex  recognif  ejusdem  CanceW  coram  Audit1" 
with  the  recognizance  of  the  said  Chancellor,  before  the 
Auditor. 

From  another  of  the  Longleat  papers,  relating  to  an 
exchange  of  lands  between  the  King  and  the  Earl  of  Hertford, 
we  learn  that  the  latter  was  to  pay  to  the  Crown,  for  the  lead, 
and  the  woods  of  Amesbury,  the  sum  of  ^547  25.  *]d. — in 
hand  ^100,  at  the  next  Christmas  ^£200,  and  the  remaining 
balance  of  ^247  25.  id.  twelve  months  later.  The  King,  on 
his  part,  was  to  discharge  the  Earl  of  all  incumbrances,  except 
leases ;  and  except  also  the  yearly  payment  of  ^8  for  the 
salary  of  a  Priest  to  serve  the  Cure  of  Amesbury,  and  75.  6d. 
for  synodals  and  procurations  to  the  Archdeacon  of  Sarum. 

The  monastic  buildings  were  handed  over  by  the  Crown 
officers,  apparently  intact,  to  the  custody  of  Mr.  John  Barwick, 
the  steward  for  the  Earl  of  Hertford's  Wiltshire  property, 
who  then  resided  on  one  of  his  master's  newly  acquired 
estates — the  dissolved  House  of  Trinitarian  Friars,  at  Easton, 
near  Pewsey,1  and  it  appears  to  have  been  under  Mr.  Barwick's 


1  Mr.  Barwick  afterwards  resided  at  Wilnot,  the  manor  and  advowson 
of  which  place  (formerly  part  of  the  possessions  of  Bradenstoke  Prioty)  he 
purchased  of  William  Alleyne,  the  grantee  from  the  Crown  at  the  dissolu- 
tion. His  monument,  with  date  1574,  still  remains  in  the  chancel  of  the  parish 
church.  Of  his  two  daughters,  the  elder  married  into  the  ancient  Wiltshire 
family  of  Wroughton,  of  Broad  Hinton,  and  her  portrait,  which  had  passed 


296  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

direction  that  the  spoliation  which  immediately  followed  the 
Earl  of  Hertford's  ownership  of  Amesbury  (of  which  the 
Longleat  papers  are  at  present  the  only  evidence)  was  carried 
out. 

The  lead  was  quickly  stripped  from  the  roofs,  melted,  and 
sold ;  and  in  these  accounts  we  find  payments  made  by 
William  Nottingham,  an  old  Amesbury  name,  not  without 
interest.  In  1522  William  Nottingham,  "  of  the  George",1 
paid  subsidy  to  the  amount  of  255.  In  1527  he  was  amerced 
at  sixty  quarters  of  barley,  which  he  paid,  but  stated  that  he 
must  buy  more,  as  he  supplied  my  lady  [Prioress]  at  Ames- 
bury  with  ale.  The  William  Nottingham  of  1541,  in  altered 
times,  doubtless  found  a  profit  in  the  spoliation  of  the  Monastery, 
whose  maintenance  must  previously  have  been,  either  to 
himself  or  his  ancestors,  a  considerable  source  of  revenue. 

William  Nottingham's  payments  for  trying,  melting,  and  casting 
the  lead,  31  March,  32  Henry  VIII  [1541]. 

[This  work  occupied  ten  weeks.  Seven  men  were  paid  at  the 
rate  of  6d.  a  day ;  and  a  watchman,  who  sat  up  and  watched  the  lead, 
received  qd.  a  night. 

The  church  spire  was  destroyed  in  Easter  week.  The  hire  ot  a 
horse  from  Amesbury  to  Easton,  "  to  speak  with  Mr.  Berwick  about 
the  pulling  down  of  the  steeple,"  cost  $d. ;  two  line  cords,  to  be  used 
for  the  same  purpose,  i2d. ;  and  is.  %d.  was  paid  tor  two  pounds  of 
gunpowder,  bought  at  Salisbury,  to  "  fire  the  great  timber  of  the 
steeple." 

The  items  also  include  payments  for  charcoal,  and  an  ox  hide  to 
make  a  pair  of  bellows.] 


by  marriage  from  Wroughton  to  Montagu,  hung  for  many  years  in  the  dining 
room  at  Stowell  Lodge,  and  eventually  came  into  possession  of  the  late 
Admiral  Montagu,  of  Seend.  The  pedigree  and  arms  of  Barwick — Argent 
three  bear's  heads  erased  sable  muzzled  or — will  be  found  in  the 
Visitation  of  Wilts,  1565. 

1  In  1542,  during  the  spoliation  of  Amesbury  Monastery  36  pieces  of 
timber  were  delivered  to  Robert  Payn  to  "the  repayring  of  the  singe  [sign] 
of  the  George,"  at  sundry  times.  This  ancient  hostelry,  which  must  have 
flourished  in  the  days  of  the  Monastery,  descended  with  the  monastic 
property  until  part  was  severed  and  sold  at  a  comparatively  recent  date  to 
redeem  the  land  tax  on  the  whole.  Some  tile  paving,  used  here  perhaps 
when  the  sign  was  repaired  in  1542,  again  came  to  light  in  some  alterations 
made  a  few  years  ago. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  297 

The  late  choir  of  the  monastic  church  seems  to  have  been 
the  scene  of  some  of  these  melting  operations ;  the  refectory 
was  also  used  as  a  receptacle  for  part  of  the  lead.  One 
item  is — 

"  To  take  down  the  great  wall  that  was  partition  of  the  Mydquere 
(Mid-Choir,  i.e.,  the  Ritual  Choir)  to  have  out  the  lead  that  was  there 
cast,  and  to  break  down  one  part  of  the  great  cloister." 

The  lead  produced  a  total  of  637  sows,  weighing  nearly  210 
tons,  over  and  above  John  Howell,  plumber,  laid  upon  the 
chancel  of  the  Parish  Church,  and  upon  the  gutter  of  the  new 
Convent  Kitchen,  1 1  cwt.  Lead  reserved  for  my  lord  and 
returned  over  2 1  tons.  The  price  realised  appears  to  have  been 
from  ^3  6s.  Sd.  to  £4  per  ton;  so  my  lord  of  Hertford  had 
apparently  little  cause  to  be  dissatisfied  with  this  part  of  his 
Amesbury  bargain. 

The  principal  buyers  of  the  lead  were  Robert  Eyre  and 
Thomas  Sembarbe  [Saintbarbe],  merchants  of  Sarum ;  both 
well-known  Wiltshire  names.  Their  purchase  amounted  to 
162  tons.  Robert  Steward,  sadler,  in  London,  bought  5  tons; 
John  Berenger,  of  Hampton  [Southampton],  merchant,  about 
10  tons.  On  ist  August  1541,  a  hundred  sows,  weighing 
nearly  30  tons,  were  conveyed  from  Amesbury  to  Southampton, 
in  carts  hired  from  Urchfont,  Collingbourne,  Cannings,  Ailing- 
ton,  Newton,  Manningford,  Enford,  Chisenbury,  Winterslow, 
Winterbourne,  Stapleford,  and  Bedwin,  some  of  them  be- 
longing, no  doubt,  to  the  Earl  of  Hertford's  own  tenants  at 
these  places.  Lastly,  on  28th  June  1542,  "  Marchaunt  of 
Hampton"  [the  merchant  of  Southampton],  made  a  further 
small  purchase  of  over  30  cwt.,  to  be  sent  to  Jersey  for  gun- 
shot. 

The  other  Amesbury  papers  at  Longleat  relate  to  the 
spoliation  of  some  part  of  the  monastic  buildings  [1539-1542]. 
The  payments  include  items  for  taking  down  the  roofs  of  part 
of  the  Church,  viz.,  the  Lady  Chapel,  the  great  Choir,  and 
that  over  the  high  altar ;  also  the  roofs  of  the  dormitory,  etc. 
Other  payments  are  for  taking  up  the  paving  tile  in  the  vestry, 


298  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

parlour,  part  of  that  in  the  inner  parlour,  the  cloister,  and 
chapter  house,  and  for  carrying  the  same  into  the  north  aisle 
(meaning,  no  doubt,  the  north  transept  of  the  church,  as 
already  described).  Another  item  is  for  again  removing  the 
paving  out  of  this  aisle,  or  transept,  to  make  room  for  the 
timber. 

Among  the  materials  sold  are  gravestones  and  tile 
paving  from  before  the  high  altar ;  a  tombstone ;  two  tombs 
in  the  north  aisle  [transept],  and  rafters  from  the  same ;  paving 
tile  in  the  vestry,  and  in  the  south  aisle  [transept]  by  the 
Church  door.  Broken  wood  of  the  roof  of  the  south  aisle 
[transept]  ;  timber  of  the  spire  and  great  cloister  ;  broken  wood 
of  the  spire ;  and  the  paling  by  the  Church  door,  convent  side, 
and  cemetery  in  the  park. 

If  these  papers  at  Longleat  had  not  come  to  light,  the 
identity  of  the  present  parish  Church  of  Amesbury  with  that 
of  the  dissolved  Monastery — which  had  previously  been  a 
matter  of  general  acceptance — might  never  have  been  ques- 
tioned ;  but  the  question  having  lately  been  raised1  upon 
several  points  which  appear  to  the  present  writer  to  be  some- 
what inconclusive  evidence,  he  is  glad  to  have  the  opportunity 
of  making  a  few  remarks  which  may  serve  to  explain  certain 
items  in  the  Longleat  papers,  apparently  hitherto  misread. 

In  the  event  of  a  double  use  of  the  same  building,  both  by 
nuns  and  parishioners  (which  he  has  always  believed  to  have 
been  the  case  at  Amesbury)  the  body  of  the  church,  i.e.  the 
nave,  with  its  south  aisle,  and  formerly  a  south  porch — would 
naturally  be  the  part  assigned  to  the  latter ;  the  nuns  occupy- 
ing the  chancel,  tower  and  transepts,  which  communicated  with 
the  cloister  and  other  monastic  buildings  by  blocked  up  door- 
ways still  visible  in  the  walls.  The  south  porch  thus  formed  a 
separate  entrance  to  the  western  portion  (or  Parish  Church) 


1  By  Mr.  Charles  H.  Talbot  and  the  Kev.  C.  L.  Ruddle,  in  papers  read 
at  the  Amesbury  Meeting  of  the  Wilts  Archaeological  Society  (1899) 
and  printed  in  Wilts  Archaeological  Magazine,  vol.  xxxi,  pp.  8-32. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  299 

for  the  services  of  which  the  lady  Prioress,  as  Rector,  provided 
a  Chaplain. 

This  being  the  case  some  of  the  items  in  the  Longleat 
papers  will  perhaps  appear  less  obscure.  They  certainly 
represent,  as  Canon  Jackson  has  remarked,  "  considerable 
havoc  in  stripping  off  lead,  pulling  down  a  spire,  selling  paving 
tiles,  &c. "  ;  but,  if  looked  at  closely,  this  will  be  found  to  refer 
only  to  the  eastern  portion,  or  Monastic  Church  (then  unoccupied) 
which,  with  the  site  and  other  buildings  of  the  Monastery,  had 
recently,  by  grant  from  the  Crown,  become  the  private 
property  of  the  Earl  of  Hertford.  The  same  remark  applies  to 
the  church  mentioned  in  the  Crown  survey  taken  after  the 
Dissolution,  as  "  deemed  to  be  superfluous  "  ;  which  must  not  be 
taken  literally  as  applying  to  the  whole  of  the  Church,  but  only 
to  such  portion  as  had  previously  been  connected  with  the  Monas- 
tery. On  the  dissolution  of  the  House,  and  dispersion  of  its 
inmates,  the  eastern  portion  of  the  Church,  which  had  been 
occupied  by  the  Nuns,  became  temporarily  useless,  and  (with 
the  cloister,  chapter-house,  refectory  and  other  unoccupied 
portions  of  the  late  Monastery)  was  deemed  superfluous,  i.e., 
sentenced  to  be  destroyed.1 

But  this  sentence,  so  far  as  concerned  the  Church,  was 
never  carried  into  effect.  It  appears  from  the  Longleat  papers 
that  the  timber  spire  was  destroyed  for  the  sake  of  its  covering 
of  lead  ;  the  roofs  over  the  great  choir,  and  high  altar,  were  also 
taken  down,2  and  the  gravestones  and  tile  paving  in  the  floor 
of  this  part  of  the  building  removed,3  apparently  to  facilitate 


1  It  may  be  mentioned  that  the  Abbey  Church  of  Malmesbury  was  also 
deemed  superfluous,  which  was,  no  doubt,  the  usual  sentence  passed  on  all 

churches  or  parts  of  churches,  which  had  been  attached  to  Religious  Houses. 

2  We  also  find  mention  of  rafters  and  broken  wood  of  the  north  and 
south  aisles  [i.e.,  transepts'^  ;  but  this  may   merely  refer  to  the  alteration,  or 
repair,  of  the  old  timber  work  necessary  in  changing  the  covering  of  the 
roof  from  lead  to  tiles. 

3  Gough,  in  his  Sepulchral  Monuments,  published  1786-96,  vol.  ii,  p.  220, 
describes  the  chancel  as  being,  at  that  time,  descended  into  by  seven  wooden 
stairs — an  arrangement  probably  resulting  from  this  disturbance. 


300  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

the  Earl  of  Hertford's  lead  melting  operations  (part,  if  not  all 
of  which,  seems  to  have  been  carried  on  here) ;  but  the  lead 
once  disposed  of,  these  dismantled  roofs  must  have  been  again 
replaced1  and  covered  in — probably  with  tile  from  other  of  the 
monastic  buildings2 — and  the  entire  area  of  chancel,  tower, 
transepts,  nave,  and  aisle  thrown  open,  and  appropriated  wholly 
to  parochial  uses,  as  it  continues  to  be  at  the  present  day. 

One  item  in  the  Longleat  papers  mentions  taking  down 
the  great  wall  that  was  partition  of  the  Mid  Choir — showing  the 
existence,  in  mediaeval  times,  of  a  permanent  separation  in  the 
midst  of  the  church,  which,  unless  one  and  the  same  building 
was  used  by  both  nuns  and  parishioners,  would  not  have 
been  required. 

With  the  dismantled  roofs  of  the  eastern,  or  unoccupied 
portion  of  the  church,  those  on  the  body  of  the  building,  used  as 
the  Parish  Church,  have  likewise  been  associated,  and  this  part 
also  described  as  roofless  and  desolate.  But  on  looking  care- 
fully at  the  Longleat  papers  it  will  be  found  that  there  is  not  a 
single  item  to  show  that  the  western  part  of  the  church,  occupied 
by  the  parishioners  was  in  any  way  interfered  with  during  the1 
spoliation  of  the  monastic  buildings  in  1539-1542 — not  even 
that  the  lead  was  stripped  from  the  roofs — for,  although  the 
porch  has  been  removed,  and  the  gabled  roof  of  the  aisle  is 
now  covered  with  red  tile — the  nave  will  still  be  found  to  retain 
a  covering  of  lead,  which  must  always  have  been  the  case  since 


1  The  old   chancel  roof,  of  Perpendicular    date,  destroyed  when    the 
church  was  restored  in  1853,  was  of  the  same  pitch  as  that  which  still 
covers  the  nave ;  but  less  ornamented.     Its  carvings  did  not  exactly  match 
— thus  conveying  the  idea  that  it  had  been  taken  down  and  unskilfully  re- 
constructed. 

2  As  lately  as  the  commencement  of  the  present  century  the  roofs  of  the 
eastern  part  of  the  church  were  still  unceiled,  and  open  from  within,  between 
the  rafters,  to  stone  tile  and  shingle.     The  south  transept  had  been  used 
for  a  school,  and  the  north  was  occupied  by  sundry  articles  belonging  to  the 
parish,  including  an  apparatus  for  extinguishing  fires,  invented  by  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Holland,  a  former  incumbent,  of  whom  a  notice  will  be  found  in 
Wilts  N.  4-  Q.,  vol.  i,  pp.  4,  41,  92 ;  vol.  ii,  p.  247. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  301 

the  construction  of  the  present  roof.  We  may  therefore 
assume  that  the  parishioners  remained  unmolested  in  their  use 
of  the  body  of  the  church;  and  their  wills  serve  to  show  that  in 
1542-1543  they  were,  as  usual,  desiring  burial  within  its  walls, 
as  well  as  making  liberal  bequests  towards  the  maintenance  of 
its  services. 

In  the  days  of  the  Monastery  the  lady  Prioress  had,  as 
already  mentioned,  provided  a  Chaplain  for  parish  work.  The 
name  of  John  Bel  ton  appears  in  the  Valor  Ecclesiasticus,  1534 — 
five  years  before  the  Dissolution  of  the  Monastery — when  he 
was  in  receipt  of  a  yearly  income  of  ^7.  But,  on  the  subse- 
quent disposal  of  the  site,  the  Crown  (having  absorbed  the 
Monastic  income)  relieved  itself  of  this  responsibility  by 
charging  its  new  owner — the  Earl  of  Hertford,  who  became 
lay  Rector — with  a  yearly  payment  thereout  of£S  for  the  salary 
of  a  Priest  to  serve  the  cure  of  the  parish.  If  a  separate  Parish 
Church  had  existed  it  is  quite  clear  that  this  arrangement 
would  have  been  unnecessary. 

The  dimensions  of  the  roofs  of  the  church  of  1540,  as 
given  above,  in  the  survey  of  the  lead  by  the  King's  plumbers, 
correspond  nearly  enough  with  those  of  the  present  building, 
one  item  only  excepted,  i.e.  the  roof  over  the  body  of  the  church, 
estimated  at  120  feet  by  24  on  each  side.  This  has  been  taken 
literally  to  represent  a  nave  120  feet  long,  the  existence  of  which, 
at  any  time,  the  present  writer  is  very  much  inclined  to  doubt ; 
and  he  is  equally  inclined  to  doubt  if  any  such  meaning  was 
intended.  The  measurement  is  that  of  the  lead,  not  on  the  roof 
of  the  nave  alone,  but  on  the  entire  body  of  the  church,  which 
would  include  both  nave  and  its  south  aisle1 — and,  as  these  roofs 
together  would  give  a  total  length  of  about  120  feet,  the 
plumbers  (who  had  no  interest  in  preserving  to  posterity  the 
exact  size  of  the  building,  but  were  simply  estimating  the 
weight  of  the  lead)  may  have  taken  the  entire  length  of 


1  The  south  porch  may  also  have  been  roofed  with  lead. 


302  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

nave  and  aisle  together,  and  averaged  the  width — considering 
this  quite  near  enough  for  their  purpose. 

We  next  come  to  the  spire — a  framework  of  timber,  61  feet 
in  height,  covered  with  lead,  and  taken  down  in  Easter  week 
1541.  It  is  described  as  an  octagon,  measuring  10  feet  on 
each  of  its  sides  at  the  base.1  This  would  represent  a  square 
of  24  feet,  and  the  actual  corresponding  measurement  of  the 
tower  is  28  feet  by  25,  inside  the  parapet  wall.  The  objection, 
therefore,  that  the  actual  dimensions  of  the  present  church 
tower  at  Amesbury  cannot  be  reconciled  with  the  recorded 
dimensions  of  the  spire  of  the  Monastic  Church,  apparently 
vanishes.  The  appearance  of  the  present  tower  roof  suggests 
the  idea  that,  on  the  removal  of  the  spire,  the  roof  was  very 
roughly  made  up  with  part  of  its  old  timbers  laid  down  un- 
evenly, and  the  whole  covered  with  lead.8 

The  Crown  survey,  taken  immediately  after  the  Dissolu- 
tion, mentions  four  bells  in  the  steeple  of  the  Monastic  Church. 
In  1552  (some  twelve  years  later)  the  Commissioners  appointed 
to  make  a  survey  and  inventory  of  all  church  goods  remaining 
at  that  time,  found,  apparently  in  the  same  tower,  the  same 
four  bells  used  by  the  parish.  These  they  again  left  un- 
disturbed, as  being  "  requisite  for  Divine  Service  ". 

If  any  further  proof  were  necessary  to  establish  the 
identity  of  the  Monastic  Church,  with  that  used  by  the  parish- 
ioners in  mediaeval  times,  the  dedication  ought  in  itself  to  settle 
the  question.  Bishop  Tanner,  in  his  Notitia  Monastica,  says 
that  Queen  Ethelfrida,  on  founding  her  Benedictine  Nunnery 
at  Amesbury,  in  980,  commended  it  to  the  patronage  of 
SS.  Mary  and  Meliorus.  The  royal  charters  confirming  the 

1  The  actual  spire  measured  probably  not  more  than  9|  feet  on  each 
side,  as  the  plumbers,  in  estimating  the  weight  of  the  lead,  would  naturally 
allow  for  the  overlapping  joint  at  each  angle. 

2  Among  the  many  names  and  dates  which  appear  on  this  lead  (from  at 
least  the  year  1647  downward)  some  are  enclosed  within  an  outline  represent- 
ing a  tower  and  spire,   which,  repeated  from   time   to   time  by  different 
individuals,  seems  to  perpetuate  a  tradition  of  the  tower  having   once 
actually  possessed  such  an  appendage. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  303 

grant  by  Henry  II  of  this  earlier  foundation  to  the  Abbey  of 
Font  Evrault,  in  nyy,1  distinctly  mention  that  the  church 
included  in  that  grant  bore  the  same  dedication  ;  and  this — with 
the  relics  of  St.  Meliorus  deposited  here — continued,  without 
doubt,  to  be  the  dedication  of  the  Monastic  Church. 

Now,  in  1492  (whilst  this  very  Church  of  SS.  Mary  and 
Meliorus  was  in  full  possession  of  the  nuns,  and  its  dissolution, 
some  half  a  century  later,  not  yet  even  dreamt  of),  we  find 
Thomas  Bundy,  a  parishioner  of  Amesbury,  desiring,  by 
will,  that  his  body  might  be  buried  in  the  same  church  of  St. 
Melore.2  This  alone  seems  to  be  conclusive  evidence  of  the 
use  of  the  same  Church,  at  the  same  time,  both  by  nuns  and 
parishioners.  Later  on,  in  1542  (three  years  after  the  dissolu- 
tion of  the  Monastery,  and  whilst  the.  eastern  portion  of  the 
Church,  lately  used  by  the  nuns,  was  Unoccupied,  and  partially 
unroofed),  we  have  the  will  of  Nicholas  Chamber,  another 
parishioner,  desiring  burial  "in  the  body  of  the  Church  of  St. 
Melore,  before  the  rood"s — thus  distinctly  showing  the  use,  at 
that  time,  of  the  western  part  of  the  building  (in  a  perfect  state]  as 
the  Parish  Church.  In  the  following  year  (1543)  Henry  Wat- 
kins,  also  a  parishioner,  wills  to  be  buried  in  the  same  church 
of  St.  Melore*;  thus  proving  satisfactorily,  in  the  opinion  of  the 

1  Although  the  Order  of  Font  Evrault  included  religious  of  both  sexes, 
we  find  brethren  at  Amesbury  mentioned  only  in  1294,  and  a  prior  a  few  years 
later ;  but  this  may  merely  refer  to  the  priests  maintained  in  the  Monastery 
— the  principal  one  of  whom  may  have  been  known  as  Prior. 

2  There  is  also  in  the  church  a  small  brass  plate  to  Edith,  wife  of  Robert 
Matyn,  who  died  in  1470.  Gough  describes  it,  more  than  a  century  ago,  as 
being  then  in  the  nave  of  the  church  (where,  as  a  parishioner,  she  would 
have  been  buried) ;  but  it  has  since  been  removed,  and  is  now  buried  be- 
neath the  pavement  of  the  chancel.  Robert  Matyn,  of  Durrington,  in  his 
will  (1509),  leaves  to  my  lady  Prioress  of  Amesbury  3s.  4d.,  to  every  lady 
householder  of  the  same  place  8d.  and  to  every  lady  veiled  Id.  To  the 
Parish  Church  of  Amesbury  he  also  bequeaths  four  sheep. 

3  He   makes  a  bequest  to  the  high  altar  of  St.  Melore — as  well  as  to 
All  Souls  light,  St.  Stephen's  light,  and   the  Maiden's  light,  in  the  same 
church.     Also  a  canopy  to  be  carried  over  the  Host  on  Corpus  Christi  day ; 
and  a  pall,  embroidered  in  gold  and  silk  for  the  Easter  Sepulchre. 

4  In  later  Amesbury  wills  of  the  time  of  Edward  VI,  we  find  mention  of 
a  Jesus  Chapel,  in  the  Parish  Church.    This  may  have  been  at  the  east  end 


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Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


present  writer,  that  the  one  Church  of  SS.  Mary  and  Meliorus 
(still  the  Parish  Church  of  Amesbury)  was  (excepting  the 
Chapel  of  the  Infirmary)  the  only  consecrated  building  belong- 
ing to  the  Monastery ;  and  that  (as  at  Edington)  its  eastern 
portion  served  as  the  Monastic  Church,  the  western  portion 
being  appropriated  to  parochial  uses.1 

In  the  nave  of  Amesbury  Church,  as  it  now  stands,  there 
are  some  architectural  remains,  at  least  of  the  early  Norman 

period,2  which  may  possibly  have 
been  part  of  the  Church  given 
to  Font  Evrault  in  1177,  or 
re-built  at  about  that  date. 
The  chancel,  tower,  and  tran- 
septs (used  by  the  nuns)  belong 
to  the  Early  English  style  (i3th 
century),  the  north  and  south 
walls  of  the  chancel  each  con- 
tain a  Decorated  window,  an  in- 
sertion of  somewhat  later  date. 
The  nave  and  its  south  aisle, 
include  the  earlier  Norman 
remains,  re-modelled  during  the 
Perpendicular  period  (isth  cen- 
tury). The  west  window  of  the 
nave  (removed  in  1853)  is  repre- 
sented in  the  annexed  sketch. 

of  the  south  aisle,  where  there  are  traces  of  a  piscina ;  and  an  altar  very 
probably  stood  here.  It  was  called  Jesus  Chapel,  no  doubt,  from  the  Jesus 
service  said  in  it ;  but  this  would  not  necessarily  be  its  actual  dedication. 

1  No  person,  with  a  practised  eye  in  such  matters,  who  has  carefully 
looked  at  Edington  Church,  and  carried  the  same  eye  into  that  ol  Amesbury, 
will  have  failed  to  see  in  both,  distinct  traces  of  one  and  the  same  arrange- 
ment in  mediaeval  times. 

2  These  remains  seem  to  have  been  overlooked  by  Sir  Richard  Hoare, 
who  remarks  that  the  church  cannot  boast  of  any  Norman  architecture. 
(Amesbury  Hundred,  p.  73.)     They  were  probably  plastered  over,  and  less 
visible  in  his  time  than  at  present.    The  very  considerable  inclination  of 
the  chancel  to  the  north  also  appears  to  have  escaped  the  notice  of  Sir 
Richard,  and  is  not  shown  in  his  ground  plan  of  the  building. 


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The  east  window  of  the  chancel  (also  removed  in  1853) 
was  a  late  insertion,  probably  of  the  time  of  Henry  VII,  or 
Henry  VIII.  It  is  shown  in  the  engraving  of  the  Church  from 
the  south-east,  given  in  Hoare's  Modern  Wilts.  The  dripstones 
of  this  window  were  of  especial  interest,  as  examples  of  the 
use  of  coloured  clay,  which  is  rarely  found  in  work  of  this  kind. 
They  are  now  preserved  within  the  Church,  being  built  into  the 


north  wall  of  the  chancel,  as  supports  to  the  credence  table  ; 
and  represent  angels  bearing  escutcheons  on  which  are  carved 
the  initials  oKo  interlaced  with  a  cord  (see  illustration],  and 
filled  in  with  red  and  black  clay.  The  principal  initial  K  pro- 
bably represents  the  name  of  Kent,  well  known  as  one  of  the 
officers  of  the  Monastery,1  and  to  some  of  this  family  the  window 
may  have  been  inserted  as  a  memorial.2 


(To  be  continued.} 


EDWARD  KITE. 


1  There  was,  among  the  buildings  of  the  Monastery,  a  large  apartment 
known  as  Kent's  C/ta»i,ber.     Peter  Kent,  who  had  previously  held  office  in 
the  Monastery,  was  collector  of  rents  for  the  Earl  of  Hertford  in  1544  ;  and 
one   of  the  lodges   on  the  east  side   of  the   park  towards  Grey  Bridge- 
curiously  constructed  of  flint-work,  and  bearing  the  date  1607,  is  still  well 
known  as  Kent  House,  probably  from  its  first  occupier. 

2  On  one  shield  the  initials  are  red  interwoven  with  a  blac?t  cord.     On 
the   other  the  same  initials  are  black  with  the  red  cord  loosed,  as  if  to 
intimate  by  the  hand  of  death.     A  notice  of  these  escutcheons  was  com- 
municated many  years  ago  to  the  Arch  Ecological  Institute  by  the  Rev.  W. 
Grey,  of  Allington.     See  Arch.  Journ.,  vol.  ii,  p.  194. 

Y 


306  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 

(Continued  from  page  252.) 


EXCHEQUER  Q.  R.  DECREES  AND  ORDERS,   Book  v,  f.  272. 

[Easter  Term,  18  Elizabeth.}  4  June,  1576. 
It  is  ordered  and  decreed  by  the  Court  of  Exchequer  [on 
the  cause  of  Gilbert  Gerrard,  attorney-general,  against  John 
Marquis  of  Winchester,  touching  the  evidences  of  the  manors 
of  Steeple  Ashton,  Bratton  and  Northstoke1]  that  the  letters 
patents,  dated  26th  January,  3  Edward  VI,  of  the  enrolment 
and  exemplification  thereof  shall  from  henceforth  be  void  to  all 
intents  and  purposes,  and  that  the  same  letters  patents  and  the 
enrolment  and  exemplification  thereof  to  all  respects  and  pur- 
poses shall  be  taken  to  be  as  letters  surrendered  and  void 
according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  late  lord 
Marquis  of  Winchester,  from  the  day  of  the  date  of  the  second 
letters  patents,  4  Edward  VI;  and  for  the  Queen's  further 
security,  that  the  said  John,  now  Marquis  of  Winchester,  shall 
not  only  confess  in  the  court  of  Chancery  that  the  enrolment  of 
the  former  letters  patents,  3  Edward  VI  may  be  cancelled,  but 
also  that  he  shall  deliver  unto  this  court  the  same  and  all  such 
exemplifications  as  he  hath,  to  be  cancelled.  Or  else  that  he 
shall  make  a  full  release  and  surrender  in  writing  under  his 
hand  and  seal  to  the  Queen  of  all  the  said  manors  of  Steeple 
Ashton,  Bratton,  Northstoke,  and  all  other  lands  and  tenements 
specified  in  the  said  letters  patents,  3  Edward  VI,  except  such 
parcels  thereof  as  were  graunted  in  the  said  second  letters 
patents  to  his  father,  or  such  parcels  thereof  as  the  now  Lord 
Marquis  can  lawfully  claim  by  force  of  any  other  letters  patents, 


1  Exchequer  Q.  R.,  Bills  and  Answers,  Elizabeth.     Wilts.  No.  5.    Vide 
pp.  208-214  Wilts  Notes  and  Queries. 


Records  q/  Wiltshire  Parishes.  307 

made  after  the  date  of  the  said  first  letters  patents.  And  yet, 
nevertheless,  because  the  defendant  "  is  a  noble  man  and  a  great 
pere  of  this  Realme,"  the  court  at  this  present  is  contented  to 
give  day  to  the  said  defendant  until  the  quindene  of  St.  Michael 
next,  to  show  cause  why  the  Court  should  not  then  proceed  to 
give  further  order  against  him  for  the  executing  the  premises 
according  to  their  true  intention,  order  and  determination. 

IBID.     Book  vi,  f.  228.     [Trinity,  20  Elizabeth.} 
Monday,  9  June. 

(      Frauncis     Martyn     being    present    in    court    is 
\  enioyned  that  he  increase  his  suyt  agaynst  Henry 

Whiteacre,  the  Queen's  Majesty's  tenaunt  of  a  parcell  of  lande 

in  Brackton,  vpon  payne  of  cxl//. 

EXCHEQUER  DEPOSITIONS.     WILTS.     [2  James  1,  Hilary  No.  3.] 

Depositions  of  witnesses  taken  at  Westbury,  i7th  Jan., 
2  James  I,  in  a  cause  defending  in  the  Court  of  Ex- 
chequer between  Adam  Stanshall,  Roger  Bisse,  Henry 
Betton  and  Thomas  Webbe,  tenants  of  Brembridge,  co. 
Wilts,  complainants,  and  Sefton  Bromwich,  gentleman, 
defendant. 

Witnesses  on  the  part  of  the  plaintiffs. 
A.D.  1604. — John  Caraway,  of  Dilton,  labourer,  aged  three 
score   and  ten  years,   or   thereabouts,   sworn    and   examined, 
deposeth  as  followeth  : — 

[i,  2,  and  3,  answers  concerning  the  manor  of  Brembridge 
and  the  fields  of  Westbury.] 

To  the  fourth  interrogatory  he  saith  that  he  knows  that 
the  Defendant,  Sefton  Bromwich,  is  owner  of  the  farm  of 
Bratton,  Wilts,  which  farm  this  deponent  hath  known  by  the 
space  of  threescore  years,  but  doth  not  know  the  down  and 
sheep  sleight  of  the  said  farm.  Further  that  there  have  been 
anciently  kept  upon  the  down  and  sheep  sleight  400  sheep, 
and  that  the  sheep  sleight  doth  lie  about  a  mile  from  the 

water,  and  that  he  kept  sheep  four  or  five  years  in  the  fields 

Y  2 


308  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

called  Westbury  fields  and  Ley  Field,  during  which  time,  in 
time  and  necessity  of  draught,  the  farmers  of  Bratton  have 
had  their  sheep  come  down  running,  being  athirst,  from  the 
down  to  the  water,  where  they  would  drink  for  the  space  of 
half-an-hour,  and  presently  the  shepherd  would  take  his  course 
and  have  them  up  again  to  their  sleight  upon  the  down,  but 
whether  the  same  were  of  courtesy,  or  neighbourhood,  or  of 
right,  he  knows  not. 

To  the  sixth  interrogatory  he  saith  that  Sefton  Bromwich 
divers  times  hath  sleighted  down  his  sheep  of  late  through 
Westbury  fields  and  Leys  fields  at  times  when  there  was  no 
necessity  of  waterings,  which  sheep  were  about  400,  as  he 
takes  it,  and  do  usually  depasture  there  the  better  part  of 
a  day,  and  that  this  deponent  and  others  have  often  chased  the 
sheep  of  the  farmer  of  Bratton  for  feeding  there,  but  doth  not 
know  whether  the  farmer's  sheep  were  ever  impounded,  and 
further  deposeth  not. 

Roger  Kendall,  of  Frome,  Somerset,  husbandman,  aged 
fifty,  saith  [much  the  same  as  the  foregoing]. 

John  Lisle,  of  Warminster,  shepherd,  aged  fifty  .  .  . 
saith  .  .  .  That  the  tenants  of  the  manor  of  Brembridge, 
and  other  the  inhabitants  of  Westbury,  have  used  to  have 
the  pasturage  of  the  fields  of  Westbury  and  Leys  severally 
from  the  farmer  of  Bratton,  except  three  days  in  Leys  field 
and  three  days  in  Westbury  at  the  breach,  and  the  tenants  of 
Brembridge  and  the  inhabitants  of  Westbury  have  often  dis- 
turbed the  farmer's  sheep  of  Bratton  from  their  feeding  in  the 
same  fields,  and  have  chased  them  with  dogs,  and  this  was  so 
done  about  34  years  ago,  this  deponent  being  a  shepherd  there 
seven  years  or  thereabouts.  And  that  one  old  Knight  and 
Stanshall  did  at  one  time  impound  the  farmer's  sheep  of 
Bratton  from  out  of  the  said  fields,  and  after  the  said  old  Knight 
died  he  heard  no  more  of  the  matter. 

William  Kendall,  of  Brook,  in  the  parish  of  Westbury, 
aged  four  score,  deposeth  .  .  .  That  he  hath  known  the 
farm  of  Bratton  these  three-score  years  and  upwards,  and  that 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  309 

he  knoweth  the  sheep  sleight  belonging  to  it,  upon  which  the 
farmers  of  Bratton  have  kept  four  or  five  hundred  sheep,  which 
sheep-sleight  lieth  a  mile  from  the  water.  .  .  .  That  the 
tenants  of  the  manor  of  Brembridge  and  the  inhabitants 
of  Westbury  have  used  to  have  the  feeding  of  Leys  field 
and  Westbury  field  after  the  first  three  days  breach  to 
themselves  severally  from  the  farmers  of  Bratton.  That 
the  sheep  of  the  Lord  Admiral,  being  the  flock  of  Bratton, 
three-score  years  ago  depasturing  the  said  field,  were  out 
of  Leyes  field  impounded  by  Robert  Bowyers,  John  Whatley, 
Robert  Cooch,  of  Lye,  because  they  did  continue  a  day  longer 
than  their  three  days  in  the  said  field,  and  that  time  the  Lord 
Admiral's  flock  were  denied  to  feed  in  the  same  field  after  their 
breach  .  .  . 

Richard  Westwoode,  of  Steepleashton,  husbandman,  aged 
about  three-score  years  and  five,  saith  [much  as  the  others]. 

John  Doninges,  of  Westbury,  aged  58  years,  saith  [as 
before].  .  .  .  That  the  defendant  doth  feed  his  sheep  in 
the  said  fields  and  doth  keep  them  there  of  late  by  force  ;  and 
that  after  the  three  days  next  after  the  first  breach  of  the  said 
fields,  the  farmer  of  Bratton  hath  brought  therein  sheep  which 
have  fed  there,  but  have  been  chased  from  the  same  oftentimes 
within  these  40  years  ;  and  touching  the  impounding  of  the 
farmer's  sheep  of  Bratton  this  deponent  saith  one  Thomas 
Kendall,  one  Stanshall,  and  others,  to  the  number  of  four  or 
five,  about  thirty  years  ago  impounded  the  then  farmer's  sheep 
out  of  Lyes  field  and  out  of  Westbury's  field. 

John  Rawlings,  of  Westbury,  shepherd,  aged  50  years, 
saith  [much  as  the  others]. 

Mathias  Wallis,  of  Westbury,  yeoman,  aged  threescore 
years,  saith  :  That  Sefton  Bromwich  was  presented  and  amerced 
at  the  law- day  holden  for  Westbury  Hundred  the  28th  March, 
39  Elizabeth,  for  suffering  his  sheep  to  be  kept  and  depastured 
in  the  fields  of  Lye  above  said. 

Roger  Burford,  of  Haukeridge  in  the  parish  of  Westbury, 
husbandman,  aged  threescore  and  ten  years,  saith  that  the 


310  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

farmers  of  Bratton  have  been  used  to  water  their  sheep  in 
Leyfield,  where  the}r  have  stayed  for  the  space  of  an  hour,  and 
have  then  been  driven  back  up  to  their  sleight ;  and  that  he 
never  knew  the  farmer's  sheep  of  Bratton  disturbed  in  their 
feeding  in  the  fields  of  Ley  and  Westbury,  for  the  said  farmers 
have  three  days  severally  at  the  several  breaches  of  the  said 
fields  and  afterwards  they  were  wont  to  go  away  out  of  the 
said  fields,  and  this  deponent  was  a  shepherd  there  at  the 
rising  in  the  West  fifty  years  ago,  and  since  he  hath  not  been 
shepherd  there. 

Robert  Evans,  of  Westbury,  husbandman,  aged  threescore 
years  or  thereabouts,  saith  ....  that  he  was  one  of  those 
that  hath  beaten  up  the  said  farmer's  sheep  out  of  the  said  fields 
up  to  Bratton  down  by  the  commandment  of  his  parents,  and 
the  like  commandment  was  given  to  other  shepherds  in  the  said 
fields  at  that  time  [about  39  years  before]. 

Richard  Cooche,  of  Westbury,  weaver,  aged  threescore 
and  six  years,  saith  that  about  50  years  ago  the  farmer's  flock 
of  Bratton  did  not  use  to  feed  in  Leys  field,  but  can  say  nothing 
of  Westbury  field,  and  this  he  knoweth  because  he  was  a 
shepherd  there  about  that  time. 

Witnesses  for  the  Defendant. 

Thomas  Hales,  of  Bratton,  aged  threescore  years  and  six, 
sworn  and  examined,  saith  that  he  knoweth  the  defendant  and 
Henry  Belton,  one  of  the  complainants,  but  the  other  he  doth 
not  well  know.  That  he  knoweth  the  site  and  demesnes  of 
Bratton,  and  hath  known  the  same  for  33  years,  and  the  fields 
called  Lyesfields  and  Westbury  fields  for  30  years.  This  de- 
ponent hath  often  seen  the  flock  of  sheep  of  Bratton  to  feed  and 
depasture  in  Lyesfielde  and  Westbury  fields,  at  the  breach  time 
of  the  fields.  That  one  William  Butcher  and  Roger  Marks 
being  several  farmers  of  the  said  site  and  demesnes  of  Bratton, 
have  with  their  several  flocks  of  sheep  of  Bratton  so  fed  and 
depastured  in  the  said  fields,  and  the  flock  of  Bratton  have  used 
to  depasture  and  feed  in  the  said  fields  at  all  times  at  the  will 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  311 

and  pleasure  of  the  said  farmer,  after  the  breach  of  the  fields, 
until  the  fields  were  sown  again  with  corn.  And  the  reason 
that  he  knows  it  is  because  he  was  a  shepherd  in  the  said  fields 
for  thirty  years,  and  the  flock  of  Bratton  hath  always  been  six 
hundred  and  three  score,  or  thereabouts.  That  the  defendant 
doth  now  use  the  like  pasturing  and  feeding  with  his  sheep  in 
the  said  fields  as  the  farmers  ol  Bratton  have  done  heretofore 
by  all  the  time  of  this  deponent's  memory.  That  one  old 
Springall  being  shepherd  unto  Butcher,  sometime  farmer  of 
Bratton  aforesaid,  did  keep  the  sheep  of  the  said  farm  in  Lyes 
field  and  Westbury  fields  as  the  defendant  now  keepeth  his 
sheep  there 

Roger  Markes,  of  Stepleasheton,  yeoman,  aged  fifty-five 
years,  deposeth  that  he  was  tenant  for  20  years  of  part  of  the 
site  and  demesnes  of  Bratton.  That  the  farmers  and  occupiers 
of  the  site  and  demesnes  of  Bratton  have  had  by  all  the  time 
aforesaid  a  flock  of  660  sheep  depasturing  upon  the  downs, 
which  said  flock  have  always  used  to  be  sleighted,  fed,  and 
depastured  in  Lyes  and  Westburyes  fields  at  the  time  of  the 
breach  and  at  all  times  afterwards  at  the  will  of  the  farmers  and 
occupiers  of  the  site  of  Bratton,  until  the  same  were  sown 
again  with  corn.  That  this  deponent's  father,  William  Markes, 
and  his  grandfather,  Walter  Markes,  were  farmers  of  the  said 
site  and  demesnes  of  Bratton,  and  did  so  use  the  said  fields 
with  their  sheep.  That  the  defendant  Sefton  Bromwich  doth 
now  so  use  them. 

Ralph  Cudgel],  of  Westbury,  shepherd,  aged  60  years,  saith 
that  the  farmers  of  Bratton  have  had  common  of  pasture  for 
their  flocks  of  Bratton  in  the  said  fields  by  all  his  remembrance 
being  40  years,  but  sometimes  there  hath  been  among  the 
shepherds  some  "  rappes "  about  it,  as  he  hath  been  told  by 
the  same  shepherds. 

William  Ballerd,  of  Bratton,  aged  40  years,  saith  that  he 
hath  known  the  said  fields  for  30  years  past,  which  fields  the 
farmers  of  Bratton  for  the  time  being,  namely,  William 
Butcher,  Richard  Axford,  and  one  Markes  of  Stepleashton, 


312  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

have  used  by  all  the  time  of  his  memory  for  pasturage  and 
feeding  for  their  flocks  of  Bratton 

Walter  Hixe,  of  Westbury,  husbandman,  aged  50  years, 
saith  [much  as  above ;  gives  the  several  former  farmers  using 
the  pasturage  in  dispute,  as  John  Markes,  William  Butcher, 
Richard  Axford  and  Roger  Markes].  .  .  . 

John  Gunstone,  of  Westbury,  husbandman,  aged  74  years, 
saith  that  he  knoweth  Lyesfield  and  Westbury  fields  for  all 
the  time  of  his  remembrance,  and  that  a  farmer  of  Bratton  did 
once  heretofore  feed  and  sleight  his  flock  after  the  three  days 
breach  of  Lyesfield  in  the  said  field,  and  this  deponent  was 
likely  to  have  been  then  beaten  by  one  Tynker,  the  shepherd 
of  the  flock  of  Bratton,  for  mingling  his  sheep  with  the  said 
farm  flock. 

Richard  Axford,  of  Bratton,  husbandman,  aged  three  score 
years,  saith  that  he  was  farmer  of  the  farm  of  Bratton  20 
years,  and  his  father  before  him  10  years  before  that,  during 
all  which  time  this  deponent  and  his  father  used  to  have 
pasturage  for  their  flocks  of  Bratton  in  the  said  fields  after 
the  breach,  and  were  never  disturbed. 

Robert  Greene,  of  Bratton,  shepherd,  aged  forty,  saith 
that  he  hath  known  Lyes  field  and  Westbury's  field  for  23 
years,  and  that  all  the  time  the  farmer  of  Bratton  used  to  de- 
pasture his  flock,  being  660  sheep,  in  the  said  fields,  the  first 
three  days  of  the  breach  severally  to  themselves  without  the 
sheep  of  the  tenants  of  Brembridge  and  the  inhabitants  of 
Westbury  that  had  common  there,  and  all  the  season  of  the 
year  when  the  same  is  not  sown  with  corn.  That  he  being 
shepherd  of  the  said  flock  for  these  sixteen  years  last  past 
was  never  disturbed  in  the  sleighting  and  feeding  of  his  sheep 
in  that  manner  in  Westbury  field,  but  in  Lyes  field,  which  was 
when  old  Mr.  Bromwich  had  the  farm  of  Bratton  wholly  to 
himself,  and  then  some  of  Lyes  men  came  unto  him  and  told 
him  that  he  must  not  have  his  sheep  go  in  the  said  Lyes  field, 
and  willed  this  deponent  to  tell  his  master  that  he  should 
meet  them  there  the  next  morning  about  the  same.  Which 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  313 


message  he  delivered  to  his  said  then  master,  who  willed  him 
to  sleight  the  sheep  there  again  the  next  morning,  and  if 
that  Lyesmen  would  pen  them,  then  they  might,  and  he 
would  take  his  course  to  right  himself  by  law.  Before  which 
time  he  had  nothing  to  do  with  them,  and  after  that  this 
deponent  heard  no  more  of  the  matter  until  two  years  last 
past. 

RECOVERY  ROLL.     [Trinity.     $  James  I.     R.  IxxviJ] 

A.D.  1605.  "I  Thomas  Harris,  sergeant-at-law,  and  Thomas 
WILTS.  I  Chamberlayne,  esquire,  in  their  own  persons, 
sue  against  Henry  Martyn,  esquire,  and  Gabriel  Cox,  junior, 
gentlemen,  the  manor  of  Westbury,  alias  Westbury  Saint 
Maure,  with  the  appurtenances  and  30  messuages,  6  tofts,  2 
watermills,  2  dovecotes,  20  gardens,  600  acres  of  land,  200 
acres  of  meadow,  500  acres  of  pasture,  200  acres  of  wood, 
500  acres  of  broom  and  heather,  and  iocs,  rent,  with  the 
appurtenances  in  Westbury,  alias  Westbury  under  the  plain, 
Bratton,  Edington,  Calston,  Steeple  Aston,  Imber,  Warminster, 
North  Bradley,  Heywood,  Hawkeridge,  Brooke  Lye,  Dilton 
Shortestreet,  and  Skidmores  Upton,  and  a  4th  part  of  the 
hundred  of  Westbury  and  the  portmote,  with  the  appurten- 
ances and  fairs  and  markets  and  toll  and  thele  in  the  fairs  and 
markets,  as  their  right  and  heritage,  &c.,  &c. 

Henry  and  Gabriel  call  to  warrant  Alexander  Chokke, 
esquire,  and  Joan  his  wife,  &c.,  &c. 

Alexander  and  Joan  call  to  warrant  Edward  Howse,  &c., 
&c. 

Thomas  Harris  and  Thomas  Chamberlain  seek  licence  to 
imparl  and  it  is  granted  them.  And  afterwards  they  return 
hither,  &c.  And  the  foresaid  Edward,  &c.,  makes  default, 
therefore  it  is  considered  that  the  foresaid  Thomas  Harris  and 
Thomas  Chamberlayne  shall  recover  their  seisin  against  Henry 
and  Gabriel,  of  the  manor,  tenements,  rent,  and  4th  part 
aforesaid,  with  the  appurtenances,  &c. 


314  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


LAY  SUBSIDY.     WILTS.     *||. 

\Sitbsidy,  7  James  /.] 

A.D.   1609.         WESTBURY  HUNDRED. 

BRATTON, 

In   lands  —  William  Newman 

xxs. 

IS. 

iirjW. 

[subsidy]. 

Christopher  White     .  . 

xxs. 

IS. 

iirjV. 

M 

William  Axford 

xxs. 

IS. 

i'ujd. 

M 

John  Rawlings 

xxs. 

IS. 

iiijW. 

|| 

Maulde  Smarte,  widow 

xxs. 

IS. 

i'ujd. 

l» 

Deanes  (?)  Ballarde   .  . 

xxs. 

IS. 

iujd. 

II 

John  Aldridge             .  .  xxxs. 

IS. 

ijd. 

»> 

James  Blacke 

xxs. 

IS. 

iiijW. 

II 

In  goods  —  Margaret  Butcher,  widow  iij/z.  iiis.  „ 

Richard  Hulbert        .  .     xij//.  xijs.  „ 

James  Ballarde.          ..     iiij//'.  iiijs.  „ 

Ralfe  Aldridge            .  .     iij/z.  iijs.  „ 

Sum     ill.  xiijs.  iiij/. 

RECOVERY  ROLL.     [8  James  I.     Hilary.     Roll  xxvii.  ] 

A.D.  161  1.  |  Matthew  Ley,  esquire,  and  Maximilian  Petty, 
WILTS.  )  gentlemen,  in  their  own  persons,  sue  against 
James  Ley,  knight,  and  George  Markes,  gentleman,  a  half  of 
the  manor  of  Lygh,  with  the  appurtenances  of  16  messuages, 
10  gardens,  200  acres  of  land,  50  acres  of  meadow,  100  acres 
of  pasture,  100  acres  of  wood,  and  705.  rent,  with  the  appur- 
tenances in  Lygh  Penlye,  Brooke,  Bremebridge,  Dilton, 
Hawkeridge,  Heywood,  Bratton,  and  Westbury,  as  their 
right  and  heritage,  &c.,  &c. 

James  and  George  call  to  warrant  Roger  Coggeswell,  &c. 

Roger  calls  to  warrant  Edward  Howes,  &c.,  &c. 

And  Mathew  and  Maximilian  seek  licence  to  imparl  and 
it  is  granted  them.  And  afterwards  they  return  hither,  &c. 
And  the  foresaid  Edward,  &c.,  makes  default.  Therefore  it  is 
considered  that  Mathew  and  Maximilian  shall  recover  their 
seisin  against  James  and  George  of  the  half  aforesaid,  with 
the  appurtenances,  &c.,  &c. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  315 

PATENT  ROLL,     [n  fames  /,  part  1 3.] 

A.D.  1613. — The  King  grants  to  Queen  Ann  various  rents 
from  different  estates  in  co.  Southampton  and  Wilts,  &c.  ;  and 
the  annual  rent  or  fee-farm  of  ^93  45.  from  the  manor  of 
Edington-Romsey,  Twynehead,  the  Grange  of  Bratton,  and 
the  capital  messuage  of  the  manor  of  Steepleaston  in  Wilts, 
and  other  property  elsewhere  in  England,  for  and  during  the 
whole  term  of  her  natural  life. 

Tested  by  the  King  at  Westminster,  16  February. 

By  writ  of  privy  seal. 

LAY  SUBSIDY  -j£. 

ool 

A.D.  1625.  [Subsidy,  i  Charles  /.] 

WESTURY  HUNDRED,  BRATTON. 


In  lands  —  Robert  Smart 

xxs. 

\\\}d.  [subsidy]. 

Giles  Gilbert 

xxs. 

iiij^. 

William  Axford 

xxs. 

iiijV. 

William  Whetacre 

xxs. 

\\\]d. 

William  Heavell 

xxs. 

iiijW. 

Christopher  White 

xxs. 

u\]d. 

Roger  Ballard 

xxs. 

\\\}d. 

Willam  Noble 

xxs. 

\\\]d. 

Marie  Blanchard,  widow 

xxs. 

\\\}d. 

John  Croome 

xxs. 

iiijd. 

Christopher  Butcher 

xxs. 

i'rijd. 

In  goods  —  Ralph  Alderidge 

iij//. 

viijs. 

John  Whetacre 

\\]li. 

viijs. 

Henrie  Cromwell 

\\]li. 

viijs. 

John  Alderidge 

\\]li. 

viijs. 

Bartholomewe  Cromwell1   .  . 

iij/«. 

viijs. 

1  In  roll  19?  (3  Charles  I)  there  is  entered  William  Bromwich  possessing  5li. 

in  land. 


316  Wiltshire   Notes  and  Queries. 

WILTSHIRE  FREEHOLDERS'  BOOK.      [13   Charles  /,   A. D. '1637-8. 
Time  of  Sir  Edward  Baynlon,  K.B.,  sheriff.} 

William  Whittaker,  of  Bratton. 
John  Nevell,  of  Bratton. 


WESTBURY 
HUNDRED. 


John  Whittaker,  of  Bratton. 
William  Bromwich,  de  Bratton. 
John  Croome,  of  Bratton. 
Timotheus  Ballard,  of  the  same. 


INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [14  Charles  /,  pt,  2,  No.  155. 
P.  M.  Henry  Ley,  Earl  of  Mar/borough.] 

A.D.  1638.  Inquisition  taken  at  New  Sarum  27  September, 
14  Charles  I.  Henry  Ley,  &c.,  was  seized  of  and  in  the  manors 
of  Westbury,  Westbury  Arundell,  &c.,  and  of,  and  in  7  messu- 
ages with  the  appurtenances,  30  acres  of  land,  10  acres  of 
meadow,  10  acres  of  pasture  and  IDS.  of  rent  with  the  appur- 
tenances, in  Heywood,  Hawkridge,  Bratton,  and  Westbury,  late 
the  land  of  Richard  Gawen  ;  a  messuage,  30  acres  of  land, 
5  acres  of  meadow,  10  acres  of  pasture  with  IDS.  rent,  with  the 
appurtenances  in  Bradford,  Bratton,  Westbury,  £c.,  17  messu- 
ages, 20  cottages,  8  water  mills,  flour  mills,  and  fulling  mills, 
40  acres  of  land,  120  acres  of  meadow,  450  acres  of  pasture,  250 
acres  of  wood,  and  certain  other  lands  and  tenements,  and 
common  of  pasture  for  500  sheep,  or  sheep  and  cattle,  with 
the  appurtenances  in  Westbury,  Heywood,  Hawkridge, 
Bratton,  Milborne,  Stoake,  Coulston,  Ligh,  Dilton  le  Marsh, 
Shortstreet,  Skidmore's  Vpton,  Penley,  Brooke,  Doddesmede, 
Steeple  Ashton,  Imber,  &c.,  late  the  lands  of  John  Batt  and 
others  (named)  ;  2  messuages,  a  cottage,  a  barn,  240  acres  of 
land,  50  acres  of  meadow,  400  acres  of  pasture,  with  the  appur- 
tenances in  Bratton,  Stoke,  Leigh,  Westbury,  called,  or  known, 
by  the  name  of  St.  Maure  farme,  being  parcell  of  the  manor  of 
Westbury  Seymour.1 

1  No  date  of  the  Earl's  death  given. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  317 

LAY  SUBSIDY.     WILTS.     ||| 
A.D.   1641.     [Collections  of  ^400,000  granted  17  Charles  /.] 

HUNDRED  OF   WESTBURY, 
BRATTON. 

The  Lady  Mary  Couritesse  Dowager.  . .     \li.  xvis. 

William  Bromwich,  gent.         . .          . .  . .     iij//. 

William  Stoakes  and  Henry  Usher  . .  . .     j/z. 

George  Markes,  gent.  . .         . .  . .     viijs.  yjW. 

Robert  Shepherde,  for  Mr.  W.  Smith  . .     xjs. 

Anthony  Silverthorne  [?]         . .          . .  . .     iiijs. 

Mary  Burgis,  widow     . .          . .         . .  is.  vjW. 

Anthony  Martyn  . .          . .          . .  is. 

John  Mynty  and  William   Hulbert,  ] 

\.  •     •  A.O. 

for  Thomas  Oxford 

John  Brown  and  Timothy  Ballard     . .  . .     vijs. 

John  Whittacre. .          ..         ..          ..  . .     j/i. 

Henry  Ballard   . .          . .          . .          . .  . .     vijs. 

Henry  Ballard  and  Roger  Ballard     . .  . .     vijs. 

E.  MARGARET  THOMPSON. 
(To  be  continued}. 


QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  225.) 


III.— BIRTH     RECORDS. 
FIRST  SERIES. 

D. 

1655-10-14. — Joan  DODSON,  dau.  of  Francis  Dodson. 

1659-8-17. — James  DAVIS,  son  of  Thomas,  Jun.,  and  Elizabeth 
Davis,  of  Corsham. 

1660-7-14. — Alice  DODSON,  dau.  of  Francis  Dodson,  of  Marlbro'. 


318  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


1661-8-2. — Mary  DAVIS,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Davis, 
of  Pickwick. 

i663-io-7[io]. — Mary     and    Martha    DODSON,    twin    dau.    of 
Francis  Dodson,  of  Marlbro'  Meeting. 

1664-2-24. — William    DAVIS,    son   of  Thomas   and    Elizabeth 
Davis,  of  Corsham. 

1665-11-27. — John  DAVIS,  son  of  John  and  Susannah  Davis,  of 
Nettleton. 

1666-7-13. — Daniell     DODSON,    son     of    Francis    Dodson,    of 
Marlbrough. 

1668-7-6. — Katherine  DAVIS,  dau.  of  John  Davis,  of  Marlbrough. 

1673-10-3. — John   and    Hester  DAVIS,    twin   son   and  dau.  of 
John  Davis,  of  Ogborne. 

1675-10-12. — Hester  DAVIS,  dau.  of  John  Davis,  of  Ogborne. 

1681-6-11. — John   DUCKET,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Ducket, 
of  Swinden. 

1689-12-23. — Jane  DANIELL,  dau.  of  Andrew  and  Eliz  :  Daniell, 
of  Corsham. 

1691-12-7. — Mary   DANIELL,    dau.    Oir  Andrew   and    Elizabeth 
Daniell,  of  Corsham  Meeting. 

1692-8-25. — Jane  DAVIS,    dau.   of   John,  Jun.,    and   Elizabeth 
Davis,  of  Nettleton. 

1694-4-12. — Thomas  DEViNE1,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Devine, 
of  Nettleton. 

1695-9-26. — At  Fovent    Stroud,    Robt.    DAY,  son  of  Osmond 
and  Elizabeth  Day,  of  Fovent  Stroud,  cooper. 

1695-9-27. — Rebecca  DANIEL,  dau.  of  Andrew   and    Elizabeth 
Daniel,  of  Hartham,  Corsham  ph. 

1695-11-6. — John  DAVICE,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Davice,  of 
Nettleton. 

1695/6-11-6. — John  DEVINE,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Devine, 
of  Nettleton. 

1697-7-28. — Mary  DAVICE,  dau.  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Davice, 
of  Nettleton. 

1698-3-7. — Andrew   DANIELL,    son   of  Andrew  and    Elizabeth 
Daniell,  of  Hartham,  Corsham  ph. 


1  Alexander  DEVINE,  F.R.G.S.,  of  Clayesmore  School,  Enfield,  Middx., 
tells  me  he  believes  the  DEVINES  came  originally  from  France,  probably,  as 
DEVIGNES,  and  then  settled  in  Ireland.  He  does  not  trace  any  connexion 
with  this  Wiltshire  family. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  319 


1699-3-7.  —Hannah   DARK,   dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Dark,    of 
West  Kington. 

1699-12-18. — Rachel  DAY,  dau.  of  Osmond  and  Elizabeth  Day, 
of  Fovant  Stroud. 

E. 

1664-8-30. — Thomas  ELLKOCK,  son  of  Thomas  Ellkock. 
1667-12-6. — John  ELLKOCK,  son  of  Thomas  Ellkock. 

1667/8-1-23. — Benjamin  EDWARDS,  son  of  Edward  Edwards,  of 
Brinkworth. 

1670-11-21. — Edward  EDWARDS,   son  of  Edward  Edwards,  of 
Brinkworth. 

1673-5-31. — Samuell  EDWARDS,  son   of  Edward  Edwards,    of 
Brinkworth. 

1673-10-30. — Anna  EMMET,  dau.  of  James  Emmet,  of  Langly. 
1673/4-10-21. — John   EDWARD,  son  of  Folke  and  Jane  Edward. 

1674-8-30. — John    EDWARDS,    son    of    Edward     Edwards,    of 
Brinkworth. 

1677-2-1. — James   EDWARDS,  son  of  John  and  Anne  Edwards, 
of  Bitstone. 

1677-5-20. — Rebecca   EDWARDS,   dau.   of    Edw:    Edwards,  of 
Brinkworth. 

1678-2-1. — Mary  and   Elizabeth   EDWARDS,   twin  dau.  of  John 
and  Anne  Edwards,  of  Bidstone. 

1678/9-12-26. — Remote1  EDWARDS,  son  [?]  of  Edward  Edwards, 
of  Brinkworth. 

1680-4-3. — John  EDWARDS,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Edwards,  of 
Bidstone. 

1681/2-11-2. — Edward  EDWARDS,  son  of  Edward  Edwards,  of 
Brinkworth. 

1686-7-10. — William    EDWARDS,    son   of    Francis    and    Mary 
Edwards,  of  Slaughterford  Meeting. 

1688-5-3. — Walter  EDWARDS,  son  of  Francis  and  Mary  Edwards, 
of  Slaughterford  Meeting. 


L  Query,  son  or  dau.  ?  The  London  copy  does  not  determine  the  sex  by 
use  of  these  words.  The  name  does  not  re-appear.  The  EDWARDS  family, 
living  round  Biddiston,  Notion,  Brinkworth,  must  have  been  a  large  one, 
there  being  record  of  36  births  between  1667  and  1734,  and  38  deaths 
between  1672  and  1819.  The  name  also  appears  in  the  Gloucestershire  Records 
as  connected  with  Cirencester. 


320  Wiltshire  Notes   and  Queries. 

1688-10-22. — Sarah    EDWARDS,    dau.   of  Edward   Edwards,    of 
Brinkworth. 

1691-7-15. — John  EDWARDS,  son  of  Francis  and  Mary  Edwards, 
of  Slaughterford  Meeting. 

1693-10-11. — William    EDWARDS,    son   of   Francis    and    Mary 
Edwards,  of  Slaughterford  Meeting. 

1695/6-12-14. — Elizabeth  EDWARDS,  dau.   of  Francis  and  Mary 
Edwards,  of  Bidiston. 

1696/7-1-8. — Robert    EDWARDS,    son    of   Francis    and    Mary 
Edwards,  of  Bidiston  [Slaughterford  Meeting]. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 
Tottenham,  Middx. 

(To  be  continued.} 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  258.) 


HENRY  VIII  (continued}. 

296.  Anno  37. — William  Wenman  and  Thomas  Wenman, 
junr.,   gen.,    and  Walter    Chanyton    alias    Shangilton,  gen.  ; 
manor  of  Shalborne  Westecourte,   messuages  and  lands    in 
Shalborne  Westecourt.     ^207. 

297.  Anno  37. — Christopher  Willoughby,  arm.,  and  John 
Mervyn,  arm.,  and  Johanna  his  wife ;    manors  of  Westknoyle 
alias  Knoyle,  Odyerne,  and  Struggs,  messuages  and  lands  in 
Westknoyle  alias  Knoyle,  Oderne,  and  Struggs.     ^620. 

298.  Anno  37. — William  Button,  gen.,  and  Fulke  Grevill, 
knt.,  &  Lady  Elizabeth  his  wife;   manor  of  Cowlston,  messu- 
ages and  lands  in  Cowlston.     ,£260. 

299.  Anno   37. — Matthew   King    and   Thomas    Malarde 
alias  Malyard ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Malmesbury,  Broken- 
borough,  Milbourn,  Burton,  and  Thurnehull.     ^100. 

300.  Anno  38. — John  Bekynham  and  Edward  Twynyhoo, 
and  Edith,  his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands  in  the  Highstreet, 
in  the  parish  of  Saint  Thomas  in  New  Sarum.     ^80. 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for   Wiltshire.  321 

301.  Anno   37. — John  Warneford  &  Anthony   Pen,  and 
Thomas  Seymour,  knt.,  and  Andrew  Baynton,  arm.;  manors  of 
Bromeham,  Bremehill,  Stanley,  Rowdon,  Whitley,  Shawe,  and 
Whaddon,    messuages   and   lands   in    Bromeham,    Bromehill, 
Stanley,     Rowdon,     Whitley,     Shawe,     Whaddon,      Rowde, 
Canning  Epis.,   Bulkyngton,    Hedyngton,    Calston,    Cheryell, 
Calne,     Blacklands,     Studhill,    Stockley,     Loxhill,    Sperthill, 
Caddenham,   Foxham,  Cowiche,  Chyppenham,  Lacoke,  Chyt- 
towe,    Doveton,    Corseham,    Melkysham,    Benacre,    Hilpirton, 
and  Throwbryge,  with  advowson  of  the  churches  of  Bromeham, 
Bremehill,  Whaddon,  and  Stanley. 

302.  Anno   38. — Nicholas   Woode    and    Alan    Lee    and 
Francis  Englefyld  and   Katherine  his  wife,  manor  of  Hynton 
alias  Henton.     ,£200. 

303.  Anno    38. — Edward    Baynton,  gen.,    and   Andrew 
Baynton,  arm.  ;  manors  of  Chapmanslade,  Godysfeld,  Berwyk, 
Bassett,   Wroghton,  and  Chesyngbury,  messuages  and  lands 
in  Chapmanslade,  Godysfeld,  Berwyk,  Bassett,  Wroghton,  and 
Chesyngbury.     ^440. 

304.  Anno    38.— Robert    Keylway,    gen.,    and  Andrew 
Baynton,  arm. ;  manors  of  Winterslow,  Escott,  Chelworth,  and 
Crudwell,  messuages  and  lands  in  Winterslowe,  Escott,  Chel- 
worth and  Crudwell.     700  marks. 

305.  Anno   38. — John   Lambard   and  John   Pope,   gen.  ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Hurdecote,  Wenelsford  alias  Welnes- 
ford,  and  Lake,  rectory  of  Shreveton,  as  well  as  advowson  and 
presentation  of  the  vicarage  of  Shreveton.     400  marks. 

306.  Anno     38. — John    Blatehytt     alias     Blathet     and 
Laurence    Edmundys   alias   Edmondys,    of  the   city    of  New 
Sarum ;  messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum.     100  marks. 

307.  Anno  38. — Robert   May  and  John  Bonham,  arm. ; 
lands  in  Broughton  Gifford,  and  a  close  called  Crokes  Croft  in 
Broughton  Gifford.     £40. 

308.  Anno  38.— George  Percy,  gen.,  and  Thomas  Dyn- 
ham,  arm. ;  manor  of  Sealesaylesbury ;    messuages  and  lands 
in  Sealsaylesbury.     ^400. 


322  Wiltshire  Notes   and  Queries. 


309.  Anno   38. — John    Stokys    and    Robert    Wylkyns ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Waremester.     ^39. 

310.  Anno  38. — Thomas  Long  and  Stephen  Ingram  and 
Agnes  his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Semyngton.     ^14. 

311.  Anno  38.     William    Button  and  James  Chatreton, 
gen.,  and  Agnes  his  wife  ;    manor  of  Manton,   messuages  and 
lands  in  Manton  and  Presshat.     ,£200. 

312.  Anno  38.     Michael  Skotte   and  Edmund  Walwyn, 
gen.,  and  Matilda  his  wife ;  manor  of  Combs,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Great  Ambrysbury.     £200. 

313.  Anno  38.     John  Bennatt  and  John  Strognell  and 
John  Besaunt  and  Agnes  his  wife,  and  Thomas  Besaunt,  son 
and  heir  of  John  and  Agnes ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Midelton, 
Est  Winterslow  and  West  Winterslowe. 

314.  Anno  38. — Edward  Nicholason  and  Thomas  Cobbe 
and  Margaret  his  wife ;  messuage  and  garden  in  New  Sarum 
in  New  Street.     40  marks. 

EDWARD  VI. 

315.  Anno  i. — Thomas  Jacobs  and  William  Mogeridge, 
gen.,  &  Johanna  his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum. 

;£lOO. 

316.  Anno  i.     John  Asteley,  jun.,  arm.,  and  John  Butler, 
arm.,  and  Silvestrias  his  wife  ;  manor  of  Nettylton,  messuages 
and  lands  in  Nettylton  with  advowson  of  the  church  of  Nettyl- 
ton.    ^533  sterling. 

317.  Anno  i. — George  Crede  and  Henry  Crede;  messu- 
ages and  lands  in  Mylton,  Est  Knoyll,  alias  Bysshops  knoyle. 
;£8o  sterling. 

318.  Anno   i. — Alexander   Langford,   gen.,  and  Richard 
Kyrton,  arm.,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  and  Christofer  Kyrton, 
gen. ;  a  rental  of  26  shillings  and  eight  pence  in  Trowbridge. 
40  marks. 

319.  Anno   i. — William  Herbert,  knight,  and  Anna  his 
wife,  and  Henry  Clyford,  arm.;  manor  of  Burdens  Batle  alias 
Burdens  Batle,  messuages  and  lands  in  South  Newton,  Wilton, 
and  Fulton.     ^300  sterling. 


Some  Wiltshire  Wives.  323 

320.  Anno  i. — Geoffrey  Dormer  and  Walter  Shangulton 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife ;   messuages  and  lands  in  Shawborne, 
and  Westbedwyn.     ^220  sterling. 

321.  Anno    i. — William    Harbarde,    knt.,    and    Edward 
Darell,    knt. ;    manor  of  Knyghton,   messuages  and   lands  in 
Knyghton,  and  Chawke. 

322.  Anno  i. — John  Scott  and  John  Mychell,  gen.,  and 
Katherine  his  wife,  and  Richard  Beremylham,  gen.,  and  Anna 
his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Hedynton  Swyke,  near  the 
parish  of  Hedyngton,  and  in  Erode  near  the  parish  of  Calston. 
nc  [?]  marks. 

323.  Anno  i. — William  Kerite  and  John  Bawdwyn  and 
Anne  his  wife,  John  Mussell  and  Johanna  his  wife  ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  New  Sarum.     80  marks. 

324.  Anno    i.— John    Redman    and    Edward    Clements, 
otherwise   called   Edward   Broun ;    messuages   and   lands    in 
Wilton  and  suburbs.     40  marks. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.) 


SOME    WILTSHIRE    WIVES. 

[Temp.  Elizabeth.] 


The  statute  alluded  to  in  the  below  quoted  documents  was 
"the  Bill  for  great  Horses"  33  Henry  VIII,  cap.  5,  §  6. — 
"  If  the  wife  of  any  person  or  persons  were  any  velvet  in  the 
lining  or  other  part  of  her  gown  other  than  in  the  cuffs  or 
purfels  of  her  gown,  or  else  were  any  velvet  in  her  kirtell,  or 
were  any  petticoat  of  silk,  that  then  the  husband  of  every  such 
wife  shall  find  one  stoned  horse  of  the  stature  above  in  this 
act  recited  [in  height  '  xiiij  handfullis']  or  shall  incur  the 
abovesaid  penalty  and  forfeiture  of  ten  pounds."  This  statute 
was  confirmed  by  an  "  Act  for  the  having  of  Horse  Arnmur 

7.  2 


324  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

and  Weapon",  4  and  5  Philip  and  Mary,  cap.  2,  §  3,  passed  like 
the  first  "for  the  better  furniture  and  defence  of  this  Realm". 
Here  it  was  enacted  that  every  person  who  "  by  reason  that 
his  wife  should  wear  such  kind  of  apparell  or  other  thing", 
specially  mentioned  in  the  statute  33  Henry  VIII,  was  re- 
quired to  find  one  great  stoned  trotting  horse,  shall  keep  and 
maintain  a  gelding  able  and  meet  for  a  light  horseman,  with 
sufficient  harness  and  weapon  for  the  same,  under  the  penalty 
of  ;£io,  half  of  which  was  forfeit  to  the  king  and  queen,  and 
half  to  the  person  sueing  for  the  same  in  any  Court  of  Record 
by  bill,  plaint,  action  of  debt  or  information.  By  the  same  act 
the  Justices  of  the  peace  were  directed  to  enquire  of  defaulters 
against  the  statute.  The  wearing  of  velvet  was  in  these  cases 
of  course  taken  as  a  sign  of  the  husbands  being  sufficiently 
prosperous  to  afford  the  costs  of  the  gelding  and  weapons. 

EXCHEQUER,  Q.  R.  COMMISSIONS.     WILTS. 

[Elizabeth,  No.  2469. x] 

TTT  )  Inquysycyon  Indented  taken  at  the  Cytye  of  New 

i  Sarum,  yn  the  Countye  of  Wiltsh.  Before  Thomas 
Carter,  Maior  of  the  Cytye  of  New  Sarum,  and  John  Hooper 
[?]  by  vertue  of  the  Quenes  Maiestyes  Comysyon  to  them  and 
others  dyrected  and  hervnto  anexed  the  Syxtenth  daye  of 
December,  yn  the  fyveth  yere  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Soueraigne 
Ladye  Elizabeth,  by  the  grace  of  God,  of  England,  Fraunce, 
and  of  Irelande,  Quene,  defender  of  the  fayth,  &c.  By  the 
othes  of  Anthonye  Meekes,  gentilman,  George  Wylton,  gentil- 
man,  John  Eyer  the  younger,  gentilman,  Edmunde  Weckwycke, 
gentilman,  Roger  Tanner,  gentilman,  John  Eyer  the  elder, 
gentilman,  John  Venarde  [?],  gentilman,  William  Moggrydge, 
gentilman,  Thomas  Jaine,  gentilman,  Henrye  Tyrell,  Thomas 

B  .  .  ston,  Christofer Roger    Grundye  and  William 

Smyth.  Whyche  doo  saye  vppon  their  othes  that  Braghtwood 
Robyns,  the  wyff  of  John  Robyns,  of  the  Cytye  of  New  Sarum 

1  Slightly  abbreviated  from  the  original. 


Some  Wiltshire  Wives.  32 3 

aforesayd,  in  the  Countye  aforesayd,  clothyer,  the  syxe  and 
twentyeth  daye  of  September  laste  paste,  in  the  Cytye  of  New 
Sarum  aforsayd,  yn  the  Countye  aforesayd,  dyde  weare  a 
gowne  commonlye  called  a  Kassocke  of  black  cloth,  wth  a  cape 
of  Blacke  velvett  yn  the  same  gowne,  the  sayed  John  Robyns, 
her  husband,  at  the  sayed  sixe  and  twentyeth  daye  of  Septem- 
ber, not  havynge  fendinge  kepynge  nor  maynteynyng  of  his 
owne  proper  costes  and  expences  one  geldinge,  able  and  mete 
for  a  light  horseman,  wth  suffycyant  harnes  and  weapon  for 
the  same  accordynge  to  the  forme  of  the  statutes  yn  suche 
case  provyded.  Item  they  saye  vppon  their  othes  that 
Elizabeth  Jefferey,  the  wyff  of  John  Jeffereye,  of  the  same 
Cytye,  mercer,  lyckwyse  the  thyrtyth  daye  of  September,  now 
also  laste  paste,  in  the  Cytye  aforesayed,  dyde  yn  lycke  manner 
weare  a  Gowne  commonlye  called  a  Kassocke,  of  black  clothe, 
wth  a  cape  of  Blacke  velvett  in  the  same  gowne,  the  sayde 
John  Jeftereyes,  her  husband,  at  the  sayed  thyrtyth  daye  of 
September,  not  havyng  fyndyng,  kepyng,  nor  maynteynynge, 
&c.  (as  before].  Item  they  do  lyckewyse  present  vppon  theyr 
othes  that  Johane  Rychardes,  the  wyffe  of  Davyd  Rychardes, 
of  the  same  Cytye,  glover,  lyckewyse  the  seven  and  twentythe 
daye  of  September,  now  also  laste  paste,  at  the  Cytye  afore- 
sayed, dyde  in  lycke  manner  weare  a  gowne  commonlye  called 
a  kassocke  of  Russet  cloth,  with  a  cape  of  Black  velvett,  yn 
the  same  gowne,  the  sayed  Davyd  Rychardes,  her  husbande, 
&c.,  &c.  [as  before].  Item  they  also  present  vppon  theyr  othes 
that  Marye  Tyler,  the  wyff  of  Thomas  Tyler,  of  the  Cytye 
aforesayed,  yeoman,  lickewyse  the  sayed  seven  and  twentyeth 
daye  of  September  now  also  laste  paste,  at  the  Cyttye  afore- 
sayde,  dyd  yn  lycke  manner  weare  a  gowne  commonlye  called 
a  Kassocke  of  Russet  clothe,  a  cape  of  blacke  velvett,  yn  the 
same  gowne,  the  sayed  Thomas  Tyler,  &c.,  &c.  [as  before]. 
Item  they  do  lickewyse  present  vppon  theyr  oaths  that 

the-  wyff   of  John    Webbe,  of  the    same 

Cyttye,  gentylman,  lyckewyse  the  thyrde  daye  of  October 
now  laste  paste,  at  the  Cyttye  aforesayed,  dyd  yn  lycke 


326  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

manner  weare  a  gowne  commonly  called  a  Kassocke,  of  blacke 
clothe,  with  a  cape  of  blacke  velvett  in  the  same  gowne.  And 
also  one  kyrtell  of  Black  ....  with  a  yarde  of  Black  velvett 
vppon  the  same  kyrtell,  the  sayed  John  Webbe,  her  husband, 
&c.,  &c.  [as  before].  Item  they  do  also  present  vppon  theyr 
othes  that  Katheryne  Webbe,  the  wyfe  of  William  Webbe, 
of  the  same  Cyttye  ....  lyckewyse  the  sayed  thyrde  daye 
of  October  now  also  laste  paste,  at  the  Cyttye  aforesayd,  dyd 
yn  lycke  manner  weare  a  gowne  commonlye  called  a  Kassock 
of  Black  clothe,  wth  a  yarde  of  black  velvett,  vppon  the  same 
Kassock.  And  also  one  kyrtell  of  Blacke  grogayne,  wth  a 
garde  of  blacke  velvet  vppon  the  same  kyrtell,  the  same 
William  Webbe,  her  husband,  &c.,  &c.  [as  before].  Item  they 
doo  lyckewyse  present  [vppon  theyr  othes  that  Elizabeth 
Estcourte,  the  wife  of  Gyles  Estcourte,  of  the  same  Cyttye, 
gentylman,  lyckewyse  the  eyghtenthe  daye  of  October  now 
also  laste  paste,  at  the  Cyttye  aforesayed,  dyd  yn  lycke  manner 
weare  one  kyrtell  of  Blacke  worstede,  wth  a  garde  of  velvet 
vppon  the  same  kyrtell,  the  same  Gyles  Estcourt,  her  husband, 
&c.,  &c.  [as  before].  Item  they  doo  also  present  vppon  theyr 
othes  that  Sybyl  Eyer,  the  wife  of  John  Eyer  the  younger,  of 
Sarum  aforesayed,  gentilman,  lyckewyse  the  nyne  and 
twentythe  daye  of  September  now  also  laste  paste,  at  the 
Cyttye  aforesayed,  dyd  in  lycke  manner  weare  a  gowne  com- 
monlye called  a  Cassock,  of  Blacke  clothe,  with  a  garde  of 
blacke  velvet  vppon  the  same  cassock,  the  sayed  John  Eyer, 
&c.  And  whether  that  the  severall  wyves  of  the  severall 
persons  before  mencyoned  be  gyltye  of  the  wearinge  of  the 
severall  garmentes,  wth  those  severall  partes  and  parcelles  of 
velvet  before  vppon  them  severally  presented  contrarye  to  the 
forme  of  the  Statute  yn  that  case  provyded  ye  or  not,  the 
sayed  Jurye  doo  praye  the  discharge  and  Judgement  of  the 
Justyces  of  the  Quenes  maiestyes  honourable  Courte  of  the 
Exchequer.  Item  they  doo  also  present  vppon  theyr  othes 
that  Johane  Mathew,  the  wyf  of  Edmund  Mathew,  of  the 
Cytye  aforesayd,  merchant,  lyckewyse  the  syxtenth  [?]  daye 


Some  Wiltshire  Wives.  327 

of  December,  now  also  laste  paste,  at  the  Cytey  aforesayd, 
dyde  yn  licke  manner  weare  a  gowne,  commonlye  called  a 
cassocke,  of  Russett  cloth,  with  a  cape  of  black  velvet  yn  the 
same  Gowne,  the  sayed  Edmunde  Mathew,  her  husband,  then 
at  the  tyme  of  the  wearinge  of  the  sayed  apparel  not  havynge 
fyndynge,  kepynge,  susteyninge  and  maynteyning  of  his  owne 
proper  costes  and  expences  one  gelding,  able  and  mete  for  a 
light  horseman,  wth  suffycyent  harnes  and  weapon  for  the 
same.  In  Wyttenes  wherof  vnto  thes  presents,  as  well  the 
commyssyoners  as  the  Jurye  aforesayed,  have  sett  theyr 
severall  handes  and  sealys  ....  [the  daye  and]  yeare  fyrste 
above  wryten. 

IBID.     [No.  2471.] 

Inquest  taken  at  New  Sarum,  15  January,  5  Elizabeth^ 
The  wives  presented  were  : — 
Anne  Auntrans  [?],  wife  of  John  Auntrans,  of  West  Knoyle, 

husbandman, 
wife  of  Sir  John  Myllord,  of  West  Knoyle, 

clarke. 
wife  of  .Thomas  Grene,  of  West  Knoyle, 

Jhone  Candell,  wife  of  William  Candle,  of  West  Knoyle,  .... 
who  wore  a  cassock  with  a  "  welt  of  velvet." 

Briget   Hunton,   wife    of   William   Hunton    the  younger,    of 
East  Knoyle,  gentelman. 

Edyth  Blackman,  wife  of  Andrew   Blackman,  of  East  Knoyle, 
gentelman. 

Agnys  Hayter,  wife  of  John  Hayter,  of  East  Knoyle,  husband- 
man. 

[The  rest  of  the  names  are  illegible.] 

IBID.     [No.  2396.] 

Inquest  taken  at  New  Sarum,  January,  5  Elizabeth. 
The  wives  presented  were : — 

the  wife  of  William  Walles,  of  Trowbridge. 
Agnes  Flower,  wife  of  Richard  Flower,  of  Potterne,  "wever," 


328  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Johane,  the  wife  of  William  Longe,  of  Potterne,  yeoman. 

the  wife  of  John  Cope,  of  Boxe,  yeoman. 
Johan  Levet,  wife  of  John  Levet,  of  Boxe,  yeoman. 
Margaret  Hurde,  wife  of  William  Hurde,  of  Worle  [?],  in  the 

parish  of  Pottern,  husbandman. 
Christian  Wheler,  the  wife  of  Robert  Wheler,  of  Waiston,  in 

the  parish  of  Pottarne,  husbandman. 

[There  are  many  more  names  belonging  to  the  parishes 
above-mentioned  and  to  other  places,  but  they  are  illegible,  as 
is  the  greater  part  of  the  last  two  documents.] 

E.  MARGARET  THOMPSON. 


ELLANDUNE. 


In  Mr.  Conybeare's  valuable  contribution  to  our  knowledge 
of  King  Alfred  (Al/red  in  the  Chroniclers)  he  tells  us  that  in 
the  same  year,  A.D.  800,  Charlemagne  was  crowned  Emperor 
of  Rome,  and  Egbert  (Grandfather  of  Alfred)  King  of  Wessex, 
but  that  "  he  had  to  wait  23  years  before  he  was  able  to  throw 
off  the  Mercian  yoke,  which  he  did  in  the  great  victory  over 
Beornwulf  King  of  Mercia  at  Ellandune,  A.D.  823." — Where  is 
this  Ellandune  ? 
(i).  Mr.  Conybeare  (note  to  p.  7)  says  it  was  probably 

Ellingham  in  S.W.  Hampshire. 
(2).     Mr.  J.  R.    Green   puts  Ellandune  at  Wilton  in  his   map 

(History  of  the  English  People,  p.  45^). 

(3).     It  is  supposed  to  be  Allington  near  Amesbury  in  Bos- 
worth  and  Toller's  A.-S.  Dictionary. 
(4).     Leland    in    his    Itinerary     says    "  Elendoun :    quod   est 

Worston  "  (vol.  iii,  p.  103). 

(5).     1Canon  Jackson  and  Canon  Jones  both  say  that  Wroughton 
(anciently   Worston),    near  Swindon,    Wilts,    is   the 

1   Wiltshire  Collections,  Aubrey  and  Jackson,  p.  367,  and  Jones'  Domesday 
for  Wilts. 


Ellandune.  329 


Ellandune  of  the  A.-S.  Charters,  and  the  latter  adds 
"  see  its  land  limits  from  Cod.  Winton — printed  in 
Cod.  Dip/.  1184." 

It  is  also  called  Elingdon  Wroughton  in  Sarum  Register, 

and    Canon   Jackson  says    "  the  most  ancient  name 

appears  to  be  Elian-dun,  the  'Hill  of  Ella'," — and  he 

goes  on  to  repeat  the  story  of  Egbert's  victory,  and 

continues — "  some    topographers   suppose    Ellandun, 

the   scene    of  this  battle,   to   have   been   at    Wilton, 

but  Mr.  Offer  finds  no  authority  for  this,  and  places 

the  battle  here.     [Hoare's  B.  &>  D.,  57,  59.]" 

Mr.  Conybeare's  note  (i)  is  open  to  this  criticism.     A  place 

ending  with  ham  is  not  likely  to  have  been  the  same  as  one 

ending  in  tun  •   and   Ellingham  in  S.  W.  Hampshire  is  much 

too  far  from   the  boundary  of  Mercia  and   Wessex  (i.e.,    the 

Thames),  and  this  he  acknowledges  in  a  letter  to  me,  in  which 

he  says  "  Ellingham  always  seemed  to  me  unsatisfactory,  both 

from   its   situation    and    termination,    but  it  was   better   than 

Wilton."     The  same  objection  as  to  situation  applies  to  2  and  3. 

On  the  other  hand,   Canon  Jackson's  and  Canon  Jones' 

opinion  that  Ellendune  of  the  A.-S.  Charters  is  Wroughton,  is 

confirmed    by  the   fact  that  it  is   the  ecclesiastical    name   of 

Wroughton  to  this  day,  and  Leland's1  note  about  the  gift  by 

King  ALthelstan  to  the    Church    of  Winchester  of    Ellendune 

"quodest  Worston"  points  to  the  same  conclusion. 

The  Living  of  Wroughton  was  in  the  gift  of  Win- 
chester until  the  year  1852,  when,  by  Order  in  Council,  it 
passed  into  that  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol  Diocese,  and  subse- 
quently to  that  of  Bristol. 

The  present  Rector  of  Wroughton,  the  Rev.  J.  R.  Turner, 
when  the  living  was  offered  to  him  in  1875,  found  at  Gloucester 
that  there  was  no  such  place  recorded  as  in  the  Bishop's 
patronage,  but  it  was  finally  discovered  by  the  Bishop's 
Secretary  entered  as  Ellingdon  sometimes  called  Wroughton. 

1  Leland's  Itinerary,  vol.  iii,  p.  103. 


330  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Mr.  Turner  also  tells  me  he  frequently  has  circulars 
addressed  to  him,  Ellingdon  or  Wroughton. 

Sir  T.  Phillipps  (Wilts  Institutions)  shows  that  the  living 
was  always  called  Elyndon  till  the  year  1496,  when  the  title 
Wroughton  alias  Elyndon  first  occurs. 

"  Capel  Elacombe  in  paroc  Elyndon "  is  mentioned  in 
1308  A.D.  The  place  where  this  chapel  stood  was  known 
till  recent  years,  and  the  old  Font  is  now  preserved  in  the 
Rectory  Garden,  no  other  portions  having  been  found ; 
this  Chapel  was  dedicated  to  St.  Maria,  and  the  Lords 
Level  presented  to  it  from  A.D.  1308-1448. 

Elyndon  was  held  as  a  knight's  fee  by  Geoffrey  Bluett 
(see  Wilts  A.  M.,  vol.  ii,  279),  from  Walter  de  Dunstanville  in 
1274,  and  by  William  and  John  Bluet  in  1316  (IV.  N.  &°  Q., 
vol.  iii,  p.  50). 

The  fortified  Dun  is  the  high  ground  above  Wroughton 
on  one  side,  and  the  Combe  (Elcombe)  on  the  other.  The 
Church,  the  Rectory  (old  and  new),  and  the  Ivory  obviously 
"an  old  fortress  or  dun,  the  present  road  running  along  the 
foss  of  it,"  are  all  within  the  old  enclosure,  and  are  on  that 
first  ridge  of  the  Downland  commanding  the  country  below  in 
which  flows  the  Thames  and  its  tributaries,  "  the  ridge  which 
extends  from  Compton  Bassett  by  Clyffe,  Binknoll  and 
Ellendune  to  Chiseldon  and  Wanborough  ;  all  of  which  places 
except  the  two  first,  have  been  probably  the  sites  of  entrench- 
ments and  salient  points  for  defence  of  the  country,"1  and 
were  subsidiary  defences  to  the  stronger  line  of  fortresses, 
such  as  Barbury,  Badbury,  &c.,  which  crown  the  higher  land 
to  the  south,  and  it  seems  probable  that  here  the  battle  of 
Ellendune  was  fought  within  sight  of  the  boundary  of  Mercia 
and  Wessex  ;  where,  as  the  Rev.  H.  G.  Tomkins,  in  a  letter  to 
me,  says,  "Wessex  and  Mercia  would  be  far  more  likely  to  fight 
it  out,  than  in  either  of  the  other  places  mentioned." 


1  See  Barbury    Castle,  an  address  by  N.   S.   Maskelyne,    Wilts  Arch. 
Mag.,  August  1886. 


Ellandune.  33 1 


The  name  "  Ivory/'1  (the  field  inside  the  fort)  may  mean 
Upper  from  A.-S.  Yfera ;  or  it  may  have  been  taken  from  the 
title  of  the  Lords  Lovel  of  Yvery,  to  whom  anciently  much 
land  in  that  neighbourhood  belonged,  and  in  whose  gift  was 
the  presentation  to  the  Chapel  or  Cantaria  of  Elcombe  already 
mentioned.  They  were  descended  from  the  Lovels  of  Yvery  in 
Normandy,  who  are  known  to  have  bestowed  "  perpetual 
alms  "  on  the  Abbots  and  Monks  of  Yvery  from  Minster  Lovel 
in  Oxfordshire,  another  part  of  their  possessions.2 

The  origin  of  the  name  Ellandune,  variously  spelt  in  old 
documents  Ellandune,  Elendon,  Elyndon,  and  as  now  Ellingdon, 
is  of  interest ;  the  prefix  El  occurs  not  only  in  Ellendun,  but 
in  Elcombe — the  combe  below  the  Dun— and  in  the  river  Ely, 
a  tributary  of  the  Thames,  also  close  by,  and  is  probably  Celtic, 
as  in  Elan,  the  name  of  a  river  tributary  of  the  Wye,  "  and  the 
mountain  region  of  Elenid,  in  which  Giraldus  places  the 
sources  of  the  Wye,  the  Severn,  &c."  In  the  Rolls  Office 
Edition  of  "  Giraldus  "  the  spelling  is  Elenwyth  and  Elenwith.3 

It  also  occurs  in  the  name  of  the  Hundred  Elstubbe — but 
that  being  an  Anglo-Saxon  word  throughout,  is  probably  of  a 
more  recent  origin,  representing  the  Ellen— Elder,  Stubbe= 
trunk,  perhaps  the  moot-place,  or  boundary  of  the  Hundred, 
as  mentioned  by  Canon  Jackson. 

The  recurrence  of  this  syllable  El  in  the  place-names  of 
several  Celtic  localities  and  streams,  and  its  association  in  this 
instance  with  an  ancient  dun,  also  a  Celtic  word,  would  seem 
to  justify  the  attribution  of  a  Celtic  origin  to  Ellandune,  the 
ancient  name  of  Wroughton  ;  and  considering  the  position  of 
that  place  in  relation  to  the  Wessex-Mercian  frontier,  the 
Ellandune  of  North  Wilts  has  the  strongest  claim  to  represent 
the  scene  of  Egbert's  victory  in  823  A.D. 


See  Wilts  N.  %  Q.,  vol.  i,  p.  418. 

From  Anderson's  History  of  the  House  of  Yvery. 

Descriptio  Kambriai,  pp.  119,  138,  &c. 


332  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Another  fact  that  merits  enquiry  is  that  the  church  of 
Wroughton,  alias  Ellingdon,  has  a  double  dedication,  to  St. 
John  the  Baptist  and  St.  Helen. 

Miss  Arnold  Forster1  thinks  that  this  dedication  "to  St. 
Helen  may  have  been  a  late  addition,  a  relic  of  some  long  for- 
gotten chapel  in  honour  of  St.  Helen,  in  the  outlying  hamlet  of 
Elcombe ;"  but  from  Phillipps'  Wilts  Institutions  we  learn 
that  this  chapel  was  in  A.D.  1419  dedicated  to  S.  Maria.  More- 
over the  feast  day  of  Wroughton  occurs  on  the  first  Monday 
after  St.  John  Baptist's  Day,  old  style  (July  4th),  and  not  on  St. 
Helen's  day  (Aug.  iSth),  which  as  Miss  Arnold  Forster  points 
out  is  really  that  of  the  obscure  Saint  Agapitus. 

Therefore,  we  must  look  further  for  a  solution  this 
question.  Miss  Arnold  Forster  goes  on  to  say  "It  is  one  of 
the  inexplicable  anomalies  of  our  national  martyrologies  that 
though  the  mother  of  Constantine  was  so  extraordinarily 
popular  in  this  country,  her  name  is  not  to  be  found 
in  the  Kalendars  of  York,  Salisbury,  or  Hereford."  "A 
complete  mythical  history  of  St.  Helena  has  been  built 
up  by  Geoffrey  of  Monmouth  and  Henry  of  Huntingdon, 
according  to  whom  she  was  the  daughter  of  a  shadowy  British 
King." 

According  to  Rhys,2  Elen,  a  name  famous  in  Welsh 
mythology,  happens  to  coincide  with  the  form  which  the  classical 
Helena  takes  in  Welsh,  thus  the  latter  lady  becomes  in  a  Welsh 
translation  Elen  Fanawc.  "But  the  Helen  who  led  to  the 
description  of  Peredur's  wife  as  Empress  of  Constantine  the 
Great,  was  doubtless  Helen,  the  mother  of  Constantine  the 
Great,  and  wife  of  Constantius,"  and,  as  hinted  in  his  Hib. 
Lectures,  p.  165,  "Elen  was  the  consort  of  no  foreign  potentate, 
but  of  the  Zeus  of  the  Celts  in  one  of  his  native  forms." 

These  curious  myths  seem  to  point  to  some  confusion 
between  the  Celtic  Elen  and  the  St.  Helen  of  the  church  of 


1  Studies  in  Church  Dedications,  vol.  i,  p.  186-7,  vol.  ii,  p.  518. 
2  Rhys,  Arthurian  Legends,  p.  109. 


The  Gibbet,  Maddington.  333 

Ellandune;  such  as  is  known  to  occur  in  the  case  of  other  well- 
known  church  dedications,  where  the  names  of  landowners 
have  been  corrupted  into  those  of  dedication  Saints. 

Since  writing  the  above  paper  on  "  Ellandune,"  I  have 
heard  from  Miss  Earle  that  in  a  note  (on  the  entry  for  the  year 
823)  in  the  second  volume  of  the  new  edition  of  Two  Saxon 
Chronicles  Parallel  (Earle  and  Plummer),  published  at  Oxford, 
Clarendon  Press,  1899,  Mr.  Plummer  says  he  originally  identi- 
fied Ellendune  with  Allington,  adding  "  but  the  Rev.  C.  S. 
Taylor  writes  to  me  that  Ellandune  is  Wroughton,  a  few  miles 
from  Swindon,  that  Wroughton  is  called  Ellingdon  now,  and  a 
large  part  of  its  modern  parish  is  included  in  the  Domesday 
manor  of  Elendune." 

This  is  a  most  welcome  corroboration  of  my  views  on  the 

site  of  Egbert's  victory. 

T.  S.  M. 


THE  GIBBET,  MADDINGTON. 


REGISTER,  MADDINGTON,   Co.   WILTS.     Page  61. 

"William  Lawne,  sonne  of  Giles  Lawne,  barbarously  slaine  neere 
ye  Windemill,  Sept.   2^rd,  and  buryed  ye  2^th  of  ye  same, 
1666."  

Canon  Lowther  informed  me  that  the  old  clerk  of  Orches- 
ton  St.  George,  whom  he  found  in  office  when  he  took  the 
Rectory  in  1830,  told  him  that  the  man  who  was  murdered  at 
the  Gibbet,  had  taken  a  large  sum  of  money  at  Warminster 
market.  The  ostler  of  the  inn  where  he  put  up  knew  this,  and 
after  he  had  left  Warminster  followed  him,  and  shot  him  at 
the  place  where  the  Gibbet  now  stands,  making  oft  with 
the  money.  The  murderer  was  apprehended,  and  hanged  in 
chains  at  the  crossways  of  the  London  and  Warminster  and 
Shrewton  and  Devizes  tracks.  Old  people  remembered  the 
stump  of  the  Gibbet  when  I  came  to  Maddington,  and  there  is 
still  a  tradition  that  where  it  stood,  "  on  a  place  like  a  grave 


334  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries.     • 

(which  I  could  never  find)  nothing  will  grow."  Canon  Lowther 
told  me  that  the  story  was  stated  to  him  by  the  clerk  in 
Orcheston  St.  George  churchyard,  who  pointed  out  a  place  to 
him,  saying,  "  And  here,  sir,  lies  the  man  that  heard  the  shot 
fired."  The  Canon  had  no  idea  that  it  took  place  so  long  ago 
as  the  entry  in  Maddington  Register  Book  proves  it  did,  and 
he  believed  that  the  clerk  claimed  to  have  known  the  man  who 
heard  the  shot  fired.  F.  B. 


Comes  de  Elendune. — In  connexion  with  the  above 
Notes  on  Ellandune  I  should  like  to  ask  who  was  the  "  Comes 
de  Elendune,"  mentioned  by  Leland  in  his  Collectanea,  vol.  i, 
67,  in  a  passage  where  he  says — "  Wulstanus  comes  de  Elen- 
dune id  est  Wiltonae  "  ? 

There  is  no  mention  of  this  title  of  Wulstanus  in  con- 
nexion with  Wilton  in  Canon  Jones'  Domesday  for  Wiltshire. 

T.  S.  M. 


Lady   Close. — Can  anyone  throw  light   upon   this  field 
name  ?  C.  V.  G. 


Flemings  in  Wilts. — Mrs.  Emma  Marshall,  in  her  last 
novel,  p.  274,  The  Parson's  Daughter,  describing  the  Bradford- 
on-Avon  riots  in  the  beginning  of  this  century,  states  that  the 
Flemish  operators  went  in  fear  of  their  lives  because  they 
refused  to  strike.  Were  there  any  Flemings  living  there  as 
late  as  this  ?  She  also  speaks  of  the  quaint  Flemish-looking 
houses  in  Bradford  Market  Place ;  has  she  any  authority  for 
this  ?  It  has  often  been  stated  that  one  of  the  Edwards  and 
Henry  VII  planted  Flemings  at  Seend,  but  I  have  never 
seen  any  authority  for  this ;  if  it  is  true  it  might  be  possible 
to  get  the  names  of  the  original  settlers.  Is  there  any  published 
list  of  Flemish  names  in  Wiltshire  ?  A.  J.  S. 


Stokes  Pedigree.  335 


Stokes  Pedigree. — Some  years  ago  this  pedigree  (of 
Stokes  of  Seend,  Titherton,  and  Stanshawe),  then  in  the 
possession  of  Dr.  Adrian  Stokes,  was  printed  in  Dr.  Howard's 
Miscellanea ;  where  is  the  original  now  ?  Are  the  following 
in  any  way  connected  with  this  family  : — John  Stokes,  Esq., 
of  South wark  and  Banbury,  will  proved  1424;  John  Stokys,  of 
Romney,  will  proved  1405;  John  Stokys,  Rector  of  Gyslyng- 
ham,  will  proved  1407  ;  John  Stoakes,  Captain  R.N.  1653  ? 

IBEX. 


Tan  Hill  (vol.  ii,  pp.  535-7;  vol.  iii,  pp.  188-9,  240). — I 
do  not  know  why  "  Wiltoniensis "  thinks  Tanngate  has  any- 
thing to  do  with  the  question  about  St.  Ann's  Hill ;  I  cannot 
find  that  any  church  (or  part  of  the  Cathedral)  was  dedicated 
to  St.  Ann  in  Salisbury  (see  Wilts  Archceolog.  Mag.,  x,  xv). 

T.  S.  M. 

William  Edington  (vol.  iii,  p.  214). — Lord  Campbell,  in  his 
Lives  of  the  Lord  Chancellors,  says  that  in  1362  this  prelate 
carried  through  Parliament  the  famous  statute  (36  Ed.  3,  c.  15) 
whereby  it  was  enacted  that  all  pleadings  and  judgments  in 
the  Courts  of  Westminster  should  in  future  be  in  English  .  .  . 
and  that  all  schoolmasters  should  teach  their  scholars  to  con- 
strue in  English — the  author  adds,  although  the  French  lan- 
guage no  longer  enjoyed  any  legal  sanction  ....  it  continued 
to  be  voluntarily  used  by  legal  practitioners  down  to  the  middle 
of  the  1 8th  century. 

Mr.  Leach,  in  his  admirable  History  of  Winchester  College, 
in  the  face  of  many  previous  writers,  asserts  that  there  is  no 
evidence  for  Wykeham  being  in  the  service  of,  or  owing  his 
rise  to  Edington — he  quotes  the  act  of  attorney  (see  above,  p. 
215)  as  "merely  a  case  of  a  lawyer  acting  for  both  sides  in  a 
conveyance" — and  goes  on  to  say  that  "  it  is  conclusive  against 


336  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Edingdon  being  his  patron,  that  among  the  numerous  patrons 
and  benefactors  for  whose  souls  special  prayers  were  directed 
in  his  College,  Chapels,  and  Cathedral  Chantry  he  is  not  once 
mentioned."  We  see,  however,  that  Edington  mentions  him 
in  his  Will  amongst  the  first  three  of  his  numerous  legatees, 
bequeathing  him  a  very  valuable  jewel,  and  that  Mackenzie 
Walcott  gives  the  dates  and  places  where  he  received  various 
Holy  Orders  from  Edington. 

EDITOR. 


Baynton  Monument  (vol.  iii,  p.  242). — Perhaps  the  con- 
nexion between  the  Gaunt  and  Baynton  families  may  be  a 
probable  clue  to  the  reason  for  placing  this  Monument  in  the 

Gaunt  or  St.  Mark's  Chapel. 

G.  P.  T. 


Johanne  de  Gennes,  Prioress  of  Amesbury  (vol.  iii,  pp. 
264,  265). — I  find  that,  in  my  paper  read  at  Amesbury,  and 
published  in  the  Wiltshire  Archaeological  Magazine,  I  have 
fallen  into  an  error  in  giving  1294  as  the  equivalent  of  the  6th 
March,  25  Edward  I  (the  date  of  the  inspeximus),  which  arose 
in  this  way.  The  letters  patent  of  Margaret,  Abbess  of 
Fontevraud,  recited  in  the  inspeximus,  are  clearly  dated  1294 
— "Bonn  le  Dimanche  que  1'an  chanta  en  Sainte  Yglyse, 
'  Cantate  Domino  laudem,'  1'an  de  Grace  mil,  deus  cenz,  quatre 
vinz  e  quatorze,"  Having  made  a  note  of  that  date,  I  mistook 
it  for  the  date  of  the  inspeximus,  and  forgot  to  reduce  the  latter 
to  the  year  A.D.  which  is,  of  course,  1297. 

However,  I  do  not  think  that  this  affects,  in  any  way,  the 
date  at  which  Johanne  de  Gennes  became  Prioress  of  Amesbury, 
which  appears  to  me  to  be  1294,  the  date  of  the  letters  patent, 
as  the  document  from  Rymer's  Foedera  (printed  at  page  266) 
shows  that,  prior  to  the  Parliament  held  at  Leicester,  which 
gave  the  temporalities  of  the  alien  priories  to  King  Henry  V, 
the  King's  assent  to  the  election  or  appointment  of  a  prioress 
was  not  required.  C.  H.  TALBOT. 

Lacock  Abbey. 


SIR  WILLIAM  HUDDESF1ELD  AND  KATHERINE  COURTENAY,  HIS  WIFE, 
SHILLINGFORD  CHURCH,  DEVON. 


Jlotes  auti 

DECEMBER,  1900. 


ROGERS-COURTENAY-HUDDESFIELD,— OF    BRADFORD-ON- 

AYON,  WILTS;  CANNINGTON,  SOMERSET;  AND 

SHILLINGFORD,  DEVON. 


?/  HIS  descent,  founded  at  Bradford-on-Avon,  subse- 
quently by  migration  to  Cannington  in  Somerset, 
and  by  a  second  marriage  to  Shillingford  in  Devon, 
contains  features  of  considerable  interest. 

®lic*maa  ^logevB,  of  Bradford-on-Avon, 
Wilts,  Serjeant-at-Law,  is  the  first  member  of  the  family 
mentioned  in  Visit,  Som.  1623. 

He  appears  to  have  married,  first,  <£.ecUirt,  daughter  and 
heir  of  William  Bessils,  of  Bradford.  By  her  he  had  two  sons, 
William  and  John. 

William  Rogers,  eldest  son,  married  Johanna,  daughter  of 
John  Horton,  of  Ilford,  Wilts.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of 
his  stepmother  (Katherine  Courtenay)  thus  : — "  /  bequethe  to 
William  Rogers  of  Bradford,  gent.,  son  of  the  said  Thomas 
Rogers,  a  standyng  cup  of  silver  and  gilt,  with  a  cover  of 
dragons'  wings."  He  left  two  sons,  Anthony  and  Henry,  and 

two  daughters,    Cecily  and  Awdrie.    Anthony,  who  married, 

A  A 


338  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Dorothea,  a  daughter  of  Ernely,  of  Cannings,  Wilts,  left  three 
sons,  Anthony,  who  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Wroughton,  of  Broughton,  Hants,  Richard,  Ambrose,  and 
a  daughter  Elizabeth,  married  to  William  Cavell,  of  Bath. 

John  Rogers,  his  brother,  was  probably  of  Sutton-Valence, 
Kent.  In  her  will  his  step-mother  adds:  "To  his  {William's) 
brother  John  Rogers,  a  Jlatt  cup  of  silver  white,  with  a  cover  of 
my  own  Arms."  Nothing  further  is  recorded  of  this  brother. 

Secondly,  he  made  a  distinguished  match,  and  married 
•^rttljevine,  daughter  of  Sir  Philip  Courtcnay,  of  Powder- 
ham,  Devon,  knt.,  ob.  16  Dec.  1463,  by  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Walter  Lord  Hunger  ford,  K.G.,  who  ob.  14  Dec.  1476 — and 
she,  Katherine,  was  sister  to  Peter  Courtenay,  Bishop  of 
Exeter  and  Winchester. 

At  the  time  of  her  marriage  to  Thomas  Rogers,  she  was 
the  relict  of  Sir  Seintclere  Pomcroy,  knt.,  son  and  heir  of 
Henry  de  Pomeroy,  ob.  1481,  by  Alice,  daughter  of  John 
Raleigh,  of  Fardell,  Devon.  Sir  Seintclere,  died  in  the  life- 
time of  his  father,  31  May  1471,  s.p. 

By  her  he  appears  to  have  had  one  son,  George.  The 
date  of  his  death  does  not  appear.  In  his  wife's  will  she  directs 
"the  churchwardens  of  Bradford,  Wilts,  to  take  my  wryten 
Mass-Book  to  pray  for  the  souls  of  me,  and  of  Thomas  Rogers, 
sometyme  my  husband,  and  Serjeant  at  the  Lawe,  and,  I  will 
that  there  be  a  stone  laid  upon  hym  my  said  husband  at  Bradford 
aforesaid." 

Qk'oviie  l^ogevs,  son  and  heir,  aged  thirty  at  his  mother's 
death.  He  is  described  as  of  Lopit  (Luppit),  Devon.  This  is 
a  parish  near  Honiton,  in  which  Mohuns-Ottery  is  situate, 
the  seat  of  the  Carews,  whose  occupant  at  the  time  was  Sir 
Edmund  Carew,  who  had  married  his  half-sister,  Katherine 

Huddesfield.     He  married  ©lifabetlj ,  by  whom    he 

had  a  son  Edward,  and  two  daughters,  Katherine,  to  whom  her 
grandmother  bequeathed  "  twenty  marks  in  money,"  and  Eliza- 
beth^ daughter  "  of  the  same  George  my  sonne"  who,  with  her 
father  she  constitutes  two  of  her  residuary  legatees. 


Rogers-Courtenay-Huddesfield.  339 


<S>bnmtrbr  3£o0er#,  Jtnt.,  son  and  heir.  His  name 
appears  among  those,  "  to  the  nombre  of  40,  that  were  ad- 
vanced to  the  honorable  Ordre  of  Knighthood  in  the  happy 
reigne  of  Kinge  Edward  the  Sixt,  dubbed  by  the  Kinge  on 
Sonday  the  day  of  his  coronation  the  20  of  February  1546"; 
his  arms  described  as  Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  stags 
passant  sable,  a  mullet  or  for  difference.  Crest  —  A  stag  passant 
sable  plate'e,  attired  and  ducally  gorged.  —  (Metcalfe). 
He  was  the  first  of  Cannington,  Somerset,  and  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Hugo,  in  his  "  History  of  Canyngton  Priory,"  Som. 
Arch.  Trans.,  vol.  xi,  says  :  — 

"In  the  3oth  year  of  his  reign,  1538,  the  King  Henry  VIII,  '  of  his 
special  grace,  and  in  consideration  of  good,  true  and  faithful  service,' 
granted  to  Edward  Rogers,  who  had  been  in  possession,  as  farmer,  of 
the  property,  the  whole  House  and  site  of  the  late  Priory  of  Cannyngton, 
in  the  County  of  Somerset,  and  all  the  church,  bell-tower,  and  cemetery 
of  the  late  said  Priory.  And  also  all  messuages,  houses,  buildings, 
gardens,  orchards,  &c.,  near  the  site  of  the  said  Priory,  —  also  all  the 
manor  and  rectory  of  Cannyngton,  nomination  and  presentation  to  the 
Vicarage  whensoever  vacant,  &c.,  all  messuages  and  lands,  &c.,  situate 
in  Cannyngton,  Powlett,  Stowey,  and  Ffedyngton,  Somerset,  or  else- 
where whatever  ;  to  be  held  by  the  said  Edward  Rogers,  and  heirs  male 
of  his  body  lawfully  begotten,  in  chief,  by  the  service  ot  a  tenth  part  of 
one  knight's  fee,  and  a  yearly  rent  of  £\(>  8,y.  lod.  The  grant  dated  8 
May  1538." 

The  Priory  was  of  the  order  of  Benedictine  Nuns,  and 
some  very  interesting  remains  of  the  structure  still  exist, 
and  a  few  fragments  of  sepulchral  memorials  to  the  Nuns. 

He  married  |fttrtvia»  daughter  and  coheir  of  ..... 
Lisley  or  Lisle,  co.  Hants.  By  her  he  had  two  children,  George 
and  Elizabeth,  married  to  Thomas  Bamfield,  of  Hardington, 
Somerset. 

gjiv  (&eov$e  Rogers,  son  and  heir,  of  Cannington. 
His  name  appears  among  the  twenty-two  knights  "dubbed 
in  the  progresse  to  Bristowe,  1574,"  which  included  several 
other  Somersetshire  gentlemen.  He  married  |*am»  daughter 
and  heir  of  Thomas  (or  Edward)  Winter,  and  left  a  son 

Francis. 

A  A  2 


34°  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


gtttr  ^rancts  ^ogetrs,  son,  and  heir  of  Cannington. 
A  "Sr.  Francis  Rogers,  Somerset,  was  made  knight  at  Wood- 
stocke,  28  Aug.  1616."  He  married  geletta,  daughter  of 
Sir  Hugh  Smith,  Knt.,  of  Long  Ash  ton,  Somerset,  by  Elizabeth 
his  wife,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Gorge,  of  Langford,  Wilts. 
They  left  a  son  Edward. 

(JBfcnmtrh  $£ct$er0,  son,  and  heir  of  Cannington.  He 
married  ^atljevitte,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Popham,  Lord 
Chief  Justice  of  England. 

He  appears  to  have  been  the  last  of  the  family  who  held 
the  Cannington  estate,  which  had  been  in  their  possession  a 
hundred  and  thirty-four  years,  and  passed  from  them  at  his 
death  as  its  last  male  descendant,  owing  to  the  natural  and  in 
no  way  unusual  circumstance,  that  his  children  consisted  of 
daughters  only,  and  as  a  consequence,  under  the  original 
condition  of  the  grant,  it  reverted  to  the  Crown.  This  Mr. 
Hugo  proceeds  to  narrate,  accompanied  by  one  of  those  extra- 
vagant and  unwarranted  commentaries  as  to  the  alleged  cause, 
which  occasionally  deform  the  investigations  of  this  pains- 
taking writer. 

"  The  property  at  Canyngton  remained  in  the  possession  ot  the 
family  of  Rogers  until  the  year  1672.  Intestine  feuds  had  bitterly  cursed 
the  doomed  race  (i.e.,  for  being  in  possession  of  what  had  been  "  church  " 
property)  when  '  the  estate  tayle  of  the  sayde  Edward  Rogers  deter- 
mined by  the  failure  of  his  issue  male,  on  or  about  the  2nd  day  ot  the 
month  of  September,  1672.'  The  sin  attracted  the  usual  judgment. 
The  land  reverted  to  the  Crown,  and  was  granted  by  Charles  II,  on  the 
1  5th  July,  1672,  to  Thomas,  Lord  Clifford." 

This  "eminent  man"  (who  'was  a  Roman  Catholic),  con- 
tinues Mr.  Hugo,  was  raised  to  the  peerage  20  April,  and 
made  Lord  High  Treasurer  in  November,  in  the  same  year  in 
which  he  had  received  the  grant  of  Cannington.  He  held  the 
property  about  a  year  only,  dying  toward  the  close  of  the 
following  year,  but  Mr.  Hugo  makes  no  allusion  as  to  the 
"  usual  judgment."  Lord  Clifford's  descendants  continue  to 
possess  it. 


Rogers-Courtenay-Huddesfield.  341 

From  Collinson  we  learn  that,  on  the  south  wall  of  the 
chancel  of  the  church  is  an  ancient  monument  of  alabaster 
thus  inscribed : — 

Amy,  second  daughter  of  Edward  Rogers,  of  Cannington,  Esq.,  in 
the  Countie  of  Somersett,  and  Katherine  his  wife,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Popham,  knight,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England;  the  beloved  wife 
of  Henry  Saint  Barbe,  of  Ashington,  in  the  same  county,  Esq.,  died 
Ario  Dni  1621,  aged  33  /  whose  piotis  life  warrants  her  eternal  happiness 
with  Christ. 

Arms — Paly  of  eight  argent  and  sable,  per  fess  counter  changed 
(Si.  BARBE)  impaling  Rogers. 

We  have  now  to  revert  to  the  third  alliance  of  Katherine 
Courtenay. 

Katherine  Courtenay,  surviving  her  second  husband, 
Thomas  Rogers,  married  thirdly,  Sir  William  Huddesfield,  knt. 

He  is  described  as  being  the  grandson  of  William  Hud- 
desfield, of  Honiton,  and  son  of  William  Huddesfield,  of 
Shillingford,  near  Exeter,  by  his  wife,  Alice,  daughter  of  John 
Golde,  of  Seaborough,  Somerset,  who  died  before  1427. 

He  was  of  Shillingford,  and  Dr.  Oliver,  speaking  of  him, 
says  :— 

"I  have  seen  a  deed  dated  21  April  1481,  by  which  this  learned 
gentleman,  describing  himself  as  Attorney-General  of  King  Edward  IV, 
assigns  and  releases  to  Peter  Courtenay,  Bishop  of  Exeter  1478-1487 
(his  wife's  brother),  to  Robert  Morton,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  and  others, 
the  manor  ot  Shillingford,  the  advowson  of  its  church,  and  of  St.  Mary 
Steps'  church,  Exeter." 

The  tangle  of  marital  relationship  in  this  descent  is  very 
remarkable. 

Sir  William  Huddesfield,  had  married  as  his  first  wife 
Jennet,  daughter  of  John  Bosom,  of  Bosom's  Hele,  Devon. 
He  was  her  second  husband,  she  being  relict  of  Sir  Baldwin 
Fulford,  knt.,  of  Fulford  in  Dunsford,  Sheriff  of  Devon,  1460, 
by  whom  she  had  Sir  Thomas,  son  and  heir,  ob.  1489  (who 
married  Philippa  Courtenay,  sister  to  her  second  husband's 
second  wife),  John,  canon  of  Exeter,  ob.  1518,  Thomazine, 
married  to  Thomas  Wise,  of  Sydenham,  Devon,  and  Anne,  to 
Sir  William  Gary,  of  Cockington,  Devon,  beheaded  after  the 
battle  of  Tewkesbury,  1471. 


342  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

By  Sir  William  Huddesfield,  Katharine  Courtenay-Rogers, 
appears  to  have  had  two  daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Katherine. 
Genealogists  have  differed  as  to  the  assignment  of  the  mother 
of  Elizabeth,  but  the  remarkable  clause  in  her  will  as  to  this 
daughter,  and  the  appearance  of  two  daughters  on  the  brass, 
apparently  confirms  that  she  was  mother  of  both. 

Elizabeth  Huddesfield,  eldest  daughter,  she  married  Sir 
Anthony  Poyntz,  of  Iron  Acton,  Gloucestershire,  who  died  26 
Henry  VIII,  1535.  In  her  (presumed)  mother's  will  is  this 
conditional  bequest : — 

"My  daughter  Elizabeth  Poyntz  to  have  all  such  stuff  as  remaineth 
in  my  place  at  Britporte  (Bridport),  as  in  a  bill  made  and  subscribed 
by  me,  is  specified  and  declared,  so  that  the  said  Elizabeth  and  her 
husband  Sir  Anthony  Poyntz,  &*c.,  &°c.  If  they  vex,  or  trouble  my 
Ex'ors,  1  give  it  to  my  son  George" 

Katherine  Huddesfield,  second  daughter,  she  married  Sir 
Edmund  Carew,  Baron  Carew,  of  Mohuns-Ottery,  Luppit, 
Devon,  he  was  knighted  at  Bosworth,  and  killed  at  Terouenne, 
24  June,  5  Henry  VIII,  1514.  She  predeceased  her  husband 
and  her  mother,  her  will  being  proved  at  Lambeth  6  July  1499, 
and  this  would  account  for  no  mention  of  her  in  her  mother's 
will. 

Sir  William  Huddesfield  died  20  March,  1499.  Dame 
Katherine,  his  wife,  her  will  dated  21  Nov.  1510,  proved  1514. 
In  addition  to  the  bequests  before  recited,  she  first  desires  : — 

"  My  body  to  be  buried  in  the  Church  of  the  Grey  Friars,  Exeter, 
before  St.  Francis,  beside  the  High  Awter"  And  in  conclusion  names 
as  "residuary  legatees,  George  Rogers  my  sonne,  Edward  Rogers  his 
son  and  heir  apparent,  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  said  George" 

But  it  is  probable  she  was  buried  at  Shillingford  with  her 
husband ;  in  which  church  there  is  now,  on  the  north  side  of 
the  chancel,  a  plain  high  tomb,  with  cover  stone  of  grey 
marble,  round  whose  verge  is  an  indent  for  an  inscription, 
now  lost.  Over  the  tomb,  affixed  to  the  wall,  is  a  brass, 
whereon,  depicted  under  a  double  canopy,  are  the  figures  of  a 
knight  and  lady,  with  a  son  and  two  daughters. 


Rogers-  Courtenay-Huddesfield, 


343 


The  knight  is  in  armour,  with  sword  and  spurs.  He  is 
bare-headed,  and  wears  over  his  armour  a  tabard,  on  which  is 
embroidered  the  arms  of  Huddesfield — Argent,  a  fess  between 
three  boars  passant  sable,  on  the  fess  a  crescent  for  difference. 
He  kneels  before  a  prie  dieu,  on  which  is  an  open  book,  and  on 
the  floor  by  his  side  lie  his  gauntlets,  and  helmet  with 
mantling  and  crest,  a  boar  rampant.  The  lady  kneels  in  the 
other  canopy  behind  the  knight.  She  has  the  pedimental 
head  dress  arid  lappets,  gown,  ornamented  girdle,  with  de- 
pendant pomander.  Over  this  she  wears  a  robe  of  estate,  on 
which  is  her  arms,  Or,  three  torteaux  a  label  of  three,  for 
Courtenay.  Behind  her  kneels  her  only  son  by  her  second 
husband,  George  Rogers,  and  following  them  her  two  daughters 
by  Sir  William  Huddesfield,  in  similar  costume  to  their 
mother,  Elizabeth  Poyntz,  and  Katherinc  Carew. 

Below  is  this  inscription,  the  abbreviations  of  the  Latin 
extended  : — 

Conditor  et  Redemptor,  carport's  et  anime 

Sit  michi  medicus  et  custos  utriusque. 

Dame  Kateryn  ye  wife  of  Sr  Willid  Huddesfeld 

&>  doughf  of  S'r  Phil'  Courtnay  kny'kt. 

In  the  centre  of  the  cover-stone  of  the  tomb  is  a  shield 
with  the  arms  of  Huddesfield  impaling  Courtenay. 

When  Westcote,  in  1630, 
visited  the  church,  he  noted  this 
inscription,  which  was  probably  on 
the  ledger  line  round  the  table  of 
the  tomb,  and  has  since  disap- 
appeared :  — 

"Here  lieth  Sir  William  Huddi- 
ffeild,  knight,  Attorney- general  to  King 
Edward  IV,  and  of  the  Council  to  King 
Henry  VII,  and  Justice  of  Oyer  and 
Determiner;  which  died  the  loth  day  of 
March,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  1499.  On 
whose  soul  Jesus  have  mercy,  Amen.  Honor  Deo  et  Gloria" 


344 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


And  further  observes  : — 

"In  a  window  over  his  picture,  in  glass,  — "  Hi  ires  sunt  mihi  <>pes, 
Jhesus,  Maria,  Johannes."  Over  the  head  of  her  picture,  "  Quce  peperit 
florem,  det  nobisfloris  odorem."  Under  both  their  pictures—"  Orate  pro 
bono  statu  Willihemi  Huddesfeild  militts  et  Katharince  uxoris  ejus." 

These  "  pictures  "  have  disappeared,  and  Westcote  speaks 
also  of  some  shields  of  arms.  These  have  been  preserved  and 
carefully  reinstated,  in  this  secluded,  well-kept,  little  church ; 
and  are  found  in  the  south  chancel  window, — i.  Courtenay, 


impaling,  Sable,  two  bars  and  in  chief  three  roundels,  argent, 
(HUNGERFORD)  for  Lady  Katherine's  mother. — 2.  Or,  three 
lions  passant  sable, — (CAREW)  impaling  Huddesfield, — for  her 
daughter  Katherine's  alliance. — 3.  Huddesfield,  impaling,  Azure, 
three  bird-bolts  in  pale,  points  downward  or  ( BOSOM)  for  the 
first  wife  of  Sir  William. — 4.  Quarterly,  i  and  4,  Huddesfield, 
2,  Courtenay,  3,  Gules,  a  chevron  argent — (FULFORD),  for 
his  first  wife's  first  husband. 


Rogers-Courtenay-Huddesfield.  345 

Sir  William  Huddesfield  built  the  tower  of  the  church,  and 
on  its  west  front  are  three  sculptured  panels,  with  arms  and 
labels,  but  greatly  denuded.  On  the  first  is  Huddesfield  impaling 
Courtenay,  with  supporters  a  boar  and  dolphin,  in  the  sinister 
spandrel,  the  three  sickles  interlaced,  of  Hungerford, — 
inscription  on  the  label  indistinguishable.  The  second  shield 
and  label  quite  denuded.  The  third  shows  traces  of  arms  as 

on  the  first,  and  the  words  "  Spes  mea  Marea "  is  all 

that  is  decipherable  on  the  label. 

The  church,  Dr.  Oliver  observes,  "is  often  described  in 
the  episcopal  registers  as  "  Capella  vel  Capella  curata"  is 
dedicated  to  St.  George,  and  was  probably  at  first  a  domestic 
chapel  of  the  Shillingfords."  The  manor  and  advowson  was 
purchased  by  John  Southcote  of  the  daughters  and  coheiresses 
of  Sir  William, — his  gravestone  is  inscribed : — 

"John  Southcote,  Esquyer,  sometymes  Lord  and  Patron  of 
this  Church,  who  departed  this  present  life  the  6  day  of  September, 
Ano  Ui  MCCCCCLVI? 

The  transfer,  in  the  deed  previously  mentioned,  to  Bishop 
Peter  Courtenay,  (his  wife's  brother)  and  others,  was  probably 
temporary  only,  and  for  trusteeship  purposes. 

The  seal  of  Sir  Philip  Courtenay,  of  Powderham,  father 
of  Dame  Katherine  Rogers- Huddesfield  (in  the  illustration, 
drawn  by  Mr.  Roscoe  Gibbs),  is  taken  from  one  of  two  (the 
other  being  that  of  his  contemporary  Sir  William  Bonville) 
appendant  to  a  deed  relating  to  Wynard's  Charity,  dated 
14  Henry  VI  (1435-6),  preserved  among  the  Exeter  City 
Muniments. 

W.  H.  H.  ROGERS,  F.S.A. 


346  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 


(Continued  from  p.  317.^) 
CLOSE  ROLL.     [A.D.   1650,  Pt.  43,  No.  6.] 

A.D.  1650. — This  indenture  made  28  September,  A.D.  1650, 
between  Thomas  Coke,  William  Bosvile,  John  Sparrowe, 
William  Kenriche,  Ralph  Harrison,  William  Scott,  esquires, 
William  Steele,  Recorder  of  London,  Silvanus  Taylor,  Thomas 
Hubberd,  Cornelius  Coke  [or  Cooke],  esquires,  John  Hunt, 
gentleman,  Sir  Edward  Barkham,  baronet,  Sir  William  Robert, 
knight,  John  Humphreis,  Thomas  Ayres,  John  White,  James 
Stockall,  esquires,  Edward  Cressett,  gentleman,  and  Sir 
Richard  Saltonstall  knight,  Daniell  Searll  merchant,  Nicholas 
Lampriere,  Nicholas  Bond,  Richard  Tydenham  and  Robert 
Fenwicke,  esquires,  nominated  in  an  act  of  this  present 
parliament,  entitled,  an  Act  for  selling  the  feefarm  rents 
belonging  to  the  Commonwealth  of  England  formerly  payable 
to  the  Crown  of  England,  Duchy  of  Lancaster  and  Duchy 
of  Cornwall,  or  any  five  or  more  of  them.  Who  are 
by  the  said  Act,  and  also  by  another  Act  of  this  present 
Parliament,  entitled  an  Act  for  further  explanation  of  the 
former  act,  authorised  to  contract,  sell,  and  convey  the  said 
feefarm  rents,  and  all  tenths  or  rents  reserved,  &c.,  excepting 
such  tenths  and  pensions  in  the  said  Acts  excepted,  Which  by 
the  said  Acts  are  vested  in  the  said  Trustees  and  their  heirs  of 
the  one  part  ;  and  Arthur  Squibb,  of  the  City  of  Westminster, 
co.  Middlesex,  esquire,  of  the  other  part.  Whereas  the  late 
King  Edward  VI,  by  his  letters  patent  of  the  ist  of  May,  the 
4th  year  of  his  reign,  granted  to  William,  Marquis  of  Win- 
chester, by  the  name  of  William,  Earl  of  Wilts,  his  heirs  and 
assigns  forever,  all  the  manors  of  Edington,  Romseys,  and, 
Tynhed,  the  grange  of  Bratton,  and  also  the  capital  messuage 
of  the  manor  of  Immer,  alias  Imbre,  with  the  demesne  lands 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  347 

to  the  same  belonging,  and  the  site  and  capital  messuage  of 
Steeple  Ashton  in  Wilts,  and  of  East  Penyard  and  West- 
monckton  in  Somerset,  &c.,  &c.,  to  be  holden  of  the  said  late 
king  his  heirs  and  successors  by  the  service  of  the  4oth  part 
of  a  knight's  fee,  and  paying  at  Michaelmas  only  the  yearly 
rent  of  fourscore  and  thirteen  pounds  and  4  shillings,  as  by  the 
particular  thereof  certified  to  the  said  Trustees  under  the  hand 
of  James  Syms,  auditor,  26  September  1650,  according  to  the 
direction  of  the  said  Act,  and  remaining  with  the  Registrar  to 
the  said  Trustees,  and  as  by  the  aforesaid  letters  patent  may 
more  at  large  appear.  Now  this  indenture  witnesseth  that  the 
said  Thomas  Coke,  &c.,  the  Trustees  before  named  in  pursuance 
of  the  said  Acts  of  Parliament,  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of 
^£815  IDS.,  which  Sir  John  Wollaston,  knight,  and  Thomas 
Andrewes,  Alderman  of  London,  treasurers  appointed  by  the 
said  first  mentioned  Act  to  receive  the  same,  by  writing  dated 
20  September  1650,  have  certified  to  be  paid  by  the  said  Arthur 
Squibb  his  heirs  and  assigns  for  ever,  the  said  yearly  rent  of 
fourscore  and  13  pounds  and  4  shillings,  reserved  and  payable 
as  aforesaid,  and  every  part  or  parcel  thereof,  and  penalties, 
benefits  of  forfeiture,  &c.,  powers  and  conditions  of  re-entry 
and  reteyner,  &c.,  for  non-payment  of  the  rent  by  the  said 
letters  patent  are  granted.  To  have  and  hold  to  the  said 
Arthur  Squibb  his  heirs  and  assigns  to  the  only  use  and  behoof 
of  the  said  Arthur,  &c.,  forever,  in  as  full,  large  and  ample 
manner  to  all  intents  and  purposes  whatsoever  as  any  king  or 
queen  of  England,  or  any  person  or  persons  in  trust  for  them, 
formerly  had,  &c.  In  witness  whereof  to  the  one  part  of  this 
indenture  remaining  with  the  said  Arthur  Squibb  the  said 
Trustees  have  set  their  hands  and  seals,  and  to  the  other  part 
thereof  remaining  with  the  said  Trustees  the  said  Arthur  Squibb 
hath  put  his  hand  and  seal  the  day  and  year  first  above  written. 

FEET  OF  FINES,  WILTS.     [Trinity,  28  Charles  //.] 

A.D.   1676. — At  Westminster,  three  weeks  after  the  Feast 
of  the   Holy   Trinity.      Between     Mary    Norborne,    widow, 


348 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


plaintiff,  and  John  Ashe,  esquire,  deforciant,  of  2  houses,  a 
dovecote,  2  gardens,  2  orchards,  500  acres  of  land,  no  acres  of 
meadow,  200  acres  of  pasture,  5  acres  of  wood,  200  acres  of 
gorse  and  heath,  and  common  of  pasture  for  all  beasts,  liberty 
of  folding  and  a  run  for  80  sheep  upon  the  down,1  with  the 
appurtenances  in  Hawkridge,  Heywood,  Brooke,  Bratton, 
Milborne,  Stokeleigh,  and  Westbury.  Plea  of  covenant  was 
summoned.  John  acknowledged  the  right  of  Mary  as  of  his 
gift,  and  quitclaimed  from  himself  and  his  heirs  to  Mary  and 
her  heirs  for  ever.  And  moreover  John  warranted  to  Mary 
and  her  heirs  against  himself  and  his  heirs  forever.  For  this 
Mary  gave  John  ^500  sterling. 

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Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  349 

RECOVERY  ROLL.     [Michaelmas  34  Charles  II.     R.  ccxxix.\ 

A.D.  1682.  -I  Richard  Hickes,  gentleman,  and  Thomas  Beach, 
WILTS.  J  gentleman,  demand  against  Walter  Sloper,  gen- 
tleman, and  Stephen  Palmer,  gentleman,  12  messuages,  2 
gardens,  200  acres  of  land,  80  acres  of  meadow,  16  acres  of 
pasture  and  common  of  pasture  for  every  kind  of  beast,  with  the 
appurtenances  in  Steeple  Ashton,  West  Ashton,  Bratton,  and 
Westbury.  Samuel  Marvin,  gentleman,  vouchee.1 

RECOVERY  ROLL.  [Trinity,  7  William  III.     R.  clxxiii.~\ 

A.D.  1695.  -I  Daniel,  Earl  of  Nottingham,  and  Heneage  Finch, 
WILTS.  J  esquire,  demand  against  Thomas  Windham, 
esquire,  and  William  Freeman,  esquire,  the  Hundred  of  War- 
minster  and  the  manors  of  Deverill  Langbridge,  &c.,  &c.,  also 
50  messuages  and  lands  and  pastures,  &c.,  in  Corsley,  Deverill 
Langbridge,  Warminster,  Frome,  Horningsham,  Bratton,  West- 
bury,  Fifield,  Broad  Chalk,  Imber,  and  various  other  parishes 
of  Wilts. 

Thomas,  Viscount  Weymouth,  vouchee,  who  called  to 
warrant  Henry  Thynne,  his  son  and  heir  apparent. 

IBID.     [Deeds  enrolled,  m.  4.] 

A.D.  1695. — Indenture  tripartite  made  28  May,  7  William 
III,  between  Anne  Ernie,  of  Ashlington  alias  Etchilhampton, 
Wilts,  relict  of  Edward  Ernie,  esquire,  who  was  son  and  heir 
apparent  of  Sir  Walter  Ernie,  late  of  Ashlington,  aforesaid, 
bart,  deceased,  and  Sir  Edward  Ernie,  of  Maddington,  Wilts, 
bart.,  son  and  heir  male  of  the  body  of  Edward  Ernie,  by  the 
said  Ann  Ernie  of  the  first  part ;  Thomas  Foley  the  younger, 
son  and  heir  apparent  of  Thomas  Foley,  of  Whitby,  co.  Wor- 
cester, esquire,  of  the  second  part ;  and  William  Ashe,  of 
Haytesbury,  co.  Wilts,  esquire,  of  the  third  part.  Witnesseth 
that  for  the  barring  of  all  estates  intail  and  reversion  and 

1  For  the  form  of  recovery  see  the  earlier  numbers  of  Bratton  Records. 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


remainder  thereupon  expectant  of  the  manors,  &c.,  hereinafter 
expressed.  And  for  the  sum  of  tos.  the  said  Ann  Ernie  and 
Sir  Edward  Ernie  have  granted  and  sold  to  the  said  Thomas 
Foley  the  younger,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  all  that  the  manor  or 
lordship  of  Ashlington  or  Etchilhampton,  with  the  rights,  mem- 
bers and  appurtenances  thereof,  in  the  said  county  of  Wilts, 
and  all  the  farm  of  Wadhampton,  &c.,  in  Wilts  ;  and  all  that 
grange  and  farm  of  Bratton,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Bratton, 
in  the  parish  of  Westbury,  Wilts,  and  those  arable  lands, 
containing  by  estimation  346^  acres,  and  10  acres  of  pasture, 
and  37  acres  of  meadow  in  Bratton  aforesaid,  and  all  that 
meadow  ground,  containing  by  estimation  12  acres,  and  the 
first  vesture  of  all  those  3  acres  of  meadow  in  Bratton,  and  all 
that  pasture  and  feeding  for  24  oxen  and  700  sheep  to  be  fed 
yearly  in  the  fields  and  downs  of  Bratton,  and  all  those  lands, 
feedings,  meadows,  and  pastures  called  Broad  Mead,  Little 
Broadmead,  and  Oxen  Crofts  and  Great  Oxen  Crofts,  with 
their  appurtenances  in  Bratton.  All  which  premises  in 
Bratton  were  heretofore  purchased  by  the  said  Sir  Walter 
Ernie  to  him  and  his  heirs  of  William  Bromwich,  esquire,  and 
Rachel  his  wife,  Arthur  Bromwich,  gentleman,  and  John 
Harris  and  Ann  his  wife,  or  of  some  of  them  ;  and  all  that  the 
site  of  the  manor  and  capital  messuage,  and  farm  of  Escott, 
with  the  appurtenances  in  Escott  and  Urchent  alias  Urchfount 
alias  Erchefount,  co.  Wilts;  and  all  those  lands,  meadows, 
leayns,  pastures,  woods,  and  hereditaments,  with  the  appurten- 
ances called  Westham  Wood,  Marsh  Field,  Marsh  Cliff,  and 
Escott  Common,  containing  by  estimation  12  acres,  all  that 
wood  and  certain  hereditaments,  with  their  appurtenances 
called  Maggott  Wood,  containing  by  estimation  4  acres,  the 
meadow  called  Stable  mead,  containing  by  estimation  3  acres, 
the  meadow  called  the  Thoungs,  containing  by  estimation  one 
acre,  the  meadow  called  Maggott  mead,  and  the  wood  and 
woody  grounds  and  certain  lands  and  hereditaments  called 
Beane  lands,  containing  10  acres,  and  all  that  meadow  round 
and  certain  hereditaments,  with  their  appurtenances,  called 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  351 

West  heath,  containing  by  estimation  12  acres,  and  all  those 
3  Clayes  of  arable  ground  and  hereditaments,  with  the  appur- 
tenances, containing  by  estimation  3  score  acres,  and  the 
lands  called  East  Fore  Deane,  otherwise  East  Fore  hill,  20 
acres,  and  all  those  arable  lands  and  hereditaments  called  the 
West  Fore  Deane  or  West  Fore  Hill,  20  acres,  and  all  those 
lands,  &c.,  called  Redlands,  10  acres,  and  that  parcel  of  arable 
land  by  the  South,  27  acres,  abutting  on  the  Town  acres,  and 
the  arable  lands  called  Long  Haven,  25  acres,  a  parcel  of 
arable  land  lying  by  Long  Lawne,  50  acres,  the  pasture  called 
Pasture  Down  for  Sheep,  100  acres  :  all  which  premises  in 
Estcott  and  Urchfont  were  heretofore  purchased  by  Sir  Walter 
Ernie  to  him  and  his  heirs,  that  is,  2  third  parts  thereof  of 
William  Knapton,  esquire,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  and  Thomas 
Arnold,  gentleman,  and  Mary  his  wife,  and  the  other  third  part 
of  Robert  Heming,  gentleman,  and  Sarah  his  wife,  and 
Peterell  Meggs,  gentleman,  and  Mary  his  wife ;  and  all  that 
capital  messuage  or  tenement  with  the  appurtenances  in 
Erchefont,  sometime  in  the  tenure  of  Robert  Whood  alias 
Crooke,  and  since  in  the  tenure  of  John  Muspratt  or  his 
assign  or  assigns,  and  all  those  20  acres  of  meadow  in  Urchfont 
now  divided  into  5  several  closes,  and  commonly  called  Frank- 
lyns,  and  that  parcel  of  meadow,  i|  acre,  commonly  called  the 
Crofts  in  Erchfont,  and  the  several  parcels,  io|  acres,  of  arable 
land  to  the  same  last-mentioned  messuage  and  premises  be- 
longing, lying  in  the  common  fielde  of  Urchfont,  whereof  5^ 
acres  lying  in  the  east  field,  2  acres  in  the  middle  field,  and 
3  acres  in  the  west  field;  and  those  5  several  cottages,  4 
orchards,  and  5  gardens  with  their  appurtenances  in  Erchfont 
in  the  several  tenures  of  Robert  Neate,  John  Peyte,  John 
Gilbert,  Christopher  Taylor  and  John  Whelpeley  and  Maurice 
Alexander  or  of  their  undertenants,  and  common  of  pasture 
and  feeding  for  12  Rother  beasts,  and  a  bull  and  3  score 
sheep,  in  through  and  over  all  the  woods,  downs,  common 
fields  and  commonable  places  of  Erchfont,  which  said  mes- 
suage and  premises  Sir  Walter  Ernie  purchased  to  him 


352  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

and  his  heirs  of  the  said  John  Muspratt;  and  all  that  manor 
or  lordship  of  Northcombe  with  the  appurtenances  in  the 
parish  of  Urchfont,  that  is  the  tenement  now  or  late  of 
John  Willis,  the  tenement  now  or  late  of  John  Giddings, 
the  tenement  now  or  late  of  John  Roser,  the  tenement  now 
or  late  of  John  Collett,  the  tenement  now  or  late  of  Maud 
Whood  alias  Crook,  and  also  all  that  messuage  or  tenement 
situate  in  Erchfont,  commonly  called  Bassetts,  except  the 
site  of  the  said  manor  of  Northcomb,  or  farm  called  Swellis 
Farm,  and  one  croft  called  Reeve  land,  or  Noyses  Croft, 
which  said  last  mentioned  manor  and  premises,  except  before 
excepted,  were  heretofore  purchased  by  Sir  Walter  Ernie  to 
him  and  his  heirs  of  William  Jeay  and  Ann  his  wife  :  and 
property  at  Bishop's  Cannings,  Wootton  Bassett,  Cleve  Anstey ; 
also  all  that  manor  and  farm  of  Tilsett  or  Tilshead,  with  all 
lands,  tenements,  hereditaments  thereto  belonging,  and  all  and 
singular  messuages,  cottages,  bartons,  farms,  dovehouses, 
barns,  stables,  buildings,  orchards,  gardens,  yards,  backsides, 
lands,  tenements,  meadows,  feedings,  pastures,  commons,  and 
common  of  pasture  downs,  sheep-walks,  heaths,  furzes,  moors, 
marshes,  wastes,  wast  grounds,  hedges,  ditches,  trees,  woods, 
underwood  and  the  ground  soil  thereof,  rents,  revenues, 
services,  waifs,  strays,  courts  leet,  views  of  frank  pledge,  Courts 
Baron,  perquisites  and  profits  of  courts,  free  warren,  goods  and 
chattells  of  felons,  fugitives,  &c.  ;  reliefs,  escheats,  fines, 
heriots,  &c.,  ways,  passages,  &c.,  waters,  watercourses,  &c., 
and  all  advantages,  benefits,  and  appurtenances  whatsoever 
belonging  to  the  foresaid  premises  in  anywise,  and  all  other 
property  in  the  forementioned  parishes  in  which  Anne  Ernie 
and  Sir  Edward  Ernie  have  any  estate  or  interest :  To  the 
use  of  the  said  Thomas  Foley  the  younger  and  his  heirs  :  To 
the  end  that  one  or  more  common  recovery  or  recoveries  may 
be  thereof  had,  for  which  purpose  it  is  hereby  covenanted 
between  all  the  said  parties  that  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said 
William  Ashe  or  some  other  person  or  persons  named  by  the 
said  Sir  Edward  Ernie,  and  at  his  costs  and  charges,  before  the 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  353 

end  of  Trinity  term  next,  the  date  of  the  presents,  to  sue  out  of 
the  Court  of  Chancery  one  or  more  writs  of  entry  sur  disseisin 
en  le  post  returnable  before  the  Justices  of  the  common  pleas  at 
Westminster,  thereby  demanding  all  the  said  manors  and  other 
premises  against  Thomas  Foley  the  younger :  to  which  writ  or 
writs  the  said  Thomas  Foley  the  younger  shall  appear  gratis 
and  vouch  to  warranty  the  said  Sir  Edward  Ernie,  who  shall 
also  gratis  appear  and  enter  into  the  warranty  and  vouch  over 
the  common  vouchee  of  the  same  court,  who  shall  also  appear 
and  after  make  default  so  as  judgment  may  be  thereupon  had 
for  the  said  William  Ashe  to  recover  the  said  manors,  &c.,  and 
that  every  other  thing  may  be  had  needful  for  a  common 
recovery,  with  double  voucher  according  to  the  course  of  the 
law.  And  he  and  his  heirs,  &c.,  shall  stand  seized  thereof 
to  the  several  uses  hereafter  mentioned,  namely,  of  the  farms 
and  of  the  premises  in  Bratton,  and  Escott,  and  Erchfont  to 
the  use  of  Anne  Ernie  for  the  term  of  her  life,  and  after  her 
death  to  the  use  of  Sir  Edward  Ernie,  his  heirs  and  assigns 
for  ever ;  of  the  manor,  &c.,  at  Arlington  and  Wadhampton 
to  the  intent  that  Anne  Ernie  and  her  assigns  during  the  term 
of  her  life  may  receive  a  yearly  rent  charge  of  ^150,  to  be 
paid  half  yearly  at  Michaelmas  and  the  Feast  of  the  Annuncia- 
tion in  equal  portions,  with  right  to  Anne  Ernie  to  enter  on  the 
said  premises  to  distrain  for  the  said  rent  when  in  arrears  21 
days  after  either  of  the  said  feasts.  And  as  concerning  the 
other  premises  intended  to  be  hereby  bargained  or  sold,  not 
hereinbefore  limited  in  use  to  Anne  Ernie  for  life,  to  the  only 
proper  use  and  behoof  of  the  said  Sir  Edward  Ernie,  his  heirs 
and  assigns  for  ever.  In  witness  whereof,  &c. 

RECOVERY  ROLL.     [Trinity.     8  William  II L     R.  Ivj.] 

A.D.  1696.  WILTS. —  Robert  Pitt,  gentleman,  demands 
against  William  Day,  gentleman,  50  acres  of  meadow,  70  acres 
of  pasture,  and  common  of  pasture  for  every  kind  of  beast, 
with  the  appurtenances  in  Heywood,  Hawkeridge,  Bratton,  and 

the  parish  of  Westbury.     James  Ashe,  gentleman,  vouchee. 

B  B 


354  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

IBID.     {Hillary.     9  William  III.     R.  xxi.] 

A.D.  1697.  WILTS. — Henry  Hargrave,  gentleman,  demands 
against  James  Ash,  senior,  esquire,  5  messuages,  a  dovecot, 
9  gardens,  100  acres  of  land,  300  acres  of  meadow,  300  acres 
of  pasture,  10  acres  of  wood,  and  common  of  pasture  for  every 
kind  of  beast,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Westbury  Brook, 
Hawkeridge,  Heywood,  and  Bratton.  John  Ash,  senior, 
esquire,  James  Ash,  junior,  gentleman,  and  John  Ash,  junior, 
gentleman,  vouchees. 

E.  M.  THOMPSON. 
(To  be  continued.) 


AMESBURY    MONASTERY,    WITH    AN     ACCOUNT     OP 
SOME  DISCOVERIES  ON  THE  SITE  IN  1860. 

(Continued  from  p.  305.^) 

It  was  apparently  in  1542,  whilst  everything  was  still  in 
disorder — the  buildings  of  the  late  Monastery  partly  standing, 
partly  pulled  down — that  the  Earl  of  Hertford,  its  new  owner, 
paid  his  first  visit  to  Amesbury.1  In  the  Longleat  papers  we 
find  pa3'ments — 

"To  2  men,  and  a  woman,  to  make  clean  the  hall  chambers,  the 
court,  the  convent  chambers,  and  the  fylthy  places  ther  agenst  my  Lord's 
fyrst  comyng  to  Amesbury. 


1  The  Earl  sometimes  travelled  with  a  cavalcade  of  mounted  servants 
and  retainers.  In  the  autumn  of  1537  he  made  a  progress  from  his  Wilt- 
shire residence  at  Wolfhall.  On  the  4th  September  he  was  a  guest  of  the 
Lord  Stourton,  at  Old  Stourton  House  (of  which  Aubrey  has  preserved  a 
sketch),  and  on  the  two  following  days,  of  Lord  Chief  Justice  Fitz  James, 
at  Redlinch,  near  Brnton  ;  on  the  7th  he  lay  one  night  at  Lord  Hungerford's, 
at  Farley  Castle ;  on  the  8th  at  Sir  Henry  Long's,  at  Draycote ;  on  the  9th 
at  Malmesbury ;  on  the  10th  at  Bradenstoke ;  and  on  the  12th  at  Mr. 
Ernley's,  at  Whetham  House,  when  the  horses  belonging  to  his  retinue,  40 
in  number,  were  quartered  for  the  night  at  Devizes  ;  from  thence  returning 
to  Wolfhall. — Steward's  Accounts  at  Longleat. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  355 

"  For  2  days  work  (2  men)  to  make  the  stables  necessary  for  my  Lord's 
great  horses. 

"  For  carrying  6  loads  of  hay  to  the  stables." 

The  lodging,  called  the  late  Priory  Lodging,  i.e.,  the  late 
residence  of  the  Lady  Prioress,  was,  on  the  dissolution  of  the 
House,  in  1539,  the  principal  part  assigned  by  the  Royal  Com- 
missioners to  remain  undefaced  (see  p.  291),  as  being  best 
suited  to  domestic  purposes ;  and  this,  judging  from  the  cir- 
cumstances which  followed,  most  probably  continued  for 
several  generations,  without  any  very  considerable  alteration, 
to  be  the  Amesbury  residence  of  the  Seymour  family  of  the 
younger  line. 

The  Earl  of  Hertford  lived  but  a  few  years  to  enjoy  the 
possessions  which  the  fall  of  the  Monasteries  had  enabled  the 
Crown  to  bestow  so  freely  upon  him.  In  1547  he  was  created 
Duke  of  Somerset,  and,  several  years  later,  when  Protector  of 
England  during  the  minority  of  his  nephew  Edward  VI,  he  is 
styled  in  some  of  the  documents  belonging  to  his  Wiltshire 
property,  "  The  High  and  Myghtye  Prince  Edward,  Duke  of 
Somerset."1  In  1551  we  find  him  a  State  prisoner  in  the 
Tower  of  London,  and  on  the  22nd  of  January  following  he 
was  beheaded  and  attainted.  His  decapitated  body  and  head 
were  placed  in  a  coffin,  but  did  not  find  a  resting-place  with  his 
ancestors  in  the  Priory  Church  at  Easton  Royal  (which  had 
now  become  his  own  property,  and  was  afterwards  rebuilt  by 
his  son,  in  1591).  They  were  carried  back,  and  interred  in 
the  Chapel  of  St.  Peter  ad  Vincula,  within  the  Tower  pre- 
cincts. Such  was  the  fate  of  the  first  lay  owner  of  Amesbury 
Monastery. 

His  eldest  son,  Edward,  by  his  second  marriage  with  Ann, 


1  On  the  tomb  of  his  father,  Sir  John  Seymour,  in  the  chancel  of 
Great  Bedwyn  Church,  he  is  described  as  "Duke  of  Somerset,  Earl  of 
Hertford,  Viscount  Beauchamp,  and  Baron  Seymour,  Uncle  to  King 
Edward  VI,  Governor  of  his  Royal  Person,  Protector  of  all  his  Dominions 
and  Subjects,  Lord  Treasurer  and  Earl  Marshal  of  England." 

B  B  2 


356  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Stanhope,1  was  the  inheritor,  by 
special  entail,  made  by  Act  of  Parliament  32  Henry  VIII 
[1540],  of  most  of  his  father's  dignities  and  estates.  He  was 
created  Baron  Seymour  i  Edward  VI  [1546-7],  but  by  Act  5 
and  6  of  the  same  reign  [1551-2],  when  he  was  only  thirteen 
years  old,  they  were  given  to  the  Crown.  Queen  Elizabeth 
created  him  Baron  Beauchamp  of  Hache,  and  Earl  of  Hertford, 
in  1559;  but  he  quickly  incurred  her  lasting  displeasure  by 
marrying  in  the  following  year,  without  her  consent,  the 
Lady  Catherine,  sister  of  Lady  Jane  Grey,  and  at  that  time  the 
only  surviving  coheir  of  Henry  Grey,  Duke  of  Suffolk,  by 
Frances,  elder  daughter  and  coheir  of  Charles  Brandon,  also 
Duke  of  Suffolk,  and  his  wife  Mary  Tudor,  Queen  Dowager 
of  Louis  XIII  of  France,  and  sister  of  Henry  VIII ;  an 
alliance  which,  on  the  failure  of  Henry's  issue,  by  the  death  of 
Queen  Elizabeth  in  1602-3,  brought  the  heir  of  the  Wiltshire 
family  of  Seymour  within  measurable  distance  of  the  Crown  of 
England.2  For  this  offence  the  Earl  of  Hertford  was  heavily 
fined,  and,  with  his  Countess,  imprisoned  in  the  Tower  of 


1  The   Protector  was  twice  married,   but  having  been  divorced   from 
bis  first  wife,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Filliol,  he  passed  over  her 
issue  in  the  succession,  and,  so  far  as  lay  in  his  power,  secured  his  titles  and 
estates  on  the  children  of  his  second  wife,  Ann  Stanhope.     In  course  of  time, 
however,  all  his  plans  became  reversed,  for  by  failure  of  the  younger  branch 
in  1749,  the  elder  House  of  Seymour  recovered  the  title,  and  the  lineal  des- 
cendants of  Catherine  Filliol,  as  its  rightful  heirs,  have  since  continued 
successively  to  represent  the  Dukedom  of  Somerset. 

2  Lady  Southwell,  an  eye  witness  of  Elizabeth's  death-bed,  says  that 
among  others  proposed  to  the  Queen  as  her  successor,  was  the  Earl  of 
Hertford's  eldest  son,  Lord  Beauchamp,  in  right  of  his  mother.     On  hearing 
his  name  Elizabeth  roused  herself,  and  said  angrily  "  1  will  have  no  rascaVs 
son  in  my  seat,  but  one  worthy  to  be  a  King"   This  claim  of  the  Seymour  family 
to  the  Crown  was  not,  however,  forgotten  some  half  a  century  later  ;  for,  in 
an  anonymous   volume,  published   in  1655,  and   entitled  A  Treatise  con- 
cerning the  Broken  Succession  of  the  Crown  of  England,  inculcated  about 
the  latter  end  of  the  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  the  author  attempts  to  prove 
that  all  the  pretenders  to  the  English  Throne  after  Elizabeth's  death  are 
illegitimate,  and  that  between  the  Infanta  of  Portugal,  and  the   Earl  of 
Hertford's  second  son,  lies  the  reasonable  choice. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  357 

London,  where  several  children  were  born,  and  where  the 
Lady  Catherine  died  on  the  26th  January  1 567-8. l 

On  his  release  from  the  Tower,  after  a  nine  years'  imprison- 
ment, the  Earl  appears  to  have  retired  into  Wiltshire,  where  he 
resided,  partly  at  Wolf  hall — the  paternal  residence  of  his  family, 
which  they  had  acquired  by  marriage  with  the  heiress  of 
Esturmy — and  partly  at  Amesbury.  On  2 2nd  March  1574,  he 
writes  "from  Ulphall,  determined  to  go  to  Awmesbury  to-morrow, 
but  to  be  here  again  on  Thursday  next." 

He  married,  secondly,  Frances,  third  daughter  of  William 
first  Lord  Howard,  of  Effingham,  who  died  in  1598;  and, 
thirdly,  another  Frances  Howard,  granddaughter  of  Thomas, 
third  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  widow  of  a  London  vintner 
named  Henry  Prannell2;  but  neither  of  these  left  any  issue. 
The  latter  was  the  donor  of  the  bell  which  forms  the  fifth  of 
the  peal  now  in  the  tower  of  Amesbury  Church.  It  was  cast 
at  Salisbury  in  1619. 

The  two  lodges  on  the  east  side  of  the  park,  curiously 
constructed  of  flint  work,  with  quaint  towers  and  cupola-shaped 
roofs, .  belong,  one  to  the  close  of  Elizabeth's  reign,  the  other 
to  the  early  part  of  that  of  James  I.  They  were  both  erected 
during  the  second  Earl  of  Hertford's  ownership  of  the  estate. 
The  earlier  of  the  two,  known  as  "  The  Round  House",  has  an 
inscription  over  the  door,  "DIANA  HER  HOVS  1600" — the  name 
of  the  goddess  of  the  chase  apparently  indicating  its  original 


1  The   Bible  used  by    them  during  their    imprisonment,    containing 
entries  of  the  births  of  their  children,  is  still  preserved  at  Longleat. 

2  A  tragic    incident   which   occurred    at  Amesbury,  after   the   Earl's 
marriage  with  this  lady,  will  be  found  in  Brydges'  Peers  of  James  I,  p.  297. 
It  is  thus  briefly  alluded  to  by  the  Duke  of  Manchester,   Court  and  Society 
from  Elizabeth  to  Anne,  i,  210 : — "  When  she  married  the  Earl  of  Hertford, 
a  rival  wooer,  Sir  George  Rodney  [of  Eodney  Stoke,  co.  Somerset],  went  down 
to  an  inn  at  Amesbury,  pricked  himself  with  his  sword,  wrote  a  '  dying  love 
song  with  his  blood,  and  finally  ran  upon  his  weapon  and  expired"'.     The 
"  love  song,"  which  he  sent  to  the  Countess,  is  printed  in  the  Topographer,  i, 
398,  from  a  MS.  in  the  British  Museum.      But  the  Countess,  we  are  told, 
easily  passed  this  over,  and  so  wrought  upon  the  good  nature  of  the  Earl, 
her  husband,  that  he  settled  above  £5,000  jointure  upon  her  for  life. 


358  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

use  as  a  hunting  lodge.  This  interesting  building  has  been 
well  illustrated  in  Blomfield's  Renaissance- Architecture.  The 
other  lodge,  known  as  "  Kent  House"  has  already  been  noticed 
(see  note  on  p.  305).  The  date  of  the  original  building,  as 
seen  in  raised  figures  on  the  north  side  of  the  octagonal  tower, 
is  1607;  but  some  additions  have  been  made  to  it  by  a  later 
owner. 

It  was  most  probably  at  the  time  when  these  lodges  were 
built  that  some  interments  were  discovered  on  the  site  of  the 
old  Monastery.  One  of  them,  of  considerable  interest,  is  thus 
described,  some  years  later,  by  Inigo  Jones  r1 

"Amongst  other  sepulchres  found  at  the  said  Monastery  it's  worthy 
memory  that,  about  the  beginning  of  this  century,  one  of  them,  hewn  out 
of  a  firm  stone,  and  placed  in  the  middle  of  a  wall,  was  opened ;  having 
upon  its  coverture,  in  rude  letters  ot  massive  gold,  "R.  G.  A.  C.  6oo."2 
The  bones  within  which  sepulchre  were  all  firm,  fair  yellow-coloured 
hair  about  the  scull,  a  supposed  peece  of  the  liver  near  upon  the  bignesse 
of  a  walnut,  very  dry  and  hard,  and  together  therewith  were  found 
several  royall  habiliments,  as  jewels,  veils,  scarfs,  and  the  like,  retaining 
even  till  then  their  proper  colours.  All  which  were  atterwards  very 


1  Inigo  Jones,  by  direction  of  the  King  [James  I],  in  1620,  wrote  an 
account  of  Stonehenge,  which  was  published  in  1655,  under  the  title  of 
"  The  most  notable  Antiquity  of  Great  Britain,  vulgarly  called  Stone-heny, 
on  Salisbury  Plain.  Restored  by  Inigo  Jones,  Architect-Generall  to  the  late 
King."  The  author  died  in  1651,  and  his  work  was  issued  four  years  after- 
wards, by  his  son-in-law,  John  Webb. 

z  Mr.  Jones  conjectures  that  the  remains  may  have  been  those  of 
Guinever,  wife  of  King  Arthur  ;  who  is  said  by  Leland,  on  the  authority  of 
several  other  writers,  to  have  taken  a  nun's  veil  at  Amesbury,  died,  and  was 
buried  there.  But  Mr.  Gough,  in  his  Sepulchral  Monuments,  is  inclined  to 
think  that  they  belonged  to  a  much  later  date,  and  were  more  probably 
those  of  Eleanor,  queen  of  Henry  III.  The  letters,  as  given  by  Mr.  Jones, 
may,  he  thinks,  have  been  misread  for  Regina  Alianora,  <4-c.,as  on  the  tomb 
of  her  daughter-in-law — Eleanor,  queen  of  Edward  I — in  the  Confessor's 
Chapel  at  Westminster,  which  belongs  to  nearly  the  same  date,  and  is  in- 
scribed "  Icy  gist  Alianor,  jadis  Reyne  d'Angleterre,  femme  a  Rex  Edward 
Fiz  ".  [Here  lies  Eleanor,  formerly  Queen  of  England,  wife  of  King  Edward 
the  First.]  We  have,  he  says,  no  authentic  evidence  that  any  monastery 
existed  on  the  present  site,  at  Amesbury,  earlier  than  the  foundation  of  Queen 
Ethelfrida  in  980 ;  and  as  King  Arthur's  death  is  presumed  to  have  taken 
place  about  the  year  542,  Guinever  could  scarcely  have  survived  him 
58  years. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery. 


choicely  kept  in  the  collection  of  the  Right  Honourable  Edward,  Earl 
of  Hertford  ;l  and  of  the  atoresaid  gold  divers  rings  were  made  and 
worn  by  his  Lordship's  principall  officers." — Stone-heng  Restored,  p.  25. 

The  partly  destroyed  buildings  of  the  Monastery  most 
probably  supplied  the  Earl  with  materials  for  his  new  work, 
and  the  removal  of  some  of  the  old  walls  may  have  brought  to 
light  this  interment — apparently  of  some  royal  personage. 
The  remains  seem  to  have  been  placed  in  a  stone  coffin,  built 
into  the  wall,  perhaps  beneath  a  recessed  arch,  afterwards 
walled  up.  The  original  inscription,  Mr.  Jones  says,  he  could 
not  procure,  but  inserted  the  relation  on  the  credit  of  those 
persons  of  quality  from  whom  he  received  it ;  and  there  are 
reasons  for  believing  that  the  date,  at  least,  must  have  been 
misread. 

Some  of  this  Earl  of  Hertford's  correspondence,  relating 
to  his  office  of  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Wiltshire,  in  the  early  part 
of  the  reign  of  James  I,  is  printed  in  Wilts  Archaeological  Maga- 
zine, i,  223,  and  Waylen's  History  of  Mar/borough,  p.  543.  It  is 
dated  from  Amesbury,  and  Easton  Royal,  and  on  one  occasion 
from  Tottenham,  near  Marlborough.  In  one  of  these  letters, 
about  the  clergy's  finding  of  arms,  dated  from  Amesbury  6 
August  1608,  and  addressed  to  the  Bishop  of  Salisbury 
[Henry  Cotton],  the  Earl  thanks  his  lordship  very  heartily 
"  for  his  good  pains  at  Amesbury,  and  the  good  sermon  which 
he  preached  at  the  Church."  In  September  following  he 
writes  "  from  my  house  at  Easton  ";  and  other  letters,  bearing 
date  i6io-n,2  were  again  written  from  Amesbury. 


1  Aubrey  mentions  another  Amesbury  relic  in  the  Earl's  collection  :— 
"  In  the  reigne  of  King  James  I,  as  boyes  were  at  play  in  Amesbury 
street,  it  thundered  and  lightened.  One  of  the  boyes  wore  a  little  dagger 
by  his  side,  which  melted  in  the  scabbard,  and  the  scabbard  not  hurt.  This 
dagger,  Edward,  Earle  of  Hertford,  kept  amongst  his  rarities.  I  have  for- 
gotten if  the  boy  was  killed.  (From  old  Mr.  Bowman  and  Mr.  Gauntlet.)" 

1  A  letter  from  the  Earl  of  Hertford  to  Lord  Salisbury,  dated  from 
Amesbury  2  October  1610,  is  printed  by  Lady  Theresa  Lewis,  in  Lives  of 
Friends  and  Contemporaries  of  Lord  Chancellor  Clarendon,  iii,  148-9. 


360  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Aubrey,  in  his  Natural  History  of  Wiltshire  (1656-91) 
says : — 

"Io  Coperario,  whose  real  name  I  have  been  told  was  Cowper,  and 
Alfonso  Ferrabosco  lived  most  in  Wiltshire,  at  Amesbury  and  Wulfall, 
with  Edward,  Earl  of  Hertford,  who  was  the  great  patrone  of  musicians." 
(p.  120). 

He  also  tells  us  that  William  Lawes,  a  native  of  Salisbury 
(brother  of  Henry  Lawes,  gentleman  of  the  Chapel  Royal,  and 
composer  of  the  music  to  Milton's  Comus)  was  also  in- 
debted to  the  Earl  for  his  musical  education  : — 1 

"  William  Lawes,  the  brother  ot  Milton's  friend,  Henry  Lawes,  was 
born  in  the  Close  (at  Salisbury),  and  baptized  May  i,  1602.  Having 
from  his  childhood  displayed  a  decided  taste  for  music,  he  was  taken 
under  the  protection  of  Edward,  Earl  of  Hertford,  and  brought  up  at  his 
expense.  He  received  his  musical  education  from  John  Cooper,  a  de- 
pendant of  the  Hertford  family,  and  an  eminent  performer,  whose  name 
has  been  Italianised  into  Giovanni  Cooperario."  (p.  81). 

During  the  last  few  years  of  his  life,  we  find  the  Earl 
residing  at  Netley,  co.  Hants — another  monastic  property  of 
the  Seymour  family.  In  a  letter  to  Sir  Robert  Gordon  (son- 
in-law  to  the  Dean  of  Salisbury)  dated  from  thence  31  March 
1619,  and  printed  in  Craik's  Romance  of  the  Peerage,  he  men- 
tions the  death  of  Anne  of  Denmark,  Queen  of  James  I,  "which 
hath  spread  itself  into  a  general  grief  among  us  all."  He  was 
then,  with  his  Countess,  preparing  to  attend  her  funeral  on 
the  29th  April  following.  His  last  public  appearance  was  pro- 
bably in  the  procession  which  accompanied  King  James  on 
his  opening  Parliament  3oth  January  1621.  Sir  Simon  D'Ewes, 
who  was  present,  has  the  following  note  in  his  Autobiography: 

"  Among  the  nobility  I  especially  viewed  the  Lord  Seymour,  Earl  of 
Hertford,  now  some  83  years  old,  and  even  decrepit  with  age." 


1  William^  Lawes,  and  his  brother  Henry  (servant  to  King  Charles  I,  in 
his  publick  and  private  musick),  were  composers  of  some  of  the  songs  in 
Playford's  "Select  Musicall  Ayres  and  Dialogues.  Jn  three  Boohes,  1653. 
London,  printed  by  T.  H.  for  John  Playford,  and  are  to  be  sold  at  his  Shop 
in  the  Inner  Temple  near  the  Church  doore."  Henry  Lawes,  also  a  Wiltshire- 
man,  whose  name  is  so  closely  identified  with  the  Church  Music  of  the  17th 
century,  was  baptized  at  Dinton,  5  January  1595-6. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  361 

He  died  at  Netley  on  the  6th  April  following,  and  was 
buried  in  Salisbury  Cathedral,  where  there  is  a  sumptuous 
monument  to  his  memory.  His  third  Countess,  who  survived 
him,  re-married  Lodowick  Stuart,  Duke  of  Richmond  and 
Lenox.  On  27  April  1623  she  was  one  of  the  godmothers  at 
the  baptism  of  the  Earl  of  Hertford's  great  granddaughter, 
Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Francis  Seymour,  which  took  place 
at  the  Lodge  in  Savernake  Park ;  and  three  years  later  she  was 
again  a  widow,  residing  at  Easton  Royal. 

Five  years  after  the  Earl's  death  (1626)  two  inquisitions 
were  taken  at  Marlborough.  The  first  of  these,  dated  4th  April, 
relates  only  to  the  site  of  the  late  Priory  at  Easton,  with  the 
manor,  rectory,  and  advowson  of  the  vicarage  there ;  to  which 
his  eldest  surviving  grandson,  William  Seymour,  was  heir.  The 
second  inquisition,  taken  2yth  September  following,  includes 
his  settled  estates  in  Wilts,  Berks,  Hants,  Dorset,  Somerset, 
Lincoln,  and  Middlesex.  From  this  it  appears  that  the  manor 
of  Amesbury  Earls,  and  the  woodland  called  de  Bentley 
Woodes,  with  the  markets  and  fairs  of  Amesbury,  were  among 
other  property  conveyed  by  indenture  7  January  1617,  to  John 
Kent,  of  Devizes,  and  William  Gunter,  of  Milton,  near  Pewsey, 
in  trust,  to  the  use  of  the  Earl  for  life,  then  to  his  grandsons 
Edward,  William,  and  Francis,  and  their  heirs  male  in  succes- 
sion, then  to  the  heirs  of  the  same  grandsons  successively, 
then  to  the  heirs  of  the  said  Earl,  with  remainder  to  Sir 
Edward  Seymour,  of  Bury  Pomeroy,  co.  Devon,  and  Sir  John 
Seymour,  of  Marwell.  co.  Hants,  and  their  male  heirs  ;  and 
lastly,  to  the  right  heirs  of  Edward  Seymour,  grandson  of  the 
Earl,  for  ever.  (Wilts  Inq.  post  mortem,  temp.  Charles  /, 

PP-  i7,  23.) 

Edward  Seymour,  the  eldest  son  and  heir  of  Edward, 
second  Earl  of  Hertford,  and  Lady  Catherine  Grey,  was  born 
in  the  Tower  of  London,  2ist  September  1561,  and  baptized 
there  on  the  25th.  He  was,  as  we  have  seen  above,  among  others, 
proposed  to  Queen  Elizabeth  on  her  death-bed  as  her  successor. 
James  I  created  him  Baron  Beauchamp  6th  May  1609,  and  he 


362  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

also  obtained  a  patent  enabling  him  and  his  heirs  male  to  take 
the  title  of  Earl  of  Hertford ;  but,  dying  before  his  father,  he 
did  not  succeed  either  to  that  honour,  or  to  the  family  estates. 
He  died  at  Wick,  near  Pewsey,  and  was  buried  at  Great  Bed- 
wyn  2ist  July  1612,  where  a  small  brass  plate,  formerly  affixed 
to  a  slab  in  the  pavement  of  the  chancel1,  but  now  on  the  north 
wall,  thus  briefly  records  his  memory  : — 

"  Bellocampus  eram  Graia  genetrice  S  emerus, 
Tres  habui  natos,  est  quibus  una  soror." 

His  wife  was  Honora,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Rogers,  of  Brian- 
ston,  co.  Dorset ;  and  the  three  sons  mentioned  in  the  epitaph 
were  (i)  Edward,  (2)  William,  (3)  Francis2.  Edward,  the 
eldest,  afterwards  K.B.,  was  baptized  at  Camberwell  i2th  June 
1586,  and  died  in  1618,  without  surviving  issue3. 

On  the  death  of  their  grandfather  in  1621,  the  second  son, 
William,  born  1587-8,  and  then  33  years  old,  was  found  to  be 
the  heir.  In  1610,  when  at  the  age  of  22,  he  had  clandestinely 
married  Lady  Arabella  Stuart,  the  King's  first  cousin,  without 
the  Royal  consent,  and  thus  incurring  the  displeasure  of 
James  I,  was  obliged  to  fly  the  kingdom,  whilst  the  Lady 
Arabella  was  imprisoned  and  died  in  the  Tower — his  early 
matrimonial  difficulties  being  almost  an  exact  counterpart 
to  those  of  his  grandfather  and  the  unfortunate  Lady 
Catherine  Grey.  Both  ladies  lost  their  lives  in  the  Tower, 
whilst  the  offending  husband,  in  each  case,  regained  his  liberty, 
re-married,  and  survived  for  many  years. 


1  Aubrey  describes  it  as  "a  pittifull  grafted  freestone  gravestone." 

3  Created  Baron  Seymour  of  Trowbridge  in  1641. 

3  His  wife  was  Ann,  daughter  of  Robert  Sackville,  Earl  of  Dorset. 
Marriage  articles  dated  20th  March  1 608-9.  They  were  married  at  West- 
minster 1st  July.  In  1626  she  was  living  at  Eastou,  with  other  members  of 
the  Seymour  family  ;  and  afterwards  married  Sir  Edward  Lewys,  of  the 
Van,  co.  Glamorgan,  residing  for  many  years  in  the  old  mansion  of  the 
Pawlett's  at  Edington.  Sir  Edward  died  10th  October  1630  ;  his  widow  sur- 
viving until  25th  September  1664.  Both  lie  beneath  the  chancel  of 
Edington  Church,  where  a  sumptuous  tomb,  with  effigies,  records  their 
memory. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  363 

From  a  manuscript  account  of  his  family,  written  about  this 
time  by  Sir  Edward  Rodney,  of  Rodney  Stoke,  co.  Somerset,1 
we  learn  that  the  writer  (whose  mother  was  a  niece  of  Queen 
Jane  Seymour  and  the  Protector  Somerset)  was,  when  eight 
years  old,  sent  to  the  Grammar  School  at  Trowbridge,  where 
also  were  his  relatives,  the  sons  of  Edward  Seymour,  Lord 
Beauchamp.  Here  a  lasting  friendship  sprang  up  between 
them,  and  after  the  marriage  of  Sir  William  Seymour  with 
the  Lady  Arabella  Stuart,  Mr.  Rodney  (afterwards  Sir 
Edward)  then  aged  21,  accompanied  him  in  his  escape  to  Dun- 
kirk.2 

"Anno  1611.  Hee  went  beyond  the  seas  with  Sir  William  Seymour, 
second  son  of  William  [Edward]  Lord  Beauchamp,  who  fled  with  the 
Lady  Arbella,  whom  he  had  married  privately,  whereat  King  James  took 
great  offence,  and  committed  them  both  to  several  prisons,  from  whence 
they  escaped ;  but  the  Lady  Arbella  was  taken  again,  and  committed  to 
the  Tower,  where  she  died  of  sickness ;  Mr.  Rodney  returned  again  in 
Candlemas  term  the  same  year,  but  Mr.  Seymour  not  until  four  years 
after ;  and  not  till  the  Lady  Arbella  was  dead.3  After  that  he  returned 
and  is  now,  by  the  death  of  his  elder  brother,  Earl  of  Hertford. 

"  Sir  Edward  Rodney,  and  those  brothers  the  Seymours,  were  bred 
together  in  the  schools  of  Trowbridge  and  Oxford,  which  contracted  such 


1  Lately  printed  in  vol.  xvii  of  The  Genealogist,  new  series.     The  writer 
tells  us  that  after  six  years'  education  at  Trowbridge  Grammar  School,  and 
four  at  Magdalen  Coll.,  Oxford,  he  became  a  student  in  Middle  Temple, 
"  where  he  saluted  only  the  law  afarre  off,  and  mispent  his  time." 

2  About  November  1611  Mr.  Felling,  one  of  his  grandfather,  the  Earl  of 
Hertford's  Chaplains,  was  sent  over  to  him  ;  and  his  grandfather,  in  a  subse- 
quent letter,   dated  23rd  October  1613,  written  to  him  whilst  still  abroad, 
speaks  of  my  instructions  sent  you  by  your  Tutor  Pellinge.     John  Felling,  B.D. 
(whose  father  held  the  living  of  Burbage  for  32  years)  was,  in  1595,  presented 
by  Edward,  Earl  of  Hertford,  to  the  Rectory  of  Trowbridge.      He  was  also 
Rector  of  Bath  [16C8-1621],  Canon  of  Wells  [1613],  and  Chaplain  to  the 
King.      The  Burial  Register  of  Bath  Abbey  describes  him  as  "  the  worthie 
instrument  for  building  the  Church,"  i.e.,  repairing  the  Abbey  Church,  where 
his  monument  still  remains.      On  his  death,  Thomas  Felling,  his  son,  was 
inducted,  25th  November  1622,  to  the  vacant  Rectory  of  Trowbridge,  of 
which  William  Seymour,  Earl  of  Hertford,  after  his  return  from  Dunkirk, 
and  the  death  of  both  his  elder  brother   and   grandfather,  had  recently 
become  patron. 

3  The  Lady  Arabella  was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey  27th  September 
1615. 


364  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

a  friendship  between  Mr.  William  Seymour  and  him  that  he  readily 
exposed  himself  to  any  hazard  to  be  in  his  company ;  and  since  so  much 
favour  from  the  same  person  being  Marquis,  and  so  much  respect  from 
Sir  Edward  Rodney  to  the  Marquis  as  to  no  man  so  much.  It  is  true 
they  were  nearly  allied,  tor  Sir  Edward  Rodney  was  more  than  half  a 
Seymour,  by  his  mother,  who  was  daughter  to  Sir  Henry  Seymour,  who 
was  brother  to  the  Duke  oi  Somerset,  and  Queen  Jane  Seymour." 

After  the  death  of  the  Lady  Arabella,  her  husband  Sir 
William  Seymour  sought  permission  to  return  to  England,  which 
was  granted  5th  January  1616.  He  soon  afterwards  re-married 
Frances,  eldest  sister  and  co-heir  of  Robert  Devereux,  third 
Earl  of  Essex.  Two  of  their  children,  the  Lady  Frances  and 
the  Lady  Jane  Seymour,  were  baptized  at  Amesbury,  in  1625 
and  1637. — Parish  Register. 

Sir  William,  who  had  succeeded  to  the  Earldom  of  Hert- 
ford on  the  death  of  his  grandfather  in  1621,  was  created 
Marquess  of  Hertford  3  June  1640.  During  the  Civil 
Wars  he  was  conspicuous  for  his  loyalty  to  Charles  I1 ; 
and  at  the  Restoration,  by  a  special  Act  in  the  Par- 
liament begun  at  Westminster  25th  April  1660,  he  was  restored 
by  Charles  II  to  the  Dukedom  of  Somerset,  forfeited  by  the 
attainder  of  his  great  grandfather,  the  Protector,  with  all  privi- 
leges as  fully  and  amply  as  if  the  Act  of  Attainder  [5  Edward  VI] 
had  never  been  made  ;  the  King  remarking  that  "  as  this  was 
an  Act  of  an  extraordinary  nature,  so  it  was  done  for  an  extra- 
ordinary person,  who  had  merited  so  much  of  his  royal  father 
and  himself  as  any  subject  could  do  ;  and  he  therefore  hoped  no 
man  would  envy  it,  because  he  had  done  what  a  good  master 
should  do  to  such  a  servant." 

It  was  apparently  in  the  latter  years  of  this  nobleman  that 
the  mansion  at  Amesbury  was  wholly  rebuilt  from  the  designs 
of  Inigo  Jones,  carried  out  by  his  son-in-law,  John  Webb. 
Campbell,  in  his  Vitruvius  Brilanm'cus,  vol.  iii,  p.  7,  published 
1725,  gives  a  front  elevation,  with  plans  of  the  first  and  second 
storeys,  and  the  date,  Anno  1661.  The  great  staircase,  he  says,  is 
remarkable  here  for  having  a  little  one  in  the  middle  of  it.  Of 

*  He  was  General  of  the  King's  forces  in  the  West. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  365 

the  shield  formerly  on  the  pediment  of  the  principal  front  there 
is  a  drawing  in  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries,  vol.  ii,  p.  586.  It 
bore  the  six  principal  quarterings  of  Seymour,  enclosed  within 
a  garter,  and  ensigned  by  a  ducal  coronet1 — thus  identifying 
the  second  Duke  of  Somerset  as  the  builder.  The  well- 
known  crest  of  Seymour — a  ph&nix  in  flames — was  also  intro- 
duced among  the  foliage  of  the  capitals  of  the  four  columns  of 
the  portico,  as  well  as  those  within  the  saloon. 

The  second  Duke  of  Somerset  lived  but  a  very  short  time 
to  enjoy  his  restored  title.  He  died  on  the  24th  of  October 
1660,  in  the  74th  year  of  his  age,  and  was  buried  at  Great 
Bedwyn,  his  only  memorial  there  being  the  inscription  on  his 
coffin  plate  (of  which  the  writer  possesses  a  rubbing),2  and  the 
following  entry  in  the  parish  register  : — 

"  William  Semor,  Duke  of  Somerset,  late  Marquis  ot  Hartforde,  was 
buried  on  the  feast  of  All  Saints  at  night,  being  the  first  day  of  Nov'ber 
in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  1660." 

In  1662  John  Ray  visited  Amesbury,  which  he  thus  notices 
in  his  Itinerary,  vol.  iii,  p.  303  : — 

Monday,  July  i4th.  —  "At  Amesbury,  in  the  wall  of  the  Abbey,  we 
saw  an  old  grave-stone,  supposed  of  Queen  Guenever,  King  Arthur's 
wife;  these  remains  are  just  behind  the  Marquis  of  Hertford's  house,  in 
a  little  park." 

This  at  once  identifies  the  space  at  the  back  of  the  then 
newly-erected  mansion  as  the  site  of  the  discoveries  made  at 
the  commencement  of  the  i;th  century,  and  described  by  Inigo 
Jones.  The  same  site  was  again  excavated  for  new  founda- 
tions in  1860,  when  stone  coffins,  emptied  of  their  contents, 
and  broken  to  pieces,  were  brought  to  light  as  evidence  of  this 
earlier  spoliation.  Ray's  mention  of  "  the  wall  of  the  Abbey  " 


1  The  same  shield  of  arms  is  said  to  have  been  repeated  at  the  back  of 
the  house. 

2  His  coffin  plate  states  that  he  was  K.G.,  Chancellor  of  Oxford,  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Wilts,  Somerset,  and  the  City  of  Bristol,  a  Privy  Counsellor, 
Groom  of  the  Stole,  &c. 


366  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

shows  that  after  the  completion  of  the  new  mansion  in  1660-1 
some  remains  of  the  monastic  buildings  close  by,  were  yet 
standing. 

EDWARD  KITE. 
(To  be  continued.) 


ON   "  THE  JESSYE  "  AT  AMESBURY. 


I  notice  that  Mr.  Kite,  in  the  interesting  series  of  articles 
on  Amesbury  Monastery  that  you  are  now  publishing,  follows 
Canon  Jackson  in  his  explanation  of  "  the  Jessye  ". 

That  "  the  Jessye  "  was  the  name  of  a  building  and  not 
an  apartment  is  proved  by  "  Mastris  Wardour's  Chamber " 
being  "  in  the  lower  end  of  the  Jesse,"  so  that  it  must  have 
contained  two  rooms  at  least.  It  is  highly  improbable  that  a 
building  no  feet  long  would  receive  its  name  from  a  window 
of  peculiar  design  lighting  one  of  the  apartments  into  which  it 
was  divided. 

On  examining  the  Survey  of  the  "content  of  lead"  it  will 
be  seen  to  contain  only  those  buildings  surrounding  the 
cloister.1  By  laying  these  down  on  paper  in  their  usual 
positions  we  get  a  very  complete  plan  of  the  claustral  buildings 
of  a  monastery.  "  The  Jessye  "  is  not  required  to  fill  up  any 
space  save  one,  and  that  is  the  necessarium  or  reredorter,  which 
is  not  otherwise  mentioned.  The  reredorter  is  hardly  likely 
to  have  been  the  only  building  in  connexion  with  the  main 


1  Save  "  Joan  Homer's  chamber  "  and  "  The  Leaden  chamber,"  which 
might  have  been  anywhere.  Joan  Horner's  chamber  was  probably  a  new 
room  added  to  the  prioress'  house  during  her  time  of  office.  "  Kent's 
chamber  "  was  probably  a  guest  house.  The  kitchen  is  not  mentioned,  as 
being  probably  stone  roofed,  as  at  Durham,  Glastonbury,  and  elsewhere. 


On  "  The  Jessye"   at  Amesbury.  367 

block  that  was  not  roofed  with  lead,  which  would  be  the  only 
explanation  for  its  absence  from  the  survey. 

In  monastic  days,  as  at  present,  the  necessarium  was 
known  by  many  names.  Thus  at  Canterbury  it  was  called 
"the  Third  Dorter,"  and  is  so  mentioned  in  a  decree  of  the 
Chapter,  1547.*  The  usual  name  for  this  building,  employed 
by  the  surveyors  at  the  Suppression,  was  "Jakes "or  "  Jakis,"  of 
which  word  I  take  "Jessye"  to  be  a  canting  variation,  probably 
used  by  the  nuns  themselves. 

The  buildings  at  Amesbury  being  on  a  large  scale,  1 10  feet 
for  the  length  of  the  reredorter,  is  not  at  all  disproportionate  to 
a  dorter2  200  feet.  At  Castle  Acre,  with  a  dorter  of  only  no 
is  a  reredorter  no  less  than  91  feet.  At  Fountains  the  dorter 
was  187  feet  and  the  reredorter  100,  which  is  practically  the 
same  proportion  as  Amesbury. 

That  Margaret  Wardour's  chamber  should  be  in  the 
reredorter  is  not  an  unusual  arrangement,  as  in  later  monastic 
days  the  regulations  for  using  the  reredorter  appear  to  have 
been  modified,  judging  by  the  number  of  instances  in  which 
this  building  has  been  curtailed.  At  Fountains  the  Abbot 
appropriated  40  feet  of  the  lower  end  as  an  enlargement  for 
his  house.  A  similar  curtailment  occurred  at  Rievaulx,  while 
at  Lacock  more  than  one-half  of  the  old  reredorter  was  incor- 
porated into  an  enlargement  of  the  dorter.  At  Hulme,  Netley, 
Fountains,  and  other  places,  the  lower  storey  was  used  as  a 
living  room,  with  a  fireplace,  from  the  first. 

There  were  two  distinct  types  of  these  buildings,  the  one 
and  the  commonest  type  was  formed  of  a  long  chamber  with 
the  drain  running  down  one  side  wall,  over  which  were  the 


1  The  Monastery  of  Christ  Church  in  Canterbury,  by  the  Rev.  R.  Willis, 
M.A.,  F.S.A.  (London,  1869),  p.  87. 

2  The  old  English  word  "  dorter,"  meaning  a  dormitory  or  sleeping  place, 
occurs  before  the  end  of  the  13th  century,  and  was  used  continuously  by 
monastic  writers  until  the  suppression  and  after.     It  is  derived  from  the 
old  French  dortour  or  dortoir,  which  comes  from  the  Latin  dormitorium. 
See  A  New  English  Dictionary,  iii,  507 — Dortour,  Dorter. 


368  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

seats,  and  the  other  divided  into  two  chambers  by  a  partition 
wall  in  the  centre,  against  which  were  the  seats  back  to  back, 
with  the  drain  occupying  the  whole  lower  storey,  as  at  Furness, 
Whalley,  and  the  lay-brothers'  reredorters  of  Fountains  and 
Kirkstall.  "Every  seate  and  partition  was  of  wainscott,  close 
of  either  syde,  verie  decent,  so  that  one  of  them  could  not  see 
one  another  when  they  weare  in  that  place."1 

In  Cistercian  houses  the  dormitorii  necessaria  were  among 
the  buildings  that  had  to  be  visited  by  the  Sunday  procession. 

In  the  additional  rules  for  the  nuns  of  St.  Bridget  at  Sion, 
we  find  "in  the  howse  of  secrete  nede,  silence  is  ever  to  be 
kepte."8 

It  was  also  to  be  visited  every  night  by  the  searchers  to 
see  none  lingered  there. 

HAROLD  BRAKSPEAR,  F.S.A. 


QUAKERISM  IN  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  320. ) 


III.— BIRTH     RECORDS. 

F. 

1651-1-22. — Joane  FEW,  dau.  of  Richard  Few,  of  Lavington 
Meeting. 

1653-12-26. — Richard  FEW,  son  of  Richard  Few,  of  Lavington 
Meeting. 

1656-7-3. — Walter   FEW,   son  of   Richard  Few,  of  Lavington 
Meeting. 

1659-2-10. — John  FLOWER,  son  of  John  and  Ellinor  Flower,  of 
Corsham. 


1  Rites  of  Durham,  Written  1593.    Surtees  Society,  15,  (1842),  p.  72, 

2  Aungier's  History  of  Sion,  p.  296. 


Quakerism   in    Wiltshire.  369 

1660-11-20. — Daniell  FEW,  son  of  Richard  Few,  of  Lavington 
Meeting. 

1661-10-21. — Hannah  FLOWER,  dau.  of  John  and  Ellinor  Flower, 
of  Corsham. 

1663-7-2. — Samuell  and  Jane   FLOWER,   twin   son   and  dau.  of 
John  and  Ellinor  Flower,  of  Corsham. 

1664-4-6. — Isaac    FEW,    son    of  Richard    Few,    of  Lavington 

Meeting. 

1665-9-3. — William   FLOWER,  son  of  John   and  Ellinor  Flower, 
of  Corsham. 

1666-2-21. — Joseph    FEW,  son  of  Richard  Few,  of  Lavington 
Meeting. 

1666-10-4. — Christopher  FREEMAN,  son  of  Christopher  Freeman. 
1667-5-6. — Ruth  FRY,  dau.  of  John  Fry,  of  Blackland. 
1667/8-12-11. — Robert  FREEMAN,  son  of  Christopher  Freeman. 

1669-2-25. — James   FLOWER,  son  of  John  and  Ellinor  Flower, 
of  Corsham. 

1669-7-28. — Charitie  FREEMAN,  dau.  of  Christopher  Freeman. 

1671-7-6. — Daniell    FREEMAN,  son  of  Christopher  Freeman,  of 
Maryborough  Meeting. 

1673/4-1-8. — Mary  FREEMAN,  dau.  of  Christopher  Freeman. 
1676/7-11-12. — Margaret  FREEMAN,  dau.  of  Christopher  Freeman. 
1677-1-21. — Elizabeth  FILKES,  of  Purton  Meeting. 

1679-9-20. — Francis  FREEMAN,  son  of  Christopher  Freeman,  of 
Marlbro'  Meeting. 

1681-9-6. — Elizabeth  FREEMAN,  dau.  of  Christopher  Freeman,  of 
Marlbro'  Meeting. 

1687-2-3. — Mary  FRY,  dau.  of  Zeph.  and  Jane  Fry,  of  Sutton. 

1688-11-30. — Zephaniah    FRY,     son    of   Zephaniah   and   Jane 
Fry,  of  Sutton. 

1691-6-18. — William  FRY,   son  of  Zephaniah  and  Jane  Fry,  of 
Sutton. 

1694-3-21. — Richard  FRY,  son  of  Zephaniah  and  Jane  Fry,  of 
Sutton. 

1694-6-26. — Mary  FIFIELD,   dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Fifield,  of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1696-8-24. — Jane  FRY,  dau.  of  Zephaniah   and  Jane   Fry,   of 
Sutton. 

1699-12-24. — Margret  FRY,  dau.  of  Zephaniah  and  Jane  Fry, 
of  Sutton. 

c  c 


37°  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


G. 

1656-8-7. — Steven  GARDNER,  son  of  John  Gardner,  of  Purton. 
1659/60-11-1. — Judeth  GINGELL,  dau.  of  Edward  Gingell. 

1660-6-15. — Thomas  GARNER  (GARDNER],  son  of  John  Garner 
[Gardner],  of  Purton  [Lavington  Meeting]. 

1662-1-25. — Abygaile  GENGELL,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
Gengell,  of  Charlcutt. 

1662-1-30. — Alice  GUDDERIDGE  [GUDRIDGE],  dau.  of  John  Gud- 
deridge  [Gudridge],  of  Purton  [Lavington 
Meeting]. 

1662-2-4. — Thomas  GARNER  [GARDNER],  son  of  John  Garner 
[Gardner],  of  Purton. 

1663-6-4. — Mary  GARNER  [GARDNER],  dau.  of  John  Garner 
[Gardner],  of  Purton  Meeting. 

1664-3-16. — Jonah  GENGELL,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah  Gengell, 
of  Charlcutt. 

1664-7-8. — John  GUDDERIDGE,  son  of  John.  Gudderidge,  of 
Purton. 

1664/5-1-23. — William  GRIMES,  son  of  William  Grimes. 

1666/7-11-17. — Hannah  GARDNER  [GARNER],  dau.  of  John 
Gardner  [Garner],  of  Purton  Meeting. 

1666/7-1-25. — Phillip  GUDDERIDGE,  son  of  John  Gudderidge,  of 
Purton  Meeting. 

1667-4-21. — Jonathan  GENGELL,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
Gengell,  of  Charlcutt. 

1667-*-!. — John  GEY,  son  of  Edward  and  Agnes  Gey,  of 
Lavington  Meeting. 

1668-10-17. — Ann  [Anne]  GRIMES,  dau.  of  William  Grimes,  of 
Crickled. 

1668-9-12-6. — Jeremiah  GENGELL,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
Gengell,  of  Charlcutt.  • 

1669-7-4. — Edward  GEY,  son  of  Edward  and  Agnes  Gey,  of 
Lavington  Meeting. 

1669-8-2. — Elizabeth  GARDNER,  dau.  of  John  Gardner,  of 
Purton  Meeting. 

1672-4-7. — Sarah  GERRISH,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Gerrish,  ot 

Bromham. 
1672-4-12. — Walter  GALE,  son  of  Charles  and  Joane  Gale,  of 

Foxham. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  371 


1672-10-18. — Hannah  GEY,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Agnes  Gey,  of 
Lavington  Meeting. 

1674-1-10. — Edward  GALE,  son  of  Charles  and  Joane  Gale,  of 
Voxham. 

1674-8-15. — Rebeckah  GUDDERIDGE,  dau.  of  John  Gudderidge. 

1674-9-2. — Mary  GEY,  dau.    of    Edward  and   Agnes    Gey,    of 
Lavington  Meeting. 

1675-1-12. — Hester  GERRISH,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ann  Gerrish, 
of  Bromham. 

1675-8-28. — Adam    GOULDNEY,:  son    of   Adam    Gouldney,    of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1676-9-25. — Thomas  GALE,  son  of  Charles  and  Joane  Gale. 

1677-5-10. — Christian    GERRISH,    dau.    of    Thomas    and   Ann 
Gerrish,  of  Bromham. 

1677-6-8.  —Edward  and  Samuel  GEY,  twin  sons  of  Edward  and 
Agnes  Gey,  of  Lavington  Meeting. 

1678-2-25. — John   GALE,    son    of  Charles  and  Joane  Gale,    of 
Voxham. 

1678-3-23. — Mary   GOULDNEY,    dau.    of    Adam     Gouldney,    of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1680-6-30. — Jane  GOULDNEY,  dau.  of  Adam  Gouldney,  of  Chip- 
penham Meeting. 

1680-12-11. — James  GALE,  son  of  Charles  and  Joane  Gale,  of 
Voxham. 

1683-10-12. — Thomas   GOULDNEY,  son  of  Adam    Gouldney,  of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1698-8-8. — Daniel   GRANT,  son  of  George  and  Ann  Grant,  of 
Bradford,  clothier. 

1699-4-11. — John   GYE,    son   of  John    and  Elizabeth    Gye,    of 
Market  Lavington. 

NORMAN  PENNEY. 
Tottenham,  Middx. 

(To  be  continued^ 


1  A  well -known  Wiltshire  name.  The  earliest,  mention  of  the  name  in 
the  Records  is  a  marriage  in  1674,  and  the  latest  is  a  death  in  1761.  There 
are  four  Adam  Gouldneys  in  direct  descent  recorded.  The  name  also 
occurs  with  frequency  on  the  Minute  Books  of  the  Society  in  Wiltshire. 
See  W.  N.  $  Q.,  Dec.  189(5,  p.  178,  where  the  date  of  the  death  of  Mary 
Gouldney,  the  minister,  should  be  1716. 

C  C  2 


37 2  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  323.) 


HENRY  VIII. 

325,.  Anno  i. — Robert  Griffithe  and  John  Milbridge ; 
messuage  in  New  Sarum  in  "  le  Whele  Rewe  "  in  the  parish 
of  St.  Thomas  Apostle.  80  marks. 

326.  Anno     i. — Thomas     Horton    and    Thomas    Long; 
messuage  and  land  in  Trowbridge. 

327.  Anno  i. — William  Rowswell  and  Robert  Leusage, 
arm.,  and  Jane  his  wife  ;  manor  of  Fedyngton,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Estlavington  and  Westlavington.     ^104  sterling. 

328.  Anno  i. — William   Anstye   and   Elizabeth  his  wife 
and  William  Rycheman  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Brodehenton. 
^30  sterling. 

329.  Anno    i. — The   King   and  George    Haward,    arm. ; 
manors   of  Wylye,    Berwicke,    North    Newton,    and    Hulcote, 
messuages  and  lands  in  Wylye,  Berwicke,  Hulcote,  Savernake, 
and  Woore,   with   advowson  of  the  churches  of  Wylye,  Ber- 
wicke, and  North  Newton.     ^1000  sterling. 

330.  Anno  i. — Richard  Blount,  arm.,  and  Richard  Lyster, 
knt. ;  manor  of  Wodrewe,  messuages  and  lands  in  Wodrewe, 
Mylksham,  Bromehame,  and  Ambresbury.     ^140  sterling. 

331.  Anno  i. — William  Daly  and  Thomas  Long;  manor 
of   Madyngton    alias   Wynterbourne  Madyngtori ;    messuages 
and   lands   in   Madyngton   alias   Wynterbourne    Madyngton. 
;£i8o  sterling. 

332.  Anno  i. — Thomas  Seymour,  knt.  of  the  most  noble 
order  of  the  garter,   Lord   Seymour   of  Sudeley,    and  Great 
Admiral  of  England  and  Andrew   Baynton,   arm. ;    manor  of 
Cornpton    Chamberleyn,    messuage,    and    lands    in    Compton 
Chamberleyn,  and  Bereford.     800  marks. 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for    Wiltshire.  373 

333.  Anno    i. — William  Button,     arm.,     and    William 
Smyth,    and    Mary   his   wife,  daughter   and   heir   of    George 
Cluden,  messuages  and  lands  in  Fulston  and   Wylton.     ^30 
sterling. 

334.  Anno    i. — Christopher  Becke  and  Thomas    Layton 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  messuages  and  lands  in  Warminster, 
Norton  Bavent  and  Ensford.     200  marks. 

335.  Anno  i. — Anthony  Leeson  and  Walter  Mohun,  arm.; 
messuages   and  lands   in    New   Sarum,    Fysherton     .... 
Byssett.     Document  damaged  and  illegible. 

336.  Anno    i. — William    Sheryngton,  knt,    and  Andrew 
Baynton,  arm.,  and  Edward  Baynton,  gen. ;  manors  of  Wrough- 
ton  and  Cheseldon  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Wroughton  and 
Cheseldon.     ,£160  sterling. 

337.  Anno    i. — Henry   Goldstone   and  George    Ludlowe, 
arm.,  son  and  heir  of  William  Ludlowe  of  Huldeverell,  and  Edith 
his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum  and  Alwardbury. 
^35  sterling. 

338.  Anno    i. — Thomas  Chaffy n,  gent.,  and  John  More, 
arm.;  messuages  and  lands  in    Mere   and    Woodland.     ^306 
sterling. 

339.  Anno    i. — Henry   Bull  and  William  Sturnpe,   gen.; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Cheppenham.     ^£56  sterling. 

340.  Anno    i. — William    Herbert,    knt.,  and   Humphrey 
Stafford,     knt.  ;     manor    of    Dechington    alias     Dechehamp- 
ton ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Dechington  alias  Dechehampton, 
with    the    advowson    of    the    church    of    St.    Andrew.     530 
marks. 

341.  Anno  i. — Thomas  Arundell,  knt.,  and  Fulke  Grevyll, 
knt.,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  ;  manor,  castle  and  park  of  Warder ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Warder.       ;£6oo  sterling. 

342.  Anno  i. — Nicholas  Snell,  gen.,  and  Thomas  Wilton 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Semyngton. 
80  marks. 


374  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

343.  Anno  i. — Edward,  Earl  of  Somerset,  and  Henry 
Carye,  arm. ;  the  hundred  of  Kynwardeston  (with  all  its  rights 
and  liberties  of  frank  pledge,  court,  etc.,  etc.,  given  at  length). 
^£300  sterling. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.) 


MADDINGTON.— ABBASTON  MANOR. 


EXTRACT  FROM  MADDINGTON  REGISTER. — No.  i. 

1659. — Susannah,  the  wife  of  Mr.  Thomas  Gilbert,  of  Abbaeston,  in 
this  parish,  was  bured'ori  the  26th  of  March,  1659. 

1661.— Mr.  John  Gilbert,  of  Abeston,  the  elder,  was  buryed  the  Eleventh 
day  of  August,  1661. 

Abbaston  Manor  is  identified  by  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare  and 
Canon  Jones  with  the  Winterbourne  land  of  the  Abbot  of 
St.  Peter's,  Winchester.  In  the  Exon  Domesday  it  immediately 
follows  Maddington,  in  the  Hundred  of  Dole. 

By  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare  it  is  identified  with  Asserton,  in  the 
parish  of  Winterbourne  Stoke,  for  reasons  given,  but  by 
Canon  Jones  with  Rollestone,  simply  because  he  was  convinced 
that  Abbaston  was  close  to  Maddington,  and  there  was  no 
other  unidentified  manor.  The  sale  of  Mr.  W.  Davis'  estate, 
occupied  by  Mr.  W.  K.  Melsom,  published  the  fact  that  it  was 
the  lost  manor.  This  was  some  time  after  the  publication  of 
Canon  Jones'  Domesday,  but  it  could  not  be  altered,  and  he 
was  not  disposed  to  correct  it.  His  assertion  that  Rollestone 
was  transferred  from  Dole  to  Elstub  and  Everley  had  no 
authority  beyond  his  own  conjecture.  Rollestone  in  the 
Domesday  is  given  under  Elstub  Hundred. 

I  had  not  then  transcribed  Maddington  register,  which 
confirms  the  identification  of  Abbaston. 


A  Landlord's  Caution  to  his  Customers.  375 

The  isolation  of  Rolleston  in  the  midst  of  the  Great 
Manors  of  the  Lemoignes,  in1  Maddington,  and  Amesbury 
Abbey,  and  its  singularly  isolated  existence,  has  led  me  to 
think  that  this  was  owing  to  its  importance  under  a  Saxon 
Lord,  which  was  continued  after  the  Conquest.  That  the 
King's  Thane  Cudolph  appears  to  me  not  improbably  to 
be  the  Saxon  owner,  and  to  suggest  that  he  was  the  Domes- 
day owner  who  achieved  the  independence  of  the  parish 
and  manor,  which  has  lasted  to  the  present  time.  None  of 
the  other  unidentified  manors  seem  at  all  likely,  and  Sir 
R.  C.  Hoare's  remarks  as  to  the  traces  of  early  buildings 
south  of  the  Church  point  to  the  fact  that  Rollestone  virtually 
commanded  the  fords  of  the  Winterbourne,  on  the  old  London 
and  Exeter  track,  and  would  be  the  natural  home  of  a  lord 
who  would  execute  the  demands  of  law  and  justice  among  his 
neighbours  and  protect  travellers  when  delayed  by  floods  or 
deep  snow  from  crossing  the  stream,  or  of  continuing  their 
journey  over  the  plain — as  in  1881. 

FREDK.  BENNETT. 
Exmouth. 


A  Landlord's  Caution  to  his  Customers. — The  following 
lines,  printed  in  antique  type,  on  a  broad  sheet  23  inches  by 
1 8,  have  for  many  years  hung,  in  a  heavy  frame,  on  the  wall 
opposite  the  bar  window  of  the  Lion  and  Fiddle  Inn,  at  Hilper- 
ton.  Being  the  only  copy  I  have  met  with  of  a  somewhat  rare 
version,  it  may  perhaps  be  worth  recording  in  the  pages  of 
Wilts  N.  6°  Q. 

THE  LANDLORD'S  |  KIND    CAUTION  TO  HIS  CUSTOMERS.  | 

Right  welcome  all  my  Masters,  that  come  here, 
To  drink  a  Health  of  wholesome  English  Beer; 

My  Liquor's  good,  I  hope  'twill  please  you  well, 
I'm  sure  there's  none  in  Town  can  it  excell : 

Call,  Gentlemen,  call,  I'm  ready  for  to  sell. 


376 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


If  I  refuse  to  trust  a  Friend, 

He  takes  it  in  Disdain; 
If  I  him  trust,  or  Money  lend, 

My  House  he  will  refrain. 

Then  judge,  my  Masters,  in  what 
Men  of  my  calling  be  ;      [plight, 

For  when  I  do  demand  my  right, 
My  Friend  proves  Foe  to  me. 

I  therefore  am  advis'd  hereby, 
Where  e'er  I  am  a  Dweller : 

To  keep  my  Money  in  my  Purse, 
My  Beer  within  my  cellar. 

If  I  trust,  and  ne'er  am  paid, 
'Tis  true  I  am  like  to  find; 

T'will  make  my  Maltster  so  afraid, 
His  Horses  will  go  blind. 


Then  if  that  ye  no  Money  have, 
Nor  none  that  ye  can  borrow ; 

I  pray  forbear  to  drink  To-day, 
And  I  will  trust  To-morrow. 

But  yet  I  will  advised  be, 
In  any  Thing  that's  just ; 

I'll  give  a  Pot,  nay  two  or  three, 
But  not  one  Farthing  trust. 

Whoe'er  ye  are,  think  of  the  Shot, 

Or  what  Place  e'er  ye  be  ; 
He's  welcomer  that  pays  one  Pot, 
Than  he  that  scores  up  Three. 

If  this  kind  Caution  ye  mind  all, 
No  Frowning  will  be  then ; 

For  if  ye  pay  for  what  ye  call, 
Ye  are  Welcome,  Gentlemen. 


Gentlemen,  ye  are  welcome,  sit  down  at  your  Ease, 
Pay  what  ye  call  for,  and  drink  what  you  please. 
Printed  and  Sold  at  the  Printing  Office  in  Bow-Church-Yard,  London. 

It  is  enclosed  within  a  finely  engraved  border,  con- 
sisting of  forty  shields  of  arms  ascribed  to  the  different 
counties  of  England  (reminding  one  of  Speed's  Maps,  published 
in  the  early  part  of  the  i  yth  century),  with  the  Royal  Arms, 
and  a  Printer's  device,  in  the  centre  at  top  and  bottom. 

WILTONIENSIS. 


Wiltshire,  1707. — Having  in  my  possession  a  book  en- 
titled Anglice  Notitia :  or  the  Present  State  of  England,  &c., 
published  in  1707,  I  find  the  following  passages  which,  I  think, 
may  be  interesting  to  the  readers  of  W.  N.  &>  Q. 

Wiltshire,  is  in  the  diocese  of  Salisbury,  140  miles  in  circumference; 
contains  about  876,000  acres,  and  27,093  houses.  A  pleasant  and  health- 
ful air  and  soil ;  the  men  are  warlike  and  hardy :  its  rivers,  Isis,  Kennett, 
Avon,  Willy  and  Nadder.  Its  chief  commodities  are  sheep,  wool, 
wood,  and  choice  rabbits  ot  auburn  chase.  Here's  knot-grass  ordinarily 
15,  sometimes  20  foot  long;  its  long  knots  will  fat  swine.  The  woollen 
manufacture  of  this  county  is  very  great ;  it  has  304  parishes,  and  23 


Bampfylde  Moore  Carew  and  Lord  Weymouth.         377 

towns,  besides  the  city  of  Salisbury;  70  miles  from  London;  which  has 
one  ot  the  finest  Cathedral-churches  in  the  world,  founded  by  Richard 
Poore,  Bishop  of  Sarum,  in  the  year  1216.  It  has  as  many  doors  as 
months,  windows  as  days,  and  pillars  as  hours  in  the  year.  It?  steeple  is 
the  highest  spire  of  England;  most  of  the  streets  of  this  city  have 
rivulets  running  all  along  through  them.  Near  it  is  the  fam'd  wonder  of 
Stonehenge;  the  strange  caves  between  Luckington  and  Badmington 
are  supposed  to  have  been  the  tombs  of  some  great  warriors.  Hendon 
and  Chippenham  have  great  markets.  Its  chief  seats  are  Marlborow- 
house  and  Allington-house,  the  Duke  of  Somerset's ;  Eddington,  the 
Duke  of  Boltoris ;  Wilton  and  Falston  or  Fallersdown,  the  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke s  ;  Charlton,  the  Earl  of  Berks  ;  Longleat,  Lord  Viscount 
Weymouth's ;  Wardour-Castle,  Lord  Arundel  of  Wardour's ;  Darner- 
ham,  Duke  oi  Newcastle. 

CHARITY  SCHOOLS.— Broad-Hinton,  the  Minister,  teaches  the  poor 
children  to  read,  Gratis.  Deverel,  32  children  taught,  to  which  the  Offer- 
tory is  apply'd,  and  £4  per  An.  given  by  a  private  person.  Salisbriry,  two 
schools  for  30  boys  and  20  girls,  all  clothed,  and  taught  to  read,  card, 
knit,  and  spin  :  so  that  some  of  the  children  earn  i/-,  1/6,  and  2/-  per 
week  ;  for  which  £4.0  per  An.  is  given  by  the  Bishop. 

J.  c.  P. 


Bampfylde  Moore  Carew,  and  Lord    Weymouth. — In 

the  December  Cornhill  is  an  article  upon  this  "  amazing  vaga- 
bond," in  which  is  related  the  following  story : — Carew,  dis- 
guised as  a  shipwrecked  sailor,  on  nearing  Longleat  fell  in  with 
another  in  the  same  plight  as  himself;  after  having  been 
successful  in  obtaining  alms  and  food  at  the  mansion,  they 
adjourned  to  a  public  house,  and,  having  had  a  good  carouse, 
separated. 

Shortly  afterwards  Carew  was  overtaken  by  two  horsemen  sent  by 
Lord  Weymouth  to  bring  back  the  two  sailors.     When  ushered  into  the 

great  man's  presence  Carew  was  treated  very  roughly He 

was  then  removed  to  await  the  capture  of  his  comrade,  and  soon  that 
ragged  gentleman  entered  the  room  where  Carew  was  confined.  They 
had  just  time  for  a  hurried  consultation  together  before  they  were  again 
separated,  and  Carew  was  once  more  brought  before  the  Lord  of  Long- 


37^  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

leat,  who  thereupon,  to  the  unbounded  astonishment  of  the  prisoner, 
disclosed  the  extraordinary  fact  that  his  ragged  shipwrecked  comrade 
was  none  other  than  himself!  ....  It  seems  that  he  was  in  the 
habit  of  thus  playing  the  vagabond,  partly  to  relieve  a  natural  ennui, 
and  partly  to  learn  what  was  really  going  on  in  the  neighbourhood  of  his 
vast  estates.  1  should  add  that  he  insisted  on  Carew  staying  with  him 
at  Longleat  some  time 

Although  G.  E.  C.  in  his  Complete  Peerage  has  some 
remarks  about  his  character,  he  does  not  mention  this  idiosyn- 
cracy.  What  truth  is  there  in  this  remarkable  story  ? 

A.  J.  S. 


Bennett. — Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  whether 
Wiliam  Bennett,  of  Maddington,  who  married  Mary  Munday, 
of  Shrewton,  on  24th  September  1721,  is  descended  from  the 
Bennetts  of  Pythouse,  or  the  Bennetts  (or  Benets)  of  Norton 

Bavant  ? 

F.  BENNETT. 
Oakdene, 

Salisbury. 


Field  Names. — What  do  these  names  mean — Conigre; 
Lippiatts;  Cadley ;  The  Grovel  These  names  all  occur  in 
Melksham  Parish,  and  the  first  three  elsewhere  to  my  know- 
ledge. 

The  Conigre  is  a  name  given  to  four  or  five  enclosures 
which  contain  some  of  the  best  land  in  the  parish,  so  that  I 
cannot  accept  the  derivation  given  by  some  that  it  means 
"  rabbit  warren  ".  As  this  was  in  ancient  days  a  Royal  Manor 
I  suggest  that  this  is  an  old  word  applicable  to  Royal  Demesne 
lands. 

Lippiatts  is  also  spelt  Lypyates  and  otherwise.  Yate  or 
Yatt  in  some  parts  of  England  means  a  gate.  If  that  be  the 
case  here,  what  does  the  first  part  of  the  word  mean  ? 


Old  Sarum  Kettle. 


379 


Cadley  I  know  nothing  about. 

Has  The  Grove  any  special  meaning  ?  It  is  applied  to 
three  or  four  grounds. 

I  may  add  that  I  have  attempted  to  classify  and  extract 
the  meaning  from  some  300  Field-names  in  Melksham  Parish, 
all  of  which  seemed  to  challenge  attention. 

T.  G.  J.  H. 


Old  Sarum  Kettle. — A  friend  of  mine  showed  me  recently 
an  "  Old  Sarum  Kettle  "  (so  called)  which  had  been  given  to 
her.  It  was  a  piece  of  brown  ware  (new)  made  by  Doultons  of 


Lambeth,  and  bore  the  device,  shown  above,  which  I  sketched 
as  nearly  as  I  could.  Can  anyone  tell  me  anything  about  this 
device,  if  it  has  any  meaning  ? 

J.  S. 


380  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Lady  Close  (vol.  iii,  p.  334). — Perhaps  an  old  enclosure,  of 
which  the  rent  was  formerly  appropriated  to  the  service  of 
some  Church  or  Chapel  dedicated  to  the  Virgin. 

Here  in  Melksham  there  are  two  local  names,  "  The  Ladies' 
Pond,"  and  "  The  Ladies'  Ford,"  which,  I  expect,  carry  us 
back  to  the  days  when  the  Ladies  of  Amesbury  were  Ladies  of 

the  Manor. 

T.  G.  J.  H. 


Flemings  in  Wilts  (vol.  iii,  p.  334). — Here  are  some 
names  from  Melksham  which  seem  to  be  Flemish.  Brouncker 
or  Bronker ;  Guppy,  spelt  Goupi  in  Aubrey  and  Jackson ; 
Stantials;  Brabant;  Yude;  Haverd;  Mas/in  (perhaps  Mechlin) ; 
Vanderplank;  Ghent;  Certain  or  Sartain;  Par/it  or  Perfect; 
Jordan;  Olivier. 

With  regard  to  Flemish-looking  houses,  I  lately  saw,  in 
an  illustrated  magazine,  a  drawing  of  typical  Flemish  or  Dutch 
houses.  They  at  once  reminded  me  of  certain  houses  in 
Melksham,  Beckington,  Road,  and  elsewhere,  where  the 
clothing  industry  was  once  prevalent. 

T.  G.  J.  H. 


[Perhaps  we  might  add,  Clutterbuck,  Goddard,  Bruges,  Paradise, 
all  of  which  names  are  still  to  be  found  in  Holland  or  Bel- 
gium. Bradford  has  been  called  the  "English  Bruges." 
—En.] 


Amesbury  Church.  381 


Amesbury  Church  (vol.  iii,  p.  298). — Mr.  Kite  says,  "  If 
these  papers  at  Longleat  had  not  come  to  light,  the  identity  of 
the  present  parish  Church  of  Amesbury  with  that  of  the  dis- 
solved Monastery — which  had  previously  been  a  matter  of 
general  acceptance — might  never  have  been  questioned,"  &c. 
Why  should  it  not  have  been  questioned  ?  If  Mr.  Kite 
supposes  that  my  view  originated,  in  any  way,  from  the  Long- 
leat papers,  he  is  entirely  mistaken.  I  contend  that  it  is  pre- 
cisely since  the  publication  of  Canon  Jackson's  paper,  and 
partly  in  consequence  of  such  publication,  that  this  theory  has 
been  gaining  ground  and  becoming  established  as  an  accepted 
opinion.  Mr.  Kite  also  speaks  of  Mr.  Ruddle  and  myself,  as 
if  we  had  raised  a  new  question,  for  the  first  time,  at  the 
Amesbury  meeting.  I  consider  that  what  we  then  did  was 
simply  to  dispute  a  view,  which,  though  it  may  not  be  new,  is 
at  any  rate,  of  entirely  modern  origin.  I  do  not  think  Sir 
Richard  Hoare  says  anything  to  show  that  such  an  opinion 
was  prevalent,  when  he  wrote,  or  that  he  held  it  himself.  I 
shall  be  glad  if  anyone  can  tell  me  when  it  was  first  put  for- 
ward. I  have  been  given  to  understand  that  it  was  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  but  I  have  been  unable 
to  obtain  any  definite  information  on  the  point.  If  that  was 
the  time,  the  idea  would  appear  to  have  sprung  up  when  the 
building  of  Lord  Carleton's  house  and  the  subsequent  altera- 
tions by  the  Duke  of  Queensberry  had  almost  entirely  obliter- 
ated the  traces  of  the  monastic  buildings,  and,  no  doubt, 
obscured  the  traditions  associated  with  them.  In  the  early 
seventeenth  century,  when  the  site  of  the  nuns'  church  may 
probably  have  been  remembered,  it  does  not  appear  to  have 
been  heard  of  at  all. 

C.  H.  TALBOT. 
Lacock  Abbey. 


382  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


on 


COMPLETE  BARONETAGE.  EDITED  BY  G.  E.  C.  VOLUME  I. 
1611-1625.  Exeter:  William  Pollard  &  Co.,  Ltd.,  39 
&  40,  North  Street,  1900. 

All  those  who  have  the  good  fortune  to  possess,  or  be 
acquainted  with,  that  truly  monumental  work  the  Complete 
Peerage,  compiled  by  G.  E.  C.,  will  hail  with  pleasure  the  issue 
of  the  first  volume  of  the  Complete  Baronetage  by  the  same 
learned  and  accurate  writer,  whose  name  now  is  no  secret. 
The  work  is  to  be  in  eight  volumes  (harmonious  with  the 
Peerage),  the  first  treating  only  of  those  English  and  Irish 
Baronetcies  created  by  James  I.  There  is  a  long  preface, 
consisting  ol  twelve  pages,  by  which  we  learn  that, the  creation 
of  this  title  does  not  seem  to  have  been  an  original  idea  of 
the  British  Solomon  or  of  his  "little  beagle,"  William  de  la 
Pole  and  his  heirs  (according  to  Sir  Robert  Cotton,  the  anti- 
quary) having  had  letters  patent  in  1339  conferring  on  them 
the  dignity  of  Baronet  in  return  for  a  sum  of  money ;  this  is 
succeeded  by  a  list  of  printed  Baronetages,  beginning  with  that 
of  Arthur  Collins  (the  well-known  editor  of  Collins'  Peerage] 
in  1720;  at  the  end  of  the  volume  is  a  list  of  subscribers, 
which  ought  to  be,  and  would  be,  much  longer  if  people  were 
aware  of  the  merit  and  increasing  value  of  this  work. 

We  append  some  notes  on  Baronetcies  connected  with  our 
County,  created  by  James  I : — 

SAINT  JOHN.— Cr.  22  May  1611,  afterwards  (1716)  Viscounts 
Bolingbroke  and  St.  John;  John  St.  John,  of  Lideard  Tregos, 
s.  and  h.  of  Sir  John  St.  John  of  the  same,  by  Lucy,  da.  and  h. 
of  Sir  Walter  Hungerford,  of  Farley. 

SEYMOUR. — Cr.  29  June  1611,  afterwards  (1750)  Dukes  of 
Somerset ;  Edward  Seymour,  of  Bury  Castle,  co.  Devon,  Esq.  (he 
was  the  eldest  son  by  the  first  wife  of  the  Protector,  but  was  not 
the  heir  apparent  to  the  peerage,  there  being  a  spec.  rem.  to  the 


Notes  on  Books.  383 


heirs  male  of  the  body  of  the  grantee  by  his  second  wife  failin 
which,  &c. ;)  his  descendant  Sir  Edward,  ot  Bury  and  Maiden 
Bradley,  Wilts,  succeeded  in  1688,  this  son  Sir  Edward  (by  his  first 
wife  Margaret,  da.  and  co-h.  of  Sir  William  Wale,  of  North  Luffen- 
ham,  co.  Rutland,  Alderman  of  London,)  of  Bury  and  Maiden 
Bradley,  succeeded  in  1708;  Sir  Edward  Seymour,  son  of  the 
last-named  (by  Letitia  Popham,  of  Littlecote,)  succeeded  in  1740, 
having  married  at  Monckton  Farley  5  (not  8)  March  1716-17,  Mary,1 
da.  and  h.  of  Daniel  Webb,  of  that  place,  and  Melksham,  Wilts,  by 
Elizabeth,  dau.  of  John;  and  sister  and  heir  of  Edward  Somner. 

BRUDENELL.— Cr.   29  June     1611,   afterwards  (1628)   Baron 
Brudenell,  (1661)  Earl  of  Cardigan,  (1868)  Marquess  of  Ailesbury. 

ENGLEFIELD.— Of   Wootton   Basset,   cr.  25   Nov.    1611,    ex. 
21  March,  1822. 

GORGES. — Of  Langford,  cr.  25  Nov.  1611,  afterwards  (1620) 
Baron  Gorges,  ex.  Sept.  1712. 

BURDETT.— Cr.  25   Feb.    1618-9.      In    1797    Francis   Burdett 
succeeds,   being  of   Foremark   (near    Repton),   and  of    Ramsbury 


1  As  a  widow  she  lived  for  some  years  until  her  death  in  what  is  still 
(or  was  until  quite  lately)  called  the  Great  House  at  Seend ;  over  the  porch 
on  the  north  side,  carved  on  a  stone  shield,  is  a  fesse  dancetty  ermine  as 
borne  by  Somner ;  these  arms  with  a  field  vert  are  also  placed  on  the 

Tipper  and  Somner  Monument ;  her  signa- 

/fA      /)  *       ture  occurs  only  once  in  the  Seend  Church- 

ll II     I     •m/i"+-Pa-l~        wardens' Book  at  the  bottom  of  the  Easter 

Jl/i    J  Qt/lO  IJ  £  /  Vestry  minutes,  1759,  her  son,  Lord  William 

Seymour,  signing  on  her  behalf  on  all 

other  occasions.  She  lies  buried  with  her  mother  in  the  Nave  of  Seend 
Church :  "  Here  lye  the  remains  of  her  Grace,  Mary  Dutchess  Dowager  of 
Somerset,  Daughter  and  Sole  Heiress  of  Daniel  Webb,  of  Monkton  Farley, 
in  the  County  of  Wilts,  Esq.,  and  likewise  Sole  Heiress  to  her  Uncle  Edward 
Somner,  of  this  place,  Esq.,  who  departed  this  Life  Feb.  1st,  1768,  aged  70. 
Here  also  lyeth  Elizabeth  Webb,  her  Grace's  Mother,  who  departed  this  Life 
Oct.  2nd,  1725,  Aged  72.  On  a  lozenge  ensigned  by  a  ducal  coronet 
SEYMOUR  (with  augmentation  but  without  the  usual  quarterings)  in  pre- 
tence a  fesse  dancetty."  Our  authority  for  this  inscription,  now  so  many 
years  illegible,  is  The  Monumental  Inscriptions  of  Wilts,  1821  ;  the  arms 
are  partly  covered  by  a  pew  and  SOMNER  is  invisible ;  this  is  the  only 
instance  known  to  the  writer  where  these  arms  occur  on  the  shield  of 
Seymour  ;  they  are,  we  believe,  not  registered  to  this  family  in  the  College 
of  Arms,  although  they  may  be  to  SOMERS-COX,  who  still  bear  them, 
and  the  family  is  not  mentioned  in  the  printed  Visitation  of  1623,  except  as 
ignobilis. 


384  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Manor,   (grandson  and  heir,)  son  and  heir  of  Francis  Burdett,  by 
Eleanor,  dau.  and  coheir  ol  William  Jones,  of  Ramsbury. 

LEY.-  Cr.  20  July  1619,  afterwards  (1623)  Baron  Ley,  (1626) 
Earl  of  Marlborough,  ex.  1679.  James  Ley,  of  Westbury,  the  well- 
known  lawyer  and  statesman,  youngest  son  of  Henry  Ley,  of 
Teffont  Evvyas,  by  Dyonisia  de  St.  Mayne,  was  the  first  Baronet  and 
Earl  of  Marlborough. 

HICKS.— Cr.  21  July  1619,  afterwards  (1834)  HICKS-BEACH. 
In  1834  Michael  Hicks  Hicks-Beach  succeeds,  being  of  Williamstrip, 
co.  Gloucester,  and  Netheravon,  (great  nephew  and  heir),  son  and 
heir  of  Michael  Hicks  Hicks-Beach,  of  Netheravon  (son  and  heir  of 
Michael  Hicks-Beach,  by  Henrietta  Maria  Beach,  of  Netheravon). 

MOODY  or  MODY.— Of  Garesdon,  cr.  u  March  1621-2,  ex. 
presumably  1661.  The  first  baronet  was  a  son  of  Christiana,  dau. 
and  co-heir  ot  John  Barwick,  of  Wilcot. 

BUTTON. — Of  Alton,  afterwards  of  Tockenham  Court,  cr.  18 
March  1621-2,  ex.  29  Nov.  1712. 

The  whole  volume  is  illustrated  with  numerous  notes, 
gathered  from  all  sorts  of  sources,  which  sufficiently  relieve 
what  many  might  consider  the  dry-as-dust  dulness  of  such 
works. 


PEDIGREE  WORK  :  A  HANDBOOK  FOR  THE  GENEALOGIST, 
&c.  By  W.  P.  W.  Phillimore,  M.A.,  B.C.L.  London  : 
Phillimore  &  Co.,  124  Chancery  Lane,  1900. 

This  shilling  booklet,  by  a  well-known  expert,  issued  on 
purpose  to  aid  the  young  genealogist,  will  prove  useful  to 
even  some  of  the  more  experienced  "  searchers  after  truth  ". 
Amongst  other  instructive  matter  it  gives  a  large  number  of 
Sources  of  Information,  consisting  of  Public  Offices,  MSS.  and 
printed  documents.  At  the  end  is  a  list  of  Regnal  Years  from 
the  Conquest  up  to  date.  Consisting  of  nearly  80  pages  it  can, 
however,  be  carried  with  ease  in  the  breast  pocket. 


COUNSELLOR   GOODENOUGH. 


JEotes  an*  <auerie$L 


MARCH,  1901. 


THE  GOODENOUGHS  OF  SHERSTON.1 


HOSE  who  have  read  Dean  Spence's  highly  interest- 
ing article,  "  The  City  of  the  White  Walls,"  in 
Good  Words  of  April  and  May  1894,  can  hardly 
doubt  the  identity  of  Sherston  Magna  (a  little 
town  five  miles  west  of  Malmesbury)  with  the 
"  White  Town  in  the  bosom  of  the  wood  "  of  Lly warch  Hen's 
ancient  British  poem,  commemorating  the  crushing  defeat  of 
the  British  by  the  Saxons  at  the  battle  of  Deorham,  A.D.  577, 
and  the  destruction  of  the  three  cities  of  Bath,  Gloucester, 
and  Cirencester.  The  wood  has  long  withdrawn  its  shelter 
from  Sherston,  but  the  scars  of  battle  remain  in  the  neighbour- 
ing earthworks  and  signs  of  military  occupation,  while  a 
fighting  man  is  still  the  sign  of  one  of  its  oldest  hostelries,  the 
redoubtable  "  Rattlebones "  himself,  whom  one  is  inclined  to 
regard  as  a  sort  of  incarnation  of  the  old  warlike  spirit  of  the 
place. 

1  In  the  absence  of  property-deeds  and  with  but  very  slight  informa- 
tion as  to  lands  held  by  the  Goodenoughs,  the  writer  of  this  paper  can  only 
offer  a  few  notes  upon  -a  family  of  some  mark  in  their  day,  introducing 
documents,  one  at  least  of  which  can  hardly  fail  to  be  read  with  interest, 
as  bearing  upon  public  events  of  the  time  at  which  it  was  written. 

D  D 


386  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

But  our  subject  has  to  do  with  far  more  modern,  though 
still  somewhat  turbulent  times;  and  the  traveller  in  passing 
through  Sherston  to-day,  admiring,  as  he  certainly  will,  its 
lofty  church  tower,  its  lych-gate,  and  the  fine  old  yew-tree  in 
the  churchyard,  can  hardly  fail  to  notice  the  tombstones  of  the 
Goodenough  family,  with  their  ancient  but  well-kept  appear- 
ance and  quaintly  simple  inscriptions  : — 

"  Here  lyeth  the  Body  of  John  Goodenough." 
"Here  lie  the  Bodies  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Goodenough." 
Nothing  more — no  eulogies,  and  not  even  a  date,  on  these 
two  more  prominent  stones,  although  there  are  at  least  three 
others  close  by  with  long  inscriptions  to  members  of  the  same 
family.  The  details  have  not  been  easy  to  procure,  but  it  is 
most  probable  that  John  Goodenough  (a  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary),  whose  will  was  dated  August  23rd,  1749,  was  the 
person  who  left  a  bequest  for  the  keeping  up  of  the  tomb- 
stones ;  and  from  time  to  time  the  succeeding  trustees,  after 
doing  their  duty  by  the  tombs,  have  met  and  dined  together  in 
accordance  with  the  wishes  of  the  testator  and  founder  of  the 
feast. 

Other  inscriptions  under  the  shadow  of  the  yew-tree  are 
to  the  memory  of  Richard  Goodenough,  attorney-at-law,  who 
departed  this  life  April  i6th,  1692,  aged  77.  Ann,  his  wife, 
died  Nov.  28th,  1689,  aged  76.  Francis,  their  son,  attorney- 
at-law,  died  August  26th,  1728,  aged  77.  John  Goodenough, 
"  Batchelor  of  Physick ",  died  August  5th,  1718,  aged  72. 
Rachel  Goodenough,  died  Oct.  1722,  aged  76.  Mr.  Richard 
Goodenough,  attorney-at-law,  died  Dec.  25th,  1752,  in  the  6oth 
year  of  his  age.  These  and  many  others  of  the  same  name 
are  to  be  found  in  the  Sherston  parish  register,  which  dates 
from  I653,1  and  there  is  little  doubt  that  the  following  entries 


1  The  family  was  located  in  Sherston  many  years  before  the  earliest 
register  or  tombstone  dates,  as  seen  by  a  reference  to  the  Court  Rolls  of  the 
Manor  of  Sherston  in  the  Bodleian  library  mentioned  by  Canon  Jackson  in 
note  to  Sherston  Magna  {Aubrey  and  Jackson,  p.  108).  Here  the  name 
of  Richard  G-oodynough,  "  libri  tenenti,"  with  a  clerkly  signature,  occurs 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Sherston,  387 

may  be  taken  as  representing  the  grand-parents  and  parents 
of  two  large  families,  which,  with  their  descendants,  comprised 
many  Richards,  Rachels,  and  Johns,  the  prevailing  names  in 
the  Goodenough  family. 

"Mergery,  the  wife  of  John  Goodenough,  dyed  on  the  i2th 
day  of  June  (1656),  and  on  the  i6th  day  of  the  same  June  was 
buryed." 

"  John  Goodenough  dyed  on  the  2nd  day  of  March  (1658), 
and  on  the  5th  day  of  the  same  month  was  buryed." 

"  Francis  Goodenough  dyed  on  the  loth  day  of  April  (1666), 
and  on  the  i4th  day  of  the  same  April  was  buried." 

"  Edith  Goodenough,  widow,  was  buried  on  the  3ist  day  of 
August,  1678." 

"Mrs.  Ann  Goodenough  was  buried  on  the  first  day  of 
December,  1689." 

"Mr.  Richard  Goodenough  was  buried  April  i8th,  1692." 

The  will  of  Edith  Goodenough,1  of  Great  Sherston,  widow, 
after  leaving  to  son  John  Goodenough  various  agricultural 
implements,  and  "  that  bed  which  is  the  best  of  my  beds  except 
two  which  are  better  ",  continues  as  follows  : — 

"  Also  the  sum  of  ^30  for  which  my  said  son  hath  given  a  penall 
bond  to  my  daughter  Anne,  which  was  my  money,  and  the  bond  taken 
in  trust  for  me  shall  be  remitted  to  him  and  said  bond  cancelled  and 
delivered  up  to  him,  and  I  also  remit  to  him  all  debts  due  by  him  to  me. 
Also  to  said  son  John  half  a  dozen  of  my  pewter  dishes  and  my  best 
brasse  pot  and  one  brasse  kettle  being  my  best  kettle  except  two,  and 
one  of  my  spits  and  the  pewter  flagon  which  was  my  father's. 

"  To  son  Smart  Goodenough  my  table  board  with  the  double  frame 
standing  in  the  parlour  and  my  great  yeating  (?)  stoue  in  the  Little 
Court. 

"To  son  Francis  Goodenough  my  wedding  ring.  To  Edith  my 
daughter,  the  now  wife  of  Richard  Tylor,  £10.  To  every  one  of  my 


several  times  in  the  years  1585-8  ;  he  served  on  the  juries,  sometimes  made 
excuses  not  to  serve,  and  was  prosecutor  in  a  suit  against  Francis  Drew 
when  he  paid  for  a  licence  to  plead,  evidently  given  to  litigation,  and  a 
fitting  progenitor  of  a  long  line  of  attorneys-at-law,  if  not  himself  in  the 
profession. 

1  Probate  granted   9th  Oct.,  1678,   to   Anne   and   Sarah  Goodenough. 
No.  21  Archdecry.  Wilts. 

D  D  2 


388  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

grandchildren  los.  apiece.    All  the  rest  of  my  goods,  chattells,  cattle, 
corn,   hay  and    other  my  worldly   estate   to  my  daughters  Anne  and 
Sarah  Goodenough,  whom  I  make  joint  executors." 
Witnesses,  Richard  and  Francis  Goodenough. 

Ann  Goodenough,  spinster  (daughter  of  Edith),  made  her 
will  in  1692  (proved  28th  April  of  the  same  year,  No.  100, 
Archdecry.  Wilts),  and  left : 

"  To  cousins  Richard  and  ffrancis  Tyler,  sons  of  Richard  Tyler,  gent., 
of  Wootten-under-edge,  by  my  sister  Edith,  £$  apiece. 

"To  Richard  and  Anne,  children  of  Jonathan  Nelmes,  of  Wootten- 
under-edge,  clothier,  by  Mary  his  late  wife,  daughter  of  the  aforesaid 
Richard  Tyler,  ^5  apiece. 

"  To  my  brother  John  Goodenough  all  my  close  of  arable  land  lying 
in  the  North  field  of  Great  Sherston  which  I  purchased  of  Benedict 
Hall  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  for  his  life,  with  reversion  and  remainder 
after  decease  of  said  brother  to  Francis  Goodenough,  son  of  my  brother 
Smart  Goodenough,  merchant,  and  his  heirs  for  ever. 

"To   said  brother  John  Goodenough  .£10. 

"To  my  sister  Sarah,  the  wife  of  John  Scott,   is. 

"To  brother  John  Goodenough  all  that  barne  with  the  garden  be- 
longing situate  in  Great  Sherston  which  I  purchased  .of  my  said  brother 
John,  and  which  was  formerly  in  the  possession  of  John  Cong,  to  him 
and  his  heirs  for  ever.  Rest  and  residue  to  brother  Smart  Good- 
enough,  whom  I  make  whole  and  sole  executor. 

"  Item,  my  will  is  that  my  brother  John  shall  have  all  my  timber  and 
tyle." 

These  two  wills  make  it  clear  that  the  family  of  Edith 
Goodenough  (wife  probably  of  Francis)  consisted  of  John, 
Smart,  Francis,  Ann,  Sarah,  and  Edith.  Of  these,  one  at  least, 
Smart  Goodenough,  had  a  history  and  a  career  away  from  his 
native  county.  It  may  be  safely  said  that  he  was  a  successful 
London  merchant,  residing  sometimes  in  Holland,  where,  at 
Dordrecht,  in  1669,  a  son  Francis  was  born,  who  matriculated 
at  St.  Edmund  Hall  4th  December,  1687  ;  student  of  the  Inner 
Temple  1689  (Foster's  Inns  of  Court  Register).  From  1692  to 
i72o:  Smart  Goodenough  resided  at  Barton  Grange,  in  the 


1  Communication  was  kept  up  with  Sherston,  as  shown  by  an  entry  in 
the  diary  of  another  member  of  the  family  in  1711,  mentioning  the  payment 
of  10*.  by  one  John  Wicks  "towards  Cousin  Smart  (Joodenough's  debt". 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Shersion.  389 

parish  of  Pitminster,  near  Taunton,'  which  he  had  purchased 
from  the  Coventry  family,  situated  in  a  beautifully  wooded 
park,  and  formerly  the  summer  residence  of  the  Priors  of 
Taunton.  In  the  list  of  High  Sheriffs  for  the  county  of 
Somerset  we  find  the  name  of  Smart  Goodenough,  esq.,  for 
the  year  1699;  he  was  patron  of  the  living  of  Pitminster,  and 
there  in  1696  a  daughter,  Henrietta,  was  married,  at  the  age 
of  19,  to  William  Earle,  of  the  Middle  Temple.  Another 
daughter,  Anne,  married  Joseph  Milner,  a  merchant  of  Leeds 
and  Rotterdam,  from  whom  is  descended  the  present  owner 
of  Barton,  Mr.  Francis  Murray  Newton,  who  has  kindly 
supplied  this  information. 

But  to  return  to  the  branch  more  largely  represented  at 
Sherston,  we  find  Richard  Goodenough,1  attorney-at-law,  who 
died  in  1692,  Anne  his  wife,  and  their  children  Thomas, 
Richard,  John,  Francis,  and  Rachel.  There  is  little  doubt 
that  the  principal  residence  of  this  branch  of  the  family  from 
about  the  middle  of  the  iyth  century  was  the  large  old  house 
at  Easton  Town  (a  suburb  of  Sherston  adjoining  Pinkney), 
now  in  the  occupation  of  Mr.  Goodenough  Hillier,  the  present 
representative  of  the  family.  In  a  deed  of  some  Estcourt 
property  in  1718  mention  is  made  of  "  a  messuage  and  lands  in 
Easton  Town  in  possession  of  Thomas  and  Francis  Good- 
enough,  gents.,  of  the  yearly  value  of  ^25",  and  as  there  are 
very  few  messuages  of  any  kind  in  Easton  Town,  it  may  well  be 
conjectured  that  the  Goodenoughs  purchased  whatever  landed 
property  they  possessed  of  Sir  Thomas  Estcourt,  the  then 


'  In  the  will  ot  Thomas  Gore,  the  antiquary,  of  Alderton,  three  miles 
from  Sherston  (date  1683),  the  item  occurs :— "  To  my  friend  Mr.  Richard 
Goodenough  of  Easton  Town  20s.  for  a  ring"  (Archccol.  Mag.,  No.  40,  Vol. 
xiv).  These  Goodenough  attorneys  probably  had  a  fair  share  of  the  legal 
business  of  the  country-side,  their  signatures  occurring  early  in  the  18th 
century  in  deeds  of  the  families  of  Gore,  Child  of  Heddington,  and 
Alexander  of  Somerford,  as  previously  related  in  this  magazine  (Vol.  ii, 
p.  407).  The  statement  that  they  were  actually  an  Irish  family  is  now 
regarded  as  doubtful,  though  there  was  a  long  connexion  with  Ireland,  and 
it  is  probable  that  descendants  of  the  family  may  still  be  found  there. 


390  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

owner  of  the  Pinkney  estate,  or  his  heirs.  Situated  on  the 
confines  of  Pinkney  Park,  and  approached  by  a  short  private 
road,  the  most  marked  feature  of  this  interesting  old  home- 
stead is  the  "fishpond"  in  an  enclosed  shrubbery  at  the  foot 
of  the  sloping  ground  near  the  house.  Great  trees  overhang 
the  deep,  dark  pool,  the  Pinkney  brook  runs  close  by,  adding 
to  the  charm  of  this  weird,  secluded  spot,  where,  in  days  gone 
by,  these  old-time  physicians  and  men  of  law  must  often  have 
walked  and  pondered  their  cases ;  and,  as  we  shall  see,  there 
is  more  than  a  suspicion  that  some  of  the  sinister  schemes  of 
a  turbulent  time  may  be  traced  to  a  member  of  this  Sherston 
family. 

In  looking  up  the  records  of  the  past,  there  is  always  a 
slight  risk  of  discovering  that  one  of  your  ancestors  was 
hanged  for  sheep-stealing,  and  in  the  present  case  it  certainly 
came  as  a  surprise  that  the  perhaps  more  respectable  crime  of 
high  treason  nearly  brought  to  a  bad  end  two  at  least  of  the 
Goodenoughs,  who  went  from  Sherston  forth  into  the  great 
world  to  plot  and  intrigue  against  their  lawful  sovereign.  The 
Dictionary  of  National  Biography  gives:  "Goodenough,  Richard, 
flourished  1686,  conspirator  and  attorney  of  bad  repute,  who 
contrived  nevertheless  to  obtain  the  under-sheriffdom  of 
London,  which  he  held  in  turn  with  his  brother  Francis  for 
some  years."  The  tale  goes  on,  and  tells  of  packed  juries, 
riots,  indictments,  fines  and  imprisonment,  leading  up  to  the 
Rye  House  Plot  in  1683,  in  which  Richard  Goodenough  was 
deeply  implicated,  and  which  caused  him  to  seek  an  "  Asylum 
in  the  Low  Countries".  A  reward  of  ^100  was  offered  for  his 
capture ;  a  true  bill  was  found  against  both  the  brothers  for 
high  treason,  and  both  were  outlawed.  Monmouth's  rebellion 
brought  Richard  back  to  England,  where  he  rose  in  high 
favour  with  that  unfortunate  aspirant  to  the  crown,  and  was 
appointed  his  Secretary  of  State;  but  the  rout  at  Sedgemoor  put 
an  end  to  all  such  dreams,  and  Goodenough,  after  nearly 
making  good  his  escape,  was  captured  and  brought  to  London. 
His  life  was  spared,  and  he  was  eventually  pardoned  in  order 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Sherston.  39  i 

that,  as  he  had  been  in  the  thick  of  the  plot,  he  might  turn 
King's  evidence  and  swear  away  the  lives  of  his  fellow-con- 
spirators. After  a  time  he  judged  it  best  to  keep  out  of  the 
way,  and  at  the  trial  of  Charlton  in  May  1689  was  not  forth- 
coming when  called  upon.  Richard  Goodenough  was  certainly 
not  born  to  be  hanged,  and,  according  to  Swift,  he  went  to 
Ireland,  where  he  practised  his  profession,  and  where  he  died. 
A  few  more  particulars  may  be  gleaned  from  one  of  the 
authorities  quoted  by  the  Dictionary — Thomas  Sprat's  A  True 
Account  of  the  horrid  Conspiracy  against  the  late  King — a 
copy  of  which  is  in  the  Guildhall  Library.  The  various 
witnesses  in  their  depositions  swore  to  having  met  Mr.  Richard 
Goodenough  (under-sheriff  to  Mr.  Bethel  and  Mr.  Cornish, 
late  sheriffs)  in  company  with  Wade,  Nelthrop,  and  West,  "all 
barristers-at-law,"  at  the  Sun  Tavern  behind  the  Royal 
Exchange,  the  Salutation  Tavern  in  Lumbart  Street,  the 
Dolphin  Tavern,  Richard's  coffee  house,  and  the  Young  Devil 
Tavern  ;  the  brother  Francis  also  being  implicated.  Most  of 
the  witnesses  testified  that  they  had  been  asked  how  many 
men  they  could  procure  to  get  rid  of  "the  Blackbird  and  the 
Goldfinch  "  (the  King  and  the  Duke)  ;  Goodenough  himself, 
who  was  "  a  rich  man  and  would  be  free  of  his  purse  ",  offering 
to  contribute  "  about  3  score  £  in  plate  and  50  or  3  score  £  in 
gold,  and  had  he  more  it  should  all  go  to  the  same  use". 
William  Hone,  a  joiner,  deposed  that  Mr.  Richard  Good- 
eno'ugh  came  to  him  in  Clifford's  Inn,  where  he  was  at  work, 
and  told  him  he  wanted  "  labourers",  and  would  supply  money 
to  buy  horses  and  arms.  Hone  was  also  employed  by 
Goodenough  to  make  a  secret  place  in  the  roof  of  his  house, 
"  large  enough  for  a  man ",  to  hide  anything  in  dangerous 
times.  None  of  the  documents  so  far  examined  give 
parentage  or  birthplace,  but  there  can  hardly  be  a  doubt  that 
Mr.  Under-Sheriff  Goodenough  and  his  brother  Francis  were 
members  of  the  Sherston  family — sons,  in  fact,  of  the  Mr. 
Richard  Goodenough,  attorney-at-law,  mentioned  in  Thomas 
Gore's  will ;  a  search  among  some  State  papers  in  the  British 


392  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Museum1  having  resulted  in  the  discovery  of  Goodenough's 
"  Confession",  or,  rather,  his  "  information  against  the  Earl  of 
Stamford",  written  in  Newgate  ist  Nov.  1685,  the  small,  fine 
writing  of  this  document  being  almost  a  facsimile  (the  signa- 
ture remarkably  so)  of  the  writing  in  a  letter,  a  year  or  two 
later,  from  Richard  Goodenough  to  his  father  at  Sherston.  It 
is  likewise  almost  certain  that  the  portrait  of  "  Counsellor 
Goodenough"  (see  illustration),  so  labelled  on  the  back,  is  that 
of  the  notorious  conspirator  himself.  The  portrait  is  a  copy 
of  a  small  oil  painting  in  the  possession  of  a  descendant  of 
the  family,  the  dress  is  that  of  the  Stuart  period.  No  other 
member  of  the  family  is  known  to  have  been  a  barrister, 
and  the  following  copy  of  admission  from  the  records  of  the 
Middle  Temple  is  quite  satisfactory,  the  date  and  the  previous 
admission  to  the  Inner  Temple  pointing  in  the  right  direction 
as  to  age  : — 

"Feb.  5°  1678.  Mr.  Ric'us  Goodenough  films  s'c'dus  Ric'i  Good- 
enough  de  Sherstone  in  com.  Wilts,  gen.  admissus  est  in  societatem 
Medii  Templi  specialiter.  Prius  fuit  admissus  in  societatem  Interioris 
Templi  8°  die  July  1671." 

The  following  letter,  already  referred  to,  is  in  itself  of 
considerable  interest,  and,  though  the  rebellious  spirit  was  no 
doubt  tamed,  and  caution  in  speech  was  advisable,  the  party 
bias  is  still  evident,  and  also  the  fact  that  the  writer  enjoyed 
the  sympathy  of  his  family.8  The  address  of  the  letter  is  gone, 
and  the  blank  side  of  the  half  sheet  of  paper  is  covered  with 
legal  notes  and  law  Latin  in  another  hand. 


1  Lansdowne  MS.  1152A,/.  298.  Since  writing  the  above  this  document 
has  been  compared  side  by  side  with  Richard  Goodenough's  letter  to  his 
father  at  Sherston,  and  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Scott,  keeper  of  the  MSS.  at  the 
British  Museum,  is  given  in  the  following  words: — "I  have  no  doubt 
that  your  letter  is  a  holograph  of  the  conspirator." 

3  Sarah,  the  grandchild  of  Richard  Goodenough,  gent.,  was  buried  9th 
Feb.  1683  (Sherston  Parish  Register).  Probably  a  child  of  the  son  Richard 
and  his  wife  Sarah ;  the  date  being  coincident  with  one  of  the  under- 
sheriff's  many  "  trials",  it  may  well  be  that  his  family  tooktrefuge  at 
Sherston  under  the  paternal  roof. 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Sherston.  393 

"  Deare  Bro  :  pray  convey  this  L're  vnder  written  to  our  father  &tell 
Betty  yt  her  mother  wounders  she  hath  not  rec'd  any  L're  from  her  of 
late  though  desired,  nor  whether  she  hath  rec'd  ye  Muff  Box  sent  her  by 
Wiltshire. 
"Sr 

"  I  rec'd  not  yor  L're  of  ye  6th  Instant  before  yesterday.  Osborn  hath 
appeared  to  ye  Bill  &  I  want  a  Com'rs  name  for  to  see  ye  Answere 
sworn,  as  to  Cousin  Adye  I  can  say  no  more  than  I  have  already  said. 
So  soon  as  I  have  ye  Bill  for  ye  10/2.  I  will  go  again  to  Mr.  Cooper  & 
endeavour  to  despatch  ye  affaire  with  Isaac,  inclosed  is  ye  writt  for 
Cousin  Scott.  I  had  not  opportunity  to  learn  who  is  Vnder  sheriff  of 
Cambridgeshire,  but  it  is  probable  yt  he  lives  in  Cambridge.  If  my 
cousin  goes  to  Mr.  Richard  Pike,  an  attorney-at-law  living  in  Cambridge, 
&  tell  him  yt  he  was  recom'ended  to  him  by  Mr.  Seth  Powell,  of 
Barnards  Inne,  he  will  assist  him,  paying  him  what  is  reasonable  for  his 
paines.  I  spake  with  Mr.  Powell,  &  he  hath  given  liberty  to  vse  his 
name. 

"  A  Bill  to  sett  Gates  right  having  past  ye  house  of  Com'ons  hath 
taken  vp  ye  L'ds  3  dayes  time,  &  ye  further  debate  thereof  is  putt  off 
vntill  to-morrow.  Some  of  ye  L'ds  endeavor  to  throw  it  out  of  ye  House. 
The  K.  of  ffrance  is  endeavouring  to  take  vp  at  6//.  per  cent,  about  one 
Million  &  a  half  sterling.  A  Popish  ffrench  merch't  of  this  City  hath 
rec'd  a  L're  from  ffrance  intimateing  yt  Mr.  D'Avaux  hath  desired  ye  K. 
to  recall  him  from  Ireland  for  yt  the  late  K.  J.  employes  his  cheifest  time 
in  hunting  &  is  governed  by  his  Priests  &  is  now  building  a  Chappie 
&  yt  he  will  not  hearken  to  men  of  business  &  Experience,  &  there- 
fore to  contend  for  him  will  be  to  no  purpose,  ffrom  London  Derry 
the  Gazett  will  informe  you  yt  ye  Beseiged  hold  out  stoutly,  ytye  Enemy 
are  very  much  weakened,  yt  they  have  made  severall  attempts  vpon  ye 
Town  &  yt  they  have  been  as  often  repulsed  with  great  loss.  That  in 
an  Attack  vpon  a  Windmill  a  whole  Regim't  was  cut  off  except  ye  Lt.- 
Colonel  &  15  men,  &  yt  they  had  again  attacked  on  ye  29th  of  June 
ye  same  place  but  with  no  better  Success,  yt  Kirke  gives  the  Enemy 
frequent  Alarmes  by  landing  his  men.  ffurther  the  L'res  say  yt  ye  Town 
had  ye  3oth  of  last  Month  2  Months  Provisions  &  7,000  men,  yt  the 
co'ication  Kirk  had  with  ye  Town  was  by  one  yt  swam  from  his  Vessell 
in  ye  night  &  that  he  returned  ye  same  way  back  again,  yt  he  had  tryed 
severall  other  wayes  w'ch  all  proved  vnsuccessfull.  I  am  much  troubled 
to  heare  you  are  in  a  worse  Condition  of  health  than  vsuall,  I  pray  ye 
Lord  in  mercy  to  restore  yo'r  health  perfectly.  I  intend  to  buy  ye 
p'spective  desired.  My  duty  to  yo'r  self  &  my  mother  &  love  to  my 
Bro  :  &  Sister,  &c.  I  am, 

"  Yo'r  obedient  Son, 


"nth  July  1689." 


394  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

It  had  long  been  taken  for  granted  that  this  letter,  pre- 
served between  the  leaves  of  an  old  family  Bible,  and  containing 
so  many  allusions  to  Ireland,  was  written  from  Dublin,  but  a 
more  careful  reading  shows  at  once  that  the  writer  was  evi- 
dently in  communication  with  Barnard's  Inn,  and  aware  of 
the  daily  incidents  of  a  Parliament,  which  was  certainly  the 
English  one,  therefore  probably  resident  in  London.  Good- 
enough  had  indeed  been  "  pardoned  "  a  year  or  two  before, 
and  perhaps  the  accession  of  William  and  Mary  enabled  him 
again  to  hold  up  his  head  and  resume  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. That  he  went  to  Ireland,  as  Swift  says,  and  there 
ended  his  days,  is  proved  from  the  following  wills,  obtained 
from  the  Four  Courts,  Dublin,  the  persons  named  in  them 
appearing  also  in  other  wills  of  the  Sherston  family. 
WILL  OF  RICHARD  GOODENOUGH,  1708. 

"The  24th  day  of  September  1690,  I,  Richard  Goodenough,  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  London,  gent.,  Do  make  and  publish  my  last  Will  in 
manner  and  forme  following  :  First  I  give  and  bequeath  my  Soul  into 
the  hands  of  Almighty  God,  my  Creator  and  Supporter,  and  as  to  those 
Worldly  Goods  God  of  his  Bounty  hath  lent  me,  I  give  and  devise  them 
to  my  dear  and  loving  wife ;  also  I  give  unto  my  said  dear  wife  and  to 
her  heires  for  ever  all  my  Right,  Title  and  Interest,  both  in  Law  and 
Equity,  in  all  my  Lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments  lying  in  the 
county  of  Bucks,  with  all  my  other  lands,  &c.,  whatsoever,  scituate  in 
any  other  place  in  the  Kingdom  of  England,  not  doubting  but  she  will 
make  the  best  provision  she  can  tor  the  support  of  my  two  daughters, 
and  I  appoint  my  said  wile  executrix  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament 
delivered  by  the  said  Richard  Goodenough  in  presence  of  Ja.  Strangways, 
Walter  Drew,  Mary  Drew." 

WILL  OF  SARAH  GOODENOUGH,  1720. 

"  I,  Sarah  Goodenough,  of  the  city  of  Kilkenny,  widow,  relict  and 
sole  executrix  of  Richard  Goodenough,  late  of  the  city  of  Dublin,  Esq., 
deceased,  do  make  this  my  last  will.  All  my  lands  in  Great  Britain  or 
elsewhere  to  be  sold,  and  out  of  the  money  arising  from  the  sale  I  leave 
to  my  grand-daughter  Sarah  Sayer  .£150  and  my  two  silver  cans 
without  a  crest  and  six  silver  spoons.  To  my  grandson  Richard  Clarke 
my  silver  tankard.  To  my  grand-daughter  Elizabeth  Clarke  a  pair  of 
silver  salvers.  Rest  and  residue  to  my  exors.  James  Clarke,  ot  the  city 
of  Kilkenny,  Esq.,  my  son-in-law,  and  my  daughter  Elizabeth  his  wife. 
To  every  one  of  my  grand-children  living  at  the  time  of  my  death 
a  broad  piece  of  gold." 

Signed  22nd  January  1716.  Probate  granted  to  James  Clarke,  of 
Kilkenny,  Esq.,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  nth  January  1720. 


The  Goodenoughs  q/  Sherston.  395 

John  Goodenough,  another  son  of  Richard  and  Ann,  has 
left  a  portion  of  a  will  which,  though  it  must  have  been  made 
some  years  before  his  death1  (as  he  is  mentioned  in  his  sister 
Rachel's  will  of  1722),  and  could  not  have  been  exactly  carried 
out  as  then  made,  is  yet  most  useful  as  a  family  document  ;  it 
is  not  dated,  but  from  internal  evidence  must  have  been 
written  about  the  year  1710. 

"  In  the  Name  of  God,  Amen,  I,  John  Goodenough,  of  Eastontown, 
in  the  parish  of  Sherston  Magna,  Physician,2  being  above  70  years  old 
and  in  good  health  and  of  sound  mind,  do  make  and  ordain  this  my  last 
will  and  testament  as  followeth  :  And  first  I  resign  my  soul  to  God  who 
gave  it,  and  my  body  to  the  earth  to  be  devoutly  yet  frugally  interred  in 
the  churchyard  of  the  Parish  where  I  shall  happen  to  die,  without  a 
sermon,  the  expences  of  my  tuneral  not  to  exceed  ten  pounds. 

"  To  my  brother  Thomas  Goodenough,  and  to  my  sister  Rachel  Good- 
enough,  five  pounds  apiece  in  6  months  after  sale  of  estate.  To  my 
brother  Francis  Goodenough  my  horse,  bridle  and  saddle,  my  silver 
tankard,  and  all  the  rest  of  household  goods.  To  my  nephew  Francis 
Goodenough,  eldest  son  of  my  brother  Thomas,  my  reversion  and 
remainder  in  my  messuage  situate  in  Littleton  Drew  in  the  county 
of  Wilts,  wherein  one  William  Wimbow  now  dwelleth.  Item,  I 
give  and  devise  unto  Charles  Bailiefe  of  Segary,  in  the  county  of 
Wilts,  gent.,  and  to  William  Montjoy  of  Biddeston,  in  said  county,  gent., 
and  to  Benjamin  Derby  of  Blandford,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  clerk,3  all 

1  Mr.  John  Goodenough  was  buried  23rd  August  1723  (Sherston  Parish 
Register}.  The  inscription  upon  one  of  the  tombstones  to  John  Goodenough, 
"Batchelor  of  Physick,"  1718,  must  refer  to  another  person,  perhaps  the 
J.  G.,  son  of  Francis  and  Edith. 

'2  The  following  "  receipt  for  diet  drink",  found  with  the  old  papers, 
may  be  a  specimen  of  the  physic  witli  which  Doctor  Goodenough  dosed  his 
patients.  It  is  headed  "  A  special  electuary  for  ye  cough  of  ye  longes  or 
any  other  distemper  in  ye  bodie.  Take  maydenheyre  hertstongue  sarmander 
agrimony  hidwort.  scabious  horehound  coltsfoot  of  each  8  handsfull.  To 
this  take  half  a  pojuuLjofJuie  searcht  l^icorish  and  as  much  searcht  rootes  of 
Aly  campany  (?),  ye  hearbs  must  seeth  in  6  gallons  of  water  till  they  come 
to  2  gallons  then  strayne  them  forth  and  to  ye  liquor  put  your  powders  and 
3  quarts  or  a  gallon  of  honey  and  soe  lett  it  boyl  till  it  bee  as  thicke  as 
treacle.  This  you  must  use  for  ye  cough  of  ye  loungs  mornings  and 
evenings,  as  much  as  a  good  nutmegg  either  of  itselfe  or  in  2  or  3  spoone- 
fulls  of  warm  beere.  And  for  other  paynes  or  ackes  or  distempers  take  half 
a  spoonefull  and  better  and  heat  it  hot  in  beere  and  give  it  ye  party  to 
drink  and  lett  him  lye  downe  and  sweate." 

3  Rector  of  Glanvilles  Wootten,  Dorset,  and  Master  of  Blandford  School 
about  1710,  a  noted  school  where  a  good  many  years  before  Aubrey 
recovered  his  health  and  got  his  "  latin  and  greeke". 


396  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

* . 

my  messuages,  lands  and  tenements  in  Sherston  Magna  aforesaid,  upon 
trust  that  they  shall  sell  the  same,  and  after  discharging  my  debts, 
funeral  expences  and  legacies,  the  remainder  shall  be  disposed  as 
followeth,  namely:  The  moiety  or  one-half  thereof  to  the  use  and  behoof 
of  my  nephew,  John  Goodenough,1  youngest  son  of  my  brother  Thomas 
(as  being  least  able  otherwise  to  provide  for  his  maintenance)  to  be  set 
out  at  interest  by  my  said  trustees,  and  the  product  thereof  to  be  im- 
ployed  for  his  maintenance  and  education,  and  paid  unto  the  said  Mr. 
Derby,  so  long  as  my  said  nephew  shall  be  continued  under  his  care 
and  tuition,  which  I  desire  may  be  untill  he  shall  attain  learning  sufficient 
to  render  him  very  fit  for  further  progress  in  the  studdy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences  in  some  University  or  for  some  other  liberal  or  ingenuous  im- 
ployment  as  his  genius  and  disposition  shall  then  incline  him  to  embrace 
and  (his  circumstances  considered)  shall  be  thought  most  expedient  for 
his  future  well-being  by  my  said  trustees,  with  the  assistance  of  my 
brother,  Francis  Goodenough,  which  I  request  of  him  if  then  surviving. 

"  Item,  I  give  and  bequeath  the  surplus  of  the  other  moiety  from  the 
sale  of  my  said  lands  unto  my  nephew  Richard,  second  son  of  my 
brother  Thomas  Goodenough,  and  to  my  grand-nephew,  the  eldest  son 
of  my  niece  Elizabeth,  now  wife  of  James  Clarke,  of  Dublin,  attorney, 
to  be  equally  divided  between  them.  And  as  to  the  share  hereby  given 
to  my  said  nephew,  Richard  Goodenough,  my  will  is  that  the  interest 
shall  be  paid  to  his  master  James  Clarke  aforesaid  yearly  towards  my 
said  nephew's  clothing  and  other  necessary  expences." — (Unfinished.) 

Rachel  Goodenough,  spinster,  sister  of  the  physician  above, 
made  her  will  in  October  1722  (Proved  2nd  Jan.  1722,  P.C.C., 
No.  7  Richmond)  as  follows  : — 

"To brother  John  Goodenough  £5.  To  brother  Thomas  Goodenough 
;£io.  To  nephews  Richard  and  John,  sons  of  brother  Thomas,  ^10 
apiece.  To  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Mr.  James  Clarke,  a  daughter  of  brother 
Richard,  late  deceased,  £10.  To  the  four  children  of  said  James  and 
Elizabeth  Clarke  one  guinea  apiece.  To  Ruth,  now  wife  of  Thomas 
Mason  and  daughter  ot  said  brother  Thomas,  £10  and  all  such  money  as 
she  now  owes  me.  To  Sara  Sayer,  in  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  whose 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  my  said  brother  Richard,  .£10.  To  Mary 
Baker,  daughter  of  Joseph  Baker,  deceased,  by  said  Ruth,  £10.  To 
Rachel  Baker,  sister  of  said  Mary  Baker,  .£15.  All  wearing  apparel, 
linen  and  woollen,  to  be  equally  divided  and  delivered  to  said  Mary  and 


1  Baptized  14th  June  1700.  It  is  probable  that  this  boj  was  sent  to 
Winchester,  and  not  to  Blandford  after  all,  as  the  following  entry  from 
Kirby's  Winchester  Scholars,  in  spite  of  the  slight  discrepancy  as  to  age, 
no  doubt  applies  to  him:  "  1711,  Goodenough  John,  Oct.  8,  Easton,  Wilts." 
He  may  have  been  of  the  "  Founder's  Kin",  though  there  is  no  mention  of  it, 
as  in  the  case  of  many  of  the  name  of  Goodenough  at  Winchester. 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Sherston.  397 

Rachel  Baker  when  they  shall  be  fit  to  wear  them.  To  Mary,  now  wife 
of  said  brother  Thomas  Goodenough,  2  guineas,  she  having  attended  me 
in  my  sickness.  All  rest  and  residue  to  my  brother  Francis  Goodenough, 
my  sole  executor." 

After  the  deaths  of  the  aged  brother  and  sister,  John  and 
Rachel  Goodenough,  the  surviving  members  of  the  family  in 
Sherston  were:  Francis,  an  attorney,  who  died1  in  1728  aged  77, 


and  Thomas  (wife's  name  Mary),  who  died  in  1726,  leaving 
several  children,  he  being  apparently  the  only  member  of  the 
family  who  left  descendants,  excepting  Richard,  whose 
daughters  remained  in  Ireland.  The  sons  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  Goodenough,  all  mentioned  in  the  draft  of  their  uncle 
John's  will,  were  Francis,  Richard,  and  John,  the  latter  being 
in  all  probability  the  man  who  left  the  bequest  about  the  tomb- 
stones. There  was  also  a  daughter,  Ruth,  who  married  first 
Joseph  Baker,  having  daughters,  Mary,  who  was  married 
about  1730  to  Solomon  Jones,  of  Luckington,  and  Rachel,  who 
became  the  wife  of  John  Newport ;  their  mother's  second 
husband  being  Thomas  Mason,  by  whom  she  had  a  son, 
Richard.  Thomas  Goodenough's  second  son  was  another 
Richard,  who,  as  we  have  seen,  had  been  articled  to  his 
relative  by  marriage,  Mr.  James  Clarke,  of  Dublin ;  and  the 


1  No  mention  of  wife  or  children,  but  a  Francis  Goodenough  is 
mentioned  in  the  pedigree  of  Lyte  of  Easton  Percy  (Jackson's  History  of 
Kington  St.  Michael)  as  having  married,  perhaps  about  1680,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Lyte,  alderman  of  London.  This  may  very  likely  have 
been  the  Francis  mentioned  above,  who  must  have  spent  many  years  in 
London  if  (as  is  almost  certain)  he  were  the  fellow  conspirator  and  under- 
sheriff. 


398  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

following  letter  shows  that  in  1726  he  was  practising  the  law 
in  that  city : — 

"To  Mr.  Richard  Goodenough,   at  the  Sign  of  the  Golden  Ball,  High 

Street,  Dublin. 

"Youghal,  14  Jan.  1726-7. 
"  Sir, 

"  Yours  of  the  7th  Instant  I  have  before  me,  and  remember  the 
receipt  of  a  former  which  was  mislay'd  and  therefore  not  answered.  I 
remember  nothing  of  the  Note  you  mention  and  wonder  it  should  be  as 
you  write,  especially  since  I  find  by  my  Sermon  Notes  I  preach'd  Noah 
Cliffs  Funeral  Sermon  and  was  paid  for  it.  But  if  it  be  as  you  write  I 
hope  to  be  in  Dublin  soon  in  the  Summer  and  will  discharge  the  Note 
and  would  do  it  sooner  but  that  I  have  lately  paid  four  hundred  pounds 
sterl.  and  thereby  emptied  myself  of  Ready  Cash  for  the  present.  In  the 
mean  time  I  must  Expostulate  with  you  for  threat'ning  to  issue  out  a 
Presse  (?)  to  the  Outlawry  for  so  trivial  a  sume  against  a  Clergyman  and 
the  Chaplain  of  two  English  Noblemen  who  are  very  tender  of  their 
privilege  and  seldom  fail  to  punish  any  that  should  presume  to  breake  in 
upon  it.  Not  to  mention  that  the  Note  (which  at  present  1  know  nothing 
of)  must  be  proved.  I  suppose  you  are  an  Attorney,  who  are  usually 
men  better  affected  to  the  Gown ;  you'l  excuse  this  gentle  reproof 
from  your  Humble  Servant, 

"ARTHUR  D'ANVERS."1 

Another  letter  from  Dublin  in  1729  to  the  same  Richard 
Goodenough  shows  that  he  had  returned  to  Sherston;  and 
there  is  reason  to  believe  that  he  died  unmarried  in  1752  at  a 
house  in  the  main  street  of  Sherston,  which  had  belonged  to  his 
uncle  Francis,  having  evidently  come  in  for  a  good  deal  of  the 
family  property. 

"  To  Mr.  Richard  Goodenough  at  Sherstone,  near  Malmesbury,  Wilts. 

"Dublin,  i5th  Nov.  1729. 
"  Dear  Sr.  Richard, 

"  I  think  I  now  have  a  Call  on  you  fora  L're  this  being  my  fourth,  and 
tho'  in  the  midle  of  Term  yett  have  sufficient  time  to  tell  you  there  is 
little  or  no  business  in  the  Courts  the  Excheq'r  seldom  sitting  more  than 


1  The  letter  bears  a  seal  showing  a  chevron  between  three  mullets,  the 
ancient  coat  of  Danvers  (see  Aubrey,  plate  xvii,  No.  299).  The  present 
rector  of  St.  Martin's,  Looe.  Cornwall,  has  kindly  given  the  information  that 
the  Rev.  Arthur  d'Anvers  was  rector  of  that  parish  for  a  year  or  two  from 
April  1715,  the  patron  of  the  living  about  that  time  being  the  Duke  of 
Bolton,  and  later  the  Duke  of  Cleveland,  so  these  may  possibly  have  been 
the  "  noblemen  "  to  whom  Mr.  d'Anvers  was  chaplain. 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Sherston.  399 


two  Howers  a  day  and  sometimes  not  one,  ever  since  the  begining  ot 
the  term  there  have  not  been  about  18  Causes  sett  down  for  all  this  term, 
you  may  by  that  see  in  what  miserable  circumstances  we  are  in,  but  we 
must  live  to  Expect  better  times.  Our  Parliament  here  are  upon  the 
best  contrivance  to  assist  us  that  they  can  and  we  still  hope  somthing 
may  be  don  or  way  found  out  to  help  us,  they  have  agreed  to  a  Bill  for 
the  borrowing  of  220,000/2".  by  way  of  Lone  on  their  security  to  pay 
off  the  Debt  of  the  Nation,  they  propose  to  have  it  at  6  p.  cent,  but 
where  the  money  will  be  found  we  know  not  except  they  gett  it  out  of 
England.  I  had  a  L're  from  George  Higgins  who  gives  you  many 
thanks  for  your  present  to  him,  he  tells  me  your  cheese  stood  him  in 
great  Stedd  the  other  day  on  your  Tenas  (?)  Walke  where  he  p'duced 
it  before  a  Parcell  of  Huntsmen.  I  have  don  nothing  yett  with  Capt. 
Hinds  who  putt  me  off  from  time  to  time  tho'  several  times  appointed 
to  meet  me.  Tho'  I  have  writt  several  times  to  Mr.  Myhill  can't  have 
the  favour  of  an  Answer.  Mr.  Mason  says  he  has  not  sold  the  Effects  as 
yett  nor  pd  the  prior  debts,  hopes  in  a  short  time  to  doe  it.  Damer  is 
not  come  to  town  this  term  as  yett.  Capt.  Spencer  did  not  goe  off  as 
I  wrote  in  my  last  but  hath  been  Detained  by  Contrary  winds  but  hope 
you'l  have  your  Effects  before  this  comes  to  hand.1  I  believe  I  have  by 
this  almost  Tyred  you,  our  friends  here  are  well  and  Laughing  Jenny 
Rogers  desires  to  be  remembered  p'ticularly.  Pray  give  my  humble  ser- 
vice to  your  Brother  and  accept  the  same  from  he  that  is 

"  Dr  Dick  your  very  Humble  Servant 

"  J.  WAKFIELD. 
"  My  Mother  and  Sister  desire  to  be  remembered  to  you." 

The  will  (with  codicil)  of  Richard  Goodenough  of  Great 
Sherston,  gentleman,  was  proved  2oth  February  1753  (45 
Searle),  and  disposed  of  his  possessions  as  follows  :  — 

"  To  brother  John  Goodenough  the  piece  of  ground  called  the 
summer  lug  tyning  in  the  parish  of  Bagpath  in  the  county  of  Glo'ster, 
also  messuage  or  tenement  with  ground  called  Laycroft  in  the  parish  of 
Littleton  Drew,  Wilts,  immediately  after  my  decease  to  him  and  his  heirs 
for  ever.  To  John  Shipway,  Esq.,  of  Rodborough,  Glo'ster,  and  William 
Burgh  of  Pinkney,  gent.,  all  my  messuages,  closes,  lands,  and  tenements 
in  Great  Sherston  to  the  use  and  behoof  of  my  cousin  Mr.  Edward  Clarke 
for  his  life,  and  after  his  decease  to  use  and  behoof  of  John  Jones,  one  of 
the  sons  of  Solomon  Jones  by  Mary  his  wife  my  niece,  and  to  his  eldest 
son  and  heirs,  or  in  default  to  the  second,  third,  fourth,  fifth,  sixth  or 


1  The  letter  was  franked  by  Thomas  Clutterbuck,  and,  from  a  jotting 
on  the  cover,  it  was  not  received  in  Sherston  till  the  3rd  of  December, 
though  when  the  winds  were  not  contrary,  intercourse  between  Dublin  and 
Sherston  (about  20  miles  from  Bristol)  could  not  have  been  very  difficult, 
and  seems  to  have  been  kept  up  pretty  frequently  by  the  Goodenough 
family. 


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Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


every  other  son  of  said  John  Jones,  or  in  default  of  such  issue  to  Ship- 
way  Jones,  another  of  the  sons  of  said  Solomon  and  Mary  Jones,  and  to 
his  sons  in  order  as  before,  or  failing  such  issue  to  Francis  Jones,  eldest 
son  of  said  Solomon  and  Mary  Jones  and  to  sons  as  before,  or  else  to 
same  trustees  for  use  of  John  Newport,  son  of  John  Newport  by  Rachel 
his  wife,  my  niece,  for  his  life,  and  afterwards  to  my  nephew  Richard 
Mason  and  his  heirs. 

"To  sister  Ruth  Mason  £20.  To  cousin  Hannah  Shepley,  wife  of 
the  Rev.  Mr.  John  Shepley,  .£100.  To  nephew  Richard  Mason  £20.  To 
my  said  niece  Mary  Jones  £20.  To  niece  Rachel  Newport  £20.  To 
niece  Ann,  wife  of  David  Rice,  £20.  To  niece  Sarah,  wife  ot  Alexander 
(corrected  in  codicil  to  Israel)  Holborow,  £20.  To  Mr.  Francis  Lodge, 
attorney,  of  Dublin,  £10,  and  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Milsum,  of  Pinkney,  £20. 
To  cousins  Eliz'th  Clarke,  elder  and  younger,  ^50  apiece  to  buy 
mourning.  To  said  trustees  £20  apiece.  To  said  John  Jones  ^400. 
To  William,  son  of  Daniel  Thompson,  labourer,  of  Sherston,  £10  to 
apprentice  him  to  some  trade.  Rest  and  residue  to  trustees  for  benefit 
of  said  John  Jones." 

Signed  i8th  May  1752. 

Codicil  7th  December  1752. 

"  To  cousin  Mr.  Edward  Clarke  all  sums  of  money  owing  to  me  upon 
the  estate  ot  Daniel  Ready,  Esq.,  by  two  several  judgments  entered  in 
His  Majesty's  Court  ot  Exchequer  in  Dublin  at  my  suit.  To  David 
Rice,  husband  of  my  niece  Ann  Rice,  ^5  and  my  furnace  and  brewing 
vessels,  my  largest  Budget  Pot  and  my  Mare,  bridle  and  saddle.  To 
Mrs.  Sarah  Milsum  my  great  Kettle  for  washing,  and  do  forgive  her  all 
debts. 

"  To  Mrs.  Jane  Weeksy  of  Sherston  £10.  To  Cousin  Elizabeth 
Clarke  the  younger  my  gold  watch  and  all  my  silver  plate.  My  six  best 
shirts  to  nephew  Richard  Mason,  and  all  the  rest  of  my  shirts  to  Mrs. 
Sarah  Milsum.  To  John  Wicks  the  younger  ^5  as  a  reward  for  his 
honesty  and  care  in  my  business.  To  brother  John  all  my  books.  To 
Sarah  Singer  the  elder  ;£5  as  a  reward  for  her  care  and  trouble  in  my 
illness.  To  Mr.  William  Burgh  my  largest  looking-glass  now  in  the 
parlour,  and  to  John  Shipway,  Esq.,  my  best  Clock." 


By  way  of  postscript  it  may  be  worth  while  to  notice  a 
curious  old  record  of  accounts  in  diary  form,  1710-25,  entitled 
"  Praters  ",  which,  though  it  is  unsigned,  was  most  likely  kept 
by  Francis  Goodenough,  attorney  and  ex-conspirator, 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Sherston.  401 

"  Brother  Thomas  "  and  "  Brother  John  "  being  mentioned  in 
the  contents,  which  are  written  in  a  fine  scholarly  hand,  some- 
times quite  microscopical,  Latin  terms  being  freely  used 
through  the  pages.  The  beginning  is  lost,  but  an  immense 
amount  of  minute  detail  remains,  all  concerning  "  Work  don  in 
and  ab't  Praters",  a  house  in  Sherston  in  which  the  writer  took 
up  his  abode  in  xyio,1  and  employed  a  little  army  of  workmen  in 
repairs  and  various  kinds  of  labour.  The  name  of  Prater 
occurs  in  the  early  part  of  the  Sherston  register,  and  the  house 
in  question  (though  the  name  seems  lost)  was  most  likely  the 
one  next  the  "Tollsey"  in  the  main  street  of  Sherston,  where 
the  last  Richard  Goodenough  is  known  to  have  lived.  More 
than  fifty  names  occur  through  the  book,  which  is  in  some 
respects  quite  a  village  record.  Stone  was  obtained  from  Mr. 
Child  and  "  Cousin  Nathaniel  Power",  there  was  a  good  deal  of 
timber  hauling,  cellar-digging,  filling  up  of  a  "  quar "  and 
"poole"  with  the  mixon  or  anything  that  came  handy,  as  well 
as  ordinary  farm  labour.  There  are  columns  of  id'm,  t'b'm,  and 
the  words  ml,  mane,  tantum,  often  occur.  Sunday  was  pay- 
day, and  the  wages  were  mostly  is.  a  day,  but  sometimes  "it 
rained  all  day,  nil",  and  "Nil  Monday"  is  very  suggestive. 
A  few  extracts  will  give  some  idea  of  the  potterings  of  these 
"  forefathers  of  the  hamlet ",  as  well  as  of  the  humour  of  their 
master,  whose  former  career  had  been  such  an  eventful  one. 

Sept.      18. — Brush  went  off  at  10  to  mow  his  barley. 

21. — Our  fair  day,  most  of  the  men  went  to  fair  between  10 

and  1 1  of  the  clock  mane. 

1711.  March  4.— Thomas  Holborow  came  voluntary  after  his  impudence. 
May  12. — John  Wicks,  contrary  to  order,  being  influenced  by 
Thomas  Holborow,  made  a  great  thick  wall  against  the 
rock  in  the  cellar,  left  for  a  chimney  stack,  for  wh.  I 
will  allow  nothing,  so  this  must  be  set  down  for  half  a 
day  only. 

Thomas  Holborow  for  spoyling  my  cellar  J  a  day  and 
turned  him  off. 


1  "  Memorand.  yt  the  llth  Dec.  1710,   being  the  shortest  day,  was  the 
first  night  I  lodged  at  Praters  house  alone." 

E  E 


402  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

June        6. — John  Mason  carried  the   Jams  from  the  hollow  way, 

near  Rice's  mill,   i  load  and  2  loads  from  my  Quarr  at 

Hankie  Hill, 
ii. — Paid  lazy  Roger    Wicks  for    i   week's  sawing  and 

Loitering,  8s. 

July        10. — John  Hobbs  went  off  to  the  masons,  now  their  man. 
August  24. — Wm.  Wimbow  tantum  i  day  finished  the  kitchen  loft 

after  a  cobbling  manner. 

Sept.      6. — Jona  Hayes  fetched  water  with  Mr.  Cresswell's  barrel. 
Oct.      31. — Wm.  Wimbow  tantum  \  day  making  one  cubbord  over 

the  passage  dore  and  went  away  like  a  K. 
Nov.       3. — Wimbow  came  but  went  away  agen,  would  not  let  him 

have  his  tools. 

1712.  Oct.       17. — David  Rice  digged  some  stones  out  of  the  bowling 

green  garden,  gathered  some  kidney  beans  and  threw 
a  little  earth  into  the  Quar  &  watered  the  horse 
twice,  abt.  f  a  day.  Idem  came  \  an  hour  after  8  and 
went  away  before  sunset  ?  a  day. 

Dec.         5. — Paid  Jona  Hayes's  widow  for  her  pick  ax  is.  6d. 

Jan.  23.— John  and  Tho.  Mason  went  at  10  mane  to  Noble  X 
and  sawed  off  and  clove  out  the  old  trees.  I  was  with 
ym. 

24. — John  Mason  carried  the  wood,  it  was  one  good  load, 
but  he  made  two  journeys  for  it.  Idm  ibm  5  a  day  the 
rain  beat  him  off. 

Feb.  17. — Shrove  Tuesday  pd.  Tho.  Mason  33.  6d.,  and  for 
looking  to  my  horse  6  weeks,  the  horse  being  lame 
and  troublesom,  therefore  I  allowed  him  8d.  per 
week,  so  I  pd.  him  js.  6d.,  being  his  full  demand  and 
id.  over  for  everything  except  ffaggoting,  gave  him  the 
odd  penny  to  go  to  Mr.  Cresswell's  for  me. 
19. — Tho.  Mason  went  for  me  to  Luckington  for  white 
rasberries  and  afterwards  went  to  Mamby  for  Robt. 
Hunt  to  come  and  arrest  James. 

28. — Idem  fetching  rasberries  from  Bro.  John's  pd.  Gabriel 
Kingson  in  money  43.  6d.,  in  parsnips  and  potatoes  53., 
debt  4d. 

1713.  March    30. — It  rained  and  a  very  cold  day,  Gabriel  had  the  gripes, 

nil. 
April        i. — Idem  digged  in  the  bowling  green  and  set  some  beans, 

3  rows,  amongst  the  collett  stumps. 
10. — Idem  went  home  sick  after  a  little  work  mane. 
2i.— Gab.  K.  came  at  2  and  went  off  at  5  with  J.  Wicks  to 

Surrenden  to  reach  Rooks. 

July  24. — John  Wicks  abt  the  studdy  window  and  pulling  open 
the  best  chamber  window ;  i  day  staid  almost  3  hours 
at  dinner. 


The  Goodenoughs  of  Sherston.  403 

27.  —  Idem  i  day  put  2  thin  stones  on  the  Tunn  of  the 
kitchin  chimney  and  took  ym  down  agen  and  fetched 
in  some  street  dirt  for  mortar,  and  picked  out  the 
rotten  lintel  of  the  window  and  looked  after  a  new 
lintel.  Idem  one  day  cut  off  and  hewed  a  new  lintel 
and  walked  abt  to  see  for  another,  but  could  find  none, 
a  poor  daies  work  ;  he  saies  there  is  i4d.  yet  due  to 
him.  I  say  not. 
Sept.  14.  —  Pd.  young  Bingham  for  9  sacks  of  Lyme  IDS.  6d.  ;  he 

cheated  me  of  a  sack  and  sold  it  to  Giles  Hitchens. 
15.  —  Thomas   Maris,   of  Wootton   Bassett,   abt  Tacks   in 
buttery  and  study,  stopping  rot  holes  in  Cockloft  i  day. 

1716.  Mar.  25.  —  Tho.  Mallard  went  down  to  Bristow  with  Cousin 
Dick.  I  pd.  him  33.  to  bear  his  charges,  he  did  not 
com  up  before  ye  27th,  n  in  the  morning. 

1716.  May  24.—  Richd.  Weeks  and  his  boy  here  i  day,  they  set  up  the 
bedstead  in  Parlour  chamber,  put  up  the  settle  in  the 
kitchen,  hung  up  the  two  window  leaves  over  ye 
parlour,  put  on'locks  and  cut  out  and  scraped  som  stuff 
to  darken  ye  window  in  ye  chamber  over  my  study. 
June  25.  —  Roger  Wicks  and  Tho.  Deverell  felled  4  oakes  in 
Tweenwoods  and  cut  ym  above  ground  like  Rascalls, 
so  yt  I  lost  12  foot  of  timber  thereby  ;  John  Holliday 
carried  the  trees  home,  used  me  ill  that  I  had  not 
those  carried  out  of  Holfords  Ham.  Note  yt  all  the  4 
trees  were  pollards  and  grew  in  the  hedges  except  one, 
which  was  a  small  one  and  a  Maiden  tree. 

The  entries  become  fewer  and  fewer  in  the  years  just 
before  the  writer's  death  in  1728,  the  last  of  his  generation. 
Most,  if  not  all  of  the  Goodenough  possessions  in  Sherston 
ultimately  came  to  Mr.  Shipway  Jones,  to  whose  memory 
there  is  a  marble  tablet  in  Sherston  church  stating  that  he 
was  "great-grandson  of  Thomas  Goodenough,  Esq.,  and  Mary 
his  wife",  and  that  he  departed  this  life  Feb.  i8th,  1825,  aged 
88  years.  Mr.  Jones  lived  at  the  old  house  in  Easton  Town 
already  referred  to,  and  was  a  famous  sportsman  with  dog  and 
gun  and  a  crack  shot  at  the  snipe.  His  first  wife,  Dorothy 
(Hillier),  died  in  1802,  and  a  second  wife,  Anne  (Purnell),  sur- 
vived him  till  1863,  leaving  one  daughter  and  only  child,  who 
married  Mr.  William  Hillier  of  Easton  Town;  their  only  son, 
as  already  stated,  being  the  present  representative  of  the 
Goodenough  family.  MARY 


E  E  2 


404  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES, 

BRATTON. 


(Continued  Jrom  p.  354.^) 
RECOVERY  ROLL.     [Trinity.     7  Anne.     r.  195.] 

A.D.  1708.  i  Henry  Kelsey  demands  against  Thomas  Hors- 
WILTS.  J  nell,  gentleman,  6  messuages,  10  gardens,  155 
acres  of  land,  40  acres  of  meadow,  70  acres  of  pasture,  10  acres 
of  wood,  and  common  of  pasture  for  every  kind  of  beast,  in 
Easttowne,  West  Ashton,  Steeple  Ashton,  Bratton,  and  West- 
bury.  John  Marvyn,  vouchee. 

DEEDS  ENROLLED  [Recovery  Roll.     Trinity.     10  Anne.     r.  i.] 

A.D.  1711. — Indenture  tripartite  made  23  May  1711  between 
Richard  Long,  of  Rood  Ashton,  Wilts,  esquire,  and  Richard 
Long  the  younger,  gentleman,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  the 
said  Richard  Long  the  elder,  of  the  first  part ;  Michael  Collins, 
of  the  Middle  Temple,  London,  gentleman,  of  the  second  part; 
and  Henry  Horton,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  gentleman,  of  the 
third  part.  Witnesseth  that  Richard  Long  the  elder  and  the 
younger  for  55.  to  each  of  them  have  sold  unto  the  said  Michael 
Collins :  the  manor  of  Rood  Ashton  alias  Chappell  Ashton, 
and  a  messuage  and  land,  &c.,  there  in  the  parish  of  Steeple 
Ashton,  the  manor  of  West  Ashton  and  farm  and  land  there : 
diverse  tenements  situated  in  the  vills  and  parishes  of  Steeple 
Ashton,  Westbury,  Bratton,  Semington,  and  Hinton,  co.  Wilts  : 
and  also  all  that  messuage  or  tenement  now  or  late  in  the 
possession  of  John  Whitaker  and  Philip  Ballard,  and  other 
tenements  and  lands  in  Steeple  Ashton,  and  property  in  the 
parish  of  Filedean,  Wilts,  with  all  rights  belonging  to  the 
premises ;  to  the  use  of  Michael  Collins  his  heirs  and  assigns  ; 
to  the  intent  that  he  may  be  perfect  tenant  of  the  freehold  of 
the  premises  until  one  or  more  perfect  recoveries  may  be  had 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  405 

against  him,  the  said  Michael  Collins,  of  the  same  premises 
with  their  appurtenances.  And  it  is  covenanted  between  the 
said  parties  that  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said  Henry  Horton, 
before  the  last  day  of  Trinity  term  next  the  date  of  the 
presents,  to  present  out  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  a  writ  or 
writs  of  entry  sur  disseizin  in  le  post  against  Michael  Collins, 
whereby  he  may  demand  the  premises  against  him,  &c.  [accord- 
ing to  the  form  of  recoveries].  And  that  the  recovery  so  to  be 
had  shall  be  and  enure.  And  Henry  Horton,  his  heirs,  and  all 
other  persons  whatsoever  that  now  are  or  hereafter  shall  be 
at  any  time  seized  of  the  said  manors  and  other  premises  with 
their  appurtenances  immediately  after  the  passing  of  the  said 
recovery,  shall  be  seized  of  the  said  manors  and  premises  to 
the  uses  to  be  declared  by  indenture  bearing  even  date  with 
the  presents.  In  witness,  &c. 

IBID.     [Trinity.     10  Anne.     r.  149.] 

A.D.  1711.  }  Henry  Horton,  gentleman,  demands  against 
WILTS.  I  Michael  Collins,  gentleman,  the  manors  of  Rood 
Ashton  alias  Chappell  Ashton  and  West  Ashton,  with  the  appur- 
tenances and  23  messuages,  i  toft,  26  gardens,  800  acres  of 
land,  50  acres  of  meadow,  1,200  acres  of  pasture,  i  acre  of 
wood,  8s.  i\d.  rent,  and  common  of  pasture  for  all  beasts,  and 
free  fishery,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Rood  Ashton  alias 
Chappell  Ashton,  Steeple  Ashton,  West  Ashton,  Hinton, 
Seamington,  Bratton,  Westbury,  &c. 

Richard    Long,     senior,     esquire,    vouchee,    who    called 
Richard  Long,  junior,  gentleman,  to  warranty. 

RECOVERY  ROLL.     [Hillary.     6  George  II.     r.  cclxxxi.] 
A.D.   1732.  i      Simon    Michell,    esquire,    and    John   Chambre, 
WILTS.     J      gentleman,    demand    against    William    Phipps, 
esquire,  5  messuages,  16  orchards  (?),  9  gardens,  100  acres  of 
land,  300  acres  of  meadow,  300  acres  of  pasture,  10  acres  of 
wood,  and  common  of  pasture  for  all  beasts,  with  the  appurten- 
ances in  Westbury,  Brooke,  Hawkeridge,  Hey  wood,  and  Bratton. 
Thomas  Phipps,  esquire,  vouchee. 


406  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

IBID.     [Trinity.     12-13  George  II.     r.  12.] 

A.D.  1739.  1  William  Hooper  demands  against  Solomon 
WILTS.  I  Hughes,  gentleman,  i  messuage,  2  gardens,  5 
acres  of  land,  and  common  of  pasture  for  all  cattle,  with  the 
appurtenances  in  Bratton  and  in  the  parish  of  Westbury. 
Richard  Hooper,  vouchee. 

IBID.  [Michaelmas.  31  George  II.  r.  143.] 
A.D.  1757.  "1  John  Davy,  gentleman,  demands  against  Francis 
WILTS.  J  Fawkes,  gentleman,  the  manor  of  Leigh  and 
Ludborn,  with  the  appurtenances  and  45  messuages,  4  mills, 
410  acres  of  land,  100  acres  of  meadow,  and  174  acres  of 
pasture,  and  also  three-fifth  parts  of  1 50  acres  of  wood,  and 
common  of  pasture  for  all  cattle,  with  the  appurtenances  in 
Westbury-under-the-Plain,  Dilton,  Bratton,  Leigh,  Brooke, 
Brembridge,  Penley,  Haywood,  Hawkridge,  Southwyke,  and 
North  Bradley. 

The   Rev.    Grandville    Wheler,    esquire,    and    Granville 
Wheler  the  younger,  vouchees. 

IBID.     [Easter.     33  George  II.     r.  284.] 

A.D.  1760.1  John  Davis,  gentleman,  demands  against  Thomas 
WILTS.  J  Fosbrooke,  gentleman,  the  manor  of  Leigh  and 
Ludborne,  and  other  property  as  above  recited.  Granville 
Wheler,  esquire,  and  Granville  Wheler  the  younger,  esquire, 
vouchees. 

IBID.     [Easter.     4  George  III.     r.  468.] 

A.D.  1764.1  John  Hughes,  gentleman,  demands  against 
WILTS.  J  George  Green,  gentleman,  13  messuages,  8 
gardens,  90  acres  of  land,  20  acres  of  pasture,  and  common  of 
pasture  for  all  cattle,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Bratton  and 
Westbury,  and  in  the  parish  of  Westbury.  William  Aldridge 
Ballard,  vouchee. 

FEET  OF  FINES,  WILTS.     [Trinity.     6  George  III.] 
A.D.   1766. — At  Westminster  on  the  morrow  of  the  Holy 
Trinity.     Between  Thomas  Whitaker,  gentleman,  plaintiff,  and 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  40? 

Broadhead  Baleard,  spinster,  and  William  Free,  gentleman, 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  deforciants  of  13  acres  of  land,  13  acres 
of  meadow,  and  13  acres  of  pasture,  with  the  appurtenances  in 
Bratton,  in  the  parish  of  Westbury.  Plea  of  covenant  was 
summoned.  Broadhead,  William,  and  Elizabeth  acknowledged 
the  right  of  Thomas,  and  quitclaimed  from  themselves  and 
their  heirs  to  Thomas  and  his  heirs.  And  moreover  Broadhead 
granted  warranty  against  herself  and  her  heirs  forever,  and 
William  and  Elizabeth  granted  warranty  against  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Elizabeth  forever.  For  this  Thomas  gave 
Broadhead  and  William  and  Elizabeth  £60  sterling. 

IBID.     [Easter.     6  George  III.] 

At  Westminster  fifteen  days  after  Easter  Day.  Between 
WTilliam  Salmon,  gentleman,  plaintiff,  and  Sarah  Prior,  spin- 
ster, and  Elizabeth  Hooper,  widow,  deforciants  of  a  messuage, 
a  garden,  2  orchards,  2  acres  of  land,  2  acres  of  pasture,  and 
common  of  pasture,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Mulborne  and 
Bratton,  in  the  parish  of  Westbury.  Plea  of  covenant  was 
summoned.  Sarah  and  Elizabeth  acknowledged  the  right  of 
William  as  of  their  gift  and  quitclaimed  from  themselves  and 
their  heirs  to  William  and  his  heirs  forever.  And  moreover 
each  granted  warranty  against  herself  and  their  heirs  forever. 
For  this  William  gave  them  £60  sterling. 

RECOVERY  ROLL.     [Michaelmas.     9  George  III.     r.  13.! 

A.D.  1768.1  William  Shaw  demands  against  Godfrey  Kettle, 
WILTS,  j  6  messuages,  10  gardens,  170  acres  of  land,  50 
acres  of  meadow,  70  acres  of  pasture,  10  acres  of  wood,  and 
common  of  pasture  for  all  cattle,  with  the  appurtenances  in 
Eastown,  West  Ashton,  Steeple  Ashton,  Bratton,  and  West- 
bury.  Toby  Chauncy  esquire,  vouchee. 

IBID.     [Trinity,     19  George  III.     r.  139.] 

A.D.   1779.  1      Robert  Smith  demands  against  Godfrey  Kettle, 

WILTS.    J      6  messuages,    10  gardens,  220  acres  of  land,  70 

acres  of  meadow,  70  acres  of  pasture,   10  acres  of  wood,  and 


408  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

common  of  pasture  for  all  manner  of  cattle,  with  the  appurten- 
ances in  Eastown,  West  Ashton,  Steeple  Ashton,  Bratton,  and 
Westbury.  William  Henry  Chauncy,  esquire,  John  Richards, 
and  Mary  his  wife,  and  Anna  Maria  Chauncy,  spinster, 
vouchees. 

FEET  OF  FINES.      [Divers  Counties.      Trinity.     29  George  III.] 

A.D.  1789.— At  Westminster  three  weeks  after  the  Feast 
of  the  Holy  Trinity.  Between  Henry  Thomas,  esquire,  plain- 
tiff, and  Thomas  Viscount  Weymouth,  and  Thomas  Thynne, 
esquire,  deforciants  of  the  Hundred  of  Warminster,  and  the 
appurtenances,  and  of  the  manors  of  Warminster,  Devirill, 
Longbridge  ....  Bratton  ....  and  the  parks  of 
Longleat  and  Corsley  ....  and  of  623  messuages,  n 
mills,  9  dovehouses,  630  gardens,  8,200  acres  of  land,  3,800  acres 
of  meadow,  5,650  acres  of  pasture,  780  acres  of  wood,  3,500 
acres  of  furse  and  heath,  ^19  125.  ^d.  rents,  common  of 
pasture,  free  fishings,  warren,  court  leets,  courts  baron,  per- 
quisites of  courts,  view  of  frankpledge,  and  other  privileges 
in  Warminster,  Corsley  ....  Imber,  &c.,  in  Wilts,  and 
of  estates  and  tenements  in  Somerset  and  Gloucestershire. 
Plea  of  covenant  was  summoned.  The  Viscount  and  Thomas 
Thynne  acknowledged  the  right  of  Henry  as  of  the  gift  of  the 
Viscount,  and  quitclaimed  from  themselves  and  their  heirs  to 
him  and  his  heirs  forever,  and  moreover  granted  warranty 
against  themselves  and  their  heirs  forever.  For  this  Henry 
gave  them  ,£33,160  sterling. 

FEET  OF  FINES.     WILTS.     [Trinity.     30  George  ///•] 

A.D.  1790. — At  Westminster  three  weeks  after  the  Feast  of 
the  Holy  Trinity.  Between  James  Beaver,  plaintiff,  and  John 
Helps,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  deforciants  of  2  messuages,  4 
gardens,  30  acres  of  land,  1 5  acres  of  meadow,  1 5  acres  of 
pasture,  and  pasture  for  6  beasts  and  60  sheep,  with  the  appur- 
tenances in  Bratton,  and  the  parish  of  Westbury.  Plea  of 
covenant  was  summoned.  John  and  Elizabeth  acknowledged 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes. 


409 


the  right  of  James  and  quitclaimed  from  themselves  and  their 
heirs  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever.  And  moreover  they 
granted  warranty  against  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  John 
forever.  For  this  James  gave  them  ^100  sterling. 

IBID.     [Easter.     34  George  III.] 

A.D.  1794. — At  Westminster  fifteen  days  after  Easter  Day. 
Between  George  Rabbits,  gentleman,  plaintiff,  and  William 
Aldridge  Ballard,  esquire,  and  Hannah  his  wife,  deforciants  of 
2  messuages,  i  cottage,  i  malthouse,  2  barns,  2  stables,  2 
gardens;  2  orchards,  45  acres  of  land,  7  acres  of  meadow,  7 
acres  of  pasture,  and  common  of  pasture  for  all  manner  of 
cattle,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Bratton,  in  the  parish  of 
Westbury.  Plea  of  covenant  was  summoned.  William 
Aldridge  and  Hannah  acknowledged  the  right  of  George  as  of 
their  gift,  and  quitclaimed  from  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
William  and  granted  warranty  against  themselves  and  the 
heirs  of  William  forever.  For  this  George  gave  them  ^60 
sterling. 

RECOVERY  ROLL.  [Easier.  40  George  III.  r.  202.] 
A.D.  1800.  \  John  Cope,  gentleman,  demands  against  Richard 
WILTS,  j  Debarry,  gentleman,  i  messuage,  i  barn,  2 
stables,  2  gardens,  60  acres  of  land,  60  acres  of  meadow,  and 
60  acres  of  pasture,  and  common  of  pasture,  with  the  appurten- 
ances in  Westbury,  Haywood,  and  Bratton,  and  in  the  parish 
of  Westbury.  Richard  Kebby  and  Ann  his  wife,  and  John 
Kebby,  vouchees. 

IBID.  [Michaelmas.  45  George  III.  r.  135.] 
A.D.  1804.  >  William  Nethersole,  gentleman,  demands  against 
WILTS.  J  Charles  Septimus  Portal,  gentleman,  17  messu- 
ages, i  fulling-mill,  14  gardens,  90  acres  of  land,  26  acres  of 
meadow,  96  acres  of  pasture,  and  a  moiety  of  26  acres  of 
meadow  and  26  acres  of  pasture,  and  common  of  pasture  for 
all  manner  of  cattle,  with  the  appurtenances  in  Leigh,  West 
Ashton,  Westbury  Leigh,  Westbury,  Kingston  Deverill, 
Crowswell  Downs,  Hoopers,  Bratton,  Dilton,  and  the  parishes 


4io  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

of    Westbury,    Westbury    Leigh,    and    Kingston    Deverill. 
Edward  Frowd  Seagram,  and  Mary  his  wife,  vouchees. 

FEET  OF  FINES.     WILTS.     [Trinity.     6  George  IV.~\ 

A.D.  1825. — At  Westminster  three  weeks  after  the  Feast  of 
the  Holy  Trinity.  Between  Joshua  Whitaker,  plaintiff,  and 
Thomas  Whitaker,  and  Sophia  his  wife,  deforciants  of  2 
messuages,  2  barns,  2  granaries,  4  gardens,  4  orchards,  100 
acres  of  land,  40  acres  of  meadow,  and  40  acres  of  pasture, 
with  the  appurtenances  in  Bratton,  in  the  parish  of  Westbury. 
Plea  of  covenant  was  summoned.  Thomas  and  Sophia 
acknowledged  the  right  of  Joshua,  and  quitclaimed  from 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Sophia  to  Joshua  and  his  heirs 
forever.  And  moreover  granted  warranty  against  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Sophia  forever.  For  this  Joshua  gave  them 
^"200  sterling. 

E.  M.  THOMPSON. 
(To  be  continued.) 


SOME  NOTES  ON  THE  DELAMERE  FAMILY,  AND 
THEIR  CHANTRY  AT  MARKET  LAYINGTON. 


The  family  of  Delamere  [de  la  Mare]  is  said  to  have 
originally  sprung  from  the  neighbourhood  of  Caen,  in  Nor- 
mandy. After  they  had  migrated  into  England,  and  the  parent 
stock  had  taken  a  firm  root  under  the  Norman  kings,  their 
name  appears,  in  the  i3th  century,  as  landowners  in  the 
counties  of  Essex,  Hertford,  Oxon,  Somerset,  and  Wilts.  In 
Somersetshire  they  were  lords  of  the  principal  manor  of 
Nunney  (formerly  Nunney  Delamere},  near  Frome,  where  the 
ruins  of  their  castle,  which  was  either  completed  or  wholly 
rebuilt  by  Sir  John  Delamere  about  the  middle  of  the  i4th 


Some  Notes  on  the  Delamere  Family. 


century,1  yet  remain,  as  well  as  some  of  their  tombs,  with 
effigies,  in  the  parish  church. 

In  Wiltshire  their  name  still  survives  in  two  villages 
of  which  they  were  once  lords — Fisherton  Delamere,  in  the 
vale  of  Wylye ;  and  Leigh  Delamere,  near  Chippenham.  In 
1322  Sir  John  Delamere  and  his  wife  Alice  obtained  from  the 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese  a  licence  for  an  oratory  within  their 
manor  of  "  Langley  and  Lye  "8 — now  Langley  Burrell  and 
Leigh  Delamere — which  property  they  appear  to  have  sold  in 
1343.  They  were  also  early  landowners  at  Market  Lavington, 
and  Winterbourne  Gunner — the  latter  so-called  from  a  lady 
Gunnora  Delamere — who  held  it  in  the  reign  of  Henry  III.3 

At  Wanborough  we  find  a  Hugh  Delamere  in  1329.  This 
Hugh,  with  his  brother  Richard,  and  their  parents  William 
and  Agnes  Delamere,  were  among  the  individuals  especially 
commemorated  in  a  Chantry  founded  within  the  Chapel  of 
St.  Katherine,  at  Wanborough,  by  Emmeline,  widow  of 
Stephen  Longespee,  Justiciary  of  Ireland,4  before  1276,  and 
subsequently  augmented,  in  1336,  by  John  de  Wambergh, 
Canon  of  Wells. 

They  also  had  property  at  Berwick  Basset  and  Compton 
Basset,  which  may  have  come  into  their  hands  through  the 
marriage  of  Sir  Helias  Delamere,  who  died  in  1308,  with 
Elizabeth,  the  daughter  of  Sir  Adam  Basset. 

In  the  reign  of  Henry  III  [1216-1272]  we  find  the  name 
of  Delamere  as  landowners  in  Market  Lavington.5  Their 

1  Sir  John  obtained  the  necessary  licence  from  the  Crown  to  fortify 
his  building  here,  47  Edw.  Ill  [1372-3]. 

2  Mortival  Register,  Sarum. 

3  Gunnora  de  la  Mare  died  in  1248,  seised  of  the  manors  of  Alsiscote. 
co.  Oxon,  and  Winterbourne,  co.  Wilts.     Inq.  p.  m.,  33  Hen.  Ill,  No.  38. 

4  Younger  son  of  William  Longespee,  Earl   of   Salisbury,  by  his  wife 
Ela,  heiress  of  D'Evreux,  and  Foundress  of  Lacock  Abbey. 

5  The  name  is  variously  spelt  Staple,  Stuple,  Steeple  Lavington,  Cheping 
Lavington,  Lavington   Forum,   and  Market   Lavington — all  from  its   now 
extinct  market,  which  was  held  weekly  on  Wednesday.     Also  East  Laving- 
ton as  a  distinction   from  the  neighbouring  village  of  West,   or  Bishop's 
Lavington. 


412  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

property  here  was  held  directly  of  the  Crown,  by  military 
service  at  Devizes  Castle.  The  exact  tenure  is  thus  explained 
in  the  Hundred  Rolls  of  the  3pth  year  of  this  reign  [1254]. l 
Under  the  heading  "  Of  Wards  of  Castles",  the  jurors  for  the 
hundred  of  Rubergh2  present  that  "  Richard  de  Rokell  owes  to 
the  Ward  of  the  Castle  of  Devizes  twenty  shillings  by  the  year, 
in  the  time  of  peace,3  for  his  land  in  Lavinton  ;  and  Robert  de 
[la]  Mare  owes  twenty  shillings  to  the  same  Ward,  by  the  year,  in 
the  time  of  peace,  for  his  land  in  the  same  town;  and  Richard 
Paynell  owes  twenty  shillings  for  his  land  in  Littleton  [Little- 
ton Paynell  in  West  Lavington] ;  and  they  render  the  same 
Ward  at  the  feast  of  Saint  Michael,  and  in  the  time  of  war  every 
of  them  owes  by  the  year  Ward  in  the  same  Castle,  in  their  proper 
persons,  by  forty  days,  at  their  own  costs." 

From  the  Inquisitions  post  mortem,  and  other  sources,  we 
are  enabled  to  trace  with  tolerable  accuracy  the  descent  of  the 
manor  in  Market  Lavington  which  belonged  to  the  Delameres, 
and  continued  to  be  held  by  them  of  the  Crown,  in  capite,  until 
the  time  of  Henry  IV. 

We  begin  with  PETER  DE  LA  MARE,  who  was  possessed 
of  an  estate  in  " Stupellavinton"  temp.  Henry  III;  but  the 
inquisition  taken  after  his  death  is  undated,  and  the  exact 
year  ot  decease  consequently  uncertain.* 


1  Inquisition  taken  at  Wilton,  before  Roger  de  Thurkelby  and  Robert 
de  Shotendone,  on  Saturday  next  after  the  feast  of  St.  Peter  ad  Vincula 
[1  August] ;  of  the  rights,  liberties,  and  other  matters  appertaining  to  the 
king. 

2  This  Hundred,  which   formerly   included  Devizes,  Rowde,    Potterne, 
Worton,  East  and  West  Lavington,  Littleton,  the  two  Cheverells,  Tilshead, 
and  part  of  Imber,  is  now  divided  between  those  of  Potterne  and  Cannings, 
and  Swanborough. 

3  These   payments,  in   lieu  of  military   service,   continued   long  after 
Devizes  Castle,  as  a  Royal  fortress,  had  ceased  to  exist.     In  1610  they  were 
still  payable  to  the  Crown  at  Michaelmas,  under  the  name  of  Castle  Guard 
Rents. 

4  In  5  Hen.  Ill   [1220-21]  William  de  la  Rokele  sued  Peter  de  la  Mare 
for  the  manor  and  advowson  of  Lavington,  of  which  he  claimed  that  his 
ancestor,  Godef rid  de  la  Rachele,  was  seised  four  generations  previously,  in 


Some  Notes  on  the  Delamere  Family.  413 

ROBERT  DE  LA  MARE  was  seised,  in  1271,  of  "Stupell- 
aunton"  manor,  held  as  of  Devizes  Castle.  Inq.  p.  m.  56 
Hen.  Ill,  No.  7.  This  seems  to  be  the  owner  whose  name 
appears  in  the  Hundred  Roll  of  1254  already  referred  to  ;  and 
from  other  entries  in  the  same  roll  we  find  that  the  yearly 
payment  of  20  shillings,  or  40  days  of  military  service  in 
person,  at  Devizes  Castle  represented  a  tenure  amounting  to 
an  entire  knight's  fee,  or  about  800  acres  of  land.1 

PETER  DE  LA  MARE,  KNIGHT,  was  the  next  owner.  He 
died  in  1291,  seised  of  lands,  &c.,  at  "Stupellampton"  [sic],  co. 
Wilts.  He  also  held  a  manor  in  Offley,  co.  Herts,  called 
De  la  Mares ;  the  manor  of  Cherinton,  and  lands  at  Minchin- 
hampton,  co.  Gloucester ;  the  manors  of  Lyvinton  and  Monk- 
hampton,  co.  Devon;  and  Mershbaldinton,  co.  Oxon.  Inq. 
p.  m.  20  Edw.  /,  No.  39. 

ROBERT  DE  LA  MARE,  son  and  heir  of  Peter,  died  in  1308, 
seised  of  Stepel  Lavynton  manor,  and  Knabwell  manor,  in 
Stanton  St.  Quinton,  co.  Wilts — the  former  held  as  of  Devizes 
Castle,  the  latter  as  of  the  manor  of  Trowbridge.  To  his 
father's  property  in  other  counties  he  appears  to  have  added 
the  manor  of  Heyford  ad  Pontem,  co.  Oxon.,  as  well  as  some 
lands  in  co.  Hereford.  Inq.  p.  m.  2  Edw.  II,  No.  68. 

PETER  DE  LA  MARE,  the  next  heir,  was  a  minor,  and  only 
15  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death.  His  name 
appears  in  the  Nomina  Villarum,  9  Edw.  II  [1316],  as  the 
principal  holder  in  Stupel  Lavington.  In  1343,  when  at  the 


the  time  of  Hen.  I.  Curia  Regis  Roll,  5  Henry  III,  No.  79.  He  may  have 
succeeded  in  obtaining  a  moiety,  for  in  1254  Robert  de  la  Mare  and  Richard 
de  Rokele  were  both  holders  of  land  here  under  the  Crown  ;  and  the  latter, 
who  had  set  up  a  weekly  market  in  the  manor  of  Stupellavinton  to  the 
serious  detriment  of  the  King's  market  at  Devizes,  died  5  Edw.  I  [1276] 
seised  of  lands  in  Lavynton. 

1  The  Exchequer  Rolls  of  Edward  II  make  10  acres  a  furlong,  4  fur- 
longs a  virgate,  4  virgates  a  hide,  five  hides  (or  800  acres)  a  knight's  fee ; 
but  the  inquisition  post  mortem  of  Peter  de  la  Mare  [1348-9]  describes  his 
holding  in  Market  Lavington  as  two  carucates — apparently  a  much  smaller 
quantity. 


414  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

age  of  50,  he  founded  a  Chantry  within  the  parish  Church 
there,  and  obtained  the  Royal  licence  to  endow  it  with  parcel 
of  the  lands  which  he  held  in  capite  of  the  Crown.1 

"  PRO  CANTARIA  DE  STEPEL  LAVINGTON. 

"  Pro  Petro  de  la  Mare  I     Rex     omnibus     ad    <luos    &c.  salutem. 
J      Licet    &c.    Volentes    tamen    dilecto    et 

fideli  nostro  Petro  de  la  Mare  graciam  facere  specialem  concessimus  et 
licenciam  dedimus  pro  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  quantum  in  nobis  est 
eidem  Petro  quod  ipse  tresdecim  mesuagia  et  viginti  et  septem  acras 
terre  cum  pastura  pro  quinquaginta  bidentibus  cum  pertinenciis  in  villa 
de  Steple  Lavyngton  que  de  nobis  tenentur  in  capite  ut  dicitur  dare 
possit  et  assignare  cuidam  Capellano  divina  singulis  diebus  in  Capella 
Beate  Marie  virginis  in  ecclesia  de  Steple  Lavyngton  pro  salubri  statu 
ipsius  Petri  dum  vixerit  et  pro  anima  eiusdem  cum  ab  hac  luce  sub- 
tractus  fuerit  et  animabus  antecessorum  et  heredum  ipsius  Petri  ac 
animabus  omnium  fidelium  defunctorum  iuxta  ordinacionem  ipsius  Petri 
celebraturo.  Habendum  et  tenendum  eidem  Capellano  et  successoribus 
suis  Capellanis  divina  singulis  diebus  in  capella  predicta  in  forma 
predicta  celebraturis  inperpetuum.  Et  eidem  Capellano  quod  ipse 
mesuagia  et  terram  cum  pastura  predicta  cum  pertinenciis  a  prefato 
Petro  recipere  possit  et  tenere  sibi  et  successoribus  suis  predictis 
divina  sicut  predictum  est  celebraturis  inperpetuum  tenore  presencium 
similiter  licenciam  dedimus  specialem.  Statute  predicto  non  obstante. 
Nolentes  quod  predictus  Petrus  vel  heredes  sui  aut  prefatus  Capellanus 
seu  successores  sui  ratione  statuti  predicti  per  nos  vel  heredes  nostros, 
seu  ministros  nostros  quoscumque  molestentur  in  aliquo  seu  graventur. 
Salvis  nobis  et  aliis  capitalibus  dominis  feodi  illius  serviciis  inde  debitis 
et  consuetis.  In  cuius  &c.  Teste  Rege  apud  Turrim  Londonie  xxiij  die 
Marcii.  "  per  breve  de  privato  sigillo." 

Patent  Roll,  18  Edw.  Ill,  prima patent,  m.^\. 

By  this  licence  he  was  permitted  to  give  and  assign  to  a 
certain  chaplain  13  messuages,  27  acres  of  land,  and  pasture  for 
50  sheep,  with  appurtenances,  in  Steple  Lavyngton,  "  daily  to 
celebrate  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Blessed  Mary  the  Virgin,  in  the 
Church  of  Steple  Lavyngton,  for  the  good  estate  of  the  said 
Peter  whilst  living,  and  for  his  soul  when  he  shall  be  withdrawn 
from  this  light,  for  the  souls  of  his  ancestors  and  heirs,  and  the 


1  By  the  Statute  18  Edw.  I  tenants  in  capite  were  prohibited  from 
alienating  lands  or  tenements  to  corporations,  guilds,  and  fraternities,  lest 
the  superior  lord  should  lose  the  service  due  for  them. 


Some  Notes  on  the  Delamere  Family.  415 

souls  of  all  the  faithful  departed;  according  to  the  Ordination1 
of  the  same  Peter,  about  to  be  published.  To  have  and  to  hold 
to  the  same  Chaplain  and  his  successors,  Chaplains  celebrating 
the  Divine  offices  daily  in  the  Chapel  aforesaid,  in  form  afore- 
said, for  ever." 

He  died  at  the  age  of  55,  on  Monday  after  the  Feast  of  the 
Assumption  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  (15  August),  23  Edw. 
Ill  [1348-9],  seised  of  two  carucates  of  land,  etc.,  in  Stepel 
Lavynton,  and  Knabwell  manor,  in  Wilts  ;  200  acres  of  land  at 
Offley,  co.  Herts,  held  as  of  the  manor  of  Hitchen;  and  the 
manors  of  Heyford  ad  Pontem  and  Marshbaldinton,  co.  Oxon, 
the  latter  held  as  of  the  honour  of  Wallingford. — Inq.  p.  m. 
23  Edw.  Ill,  second  Nos.  143. 

ROBERT  DE  LA  MARE,  KNIGHT,  was  32  years  of  age  and 
upwards  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death.  He  presented  to  the 
Lavington  Chantry  in  1349,  and  again  in  1379  when  it  had 
become  vacant  by  resignation.  He  died  in  138 1,8  at  about  the 
age  of  66,  on  the  Sunday  after  the  Feast  of  the  Epiphany, 
seised  of  Stepel  Lavington  manor,  and  Knabwell,  co.  Wilts ; 
Offley  manor,  Herts ;  the  manors  and  advowsons  of  Heyford 


1  The  "  Ordinatio"  or  "  Ordering  of  a  Chantry"  is  a  document   very 
seldom  to   be  found  in  print.     It  usually  enumerated  the   daily   services 
required  by  the  Founder  both  before  and   after  his  decease ;   sometimes 
providing  a  house  for  the  chaplain,  with  cattle,  corn,  and  implements  for 
stock  and  tillage  of  his  land,  the  whole,  or  the  value  thereof,  to  remain  to  the 
use  of  him  and  his  successors ;  also  the  necessary  furniture  of  the  Chapel, 
including  vestments,  apparel  for  the  altar,  a  chalice  with  corporals,  and  a 
Missal  and   Breviary — the  service    books  being   often    supplied  after  the 
Founder's  decease  from  his  own  library.     The  chaplain,  on  his  admission, 
was  required  to  make  oath  before  his  diocesan  to  fulfil  and  maintain  every- 
thing to  the  Founder's  full  intent  and  meaning.     If  absent  from  any  just 
cause  more  than  a  month,  he  was  required  to  provide  another  fit  person  at 
his  own  cost.     In  case  at  any  time  the  Chantry  be  vacant,  by  lapse,  the 
diocesan,  having  notice,  to  present  within  a  certain  number  of  days. 

2  An  Alice  de  la  Mare  was  seisad  in  1385  as  Abbess  of  St.  Mary,  Win- 
chester, of  the  Wiltshire  manors  of  Allcannings  and  Erchfont.     She  had  an 
obit  in  the  church  of  her  late  Abbey,  as  appears  from  a  MS.  Psalter  (cirea 
1420)  anciently  in  use  there,  and  recently  offered  for  sale  in  London  by 
Mr.  Quaritch. 


416  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

and  Marshbaldiston,  Oxon,  with  Cherinton  manor,  a  messuage 
and  land  at  Minchinhampton  (held  as  of  the  honour  of  Walling- 
ford),  and  some  other  property  in  co.  Gloucester.  Inq.  p.  m. 
5  Rich.  II,  No.  40.  His  widow  long  survived  him.  She  pre- 
sented to  the  Lavington  Chantry  in  1403,  as  Matilda  de  la 
Mare  " Mulier".  By  will  dated  20  March  in  this  year,  and 
proved  1404  \P.C.C.  9  Marche\,  she  desires  to  be  buried  in 
Steeple  Lavington.  She  died,  apparently  at  an  advanced  age, 
20  April,  6  Hen.  IV,  having  held  for  her  life  the  property  of 
which  her  husband  had  died  seised  some  twenty  years  pre- 
viously. Inq.  p.  m.  6  Hen.  IV,  No.  38. 

From  an  apparently  correct  pedigree  of  the  Offley  branch 
of  de  la  Mare,  printed  in  Clutterbuck's  Hertfordshire,  vol.  iii, 
p.  100,  it  appears  that  she  had  a  son,  Peter  de  la  Mare,  who 
married  Matilda,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  Sir 
John  Maltravers,  of  Hooke,  co.  Dorset.  He  must  have  died, 
without  issue,  probably  in  his  father's  lifetime  ;  for  no  inquisition 
appears  to  have  been  taken  on  his  decease,1  and  a  daughter 
Willelma,2  married  in  1378  to  Sir  John  Roche,  of  Bromham, 
and  also  a  widow  at  the  time  of  her  mother's  death,  succeeded 
to  the  de  la  Mare  property  in  the  counties  of  Wilts,  Herts, 
Devon,  and  Gloucester. 

WILLELMA,  the  heiress  of  de  la  Mare,  and  widow  of  SIR 
JOHN  ROCHE,  died  on  Friday,  the  eve  of  All  Saints,  1410,  six 
years  after  her  mother.  By  will  dated  the  same  year,  she 
desires  to  be  buried  "in  the  Church  of  Bromham,  near  her 
lord"  [P.  C.  C.  22  Marche\.  Of  the  Wiltshire  property  in- 


1  He  was  dead  in   August  1396,  and  in  June  1401  his  widow  had  re- 
married Sir  John  Dinham.     She  died  1   Nov.  4  Hen.  IV  [1402],  and  her 
younger  sister  Elizabeth,  wife    of  Sir  Humphrey  Stafford,  of  Southwick 
Court,  eventually  became  sole  heiress. 

2  In  Harl.  MS.  No.  1,052,  fol.  406— and  also  in  Harl.  MSS.  Nos.  1,111  and 
1,443,  as  well  as  other  copies  of  the  Heralds'  Visitation  of  Wilts — she  i? 
called  daughter  and  heir  of  Peter  Delaware  Knight,  by  Maud,  daughter  of 
Sir  Hugh   Hastings.      In  a  portion  of   the  Delamare  pedigree  printed   in 
Hoare's    Modern    Wilts,    Heyteslury  Hundred,    p.   256,    a    generation  if 
omitted,  and  her  name  consequently  does  not  appear. 


Some  Notes  on   the  Delamere  Family.  417 

herited  from  her  mother  she  was  seised  at  her  death  of 
Knabwell,  but  not  of  Market  Lavington.  \lnq.  p.  m.  12  Hen. 
IV,  No.  38.]  This  is  explained  by  a  Patent  Roll  dated  29  Nov. 
1410,  from  which  it  appears  that  she  had  previously  given  and 
granted  the  manor  of  Market  Lavington,  with  its  appurten- 
ances,1 to  Walter  Beauchamp  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  to  have 
and  to  hold  to  them  and  their  heirs  for  ever ;  and  on  payment 
of  a  fine  of  100  shillings  into  the  hanaper  they  obtained  from 
the  Crown  the  following  licence  to  enter  thereon,  by  virtue  of 
the  said  gift  and  grant. 

"  Rex  omnibus  ad  quos  &c.  salutem.  Monstraverunt  nobis  dilectus 
armiger  noster  Walterus  Beauchamp  et  Elizabeth  uxor  eius  qualiter 
Willelma  que  fuit  uxor  Johannis  de  Roche  Chivaler  tenuit  de  nobis  in 
capite  per  servicium  militare  manerium  de  Stepul  Lavyngton  cum 
pertinenciis  in  Comitatu  Wiltes  ut  de  Castro  et  dominio  nostris  de 
Devyse  qui  quidem  Castrum  et  dominium  cum  feodis  ad  eadem  per- 
tinentibus  una  cum  aliis  maneriis  infra  comitatum  predictum  per 
nos  carissime  consorti  nostre  Regine  per  has  nostras  patentes  con- 
cessa  fuerunt  habendum  et  tenendum  pro  termino  vite  sue  nomine 
dotis  sue  et  qualiter  prefata  Willelma  dedit  et  concessit  dictum 
manerium  cum  pertinenciis  predictis  Waltero  et  Elizabetha  habendum  et 
tenendum  sibi  et  heredibus  suis  inperpetuum  virtute  quorum  doni  et 
concessionis  iidem  Walterus  et  Elizabeth  inde  seisiti  fuerunt.  Nos  de 
gracia  nostra  speciali  et  pro  centum  solidis  salutis  in  hanaperio  nostro 
perdonanimus  eisdem  Waltero  et  Elizabethe  transgressionem  quam 
fecerunt  manerium  predictum  cum  pertinenciis  virtute  doni  et  conces- 
sionis predictorum  ingrediendo  licencia  nostra  super  hoc  non  optenta. 
In  cuius  &c.  Teste  Rege  apud  Leycestriam  xxix  die  Novembris. 

"  per  breve  de  private  sigillo." 

Patent  Roll,  12  Hen.  IV [1410],  membrane  30. 
WALTER  BEAUCHAMP,  KNIGHT,  the  next  owner  at  Market 
Lavington,  is  described  in  Harl.  MS.  No.  i,m,  as  second  son 
of  Sir  William  Beauchamp,  knight,  by  Jane,  daughter  of  the 
Lord  Zouche  of  Harrington  [Haryngworth],  and  grandson 
of  Sir  Giles.  He  was  Sheriff  of  Wilts  1402-4.  In  1415  he 
presented  to  the  Lavington  Chantry  as  "  armiger",  and  in  1424 
as  "miles".  His  will,  dated  25  Dec.  1429,  was  proved  in 

1  The  Castle  and  lordship  of  Devizes,  under  which  it  was  held,  with  the 
fees  appertaining  thereto,  had  been  lately  granted  by  the  Crown  for  the 
term  of  her  life,  as  parcel  of  the  dower  of  Queen  Joan  of  Navarre. 

F  F 


4i 8  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1429-30  [P.C.C.  12  Luffenham].  He  desires  to  be  buried  in  the 
Chantry  of  Steeple  Lavington.  The  inquisition  taken  on  his 
decease  is  dated  9  Hen.  VI  [1430].  His  wife  Elizabeth,  the 
elder  of  the  two  daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  Sir  John  Roche, 
by  Willelma  [de  la  Mare],  was  25  years  of  age  at  her  mother's 
death  in  1410.  She  presented  to  the  Lavington  Chantry  in 
1434 — after  the  death  of  her  husband;  and  two  years  later 
to  the  Church  of  Whaddon,  as  "  Elizabeth  Beauchamp,  of 
Lavington  Forum".  In  her  will,  dated  6th  and  proved  2ist 
Feb.  1446  [P.C.C.  Reg.  Stafford  f.  145-6],  she  desires  to  be 
buried  "  in  the  Chantry  Chapel  of  the  Saints  Mary,  Katherine, 
and  Margaret,  in  her  parish  church  of  Steeple  Lavington,  near 
the  tomb  of  her  husband."1 

WILLIAM  BEAUCHAMP,  eldest  son  and  heir,2  presented  to 
the  Lavington  Chantry  in  1450.  He  was  summoned  to  Parlia- 
ment [1449-1455]  as  Lord  St.  Amand,  in  right  of  his  wife, 
and  died  19  March  1457.  By  will  dated  18  March,  and 
proved  17  May  in  this  year  [P.C.C.  16  Stokton\,  he  desires  to 
be  buried  in  the  Chantry  Chapel  of  the  Saints  Mary,  Katherine, 
and  Margaret,  in  the  parish  church  of  Steeple  Lavington.8  He 
held  the  office  of  Sewer  to  the  King,  and  in  1441  was  Chamber- 
lain of  North  Wales. 

He  married,  before  the  year  1426,  at  which  time  she  was 
only  1 6  years  of  age,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Gerard  Bray- 
brooke,  by  Parnill  [Petronilla],  daughter  of  the  Lord  Grey,  of 
Wilton,  co.  Herts,  and  heiress  of  the  Barony  of  St.  Amand, 
which  had  fallen  into  abeyance  on  the  death  of  her  great- 
grandfather, Almeric  de  St.  Amand,  without  male  issue,  in 


1  There  is  now  no  trace  of  any  tomb  or  memorial  of  ante  Reformation 
date  in  the  church  at  Market  Lavington  ;  and,  so  far  as  known  to  the  writer, 
no  sculptured  fragments  likely  to  have  belonged  to  such  a  tomb  were  dis- 
covered in  a  restoration  of  the  building  some  years  since. 

2  His  younger  brother,  Richard  Beauchamp,  was  Bishop  of  Salisbury 
1450-1482,  and  the  first  Chancellor  of  the  Garter. 

3  Executors,  Elizabeth  my  wife,  Richard  my  son,  Henry  Longe  and 
Thomas  Horton.     He  gives  10  marks  to  the  shrine  of  St.  Osmond  in  Salis- 
bury Cathedral. 


Some  Notes  on   the  Delamere  Family.  419 

1402-3.  After  the  death  of  her  first  husband,  and  before  1466, 
she  re-married  Sir  Roger  Tocotes — apparently  of  a  family 
deriving  their  name  from  Tockets,  a  township  in  the  parish  of 
Guisbrough,  co.  York,  where  they  were  long  resident.1  Sir 
Roger,  after  his  marriage,  was  twice  Sheriff  of  Wilts  in  the 
reign  of  Edw.  IV.  In  1476  he  was  executor  to  Lady  Margaret 
Hungerford,  of  Heytesbury  and  Farley  Castle  (of  whom  see 
W.  N.  and  O.,  vol.  iii,  pp.  224-227),  and  presented,  jointly  with 
the  Lady  St.  Amand,  his  wife,  to  the  Lavington  Chantry  in 
the  same  year.  Afterwards,  taking  part  with  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham  against  Richard  III,  he  was  attainted  of  treason, 
but  this  was  quickly  reversed  by  the  overthrow  of  Richard 
at  Bos  worth,  and  the  accession  of  Henry  VII.  In  1485 
[i  Hen.  VII]  he  was  again  Sheriff,  as  well  as  Constable  of 
Devizes  Castle,  Steward  for  the  Crown  of  the  manors  and 
lordships  of  Marlborough,  Devizes  and  Rowde,  of  Sherston, 
Cherhill  and  Brodetown,  and  of  the  lordships,  hundreds, 
manors,  &c.,  parcel  of  the  Earldoms  of  Warwick  and  Salisbury, 
and  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  in  co.  Wilts.  He  was  also  some- 
time Knight  of  the  Body,  and  Comptroller  of  the  Household 
to  Henry  VII.  In  his  will,  dated  2  September  1492,  he  desires 
to  be  buried  "  in  the  middle  aisle  of  Our  Lady's  Chapel  at 
Bromham  ",  where,  in  the  centre  of  the  elegant  chapel  of  the 
Tudor  period,  on  the  south  side  of  the  chancel,  richly  decorated 
with  heraldry,  and  amidst  later  memorials  of  the  Baynton 
family,  is  an  altar  tomb  bearing  the  recumbent  effigy,  in 
alabaster,  of  a  knight  clad  in  the  armour  of  the  period,  and 
wearing  the  Lancastrian  collar  of  SS — the  undoubted  memorial 
of  Sir  Roger  ;  for  Dingley  in  his  History  from  Marble  (1684), 
as  well  as  a  note  made  by  Thomas  Gore,  of  Alderton,  the 
Wiltshire  antiquary,  at  about  the  same  date,  and  subsequently 
copied  by  the  Rector  of  1781  on  the  fly-leaf  of  the  earliest 

1  Many  of  them  were  benefactors  to  the  Augustine  Priory  of  Guisbrough, 
founded  by  Robert  de  Brus  in  1129.  A  pedigree  of  Tocketts,  commencing 
with  Roger  de  Tocketts,  circa  1550,  is  in  Dugdale's  Visitation  of  Yorkshire, 
1666. 

F  F  2 


420  Wiltshire   Notes  and  Queries. 

parish  register,  both  give  the  inscription,  of  which  some  part 
was  then  remaining  :  — 

**•«.••  Ttutrtttts  bomtttt  ©Umhetlt  bomina  J»e 
3Uttcmt»<J  si  miles  $»co  cor^ox-e  iimtvtct  giertttmi  &e0ts 
ac  cotttvarotulax*  ....  ODuiua  awme  vrovtcietuv 


[.  .  .  .  husband  of  Lady  Elizabeth,  Lady  of  St.  Amand,  and 
Knight  of  the  Body  oi  Henry  the  Seventh,  King  of  England,  and 
Comptroller  ....  On  whose  soul  may  God  have  mercy.  Amen.] 

He  died  soon  after  the  execution  of  his  will,  for  the  inquisition 
taken  on  his  decease  bears  date  8  Hen.  VII  —  the  same  year. 
The  will  mentions  Dame  Elizabeth,  Lady  St.  Amand,  as  "my 
late  wife".  She  must,  therefore,  have  predeceased  him,  and 
was  also  buried  at  Bromham,  where  her  monumental  brass, 
once  richly  decorated  with  enamel  and  gilding,  still  remains. 
It  is  affixed  to  the  wall  of  the  same  chapel,  near  the  tomb  of 
her  second  husband,  and  enclosed  within  a  canopied  altar 
tomb.  In  the  centre  is  the  kneeling  effigy  of  a  lady  addressing 
a  brief  supplication  to  a  mediaeval  representation  of  the  Holy 
Trinity,  now  missing.  Of  the  four  shields  of  arms  at  the 
angles,  two  have  disappeared  since  the  time  of  Dingley's  visit 
to  Bromham  in  i6&i.1  E  KITE. 

(To  be  continued.) 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  374.) 


EDWARD    VI. 

344.  Anno  i. — Thomas  Chaffyn,  sen.,  Robert  Eyer,  and 
Richard  Holt,  and  Thomas  Moren  and  Margaret  his  wife  ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum.  -£8o  sterling. 

1  The  heraldry  on  this  tomb  is  interesting.  The  first  shield  is  ST. 
AMAND  singly,  representing  the  Barony.  The  second  is  ST.  AMAXD  quar- 
tering BRAYBKOOKB,  for  Lady  Elizabeth,  and  impaling  DELAMERE  quarter- 
ing ROCHE  (without  any  quartering  of  BEAUCHAMP)  for  her  first  husband. 
The  third  shield  was  TOCOTES  impaling  BEAYBROOKE,  representing  her 
second  marriage,  by  which  she  conferred  no  title  on  her  husband,  and  her 
shield  is  here  impaled  in  the  usual  manner.  The  fourth  bore  the  arms  of 
TOCOTES  singly. 


A    Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for    Wiltshire.        421 

345.  Anno  i. — Thomas  Chaffyn,  sen.,   Robert  Eyer,   and 
Richard   Holte,  and  George   Ludlowe,  arm.,  son  and  heir  of 
William    Ludlowe,    of    Huldeverell,    and     Edith     his     wife  ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum.     215  marks. 

346.  Anno    i. — John    Harward    and  George    Ludlowe, 
arm.,  son  and  heir  of  William   Ludlowe,   of  Huldeverell,  and 
Edith  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum.     ^85 
sterling. 

347.  Anno  2. — John  Thynne,  knt.,  and  George  Ludlowe 
and  Edith  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  the  parish  of  Hill 
Deverell  and  Horningsham.     ^40  sterling. 

348.  Anno  2. — Robert  Thistilwayte,  arm.,   and  Andrew 
Baynton,   arm.,  manor  of  East  Winterslowe  otherwise  called 
Roche  Court;  messuages  and  lands  in  Est  Winterslowe,  Middel- 
wynterslowe,    Westwynterslowe,    and    Aldwardbury.     ^153. 

349.  Anno  2. — William  Poole,  arm.,  and  John  Poole,  and 
Francis  Earl  of  Huntingdon  and  Lady  Katherine   his   wife, 
manor  of  Russhall  alias  Rusteshall  Hungerford  ;   messuages 
and    lands,    and    advowson    of    the    church    of    Rusteshall. 
^880. 

350.  Anno  2. — Edward  Earl  of  Somerset,  and  Thomas 
Cheyne,   knt.,    Nicholas  Crispe  &   Frances  his  wife,  Thomas 
Kempe,  knt.,  and  Katherine  his  wife,  and  Anna  Cheyne,  manor 
of  Shalborne  Estecorte  ;  messuages  and  lands   in  Shalborne 
Estcorte,  Shalborne,  and  Oxenwodd.     ^600. 

351.  Anno    2. — Robert    Eyere    and    Robert    Tydesley  ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  the  parish  of  Chychlade. 

352.  Anno  2. — The  names  in  this  fine  are  obliterated.     It 
refers  to  messuages  and  lands  in  Kingeston  Deverell. 

353.  Anno    2. — :Edward  Isaak  and  William  Moldsworth, 
and   John    Seyntjohn,     Nicholas    Seyntjohn,    and    Elizabeth 
Blount,  manor  of  Ledyiard  Treygose  ;  messuages  and  lands  in 
Ledyiard  Treygose. 

354.  Anno   2. — John  Redman  and  Edward  Broun   alias 
Clement  ;  lands   in    the   parish   of  St.    Mary,    Wilton.     £20 
sterling. 


422  Wiltshire   Notes  and  Queries. 

355.  Anno    2. — John    Coryett   and  Thomas    Coke    and 
Juliana  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  High  Street  and 
New  Street,  New  Sarum.     ^80  sterling. 

356.  Anno    2. — John   Owen,    arm.,   and  Fulke  Greville, 
knt.,    and    Elizabeth   his    wife ;   manor   of  Southwicke   alias 
Sovvthwicke,   with   advowson   of  the  chantry  of  Sowthwicke. 
;£Soo  sterling. 

357.  Anno    2. — John    Gett    and    Edward    Broun    alias 
Clement  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  the  parishes  of  St.  Nicholas 
and  St.  Mary,  Wilton.     ^20  sterling. 

358.  Anno    2. — John    Broun    and   John    Waylond    and 
Margaret   his   wife  ;  messuages   and   lands  in   the   parish  of 
Calne.     ^40. 

359.  Anno    2. — Thomas    Longe,    William    Longe,    and 
Henry  Longe,  and  William  Stourton,  knt.,  Lord  Stourton  and 
Elizabeth   his   wife,    manors   of   Powlesholte,  Mad}7ndon   als. 
Wynterbourne,  Madynton  Awlton  and  Ablyngton  ;  messuages 
and   lands,   one   fulling-mill,    rent  of  a  Ib.  of  pepper   and   a 
quarter  of  a  Ib.  of  ginger  in   Powlesholte,    Worton,    Merton, 
Potern,    Chetowe   Chenell,    Hurste,  Awlton,    Madynton   alias 
Wynterbourne,    Madyngton,   Ablyngeton,   and   Chesyngbury, 
with    free   fishery  in  the  waters  of  Awlton   and   Ablyngton. 
^£255  sterling. 

360.  Anno      2. — WTilliam     Button,     arm,,     and    Robert 
Temmys,  arm.,  manor  of  Rowde   Assheton  ;  messuages  and 
lands  in   Rowde  Assheton,   Steple  Assheton,  West  Asheton, 
and  Hinton.     200  marks. 

361.  Anno   2. — Edward   Earl   of  Somerset  and  William 
Thornehill,  arm.,  and  Robert  Thornehill,  gen.,   son  and   heir 
apparent    of    the    same     William,     manor    of    Colingbourne 
Southampton  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Colingbourne  Sothe- 
hampton,     Colingbourne     Kingstone,     Colingbourne     Abbis, 
Boreampton,    Aston   Shaw   next   Chuyte  and   Eston.     ,£330 

sterling. 

362.  Anno   2. — John   Wysse   and   Thomas  Wysse,  and 

Anthony     Rogers,     arm.,     and    Anna    his    wife,    manor    of 


Quakerism   in    Wiltshire.  423 

Smalbroke  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Smalbroke,  Warmynster, 
Bogelegh,  Bishoppistrowe,  Mochell  Sutton,  Lettell  Sutton, 
Deverell  Langebrydge,  and  Norton.  ,£440. 

363.  Anno     2. — Richard     Phyllippes,    arm.,    and    John 
Hawles,    gen.,   and  Henry  Ayssheley,  arm.;   messuages  and 
lands  in  parish  of  St.  Martin,  New  Sarum,  and  Trowbridge. 

364.  Anno  2. — Edward   Earl   of  Somerset    and  Geoffry 
Dormer  and  Agnes  his  wife,  manors  of  Collyngbourne  Valence 
and  Salborne  Westcourte  alias  Shallborne  ;  with  messuages 
and  lands  in  Collynbourne   Vallence,    Collyngbourne  Kynge- 
ston,     Berampton,    Aston    and    Salborne     Westcourte     alias 
Shallborne  and  Rivers.     ,£569  sterling. 

365.  Anno   2. — William  Sharyngton,  knt.,  and  Richard 
Blount,     arm.,    and    Eliz.    his     wife,    manor    of    Wodrewe  ; 
messuages   and   lands  in   Wodrewe,   Mylksham,  Bromehame, 
and  Ambresbury.     ^"540  sterling. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.) 


QUAKERISM    IN     WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  371.^) 


1 1 1.— B  IRTH    RECORDS. 
H. 

1656-11-28. — William  HALE,  son  of  David  Hale,  of  Charlcott. 

1658-11-2. — Ann  HUSDY,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Mary  Husdy,  of 
Slaughterford  ph. 

1660-2-3. — Thomas  HANCOCK,  son  of  John  and  Joane  Hancock, 
of  Corsham. 

1660-5-10. — Joane   and   David  HALE,    twin   dau.    and   son   of 
David  Hale,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1660-7-25. — John  HUSDY,  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  Husdy,  of 
Corsham  Meeting. 

1660-9-10. — William  HITCHCOCK,  son  of  William  Hitchcock,  of 
Marlbro'. 


424  Wiltshire  Notes   and  Queries. 

1661-2-4. — Rachell  HELPS,  dau.  of  Samuel  Helps,  of  Rowde. 

1662-6-5. — Bridgett  HITCHCOCK,  dau.  of  William  Hitchcock,  of 
Marlbro'. 

1663-6-24. — Sarah  HENLY,  dau.  of  Arthur  Henly,  of  Purton. 
1663-10-20. — Jane  HALE,  dau.  of  David  Hale,  of  Charlcott. 
1664-4-6. — Sarah  HAND,  dau.  of  John  Hand,  of  Lyneham. 

1665-5-31. — John  HITCHCOCK,    son   of  William    Hitchcock,   of 
Marlbro'. 

1665-8-8. — Joseph   HENLY,   son   of  Arthur   Henly,  of  Purton 
[Meeting]. 

1667-2-13. — John  HAND,  son  of  John  Hand,  of  Lyneham. 

1667-5-27. — Thomas  HITCHCOCK,  son  of  William  Hitchcock,  of 
Marlbro'. 

1667-9-6. — Samuel  HARRIS,  son  of  John  Harris,  of  Charlcott. 

i668-5~5[io]. — Mary  HUCKINGS,  dau.   of  Roger  Huckings,  of 
Grittleton. 

1669-3-27.— Sarah    HARRIS,   dau.   of  John   Harris,   of  Great 
Acre. 

1670-1-1. — Sarah    HUCKINGS,    dau.    of    Roger    Huckings,    of 
Grittleton. 

1671-1-11. — Joane  HARRIS,  dau.  of  John  Harris,  of  Goat  Acre. 
1671-11-24. — Sarah  HARRIS,  dau.  of  John  Harris,  of  Tytherton. 
1673-7-21. — Mary  HARRIS,  dau.  of  John  Harris,  of  Titherton. 
1674-1-14. — James  HAND,  son  of  John  Hand,  of  Lyneham. 

1674-1-25. — John  HARRIS,  son  of  John  and  Joane  Harris,  of 
Goataker. 

1674-5-20. — William  HAND,  son  of  Richard  Hand,  of  Tetherton, 
Brimhill  ph. 

1676-1-3. — Henry  HUNT,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Hunt,   of 
Chittway. 

1676-1-4. — Margret  HARRIS,  dau.  of  Nathan11  and  Jone  Harris, 
of  Chippenham  Meeting. 

1676-4-12. — Daniel  HARRIS,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Harris,  of 
Titherton  Callweys. 

1676-11-7. — Ann  HARRIS,  dau.  of  Nathan"  and  Jone  Harris,  of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1677-11-3. — Mary   HUNT,    dau.  of  Henry  and  Mary  Hunt,  of 
Bromham. 

1678-5-4. — Hannah  HARRIS,  dau.  of  John  Harris,  of  Goataker. 


Quakerism   in    Wiltshire.  425 

1678-8-*. — Stephen  HOLLAWAY,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
Hollaway,  of  Tetherton,  Brimhill  ph. 

1 67 9-5- 1 4. — Jane  HARRIS,  dau.  of  Nathan"  and  Jone  Harris,  of 
Chippenham  Meeting. 

1679-12-28. — Susannah  HARMAN,  of  Purton  Meeting. 

1680-7-13. — Jeane  HILLER,  dau.  of  George  and  Edith  Hiller,  of 
Devizes  Meeting. 

1680-8-9. — Jeane  HAYWARD,  dau.  of  Thomas  Hay  ward,  of 
Charlcott. 

1680-8-24. — Mary  HARRIS,  dau.  of  John  Harris,  of  Goatacre. 

1680-9-*. — Robert  HOLLOW  AY,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
Holloway,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1680-9-20. — William  HAND,  son  of  Wm-  Hand,  of  Tytherton. 

1681-5-7. — Thomas  and  Love  HARRIS,  twin  son  and  dau.  of 
Nathan11  and  Jone  Harris,  of  Chippenham 
Meeting. 

1682-8-*. — Joseph  HOLLAWAY,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
Hollaway,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1682-11-23. — Sarah  HARMAN,  of  Purton  Meeting. 

1682-11-26. — George  HILLIER,  son  of  George  Hillier,  of  Aven. 

1683-8-18. — John  HIBBERD,  son  of  John  Hibberd,  of  Bewly. 

1684-9-*. — Sarah  HOLLAWAY,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
Hollaway,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1686-12-*. — Ann  HOLLAWAY,  dau.  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
Hollaway,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1687-9-5. — Jonn  HOBBS,  son  of  Edward  Hobbs,  of  Charlcott 
Meeting. 

1 688-6-*. — Daniell  HOLLAWAY,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sarah 
Hollaway,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1691-2-21. — Thomas  HAYWARD/  son  of  Thomas  and  Ideth 
Hay  ward. 

1692-2-21. — Thomas  HAYWARD,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ideth 
Hayward,  of  East  Harnam. 

1692-5-17. — Thomas  HAYWARD,  son  of  Thomas  Hayward. 
1693-8-11. — Thomas  HAYWARD,  son  of  Thomas  Hayward. 

1  Probably  there  is  a  duplicate  entry  of  the  birth  here,  the  first-named 
date  being  the  correct  one.  There  is  a  notice  of  the  death  of  Thomas 
HAYWARD,  son  of  Thomas  and  Edeth  Hayward,  1691-6-21—  and  of  Thomas 
"second  son,"  1692-5-31.  The  third  son  of  the  name  apparently  lived  to 
grow  up. 


426  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1694-10-13. — Rebecca  HAYWARD,  dau.  of  Thomas  Hayward. 

1699-10-12. — Jabez  HODGES,  alias  LITTLE,   son  of  George  and 
Mary  Hodges,  alias  Little. 

Tottenham,  Middx.  NORMAN  PENNEY.  • 

(To  be  continued.} 


LANGFORD,  OF  TROWBRIDGE,  Co.  WILTS. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  PARISH  REGISTER  MADE  SEPT.  1898. 

Baptisms  commence  1538^  Burials,  1538,-  and  Weddings,  1563. 
Searched  to  1620. 


.  BAPTISMS. 

1547  May.  Thomas  Langeford  was  baptized  the  i3th  daie  of 
May. 

1552  Sept.      John  Langeford  was  baptized  the  29  daie. 

1570  Dec.  Marie,  ye  daughter  of  Edward  Langeforde  the 
younger,  was  baptized  the  loth  daie  of 
december. 

1575  Jan.  Alexander  Langeford,  junior,  was  baptized  the 
19  daie  of  January. 

1578  Sept.  Mary  Langeford,  ye  daughter  of  Edward  Lange- 
ford, was  baptized  the  i3th  daie. 

1580  June.  Anne  Langeford,  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Edward 
Langeford,  was  baptized  the  26  daie. 

1582  March.  Alice  Langeford,  ye  daughter  of  Mr.  Edward 
Langeford,  was  baptized  the  2gth  daie. 

1582  Nov.       Marie  Langeford,  ye  daughter  of  Richard  Lange- 

forde, was  baptized  the  i8th  daie. 

1583  Dec.        Elizabeth  Langeford,  ye  daughter  of  Mr.  Edward 

Langford,  was  bapt.  the  firste  daie. 

1585  Maye.  Jone  Langeford,  ye  daughter  of  Mr.  Edward 
Langford,  was  baptized  the  2  daie. 

1587  Apr.  Anne  Langeford,  ye  daughter  of  Richard  Lange- 
forde, was  baptized  the  i3th  daie. 

1592  Oct.  Grace  Langeford,  ye  daughter  of  Richard  Lang- 
ford,  was  baptized  the  i  daie. 


Lang  ford  of  Trowbridge.  427 

1605  Aug.       Phillip  Langeford,  sonne  of  Richard  Langford  & 

Marie  his  wife,  was  baptized  the  4th  daie. 

BURIALS. 

1542  Aug.       Edith  Langeforde  was  buried  the  ;th  daie. 
1542  Aug.       Thomas  Lajigeforde  was  buried  the  16  daie. 
1542  Aug.       William  Langeforde  was  buried  ye  2oth  daie. 
1552  Feb.       Edward  Langeforde  was  buried  the  6  daie. 

1571  Mar.       Marye    Langeford,    ye    daughter    of    Alexander 
Langeforde,  was  buried  the  8  daie. 

1575  Apr.       Henry  Wallis,  servaunte  to  Mr.  Edward  Lange- 
forde, was  buried  the  4  daie. 

1587  Nov.       Johane  Langeford,  widow,  was  buried  the  xi  daie. 

1594  Dec.       Edward  Langeford,   gentlma','  was  buried  the  9 
daie. 

1598  Nov.       Anne  Langeford,  the  daughter  of  Richard  Lange- 

ford, was  buried  the  26  daie. 

1 60 1  Jan.        Alexander   Langeforde,    gentleman,    was    buried 
the   19  daie. 

1609  June.      Anne  Langford  was  buried  the  xiiith  day. 
1609  July.       Robert  Langford  was  buried  the  xith  day. 

WEDDINGS. 

I5971  Apr.        Mr.   Henry   Hide  and  mistris  Marie  Langeforde     i 
was  married  the  3  daie. 

1599  Nov.       Richard     Langeforde     and     Marie    Dowle    was 

married  the  24  daie. 

1606  Oct.        Henry  Parrie  was  maried  to  Elizabeth  Langeforde 

the  2  daie. 

1608  Dec.        Richard   Wiggon    married    to   Alles    lanford  the 

2oth  day. 

1609  Feb.        Henry     Carington     and    Mary    Langford    were 

maried  the  xixth  day. 

1620  Nov.       Robert  lanford  was  maried  to  Avis  Sheephard  the 
28  day. 

V.  L.  OLIVER. 
Sunninghill,  Berks. 


1  On  p.  157,  vol.  i,  the  year  1595  has  been  given  as  the  date  of    this 
marriage. 


42&  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Goal  and  Marshall  Money. — In  the  Churchwardens' 
accounts  of  Upton  Scudamore  occurs  the  following  : — "  It  was 
allowed  to  the  overseers  .  .  .  to  collect  Goaile  and  Mar- 
shall many  for  ye  year  1761." 

Perhaps   you   could  also  tell    me   what  "  Common    Fine, 

75.  od."  in  the  year  1836-7,  means  ? 

R.  POWLEY. 


Wiltshire  M.P.'s. — Ralph  Cokerell  was  M.P.  for  Ludger- 
shall  in  1547-52.  Who  was  he?  His  name  is  not  found  in 
the  Official  Returns. 

John  Cocks,  M.P.  for  Calne,  1547-52.  Is  anything  known 
of  him  ?  All  returns  for  Wiltshire  are  wanting  in  the  Blue 
Book  Return  of  Members  to  Parliament. 

John  Col/ins,  Esq.,  described  as  "  of  Chute,  co.  Wilts", 
was  returned  M.P.  for  Andover  in  the  Parliaments  of  1660, 
1661-79,  1681,  and  1685-87,  in  the  last  of  which  he  is  styled 
Knight,  having  received  Knighthood  in  1681.  Who  was  he? 
Is  Chute  correctly  described  as  in  "co.  Wilts"? 

William  Coles,  "of  Woodfalls  ",  M.P.  for  Downton  in  1659 
and  1660.  He  matric.  at  Brasenose  Coll.,  Oxford,  13  February 
1634-5,  aged  1 8,  as  son  of  Barnabas  Coles,  "of  Woodford  ", 
Wilts ;  and  was  called  to  the  bar  at  the  Middle  Temple  in 
1645.  Any  further  information  respecting  him  will  be  accept- 
able. He  appears  to  have  married  before  1658 — his  son 
Barnabas  matric.  at  Magdalen  Coll.  in  1665,  then  aged  17. 

W.  D.  PINK. 
Lowton,  Newton-lc-WillowSj 

Lancashire. 


Stafford,  Earl  of  Devon.  429 


Stafford,  Earl  of  Devon  (vol.  ii,  p.  257). — I  have  seen 
that  Mr.  Kite  states  he  had  two  daughters  who  died  unmarried, 
but  I  do  not  remember  observing  this  mentioned  elsewhere, 
nor  does  Mr.  Greenfield  appear  to  have  been  aware  of  it ;  but 
Mr.  Kite  will  doubtless  be  able  to  tell  us  from  what  source  he 

obtained  the  information. 

W.  H.  H.  ROGERS,  F.S.A. 


Old  Sarum  Kettle  (vol.  iii,  p.  379). — The  device  on  the 
"  Old  Sarum "  Kettle,  about  which  your  correspondent  en- 
quires, is  the  merchant's  mark  used  by  the  Guild  of  Wool 
Staplers  in  Salisbury  during  the  i4th  and  i5th  centuries.  The 
Rev.  Edward  Duke,  in  his  book  on  The  Halle  of  John 
Halle,  describes  it  as  a  curious  combination  of  the  cross, 
triangle,  and  circle,  representing  Christianity,  Trinity,  and 
Eternity. 

There  is,  in  this  book,  much  of  interest  concerning  John 
Halle  and  his  connexion  with  the  Wool  Guild,  and  I  shall  be 
pleased  to  lend  a  copy  to  anyone  interested. 

Salisbury.  FRANK  WATSON. 


Henry  drivers,  of  Quemerford  (vol.  iii,  p.  280). — Although 
I  cannot  give  the  information  asked  for  by  Mr.  Pink,  I  should 
like  to  point  out  that  Seacole  Chivers  had  more  than  one 
daughter.  John  Methuen,  afterwards  Lord  Chancellor  of 
Ireland,  married,  in  1672,  Mary,  daughter  of  Seacole  Chivers. 
Canon  Jackson  (Aubreys  Collections,  p.  103)  says  she  was 
half  sister  to  Elizabeth,  and  describes  the  monument  to  that 
little  lady  in  Leigh  Delamere  Church,  where  she  is  described 
as  the  "  eldest  daughter".  As  she  died  in  1653  at  the  age  of 
two  years  and  nine  months,  she  may  well  have  been  the  eldest 
instead  of  (as  she  presumably  was  in  1651)  the  only  child. 


43°  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

In  the  Subsidy  Act,  29  Car.  II,  there  is  a  Henry  Chivers 
mentioned  amongst  the  Commissioners  for  putting  the  Act  into 
operation  in  the  County  of  Wilts.  J.  S. 


on  Books!. 


ALFRED   IN   THE   CHRONICLERS.     By   Edward   Conybeare, 
M.A.     London:  Elliot  Stock,  1900. 

In  Alfred  in  the  Chroniclers  Mr.  Conybeare  has  given 
English  readers  the  opportunity  of  examining  for  themselves 
what  to  most  of  them  have  hitherto  been  sealed  books,  and 
thereby  becoming  acquainted  with  the  sources  of  information 
for  the  life  of  King  Alfred  ;  an  opportunity  for  which  those 
who  have  imbibed  somewhat  of  the  spirit  in  which  he  has 
written  his  exceedingly  charming  and  interesting  introduction 
must  feel  grateful. 

In  King  Alfred's  translation  of  St.  Gregory's  Pastoral 
Care  occurs  the  following  passage,  which  is  very  appropriate  to 
our  present  thought :  "  Yet  full  little  fruit  wist  they  of  those 
books,  for  that  they  were  not  written  in  their  own  land  speech, 
therefore  I  think  it  meet  that  we  too  should  turn  some  books 
which  are  most  needful  for  all  into  that  tongue  we  all  do 
know ;"  and  Mr.  Conybeare  has  followed  the  example  set  by 
Alfred  "  by  not  keeping  his  gathered  learning  to  himself,"  and 
we  have  to  thank  him  for  enabling  us  to  read  the  happy 
expressions  of  respect  and  love  with  which  Asser,  the  old 
Monk  of  St.  David's,  speaks  of  his  "kindest  and  most  worship- 
ful lord  and  master"  (whose  Court  he  joined  in  884  A.D.,  after 
the  Peace  of  Wedmore),  and  gives  us  the  words  of  wisdom 
and  thoughtful  consideration  for  his  people  that  are  recorded 
as  Alfred's  own. 

It  is  a  melancholy  thing  to  come  across  people  who 
confess  that  all  they  know  of  King  Alfred  are  the  stories  of 
the  cakes  and  the  candles  ;  or  to  hear  of  Celtic  Arthur  and 


Notes  on  Books.  431 


Saxon  Alfred  being  mixed  up  in  their  minds.  It  is  to  such 
a  public  that  this  book  should  especially  appeal ;  for  Mr. 
Conybeare  has  written  an  introductory  sketch  full  of  charm, 
which  cannot  fail  to  give  the  most  ignorant  a  desire  to  know 
more  of  Alfred's  wonderful  character  ;  whilst  in  the  second 
part  of  the  book  he  has  given  us  translations  from  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  Chroniclers,  prefacing  each  with  a  short  account  of  the 
author,  and  giving  in  a  tabulated  form  a  sketch,  with  dates,  of 
the  contents  of  each,  enabling  the  reader  to  see  at  a  glance 
where  to  find  what  he  wants. 

It  is,  however,  with  the  account  of  Wiltshire  places 
mentioned  in  these  Chroniclers  that  we  are  especially 
interested  in  Wilts  Notes  and  Queries  ;  and  Ellandune,  where 
King  Egbert  (grandfather  of  King  Alfred)  defeated  in  823  A.D. 
Beornwulf,  King  of  Mercia,  comes  the  first  of  these  in  time. 

The  question  as  to  where  Ellandune  is  has  been  discussed 
in  a  previous  number  (IV.  N.  &  Q.,  vol.  iii,  p.  328),  and  since 
that  paper  was  written  the  testimony  of  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare,  from 
a  little  known  and  scarce  work,1  has  been  added  to  what  was 
there  suggested,  and  Ellandune  shown  to  have  been  considered 
by  him,  as  long  ago  as  in  1827,  to  be  the  modern  Wroughton 
alias  Ellingdon,  near  Swindon  in  N.  Wilts.2 

Mr.  Conybeare's  note  to  page  7,  supposing  Ellandune  to 
have  been  in  S.W.  Hampshire,  is  thus  shown  to  be  incorrect  ; 
and  this  is  an  important  point  to  notice,  as  other  topographers 
have  quite  recently  published  equally  erroneous  views  regard- 
ing the  identity  of  Ellandune  with  another  place,  viz.,  Wilton. 
Sir  R.  C.  Hoare  points  out  in  this  Regisirum  IViltonense  where 
the  error,  copied  and  handed  in  by  Leland,  as  to  the  existence 
of  two  Ellandunes,  originated  ;  at  the  same  time  disposing  of 
it,  and  saying  that  Ellandune  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Wilton 
Chartulary. 


1  Registrum  Wiltonense,  pp.  54  and  55,  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare,  pub.  1827. 

2  See  also  "Ellandune  Identified,"   Wiltshire  Archceological  Magazine, 
vol.  xxxi,  p.  241. 


432  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Mr.  Plummer,  who  formerly,  in  a  note  to  Earle  and 
Plummer's  Two  Saxon  Chronicles  Parallel,  edition  1899,  identi- 
fied Ellandune  with  Allington,  now  accepts  the  identification 
with  Wroughton 

Many  of  the  battles  of  871  A.D.  were  fought  in  Wiltshire. 
After  the  defeat  of  the  Saxons  by  the  Danes  near  Reading  the 
battle  of  Ashdown  was  fought  and  won  by  Alfred  on  the 
borders  of  Wilts  and  Berks.  Then  followed  his  defeat  at 
Basing  in  Hampshire  and  the  fatal  field  of  Meretun,  which 
has  been  identified  by  the  Rev.  R.  Nicholson  and  the  Rev.  W. 
Simcox,  as  the  modern  Marden  in  Pewsey  Vale  (W.  N.  &  Q., 
vol.  ii,  pp.  185-189),  but  placed  by  Mr.  C.  Oman  at  Marton  near 
Bedwyn.  These  places.are  much  nearer  Wimborne,  where  King 
Ethelred  was  taken  to  die  after  the  battle,  and  also  nearer 
Wilton,  the  scene  of  Alfred's  first  battle  after  he  became  King, 
than  the  far  away  Surrey  site  mentioned  by  Mr.  Conybeare  at 
page  21. 

Important  battles  in  878  A.D.  were  also  fought  in  Wilt- 
shire. One  was  at  Ethandune,  which  our  author  (rejecting 
Bishop  Clifford's  unsatisfactory  Somersetshire  site)  holds  to  be 
identical  with  the  modern  Edington,  not  far  from  the  scene  of 
the  next  successful  fight  at  Chippenham,  after  which  the 
defeated  Danes  wrere  driven  out  of  Wessex,  over  the  Mercian 
frontier,  to  Cirencester ;  and  this  victory  was  followed  by  the 
Baptism  of  Guthram  and  the  Peace  of  Wedmore. 

We  must  hope  that  this  book  may  be  in  the  hands  of 
every  Englishman  interested  in  the  history  of  the  making  of 
our  Empire  from  its  beginning  1,000  years  ago  to  the  present 
day,  when  the  kingdom  of  Alfred  has  expanded  to  the  world- 
wide Empire,  in  which  Colonies  and  States  are  united,  even  as 
the  Great  King  brought  the  provinces  of  England  together 
under  his  crown ;  and  that  when  a  new  edition  is  called  for, 
Mr.  Conybeare  may  add  a  chapter  with  the  translation  of  the 
Great  King's  will,  which  is  a  document  of  very  great  interest 
and  instruction.  T  S  M 


Wiltshire  jBtotes  an*  ©ueries* 


JUNE,  1901. 


AMESBURY  MONASTERY,  WITH  AN    ACCOUNT   OF 
SOME  DISCOVERIES  ON  THE  SITE  IN  1860. 


(Continued  from  p.  366.) 

MONG  the  documents  relating  to  the  Seymour  family 
preserved  in  the  Evidence  Room  at  Tottenham 
MfSJjj^  Park  is  the  counterpart  of  a  conveyance  of  Ames- 
bury,  and  also  of  Hungerford  Park,  dated  1674, 
from  John,  4th  Duke  of  Somerset  (the  last  sur- 
viving son  of  William,  2nd  Duke),  to  Mrs.  Oldfield.L  This 
nobleman  died  at  Amesbury  in  the  following  year  with- 
out issue,  and  in  1676  his  niece,  Elizabeth  Seymour  (daughter 
of  his  deceased  brother,  Henry  Lord  Beauchamp2),  by 


1  Query,  if  any  relation  to  Mrs.  Anne  Oldfield,  the  celebrated  actress, 
who  was  born  in  1683  and  died  in  1730,  and  whose  library,  consisting  of  218 
volumes  of  plays,  was  sold  in  London  in  the  following  year. 

2  Aubrey,  in  Nat.  Hist,  of  Wilts  (written  1656-1691),  speaks  of  the  man- 
sion at  Amesbury  as  the  Duke  of  Beaufort's.     The  widow  of  Lord  Henry 
Beauchamp,  who  died  1653-4,  re-married,  in  1657,  Henry,  Marquess  of  Wor- 
cester, afterwards  first  Duke  of  Beaufort,  who,  in  right  of  his  wife,  may 
have  had  an  interest  in  the  Amesbury  property,  to  which  her  daughter  by 
her  former  husband  had  become  heiress, 

G  G 


434  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

marriage  with  Thomas,   2nd  Earl  of  Ailesbury,  conveyed  the 
estates  to  the  family  of  Bruce. 

According  to  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare,  Amesbury  was  sold  in 
1720  by  Charles  Lord  Bruce  (son  and  heir  of  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Ailesbury,  and  Elizabeth  Seymour)  to  his  uncle,  Henry  Boyle, 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  and  principal  Secretary  of  State 
in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne.  He  was  created  Lord  Carleton 
in  I7I4,1  and  died  unmarried  in  1724-5,  leaving  the  manors  of 
Amesbury  Earls  and  Amesbury  Priors  to  another  nephew, 
Charles,  3rd  Duke  of  Queensberry,  for  life,  and  afterwards  to 
his  first  and  other  sons  in  tail  male.  The  Duke  had,  in  1720, 
married  a  lady  with  a  Wiltshire  ancestry — Lady  Catherine, 
second  daughter  of  Henry  Hyde,  4th  Earl  of  Clarendon  and 
Rochester — the  "  Kitty  "  of  Prior's  Female  Phceton — 

"Kitty,  beautiful  and  young, 
And  wild  as  colt  untam'd  " — 

by  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  all  of  whom  pre- 
deceased their  parents.  The  Duchess  was  well  known  for  her 
hospitality  and  wit,  and  as  the  patroness  of  Gay2  and  other 
literary  characters  of  the  age.  The  former,  according  to  local 
tradition,  wrote  his  fables  in  a  grotto  here,  still  well  known  as 
"  Gay's  Cave,"  and  it  is  recorded  by  Johnson  that  he  enjoyed 
"  the  affectionate  attention  of  both  the  Duke  and  Duchess,  into 


1  The  noble  avenue  of  lime  trees  leading  from  the  gateway  on  the  east 
side  of  the  park  towards  Radfyn  is  still  known  as    "  Lord's    Walk ",  or 
"  Lord  Carleton's  Walk  "—no  doubt  from  its  having  been  planted  during 
that  nobleman's  ownership  of  the  estate.     Three  other  avenues  of  limes 
which  formerly  led  from  the  front  of  the  mansion  in  the  direction  of  the 
church  may  also  have  been  planted  at  the  same  date. 

2  The   Duchess,  in  her  earlier  days  [1728-9],  for   being  solicitous   at 
Court  in  obtaining  subscriptions  towards  Gay's  Sequel  of  the   "  Beggar's 
Opera",  which  the  Court  had  forbidden  to  be  acted,  as  reflecting  on   the 
Government,  received  a  message  from  the  King  (George  II)  requesting  her 
to  abstain  from  making  her  appearance  at  Court.      Of   her  well-known 
caustic  reply,  that  "  she  never  came  to  Court  for  diversion,  but  to  bestow  a 
great  civility  upon  the  King  and  Queen  ",  the  copy  kept  by  herself  is  now  in 
the  British  Museum,  Additional  MS,  15,599. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  435 

whose  house  he  was  taken,  and  with  whom  he   passed   the 
remaining  part  of  his  life."  l 

During  his  long  ownership  of  Amesbury  [1725-1778]  the 
Duke  appears  to  have  done  much  towards  improving  both  the 
mansion  and  estate.  The  Duchess,  writing  to  Dr.  Swift  in 
May  1 733,  thus  describes  some  of  the  earlier  alterations  : — 

"  His  Grace  and  I  have  been  here  this  fortnight,  with  no  other  com- 
pany than  bricklayers  and  labourers.  We  are  throwing  down  a  parcel  of 
walls  that  blocked  us  up  every  way,  and  making  a  sunk  fence  round  the 
house.  This  will  make  the  place  as  cheerful  again,  and  we  find  great 
entertainment  by  inspecting  the  work."2 

A  few  years  later  the  mansion  itself  was  considerably  en- 
larged, two  new  wings  being  added  from  the  designs  of  the 
then  Earl  of  Burlington,  known  as  the  "  Modern  Vitruvius." 
This  was  apparently  about  i75o.3  The  "Great  Bridge"  at 
the  entrance  to  Amesbury  bears  the  later  date  of  1775,  and  the 
"  Baluster  Bridge  "  within  the  park  that  of  1777.  The  part  of 
the  estate  towards  Stonehenge,  including  some  of  the  barrows, 
was  also  planted  with  firs  and  evergreen  trees,  which  De  Foe, 
in  his  Tour  through  Great  Britain  (1769),  describes  as  "  a  great 
beauty  to  these  open  downs". 

On  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  and  Rochester,  in 
1753,  the  Duchess  of  Queensberry,  then  his  only  surviving 


1  Gay  died  in  the  Duke's  house,  in  Burlington  Gardens,  4th  December 
1732.     Dr.  Arbuthnot,  writing  to  Dr.  Swift  on  the  13th  January  following, 
speaks  of  his  interment  in  Westminster  Abbey  "  as  if  he  had  been  a  peer  of 
the  realm ;  and  the  good   Duke  of  Queensberry,  who  lamented  him  as  a 
brother,  will  set  up  a  handsome  monument  upon  him".     The  monument 
was  afterwards  erected  by  the  Duke  and  Duchess,  the  epitaph  being  written 
by  Pope. 

2  In  front  of   the  mansion  was  a  courtyard,  with  a  fountain  in   the 
centre,  enclosed  within  a  semi-circular  wall.     The  iron  gates  and  piers  now 
at  the  entrance  to  the  park,  near  the  church,  are  said  to  have  been  removed 
from  here. 

3  The  following  is  from  a  letter  written  at  this  date:--" Ambrosbury. 
Saw  the  Duke  of  Queensberry's  :  a  Chinese  house  and  bridge,  and  fine  canals 
in  the  gardens.  In  the  House  a  grand  new  Room  and  furniture,  Chimney 
pieces  red  and  white  marble,  the  Fable  of  the  stork  and  the  fox  carved  on 
them,  emblems  of  her  Grace's  hospitality." 

G  G  3 


436  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

child,  was  administratrix  to  his  affairs,  and  became  possessed 
of  half  the  personalty,  including  also  half  of  the  valuable  collec- 
tion of  pictures  which  had  descended  from  the  Lord  Chancellor 
Hyde,  i  st  Earl  of  Clarendon,  and  were  removed  to  Amesbury. 
The  Duchess  died  in  1777,  at  the  age  of  77, l  and  on  the 
decease  of  the  Duke,  in  the  following  year,  the  pictures  at 
Amesbury,  which  were  made  heirlooms  by  his  will,  descended 
with  the  title  to  his  cousin  William,  3rd  Earl  of  March  and 
Ruglen.  "The  mansion-house  at  Amesbury,  and  all  except  the 
pictures,  he  bequeathed  to  the  said  Earl ;  these  pictures  (both 
oil  and  paintings  in  water  colour)  to  descend  as  heirlooms  so 
long  as  the  law  will  admit."  In  1786  they  were  removed  from 
Amesbury  to  the  Duke  of  Queensberry's  residence  at  Rich- 
mond,2 where  they  were  seen  by  Horace  Walpole,  who  thus 
notices  them  in  a  letter  to  Lady  Ossory : — 

"  I  went  yesterday  to  see  the  Duke  of  Queensberry's  palace  at 
Richmond,  under  the  conduct  of  George  Selwyn,  the  concierge.  You 
must  imagine  how  nobly  it  looks  now  the  Amesbury  Gallery  are  hung 
up  there.  The  great  hall,  the  great  gallery,  the  eating  room,  and  the 
corridor,  are  covered  with  whole  and  half  lengths  of  royal  family, 
favourites,  ministers,  peers,  and  judges,  of  the  reign  of  Charles  I." 

William  Douglas,  who  succeeded  his  cousin  Charles  as 
4th  Duke  of  Queensberry  in  1778,  was  eight  years  after  created 
a  British  Peer  by  the  title  of  Baron  Douglas,  of  Amesbury.8 

1  In  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare's  Modern  Wilts  is  an  engraved  portrait  of  the 
Duchess,  from  a  miniature  belonging  to  the  Duke  of  Buccleugh,at  Dalkeith. 
A  painting  in  the  possession  of  the  Earl  of  Essex  represents  her  as  a 
shepherdess,  apparently  also  in  her  earlier  days.  Another  painting,  by 
Hudson,  executed  in  1745,  is  in  the  collection  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  at 
Watford  House,  Herts ;  whilst  a  crayon  in  possession  of  Earl  Cathcart,  and 
another  oil  painting  belonging  to  the  Duke  of  Sutherland,  both  represent 
her  at  a  later  period  of  her  life. 

2  On  the  death  of  William,  4th  Duke,  these  pictures  were  again  re- 
moved from  Richmond  to  Bothwell  Castle,  in  Scotland,  where  they  still 
remain. 

3  In  1788  was  published  a  poem,  in  two  parts,  entitled  The  Abbey  of 
Ambresbury,  by  Samuel  Birch,  author  of  Consilia,  &c.,  4to.     The  Gentleman's 
Mag.,  in  a  review,  says  : — "  Some  MSS.  chiefly  relating  to  this  house,  when 
it  is  supposed  to  have  been  in  its  first  stage  of  decay,  have  furnished  the 
author  with  materials  whereon  this  poem  is  principally  founded." 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  437 

This  bachelor  Duke,  known  in  his  later  life  as  "  Old  Q." 
and  "  The  Star  of  Piccadilly,"  was  never  more  than  an 
occasional  visitor  in  Wiltshire,  and  with  advancing  years 
these  visits  became  less  frequent.  In  1792  Sir  Elijah 
Impey,  Knt,  late  Chief  Justice  in  India,  came  to  reside 
for  a  while  at  Amesbury,  as  tenant  of  the  Duke ;  but  in 
the  spring  of  1794  he  again  removed  to  Newark  Park,  in  the 
weald  of  Sussex.  At  the  close  of  the  year  1794  the  mansion 
at  Amesbury  was  once  more  occupied  by  a  society  of  English 
Nuns,  Canonesses  of  St.  Augustine,  who  had  been  expelled 
from  their  convent  at  Louvain,  in  Belgium,  by  the  French, 
soon  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  French  Revolution,  and 
came  to  seek  protection  in  their  native  country.1  They  set 
sail  from  Rotterdam  5  July  1794,  and  reached  Greenwich  after 
a  twelve  days'  journey.  For  the  next  five  months  a  temporary 
residence  was  provided  for  them  at  Hammersmith,  and  on  the 
3ist  December  they  removed  to  Amesbury,  where,  within  the 
walls  of  the  Duke  of  Queensberry's  mansion,  on  New  Year's 
Day  1795,  they  celebrated  for  the  first  time  their  usual  choral 
service. 

In  1797  one  of  the  nuns,  Sister  Monica,  a  lady  between  60 
and  70  years  of  age,  who  had  been  for  some  time  ill,  died  on 
St.  Monica's  Day  [4  May]  whilst  the  other  nuns  were  hear- 
ing mass  in  the  chapel  which  had  been  fitted  up  for  them 
within  the  mansion,  and  her  remains  were  subsequently  con- 


1  On  the  suppression  of  the  English  monasteries,  Sister  Elizabeth 
Woodford,  a  professed  nun  of  the  Augustine  Priory  at  Dartford,  in  Kent, 
retired  to  Louvain,  and  was  there  admitted  into  the  Monastery  of  St. 
Ursula.  In  process  of  time  many  other  English  ladies  were  also  received 
into  the  Flemish  community,  which  in  1609  had  become  so  numerous  as  to 
require  a  division  of  its  members.  A  separate  English  monastery  was 
accordingly  established  at  Louvain,  under  the  title  of  the  Conception  of 
the  B.  V.  Mary,  St.  Michael  and  St.  Monica,  an  English  lady — Mary, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Wiseman,  of  Broadoak,  Essex — being  elected  the  first 
abbess.  During  their  residence  at  Amesbury  they  were  presided  over  by  a 
tenth  abbess,  Mary  Benedict  Stonor,  who  resigned  her  office  in  1812. 


438  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

veyed  to  Winchester  for  interment  in  the  Roman  Catholic 
burying  ground  in  that  city. 

In  1798  a  malicious  report  was,  it  seems,  circulated  in 
Amesbury,  which  must  have  been  anything  but  pleasant  to  the 
occupants  of  the  mansion.  In  consequence  of  an  information 
given  by  the  constables  of  Amesbury,  the  magistrates  of  the 
division  granted  warrants  empowering  them  and  their  assis- 
tants to  search  the  Abbey  house,  and  other  houses  in  the 
town,  on  a  suspicion  that  a  quantity  of  gunpowder,  balls,  fire 
arms,  and  other  implements  of  destruction,  were  secreted 
there.  After  the  strictest  search,  however,  nothing  was  found 
to  give  the  slightest  colour  to  the  report.1 

At  the  expiration  of  their  term  of  five  years,  the  com- 
munity removed  to  Spetisbury,  near  Blandford,  co.  Dorset.2 

In  October  1801  The  Salisbury  Journal  announces  that  the 
Prince  of  Conde,  with  the  Duke  of  Bourbon,  paid  a  visit  to  that 
city,  and  went  from  thence  to  view  Amesbury  Abbey,  with 
intent  to  hire  it  for  their  summer  residence.  They  were  much 
delighted  with  the  house  and  grounds,  but  declined  entering 
into  any  engagement,  the  house  not  being  already  furnished  as 
they  had  expected  to  find  it.  They  returned  in  the  evening, 
slept  at  the  Antelope  Inn,  and  the  next  morning  set  off  for 
London.3 

The  4th  Duke  of  Queensberry  died  in  1810,  when  his 
Wiltshire  property  passed,  by  a  settlement  executed  by 

1  These  reports   of   secreted   arms    and   explosives    were   one   of   the 
alarms  to  which  the  earlier  Hanoverian  Kings  of  England  were  periodically 
subject  from  the  favourers  of  the  Pretender— so  that  the  search  may  fairly 
be  taken  to  indicate  that  the  persons  thus  treated  were,  if  not  really  in 
favour  of  the  Stuart  succession,  at  least  suspected  of  being  so.     The  owner 
of  Monkton  Farley  House  had,  among  others,  been  subject  to  the  same 
annoyance  as  the  Nuns  at  Amesbury. 

2  In  the  autumn  of  1861.  the  inmates  of  the  Convent,  altogether  68  in 
number,   again   removed  from    Spetisbury   to    their    present   magnificent 
residence  at  Abbots  Leigh,  near  Newton,  co.  Devon. 

3  The  Prince  of  Conde  subsequently  became  the  tenant,  for  five  years, 
of  Tylney  House,  at  Wanstead,  during  the  minority  of  its  then  owner — 
Sir  James  Tylney  Long. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  439 

Charles,  jrd  Duke,  to  Archibald  James  Edward,  first  Baron 
Douglas,  son  of  Sir  John  Stewart  (afterwards  Douglas)  the 
subject  of  the  celebrated  trial  known  as  the  Douglas  Cause, 
and  his  wife,  the  Lady  Jane  Douglas. 

In  1824  the  Amesbury  estate  was  purchased  by  Sir 
Edmund  Antrobus,  first  baronet,  who  died  in  1826,  when  it 
again  passed,  with  the  baronetcy,  to  his  nephew,  Sir  Edmund 
William,  grandfather  of  the  present  owner. 

By  the  second  baronet  the  mansion  of  1660,  with  its  later 
additions  by  the  Earl  of  Burlington,  was  almost  entirely 
rebuilt ;  and  during  the  earlier  progress  of  the  work,  about  the 
year  1840,  the  discovery  of  some  decorative  tile  paving,  and 
other  remains  of  mediaeval  date,  at  once  revealed  the  fact  that 
the  mansion  stood  on  the  actual  site  of  some  part  of  the 
despoiled  Monastery.  The  discoveries  of  this  date  were 
beneath  the  part  of  the  building  comprising  kitchen,  servants' 
hall,  &c. 

In  the  spring  of  1860,  whilst  digging  out  trenches  for  the 
foundations  of  some  additional  buildings  at  the  back  of  the 
mansion,  it  became  evident  that  the  perfect  floors  of  several 
apartments  still  lay  buried  at  a  depth  of  from  three  to  four  feet 
below  the  surface  of  the  ground,  and  it  was  through  the  courtesy 
of  Sir  Edmund  William  Antrobus,  the  then  owner,  who  most 
kindly  allowed  much  of  the  surface  soil  between  the  new  foun- 
dations to  be  temporarily  cleared  away,  that  the  writer  is 
enabled  to  introduce  the  annexed  plan  {Plate  iv),  with  an 
account  of  the  discoveries  which  were  then  made.  Although 
the  plan  is  in  itself  scarcely  sufficient  to  determine  the  exact 
arrangement  of  this  particular  block  of  buildings,  it  may  not  be 
without  value  if  further  excavations  should  be  made  here  at 
some  future  time. 

The  long  wall  (a)  at  the  foot  of  the  plan  ran  in  a  line 
nearly  close  to,  and  almost  parallel  with  the  outer  back  wall  of 
the  present  mansion.  Within  the  angle  at  the  south-west 
corner  (b),  near  an  entrance  doorway  (c),  was  an  object  of 
carved  freestone,  which  had  probably  been  used  as  a  lavatory 


440 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


(Plate  v,  fig.  i).     It  was  lying  on  its  side,  almost  uninjured. 
The  dimensions  were  : 


Height 

Diameter  of  interior 

Depth  of  interior 


2it. 
ift. 


5in. 
6in. 


with  a  circular  hole,  five  inches  in  diameter,  running  down  the 
centre.  The  paving  here  (B)  was  a  mixture  of  small  tiles, 
black,  green,  red,  and  yellow,  laid  diagonally.  At  (d)  were 
traces  of  a  doorway,  with  a  stone  sill,  very  much  worn.  From 
this  point  (d)  to  the  angle  (e)  the  wall  was  faced  with  green 
sandstone,  and  apparently  was  an  outside  one. 

The  space  (A)  represents  the  principal  apartment  which 
was  laid  bare.  It  measured  about  29  feet  from  east  to  west,  by 
2 1  from  north  to  south,  and  was  surrounded,  or  nearly  so,  by  a 
stone  seat  about  18  inches  wide.  The  floor  was  paved  through- 
out with  encaustic  tile,  dating  from  the  i3th  century,  and  in- 
cluding nearly  fifty  varieties  of  design,  among  which  the 
annexed  pattern  of  four  tiles  appeared  to  predominate.1  Some 

of  the  larger  tiles,  seven 
inches  square,  represented 
in  Plate  i  (at  p.  145  of  the 
present  volume),  bore  the 
arms  of  royal  patrons  and 
benefactors  to  the  Monas- 
tery after  it  had  been  re- 
founded  by  Henry  II,  in 
1177,  as  seen  in  the  pedi- 
gree (p.  146). 

Of  these,  the  three  lions 
of  England  (No.  i),  borne 
singly,  represent  the  PLAN- 

TAGENET  KlNGS  from   1154  tO  1340. 


1  Above  the  floor  of  this  apartment  was  a  shallow  pond,  the  bottom  of 
which  reached  almost  to  the  tile  paving. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  441 

The  three  lions  rampant  (No.  3)  may  have  been  intended  for 
DE  CAMVILLE,*  whose  heiress,  about  1226,  married  William,  son 
of  William  Longespee,  Earl  of  Sarum,  by  Ela,  heiress  of  de 
Evreux,  well  known  as  the  Foundress  of  Lacock  Abbey.  Ela's 
Norman  ancestor  had  the  lordship  of  Amesbury  by  gift  from 
the  Conqueror,  and  here  also  was  the  place  of  her  own  birth. 

The  three  chevronels  (No.  10)  are  the  well-known  bearing 
of  the  great  baronial  House  of  DE  CLARE,  Earls  of  Gloucester 
and  Hereford,  of  whom  Gilbert,  seventh  Earl,  married  Joan  of 
Acre,  younger  daughter  of  Edward  I,  and  his  sister  became 
the  wife  of  EDMUND  PLANTAGENET,  second  EARL  OF  CORNWALL, 
who  is  also  represented  by  the  shield  (No.  12)  bearing  a  lion 
rampant  crowned  within  a  bordure  bezanty — the  arms  of  the 
Earldom. 

On  the  tile,  No.  7  of  the  same  series,  although  not  borne 
on  a  shield,  we  have  apparently  the  Castle  of  Castile,  for 
ELEANOR,  first  Queen  of  EDWARD  I.2  On  another  tile  (Plate  iii, 
No.  i)  the  outline  of  a  castle  may  have  been  also  intended. 

Among  the  numerous  designs  on  the  smaller  tiles  (Plates 
ii  and  iii)  there  is  an  heraldic  one  (Plate  iii,  No.  18)  bearing 
perhaps  barry  q/  six  ermine  and  gules  (the  ermine  spots 
being  much  worn)  for  some  member  of  the  family  of  HUSSEY, 
who  held  property  at  Figheldean  and  other  places  in  the  imme- 
diate neighbourhood,  by  grant  from  Richard  I,  which  passed 
on  the  marriage  of  co-heiresses  in  the  reign  of  Edward  II. 

In  Plate  iii,  No.  15,  we  have  a  single'broken  tile,  of  which, 
more  than  fifty  years  ago,  a  perfect  pair  (each  9  inches  by  6| 
inches),  many  times  repeated,  formed  a  border  to  the  paving  in 


1  Pap  worth  gives  a  coat  of  CAM  VILE — Azure,  three  lions  rampant  argent, 
and  one  of  LONGESPEE — Azure,  three  lions  rampant  or,  perhaps  assumed  by 
the  latter  after  marriage  with  the  Camville  heiress — for  William  Longespee, 
first   Earl   of   Sarum,   bore  six  lioncels  rampant,  as  seen  on  his  tomb   in 
Salisbury  Cathedral. 

2  In  Great  Bedwyn  Church  there  was  at  this  time  a  series  of  encaustic 
tiles,  numbering  altogether  some  forty  patterns,  many  of  which  were  found 

at  Amesbury.     Some  of  them  also  occur  in  the  Chapter  House  at  Salisbury. 


442  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

the  chancel  at  Great  Bedwyn  (see  Gentleman 's  Mag.,  July  1845). 
The  design  consists  of  two  armed  figures,  apparently  intended 
for  a  Saracen  and  Crusader,  on  horseback,  each  in  vizor  and 
surcoat,  riding  towards  one  another  in  deadly  combat ;  one 
carries  a  sword  and  shield,  the  latter  bearing  the  well-known 


cross  of  a  Knight  Templar;  the  other  a  shield  and  long  lance 
or  tilting  spear.1  Other  border  tiles  (Plate  iii,  Nos.  7  and  8) 
bore  animals  of  the  chase;  whilst  No.  10  represents  an  inter- 
secting arcade  of  Norman  type. 

Of  the  entire  pavement  some  of  the  tiles  were  in  good 
preservation,  others  considerably  worn  with  the  footsteps  of 
three  successive  centuries.  Much  of  the  original  floor  had 
evidently,  from  time  to  time,  been  replaced  by  tiles  of  different 
size  and  design,  and  lastly  it  was  roughly  patched  up,  in  one 
or  two  places,  with  'pieces  of  flag  stone  and  stone  tile  from 
the  roof.  In  the  south  wall,  not  far  from  the  centre,  were 
indistinct  traces  either  of  an  opening  or  recess  some  five  feet 
in  width.  This  may  have  been  a  fireplace,  for  a  corresponding 
space  (/)  in  the  floor,  5  ft.  6  in.  by  2  ft.  6  in.,  and  about  two  feet 
distant  from  the  wall,  was  paved  with  plain  tile  laid  diagonally, 
with  a  border  on  two  sides ;  perhaps  representing  the  hearth. 
Beneath  the  paving  were  foundations  of  two  walls  which  had 


1  One  other  specimen  of  this   tile  is  given   in   Nichols'  Examples  of 
Decorative  Tiles  (No.  80)  from  Romsey  Abbey. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  443 

evidently  belonged  to  an  earlier  building.1  In  the  foundation 
of  the  north  wall  was  a  course  of  red  roofing  tile  laid  diagonally. 
The  next  apartment  (D)  was  on  the  same  level,  and  paved 
throughout  with  plain  red  tiles,  10  by  8g  inches.  The  whole  of 
the  walls  here  had  been  plastered. 

The  apartment  (c)  had  also  been  paved  with  plain  red  tile 
a  foot  square,  on  which  lay  a  stone  vessel,  apparently  a  mortar 
(  Plate  v,  ftg.  2).  About  a  foot  above  the  tile  paving  was  a  later 
floor  of  lime  grit,  with  the  level  of  which  the  fireplace  (/)  in 
the  east  wall,  as  well  as  the  floors  of  the  adjoining  apartments, 
seemed  to  correspond.  This  fireplace  was  6  ft.  6  in.  wide,  by 
2  ft.  deep,  and  may  have  been  hooded,  as  the  masonry  on  each 
side  projected  a  foot  into  the  apartment.  The  plaster  on  the 
walls  reached  only  to  the  depth  of  the  grit  floor.  Some  molten 
lead  was  found  here. 

The  short  pieces  of  wall  on  the  upper  part  of  the 
plan  are  shown  precisely  as  they  appeared  when  trenches 
for  building  purposes  were  opened  in  a  straight  line  north- 
ward, but  as  the  intermediate  space  here  was  not  cleared, 
they  are  insufficient  to  afford  much  idea  of  the  apartments  to 
which  they  belonged.  The  fragment  at  the  extreme  north- 
east corner  (g)  was  faced  with  sandstone,  and  appeared  to 
have  been  an  outer  wall.  The  inner  walls  were  mostly  con- 
structed of  flint,  sometimes  mixed  with  stone  or  chalk,  some 
parts  of  the  foundations  being  entirely  of 
the  latter  material. 

The  space  between  the  walls  at  (E) 
was  paved  with  red  tiles  resembling 
bricks,  9^  by  4^  inches,  and  i|  inches 
thick ;  whilst  in  the  wider  space  at  (F) 
was  a  pavement  of  plain  red  tile  a  foot 
square,  as  at  (c),  with  encaustic  tiles  of  the 
annexed  pattern  as  a  border.  Of  the  drain  (h)  a  continua- 

1  Both  these  earlier  walls  had  deep  foundations,  whilst  the  south  wall 
of  the  apartment  itself  reached  but  a  very  little  distance  below  the  ground 
level. 


444  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

tion,  running  south-east,  was  found  in  digging  for  a  tank  in  the 
open  space  in  this  direction. 

At  a  short  distance  eastward  from  (F)  was  a  floor  of 
mixed  coloured  tiles,  as  at  (B),  mended  in  several  places  with 
encaustic  tiles  of  different  patterns. 

A  stone  object,  apparently  a  mortar,  found  on  the  floor  of 
the  apartment  (c)  has  been  already  noticed.  Portions  of  two 
others,  one  of  stone,  the  other  of  Purbeck  marble,  were  also 
found  among  the  debris  during  the  excavations  (Plate  v,  figs.  3 
and  4).1  A  stone  coffin  hollowed  out  to  receive  the  corpse, 
with  a  circular  cavity  for  the  head,  was  also  found,  emptied 
of  its  contents  and  broken  in  pieces  ;  also  part  of  a  second 
coffin,  of  Purbeck  marble ;  and  a  coffin-shaped  slab  of  blue 
stone,  6|  feet  long,  and  tapering  from  26  inches  to  13, 
with  grooves  near  the  outer  edges  into  which  the  up- 
right sides  had  apparently  been  inserted.  A  small  two- 
handled  vessel  of  red  unglazed 
ware,  4  inches  in  height  and  4^ 
diameter  at  top  (see  illustration), 
and  some  fragments  of  mediae- 
val green  glazed  ware,  were  also 
found  among  the  debris,  as  well 
as  broken  pieces  of  the  bearded 
mugs,  of  Dutch  manufacture,  known 
as  "  bellarmines ",  of  a  date  subsequent  to  the  destruction  of 
the  Monastery.2 

1  Of  these  early  examples  of  stone  mortars,  the  late  Mr.  Charles  Roach 
Smith  has  engraved  a  similar  one  in  his  Illustrations  of  Jtoman  London. 
Other  specimens  of  the  same  kind  noticed  by  the  present  writer  are  one 
dug  up  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Bath  Abbey,  now  in  the  Museum  of  the 
Literary  and  Philosophical  Institution  of  that  City ;  another  in  the  Abbey 
kitchen  at  Glastonbury.     A  portion  of  a  third,  of  Purbeck  marble,  was  dis- 
covered in  the  foundation  of  the  Early  English  chancel  of  Bromham  Church 
(13th  century),  when  re-built  in   1861.     A  fourth   is  in   the   Museum  at 
Ipswich ;  and  several  others  were,  it  is  believed,  discovered  many  years 
since  in  the  crypt  of  Gloucester  Cathedral. 

2  These  globular  vessels  of  glazed  ware,  with  the  bearded  head  on  the 
neck,  appear  to  have  been  in  common  use  in  the  days  of  Shakspeare  and 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  445 

Some  fragments  of  stained  glass,  and  window  lead,  were 
also  found,  as  well  as  molten  lead,  mixed  with  charcoal  and 
wood  ashes.  One  lump  weighed  as  much  as  seven  or  eight 
pounds. 

Of  the  remains  of  roofing 
there  were  four  different  kinds — 
lead,  wood  shingle,  stone  shingle, 
and  red  tile.  Also  a  yellow  glazed 
crest  tile  of  the  pattern  shown  in  the  annexed  sketch. 

Near  the  east  corner  of  the  foundation  of  the  stables  some 
architectural  fragments  were  found ;  including  part  of  a  trefoil- 
headed  window  of  the  Early  English  period  (i3th  century), 
with  many  Norman  capitals  of  earlier  date. 

It  now  remains  to  identify  the  foundations  thus  investi- 
gated in  1860  with  the  particular  block  of  monastic  buildings 
to  which  they  belonged.  The  site,  measured  in  a  straight  line 
from  the  north  transept  of  the  church,  is  fully  a  thousand  feet 
distant.  The  solution  must  not,  consequently,  be  looked  for 
either  in  the  chapter  house,  refectory,  dormitory,  or  any  part 


Ben  Jonson.  The  latter  author,  in  his  play  of  Bartholomew  Fair,  Act  iv, 
Scene  3,  says : — 

"  Who's  at  the  best,  some  round  grown  thing, 

Faced  with  a  beard,  that  fills  out  a  jug  to  his  guests." 

Beneath  the  bearded  head  is  usually  a  medallion,  either  surrounded  by 
foliage  or  bearing  the  arms  of  the  Dutch  town  at  which  they  were  made. 
At  Amesbury  they  were  no  doubt  in  use  during  the  ownership  of  Edward, 
Earl  of  Hertford,  son  of  the  Protector  Duke  of  Somerset  [1552-1621],  and 
the  broken  fragments  thrown  among  the  ruined  walls  of  the  old  buildings 
which  then  remained.  "During  the  religious  feuds  which  raged  in  Holland 
the  Protestant  party  originated  a  design  for  a  drinking  jug,  in  ridicule  of 
their  great  opponent,  the  famed  Cardinal  Bellarmine,  who  had  been  sent 
into  the  Low  Countries  to  oppose  in  person,  and  by  his  pen,  the  progress  of 
the  Reformed  religion  ....  it  was  as  often  called  '  a  grey  beard '  as 
it  was  'a  Bellarmine.'  It  was  so  popular  as  to  be  manufactured  by 
thousands  in  all  sizes  and  qualities  of  cheapness.  It  met  with  a  large  sale 
in  England,  and  many  fragments  of  these  jugs  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth 
and  James  I  have  been  exhumed  in  London.  The  writers  of  that  era  very 
frequently  allude  to  it," — Book  of  Days, 


446  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

of  the  main  block  of  buildings  surrounding  the  principal  cloister, 
all  of  which  were  no  doubt  grouped  together,  and  immediately 
adjoining  the  church  itself.  At  Amesbury  these  buildings  were 
on  a  large  scale,  and  with  the  great  cloister  104  feet  square,  a 
dormitory  200  feet  in  length,  a  refectory  no  feet,  a  great  hall 
70  feet,  and  the  rest  in  like  proportion,  the  site  of  the  main 
block  in  which  they  were  included  must  have  occupied  no 
inconsiderable  part  of  the  space  between  the  church  and  the 
present  mansion ;  for  the  entire  Monastery  and  precincts, 
including  garden,  orchards,  fish  ponds,  cemetery,  &c.,  covered 
no  less  than  twelve  acres,  besides  a  certain  pasture  called  "  the 
Park",  containing  six  acres,  which  the  Prioress  and  nuns 
themselves  also  occupied.1 

It  was  evidently  on  the  main  block  of  buildings,  nearly 
adjoining  the  church,  that  the  principal  havoc  took  place  after 
the  dissolution  of  the  Monastery.  From  the  Longleat  papers, 
33  and  34  Henry  VIII  [1541-2],  it  appears  that  on  their 
destruction  the  paving  tile  in  the  vestry,  parlour,  and  a  part  of 
that  in  the  inner  parlour,  the  cloister,  and  chapter  house,  was 
taken  up,  and  carried  temporarily  into  the  north  transept  of 
the  church,  which,  being  then  unoccupied,  was  the  nearest 
available  place  of  storage.  On  24  September  1542  is  a  pay- 
ment by  "Symon  Reef,  of  Chisenbury,"  for  part  of  the  tile 
paving  in  the  chapter  house — thus  showing  that  the  tile  floors 
belonging  to  the  principal  buildings  in  the  main  block  were 
taken  up  and  sold,  whilst  those  of  the  more  distant  building  in 
the  rear  of  the  mansion,  laid  bare  in  1860,  remained  intact. 

There  is  one  building  belonging  to  a  monastery  which, 


1  The  Longleat  papers  mention  the  Cemetery  by  the  Park,  and  John 
Ray  in  his  Itinerary  (1662)  describes  the  supposed  tomb  of  Queen  Guinevere, 
which  he  saw  here,  as  "  just  behind  the  Marquess  of  Hertford's  house,  in  a 
little  park"  (see  p.  365).  The  tomb  must  therefore  have  been  in  the  Nuns' 
Cemetery,  to  the  east  of  the  mansion,  thus  marked  in  the  accompanying 
plan,  Plate  vi,  where  broken  coffins  were  found  in  I860.  The  Park  must 
have  adjoined  the  cemetery  in  the  direction  of  Grey  Bridge,  where  the 
principal  entrance  is  supposed  to  have  been  in  the  days  of  the  Monastery. 


Notes  on  Amesbury  Monastery.  447 

when  space  permitted,  is  sometimes  found  at  a  considerable 
distance  from  the  main  block.  This  was  the  Infirmary — 
generally  complete  in  itself,  having  its  own  chapel,  hall,  refec- 
tory, and  other  minor  offices.  At  Amesbury,  besides  the  usual 
chapel,  it  had  its  own  separate  cloister,  for  among  the  buildings 
condemned  at  the  Dissolution  (see  p.  291)  we  find  mention  of 
the  Old  Infirmary  with  the  Chapel,  Cloister,  and  Lodgings  ad- 
joining, and  this  the  writer  believes  to  have  been  the  actual 
block  of  the  monastic  buildings  identical  with  the  foundations 
and  tile  floors  laid  bare  at  Amesbury  in  i8601 — their  appar- 
ently long  distance  from  the  church  being  thus  easily  accounted 
for.  The  apartment  (A),  with  its  once  rich  tile  paving,  bearing 
the  arms  of  royal  patrons  and  benefactors,  was  probably  the 
chapel  of  the  Infirmary,  which,  besides  the  church  itself,  was 
the  only  consecrated  building  belonging  to  the  Monastery,  and 
the  remains  of  long  walls  on  its  south  and  west  sides,  with  a 
lavatory  in  the  angle  (b\  may  have  been  a  part  of  the  adjoin- 
ing cloister  connected  with  it. 

In  concluding  these  somewhat  lengthy  notes  on  Ames- 
bury  Monastery,  the  writer  sincerely  trusts  that  they  may  not 
have  been  entirely  without  interest  in  bringing  together  a  few 
additional  gleanings  (collected  partly  from  under  ground)  illus- 
trative of  the  history  of  one  of  the  most  interesting  of  the 
early  monastic  remains  of  the  County  of  Wilts. 

EDWARD  KITE. 


[The  will  of  Thomas  Bundy,  mentioned  at  page  303,  seems  to  deserve 
some  additional  notice.  It  is  dated  10  February  1491,  and  was 
proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  15  May  1492  (Register 
17  Dogett).  He  desires  to  be  buried  in  the  Church  of  St.  Melore 
(corpusque  meum  tumulandum  in  ecclesia  sancti  Melori)  without 
mentioning  any  locality — thus  showing  that  the  name  ot  the  place 
was  secondary  to  that  ot  the  dedication  of  its  church,  celebrated  in 
mediaeval  times  as  containing  the  relics  of  St.  Melore,  and  at  the 


1  In  confirmation  of  this  suggestion,  it  may  be  mentioned  that  the 
Longleat  papers  contain  no  items  relating  either  to  the  removal  or  sale  of 
any  of  the  tile  paving^in  the  Infirmary. 


448  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

same  time  pointing  to  this  Church  of  St.  Melore  as  the  one  and  only 
Church  of  Amesbury.  He  bequeaths  to  the  Church  of  the  Blessed 
Mary  at  Sarum  3^.  $d.,  to  the  parish  Church  (i.e.  of  Amesbury)  ios., 
to  the  lights  in  the  said  Church  14  sheep.  To  the  Lady  Prioress  for 
tythe  forgotten  6,y.  8d.  He  mentions  a  son,  Sir  Thomas,  apparently 
a  priest,  another  son,  William,  and  two  daughters,  Matilda  and  Alice, 
to  whom,  besides  silver  cups,  spoons,  &c.,  he  makes  bequests  only 
in  corn  and  sheep.  His  wife  Alice,  and  son  William  to  be  executors, 
and  Sir  Richard  Belturm,  overseer. 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 


(Continued  Jrom  p. 
[The  following  documents  relate  to  Headinghill,  which 
some  authorities  identify  as  part  of  Bratton  ;  though  from  the 
fact  that  it  is  found  in  deeds  relating  to  Westbury,  and  not  in 
those  relating  exclusively  to  Bratton  (namely,  in  those  in 
which  Westbury  is  not  mentioned),  and  from  the  fact  that  in 
the  Edington  Chartulary  (Lansdown  MSS.  442)  the  property 
there  of  the  Rectors  of  Edington  appears  under  the  heading 
"  Westbury",  and  not  under  that  of  "  Bratton  "  (Braeton,  &c.), 
it  would  seem  that  originally  at  least  it  was  part  of  the  parish 
or  manor  of  Westbury.] 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [40  Henry  HI.    No.  41.] 
Post  Mortem  Walter  de  Pavely. 

[A.D.  1255-6.  The  King's  writ  for  this  inquest  is  dated 
3  July,  40  Henry  III.]  Walter  de  Pavely  held  in  chief  of  the 
lord  King  the  manor  of  Westbury,  with  its  appurtenances,  to 
wit,  Broc,  Heueddinghull,  Stokes,  and  Dilledon,  by  the  service 

of  a  knight's  fee Reginald  de  Pavely,  knight, 

son  of  Walter  de  Pavely  aforesaid,  is  his  nearer  heir,  and  is  of 
full  age. 

CHARTER  ROLL.     [26  Edward  I.      No.  i.] 

A.D.  1298.  The  King  grants  to  Walter  de  Pavely  and  his 
heirs  for  ever  free-warren  in  all  his  demesne  lands  in  Westbury, 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  449 

Broke,  and  Heuedinghull,  Wilts,  not  within  the  bounds  of 
the  royal  forest ;  so  that  none  may  enter  to  chase  or  take  any- 
thing belonging  to  warren  without  his  licence,  &c.,  upon  for- 
feiture of  i  olid,  to  the  King. 

[Dated]  at  Fynkale  17  November.  "Per  ipsum  Regem, 
nunciante  Willelmo  de  Bella  Campo,  senescallo  hospitii  Regis." 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [17  Edward  II.     No.  70.] 
Post  Mortem  Walter  de  Pavely. 

A.D.  1323.  Walter  de  Pavely  held  in  his  demesne  as  of  fee 
on  the  day  of  his  death  the  manors  of  Westbury,  Broke,  and 
Hevedynhulle  of  the  king  in  chief  by  the  service  of  a  knight's 
fee. 

.  .  .  .  There  is  at  Hevedynghulle  a  capital  messuage 
with  a  garden  worth  yearly  vjs.  vijW.  [?]  and  cc  acres  of  arable 
land,  of  which  c  acres  are  worth  yearly  xxxiijs.  iiij</.,  at  iiijW. 
the  acre;  and  c  acres  are  worth  yearly  xxvs.,  at  \\}d.  per  acre ; 
and  in  the  same  place  there  are  xx  acres  of  meadow,  worth 
yearly  xxxs.,  at  viij^.  the  acre;  and  ....  x,  containing 
6  acres,  whose  profit  is  worth  yearly  |  mark,  and  the  pasture 

there  is  worth  yearly   |  mark Reginald  de 

Pavely  is  his  son  and  nearer  heir,  and  is  30  years  old  and 
more. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [21  Edward  III.     No.  48.] 

Post  Mortem  Reginald  de  Pavely. 

A.D.  1347.  Inquisition  taken  at  Westbury  23  February, 
21  Edward  III.  Reginald  de  Pavely  held  in  chief  the  manor 
of  Westbury,  with  its  members,  viz.,  Broke  and  Hevedinghull. 
John  de  Pavely,  knight,  is  the  son  of  Reginald  aforesaid,  and 
is  his  nearer  heir,  and  is  40  years  old  and  more. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [35  Edward  III.     Pt.  2.     No.  24.] 
Post  Mortem  John  de  Pavely. 

A.D.  1361.     Inquisition  taken  at  Devises  [?| 

35  Edward  III.     John  de  Pavely  held,  &c.,  the  manor  of  West- 

1  Illegible  word, 

H  H 


45°  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

bury  and  the  hamlets.  He  died  the  2ist  October  last  year. 
They  [the  Jury]  say  that  a  certain  Alice,  daughter  of  the  said 
John  Pavely  and  his  first  wife  Elizabeth,  married  to  John  de 
Seintlow,  junior,  still  living,  survived  the  said  John  de  Pavely 
half  a  day ;  which  Alice  and  John  Seintlow  had  legitimate  issue 
still  living,  viz. — Joan,  1 1  years  old  ;  Elizabeth,  8  years  old  ; 
and  Ela,  6  years  old ;  who,  Joan,  Elizabeth,  and  Ela,  and  Joan 
the  daughter  of  the  said  John  de  Pavely,  begotten  of  Agnes 
his  second  wife,  aged  8  [?]  years,  are  the  heirs  of  the  said  John 
de  Pavely. 

The  participation  of  his  lands  was  made  by  the  Eschaetor 
at  Westbury  21  January  ["?],  35  Edward  III,  between  John  de 
Seintlow,  husband  of  the  daughter  Alice,  tenant  by  homage, 
and  Joan,  the  daughter  by  Agnes  his  second  wife,  in  the  king's 
wardship,  viz. :  for  one  part,  the  manor  of  Brouke  and  hamlet 
of  Dicherigg,  with  half  of  the  profits  and  perquisites  of  the 
view  of  frankpledge,  the  hundred,  fair,  market,  and  portemote 
of  Westbury  ;  and  for  the  other  part,  the  manor  of  Westbury 
and  the  hamlet  of  Hefdynghull,  with  the  other  half  of  the 
profits  and  perquisites,  &c.  ;  the  yearly  rent  of  either  part 
being  ulib.  gs.  i%d. 

PATENT  36  EDWARD  III.     [Edington    Chartulary    (Lansdowne 

MS.  442,  /  144^-] 

A.D.  1362.  Edward,  &c.,  to  all,  &c.  We  have  granted  to 
the  venerable  father  William,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  the  cus- 
tody of  the  manor  of  Westbury  and  of  the  hamlet  of  Hefding- 
hull,  and  half  the  profits  and  perquisites  of  view  of  frank- 
pledge,  hundred,  courts,  fairs,  markets,  and  portmotes  of  West- 
bury  which  belonged  to  John  de  Pavely,  our  tenant  in  chief, 
and  which  we  have  assigned  to  Joan,  a  daughter  and  heiress 
of  the  said  John,  being  within  age  and  in  our  wardship,  for  her 
share.  For  the  yearly  rent  to  John  Seintlou,  who  married 
Alice,  the  other  daughter  and  heir,  now  deceased,  of  John  de 
Pavely,  and  who  holds  the  other  half  of  the  said  heritage 
belonging  to  Joan,  Elizabeth,  and  Ela,  daughters  and  heiresses 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  451 

of  the  said  Alice,  begotten  between  himself  and  her,  of 
\\lib.  95.  i\d.,  the  excess  of  the  value  of  their  share  during  the 
life  of  the  said  John  Seintlou,  then  to  the  said  heirs  of  Alice  if 
they  are  of  age,  or  to  ourselves,  or  other  guardian,  if  they  are 
not  of  age.  To  hold  the  same  until  the  legitimate  age  of  the 
foresaid  Joan,  with  the  marriage  of  the  foresaid  Joan,  or  if 
she  dies  before  she  is  of  age,  then  to  hold  the  same  until  the 
full  age  of  her  heirs  with  their  marriage.  Tested  myself  at 
Westminster,  5  February. 

[This  is  followed  by  a  copy  of  the  mandate  to  the  Eschaetor 
dated  at  Westminster  2oth  November,  35  Edward  III,  con- 
cerning the  division  of  the  Pavely  heritage  as  above.] 

IBID.,  f.  145. 

A.D.  1368.  The  King  commands  the  Eschaetor  to  make  a 
new  division  of  the  said  heritage,  upon  the  representation,  of 
Ralph  Cheyne,  husband  of  Joan,  daughter  of  John  Pavely,  now 
of  age,  that  there  were  errors  in  the  first  division,  that  the 
said  Joan's  share  was  only  135.  $d.  in  value  in  excess ;  where- 
fore, by  the  assent  of  the  said  heirs,  the  King  assigns  to  Joan, 
Elizabeth,  and  Ela,  daughters  of  John  Seintloy,  the  manor  of 
Westbury,  with  the  hamlets  of  Hevedynghull,  Stoke  Mul- 
bourne,  and  Leye,  and  all  appurtenances,  together  with  half 
the  profits  of  the  view  of  frankpledge,  hundreds,  fairs,  markets, 
and  portemotes  of  Westbury,  and  with  all  the  rent  from  the 
"  Shamelhous  "  in  the  town  of  Westbury ;  to  return  yearly  to 
Joan,  the  foresaid  daughter  of  John  Pavely,  £6  yearly  at 
Christmas,  Easter,  the  Nativity  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  and 
Michaelmas,  in  equal  portions,  right  being  reserved  to  the 
said  Joan  and  her  heirs  to  distrain  for  the  rent ;  and 
to  the  said  Joan,  now  wife  of  Ralph  Cheyne,  the  manor 
of  Broke,  with  the  hamlets  of  Dicherigg  and  Haukerigg, 
with  the  other  half  of  the  profits,  &c.,  of  Westbury, 
with  two  marks  rent  to  be  received  by  the  hands  of  the  Prior 
of  Cherleton,  near  Uphaven,  and  £6  yearly  rent  from  the 

manor  of  Westbury  and  the  hamlets  of  Hevedynghull,  &c.,  as 

H  H  2 


452  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

aforesaid,  and  pasturage  in  the  wood  called  "  le  holte  ",  and  a 
place  whereon  to  build.  Tested  by  the  King  at  Westminster, 
2oth  November,  42  Edward  III. 

ORIGINAL  ROLL.  [49  Edward  III.  No.  13.] 
A.D.  1375.  The  Eschaetor  in  Wilts  is  to  accept  security 
from  John  Chidyok  and  Joan  his  wife,  one  of  the  daughters 
and  heirs  of  Alice,  wife  of  John  de  St.  Laud,  knight,  deceased, 
and  from  Ela  de  Bradestan,  the  other  daughter  and  heir  of  the 
said  Alice,  of  their  properties  of  the  manors  of  Westbury, 
Hevedynghull,  and  of  half  of  the  hundred  of  Westbury,  with 
the  appurtenances,  held  of  the  King  in  chief  by  knight-service  ; 
and  to  make  them  have  full  seisin  of  the  same. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [49  Edward  III.     PL  2.     No.  34^, 

•   ist  Nos.] 

Post  Mortem  John  de  St.  Laud,  knight. 
A.D.  1375.  Inquisition  taken  at  Weremenstre  on  Thursday 
next  before  the  feast  of  S.  Katherine  the  Virgin,  49  Edward  III. 
John  de  St.  Laud,  knight,  held  no  land  or  tenement  in  chief 
of  the  lord  King  or  of  any  other  on  the  day  of  his  death ;  but 
he  held  the  manor  of  Westbury  and  Hevedynhulle,  with  half 
the  hundred  of  Westbury,  with  the  appurtenances,  for  the  term 
of  his  life  by  the  law  of  England  after  the  death  of  Alice, 
formerly  his  wife,  one  of  the  daughters  and  heiresses  of  John 
de  Pavely,  of  the  lord  King  in  chief  by  military  service  ;  the 
reversion  of  the  said  manor  and  half  hundred,  after  the  death 
of  the  foresaid  John,  belonging  to  Joan,  wife  of  John  Chidiok, 
junior,  knight,  one  of  the  daughters  and  heiresses  of  the  fore- 
said  Alice,  of  the  age  of  21  years  and  more,  and  to  Ela  de 
Bradestan,  the  other  daughter  and  heiress  of  Alice  aforesaid, 
of  the  age  of  18  years  and  more.  The  value  of  the  said  manor 
or  half  hundred  according  to  the  true  value  is  ulib.  He  died 
on  Wednesday,  8th  of  November  last.  Alexander  is  the  son 
of  the  foresaid  John,  and  is  of  the  age  of  half  a  year  and  more, 
being  begotten  of  Margaret  his  second  wife,  still  surviving, 
and  is  his  nearest  heir. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  453 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [14  Richard  II.     No.  12.] 
Post  Mortem  John  Chidyok,  knight. 

A.D.  1390.  Inquisition  taken  at  New  Sarum  on  Thursday, 
the  22nd  September,  14  Richard  II.  Sir  John  Chidyok,  in 
right  of  Joan  his  wife,  who  survives  him,  held  the  4th  part  of 
the  manor  and  a  4th  part  of  the  hundred  of  Westbury,  and  a 
4th  part  of  the  manor  of  Hulpryngton,  and  a  messuage  and 
land  at  Immere.  He  died  the  Friday  after  the  Feast  of 
SS.  Peter  and  Paul  last.  John  Chidyok,  his  son,  aged  12  years 
and  more,  is  his  heir. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [2  Henry  IV.     No.  52.] 
Post  Mortem  Ralph  Cheyney. 

A.D.  1400.  Inquisition  taken  at  Westbury  2nd  December, 
2  Henry  IV.  Ralph  Cheyney  held  the  manor  of  Broke,  with 
the  appurtenances,  with  half  the  profits  of  the  hundred  of 
Westbury,  and  half  of  the  portemotes  of  the  market  and  fairs 
there,  and  likewise  6lib.  rent  from  the  manor  of  Westbury 
and  Hevedynghull,  in  chief  by  the  service  of  half  a  knight's 
fee,  and  half  a  messuage  and  2  carucates  of  land  at  Immere, 
and  half  the  manor  of  Hulprynton,  &c.,  in  right  of  Joan,  late 
his  wife,  and  daughter  of  John  Pavely.  He  died  on  Thursday, 
the  Feast  of  St.  Martin  the  Bishop  last.  William  Cheyney  is 
the  son  and  heir  of  Ralph  and  Joan,  and  is  26  years  old. 

INQUISITION  POST  MORTEM.     [8  Henry  V.     No.  46.] 
Post  Mortem  William  Cheyney,  knight. 

A.D.  1421.  Inquisition  taken  at  Devyses  4th  February, 
8  Henry  V.  William  Cheyney,  knight,  held,  &c.,  the  manor 
of  Broke,  with  half  the  profits  and  perquisites  of  the  view  of 
frankpledge,  hundred,  markets,  &c.,  of  Westbury,  and  mast 
without  pasture  for  his  swine  in  the  wood  of  Westbury  called 
"le  Holte",  &c.,  and  6lib.  yearly  rent  at  the  four  principal 
yearly  terms  from  the  manor  of  Westbury  and  the  hamlets  of 


454  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Heuedynghulle,  Stoke  Mulbourne,  and  Lyghe 

He  died  the  2yth  of  September  last.     Edward  Cheyney  is  his 
son  and  nearer  heir,  and  is  18  years  old. 

E.  M.  THOMPSON. 

(To  be  continued.) 


ELLENDUNE  AND  ITS  ANCIENT  BOUNDARIES. 


The  interesting  question  of  the  localisation  of  Ellendune 
has  already  been  discussed  in  IV.  N.  &>  O.,  vol.  iii,  p.  328,  and 
it  is  hoped  that  no  doubt  now  remains  as  to  the  existence  of 
one,  and  one  only,  place  of  this  name. 

Readers  interested  in  Wroughton  may  be  further  interested 
in  an  account  of  the  several  portions  of  land  now  united  under 
the  name  of  Wroughton,  and  in  the  recital  of  the  land  limits  of 
that  part  of  it  which  in  A.D.  956  was  called  Ellendune,  which  is 
alluded  to  in  IV.  N.  &•  Q.,  vol.  iii,  p.  329. 

Leland's  statement  of  the  gift  of  King  ^Ethelstan  of  "Ellen- 
dune  quod  est  Worston  ",  to  the  Church  of  Winchester,  is  there 
mentioned,  but  he  is  probably  wrong  in  attributing  this  gift  to 
^Ethelstan  (though  not  long  after  his  death  Ellendune  certainly 
belonged  to  Winchester). 

We  learn  from  Codex  Diplomaticus,  1048,  that  ^Ethelwulf  of 
Wessex  confirmed  previous  grants  of  land  to  Malmesbury 
Abbey ;  and  among  them  "  Daet  is  at  Ellendune  thirty  hide  " 
(Kemble,  Codex  Dip/ontaticus,  writes  thrity  hide).  This  was 
nearly  100  years  before  King  ^Ethelstan's  reign,  and  Rev.  C. 
Taylor  says:  "  I  cannot  help  thinking  that  Leland  was  mistaken 
in  saying  that  vEthelstan  gave  Elendoun  to  Winton  ;  in  any 
case,  if  he  did,  it  had  passed  back  to  the  possession  of  King 
Eadwig  by  A.D.  956,  within  16  years  of  ./Ethelstan's  death." 


Ellendune  and  its  Ancient  Boundaries.  455 

This  we  learn  from  Codex  Dipolmaticus,  1184,  reciting  that 
"  Eadwig  granted  to  his  faithful  minister  and  relative  ^Elfheah 
xxx  manses  at  Ellendune." 

It  is  in  this  same  charter  that  the  land  boundaries  are 
recited. 

If  these  two  entries  about  Ellendune  refer,  as  is  most 
probable,  to  one  and  the  same  place,  we  must  seek  some 
explanation  for  this  giving  away  of  Malmesbury  Abbey  lands, 
and  the  following  suggestion  is  offered. 

From  Codex  Diplomaticus,  460,  we  learn  that  in  the  same 
year  (A.D.  956)  King  Eadwig  made  this  gift  to  his  relative,  he 
gave  a  very  large  grant  of  land  to  Malmesbury  Abbey;  and  Mr. 
J.  Y.  Akerman's  (in  a  note  below,  Archceologia,  vol.  xxxvii, 
p.  10)  remarks  on  this  grant  to  Malmesbury  are  worthy  of  con- 
sideration in  connexion  with  that  of  Ellendune  : — "  The  politi- 
cal events  of  the  short  reign  of  this  unhappy  prince  will  explain 
the  motives  that  influenced  him  to  bestow  on  the  Monks 
of  Malmesbury  so  valuable  a  gift  (i.e.,  Brokenberigge),  which 
enabled  them  to  join  house  to  house  and  land  to  land,  and 
thus  fuse  into  one  compact  territory  a  vast  portion  of  the 
northei^n  district  of  Wiltshire."  Other  lands  are  also 
mentioned  in  the  Malmesbury  Cartulary  as  being,  for  the 
same  reason,  given  in  exchange  for  land  near  the  Monastery. 
We  have  not  sufficient  evidence  to  show  how  Ellendune  came 
into  the  possession  of  King  Eadwig ;  but  it  is  just  possible  that 
it  did  so  through  some  such  exchange  of  lands  previously  held 
by  the  Monks  of  Malmesbury  as  is  narrated  above. 

The  boundaries  of  Ellendune  A.D.  9156,  as  recited  in  this 
Charter  (Codex  Diplomaticus,  1184),  are  as  follows  : — 

These  are  the  land  boundaries  of  Ellendune. 

First  from  the  heathen  burial  place  and  along  the  way  to 
Crerscumbe1  (i.e.,  Cresscombe). 

thence  to  the  cow  pasture2  (?)  from  the  cow  pasture2  (?) 


Ccerscumbas.  2  Msedena  cova. 


456  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

to  the  Ridge  way  to  Ealhere's  burying  place. 

thence  and  along  the  ditch  to  Hawkthorn 

from  the  thorn  to  the  broad  stone 

thence  to  Clover  mere,1  from  the  mere  to  helmesthorn2 

From  the  thorn  to  the  brook 

thence  to  the  elder  stumps — from  the  stumps 

to  the  Church  highway — thence  to  Crudwell3(or  Rudwell?) 

from  Crudwell  to  Risborough 

from  the  barrow  to  Cold  barrow  from  the  barrow  and  along 
the  way  to  the  stone,  from  the  stone  again  to  the 
heathen  burial  place. 

The  Rev.  C.  Taylor  has  sent  me  the  following  remarks  on 
this  boundary  : — "  The  valley  where  cress  grows  must  be  on 
the  outcrop  of  the  greensand  where  the  springs  are  thrown  up 
by  the  underlying  gault,  and  the  cress  flourishes  as  it  now 
does  at  Bishopston.  So  it  is  evident  that  the  boundary  started 
from  some  point  North  of  the  greensand,  then  ran  across  it 
up  to  the  Ridgway,  and  followed  the  Ridgway  to  Ealhere's 
Grave ;  it  ran  down  past  various  points  to  a  brook,  and  by 
some  elder  stumps  to  the  Church  highway,  and  so  by  some 
barrows  to  the  heathen  burying  place  again,  thus  encircling 
the  Manor  of  Ellendune.  It  is  not  clear,  however,  whether 
the  starting  point  lay  on  the  East  or  West  side  of  the  Manor — 
probably  on  the  West.  It  is  not  likely  that  the  boundaries 
are  those  of  the  existing  parish  of  Wroughton,  for  that  con- 
tains two  Manors  of  Wroughton,  rated  at  20  hides,  and  the 
Manor  of  Elcombe,  rated  at  27  hides,  besides  the  30  hides  of 
Ellendune.  Ellendune  would  thus  have  contained  about  f  of 
the  parish,  or  some  2,400  acres  ;  it  must  have  been  a  narrowish 
strip,  with  the  longer  diameter  running  north  and  south. 

"According  to  the  methods  of  interpretation  adopted  by 
Mr.  Eyton  in  his  work  on  the  Domesday  of  Somerset  and 


Cloefasr  Maere.  -  haelnes  thorn. 

3  hrudwylle. 


Field  Names  in  Melksham.  457 

Dorset,  the  area  of  the  Manors  of  Ellingdon-Wroughton  would 
be  approximately  as  follows  : — 

Plough      Arable.    Wood.     Mea-    Pasture     Total.         Hides 
lands.  dow.  h.v.f. 

Elendune  ...  12  ...   1,440  ...  20  ...  60  ...  180  ...  1,700  ...  30.00 

Elendune  ...  i  ...      120  ...  —  ...  —  ...  -  ...      120  ...     1.2 

Elecombe  ...  8  ...      960  ...  20  ...  60  ...  60  ...  1,100  ...  27 

Wertune  ...  4  ...     480  ...     2  ...  -  ...  30  ...      512  ...   10 

Wervetone  ...  4  ...      480  ...  —  ...  —  ...  —  ...      480  ...   10 

29  ...  3,480  ...  42  ...120  ...  270  ...  3,912  ...  78.2 

"  The  present  area  is  given  as  6,390  acres  ;  as  only  270 
acres  of  pasture  are  recorded,  no  doubt  the  greater  part  of  the 
deficient  acreage  lay  on  the  Downs  stretching  up  to  Barbury." 

Mr.  Taylor's  information  will  be  welcomed  by  any  one 
interested  in  trying  to  make  out  this  ancient  boundary  of 
Ellendune.  T.  S.  M. 


FIELD-NAMES  IN  MELKSHAM. 


i.  From  a  Terrier  of  the  parish  compiled  in  1836  it 
appears  that  the  commonest  field  names  are  compounds  of 
Mead,  Leaze,  and  Ground — e.g.,  Northmead,  Shepherds  Leaze, 
Home  Ground. 

ii.  A  smaller  class  is  formed  with  Field,  Close,  Leigh,  and 
Croft — e.g.,  Buryfield,  Corn  Close,  Long  Leigh,  Left  Croft. 

iii.  There  are  a  few  compounds  of  Marsh,  Acre,  Hani  or 
Hame,  Hill,  Land,  Hay,  Grove,  More  or  Moor,  Conigre — e.g., 
Outmarsh,  Beanacre,  Wicky  Ham,  Bowerhill,  Scotlands,  Perry 
Hay,  Upper  Grove,  Queenmoor,  Long  Conigre.  We  get  some 
of  these  uncompounded,  as  The  Acre,  The  Ham,  The  Grove, 
The  Conigre — add  to  these  The  Lagger. 

All  the  above  are  common  names,  such  as  one  might 
expect  to  find  in  any  parish,  except  the  Conigres,  which  I 
should  only  expect  to  find  where  there  was  Royal  demesne. 


458  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

The  Meads  and  Fields  are  probably  the  most  ancient 
terms  :  the  former  being  all  Common  Meads  originally,  and 
the  latter  Common  Arable  Lands. 

The  principal  Meads  of  Melksham  were  Northmead, 
Broadmead,  Islay  Mead,  Boatmead,  Queenmoor,  etc.,  lying 
along  the  River  Avon  ;  and  there  were  others  along  the  Brooks. 
They  are  all  below  the  flood  level,  and  so  admitted  of  annual 
mowing.  They  are  now  all  private  enclosures. 

The  Common  Fields  were  Buryfield,  Holbrookfield,  Wool- 
merfield,  Avonfield,  etc.,  in  different  parts  of  the  parish,  and 
are  now  all  enclosed. 

Besides  the  two  or  three  hundred  names  that  fall  under 
the  above  three  classes,  there  are  a  great  many  that  have 
individual  names  not  admitting  of  precise  classification,  as 
Rowleys,  Sexwell,  Gotharts. 

Lastly,  there  are  the  many  new  enclosures  by  Act  of 
Parliament. 

A  parish  historian  should  be  able  to  give  the  history  and 
etymology  of  any  field  name  in  his  district.  May  I  experi- 
ment with  some  that  I  have  given  above,  and  invite  fuller 
information — e.g. : 

Northmead,  an  ancient  common  mead  lying  to  the  north 
of  the  town. 

Shepherds  Leaze,  formerly  Sheephouse  Leaze  or  Lye.  A 
sheep  house  seems  in  old  days  to  have  been  a  common  feature 
in  a  pasture  field.  What  leaze  means  in  this  connexion  I 
don't  know.  The  word  is  used  to  express  the  right  to  graze  a 
beast  on  a  common,  and  I  find  a  farmer  1 50  years  ago  describ- 
ing a  field  as  his  summer  leaze. 

Home  Ground,  an  enclosure  adjacent  to  a  messuage  or 
dwell  i  ng-house. 

Buryfield,  spelt  temp.  Ed.  I.  Bereghfield  —  a  common 
field.  Perhaps  the  first  cultivators  found  an  old  burying 
place  here. 

Long  Leigh.     Leigh  perhaps  a  variant  of  leaze. 

Left  Croft.     I  have  seen  it  stated  that  a  croft  is  an  en- 


A    Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for    Wiltshire.         459 

closure  about  a  chief  tenant's  messuage.  The  word  Left  was 
earlier  Leaf,  and  earlier  still,  temp.  Elizabeth,  Leve  or  Lever, 
which,  I  believe,  is  Saxon  or  old  English,  meaning  "  lovely". 

Islay  Mead,  spelt  also  Iley  and  Highley.  Those  who  hold 
the  view  that  the  battle  of  Ethandun  was  fought  at  Yatton 
Down  may  think  that  this  is  "  ^Egglea ",  where  Alfred  en- 
camped the  night  before  the  battle.  They  have  this  point  in 
their  favour,  that  from  here  to  Chippenham  there  was  con- 
tinuous forest,  which  would  have  enabled  a  commander  to 
mask  his  movements  and  inflict  a  surprise  upon  his  enemy. 

Beanacre,  pronounced  Binnegar :  compare  Wheteacre  and 
Whittaker.  Is  the  suffix  the  Latin  "  agrum "  or  a  Saxon 
word  ?  Conigre  has  probably  the  same  derivation. 

Bowerhill,  probably  equivalent  to  Buryhill :  compare 
Buryfield. 

Queenmoor  and  Queenfield,  both  within  the  Forest  area. 
Two  of  the  Queens  of  England  had  a  grant  of  the  profits 
arising  from  Melksham  Forest,  and  it  might  be  possible  to 
connect  these  two  names  with  the  fact. 

T.  J.  G.  H. 


A  CALENDAR  OF   FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  423.) 


EDWARD    VI. 

366.  Anno  2. — John  Wysse   and  Thomas    Moyle,    knt., 
and  Katherine  his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands  with  the  third 
part  of  a  watermill  and  granary  in  Warmyster,  Smalbroke,  and 
Bischipstraw.     200  marks. 

367.  Anno    2.— Edward,    Earl   of  Somerset,   and  Roger 
Higford  and  Margaret  his  wife  ;  manor  of  Knolle  ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  Knolle,  Tymeryge,  Hynsett,   Rydge  Tyterydge, 
Estbedwyn,  and  Westbedwyn.     ^240  sterling. 


460  Wiltshire   Notes   and  Queries. 

368.  Anno  3. — John    Spencer   and    Thomas  Strete   and 
Thomas  Richeman,  alias  Webbe,  and  Anna  his  wife  ;  messu- 
ages and  lands  in  Radborne  and  Chayney. 

369.  Anno  3. — Katherine    Turney    and    Alice    Turney, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  George  Turney,  and  Walter  Burden, 
son  and  heir  of  Richard  Burden,  son  and  heir  John  Burden  ; 
messuages  and  lands  in  Semley.     100  marks. 

370.  Anno  3. — Richard  Bridges,  arm.,  and  Thomas  Coke, 
gen.,  and  Julian  his  wife ;  lands  in  Brodeblundesdown.     £$o 
sterling. 

371.  Anno  3. — Robert  Griffith  and  Fulke  Mounslowe  and 
Richard  Holte ;  messuages  and  lands  in  New  Sarum.     ,£100 
sterling. 

372.  Anno  3. — Robert  Tyderleygh,  jun.,  gen.,  and  John 
Stapulls,   arm.,  and   Margaret  his  wife,   and   William  Button, 
arm.,  manor  of  Lytelton    Paynell ;   messuages   and   lands   in 
Lytelton  paynell  and  West  Lavyngton.    '^360  sterling. 

373.  Anno  3. — Henry  Longe  and  Andrew  Baynton,  arm. ; 
one  messuage  called  Hewood,  alias  Heywood,  alias  Temmys 
Leys,  and  lands  in  the  parish  and  hundred  of  Westbury  and 
Whorewaldowne,  Hewood,  and  Hawkerudge.     80  marks. 

374.  Anno  3. — John   Hegys  and  John  Larder,  sen. ;  one 
messuage  and  land  in   the  High   Street,    Malmesbury.     £20 
sterling. 

375.  Anno  3. — Thomas  Ayshelock  and  John  Dodyngton  ; 
messuage  and  lands  in  Mere.     £40  sterling. 

376.  Anno    3. — Thomas    Arundell,    knt,    and    Leonard 
Weste,  arm.,  and  Barbara  his  wife;  a  rental  of  £12  in  Sutton 
Mainsfeld.     ^240  sterling. 

377.  Anno  3. — William  Poole,  arm.,  and  John  Poole  and 
Francis,   Earl  of  Huntingdon,   and  Lady  Katherine  his  wife ; 
manor  of  Russhall,  alias  Rusteshall  Hungerford  ;  messuages 
and   lands    in    Russhall,    alias   Rusteshall    Hungerford,    with 
advowson  of  the  church  of  Russhall,  alias  Rusteshall.     ,£880 
sterling. 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  461 

378.  Anno    3. — Thomas     Longe    and    John     Arundell, 
knt. ;   messuages   and   lands    in    Westbury    under    the    Plain, 
Bratton,  Imbar  and  Edyngton.     ,£400  sterling. 

379.  Anno  3. — Gerard  Eryngton,  arm.,  and  John  Butler, 
knt.,    manor  of  Salterton ;   messuages   and    lands    with    free 
fishery  in  Salterton,  Netton,  Newton,   and    Durnford.     ^£466 
sterling. 

380.  Anno  3. — John   Dyer   and    Leonard    Westley    and 
Thomas  Stanton,  arm.,   and  George    Poton ;    messuages   and 
lands  in  Rutherdowne,  Hokesfeld  and  Kingeston  Deverell. 

381.  Anno  3. — Thomas  Brynde  and  Thomas  Yate,  gen. ;' 
messuages  and  lands  in  East  Wanborough,  West  Wanborough, 
and  Wanborough,  with  free  fishing  in  the  waters  of  East  Wan- 
borough,  West  Wanborough,  and  Wanborough.     ,£340. 

382.  Anno  3. — Nicholas   Snell   and  John   Danyell,  arm., 
son  and  heir  of  James  Danyell,  manor  of  Bulhyde  ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  Kynton  St.  Michael.     ^80. 

383.  Anno  4. — Virgil   Pledall  and   Robert   Baynard   and 
James  Yate,  gen.,  and  Johanne  his  wife,  and  Edward  Flower, 
gen.,  son   and  heir  of  Johanne,  manor  of  Worton ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  Worton,   Pottern,    Rowde,   and  Foxander   alias 
Foxhanger.     ,£353. 

384.  Anno  4. — Peter  Pyers  and  Robert  Smyth  ;  messu- 
ages and  lands  in  Marleburgh.     ^36. 

385.  Anno   4. — John    Sampson   and  James  Tusser,  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Ruscomb.     £40. 

386.  Anno  4. — -Robert  Barley  and  Richard  Atkynson  and 
Agnes  his  wife ;  messuages  and  lands  in  East  Codford,  alias 
Codford  Marye,  Bores  and  Burston  Deverell.     ^20. 

387.  Anno  4. — Robert    Topping    and   William    Batten, 
arm.  ;  messuage  and  garden  in  Marleburgh.     £20. 

388.  Anno  4. — John   Hooper  and  Thomas  Travers,  and 
Christina  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in   the  parish  of  S. 
Martin's  in  the  city  of  New  Sarum.     ^33. 

389.  Anno  4. — William  Sampson  and  John  Sampson  and 
Mildred  his  wife  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Ruscome. 


462  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

390.  Anno  4. — John   Pyke,  son  of  John   Pyke,  and  Mar- 
garet Pyke,  widow ;  messuage  and  land  in  Rudge  Chylmarke 
and  Fontelgifford.     ,£40. 

391.  Anno  4. — William  Pyke  a nd  Margaret  Pyke,  widow, 
a  third  part  of  the  manor  of  Chycklade ;  messuages  and  lands 
in  Chycklade,    with    advowson   of  the   church   of  Chycklade. 

;£6o. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.) 


QUAKERISM    IN    WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  426.) 


III.— BIRTH    RECORDS. 

I. 

1660-7-12. — Sarah  ILES,  dau.  of  John  lies,  of  Purton. 
1663-8-31. — John  ILES,  son  of  John  lies,  of  Purton. 
1665/6-11-20. — Zippora  ILES,  dau.  of  John  lies. 

J- 
1655-7-7. — Mary  JAQUES,  dau.  of  Joseph  Jaques,  of  Grittleton. 

1660-9-1. — Thomas  JONES,  son  of  William  Jones,  of  Brinkhill. 

1660-10-3. — Sarah  JAY,   dau.   of  John   and   Elizabeth  Jay,  of 
Castlecombe. 

1662-5-7. — John  JONES,  son  of  John  Jones,  of  Calne. 
1667-*-!. — John  JEY,  son  of  Edward  and  Agnes  Jey. 
1668-9-28. — Thomas  JEAMES,  son  of  Thomas  Jeames,  of  Calne. 
1680-2-20. — Sarah  JONES,  dau.  of  John  Jones,  of  Littleton  Drew. 

1681-1 1 -i. — Margret  JEFFERYS,1  dau.  of  David  and  Ann  Jefferys, 
of  Foxham,  Brimhill  ph. 


1  There  are  more  than  eighty  references  to  this  surname  in  the  Wilt- 
shire Registers,  and  the  spelling  takes  eleven  different  forms.  The  name 
still  survives  among  the  Friends  (though  not  in  Wiltshire),  the  spelling 
of  the  name  by  the  descendants  of  the  Wilts  stock  having  settled  down  to 
JEFFERYS. 


Quakerism  in    Wiltshire.  463 


1682-10-7. — William    JEFFERIES,     son    of   William    and    Ann 
Jefferies,  of  Stowen  Maish. 

1682-10-21. — David  JEFFERIES,  son  of  David  and  Ann  Jefferies, 
Stowm  Maish  \sic\. 

1683-10-22. — David  JEFFERYS,  son  of  David  and  Ann  Jefferys,  of 
Foxham. 

1685-8-10. — Edward  JEFFERYS,   son   of  Edward   and    Frizard 
Jefferys,  of  Charlcott,  Brimhill  ph. 

1685-8-19. — Edward    JEFFERIS,    son    of    Edward    Jefferis,    of 
Nailhom. 

1686-4-1. — Edward  JONES,  of  Southwicke,  North  Bradley  ph., 
son  of  Stephen  and  Sarah  Jones. 

1686-7-22. — Thomas  JEFFERYS,  son  of  David  and  Ann  Jefferys, 
of  Foxham. 

1693-5-17. — Mary  JEFFERYS  [JAFFERIES],  dau.  of  John  and  Mary 
Jefferys,  of  Charlcott,  Brimhill  ph.  [of  Berds.] 

1695-5-4. — Hannah    JOHNSON,    dau.    of   Joshua    Johnson,    of 
Devizes. 

1696-9-27. — Mary     JOHNSON,     dau.    of    Joshua    Johnson,    of 
Devizes. 

1697-8-19. — Joseph  JONES,  son  of  John  and  Esther  Jones,  of 
Chippenham. 

1699-3-19. — Rachel  JONES,  dau.  of  John  and  Esther  Jones,  of 
Chippenham. 

K. 

1684-11-20. — John  KNIGHT,  son  of  Peter  and  Ann  Knight,  of 
Milsham. 

L. 

1660-10-5. — Edward  LEADER,  son  of  Bridget  Leader,  of  Calne. 

1668-5-19. — Katherine   LUFE,  dau.    of  Robert   and   Katherine 
Lufe,  of  Lavington  Meeting. 

1681-11-28. — John  LUFE,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Lufe,  of  Laving- 
ton Meeting. 

1686-12-24. — Sarah   LYNE,   dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Lyne,  of 
Stockly. 

1696-10-14. — Jacob  LEWES,  son  of  William  Lewes. 

1699-10-12. — Jaber  [sic]  LITTEL  (alias  HODGES),  son  of  George 
and  Mary  Littel  (alias  Hodges). 


464  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

M. 

1665-3-1. — Mary     MUNDAY,     dau.    of     Francis     Munday,    of 
Marlbro. 

1675-2-12. — William  MOORE,  son  of  Wm.  and  Mary  Moore,  of 
Canings. 

1675-3-23. — Bulah    MARSHALL,   dau.    of  Charles  and  Hannah 
Marshall,  of  Tytherton  Galloway. 

1676-6-27. — Hannah   MARSHALL,  dau.  of  Charles  and  Hannah 
Marshall,  of  Tytherton. 

1678-11-21. — John  MORSE,  son  of  Richard  Morse,  of  Purton 
Meeting. 

1681/2-11-14. — James   MASON,   son    of    Benjamin    Mason,    of 
London. 

1681-3-6. — Hanah  MOORE,  dau.  of  William  and  Hanah  Moore. 
1684-1-28. — Joseph  MERRIFIELD,  son  of  William  Merrifield. 
1688-4-22. — tester  MERRIFIELD,  dau.  of  William  Merrifield. 
1691-5-1. — Roger  MERIFIELD,  son  of  W7illiam  Merifield. 
1694-3-28. — Benjamin  MERIFIELD,  son  of  William  Merifield. 
1697-2-1. — William  MERIFIELD,  son  of  William  Merifield. 

N. 

1657-3-*. — Steven  NEWMAN,  son  of  William  Newman,  of  Purton. 
1659-2-10. — Margery  NOYES,  dau.  of  Israel  Noyes,  of  Calne. 
1662-2-27. — Mary  NOYES,  dau.  of  Israeli  Noyes,  of  Calne. 
1664-12-14. — Elizabeth  NOYES,  dau.  of  Israeli  Noyes,  of  Calne. 
1666-10-12. — Israeli  NOYES,  son  of  Israeli  Noyes,  of  Calne. 
1667-4-11. — Sarah  NOYES,  dau.  of  Samuell  Noyes,  of  Devizes. 
1668/9-12-1. — John  NEATE,  son  of  John  Neate,  of  Calne. 

1668-12-28. — John  NEATE,  son  of  John  and  Ann  Neate,  of  Calne 
Meeting. 

1670-5-1  I[IQ]. — Joseph  NEATE,  son  of  John  [and  Ann]  Neate, 
of  Calne  Meeting. 

1670-11-27. — John    NOYES,   son    of  Israeli   Noyes,   of  Calne 
Meeting. 

1671-8-18. — Eleinor  NOYES,  dau.  of  Samuell  Noyes,  of  Devizes. 
1672-12-8. — Thomas  NEATE,  son  of  John  Neate,  of  Calne. 
1673-1-3. — Daniell  NEATE,  son  of  John  Neate,  of  Calne. 
1675-5-6. — Samuell  NEATE,  son  of  John  Neate,  of  Calne  Meeting. 


Some  Notes  on  the  Delamere  Family.  465 

1677-4-21. — Mary  NEATE.  dau.  of  John  Neate,  of  Calne  Meeting, 
rdpa-ii-^o. — Israeli  NOYES,  son  of  Israeli  and  Katerine  [Kata- 

rhine]  Noyes,  of  [Bradford]  Charlcott  Monthly 

Meeting. 
1694-9-18. — Melior  NEWMAN,  son  of  Paul  and  Mary  Newman, 

of  Melksham  [?]. 
1695-6-20. — Aaron  NEWMAN,  of  Melksham,   son  of  Silas   and 

Joane  Newman,  of  Melksham,  weaver. 
1696-10-4. — James  NEWMAN,  son  of  Paul  and  Mary  Newman,  of 

Melksham,  taylor. 
1696-11-18. — John  NEAT,  son  of  John  Neat,  Junr. 

Tottenham,  Middx.  NORMAN  PENNEY. 

(To  be  continued.) 


SOME  NOTES  ON  THE  DELAMERE  FAMILY,  AND 
THEIR  CHANTRY  AT  MARKET  LAYINGTON. 

(Continued  from  p.  320.) 


RICHARD  BEAUCHAMP,  KNIGHT,  only  son  and  heir  of 
William,  Lord  St.  Amand,  by  Elizabeth  Braybrooke,  next 
presented  to  Lavington  Chantry  in  1490,  the  year  probably  of 
his  mother's  death.  He  had,  with  his  father-in-law,  Sir  Roger 
Tocotes,  also  joined  the  standard  of  the  Duke  of  Buckingham, 
been  attainted  by  Richard  III,  and  restored  on  the  accession  of 
Henry  VII,  in  the  twelfth  year  of  whose  reign  [1497]  he  was 
summoned  to  Parliament  as  Lord  St.  Amand,  under  which 
title  he  again  presented  to  the  Lavington  Chantry  in  1504  and 
1506.  He  was  himself  the  founder  of  a  Chantry  in  Bromham 
Church,  dedicated  to  the  B.V.  Mary  and  St.  Nicholas,  within 
the  chapel  containing  the  tombs  of  his  mother  and  father-in- 
law.  He  presented  to  this  Chantry,  as  fundator  ejusdem,  in 

1 1 


466 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


1 508,  and  died,  apparently  in  London,  in  the  same  year.1  By 
will,  proved  in  P.C.C.  [F  2  Bennett],  he  desires  to  be  buried  in 
the  Church  of  Blackfriars,  Ludgate.  His  relict,  Ann,  daughter 
of  Sir  Walter  Wriothesley,  knight,  presented,  in  the  year  of 
her  husband's  death,  to  the  Lavington  Chantry,  and  also  to 
that  at  Bromham. 

On  the  decease  of  the  last  Lord  St.  Amand  without 
legitimate  issue  in  1508,  this  branch  of  De  la  Mare,  Roche, 
and  Beauchamp,  became  merged  in  the  Wiltshire  family  of 
Baynton.  Their  ancestor,  Nicholas  Baynton,  of  Falston,  had 
married  Joan,  the  younger  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Sir 
John  Roche,  and  their  son,  Sir  John  Baynton,  afterwards 
marrying  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Dudley — the  grand- 
daughter and  eventual  heiress  of  Elizabeth,  the  elder  daughter 
and  co-heiress  of  Sir  John  Roche — the  Bayntons  thus  became 
the  representatives  of  both  ;  and  the  arms  of  the  heiresses  of 
Dudley,  Beauchamp,  Lord  St.  Amand,  Roche,  Delamere,  and 
Swanton  were  blazoned  as  quarterings  on  the  Baynton  shield, 
as  shown  in  the  accompanying  illustration. 


i.  Sable,  a  bend  lozengy 
argent — BAYNTON. 

2  Argent,  two  bars 
gules,  each  charged 
with  three  cross 
crosslets  or — DAN- 
DELEY  {see  Burke]. 

3.  Gules,  a  fess  be- 
tween six  martlets 
or  —  BEAUCHAMP, 
LORD  ST.  AMANDA 


4.  Azure,  three  roaches 
naiant      argent  — 
ROCHE. 


5.  Gules,  two  lions  pas- 

sant guardant,  col- 
lared azure — DE  LA 
MARE. 

6.  Argent  on  a  chevron 

sable  three  eagles 
displayed        or  - 
WANTON  [see  Burke]. 


1  Sir  Thomas  Long,  of  Wraxhall  and  Draycote,   by   will  11  Sep.  1508, 
bequeaths  to  his  wife  Margery  [daughter  of  Sir  George  Darell,  of  Littlecote], 
inter  alia,  a  gold  ring  "  that  was  my  lord  St.  Amands  ".     Both  had  taken 
part  in  the  expedition  against  Perkin  Warbeck  in  1497. 

2  On  the  brass  of  Sir  Edw.  Baynton  (1578)  in  Bromham  Church  this 
quartering  is  within  a  bordure  argent. 


Some  Notes  on  the  Delantere  Family.  467 

Before  the  year  1508,  when  they  inherited  "Roche's 
manor "  in  Bromham,  the  Baynton  family  had  for  many 
generations  held  the  manor  of  Fallardeston,  or  Falston,  in 
the  parish  of  Bishopstone,  in  South  Wilts,  where  they  obtained 
the  Royal  licence  to  fortify  their  residence  in  the  reign  of 
Edw.  Ill  [1375-6].  John  Baynton,  the  first  owner  of  Bromham, 
who  is  described  on  his  brass  as  "  consanguinei  et  hered  Ricardi 
Beauchamp  domini  de  Sancto  Amando",  died  in  1516,  and 
was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son  Edward,  afterwards  knighted, 
who  was  vice-chamberlain  to  three  queens  of  Henry  VIII, 
and  grantee  from  the  Crown  of  much  monastic  property  in 
Wiltshire,  as  already  mentioned  at  p.  131  of  the  present 
volume.  Sir  Edward  was  the  last  patron  of  the  Lavington 
Chantry,  to  which  he  presented  in  1537.  He  is  supposed  to 
have  died  in  France,  whilst  attending  the  king,  in  1544-5.  His 
will  [P.C.C.  F  28  Pynnyng]  was  proved  in  the  latter  year. 
The  Lady  Isabel,  his  second  wife,  who  survived  him,  was 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Leigh,  of  Stockwell,  co.  Surrey.  After 
his  death,  in  3  Edw.  VI  [1548-9],  she  obtained,  jointly  with  Sir 
Edward  Hastings,  knight,  a  lease  from  the  Crown  of  the  site 
of  the  dissolved  Monastery  at  Edington,  where  she  was 
apparently  living  in  1554 — for  she  is  described  at  that  date  as 
"  Lady  Isabella  Baynton,  of  Edyngdon". 

In  1545  [37  Hen.  VIII]  a  Commission  was  appointed  by 
the  Crown  to  enquire  into  the  revenues,  &c.,  belonging  to 
chantries,  colleges,  guilds,  and  fraternities,  and  by  the  statute 
i  Edward  VI  [1546-7]  all  chantries  were  suppressed— their 
lands  and  property  being  conferred  on  the  king,  under  cover 
of  "  providing  for  the  poor,  augmenting  the  incomes  of  vicar- 
ages, paying  the  salaries  of  preachers,  and  endowing  free 
schools  for  the  diffusion  of  learning."  In  March  1548, 
Commissioners  were  again  appointed  in  every  shire  to  take  a 
further  survey  of  the  whole  of  these  foundations  within  com- 
pass of  the  Act  of  Parliament.  In  one  of  the  returns  of  the 
earlier  Commissioners  is  the  following  entry  relating  to  the 
de  la  Mare  Chantry  at  Market  Lavington — the  revenues  of 

I  i  2 


468  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

which,  amounting  yearly  to  £6  25.  4</.,  were  then  [1545]  in  the 
hands  of  Lady  Isabella,  widow  of  Sir  Edward  Baynton. 

"  Una  cant'ia  in  Estlavyngton  unde  quis  sit  fundator  non  cous  .  .  . 
que  cant'ia  absqz  sp'iali  licentia  d'c'i  d'ni  Regis  dissoluta  fuit  p  .  .  . 
quartum  diem  februarii  Anno  regni  ejusd'm  D'ni  Regis  xxvijth  [1535] 
cui'  cant'ie  possessiones  &  alia  p'ficua  ann'ti  attingunt  ad  vjlt  ijs  iiij</, 
que  terre  &  possessiones  sup'dic'  cum  p'tinen  ad  manus  d'ne  Isabelle 
Baynton  vidue  ann'ti  deveniunt  et  in  manibz  suis  existunt."  Certificate 
of  Chantries,  No.  56.  Public  Record  Office. 

This  brings  to  a  close  the  history  of  the  Market  Lavington 
Chantry  as  a  religious  foundation,  as  well  as  that  of  its 
Founder  and  successive  Patrons,  and  it  only  remains  to  add  a 
list  of  the  Chaplains  instituted  by  the  Bishops  of  Salisbury  from 
its  foundation,  in  1343,  until  the  general  suppression  in  1548. 
These  are  collected  from  the  Wilts  Institutions,  privately 
printed  by  the  late  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps,  Bart  [1821-25]  :  — 

A.D.  PATRON.  INCUMBENT. 


1349.    Cyf    Stupel-     Robert   de  la    Mare,       Peter  le  Mason. 


(John  Bulmere,  on 
the  resignation  of 
Mason. 

1403.    Chantry    of   Chepyng  |  Matilda  de  la  Mare  f  Richard  Wodyng- 
Lavington.  |      "  Mulier".  \      ton. 

1411.  Chantry  of  St.  Kathe-"] 

££.  To"  Lf  vy,"™  The  Bishop.  WiUiam  MarchaU. 

Forum. 

(  Walter  Beaurhamn     I    William  Batayle, 

1412.  do.  Waltei  oeauchainp,    I  Qn   fa    resignation 

I      Escl-  I  of  Marshall. 

[This  incumbent  belonged  to  the  Order  ot  Friars  Preachers,  of 
which  there  was,  at  that  time,  an  establishment  at  Wilton.] 

1417.    Chantry  of  the  Blessed 


Katherine  and  Mar- 
garet, Stepul  Lav- 
yngton. 


]  f 

..Walter  Beauchamp,      wmiam  Marschal 


knt. 


1424.    Chantry  of  Lavyngton  }  ,  f  Robert   Swan- 

Forum.  |      hanger. 


Some  Notes  on  the  Dctamere  Family. 


469 


14^4.     Chantry  at  the  altar  oH  f    D-  •       ,  ,T 

St.    Catherine    and  I       Elizabeth  Beau-  Richard  Vincen, 


1450. 


1476. 


1490. 


1504. 


St.  Catherine  and  St. 
Margaret  Chantry 
in  Lavyngton  Forum 
alias  Stepel  Lavyng- 
ton. 

Chantry  ot  Stepel 
Lavyngton,  alias 
Lavyngton  Forum. 

Chantry  of  East  Lav- 

Chantry  of  the  Blessed 
Mary  of  East  Lav- 
yngton. 


j  William  Beauchamp, 
}•       knt.,     Lord    St. 
Amand. 


Thomas  Coke,  on 
the  resignation  of 
Walter  Newman. 


)  Roger  Tocottes,  knt.,  f  Roger  Walker,  on 
I  and  Elizabeth,  Ladys  the  resignation  of 
J  St.  Amand,  his  wife.  |  Cokkes. 


Richard  Beauchamp, 


R         v, 
Beauchamp 

St.  Amand. 


Wiliiarn  Temset. 

Simon  Clement, 
Qn     hfi    death      £ 

Temset> 


1508. 
»537- 


do. 

Chantry  in  the  Church  "| 
of  Steeple  Laving-  I 
ton,  alias  Lavington  f 
Forum. 


Edward  Bayntun, 
knt. 


Webbe. 


John  Maggell,  on 
the  death  of  Webb. 


The  Delamare  Chantry  appears  to  have  occupied  the  east 
end  of  the  north  aisle  of  Market  Lavington  Church,  which  was 
most  probably  separated  by  open  screen  work  from  the  rest  of 
the  building.  Beneath  the  east  window,  of  three  unconnected 
trefoil  headed  lights,  there  are  distinct  traces  of  an  altar,  and 
in  the  north  face  of  the  eastern  pier  of  the  nave  arcade,  close  to 
the  east  wall,  is  the  accompanying  piscina,  also  trefoil  headed. 
The  side  windows  of  the  aisle,  three  in  number,  are  of  good 
design,  and  uniform,  being  square-headed,  and  each  of  three 
trefoil  headed  lights — the  same  number  of  trefoils  forming  the 
tracery  above.  In  the  wall  between  them  is  the  doorway  which 
formed  a  separate  entrance  from  without — and  it  is  not  im- 
probable that  on  the  foundation  of  his  chantry  in  1343,  Peter 
Delamare  also  added  at  least  to  the  architectural  features  of  the 
aisle. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  trace  with  accuracy  the  subse- 
quent descent  of  the  property  which  formed  the  endowment  of 
the  chantry,  and  whether,  in  the  hands  of  the  Baynton  family, 


470 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


it  again  merged  into  their  manor,  formerly  held  by  the 
Delamares.  From  the  inquisition  taken  26  July  1631,  on  the 
decease  of  Sir  John  Dauntesey,  of  West  Lavington,  it  appears 
that  he  was  seised  inter  alia  of  the  manor  of  Lavington  Baynton 
(formerly  de  la  Mares)  and  of  3  messuages,  200  acres  of  land, 
and  100  acres  of  pasture  in  Steeple  Lavington,  held  of  the  king 
in  chief,  by  knight  service.  Also  of  the  manor  of  Lavington 
Rectory  in  Steeple  Lavington,  and  of  2  messuages,  2  cottages, 
40  acres  of  land,  10  of  meadow,  and  12  of  pasture  there,  held  of 
the  king,  as  of  his  manor  of  East  Greenwich,  in  free  and 
common  socage,  by  fealty  and  the  rent  of  30  shillings  yearly. 

The  following  survey  of  the  Chantry  manor  in  Market 
Lavington,  also  held  in  socage  as  of  the  manor  of  East  Green- 
wich, is  of  later  date,  and  has  been  kindly  supplied  by  Mr. 
James  Coleman,  of  Tottenham,  Middlesex. 

Avaluac'on  orSurveighof  the  Chauntry  Mannor  in  Lavington  fforum, 
al's.  Steeple  Lavington,  in  the  County  of  Wilts,  being  socage  tenure  as 
holden  of  the  Mannor  of  East  Greenwich  :  And  which  was  tbrm'ly  pur- 
chased by  Gabriell  Still,  deed.,  from  S'r  ffrederick  Hyde,  knt,  deed. 

Tenants'  Names. 


John  ffilkes 
Thomas  Purchase 
Robert  Coleman 
Isaac  Selfe 
John  Holloway   ... 
Edward  fforth 
Moses  Ruddle     ... 
John  Mattock 
Robert  Sainsbury 
Isaac  Selfe 
Nicholas  Norris  ... 
Richard  Hopkins 
William  Gibbs    ... 
Bridgett  James,  widd' 
The  wida  Lye    ... 
William  Wise  and  1 
Richard  Naish    | 
Oliver  Cawley,  Esq. 
Henry  Jackson  ... 


Yeerely  Value. 

£  s.   d. 

Herriotls. 

£  s.   d. 

Chief  Rent. 

£   s.   d. 

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(sic)  6    8 


The  King's  Rents  paid  yeerely  out  oi  this  Mannor  is  x]s. 

Rpt.  (receptus)  p.  Jas.  Townsend. 
Endorsed — "  A  particular  of  the  Chantry  Lands  in  Lavington  fforum. 

EDWARD  KITE. 


Wiltshire  Arms  in  1716.  471 


WILTSHIRE  ARMS  IN  1716. 


In  the  history  of  Wiltshire  Heraldry  there  is,  perhaps,  no 
more  interesting  period  than  the  earlier  half  of  the  last  cen- 
tury— a  period  of  heraldic  anarchy,  when  men  of  wealth 
assumed  armorial  bearings  without  right  or  title.1  In  most 
cases  the  pretender  presumed  upon  his  identity  of  name  with 
that  of  some  noble  or  aristocratic  family.  In  most  cases,  also, 
the  descent  of  the  pretender  can  be  carried  back  no  further 
than  the  father  or  grandfather,  or  three  generations  at  the 
outside.  Nor  is  it  without  interest  to  search  for  such  parti- 
culars as  we  may  find  in  wills,  deeds,  and  the  like,  of  the 
standing  or  occupation  of  these  progenitors.  My  experience 
is  that  they  are  generally  merchants  or  tradesmen  (more  often 
than  not  clothiers),  who,  having  acquired  a  fortune  by  such 
means,  bought  an  estate  and  desired  a  title  to  gentility. 

This  appears  to  me  to  be  the  real  reason  why  so  many 
arms-bearing  persons  at  the  present  day,  attempting  to  trace 
back  their  descent,  find  themselves  unable  to  go  further  back 
than  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  can  find  no  use 
of  heraldic  insignia  until  the  eighteenth  century.  In  this 
matter  the  Heralds'  College  has  in  former  times,  I  think, 
been  more  to  blame,  perhaps,  than  the  pretenders  themselves, 
the  Heralds  seeming  to  have  been  willing  to  register  any 
arms,  without  enquiry  as  to  descent,  so  long  as  they  ob- 
tained their  emolument.  In  such  a  light,  I  trust  that  the 
following  extracts  may  not  be  considered  unworthy  of  these 
pages,  and  may  be  followed  by  further  ordinaries  of  arms 
collected  from  early  heraldic  writers.  They  are  taken  from 
Grammar  of  Heraldry,  published  by  "  Samuel  Kent,  of 
London,  Printer,"  in  1716.  The  title  is  somewhat  deceptive, 

1  It  is  not,  perhaps,  too  rash  to  state  that  a  large  number  of  the  Arms  in 
our  Churches  has  been  assumed  by  those  who  exhibit  them,  and  that  of  the 
rest  many  have  not  been  duly  registered  in  the  College  of  Arms  by  those 
who  have  inherited  them. — Editor  W.  N.  fy  Q. 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


as  the  doctrinal  part  of  it  is  very  short,  the  main  bulk  of 
the  little  book  being  devoted  to  an  Ordinary  of  Arms,  for 
the  most  part  accompanied  by  illustrations  of  shields.  I  have 
copied  out  the  description  of  the  charges  in  respect  of  those 
families  who  are  said  to  be  "  of  Wiltshire",  and  I  would  ask 
for  the  place  of  residence  and  such  brief  notes  of  the  descent 
of  each  family  as  your  readers  may  be  able  to  supply.  In 
many  cases,  of  course,  the  title  is  undoubtedly  genuine,  but  if 
I  mistake  not,  there  are  others  in  which  there  is  very  much 
doubt.  C.  S. 

BULLEIN  (or  BOLEN),  of  which  was  Thomas,  once  Earl  of 
Wiltshire,  and  the  Lady  Anna,  mother  to  Q.  Elizabeth,  bare  ; 
Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  Bulls'  Heads  couped  Sable. 
But  tkis  stands  wrong  (depicted  in  outline). 

CALY  ;  He  beareth  Quarterly  Argent  and  Sable,  on  a 
Bend  Gules  three  Mullets  of  the  first  (not  depicted). 

ERNLEY;  The  Field  is  Argent,  on  a  Bend  Sable  three 
Eaglets  displaid  of  the  first  (depicted  in  outline). 

FLOWER;  The  Field  is  Sable,  a  unicorn  passant  Or,  on  a 
Chief  Argent  three  July  flowers  proper  (depicted  in  outline). 

JASON  ;  The  Field  is  Azure,  the  Golden  Fleece  in  a  Border 
of  Scotland  (or  double  Tressure  counterflory)  Or  (depicted  in 
outline). 

JORDAN  ;  The  Field  is  Azure,  a  Lion  rampant  between 
eight  Cross-Croslets  fitched,  3,  2,  2,  i,  Or,  and  a  Chief  of  the 
same  (depicted  in  outline). 

KELLOWAY  ;  The  Field  is  Argent,  two  Graziers  Sable, 
between  four  Pears  Gules,  in  a  Border  ingrail'd  of  the  second 
(depicted  in  outline). 

QUINTON  ;  The  Field  is  Ermine,  on  a  Chief  Gules,  three 
Lioncels  rampant  Or  (depicted  in  outline). 

RESTWOLD  of  Berkshire  and  Wiltshire  ;  He  beareth  Argent, 
3  Bendlets  Sable  (not  depicted). 

THE  REVEREND  Mr.  SAMUEL  ROSEWELL,  of  London,  M.A., 
descended  from  the  Rosewells  of  Somersetshire,  Wiltshire,  and 


Wiltshire  Arms  in  1716.  473 

Devon  (who  came  in   with  the  Conqueror),  bears  ;  Party   per 
Pale  Gules  and  Azure,  a  Lion  rampant  Argent. 

THE  BISHOPRICK  OF  SALISBURY  has  for  its  seal,  Azure, 
our  Lady  with  her  Babe  in  her  Arms,  and  a  Scepter  in  her  left 
Hand,  all  Or  (depicted  in  outline). 

SHERINGTON  ;  The  Field  is  Gules,  two  Cross-Patties  Or, 
between  as  many  Flaunches  checkie  Argent  and  Azure  (de- 
picted in  outline). 

STURMY  ;  He  beareth  Argent,  three  demy  Lions  rampant 
Gules  (not  depicted). 

TROWBRIDGE;  The  Field  is  Or,  on  a  Bridge  of  three 
Arches  in  Fesse  Gules,  masoned  Sable,  the  streams  transfluent 
proper,  a  Fane  Argent  (depicted  in  outline). 

VAUGHAN  ;  The  Field  is  Sable,  a  Chevron  between  three 
Children's  Heads  couped  Argent,  crined  Or,  enwrapped  about 
the  Neck  with  Snakes  proper  (depicted  in  outline). 

WYNDHAM  ;  These  Quarterings  are  the  chief  of  twelve, 
borne  by  Edmund  Wyndham,  of  Wiltshire,  Esq. ;  and  are  thus 
blazoned,  ist  Azure,  a  Chevron  between  3  Lions'  Heads  eraz'd 
Or.  2d.  Azure,  a  Bend  Or,  a  crescent  for  difference.  3d. 
Argent,  a  saltire  engrail'd  Gules.  4th  Argent,  three  Rams 
tripping  Sable.  The  said  Edmund  Wyndham  (now  residing 
at  Humington,  in  the  above  county)  was  Escuyer  to  his  Majesty 
Charles  II,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Wyndham,  Groom  of  his 
said  Majesty's  Bed-chamber ;  Grandson  and  Heir  to  Sir  Ed- 
mund Wyndham  of  Cathanger,  in  Somersetshire,  Knight- 
Marshall  of  the  same  King's  Most  Honourable  Household, 
and  lineally  descended  from  Richard  de  Wymondham,  of 
Crown-Thorp,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  who  was  witness  to 
the  Foundation  Charter  of  the  Priory  of  Wymondham  there, 
Anno  1139,  the  5th  of  K.  Stephen. 

YERWORTH  ;  The  Field  is  Argent,  three  Bucks'  Heads 
cabosh'd  Sable  (not  depicted). 

(Amongst  other  families  whose  names  have  a  Wiltshire 
sound  are  Bromwich,  Delahay,  Lavington,  Long,  Pyrton,  and 
Whatley  [of  Frome].) 


474  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Consecration  of  a  Chapel  at  Chute,  1674.— Whilst  turn- 
ing over  the  leaves  of  one  of  Mr.  Higham's  old  catalogues  of 
theological  books,  I  came  upon  the  following  entry : — 

"  Kelsey,  Joseph  (of  NewtonTony,  Wilts). — A  Sermon  preached  at 
the  Consecration  of  a  Chapel  in  the  House  of  John  Collins,  of  Chute, 
Wilts.  410,  half  calf,  2/6.  1674." 

The  consecration  of  a  chapel  in  a  private  house,  especially 
in  the  house  of  a  commoner,  is  unusual,  at  least  as  far  as  my 
knowledge  goes ;  and  I  should  be  glad  if  some  of  your  readers 
could  give  me  further  information  about  the  chapel  in  question. 

Does  it  still  exist  ? 

R.  B.  P. 


Village  and  Wayside  Grosses. — Is  there  any  printed  list 
of  those  in  England,  or  in  Wiltshire  ?  I  notice  that  these 
interesting  memorials  of  the  past  seem  to  be  more  numerous 
in  the  neighbourhood  round  Swindon  than  in  other  parts  of 
Wilts — e.g.,  I  think  there  are  four  at  Ashton  Keynes,  the 
Church  of  which  is  dedicated  to  Holy  Cross,  and  two  at 

Cricklade. 

A.  J.  S. 


Trowbridge  Grammar  School  (vol.  iii,  p.  363).— Can  any 
of  your  readers  tell  me  anything  about  this  school?  When 
was  it  founded  ?  When  did  it  come  to  an  end  ?  And  where- 
abouts in  the  Town  was  it  ? 

H.  D. 


Quaker  Pardons. — In  1671,  Charles  II  was  pleased  to 
grant  a  "  pardon",  or  release,  under  the  great  seal,  to  nearly 
500  Quakers  imprisoned  in  various  parts  of  the  country. 


An  Ancient  Indulgence  Inscription.  475 

George  Whitehead,  a  London  Quaker,  says  in  his  journal  in 
reference  to  this  :  <(  There  are  a  few  names  of  other  Dissenters, 
who  were  prisoners  in  Bedfordshire,  Kent,  and  Wiltshire  (as  I 
remember),  in  the  same  Catalogue  and  Instrument  with  our 
Friends,  and  released  thereby."  The  Charter  of  Release, 
which  is  preserved  among  the  archives  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
at  Bishopsgate,  London,  contains  the  notable  name  of  John 
Bunyan,  who  was  released  thereby  from  Bedford  Jail.  The 
following  refers  to  Wiltshire  : — "  Waltero  Penn,  loanni  Miller, 
lohanni  Kingham,  Roberto  Button,  lohanni  Leonard,  Edwardo 
Gye,  lohanni  Smith,  loannae  Gaine,  lanae  Selfe,  Isaaco  Selfe, 
Henrico  Long,  Jacobo  Eve,  and  Edwardo  Marshall,  Prisoniariis 
in  Communi  Gaola  pro  Comitatu  nostro  Wilts."  It  would  be 
interesting  to  know  who  of  these  were  not  Quakers,  and  for 
what  reasons  they  had  been  imprisoned.  The  Friends' 
Registers  contain  the  names  of  Button  (of  Calne),  Leonard, 
Gye,  and  Smith  (of  Lavington),  and  the  Selfes  are  known.  I 
do  not  remember  coming  across  the  names  of  Miller,  Kingham, 
Eve,  or  Marshall.  The  non-Quakers  released  in  the  three 
counties  named  were  Baptists,  Presbyterians,  and  Independents. 

N.  P. 


An  Ancient  Indulgence  Inscription. — On  a  stone  let  into 
the  right  hand  external  side  of  the  porch  of  Semington  Chapel 
is  the  following  inscription  in  old  Norman-French  in  capital 
letters:  "  Ky  pater  noster:  e:  Ave  Maria:  pur  le  alme  pur 
feleppur  de  Sale  est  et  (?)  crestiens  dirra:  quarante  :  jurs:  de 
pardun  avera :  amen."  (Whoever  shall  say  a  Pater  Noster 
and  an  Ave  Maria  for  the  souls,  for  Philippa  de  Salcest  (?),  and 
Christians  shall  have  40  days  of  pardon.)  Are  there  any 
more  of  these  ancient  Indulgences  in  our  county  ?  What  is 
known  of  this  family  ?  H.  D. 

[In  Aubrey  and  Jackson,  p.  354,  under  Steeple- Ashton,  mention  is 
made  of  a  family  of  the  name  De  Salceto — from  s'ich  an  Indulgence  on 
behalf  of  a  private  person,  we  may  perhaps  infer  that  Philippa  either 
built,  or  was  a  benefactor  to,  this  chapel. — ED.] 


476  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Replied. 

The  Warminster  Amicable  Society  (vol.  ii,  p.  532).— 
Perhaps  Scriba  will  find  that  it  was  a  local  branch  of  some 
Benefit  Society  ;  I  find  in  Burke's  General  Armory  that  an 
Amicable  Society  was  incorporated  by  Royal  Charter  of 
Queen  Anne  in  1 706,  with  the  following  arms  : — Azure,  encircled 
by  a  snake  or  two  hands  conjoined  in  fess  couped  above  the 
wrist  proper,  on  a  chief  embattled  of  the  second  an  hour-glass 
sable  between  two  wings  expanded  of  the  field.  Crest — A  snake 
nowed  the  head  debruiscd  towards  the  sinister  thereon  a  dove 
proper  beaked  and  legged  gules,  from  the  beak  an  escroll  in- 
scribed Prudens  simplicitas.  Motto — Esto  Perpetua. 

H.  D. 


Colonel  Thomas  Wanklyn  (vol.  iii,  p.  44). — A.  J.  S.  may 
find  some  clue  to  further  information  from  the  following,  which 
is  taken  from  Colonel  Chester's  London  Marriage  Licences, 
edited  by  Joseph  Foster  : — "  Thomas  Wanklin,  of  Haywood, 
Wilts,  Esq.,  widower,  about  40,  and  Mrs.  Frances  Brandsby,  of 
Bristowe  Town,  co.  Somerset,  widow,  about  34,  at  St.  Mary, 
Savoy,  Micldx.  8  July,  1671."  By  this  he  seems  to  have 
married  about  a  year  after  the  death  of  his  former  wife,  the 
Countess  of  Marlborough.  H.  D. 


Are  there  two  Ellandunes?  (vol.  iii,  p.  328.) — When  the 
account  of  Ellandune  was  written  we  were  (or  I  was)  not  aware 
of  a  passage  in  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare's  Registrum  Wiltunense,\n 
which  he  traces  the  source  of  Leland's  confusion  about  two 
places  of  this  name  to  a  certain  Henry  Crumpe  (temp.  Richard 
II).  This  confusion  has  been  handed  on  by  many  authors,  and 
it  is  important  to  record  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare's  opinion  that  Wilton 
had  nothing  to  do  with  Ellandune,  and  that  Ellandune  of  the 
Charters  is  Ellingdon  alias  Wroughton.  T.  S.  M. 

[See  Review  of  Rev.  E.  Conybeare's  Alfred  in  the  Chroniclers 

in  the  last  number  of  W.  N.  &  Q.~\ 


Notes  on  Books.  477 


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as  a  Supplement  to  the  Genealogist,  but  this  method  of  pro- 
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subscription,  which,  though  much  larger  than  that  (at  present) 
of  the  Complete  Baronetage  by  the  same  learned  writer,  is  not 
such  as  a  work  of  so  laborious  and  valuable  a  character  de- 
serves. Our  readers  may  gather  some  idea  of  the  magnitude 
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3,619  pages  ;  they  are  illustrated  generously  throughout,  with 
notes  and  articles  from  all  sources,  both  ancient  and  modern, 
Burnet  and  Swift  being  largely  drawn  upon. 

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— the  plan  adopted  being  almost  the  same  as  that  of  Nicholas' 
Synopsis  of  the  Peerage  of  England — inasmuch  as  no  collateral 
relations  are  given,  confining  itself  to  the  actual  owners  of  the 
Dignities  and  their  immediate  heirs,  and  no  Arms  are  to  be 
found. 

There  is  a  list  of  Lords  Lieutenant  dismissed  by  James  II 
in  1687  for  not  supporting  his  policy,  amongst  whom  we  find 
the  Earl  of  Pembroke  and  the  Duke  of  Somerset ;  another,  of 
those  stated  to  be  in  arms  with  the  Prince  of  Orange  in  1688, 
amongst  whom  were  Henry,  Earl  of  Clarendon,  and  his  son 
Lord  Cornbury  :  "  the  former  ejaculated,  after  a  highly  pathetic 
outbreak  of  rage  and  sorrow  at  his  son's  desertion  of  the 
King's  cause,  'O  God,  that  a  son  of  mine  should  be  a' rebel' ; 


478  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

a  fortnight  later  he  made  up  his  mind  to  be  a  rebel  himself !" 
Charles,  6th  Duke  of  Somerset ;  "  Squire  Trenchard  (?  William 
Trenchard1  of  Cutteridge,  in  North  Bradley,  who  married  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Sir  G.  Norton,  of  Abbotsleigh,  Somerset,  and  died 
1713,  aged  78;)"  and  Charles  Pawlet,  styled  Earl  of  Wiltshire, 
afterwards  Duke  of  Bolton  ;  another  list  of  those  peers,  viz., 
22,  who  were  created  by  James  II  (7  of  which  when  he  was  de 
facto  King  of  Ireland),  with  49  by  his  son  (James  III),  whilst 
in  exile;  the  latter's  son  (Charles  III)  is  not  known  to  have 
created  any,  unless  the  title  of  Countess  of  Albany  given  to 
his  daughter  was  one — she  was  legitimated  by  the  French 
parliament,  to  which  perhaps  her  title  also  was  due;  neither  is 
the  latter's  brother,  created  by  his  father,  Duke  of  York  (Henry 
IX,  the  "Cardinal  King",  who  died  1807),  credited  with  any, 
though  he  did  strike  a  medal  commemorating  his  accession  to 
those  realms — Dei  gratia,  non  voluntate  hominum — which  he 
was  never  destined  to  occupy  ;  here  one  Wiltshireman  occurs, 
viz.,  Henry  St.  John,  Earl  of  Bolingbroke ;  in  another  list,  of 
those  who  own  100,000  acres  or  more,  we  find  the  name  of  the 
Marquess  of  Lansdowne. 

The  last  volume  is  largely  made  up  of  Corrigenda,  and 
matters  brought  up  to  date. 

It  is  impossible  for  us  in  these  pages  to  give  any  adequate 
review  of  this  great  and  learned  work  ;  we  propose,  as  in  our 
notice  of  the  Complete  Baronetage,  to  append  short  notices  of 
some  of  the  titles  held  by  Wiltshiremen. 

AILESBURY — Robert  Bruce,  Earl,  1663-4;  a  learned  person  well  versed  in 
English  history  and  antiquities ;  Marquess  1821  ;  Earl  of 
Cardigan,  and  Bruce  1821,  Viscount  Savernake  1821,  Baron 
Brudenell,  and  Bruce ;  Residence,  Savernake  Forest. 

ALBANY — H.R.H.  Leopold,  youngest  son  of  Victoria  (whom  God  assoil), 
and  brother  of  the  present  King  (whom  God  defend). 
Duke,  Earl  of  Clarence  and  Baron  Arklow,  1881,  ob.  1884; 
Residence,  Boyton  Manor. 

AMESBURY — See  QUEENSBERRY. 

1  Marriage  Licence,  4  May  1668,  she,  a  spinster  and  aged  19,  with  her 
mother's  consent ;  he,  described  as  of  Cutteridge ;  at  Abbots  Leigh  or  in 
City  of  Bristol. 


Notes  on  Books.  479 


AMESBURY — Charles  Dundas  of  Barton  Court,  Berks.,  Baron  Amesbury 
of  Kintbury,  Amesbury,  and  Barton  Court,  1832,  ext.  in 
same  year ;  this  is  probably  not  a  Wiltshire  title,  Kintbury 
Amesbury  being  a  part  of  the  former  place  belonging  to 
the  Priory  of  Amesbury. 

ANDOVER— See  SUFFOLK. 

ARUNDELL  OF  WARDOUR — Thomas  Arundell  of  Wardour  Castle,  created 
14  Dec.  1595  (by  patent  dated  at  Prague,  which  is  duly 
recorded  in  the  College  of  Arms),  Count  of  the  Holy 
Roman  Empire,  for  gallantly  taking  a  standard  trom  the 
enemy  at  Gran,  in  Hungary,  whilst  serving  in  the  Imperial 
Army  of  Germany  against  the  Turks;  Baron,  1605;  in 
'739i  by  marrying  Mary,  heir  of  Richard  Arundell-Beling, 
of  Lanherne,  Cornwall,  Henry,  7th  Baron,  united  these 
two  branches  of  the  family,  which  had  been  separated  for 
two  centuries ;  Residence,  Wardour  Castle. 

BASING— See  ST.  JOHN. 

BATH— See  WEYMOUTH. 

BATTERSEA— See  ST.  JOHN. 

BEAUCHAMP  DE  ST.  AMAND.—  See  ST.  AMAND. 

BEAUCHAMP  OF  BLETSOE— Roger  Beauchamp  of  Bletsoe,  Bedford,  and 
of  Lydiard  Tregoz,  said  by  Dugdale  to  have  been  a 
grandson  of  Walter  Beauchamp  of  Alcester ;  he  married 
istly  before  1348  (in  which  year  the  manor  of  Lydiard  was 
confirmed  to  him  and  his  wite)  Sybil,  eldest  sister  and 
coheir  of  Sir  William  de  Patshull,  dau.  of  John  de  Patshull 
of  Bletsoe,  by  Mabel,  dau.  of  William  Grandison  of 
Lydiard;  Baron  by  writ,  1363;  Captain  of  Calais  1354-72; 
in  abeyance  since  1412. 

BEAUCHAMP  OF  HACHE— See  SOMERSET. 
BEAUFORT — See  WORCESTER. 
BERKSHIRE— See  SUFFOLK. 

BOLINGBROKE — Oliver  St.  John,  a  descendant  of  Beauchamp  of  Bletsoe, 
Baron  St.  John  of  Bletsoe;  Earl,  1624;  ext.  1711. 

BOLINGBROKE — Henry  St.  John,  the  Statesman,  descended  from  Beau- 
champ  of  Bletsoe,  through  the  same  ancestor  as  the  above 
named  Oliver,  viz.,  Oliver  St.  John,  who  died  in  1437; 
Baron  St.  John  of  Lydiard  Tregoz  and  Viscount  Boling- 
broke  1712;  Secretary  of  State  to  the  son  of  James  II, 
who  created  him  Earl  of  Bolingbroke  1715  ;  attainted  in 
1715,  restored  in  blood  1725;  Residence,  Lydiard  Park. 

BOLTON — See  WILTSHIRE. 

BROOKE-  -See  WJLLOUGHBY  DE  BROOKE, 


480  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

^ROUGHTON  OF  BROUGHTON-DE-GvPFORD — John  Cam  Hobhouse ; 
Baron,  1851  ;  ext.  1869;  a  friend  of  Byron,  who  dedicated 
to  him  the  4th  Canto  of  Childe  Harold,  and  who  in  his 
Lines  to  Mr.  Hodgson  writes  : — 

"  Hobhouse  muttering  fearful  curses, 

As  the  hatchway  down  he  rolls, 
Now  his  breakfast,  now  his  verses, 

Vomits  forth  and  d s  our  souls." 

He  rented  for  many  years  Erlestoke  Park. 

CALNE  AND  CALSTON — See  LANSDOWNE. 
CHARLTON — See  SUFFOLK. 
CHURCHILL — See  MARLBOROUGH. 

CHURCHILL  OF  WHICHWOOD— Francis  Almeric  Spencer,  2nd  son  of 
George,  Duke  of  Marlborough ;  Baron,  1815;  Residence, 
West  Lavington  House. 

CLARENDON — Edward  Hyde,  Baron  Hyde  of  Hindon  1660,  3rd  son  of 
Henry  Hyde,  of  Purton  and  Dinton,  by  Mary,  dau.  and  co- 
heir of  Edward  Langford,  a  rich  clothier  of  Trowbridge 
(See  their  marriage  W.  N.  &  Q.,  vol.  iii,  p.  427),  and 
nephew  of  Sir  Nicholas  Hyde,  Chief-justice;  Lord  Chan- 
cellor; Viscount  Cornbury  and  Earl  of  Clarendon  1661  ; 
his  dau.  Anne,  who  married  the  Duke  of  York,  afterwards 
James  II,  is  said  to  have  been  born  in  the  house  which  is 
now  occupied  by  the  Trowbridge  Conservative  Club ;  he 
died  at  Rouen,  and  was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey 
1675.  Foss,  in  his  Judges,  says: — Will  ever  be  regarded 
with  admiration  and  reverence  for  his  devoted  adherence 
to  Charles  I  during  his  misfortunes,  and  to  Charles  II  for 
nearly  20  years  after — the  almost  iiniversal  verdict,  after 
two  centuries  of  investigation — an  unreserved  acknow- 
ledgment of  his  loyalty,  his  wisdom,  and  his  integrity. 
Horace  Walpole  most  happily  writes,  in  his  double  capacity 
of  Statesman  and  Historian,  he  acted  for  liberty,  but 
wrote  for  prerogative ;  all  the  honours  became  extinct 
1753- 

CONWAY — See  HERTFORD. 

CORSHAM— See  METHUEN. 

(To  be  continued.) 

1  It  is  said  that  Lord  Broughton  deposited  in  the  British  Museum  a 
sealed  packet  containing  MSS.  relating  to  Byron,  with  instructions  that  it 
was  not  to  be  opened  until  1900 ;  if  this  is  a  fact,  has  the  packet  been, 
examined  ? 


BENJ.   GODDARD. 
1766-1861. 


®Etltst)ire  JBtotes  an* 

SEPTEMBER,   1901. 


GODDARD  OF  ENGLESHAM— A  NEW  ENGLAND 
BRANCH. 


I.  WILLIAM  GODDARD,  citizen  and  grocer  of  London, 
7th  son  of  (2)  Edward  Goddard,  of  Englesham,  co.  Wilts,  by 
Priscilla,  dau.  of  John  D'Oyley,  Esq.,  of  Chiselhampton,  co. 
Oxon.  He  was  b.  at  Englesham,  and  bapt.  there  28  Feb. 
1627.  Mar.-  -  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Miles,  of  London 
(whose  wid.  afterwards  mar.  —  Foote,  Esq.,  of  Crosby  Square, 
London).  He  emigrated  to  America  in  1665,  his  wife  and 
three  surviving  sons  following  the  next  year.  He  settled  in 
Watertown,  Mass.,  where  he  was  admitted  f.c.1  8  Jan.  1687-8, 
freeman  Dec.  1677.  He  d.  6  Oct.  1691.  Ad'mon  granted  in 
the  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Regy.  of  Probate  to  wid.  and  two  eld. 
sons;  Inventory  attached.  His  wid.  d.  8  Feb.  1697-8. 


"Mar.  27  1680.  These  are  to  certify  that  Mr.  William  Goddard,  of 
Watertown,  whome  the  said  towne  by  covenanting  engaged  to  teach 
such  children  as  should  be  sent  to  him  to  learn  the  rules  of  the  Latine 
tongue,  hath  those  accomplishments,  which  render  him  capable  to  dis- 
charge the  trust  (in  that  respect)  committed  to  him. 

"(Signed)        JOHN  SHERMAN,  pastor."     Co.  Court  File. 


Full  communion. 


2  See  Visitn.  co.  Wilts. 


K  K 


482  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

In  the  Mid.  Prob.  Office  is  an  agreement,  dated  19  Oct.  1694,  between 
Elizabeth,  his  wid.,  and  his  sons,  William,  Joseph,  Robert,  Benjamin, 
and  Edward. 


From  the  will  of  Robert  Foote,  of  Crosby  Square,  dated  6  Apr.  1714 
(son  of  -  -  Miles  by  her  2nd  husband,  —  Foote).  "  Item  I  give,  devise 
and  bequeath  unto  ye  sons  of  my  sister  Elizabeth  Goddard,  in  New 
England,  deceased,  the  sum  of  £2,000,  equally  to  be  divided  amongst 
such  of  them  as  shall  be  living  at  the  time  of  my  decease." — (P.C.C.  115 
Aston.) 


They  had  issue — 

1.  William  Goddard,  b.   in  London,  -      -  1653;  mar.  10  Dec. 

1685,  Leah  Fisher  of  Sherbourne,  where  he  settled,  and 
was  admitted  an  inhabitant  in  1679.  He  d.  6  Feb.  1708, 
and  his  wid.  d.  10  Sept.  1720.  Children — 

1.  Elizabeth,  hh  23  Aug.  1687  ;  mar.  5  Feb.  1708,  Anthony 

Hancock,  of  Wrentham. 

2.  William,  b.  1689;  d.  1703. 

3.  Sarah,  b.  1693. 

4.  Abagail,  b.  2   Dec.    1697  ;  mar.   14  May   1716,  Samuel 

Williams. 

2.  Joseph  Goddard  of  Brookline,  Mass.,  of  whom  afterwards. 

3.  Robert  Goddard,  b.  in  London,  and  bapt.  at  St.  Botolph's, 

Bishopsgate,  6  Feb.  1662,  a  weaver  of  Watertown; 
mar.  23  Feb.  1713-14,  Elizabeth  Shalluck.  He  d.  Nov. 
1716,  leaving  a  dau.  Elizabeth,  b.  5  Nov.  1714.  His  wid. 
mar.  2nd,  Ephraim  Auger,  who  d.  19  Oct.  1724,  and  3rd, 
26  Apr.  1726,  John  Holland,  of  Marlboro,  Mass. 

4.  Thomas   Goddard,    b.    in  Watertown,    8   June;    d.    9   July 

1667. 

5.  Benjamin  Goddard,  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  b.  7  Aug.    1668; 

adm.  f.c.  in  Watertown  31  July  1687  ;  mar.  -    -  Martha 


Goddard  of  Englesham — a  New  England  Branch.      483 

Palfrey,  b.  1670;  d.  27  Nov.  1737.  He  d.  in  Charlestown, 
24  Oct.  1748,  aet.  80,  leaving  4  sons  and  a  dau.  His  will 
dated  7  Feb.  1738-9. 

M.I.  IN  CAMBRIDGE,  MASS. 

Here  lyes  ye  Body  of  Here  lyes  ye  Body  of 

Mr.  BENJAMIN  GODDARD,  Mrs.  MARTHA  GODDARD, 

Who  departed  this  life  Wife  to  Mr.  Benjamin  Goddard, 

Oct.  24,    1748,  Who  died  Nov.  26,  1737, 

in  ye  8ist  year  of  his  age.  Aged  67  years. 

6.  Elizabeth,  b.  22  Jan. ;  d.  young. 

7.  Josiah  Goddard,   b.    at   Watertown,   circa   1672  ;   adm.  f.c. 

15  Oct.  1699;  mar.  28  Jan.  1695-6,  Rachael  Davis,  of 
Roxbury,  who  d.  23  Apr.  1740.  He  d.  in  Watertown  14 
Nov.  1720,  leaving  5  sons  and  4  daus. 

8.  Honble    Edward   Goddard,    of   Framlingham,   Mass.,   b.    at 

Watertown  25  Mar.  1675  ;  adm.  f.c.  27  Apr.  1701  ;  mar. 
June  1697,  Susanna  Stone,  sister  of  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Stone, 
of  Newton.  He  resided  in  Watertown ;  a  schoolmaster 
from  12  Apr.  1697  until  about  1707,  when  he  went  to 
Boston,  where  he  was  a  teacher.  He  moved  to  Framling- 
ham 25  Mar.  1714,  where  he  taught  in  a  Grammar  School 
for  several  years,  and  where  he  received  numerous  civil, 
military,  and  ecclesiastical  appointments.  He  had  8  sons 
and  3  daus.,  and  d.  9  Feb.  1754.  For  his  character  and 
services  see  Barry,  p.  261,  and  the  Goddard  Genealogy  (by 
W.  Austin  Goddard,  Wore.,  Mass.,  1833),  pp.  9  and  64, 
et  seq. 

M.I.  IN  FRAMLINGHAM,  MASS. 

Here  lies  Buried  the  Body  Here  lies  Buried  the  Body  of 

of  of 

THE  HON'BLE  EDWARD  GODDARD,  MADAM  SUSANNA  GODDARD, 

ESQ.,  Consort  of  ye  Hon.  Edward 

Who  exchanged  this  Life  for  Goddard,  Esq., 

that  of  the  Blessed,  Who  Departed  this  life  Feb.  ye  4, 

Feby  ye  gth,   A.D.    1754,  A.D.  1754, 

Aged  78  years,  10  ms.,  &  4  days.  Aged  78  years  and  2  months. 

K  K  2 


484  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

II.     JOSEPH  GODDARD,  of  Brookline,  b.  in  London  - 
1655;  mar.  in  Watertown,  25  Mar.   1680,  Deborah  Treadway, 
and  settled  in   Brookline  on  a   farm  which  he   purchased  of 
Dorman  Marean,  the  first    white   settler  who   owned  it.     He 
died  there  25  July  1728,  aged  73. 

Abstract  of  will  of  Joseph  Goddard,  of  Brookline,  in  co.  of  Suffolk, 
within  H.M.  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England,  cord- 
wainer,  dated  25  Dec.  1724.  Engagement  to  Mary1  my  wife,  given  in 
writing  before  mar.,  to  be  paid  her  in  lieu  of  Dower  or  3rds  of  my  estate, 
also  a  cow.  To  2  daus.,  Elizabeth  Adams  and  Deborah  Child,  each  a 
cow.  To  son,  John  Goddard,  £y>  of  Bills  of  Publick  Credit  in  con- 
sideration of  his  not  having  a  trade.  Whereas  all  my  other  sons  have 
had  trades  and  my  son  John  continued  with  me  and  has  been  a  help  to 
me  in  my  advanced  age,  he  to  have  all  my  housing,  lands,  marsh,  and 
meadow  in  Brookline,  which  I  value  at  ^5co,  to  him  and  his  heirs  for 
ever.  He  to  pay  to  other  children  their  shares  of  sd.  ^500  after  debts 
and  funeral  expenses  are  paid,  he  to  have  one  year's  time  alter  my  dec. 
clear  of  interest,  and  two  years  more  paying  interest.  The  remaining 
value  of  sd.  housing  and  lands  and  all  other  estate  to  be  divided  into  7 
equal  parts  and  distributed  as  follows,  vizt.  :  -To  3  surviving  sons,  James, 
Robert,  and  John  Goddard,  and  2  daus.,  Elizabeth  Adams  and  Deborah 
Child,  i/7th  part  each.  To  the  wid.  and  children  of  eldest  son,  Joseph 
Goddard,  deed.,  2/7th  equally  divided  between  them,  wid.'s  part  one 
year  after  my  dec.,  3  eldest  children  5  years  after  my  dec.,  and  3  youngest 
children  at  25  years  of  age.  To  each  grand-child  a  Bible.  Two  daus.  to 
have  all  my  household  goods  in  part  of  their  sd.  shares. 

Executors :  Bro.  Benjamin  Goddard,  and  son  John  Goddard. 

Overseers:  Bro.  Benjamin  Goddard,  and  kinsman  Mr.  Josiah  Jones, 
of  Westtown. 

Witnesses :  William  Davis,  Joshua  Child,  Isaac  Child. 

Proved  in  Reg.  of  Probate,  Suffolk,  ss.  19  Aug.  1728. 


M.I.  IN  BROOKLINE. 

Here  lies  Buried  ye  Body  of 

Mr.  JOSEPH  GODDARD, 

WTho  died  July  ye  25,   1728, 

In  ye    73rd   year   of  his   age. 

They  had  issue — 
i.  Elizabeth,  b.  in  Watertown  8  Jan.  1680;  mar.  27  June  1706, 

1  He  probably  married  a  second  time. 


Goddard  of  Englesham — a  New  England  Branch.       485 

Deacon  John  Adams  of  Framlingham,  and  had  many 
descendants.  (Barry,  p.  116.) 

2.  Joseph  Goddard,  b.  in  Watertown  7  Nov.   1682  ;  mar.  , 

and  had  3  sons,  2  of  whom  d.  young,  the  other  settled  in 
New  London,  Conn.,  and  i  dau.,  who  mar. Coburn. 

3.  James  Goddard,  b. ;  mar. Mary  Woodward,  who 

d.  30  June  1765.     He  d.  1734. 

4.  Robert  Goddard,  b.  at  Watertown  1694,  settled  in  Sutton, 

now  Millbury  ;  mar.  (ist)  Mehitable  Spring,  who  d.  18  Nov. 
1760,  and  (2nd)  Widow  Child.  He  was  J.P.  from  1751-75, 
and  d.  at  Sutton  8  May  1785,  aged  91. 

M.I.  IN  MILLBURY,  MASS. 

Here  lyes  Buried  the  Body  of  Here  lies  Interred  the  Remains 

Mrs.  MEHITABLE,  ot 

Wife  of  Robert  Goddard,  Esq.,  ROBERT  GODDARD,  Esq., 

Who  Died  Nov.  18,  1760,  Who  Departed  this  Life  May  8,  1785, 

Aged  62  yrs.,  5  m.,  and  6  days.  Aetatis  91. 

5.  John  Goddard  of  Brookline,  of  whom  afterwards. 

6.  Deborah,  b. ;  mar. Child. 

III.  JOHN  GODDARD,  of  Brookline,  yeoman,  b.— 
1699.  Inherited  the  homestead  of  his  father;  mar.  (ist)  Lucy 
5th  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah  Seaver,  b.  24  Nov.  1703,  d.  s.p. ; 
and  he  mar.  (2nd)  Widow  Hannah  (Jennison)  Stone,  b.  1702, 
d.  4  Dec.  1777.  (She  was  a  granddau.  of  Samuel  and  Hannah 
(Manning)  Stearns.)  In  1745  he  moved  to  Worcester,  leaving 
his  son  John  on  the  homestead,  and  d  there  26  June  1785, 
aged  86.  He  had  3  sons,  John  (of  whom  afterwards),  Samuel, 
and  Joseph  Goddard,  and  a  dau.  Hannah. 

Abstract  of  Will  of  John  Goddard,  of  Worcester,  co.  Worcester, 
in  H.M.  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  New  England,  yeoman. 
Will  dated,  12  Mar.  1759.  To  wife  Hannah  Goddard  all  indoor  moveables 
which  are  to  be  divided  at  her  dec.  among  my  children,  viz.,  John  and 
Samuell  Goddard  and  dau.  Hannah  Hawood.  Wife  to  have  half  of  my 
dwelling  house  in  Worcester  and  half  the  cellar  under  it,  and  to  have 
her  choice  which  part  she  will  have.  Son  Samuell  to  find  her  in  firewood 


4-36  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

enough  to  maintain  one  fire  winter  and  summer,  and  cut  same  fit  for  the 
fire  and  to  pay  her  £"j  per  ann.  for  provisions.  Son  John  to  pay  her  a 
like  amount;  and  if  what  I  have  given  my  wife  be  not  sufficient  for  her 
comfortable  support  then  2  sons  to  make  such  addition  in  equal  propor- 
tions as  shall  be  necessary.  To  son  John  Goddard  and  his  heirs  for 
ever  all  my  housing  and  lands  lying  in  Brookline,  co.  Suffolk,  which 
together  with  what  I  have  given  him  by  deed  (viz.),  one  half  of  my 
lands  in  Brookline,  is  his  full  share,  he  to  pay  to  dau.  Hannah  Hawood 
£80  within  i  year  after  my  dec.  To  son  Samuel  Goddard  and  his  heirs 
for  ever  all  my  lands  and  buildings  in  Worcester  and  in  the  county  goare 
adjoining,  except  40  acres  lying  in  sd.  goare  on  W.  side  of  road  leading 
from  Sutton  to  Worcester,  30  ac.  of  it  being  land  I  bought  of  James  Hull, 
and  10  ac.  more  lying  on  the  N.  side  thereof,  and  on  W.  side  of  sd.  road 
bounding  Easterly  on  sd.  road,  and  N.  on  my  own  land,  and  W.  on  ye 
heirs  of  Ephraim  Curtice,  which  I  gave  to  dau.  Hannah  Hawood.  My 
outdoor  moveables  and  quick  stock,  &c.,  to  be  divided  equally  between 
2  sons. 

Executors  :  Sons  John  and  Samuell  Goddard. 

Overseers :  Son-in-law,  Jonathan  Stone,  of  Worcester,  and  Nephew 
Elisha  Goddard,  of  Sutton 

Witnesses:  James  Greenwood,  David  Barton,  Robert  Goddard. 

Proved  in  Prob.  Ct.  Worcs.  Mass.  6  Sept.  1785. 

M.I.  IN  WORCESTER,  MASS. 

Here  lies  buried  the  body  Here  lies  buried  the  body 

of  of 

HANNAH  GODDARD,  MR.  JOHN  GODDARD, 

Wife  of  John  Goddard,  Who  died  June  26  1785, 

Who  died  Dec.  ye  loth,  1777,  In  the  87th  year  of  his  age. 

In  ye  76th  year  of  her  age. 

IV.  JOHN  GODDARD,  of  Brookline,  eldest  son,  suc- 
ceeded his  father;  b.  28  May  1730;  mar.  (tst)  28  June  1753, 
Sarah  Brewer,  who  d.  26  Jan.  1755;  mar.  (2nd)  Hannah  5th 
dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah  Seaver,  b.  16  July  1735;  d.  31 
May  1821,  set.  86.  He  was  Commissary-General  for  the 
American  Army  during  the  war  with  England,  and  during  the 
siege  of  Boston  "  was  in  command  of  300  teams  which  worked 
in  darkness  and  by  stealth  in  constructing  the  fortifications  on 
Dorchester  Heights,  now  South  Boston."  When  the  Federal 
Government  was  established  he  was  chosen  as  a  Representa- 
tive for  Brookline  in  the  State  Legislature  from  1785-88  and 
1790-92.  He  d.  13  Ap.  1816,  aged  86. 


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Abstract  of  Will  of  John  Goddard,  of  Brookline,  in  the  co.  of  Norfolk 
(sic),  and  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  yeoman.  Will  dated,  22  Jan. 
1813.  To  wife  Hannah  the  use  of  half  of  my  dwelling  house  during  widow- 
hood and  loodols.  per  ann.  for  life.  To  grand-dau.  Sarah  Gould  300  dols. 
to  be  paid  her  at  my  dec.  and  60  dols.  per  ann.  for  life.  To  her  children 
800  dols.  equally  divided  between  them  at  21.  To  grandson  Samuel  B. 
(Brewer)  Goddard  1500  dols.  from  which  to  be  deducted  600  dols.  paid 
him  5  June  1812,  and  500  dols.  paid  him  4  Nov.  1812,  the  balance  to  be 
paid  him  100  dols.  per  ann.,  with  interest  till  whole  is  paid.  Grand-dau. 
Joanna  Goddard  100  dols.  at  my  dec.,  and  loodols.  per  ann.  for  life.  To 
grandson  John  Thomas  Goddard,  son  of  son  Jonathan  Goddard,  deed., 
2,000  dols.  at  21,  with  interest  at  6  per  cent,  from  my  dec.  To  kinsman 
Joseph  Goddard,  son  of  brother  Samuel  Goddard,  deed.,  all  wearing 
apparel.  To  daus.  of  bro.  Samuel,  viz.,  Mehitable,  Mary,  Lucy,  and 
Eunice  100  dols.,  equally  divided  between  them.  Residue  of  estate, 
real  and  personal,  to  5  sons  in  equal  shares,  viz.,  John,  Joseph,  Benja- 
min, Nathaniel,  and  William,  who  are  appointed  executors. 

Witnesses:  Isaac  S.  Gardner,  Ebenr.  Heath,  William  Acken. 

Proved  at  Boston,  7  May  1816. 


They  had  issue — 

1.  Sarah,  b.  26  Apr.  1754  ;  d.  26  June  1780. 

2.  Hon.  John  Goddard,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  b.  12  Nov.  1756  ; 

grad.  Harv.  Coll.  1777;  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  A.  R. 
Cutter  of  Portsmouth,  but  never  practised  it.  After 
experiencing  much  hardship  in  the  service  of  his  country, 
being  twice  captured  by  the  English  and  twice  escaping, 
once  by  creeping  through  a  port-hole  and  swimming  to 
another  vessel,  he  was  for  many  years  Representative  and 
Senator  for  New  Hampshire  ;  he  was  also  President  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Union  Bank  at  Portsmouth.  He  was 
also  nominated  Senator  to  Congress,  and  as  Governor  to 
New  Hampshire,  but  publicly  declined  both  offices.  He 
mar.  (ist)  5  June  1783  Susannah,  b.  27  Oct.  1758,  d.  7 
July  1787,  dau.  of  John  Heath  of  Brookline;  mar.  (2nd) 
5  June  1788,  Jane,  b.  25  Sept.  1763,  and  d.  in  child-bed  n 
Oct.  1790,  eld.  dau.  of  John  (?  George)  Boyd,  of  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H. ;  mar.  (3rd)  14  Dec.  1791,  Mary,  b.  14  July 
1760,  d.  14  June  1808,  dau.  of  Rev.  Samuel  Langdon,  D.D., 
of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  once  Pres.  of  Harvard  Coll. ;  mar. 


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(4th)  Jan.  1811,  Ann  White,  b.  15  Sept.  1768,  d.  —  Sept. 
1832.  He  d.  18  Dec.  1829,  aged  73.  He  had  14  children. 

3.  Samuel  Goddard,  b.  28  Feb.  1758;  mar.  -    -  1781,  Johanna 

Brewer,  b.  15  Jan.  1765;  d.  1810.  He  d  25  Aug.  1786. 
They  had  3  children. 

4.  Hannah,  b.  30  Oct.  1759;  d.  16  Sept.  1786. 

5.  Joseph  Goddard,  of  whom  afterwards. 

6.  Benjamin  Goddard,  b.  20  Jan.  1763;  d.  28  June  1764. 

7.  Lucy,  b.  15  Feb.  1764;  d.  n  Feb.  1777. 

8.  Benjamin  Goddard,  b.  20  Mar.  1766.     A  merchant  in  Boston, 

where  he  owned  a  wharf  where  now  stands  the  Asylum 
for  Female  Orphans.  Here  he  carried  on  business  first 
in  partnership  with  his  brother  Nathaniel,  and  later  with 
William  Crehore.  In  1809  he  retired  from  the  business 
and  built  a  handsome  house  at  Brookline,  where  he 
resided.  Mar.  (ist)  15  Dec.  1793,  Louisa,  b.  14  Dec.  1773, 
d.  s.p.  18  Jan.  1832,  dau.  of  Samuel  May  (see  Descendants 
of  John  May,  Boston  1878);  mar.  (2nd)  15  Jan.  1835, 
Catherine  Brown,  of  Boston,  who  d.  s.p.  He  d.  26  Oct. 
1 86 1,  aged  95. 

9.  Nathaniel  Goddard,  b.  5  June  1767,  a  merchant  of  Boston  ; 

mar.  2  May  1797,  Lucretia,  b.  9  Oct.  1773,  dau.  of  Amariah 
and  Dorothy  Dana,  of  Amherst,  Mass.  He  d.  in  Boston, 
6  Aug.  1853,  aged  86.  He  had  n  children. 


His  eldest  son,  Frederick  Warren  Goddard,  b.  25 
Oct.  1800,  was  drowned  in  Lake  Zurich,  Switzerland, 
22  Aug.  1820.  This  sad  event  was  commemorated  in 
some  elegiac  stanzas  by  the  poet  Wordsworth,  who  had 
been  a  fellow  traveller  of  his  for  a  couple  of  days  pre- 
viously. A  handsome  monument  was  erected  in  the 
Church  of  Kusnacht  by  a  Swiss  gentleman  (Mr.  Keller) 
on  whose  estate  the  body  was  cast  ashore. 


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10.  Jonathan  Goddard,  b.  26  Oct.  ;  d.  13  Nov.  1768. 

11.  Jonathan   Goddard,   b.   22  Nov.   1769;  mar.  27  Oct.   1803, 

Charlotte  Martin,  b.  25  Nov.  1779.     2  children. 

12.  Abija  Goddard,  b.  25  Aug.  ;  d.  5  Apr.  1772. 

13.  Abija  Goddard,  b.  17  Apr.  1774;  d.  29  Oct.  1794. 

14.  Warren  Goddard,  b.  25  Mar.  1776  ;  d.  25  Dec.  1792. 

15.  Lucy,  b.  30  Aug.  1778  ;  d.  8  Dec.  1792. 

1 6.  William  Goddard,  a  merchant  of  Boston,  b.   12  Jan.   1781  ; 

mar.  (ist)  26  Dec.  1805,  Mary  Storer,  b.  27  June  1785,  d. 
24  Nov.  1806.  Mar.  (2nd)  18  June  1811,  Mary,  b.  22  Aug. 
1788,  dau.  of  Dr.  Thatcher  Goddard. 

V.  JOSEPH  GODDARD,  J.P.,  of  Brookline,  succeeded 
his  father,  b.  15  Apr.  1761  ;  mar.  (ist)  29  Oct.  1785  Mary,  b. 
31  Mar.  1764,  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Sybil  Aspinwall,  of  Brook- 
line,  and  niece  of  the  Hon.  William  Aspinwall,  M.D.,  whose 
son,  Col.  Thomas  Aspinwall,  was  for  30  years  American  Consul 
in  London.  She  d.  5  Feb.  1825.  Mar.  (2nd)  18  Feb.  1830, 

Lucy  Snelling.     He  was  J.P.  for  Brookline  181 1-24,  and  d. 

Dec.  1846,  aged  85. 

Abstract  of  will  of  Joseph  Goddard,  of  Brookline,  co.  Norf.  (sic),  and 
Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  gentleman.  Will  dated  3  Dec.  1846. 
To  son  Abijah  Warren  Goddard  and  his  heirs  my  Mansion  House  and 
the  land  belonging  to  it,  on  condition  that  he  pay  2,000  dols.  6  months 
after  my  dec.,  and  interest  after  that  time  to  my  exors.  towards  payment 
of  legacies  hereatter  given  ;  it  he  decline,  estate  to  be  sold  for  most  it  will 
bring.  Notice  being  first  given  in  2  of  Boston  Newspapers  3  weeks  in 
succession  prior  to  the  sale.  To  son-in-law,  Mr.  Lewis  Withington  of 
New  York,  all  wearing  apparel.  To  exors.  1500  dols.  to  be  invested  to 
pay  to  dau.  Lucy  Withington  the  income  for  life,  at  her  dec.  the  prin- 
cipal to  her  children  or  heirs.  1,500  dols.  to  be  similarly  invested  for 
dau.  Susannah  Jones,  at  her  dec.  principal  to  her  2  daus.,  Louisa  Row- 
land and  Susannah  Jones,  in  equal  shares.  1,500  dols.  similarly  invested 
for  dau.  Elizabeth,  at  her  dec.  principal  to  her  heirs.  To  son  Joseph 
1,500  dols.  To  son  Samuel  A.  (Aspinwall)  i, 500 dols.  To  son  Abijah  W. 
(Warren)  1,000  dols.  To  dau.  Mary  May  200.  To  children  of  dau. 
Hannah  Stearns,  deed.,  viz.,  George  W.  (Washington),  John  G.  (God- 
dard), Hannah,  Joseph  G.  and  Lucy  E.  (Elizabeth)  1,500  dols.  equally 
divided  between  them.  To  sister  of  wife  deed.,  Sally  Alley,  and  to 


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grand-dau.  Hannah  Stearns  30x3  dols.  each.  One  half  of  a  Tomb  Town 
in  Brookline  burying  ground,  the  other  half  being  owned  by  my  brother 
Benjamin,  to  be  kept  for  ever  as  a  family  tomb  for  the  use  of  my  de- 
scendants in  a  direct  line  of  ancestry. 

Exors. :  son  Abijah  Warren  Goddard,  and  nephew  John  J.  (Joseph) 
May,  of  Boston. 

Witnesses  :  Benjamin  Goddard,  Sam  Goddard,  Harriet  B.  Goddard. 

Proved  at  Prob.  Reg?  of  Boston,  30  Jan.  1847. 

They  had  issue— 

1.  Hannah,  b.  8  Sept.   1786;  mar.  23  Mar.  1808,  Capt.  George 

Washington  Stearns.     She  d. 1829. 

2.  Mary,  b.  15  Dec.  1787;  mar.   19  July  1809,  Samuel  May,  of 

Boston,  b.  4  Dec.  1776  ;  d.  23  Feb.  1870,  aged  93.  She  d. 
17  Mar.  1882,  aged  94.  They  had  issue  5  sons  and  2  daus. 
(see  Descendants  of  John  May). 

3.  Joseph  Goddard,  b.  27  July  1789;  mar.  (ist)  30  July  1821, 

Clarissa  Whitney,  b.  Mar.  1802,  d.  18  June  1823;  mar. 
(2nd)  23  Nov.  1825,  Elizabeth  Marianna  Norton,  b.  18  Nov. 

1803,  d. .     He  d. .     They  had  issue  3  sons  and 

i  dau. 

4.  John  Goddard,  b.  17  Feb.  1791  ;  d.  21  Sept.  1828. 

5.  Lucy,  b.  12  Feb.  1793  ;  mar.  4  June  1820,  Lewis  Withington 

of  Roxbury,  and  afterwards  of  New  York.     She  d. . 

6.  Susannah,  b.  14  Sept.  1794;  mar.  17  Apr.  1822,  James  Jones, 

who  d.  3  Dec.  1826.     She  d. . 

7.  Samuel  Aspinwall  Goddard,  of  whom  afterwards. 

8.  Louisa  May,  b.  2  Oct.  1798;  d.  30  July  1826. 

9.  Elizabeth,    b.  30   Nov.    1800;  mar.  -     -  Charles   Goddard. 

She  d.  s.p.  -    -  1893,  aged  93. 

10.  Abijah  Warren  Goddard,  of  Brookline,   b.  30  Mar.   1803  ; 

mar.  (ist)  23  Apr.  1829,  Eliza  Tilden,  whod.  25  Jan.  1841  ; 
mar.  (2nd)  4  May  1842,  Abagail  White  Bass,  of  Boston. 
He  d.  13  Aug.  ;  bur.  15  Aug  1900,  in  Walnut  Hill  Ceme- 
tery, Brookline,  age  98.  He  left  a  son  and  a  dau. 

11.  Benjamin  Goddard,  b.  n  June  1805;  d.  i  Nov.  1807. 

12.  A  child  by  2nd  wife  d.  in  infancy. 


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VI.  SAMUEL  ASPINWALL  GODDARD,  of  Edg- 
baston,  co.  Warwick,  b.  4th,  bapt.  gth  Oct.  1796,  at  Brookline, 
Mass. ;  came  to  England  in  1817,  and  was  naturalized  by  Act 
of  Parliament ;  mar.  14  Sept.  1824,  at  Holy  Trinity,  Liverpool, 
Jemima,  b.  at  Soho  Street,  Liverpool,  n  Feb.  1800;  bapt.  at 
Parochial  Chapel  of  St.  Nicholas,  Liverpool,  23  Apr.  1803;  d. 
at  Frederick  Road,  Edgbaston,  in  her  75th  year,  8  Jan. ;  bur. 
in  family  vault,  Old  Edgbaston  Parish  Church,  13  Jan.  1875; 
posthumous  dau.  of  Captain  James  Bachope,  of  Soho  Street, 
Liverpool,  by  Hannah  his  wife.  He  wrote,  amongst  other 
things,  on  the  Decimal  Coinage  Question  in  the  Parliamentary 
Blue  Book  1857;  Letters  on  the  American  Rebellion,  published 
1870,  and  Historical  Sketches  of  Brookline,  published  1872  ;  d. 
at  the  Cottage,  Little  Aston,  co.  Staffs.,  in  his  goth  year,  24 
July  ;  bur.  in  the  family  vault  at  Old  Edgbaston  29  July  1886. 
M.I. 

M.I.  ON  ALTAR  TOMB  IN  OLD  EDGBASTON  CHURCHYARD. 

On  North  Side. 

In  loving  memory  of  Samuel  Aspinwall  Goddard  |  Born  at  Brook- 
line,  Massachusetts,  U.S.A.,  Oct.  4  |  1796.  Died  at  Little  Aston, 
Staffordshire,  July  24,  1886  |  And  of  Jemima,  his  wife,  who  died  Jan.  8, 
1875,  also  |  of  their  children  :  Caroline,  died  April  17,  1850  |  Mary  Louisa 
May,  died  April  16,  1874.  Fanny  Pratt  |  wite  of  the  Rev.  Francis  Aspin- 
wall Goddard  |  M.A.,  died  July  6,  1875.  Juna  Bachope,  died  Sept.  30, 
1896. 

On  East  End. 

Emily  Vanwart  and  Constance  Elizabeth  died  in  early  |  childhood, 
and  are  |  buried  in  St.  Paul's  |  churchyard,  Bir  |  mingham. 

On  West  End. 

The  Rev.  William  Henry  |  Goddard,  M.A.,  Rector  of  |  East  Mersea, 
Essex,  died  \  at  East  Mersea  May  17  |  1884,  and  is  interred  there.  |  The 
Rev.  Francis  Asp  |  inwall  Goddard,  M.A.  |  Vicar  of  Caverswall  |  Stafford- 
shire, died  I  at  St.  Heliers,  Jersey  |  Nov.  18,  1888,  and  is  in-  terred  at  St. 
Brelades. 

They  had  issue — 

i.  Julia  Bachope,  authoress,  b.  at  Birmingham,  co.  Warw., 
12  July  1825  ;  d.  unmar.  at  The  Cottage,  Little  Aston,  in 
her  72nd  year,  30  Sept. ;  bur.  in  fam.  vault  at  Old  Edg- 


492  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

baston  5  Oct.  1896.  M.I.  Adm'on  with  will  annexed, 
dated  25  Sept.  1877,  and  codicil  dated  6  Dec.  1893,  was 
granted  at  Lichfield  9  Feb.  1897,  to  Fanny  Delavan  Goddard, 
the  sister,  one  of  the  next  of  kin. 

2.  Mary  Louisa  May,  b.  at  Birmingham  28  Oct.  1826;  bapt.  at 

St.  Paul's,  Birmingham,  29  Aug.  1827  ;  d.  unmar.  at 
Frederick  Road,  Edgbaston,  in  her  48th  year,  16  Apr.; 
bur.  in  fam.  vault  21  Apr.  1874.  M.I. 

3.  Edward  Delavan  Goddard,   of  The  Cottage,    Little  Aston, 

b.  at  Birmingham  13  Apr.  ;  bapt.  at  St.  Paul's,  Birmingham, 
3  Aug.  1828. 

4.  Rev.  William  Henry  Goddard,  of  whom  afterwards. 

5.  Caroline  Elizabeth  Gray,  bapt.   at  S.  Paul's,  Birmingham, 

24  Aug.  1832;  d.  unmar.  17  Apr.;  bur.  in  fam.  vault  23 
Apr.  1850.  M.I. 

6.  Fanny  Delavan,  of  the  Cottage,  Little  Aston,  Staffs. 

7.  Emily  Vanwart,  b.  in  1835  >  d.  aged  2  years  i  mo.,  8  June, 

bur.  in  St.  Paul's  Ch'yard,  Birmingham,  n  June  1837. 
M.I.  at  St.  Paul's  and  at  Old  Edgbaston. 

8.  Constance  Elizabeth,  b.  24  Oct.  1836;  d.  aged  2  years,  7 

months,  8  May  1838,  bur.  with  her  sister  in  St.  Paul's 
Ch'yard  16  May  1838.  M.I.  at  St.  Paul's  and  Old  Edg- 
baston. 

M.I.  AT  ST.  PAUL'S  CHURCHYARD,  BIRMINGHAM. 

In  affectionate  remembrance  of  EMILY, 
Fifth  daughter  of  SAMUEL  A.  and  JEMIMA  GODDARD 

(of  Edgbaston,  near  Birmingham), 
Who   Died  on  the   8th   June    1837, 

Aged  2  years  and  i  month. 
****** 

Also  of  CONSTANCE,  sixth  daughter  of  the  above, 

Who  died  May  8,  1838, 
Aged  2  years  and  7  months, 

9.  Rev.  Francis  Aspinwall  Goddard,  b.  at  Birmingham  8  Jan., 

bapt.  at  St.  Paul's  14  Apr.  1841,  of  St.  John's  Coll.,  Oxford  ; 
matric.  16  Oct.  1858;  B.A.  (ist  Class  Law,  &c.),  1861 ; 


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M.A.  1865;  Curate  of  Mistley,  co.  Essex,  1864-66;  Assis- 
tant Master  of  Dedham  Grammar  School,  co.  Essex, 
1866-75  ;  Curate  of  Sutton  Coldfield,  co.  Warwick,  1875-76  ; 
Vicar  of  Little  Aston,  co.  Staffs.,  1877-78 ;  Vicar  of 
Caverswall,  co.  Staff.,  1878,  until  his  death;  mar.  (ist) 
Fanny  Pratt,  dau.  of  Joseph  Skinner  Lampen,  of  St. 
Budeaux,  co.  Devon,  at  Haseley  Parish  Ch.,  co.  Oxon, 
24  Oct.  1867,  by  the  Rev.  Francis  Goddard,  Vicar  of 
Hilmarton,  co.  Wilts.  She  d.  at  Sutton  Coldfield,  and 
was  bur.  in  fam.  vault  at  Edgbaston  12  July  1875.  M.I. 

They  had  issue — 

1.  Capt.    Francis   Ambrose    D'Oyley  Goddard,    of    2nd 

Royal  Munster  Fusiliers,  b.  at  Sutton  Coldfield, 
co.  Warw.,  29  Oct.,  bapt.  there  29  Nov.  1868;  edu- 
cated at  Repton ;  mar.  at  Rangoon,  Burmah,  18 
Nov.  1896,  Evelyn  Maud,  youngest  dau.  of  Col. 
Alfred  Le  Gallais,  of  the  Bengal  Staff  Corps. 

2.  Rev.  Nigel  Ernley  Goddard,  b.  at  Sutton  Coldfield  16 

June,  bapt.  there  6  July  1870 ;  of  Jesus  Coll.,  Ox- 
ford; matric.  14  Oct.  1889;  3rd  Class  Mods.  1891; 
B.A.  (2nd  Class  in  Theology)  1893;  M.A.  1900; 
Curate  of  Rugeley,  co.  Staffs.,  1893-1901 ;  Vicar  of 
Christ  Ch.,  Stafford,  1901  ;  mar.  at  St.  Agnes', 
Toxteth  Park,  Liverpool,  7  June  1900,  Frances 
Georgina  Mary,  2nd  dau.  of  Richard  Cottu,  of 
Kingstown,  co.  Dublin. 

3.  Walter  Giffard  Goddard,  b.  at  Sutton  Coldfield  i  Mar., 

bapt.  there  i  Apr.  1872  ;  d.  at  St.  Helier's,  Jersey, 
in  his  2oth  year,  31  July;  bur.  at  St.  Brelade's, 
Jersey,  5  Aug.  1891.  M.I. 

4.  Dorothy  Mary  May,  b.  at  Sutton  Coldfield  7  Sept., 

bapt.  there  28  Sept.  1873. 

5.  Millicent  Agnes,  b.  at  Sutton  Coldfield  12  June,  bapt. 

there  24  July  1875. 


494  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

He  mar.  (2nd)  at  Sutton  Coldfield  n  Feb.  1879,  Francis, 
widow  of  Rev.  James  Raven,  and.  dau.  of  Edward  Adden- 
broke;  he  d.  at  St.  Helier's,  Jersey,  in  his  48th  year,  18 
Nov. ;  bur.  at  St.  Brelade's  23  Nov.  1888 ;  M.I.  at  St. 
Brelade's  and  Old  Edgbaston,  and  a  memorial  window 
in  Caverswall  Church.  Adm'on  granted  at  Lichfield  14 
Feb.  1889,  to  Frances  Goddard  of  Caverswall,  co.  Staff., 
the  relict. 

10.  Samuel  May  Goddard,  of  Los  Angeles,  California,  U.S.A., 
b.  at  Birmingham  16  May  1843;  bapt.  at  St.  Paul's,  Bir- 
mingham 27  Dec.  1846;  mar.  in  Canada  1871,  Isabella 
Octavia,  youngest  dau.  of  Arthur  Cole  Verner,  Mayor  of 
Sandwick,  Essex  co.,  Canada,  by  Harriet  his  wife,  3rd 
dau.  of  William  Eayres,  of  Jersey,  and  great  niece  of  Sir 
William  Verner,  ist  Bart. 

They  had  issue — 

1.  Minetta  Elizabeth,  b.  2  Aug.  1872. 

2.  Edward  Arthur  Goddard,  b.  6  Dec.  1873. 

3.  Edgar  Eayres  Goddard,  b.  7  July  1876. 

4.  Lillian  May,  b.  30  Mar.  1878. 

5.  Ida  Pauline,  b.  23  July  1879. 

6.  Guy  Goddard,  b.  - 

VII.  REV.  WILLIAM  HENRY  GODDARD,  b.  at  Bir- 
mingham 2oth  May ;  bapt.  at  St.  Paul's,  Birmingham,  23  Dec. 
1830  ;  educated  at  King  Edward  VI  Grammar  School,  Bir- 
mingham, and  at  Pembroke  Coll.,  Oxford;  matric.  16  Nov. 
1848;  Hon.  4th  Class  Litt.  Hum.  1851  ;  B.A.  1852  ;  M.A.  1855  ; 
Ordained  Deacon  1878,  and  Priest  1879,  by  Bp.  of  Exeter ; 
Curate  of  Ashbury  with  North  Lew,  co.  Devon,  1878-81  ; 
Rector  of  East  Mersea,  co.  Essex,  1881,  until  his  death;  mar. 
at  Birmingham  17  Feb.  1858,  Harriet,  b.  at  Badby  n  Mar. 


Goddard  of  Englesham — a  New  England  Branch.      495 

1831,  eldest  dau.  of  Joseph  Clarke,  of  Badby,  co.  Northants, 
by  Hannah  Mary,  his  wife,  dau.  of  Samuel  Easton.  Author  of 
Nugce  Scholastics,  1858.  He  d.  at  the  Rectory,  East  Mersea, 
in  his  54th  year,  iyth  May;  bur.  in  the  churchyard  there  23 
May  1884.  M.I.  at  East  Mersea  and  Old  Edgbaston.  Adm'on 
was  granted  at  the  Principal  Registry  28  July  1884,  to  Hannah 
Goddard,  the  relict. 

M.I.  AT  E.  MERSEA. 

In  Loving  Memory  of  the 
Rev.  WILLIAM  HENRY  GODDARD,  M.A., 

Rector  of  East  Mersea, 

Who   Died  May   17,    1884, 

Aged  53. 

They  had  issue — 

1.  Rainald  William  Knightley  Goddard,  of  Denmark  Hill,  co. 

Surrey,  b.  at  Birmingham  19  Nov.  1859;  bapt.  at  St. 
Thomas',  Birmingham,  22  Jan.  1860;  mar.  at  Emmanuel 
Church,  Camberwell,  co.  Surrey,  5  Apr.  1890,  Elizabeth, 
only  dau.  of  Edward  John  Cornock,  of  Berkeley,  co. 
Glouc.,  by  Elizabeth  his  wife,  dau.  of  Thomas  Harper. 
They  have  issue  one  dau.,  Sara  Beatrice  Cornock  D'Oyley, 
b.  at  Denmark  Hill  12  May;  bapt.  at  St.  James',  Knatch- 
bull  Road,  Brixton,  co.  Surrey,  4  Oct.  1896. 

2.  Francis  Warren   Morrison   Goddard,  of  Salida,   Colorado, 

U.S.A.,  b.  at  Birmingham  15  Nov.  1862;  bapt.  at  St. 
Thomas',  Birmingham,  17  May  1863. 

3.  John  May  Goddard,  of  Salida,  Colorado,  b.  at  Enfield  Place, 

Edgbaston,  co.  Warwick,  22  Nov.  1864;  bapt.  at  St. 
Thomas'  i  Oct.  1865. 

4.  Edward  Charlton  Lethbridge  Goddard,  of  New  York,  U.S.A., 

b.  at  Acock's  Green,  co.  Wore.,  18  July  1866,  and  bapt.  at 
Hall  Green  ;  educated  at  Tamworth  Grammar  School ; 
mar.  at  Plymouth  Church,  Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  U.S.A.,  27  May 


496  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1898,  Bertha,  eldest  dau.  of  Albert  F.  Hornby,  of  New 
York.  They  have  issue  a  dau.,  Mary  Adelaide ;  b.  at 
Flatbush,  Long  Island,  U.S.A.,  13  Jan.  1900. 

5.  Rev.   Gerald  Henry  George  Goddard,  b.  at  Acock's  Green 

9  Oct.  1869  ;  educated  at  St.  John's  Foundation  School, 
Leatherhead,  co.  Surrey;  Denstone  Coll.,  co.  Staff.,  and 
at  St.  Edmund  Hall,  Oxford;  matric.  20  Jan.  1891  ;  B.A. 
21  Feb.  1895  ;  Assistant  Master  at  the  Liverpool  Institute; 
Ordained  Deacon  1898,  and  Priest  1900,  by  Bp.  of  Nor- 
wich ;  Curate  of  Redenhall  with  Harleston,  co.  Norf.,  1898. 

6.  Roland  Frederick  Norton  Goddard,  of  Nelson,  New  Zealand, 

b.  at  Acock's  Green  25  June  1871  ;  bapt.  there  18  Aug. 
1872;  mar.  at  Nelson,  N.  Z.,  2  Jan.  1895,  Emma,  3rd  dau. 
of  John  Hunt,  of  Motueka,  New  Zealand.  They  have 
issue — 

Roland  William  Henry   Goddard,  b.  at  Nelson,  N.  Z., 

1895. 

Frederick  John  May  Goddard,  b.  at  Nelson  1896. 
Ruby,  b.  1899. 

RAINALD  WM.  KNIGHTLEY  GODDARD. 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 


(Continued  from  p.  454.) 

[The  following  are  notes  of  wills  of  families  connected 
with  Bratton,  proved  in  the  Probate  Court  of  Canterbury  or  in 
the  peculiar  court  of  Precentor  or  Chantor  of  Salisbury.] 

\Chantor 's  Court  of  Salisbury]. 

Inventory  of  the  goods  of  REYNOLD  ADLAM,  of  Bratton, 
intestate.     24  October  1684. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  497 

£    s.    d. 
Item  in  the  Haell,  one  tabell  Boerd  and  fower 

Foyr  stools,  and  one  Fornepot,  one  Kitle,  one  viore 
pane,  one  paer  of  tongis,  one  Skinmore,  one  fringe- 
pane,  one  hangellis,  one  paer  of  pottokis,  5  putter 
platteris,  one  flaggen,  one  putter  cup,  one  paer  of 
Billis,  fower  dishes,  fower  spoonis,  half  a  duzen  of 
Trencharis,  one  saef     . .  . .  . .  . .        i     6     o 

Item,  in  the  Buttery,  three  Barrells,  one  trendle, 
one  Coell,  one  Rangge  . .  .  .  . .       060 

Item,  in  the  Loeft  Chambare,  towe  vloke  Bedis, 
and  tow  Coverlidis,  and  tow  paer  of  Blanckets,  two 
Bollsteris,  and  tow  Bedsteedis    . .  . .  . .        2   10     o 

Item  one  garden  of  tornvpis  . .  . .       o  10     o 

Item  his  waeringe  perrell  . .  . .       o  10     o 

Item  one  hors  200 


^720 

"  Henery  Balard  and  Robertt  Cooke  praisers  of  this 
goodis."  This  Inventory  was  exhibited  at  Westbury  in  the 
Registry  of  the  Precentor,  17  August  1685,  by  Martha  Adlam, 
widow  of  the  deceased. 

Bond  of  Martha  Adlam,  of  Westbury  parish,  widow,  and 
Henry  Ballard,  of  the  same,  in  ^20,  for  the  faithful  administra- 
tion of  the  goods  of  Reynold  Adlam,  late  of  Bratton,  her 
husband;  dated  17  August  1685. 

[Chanter's  Court  of  Salisbury.] 
The  Nuncupative  Will  of  WILLIAM  ALDRIDGE,  1698. 
William  Aldridge,  of  Bratton,  yeoman,  the  22  May  1698, 
gave  to  his  son  Jonathan  Aldridge  ^100;  appointed  his  wife 
his  sole   executrix  of  all  goods   not   given ;    if  either  of  his 
children  die,   his  or  her  legacy  is  to  become  the  survivors'; 
requested  his  father,  William   Aldridge,   to   take  care  of  his 
children.     Uttered  in  the  presence  of  William  Aldridge,  Anne 
Whitaker,  Jane  Winseley,  and  Mary  Somerel. 

L  L 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Inventory  of  his  goods  taken  June  i6th,  1698. 

£       5.     d. 

In  the  halls,  a  table  and  four  stools           .  .              .  .  i     o     o 

One  Sideboard,  six  Cheares,  one  Cobert          .  .  015     o 

the  fire  pan  and  tongs,  Doggs  and  Andiers     .  .  015     o 

In  the  Kitchen,  a  Pump  and  Furness        .  .              .  .  300 

one  Brewing  Vate,  and  three  Givers,  and  three 

tubbs    !.  ..  ..  ..  ..ioo 

one  Bakenrack  and  two  Flitches  of  Baken       .  .  i   10     o 

one  Cheespress,  and  other  Lumber   .  .              .  .  o  10     o 

In  the  Cheeselought,  tacks  and  cheese     .  .              .  .  200 

In  the  two  buteris,  Seven  Barrells            .  .              .  .  i    10     o 

one  Silt  and  one  powdering  tubb       .  .              .  .  o  10     o 

three  brass  potts,  one  kitle,  and  two  skilets     .  200 
Four  duzen  of  pewter  dishes  and  |  a  duzen 

plattes  ..             ..             ..             ..             ..  iioo 

one  pewter  Tankard,  one  salt,  and  other  small 

things  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..050 

three  duzen  of  glass  bottles                .  .             .  .  060 

In   the   best  Chamber,   on  Feather    Bed    and    all 

belonging  to  him                .  .              .  .              .  .  500 

one  Cheast  of  draers,  and  one  looking  Glass   .  .  200 

one  ovill  table,  and  Four  Leather  Chears        .  .  i     o     o 
one   warming  pan,  one  pair  of  Brass  Doggs, 
Fier-pan  and  tongs,  billos  [sic],  and  one  pair 

of  Brass  Candlesticks      ..              ..              ..  i     o     o 

In  the  vutter  Chamber,  two  Beds  and  all  belonging 

to  them  .  .  .  .  .  .  ..500 

one  Cheast,  one  Coaffer  and  two  trunks           .  .  015     o 

For  table  linning           .  .              .  .              .  .  i     o     o 

One    Sellow,    three     Harrows,    one    Ladder    and 

one  Fan  .  .             .  .             .  .             .  .             .  .  i   i  o     o 

Four  Sacks,  one  wimsheet          ..             ..             ..  o  10     o 

Four  Cowes    .  .             .  .             .  .             .  .•             .  .  14    o     o 

Forty  sheep    .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  ..1800 

For  two  Swine                                           .  .             .  .  200 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  499 


For  Hay 
For  1  6  acres  of  corn  on  the  ground 
In  money  in  House  and  money  shouer  [?] 
His  wearing  Clothes 

The  Totall       .  . 

£ 

6 
..     30 
..    150 
5 

s. 
o 
o 
o 
o 

d. 

o 
o 
o 
o 

^59 

6 

o 

[Chanter's  Court  of  Salisbury.'] 
November  the  2oth,  1708. 

JOHN  ALDRIDGE,  of  Bratton,  in  the  parish  of  Westbury, 
gardener,  leaves  his  house  to  Joan  Hooper,  daughter  of 
Richard  Hooper,  of  Skudmoor's  Upton,  his  household  goods  to 
Margaret  Hooper,  wife  of  the  said  Richard ;  to  Joan  Snelgrove, 
wife  of  Roger  Snelgrove,  ios.,  his  stocks  of  bees  between  the 
children  of  Margaret  Hooper  and  Joan  Snelgrove.  The  rest  of 
his  effects  to  the  above  said  Richard  Hooper,  whom  he  makes 
his  executor.  Signed,  John  Aldridge.  Witnessed  by  Jeffery 
Whitaker  and  Marian  Whitaker. 

Inventory  of  his  goods,  taken  at  Bratton,  November  21, 
1710,  by  Jefferey  Whitaker  and  John  Whitaker,  the  value  of 
the  whole  being  ^38  8s. 

[P.C.C.,  756  Howe.] 

CHARLES  ALDRIDGE,  of  Warminster,  Malster,  to  his  four 
daughters  Sarah,  Elizabeth,  Margaret,  and  Mary,  his  piece  of 
freehold  land  in  Morelyfield,  in  the  parish  of  Warminster,  as 
tenants  in  common,  and  not  as  joint  tenants  ;  in  lieu  of  part  of 
the  said  piece,  which  his  son  Charles  is  to  convey  to  them 
immediately  after  his  death,  he  bequeaths  to  Charles  Aldridge, 
his  heirs  and  assigns,  pasture  land  at  Topps,  in  Warminster, 
purchased  of  Mr.  Benet ;  various  sums  and  goods  he  leaves  to 
the  daughters.  To  his  son,  Richard  Aldridge,  The  White 
Hart  Inn,  in  Warminster,  pasture  grounds  called  Butcher's 
Grounds  and  £200.  To  his  son,  Thomas  Aldridge,  ,£200. 
The  rest  of  his  personal  estate  he  leaves  to  his  son  Charles, 

whom  he  makes  his  executor.     Dated  gth  June  1795. 

LL  2 


500  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

[Admon.,  February  1762.] 

On  6  February,  administration  of  the  goods  of  MARGARET 
ALDRIDGE,  late  of  Warminster,  Wilts,  was  granted  to  Charles 
Aldridge,  her  husband 

[Chanter's  Court  of  Salisbury. ~\ 

JOHN  AXFORD,  of  Bratton,  Westbury  Hundred,  co.  Wilts, 
Linen  Weaver,  leaves  to  his  wife  Bridget  all  his  goods  and 
chattels,  except  his  leaseholds,  and  an  iron  pot,  and  a  chilver 
sheep,  and  she  to  have  a  "  a  peasible  dwelling  in  the  house  I 
now  lives  in  till  she  marry  or  cheng  her  name."  To  his  son, 
John  Axford,  his  leasehold  called  Swets,  in  Bratton  and 
Milborne.  To  William  Axford,  one  shilling.  To  Abraham,  his 
son,  the  house  he  lives  in,  standing  on  the  ground  purchased  of 
John  Browne.  To  his  daughter,  Joan  Axford,  his  shop  next 
adjoining  his  house.  To  his  son  Abraham  and  daughter  Joan 
Axford,  his  garden  and  orchard  adjoining  the  house  in  which 
he  lives,  equally  parted  between  them.  To  his  sons  John 
Axford  and  Abraham  Axford,  all  the  rest  of  his  goods,  they 
being  appointed  his  executors.  Signed  16  July  1695,  with  his 
mark.  He  makes  Jeffery  Whitaker  and  Nathaniel  White  the 
overseers  to  his  will. 

Inventory  of  his  goods  taken  August  12,  1695. 

Imprimus  £    s.   d. 

In  the  Hall,  on  table  board  and  furme      . .  .         050 

on  cupboard,  on  setell,  3  Chairs,  on  fire  pan 
and  tongs  . .  . .  . .  ..070 

Item,  on  bell-metell  pot,  on  brass  pot,  on  keetle     . .       015     o 

Item,  on  Iren  poot,  on  hanels,  6  puter  dishes,  6  puter 
plates,  on  fring  pan,  on  fladgin,  with  other 
lumber  . .  . .  . .  -. .  ..120 

Item,   In   the  chamber,   on    beed-steed,   with    the 

beeding  . .  . .  . .  i     o     o 

on  chest,  on  boox  ..  ..  ..  ..       oioo 

In  the  butery,  4  barells,  two  tull',  4  covers,  two  pails, 

with  other  lumber  . .  . .  . ,       i     o    o 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  50! 

£  s.  d. 

Item,  two  Akers  and  3  yards  of  corne  on  the  ground       300 
on  cow,  3  pidgs      . .  . .  . .  ..400 

Item,  In  the  shoop  3  looms  with  the  harness,  warp- 
ing barr,  with  other  lumber  .  .  ..400 

Item,  his  two  lesseholds,  the  one  called  Swets,  the 

other  his  home       . .  . .  . .  20     o     o 

Item,  his  wering  aparill  . .  . .  . .        i     o     o 


By  us,  Jeffery  Whitaker. 
John  Pryor. 

[P.C.C.     Original  Will.} 

ANTHONY  BALLARD,  of  Weyley,  co.  Wilts,  yeoman,  14 
October  1643  >  leaves  his  body  to  be  buried  in  Weyley  parish 
church  ;  to  the  poor  of  the  parish,  405.,  to  be  paid  a  month  after 
his  decease  ;  to  his  kinsmen  Roger  Ballard  and  George  Ballard, 
^20  apiece ;  to  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Sarum,  55. ;  the  rest 
of  his  goods  and  chattels  to  his  wife  Bridgett,  whom  he  makes 
his  executrix  ;  to  his  kinswoman  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Thomas 
Tucker,  IDS.  ;  makes  William  Everley  and  John  Lee,  of 
Weyley,  the  overseers  of  his  will,  with  ros.  a  piece  for  their 
pains  ;  and  leaves  to  his  godchildren  55.  each.  Signed  with 
his  mark.  Witnesses,  John  Withers  and  Josias  Doughty. 
[Proved  at  Oxford,  9  March  1643/4.  Bridget  Ballard  widow, 
the  executrix  named,  being  sworn  before  Alexander  Hyrd, 
L.D.  and  Rector  of  Weyley,  &c.] 

[P.C.C.,  48  Pembroke.} 

STEPHEN  BALLARD,  of  Baydon,  co.  Wilts,  husbandman; 
leaves  to  his  son  Roger,  ^TO,  to  be  received  from  Edward 
Gillmore,  of  Ramesbury,  being  due  from  him  upon  a  bond,  55. 
more,  "my  long  table-board  and  frame,  and  one  of  my  worst 
bedsteads."  To  his  son  John  Ballard,  ^10,  and  his  great 
"seltinge  trough."  To  his  daughter  Joan,  wife  of  Austin 
Smith,  of  Totnam  Wick,  and  other  daughters  Dorothy  Ballard, 


502  Wiltshire   Notes   and  Queries. 

Marie  Gifford,  and  Elizabeth,  various  sums  and  chattels.  To 
Agnes  Smith,  Margaret  Jurnyman,  Alice  Nash,  widows, 
various  small  sums.  Makes  his  daughter  Elizabeth  executrix. 
Dated  July  20,  A.D.  1648.  Proved  30  May  1650. 

[Admon.  July  1652.] 

On  July  14,  administration  of  the  goods  of  WILLIAM 
BALLARD,  of  Buttermere,  Wilts,  granted  to  John  Ballard,  his 
son. 

[P.C.C.,  206  Bowyer.~\ 

JOHN  BALLARD,  of  Buttermere,  Wilts,  leaves  his  body  to 
be  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  Buttermere  ;  to  the  mother 
church  of  Sarum,  6d.  ;  to  Buttermere  Church,  6d.  To  his 
daughter  Margaret  Organ,  ios.,  to  be  paid  within  3  years  after 
his  decease ;  to  his  daughter  Anne  Heather,  ^40,  to  be  paid 
within  5  years  after  his  decease ;  to  Ellinor  Heather  his 
grandchild,  ios.,  to  be  paid  within  a  year  after  his  decease;  to 
Margery  Jane  and  Mary  Ballard,  children  of  his  son  John,  55. 
apiece.  The  rest  of  his  chattels,  &c.,  to  his  son  John,  whom 
he  makes  sole  executor.  Undated.  Proved  at  London,  July 
22,  1652. 

[P.C.C.,  38  Berkley.} 

ROGER  BALLARD,  of  Wish,  co.  Wilts,  husbandman,  leaves 
his  body  to  be  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  Wish ;  to  his 
brother  George  Ballard,  205.  a  year  and  house-room  for  life ; 
makes  his  daughter  Bridgett  Ballard  the  younger  his  executor, 
and  "my  brother,  Bridgett  Axford,  my  brother-in-law,  and 
William  Everly  "  [sic],  his  overseers,  giving  them  ios.  each. 
Dated  10  January  1643.  Proved  February  13,  1655. 

[P.C.C.,  1 08  Nabbs.} 

EDWARD  BALLARD,  of  Bromham,  Wilts,  yeoman ;  be- 
queathes  his  body  to  be  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  Bromham ; 
2os.  to  2c  poor  persons  of  the  parish  ;  to  his  grandchild  Anne 
Pierce,  ^50;  to  Edward,  son  of  Isacarr  Ballard,  205.,  and  his 
great  brass  pan.  To  his  kinsmen  Lance  Hobbs  and  Joseph 
Ballard,  his  brother  John  Bayly,  and  to  Isacarr  Ballard,  ios. 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  503 

each.  To  William  Ballard,  of  the  Church  gate,  and  William 
Ballard,  servant,  to  widow  Overton,  to  Joan  Fisher,  to  Elizabeth 
Ballard  and  Margaret  Wyatte,  of  Rowde,  widow,  55.  each. 
Other  bequests  to  other  friends  or  servants  and  godchildren. 
The  residue  of  his  goods  he  leaves  to  his  wife,  whom  he  makes 
his  executrix.  Dated  22  November  1652.  Proved  18  July 
1660. 

[P.C.C.,  12  Hyde.\ 

JOHN  BALLARD,  of  New  Sarum,  gentleman,  leaves  to  his 
son  John  Ballard  the  living  of  Cupernham,  in  the  Parish  of 
Romsey,  Hants.  To  his  son  Henry,  ^100,  and  to  his  son 
Oliver,  ,£100.  To  his  daughters  Martha  and  Susan,  ,^100  each, 
to  be  paid  at  their  marriage  or  at  the  age  of  one-and-twenty 
years.  To  his  sisters  Dorothy  Hunt  and  Elizabeth  Scutt,  and 
to  his  wife's  sisters,  Mary  Space,  Susan  Oliver,  Margaret  and 
Dorothy  Oliver,  IDS.  to  buy  a  mourning  ring  each.  To  the 
poor  of  St.  Thomas  405.  To  his  wife  Martha,  the  lease  of  the 
house  adjoining  the  Close  Gate,  makes  her  his  executrix,  and 
his  friends  Thomas  Boswell,  of  Sarum,  and  John  Skase,  of 
Odstock,  overseers.  Dated,  20  September  1664.  [Proved  at 
London,  18  February  1664-5.] 

[P.C.C.,  88  Duke.\ 

ROGER  BALLARD,  of  Westbury,  yeoman,  26  October  1668, 
bequeathes  to  his  son  Roger  Ballard  ^30,  to  be  paid  12 
months  after  his  decease,  and  to  his  son  William  ,£20,  to  be 
paid  12  months  after  his  decease.  To  his  wife,  all  the  house- 
hold goods  he  had  with  her  on  marrying  her.  All  the  rest  of 
his  goods,  debts,  &c.,  to  his  son  Henry  Ballard,  and  daughters 
Jane  and  Anne,  whom  he  makes  joint  executors  of  his  will, 
but  they  being  minors,  he,  desiring  a  speedy  payment  of  his 
debts  and  legacies,  appoints  his  trusty  friends,  James  Ballard, 
of  Bratton,  John  Blatch,  of  Ligh,  John  Holley  and  William 
Mopson,  both  also  of  Ligh,  to  be  overseers  of  his  will.  [Proved 
at  Exeter  Hall  in  the  Strand,  co.  Middlesex,  7  August  1671.] 


504  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

[Chanter's  Court  of  Salisbury.  \ 

JAMES  BALLARD,  of  Bratton,  co.  Wilts,  yeoman,  bequeathes 
to  his  wife  Jane  all  closes,  lands,  and  tenements,  with  their 
appertenances  in  Keevil,  co.  Wilts,  lately  purchased  of  Thomas 
Lambert,  Esquire,  for  the  term  of  her  life,  and  after  her  death 
bequeathes  the  same  to  the  heirs  of  his  body,  and  for  want  of 
such  issue  to  his  brother-in-law  William  Ballard  the  younger, 
son  of  William  Ballard  the  elder,  of  Steple  Ashton,  yeoman, 
and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body  ;  and  for  want  of  such  issue  to 
William  Ballard  his  brother  and  his  heirs  male ;  and  for  want 
of  such  issue  to  his  kinsman  Henry  Ballard,  son  of  his  brother 
John  Ballard  deceased,  and  his  heirs  male  ;  and  for  want  of 
such  issue  to  John,  son  of  the  said  John  Ballard,  and  his  heirs 
male  ;  and  for  want  of  such  issue  to  James  son  of  his  said 
brother  John  Ballard ;  and  for  want  of  such  issue  to  the  right 
heirs  of  himself  for  ever.  He  gives  to  his  wife  his  black  mare  ; 
the  rest  of  his  goods  to  his  father  Henry  Ballard  his  executor, 
in  trust  for  such  child,  as  his  wife  "  is  now  with  child  withal," 
either  by  putting  such  child's  life  in  his  copyhold  living  in 
Bratton  or  otherwise  as  he  shall  think  fit ;  and  in  case  the 
child  die  before  the  age  of  18  years  or  day  of  marriage,  he 
gives  the  rest  of  his  personal  estate  to  his  father.  Dated,  26 
September  1679.  [Proved  at  Westbury,  3  June  1680.] 

Inventory  of  his  goods  taken  17  December,  1679,  by  John 
Croumb  and  Richard  Tille,  their  total  value  being  ^504  35.  ^d. 

[Chanter's  Court  of  Salisbury^ 

HENRY  BALLARD,  of  Bratton,  yeoman,  28  December  1684, 
leaves  to  his  grandchild  Henry  Ballard,  son  of  John  Ballard, 
of  Ly,  lately  deceased,  the  new  end  of  the  house  called 
"  Waggens "  joining  John  Groom's  barn  and  backside,  and 
that  part  of  the  garden  that  lies  on  the  north  side  of  the  house. 
To  his  grandchild  John  Mervet  that  other  part  of  the  house 
and  the  garden  "  that  Thomas  due  now  dwells  in."  To  his  son 
William  Ballard  the  cupboard  in  the  parlour.  To  his  daughter 
Anne  Baily  five  shillings.  "  Item,  I  doth  owe  my  daughtare 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  505 

Mabell  Mervet  one  hundred  pounds  to  be  paid  to  her  in  to 
months  after  my  deses."  Makes  his  grandchild  Henry,  son  of 
John  Ballard  of  Ly,  and  his  daughter  Mabel  Mervet,  his 
executors,  and  appoints  his  son-in-law  Nathaniel  Baily,  and  his 
cousin  William  Ballard,  of  Ashtune,  the  overseers  of  this  will. 
Signed  with  his  mark.  Witnessed  by  Francis  Mervet  and 
others. 

Inventory  of  his  goods  taken  29  March  1688,  by  William 
Aldridge,  of  Earle-Stoke,  William  Ballard,  of  Steple  Ashton, 
and  Thomas  Taylor,  of  Bulkington,  including  furniture  and 
household  implements,  and  farm  stock  and  produce,  the  total 
amounting  to  ^341  i8s.  6d. 

[P.C.C.,   1 60  Exton.} 

The  Will  of  MARTHA  BALLARD,  of  New  Sarum,  widow ; 
sons  Henry  and  John  and  Oliver.  Daughters,  Martha,  wife  of 
Nathaniel  Webb,  and  Susan  Ballard.  Property  in  New  Sarum 
and  Odstock,  co.  Wilts.  Dated,  13  July  1685.  [JProved  1S 
December  1688]. 

[P.C.C.,  204  Coker.] 

The  Will  of  SUSANNAH  BALLARD,  of  New  Sarum,  spinster, 
daughter  of  the  above.     Dated,  23    March   1689.      [Proved  6 

December  1693.] 

E.  M.  THOMPSON. 
(To  be  continued.} 


JUDGE    NICHOLAS,    HIS    PARENTAGE    AND 
BIRTHPLACE. 


A  few  notes  on  Robert  Nicholas,  some  time  Recorder  of 
Devizes,  and  afterwards  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Upper 
Bench,  and  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  during  Cromwell's 
usurpation,  have  already  appeared  in  the  pages  of  Wiltshire 


506  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Notes  and  Queries  (vol.  i,  p.  321-2,  and  vol.  ii,  p.  478-9).  In 
the  present  paper  an  attempt  is  made  to  clear  up  the  uncer- 
tainty which  exists  as  to  both  his  parentage  and  birthplace, 
and  also  to  add  a  few  unpublished  details  illustrative  of  his 
subsequent  career. 

Of  the  Judge's  parentage  it  is  somewhat  remarkable  that 
nobody  who  has  attempted  to  write  on  the  subject  seems  to 
have  known  anything  with  the  least  degree  of  certainty.  The 
same  remark  applies  also  to  his  birthplace.  Anthony  Wood, 
an  early  authority,  says  he  was  of  the  same  family  as  his 
royalist  contemporary,  Sir  Edward  Nicholas,  Secretary  of 
State  to  Charles  I  and  II,  and  Dr.  Matthew  Nicholas,  Dean  of 
St.  Paul's,1  both  of  whom  were  born  at  Winterbourne  Earls, 
in  South  Wilts.  A  pedigree  of  this  branch  of  the  Nicholas 
family — beginning  with  the  grandfather  of  the  Secretary  of 
State — is  printed  in  Hoare's  Modern  Wiltshire,  Alderbury 
Hundred*  but  the  connexion  which  probably  existed  between 
them  and  the  direct  ancestors  of  the  Judge,  has  not  yet  been 
clearly  shown. 

The  late  Mr.  James  Waylen,  in  his  History  of  Devizes 
(1859),  fixes  the  Judge's  birthplace  at  Allcannings,  on  the 
apparently  very  slender  authority  of  the  following  entries, 
which  appear  in  the  Register  of  that  parish  : — 


1  A  distinguished   Wykehamist.     Whilst  his  son,  John  Nicholas,  was 
Warden  of  Winchester  College,  the  Dean  contributed  the  munificent  sum  of 
£1,200  towards  the  erection  of  "  School,"  being  more  than  half  of  its  actual 
cost.     His  arms,   with   those   of   other    benefactors,    appear  beneath    the 
cornice. 

2  Sir  Richard  Hoare  (Alderbury  Hund.,  p.  88;  says  that  from  the  family 
at   Winterbourne   Earls   descended   Nicholas,   of   Roundway,    but  this   is 
unlikely,  for  at  the  date  when  the  Winterbourne  pedigree,  as  printed  by 
himself,  begins,  the  Roundway  line  of  Nicholas  is  known  to  have  already 
been  represented  there  for  nearly  three  centuries  !     It  is,   however,  note- 
worthy that,  whilst  no  actual  connexion  appears  between  the  two  families, 
the  name  of  Sir  Edward,  the  Secretary  of  State  (who  was  of  West  Horsley, 
Surrey,  and  buried  there  in  1669),  should  occur  as  a  ratepayer  in  Roundway 
in   1663 — and  that  some  of  his  descendants  should  afterwards  have  held 
property  both  in  Bishop's  Cannings  and  Allcannings. 


Judge  Nicholas,  his  Parentage  and  Birthplace.  507 

1597.  "Robert  Nicholas  was  baptized  the  iyth  day  of  November. 
Idem  Robt.  Nicholas,  sepult'  fuit  eodem  die  et  anno.  Robert  Nicholas 
minor  was  baptized  the  22tid  of  November  eodem  anno." 

But  beyond  the  fact  that  these  were  twin  sons  of  some 
member  of  the  Allcannings  branch  of  Nicholas,  the  names  of 
whose  parents  even  do  not  appear — that  they  were  both  named 
Robert — that  one  of  them  was  baptized,  and  died  soon  after 
his  birth,  the  survivor  being  distinguished  as  Robert  Nicholas 
minor — there  is  nothing  whatever  to  connect  the  latter 
individual  with  the  Judge  of  the  Cromwellian  period. 

The  historian  of  Devizes  is  followed  by  the  late  Canon 
Jones,  Vicar  of  Bradford-on-Avon,  who,  in  a  paper  on  the 
history  of  Allcannings,  printed  in  vol.  xi  of  the  Wiltshire 
Archceological  Magazine,  again  quoting  the  same  entries  from 
the  register,  claims  Judge  Nicholas  as  a  distinguished  native  of 
that  parish. 

The  writer  of  the  Judge's  memoir  in  the  Dictionary  of 
National  Biography  describes  him  as  "probably  son  of  Robert 
Nicholas,  of  Allcannings."  But  on  looking  in  turn  at  the 
pedigree  of  this  branch,  as  given  in  the  Herajd's  Visitation  of 
1623,  no  Robert  is  to  be  found  at  the  date  having  a  son  Robert 
as  here  described.  The  Robert  Nicholas,  minor,  of  the  All- 
cannings  register,  baptized  22nd  Nov.  1597,  was  apparently  a 
son  of  Edward,  of  Allcannings,  by  his  wife  Katharine,  daughter 
of  Richard  Francklyn.  In  1623 — the  year  of  his  father's 
burial — the  son  Robert  was  himself  married  to  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Philip  Sheldon,  of  Spatchley,  co.  Worcester,  and 
had  a  son  Philip  six  weeks  old.  See  Harl.  MS.  No.  1165, 
fol.  38. 

On  looking  still  further  in  Foster's  Alumni  Oxonienses  we 
find  a  double  guess,  viz.,  that  the  Judge  was  "possibly  of 
Roundway,  Wilts,  son  and  heir  of  John  Nicholas,  of  Round- 
way,  gent,  or,  son  of  Robert  Nicholas  of  Allcannings,  baptized 
22nd  November  1597." 

If  the  Editor  of  the  Alumni  had  omitted  his  last  guess, 
the  first — "  son  and  heir  of  John  Nicholas,  of  Roundway  "- 


508  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

would  not  have  been  very  wide  of  the  mark  ;  and  it  will  be 
distinctly  shown  in  the  following  pages  that  Judge  Robert 
Nicholas  was  really  a  native  either  of  Roundway,  in  the  parish 
of  Bishop's  Cannings,  or  of  Devizes,  close  by,  where  his  father 
appears  to  have  some  time  resided ;  and  that  he  was  nearly 
two  years  old  at  the  time  of  the  birth  of  his  namesake  and 
contemporary,  the  Robert  Nicholas  minor-  of  the  Allcannings 
Register — whom  some  recent  historians  have  mistaken  for 
him. 

The  elder  line  of  Nicholas,  as  seen  in  the  Herald's  Visi- 
tation of  1565,  were  seated  at  Roundway1  as  early,  at  least, 
as  the  time  of  Edward  III.  Their  estate  here  was  held  in 
socage  of  the  Bishops  of  Salisbury,  and  in  a  deed  of  39  Henry 
VI  [1460-61]  is  called  "  Nicholas  Place."  John  Nicholas  (the 
fifth  in  descent  in  the  Herald's  pedigree)  who  died  in  the  latter 
year,  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Thomas  Ennock,  of  Baynton, 
by  Agnes,  daughter  of  Simon  Sandon,  of  Horton,  whose 
grandfather,  John  Sandon,  had  married  Dionisia,  sister  of  Sir 
John  Roche,  of  Bromham.2 

From  John  Nicholas,  of  Roundway,  who  died  1461,  and 
his  wife,  Alice  [Ennock],  were  descended :  Judge  Robert 
Nicholas  in  the  elder  line,  at  Roundway;  and  his  con- 
temporary, the  Robert  Nicholas  minor,  of  the  Allcannings 
Register,  in  the  younger  line ;  as  shown  in  the  accompanying 
pedigree,  compiled  from  the  Herald's  Visitations  of  1565  and 
1623,  the  parish  registers  of  St.  James',  Southbroom,  and  other 
original  sources. 


1  In    early   deeds   Rinway,  Rinwey,    Rynweye,    Ryndewey,    evidently 
from  the  Anglo-  Saxon  Ryne  (a  spring).     The  spring  here  is  well  known. 

2  It   is   through   this  descent  that  several   later  members    and  other 
descendants  of  the  elder  line  of  Nicholas,  of  Roundway,  have  considered 
themselves  to  be  representatives  also  of  the  Barony  of  De  la  Rouhe  (so  called) 
which  has  been  in  abeyance  since  the  time  of  Edward  II. 


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The  Judge's  father,  as  shown  in  the  pedigree,  was  John 
Nicholas,  born  25  July  1595,  and  the  eldest  son  of  a  family  of 
nine  children.  He  is  described  as  "  of  Devizes  " — (a  younger 
brother,  Griffin  Nicholas,  then  residing  on  the  family  estate  at 
Roundway) — and  was  dead  in  1635.  By  his  wife  Mary, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Cooke,  of  Bishop's  Cannings,1  buried  at 
St.  James',  Southbroom,  2ist  November  1604,  he  had  three 
sons,  of  whom  Robert  (afterwards  the  Judge)  baptized  1595, 
was  the  heir ;  and  seven  daughters. 

The  younger  brothers  of  the  Judge  were  Michael  Nicholas, 
baptized  in  1603  ;  whose  will  is  dated  1650.  He  died  without 
issue,  and  was  a  benefactor  to  the  poor  of  Devizes.  From  the 
third  and  remaining  brother,  Thomas  Nicholas,  of  Roundway, 
baptized  in  1604,  very  shortly  before  his  mother's  burial, 
descended  the  younger  branch  who,  by  purchase  from  the 
Judge's  representatives,  in  1705,  became  the  later  owners  of 
Roundway. 

Of  the  Judge's  sisters,  two,  at  least,  died  young  ;  and  the 
register  of  St.  James',  Southbroom,  contains  the  marriages  of 
two  others.  Elizabeth,  the  eldest,  baptized  1590,  was  married 
in  1613  to  Peter  Bruer,  by  whom  she  had  a  son  of  the  same 
name  (who  is  mentioned  in  the  Judge's  will  as  "  cusen  Peter 
Brewer,  of  Amsbury,  Wilts,  gent."8),  and  a  daughter  Mary. 
She  appears  to  have  re-married  John  Forsyth  of  Avebury, 
clerk,  by  whom  she  had  three  sons,  Thomas,  Nicholas,  and 
Robert,  and  was  living  in  1634.  Eleanor,  a  younger  daughter, 
baptized  in  1598,  was  married  in  1616  to  Marmaduke  Burde,  a 
Devizes  apothecary ;  she  is  mentioned  as  "  my  sister  Burde  " 
in  the  Judge's  will,  and  was  living  in  1667. 

(To  be  continued.) 

EDWARD  KITE. 


1  The  name  of  Cooke  occurs  as  Reeve  of  Cannings.    He  was  evidently 
the  bailiff  or  representative  of  the  Bishop  of  Salisbury  in  that  manor. 

2  This  Peter  Brewer,  as  "  son-in-law  of  John  Forsith,  of  Avebury,  clerk," 
was  apprenticed  to  Marmaduke  Burde,  of  Devizes,  apothecary,  in  1632,  for 
eight  years.    MS.  Book  of  Admissions  of  the  Mercers  Company. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  511 


QUAKERISM    IN    WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  465.^) 


III.— BIRTH    RECORDS. 

P. 

1059-6-3. — John  PLAYER,  son  of  William  Player,  of  Grittleton. 

1660-10-10. — Joseph     PLAYER,     son    of    William    Player,    of 
Grittleton. 

1663-6-21.— Mary  PLAYER,  dau.  of  William  Player,  of  Grittleton. 

1664-8-22. — James  PARRADICE,  son  of  John  and  Susan  Parra- 
dice,  of  Slaughterford. 

1665-7-16. — James  PLAYER,  son  of  William    Player,   of  Grit- 
tleton. 

1666-12-5. — Susannah  PARRADICE,  dau.  of  John  and  Susannah 
Parradice,  of  Slaughterford. 

1667-8-27. — Richard  PEARCE,  son  of  William  Pearce. 

1668-2-5. — Samuell     PLAYER,    son     of    William    Player,     of 
Grittleton. 

i67*[i]-3-29. — Sarah    PLAYER,    dau.    of    William    Player,    of 
Foskett. 

1675-11-2. — -Daniel   PLAYER,  son  of  William  Player,  of  Foskett. 
1676-1-11. — Sarah  PEARCE,  dau.  of  William  Pearce. 

1680-12-14. — Isaack   PARRADIZE,    son   of  William    and   Mary 
Parradize,  of  Slaughterford. 

1680-12-22. — Caleb  PEARCE,  son  of  William  Pearce. 

1682-9-21. — James  PARRADICE,  son   of  Wm.  and    Mary  Par- 
radice, of  Slaughterford. 

1684-1-12. — John  PALMER,  son  of  William  Palmer,  of  Calne. 

1685-2-17  [:8J. — Edward  PARADICE,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
Paradice,  of  Slaughterford. 

i686-*-6. — Mary  PARADICE,  dau.  of  William   and  Mary  Para- 
dice,  of  Slaughterford. 

1687-9-14. — William  PALMER,  son  of  William  Palmer,  of  Calne. 

1689-4-1. — William    PARADICE,    son    of    William    and    Mary 
Paradice,  of  Slaughterford  Meeting. 


5i2  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


1689-10-1. — Edward  PYOTT,  son  of  Alexander1  and  Mary  Pyott, 
of  Warminster. 

1690-3-21. — Ruth  and  Jacob  PALMER,  twin  dau.  and  son  of 
William  Palmer,  of  Calne. 

1690-6-28. — Susana  PARADICE,  dau.  of  William  and  Mary 
Paradice,  of  Slaughterford  Meeting. 

1691-7-18. — William  PYOTT,  son  of  Alexander  and  Mary  Pyott, 
of  Warminster. 

1692-1-29. — Ann  PALMER,  dau.  of  William  Palmer,  of  Calne. 
1692-8-28. — Susana     PARADISE,    at     Slaughterford,     dau.     of 
William  and  Mary  Paradice,  of  Slaughterford. 

1693-10-31. — Richard  PYOTT,  son  of  Alexander  and  Mary 
Pyott,  of  Warminster. 

1694-1-6. — Susanne  PARREDIS,  dau.  of  William  and  Mary 
Parredis,  of  Slaughterford  '  [Chippenham 
Meeting]. 

1694/5-1-2. — Sarah  PACKER,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ruth  Packer, 
of  Slat'terford. 

1696-9-24. — Mary  PACKER,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ruth  Packer, 
of  Slaughterford. 

1696-11-18. — Elizabeth  PARFECT,  dau.  of  John  and  Sarah 
Parfect,  of  Melksham,  cloth-worker. 

1699-5-25. — Elizabeth  PHELPES,  dau.  of  John  and  Marey  Phelpes, 
of  Hoult,  cloth-worker. 


1  Alexander  Pyott,  of  Warminster,  was  one  of  several  Friends  who  wrote 
a  defence  of  Quakerism,  which  obtained  some  importance  at  the  end  of  the 
17th  and  beginning  of  the  18th  century.  As  a  Wiltshire  production  it  may 
be  noticed  here.  It  is  entitled  |  A  Brief  |  Apology  j  in  |  Behalf  of  the  People  | 
In  Derision  call'd  |  QUAKERS  \  Written  I  For  the  Information  ol  our 
sober  and  |  Well-inclined  Neighbours  in  and  about  the  |  Town  of  Warminster 
in  the  County  of  Wilts  \  By  |  Will.  Chandler,  Alex.  Pyott,  J.  Hodges.  |  And 
some  others  |  [with  Scripture  quotation.  2  Cor.,  vi.,  8,  9]  |  LONDON  \  . 
Printed  for  Thomas  Morthcott,  etc.,  in  small  8vo,  78  pp.,  1693.  It  bristles 
with  quotations  from  the  O.  and  N.  T.  and  Apocrypha.  There  is  a  reference 
to  a  saying  of  Tho.  Vincent  (probably  the  same  who  wrote  against  Wm.  Penn) 
that  the  doctrines  of  the  Quakers  were  "  more  mortal  and  destructive  to  the 

soul,   defiling  it   more  than  drinking  a  draught  of  poyson 

"  and  another  to  "  T.  R.'s  unsavoury  and  uncharitable  expression," 

that  "the  Devil  must  needs  carry  the  Quakers  a  pick-pack  to  Hell,"  but 
beyond  these  I  do  not  find  any  other  personal  allusions  in  this  tract. 

The  2nd  edition  bears  the  same  imprint  with  the  addition  of  "  and  are 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  513 

R. 

1656/7-12-2. — Moses  RAWLINGS,  son  of  Daniel  Rawlings. 

1657-1-8. — Joice    RAWLINS,    dau.    of  Henry    Rawlins     (alias 
Butler)  and  Margarett,  of  Corsham. 

1659-10-12. — Ruth  RAWLINGS,  dau.  of  Daniell  Rawlings. 

1659-10-14. — Isaac  RICKETTS,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Ricketts, 
of  Corsham. 

1660-8-22. — Sarah  RICHARDSON,  dau.  of  John  Richardson. 

1661-10-7. — James  RAWLENCE,  son  of  Henry  Rawlence  (alias 
Butler)  and  Margaret,  of  Corsham. 

1662-6-23. — Sarah  RAWLINGS,  dau.  of  Daniell  Rawlings. 

1662-7-25. — John  RICKETTS,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Ricketts,  of 
Corsham. 

1662-8-9. — Samuell    ROBERTS,    son    of    William    Roberts,    of 
Purton  Meeting. 

1662-12-17. — Mary   RAWLINS,    dau.    of  Henry   and   Margaret 
Rawlins,  of  Corsham. 

1663-10-16. — Mary  RICHARDSON,  dau.  of  John  Richardson,  of 
Marlbro.' 

1664-12-2. — Susannah  RICKETTS,  dau.  of  John  and  Jane  Ricketts, 
of  Corsham. 

1665-6-7. — Mary  RAWLINGS,  dau.  of  Daniell  Rawlings. 

1665-7-30. — Thomas  RICHARDSON,  son  of  John  Richardson,  of 
Marlbro.' 


to  be  Sold  by  William  Longford,  Book-seller  in  Warminster,  1694."  It  has 
86  pages  of  the  same  size  as  the  first  edition.  Another  edition,  of  rather 
larger  size,  appeared  in  London,  undated,  52  pp.  Further  London  editions 
are  dated  1701,  1717,  1739;  and  the  tract  was  reprinted  in  Dublin  1702, 
1713  and  1727 ;  in  Philadelphia,  1719 ;  and  in  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  1739. 
The  1701  edition  was  translated  into  Welsh  by  Humphry  Owen  and  Thomas 
Cadwalader,  taking  78  pages  as  compared  with  the  95  pages  of  the  original, 
of  similar  size.  It  is  entitled  "  Amddiffyniad  Byrr,"  etc.,  with  imprint 
"  Argraphwyd  yn  y  Flwyddyn  1704."  A  rough  collation  of  the  editions 
does  not  reveal  any  considerable  variation  of  text.  Most  of  the  editions  are 
in  the  Friends' Central  Library,  in  London,  the  copy  of  the  Newcastle  edition 
(a  special  reprint)  bearing  the  name  of  "  Gouldney  Rawlinson  "  as  sometime 
owner,  "the  gift  of  Wm.  Rawlinson,  late  of  Furnace  Fells,  in  Lancashire." 
A  copy  of  the  Dublin  1702  edition  is  in  the  Archaeological  Museum  at 
Devizes,  in  Vol.  xli  of  "  Wiltshire  Tracts."  The  price  of  the  book  as  adver- 
tised about  1720  was  sixpence. 

M  M 


514  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1665-8-20. — John  RAWLENCE,   son    of  Henry    and    Margarett 
Rawlence,  of  Corsham. 

1666-7-11. — William  RICKETTS,  son  of  John  and  Jane  Ricketts, 
of  Corsham. 

1666/7-11-3. — Sarah    Roberts,    dau.    of    William    Roberts,    of 
Purton  Meeting. 

1667-3-4. — Peter   RICHARDSON,    son   of   John    Richardson,    of 
Marlbro. 

1667-12-6. — William    RAWLINS,  son  of  Henry  Rawlins  (alias 
Butler),  of  Corsham. 

1667/8-11-5. — Aaron  RAWLINGS,  son  of  Daniell  Rawlings. 
1669-6-27. — Martha  RICHARDSON,  dau.  of  John  Richardson. 

1671-8-22. — John   RICHARDSON,   son   of  John    Richardson,    of 
Marlbro'  Meeting. 

1674-5-10. — Peter  RICHARDSON,   son    of   John   Richardson,  of 
Marlbro  Meeting. 

1674-5-20. — Martha  ROBERTS,  dau.  ot  William  Roberts. 

1675-7-4. — Ann  ROGERS,  dau.  of  John  and  Kathern  Rogers,  of 
Headington. 

1675-10-12. — Joseph  and  Benjamin  RICHARDSON,  twin  sons  of 
John  Richardson,  of  Marlbro  Meeting. 

1675-12-13. — Ellinor  RASIE,  dau.  of  Robert  and  Ellinor  Rasie, 
of  Corsham. 

1676-11-16. — Joane   ROGERS,    dau.    of  Henry    and    Margarett 
Rogers,  of  Headington. 

1677-7-19. — Sarah  RICHARDSON,   dau.  of  John  Richardson,  of 
Marlbro  Meeting. 

Tottenham,  Middx.  NORMAN  PENNEY. 

(To  be  continued.) 


JOHN  AUBREY'S  NOTES  ON  LACOCK,  BOWDEN,  &c. 


The  reader  of  the  late  Canon  Jackson's  edition  of  Aubrey's 
Wiltshire  Collections  will  find  (p.  89)  that  the  Editor  assumed 
that  certain  armorial  shields,  now  in  the  vaulting  of  the 
cloisters  of  Lacock  Abbey,  had  been  overlooked  by  Aubrey. 


John  Aubrey's  Notes  on  Lacock,  Bowden,  &c.  515 

The  fact  is  however  that,  in  Aubrey's  time,  they  were  not 
there. 

This  is  what  Canon  Jackson  has  inserted,  within  brackets, 
at  the  foot  of  the  page  : — "  (The  other  shields  in  the  cloisters, 
omitted  by  Aubrey,  are  PI.  viii,  Nos.  142,  143,  144,  145,  146,  and 
PL  ix,  No.  147.  Ed.)"  Of  these,  Nos.  142,  143,  144,  and  145  are 
altered  keystones  of  the  vaulting.  They  were  probably  origin- 
ally not  armorial  at  all,  but  sunk  and  ornamented  with  foliage. 
They  appear  to  be  filled  up  and  altered  in  cement.  The  fact, 
that  the  present  condition  of  these  keystones  is  not  original, 
might  easily  be  overlooked.  It  was  not  detected  by  me,  but 
was  pointed  out  to  me,  many  years  ago,  by  an  archaeological 
friend,  and,  when  pointed  out,  it  was  easily  seen,  owing  to  the 
character  of  the  foliage  and  the  general  flatness  and  modern 
look  of  the  work.  These  alterations  must  have  been  made, 
when  the  painting  of  the  vaulting  was  renewed,  probably  by 
Ivory  Talbot. 

No.  146,  however — the  Sharington  arms — are  not,  and 
never  can  have  been,  in  the  cloister  vaulting.  The  precise 
nature  of  the  mistake,  here  made,  I  have  lately  ascertained  by 
an  examination  of  Aubrey's  original  manuscript  in  the  Bodleian 
Library  at  Oxford.  The  Sharington  arms  are  not  "  omitted 
by  Aubrey",  but  are  given  in  colours  in  the  manuscript,  in 
such  a  position  as  to  show  that  they  have  no  reference  to  the 
arms  in  the  cloisters,  but  may  possibly  have  been  in  the  hall. 
They  must  have  been  in  glass.  The  crosses  are  left  un- 
coloured,  and  the  smaller  crosses,  that  should  have  been 
charged  on  the  larger  ones,  are  omitted.  The  name  Sharington 
(correctly  spelt,  with  an  «,  not  an  e)  is  set  against  the  shield. 

I  have  now,  in  the  hall,  in  glass,  the  shield  of  Sharington 
impaling  Walsingham,  and  in  a  gallery  window,  amongst 
some  patch-work,  a  fragment  of  another  Sharington  shield. 
Dingley  sketched  the  shield  of  Sharington  impaling  Farington, 
in  1684,  in  what  is  now  the  south  gallery.  The  shield 
sketched  by  Aubrey,  was  probably  Sharington  only — at  any 
rate,  it  is  so  drawn. 


516  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

No.  147  represents  one  of  two  shields  that  were  altered  in 
a  different  way.  These  are  original  shields,  which  in  Aubrey's 
manuscript  are  Azure  a  lion  rampant  or.  One  of  these  has 
been  altered  to  the  Talbot  arms,  by  adding  a  bordure  and 
changing  the  tinctures.  In  the  other  case,  the  alteration  is 
incomplete,  as  the  bordure  has  not  been  introduced. 

Aubrey  gives  the  arms  of  Baynard — Sable  a  fess  between 
two  chevrons  or — as  occurring  twice  in  the  cloisters  In  one 
of  these  cases,  in  the  east  walk,  the  tinctures  are  now  falsified. 

He  also  gives  the  arms  of  de  la  Roche,  as  Sable  three 
roaches  naiant  in  pale  argent,  which  appears  to  have  been 
correct. 

The  letters,  A  W,  in  the  hall,  were  probably  in  glass. 
They  are  coloured  yellow  in  the  MS.,  with  a  little  red  edging. 

Canon  Jackson  (p.  90)  represents  Aubrey  as  saying  that 
the  foundress,  Ela,  "  outlived  her  understanding,  being  above 
an  hundred  yeares  of  age."  The  words  "  an  hundred  "  how- 
ever do  not  occur  in  the  MS.,  but,  in  their  place,  a  sort  of 
knot  or  twist,  which  Canon  Jackson  may  perhaps  have  known 
to  stand  for  100,  but  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  it  is  simply 'a 
query. 

Canon  Jackson  (p.  93),  speaking  of  the  south  transept  of 
the  parish  church,  prints,  as  the  text — "  In  this  Aisle  is  a 
Gothique  Altar  Monument  of  ....  Bluett."  Now  this 
is  a  distinct  misreading  of  the  MS.,  which  simply  describes  it 
as  "a  Gothiq  Altar  Monument  of  .  .  .  .  ."  The  word 
Bluette,  in  the  MS.,  with  the  final  letters  te  erased,  only  refers 
to  the  Bluet  arms,  on  the  monument  (No.  148)  against  which 
it  is  written.  The  monument,  which  is  drawn  by  Dingley, 
was,  of  course,  that  of  a  Baynard,  and  there  is  nothing  to  show 
that  Aubrey  thought  otherwise. 

In  connexion  with  Bowden,  then  written  Bowdon  (p.  93), 
there  is  a  puzzle.  I  made  a  note,  at  Oxford,  that  a  passage  in 
the  MS.,  beginning  with  the  words — "Here  is  lately  found" 
and  ending  with  the  words  "  under  the  barren  sand",  appears 
to  be  a  note,  added  later  in  the  margin,  and  dated  March  6th, 


John  Aubrey's  Notes  on  Lacock,  Bowden,  &>c.  517 

1625.  Unfortunately,  on  referring  to  the  printed  book,  I  do 
not  find  the  initial  words  at  all.  That  therefore  needs  re- 
examination  of  the  MS.  with  the  book.  As  Canon  Jackson 
points  out,  Aubrey  cannot  have  written  the  memorandum  at 
that  date,  which  is  far  too  near  that  of  his  own  birth.  It 
appears  to  be  a  slip.  It  should  be  a  date  later  than  1662, 
when  Bowden  appears  to  have  been  purchased  by  George 
Johnson  and  his  father,  and  the  date  1675  may  have  been  in- 
tended. I  think  it  refers  to  an  added  note,  and  not  to  the 
description  of  the  old  house,  of  which  he  says — "  it  is  of 
ancient  and  strong  freesto-ne  building,  &c." — speaking  as  if  he 
had  seen  it  himself. 

Whilst  Bowden  still  remained  in  the  possession  of  the 
Sharington  family  or  their  descendants,  Sir  Robert  and  Lady 
Stapylton  at  one  time  stayed  there,  when  Anne,  the  widow 
of  Sir  Henry  Sharington,  was  living  at  Lacock  Abbey.  This 
is  shown  by  an  account  book  in  my  possession.  From  what 
Aubrey  says,  it  would  appear  possible  that,  when  George 
Johnson  built  his  house  at  Bowden,  the  older  house  may  not 
have  been,  at  once,  removed.  I  do  not  know  the  date  when 
Johnson's  house  was  built,  but  he  died  in  1683. 

Aubrey  wrote  a  very  good  hand,  and  his  manuscript  is  a 

most  attractive  one. 

C.  H.  TALBOT. 
Lacock  Abbey. 


DUGDALE  OF  SEEND. 


(Continued Jrom  p.  181.) 

The  following  are  abstracts  of  two  deeds,  now  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  James  Coleman,  of  Tottenham  :— 

1607,  31  Jan.  (5  Jac.  I.)  An  indenture  between  Christofer  Dugdale, 
of  Polleshott,  Clerck,  and  William  Geryshe,  of  Seenehedd,  Clothier, 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  dau.  of  said  Christofer,  for  and  in  consideration 
of  a  marriage  heretofore  had  and  'solemnised  between  the  said  William 
Geryshe  and  Elizabeth  his  vvief,  for  ,£15,  all  that  meadow  called  North- 
croit,  being  i  acre  more  or  less,  a  plot  of  meadow  in  Reding's  Meade, 


518  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


being  2^  acres  more  or  less,  i  acre  in  a  field  shooting  upon  a  tenement 
in  possession  of  William  Gilbert,  alias  Netton,  being  in  Seenehedd  and 
Seenerewe,  late  in  the  tenure  or  occupation  of  Robert  Geryshe  or  his 
assigns,  &c.,  to  be  holden  of  the  chief  lord  or  lords  of  the  fee  or  fees,  by 
the  rents,  customs  and  services  henceforth  to  become  due  and  of  right 
payable,  &c.  The  said  Christoter  Dugdale  and  his  wief  Bridget  and 
heirs  shall  within  at  any  time  of  five  years,  by  fine  or  otherwise,  make 
such  further  and  reasonable  assurance  of  the  premises  to  the  said 
William  Geryshe  and  Elizabeth  his  wief,  as  shall  be  reasonably  required, 
and  the  said  Christofer  appoints  John  Ballye  and  Elias  White  to  be  his 
attornies  to  deliver  seisin. 

Signed,  Willm  Geerish,  Elizabeth  Dugdaile,  her  mark;  witness, 
Wylliam  Ranger,  and  by  the  marks  of  Thomas  Richards,  Walter  Sutton, 
Jerome  Davies. 

1684,  March  20. — An  indenture  between  John  Wadman,  of  Imber, 
gent,  and  Thomas  Dugdale,  of  Seendhead,  Clothyer ;  the  former  for  ^20 
sells  to  the  latter  "  in  free  and  liberal  exchange,"  a  close  of  arable  or 
pasture  lately  enclosed  out  of  the  Westfield,  and  a  little  parcel  of  meadow 
ground  adjoining,  containing  together  about  5  acres;  the  latter,  "in  free 
and  liberal  exchange,"  grants  the  former  3  acres  of  arable  or  pasture 
lately  enclosed  out  of  a  field  called  Pudleigh,  and  i  acre  of  arable  in  the 
Churchfield,  all  in  the  parish  of  Seend. 

Signed  by  John  Wadman,  and  sealed  with  the  arms  he  bore,  viz., 
Ermine,  on  a  bend  cotised  three  roses;  witness,  Jos.  Somner,  Jos.  Walter. 

Wadman  does  not  occur  at  all  in  the  printed  Visitation  of 
Wilts,  1623  ;  Canon  Jackson,  in  his  notes  on  Aubrey's  Collec- 
tions, p.  302,  says,  that  Awdry's  estate  in  Seend  previously 
belonged  to  the  Wadmans ;  the  arms  as  borne  by  AWDRY 
are  Argent  on  a  bend  cotised  azure  three  cinquefoils  or  ;  according 
to  Burke's  Armory,  AWDREY,  of  Devon  and  Oxford,  bore 
roses  instead  of  cinquefoils ;  is  there  any  significance  in  the 
similarity  of  these  bearings  ? 

In  a  recent  repair  by  Mr.  Amos  Webb,  of  Beanacre,  of  an 
old  house  at  Seendhead,  of  about  the  time  of  Charles  II,  an 
instrument  was  found,  in  removing  the  old  oak  flooring,  which 
must  have  been  used  for  some  process  in  connexion  with  the 
clothing  trade,  it  may  perhaps  be  described  as  a  carding  comb 
with  a  handle,  not  unlike  a  modern  curry  comb.  A  fragment 
of  paper  was  also  found,  with  the  name  of  "  Dugdale,"  and 
some  mention  of  cloth,  thus  apparently  identifying  the  old 
house  as  the  former  residence  of  the  Seendhead  branch  of 
this  Family. 


Curious  Tenure.  519 


(©times;. 


Curious  Tenure. — By  an  Indenture,  dated  25  March  1741, 
William  Nicholas,  of  Winterbourne  Earls  (younger  son  of  Sir 
John  Nicholas,  Knt.)  leases  to  John  Weston,  yeoman,  for 
four  years,  the  capital  messuage  and  farm  of  Cannings  Canoni- 
corum,  known  as  Parsonage  Farm,  with  the  tythe  of  corn, 
grain,  sheaf,  and  pulse,  belonging  to  the  Rectory  of  Bishops 
Cannings ;  at  a  yearly  rent  of  ^200,  and  also  paying  and 
delivering  yearly  on  the  feast  of  St.  Thomas  the  Apostle,  "  a 
good  sweet  and  well  ordered  Chine  of  Bacon  of  a  well  fed 
young  fatt  Hogg,  one  good  sweet  well  fedd  Turkey,  and  two 
good  sweet  young  and  well  fed  B'owles  of  a  reasonable  size,  to 
the  good  liking  of  the  said  William  Nicholas  his  heirs  and 
assigns."  Weston,  besides  customary  rates  and  taxes,  also 
covenants  to  pay  "  his  proportion  of  such  charges  as  shall  be 
disbursed  and  laid  out  in  the  necessary  repairs  of  the  Chancel 
of  the  Parish  Church  of  Bishops  Cannings ";  and  also  to 
provide  meat,  drink,  lodging,  and  horse  meat  for  the  officers  of 
the  lord  of  the  manor  (not  exceeding  four  persons),  to  survey 
and  keep  Courts  there,  not  more  than  twice  in  the  year,  their 
stay  not  to  exceed  two  days  and  two  nights  at  each  time. 

Are  any  other  instances  known  in  Wiltshire  of  a  tenant 

thus  providing  for  his  landlord's  Christmas  dinner  ? 

SCRIBA. 


Isaac  Walton's  Bible— Thomas  Andrews. — At  a  sale  at 
Rowdeford  on  the  decease  of  Mr.  John  Locke,  a  Bible,  printed 
at  Cambridge  by  John  Field,  1668,  was  sold,  on  the  fly-leaf  of 
which  was  written,  "  Issac  Walton  j  given  |  by  Bishop  Kenn  | 
Rachel  Andrews  |  Baptized  June  4,  1714  |  given  by  her  God 
Father  |  the  Rev.  Mr.  Walton  |  of  Polshett."  Rachel  Andrews 
was  the  daughter  and  heir  of  Rev.  Thomas  Andrews,  probably 
by  Mary  Paradise,  widow  of  Richard  Deverill,  all  of  Seend, 
whom  he  married  at  the  same  place  July  5, 1709;  Rachel  married 
Wadham  Lock,  Gent,  of  Devizes,  at  Seend,  Feb.  15,  1742. 


520  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Information   is  desired   concerning   this    family  of   Andrews. 
What  has  become  of  the  Bible  ? 

AJAX. 


Arms  of  Savory  of  Wilts. —  i.  Quarterly  or  and  azure,  a 
bend  gules.  2.  Paly  of  six  argent  and  vert,  a  chief  sable. 
Crest :  A  hand  holding  a  chapeau  between  two  branches  in  orle, 
all  proper.  Do  these  arms  appear  on  any  monuments  or  else- 
where in  Wiltshire  ? 

Anne,  coheiress  of  John  Savery,  armiger,  wife  of  Thomas 
Bamfield,  36  Hen.  VIII,  joined  in  a  fine  of  the  "advowson  of 
the  free  chapel  of  St.  Blase  in  Chalfield." 

Annapolis.  A.  W.  SAVORY. 


ftrplies. 


Henry  drivers,  of  Quemerford  (vol.  iii,  pp.  280,  429). 
An  individual  of  this  name,  apparently  the  M.P.  for  Calne 
1689-1705,  is  buried  in  the  church  at  Leigh  Delamere,  near 
Chippenham,  where  he  had  property  and  was  lord  of  the 
manor.  His  monument  describes  him  as  "  late  of  Quemer- 
ford." He  died  30  April  1720,  aged  67,  and  must  have  been 
the  eldest  son  of  Seacole  Chivers  by  his  wife  Eleanor,  daughter 
of  John  Roberts,  of  Siddington,  co.  Glouc.  This  is  confirmed 
by  the  arms  on  his  monument,  viz.  CHIVERS  and  ROBERTS 
quarterly,  impaling  STONEHOUSE  ;  to  which  latter  family  his 
wife  must  have  belonged.  H.  D. 


j&otes  anD  (Euertes, 


DECEMBER,   1901. 


GODDARD  OF  SEDGEHILL,  CO.  WILTS. 


branch  of  the  Goddard  family,  to  which  belong 
t^ie  foltawing'  wills,  so  far  as  I  am  aware,  has  never 
before  been  worked  out,  and  possibly  some  of  your 
readers  may  be  able  to  add  to  or  complete  my  attempt 

at  a  pedigree. 

RAINALD  WM.  KNIGHTLEY  GODDARD. 


John  Goddard  de  Sedghill,  co.  Wilts.  Will  dated  24  July 
1550.  To  be  buried  in  Chapel  of  St.  Katherine  in  Sedghill. 
Bequests  to  Lady  Church  of  Sarum,  Chapel  of  Sedghill, 
Church  of  East  Knoyle.  Sons  :  William,  John  the  elder,  and 
John  the  younger.  Dau. :  Christian.  Wife  :  Elizabeth,  sole 
Extrix. 

Overseers :  John  Burbage,  John  Goddard,  son,  Robt. 
Jeffreys,  Thos,  Lemy  (7). 

Witnesses :  Richard  Taylor,  my  ghostly  father,  John 
Coward  the  elder,  Phyllipp  Pownde,  with  others. 

Proved,  6  Oct.  1555,  Archdnry  Court  of  Sarum.  (Book  3, 
fo.  112.) 

N  N 


522  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Elizabeth  Godderd  de  Sedghill,  co.  Wilts.  Will  dated 
3  Sept.  1564.  To  be  buried  in  Chapil  of  Sedghill.  Serv' : 
Alice.  Children  of  wife  of  Thomas  Tyse :  Christian  Lytc  (?), 
Thomas  Tyse,  sole  Exor. 

Overseers  :  Willm.  Kynge  of  Beppans  and  Richd.  Kynge. 
Witnesses  :  Richd.  and  Wm.  Kynge,  Cpor  Lewy. 

Proved,  20  Oct.  1564,  Archdnry  Court  of  Sarum.  (Book  4, 
fo.  1 88.) 


William  Goddard  of  Sedghill,  als.  Sedghull,  co.  Wilts, 
yeoman.  Will  dated,  29  Ap.  1586.  Nicholas  Goddard,  my  son, 
meadow  called  "  Blynd  laine,"  the  same  to  be  delivered  to  him 
by  my  son  Thomas  Goddard  and  Wm.  Prune  (?).  Daus. :  Mary, 
Dorathie  and  Edith.  Niece:  Cecill.  Residue  to  wife  Jone,  who 
is  full  Extrix. 

Overseers  :  Thomas  Goddard,  son,  and  Willm.  Prune  (?). 

Witnesses  :  Robt.  Tynbeetson,  curate  of  Sedghill,  Thomas 
Goddard,  Wm.  Prune  (?)  with  others. 

Archdnry  Court  of  Sarum.     (Book  7,  fo.  45.) 


Thomas  Goddard  of  Sedghill,  co.  Wilts.  Will  dated  17 
Dec.,  xxx.  Q.  Eliz.  (i  587-8).  To  be  buried  in  ch.  yard  in  Sedghill. 
Bequests  to  Lady  Church  of  Sarum  and  Church  of  Sedghill. 
Son  John  Goddard  messg6  in  Sedghill  'where  I  now  dwell. 
Wife  Cecilie  a  moiety  of  same  so  long  as  unmard.  Son  Thomas 
Goddard  my  ground  called  "Westmarshe"  in  Sedghill,  late 
John  Ffrowdes',  also  any  right  I  may  have  to  any  living  or 
benison  in  Knoyle.  Dau.  Anne  ^80  at  age  of  18.  Residue 
to  wife  and  son  John  who  are  joint  Exors. 

Overseers  :  Nicholas  Goddard,  Thomas  King  and  Richd. 
Kinge  the  younger. 


PEDIGREE    OF    GODDARD    OF    SEDGHILL,    Co.    WILTS. 


John  Goddard,  of  Sedghill,=Elizabeth,    dau.   of 


co.  Wilts.  To  be  bur. 
in  chapel  of  St.  Kath- 
erine,  Sedghill.  Will 
dated  24  J  uly  1550 ;  Pro. 
6  Oct.  1555,  in  Arch- 
dnry.  Court  of  Sarum. 


Proved  her 
husband's  will  in  1555. 
Her  will  dated  3  Sept. 
1564.  Proved  20  Oct. 
1564,  in  Archdnry.  Court 
of  Sarum. 


1                                                  1 

| 

1 

William  Goddard.  of  Sedge-= 
hill,  yeoman.  Will  dated 

=Jone,  dau.  of         John  Goddard 
....              (the  elder). 

John  Goddard 
(the  younger) 

Christian 

29    Apr.     1586.     Proved 

?Lyte. 

Archdeaconry  Court  of 

Sarum. 

Nicholas    Goddard,    of= 
"  Woodhouse  "     in 
Sedgehill,  yeoman, 
left  a  meadow  called 
"  Blynd   laine  "   in 
his     father's     will. 
His    will   dated    28 
Nov.   1618.     To    be 
bur.     in    Sedghill. 
Proved  4  May  1619. 
P.C.C.  73  Parker. 

=Mary,    dau.    Thos.  Goddard,* 
of  of  Sedghill   To 

=  Cecilie,     Dorothy 
dau,  of          — 

Edith=Mere- 
weather 

A 

3   children  men- 
tioned  in 
bro.  Nicholas" 
will  (73  Parker). 

proved  her      be     buried    in 
husband's        ch.-yard  there, 
will  in  1619.       Will    dated    17 
Dec.    xxx      Q. 
Eliz.     (1587-8). 
Proved  7   Feb. 
1587.,  P.C.C.  14 
Rutland. 

Proved 
her 
husband's 
will    in 

1587- 

John  Goddard,  left  mes-= 
suage  in   Sedgehill 
by  his  father.     Ad- 
mon.  P.C.C.  4  Feb. 
1604-5  to   his    wife 
Frances.      Bur.    in 
chancel     of    Meere 
Church. 

=Frances  (?dau.  of  Thos.          Tho.  Goddard  left 
Aubrey,     of     Chaden-    ground  called    "  West- 
wick,  by  Dorothy,  dau.     marsh  "    in    Sedghill— 
of    bro.     Michael,     of    also     iving    of   Knoyle 
Kingston  Deverell,  co.     in  father's  will. 
Wilts).     She  mar.  2nd 
Jas.     Reines.     Visitn. 
Dorset,  Harl.  Soc.  p.  9 

1 
Anne,  —  

under    Froude. 
18  in 

1587- 

7  children  men- 
tioned in  Uncle 
Nicholas    God- 
dard's  will. 

Nicholas  Goddard,  of  Sedghill,  =Elizabeth,  dau.           2  daus.  men- 
and   afterwards   of    Meere,        of    ?        tioned  in  Nich- 
co.  Wilts,  gentleman,  (Exe-        Swanton.                olas    Goddard  s 
ter  College,  Oxford;  matric.                                         will,  P.C.C.    73 
4  May  1621,  Oct.  19  ;   Stud.                                         Parker, 
at     Middle    Temple,     1622) 
Will  dated  8  Dec.  1653.     To 
be  bur.  in  chancel  of  Mere 

Church.      Proved    31    May 
1654,  P.C.C.  93  Alchin. 


Nicholas  Goddard=j=Mary,  dau.  of 

afterwards     m.    Wm. 


Edward 
Goddard, 


Anne,   left      Katherine 
lands    in 


Frances 


Weston,  armiger.  Ad-  under  21  in    Wincolton ,     Left    ^300  apiece    in 

mon.  goods  of  her  son  1654;     left     in     father's  father's  will. 

John      Goddard,      of  lands    in    will. 

Gillingham,    15    Apr.  Sedghill  in 

1703.      A.    A.    Book,  father's  will, 
p.  82. 


d. 


John  Goddard,  of  Gillingham,  co.  Dor-=Martha,  dau.  of 
set  (armiger  in  A. A.  Book),  Exeter 
Coll.,  matric.  14  March  1686-7, 
(as  son  of  Nicholas  of  Osen,  Wilts) 
aged  18.  Stud.  Line.  Inn  1690. 
Admon.  to  his  mother  15  Apr.  1703. 
d.  14  July  1702;  M.I.  at  Gilling- 
ham church.* 


I.  13  July  1698  ;*  M.I. 
t  Gillingham  Church. 


John  Goddard,  d.s.p., 
2  Feb.  1695 ;  M.I.  at 
Gillingham  Church.* 


John  Goddard,  d.s.p. 
21  May  1715  ;  M.I.  at 
Gillingham  Church.* 


Mary,  b.    .     .     .=William  Helyar, 
mar.  Oct.  1717.  I          of   Coker,    b. 
Aug.  1693  ;  d. 
1723- 

For  his  marriage  and  issue  see  Burke's 
Landed  Gentry,  Helyar  of  Coker. 


*  Hutchins'  Hist,  of  Co.  Dorset,  srd  Edition,  Vol.  iii,  p.  676. 


524  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Witnesses  :  Richd.  Kinge,  Nicholas  Goddard  and  Thos. 
Kinge. 

Proved,  7  Feb.  1587-8,  by  Cecily  his  relict  and  John 
Goddard  s.  (P.C.C.  14,  Rutland.) 


Nicholas  Goddard,  of  Sedghill,  co.  Wilts,  yeoman.  Will 
dated  28  Nov.  1618.  To  be  buried  in  parish  church  of  Sedg- 
hill. Bequests  to  Lady  Church  of  Sarum,  P'ish  Churches  of 
Sedghill  and  Motcombe. 

Nicholas  Goddard  son  of  John  Goddard  decd,  my  moiety  of 
rectory  or  parsonage  of  Sedghill,  2  closes  in  S'hill  which  I 
bought  of  Edward  Frowd,  sd  closes  to  remain  to  sd  Nicholas  after 
expiry  of  lease  granted  to  Mary  my  now  wife.  If  Nicholas 
die  s.p.  remaindr  to  Thomas  eld.  son  of  Jasper  Kinge  decd  and 
his  heirs.  Sd  Thomas  Kinge  to  pay  to  6  children  of  Thos. 
Banister  405.  each.  6  children  of  Matthew  Scarlett  405.  each. 
Joane,  dau.  oi  Jasper  Kinge  decd  405.  To  3  children  of  Edith 
Mereweather,  my  sister,  405.  each.  To  7  children  of  Anne 
Frowde,  dau.  of  bro.  Thomas  Goddard  decd,  405.  each,  and  2  daus. 
of  John  Goddard  decd  405.  each  within  12  months  after  he  shall 
become  possessed  of  sd  parsonage.  To  5  sons  of  Thos. 
Banister  a  close  at  Newe  Yeat,  called  "  Matthews  Close ", 
equally  between  them.  Dau.  of  Thos.  Banister  £4.  Mary, 
dau.  of  Thos.  Kinge,  of  Hayes,  ^4.  Augustin  Burbage  IDS. 
Every  maid  serv*  izd.  Edith  Whitmershe,  Joane  Gatehouse  of 
West  Bourton,  Edith  Snooke  of  Stalbridge.  Marye  my  wife, 
my  dwelling  house  called  "  Woodhouse "  and  all  grounds 
belonging  so  long  as  she  is  a  widow.  Wife  to  find  kinsman 
Nicholas  in  food  and  lodging  or  ^10  per  ann.  until  he  mar. 
If  he  marry  they  to  live  together.  Wife  sole  Extrix.  and 
residuary  legatee. 

Overseers :  Philip  Tyse  of  Sedghill,  Thos.  Banister  of 
Mere  Park,  and  John  Gatehouse  of  West  Bourton. 

Witnesses  :  Mat.  Gatehouse,  Richd.  Kinge. 

Proved,  4  May  1619,  by  Mary  Goddard  the  relict.  (P.C.C. 
73,  Parker.) 


Goddard  of  Sectgehill.  525 

Nicholas  Goddard,  late  of  Sedghill,  but  now  of  Meere,  co. 
Wilts,  gentleman.  Will  dated  8  Dec.  1653.  Desires  with 
consent  of  Mr.  Chaffin  to  be  buried  in  South  part  of  chancel  of 
Meere  Church,  as  near  as  mny  be  to  sepulchre  of  my  father. 
Bequests  to  Churches  and  poor  of  Meere  and  Sedghill. 
Elizabeth  Swanton  ^5.  Nicholas  Goddard  my  son  one  yardland 
of  inheritance  in  Upton,  p'ish  of  Knoyle,  the  house  in  Meere 
which  I  lately  bought  of  him  and  where  I  now  dwell,  and  all 
my  land  in  Meere  which  I  lately  bought  of  my  uncle  William 
Aubrey  called  "  Adamante."  Dau.  Anne  Goddard  and  her 
heirs  all  my  lands  in  Win  col  ton  called  "Chalnham"  contain- 
ing 8  ac.  ;  also  my  right  in  i  ac.  called  "  Withamacre",  lying  in 
"  Chalnham  "  ;  and  ^150,  ^30  of  which  she  has  already  in  the 
purchase  of  "  Adamante  "  afsd  for  the  life  of  Margaret  Gilbert. 
Daus.  Katherine  and  Francis  Goddard  ^300  each,  to  be  pd  i 
month  after  son  Edward  shall  be  21.  Son  Edward  has 
promised  to  see  ^600  paid  out  of  my  lands  in  Sedghill,  which 
are  his  by  inheritance.  Wife  Elizabeth  Extrix.  and  residuary 
legatee. 

Overseers :  Bro.  Francis  Swanton,  Esq.,  Robt.  Tisse 
gentleman,  and  Cosn  Mr.  John  Fraud. 

Witnesses  :  Jasper  King,  Edward  Goddard. 

Proved,  13  May  1654,  by  Extrix.     (P.C.C.  93,  Alchin.) 


RECORDS  OF  WILTSHIRE  PARISHES. 

BRATTON. 

(Continued  from  p.  505.^) 


[Precentor's  Court,  Sarum.] 

MARY  BALLARD,  of  Bratton,  leaves  to  her  sister,  Grace 
Greenhill,  ^20  to  be  paid  a  year  after  her  decease  ;  to  her 
sister,  Elizabeth  Clarke,  £20  ;  and  to  her  daughter,  Elizabeth 
Clarke,  ,£20  ;  to  Thomas  and  John,  sons  of  Elizabeth  .Clarke, 


526  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

£20  each  ;  to  her  sister,  Deborah  Blatch,  ^20  ;  and  to  John, 
Mary,  and  James,  children  of  Deborah  Blatch,  ^20  each  ;  all 
to  be  paid  a  twelve-month  after  her  decease  ;  to  Mr.  Edward 
Frowde,  of  Tinhead,  and  John  Olredge  [?  Aldridge],  of  West- 
bury,  £20  in  trust  for  the  poor  of  "  the  Baptized  Congregation 
meeting  in  Earl  Stoke."  To  Elizabeth  Ballard,  daughter  of  her 
sister  Sarah  Ballard,  ^100 ;  and  to  Mary,  Sarah's  other 
daughter,  ^100;  the  legacy  of  each  to  remain  to  the  survivor, 
one  dying  before  the  other ;  but  if  both  die  before  they  are  21, 
or  married,  then  the  said  legacies  to  John  Ballard,  Jonathan 
Ballard,  and  John  Aldridge  Ballard,  equally  divided.  To  John 
Aldridge  Ballard,  her  kinsman,  her  silver  cup  and  £20  ;  to 
John  Olredge,  senior,  of  Westbury,  205.  ;  to  Jefferey  Whit- 
aker,  205. ;  to  Mary  Whitaker,  her  husband's  daughter,  "my 
black  satin  gown  and  coat  that  I  had  against  the  time  I  was 
married  ";  best  silk  gown  and  coat  to  kinswoman  Mary  Ballard  ; 
her  best  watered  gown  and  best  black  ruset  coat  to  Charity, 
reputed  daughter  of  her  sister  Deborah  Blatch,  and  her  best 
suit  of  "  head  clothes  "  ;  her  black  Rusall  gown  and  coat  to  her 
mother,  Mary  Alredge,  with  all  the  rest  of  her  clothes  to  dis- 
pose of  as  she  thinks  fit ;  the  legacies  to  her  sister  Sarah's 
daughters  to  remain  good  to  them  if  they  marry  with  their 
parents'  consent,  otherwise  they  shall  go  to  her  brother  Philip 
Ballard,  the  legacies  above  said  being  of  the  legacies  bequeathed 
to  her  by  her  father.  Dated  28  November  A.D.  1713.  [Proved 
5  October  1714.] 

[Precentor's  Court,  Salisbury.] 

PHILLIP  BALLARD,  of  Bratton,  in  the  parish  of  Westbury, 
gentleman,  leaves  to  Giles  Haliday,  of  Weddington,  in  the 
parish  of  Erchfont,  gentleman,  and  John  Prior,  of  Edington, 
yeoman,  all  messuages,  lands,  &c.  lying  in  Imber,  to  hold  to 
them  and  their  heirs  for  ever  to  the  following  uses  : — To  the 
first  son  of  his  son  John  Ballard  and  heirs  male,  then  to  the 
second  son  of  said  John  and  his  heirs  male,  and  then  to  the 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  527 

third  or  any  other  son  and  the  heirs  male  according  to  seniority 
of  age ;  and  for  default  of  such  issue  to  the  use  of  his  [Philip's] 
son  John  Aldridge  Ballard  for  the  term  of  his  natural  life,  and 
after  his  death  to  the  use  of  his  heirs  male  according  to 
seniority  of  age;  and  for  default  of  such  issue,  to  his  own 
[Philip's]  right  heirs  for  ever,  with  provision  for  granting 
the  premises  to  Elizabeth,  now  wife  of  son  John,  or  to  any 
other  wife  of  any  of  the  said  heirs  during  the  term  of  her 
natural  life  as  jointure,  or  to  any  other  person  or  persons  for 
the  purpose  of  raising  money  for  the  maintenance  of  the  sons 
and  daughters  of  any  of  the  said  heirs. 

Item  to  the  same  trustees  :  All  lands,  &c.,  in  West  Ashton 
and  Upton  Scudamore  (except  2  closes  of  arable  meadow 
ground  called  Chalcots,  in  Upton  Scudamore,  lately  purchased 
of  Giles  Hill,  and  in  the  occupation  of  George  Wilhy),  to  the 
use  of  his  son,  Jonathan  Ballard,  for  life,  and  then  to  the  heirs 
male  of  his  body  in  seniority  of  age  ;  and  for  default  of  such 
issue  to  the  daughter  or  daughters  of  Jonathan,  by  equal 
shares,  and  their  heirs ;  and  for  default  of  daughters,  to  the 
use  of  John  Aldridge  Ballard  and  his  heirs  male  according  to 
seniority  ;  and  then  to  the  daughter  or  daughters  of  J.  A.  Bal- 
lard and  their  heirs  in  equal  shares,  and  for  default  of  issue  of 
John  Aldridge  Ballard  to  Philip's  own  right  heirs  for  ever.  To 
the  said  trustees  he  leaves  the  said  closes  called  Chalcots,  in 
Upton  Scudamore,  to  the  use  of  his  daughter  Sarah  until  her 
marriage ;  and  if  she  be  married  with  the  consent  of  his  son 
John  Ballard  and  of  Giles  Haliday,  testified  in  writing  and  not 
otherwise,  he  gives  to  her  ,£500,  to  be  paid  her  with  interest 
at  5  per  cent.,  to  be  paid  her  a  12  month  after  the  decease  of 
his  wife  if  she  marry  during  the  life-time  of  said  wife,  if  not 
a  12  month  after  her  marriage  ;  if  Sarah  die  before  her  marriage 
then  the  closes  are  to  be  to  the  use  of  his  son  Jonathan  and  his 
heirs,  the  said  other  lands  in  West  Ashton  and  Upton  Scuda- 
more being  charged  with  the  payment  of  the  said  ^500,  which 
is  to  be  to  the  use  of  Sarah  and  not  to  her  husband.  Item  to 
Giles  Haliday,  and  John  Ballard,  his  son,  ,£250  in  trust  to  pay 


528  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

the  interest  thereof  for  life  to  Elizabeth  his  daughter  during 
her  life  and  that  of  his  son,  John  Aldridge  Ballard  ;  the  same  on 
her  death  without  issue  to  be  paid  to  John  A.  Ballard ;  and  if 
he  die  in  lifetime  of  Sarah,  then  to  Sarah  and  Mary,  another 
daughter,  equally  divided.  Also  to  the  same  trustees  another 
^250  for  daughter  Mary,  on  her  marrying  with  their  consent, 
and  if  she  die  without  issue  to  John  Aldridge  Ballard.  Item  to 
Giles  Haliday  and  John  Pryor  in  trust,  his  messuage  and  lands, 
&c.,  belonging,  called  "  Winters,"  in  Bratton,  to  the  use  of  his 
wife  for  life ;  and  on  her  death  to  son  John  Aldridge  Ballard 
and  his  heirs  male  successively  according  to  seniority  of  age  ; 
then  to  the  daughter  or  daughters  of  the  said  John  Aldridge 
and  the  heirs  of  their  body,  and  for  default  of  issue  to  his  son 
John  Ballard,  and  issue  male  and  their  heirs  male  successively, 
and  then  for  default  thereof  to  the  daughter  or  daughters  of 
John  and  their  issue ;  and  for  default  of  issue  of  the  said  John 
to  the  right  heirs  of  himself  Philip.  Also  to  Giles  Halliday 
and  John  Ballard  all  his  plate  and  other  household  goods  in 
trust  for  the  use  of  his  wife  during  her  life,  then  to  John 
Aldridge  Ballard.  Item  to  John  Ballard,  ^5  for  mourning. 
The  rest  of  his  goods  he  leaves  to  Giles  Haliday,  and  son  John 
and  their  executors,  until  his  son  John  Aldridge  Ballard  shall  be 
2 1  years  of  age,  whom  he  appoints  then  his  sole  executor ;  the 
said  Giles  and  John  to  be  guardians  of  his  children  until  their 
majority.  Dated  3rd  March  1722/3. 

[A  copy  of  this  Will  was  sent  to  the  Court  of  Canterbury 
owing  to  a  dispute  about  administration  between  Mary  Whit- 
aker,  wife  of  Philip  Whitaker,  daughter  of  Philip  Ballard,  and 
John  Aldridge  Ballard  (vide  letter  with  the  copy  from  the 
deputy  registrars  of  the  P.C.C.,  dated  7  January  1736/7).] 

[P.C.C.,  Admon.  Act  Book,  A.D.  1741.] 

On  the  7   September    1741    administration  of  the  goods, 

chattels  arid  credits  of  JOHN  ALDRIDGE  BALLARD,  late  of  Bratton, 

in  the  parish  of  Westbury,  co.  Wilts,  was  granted  to  Thomas 

Webb,  a  creditor  of  the  deceased  being  first  sworn  to  administer 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  529 


the  pretended  letters  of  administrations  of  the  goods  of  the  said 
deceased  heretofore  granted  to  Philip  Whitaker  in  the  peculiar 
jurisdiction  of  Westbury,  being  first  revoked  and  declared  void 
for  defect  of  jurisdiction,  and  Ann  Ballard,  widow,  relict  of 
William  Ballard,  Ann  Ballard,  spinster,  and  Eleanor  Ballard, 
the  real  and  lawful  children  and  only  issue  of  the  deceased 
being  first  duly  cited  and  in  nowise  appearing. 

[IBID.] 

On  the  nth  of  December  administration  of  the  goods,  &c., 
of  JONATHAN  BALLARD,  late  of  Bratton,  in  the  parish  of  West- 
bury,  co.  Wilts,  deceased,  was  granted  to  Susanna  Ballard, 
widow,  relict  of  the  said  deceased. 

{Precentor's  Court,  Sarum.] 

Mary  Ballard,  of  Bratton,  widow  of  HENRY  BALLARD,  of 
Bratton,  yeoman,  intestate,  deceased,  renounces  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  goods  of  the  said  intestate,  in  favour  of  James 
Ballard,  plumber,  of  Bratton,  son  of  the  said  Henry,  appointing 
Thomas  Froome,  of  New  Sarum,  gentleman,  and  John  Cooper, 
of  the  same,  her  proctors.  Dated  26  February  1754. 

[With  bond  for  the  due  administration  of  the  said  goods 
of  James  Ballard,  son  of  the  said  Henry,  dated  26  February 

"754-] 

The  administration  of  the  goods  of  Henry  Ballard  was 
granted  at  Sarum  to  James,  the  lawful  son  of  the  said  Henry 
and  Mary  Ballard,  26  February  1754. 

[P.C.C,  143  Hay.} 

JOHN  BALLARD,  of  Imber,  co.  Wilts,  gentleman,  bequeathes 
to  his  sister,  Mary  Drewett,  widow,  his  leasehold  tenement, 
held  for  lives  under  the  Duke  of  Queensbury,  consisting  of 
2  yardlands  at  Wedhampton,  co.  Wilts,  purchased  of  Thomas 
Bruges,  to  hold  to  her,  her  executors,  administrators  and 
assigns  for  the  remainder  of  interest  at  his  decease  ;  and  also 
^500  to  be  paid  to  her  12  months  after  his  decease.  To  his 
sister-in-law,  Mary  Powell,  widow,  his  copyhold  estate  of  2 


530  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

yardlands  in  Wedhampton,  held  by  copy  of  Court  Roll  under 
the  Duke  of  Queensbury  for  the  lives  of  the  said  Mary  Powell 
and  John  Powell  her  son,  who  is  obliged  to  render  the  same, 
for  life  with  power  to  her  to  demise  the  same  to  whom  she  will 
during  her  said  son's  life  if  he  shall  survive  her,  and  during  the 
widowhood  of  his  wife,  Martha  Powell,  or  of  any  future  wife  of 
his  who  may  claim  interest  therein.  To  his  niece  Broadhead 
Ballard,  an  annuity  of  ;£io  for  life,  to  begin  the  first  quarter- 
day  after  the  12  month  after  his  decease,  the  said  annuity  not 
to  be  subject  to  the  debts  of  any  husband  she  may  marry,  but 
to  be  to  her  own  sole  use,  nor  to  be  sold  or  aliened  by  herself 
upon  forfeiture  of  the  same.  To  his  niece,  Elizabeth  Tree, 
wife  of  William  Tree,  of  Beckington,  co.  Somerset,  clothier,  the 
like  annuity  of  ^10  under  the  same  conditions.  To  his  niece, 
Ann  Ballard,  his  leasehold  tenement  called  "  Shute  "  (?),  in 
Bratton,  held  for  lives  under  Viscount  Weymouth,  to  hold  to 
her,  her  executors  and  assigns,  for  the  remainder  of  interest 
therein  after  his  decease  ;  also  ^100  to  be  paid  her  twelve 
months  after  his  decease.  To  his  niece,  Eleanor  Blatch,  wife 
of  John  Blatch  the  younger,  of  Bratton,  yeoman,  the  interest 
of  ^250  at  4  per  cent,  yearly,  to  be  paid  out  of  his  personal 
estate  during  her  life,  the  first  payment  to  be  on  the  ist 
quarter-day  a  twelvemonth  after  his  decease,  for  her  own  sole 
use,  and  not  to  be  subject  to  pay  her  husband's  debts,  the  said 
interest  after  her  death  to  be  towards  the  maintenance  of  the 
child  or  children  of  the  said  Eleanor  Blatch  during  their  minor- 
ities, the  principal  of  ^250  to  be  divided  among  them  on  their 
attaining  the  age  of  21  years  ;  but  if  she  die  without  issue 
living,  the  said  principal  sum  to  sink  into  his  residuary  estate 
for  the  use  of  his  executors. 

To  his  nephews,  William  Aldridge  Ballard  and  Thomas 
Whitaker,  all  his  freehold  lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments 
called  Crowswell  Down,  at  West  Ashton,  lately  purchased  of 
the  said  Broadhead  Ballard,  William  Tree,  and  Elizabeth  his 
wife ;  to  the  said  W.  A.  Ballard  and  Thomas  Whitaker,  their 
heirs  and  assigns  for  ever,  the  rents  and  profits  thereof,  to  be 


Records  of  Wiltshire  Parishes.  531 

equally  divided  between  them.  To  the  poor  of  Imber,  Bratton 
and  Wedhampton  the  sum  of  505.  in  each  place,  to  be  paid 
them  at  the  discretion  of  his  executors.  All  the  rest  of  his 
moneys  and  chattels  to  the  said  William  Aldridge  Ballard  and 
Thomas  Whitaker,  equally  divided,  whom  he  makes  his 
executors.  Signed  16  November  1769.  [Proved  at  London 
2  April  1778.] 

[Precentor 's  Court,  SarumJ] 

JOHN  BALLE  [otherwise  Bailey],  of  Bratton,  shepherd, 
leaves  to  his  sister,  Ann  Graye,  and  her  two  children,  ^10,  to 
be  equally  divided  between  them.  The  rest  of  his  goods  he 
leaves  to  John  Aldridge,  gardiner,  and  Thomas  Linerd 
[Leonard],  his  executors.  10  June  1692.  Witnesses  :  William 
Whitaker  and  Jeffery  Whitaker.  [Proved  at  Sarum  u  August 
1692. 

Inventory  of  his  goods  exhibited  by  the  executors. 

£      5.     d. 

On  Coule         ..              ..  ..  ..  ..020 

On  cabel  bonde              ..  ..  ..  -..       030 

On  Setell         ..              ..  ..  ..  ..040 

On  peare  of  Anders      . .  . .  . .  ..050 

2  barals            ..              ..  ..  ..  ..026 

4  puter  dishes  and  2  sasers  . .  . .  . .       056 

On  litell  Kitell               . .  . .  . .  . .       o     i     6 

On  Kefer         ..              ..  ..  ..  ..026 

On  Couerlide  and  3  blankitets  . .  . ,  . .       090 

On  bead,  tow  peales,  and  on  bolester       . .  . .       0160 

tow  sheets       ..              ..  ..  ..  ..040 

tow  sheants    ..              ..  ..  ..  ..070 

tow  bolester  cases,  on  peal  kases,  3  naptings  .  .       066 

his  wearing  of  pareil     . .  . .  . .  . .        i    10     o 

three  couefers                . .  . .  . .  ..060 

due  upon  bonds  and  bills  . .  . .  32     6     6 


532  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

\Precentor}s  Court,  SarumJ\ 

HARRY  BURGES,  of  Bratton,  leaves  his  body  to  be  buried 
in  the  churchyard  of  Bratton  ;  to  his  six  grand-children,  IDS. 
each ;  to  his  son  Henry,  a  horse ;  to  his  son  John,  a  horse,  a 
pot,  and  a  tredle ;  to  his  grand-child,  Mary  Hodges,  a  bed  and 
bedstead  ;  to  Robert  Hodges,  his  best  hat.  He  appoints  Mary 
Hodges  his  sole  executrix.  He  appoints  that  an  obligation,  due 
from  Henry  Gaskedir,  be  equally  vided  between  his  sons  Henry 
and  John,  and  Mary,  his  executrix ;  and  also  4  heifers,  i  great 
kettle,  i  middle  kettle,  i  little  pot,  3  pewter  platters,  3  barells, 
two  •'  cowles,"  two  trendies,  a  table-board  and  frame,  and  a 
pair  of  milking  tankerds,  to  be  equally  divided  between  the  two 
sons  and  Mary  Hodges.  He  gives  to  his  daughter  Elizabeth 
2  shirts  and  i  coffer;  and  to  Henry  and  John,  his  sons,  and 
Mary  Hodges,  to  be  equally  divided,  £2  125.  6d.,  due  from 
John  Rodway.  Dated  i  March  1692.  Witnesses:  John  Caus- 
way  and  John  Whittaker.  [Proved  27  June  1693.] 

The  bond  of  Robert  Hodges  to  administer  the  goods  during 
the  minority  of  Mary  Hodges,  dated  27  June  1693,  and  the  in- 
ventory of  his  goods,  dated  8th  March  1692,  is. with  this  will  ; 
the  inventory  is  witnessed  by  Thomas  Coles  and  William 
Tucker,  "  preachers." 

[Precentor's  Court,  Salisbury.] 

JAMES  BLATCH,  of  Bratton,  yeoman,  24  April  1702,  be- 
queathes  to  his  son,  John  Blatch,  ^100  ;  to  his  daughter, 
Hannah,  ^100,  to  be  paid  12  months  after  his  decease ;  to  his 
son-in-law,  William  Hill,  is. ;  to  his  daughter,  Martha  Hill,  is.  : 
to  Martin  Taylor,  his  son-in-law,  is.;  to  his  grandson,  Anthony 
Hill,  55. ;  to  his  granddaughter,  Ann  Taylor,  55. ;  all  the  rest 
of  his  chattels  to  Philip  Blatch,  his  son,  whom  he  makes  his 
executor. 

[Inventory  of  his  goods,  taken  May  12,  1702:  the  house- 
hold goods  amounted  to  ,£30  155.  od.,  the  farming  stock  and 
implements  to  ^200.] 


A  Census   of  Wilts  in  1676.  533 

{Precentor's  Court,  Sarum.\ 

JOHN  BIDGARD,  of  Bratton,  gardiner,  26  March  1710,  leaves 
to  his  brother,  Thomas  Bidgard,  and  two  brothers-in-law, 
Thomas  Wempe  and  William  Bridge,  his  woollen  wearing 
clothes,  to  be  divided  between  them ;  to  his  niece,  Mary, 
daughter  of  his  sister,  Rebecca  Bridge,  deceased,  405. ;  to  Ben- 
jamin, son  of  his  sister,  Elizabeth  Wempe,  405. ;  to  Mary, 
daughter  of  Mary  Byett,  25.  6d.  ;  to  George,  son  of  Mary 
Byett,  2S.  6d. ;  to  his  brother,  Thomas  Bidgard,  405. ;  to  John, 
son  of  Thomas  Bidgard,  his  holland  shirt ;  to  his  wife,  Eliza- 
beth Bidgard,  whom  he  makes  his  sole  executor,  the  rest  of  his 
goods. 

[Proved  3  August  1710.  Inventory  of  his  goods  taken 
8th  June  1710  :  they  amounted  to  ^24  135.  6d.} 

E.  M.  THOMPSON. 
(To  be  continued.) 


A    CENSUS    OF    WILTS    IN    1676. 


WHEN  Henry  Compton  became  Bishop  of  London  in  1675, 
he  at  once  began  his  life-long  endeavour  to  unite  Bissenters 
with  the  Church  of  England  against  the  Roman  Catholics. 
To  that  end  he  caused  a  requisition  to  be  sent  round  to  the 
parochial  clergy  of  England  asking  them  to  make  returns  as  to 
the  number  of  Conformists,  Roman  Catholics,  and  Noncon- 
formists in  each  parish,  who  were  over  16  years  of  age. 
Obedience  to  this  requisition  was  voluntary,  and,  as  will  be 
seen,  was  by  no  means  universal.  Perhaps  we  should  wonder 
rather  that  so  many  parishes  made  a  return  than  that  there 
are  so  many  omissions,  e.g.,  Salisbury,  Bishop's  Cannings, 
Calne,  &c.  A  similar  census  was  taken  in  Salisbury  in  1675, 
the  result  of  which  is  set  out  in  the  last  volume  of  Hoare's 
Modern  Wilts.  This  may  account  for  its  exclusion  from  the 


534  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

statistics  of  1676.  When  the  latter  had  been  collected,  they 
were  copied  into  a  volume,  which  still  survives  in  the  Salt 
Library  at  Stafford. 

As  the  first  English  Census,  it  is  of  unique  value,  and  I 
trust  that  the  following  copy  of  the  Wiltshire  returns  may  be 
of  special  interest  to  local  historians.  Attempts  have  been 
made  by  various  writers,  for  the  most  part  incidentally,  when 
treating  of  the  annals  of  commerce,  to  estimate  the  compara- 
tive population  of  England  at  various  periods  in  her  history. 
So  far  as  I  am  aware,  no  one  has  made  any  attempt  to  deal 
with  Wiltshire  in  this  manner.  It  is  therefore  my  intention 
to  make  some  remarks  upon  the  probable  rise  and  fall  of 
population  in  Wiltshire  in  a  later  contribution  to  this  Magazine. 
I  fear,  however,  that  there  is  little  direct  evidence  to  enable  us 
to  speak  with  any  degree  of  accuracy  concerning  the  inhabi- 
tants of  particular  districts,  or,  indeed,  of  the  county  as  a 
whole,  before  1676.  If  something  could  be  done  towards  a 
series  of  Wiltshire  extracts  from  the  numerous  Subsidy  Rolls, 
which  extend  from  the  reign  of  Henry  III  to  the  end  of  the 
seventeenth  century,  it  might  be  possible  to  deal  more  certainly 
and  statistically  with  the  social  life  of  our  towns  and  villages 
than  has  hitherto  been  the  case  in  parochial  histories. 

After  1676  the  agricultural  population  appears  to  have  de- 
clined until  about  1760,  though  that  of  the  country  as  a  whole 
slightly  improved.  Between  1760  and  1800  the  inhabitants  of 
country  villages  grew  in  number,  particularly  during  the  latter 
years,  when  the  allowance  system  put  a  premium  on  large 
families,  and  by  that  means  bred  up  a  race  of  paupers  who 
could  not  have  existed  without  such  assistance.  Britton,  in 
his  one-volume  edition  of  the  Beauties  of  Wilts,  page  70,  quotes 
a  Parliamentary  Publication  showing  the  population  of  Wilt- 
shire for  four  years,  viz. : — 


1700    ..      ..    153,900 
1750    . .      . .    168,400 


1801    . .      . .    191,200 
181 1    . .      . .   200,300 


For  the  remarks  which  follow  these  statistics  I  am  indebted 
to  the  Rev.  C.  S.  Ruddle,  of  Durrington.     It  has  been  usual, 


A  Census  of  Wilts  in  1676. 


535 


as  I  learn  from  the  Librarian  of  the  Salt  Library,  to  add  40  per 
cent,  to  the  figures  set  out  in  the  census  to  account  for  the 
children  under  16  years  of  age,  who  are  excluded  from  it. 
Mr.  Ruddle  has,  however,  collected  statistics  of  births  and 
deaths  from  no  less  than  eight  parishes,  which  would  seem  to 
show  that  60  per  cent,  rather  than  40  percent,  should  be  added 
in  order  to  arrive  at  a  fairly  approximate  estimate  of  the  total 
inhabitants  of  each  parish.  I  have  taken  the  liberty  of  adding 
to  his  valuable  totals  the  population  in  1801,  1851  and  1891. 
I  find  there  was  a  steady  rise  from  1801  to  1851,  and  in  many 
cases  a  still  further  rise  during  the  next  ten  years.  After  that 
date  a  fairly  rapid  decline  set  in  until  the  closing  years  of  the 
century,  when  a  slight  improvement  appears. 

CECIL  SIMPSON. 


EXTRACT  FROM  BISHOP  COMPTON'S  CENSUS,  1676. 


p.  91- 

DECANATUS  CRICKLADE. 

Conf.    P.    N.C. 

Ashton  Keynes       ...  396     •         4 

Blonsdon  St.  Andrew    30    - 

Castle  Eaton  ...     60    - 

Cricklade  St.  Mary...  133    -         7 
„     St.  Sampson  495    —      5 

Elingdon  als. 

Wroughton        ...  259     -          i 

Eysey         54    - 

Haningdon  ...   152 

Hinton  Parva          ...   133    - 

Inglesham  ...     51 

Lyddiard  Melesent      132 
„        Tregooze     139 

Latton       ...  ...  150 

Luddington  ...   160 

Poulton      ...  ...     82 

Purton       ...  ...  682 

Rodborne  Cheyney      178    -        14 

Sanford  als.  Somer- 

ford  Keynes      ...   128    - 

Sherncott  ...  ...     16 

Staunton  Fitz   War- 
ren      ...  ...     63    — 


—  7 

2     — 
I 

—  6 


9 
18 


DECANATUS  CRICKLADE  (cont.). 

Conf.    P.    N.C. 
Stratton  St.  Margar- 


et's  (Margrett's) 

285    - 

4 

Swindon    ... 

572    - 

8 

Wanborowe 

596    — 

4 

p.  92. 

DECANATUS  MALMESBURY. 

Ashley 

30    - 

— 

Alderton    ... 

135 

2 

Bideston  St.  Peter... 

"3    — 

14 

„        St.  Nicholas 

—    — 

— 

Box 

400      i 

22 

Bremilham  and  Nor- 

ton 

40    - 

— 

Brinkworth 

404 

35 

Castle  Coombe 

252    — 

8 

Chippenham 

724    - 

134 

Colerne 

278    - 

22 

Corsham   ... 

872    - 

"5 

Crudewell... 

—    — 

— 

Dantsey    ... 

122     — 

2 

Draycott  Cerne 

100      — 

7 

Ditchridge 

38      ' 

2 

536 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


DECANATUS  MALMESBURY  (cont.). 

DECANATUS  AVEBURY  (cont.}. 

Conf.    P. 

N.C. 

Conf.     P. 

N.C. 

Easton  Gray 

65     - 

— 

Cleevepeper           ...  239       i 

— 

Foxley 

46     - 

— 

Compton  Bassett    ...   109    - 

21 

Garsdon    ... 

187 

2 

Heddington             ...   113       i 

16 

Grittleton  ... 

132     — 

24 

Hilmarten...             ...  351 

17 

Hankerton 

181       i 

8 

Hinton  Magna        ...  219 

3 

Harden  Huish 

23    - 

— 

Kimett       ...             ...     61 

3 

Hasulbury 

—    — 

— 

Newington  als. 

Hullavington 

129    - 

2 

Newnton            ...   132     - 

4 

Keinton  St.  Michael 

331 

3° 

Overton     ...             ...  395 

5 

West  Keynton 

140    - 

3 

Rowde       ...            ...  287 

20 

Kelwayes  ... 

10      - 

2 

Stanton  Bernard     ...  120    - 

— 

Kemble     ... 

177 

3 

Tokenham  Weeke...     96     - 

7 

Lacocke    ... 

633    - 

44 

Winterborne  Bassett  102    — 

— 

Langley  Burrell 

150    - 

7 

Winterborne    Monk- 

Leigh  de  la  More   ... 

60 

3 

ton       ...            ...     81 

— 

Littleton  Drew 

61 

7 

Woodborow            ...  162    - 

9 

Luckington 

130    - 

ii 

Wootton  Bassett    ...  602      3 

8 

Xpian  Malford 

339    — 

i 

Yatesbury...             ...158    - 

6 

Malmsbury 

245    • 

5 

Minley 

204    - 

16 

p.  82. 

Nettleton  ... 

158 

12 

DECANATUS  POTTERNE. 

Newnton  ... 

60    — 

— 

Broughton  Gifford...  400    - 

— 

Norton  vide  Bremil- 

Bradford   ...            •••3IO5    • 

159 

ham     ... 

—    — 

— 

Chalfield  Magna     ...     18    - 

— 

North  Wraxall 

117    - 

7 

Charlton   ...             ...   101 

5 

Oakesey    ... 

184 

— 

Chrikton   ...             ...  242    • 

— 

Poole 

107 

— 

Chiverall  Magna     ...  134    - 

ii 

Seagry 

74    — 

6 

„        Parva      ...     51 

7 

Stanton  St.  Quintin 

85    - 

8 

Cowlston  ...            ...     61 

i 

Sherston  Magna     ... 

296    — 

4 

Devizes  St.  Mary   ...  592    - 

84 

Somerford      „ 

52    — 

8 

„         St.  John    ... 

— 

„          Parva     ... 

97 

5 

Eddington               ...  243      i 

6 

Sopworth... 

56    - 

3 

Enford    ...            ...      379    — 

i 

Sutton  Benger 

147 

25 

Fittleton   ...            ...  155    • 

i 

Westport  ... 

682      8 

22 

Hilprington              ...  168    - 

35 

Yatton  Kennell 

108    - 

4 

Imber        ...             ...   119 

i 

Keevill       ...             ...  463    - 

7 

p.  94. 

Lavington  Ep'i.      ...  367 

3 

DECANATUS  AVEBURY. 

„          Forum   ...  476    - 

24 

Al  Canings 

508    - 

2 

Marden     ...            ...  159    - 

16 

Alton  Barnes 

35    - 

— 

Melksham               ...1865    - 

100 

Avebury    ... 

181 

25 

Monkton  Farleigh  ... 

— 

Betchingstoake 

67 

— 

North  Bradley         ...   100    - 

340 

Bremhill    ... 

648 

78 

Patney      ...            ...     72 

i 

Bromham... 

45°    - 

50 

Polshott    ...             ...   150    - 

— 

Calston 

47    • 

— 

Potterne   ...           ...  994    - 

6 

A  Census  of  Wilts  in  1676. 


537 


DECANATUS  POTTERNE  (cont.}. 

Conf.     P.    N.C. 

Russall      ...  ...  201  2 

Steeple    Ashton 

(vacat)... 

Semington  capl.  ...  207  2 

Trowbridge  •••763      -  174 

Uphaven  ...  ...  223     -         9 

Urchfont  ...  ...1119  13 

Willesford  ...   160    - 

Whaddon  ...  ...     17    - 

Winkfield...  ...   163    -         2 


DECANATUS  MARLBURGH. 

Awborne  ...  ...  782  -  •    28 

Buttermere  ...     62  - 

Chilton  Foliett         ...   118  -         2 

Chisledeane  ...  335  -        11 

Collingborne    Duels  170 

„          Kingston  374  - 
Draygott  Foliatt     ...     • 

Easton       ...  ...  248  -          2 

Everley      ...  ...  214  - 

Froxfield  ...  ...   124  : 

Huish         ...  ...     45  - 

Ham          ...  ...  126  - 

Manningford  Abbas      64  —       i 

„  Bruce      68  2 

Marlburgh  St.  Mary  1850  --  150 

„        St.  Peter  uoo  --  100 

Mildenhall  ...   129  ...       i 

Milton  Lilborne      ...  362  - 

Preshute   ...  ...  210  -          i 

Pusey         ...  ...  648  - 

Tidcombe...  ...  115  4      i 

Wilcott     ...  ...  203  6      o 

Wotton  Rivers        ...  160  —    — 

p.  87. 

DECANATUS  WYLY. 
Barwick  St.  James... 
Bishopstrow  ...   131  12 

Boyton      ...  ...  154  —      6 

Brixton  Deverell     ...     74  -         2 

Chitterne  All  Sts.  ...  202  -          i 

„          St.  Mary...  109  -          i 

CodfordSt.  Mary  ...     89  i     — 


DECANATUS  WYLY  (cont.). 

Conf.    P.     N.C. 

Codtord  St.  Peter  ...  130    - 
Corsley      ...  ...3000    -        50 

Deverell  Longbridge  273     -  -    27 
Fisherton  de  la  Mere  101     —      3 
Kingston  Deverell ...  196      3       i 
Lanford  Parva         ...     19       i 
Mayden  Bradly       ...  522    -        31 
Maddington  ...   127  I 

Monkton  Deverell  ...     50      4      6 
Norton  Bavant        ...  1 88    -         8 
Orcheston  St.  George    81 
„          St.  Mary       72 
Pertwood...  ...       8 

Rolstone    ...  ...     14    - 

Shrewton ...  ...   192    -          i 

Sherrington  ...     72     - 

Stapleford  ...   117       3      3 

Steeple  Langford  ...  224       i       i 
Stockton   ...  ...   120    - 

Stourton    ...  ...   196     51       3 

Tilshead   ...  ...  139    -         i 

Venny  Sutton         ...   194    -        18 
Upton  Lovell 

„      Skidmore    ...   191 
Warminster  ...  544    -        56 

Winterborne  Stoke       98    -          3 
Wishford  Magna    ...  245 
Wyly         ...  ...  178    -         2 

p.  86. 

DECANATUS  AMSBURY. 

Allington  ...  ...     52  -        17 

Amsbury  ...  ...  840  -        10 

Boscomb  ...  ...     67  • 

Bulford     ...  ...  237  -         2 

Choldrington  ...     30  - 

Durrington  ...   191  9 

West  Grimstead  ... 

Idmiston  ...  ...  216  -          9 

Landford  ...  ...     60  - 

Laverstock  ...   101 

Ludgarshall  ...  488  5    - 

Milston      ...  ...   122 

Newton  Tony  ...     84  -        26 

North  Tidworth  ...   116  - 

West  Deane  ...  190  -         3 
0  O 


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Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


DECANATUS  AMSBURY  (cent.). 

DECANATUS  CHALKE  (cont.}. 

Conf.    P. 

N.C. 

Couf. 

P. 

N.C. 

White  Parish          ...  595       3 

2 

Chilmarke 

317 

— 

3 

Winterborne  Earles     1  14 

17 

Compton    Chamber- 

,,             Gimner  122    — 

I 

laine    ... 

230 

— 

— 

Winterslowe           ...   194    - 

6 

Damerham 

488 

— 

H 

, 

Dinton 

390 

6 

7 

p.  90. 

Donhead  St.  Andrew 

306 

20 

45 

DECANATUS  WILTON. 

„         St.  Mary... 

420 

— 

30 

Downton  ...             ...1500    - 

— 

Ebbesborne 

120 

— 

— 

Fugglestone            ...  200    — 

— 

Fifield        

15 

— 

— 

Fisherton  Anger     ...  273     - 

7 

Fovant 

38l 

7 

32 

South  Newton        ...   183 

20 

Funthill  Epi. 

96 

— 

— 

Wilton       ...             ...  706       7 

7 

„        Gifford 

255 

5 

— 

Hindon  Lib.  Cap.  ... 

3°3 

4 

4 

p.  84. 

Knoyle  Epi. 

250 

3 

45 

DECANATUS  CHALKE. 

„       parva 

169 

— 

— 

Barvvick  St.  John  ...   187 

2 

Odstock    ... 

70 

8 

2 

„         St.  Leonard    66    — 

28 

Semly 

126 

10 

4 

Baberstock              ...     72      8 

— 

Stratford  Tony 

148 

— 

2 

Barford     ...            ...  266      3 

10 

Sutton  Mandeville... 

179 

IO 

II 

Bishopston              ...   168    - 

2 

Teffont  Evias 

no 

— 

— 

Broad  Chalke          ...  581 

6 

Tisbury     ... 

568 

26 

6 

Burcombe...             ...   124    - 

— 

Tollard  Royal 

1  20 

- 

— 

Chicklade...            ...     50 

2 

IN  this  most  interesting  Census  it  is  to  be  remembered 
that  as  its  purpose  was  to  obtain  a  correct  estimate  of  Church 
people  and  Nonconformists,  whether  Protestant  or  Roman 
Catholic,  only  those  of  16  years  of  age  and  over  appear  in  it. 
How  are  we  to  arrive  at  the  probable  number  of  those  under 
1 6  who  should  be  added  in  order  to  obtain  the  actual  popula- 
tion ?  The  prospect  of  life  was  generally  shorter.  But  on  the 
other  hand  the  people  were  more  prolific  then  than  in  this  age. 
There  is  much  difficulty  in  calculating  how  many  children 
there  actually  were  in  1676  because  of  the  very  frequent  imper- 
fection of  parish  registers ;  and  where  registers  are  perfect  it 
requires  time  and  patience  to  make  the  necessary  search.  With 
kind  assistance  I  have  taken  (a)  the  number  entered  as  born 
or  baptized  1660  to  1675  both  inclusive,  (b)  then  noted  the 
names  of  those  so  born  or  baptized  who  were  buried  before  the 
end  of  1675.  These  were,  of  course,  subtracted  from  the 


Judge  Nicholas,  his  Parentage  and  Birthplace.         539 

number  of  the  births.  For  example,  in  Idmiston  189  were 
born,  but  of  them  25  died,  this  gives  164  under  16  years  of  age 
living  in  1676. 

In  this  way  it  is  found  that  in  eight  parishes  with  total 
population  given  in  the  Census  1639,  an  addition  must  be  made 
of  1034.  And  it  appears  that  63  per  cent,  is  the  average 
addition  to  be  made.  The  parishes  referred  to  are  not  con- 
tiguous :  Idmiston,  Enford  and  Knoyle  Ep1  lie  wide  apart.  If 
60  per  cent,  be  added  to  the  Census  it  will  not  be  unreasonable. 

1676. 

Over      Under       Total.  1801.  1851.  1891. 

16.  16. 

Cholderton . .  30+   24  =       54  127  183  175 

Cliff  Pypard  240+178  =  418  624  890  427 

Durrington..  200+134  ==  334  339  477  393 

Enford         ..  380  +  236  ==  616  674  911  800 

Fittleton      ..  156+   70   ==  226  251  380      .  328 

Idmiston      ..  225  +  164  =  389  422  550  457 

Knoyle  Ep1..  298+189  =  487  853  mo  956 

Newton  Tony  110+  39  =  149  286  316  292 

Total  for  the  8  parishes     2673       3576       5797       3828 


C.  S.  RUDDLE. 


JUDGE   NICHOLAS,   HIS   PARENTAGE    AND 
BIRTHPLACE. 

(Continued  from  p.  510.) 


THIS  brings  us  to  the  history  of  the  Judge  himself.  He 
was  baptized  at  St.  James',  Southbroom,  on  the  2ist  of 
September  1595,  as  Robert,  son  oj  John  Nicholas.  According 
to  Foster's  Alumni  he  matriculated  at  Queen's  College,  as 

"Robert   Nicholas,   of  Wilts,"  nth  May  1610,  at  the  age  of 

002 


540  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

15,  proceeded  B.A.  i;th  May  1613;  entered  of  the  Middle 
Temple  i62i,1  and  was  made  a  Bencher  in  1645. 

In  1635  his  uncle  Griffin  (mentioned  above)  died  at  Round- 
way,2  on  the  1  3th  March,  without  issue,  and  it  was  found  by 
an  inquisition  taken  at  New  Sarum  on  the  i8th  August 
following,  that  "  Robert  Nicholas,  of  the  borough  of  Devizes, 
Esq.,"  was  his  next  heir,  "to  wit,  eldest  son  of  John  Nicholas, 
late  of  Devizes,  gent.,  deceased,  eldest  brother  of  the  said 
Griffin,  and  was  then  aged  39  years  and  more."  —  Inq.  post 
mortem,  \\th  Charles  I.  His  baptism  in  1595  will  thus  be 
found  to  correspond  precisely  with  his  age  as  given  at  two 
later  dates,  viz.,  15  in  1610,  and  39  years  and  more  in  1635. 

We  next  find  him  attending  a  vestry  meeting  at  St. 
Mary's,  Devizes,  in  1637,  in  which  parish  he  must  at  that  time 
have  resided.  His  autograph  in  the  Churchwardens'  book  is 


here  reproduced,  and  is  identical  with  that  of  the  Judge  as 
found  in  public  documents  of  a  later  period. 

The  Charter  of  Charles  I,  dated  5  June  1639,  appoints 
"our  beloved  Robert  Nicholas,  of  the  borough  of  Devizes, 
Esq.,  Recorder  of  the  said  borough  for  the  term  of  his  life, 
together  with  such  pensions,  veils,  and  fees  as  the  said  Robert 
had,  and  was  wont  to  have,  whilst  he  was  Common  Clerk  in 


1  But  on  referring  to  the  Register  of  the  Inner  Temple  the  only  name  of 
Nicholas  to  be  found  there  is  Robert  "  de  All  Canynges,"  admitted  25  July 
It514,  and  no  mention  of  him  as  a  Bencher. 

2  By  will,  dated  18  October  1834,  he   bequeathed  to  the  poor  of  St. 
James',  Southbroom,  £100  and  £5;  to  St.   Mary's   £150   and   £5;  to   St. 
John's  £50  and  £2  105.     To  the  poor  of  Calne  he  also  bequeathed   £50. 
The  Churchwardens'  accounts  of  St.  Mary's,  Devizes,  record  a  payment  of  2s. 
to  the  ringers  for  a  peal  at  his  funeral. 


Judge  Nicholas,  hts  Parentage  and  Birthplace.         541 

the  said  Borough.  At  his  death,  or  surrender,  the  Mayor  and 
Burgesses  to  elect  another." 

On  the  23rd  of  October  in  the  following  year  (1640)  he  is 
still  described  as  "  of  Devizes,"  and  was  elected  to  the  Long 
Parliament,  in  which  he  served  as  one  of  the  Members  for  the 
Borough  [1640-1654].  The  Corporation  Book  in  1641  records 
a  payment  made  to  him  "as  a  gratuity  for  his  pains  and 
expenses  in  Parliament."  On  the  i3th  October  in  this  year  he 
witnesses  the  will  of  William  Tipper,  a  name  well-known  as  a 
benefactor  to  the  poor  of  Seend.  He  is  next  found  engaged  as 
one  of  the  prosecuting  counsel  at  the  trial  of  Archbishop  Laud, 
on  which  occasion  he  seems  to  have  shown  much  bitterness, 
and  is  said  to  have  treated  the  Archbishop  "  with  unseemly 
virulence  and  insult,"  so  much  so,  that  the  lords  "  checked  the 
member  in  his  harrangue."  "  Truly,  my  lords,"  said  the 
Archbishop,  "  I  could  easily  return  all  his  bitterne'ss  upon  him- 
self, would  it  befit  my  person,  my  present  conviction,  or  my 
calling." 

In  1640  he  was  a  Commissioner  for  "raising  money  for 
the  defence  of  the  realm,  and  payments  of  debts  undertaken 
by  the  Parliament";  and  in  1643,  one  of  the  "managers  of 
lands  impeachment."  In  October  1648  the  Commons  made 
him  a  Serjeant-at-Law,  and  appointed  him  one  of  the 
Assistant  Judges  at  the  forthcoming  trial  of  the  King,  which 
from  some  cause  or  another,  he  appears  to  have  abstained 
from  attending;  but  after  Charles'  execution  on  the  3oth 
January  1648-9,  he  accepted  office  in  June  following  as  one  of 
the  Justices  of  the  Upper  Bench,  when  he  formally  resigned 
the  Recordership  and  the  other  offices  which  he  held  within 
the  Borough  of  Devizes,  as  appears  from  the  following 
document : — 

"  THIS  INDENTURE,  made  the  thirteenth  day  of  June  in  the  yeare  of 
our  Lord  God  One  thousand  six  hundred  fforty  Nyne  Betweene  Robert 
Nicholas,  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Court  called  the  Upper  Bench,  of  the 
one  parte,  And  the  Maior  and  Burgesses  of  the  Borough  of  Devizes,  in 
the  County  of  Wilts,  of  the  other  parte.  Witnesseth  That  the  said 
Robert  Nicholas  Hath  resigned  and  surrendered  And  by  these  p'sents 


542  Wiltshire   Notes   and  Queries. 

doth  freely  and  absolutely  Resigne  and  Surrender  vnto  the  said  Maior 
and  Burgesses  and  their  successors  for  ever  All  and  every  his,  the  said 
Robert  Nicholas,  his  Offices  and  places  of  Justice  of  Peace,  Recorder, 
and  Burgesse  of  and  w'thin  the  said  Borough,  the  Lib'ties,  lymitts,  and 
p'cincts  thereof.  And  the  said  Maior  and  Burgesses  doe  by  these 
p'sents,  wth  one  assent  and  consent,  Agree  vnto  and  accept  of  the  sayd 
Surrender  and  Resignation.  In  witnese  whereof  to  one  parte  of  these 
p'sents  the  said  Robert  Nicholas  hath  sett  his  hand  and  Seale.  And  to 
the  other  parte  thereof  the  afores'd  Maior  and  Burgesses  have  sett  their 
Com'on  Seale  the  daie  and  yeare  above  written. 
Sealed  and  deliu'd  in  the  p'sence  of 

JOHN  TAYLER.    JERE  :  FLOWER.    JOHN  ROSE. 

In  thus  bidding  farewell  to  his  official  connexion  with  the 
Borough  of  Devizes,  the  Judge,  on  the  spth  August  1650,  gave 
to  the  churchwardens  and  overseers  of  the  parish  of  St.  John, 
the  sum  of  ^10,  to  be  distributed  annually  to  the  poor;  and 
^20  to  that  of  St.  Mary,  for  the  same  use.  On  ioth  Decem- 
ber 1652  it  appears  that  he  gave  a  further  sum  of  ;£io  to  the 
latter  parish,  in  which  he  must  have  previously  resided.1 

In  April  1650  Judge  Nicholas,  and  Chief  Justice  Rolle, 
were  much  commended  by  the  House  for  settling  the  people's 
minds  to  the  new  form  of  government,  by  their  charges  to  the 
juries  on  the  Western  circuit ;  and  it  was  on  Monday  the  i2th 
March  1655,  whilst  these  same  judges  were  on  circuit  at 
Salisbury,  that  the  Penruddocke  rising  took  place  in  that  city, 
and  they  were,  together  with  Mr.  Sheriff  Dove,  hastily  sum- 
moned from  their  beds  by  the  Royalist  party,  the  sheriff  being 
ordered  forthwith  to  proclaim  Charles  II,  and  on  his  refusal 
a  command  was  promptly  issued  for  the  execution  of  both 
sheriff  and  judges  on  the  public  gallows.  But  the  attempt 
failing,  the  Royalists,  in  the  afternoon  of  the  same  day,  rode 
away  westward,2  and  were  themselves  captured  in  Devonshire 
on  the  Wednesday  following. 

1  But  of  these  sums,  according  to  the  report  of  the  Charity  Commis- 
sioners. (1840),  the  Devizes  Corporation  admit  the  receipt  of  only  half,  viz., 
£10  to  each  parish. 

2  A  letter  from  Cromwell  to  Major-general  Disbrowe,  then  at  Devizes, 
directing  him  to  pursue  the  Cavaliers  (under  Penruddocke)  who  had  risen 
at  Salisbury,  12  March  1655,  is  given  in  Thurloe. 


judge  Nicholas,  his  Parentage   and  Birthplace.         543 

When  Oliver  Cromwell  assumed  the  Protectorate,  Judge 
Nicholas  was  removed  into  the  Exchequer,1  and  sworn  a  Baron 
in  Hilary  Term  1653-4;  which  office  he  still  held  on  the 
succession  of  Richard  Cromwell  as  Protector,  September  1658, 
when  he  was  re-sworn. 

In  1659,  as  "Robert  Nicholas,  Serjeant-at-Law ",  he  was 
appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  for  Oyer  and  Terminer 
for  the  City  of  London,  and  County  of  Middlesex — together 
with  Ireton,  Fleetwood,  Philip,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  Bradshaw, 
Oliver  St.  John,  and  others — representing  the  most  extreme 
supporters  of  the  Commonwealth.  The  commission,  dated 
1 8th  May,  was  ordered  by  the  restored  Rump  Parliament  some 
eleven  days  after  their  return  to  Westminster.  By  this 
parliament  Judge  Nicholas  was  restored  to  the  Upper  Bench 
17  January  1659-60. 

With  the  Restoration  the  public  career  of  the  Judge  comes 
naturally  to  a  close.  It  was  proposed  to  except  him  from 
indemnity,  but  a  warrant  for  his  pardon  was  issued,  and  in 
1662  we  again  find  him  described  as  "  Robert  Nicholas  of  the 
Borough  of  Devizes,  Esq."  Soon  afterwards  he  became  a 
resident  in  the  village  of  Seend,  where  on  Monday,  2oth  April 
1663,  as  a  parishioner  he  attended  the  Easter  Vestry — the 
following  entry  in  the  Churchwardens'  Book  being  at  once 
recognized  as  his  handwriting  : — 

"2oth  Ap  :  Easter  munday  1663,  Mr.  John  Somner,  and  Mr.  Richard 
Garrard  were  chosen  Surveyors  of  ye  Highwayes  according  to  ye  statnt. 

March  the  25th  1663.  It  is  agreed  uppon  Between  Thomas  Sym's, 
Curate  att  Seend  in  the  Parrish  of  Melksham,  and  the  Inhabitants  of 
Seend  afores'd  whose  names  are  subscribed,  That  the  s'd  Inhabitants 
will  give  yearly  unto  the  s'd  Thomas  Sym's  the  several!  sum'es  of 
mon'y  uppon  theyr  names  appeareing,  to  be  paid  quarterly  by  [such  ?] 
of  the  s'd  persons  whose  names  are  subscribed  unto  the  s'd  Thomas 
Sym's :  by  equall  porc'ons,  the  first  payment  to  begin  \blanK\  And  so 
to  continue  during  the  time  that  he  shall  continue  to  officiate  at  Seend 
by  preaching  twice  every  lords  day,  or  some  other  Minister  in  his  steed 


1  Judge  Nicholas  was  again  put  into  office  (under  Richard  Cromwell) 
in  the  room  of  Judge  Hall,  who  refused  to  act.  Noble's  House  of  Cromwell, 
3rd  Edit.  1787,  p.  446. 


544  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

except  hee  be  p'vented  by  sickness  or  some  other  extraordinary 
occac'on  And  likewise  to  p'form  all  other  Church  services  from  time  to 
time  as  occac'on  shall  offer  it  the  said  Respective  Inhabitants  shall 
Respectively  soe  long  dwell  within  the  precinct  of  the  Chappelry  of 
Seend.  £10  oo  oo " 

The  minutes  of  the  next  Easter  vestry  (nth  April  1664) 
are  also  in  his  handwriting,  and  signed  by  himself  and  the 
curate,  Thomas  Sym'es.  On  the  2oth  Nov.  in  this  year  he 
was  accused  by  one  Thomas  Clarke,  who  applied  for  a  warrant 
against  him,  to  answer  certain  articles,  he  [Clarke]  having  been 
in  company,  and  there  heard  in  discourse  that  the  late  Judge 
"  in  a  bragging  and  boasting  way  did  glory  that  he  was  the 
man  that  drew  up  the  charge  against  his  late  Majesty;  and 
being  reproved  thereof,  said  if  it  were  to  do  again  he  would  do 
the  same,  &c."  ;  this  was  confirmed  on  oath  by  John  Stokes, 
of  Seend,  before  a  Master  in  Chancery,  on  the  23rd  December 
following.  See  Wilts  N.  &  O.,  vol.  ii,  p.  478-9. 

On  the  loth  April  1665,  Robert  Nicholas,  then  in  his 
seventieth  year,  again  signs  the  Seend  Churchwardens'  Book, 
at  the  Easter  vestry ;  and  on  the  6th  May  1667  makes  his  will, 
as  of  "  Seende  Rowe,  within  the  parish  of  Milkesham  "tl  de- 
siring burial  "  in  the  sepulchre  of  his  ancestors  within  the 
Chapel  of  St.  James,  in  the  parish  of  Bishop's  Cannings  "- 
thus  confirming  his  direct  descent  from  the  elder  line  of 
Nicholas,  at  Roundway — whose  place  of  interment  this  was 
—and  finally  extinguishing  the  claim  persistently  made  on 
behalf  of  the  village  of  Allcannings,  as  the  place  of  his  birth. 

The  register  of  St.  James,  Southbroom,  duly  records  his 
burial  on  the  28th  December  1667,  and  his  will  was  proved 
in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury,  2nd  February  1668 


10  By  will  he  gave  to  the  poor  of  Seend,  and  of  the  Chapelry  of  St. 
James,  Southbroom,  40  shillings  each ;  but  the  Seend  Churchwardens' 
Book  records  the  payment  from  one  overseer  to  another,  in  the  years  1(572 
and  1(573,  of  the  sum  of  £20  "  that  was  gave  by  Robert  Nicholas,  Esquire, 
for  ye  use  of  ye  poore";  and  in  1681  the  names  of  sixteen  persons  are  given 
who  received  Is.  6d.  each,  amounting  to  24s. — the  interest  of  £20  "  given 
by  Mr.  Nicholas  to  be  disposed  on  Easter  Mundaye." 


Judge  Nicholas,  his  Parentage  and  Birthplace.         545 

[20  Coke]  by  Robert  John,  and  Griffin  Nicholas,  of  Roundway, 
his  nephews  (sons  of  his  deceased  brother  Thomas),  whom  he 
appoints  his  executors. 

According  to  a  pedigree  in  the  possession  of  the  family, 
the  Judge  was  twice  married— first  to  Mary,  daughter  and 
coheir  of  Wortley  Buckington  ;  and  secondly  to  Anne,  daughter 
of  Sir  Humphrey  Lind,  Knt.,  and  had  issue  two  sons, 
Humphrey  and  John,  and  three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Anne, 
and  Mary  ;  but  his  will  mentions  only  his  present  wife,  and 
two  daughters — Mary  Nicholas,  and  Anne  Hulbert  of 
Cosham.  The  others  may  have  predeceased  him.1 

The  following  fragment  of  pedigree,  compiled  from  some 
papers  relating  to  the  markets  of  Devizes,  which  the  Judge 
appears  to  have  held  on  lease  at  the  time  of  his  death,  will 
throw  some  light  on  his  descendants  fifteen  years  later  : — 

Mary  *=[Judge]  Robert  Nicholas=Anne 
[Buckington]      had  a  grant  of  markets        [Lind] 
i  wife.  at  Devizes  2  wife. 


Annet==Thomas  Hulbert,           Mary=John,  son  of  Sir  John  Knight 
[Nicholas]  I       ofCorsham.       [Nicholas]          of  Bristol,  Mayor  and 
j       Alderman. 

Nicholas       Sir  Richard  HartJ=Elizabeth=Brereton  Boucher  § 

Hulbert]  of  Barnesley,  co. 

living  1612.        Gloucester,  Eng. 


Hulbert  of  Bristol,  knt. 


Richard  Hart.  Anne  Hart. 

*  Query  buried  at  St.  James",  Southbroom,  as  "Margaret,  wife  of  Robert 
Nicholas,"  17  December  1637. 

t  Anne,  daughter  of  Robert  Nicholas,  baptized  at  St.  James",  26  Feb.  1647. 

I  Sir  Richard  Hart,  of  Hanham,  purchased  Sheldon,  near  Chippenham,  of  Sir 
Richard  Kent,  who  had,  in  1684,  obtained  it  by  purchase  from  Hungerford. 

$  Sold  Roundway  to  a  later  Robert  Nicholas,  great  nephew  of  the  Judge,  in  1705, 
for  '£2, 300. 

1  The  Dictionary  of  National  Biography  again  incorrectly  gives  him 
a  son  Oliver,  afterwards  knighted;  and  a  daughter  Catherine,  married  to  Sir 
Thomas  Brodrick,  of  Wandsworth,  ancestor  of  Lord  Midleton  and  the  present 
Editor  of  Wilts  IV.  $  Q.  But  these  belonged  to  a  younger  branch  of  the  family, 
and  were  children  of  another  Robert  Nicholas,  of  Manningford  Bruce,  by  Jane, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  St.  John,  of  Lydiard  Tregoze,  and  were  contemporary 
with  the  Judge — the  marriage  of  Sir  Thomas  Brodrick  having  taken  place 
at  St.  Mary  le  Strand,  London,  on  the  17th  August  1622,  when  the  Judge 
was  scarcely  27  years  old. 


546  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

The  Rev.  Mark  Noble,  in  his  History  of  the  House  of 
Cromwell,  remarks,  "  it  is  confessed  by  all  that  Oliver  filled 
the  benches  with  learned,  able,  and  upright  judges."  Anthony 
Wood,  having  probably  in  his  mind  the  earlier  days  of  Robert 
Nicholas,  and  his  uncourteous  demeanour  when  engaged  in  the 
prosecution  of  Archbishop  Laud,  describes  him  as  having  "in 
his  pleadings  some  sense,  but  was  extream,  virulent,  and  had 
foul  language  at  command."  Aubrey,  in  the  well-known 
preface  to  his  Collections  for  North  Wilts,  written  in  1670 — 
more  than  two  years  after  the  Judge's  death,  says  he  was 
"  the  greatest  Antiquary  as  to  evidences  that  this  county  hath 
had  in  the  memory  of  man,  and  had  taken  notes  in  his 
Adversaria  of  all  the  auncient  deedes  that  came  to  his  hands." 
It  need  only  be  added  that  this  collection,  if  still  forthcoming, 
would  be  of  the  greatest  value  to  the  Wiltshire  historian. 
"  T'is  pitie,"  Aubrey  quaintly  remarks,  "  that  those  papers 
shoulde  fall  into  the  mercilesse  hands  of  woemen,  and  be  put 
under  pies  ",  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  such  has  not  been  the 
untimely  fate  of  the  memorandum  book,  or  Adversaria,  con- 
taining the  Judge's  notes,  many  of  which,  no  doubt,  had 
reference  to  Devizes,  and  its  immediate  neighbourhood. 

EDWARD  KITE. 


QUAKERISM    IN    WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  514.) 


III.— BIRTH    RECORDS. 
R.  (continued.) 

1680-11-4. — Mary  RAWLENCE,  dau.  of  Henry  Rawlence,  Junr.. 
of  Corsham. 

12  In  the  margin  of  his  MS.  Aubrey  makes  a  mem.  to  ask  Capt. 
[Robert]  Chaloner,  and  Mr.  Hulbert,  of  Cosham,  his  son-in-law,  for  ?em. 
The  former,  son  of  John  Chaloner,  of  Lloran,  co.  Denbigh,  had  a  lease  of 
Roundway  in  1659,  his  sister  Joan  having  married  Robert  Nicholas,  the 
Judge's  nephew,  and  one  of  his  executors. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  547 


1682-11-9. — Joseph    READ,    son    of    Humphrey    and    Dennise 
Read,  of  Calne  Meeting. 

1689-11-25. — Jane  RYLY,  dau.  of  Daniel  and  Dorothy  Ryly,  of 
Avon,  Christian  Malford  ph. 

1691/2-1-6. — John   RYLY,  son  of  Daniel  and  Dorothy  Ryly,  of 
Avon,  Christian  Malford  ph. 

1693-11-*. — Daniel  RYLY,  son  of  Daniel  and  Dorothy  Ryly,  of 
Avon,  Christian  Malford  ph. 

1695-6-15. — At    Melksham,  Samuel  RUTTY,  son    of  John  and 
Hester  Rutty,  of  Melksham,  cheesemonger. 

1696-11-29. — James  RUTTY,  son  of  John  and  Hester  Rutty,  of 
Melksham,  maltster. 

1698-10-14. — John  RuTTY,1  son  of  John  and  Esther  Rutty,  of 
Melksham. 

1650-7-9. — John  SHEARMUR,  son  of  Giles  Shearmur,  of  Stoke. 

1650-10-17. — Thomas   SEAGER,   son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
Seager,  of  Foxham. 


1  John  Rutty,  after  study  abroad,  became  a  doctor  of  medicine,  and 
removed  in  1724  to  Dublin.  According  to  the  good  order  of  the  Society  he 
received  a  certificate  of  removal  from  his  friends,  of  which  tl.e  following, 
taken  from  the  records  at  Melksham,  is  a  copy  : — 

"  The  Transactions  of  our  Monthly  Meeting  held  at  Paul  Newman's 
Junr.,  at  Melksham  ye  10th  of  ye  5th  month,  1724. 

"Jno.  Rutty,  Junr.,  Doctor  of  Phisick,  having  an  Intention  to 
settle  himself  among  Friends  in  Dublin,  desired  a  Certificate  from  this 
Meeting,  wh.  wee  accordingly  gave  as  follows  :— 

"  'From  ye  Men's  Monthly  Meeting  held  at  Melksham,  in  ye  County 
of  Wilts,  In  ye  Kingdom  of  great  Brittain,  the  10th  of  ye  5th  Month, 
1724. 

"  '  To  ye  Men's  Monthly  Meeting  in  the  City  of  Dublin,  in  ye  King- 
dom of  Ireland. 
"  '  Dear  Friends, 

"  '  Uur  well-beloved  ingenuous  friend  John  Rutty,  Doctor  of  Physick, 
having  desired  a  Certificate  to  you  from  our  said  Monthly  meeting  on  ac- 
count of  his  designing  to  Settle  among  you  if  business  shall  encourage 
him,  and  you  approve  thereof;  Wee  do  therefore  accordingly  certify  you 
yt  as  wee  esteem  him  a  man  well  learned  in  ye  Languages,  and  very 
understanding  in  physick,  so  his  behaviour  and  conversation  hath  been 
sober  and  orderly  among  us,  and  we  know  not  but  he  is  clear  from  all 
women  respecting  Marriage. 

"  '  Wherefore  commending  him  to  your  reguard  and  favour,  hoping 
if  he  settles  with  you  he  may  be  blessed  wth.  the  success  and  service 


548  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

1652-10-27. — William    SEAGER,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
Seager,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1652/3-12-11. — Mary  SHERMORE,  dau.   of  Giles  Shermore,   of 
Stoke. 

1655-2-12. — Stephen  SEAGER,   son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
Seager,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1655-5-18. — Ann[eJ  SHERMORE,    dau.    of    Giles    Shermore,    of 
Stoke. 

1657-2-1. — Isaac  SMART,  son  of  Roger  Smart,  of  Grittleton. 

1657-8-25. — Benjamine  and  Margery  SHELL,  twin  son  and  dau. 
of  Benjamin  Shell,  of  Rowde. 

1658-11-11. — Walter  SEAGER,  son  of    Thomas   and  Elizabeth 
Seager,  of  Charlcott  Meeting. 

1658-11-14. — Daniel!  SMART,  son  of  Roger  Smart,  of  Grittleton. 

1660-3-23. — Daniell   SMITH,  son    of  Daniell    Smith,   of  Marl- 
borough. 

1660-7-28. — John  SEAGER,  son  of  Thomas  Seager,  of  Compton. 
1660-8-2. — John  SEAGER,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Seager. 
1660-9-14. — Joane  SHELL,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Shell,  of  Rowde. 
1660-10-8. — William  SMITH,  son  of  Wm.  Smith. 

1660-12-20. — Mary  SUMPSION,  dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Sump- 
sion,  of  Slaughterford. 

1661 -i  1-4. — John  SMITH,  son  of  Daniell  Smith,  of  Marlborough. 
1662-12-5. — Abigail  SMITH,  dau.  of  Daniell  Smith,  of  Marlbro. 


among  you  and  your  neighbours  as  his  capacity,  indefatigable  diligence 
and  long  studys  seems  to  promise,  wee  conclude  wth  ye  salutation  of 
our  dear  Love. 

"  '  5four  friends  and  brethren  in  ye  blessed  Truth.     Signed  by  order 
and  in  behalf  of  our  said  Meeting  by 

"  '  Thos.  Beaven,  Senior  ;  Jno.  Clark  ;  Jos.  Hull ; 
James  Matrevors ;  James  Band;  Paul  New- 
man, Junr. ;  Edwd;  Gye ;  Thos.  Beavan,  Junr.' " 

Dr.  Rutty  rose  to  some  eminence  in  his  profession,  and  wrote  various 
valuable  medical  works,  the  longest  being  Materia  Medica,  Antiqua  et 
Nova,  printed  at  Rotterdam  in  1775.  The  subject  of  religion  also  occupied 
his  pen,  his  Spiritual  Diary  and  Soliloquies  being  full  of  self-reflections  of  ;t 
somewhat  morbid  character.  He  brought  down  the  History  of  the  Quakers 
in  Ireland,  previously  compiled  to  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century,  to 
the  year  1751,  and  was  deeply  interested  in  the  Religious  Society  to  which 
he  belonged.  His  death  took  place  in  1775. 


Quakerism  in  Wiltshire.  549 

1663-3-9. — Sarah  STOVEY,  dau.  of  Wm.  Stovey. 

1 663-3- 1 5. — Andrew  SHEPPARD,  son  of  Andrew  Sheppard,  of 
Charlcott. 

1663-4-24. —  Katherine    SMITH,    dau.    of    William    Smith,    of 
Kinton. 

1663-5-29. — Sarah  SHELL,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Shell,  of  Rowde. 
1664-9-5. — Mary  SMITH,  d.  of  William  Smith. 

1664/5-1-17. — Malia  SHEPPARD,  dau.  of  Andrew  Sheppard,  of 
Charlecott. 

1664-11-22. — Elizabeth    SMITH,   dau.    of    William    Smith,    of 
Kinton. 

i665-;-29[3o]. — Elizabeth  SEAGER,  dau.  of  Thomas  [and  Eliza- 
beth] Seager,  of  Compton  [Charlcott  Meeting]. 

1666-3-31. — Jacob  SMITH,  son  of  Daniell  Smith,  of  Marlbro. 

1666-6-6. — Joseph  SMITH,  son  of  Wm.  Smith. 

1666-9-5. — Ann  SPICER,  dau.  of  Giles  Spicer. 

1666-12-7. — William  SMITH,  son  of  Wm.  Smith,  of  Kinton. 

1667-2-12. — Elizabeth  SEAGER,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth 
Seager,  of  Compton. 

1668/9-12-3. — John  SMITH,  son  of  Michaell  Smith,  of  Charleton. 
1669-11-12. — Jane  SMITH,  dau.  of  William  Smith,  of  Bromham. 

Tottenham,  Middx.  NORMAN  PENNEY. 

.(To  be  continued.) 


AMESBURY   MONASTERY. 


IN  concluding  his  interesting  series  of  articles  on  Amesbury 
Monastery  (vol.  iii,  p.  447),  Mr.  Kite  describes  his  gleanings  as 
"  collected  partly  from  under  ground  "—referring  to  the  extract 
from  Canon  Jackson's  letter,  with  which  he  opened  the  series 
in  1899  (vol.  iii,  p.  114). 

Canon  Jackson  seems  to  have  been  contemplating  a  more 
remote -antiquity — the  days  of  the  Saxon  Abbey  or  earlier  still- 
but  the  ground  in  which  Mr.  Kite  may  be  said  to  have  delved 


550  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

— the  site  of  the  mediaeval  Priory — offers  a  more  promising 
field  for  investigation,  and  there  is  very  little  doubt  that  further 
excavations  would  yield  interesting  results,  and  probably 
extend  our  knowledge  of  the  arrangements  of  the  Priory, 
which  much  needs  extension,  as — with  all  due  respect  to  those 
persons  who  consider  that  they  have  settled  the  question — we, 
at  present,  know  very  little  about  it.  That,  however,  is  no 
reason  against  making  the  most  that  we  can  of  the  com- 
paratively meagre  materials  at  present  at  our  command. 

Mr.  Kite  tells  us  (p.  298)  that  "  he  has  always  believed  a 
double  use  of  the  same  building,  both  by  nuns  and  parishioners, 
to  have  been  the  case  at  Amesbury" — in  other  words,  that  he 
has  always  held  the  view  which  he  is  now  maintaining ;  and, 
as  his  knowledge  of  Amesbury  Church  goes  back  to  1852  at 
least,  if  not  to  an  earlier  period,  I  can  quite  understand  the 
tenacity  with  which  he  clings  to  his  opinion,  and  his  dis- 
inclination to  admit  that  there  can  possibly  be  a  doubt  in  the 
matter. 

He  also  says  that  "the  identity  of  the  present  Parish 
Church  of  Amesbury  with  that  of  the  dissolved  Monastery 
had  "  (previously  to  the  publication  of  the  Longleat  papers) 
"  been  a  matter  of  general  acceptance."  I  do  not,  however, 
believe  that  it  was  a  matter  of  such  general  acceptance  as  Mr. 
Kite  supposes. 

The  Longleat  papers  first  saw  the  light  in  1867.  Brown's 
Handbook  to  Salisbury  and  Neighbourhood,  by  J.  B.  Moore, 
which  contains  a  good  deal  of  information,  was  published  in 
1857,  and  the  author  appears  never  to  have  heard  of  the 
theory  that  the  present  church  of  Amesbury  was  the  conven- 
tual church.  That  theory  came  upon  me,  with  all  the  force 
of  a  surprise,  in  1876.  I  had  previously  either  not  read  Canon 
Jackson's  paper  at  all,  or  I  had  not  read  it  with  much  attention. 
I  found,  however,  to  my  surprise,  that  Canon  Jackson  took  the 
very  view  which  had  astonished  me  in  Mr.  Kemm's  paper,  but 
it  did  not  appear  to  me  that  his  arguments  warranted  his 
conclusion.  I  do  not,  to  this  day,  feel  convinced  that  he  had 


Amesbury  Monastery.  551 

thought  the  matter  out  for  himself,  and  had  not  rather  adopted 
the  views  of  other  persons.  What  he  says  appears  to  me 
quite  consistent  with  the  latter  supposition. 

This  enquiry  turned  my  attention  to  the  peculiarity  of  the 
Order  of  Fontevraud,  which  Canon  Jackson  does  not  appear 
to  have  noticed  at  all,  and  that,  at  once,  suggested  a  possible 
explanation  of  apparent  difficulties.  I  do  not  think  that  we 
know  much  of  the  arrangements  of  a  monastery  of  the  Order 
of  Fontevraud,  but  we  know,  at  any  rate,  that  it  was  a  mixed 
monastery  of  men  and  women.  That  implies  particular 
arrangements,  and  more  extensive  buildings  than  would  be 
required  in  the  case  of  a  simple  monastery  of  either  monks  or 
nuns. 

A  most  interesting  paper  on  "The  Gilbertine  Priory  of 
Watton,  in  the  East  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  by  W.  H.  St.  John 
Hope,  M.A.,"  recently  published  in  the  Archaeological  Journal 
(vol.  Iviii,  p.  i),  suggests  the  sort  of  thing  which  may  have 
existed  at  Amesbury,  and  I  shall  find  it  useful  for  the  purpose 
of  illustration,  whilst  bearing  in  mind  that  Watton  was  a 
mixed  or  double  monastery  of  a  different  Order. 

At  Watton  there  were  two  distinct  sets  of  conventual 
buildings,  close  together,  and,  at  one  point,  they  may  have  been 
in  actual  contact — a  large  cruciform  church,  mainly  for  the  use 
of  the  nuns,  with  their  cloister  and  usual  buildings  to  the  north, 
and,  to  the  east  of  these,  the  canons'  cloister  and  buildings, 
with  their  chapel,  smaller  than  the  nuns'  church,  but  still  of 
considerable  size  and  in  the  usual  position  of  a  monastic 
church.  Besides  these,  there  is  the  parish  church,  apparently 
within  the  precinct,  much  smaller  than  the  nuns'  church,  and 
at  a  short  distance  to  the  south-west  of  it. 

That,  I  think,  disposes  of  any  primd  facie  difficulty  in 
supposing  that  there  may  have  been,  at  Amesbury,  two 
large  churches — one  the  conventual  church,  and  the  other 
the  parish  church,  connected,  but  rather  less  directly,  with  the 
priory. 

At  Watton,  the  infirmaries  have  not  yet  come  to  light. 


552  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

I  have  said,  above,  that  Carron  Jackson  does  not  appear  to 
have  noticed,  at  all,  the  peculiarity  of  the  Order  of  Fontevraud. 
Apparently  he  did  not  know  that  Amesbury  Priory  was  ever  a 
mixed  monastery.  This  appears  from  his  paper  (Wilts  Arch. 
Mag.,  vol.  x,  p.  61).  I  think,  I  stated  the  case  fairly  in  my 
paper,  read  at  Amesbury  (Wilts.  Arch.  Mag.,  vol.  xxxi,  p.  26), 
as  follows  : — "  Canon  Jackson  notes  that  it  appears,  from  a 
letter  in  the  New  Monasticon,  that  there  were  some  '  brethren,' 
attached  to  the  Monastery,  who,  as  well  as  the  sisterhood, 
were  placed  under  the  control  of  the  Prioress.  He  "appears  to 
miss  the  significance  of  this,  as  he  says  they  were  '  probably  a 
staff  of  chaplains.'  " 

Mr.  Kite  knows  the  mixed  character  of  the  monastery 
very  well,  but  he  appears  to  desire,  as  far  as  possible,  to 
explain  it  away.  He  says  (p.  303,  note  i) — "Although  the 
Order  of  Font  Evrault  included  religious  of  both  sexes,  we  find 
brethren  at  Amesbury  mentioned  only  in  1294,  and  a  prior  a 
few  years  later;  but  this  may  merely  refer  to  the  priests  main- 
tained in  the  Monastery — the  principal  one  of  whom  may  have 
been  known  as  Prior." 

How  is  this  consistent  with  the  letter  of  Margaret,  Abbess 
of  Fontevraud,  to  King  Edward  I  (1294),  in  which  she  begs 
the  King  to  order  the  nuns  and  the  brethren  at  Amesbury  to 
receive  Johanne  de  Gennes,  as  Prioress,  and  to  render  her  the 
same  obedience  as  to  the  Abbess  herself,  or  with  the  letter  of 
the*Princess  Mary  to  King  Edward  II,  and  the  anxiety  she 
shows,  not  only  that  the  Abbess  of  Fontevraud  should  grant 
them  her  whom  they  had  requested,  and  not  send  them  a 
Prioress  "  from  beyond  the  sea  there,"  nor  "  any  prioress  out 
of  the  Convent,"  but  also  that  she  should  not  send  them  "a 
prior  by  her  counsel  out  there,"  nor  any  prior  other  than  the 
one  they  then  had  ? 

True  it  is  that  only  two  documents,  mentioning  the  prior 
and  the  brethren,  have  escaped  the  wreck  of  time,  and  most 
fortunate  also,  for,  if  they  had  not  been  forthcoming,  we  might 


Amesbury  Monastery.  553 

have  had  it  contended  that  there  never  was  a  mixed  monastery 
at  Amesbury  at  all. 

The  portions  of  Mr.  Kite's  notes  which  have  most  interest 
for  me,  are  his  critical  examination  of  the  present  Church,  and 
his  account  of  the  remains  found  on  the  site  of  the  Abbey 
House.  It  will  be  convenient  to  consider  the  Church  first. 

It  is  a  curious  thing  that  Canon  Jackson,  when  he  wrote 
his  paper,  seems  to  have  entirely  overlooked  the  difficulty  of 
the  length  of  the  nave.  When  I  last  spoke  to  him  on  the 
subject,  he  was  aware  of  the  difficulty. 

Mr.  Kite  seeks  to  get  out  of  the  difficulty  in  a  very 
remarkable  way  (p.  301).  He  suggests  that,  when  the  King's 
plumbers  speak  of  a  roof,  "estimated  at  120  feet  by  24  on  each 
side,"  they  "may  have  taken  the  entire  length  of  the  nave  and 
aisle  together,  and  averaged  the  width — considering  this  quite 
near  enough  for  their  purpose." 

Why  should  they  have  done,  in  this  case,  what  they  did 
not  do  in  any  other?  The  words  of  the  original  survey  are — 
(Wilts.  Arch.  Mag.,  vol.  x,  p.  74)  :  "  Item,  a  steep  roof  over 
the  body  of  the  church,  covered  with  lead,  in  length  120  foot, 
and  in  depth  on  either  side  24  foot." 

Mr.  Kite  says  : — "  This  has  been  taken  literally  to  represent 
a  nave  120  feet  long,  the  existence  of  which,  at  any  time,  the 
present  writer  is  very  much  inclined  to  doubt ;  and  he  is 
equally  inclined  to  doubt  if  any  such  meaning  was  intended." 

It  must  be  so  taken,  if  there  is  any  meaning  in  words,  viz., 
to  mean  one  continuous  roof.  If,  however,  it  were  admitted, 
for  the  purpose  of  argument,  that  the  words  might  have  the 
meaning,  as  regards  the  length,  that  Mr.  Kite  puts  upon  them, 
it  would  follow,  as  the  nave  is  wider  than  the  aisle  and  the 
width  of  the  lead  is  uniform,  that  the  aisle  would  have  a  span 
roof  of  a  steeper  pitch  than  the  nave  roof,  which  is  not  likely. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  know  why  Mr.  Kite  is  "inclined 
to  doubt"  the  existence,  "at  any  time,"  of  a  nave  120  feet 
long.  That  is  my  contention,  of  course,  but  why  should  it  also 

be  his  ?     Of  course,  if  he  doubts  that  being  the  original  length 

PP 


554  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

of  the  nave  of  what  he  supposes  to  have  been  the  conventual 
church,  he  also  doubts  if  the  words  of  the  survey  were 
intended  to  have  their  obvious  meaning. 

Can  Mr.  Kite  tell  us,  at  all,  from  his  personal  observation, 
what  was  the  character  of  the  west  wall  which  Mr.  Butter- 
field  removed  ?  If  any  part  of  it  was  Norman,  as  I  should 
expect  that  it  would  be,  it  would,  of  course,  follow  that  the 
nave  was  never  any  longer. 

Mr.  Kite  supposes  that  the  great  cloister  of  the  monastery 
stood  against  the  north  wall  of  the  present  nave.  If  that  were 
so,  and  the  nave  was  never  any  longer,  it  would  follow  that  the 
south  wall  of  the  cloister  must  have  projected  very  consider- 
ably beyond  the  west  wall  of  the  nave,  which  would  be  a  very 
unusual  arrangement. 

The  fact  is  that — to  suit  the  theory  which  Mr.  Kite 
supports — it  must  be  assumed  that  the  nave  was  originally 
longer,  and  has  been  shortened. 

Mr.  Kite  gives  us  (p.  304),  a  sketch  of  the  former  west 
window.  This  was  probably  of  the  same  date  as  the  other 
Perpendicular  insertions  in  the  nave.  He  speaks  of  the 
Norman  work  of  the  nave  as  "  at  least  of  the  early  Norman 
period,  which  may  possibly  have  been  part  of  the  Church  given 
to  Font  Evrault  in  1177,  or  rebuilt  at  about  that  date."  The 
latter  is  my  suggestion  (Wilts.  Arch.  Mag.,  vol.  xxxi,  p.  27), 
viz.,  that  "  no  part  of  it  appears  to  be  older  than  the  time  of 
Henry  the  Second" — my  theory  being  that  "in  1177,  besides 
building  a  new  church,  the  nuns  must  have  rebuilt  the  parish 
church."  If  it  were  early  Norman,  it  must  have  been  older 
than  1177.  Which,  therefore,  of  these  two,  is  Mr.  Kite's 
real  view  ? 

Mr.  Kite  argues  (p.  302)  that  such  a  spire,  as  the  measure- 
ments of  the  lead  indicate,  might  have  stood  on  the  present 
tower,  and  concludes — "The  objection,  therefore,  that  the 
actual  dimensions  of  the  present  church  tower  at  Amesbury 
cannot  be  reconciled  with  the  recorded  dimensions  of  the 
Monastic  Church,  apparently  vanishes." 


Amesbury  Monastery.  555 


I  have  not  myself  urged  that  objection.  What  I  said 
(Wills.  Arch.  Mag.,  vol.  xxxi,  p.  28,  note  i),  was  that  I  was 
informed  "  that  Mr.  Kemm,  in  a  letter  written  probably  not 
long  before  his  death,  reluctantly  gave  up  his  belief  that  the 
present  was  the  Priory  Church.  This  was  on  account  of  a 
difficulty  that  he  found  in  reconciling  the  dimensions  of  the 
church  tower  with  the  recorded  dimensions  of  the  spire  of  the 
Priory  Church.  The  difficulty  may  possibly  not  have  been 
insuperable,  &c."  By  which  I  meant  to  say  that  I  thought  Mr. 
Kemm  was  too  easily  frightened  in  the  matter,  and  might  have 
stood  to  his  guns. 

Mr.  Kite  says  (p.  302,  note  2),  speaking  of  the  lead  on  the 
tower:  "Among  the  many  names  and  dates  which  appear  on  • 
this  lead  (from  at  least  the  year  1647  downward)  some  are 
inclosed  within  an  outline  representing  a  tower  and  spire,  which, 
repeated  from  time  to  time  by  different  individuals,  seems  to 
perpetuate  a  tradition  of  the  tower  having  once  actually 
possessed  such  an  appendage."  This  appears  to  me  rather 
far-fetched.  If  the  vandals  in  question  had  any  particular 
spire  in  their  minds,  it  is  more  likely  to  have  been  an  existing 
spire  than  one  which  had  disappeared  more  than  a  hundred 
years  previously. 

Mr.  Kite  makes  a  point  (p.  302),  but,  in  that  and  other 
cases,  he  cannot  abstain  from  begging  the  question.  He  says  : 
"  The  Crown  survey,  taken  immediately  after  the  Dissolution, 
mentions  four  bells  in  the  steeple  of  the  Monastic  Church.  In 
1552  (some  twelve  years  later)  the  Commissioners  appointed  to 
make  a  survey  and  inventory  of  all  church  goods  remaining  at 
that  time,  found,  apparently  in  the  same  tower,  the  same  four 
bells  used  by  the  parish.  These  they  again  left  undisturbed, 
as  being  '  requisite  for  Divine  Service.' " 

It  by  no  means  follows,  because  there  were  four  bells  in 
the  tower  of  the  Conventual  Church  in  1539,  and  the  same 
number  of  bells  in  the  tower  of  the  present  Church  in  1552, 

that  the  bells  or  the  towers  were  the  same. 

p  P  2 


556  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

I  have  quoted  (Wilts.  Arch.  Mag.,  vol.  xxxi,  p.  22),  Mr. 
Kemm's  words,  from  his  pamphlet :  "The  present  tower  seems 
not  to  have  been  intended  to  carry  bells,  but  as  a  lantern  to 
the  building."  That  seems  not  improbable  in  itself,  and  the 
stair-turret,  which  formerly  existed  in  the  north  transept,  must, 
I  think,  have  been  added  at  some  date  later  than  the  thirteenth 
century.  Such  alterations  of  lanterns  were  not  uncommon  in 
the  fifteenth  century.  Mr.  Kite  shows  this  stair-turret  on  his 
plan  (p.  288),  but  gives  us  no  clue  to  its  date. 

Mr.  Kite  has  omitted  altogether,  from  his  plan,  the  south- 
west tower  pier.  At  that  point,  it  is  evident  that,  when  the 
south  aisle  was  built,  the  arch  from  aisle  to  transept  and  the 
easternmost  arch  from  aisle  to  nave,  being  cut  through  older 
walls,  caused  a  settlement  of  the  tower,  to  counteract  which 
those  two  arches  have  been  partly  built  up  again. 

Whilst  on  the  subject  of  this  plan  I  may  say  that  the 
blocked  doorway,  marked  "  i,"  at  the  west  end  of  the  aisle, 
appeared  to  me  to  be  of  the  same  date  as  the  adjacent  south 
doorway  and  the  aisle  itself,  which  shows  that  the  line  of  the 
wall,  between  the  churchyard  and  the  ground  to  the  west  of 
the  aisle,  is  as  old  as  those  doorways,  or  they  would  not  have 
been  required  so  close  together.  Mr.  Kite's  plan  shows  that 
the  porch  followed  the  line  of  the  wall,  but  he  does  not  tell  us 

what  its  date  was. 

C.  H.  TALBOT. 
(To  be  continued.) 


A  CALENDAR  OF  FEET  OF  FINES  FOR  WILTSHIRE. 

(Continued  from  p.  462.) 


EDWARD  VI. 

392.  Anno  4. — John  Berwick  and  William  Allen  and 
Mary  his  wife ;  manors  of  Wilcote  and  Stowell,  messuages  and 
lands  in  Wilcote  and  Stowell,  with  advowson  of  the  church  of 
Wilcote.  ,£500. 


A  Calendar  of  Feet  of  Fines  for  Wiltshire.  557 

393.  Anno  4.— Christopher  Stanshall  and  John  Stanshall 
and  Anne  his  wife  ;  one  messuage  and  fulling  mill,  with  lands 
in  Lye,  and  in  the  parish  of  Westbury  under  the  plain.     ^80. 

394.  Anno  4. — Walter  Comysshawe  and  Walter  Mone, 
arm.,  and  Thomas  Mompesson,  gen. ;  messuages  and  lands  in 
the  parish  of  St.  Edmunds,  in  the  city  of  New  Sarum.     ,£30. 

395.  Anno  4. — James   Yate   and  Johanna  his  wife,  and 
Edward  Flower,  son  and  heir  of  the  said  Johanne,  and  John 
Flower ;   messuages   and    lands    in  Worton,  in  the  parish  of 
Potterne. 

396.  Anno    4. — Henry    Uvedall,    arm.,    and    Margaret 
Stapull,  alias   Stapulls,   widow  ;   manor  of  North  Tudworth, 
messuages  and  lands  in  North  Tudworth.     ,£160. 

397.  Anno  4. — John  Saynysbury  and  William  Gray  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  one  of  the  daughters  and  heirs  of  William 
Freere,  deed.  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  the  borough  of  Devizes, 
Newparkfeld,  hundred  le   Devizes,   and  in   the  parish  of  St. 
John  in  the  borough  of  Devizes,  and  in  St.  Mary,  in  le  De- 
vizes.    ^"30. 

398.  Anno  4. — John  Willughby  and  Stephen  Hulett,  and 
Leonard  Willughby,  arm. ;  messuages  and  lands  in  Westbury, 
Skypmers  upton  (?),  Edyngton,  and  Styple  Aschton. 

399.  Anno  4. — Thomas  Woodlock  and  Edward  Fox  and 
Eleanor  his  wife,  and  Thomas  Fox  and  Elizabeth  his  wife; 
messuages  and  lands  in  the  parish  of  St.  Edward,  in  the  city  of 
New  Sarum.     ;£ioo. 

400.  Anno  4. — Robert    Maye,    otherwise   called    Robert 
Haystow,  and  Richard  Brygges,  arm.,  and  Johanna  his  wife ; 
fourth  part  of  the  manor  of  Browghton  Gifford,  and  messuages 
and  lands  in  Broughton  Gifford.     ^146. 

401.  Anno  4.     Thomas    Pyle    and    Owen    Dukett    and 
Winifred  his  wife  ;  manor  of  Bubbeton,  messuages  and  lands 
in  Cleve   Pepperd,   Radborne,  Erode  Town,  Yattesbury  and 
Thornyll.     ^160. 

402.  Anno  4. — Richard  Bryant  and  William  Moggerydge 
and  Johanna  his  wife,  Thomas  Stanter  and  Katherine  his  wife, 


558  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

and  John  Moggeridge  ;  messuages  and  lands  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Edward,  New  Sarum.     100  marks. 

403.  Anno  4. — William  Button,  arm.,  and  Richard  Wyatt 
and   Johanna   his   wife ;    messuages   and   lands   in    Marlyns- 
borough.     ^40. 

404.  Anno  4. — John  Love  and  Henry  Nowell ;  messuages 
and  lands  in  Boxe  Dychruge  (?)  and  the  parish  of  Boxe.     ^40. 

405.  Anno  4. — William  Eston  and  Johanna  his  wife  and 
Robert  Chauntrell  and  Alice  his  wife  ;  messuage  and  lands  in 
the  city  of  New  Sarum.     £20. 

406.  Anno  4. — Silvester  Danvers  (7),1  arm.,  and  William 
Thykylls   and   Johanna   his   wife ;    messuages    and  lands   in 
Markeden.     ^80. 

407.  Anno   5.— William    Eire,    gen.,  and  Roger   Gybbes 
and  Agnes  his  wife,  and  Edward  Willoughby ;  messuages  and 
lands  in  Lyndley  in  the  parish  of  Tissebury.     ^40. 

408.  Anno   5. — Matilda  Knight,  widow,  and  Walter  Lav- 
enton  and  Christina  his  wife,  and  William  Grey  and  Elizabeth 
his  wife;  messuages  and  lands  in  Newport  "  in  le  devises."  £20. 

409.  Anno    5.— William    Horton    and  Francis   Savage, 
arm.,  George  Watts,  John  Fulwode,  and  Daniel  Woodward, 
gen.;  messuages  and  lands  in  Henton,  Lytelton,  Styple  Asheton, 
and  Christon  Malford.     ^160. 

410.  Anno   5. — Nicholas  Snell  and  Edward  Brown,  als. 
Clement;  messuages  and  lands  in  West  Hacche  and  Staple- 
ford.     £40. 

411.  Anno   5. — John  Noryngton  and  William  Grey  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife ;  messuage  and  garden  in   Newport  in  le 
Devizes.     ^20. 

412.  Anno   5. — Robert  May  and  William  Rosswell  and 
Richard  Morgan,  gen.  ;  lands  in  East  Lavington.     160  marks. 

413.  Anno    5. — John  Mompesson   and  Elizabeth    Note, 

widow ;  messuages  in  New  Sarum. 

E.  A.  FRY. 
(To  be  continued.} 

1  This  name  was  partly  obliterated  in  filing  the  record. 


Queries  and  Replies.  559 


Queries!. 


Arms  of  Stumpe  and  Baynton. — On  a  recent  and  most 
interesting  visit  to  the  Abbey  House,  Malmesbury,  we 
examined  the  Arms  on  the  Porch,  and  these  we  found  to  be,  on 
the  dexter  side,  three  falcon's  heads  erased,  without  any 
engrailed  chevron,  on  the  sinister  side,  three  fusils  in  bend 
between  two  demi-lions;  these  Jusils  cannot  by  any  means  be 
mistaken  for  a  bend  lozengy,  as  there  is  some  space  between 
each  of  them.  The  first  is  probably  STUMP.  What  is  the 
second  one,  which  some  have  attributed  to  BAYNTON  ?  It  is 
true  that  Sir  James  Stumpe  married  Bridget  Baynton,  but  he 
married  2ndly,  Isabella  ....  whose  arms  these  may  be  ; 
what  was  her  name  ?  According  to  Canon  Jackson's  edition 
of  Aubrey,  p.  260,  Aubrey  seems  to  have  only  written 
"  STUMPE  and,"  the  editor  adding  in  brackets  BAYNTON  ;  and  in 
the  plates  the  former  is  drawn"  per  chevron  engrailed,  and  the 
latter  with  the  bend  Justify,  with  a  doubt  as  to  the  family.  In 
a  note  p.  259,  the  editor  speaks  of  the  Arms  on  the  Porch  as 
being  "  Stumpe  impaling  Baynton,"  whereas  there  is  a  single 
coat  only  on  either  side  off  the  Porch. 

That  which  is  now  the  Cellar  appears  to  me  more  likely 
to  have  been  a  Crypt  than,  as  Canon  Jackson  would  have  it,  a 
Refectory ;  the  intelligent  caretaker  was  of  this  opinion,  and 
'said  that  many  also  thought  the  same,  and  believed  that  it 
was  here  that  Athelstan  was  buried. 

Could  not  the  Wiltshire  Archaeological  Society  issue  a.  fac- 
simile copy  of  Aubrey's  Collections  ?  or  can  we  look  forward 

to  a  new  edition  in  the  near  future  ? 

A.  J.  S. 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Oueries. 


Baynton  Monument  (vol.  iii,  pp.  242-336).— The  early 
pedigree  of  Baynton  is  usually  given  very  loosely,  and  after 
having  looked  through  the  different  versions  at  the  British 
Museum,  I  am  inclined  to  discredit  most  of  the  pedigree 
previous  to  Thomas  de  Benton,  who  married  the  heiress  of 
Falston,  in  the  time  of  Edward  I ;  although  authentic  glimpses 
are  to  be  found  much  earlier.  The  late  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps 
was  in  possession  of  original  documents  fully  justifying  this 
conclusion.  Neither  can  I  find  any  connexion  between  the 
Gaunts — the  founders  of  St.  Mark's,  now  the  Mayor's  Chapel, 
at  Bristol — and  the  Bayntons,  as  mentioned  at  p.  336.  If  such 
had  existed,  and  any  of  the  latter  family  had,  from  this  cause, 
used  the  Mayor's  Chapel  as  a  burying-place,  surely  it  would 
have  been  some  of  their  earlier  male  representatives,  and  not 
merely  the  second  wife  and  relict  of  one  of  them,  as  late  as 
1667.  Sir  Edward  Baynton,  of-  Bromham,  the  husband  of  this 
lady,  died  in  1657,  leaving  several  children  by  a  first  wife,  of 
whom  the  eldest  son  succeeded  at  Bromham.  The  second 
wife,  Mary,  nee  Bowell  (as  the  name  is  given  by  Burke) 
probably  resided  in  Bristol  after  her  husband's  death,  through 
some  connexion  of  her  own  family  with  the  city.  Was  either 
of  her  sons  a  merchant  or  Mayor  of  Bristol  ?  If  so,  this  would 
account  for  her  burial  here.  Or,  is  her  name  mis-spelt  by 
Burke  ?  William  Canynge,  eldest  son  of  the  builder  of  St. 
Mary  Redcliffe,  married  at  an  earlier  date  the  heiress  of 
Vowell,  of  Wells,  and  later,  in  1637,  we  have  the  name  of 
Bower,  or  Vower,  of  Market  Lavington,  in  a  deed  relating  to 
the  Custom  House  in  Bristol. 

The  register  of  the  Mayor's  Chapel  may  perhaps  throw 
some  further  light  on  the  subject. 

SCRIBA. 


Queries  and  Replies. 


Old  Sarum  Kettle  (vol. 

iii,  pp.  379-429).    The  ancient 

device    reproduced    on    this 

vessel  of  modern  ware  is  the 

merchant's    mark     used    by 

John  Halle  himself,  and  not 

that  of  the  mediaeval  trading 

guild  to  which  he  may  have 

belonged.      It   is  to   be  seen 

in    old  stained   glass  in   one 

of    the   windows    of      "  The 

Halle    of  John    Halle,"    his 

ancient  residence  on  the  Canal 

at  Salisbury — and  is  here  impaled  with  the  coat  of  Halle  as 

entered  in  the  Heralds'  College  (see  sketch). 

It  has  been  stated  that  these  merchant's  marks  were  used  by 
a  class  of  individuals  who,  being  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits, 
were  consequently  forbidden  the  use  of  armorial  bearings  ; 
but,  in  this  instance  we  have  both  arms  and  merchant's  mark 
impaled  with  each  other — an  arrangement  which  is  not,  I 
believe,  of  very  common  occurrence. 

A  collection  of  these  marks  used  by  Wiltshire  Clothiers  of 
the  1 5th  and  successive  centuries  would  be  interesting  as  illus- 
trative of  the  history  of  the  woollen  manufacture  so  success- 
fully carried  on  in  former  days  throughout  the  greater  part  of 
the  count)'. 

John  Halle  appears  to  have  flourished  as  a  wool  merchant 
of  considerable  note  in  the  reigns  of  Henry  VI  and  Edward  IV. 
He  was  mayor  of  Salisbury  1451,  1457,  1464  and  1466  ;  and 
died  in  1479.  His  daughter,  Christian,  married  Sir  Thomas 
Hurigerford,  of  Down  Ampney,  whose  arms,  impaling  Halle, 
as  given  above,  were  seen  by  Aubrey  [1659-70]  in  the  hall 

windows  of  Down  Ampney  House. 

E.  KITE. 


562  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


on 


A  GREAT  HISTORIC  PEERAGE  :  THE  EARLDOM  OF  WILTES. 
By  JOHN  HENRY  METCALFE.  London :  Chiswick 
Press,  1899. 

IN  this  thin  quarto  of  58  pp.,  Mr.  Metcalfe  has  given  some 
of  the  principal  episodes  in  the  history  of  a  well-known  family 
— the  House  of  Scrope — ennobled  in  two  branches — Scrope, 
of  Bolton,  in  Wensleydale,  and  Scrope  of  Masham  and  Upsall; 
with  remarks  upon  the  decision  of  a  Committee  of  Privileges 
of  the  House  of  Lords,  in  1869,  against  the  claim  to  the  Earldom 
of  Wiltes,  made  by  Simon  Thomas  Scrope,  Esq.,  of  Danby,  as 
heir  male  of  Sir  William  de  Scrope,  K.G.,  thus  created  in  1397. 

The  favour  of  Richard  II  to  the  Scropes  was  amply  repaid 
by  the  devotion  of  the  entire  family  to  his  cause  and  person. 
Sir  William,  created  Earl  of  Wiltes  by  Charter  granted  in 
Parliament  bearing  date  29  September,  in  the  2ist  year  of  his 
reign,  was  the  eldest  son  of  his  Chancellor,  Sir  Richard  .Scrope, 
Lord  Scrope  of  Bolton,  plaintiff  in  the  famous  dispute  in  the 
Court  of  Chivalry  1385-90,  known  as  "The  suit  of  the  bend 
or."  He  had  in  his  early  days  served  in  the  French  wars 
under  John  of  Gaunt.  In  1393,  by  purchase  from  William  de 
Montacute,  second  Earl  of  Salisbury,  he  became  Sovereign 
Lord  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  with  the  style  and  title  of  King,  and 
with  certain  regal  prerogatives,  and  3oth  March  1395-6,  as  one 
of  the  allies  of  the  King  of  England,  signed  a  treaty  of  28 
years'  peace  between  Richard  II  and  Charles  VI  of  France. 
He  was  also  in  1395  Ambassador  to  the  King  of  France,  to 
negotiate  the  King's  marriage  with  the  Princess  Isabel.  In 
1394  he  had  a  grant  from  the  Crown  of  the  Castle,  Town,  and 
Barton  of  Marlborough,  to  hold  for  life  ;  and,  after  many  other 
honours  and  emoluments,  he  became  the  King's  principal 
councillor,  chamberlain  and  treasurer.  Finally,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Guardian  of  the  Realm  during  the  King's  absence  in 


Notes  on  Books.  563 


Ireland,  when  on  the  landing  of  Henry  of  Bolingbroke  and  the 
gathering  round  his  standard  of  a  daily  increasing  army,  as  he 
approached  London,  the  Earl  of  Wiltes,  as  the  King's  repre- 
sentative, finding  himself  unable  to  withstand  the  forces  of  the 
rebel,  retired  to  Bristol  Castle,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner 
and  beheaded,  without  even  the  mockery  of  a  trial,  and  his  head 
sent  to  London  to  be  set  up  on  a  spike  on  one  of  the  gate-towers 
of  London  Bridge.  His  estates  were  seized,  and  he  was  attain- 
ted as  a  traitor  by  a  Parliament  which  the  usurper,  Henry  IV, 
had  summoned,  whilst  the  King  himself  was  still  living. 

Of  the  Charter  by  which  he  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of 
Earl  of  Wiltes,  "to  have  to  him  and  his  heirs  male  for  ever", 
a  translation  is  given  by  Mr.  Metcalfe  (pp.  6-7).  It  confirms 
also  to  him  and  his  heirs  ,£20  yearly  out  of  the  issues  of  the 
county  of  Wilts,  payable  by  the  Sheriff,  towards  the  more 
honourable  support  of  that  dignity.  He  sat  in  Parliament,  as 
Earl  of  Wiltes,  on  several  occasions  ;  and  dying  without  issue 
in  his  father's  lifetime,  the  Barony  of  Scrope  of  Bolton  passed 
in  succession  to  his  next  brother,  Roger,  and  his  heirs  ;  whilst 
the  Earldom  of  Wiltes  remained  unclaimed  for  some  twelve 
generations  ! 

In  1859,  Simon  Thomas  Scrope,  of  Danby,  made  a  claim 
in  the  House  of  Lords  to  the  "dormant"  Earldom,  as  heir 
male  of  the  Earl,  on  the  ground  that  the  attainder  was  invalid, 
as  taking  up  arms  for  the  reigning  King  could  not  possibly  be 
construed  into  treason.  The  case  lasted  ten  years.  The  main 
questions  were  whether  "  to  have  to  him  and  his  heirs  male  for 
ever  "  meant  that  the  title  should  descend  collaterally  as  well 
as  lineally,  or  only  the  latter,  and  it  was  decided  that  the 
former  was  the  true  reading,  and  that  Simon  Thomas  Scrope 
had  proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  House  that  he  was  true 
heir  male.  The  next  was  the  validity  of  the  attainder  which 
it  was  contended  was  illegal,  as  the  Earl  was  not  a  traitor  but 
a  loyal  defender  of  his  Sovereign  ;  "  but  on  the  other  hand  it 
was  argued  that  it  became  legal  by  ratification  of  a  sub- 
sequent Act  of  Parliament  called  by  Henry  after  he  had 


564  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

become  King,  subsequent  to  the  deposition  of  Richard,  and, 
although  it  was  shown  that  the  attainder  of  the  Parliaments  of 
Henry  IV  were  reversed  by  a  Parliament  of  Edward  IV,  the 
somewhat  illogical  conclusion  was  come  to  by  the  Lords  of  the 
nineteenth  century,  that  an  Act  of  Parliament  of  the  fourteenth 
century  should  be  considered  valid,  simply  because  it  was  an 
Act  of  Parliament,  even  although  it  was  reversed  by  a  subse- 
quent Act.  Hence  the  claim  was  not  admitted,  but  all  the  best 
authorities  consider  that  the  title  is  not  extinct  but  still  dormant." 

This  dignity  had  been  unclaimed  for  450  years1  when 
Mr.  Scrope  claimed  it,  the  Lords  having  a  few  years  before 
decided  in  favour  of  the  revival  of  the  Earldom  of  Devon,  the 
circumstances  of  which  are  similar  to  those  of  the  Wilts 
title ;  the  decision  of  the  Lords  in  the  former  case  has  been 
stigmatised  by  those  learned  in  such  matters  as  "preposter- 
ous" and  "extraordinary."  Many  authorities  are  of  the 
opinion  that  the  Earldom  of  Wilts  was  utterly  annulled. 

Mr.  Metcalfe  seems  to  think  that  the  revival  of  the  Devon 
dignity  formed  a  precedent,  and  accordingly  that  of  Wilts 
ought  to  have  been  conceded  as  a  matter  of  course,  the 


1  The  Earldom  of  Wilts  was  not  the  only  connexion  of  the  Scrope  family 
with  this  county  ;  for  the  Earl's  younger  brother,  Sir  Stephen  Scrope,  knt., 
who  is  immortalised  in  Shakespeare's  King  Richard  II— by  marriage 
with  Millicent,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co-heiresses  of  Robert  Lord  Tip- 
toft,  became  in  1385,  possessed  jure  uxoris  of  the  Barony  and  manor  of 
Castle  Combe,  which  has  been  successively  held  by  their  descendants  in 
the  male  line,  through  a  period  of  nearly  five  centuries,  until  within  living 
memory — a  rare  instance  of  the  long  continued  possession  of  an  estate  by  a 
single  family. 

The  lady  Millicent,  widow  of  Sir  Stephen  Scrope,  after  his  death  in 
1408,  remarried  Sir  John  Fastolf  (generally  considered  the  prototype  of 
Shakespeare's  fat  knight,  Sir  John  Falstaff),  who  thus  for  awhile,  after  the 
death  of  his  wife,  became  by  courtesy  the  owner  of  Castle  Combe. 

The  history  of  this  manor  and  ancient  barony,  compiled  from  original 
MSS.  and  Chartularies,  with  memoirs  of  its  successive  owners,  forms  the 
subject  of  a  thick  quarto  volume  by  the  late  Mr.  George  Poulett  Scrope. 
Of  this  work,  a  most  valuable  contribution  to  Wiltshire  history  (including, 
as  it  does,  the  descent  of  the  various  manors  held*  under  the  barony),  a 
private  impression  of  150  copies  was  issued  in  1852. 


Notes  on  Books.  565 


descent  having  been  proved ;  but  we  believe  we  are  right  in 
saying,  that  the  Lords  can  give  no  decisions,  and  can  create 
no  precedents  in  such  cases  ;  they  can  but  pass  Resolutions 
for  the  guidance  of  the  Sovereign,  who  can  accept  or  ignore 
them  just  as  he  pleases. 

The  ancient  Earldom  of  Wiltes,  to  which  Mr.  Metcalfe 
considers  that  there  is  very  strong  and  conclusive  evidence 
that  the  present  head  of  the  Scrope  family  is  entitled,  is 
nearly  half  a  century  older  than  that  of  Shrewsbury,  now 
reckoned  as  the  "  premier  "  Earldom  of  England. 

Mr.  Metcalfe  gives  a  full  pedigree  of  Scrope  from  the 
Wiltes  Peerage  Case  1859-69,  with  additions  and  continuation 
from  1838.  It  includes  eighteen  generations  from  Sir  Wil- 
liam, great-grandfather  of  the  Earl,  living  1303,  to  the  present 
representative,  Simon  Conyers  Scrope,  Esq.,  grandson  of  the 
claimant  of  1859,  who  claims  to  be  de  jure  2ist  Earl  of  Wilts. 

There  is  at  p.  33  a  portrait  of  the  Earl  of  Wiltes  as  King 
of  the  Isle  of  Man,  from  an  oil  painting  at  Danby  Hall,  as 
well  as  his  seal  (p.  4)  bearing  the  arms  of  Man  with  a  label  of 
3  points,  the  fine  bookplate  of  Simon  Scrope  of  Danby  1698, 
containing  28  quarterings,  printed  from  the  original  copper 
plate,  forming  a  frontispiece. 


COMPLETE  PEERAGE  OF  ENGLAND,  SCOTLAND,  IRELAND, 
GREAT  BRITAIN,  AND  THE  UNITED  KINGDOM,  EXTANT, 
EXTINCT,  OR  DORMANT  ;  alphabetically  arranged,  and 
edited  by  G.  E.  C.  Eight  volumes.  London :  George 
Bell  &  Sons,  York  Street,  Covent  Garden  ;  William 
Pollard  &  Co.,  North  Street,  Exeter,  1887-1898. 

(Continued  from  p.  480 .) 


COWLEY — Henry  Wellesley,  Ambassador  at  the  Court  of  Austria,  and 
afterwards  that  of  France,  brother  of  the  ist  Duke  ot 
Wellington;  Baron  Cowley  of  Wellesley,  in  Somerset, 
1828;  his  son  Henry  Richard  Charles,  the  great  French 
Ambassador;  "  his  Embassy  at  Paris  is  the  history  of  the 


Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Second  Empire  in  its  relations  with  this  country.  He 
went  to  Paris  shortly  after  the  coup  d'etat,  and  finally 
quitted  it  just  three  years  before  the  declaration  of  the 
war  in  1870  between  France  and  Prussia.  In  those  15 
years  he  was  a  witness  and  an  actor  in  some  of  the  most 
momentous  events  ot  modern  history";  Viscount  Dangan, 
and  Earl  Cowley,  1828 ;  Residence,  Draycott  Park.1 

CRUDWELL  -  See  Lucas. 

DANBY — Henry  Danvers,  Baron  Danvers  of  Dauntsey,  co.  Wilts,  1603, 
Earl  of  Danby,  co.  York,  1625/6,  being  one  of  eight  noble- 
men who  were  created  Earls  in  one  day;  born  at  Dauntsey, 
i  July  1573,  where  he  is  buried  1643/4;  for  an  account  ot  his 
"  noble  altar  monument  "  there,  see  Aubrey's  Collections,  p. 
224;  K.G.,  1633;  Founder  of  the  Physic  Gardens  at  an 
expense  of  nearly  .£5,000;  all  his  honours  extinct. 

DAUNTSEY. — James  and  Edgar  Stuart,  sons  of  James,  Duke  of  York, 
afterwards  James  II,  by  Anne  Hyde,  were  respectively 
and  successively  created  Barons  of  Dauntsey,  co.  Wilts, 
1664,  and  1667,  but  both  died  infants. 

DOWNTON. — See  FEVERSHAM. 

DRAYCOTE— Richard  de,  was  summoned  to  attend  the  King  at  Salisbury, 
26  Jan.  1296/7;  it  is  doubtful  whether  a  Barony  was  created 
by  this  writ ;  it  being  an  assembly  rather  than  a  parliament 
that  was  held  at  Salisbury  on  this  day ;  the  question  affects 
the  existence  of  several  alleged  baronies,  and  the  seniority 
ot  several  others.2 

FEVERSHAM — Anthony  Duncombe,  of  Barford;  Lord  Feversham,  Baron 
of  Downton  1747,  ext.  1763;  Anne  his  only  dau.  and  heir 
by  his  third  wife  (afterwards  Countess  of  Radnor)  married 
that  lady's  stepson,  2nd  Earl  of  Radnor,  to  whom  she 
brought  Downton  and  the  other  Wiltshire  estates. 

FOXLEY— See  HOLLAND. 

GORGES — Edward,  of  Langford;  Baron  Gorges  of  Dundalk,  1620,  ext. 
1712. 


1  This  estate  was  left  to  Earl  Cowley  by  his  cousin  the  5th  Lord  Morn- 
ington,  whose   mother   Catherine  was   heir  of   LONG    of  Draycott;  "the 
estates   she  inherited  amounted  to  £25,000  a  year,  beside  £300,000  per- 
sonalty." 

2  In  N.  $    Q.,  6th  ser.  v,  103,  Mr.  James  Greenstreet  gives  94  coats  of 
arms  of  the  magnates  there  assembled,  which  he  calls  "  the  First  Nobility 
Roll,"   being  the  earliest  dated  roll  of  arms  known  to  exist ;  Richard  de 
Draycote  bore,  Paly  of  six  argent  and  gules,  a  bend  ermine. 


Notes  on  Books.  567 


GRANDISON — Oliver  St.  John,  2nd  son  of  Nicholas  St.  John,  of  Lydiard 
Tregoz,  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  1616;  Viscount  Grandison, 
1620,  with  special  remainder  to  the  descendants  of  his 
niece  Barbara,  dau.  of  John  St.  John,  of  Lydiard,  by  her 
husband  Edward  Villiers  (now  held  by  the  Earls  of 
Jersey) ;  Baron  Tregoz  of  Highworth  1626,  ext.  1630.  He 
was  descended  collaterally  from  the  Grandison  family. 
See  sub  BEAUCHAMP,  p.  479. 

GRINSTEAD— John  Willoughby  Cole,  Earl  of  Enniskillen  ;  Baron  Grin- 
stead  of  Grinstead,  1815;  569  acres  in  Wilts. 

HACHE— Eustace  de  Hache,  formerly  "  a  menial  servant "  to  Edward  I ; 
Baron  Hache  1298-9  ;  Eustachius  Dominus  de  Hacche  is  a 
signature  to  the  famous  letter  to  the  Pope  1301 ;  ?  in  abeyance. 

HERBERT  OF  LEA — Sidney  Herbert,  the  statesman,  2nd  son  of  the  nth 
Earl  of  Pembroke  ;  in  1856  "  already  talked  of  as  a  possible 
Prime  Minister" ;  Baron,  1861 ;  ob.  1861  at  Wilton,  where 
buried. 

HERTFORD— See  SOMERSET. 

HEYTESBURY- -See  HUNGERFORD. 

HEYTESBURY — William  a'Court,  Ambassador  to  Portugal  and  Russia ; 
Baron  1828;  nominated  Viceroy  of  India  in  1835  but  never 
took  office;  Lord-lieutenant  of  Ireland  1844;  Residence, 
Heytesbury  House. 

HOLLAND  OF  FOXLEY — Henry  Fox,  2d  surviving  son  of  Rt.  Hon. .  Sir 
Stephen  Fox,  of  Farley  (whose  eldest  son  was  created 
1756  Earl  of  Ilchester,  ancestor  of  the  present  Earl) ;  twice 
Leader  of  the  House  of  Commons;  Baron  1763,  within  a 
year  ot  the  creation  of  his  wife  as  Baroness  Holland,  co. 
Lincoln,  taken  from  Holland  House  in  Kensington,  which 
was  only  rented  until  1767  ;  both  he  and  his  wife  were 
buried  at  Farley  in  1774;  father  of  Charles  James  Fox,  the 
celebrated  Statesman.  He  constructed  at  Kingsgate  a 
fantastic  habitation,  purporting  "to  represent  Tully's 
Formian  Villa."  It  was  to  this  Villa  that  Gray  refers  as 
under  :— 

Old,  and  abandoned  by  each  venal  friend, 
Here  Holland  formed  the  pious  resolution, 
To  smuggle  a  tew  years,  and  strive  to  mend 
A  broken  character  and  constitution. 
"  This  fine  estate  and  magnificent  house,  with  a  colon- 
nade,  such   as  Ictinus    might   have    raised    by    order    of 
Pericles",   was  sold  by    his    celebrated  son  to  pay    his 
gambling  debts. 

HUNGERFORD— Walter,  of  Farleigh,  co.  Somerset  ;  Speaker  of  the  House 
of  Commons  1414,  K.G.  1421 ;  Baron  1425;  buried  in  Salis- 
bury Cathedral  1449  ;  his  grandson  Robert,  Baron  de 


568  Wiltshire  Notes  and  Queries. 

Moleyns  1444;  taken  prisoner  at  Chatillon  1453,  not 
released  until  after  seven  years,  and  then  with  a  large 
ransom ;  he  fought  for  Henry  VI,  and  after  the  defeat  at 
Hexham,  his  two  Baronies  were  forfeited;  beheaded  at 
Newcastle  1464,  and  buried  in  Salisbury  Cathedral ;  his 
grand  dau.,  Mary  (dau.  and  heir  of  Thomas  Hungerford, 
himself  put  to  death  as  a  traitor  1468/9),  suojure,  Baroness 
Botreaux ;  by  the  reversal  of  the  attainder  she  in  1485 
succeeded  to  Hungerford  and  Moleyns  ;  her  son  George 
Hastings,  created  Earl  of  Huntingdon  1529;  the  above 
three  Baronies  were  called  out  of  abeyance  1871,  in  favour 
of  Mary  suo  jttre  Countess  of  Loudon,  wife  of  Lord 
Donington ;  and  he  in  1891  purchased  Farleigh  Castle,  &c., 
from  Sir  Victor  Houlton  for  ,£40,000. 

HUNGERFORD  !DE  HEYTESBURY— Walter,  of  Farleigh,  and  Heytesbury, 
grandson  of  Walter  (2nd  son  of  Robert,  the  3rd  Lord  Hun- 
gerford) ;  summoned  by  writ  as  Hungerford  of  Heytesbury 
1536  (bnt  never  afterwards);  for  his  betrayal  of  the  cause 
of  Richard  III  he  received  of  Henry  VII  much  ol  his  father's 
forfeited  estates;  Baron  1536;  beheaded  on  Tower  Hill  1541, 
when  his  honours  and  lands  were  forfeited  ;  his  son  Walter 
in  1543  recovered  the  lands,  but  not  the  honours ;  Banks  very 
aptly  suggests  that  his  crime  seems  to  have  been  "rather 
preferred  to  get  possession  of  his  great  estate  than  for  the 
seriousness  of  their  offence." 

HYDE  OF  HINDON — See  CLARENDON. 

KERRY—  See  LANSDOWNE. 

LANSDOWNE — William,  son  and  heir  of  John  Petty,  by  Mary,  dau.  of 
William  FitzMaurice,  of  Gallane,  co.  Kerry;  Prime  Minister 
and  K.G.  1782;  Marquess,  Viscount  Calne  and  Calstone, 
and  Earl  Wycombe  1784;  Earl  of  Shelburne  1753; 
Viscount  FitzMaurice  and  Baron  Dunkeron,  1751;  Baron 
Wycombe,  1760.  His  grandson  Henry,  Chancellor  of  the 
Exchequer  1806;  Home  Secretary  1827;  K.G.  1836;  by 
the  death  of  his  cousin  he  became  Earl  of  Kerry  (1722), 
Viscount  ClanMaurice  (1722),  and  Baron  Kerry  and  Lixnaw 
(1223  ?);  the  possession  of  this  latter  title  in  1489  was 
ranked  among  the  nine  Irish  Baronies  summoned  to 
Greenwich  in  that  year  by  Henry  VII ;  in  1615  the  Lord 
Commissioners  admitted  that  "  the  FitzMaurices,  Lords  of 
Kerry  and  Lixnaw  proved  their  possession  of  that  dignity 
to  be  as  ancient  as  the  Conquest"  (i.e.,  the  Conquest  of 
Ireland  in  1172);  he  died  at  Bowood  in  1863,  aged  82; 
Residence,  Bowood  ;  in  1883  the  Marquess  was  one  ot  the 
28  noblemen  owning  100,000  acres  or  more  in  the  United 
Kingdom,  11,000  of  "which  "were  in  Wilts. 

(To  be  continued.) 


INDEX     TO     VOL.     III. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS. 

[The  Quaker  Births  and  Marriages  are  not  here  included, 
that  paper  being  in  itself  an  index  of  names .] 


Abache,  Richard,  109 

John,   no 
A'Barowe,  Abarrowe,  John,  21,  124 

Elizabeth,  124 

arms  of,  55 
Abayth,  alias  Wheytacre,  John,  84 

Anna,  84 
Abbot,  John,  126 
Abingdon,  Earl  of.     See  Norreys 
Abowen,  Milo,  125 
Abyn,  John,  257 
Acken,  William,  487 
Acton,  John,  23 
Adams,  John,  110,  112,  485 

Thomas,  207 

Elizabeth,  484 
Addenbroke,    Edward,  494 

Frances,  494 
Addison,  Gulstone,  140 

Joseph,  baptismal  register  of 
42,  43,  140,  1 86-8,  236-40, 
286-8 

Lancelot,  42,  140,  186,  237,  238, 
286,  287 

Anna,  140 

Dorithea,  140 

Jane,  140,  289 

Mary,  237 
Ade,  John,  125 
Adlaine  [Adlame  ?],  Ambrose,  59 

Gertrude,  59 
Adlam,  Reynold,  496 

Martha,  497 
Ailesbury,  Thomas,  Earl  of,  434 

Marquess    of,    383,    478.     See 

also  Bruce 
Aland,  Henry,  66 

Albany,  H.R.H.  Leopold,  Duke  of 
478 

Countess  of,  478 


Aldridge,  Alridgc,  Alrigge 
Charles,  499,  500 
John.    154,    160,    161,  244,  251, 

3 '4,  315-348,499,  526 
Jonathan,  497 
Ralph,  109,   no,   in,   154,   155, 

206,  208,  252,  314,  315,  348 
Richard,  155,  207,  208,  499. 
Thomas,  110,  112,  251,  499. 
Walter,  348 
William,  109,  no,  160,  161,244, 

497,  505 

Agnes,  1 60,  161,  243,  244 

Elizabeth,  499 

Margaret,  243,  499,  500 

Mary,  499,  526 

Sarah,  499 
Alexander  family — 62,  389 

David,  63 

Maurice,  351 

Robert,  63,  65 

William,  25,  26,  27,  34,  63,  64, 
65,68 

Alice,  63,  64,  65 

Anne,  63 

Eleanor,  65,  66 

Elizabeth,  65,  68 

Helen,  64 

Joan,  64,  65 

Martha,  65,  66 

Mary,  63,  64,  65 
Aleyn,  William,  126 
Alfred,  King,  115,  328,  430, 

43*.  432 

Allen,  William,  556 

Mary,  556 
Alley,  Sally,  489 
Alleyne  family,  290 

William,  295 
Alloway,  Jonas,  66 

Martha,  66 
Alurych,  John,  7,  8 


57° 


I 'id ex. 


Alurych,  Edith,  7,  8 
Ambrius,  Abbot,  115 
Ambrosius,  Prince,   115 
Amesbury,   Nuns    consecrated    at, 
221 

veiled  at,  148,  150 
expelled  by  Hen.  II,  116, 

117,  118 
brought  from  Fontevraud, 

to,  118 
pensioned,  290 

Prioress,  of,  118  145,  152,  153, 
227,  264,  265,  266.  290,  336. 
552 

Relics,  deposited  at,  116 
Andrew,  Richard,  25 
Andrewes   Thomas,  347 
Andrews,  Thomas,  519 

Rachel,  519 

Anesy,  Richard  de,  248,  249 
Angoulesme,  Isabella  de,  146 
Annesley,  Samuel,  48 
Anstie,  Benjamin  Webb,  283 

William,  133 
Anstye,  William,  372 

Elizabeth,  372 
Antrobus,  Sir  Edmund,  439 

Sir  Edmund  William,  439 
Apharry,  Hugh,  124 

Stephen,  126,  165 

Elianore,  124 

Johanna,  126,  165 
Apleford,  Samuel.  40 
Aplegaidge,  Rycharde,  160 
Aprice,  Thomas,  251 
Apulby,  Henry,  23 
Aquitaine,  William  Duke  of,  146 

Eleanor  of,  146,  her  obit.,  145 
Arbrissel,  Robert  de,  118 
Areton,  William  de,  183 
Ark  low,  Baron.     See  Albany 
Arnold,  Thomas,  351 

Mary,  351 

Arragon,  Katherine  of,  258,  264. 
Arthur,  Prince  (Plantagenet),  146 

his  obit.,  147 

(Tudor),  259 
Arthur,  King,  358,  365 

Guinever  wife  of,  358,  365 
Arundell,  Lord,  377 

Henry,  Lord,  479 

Sir  John,  114.  155,  198,  201,  205, 
461 

Thomas,  22 

Sir  Thomas,  256,  373,  460 

Thomas,  Lord,  479 

Dorothy,  201 

Katherine,  198,  201 


Arundell-Beling,  Richard,  479 

Mary,  479 
Aschec,  Robert,  87 
Ashe,  James,  353,  354 

John,  348,  354 

William,  349,  352,  353 
Asheton,  Christopher,  200 
Aspinwall,  Samuel,  489 

Col.  Thomas,  489 

Hon.  William,  489 

Sybil,  489 

Asser,  Chronicle  of,  115 
Assheley,  Robert,  107 
Asteley,  John,  322 
Atheleme,  Andrew,  73 
Athill,     Charles     H.     (Richmond 

Herald),  47,  48 
Atkins,  Thomas,  34 

Richard,  35 
Atkynson,  Richard,  461 

Agnes,  461 

Atte  More,  Roger,  219 
Atte  Watre,  Andrew,  74 
Atwood,  Richard,  28,  29 
Aubrey,  John,  2,  3,  4,  27,  29.  32,  47, 
52,  53-  54.  55,  59,  66,  67,  103,  147, 
223,  359.  360,  362,  433,  514,  5 '  5, 
516,  517,  546,  559 

Michael,  523 

Thomas,  523 

William,  40,  192,  525 

Dorothy,  523 

Frances,  523 
Auger,  Ephraim,  482 

Elizabeth,  482 
Aumarle,  William  de,  194 

Sir  William,  194 

Elizabeth,  194,  196 

arms  of,  194 
Aune,  Nicholas  de,  248 

Matilda,  248 
Auntrans,  John,  327 

Anne,  327 
Austyn,  Avvsten,  Thomas,  219 

Richard,  24 
Avale,  Thomas,  257 
Awdry,  Ambrose,  89,  128,  270 

George,  89 

John,  89,  127 

Jane,  89 

Katharine,  127 

Mary,  270 

arms  of,  127,  518 
Axford,  Abraham,  500 

John,  243,  500 

Richard.  160,  207,  243,  244,  311, 
312 

William,  243,  314,  315,  500 


Index. 


571 


Axford,  Agnes,  207 

Bridget,  500,  502 

Edith,  243 

Joan,  500 

Aylesbury,  John  de,  8,  n,  98 
Ayres,  Thomas,  346 
Ayscough,      Bishop,     murder     of, 

56,  101 

Ayshelock,  Thomas,  460 
Ayssheley,  Henry,  423 


B 


Bachope,  Capt.  James,  491 

Hannah,  491 

Jemima,  491 
Bacon.  Sir  Francis,  269,  271,  272 

Sir  Nicholas,  157 
Badcake,  Stephen,  251 
Badcock.     See  Howper 
Badkock,  Richard,  no 
Baily,  Nathaniel,  505 

Anne,  504 
Baker,  John,  22 

Joseph,  396,  397 

Richard,  23 

Simon,  24 

Thomas  H.,  45-6 

William,  225,  226 

Margaret,  24 

Mary,  396,  397 

Rachel,  396,  397 
Baldwyn,  William,  22 
Balfront,  Robert,  22,  24 
Ballard,  Anthony,  501 

Edward,  502 

Deanes,  314 

George,  501,  502 

Henry,  317,  348,  497,  503,  504, 

505,  529- 
Isacarr,  502 
James,    160,   161,  244,  314,  503, 

5°4,  529 
John,    155,   184,   348,  501,    502, 

$03,  504,  505,   526,   527,   528, 

529 

John  Aldridge,  184, 526,  527,  528 
Jonathan,  526,  527,  529 
Joseph,  502 
Oliver,  503,  505 
Philip,  404,  526,  527,  528 
Richard,  110,  in,  112,  202,  204 
Robert,   154 

Roger,  315,  317,  501,  502,  503 
Stephen,  501 
Timothy,  316,  317 
William,  161,311,  502,503,  504, 

505,  529 


William  Aldridge,  406,  409,  530, 

53i 

Ann,  184,  503,  529,  530 

Bridget,  501,  502 

Broadhead,  407,  530 

Dorothy,  501 

Eleanor,  529 

Elizabeth,    502,    503,   526,  527, 
528 

Hannah,  409 

Jane,  502,  503,  504 

Joan,  501 

Martha,  503,  505 

Margery,  502 

Mary,  502,  525,  526,  528,  529 

Sarah,  526,  527,  528 

Susan,  503.  505 

Susanna,  529 

Balle  alias  Bailey,  John,  531 
Ballye,  John,  518 
Balowe,  John,  2c 

Agnes,  2i 
Bamfield,  John,  166 

Thomas,  166,  256,  339,  520 

Anna,  256 

Anne,  520 

Elizabeth,  339 

Mary,  166 

Banister,  Thomas,  524 
Bannocke,  Wylliam,  160 
Barbary,  English  captives  in,  287 
Barbour,    alias  Mounpalers,  John 

220 
Barkeley,  John,  123,  233 

Isabella,  233 
Barker,  Hugh,  191 

Jane,   191 

Mary,  191 

Barkham,  Sir  Edward,  346 
Barley,  Robert,  461 

William,  23 
Barowe,  Richard,  126 
Barnefelde,  — ,  205 
Barre,  Sir  John,  198 

Isabel,  198 
Barrett  family,  29 

Edward,  32,  34 

Hugh,  32,  33,  35 

Nicholas,  29,  31,  32,  33,  34 

Richard,  33,  34 

Edith,  34 

Elizabeth,  33 

arms  of,  32 
Barton,  David,  486 
Barwick,  John,  295,  296,  384 

Christiana,  384 

arms  of,  296.     See  Berwick 
Basdall  [Barkesdaie  ?],  Thomas,  88 


57* 


Index. 


Baskervil,  Francis,  68 
Bass,  Abagail  W.,  490 
Basset,  Sir  Adam,  41 1 

Elizabeth,  411 
Basyng,  Roger,  123 
Batayle,  William,  468 
Bateman,  Rev.  Josiah,  179 
Bath    and    Wells,   Bishop  of,  195, 
196,  224 

John  [Barnet],  Bishop  of,  216 

Dean  of,  195 
Batt,  pedigree  of,  35-9 

Edward,  38 

Henry,  37,  38 

John,  35,  36,  37,  38,  316 

Nicholas,  37,  39 

Richard,  35,  36,  37,  38,  39,  74, 
124 

Samuel,  36,  39 

Steven,  38 

Thomas,  35 

William,  38 

Agnes,  37 

Ann,  39 

Bridget,  38 

Christiball,  36,  37,  38 

Elianor,  36,  38 

Elizabeth,  36,  37,  38 

Jane,  38 

Jone,  38,  39 

Lucy,  39 

Margaret,  36,  38 

Mary,  36,  37,  39 

Sarah,  39 
Batten,  Henry,  245,  246 

John,  28,  29 

Philip,  28,  29,  30 

Thomas,  29 

William,  461 

Ellen,  28,  30 

Margery,  28,  29,  30 
Battle,  John,  Abbot  of,  134,  135 
Bavvdwyn,  John,  323 

Anne,  323 
Bayliffe  Charles,  395 

Henry,  31,  33 

John,  31,  33,  34,  35 

Walter,  232 

William,  29,  30,  32,  33,  34,  35, 

175-  176,  177,  178 
Magdalen,  34 
Margery,  33 
arms  of,  177 
Baylye,  John,  502 
Thomas,  123 
Walter,  166 
William,  166,  233 
Baynard,  Benjamin,  60 


Edmund,  4,  52,  60,  167,  170 
Edward,  54,  55,  59,   60,  61,  62, 

167,  168,  171,  172 
George,  58 
Giles,  60,  172 
Henry,  58 
John,  60 
Lawrence,  59 
Nicholas,  60 

Phil'P,  33,  52.  54,  55,  58,  60 

Richard,  58,  59 

Robert,  53,  54,   55,  58,    59,   60, 

172,  461 
Sir   Robert,    52,   167,   168,   170, 

171,  172 
Thomas,  59 
William,  58 
Ann,  58,  59,  60 
Cicely,  59 
Eleanor,  60 
Elizabeth,  55,  58,  60 
Gertrude,  59 
Jane,  58,59 
Jocosa,  53,  54 
Mary,  59,  60,  168,  170,  172 
Lady  Ursula,  168,  169,  170 
arms  of,  2,  51,  54,  55,  516 
Baynton,    Andrew,     133,   134,     135, 
136,  175-   176,    177,  256,   321,  372, 
373,  421,  460 

Edward,  175,  176,  177,  321,  373, 

467 
Sir  Edward,  86,   102,   126,  131, 

132,    133,  134,    135,  136,    174, 

175,    176,  233,   241,  242,   466, 

467,  468,  469,  560 
Henry,  63 

John,  102,  103,  131,  467 
Sir  John,  466 
Nicholas,  242,  466 
Robert,  242 
Sir  Robert,  131 
Agnes,  175,  176,  177 
Ann,  133,  242 
Bridget,  559 
Elizabeth,  132 
Frances,  133 
Lady   Isabella,    102,     156,   467, 

468 

Joan,  466 
Mary,  monument  of,  241-2,  336, 

560 
Philippa,  133.   See  also  Benton, 

Beynton 
Beach,  Thomas,  349 

arms  of,  469 
Bean,  William,  286 
Beauchamp,  Sir  Giles,  417 


Index. 


573 


Beauchamp,  Henry  Lord,  433 

Richard,   Bishop  of  Salisbury, 
418 

Richard,   Lord  St.  Amand,  56, 
131,  465,  466,  467,  469 

Roger,  479 

Walter,  130,  417,  468,  479 

Sir  William,  417 

William,  Lord  St.  Amand,  56, 
418,  465,469 

Ann,  Lady  St.  Amand,  466,  469 

Elizabeth,  417,  418,  469. 

Elizabeth,  Lady  St.  Amand,  56, 
418,  419,  420,  465,  469 

Jane,  417 

Sybil,   479 

arms  of,  466.     See  also  Bello 

Campo 
Beaufort,  bishop  of  Winchester,  97 

Duke  of,  143,  433 

Edmund,  Duke  of  Somerset,  197 

Eleanor,  197 
Beaumont,  John  Lord,  224 

Elizabeth,  197,  224 
Beaver,  James,  408,  409 
Beche,  Margaret,  290 
Becke,  Christopher,  373 
Beckington,  Thomas  [Bp.  of  Bath 

&  Wells],  195,  196 
Bedford,   'Blazon    of  Episcopacy ', 

214,  215 

Beke,  arms  of,  51 
Bekett,  Thomas,  22 

William,  22 
Bekynham,  John,  320 
Bellarmine,  Cardinal,  445 
Bello  Campo,  William  de,  449 
Belton,  Betton,  Henry,  307,  310 
Helton,  John,  301 
Belturm,  Sir  Richard,  448 
Benbie,  John,  219 
Benet,  Mr.,  499 
Benger,  John,  53 
Bennatt,  John,  322 
Bennett,  F.,  378 

Rev.  Canon  F.,  186-8,  239,  275-6, 

333-4,  374-5 

William,  378 

Mary,  378 

Benton,  Thomas  de,  560 
Beornwulf,  King  of  Mercia,  328 
Beremylham,  Richard,  323 

Anna,  323 

Berenger,  John,  297 
Bergeveneye,  Thomas,  220. 
Berington,  Thomas,  59 

Cicely,  59 
Berkeley,  John,  166 


Berks,  Earl  of,  377 
Berners,  William,  264 
Berry,  Edward,  32 
Berwick,    John,    556.       See    Bar- 
wick 

Berwick  St.  John,  Rector  ot,  190 
Besaunt,  John,  322 

Thomas,  322 

Agnes,  322 
Bessils,  William,  337 

Cecilia,  337 
Beverley,  John  de,  20 

Agnes,  20 

Beynton,  William,  23 
Bielbye,  Richard,  31 
Bigard,  John,  533 

Thomas,  533 

Elizabeth,  533 
Bigod,  Roger  le,  4 

Alice.  4 
Bircher,  Edward,  85 

John,  85 
Birtill,  Mary,  69 

Bishop,  Busshop,  Henry,  41,  251 
Bisse,  Bise,  John,  38 

Roger,  307 

Thomas  38 

Black  Prince,  Edward  the,  98 
Blacke,  James,  314 

Philip,  251,  348 

William,  m 
Blacket,  John,  23 
Blackman,  Andrew,  327 

Edyth,  327 
Blackmore,  Sir  Richard,  89 

Robert,  89 
Blade,  Roger,  125 
Blagden,  William,  348 
Blagdon  (highwayman),  94 
Blake,  Robert,  59 

Roger,  59 

Richard,  166 

Ann,  58 

Johanna,  166 

Mary,  59 

arms  of,  59 

Blanchard,  Mary,  91,  315 
Blatch,  James,  526,  532 

John,  503,  526,  530,  532 

Philip,  532 

Charity,  526 

Deborah,  526 

Eleanor,  530 

Hannah,  532 

Mary,  526 

Blatehytt,  alias  Blathet,  John,  321 
Bleowbury,    Bleoburi,     Blebi,     Sir 
John  de,  104,  218,  220 


574 


Index. 


Blount.      Blunt,      Charles,      Lord 
Mountjoye,  245,  246,  247,  248 

John,  220 

Richard,  372,  423 

Elizabeth,  421,423 
Bluet,  Bluett,  Geoffrey,  330 

John,  4,  50,  330 

Sir  John.  5,  6,  49,  52 

Ralph,  50 

William,  50,  330 

Alianora,  50 

Elinor,  52 

arms  of,  2,  4,  51,  54,  55 
Bodenham,  Roger,  126,  165 
Bohun,  Edward  de,  153 
Bold,  Arthur,  26 
Bole,  John,  74,  75 
Boleyn,  Queen  Ann,  3 
Bolingbroke,  Henry  of,  269,  563 

Viscount  and  Earl   of,  See  St. 

John 
Bolton,  Lord  Scrope  of,  562 

Duke  of,   377,   398.      See  also 

Patvlet 

Bond,  Nicholas,  346 
Bonham,  John,  321 

Nicholas  de,  74 

Thomas,  74,  75,  76 
Bonnewe,  Bormewe,  Florence,  261, 
262,  266.     Letter  to  Lord  Crom- 
well. 262 
Bonville,  Sir  William,  194,  345 

Cicely,  200 

Margaret,   194 
Boor,  William,  220 
Bordon,  John,  21 
Bosom,  John,  341 

Jennet,  341 

arms  of,  344 
Bosvile,  William,  346 
Boswell,  Thomas,  503 
Botham,  Botuham,  John,  104 
Botreaux,  William  Lord,  197,  224 

Anne,  197 

Elizabeth,  224 

Margaret,  224 

Mary  [Hnngerford]  Baroness,  j 

568 
Boulter,    Thomas,    [highwayman], 

45.  94 

Boucher,  Brereton,  545 
Bourbon,  Duke  of,  438 
Bourchier,   Henry,   Earl  of  Essex, 
198 

Sir  Thomas,  198 
Isabel,  198 

Bourchyer,  George,  126.     See  also 
Burchyet 


Bowecher,  Boiucher,  John,  109,  no, 
112,  160,  252 

William,  244 

Bowell.     See  Baynton,  Mary 
Bovver,  Francis,  40 
Bowles,  Charles,  43,  237,  238 

William,  237,  287 

Rev.  William,  237 

Rev.  William  Lisle,  5 

Margaret  Amy,  238 
Bowyers,  Robert,  309 
Boyd,  John  [or  George],  487 
Boyle,  Henry,  434 
Bradestan,  Ela  de,  452 
Bradley,  Agnes,  196 
Brakspear,  Harold,  366-8 
Brandon,  Charles,  356 

Frances,  356 
Brandsby,  Frances,  476 
Bratton,  Bracton,  Roscelin  de,  184, 
249 

John,  184 

William,  249,  250 
Bray,  John,  219 
Braybrooke,  Gerard,  56,  418 

Elizabeth,  56,  418,  465 

Parnill,  418 

arms  of,  420 
Brecon,  Alan,  6 
Bretagne,  Duke  of,  146,  150 

Earl  of,  146,  147 

Eleanor  of,  146,  150,  152 
Brewer,  Johanna,  488 

Sarah,  486 

Brickett,  Sir  Michael,  167 
Bridgewater,  Earl  of,  98 
Bridges,  Brigges,  Richard,  21,  166, 

460.     See  also  Brygges 
Bnene,  Sir  Guy  de,  197 

Elizabeth,  197 
Bright,  John,  74 
Brisbane,  Bishop  of,  187 
Bristol,  Mayor  of,  143 
Britton,  John,  i,  52,  101,  105,  534 
Brocas,  William,  53 
Brodrick,  Sir  Thomas,  545 

Catherine,  545 
Broke,  Nicholas  de,  73 
Brokenbrow,  Joseph,  184 

Hannah,  184 
Brommore   [Bromere,   co.    Hants], 

Prior  and  Convent,  217 
Bromwich,  Arthur,  350 

Richard,  161 

Sefton,  307,  308,  309,  311,  312 

William,  315,  316,  317,  350 

Rachel,  350 
Broughton,  Baron.     See  Hobhouse 


Index. 


575 


Brouncker,  Bruncker,  Dauntesey,  62 

Henry,  24,  39,  40,  125,  233 

Robert,  23 

William,  35 

Sir  William,  39,  95 
Brown,  Rev.  Stafford,  44 
Brown,  Browne,  John,  26,  86,    124, 
251,  317,  500 

Lucian,  68 

Richard,  251 

Thomas,  26 

William,  26 

Agnes,  86,  124 

Catherine,  488 

arms  of,  54 
Brown,     Broun,     alias     Clement, 

Edward,  323,  421,  422,  558 

John,  422 
Brownesmithe,  John,  87 

Margaret,  87 
Browning,   C.  H.,   235.      See   also 

Bruning 
Bruce,  Charles,  Lord,  434 

Robert,  Earl,  478 
Brudenell,  Baron,  383 
Bruer,  Brewer,  Peter,  510 

Elizabeth,  510 

Mary,  510 
Bruges,  Henry,  86 

Richard,  124,  165 

Thomas,  529 
Brugge,  Giles,  125 
Brulet,  William,  133 

Philippa,  133 
Bruning,  Browning,  Anthony,  26 

Edmund,  26,  27 

Francis,  27 

Richard,  26,  27 

William,  26 

Elianor,  26 

arms  ot,  26 
Brunsell,  Samuel,  272 
Brus,  Robert  de,  419 
Bryan,  Bryant,  Richard,  23,  557 

William,  232 
Brygges,  Sir  John,  21 

Richard,  557 

Johanna,  557 
Brynde,  Thomas,  126,  461 
Buccleugh,  Duke  of,  436 
Buckes,  William,  154 
Buckingham,  Duke  of,  56,  419,  465 
Buckington,  Wortley,  509,  545 

Mary,  509,  545 
Buckland,  Richard,  232 
Bulkeley,  290 

Charles,  21,  24 

John,  31 


Bulkeley,  Elizabeth,  21 
Bulkington,    Bukyngton,    Michael 
de,  102 

Peter  de,  102 

Thomas,  104,  105 
Bull,  Henry,  373 
Bullein,  Bolen,  Thomas,  472 

Queen  Anna,  472 

arms  of,  472 
Bulmere,  John,  468 
Bundy,  Thomas,  303,  447. 

Sir  Thomas,  448 

William,  448 

Alice,  448 

Matilda,  448 
Bunyan,  John,  475 
Burbage,  Augustine,  524 

John,  521 

Burchyer,  Sir  John,  24 
Burde,  Marmaduke,  510 

Eleanor,  510 
Burden,  John,  460 

Richard,  460 

Walter,  460 
Burdett,  Francis,  383 

Eleanor,  384 
Burford,  Roger,  309 
Burgess,  Burgis,  Daniel,  64 

Harry,  532 

Henry,  532 

Isaac,  64 

John,  532 

Obadiah,  64 

Elizabeth,  532 

Mary,  317 
Burgh,  William,  399,  400 

Elizabeth  de,  151 
Burghersh,  Bartholomew  de,  268 
Burlington,  Earl  of,  435,  439 
Burrough,  Thomas,  182 
Busshe,  William,  86 
Butcher,    Boocher,  Bucher,  Chris- 
topher, 315 

John,  155,  160 

William,  161,  244,  310,  311,  312 

Margaret,  314 
Butesthorn,  John,  217 

Gonde,  217 
Butler,  Francis,  124 

Sir  James,  197 

John,  263,  322 

Sir  John,  461 

Avice,  197 

Eleanor,  197 

Silvestrias,  322 
Button,  Robert,  475 

William,  165,  320,  322,422,  460, 
558 


Index. 


Byngham,  Robert,  165 
Byron,  Lord,  480 

C. 

Cade,  Jack,  insurrection  of,  56,  198 

Caly,  arms  oi,  472 

Cambridge,  Benedict,  son  of  Sal- 
mon of,  249 

Camden,  William,  3,  51 

Candle,  William,  327 
Joan,  327 

Cannington    [co.   Som.],    Prioress 
and  Nuns  of,  224 

Canterbury,    Archbishop    of,    117. 
118,  195,  216 

Cantlow,  Cantle,  Devizes  Wizard, 

277     , 

Canynge,  William,  560 
Caraway,  John,  307 
Cardigan,  Earl  of,  383 
Carevv,  Bampfylde  Moore,  377,  378 

Sir  Edmund,  338,  342 

Katherine,  338,  342 

arms  of,  344.     See  also  Cary. 
Carewey,  Walter,  156 
Carington,  Henry,  427 
Carleton,  Henry,  Lord,  434 
Carlo,  early  owner  in  Lacock,  50 
Carne,  Edward,  264 

Sir  Edward,  264 

Barbara,  264 

arms  of,  264 
Carpenter,  Richard,  243 

Elizabeth,  243 
Carrant,  William,  199 

Elizabeth,  199 
Carr,  Carre,  William,  37 

Stephen,  219 
Carter,  Thomas,  324 
Cary,  Carye,  Henry,  192,  374 

John,  124,  192 

Robert,  124 

Sir  William,  341 

Anne,  341 
Caryil,  John,  26 

Castile,  Queen  Eleanor  of,  146,  150 
Caswell,  Rev.  Dr.,  187 
Cater,  Thomas,  257 
Gates,  John,  126 
Cathcart,  Earl,  436 
Causvvay,  John,  532 
Cawley,  Oliver,  470 
Cervyngton,  John,  21 
Chadelworth,  Ralph  de,  150 
Chaderton,  Edmund,  257 

William,  257 


Chafyn,  Chaffyn,  Christopher,  23 
Edward,  126 
John,  85 
Thomas,   21,   23,    85,    166,  233, 

257,  373.  420,  421 

Dorothy,  23 

Johanna,  85 
Chaloner,  John.  546 

Robert,  546 

Joan,  546 
Chamber,  Chambre,  John,  405 

Nicholas,  303 

Chamberlayne,      Chaumberleyn, 
Robt.,  219 

Thomas,  313 
Champernowne.  John  199 

Blanche,  199 
Champneys,  Henry,  200 

Thomas,  257 

Joan,  200 

Chantour,  Sir  Richard,  219 
Charles,  I,  360,  506 
Charles  II,  92,  364.  473,  506,   518, 

542 

Chatreton,  James,  322 
!  Chauncy,  Toby,  407 

William  Henry,  408 

Anna  Maria,  408 
Chauntrell,  Robert,  558 

Alice,  558 
Chaworth,  Sir  Patrick,  146,  153 

Maud,  146,  153 
Chelshire,  Daniel,  40 
Chelton,  Theodore,  3,6 

Thomas,  26,  27 

Cheney,  Cheyne,  Sir  Edmund,  199, 
200 

Edward,  454 

Ralph,  451,  453 

Sir  Thomas,  421 

William,  453 

Alice,  198 

Anna,  421 

Anne,  199 

Elizabeth,  199 

Joan,  451,453 
Cherleton[Charlton]  ,near  Uphaven, 

Prior  of,  451 
Chertsey  [co.  Surrey]?  Abbot  and 

Convent  of,  217 
Chesterfield,  Sir  Roger  de,  219 
Chestrefeld,  Sir  Richard,  219 
Cheverett,  Christopher,  124 
Chidiock,  Chtdyok,  John,  453 

Sir  John,  198,  201,  452,  453 

Joan,  452 

Katherine,  198,  201 
Child,  389,  401 


Index. 


577 


Child,  Isaac,  484 

Jonathan,  will  of,  40-1 

Joshua,  484 

Thomas,  89 

Deborah,  484,  485 
Chippenham,  bailiffs  of  31,  32 

Vicar  of,  32 
Chitty,  Walter,  276-7 
Chivers,  Henry,  280,  429,  430,  520 

Seacole,  280,  429,  520 

Eleanor,  520 

Elizabeth,  280,  429 

Mary,  429 
Chokke,  Alexander,  281,  313 

Joan,  313 
Christchurch       Twynham      [co. 

Hants],  Prior  &  Convent  of,  217 
Churche,  Richard  atte,  220 
Clakke,  Henry,  50 
Clare,  John,  235,  288 

William,  288 

Clare,  alias  Dominick,  Robert,  288 
Clare,  Gilbert  de,  146,  147,  441 

Richard  de,  146 

Amice,  146,  147 

Joan,  441 

Margaret,  146 

arms  of,  51,  441 
Clarendon,   Earl  of,   134,  434.  435, 

436,  477,  480.     See  also  Hyde 
Clarke,  Edward,  399,  400 

James,  394,  396,  397 

John,  10,  525 

Joseph,  495 

Richard,  394 

Thomas,  525,  544 

Elizabeth,  394,  396  400,  525 

Hannah  Mary,  495 

Harriet,  495 

Clase,  Clace,  William,  in,  112 
Cleeve,  Gilbert,  39 
Clement,    Simon,    469.     See    also 

Brown 
Clerk,  Clerke,  Nicholas,  203,  204 

Richard,  108,  109 
Clevedon,  George,  257 

Maria,  257 

Cleveland,  Duke  of  398 
Cley,  Anthony,  35 
Clifford,  Thomas  Lord,  340 
Clinton,  Edward  Lord,  270,  272 
Clopton,  Baldwin,  201 
Clovegilofre,  Clovegiffre,W\\\\a.-m,  5 
Cluden,  George,  373 

Mary,  373 

Clutterbuck,  Thomas,  399 
Clyford,  Clyfford,  Henry,  24,  322 
Clynton,  Lady  Anna,  165 


Cobbe,  Thomas,  322 

Margaret,  322 
Cobham,  Margaret,  222 
Cocks,  John,  428 
Coggeswell,  Roger,  314 
Coke,  Thomas,  346,  347,  422,  460, 
469 

Juliana,  422,  460 
Coke  [or  Cooke],  Cornelius,  346 
Coker,  Robert,  165 

Elizabeth,  165 
Cokerell,  Ralph,  428 
Colborne,  Thomas,  5 
Colbrouk,  John,  220 
Colcroft,  Matthew,  23 
Cole,  John,  348 

John  Willoughby,  567 
Coleman,  James,  39,  87, 129/470,  517 

Robert,  470 
Coles,  Barnabas,  428 

Thomas,  532 

William,  428 
Coleshill,  Sir  John,  199 

Elizabeth,  199 
Colles,  John,  109 
Collett,  John  352 
Collier,  Admiral,  186 

Harriet,  186 
Collingborn,  John,  68 
Collins,  John,  428,  474 

Michael,  404,  405 
Colt,  John  le,  5 
Comlye,  Aldelm,  35 
Compayn,  John,  75 
Compton,  Henry,  533 
Comysshawe,  Walter,  557 
Conan    le    Petit,    146.    [See  Bre- 

tagne,  Duke  otj  Constancia,  146 
Conde,  Prince  of,  438     " 
Conduyt,  William,  73 
Cong,  John,  388 
Cooch,  Richard,  310 

Robert,  309 

Cooke  [Coke],  Sir  Edward,  34 
Cooke,  Cook,  Robert,  91,  497 

Thomas,  509,  510 

Mary,  509,  510 

Sarah,  275,  276 
Coope,  John,  86 

Margery,  86 
Cooper,  John,  529 
Cooperario,      Giovanni      [Cooper, 

John],  360 

Cope,  John,  328,  409 
Corf,  Master  John,  219,  221 
Cornbury,  Viscount,  477,  480 
Cornock,  Edward  John,  495 

Elizabeth,  495 

C 


578 


Index. 


Cornwall,  Melianus  Duke  of,  116 
Earl  of  (Plantagenet),  97,   146, 
147,  441 

Coryett,  John,  422 

Cottell,  Robert,  87 

Cottu,  Richard,  493 

Frances,  G.  M.,  493 

Couk,  William,  in 

Coumbe,  John,  220 

Courtenay,  Bishop  Peter,  338,  341, 

345 

Sir  Philip,  338,  343,  345 

Thomas,  235 

William,  235 

Sir  William,  235,  282 

Elizabeth,  235,  338 

Katherine,  337,  338,  341,  343 

Philippa,  341 

arms  of,  343 
Cove,  John,  41 
Coventre,  John,  50 

Thomas,  50 

Coventry,  Archdeacon  of,  140 
Coward,  John,  521 
Cowdrey,  arms  of,  4 
Cowley,  Thomas,  46 
Cowley,  Earl,  565,  566 
Cox,  Gabriel,  313 
Crabbe,  Sir  John,  219 
Cradoc,  Mathew,  200 
Craon  Chemille,  Petronilla  de,  118 
Crede,  George,  322 

Henry,  322 

Crehore,  William,  488 
Cressett,  Edward,  346 
Cresswell,  Mr.,  402 
Crispe,  Nicholas,  421 

Frances,  421 
Croke  Family,  50 
Cromwell,  Bartholomew,  40,  315 

Henry,  315 

Lord,  262,  263,  266 

Oliver,  543 

Richard,  543 

Croome,  Croumb,  John,   315,   316, 
348,  504 

Martyn,  243 

Johan,  243 

Crowche,  Edward,  25 
Cruland  ?,  Widow,  348 
Crycklade,  John,  55 
Cryppes,    Cryppys,   Thomas,    166, 
167 

John,  167 

Cudgell,  Ralph,  311 
Cudolph,  a  Saxon  Thane,  375 
Culmer,  Thomas,  108 
Cumine,  Thomas,  293 


Curie,  Edward,  192 
John,  192 

Curtens,  Edith,  290 

Curteys,  William,  66 

Curtice,  Ephraim,  486 

Cusance,  Cuzance,  Gerald  de,  50 
Peter  de,  4,  50 
Sir  William  de,  50 
arms  of,  51 

Cutter,  Dr.  A.  R.,  487 


D 


Daccombe,  Sir  John,  269,  271 
Dalamere,  Robert,  23 
Dallymore,  Thomas,  46 
Daly,  William,  372 
Dana,  Amariah,  488 

Dorothy,  488 

Lucretia,  488 
Danby,  Earl  of,  566 
Dangan,  Viscount,  566 
Dansey,  Dansy,  John,  7 

Walter,  13,  14,  69,  70,  76 
William,  7 
Danvers,  Rev.  Arthur,   letter  from, 

398 

Charles,  29,  32 

Sir  Charles,  29 

Sir  Henry,  29,  566 

Silvester,  558 
Danyell,  Geoffrey,  126,  166 

Tames,  461 

John,  461 

William,  7 

Margaret,  167 
Darell,  Edward,  167 

Sir  Edward,  112,  256,  263,  323 

Sir  George,  466 

Sir  John,  66 

William,  66 

Jane,  263 

Joan,  263,  290 

Johanna,  266 
Dauntesey,  Ambrose,  22,  84,  124 

John,  47 

Sir  John,  470 

Richard,  126 

Sir  Walter,  47 

William,  22,  23,  47,  48,  85,  86, 
124,  125 

arms  of,  47,  48 

Dauntesey,  Stuart,  Barons  of,  566 
Davenant,  John,  192 

Rowland,  192 
Davies,  Jerome,  518 
Davis,  John,  406 

Rev.  John,  37 


Index. 


579 


Davis,  William,  484 

Rachel,  483 
Davison,  Henry,  275 
Davy,  John,  406 
Davye,  Thomas,  124 
Davys,  Thomas,  34 
Dawbridgecourt,  196 
Day,  William,  353 
Dayster,  Peter,  50 
Dean,  Roger.  220 
Deane,  Richard,  22 
Debarry,  Richard,  409 
De  Foe,  Daniel,  435 
Delalynd,  George,  126 

Mary,  126 

Delamere,    De    la    Mare,    family, 
notes  on,  410-20,  465-70 

Sir  Helias,  411 

Hugh,  411 

Sir  John,  410,  411 

Peter,   194,  412,  413,  414,  415, 
416 

Richard,  41 1 

Robert,  412,  413,  415,  468 

William,  411 

Agnes,  41 1 

Alice,  411,  415 

Elizabeth,  411,  416 

Gunnora,  411 

Matilda,  416,  468 

Maud,  194,  416 

Willelma,  416 

arms  of,  466 
De  la  Roche,  130 

arms  of,  516 

Barony     of,      508.     See     also 

Roche 
Delebrig',  de  la  Hebrigge,  Robert, 

5,6 

Dendyng,  William,  10 
Dene,  Edward,  85 

Walter  de,  249 

Isabella,  249 

Denmark,  Queen  Anne  of,  315, 
360 

Denton,  Edward,  23 

Derby,    Rev.    Benjamin,    395, 

396 

Derle,  Thomas,  219 
Dersey,  Geoffry,  23 
Dess,  Desse,  Sir  William,  186 

arms  of,  236 
Deverell,  Devertll,  Richard,  519 

Thomas,  403 

Edith,  63 

Mary,  519 
Devereux,  Robert,  364 

Frances,  364 


Devizes,    Mayor    and     Burgesses, 

541,  542 

Recorder  of,  505,  540,  542 
Devizes  Castle,  Constable  of,  419 
Devon     [Redvers],    Earl    of,     146, 

147 

Countess  of,  147 

Devon  [Stafford],  Earl  ol,  198,  199, 
279 

Countess  of,  198 

D'Evreux,  Patrick,  Earl  of  Sarum 
268 

Walter,  268 

Ela,  Countess  of  Sarum,  411, 

441 

Dewale,  Joan,  47 
D'Ewes,  Sir  Simon,  361 
Dicke,  John,  131 

William,  131 
Dickens,    Charles,     The    Missing 

Register,  43,  239 
I  Digges,  Richard,  270 

Elizabeth,  270 
i  Dingley,   Thomas,    History   from 

Marble,  i,  2,  53,  54,  215 
Dinham,  John,  194 

Sir  John,  194,  416 

Maud,  194 

Disbrowe,  Major-General,  542 
Dodde,  Walter,  220 
Dodyngton,  John,  460 
Dominick.     See  Clare 
Don,  William,  73 
Doninges,  John,  309 
Donington,  Lord,  568 

Mary,    Countess    of    Loudon, 

568 
Donkeley,  John  84 

Elizabeth,  84 
Dormer,  Geoffrey,  323,  423 

Michael,  22,  87 

Sir  Michael,  256 

Agnes,  423 
Dorset  [Sackville],  Earl  ot,  362 

Sheriff  of,  196,  197,  198 
Doughty,  Josias,  501 
Douglas,  William,  Baron,  436 

Archibald,  James  Edw.,  439 

Lady  Jane,  439 
Dounton,  Robert,  219 
Dove,  Mr.  Sheriff,  542 
Dowle,  Marie,  427 
D'Oyley,  John,  270,   271,  273,  274, 
275,  481 

Priscilla,  481 

Draycote,  Richard  de,  566 
Dreux,  John  de,  146,  150 

Eleanor,  146,  150 


58o 


Index. 


Drew  family,  49 

Francis,  387 

John,  35 

Robert,"  36 

Walter,  394 

jane,  36 

Mary,  394 
Drewett,  Mary,  529 
Dreye,  Christopher,  293 
Bridge,  William,  533 

Mary,  533. 

Rebecca,  533 
Drokenford,  John  de  [Bp  of  Bath 

and  Wells],  221 
Dudley,  George,  113 
Due,  Thomas,  504 
Dugdale,  Dugdaile,  family  deeds, 
39-40,  87-9,  517-18 

monumental  inscriptions,  127-9 

Christopher,  39,40,88,  127,  128, 
180,  517,  518;  will  of,  179, 
81 

Henry,  128 

John,  128 

Robert,  128,  180 

Thomas,  88,  89,  127,  128,  129, 
180,  518 

William,  180 

Sir  William,  128 

Ann,  128 

Bridgett,  180,  181,  518 

Elizabeth,  88,  8q,  128,  129,  517, 
5i8 

Jane,  89,.  128 

Prosper,  127 

Thomasine,  180 

arms  of,  127,  128 
Duke,  Rev.  Edward,  429 
Dukett,  Owen,  557 

Winifred,  557 
Dunch  family,  191 
Duncombe,  Anthony,  566 

Ann,  566 

Dnndas,  Charles,  479 
Dunstanville,  Walter  de,  330 
Duper,  William,  23 
Dutton,  Thomas,  25 

William,  232,  257,  373 

Agnes,  25 
Dyer,  John,  461 

William,  160 
Dyett,  George,  533 

Mary,  533 

Dyner,  alias  Mellis,  John,  1 11 
Dynham,  Thomas,  87,  321 
Dysmaris,    Dyamer,     Christopher, 
231 

Johanna,  231 


Eadwig,  King,  454,  455 
Earle,  Judge,  238 
William,  389 
Henrietta,  389 
Margaret  Amy,  238 
Easton,  Samuel,  495 

Hannah  Mary,  495 
Eayres,  William,  494 

Harriet,  494 
Edgar,  King,  1 15 
Edington,  Edyndon, 
John  de,  1 1 
Sir  John  de,  9,  10,  11 
William   de,   Bishop   of  Win- 
chester, u,  97,  98,   104,   214- 
2Ii    335-6i   arms    of,    214-15, 
will  of,  216-21,  chantry  and 
tomb  in  Winchester  Cathed- 
ral,   215,   obit    at   Salisbury, 

215 

Edington    Monastery,   Rectors    of, 
105,  109,  113,  156,  205,  251,  448. 
John  [de  Aylesbury],  Rector  of, 

8,  11,  71,  72,  98,  217 
Thomas    [Odyham  ?],    Rector 

of,  1 06 
Thomas   [Culmer],  Rector   of, 

1 08 
John  Ryve,    Reeve,  Rector  of, 

"3-  »57 
Rector  and  Friars  ol,  8-15,  69- 

72,  76,  77,  107,  108 
Edmundys,    Edmondys,    Christo- 
pher, 1 66 

Laurence,  321 
Johanna,  166 
Edward  the  Martyr,  115 
Edward  I,  4.  146,  148,  149,   150,  222, 
265,  358,  441,  567 

Eleanor,   Queen    of,    146,    358, 

441 

Margaret,  Queen  of,  146,   150 
Joan  of  Acre,  daughter  of,   146, 

441 
Leonora,  daughter  of,   146,  150, 

153 

Mary,  daughter  of,  146,  150-53, 
222-3,  265,  552,  ;  letter  to  her 
brother,  Edward  II,  152 
Edward   II,    146,   150-53,   222,   265, 

Edward  III,   2,    13,   14,  52,  69,   70, 

I()7'  X53i  '68,  215,  222,  269 
Edward  IV,  90,  99,  222,  225,  564 
Edward  VI,  208,  210-12,  214 
Edwards,  Thomas,  67 


Index. 


Edwards,  Dorothy,  67 

Elizabeth,  67 

Mary,  67 

Egbert,  King,  328 
Eire,  Heires,  Thomas,  36,  38 

William,  558.     See  also  Eyer, 

Eyre 

Elendune,  Wulstan,  Earl  of,  334 
Elfheah,  455 
Elithorp,  Nathaniel,  39 
Elizabeth,    Queen,    208,    209,    211, 

212,  213,  356,  472 
Ellis,  Christopher,  46 

John,  45,  46 

Richard,  46 

Thomas,  45,  46 

Ann,  45 

Edith,  46 

Jean,  45.  46 

Mary,  46 
Elye,  John,  77 
Emmett,  Ralph,  232 
Englefeld,  Englefyld,  Francis,  321 

Sir  Thomas,  21 

Katharine,  321 
Enniskillen,  Earl  of,  567 
Ennock,  Thomas,  508,  509 

Agnes,  508 

Alice,  508,  509 
Erheth,  Robert,  219 
Erie,  Thomas,  256 

Christina,  256 
Erley,  John,  22 
Ernie,  Ernely,  Etnlcy— 

Edward,  349 

Sir  Edward,  349,  350,  352,  353 

John,  58 

Mr.,  354 

Sir  Walter,  349-52 

Anne,  349,  350,  352,  353 

Dorothea,  338 

arms  of,  472 
Eryngtoti,  Gerard,  461 
Essex,  Earl  of,  145,  364,  436 

John,  219 

Sir  William,  86 
Esshe,  John  de,  220 
Estbury,  John  de,  14 
Estcourt,  Gyles,  326 

Sir  Giles,  192 

Richard,  68 

Sir  Thomas,  389 

William,  192 

Beata,  40,  41 

Elizabeth,  326 

Mary,  65 
Eston,  William,  558 

Johanna,  558 


Esturmy,  292 

Henry,  seal  of,  215 
Ethelfrida,  Queen,  115,  302,  358 
Ethelstan,  King,  329,  454 
Ethelwulf  of  Wessex,  454 
Evans,  Robert,  310 

Thomas,  27 
Eve,  James,  475 

Everley,  Everly,  William,  501,  502 
Evesham,  John,  70 
Eveshem,  John  de,  219 
Ewe  [or  Owe],  William  de,  4 
Ewer,  Thomas,  172 
Ewstas,  John,  21 
Exeter,    Bishop   of,    117,    118,    338, 

34i,  494 

Canon  of,  341 

Dean  of,  199 

Henry   [Courtenay]   Marquess 

of,  85 
Eyer,  Eyere,  John,  324 

Robert,  232,  420,  421 
Sybyl,  326 
Eyr,  John  le,  249 
Eyre,  290 

Galfridus  le,  52 
'    Robert,  297 
Thomas,  240 
William,  55 


Fairford,  Sir  John,  219 
Falewell,  Peter,  219 

Sir  William,  219 
Farendon,  Thomas,  219 
Farle  [Monkton   Farley],   Prior  of, 

106 

Farrer,  Nicholas,  34 
Fastolf,  Sir  John,  564 

Millicent,  564 

Faukenbrige,  Eustace  de,  248 
Fauconer,  Fawconer,  John,  50 

William,  126,  233 
Fawkes,  Francis,  406 
Feltham,  alias  Lambe,  John,  166 

Johanna,  166 
Fenwicke,  Robert,  346 
Ferrabosco,  Alfonso,  360 
Ferrour,  William,  220 
Fettiplace,  Fetypase,  290 

John,  1 12,  113 

Margery,  112,  113 

Feversham,  Lord,  Baron  of  Down- 
ton,  566 

Field,  John,  519 
Filkes,  John,  470 
Filliol,  Sir  William,  356 


582 


Index. 


Filliol,  Catherine,  356 
Finch,  Heneage,  349 

Daniel,    Earl    of  Nottingham, 

349 
Fisher,  Alice,  266 

Anne,  171 

Emma,  266 

Jeane,  46 

Joan,  171,  503 

Leah,  482 

Fitzalaji,    Earl    of  Arundel,    Hum- 
phry, 197 

John,  197 
Fitz  James,  Lord  Chiet  Justice,  354 

Thomas,  22 

Mary,  22 
Fitz  Maurice,  William,  568 

Mary,  568 

Fitz  Piers,  Geoffrey,  145 
Fitzwalter,  arms  of,  51 
Fitz  Warin,  IVaryn,  Nicholas,  251 

Sir  William,  6,  10 
Fitzwylliam,  Johanna,  87 
Flower,  Floure,  Edward,  461,  557 

Jeremiah,  542 

John,  23,  557 

Richard,  327 

Thomas,  40 

Agnes,  327 

Johanna,  123,  461,  557 

arms  of,  472 

Foley,  Thomas,  349,  352,  353 
Fontevrault,   Abbess   of,    145,    146, 
148,  150.  152,  264 

Margaret,  Abbess  of,  336,  552 

Nuns  of,  146 
Foote,  Robert,  481,  482 
Forde,  William,  220 
Forest,  Robert,  75,  78 

Thomas,  75 

Agnes,  78 
Forman,  Henry,  192 

Joseph,  192 
Forneax,  John,  220 
Forsyth,  John,  510 

Nicholas,  510 

Robert,  510 

Thomas,  510 

Elizabeth,  510 
Fortescu,  Lodowick,  24 
Forth,  Edward,  470 
Forthey,  John,  22 
Fosbrooke,  Thomas,  406 
Fovant,  Rector  of,  191 
Fowler,  Rev.  Henry,  188 
Fox,  Foxe,  Charles  James,  567 

Edmund,  86 

Edward,  557 


Fox,  Henry,  567 

Sir  Stephen,  567 

Thomas,  557 

Alianore,  86 

Eleanor,  557 

Elizabeth,  557 
France,  Charles  VI  of,  562 

Isabel,  daughter  of,  562 
Frank,  John,  107,  108 
Franklayns,  John,  107,  108 
Franklyn,  Francklyn,  Richard,  507, 

509 

Robert,  38 

Katherine,  507,  509 
Fraxino,  Robert  de,  6 
Free,  William,  407 

Elizabeth,  407 
Freeling,  F.,  278 
Freeman,  William,  349 
Freeme,  Frene,  John,  39 
Freere,  William,  557 

Elizabeth,  557 
Freker,  Thomas,  348 
Frewen,  "Accepti,"  66 
Frippe,  John,  109 
Froome,  Thomas,  529 
Frowd,   Froud,  Frowde,   Edward, 
524,  526 

John,  522,  525 

Anne,  184,  523,  524 
Fry,  Edward  Alexander.    See  Wilts 
Fi"ncs 

William,  166 
Fulford,  Sir  Baldwin,  341 

F.  H.,  139 

John,  341 

Sir  Thomas,  341 

Anne,  341 

Jennet,  341 

Thomazine,  341 

arms  of,  344 

Fullerton,  Sir  James,  269,  271,  272 
Fuiwode,  John,  558 
Ffychet,  John,  224 
Fynmore,  R.  J.,  236 


Gaine,  Joan,  475 
Gale,  Isack,  33 
Galley,  John,  125 

Isabella,  125 
Gardener,       Gardner,      Gardyner, 

Isaac  S.,  487 

John,   161 

Thomas,  160 

William,  244 

Widow,  38 


Index. 


583 


Garrard,  Gilbert,  192 

Richard,  192,  543 
Garth,  Joseph,  245,  246 
Gaske,  Henry,  532 
Gat  [Yate  ?],  John,  23 
Gatenouse,  John,  524 

Matthew,  524 

Joane,  524 

Gaunt,  John  of,  185,  268,  271,  562 
Gauntlett,  Roger,  65 

Alice,  65 

Martha,  65 

Sarah,  65 

Gaveston,  Piers  de,  151 
Gawen,  Richard,  316 

Thomas,  21 

William,  23 
Gay, John,  434,  435 

Thomas,  99,  91 
Gayl,  John,  108,  109 
Gaynsford,  Gaynysford,  Sir  John,  22 

Thomas,  166 

Julian,  166 

Gearinge,  Henry,  270,  271,  273,  274 
Geerish,  Gerysche,  Gerysshe,  John, 
256,  257 

Robert,  518 

William,  88,  181,  517,  518 

Bridgett,  180 

Elizabeth,  517,  518 

Margaret,  88 
Gennes,  Johanna  de,  118,  227,  264, 

265,  336,  552 
Gerard,  Gerrarde,  Gilbert, 

208,  210,  211,  213,  306 
Gerberd.  Richard,  124 

William,  124 

Margaret,  21 
Gerkyn,  Robert,  220 
Gernays,  Roger,  219 
Gerucis,  Andrew,  219 
Gett,  John,  422 
Gibbs,  Gibbes,  Rev.  Charles,  285 

Rev.  George,  286 

Sir  George  Smith,  286 

Rev.  Heneage,  286 

Roscoe,  196 

Thomas,  251 

William,  470    See  also  Gybbes 
Giddings,  Gittyns,  John,  352 

William,  130 
Giffard,  Master  John,  149 
Gifford,  290 

Sir  George,  271 

Ann,  271 

Marie,  502 
Gilbert,  George,  124 

Giles,  315 


Gilbert,  John,  49,  124,  351,  374 

Richard,  49 

Thomas,  374 

Alice,  49 

Margaret,  49,  525 

Susannah,  374 

Gilbert,  alias  Notion,  William,  518 
Gillmore,  Edward,  501 
Glastonbury,  Abbot  of,  32 
Gloucestershire,  Sheriff  of,  263 
Gloucester  and  Hereford,  Earl  of, 
146,  147,  441.     See  also  Clare 

Robert  of,  1  15 
Goddard,  Godard,  Godderd,  290 

ot  Englesham,  pedigree  of,  481- 
96 

of  Sedgehill,  pedigree  of,  521- 


Abija,  489 

Abijah  W.,  489,  490 

Benjamin,    482,    483,  484,  487, 

488,  490 
Charles,  490 
Rev.  C.  V.,  137-8 
Edgar  E.,  494 

Edward,  192,  270,  271,  273,  274, 

481,  482,  523,  525 
Edward  A.,  494 
Edward  C.  L.,  495 
Edward  D.,  492 
Hon.  Edward,  483 
Elisha,  486 
Francis,  525 
Rev.  Francis,  493 
Rev.  Francis  A.,  491,  492 
Capt.  Francis,  A.   D'Oyley,  493 
Francis,  W.  M.,  495 
Frederick  J.  M.,  496 
Frederick  W.,  488 
Rev.  Gerald  H.  G.,  496 
Guy,  494 
James,  484,  485 
John,   86,    1  66,   231,    271,    484, 

485,  486,  487,  490,   521,   522, 

523.  524 
Hon.  John,  487 
John  M.,  495 
John  T.,  487 

onathan,  487,  489 
Joseph,  482,  484,  485,  487,  488, 

489,  490 
Josiah,  483 
Nathaniel,  487,  488 
Nicholas,  522,  523,  524,  525 
Rev.  Nigel  E.,  493 
Rainald    W.    K.,    267,    495 

Papers  by,  481-96,  521-25 
Richard,  192,  270,  271,  273,  274 


584 


Index. 


Goddard,  Robert,  482,  484,  485,  486 
Roland  F.  N.,  496 
Roland,  W.  H.,  496 
Samuel,  485,  486,  487,  488,  490 
Samuel  A.,  490,  491,  492 
Samuel  B.,  487 
Samuel  M.,  494 
Dr.  Thatcher,  489 
Thomas,  89,  270,  271,  482,  522, 

523,  524 
Walter  G.,  493 
Warren,  489 
William,  24,  85,  481,  482,  487, 

489,  521,  522,  523 
Rev.  William  H.,  491,  492,  494, 

495 

W.  Austin,  483 
Abagail,  482,  490 
Anne,  271,  488,  522,  523,  525 
Bertha,  496 
Caroline,  491 
Caroline,  E.  G.,  492 
Cecilie,  Cecil!,  522,  523,  524 
Charlotte,  489 
Christian,  521,  523 
Clarissa,  490 
-  Constance  E.,  491,  492 
Deborah,  484 
Dorothy,  522,  523 
Dorothy,  M.  M.,  493 
Edith,  522,  523 
Eliza,  490 

Elizabeth,   271,  482,   483,    484, 
489,  490,  495,   521,  522,  523, 

525 

Emily  V.,  491,  492 
Emma,  496 
Eunice,  487 
Evelyn  M.,  493 
Fanny,  491 
Fanny  D.,  492 
Frances,  494,  523 
Hannah,   485,    486,     487,    488, 

489,  490,  495 
Harriet,  494 
Harriet  B.,  490 
Ida  P.,  494 
Isabella  O.,  494 
Jape,  191 
"  emima,  491,  492 

oanna,  487 
"one,  522,  523 

ulia  B.,  491 
Katherine,  523,  525 
Leah,  482 
Lillian,  M.,  494 
Louisa,  488 
Louisa  M.,  490 


Goddard  Lucretia,  488 

Lucy,  485,  487,  488,  489,  490 

Martha,  482,  483,  523 

Mary,  270,  484,  485,  487,   489, 

M522,  523,  524 

Mary  A.,  496 

Mary  L.,  491 

Marj^  Louisa  M.,  492 

Mehitable,  485,  487 

Millicent,  A.,  493 

Minetta  E.,  494 

Priscilla,  270,  481 

Rachael,  483 

Ruby,  496 

Sarah,  482,  487 

Sarah,  B.  C.  D'Oyley,  495 

Susanna,  483,  487,  490 
Godfrey,  Phillip,  21 
Godpathe,  Harrye,  244 

Walter,  251 
Godwin,  Godwyne,  Hugh,  63 

Jeremy,  63 

Jonathan,  63 

Walter,  63 

Anne,  63 

Goldinge,  Richard,  160 
Goldstone,  Henry,  373 
Gomme,  Mr.,  93,  94 
Goodall,  Richard,  37 
Goodenough  family,  paper  on,  385, 

4°3 

Francis,  27,  386,  387,  388,   389, 

39°,  39i,  395-  396,  397,  4°° 
John,  27,  386,  387,  388,  389,  396, 

397,  399,  4°°>  4°',  402— will, 

395-  396 
Richard,  386,  387,  388,  389,  390, 

39>,   392,  395,   396,  397,   3?S- 
401,— letter  from,  393, — will, 

394, 399,  4°o 
Smart,  387,  388,  389 
Thomas,  386,  389,  395.  396,  397, 

401,  403 
Ann,  386,  387,   389,   395.— will, 

388 

Edith,  388,  395,— will,  387 
Elizabeth,  394 
Henrietta,  389 
Margery,  387 
Mary,  386,  397,  403 
Rachel,  27,  386,  389,  395,  397,— 

will,  396 
Ruth,  396     • 

Sarah,  387,  388,  392,— will,  394 
Gooding,  Mr.,  67 
Goodlad,  Abram,  129 
Richard,  129 
William,  129 


Index. 


585 


Goodlad,  Elizabeth,  129 

Mary,  129 

Goodwin,  Thomas,  66 
Goodyere,  Goodier,  William,  40, 181 
Golde,  John,  341 

Alice,  341 
Gordon   Sir  Robert,  360 

Lady  Catherine,  200 
Gore,  Francis,  27 

Giles,  232,  233,  257,  509 

John,  509 

Nicholas,  5 

Richard,  175 

Thomas,  27,  389,  391,  419 

Agnes,  509 

Edith,  232,  257 

Elizabeth,  233 

Mary,  27,  175 

Warborough,  509 

arms  of,  2 
Gorges,  Gorge,  383 

Edward  Lord,  566 

Sir  Thomas,  340 

Elizabeth,  340 
Gould,  Sarah,  487 
Goweyn,  John,  108,  109 
Grafton,  Richard,  56 
Grail,  Grayle,  Henry,  34 
Grandison,  William,  479 

Mabel,  479 

Viscount.     See  St.  John 
Grantham,  William,  48 
Graunt,  Thomas,  112 

Walter,  256 
Gray,  Graye,  William,  557 

Ann,  531 

Elizabeth,  557.     See  also  Grey 
Grazebrook,  Mr.,  96 
Green,  Grene,  George,  406 

Jeremiah,  124 

Richard,  75 

Robert,  312 

Thomas,  327 

Walter,  220 

William,  126,  166 
Greenfield,  Benjamin  W.,  193 
Greenhill,  Grace,  525 
Greenwood,  James,  486 
Gresham,  Richard,  21 

William,  21 

Greville,    Grevyll,  Sir  Fulke,  320, 
373.  422 

Lady  Elizabeth,  320,  373,  422 
Grey,  Henry,  356 

Thomas,  200 

William,  558 

Rev.  W,  305 

of  Wilton,  Lord,  418 


Grey,  Lady  Catherine,  356,  361,  362 

Cicely,  200 

Elizabeth,  558 

Frances,  356 

Lady  Jane,  61,  356 

Parnill  [Petronilla],  418.     See 

also  Gray 
Greyvyle,  Greinvil,  John,  194 

Alice,  194 

arms  of,  194 

Griffith,  Robert,  372,  460 
Grinstead,  Baron,  567 
Grist,  John,  5 
Grose,  Dr.,  195 
Grubbe,  Henry,  35,  37    • 

Thomas,  37 

Susan,  37 

Grundye,  Roger,  324 
Gueldeford,  William,  220 
Guldeford,  Walter  de,  219 
Gulston,      William,      Bishop      of 
Bristol,  237 

Mary,  237 
Gundewyne,    Gondewyne,   Robert, 

13,  14,  15,  69,  70 
Gunstone,  John,  312 
Gunter,  William,  361 
Gurmundus,  the  Pagan,  115 
Gybbes,  John,  108,  109 

Roger,  358 

Agnes,  358 

Margaret,    108,    109.     See  also 

Gibbs 

Gye,  Edward,  475 
Gyldon,  John,  178 


H 


Hache,  Eustace  de,  Baron  Hache, 

567 

Haines,  Rev.  Herbert,  57 
Hales,  Halts,  John,  112,  251 

Thomas,  310 

Jone,  243 

Haliday,  Giles,  526,  527,  528 
Hall,  Benedict,  388 

Hubert,  116 

Judge,  543 

Rev.  Peter,  237 

Elizabeth,  388 
Halle,  John  atte,  220 

John,  429,  561 

Christian,  561 
Halswell,  Nicholas,  255 

Margery,  255 

Hampton,  Sir  Richard,  219 
Hamstede,     poor    Nuns    of     St. 
Giles  in,  2  18 

D 


586 


Index. 


Hancock,  Anthony,  482 

Elizabeth,  482 
Hanham,  Sir  William,  55 
Hanley,  Thomas,  86 
Harbarde,  Sir  William,  323 
Harding,  Hardyng,  John,  280 

William,  21 
Harewell,  John,  219 
Hargrave,  Henry,  354 

Thomas,  23 

Harman,  William,  110,  in 
Harold,  Earl,  117,  130 

William,  220 
Harper,  Thomas,  495 

Elizabeth,  495 
Harris,  John,  351 

Robert,  286 

Thomas,  243,  313 

Ann,  351 

Harrison,  Ralph,  346 
Hart,  John,  37 

Richard,  545 

Sir  Richard,  545 

Anne,  545 

Susan,  37 

Harvvarde,  John.  257,  421 
Hasilwoode,  Edward,  23 
Hastings,  Hastynges,  Sir  Edward, 
156,  467 

Francis  Lord,  85,  87 

George  [Earl  of  Huntingdon], 
85^87 

Sir  Hugh,  416 

Lady  Anna,  85,  87 

Katherine,  85/87 

Maud,  416 

Hatton,  Sir  Christopher,  160,  161 
Hatton,  alias  Newport,  William,  161 
Haukyn  [Hawkins],  Thomas,  50 
Haward,  George,  372 
Hawkins,  Hugh,  270,  271,  272,  273, 

274,  275 

Sir  Richard,  67 

Thomas,  32 

Hawles,  John,  21,  85,  423 
Hawley,  Capt.,  279 

Henry,  235 

James,  235 

Col.  Jerome,  235 

Capt.  William,  235 

Elinor,  235 

Elizabeth,  235 
Hawood,  Hannah,  485,  486 
Hayes,  Jona,  402 
Haystow.     See  May 
Hayter,  John,  327 

Agnys,  327 
Haywode,  Roger,  219 


Haywode,  Walter,  219 
Hearst,  Dr.  William,  191 

Mary,  191 

Heath,  Ebenezer,  487. 
John, 487 
Susannah,  487 
Heather,  Anne,  502 

Ellinor,  502 
Heavell,  William,  315 
Hedges,  Hegys,  36 
John,  460 
William,  2 
Eleanor,  2 
arms  of,  2 

Hellier,  William,  131 
Helps,  John,  408,  409 

Elizabeth,  408 
Helyar,  William,  523 

Mary,  523 
Heming,  Robert,  351 

Sarah,  351 
Henry  II.,  116,  117,  118,  132,  145, 

146,  222,  303,  440 

Henry  III.,  119,  146,  149,  150,  222, 
358 ;  founds  an  obit  at  Amesbury, 
147  ;  his  heart  delivered  to  the 
Abbess  of  Fontevrault,  148 

Eleanor,  Queen  of,  146,  358  ; 
retires  to  Amesbury,  148; 
visited  there  by  Edward  I, 
149 ;  her  death  and  burial, 
149-50 

Beatrice,  daughter  of.  146,  150 
Henry  IV.  ,77, 269,  563, 564 ;  confirms 
grant  of  Edward  I  to   owner  of 
Lackham,  4 

Blanche,  daughter  of,  76 
Henry  V.,  his  assent  to  the  election 
of  a  Prioress  of  Amesbury,  266, 

336 

Henry  VI.,  131,  222,  225,  561 

Henry  VII.,  131,  419,  465 

Henry  VIII.,  131,  132,  356,  467; 
visits  Wiltshire,  3,  59;  a  rental, 
&c.,  at  Heale  and  Woodford 
conveyed  to,  86,  his  badge  and 
supporters  at  Old  Lackham 
House,  3 

Henton,  John,  23 
Thomas,  23 

Herbelot,  John,  73,  74 

Christina,  and  Augustine,  son 

of,  73-  74 
Herbert,  Sidney  Lord,  567 

Sir  William,  322,  373 

Anna,  322 
Hereford,  Roger,  233 

Thomas,  233 


Index. 


587 


Hereford,  Margaret,  233 
Herrys,  Master  Robert,  238 
Hertford,  Earl  oi,  292,  293,  295,  296, 
297,  299,  300,  301,  305,    354,  355, 
356,357,  359,  36o,   361,   363,  364- 
445 

Marquis  of,  364,  365 

Countess  of,  357,  360,  361 
Hicks,  Richard,  349 
Hickman,  William,  348 
Hicks-Beach,  Michael,  384 

Michael  Hicks,  384 

Henrietta  Maria,  384 
Higford,  Roger,  459 

Margaret,  459 
Hill,  Anthony,  532 

Edward,  40 

Giles,  527 

John,  40 

William,  22,  532 

Martha,  532 
Hill,   Holl,  Sir   Robert,    curate   of 

Westbury,  207,  208 
Hillier,  Goodenough,  389 

William,  403 

Dorothy,  403 
Hinde,  Mr.,  348 
Hiscocke,  William,  36 
Hitchens,  Giles,  403 
Hixe,  Walter,  312 
Hoare,  Sir  Richard  C,  227,  236,  238, 
260,   263,  265,  304,  305,  374,  375, 
381,  434,  436,  476,  506,  533- 
Hobekins,  Matilda,  5 
Hobhouse,  Sir  John  Cam,  480 
Hobbs,  John,  402 

Lance  [Laurance  ?],  502 
Hode,  Thomas,  107 
Hodges,  Robert,  532 

Mary,  532 
Hoke,  Nicholas  atte,  9,  12,  14 

Joan,  9,  12,  14 
Holand,  Thomas  de,  Earl  of  Kent,  50 

Alesia,  50 
Holborow,  Israel,  400 

Thomas,  401 

Sarah,  400 
Holland  of  Foxley.  567.     See  Fox: 

John,  482 

Rev.  Thomas,  300 

Elizabeth,  482 
Holley,  John,  503 
Holliday,  John,  403 
Hollister,  Daniel,  64 

Edward,  64,  65 

Ezekiel,  64 

Laurence,  64 

Mary,  64 


Holloway,  John,  470 

Joane,  38 

Hollybrand,  William,  258 
Holme,  Robert,  85 

Thomas,  21 

William,  233 
Holmes,  John,  256 
Holte,  Richard,  420,  421,  460 
Hone,  William,  391 
Hooper,  John,  324,  461 

Richard,  406,  499 

William,  406 

Elizabeth,  407 

Joan,  499 

Margaret,  499 
Hopkins,  Richard,  470 

Roger,  232 
Hornby,  Albert  F.,  496 

Bertha,  496 

Horner,  Joan,  266,  290 
Horsey,  John,  21 

William,  21 
Horsnell,  Thomas,  404 
Horton,  Henry,  404,  405 

John,  337 

Thomas,  255,  256,  372,  418 

William,  558 

Johanna,  337 
Hoskyns,  John,  31 

Thomas,  29,  30,  31,  256 

Elizabeth,  256 

Hellen,  31 

Margarett,  31 

Margery,  31 

Houghton,  William,  219 
Houlton,  Sir  Victor,  568 
House,  Thomas,  portrait  of,  280 
Howard,  Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk, 

357 

William,  Lord,  357 

Frances,  357 
Howbere,  William,  87 
Howell,  John,  297 
Howper,  William,  154 

alias  Badcock,  William,  1 1 1 
Howse,  Howes,  Edward,  313,  314 
Hubberd,  Thomas,  346 
Huddesfield,  William,  341 

Sir  William,  341,  342,  343,  344, 

345 

Alice,  341 
Elizabeth,  342 
Jennet,  341 
Katherine,   338,   341,  342,  343, 

344,  345 

arms  of,  343,  345 
Hughes,  John,  406 
Solomon,  406 


Index. 


Hulbert,  Nicholas,  545 

Richard,  314 

Thomas,  545,  546 

William,  317 

Anne,  545 

Elizabeth,  545 
Hulett,  Stephen,  557 
Hull,  James,  486 

Humfrey,  Richard.  245,  246,  247,  248 
Humphreis,  John,  346 
Hungerford,  Anthony,  2,  174 

Sir   Anthony,  24,  25,   112,  174, 
263 

Edmund,  55 

Edward,  174 

Sir  Edward,  5,  58,  92,  174 

Sir  George,  182 

James,  183 

Lord,  354 

Robert,  251 

Robert,  Lord,  224,  567,  568 

Thomas,  219,  221,  568 

Sir  Thomas,  225,  561 

Walter,  568 

Walter,  Lord,  25,  86,  338,  567, 
568 

Sir  Walter,  382 

Lady  Agnes,  58 

Christian,  561 

Diana,  174 

Elizabeth,  338 

Lady  Elizabeth,  233 

Jane,  263 

Lucy,  382 

Lady  Margaret,  224-27,  419 

Mary  (Baroness  Botreaux),  568 

Rachel,  174 

arms  of,  2,  182,  344 

device,  345 

Breviary,  belonging  to,  182-3 
Hunt,  Hunte,  Hugh,  245,  246,  247 

John,  220,  346,  496 

Robert,  402 

Dorothy,  503 

Emma,  496 
Hunton,  290 

William,  327 

Briget,  327 

Huntingdon,    Francis    (Hastings), 
Earl  of,  125,  233,  421,  460 

George,  Earl  ot,  125,  568 

Lady  Katherine,  Countess  of, 

125,  233,  421,  460 
Hurde,  William,  328 

Margaret,  328 

Hussey,  Huse,  Husey,Hussee,  Bar- 
tholomew, 21,  22,  24 

arms  of,  441 


Hyde,  Hide,  Edward,  Lord  Chan- 
cellor, 134,  436,  480 
Rev.  Edward,  192 
Frederick,  237 
Sir  Frederick,  42,  470 
Henry,  427,  434,  480 
Laurence,  26,  134 
Sir  Nicholas,  480 
William,  90,  91,  192 
Anne,  480,  566 
Lady  Catherine,  434 
Mary,  480 
Susanna,  134 
Hyde  [near  Winchester],  Thomas, 

Abbot  of,  217 
Hyll,  John,  125 
Hynde,  George,  293 
Hyrd,  Alexander,  501 
Iddersley,  Christian,  290 
Ilchester,  Earl  of,  567 
Impey,  Sir  Elijah,  437 
Ingram,  Stephen,  322 
Thomas,  84 
Agnes,  322 

Ireland,  Justiciary  of,  411 
Isaak,  Edward,  421 
Isham,  Zacheus,  32 
Ivie,  I-vye,  Sir  George,  134 
James,  192 
Thomas,  134,  136,  137 
Eliza,  134 
Susanna,  134 
Jackman,  Edward,  36 
John,  36 
Jane,  36 

Jackson,  Canon  J.  E.  Notes  to 
Aubrey,  66,  67,  102,  103,  114,  215, 
216,  227,293,  328,  329,  331,  366, 
381,386,  397,  429,  475,  514,  515, 
5i6,  517,549,  550,  551,  552,  553. 
559 

Henry,  470 
acob,  Robert,  68 
Jacobs,  Thomas,  322 
aine,  Thomas,  324 
ames  I.,  271,  360;  at  Bromham  and 
Devizes,    131  ;  investigates     the 
tale  of  the  Wilcot  Ghost,  277 
James,  Walter,  245,  246 

Bridgett,  470 
Jason,  arms  of,  472 
Jaques,  Rev.  Mr.,  285 
Jeay,  William,  352 

Ann,  352 

Jefferey,  John,  325 
Elizabeth,  325 
Jeffreys,  Robert,  521 
Jenkins,  Jeinkeins,  Walter,  178 


Index. 


589 


Jereberd,  Thomas,  104 
Jerusalem,  Knights  ot  St.  John  of, 

lands,  &c.,  restored  to  157 
Jerveys,  Jervys,    Richard,   85,    123, 
1 66 

Winifred,  166 
Jewel,  John,  Bishop  of  Salisbury, 

169  ;  works  of,  180 
John,  King,  117,  119,    145,  146,    147, 
153,  222 

Richard,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  son 
ot,  97 

Johnson,  Dr.,  42 
George,  517 
Jones,  Canon,  W.  H.,  188,  328,  334, 

374,  507 

Francis,  400 
Inigo,  358,  364,  365 
Tames,  490 
John,  89,  399,  400 
Josiah,  484 
Shipway,  400,  403 
Solomon,  397,  399,  400 
Rev  Walter,  45 
William,  69,  27 5,  384 
Anne,  403 
Dorothy  403 
Eleanor,  384 
Mary,  397,  399,  400 
Rachel,  174 
Susannah,  489,  490 
Jordan,  John,  son  of,  5 
Jordan,  Jurdan,  Thomas,  13,  14,  15, 
69,  70 

arms  of,  472 
Jouillin,  Hannah,  184 
oyner,  David,  131 
urnyman,  Margaret,  502 
uyn,  John,  106 


K 


Kaerwent,  Sir  Nicholas,  218,  220 
Kebby,  John,  409 

Richard.  409 

Ann,  409 

Kelloway,  Kaylway,  Kellway,  Keyl- 
way,  Robert,  256,  321 

arms  of,  472 
Kelsey,  Henry,  404 

Rev.  Joseph,  474 
Kempe,  Sir  Thomas,  421 

Katherine,  421 
Kendall,  Roger,  308 

Thomas,  309 

William,  308 
Kenn,  Bishop,  519 
Kenriche,  William,  346 


Kent,  Kente,  John,  36,  123,  126,  246, 
247,  248,  361 

Peter,  305 

Sir  Richard,  545 

Roger,  36 

Samuel,  36,  471 

William,  323 

Mary,  36 

Kettle,  Godfrey,  407 
King,  Hugh,  348 

Matthew,  320 

Phillip,  348.     See  also  Kynge 
Kingham,  John,  475 
Kingsmill,  Sir  George,  34 
Kingson,  Gabriel,  402 
Kingston,  Kyngton,  Robert,  207 

Margaret,  207 
Kintbury  Amesbury,  Dundas  Baron 

of,  479 

Kirby,  T.  F.,  215 

Kite,  Edward,  47,  57,  227,  286,  366, 
38l>  549,  55  ^S6;  papers  by,  1-6, 
42-3,  49-62,  94-5,  97-105,  114-19, 
145-54,  167-74,  221-27,  236-40, 
258-67,  289-305,  354-66,  410-20, 
433-48,  465-70,  505-10,  539-46,  561 
Knapp,  Knappe,  Samuel,  68 

William,  28,  29,  30,  68 

Alice,  33 
Knapton,  William,  351 

Elizabeth,  351 
Knight,  John,  545 

Sir  John,  545 

Matilda,  558.    See  also  Knyght 
Knoell,  Leonard,  59 

Jane,  59 
Knyght  alias  Shepard,  John,  23 

Julia,  23 
Kymer,  Gilbert,  Dean  of  Salisbury, 

chantry  of,  86 
Kynge,  Jasper,  524,  525 

Richard,  522,  524 

Thomas,  522,  524 

William,  522 

Joane,  524 

Mary,  524 
Kyrkeham,  William,  166,  257 

Johanna,  257 
Kyrton,  Christopher,  257,  322 

Richard,  257,  322 

Elizabeth,  257,  322 


Lachebroc,  Roger,  220 
Lacy,  Henry  de,  268 
William  de,  153 
Margaret,  268 


59° 


Index. 


Lacy,  Margery,  153 
Lambard,  John,  321 
Lambe,  Adhelm,  261 

Jocosa,  165.     See  also  Feltham 
Lambert,  Thomas,  504 
Lampen,  Joseph  L.,  493 

Fanny  P.,  493 
Lampriere,  Nicholas,  346 
Lancaster,  Duke  of,  76,  269 

Henry.  Duke  of,  153,  265,  269 

Thomas,  Earl  ot,  268 

Edmund  [Crouchback],  Earl  of 
146,  153,  268 

Henry,  Earl  of,  146,  269 

Isabelle,  146,  153 
Lancaster,  Ralph,  20 
Lane,  John,  55 
Langdon,  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel,  487 

Mary,  487 

Langford,  Longford,  family,  regis- 
ters of,  1538-1620,  426-7 

Alexander,    84,  232,    322,  426, 
427 

Edward,  426,  427,  480 

John,  426 

Phillip,  427 

Richard, 426,  427 

Robert,  427 

Thomas,  426,  427 

William,  427 

Alice,  Alles,  426,  427 

Anne,  426,  427 

Edith,  427 

Elizabeth,  426,  427 

Grace,  426 

Johane,  427 

lone,  426 

Mary,  Marie,  426,  427,  480 
Lansdowne,  Marquess  of,  478,  568 
Larder,  John,  460 

Robert,  22 

Laud,  Archbishop,  541,  546 
Lavender,  John,  220 
Laventon,   Lavynton,    Richard  de, 
217 

Walter,  558 

Christina,  558 

Edith,  217 
Lavves,  Henry,  360 

William,  360 
Lawne,  Giles,  333 

William,  murder  of,  333 
Lawrence,  Daniel,  64 

Henry,  165,  256 

Jonas,  64 

Richard,  64,  65,  68 

Martha,  64 

Mary,  64 


Laycock,  Lakocke,  Abbess  of,  109, 

i  ii 
Layton,  Thomas,  373 

Elizabeth,  373 
Lea,  Herbert  of,  567 
Leach,  William,  283 
Lee,  Alan,  321 

John,  501 

Ralph,  133 

Frances,  133 

Widow,  27 

Leeson,  Anthony,  373 
Le  Gallais,  Col.  Alfred,  493 

Evelyn  M.,  493 
Legh,  Geoffrey,  22 

John,  22 

Ralph,  22 
Leigh,  Sir  John,  102,  467 

Lady  Isabel,  467 
Leland,  John,  3,  4,  5,  50,  104,  116 
Leman,  Thomas,  23 
Lemy  (?),  Thomas,  521 
Leonard,  John,  68,  475 
Lettele,  [Netley,  co.  Hants],  Abbot 

and  Convent  of,  217 
Leversegg,  Leu' sage,  Edward,  109 

Robert,  372 

William,  109 

Jane,  372 

Leveryngton,  Sir  William  de,  219 
Levet,  John,  328 

Johan,  328 
Lewen,  Robert,  23 

Elizabeth,  37 
Lewknor,  Sir  Roger,  198 

Katherine,  198 
Lewy,  Christopher,  522 
Lewys,  David,  21 

Sir  Edward,  362 
Ley,  Henry,  384 

James,  35,  40,  246,  247,  248,  384 

Sir  James,  314 

Matthew,  314 

Dyonisia,    384.     See     also    Marl- 
borough,  Earl  of 
Lichfield,  Dean  of,  140 
Light,  Mrs.  M.  E.,  papers  by,  25-34, 

40-1,  62-9,  385-403 
Lincoln,  Earl  of,  268 
Lind,  Sir  Humphrey,  509,  545 

Anne,  509,  545 

Linerd  [Lenard],  Thomas,  531 
Lisle,  John,  308 

Sir  John  de,  219 

Lady,  219 
Locke,  John,  519 

Wadham,  519 

Rachel,  519 


Index. 


Lodge,  Francis,  400 
London,  John,  264 

Bishop  of,  117,  533 

Recorder  of,  22 

Sheriffs  of,  90 
Long,  Longe,  Antonio,  165 

Charles  Edward,  269 

Edmund,  32,  95 

Edward,  40,  95,  96 

Sir  Edward,  95 

Harry,  29 

Henry,  203,  204,  234,  418,  422, 
460,  475 

Sir  Henry,  95,  165,  166,  231,  232, 
256,  290,  354 

James,  181,  182,  284,  285 

Sir  James  Tylney,  438 

Richard,  32,  404,  405 

Sir  Robert,  95,  264 

Thomas,  155,  232,  234,  281,  322, 
372,422,  461 

Sir  Thomas,  466 

William,  234,  281,  328,  422 

Barbara,  264 

Catherine,  566 

Johane,  328 

Margery,  466 

Susan,  32 
Longespee,  Stephen,  411 

William,  268,  411,  441 

Ela,  268,  411,  441 

Emmeline,  411 
Louday  (Loveday),  Thomas,  67 

Alice,  67 

Mary,  67 

Loudon,  Mary  Countess  of,  568 
Love,  John,  558 
Lovel,  John  de,  268 

Lord,  194,  330,  331 

Robert,  197 

Elizabeth,   197 

Maud,  197 
Ludlowe,  Ludloo,  George,  232,  233, 

373-  42i 

John,  55 

William,  233,  373,  421 

Catherine,  233 

Edith,  232,  373,  421 

Elizabeth,  55,  57 

arms  of,  55 
Lumley,  Ralph,  198 

Katherine,  198 
Lye,  widow,  470 
Lykeman,  Richard,  23 
Lymbury,  Richard,  109 
Lyncoln,  Sir  Robert  de,  219 
Lynde,  Roger  de  la,  86 

Anna,  86 


Lyntefford,  Sir  Richard,  219 
Lyster,  Sir  Richard,  21,  372 
Lyte,  Isaac,  397 

Elizabeth,  397 
Lyte  (?),  Christian,  522,  523 
Lythfote,  William,  86 

M 

Maggell,  John,  469 

Mainfeld,  Luce,  220 

Malarde  alias   Malyard,    Thomas, 

320 

Mallard,  Thomas,  403 
Malmesbury,  Monks  of,  455 
Maltravers,  Mautravers,  Sir  John, 
194,  196,  416 

Elizabeth,  194,  196 

Matilda,  Maud,  194,  416 

arms  of,  194 
Man,  John,  220 
Manchester,    Earl     of,    172.       See 

Montagu 

Mandeville,  Maimdevill,  Geoffrey 
de,  184,  248 

John  de,  8,  9,  10,  12,  14 

Ralph  de,  249 

William,  76 

Benedicta,  8,  9,  14 
Many  ford,  Roger,  219 
Marche,  John,  220 
Mareau,  Dorman,  484 
Mareys,  Marts,  John,  71,  74,  75,  76 

Thomas,  403 

Edith,  71 
Markes,  Marks,  George,  314,  317 

John,  312 

Mr,  348 

Roger,  310,  311,  312 

Walter,  208,  270,  272,  273,  311 

William,  311 
Marlborough,  George,  Duke  of,  480 

Earl  of,  44 

Henry,  Earl  of,  316 

Mary,    Countess    of,    44,    317. 

See  also  Ley 

Marshall,    Marchall,      Marschall, 
Edward,  475 

John,  90,  91 

William,  146,  147,  468 

Isabel,  146,  147 
Marshe,  John,  87 

Robert,  270,  272,  273 
Martin,  Marten,  Martyn,  Anthony, 
270,  271,  272,  273,  274,  317 

Edward,  270,  271,  272,  273,  274, 

275 
Frauncis,  307 


592 


Index. 


Martin,  Gabriell,  275 

Henry,  270,  313 

Mr.,  348 

Richard,  87,  234 

Samuel,  91 

Thomas,  21,  234,  275 

Alice,  125 

Charlotte,  489 

Thermuthis,  91 
Martir,  Peter,  180 
Marvin,  Marven,  Marvyn,  Edmund, 

21 

John,  22,  25,  124,  404 

Samuel,  349-   See  also  Mervyn 
Mary,  Queen,    133,  208,  211,  212 
Maryner,  Walter,  72 

Isabella,  72 
Mascall,  John,  256 

Ellen,  256 
Mason,  John,  402 

Peter  le,  468 

Richard,  397,  400 

Thomas,  396,  397,  402 

Ruth,  396,  400 
Mathevve,  Edmund,  326,  327 

John,  20 

Christian,  20 

Johane,  326 
Mattock,  John,  470 
Matyn,  Robert,  303 

Edith,  503 

Maud,  the  Empress,  132,  268 
Mauduyt,  Thomas,  250 
Mauger,  William,  74 

Christina,  74 
May,  Maye,  John,  89,  488 

John  Joseph,  490 

Richard,  231 

Robert,  231,  321,  558 

Samuel,  488,  490 

Elizabeth,  231 

Jane,  89 

Louisa,  488 

Mary,  489,  490 

alias  Haystow,  Robert,  557 

alias  Hayton,  Robert,  166 

alias  Hewsten,  Robert,  24 

Margaret,  24 
Mayo,  Rev.  Charles  H.,  285,  286 

Humfry,  29 

Rev.  James,  91 

John,  33,  34,  64,  68 

Rev.  John,  91 

Barbara,  91 

Helen,  64 

Margery,  33 

Thermuthis,  91 
Meekes,  Anthony,  324 


Meggs,  Peterell,  351 

Mary,  351 
Megre,  John,  78 
Meliorus,  Melorius,  Melore,  St.,  1 16 ; 

relics  ot,  303 

Mellis,  John,  in.     See  also  Dyner 
Meredith,  arms  of,  27 
Merewether,  Meryweder,  Thomas, 

251 

Edith,  523,  524 
Meriet,  John  de,  268 

Sir  John  de,  194 

Agnes,  or  Ellen  de,  194 

Mary,  268 

Merton  ("co.  Surrey],  Prior  and  Con- 
vent of,  217 
Mervet,  Francis,  505 

John,  504 

Mabel,  505 
Mervyn,  Edmund,  22 

Sir  James,  246 

John,  124,  126,  165,  320 

William,  22 

Johanna,  320.  See  also  Marvin 
Mesurer,  Jacob,  24 
Michell,  Robert,  270,  272,  273 

Samuel,  5 

Simon,  405 

Middlesex,  Sheriff  of,  90 
Middleton,  Gilbert  de,  216 
Midleton,  Lord,  545 
Milbridge,  John,  372 
Miles,  Benjamin,  481 

Elizabeth,  481 
Miller,  Joan,  475 
Millip,  John,  286 
Mills,  Milles,  John,  68,  140 
Milner,  Joseph,  389 

Anne,  389 
Milsum,  Sarah,  400 
Minty,  Jo.,  348 
Mody,  John,  165 
Moels,  heiress  of,  224 

arms  of,  182 
Moggeridge,  Moggrydge,  John,  257, 

558 

William,  257,  322,  324,  557 
Johanna,  322,  557 
Mohun,  Moham,  Mone,  Walter,  84, 

373.  557 

Moldsworth,  William,  421 
Moleyns,  Molines,  Barony  ot,  568 

heiress  of,  224 
Mompesson  family,  27 

Drevve,  30 

Edmund,  22,  255 

Henry,  30,  31 

John,  558 


Index. 


593 


Mompesson  Richard,  22,   134,    136, 
137,   176,  178 
Thomas,  22,  29,  30,  31,   32,    34, 

84-  233.  557 

Constance,  31,  34 

Monmouth,  Duke,  rebellion  of,  390 
Montacute,  John  de,  173,  265 

William  de,  562 

Sibilla  de,  265,  266 
Montagu  family,  i,  296 

Admiral,  296 

Charles,  172 

Edward,  172 

George,  172 

Henry,  172 

James,  2,  172,  173,  174 

Hon.  James,  172,   173 

John,  172 

Lord,  226 

Robert,  172 

Sidney,  172 

Thomas,  172 

Walter,  172,   173 

William,  172 

Eleanor,  2 

Katherine,  173 

Mary,  172 

arms  of,  2,  173 
Monthermer,  Sir  Ralph  de,  146 

arms  of,  2,  173 
Moore,  James,  20 

John,  246,  247,  248 

Elizabeth,  20 
Mopson    [Mompesson  ?]   William, 

5°3 

Mordaunt,  Sir  John,  22 
More,  John,  257,  373 

William,  23,  256 

Katherine,  257 
Moren,  Thomas,  420 

Margaret,  420 
Morgan,  Christopher,  85 

Edward,  25,  86 

Francis,  126 

Peter,  25,  86,  124,  125 

Richard,  558 

Elizabeth,  124,  125 

Johanna,  85 
Morley,  Thomas  Lord,  198 

Elizabeth,  198 
Mornington,  Earl  of,  566 
Morris,  Mores,  Morys}  Giles,  256 

Henry,  35 

James,  255 

Elizabeth,  255 
Mortival,    Roger     de,     Bishop     of 

Salisbury,  221 
Motesfonte,  John,  219 


Motesfonte  [co.  Hants],  Prior  and 

Convent  of,  217 
Moul,  John,  220 
Mounpalers.     See  Barbour 
Mounslowe,  Fulke,  460 
Mountjoy,  Lord,  203,  205 

Montjoy,  William,  395 
Moxham,  Thomas  de,  6 
Moyle,  Sir  Thomas,  459 

Katherine,  459 

Mozley's  "  Rcminiscenses",  178-9 
Mucheldevere,  Thomas,  219 
Muggletoti,  Lodowick.  93 
Mundy,  Rev.  William,  237 
Murrey,  Thomas,  269,  271 
Muschamp,  William,  22 
Muspratt,  John,  351,  352 
Mussell,  John,  323 

Johanna,  323 
Mycnell,  John,  257,  323 

Katherine,  323 
Mylle,  John,  21 
Myllesent,  John,  213 
Myllord,  Sir  John,  327 
Myntie,  Mynty,  John,  317 

Agnes,  207 

Alice,  207 
Mytton,  Richard,  23 


N 


Naish,  Richard,  470 
Nash,  Alice,  502 

Navarre,  Blanche  Queen  Dowager 
of,  146,  268 

Queen  Joan  of,  417 
Neate,  Anthony,  31 

Robert,  351.    See  also  Ncyt 
Neel,  John,  220 
Nelmes,  Jonathan,  388 

Richard,  388 

Anne,  388 

Mary,  388 

Nethersole,  William,  409 
Netley.     See  Lettele 
Neudigate,  William  de,  219 
Nevell,  John,  316 
Nevile,  Dame  Margaret  de,  149 
Newcastle,  Duke  of,  377 
Newman,  Richard,  243 

Walter,  469 

William,  161,  314 

Margerye,  243.     See   also 

Nyweman 
Newport.     See  Hatton 

Newporte,  John,  161,397,  400 

Dorothy,  161 

Rachel,  397,  400 


594 


Index. 


Newton,  Francis  M.,  389 

Sir  Isaac,  192 

Newton,  Long,  Rector  ot,  190 
Neyt,  John,  21 

Agnes,  21 

Nicholas  family,  169;  documents 
relating  to,  185-6;  of  Ronndway, 
arms,  crest,  and  motto,  236 

Edward,  185,  507,  509 

Sir  Edward,  506 

Gregory,  23 

Griffin,  509,  510,  540,  545 

Humphrey,  545 

John,    506,   507,    508,  509,  510, 

539.  540,  545 

Sir  John,  519 

Dr.  Mathevv,  506 

Michael,  510 

Oliver,  545,  546 

Philip,  509 

Richard,  509 

Robert,   87,   89,    185,    186,    507, 
508,  509,  540,  545,  546 

Judge  Robert,  memoir  of,  505- 
io,  539-46 

Thomas,  510,  545 

William,  519 

Alice,  508,  509 

Anne,  509,  545 

Catherine,  545 

Cecilia,  23 

Eleanor,  510 

Elizabeth,  507,  509,  510,  545 

Harriet,  186 

Isabel,  509 

Jane,  545 

Joan,  546 

Katherine,  507,  509 

Margaret,  545 

Mary,  509,  510,  545 

Warborough,  509 
Nicholason,  Edward,  322 
Nichols,  John  Gough,  i,  54 
Nicholson,  Otho,  33 
Nightingale,    James     E.     Chuich 

Plate  of  Wilts,  44 
Noble,  William,  315 
Norborne,  Mary,  347 
Norfolk,  Duke  of,  357 

Duchess  of,  258 
Norman,  Hugh,  1 10 
Norreys,  James  Lord,  62 

Montague  Lord,  63 
Norris,  Nicholas,  470 
Norton,  Sir  George,  478 

Sir  Ralph  de,  219 

Elizabeth  M.,  490 

Ellen,  478 


Norton,  Lady  Margaret,  219 
Norwich,  Bishop  of,  118,  496 
Noryngton,  John,  558 
Note,  Elizabeth,  558 
Nottingham,  Daniel,  Earl  of,  349 

William,  296 
Novo  Loco,  Prior  and  Convent  of, 

217 

Nowell,  Henry,  558 
Nyweman,  John,  7,  8 

Alice,  7,  8 


0 


Ode,  Thomas,  74 
Okeden,  William,  509 

Elizabeth,  509 
Oldfield,  Mrs.  Anne,  433 
Oliver,  V.  L.,  426-27 

Dorothy,  503 

Margaret,  503 

Susan,  503 
Olrefford  [Alresford  ?],  Gilbert  de, 

220 

Orange,  Prince  of,  477 

Orcus     [founder    of    Abbotsbury 
Abbey],  201 

Organ,  Margaret,  502 

Osbaldiston,  Sir,  ....  242 

Ossory,  Lady,  436 

Overton,  Widow,  503 

Owen,  John,  422 

Oxford  [Axford  ?],  Thomas,  317 

Oxlord,  Austin  Friars  of,  218 
Carmelites  of,  218 
Friars  Minorites  of,  218 
Friars  Preachers  of,  218 
John  of,  118 


Packer,  John,  64,  65 

Margaret,  64  • 

Mary,  64 
Page,  Matthew,  35 

Nicholas,  6 

William,  51 
Pakyngton,  Robert,  22 
Palfrey,  Martha,  483 
Palmer,  Stephen,  349 
Palmes,  John,  24 

Richard,  24 

Papelwykes,  Robert,  220 
Paradise,      Parradice,     Paralyse, 
John,  89 

Thomas,  38,  39 

William,  256 

Elizabeth,  39 


Index. 


595 


Paradise,  Mary,  519 
Parham,  John,  65 

Roberson,  66 

William,  65 

Alice,  66 

Martha,  65 

Mary,  65 

Ugena,  Ugenie,  65,  66 
Parker,  Nicholas,  208 
Parrie,  Henry,  427 
Parslowe,  Giles,  31 
Partriche,  Milo,  256 

Johanna,  256 
Passion,  Anthony,  257 
Pateneye  [Patney],  Robert,  Rector 

of,  219 
Patie,  Paty,  Richard,  in,  157,  159 

Thomas,  157 

Margaret,  157,  159 
Patshull,  John  de,  479 

Sir  William  de,  479 

Mabel,  479 

Sybil,  479 

Paulett,  Richard,  291 
Pavey,  36 
Pavely,  John   de,  449,  450,  451,  452, 

453 

Reginald  de,  448,  449 

Walter  de,  448,  449 

Agnes,  450 

Alice,  450,  452 

Elizabeth,  450 

Joan,  450,  451,  453 
Pawlet,  Paivlett,  98 

Charles,  478 

Lord  Chidiock,  213 

Sir  William,    102.      See  also 

Winchester,  Marquess  of 
Payn,  Sir  John,  219 

Robert,  296 
Paynell,  Richard,  412 
Paynton  [Baynton  ?],  Sir  Edward,  22 
Peade,  Robert,  509 

Isabel,  509 
Pecok,  William,  20 
Pedington.     See  Tuck 
Pelling,  John,  363 

Thomas,  363 
Pembroke,    Earl   of,   146,   147,  377, 

477,  5.6; 

Philip,  Earl  of,  543 
William,  Earl  of,  142 
Penley,  Sir  Richard,  104 
Pen,  Penn,  Anthony,  321 

Walter,  475 
Penney,  Norman,  281-2.     See  also 

Quaker  Records 
Penruddock,  Edward,  248 


Pentecost,  Nicholas,  249 

Pepyes,  Jo.,  32 

Perce  [Pierce  ?J,  Edward,  60 

Mary,  60 

Percy,  George,  321 
Peres,  Isabella,  71 
Petty,  Henry,  568 

John,  568 

Maximilian,  314 

William,  568 

Mary,  568 
Peyte,  John,  351 
Peyto.  John,  84 

Margaret,  84 
Peyton,  John  de,  51 


John,  154 
;lps, 


Phelps,  alias  Bromham,  Robert,  68 

Rebecca,  68 
Philipott,  John,  169 
Phillipps,  Sir  Thomas,  189,  468 
Phipps.  Thomas,  405 

William,  405 
Phyllippes,  Richard,  423 
Pichelse,  John,  220 
Pierce,  Thomas,  48,  66 

Anne,  502 
Pike,  John,  68 

Richard,  393 
Pinfold,  William,  220 
Pinckney,  Roger,  140,  286 
Pinhorn,  Rev.  A.  C.,  276 
Pink,  W  D.,  95,  96,  280,  281,  428 
Pirebrooke,  Margery  de,  265 
Pitman,  Richard,  46 
Pitt,  Robert,  353 
Planner,  William,  166,  257 
Plantagenet,     Edmund,      Earl     of 
Cornwall.  97,  146,  441 

Geoffrey,  Earl  of  Bretagne,  146 

147 

Richard,   Earl  ot  Cornwall,  97, 
146,  147 

Constantia,  146 

Eleanor,  146,  her  obit,  147 

Isabel,  147 

Lady  Isabella,  221,  265 

Margaret,      146.         See      also 

Arthur,  Prince 
Plee,  John,  469 
Pleydell,  Plcdall,  Anthony,  25 

Charles,  192 

Sir  Charles,  192 

Gabriel,  175,  176,  177,  178 

Oliver,  175,  176,  177,   178 

William,  175 

Virgil,  461 

Agnes,  175 

Elizabeth,  25 


596 


Index. 


Plukkeneye,  Robert  de,  248 

Isabella,  248 
Poer,  Count  de  la,  142 
Poher,  le,  142,  143 
Pole,  Cardinal,  59 

Leonard,  21 
Poleridge,  Thomas,  30 

Alice,  30 

Polhill,  Edward,  237,  287 
Pomeroy,  Henry  de,  338 

Sir  Seintclere,  338 

Alice,  338 

Ponting,  Charles  E.,  47-8 
Poole,  John,  421,  460 

Leonard,  60 

William,  421,  460 

Edith,  84 

Mary,  60 
Poore,  Herbert,  Bishop  of  Sarum, 

H5 

Mr.  (Coroner),  46 
Pope,  Clement  VI,  215 

John,  321 
Popham,  Sir  John,  34,  340,  341 

Katherine,  340,  341 

Letitia,  383 

Popley,  William,  124,  125,  258 
Portal,  Charles  S.,  409 
Porter,  Peter,  32 
Poton,  George,  461 
Poulet,  Rychard,  264 
Powell,  John,  530 

Seth,  393    '     * 

Martha,  530 

Mary,  529,  530 
Power,  Nathaniel,  401 
Powley,  Rev.  R.,  428 
Pownde,  Phyllipp,  521 
Poyntz,  Sir  Anthony,  342 

Elizabeth,  342 
Prannell,  Henry,  357 

Frances,  357 
Prater.  George,  166 

William,  24 

Agnes,  24 
Pratt,  Fanny,  491 
Pnaulx,  Peter,  190 

William,  190 
Prior,  Pryor,  John,  501,  526,  528 

Sarah,  407 

Proudlove,  William,  32 
Provence,  Eleanor  of.      See  Hcnrv 
III. 

Sanchia  of,  146 
Prune,  William,  522 
Prute,  Prowete,  Agnes,  74 

Alice,  74 
Pryver,  Priver,  Thomas,  203,  204 


Pucklechurch,  Thomas,  55 

Agnes,  55 
Pudsey,  Henry,  86 
Pulley,  Edmund,  23 
Pulliter,  Roger,  220 
Purchase,  Thomas,  470 
Purnell,  Ann,  403 
Pye,  John,  126 
Pyers,  Peter,  461 
Pyke,  John,  462 

William,  462 

Margaret,  462 
Pyle,  Thomas,  557 
Pynker,  Richard,  125 
Pyrebroke.  Margery  de,  221 

Q 

Quarrera  [Quarr,  I.  W.],  Abbot  and 

Convent  of,  217 

Queensberry,  Duke  of,  381,  529,  530 
Charles,  Duke  of,  434,  435,  436, 

439 

William,  Duke  of,  436,  438 
Catherine,  Duchess  of,  434,  435, 

436 
Quinton,  arms  of  472 


R 


Rabbits,  George,  409 
Radcliffe,  Rev.  F.  A.,  188,  240 
Radnor,  Earl  of,  566 

Countess  of,  566 
Raleigh,  Carew,  142 

John,  338 

Walter,  142 

Sir  Walter,  142 

Alice,  338 
Ralph,  Joshua,  66 

Eleanor,  66 

Ranger,  William,  88,  251,  518 
Raven,  Rev.  James,  494 

Frances,  494 

Ravensere,  Sir  Richaid,  219 
Rawlings,    Rawlines,    Rawlyns, 
John,  160,  208,  242,  309,  314,  348 

William,  no,  in,  243,  244 

Edith,  243 

Johan,  243 

Margery,  243 

Widow,  348 
Ray,  John,  365,  446 
Reade,  Edward,  60 

Francis.  37,  38 

Anne,  60 

Ready,  Daniel,  400 
Reason, 175 


Index. 


597 


Reason,  Agnes,  175 
Rede,  William,  50 
Redman,  John,  323,  421 
Redvers,  Baldwin  de,  146,  147 

Amice,  146,  147 

Margaret,  147 
Reef,  Symon,  446 
Reeks,  Isaac,  68 
Reines,  James,  523 
Rendall,    Charles   E.,  42,   43,     188, 

236,  237,  238,  239 
Renger,  John,  71 

Emma,  71 

Restvvold,  arms  of,  472 
Reynoldes,  Dr.,  180 
Rhys,  Sir  Griffith  ap,  175 

Agnes,  175,  176 

Katherine,  175 
Rice,  David,  400,  402 

Ann,  400 
Rich,  Richard,  348 

Rytche,  Sir  Richard,  202,  295 
Richard  I,  145,  146 
Richard  II,  222,  562 
Richard  III,  419,  465 
Richard,  Robert,  77,  78 
Richards,  John,  408 

Thomas,  518 

Mary,  408 

Richeman,  Rycheman  [Richmond] 
alias  Webb,  Thomas,  460 

William,  233,  372 

Anna,  460 

Richmond,  Earl  of,  146,  150,  269 
Richmond  &  Lenox,  Duke  of,  361 
Rivere,  Richard  de  la,  13 
Robert,  Sir  William,  346 
Roberts,  John,  520 

Eleanor,  520 
Robins,  Lodowick,  232 
Robyns,  John,  1 10,  324,  325 

Rowland,  no 

Braghtwood,  324 

Roche,  Sir  John,  130,  416,  417,  418, 
466,  508 

Dionisia,  508 

Elizabeth,  418,  466 

Joan,  466 

Willelma,  416,  417,  418 
Roches,  John,  219 
Rochester,       Thomas     [Trilleck], 

Bishop  of,  2 16 

Roddon  alias  Gorton,  Roger,  201 
Rodes,  Thomas,  125 

Johanna,  125 
Rodney,  Sir  Edward,  363,  364 

Sir  George,  357 
Rodway,  John,  532 


Rogers,  family,  pedigree  of,  337-45 

Ambrose,  338 

Anthony,  337,  338,  422 

Awdrie,  337 

Edward,  338,  340,  341,  342 

Sir  Edward,  339 

Francis,  339 

Sir  Francis,  340 

George,  338,  339,  342 

Sir  George,  339 

Henry,  337 

John,  337,  338 

Maurice,  20 

Richard,  338 

Sir  Richard,  362 

Thomas,  337,  338,  341 

William,  337,  338 

W.   H.    Hamilton,    papers  by, 
193-202,  337-45,  429 

Anna,  338,  422 

Cecilia,  337 

Cicily,  337 

Dorothea,  338 

Elizabeth,  338,  339,  342 

Helena,  340 

Honora,  362 

Jane,  339 

Johanna,  337 

Katherine,  338,  340,  341 

Maria,  339 

arms  and  crest  of,  339 
Rokele,  Rokell,  Rachele,  Godefrid 
de  la,  412 

Richard  de,  412,  413 

William  de  la,  412 
Rome,  Pope  of,  59 
Romesey,  Abbess  of,  10 

Isabelle,  Abbess  of,  217 
Ropele,  Thomas,  220 
Rose,  John,  542 

Ann,  91 

Roser,  John,  352 

Rosewell,    Rosswell,    Rowsivell, 
Rev.  Samuel,  472 

William,  372,  558 

arms  of,  472 
Rous,  John,  24,  76,  104 
Rowland,  Louisa,  489 
Ruddle,    Rev.   C.  S.,    140,    189-90, 
239,  286-8,  298,  538-9 

Moses,  470 
Rychardes,  David,  325 

Johane,  325 

Rycot,  Baron  of.    See  Norreys 
Rykeby,  Robert,  220 
Rylbek,  John,  23 

Agnes,  23 
Ryle,  William,  23 


598 


Index. 


Ryve,  John,  113 


Sackville,  Robert,  362 

Ann,  362 
Sainsbury,  Saynysbury,  John,  557 

Robert,  470 
St.  Amand,  Almeric  de,  56,  418 

Lord.     See    Beauchamp    and 
Seyntmonds 

Elizabeth,  Lady,  56,  418,   419, 

420.     See  also  Braybrooke 
St.  Barbe,  Sembarbe,  Henry,  341 

Thomas,  297 

Amy,  341 

arms  of,  341 

St.     Dionisius     [St.     Denys,     co. 
South.],  Prior  and  Convent  of,  217 
St.  George,  Richard,  169 
St.  John,  Seyntjohn,  Henry,  Lord 
Bolingbroke,  478,  479 

John,  382,  421,  567 

Sir  John,  175,  382 

Lord  (of  Bletshoe),  175 

Nicholas,  421,  545,  567 

Oliver,  479,  543,  567 

Barbara,  567 

Jane,  545 

Katherine,  175 

Lucy,  382 

St.  Laud,  Seintlow,  Seintlou,  Seint- 
loy,  Alexander,  452 

John  de,  450,  451,  452 

Alice,  450,451,452 

Ela,  450,  451,  452 

Elizabeth,  450,  451 

Joan,  450,  451,  452 

Margaret,  452 
St.  Maur,  heirs  of,  114 
St.  Mayne,  Dyonisia  de,  384 
St.  Neot,  Sir  John  de,  219 
St.  Patrick,  Friendly  Brothers  of,  235 
St.   Thomas  the  Martyr,  shrine  of, 

117 

Salcest  (?),  Philippa  de,  475 
Salisbury,  Bishop  of,  117,  508,  510 

Bishops  of: — 

Roger  [Poor],  142,  143 
Joceline  [de  Bohun],   118, 

H3 

Herbert  [Poore],  145 
Richard  [Poore],  377 
Robert  [Wyvil],  216 
Richard  Beauchamp,  418 
John    [Salcot   or    Capon], 

261 
Henry  Cotton,  359 


Salisbury,  Dean  of,  118,  360 

Canons,  Vicars,  and  Ministers 
of,  218 

Prebendary  of,  104,  140 

Friars  Preachers  of,  218 

Earl  of.   See  D'Evreux,  Long- 
espee,  and  Montacutc 

Edward  of,  268 

Lord,  359 

Mayor  of,  561 
Salmon.  William,  407 
Salter,  William,   185 

Susannah,  185 
Saltonstall,  Sir  Richard,  346 
Samborne  family,  142 

Walter,  55 
Sampson,  John,  461 

William,  461 

Mildred,  461 
Sandon,  John,  508 

Simon,  508 

Agnes,  508 

Dionisia,  508 
Sandys,  William  Lord,  86 

Margery,  86 
Savage,  Francis,  558 
Savary,  A.  W.,  184-5,  52° 
Savery,  Savory,  Severy,  John,  249, 
256,  520 

Anna,  Anne,  256,  520 

arms  of,  520 
Sayer,  Sarah,  394,  396 
Scarlett,  Mathew,  524 
Scott,  John,  33,  323,  388 

William,  346 

Sarah,  388 
Scrope,  George  Poulett,  564 

Sir  Richard,  562 

Roger,  563 

Simon,  565 

Simon  Conyers,  565 

Simon  Thomas,  562,  563 

Sir  Stephen,  564 

Sir  William  de,  562,  565 

Millicent,  564 
Scutt,  Elizabeth,  503 
Seagram,  Edward  F.,  410 

Mary,  410 
Searl,  Daniel!,  346 
Seaver,  John,  485 

Nathaniel,  486 

Hannah,  486 

Lucy,  485 

Sarah,  485 
Secolle,  John,  256 
Sefton  family,  45 
Selby,  Jacob,  128 

Ann,  128 


Index. 


599 


Selebourne  [Selborne,  co.  Hants], 

Prior  and  Convent  of,  217 
Selfe,  Isaac,  470,  475 

Jane,  475 

Selwyn,  George,  436 
Semar,  Walter,  87 
Sentpole,  John,  21 
Sepe,  John,  154 
Sessyons,  John,  178 
Sevenhampton,  Walter  de,  218,221 
Sewale,  Walter,  7 
Sewell,  heirs  of,  5 
Sewy,  Robert,  21 
Seymayne,  Thomas,  84 
Seymour,  Seymere,   Edward,   268, 

355-  36j.  362,  363.  382-  445 

Sir  Edward,  25,  292,  361,  383 

Francis,  361,  362 

Sir  Francis,  361 

Sir  Henry,  364 

Sir  John,  3,  21,  258,  292,  355, 
361 

Sir  Thomas,  126,  155,  156,  321 

Thomas  Lord,  102,  309,  372 

William,  361,  362 

Sir  William,  363,  364 

Lord  William,  383 

Ann,  355 

Lady  Arabella,  363,  364 

Catherine,  356 

Lady  Catherine,  356,  361 

Elizabeth,  433,  434 

Frances,  361 

Lady  Frances,  364 

Queen  Jane,  3,  59,  292,  362,  364 

Letitia,  383 

Margaret,  383 
Seyms,  Simon,  123 
Seyntmonds,  Sir  Anthony.  21 

Anna,  21 

Shaftesbury,  Shaston,   Abbess  of, 
76,  77,  104 

Recorder  of,  238 
Shalluck,  Elizabeth,  482 
Shangilton  alias  Chanyton,  Wal- 
ter, 320 
Shangulton,  Walter,  256,  323 

Elizabeth,  323 

Sharington,  Skaryngton,  Sheryng- 
ton,  Sir  Henry,  168,  169,  171,  517 

William,  167 

Sir  William,  61,  171,  373,  423 

Anne,  517 

Grace,  167 

Olive,  142,  1 68 

arms  of,  473 
Sharpe,  Stephen,  86 

Thomas,  21 


Shaw,  William,  407 
Sheappard,  Mary,  127 
Sheephard,  Avis,  427 
Sheldon,  Philip,  507,  509 

Elizabeth,  507,  509 
.Shelley,  Edward,  84 

Rev.  George,  84 

Richard,  84 

Sir  William,  84 

Alice,  84 

Shepard.  See  Knyght 
Shepherde,  Robert,  317 
Shepley,  Rev.  John,  400 

Hannah,  400 

Sheppard  alias  Bouchar,  John,  208 
Sherman,  John,  481 
Shipway,  John,  399,  400 
Shirebourne    [Sherbourne,    co. 

Dors.],  Prior  and  Convent  of,  217 
Shotendone,  Robert  de,  412 
Sicily,  King  of,  148 

Johanna,  Queen  of,  145 
Silverthorne,  Anthony,  317,  348 
Simpson,  Cecil,  178-9,  185-6,  533-38 
Singer,  Sarah,  400 
Skase,  John,  503 
Skillyng,  Michael,  219 
Skotte,  Michael,  322 
Skynnere,  Edward  le,  73 
Slade,  John,  130,  132,  275 
Slopen  [Sloper?],  George,  39 
Sloper,  Walter,  349 

Agnes,  231 
Smart,  Smarte,  Robert,  244,  315 

Maud,  161,  314 
Smith,  Smyth,  Smythe,  25,  66 

Anthony,  66,  67 

Austin,  501 

Customer,  192 

Edward,  192 

Henry,  41,  192 

Sir  Hugh,  340 

John,  66,  67,  68,  475 

Richard,  68 

Robert,  407,  461 

Thomas,  67,  68 

William,  21,  69,  257,   317,  324, 

373 

Agnes,  502 
Alice,  63 
Ann,  67 

Elizabeth,  68,  340 
Helena,  340 
Hellen,  67 
Joan,  501 
Katherine,  66 
Maria,  257 
Mary,  67,  37 


6oo 


Index. 


Smith,  Rebecca,  67,  68 

Sarah,  67 

arms  of,  69 
Snelgrove,  Roger,  499 

Joan,  499 
Snell,  Charles,  32 

Nicholas,  32,  95,  373,  461,  558 

Richard,  166 

Susan,  32,  95 
Snelling,  Lucy,  489 
Snooke,  Edith,  524 
Somerel,  Mary,  497 
Somerset,  Edward  Earl  of,  374,  421, 
422,  423,  459 

Duke  of,  143,  377,  382,  383,  477 

Edward,   Duke  ot   (Protector), 
268,  292,  355,  445 

William  (2nd  Duke),  364,  365, 


433 

John  (4th  Duke),  433 

Charles  (6th  Duke),  478 

Mary  (Webb),  Duchess  Dow- 
ager»  383.     See  also  Seymour 
Somersete,  Richard,  220 
Somerville,  Sir  Philip,  193 

Elizabeth,  193 
Somner,  Sumner,  Edward,  383 

John,  89,  176,  178,  383,  543 

Joseph,  518 

Thomas,  88,  89 

Elizabeth,  383 
Soon,  John,  87 
South,  Sowthe,  Edward,  84 

Esmond,  21 

Robert,  84,  85 

Thomas,  134,  136,  137,  256 

Elizabeth,  21 
Southam,  Robert,  27 
Southampton,  Earl  of,  60 

Friars  Minorites  of,  218 
Southcote,  John,  345 
Southwell,  Sowthwell,  Francis,  23 

Robert,  233,  264 

Lady,  356 
South  Wyk  (co.  Hants),  Prior  and 

Convent  of,  217 
Sowthby,  Edward,  68 
Space,  Mary,  503 
Spark,  Roger,  220 
Sparrowe,  John,  346 
Spence,  Dean,  385 
Spencer,  Francis  A.,  480 

George,  480 

John,  460 

Sir  Robert,  197 

Eleanor,  197 

Spendour,  John,  107,  108 
Splene,  Sir  William,  Rector  of,  219 


Sprat,  Thomas,  391 

Spring,  Mehitable,  485 

Spycer,  John,  50 

Squibb,  Arthur,  346,  347 

Squiller,  Thomas,  220 

Stafford,  of  Southwick,  pedigree  of, 
193-202 

Edmund,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  195 
Humphrey,  194,  197,  198 
Sir   Humphrey,      194-99,     201, 

279.  373.  4i6 

John,  197,  198 

John,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, 195,  196;  Emma,  mo- 
ther of,  195,  196.  See  also 
Bradley,  Agnes 

Sir  John,  193,  197 

Ralph,  194 

Ralph,  Earl  of,  194 

Richard,  197,  198 

Sir  Richard,  197 

William,  197,  198 

Alice,  194,  197,  198,  199 

Anne,  197 

Avice,  197,  198 

Elizabeth,  194,  416 

Lady  Elizabeth,  193 

Isabel,  198 

Katherine,  198 

Lady  Margaret,  194 

Matilda,  193 

Maud,  197 

Sarah,  40 

arms  of,  195 
Stamford,  Earl  of,  392 
Stanhope,  Sir  Edward,  356 

Ann,  355 
Stanshall,  308, 309 

Adam,  307 

Christopher,  557 

John,  557 

Anne,  557 
Stanter,  Thomas,  257,  557 

Katherine,  257,  557 
Stanton,  Thomas,  461 
Stapilton,  Stapylton,  Robert,  142 

Sir  Robert,  168,  170,  517 

Lady,  517 

Olive,  1 68 

Lady  Ursula,  168,  170 

arms  of,  169,  170 
Stapull,  Stapulls,  John,  460 

Margaret,  460,  557 
Starky,  Mrs.,  134 
Stearns,  Capt.  George  W.,  490 

Hannah,  489,  490 

(Manning)  Samuel,  485 

Hannah,  485 


Index. 


601 


Steele,  William,  346 
Stevenson,  W.  H.(  188 
Steward,  Robert,  297 
Stewart  (Douglas),  Sir  John,  439 
Stewkeley,  Nicholas,  58 

arms  of,  54 

Stileman,   Styleman,  Anthony,  23, 
123,  124 

Richard,  23,  123,  124 

William,  123 

Alice,  123 
Still,  Gabriell,  470 
Stockali,  James,  346 
Stocker,  John,  24 
Stokes,  Stoakes,  Slokys,  Dr.  Adrian, 

33S    u 

John,  192,  322,  335,  544 

Mr.,  348 

Ralph  de,  250 

Richard,  250 

Thomas,  32 

William,  317 

Sybil,  192 
Stone,  John,  21,  23 

Jonathan,  486 

Hannah,  485 

Hon.  Mrs.,  483 

Susanna,  483 

Stonor,  Mary  Benedict,  437 
Storer,  Mary,  489 
Stourton,  Sturton,  Lord,  204,  205, 

354 

William   Lord,    125,    175,   232, 
234,  422 

Agnes,  175 

Elizabeth,  125,  232,  422 

Mary,  175 
Stowell,  205 
Stradling,  Edward,  55 
Strangeways,      Strangways,      Sir 
Giles,  22,  201 

Henry,  22,  199,  201 

James,  200,  394 

John,  200,  201 

Thomas,  199,  200 

Alianore,  199,  200 

Dortohy,  201 

Elizabeth,  199,  201 

Joan,   199 

Mary,  201 

Stratford,  Elizabeth,  39 
Stratton,  John,  28,  33,  34,  275 
Strete,  Thomas,  460 
Strognell,  John,  322 
Stuart,  Edgar,  566 

James,  566 

Lodowick,  361 

Lady  Arabella,  362 


Stumpe,  Sir  James,  559 

William,  86,  373 

Bridget,  559 
Sturmy,  arms  of,  473 
Suffolk,  Duke  of,  356 
Sulyard,  Sir  John,  132 

Elizabeth,  132 
Sunderland  [Earl  of],  41 
Surrey,  Earl  of,  268 
Sutherland,  Duke  of,  436 
Suthwerk   [Southwark]   St.   Mary, 

Prior  and  Convent  of,  217. 
Sutton,  P[rince],  186 

Richard,  219 

Walter,  518 
Swanhanger,  Swanangre,  Robert, 

468,  469 
Swanton,  Francis,  525 

Elizabeth,  523,  525 
Sweetapple,  Swetappel,  James,  73 

John,  68 

Swetcok,  John,  53 
Sweyn,  Edward,  4 

Richard,  4 
Swift,  Dr.,  435 
Symes,  Thomas,  543,  544 
Syms,  James,  347.     See  also  Toivn- 
sende 


Taber,  Annyes,  243 

Tailboys,  Talboys,  Thomas,  41 

Walter,  199 

Alianore,  199 

Alice,  199 

Talbot,  Charles   H.,   50,  227,    298, 
336,  381,  514-17,  549-56 

Ivory,  515 

John,  71,  168 

Olive,  1 68 

Tame,  Sir  Edmund,  167 
Tanner,  Bishop,  115,  147,  223,  302 

Roger,  324 
Taplin,  Arthur,  28 
Taunton,  John,  251 

Priors  of,  389 
Taylor,  7ayler,  65 

Christopher,  351 

George  Watson,  105 

John,  542 

Josias,  32 

Martin,  532 

Richard,  521 

Silvanus,  346 

Thomas,  505 

Ann,  532 


602 


Index. 


Temmes,  Temmys,  Robert,  58,  422 

William,  58 

Jane,  58 

Johanna,  58 
Templeman,  Peter,  237 
Temset,  William,  469 
Tetherley,  Robert,  24 
Teviotdale,  Lord,  140 
Thimbleby,  Robert,  235 
Thistilwayte,  Robert,  421 
Thomas,  Henry,  408 

Hugh,  21 

William,  6 
Thompson,  Daniel,  400 

William,  400 

E.   Margaret,  323-8.     See  also 

Bratlon  Records 

Thorneburgh,    Jhornborough,    Sir 
John,  34 

Roger,  125 

William,  23,  33 

Johanna,  125 
Thorner,  Richard,  26 
Thornhill,  Thornehill,  Robert,  422 

William,  22,  422 
Thorp,  William,  21 
Throgmerton,  Robert,  233 
Thurkelby,  Roger  de,  412 
Thurstayn,  Thursten,  John  131 

William,  12 

Joan,  12 
Thykylls,  William,  558 

Johanna,  558 
Thynne,  Henry,  349 

John,  256 

Sir  John,  293,  421 

Thomas,  349,  408 
Ticchefeld  [Titchfield,  co.  Hants], 

Abbot  and  Convent  of,  217 
Tichbourne,  Ttcheburne,  John  de, 
250 

Michael,  285 
Tilden,  Eliza,  490 
Tille,  Richard,  504 
Tipper,  William,  127,  192,  541 

Mary,  127 
Tiptoit,  Robert  Lord,  564 

Miilicent,  564 

Titcombe,  Michael,  246,  247,  248 
Tittforde,  Richard,  243 
Tocotes,  Jackets,  Sir  Roger.  56, 419 


)ame     Elizabeth,     Lady    St. 

Amand,  419,  420 
Tocre,  Alice,  208 
Todd,  Rev.  j.  H.,  98 
Tompson,  John,  126 
Edith,  126 


Tomson,  Christopher,  234 

Alice,  234 
Toogood,   Rev.    Dr.,    140,   188,  237, 

240, 287 

Tooker,  Giles,  246,  247,  248 
Toope,  William,  34 
Topping,  Robert,  461 
Touke,  Thomas,  107,  108 
Toulouse,  Raymond  Count  of,  145 
Toweker,  Thomas,  in 
Townsend,  James,  33,  470 
Townsende  alias  Syms,  John,  84 

William,  84 

Edith,  84 
Travers,  Thomas,  461 

Christina,  461 
Treadway,  Deborah,  484 
Tree,  William,  530 

Elizabeth,  530 
Tregonnell,  Sir  John,  261 
Tregoz,  Baron,  567.     See  St.  John 
Trenchard,  Sir  Thomas,  201 

William,  478 

Elizabeth,  201 

Ellen,  478 

Trender,  Thomas,  232 
Trevor,  Sir  Thomas,  269,  271,  272 
Trimnell,  Jrimnel,  John,  89,  128 

Elizabeth,  128 
Tropenell  family,  58 
Trovve,  Edward,  no 
Trowbridge,  arms  of,  473 

Baron  Seymour  of,  362 
Tuck,  Tucke,  Henry,  68 

William,  23 

Tuck  alias  Pedington,  Adam,  35 
Tucker,  — ,  36,  37 

Thomas,  501 

Walter,  243 

William,  532 

Elizabeth,  37,  501 

Tucket  [Touchet],  Lord  Audeley, 
John,  21,  24 

George,  24 

Tudor,  Princess  Mary,  356 
Tufnell,  Prebendary,  187 
Turney,  George,  460 

John,  165 

Alice,  460 

Katherine,  460 
Turpin,  Dick,  45 
Tusser,  James,  461 

Elizabeth,  461 
Twenny,  Daniel,  88 
Twenow,  Edward,  258 

Edith,  258 
Twyford,  John,  219 
Twynborow,  Walter,  25 


Index. 


603 


Twynyho,  Twynyhoo,  Edward,  320 

John,  200 

Edith,  320 

Joan,  200 

arms  of,  200 

Tydenham,  Richard,  346 
Tyderleygh,  Tyderley,  Robert,  126, 
232,  233,  421,  460 

Elizabeth,  232 
Tyler,  Tylor,  Francis,  388 

Richard,  387,  388 

Thomas,  325 

Edith,  387 

Mary,  325,  388 
Tynbeetson,  Robert,  522 
Tynker,  John,  no 
Tyrell,  Henry,  324 
Tyse,  Tisse,  Philip,  524 

Robert,  525 

Thomas,  522 
Tytworthe,  Richard,  160 

U. 

Uffenham,  Richard,  231 

Ufford,  alias  Willoughby,  arms  of 

51 
Unfery  [Humfreys],   Sir  William, 

1 60 

Upton,  Philip  de,  268 
Urry,  Urtye,  John,  87,  234 

Elizabeth,  87,  234 
Usher,  Ussher,  Henry,  317 

John,  23,  108 
Uvedale,  Uvedall,  Arthur,  21 

Henry,  557 

V 

Vanne,  Peter  (Dean  of  Sarum),  86 
Vaughan,  arms  of,  473 
Vawtard,  Thomas,  257 

Agnes,  257 
Venarde,  John,  324 
Vernon,  Edmund,  193 

Matilda,  193 
Verner,  Arthur  C.,  494 

Sir  William,  494 

Harriet,  494 

Isabella,  O.,  494 
Victoria,  Queen,  478 
Videln,  John,  72 

Joan,  72 
Villiers,  Edward,  567 

Barbara,  567 

Vincent,  Richard,  468,  469 
Vines,  Joan,  64 
Vstys,  Joan,  207 
Vynar,  Nicholas,  23 


W 

Wadham,  John,  201 

Elizabeth,  201 
Wadman,  John,  89,  518 
Wakfield,  1.,  letter  from,  398-9 
Wale,  Sir  William,  383 

Margaret,  383 
Wales,  Charles,  Prince  of,  269,  271 

David,  Prince  of,  149 

North,  Chamberlain  of,  418 
Waleys,  Sir  Nicholas,  219 
Walker,  Alexander,  84 

John,  37 

Roger,  469 
Wallis,  IValles,  Henry,  427 

Mathias,  309 

William,  327 

Walpole,  Horace,  436,  480 
Walsingham,  Edward,  60 

Eleanor,  60 
Walter,  Sir  John,  269,  271,  272 

Joseph,  518 
Waltham,  Richard,  219 
Walton,  Isaac,  519 

Thomas,  166 

William,  165 
Walwyn,  Edmund,  86,  125,  322 

Reginald,  199 

Thomas,  22 

Elizabeth,  22,  199 

Matilda,  322 

Wambergh,  John  de,  41 1 
Wanklin,  Thomas,  348 
Wanklyn,  Col.  Thomas,  44,  476 
Wanney,    Wawney,  William,    in, 

112 

Warbeck,  Perkin,  56,  466 
Wardour,  Margaret,  294 
Waren,  John,  25 
Warenner,  Thomas,  219 
Warn,  Anna,  5 
Warneford,  J.,  26 

John,  60,  123,  125,  166,  231,  232, 
321 

Elizabeth,  60 

Susannah,  166,  231,  232 
Warre,  Roger,  34 
Warren,  John  de,  268 

Joan,  268 

Washington,  George,  489 
Watkins,  Henry,  303 
Watson,  Frank,  429 
Wattes,  Robert,  203,  204 
Watts,  George,  558 

Thomas,  348 

Waverley  [co.  Surrey],  Abbot  and 
Convent  of,  217 


604 


Index. 


Waylen,  James,  42.  48,  506 
Waylond,  John,  422 

Margaret,  422 
Waynflete,  Bishop  of  Winchester, 

97 
Webb,  Webbe,  Alexander,  36 

Daniel,  383 

Henry,  50 

John,  55,  325,  326,  358,  364 

Nathaniel,  48,  505 

Rev.    Richard,    140,     186,     187, 
1 88,  239,  286 

Thomas,  307,  469,  528 

William,  87,  124,  126,  326,  509 

Elizabeth,  383 

Katheryne,  326 

Martha,  505 

Mary,    383,    509.      See    also 

Richeman 
Webley,  Sam.,  29 
Webster,  John,  39 
Weckvvycke,  Edmund  324 
Weeksy,  Jane,  400 
Welche,  James,  202,  205 
Wellesley,  Henry,  565 
Wells,  Dean  of,  142 

Canon  of,  411 

John,  29,  34 
Welshe,  James,  154 
Wempe,  Benjamin,  533 

Thomas,  533 

Elizabeth,  533 
Wenman,  Thomas,  123,  320 

William,  320 
Wergraver,  William,  220 
West,    Weste,    Leonard,    165,   256, 
460 

Sir  Owen,  165,  256 

Sir   Thomas,    Lord   Delaware, 
22,  25,  84,  165,  256 

Barbara,  256,  460 

Elizabeth,  22,  25,  84,  165 

Mary,  165 
Westbury,  John,  77,  78 

William,  77,  78,  106 

Katherine,  77,  78 

Vicar  of,  207 

French  in,  184 
Westley,  Leonard,  461 

Thomas,  24 
Westminster,  Abbot  of,  148,  150 

Richard,  Abbot  of,  106 
Weston,  Henry,  220 

John,  519 

William,  523 

Mary,  523 

Westwoode,  Richard,  309 
Wettaker.    See  Whitaker 


Wevyngs,  John,  23 
Weyer,  John,  20 

Robert,  20 

Weyland,  Margaret  de,  149 
Weymouth,  Lord,  377,  530 

Thomas,    Lord,   349,  408     See 

also  Thynne 
Whatley,  John,  38,  309 
Whatmore,  A.  W.,  93-4 
Wheler,  Granville,  406 

Rev.  Grandville,  406 

Robert,  328 

Christian,  328 
Whelpeley,  John,  351 
Whervvell  [co.  Hants],  Abbess  and 

Convent  of,  217 
Whetlyn,  William,  154 
Whitaker,     Wheataker,    Whittacre, 
Wettaker,  Adam,  157,  158 

Christofer,  244 

Henry,  160,  244,  307 

Jeffery,  348,   499,   500,  501,  526, 

53' 
John,  244,   315,   316,  317,   348, 

404.  532 

Joshua,  410 

Philip,  528,  529 

Richard,  in,  112,  157,  158 

Thomas,  406,  407,  410,  530,  531 

William,  315,  316,348,  531 

Anne,  497 

Joane,  157,  158,  159 

Marian,  499 

Mary,  526,  528 

Sophia,  410 

Widow,  348.     See  also  Abayth 
White,  Whete,  IVhyt,  Charles,   185 

Christopher,  314,  315 

Edward,  257 

Elias,  518 

Gilbert,  92 

James,  275 

John,  346 

Nathaniel,  500 

Richard,  5 

Robert,  59 

Thomas,  123 

Thomas  le,  6 

William,  38,  251 

Ann,  488 

Christabell,  38 

Cicely,  59 

Elizabeth,  257,  275 

Joane,  208 

Whitehead,  George,  475 
Whithors,  Ralph,  220 
Whitmershe,  Edith,  524 
Whitney,  Clarissa,  490 


Index. 


605 


Whittocke,  Agnes,  35 

Whood  alias  Crooke,  Robert,  351 

Maud,  352 

Whyttokesmede,  Edith,  87 
Wicks,  John,  388,  400,  401,  402,  403 

Michael,  27 

Richard,  403 

Roger,  402,  403 
Wiggon,  Richard,  427 
Wilhy,  George,  527 
Wilkins,  William,  176,  178 
Willcox,  Guy,  64,  65 
William  I,  184,  260 
William  II,  130 
William  III,  89 
William,  Mark,  143 
Williams,  Willyams.  Hugh,  112 

Samuel,  482 

William,  23,  270,  272,  273 

Abagail.  482 

Willis,  Wines,  John,  35,  352 
Willoughby,  Christopher,  320 

Edward,  199,  558 

John,  59.  557 

Sir  John,  199 

Leonard,  557 

Richard,  199 

Sir  Robert,  199 

William,  199 

Anne,  59,  199 

Blanche,  199 

Cecily,  199 

Elizabeth,     199.      See     also 

Wyllughby,  Ufford 
Willyngton,  William,  22,  84 
Wilton,  Abbess  of,  199 

Friars,  Preachers  of,  468 

Rev.  Edward,  42,  47,  102 

Thomas,  373 

Elizabeth,  373 
Wilts,  Gustos  Rotulorum  of,  62 

Earl  of  (Scrope),  562-5 

William,  Earl  of  (Paulet),  155, 
156,  346 

Lord  Lieutenant  of,  359,  365 

Sheriff  of,  7,  13.   *4«  »S.  55.  56, 
58,  6 1,  62,  69,  70,  96,  168,  226, 

237,417,419 

Wimbow,  William,  395,  402 
Winchester,   St.   Mary,  Abbess  of, 

217,  415 

St.  Peter,  Abbot  of,  374 

St.   Swithin,   Hugh,   Prior    of, 

217 

Bishop   of,   86,    106,   216,    338, 
450.      See    also     E  ding  ton, 
Wm.  de 
College,  Warden  of,  506. 


Winchester,  Scholars,  58,  59 

Augustine  Friars,  218 

Carmelites,  218 

Friars  Minorites,  218 

Friars  Preachers,  218 

John,  Marquis  of,  209-13,  306 

William,    Marquis   of,    210-14, 

306,  346.     See  also  Paulet 
Windham,  Thomas,  349 
Windsor,  Canon  of,  199 

Elizabeth,  275 

Wilmington,  Sir  Thomas  E.,   i 
Winseley,  Jane,  497 
Winter,  Thomas,  37,  339 

Jane,  339 

Wintersell,  Thomas,  37,  38 
Wise,  Thomas,  341 

William,  470 

Thomazine,  341 
Wiseman,  Thomas,  437 

Mary,  437 
Withers,  John,  501 
Withie,  John,  51,  59,  169 

arms  of,  169 
Withington,  Lewis,  489,  490 

Lucy,  489,  490 

Wodelok,  Nicholas,  219,  220 
Wodyngton,  Richard,  468 
Wollaston,  Sir  John,  347 
Wollore,  Sir  David,  216 
Woodborough,  Rector  ot,  286 
Wood,  Anthony,  546 
Woodde,  Richard,  29 
Woode,  Nicholas,  321 
Woodcokys,  Richard,  125 
Woodford,  Elizabeth,  437 
Woodlock,  Thomas,  557 
Woodshawe,  Thomas,  126,  233 

Johanna,  126,  233 
Woodstock,  Edmund  of,  151 
Woodward,  Daniel,  558 

Mary,  485 
Worcester,  Bishop  of,  117 

Henry,  Marquess  of,  433 
Wonnenhale,  John,  218 
Worthe,  George,  232 

Elizabeth,  232 

Wriothesley,    Wrottesley,   Charles, 
84 

George,  32 

Sir  Walter,  466 
.    Ann,  466 
Wroughton  family,  295,  296 

Sir  Christopher,  258 

George,  175 

Sir  George,  277 

Thomas,  338 

Sir  William,  257 


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Index. 


Wroughton,  Anna,  338 

Mary,  175 
VVyatt,  Wyatte,  Richard.  558 

Thomas,  36 

Johanna,  558 

Margaret,  503 

Mary,  36 

Wygge,  William,  87 
Wycke,  Richard  de,  5,  50 
Wykeham,  William  de,  Bishop  of 
Winchester,    97,    191,    214,    215, 
216,  335-  336 
Wykys,  Thomas,  233 
Wyld,  Thomas,  178 
Wylkyns,  Robert,  322 
Wyllughby,  Sir  Anthony,  85 

Walter,  85 

Elizabeth,  85 
Wylot,  William,  220 
Wylton,  George,  324 
Wymondham,  Richard  de,  473 
Wyndham,  Edmund.  473 

Sir  Edmund,  473 

Thomas,  473 

arms  of,  473 
Wynke,  Thomas,  251 
Wynteney    [co.    Hants].    Prioress 

and  Convent  of,  217 
Wysse,  John,  422,  459 

Thomas,  422 

Wyvil,    Robert,    Bishop    of   Salis- 
bury, 52 


Yate,  James,  123,  461,  557 

John,  125 

Thomas,  461 

Johanna,   Johanne,    461,    557. 

See  also  Gat 
Yatele,  Stephen,  220 
Yealfe,  John,  64 

Richard,  64 

Mary,  64 

Yerberye,  William,  244 
Yerworth,  arms  of,  473 
Yewe,  William,  34 
Yong,  Yonge,  Clement,  20 

Roger,  1 66 

Mary,  20 

York,    Edward  [Lee],   Archbishop 
of,  22 

Duke  of,  153,  478 

James,  Duke  of,  480,  566 

Ann  (Hyde),  Duchess  of,  566 
Yorke,  Thomas,  25 

Roger,  24 

Margaret,  24 
Yorkshire,  Sheriff  of,  168 
Young,  Roger,  25.     See  also  Yong 


Zouche,  Zowche,  Sir  John,   Lord, 
87,  256 

Lord,  of  Haryngworth,  417 
Sir  Giles,  417 
Jane,  417 


INDEX    OF    PLACES. 


Abbaston  manor  [in  Maddington], 

374,  375 
Ablington,  Ablyngeton,  manor  and 

free  fishing,  234,  422 
Abbotsbury    [co.    Dorset],    Abbey 

Church  of,  194,  195,  197,  198,  199, 

200,  20 1,  202 
Abbots  Leigh  [co.  Devon],  438 

[co.  Som.],  478 
Acock's    Green    [co.    Wore.],   405, 

496 
Aconbury    [co.    Heref.],    Nunnery 

at,  146,  153,  221 

Affeton  \Ashton  ?,  co.  Devon],  58 
Alberdmede,  258 

Albury  [in  Steeple  Ashton  ?],  232 
Alcester  [co.  Warw.],  479 
Aldbourne,  Alborne,    Alburn,    23, 

126,  167,  260,  270, 271, 537  ;  manor, 

268-73;      Church,     269;      Court 

House,  269  ;  Chase,  268-72 ;  Deed 

relating   to,    271-5;  The  Breach, 

270;    Heydon,    273.      See    also 

Snape  and  Up  ham. 
Alderbury,  Alwardbury,  Aldward- 

bury,  86,  124,  165,  256,  373,  421 
Alderton,  Aldrington,  2,  3,  27,  175, 

389,  419,  509,  535 
Allcannings,  21,   188,  506,   507,  508, 

S°9,  536,    540-   544;  manor,  415; 

church,  189 
Allington   [near    Amesbury],    260, 

297,  3°5,  328,  333,  537 
Allington-house     [near     Chippen- 

ham],  377 
Alreford    [Alresford,    co.     Hants], 

church  of,  22 1 
Alton,   260 ;    Barnes,    536 ;   Priors, 

384 
Alton,     Aivlton     [in     Ablington], 

manor  and  free  fishing,  234,  422 
Alsiscote   \Alvescottl    co.    Oxon], 

manor,  41 1 

Alvediston,  Alvedeston,  86 
Alvredeston  [I.  W.J,  manor,  194 
Amelcote  [co.  Stafford],  193,  194 
America  :— 

Amherst,  Massachusetts,  488 


America  (continued) — 
Boston,  483,  488,  490 
Brookline,    Mass.,  482,  484-91, 

495 

Cambridge,  Mass.,  481,  483 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  482,  483 
Dorchester    Heights   (now    S. 

Boston),  486 

Flatbush.Long  Island, U.S.,  496 
Framlingham,  Mass.,  483,  485 
New  Hampshire,  487 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  39 
Los  Angeles  (California,  U.S.), 

494 

New  London,  Connecticut,  485 
Marlboro,  Mass,  482 
Maryland,  235 
Newbury,  Mass.,  39 
Newton,  483 
Portsmouth,  N.H.,  487 
Roxbury,  483,  490 
Salida  (Colorado,  U.S.),  495 
Sutton  (now  Millbury),  Mass., 

485,  486 
Sandwick,  Essex  Co.,  Canada, 

494 

Watertown,  Mass.,  481-5 

Westtown,  484 

Worcester,  Mass.,  483,  485,  486 

New  York,  U.S.,  489-90,  495-6 
Amesbury,  Ambtesbury,  Ambros- 
bury,  22,  43,  186,  278,  365,  372, 
423.  433,  435-9,  445,  5IQ;  Great, 
322;  West,  260;  Earl's,  manor 
of,  361,  434  ;  Priors,  manor  of, 
375,  434!  Church,  116,  119,  147, 
291,  294,  297-300,  303-5,  357,  359, 
381,  435,  447,  448,  550-56;  monas- 
tery, 114-19,  145-54,  221-27,  258- 
67,  289-305,  354-68,  433-48,  479, 
549-56;  Mansion  house,  381, 
434-7  ;  de  Bentley  Woodes,  295, 
361  ;  Grey  Bridge,  305,  446;  The 
Round  House,  357  ;  Kent  House, 
358  ;  The  George  Inn,  296;  Fair 
and  market,  grant  of,  222  ;  Choir 
of  Ambrosius  at,  115 
Ampney  Crucis  [co.  Glouc.],  55 


6o8 


Index  of  Places. 


Andover,  122,  428;  the  Angel  Inn, 

258 

Anstye,  24;  Preceptory  of,  157 
Arlington  [Ashlington],  manor,  353 
Ashbury  [co.  Devon],  494 
Asshecombe,  84 
Ashley,  Assheley  [near  Box],  165, 

535;  Benecrofts,  165;  Helbrocks, 

165  ;  The  Rock,  165 
Ashley  [in  Bradford],  82 
Ashridge,  Assherugge  [co.  Bucks], 

97,  98 ;  College  of  Bonhommes, 

98 ,  mansion,  98 

Ashton  Keynes,    19,  23,    119,    185, 

186,     474,     535;     church    [Holy 

Cross],  474 

Ashton,  Long  [co.  Som.],  340 
Ashton,  Rood,  or  Chappell,  58,  404, 

405,  422;  manor,  404,  405,  422 
Ashton,    Steeple,   Stepull,    Styple, 

123,  124,   125,  213,  231,  232,  247, 

309,3",  S'S,  3!6,  347,  349,  4°4, 
405,  407,  408,  422,  475,  504,  505, 
537,  557,  558;  manor,  208,  210, 
211,306;  manor  house,  211,212, 

315 

Ashton,  West,  232,  349,  404,  405, 
407,  408,  409,  422,  527 ;  manor, 
232,  404,  405 ;  Easttowne,  404, 
407,  408 ;  Crowswell  Down,  409, 

530 

Assheton  Gyfford,  21  ;  manor,  21 
Asshton,  76 
Aston,  423 
Aston,   Little    [co.   Stafford],   491, 

492,  493 

Attworth,  83,  122 
Avebury,  91,  510 
Avon  [in  Christian  Malford],  19, 

79,  82,  122,  425,    547.     See  also 

Eavon 
Avon  river,  i,  2,  52,  168,  458 


B 


Baberstock  [Baverstock],  538 

Badbury,  330 

Badby  [co.  Northants],  494,  495 

Badmington,  377 

Bagpath  [co.  Glouc.],  399 

Bakanton     [Beckhampton],      125 ; 

manor,    125 ;    advowson  of  Free 

Chapel,  125 

Balden  [co.  Oxon),  270,  271 
Banbury  ["co.  Oxon],  198,  335 
Barbury  Castle,  330,  457 
Barford  [St.  Martin],  538 
Barnesley  [co.  Glouc.],  545 


Barton  [co.  Glouc.l  59 
Barton  Court  [co.  Berks],  479 
Barwick,  192;  St.  James,   537;  St. 

John,  538;  St.  Leonard,  538.     See 

also  Berwick 
Barwickescombe,  84 
Bath,  3,  20,  83,   120,  131,  286,  385; 

Abbey  Church  of,  134,  363,  444 
Battle  [co.  Sussex],  Monastery  of, 

130,  132,  133,  134,  137,  174,  176 
Baydon,  501 

Baynton,  Beynton,  76,  508,  509 
Beckington    [co.   Som.],     195,    196, 

380,  53° 

Bedford  Jail,  475 
Bedwyn,  Bedewynd,  74,  233,  297 ; 

Great  or  West,  86,  146,  263,  292, 

323-  355,  362,  365I  Church,  355. 

441,  442,  459;   Little  or  East,  86, 

459 
Beechingstoke,  B  etching stoake,  91, 

191,  536 

Beer  Ferrers  [co.  Devon],  199 
Belloloco   [Beaulieu,    co.    Hants], 

Monastery,  153,  218 
Bemerton,    124;    gallows   at,    225. 

See  also  Dymerton 
Benacre  [m  Melksham],  231,   233, 

260,  321 
Beppans,  522 
Bereford,   Berford,  260,  372.     See 

also  Barford 
Berwicke,  Berwyk,    Bassett,    411; 

manor,  321  ;  [St.  James  ?],  manor 

and   advowson,   372 ;   Seyntjohn, 

84;  Seynt  Leonarde,  22 
Beversbroke,  24 
Bewley  [in   Lacock],  171 ;   manor, 

167 

Beysbroke,  24 
Biddesdene  [in  Ludgershall],   260; 

Church,  265,  266 
Biddestone,  Bideston,  20,  120,  164, 

228,    230,    319,      320,    395;     St. 

Nicholas,  535  ;  St.  Peter,  535 
Binknoll  [in  Broad  Hinton],  330 
Birmingham,  491,  492,  494,  495 
Bishopston  [in  N.  Wilts],  456 

[in   S.  Wilts],   538.     See 


also  Falston 
Bishopstrow,  Bischipstratv,   Buss- 

hc^^psiro'we,  85,  86, 423,  459,  537 
Bisley  [co.  Glouc.],  278 
Black  Bourton  [co.  Oxon],  174 
Blackland,      Blacklands     [near 

Calne],  19,  321,  369 
Blakelowe,  55 
Blandford  [co.  Dors.],  395,  396 


Index  of  Places. 


609 


Blatherwick  [co.  North.],  194 
Bletshoe  [co.  Beds],  175,  479 
Blonsden  [Blunsden]  St.  Andrew, 

535 
Bluette's   Court   [in  Southbroom], 

49,  5° 

Ely  the  Hall  [co.  Warw.],  128 
Bogelegh  [Bugley,  in  Warminster], 

423 

Bokeland  Dinham  [co.  Som.],  194 
Bokholt,  forest  of,  151 
Boram,  Bowram  [Boreham],  85,  86 
Boreampton,  Berampton  [Colling- 

bourne  Burrumpton  ?],  422,  423 
Bores  [Boreham  ?],  461 
Boscombe,  260,  537 
Bosom's  Hele  [co.  Devon],  341 
Bosworth,  342 
Bothwell  Castle,  436 
Bourton  [in  Bishop's  Cannings],  58 
Bourton,  West  [co.  Dors.],  524 
Bowden  [in  Lacock],  167,   171,  516, 

517 
Bovverhill      [in     Melksham],     94 ; 

Boulter's  lane  and  coppice,  94 
Bowood,  568 
Box,  Boxe,  77,  89,  257,  328,  535,  558 ; 

manor  and  advowson,  85  ;  Rud- 

loe  House,  270 

Boxe  Dychruge  [Ditteridge],  558 
Boyton,  537  ;  manor,  478 
Bradenstoke,  354 ;  Priory,  268,  295 
Bradfield  [co.  Wore.  ?],  194 
Bradford,  Bradeforde,    16,   17,    18. 

19,  20,  71,  76,  80,  81,  82,  83,  119, 

120,  121,    122     128,    255,  256,    278, 

3l6-  334,  337,  338,  371,  465,  509, 
536;  Bearfield  in,  82,  120 

Bradley,  Bradlegh,  Maiden,  383, 
537;  Prior  and  Convent,  106; 
Priory,  292 

Bradley,  North,  71,  76,  195,  213, 
247,  255,  257,  278,  313,  406,  478, 
536;  church,  195;  mortuary 
chapel  in,  195,  196 ;  Brokers, 
Brockers,  Wood,  257 

Bratton,  Bractone,  Brackton,  6-15, 
69-78,  105-14,  154-61,  184,  185. 
202-14,  242-52,  306-17,  346-54, 
404-10,  448-54,  461,  496-505,  525- 
33;  manor,  8,  9,  12,  13,  14,  15, 
69,70,  72,  76,  106,  113,  114,  158, 
159,  161,  208,  210,  211,  212,  306; 
grange,  155,315,  346-50;  church, 
or  chapel,  113,  243;  churchyard, 
243>  532;  Lord's  Court,  157; 
Berye,  207;  Broadmead,  156,  350; 
Deane  Lee,  157,  158;  Great  Oxen 


Crofts,  156,  350;  Hedynghill, 
203,  206 ;  the  Leete,  207  ;  Little 
Broadmead,  156,  350;  Lyddes, 
203,204;  Oxen  Crofts,  156,  350; 
Pittrovve,  207;  Rodlandes,  203, 
206;  Rowbrechis,  203,  204; 
Semers  Farm,  205,  206;  Shute, 
530  ;  Stortones,  203.  204,  206; 
Swets,  500,  501  ;  the  Thykkettes, 
203,  204;  Waggens,  504;  Win- 
ters, 528 

Brembridge,  Bremebridge,  245, 
247,  307,  308,  312,  314;  manor, 
1 06,  309 

Bremhill,  Bremelhill,  79,  119,  122, 
175,  176,  424,  425,  536;  manor, 
132,  176,  177,  321;  advowson,  321 

Bremilham,  535 

Brentford  [co.  Middx.],  235 

Brianston  [co.  Dors.],  362 

Bridgewater  [co.  Som.],  17,  80,  142, 
198  . 

Brigmiston,  Bryghtmerston.  See 
Milston 

Brington  [co.  North.],  48 

Brinkhill,  462 

Brinkworth,  18,  25,  79,  121,  122, 
319,  320,  535 

Bristol,  16,  17,  20,  37,  69,  79,  81,  83, 
122,  560;  Castle,  146,  147,  563; 
Custom  House,  560;  St.  James' 
Priory,  147 ;  St.  Mary  Redcliife, 
560  ;  Mayor's  Chapel  [St.  Mark's], 
97,  241,  242,  336,  560 

Bristowe  Town  [co.  Som.],  476 

Britford,  Birtjorde,  Burtford, 
Byrtford,  21,  86,  124,  126,  233; 
manor,  85 

Britporte  [Bridport,  co.  Dors.],  342 

Brixton  [co.  Surrey],  495 

Brodeblundesdown  [Broad  Bluns- 
don],  460 

Broad  Chalke,  Brodechalk,  157, 
256,  349 

Broad  Hinton,  Brodehenton,  287, 
288,  295,  372,  377 

Broadoak  [co.  Essex],  437 

Erode  [Broads,  near  Calston],  323 

Erode  Town,  557 

Brokenborough,  Brokenberigge, 
Brokynborowe,  165,  166,  320,  455 

Bromham,  19,  22,  56,  79,  80,  81,  82, 
120,  121,  122,  163,  166,  242,  256, 
370,  371,  372,  416,  420,  423,  424, 
466,  502,  503,  508,  536,  549  ;  manor 
of  Bromham  Battle,  129,  130, 
132-37,  174,  176,  177,  321  ;  Roches 
manor,  or  Bromham  Baynton, 
G 


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Index  of  Places. 


130,  132,  133,  467 ;  advowson  of 
Church,  132-6,  176,  321  ;  Church, 
416,444;  Lady  Chapel,  56,  419; 
Chantry  in,  465-6 ;  Churchyard, 
502 ;  Church  gate,  503 ;  deeds 
relating  to,  134-7,  176-8;  Sextry, 
130;  Battle  House,  134;  Brom- 
ham  House  Farm,  131 ;  Old 
Bromham  House,  102,  131-2; 
Ford  [Rowdeford],  509 
Bromshull  [co.  Stafford],  193 
Brook,  Brouke,  Btoc  [in  West- 
bury],  199,  247,  308.  313,  314,  316, 
348,  354  405,  448,  449 ;  manor, 

245,449,450,451.453 

Broughton  Gifford,  231,  321,  536; 
manor,  &c.,  21,  166,  557  ;  Croke's 
Croft,  321 

Broughton  [co.  Hants],  338 

Bruton  [co.  Som.],  354 

Bubton,  Bubbeton  [in  Clyffe  Py- 
pard],  24  ;  manor,  557 

Bugley  [in  Warminster],  85.  See 
also  Bogelegh 

Bulford,  260,  537 

Bulhyde  [in  Kington  St.  Michael] 
manor,  461 

Bulkington,  Buckmgton,  Bukkin- 
ton,  94,  102,  104,  232,  321,  505 

Burbage,  157,  363 

Burcombe,  538 

Burdens  Batle,  Burdenysvall  [Bur- 
dens Ball]  manor,  24,  322 

Burmington  [co.  Warw.],  194 

Burton  Jin  Malmesbury],  320;  Bur- 
ton Hill,  228,  229 

Bury  Blunsden,  manor,  &c.,  85 

Bury  [Pomeroy]  Castle  [co.  Devon], 

,,  36i,  382,  383 

Buttermere,  192,  502,  537 ;  church, 
502 


Cadbury,  North  [co.  Som.],  197; 
church,  224 

Caddenham,  Cadnam\\n  Bremhill], 
120,  321 

Caen  [in  Normandy],  410 

Calcote,  Colcote,  Coldcott  [near 
Cricklade],  23,  166,  231 

Callington  [co.  Cornw.],  church, 
199 

Calne,  16,  17,  19,  23,  24,  36,  79,  80, 
81,  82,  83,  87,  119,  120,  i2i,  122, 
126,  157,  163,  164,  169,  192,  229, 
230,  253,  254,  321,  422,  462,  463, 
464,475.5",  5I2>  520>  533-  540, 


547  ;  manor,  34  ;  Church,  59,  142  ; 

Calne     Hill,     80;     Breche,    84; 

Godwyn's,     256 ;      Portmarsshe, 

84;  Summerlees,  256. 
Calne  Stoke,  24 
Calstone,  Calston,  79,  81,  121,   258, 

321,  536  ;  mill,  284 
Calston  [Coulston  ?],  313 
Camberwell  [co.  Surrey],  362,  495 
Cambridge,  196,  393 
Cannings,     Cannynge,     124,     297, 

338-  464 
Cannings,    Bishop's,    18,    164,    321, 

352,    506,    508,     509,     510,    533; 

Church,    519;    Parsonage    farm, 

519;  Rectory,  519. 
Cannington  [co.   Som.],    337,    340, 

341  ;  Priory,  339  ;  manor,  rectory 

and  advowson,  339 
Canterbury   [co.    Kent],    82,    122; 

See    of,    215;     Cathedral,     195; 

Priory  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  195 
Cardiff,  200. 

Carew  Castle  [co.  Pembroke],  175 
Castle     Combe,     280,     462,     535 ; 

barony  and  manor,  564 
Castle  Eaton,  126,  535 
Catcombe,  Catcom  [in  Hilmarton], 

121 

Cathanger  [co.  Som.],  473 
Caverswall  [co.  Stafford],  491,  493  ; 

Church,  494 
Chadelworth   [co.    Berks]    manor, 

15° 

Chadenwick  [in  Mere],  192,  523 
Chadlington  [co.  Oxon],  242 
Chalcott  [in  Westbury],  36,  37 
Chalfield,  Chaldfield,    Great,    190, 

256,     536 ;     manor    house,     58 ; 

chapel  of  St.  Blase,  256,  520 
Chalke,     Broad,     538.      See     also 

Chawke 

Chapmanslade,  manor,  321 
Charlcott,  Charlcut  [in  Bremhill], 

16,   17,    19,  79,  80,  119,    120,  121, 

122,  253,    370,    423,    424,    425,    463, 

465,  548,  549 
Charlton,  Charleton,  24,    131,  549; 

manor,  24  ;  [by  Downton],  233 ; 

[by  Malmesbury],   122,  377;  [by 

Pewsey],  536 
Charleton,  alias  Hopgrace,  manor, 

•&c.,  86 

Chawke  [Chalke],  323 
Cheesegrove,    Chixgrffve  [in    Tis- 

bury]  manor,  34 
Chelsester,  Chelcestei'  (Chilvester, 

near  Calne],  manor,  &c.,  24 


Index  of  Places. 


611 


Chelworth  [in  Cricklade],  84,   121, 
232,  256;  manor,  321  ;  Magna,  23, 
1 66,   231;    Parva,    84,     166,    231. 
See  also  Chittleworth 
Chendelk  [Cheverell  ?J,  234 
Chenell  [Cheverell  ?],  255,  422 
Cherhill,  Cherycll,  321  ;  manor,  419 
Cherinton  [co.  Glouc.]  manor,  413, 

416 

Cheriton  [co.  Hants]  Church  of,  218 
Chetowe  [Chittoe],  234,  422.     See 

also  Chtttway 
Cheverell,    Chivera/l,   180,    Great, 

412,  536;  Little,  412,  536 
Chicklade,    Chychlade,    Chycklade 
[near   Hindon],    126,    421,    538; 
manor  and  advowson,  462  ;  farm, 
288 

Chilmarke,  Chylmarke,  462,  538 
Chilton  Foliett,  537 
Chippenham,  Chcppcnham,  Chyp- 
pingham,  16,  18,   19,  20,  29,  32, 
33.  34,  58,  61,  81,  82.87,  90,  119, 
121,   123,  125,  126,  163,   164,  168, 
171,  228,  230,  242,  255,  321,  369, 

37i,  373,  377,  424,  425,  459,  463, 
512,  520,  535  ;  manor,  87,  125,  233; 
church,  133;  forest,  50;  Sam- 
bourne  farm,  33  ;  a  borough 
member  in  Newgate,  90,  91 

Chirton,  see  Chrikton 

Chiselhampton  [co.  Oxon],  481 

Chisenbury,  Chesyngbury,  24,  234, 
297,  422,  446;  manor,  321 

Chisledon,  Chesylden,  Chtsledeane, 
2.33,  33°,  373-  537 !  manor,  373 

Chislehurst  [co.  Kent],  60 

Chitterne,  Chettern,  manor,  25, 
258;  Morgan's  manor,  125;  All 
Saints,  125,  258,  285,  537 ;  St. 
Mary,  125,  258,  275,  276,  285,  537  ; 
Gram's  Grave,  275,  276 ;  the 
Clump,  275 

Chittleworth  [Chelworth],  55 

Chittway,  Chyttowe,  321,  424.  See 
also  Chetowe 

Cholderton,  Chalryngton,  21,  24, 
537,  539 !  rnanor  and  advowson, 
24 

Choulston,  Cholesbanestone  [in 
Figheldean],  260 

Chrikton  [Chirton],  536 

Christian  Malford,  17,  18,  19,  79, 
119,229,230,536,547,558 

Chute,  428 ;  chapel  at,  474  ;  forest 
151,  222 

Chynnock,  Middle  [co.  Som.], 
manor,  194 


Cirencester   [co.  Glouc.],  200,  319, 

385 

Clack  [in  Lyneham],  35 
Clarendon,    Royal    Palace  at,    145, 

264 
Clench  [in  Milton  LislebonneJ,  174, 

176;    manor,   132,   133,    135,    136, 

137,  176,  177;  Wyke,  135. 
Clent  [co.  Wore.],  90. 
Clere  [?  Kingsclere,  co.  Hants],  219 
Cleverdon,  Cleaverton  [in  Lea],  25, 

254- 

Cleve  Anstey,  Clevauncye,  125,  352 
Cliff     Pypard,     Cleve     Peppard, 

Clcevepeper,  330,  536,  539,  557 
Cliff  House  [co.  Dors.],  59 
Clithero  [co.  Lane.],  127,  128 
Clopton,  201 
Glutton  [co.  Som.],  194 
Coate     [in     Bishop's     Cannings], 

5°9 

Cockington  [co.  Devon],  124,  341 
Codford,    128;  St.   Mary,   or  East, 
^275,  461,  537;  St.  Peter,  537 
Coker  [co.  Som.],  523 
Cokylboroughe,  258 
Colerne,  Cullcrn,  59,  81,   163,  229, 

Collingbourne,  297 ;  Abbis,  Abbatis, 
422;  church  of,  221;  Kingeston, 

422,  423,     537 ;     Southampton 
[Sunton]  manor,  &c.,   422 ;  Val- 
lence  [Ducis],.  537  ;  manor,  &c., 

423.  See  also  Boreampton. 
Colraine    [prov.    Ulster,    Ireland], 

121 
Combervvell,  Cummerwell,   17,   18, 

19,  81,  82,  119,  120,  121 
Combe  [Bisset  ?],  86,  373 
Combe  [in  Enford],  23,  24  ;  manor, 

322 
Compton,     125,      164,      548,      549; 

Bassett,    2,    228,   330,   411,    536; 

Chamberleyn,  23,    538  ;     manor, 

&c.,  22,  372 

Copenhall  [co.  Chester],  36 
Corfe  Castle  [co.  Dors.],  115,  175 
Cornwall,  Duchy  of,  346 
Corsham,   Cosham,    16,  20,  60,  79, 

80,  82,  83,   89,    120,    121,    122,    163, 

164,    174,    192,   228,    317,    318,   321, 

368,  369,  423,  513,  514,  535  545, 
546 ;  church,  55,  60 ;  manor,  146, 
151  ;  old  manor  house,  131 

Corsham  side,  83 

Corsley,  85,  349,  408,  537 

Gorton,  Cortington,  29,  30,  34 

Cotyes,  84 


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Index  of  Places. 


Coulston,   Covelston,  Cowlston,  39, 

76,  107,  108,261,316,536;  manor, 

320;  East,  36    See  also  Calston 
Coventry,  [co.  Warw.],  128 
Cowiche,  321 
Cowssefelde  Lobereys  [Cowesfield 

Louveraz,  in  Frustfield  Hundred], 

manor,  &c.,  24 

Crerscumbe  [CresscombeJ,  455 
Crettylton,   Crettelyngton,  [Grittle- 

ton?],  166 
Cricklade,     Creltclade,     Crykclade, 

121,   164,   166,  231,  256,  370,  474; 

Magna,  84;    St.  Mary,  535;   St. 

Sampson,  535 

Crofton,  [in  Great  Bedwyn],  73,  74 
Croucheston,  Crowchiston,  23,  85 
Crowel,  [co.  Oxon],  194 
Crown  Thorp  [co.  Norf.],  473 
Crudwell,   Crudewell,   Crowdwell, 

166,  456,  535;  manor,  321 
Crumdale  [Crondall,  co.   Hants  ?], 

church  of,  220 
Cupernham  [in  Romsey,  co.  Hants], 

5°3 

Cutteryge,  Coterigge,  Coterugge 
[in  North  Bradley],  9,  u,  478; 
manor,  &c.,  257. 


I) 


Dalkeith,  436 

Dalyngton  [co.  North'ton],  church 

of,  218 

Damerham,  377,  538 
Danby  [co.  York],   562,  563  ;  Hall, 

565 

Dartford  Priory  [co.  Kent],  437 

Dauntesey,  Dantsey,  47,  535,  566; 
church,  monument  in,  47 

Dechehampton,  Dechington,  manor 
and  advowson,  373 

Dedham  [co.  Essex],  Grammar 
School,  493 

Denmark  Hill  [co.  Surrey],  495 

Denstone  Coll.  [co.  Staff.],  496 

Deorham,  battle  oi,  385 

Deptford  Inn  [in  Wylye],  47 

Derry  Hill,  18 

Deverell,  377;  Brixton,  Burston, 
461,  537;  Hill,  Hull,  24,  55,  373, 
421  ;  Kingston,  Ktngeston,  409, 
410,  421,  461,  523,  537 ;  Long- 
bridge,  Langcbrydge,  423,  537  ; 
manor,  349,  408  ;  Mpnkton,  537 

Devizes,  Ic  Devises,  Deuyses,  16,  18, 
19,  20,  23,  35,  36,  37,  38,  41,  79,  80, 


8l,  83,  109,  120,  121,  123,  126,  165, 
166,  178,  I79t  182,  184,  1 86,  225, 
226,  229,  230,  231,  252,  254,  283, 
288,  354,  361,  425,  449,  453,  463, 
464,  508,  509,  510,  519,  536,  540, 
541,  542,  543,  546,  557,  558; 
manor  and  lordship,  419;  Castle, 
114,  131,  149,412,413,417;  King's 
market,  413  ;  Church  of  St.  John, 
36,  37,  brass  in,  36 ;  St.  Mary,  38, 
225;  Old  Port  of,  35,  123;  "Lulle 
Diche,"  35 ;  New  Port  of,  558 ; 
almshouses,  36  ;  windmill,  283  ; 
Newparkfeld,  557  ;  trading  guild, 
38;  breaking  prison  at,  41,  See 
also  Southbroom. 

Devizes  Wick,  18 

Devon,  Earldom  of,  564 

Dilton,  Dilledon,  Dulton,  13,  77, 
185,  245,  247,  307,  313,  314,  406, 
409,  448;  manor,  7,  13,  14,  69,  76, 
106;  chapel  of  113;  le  Marsh, 
316 

Dinton,  360,  480,  538 

Ditcheridge,  Dycharygge,  Dycher- 
yche,  165,  190,  252,  257,  450,451, 

535 

Doddesmede,  316 
Dole,  Hundred  of,  374 
Domerham  [Damerham],  Hundred 

of,  12,  13 
Donhead,  Donnehede,  Donyet,  165; 

St.  Andrew,  84,  538 ;    St.  Mary. 

538 

Dordrecht  [Holland],  388 
Dotemarsh,  24 
Doveton,  321 
Down   Ampney,   Dounamney   [co. 

Glouc.],  50,  174,  263,  561;  House, 

heraldry  in,  561 
Downton,  Dounton,   126,   142,    166, 

219,  233,  428,  538,  566 
Draycote,  Draycott  [Cerne],  3,  95, 

264,  290,  354,  466,  535,  566 
Draygott  [Draycote],  Foliatt,  537 
Dublin,  394,  398,  400 
Duloe   [co.    Cornw.],   church    and 

chantry  in,  199 
Dunkirk,  140,  363 
Dunmow  [co.  Essex,  52 
Dunsford  [co.  Devon],  341 
Durnford,  461 
Durrington,  186,  187,   188,  190,  260, 

286,    287,    537,    539;    Parsonage, 

187 

Dursley  [co.  Glouc.],  278 
Dymerton  [Bymerton  ?J,  84 


'  Index  of  Places. 


613 


Earlstoke,  Erlcstokc,g,  35,  102,  126, 
128,  184,  505  ;  baptized  congrega- 
tion at,  526 

Eastcote,  Estcott,  Escott  [in  Swin- 
don  ?],  24,  124;  manor,  270,  321 

Easthache,  Esthatche  [in  Tisbury], 
165,  233  ;  manor,  165 

Easton  Grey,   536;  manor,  &c.,  125 

Easton  Piers,  Percy  [in  Kington  St. 
Michael],  2,  397  ;  manor,  54 

Easton  Royal  [near  Pewsey],  292, 
295,  296,  359,  36li  S62,  422,  537 ; 
manor  and  advowson,  361 ;  Priory 
Church,  355,  361,  rebuilt,  292 

Eaton  [Yatton  ?J,  81 

Eaton  Maysey,  or  Castle  Eaton, 
167  ;  moiety  of  advowson,  167 

Eavon  [Avon,  in  Christian  MalfordJ 

17,  19 

Ebbesborne  [Wake],  538 
Edgbaston  [co.  Warw.  |,  491,  493  ; 

Old,  491,  494,  495  ;  church,  491 
Eddesmcan?  [in  Calne],  23. 
Edington,     Edyngton,     Edyndon, 

7,  9,  n,  12,45,  56,  76,  77,  97,  98, 

100,    102,    103,     155,    203,    214,    215, 

313,  362,  377,  461,  467,  526,  536, 
557;  manor  of  Edington  Romesey, 
10,  155,  156,  212,  315,  346  ;  Maun- 
devill's  manor,  10  ;  house  or 
chantry  of,  97,  220  ;  monastery, 
or  College  of  Bonhommes,  9,  10, 
n,  12,  13,  70,  97,  98,  101,  102,  104, 
105,  107,  108,  109,  155,  157,  216, 
467  ;  chartulary  ol,  extracts  from, 
6,  8,  9,  11,  69,  70,  71,  73,  74,  76, 
105,  107,  108,  448,  450,  451  ;  arms 
of,  105  ;  monastic  church,  8,  72, 
99,  1O5,  3°4,  S^2,  monument  ot 
an  ecclesiastic  in,  97-105  ;  Priory 
Farm,  98  ;  "  la  leese ' ,  76 

Elberton  [co.  Glouc.  J,  83 

Elcombe  [in  Wroughton],  330,  332, 
457 ;  manor  456 ;  chapel  of  St. 
Mary,  330,  331 

Elfeld,  23 

E 1 1  a  n  d  u  n  e,  Ellingdon,  alias 
Wroughton,  328-33,  454-7,  476, 
535 ;  manor,  456-7  ;  land  bound- 
aries of,  455-6;  Cold  barrow,  456; 
Ealhere's  burying  place,  456; 
heathen  burial  place,  457  ;  Ridge- 
way,  456;  Hawkthorn,  456; 
Helmesthorn,  456  ;  Clover  mere, 
456,  Church  highway,  456.  See 
also  IVroughton 


Ellingham    [co.    Hants],   328,    329, 

509 
Elstubbe,  Ektub,  hundred  of,  331, 

374 

Elthrope,  Elthorpe}m.-a\\wc,  &c.,  165 

Enford,  121,  260,  297,  536,  539 

Englesham,  481 

Ensford,  373 

Erchfont.     See  Urchfont. 

Eston  Basset  &  Lucyes  [in  Dun- 
worth  Hundred]  manor,  &c.  84 

Estrop,  Esthorp,  Esthrop  [in 
Highworth]  manor,  8,9,  12,  14,  72 

Etchilhampton,  Itchelhampton, 
Ashlington,  349  ;  manor,  350  ;  hill, 
monument  on,  181-2,  285-6 

Everley,  374,  537 

Exeter,  Church  ot  St.  Mary  Steps', 
advowson  of,  341  ;  Grey  Friars, 
342 

Eynford,  manor,  &c.,  24 

Eysey,  Eysye,  84,  535 


Falston,  Fallersdown,  Fallardeston 
[in    Bishopstone,  S.   Wilts],   23, 
'31)  377,  467;  manor,  22,  467 
Fardell  [co.  Devon],  338 
Faringdowne,  109 
Farley  [in  Alderbury  Hund.J,  567 
Farley,  Farleigh,  Castle  [co.  Som.], 
2,  92,  174,  182,  224,  233,  354,  382, 
4i9.  567,  568 
Farley,  Monkton,  383 
Farmburgh  [co.  Som.],  194 
Farnham,  219 

Farringdon,  Great  [co.  Berks],  121 
Fedyngton,  Fytyngdon  [in  Laving- 

ton],  109;  manor,  372 
Fenny  Sutton  [Sutton   VenyJ,  22, 

124 

Ffeydyngton  [co.  Som.],  339 
Fernam  [Vernham],  23, ;  manor,  22 
Fifhide  [Fitield  Bavent],  77 
Fifield,  349,  538 

Figheldean,  Filcdean,  279,  404,  441 
Fisherton,  Anger,  84,  232,  233,  538. 

See  also  Fysherton. 
Fisherton  Delamere,  41 1,  537 
Fittleton  [in  Enford],  536,  539 
Flax  Bourton  [co.  Som.],  17,  122 
Foghamshire  [in  ChippenhamJ,  33 
Font  Evrault  [in  Normandy],  Abbey 
of,    117,    118,    119,   146,  147,   222, 
227,   264,    266,    303,   304;    Abbey 
Church,  145;    chapel  of  St.  Lau- 
rence in,  145 


614 


Index  of  Places. 


Fonthill,  Fontel,  Fountell,  Funt- 
htll,  de  la  Ware,  22 ;  Episcopi, 
538 ;  Gifford,  or  Nether,  22,  462, 

538 

Fordingbridge  [co.  Hants],  17 

Foremark  [near  Repton],  383 

Fosket,  Foskett  [Foscote,  in  Grittle- 
ton],  79,  8 1,  511 

Fovant,  102,  538 

Fovent  Stroud,  318,  319 

Foxham,  Voxham  [in  Bremhill], 
119,  122,  254,  321,  370,  371,  462, 
463,  547!  chapel  of,  175;  Church 
house,  175;  Priest  house,  175; 
Butt  Hay,  175;  Chapel  Hay,  175 

Foxley,  536 

Freshford  [co.  Som.],  278 

Frome    [co.    Som.],    81,    278,    308, 

349,  537 
Fugglestone,  Fulston,  Fulton,  24, 

322,  538  ;  manor,  373 
Fulford  [in  Dunsford,  co.  Devon],  341 
Fyfield  [co.  Berks],  200 
Fyiyngs  [?  Fillings,  in  Whitchurch, 

by  Malmesbury],  166 
Fysherton,  373 


Garesdon,  Garsdon,  384,  536 
Gillingham  [co.  Dors.],  46,  79,  523  ; 

church,  523 

Glamorgan,  Earldom  of,  143 
Glanvilles  Woollen  [co.  Dors.],  395 
Glastonbury,   115,   139;  abbey,  198, 

y]/|/f 

Glorysse  [?  in  Lacock],  24 
Gloucester,  385  ;  Cathedral,  444 
Goatacre,     Gataker,     Goteker    [in 

Hilmarton],  4,  50,  79,  424,  425 
Godsill,  19 

Godysfeld,  manor,  &c.,  321 
Golthawe  [co.  Line.],  199 
Gore  [in  LavingtonJ,  255 
Gorseley  [Groveley  ?]  torest,  124 
Gowre,  manor,  &c.,  85 
Graiton  [co.  Wore.],  194 
Greenhurst  [co.  Surrey,],  190 
Greenwich,    157;  East,  manor,  470 
Greinton  [co.  Som.],  121 
Grickstone  [in  Horton,  co.  Glouc.l 

82 

Grimstead,  Grymstcde,  165,  537 
Grinstead,  567 

Grittenham  [in  Brinkworth],  122 
Grittleton,   Gritlington,  80,  81,  83, 

163,  424,  462,  511,  536,  548.     See 

also  Crettylton 


Groveley    forest,    222.      See    also 

Gorseley 
Guisbrough  [co.  York],  419  ;  Priory, 

419 
Gyslyngham,  335 


H 


Hacche,  Hatch,  West  [in  Tisbury], 

134,  558 
Hache,  257 

Hall  Green  [co.  Wore.],  495 
Ham  [near  Hungerford],  537 
Hamildon  [co.  South.],  26 
Hampsted  Marshall,  manor,  52 
Hanham  [co.  Glouc.J,  545 
Haukridge  [Hawkeridgel,  71 
Haningdon  [Hannington],  535 
Hankerton,  536 
Harden  Huish,  536 
Hardington  [co.  Som.],  339 
Hardwyke,  manor,  23 
Harleston  [co.  Norf.],  496 
Harnam  [Harnham],  East,  425 
Harthamtin  Corsham],  318 
Harlinge  [co.  Sussex],  26 
Haryngvvorth,  Harrington,^"] 
Haselbury,  Hasulbury  [in  Box],  536 
Haselden,  165 

Haseley  [co.  Oxon],  church  of,  493 
Hawkeridge,  Haukerigg  [in  West- 
bury],  23,  245,  247,  309,  313,  314, 
316,  348,  353,  354,  405,  406,451, 
460.     See  also  Haukridge 
Headinghill,  Hevcdynghmle,  Hefd- 
inghull\\\\  Bratton  or  Westbury], 

448,  449,   450,   451,  454;    manor, 

449,  452,  453 

Heale,  Heyle  [in  Woodford],  86, 
237,  287 

Heddington,  Headington,  Hedyng- 
to/i,  321,  389,  514,  536;  Hedyn- 
ton's  Wyke,  323 

Henley,  Hynley,  85 

Hexham,  battle  of,  225 

Heyford  ad  Pontem  [co.  Oxon], 
manor,  413,  415;  advowson,  415 

Heytesbury,  Heightredesbury,  22, 
224,  278,  288,  349,  419,  568;  hund- 
red, 24 ;  hospital,  226 

Hewish,  191 

Heywood,  Hewode  [in  Westbury], 
71,  77,  78,  84,  109,  113,  245,  247, 
313,  314,  316,  348,  353,  354,405, 
409,  460,  476 

Highmede,  Hyggemede  [in  Brit- 
ford  or  Odstock  ?],  21,  126 

Highway.     See  Hyghway 


Index  of  Places. 


Highworth,  Hyghworth,  256,  567, 

Hilcot.     See  Hulcote 

Hilmarton,  Helmerton,  42,  121,  125, 

493i    SS^ ;  lordship   or  manor,  4, 

50,    52.     See  also    Goatacre  and 

Littlecote 
Hilperton,   Hulpryngton,    84,   278, 

321,  536;  manor,  232,  453 ;  rectory, 

50;  advowson,  130,  232;  printed 

broadside  at  village  inn,   375-6 ; 

Marsh,  82 
Hindon,  Hendon,  58,  377,  480;  free 

chapel  at,  538 
Hinton,  509 

Hinton,  Henton  [in  Steeple  Ash- 
ton],  123,  231,  257,  404,  405,  422, 

558 
Hinton,    Charterhouse  [co.   Som.], 

268,  278 ;  Carthusian  priory  at,  218 
Hinton  Magna,  536 
Hinton  Parva,  535.     See  also  Hyn- 
.  Ion 
Hitchen,  Hitchin  [co.  Herts],  83 ; 

manor,  415 
Hokesfeld  [near  Kingston  Deverill], 

461 

Holt,  63.  255,  512 
Homyngton,  fiumington,  24,  473 
Honiton  [co.  Devon],  338,  341 
Honybryge  [in  North  Bradley],  257 
Hooke,  Hoke  [co.  Dorset],  193,  194, 

196,  202,  416 

Hoopers  [in  Southwick  ?],  409 
Horningsnam,  Hornyngesham,  107, 

108,    278,    349,    421;  Great,    24; 

Little,  24 

Horsley,  West  [co.  Surrey],  506 
Horton  [in  Bishop's  Cannings],  508 
Horton  [co.  Glouc.],  82 
Hove  [near  Brighton],  186 
Huish,  537 
Hulcote,  Holcote,  Hylcote  [in  North 

Newnton],  24 ;  manor,  &c.,  372 
Hullavington,  Hullington,   80,   81, 

82,  83,  120,  122,  123,  163,  252,  253, 

536 

Hungerford,  74,  86,  185  ;  park,  433 
Hurdecote  fin  Baverstock],  321 
Hurste  [in  Cheverell  ?],  234 
Hyghway,  manor,  &c.,   125 
Hynsett,  233,  459 
Hynton  Dawbney,  26 
Hynton,   Henton  [Little   Hinton  ?] 


manor,  321 


I 


Idmiston,  537,  539 


Ilford  [Iford,  near  Bradford],  337 
Imber,  Immere  \_Inmer\,  76,  89,  107, 
108,  313,  316,  349,  408,  412,  453, 
461,    518,    526,     529,     531,     536; 
manor,  212,  213,  214,  346  ;  manor 
and   lands,    156;  moiety  of  do., 
87;  "  Chaperton  feldes  ',   156 
Inglesham,  535 
Inmarsh  [in  Melksham]  18,  81 
Iron  Acton  [co.  Glouc.],  342 
Ivingho  [co.  Bucks],  House  of  St. 

Margaret,  218 
Jersey,  297 


K 


Keevil,  45,  94,  104,  504,  536;  ad- 
vowson, 104;  Turpin's  Stone,  45, 

94 

Kemble,  536 

Kennett,  91,  536 

Kensington,  Holland  House  in,  567 

Kilkenny  [Ireland],  394 

Kingsbridge,  50 

Kingstown  [co.  Dublin],  493 

Kingswood,  256 

Kington  Kinton,  Kyngton,  78,  81, 
1 63,  549J  Langley,  122;  St.  Mich- 
ael, 32,  79,  80,  122,  163,  461,  536; 
West,  134,  319,  536 

Kinwardstone,  Kynwardeston,  hun- 
dred, 93,  374 

Knoll,  Knolle  [in  Great  Bedwyn], 
manor,  233,  459 

Knook,  Knoke,  Knock  [by  Heytes- 
bury],  25,  30,  134,  136 

Knoyle,  East  or  Bishop's,  322,  327, 
521,522,538,  539;  Church,  521; 
Lie  in,  233  ;  Upton  in,  525 

Knoyle,  West  or  Odyerne,  327 ; 
manor,  124,  320 

Knoyle,  Parva,  538 

Knyghton  [in  Broad  Chalke], 
manor,  256,  323 

Kusnacht  [Switzerland],  church  of, 
488 

Kynemaresforde  [Kempstord,  co. 
Glouc.]  50 


Lackham,  Lacham,  Lcccham  [in 
Lacock],  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  49,  51,  52, 
53,  54,  56,  58,  59,  60,  61,  167,  168, 
172,  174;  manor,  50,  52,  53,  171, 
172  ;  House,  i  ;  old  manor  house, 
paper  on,  1-6,  49-62,  167-74 ! 
chapel  of  B.  V.  Mary  in,  4,  5 ; 


6i6 


Index  of  Places. 


advowson  of  52  ;  Cockelegh,  5  ; 
Elrig',  5 ;  Flexlegh,  5  ;  Godelegh, 
5  ;  Ie  Inlond,  5  ;  le  Leye,  5  ;  Man- 
neslane,  5  ;  Meleh'mme,  5  ;  Net- 
hercote,  5  ;  Pensedone,  5;  Ram- 
mesbrok,  5 ;  le  Weylete,  5 ; 
Wynt'  Welle,  WinterwelL  5 
Lacock,  Lacoke,  Laycocke,  Laykoc, 
i,  2,  3,  4,  5,  24.  57,  58,  60,  167, 
168,  170,  171,  172,321,536;  manor, 
171  ;  rectory,  49,  168  ;  church,  53, 

168,  169,  173  ;  Baynard's  aisle  and 
monuments,    53,   54,  55,  61,   168, 

169,  173,    516;    abbey,  2,  54,61, 
146,   147,    168,    169,   171,  268,411, 
44 !  i  5J4)  5*7  i  Abbey  church,  49; 
Arnoldes,   171;    Dene   Hill.    171; 
the  Lukehorne,  171  ;  Nasshe  Hill, 
167;  Notton,  Nation,  5,  50;  Pen- 
nesdowne,  Pensedone,  171;    the 
Pyke,  171  ;  Stretforlong,  5  ;  Wick, 
Wyke,  3,  50 ;  Wodecroft,  5 

Lambeth  [co.  Surr.],  221 
Lancaster,  Duchy  of,  268,  26g(  270, 

271,  272,  346,  419 
Landford,  537 
Lantord,  advowson,  &c.,  22 
Lanford  Parva  [Little  Langford], 

T  537 

Langecote,  71,  72 

Langtord,  340,  383,  566;    Steeple, 

Stepel,  25,  537 
Langley,  Langly,  119,  120,  163,255, 

319;    Burrell,    536;    manor,  411; 

church,  91 
Lanherne   [co.   Cornw,],    198,   201, 

479 

Llan  Iltud  Vawr  [co.  Glam.J,  115 

Latton,  535 

Laverstock,  537 

Lavington,  Lavynton,  19,  79,  81,  82, 
85,  120,  121,  122,  124,  368,  369, 
370,  371,  463,  475 

Lavington,  Market,  Chepyng, 
Forum,  East,  Staple,  Stepel, 
Stupel,  56,  76,  77,  79,  85,  109,  371, 
372,  411,  412,  413,  415,  416,  417, 
418,  470,  536,  558,  560;  manor, 
412,  413,  470;  church,  414,  418, 
469;  chantry  in,  414-19,  465-70; 
advowson,  412;  Garnam,  or 
Easterton,  moiety  of  manor,  84, 

85. 

Lavington,  West,  or  Bishops,  22, 
42,  47,  90,  232,  372,  411,  412,  460, 
470,  536;  church,  47;  house,  480; 
Dauntesey  grammar  school,  103; 
agricultural  college,  47 


The  Lea,  65 

Lea  and  Brinkworth,  229 
Leatherhead  [co.  Surr.],  496 
Lechlade  [co.  Glouc.],  123,  270,  271 ; 

church,  200 

Leckford  [co.  South.],  34,  35 
Lee  [co.  Herts],  172 
Leeds,  [co.  York],  389 
Legh,     near     Castlecomb    [Leigh 

Delamere]  manor  and  advowson, 

24 

Leicester,  197 
Leigh  [co.  Essex],  129 
Leigh    Delamere,    429,    520,    536 ; 

manor,  41 1 

Leighton  Buzzard,  manor,  223 
Lew,  North  [co.  Devon],  494 
Lewerton  [near  Hungerford],  74 
Lewes  Priory  [co.  Sussex],  292 
Lichfield,  492,  494 
Liddington.     See  Luddington 
Linkinhorn  [co.  Cornw.],  church  ot, 

116 
Litelstoke,  Lytelstoke  [in  Bratton], 

73,  74.  107 

Littlecote  [in  Hilmarton],  50 
Littlecote  [near  Hungerford],  263, 

383,  466 
Littlecut,    Lyttlecote    [in    Enford], 

24,  121 

Littleton  Drew,  395, 462,  536 ;  Lay- 
croft  in,  399 

Littleton,  Lytelton,  Paynell  [in 
West  Lavington],  232, 412 ;  manor, 
&c.,  460 

Littleton  [in  Steeple  Ashton].  See 
Lytelton. 

Liverpool,  491,  493 

Lloran,  [co.  Denbigh],  546 

London,  12,  16,  20,  31,  34,  90,  123, 
125,  128,  1 66,  181,  233,  244,  297, 
346,  347,  390,  394,  464,  481-  482, 
484,  502,  503,  531,  543;  St.  Paul's 
Cathedral,  48,  107,  506;  Church- 
yard, 48 ;  Blackfriars  Church, 
Ludgate,  466;  St.  Botolph's. 
Bishopsgate,  93,  482 ;  Chapel 
Royal,  360  ;  Church  of  Friars 
Minors,  146,  150;  St.  John  Evan- 
gelist, 48 ;  St.  Lawrence,  Jewry, 
48,  128,  270;  St.  Mary  Axe,  27; 
St.  Mary  le  Strand,  545;  St. 
Mary  Savoy,  476;  St.  Mildred, 
Bread  St.,  120;  Bethlehem  New 
Churchyard,  93 ;  Augustine  Friars 
of,  218;  Carmelites,  218;  Minor- 
ites, 218;  Preachers,  218  ;  Hos- 
pital of  St.  John,  Clerkenwell, 


Index  of  Places. 


617 


157;  Tower,  148,  149,  355,  356, 
357,  361,  362,  363;  Chapel  of  St. 
Peterad  Vinculain,355 ;  Herald's 
College,  40,  47,  48;  Royal 
Exchange,  391  ;  Exeter  Hall, 
503 ;  Mercer's  Hall,  47  ;  Merchant 
Taylors  Hall,  48  ;  Barnard's  Inn, 
393,  394 :  Clifford's  Inn,  391  ; 
Gray's  Inn  Gate,  41;  Inner 
Temple,  360,  388,  392,  540; 
Middle  Temple,  33,  34,  35,  175, 
176,  363,  389,  392,  394-  404,  428. 
523,  540 ;  London  Bridge,  563  ; 
Burlington  Gardens,  435 ;  Char- 
ing Cross,  92;  Denmark  Hill, 
267 ;  Hatton  House,  Holborn, 
161  ;  Haymarket,  83;  Hunger- 
ford  House,  92;  Market,  92; 
Lambeth,  90  ;  Newgate,  90,  392  ; 
Southwark,  132;  Black  Bear  in 
St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  48 ; 
Dolphin  Tavern,  391  ;  Salutation 
Tavern,  391  ;  Sun  Tavern,  391  ; 
Young  Devil  Tavern,  391  ; 
Richard's  Coffee  House,  391 ; 
Bishopgate  Street,  93 ;  Quaker 
records  at,  475  ;  Lumbart  Street, 

391 

Longleat,  226,  377,  378  ;  builder  of, 
293 ;  Amesbury  papers  at,  293- 
300;  park,  408 

Longsdon,  Great  [co.  Derby],  90 

Looe  [co.  Cornw.J,  398 

Lopen,  Great  [co.  Som.],  manor,  194 

Lopit  [Luppit,  co.  Devon],  338,  342 

Louvain  [Belgium],  English  Mon- 
astery at,  437  ;  nuns  from,  occupy 
the  mansion  at  Amesbury,  437 

Lowden  [in  Chippenham],  33 

Loxhill  [Loxwell],  321 

Luckington,  231,  397,  402,  536; 
caves  at,  377 

Luddington  [Liddingtonl,  535 

Ludgershall,  Lugersale,  Lurgtshall, 
23,  24,  90,  260,  281, 428,  537 

Luffenham,    North    [co.    Rutland], 

383 

Lydeway  [in  Urchfont],  181 

Lydiard,  Lyddyard,  Melesent,  Myl- 
sent,  86,  535 ;  Tregoze,  Tregos, 
Treygose,  86,  175,  382,  535,  545, 
567;  manor,  421,  479;  park,  479 

Lydvreokes,  257 

Lyndley,  Lynley  [in  Tisbury],  257, 

T    55\ 

Lyneham,  424 

Lyshyll  [Lushill,  in  Castle  Eaton], 
167 


Lytelton,   Lytylton,    Lytteltone  [in 

Steeple  Ashton],  123,  257,  558 
Lyvinton  [co.  Devon],  manor,  413 


M 


Maddington,  Winterbourne  Mad- 
ynton,  84,  124,  189,  260,  275,  349, 
378,  537;  manor,  &c.,  234,  372, 
422  ;  gibbet  at,  333,  334.  See  also 
Abbas  ton. 

Malmesbury,  Malmysbury,  6,  22, 
26,  27,  34,  65,  165,  1  66,  174,  320, 
354,  385,  536;  Abbey,  175,267, 
290,  295,  299,  454,  455;  Abbey 
House,  arms  on  porch,  559  ;  High 
Street,  460 

Malwood  [co.  Wore.?],  194 

Man,  Isle  of,  562 

Mangottisfield  [co.  Glouc.],  122 

Manningford,  297  ;  Abbas,  537  ; 
Bruce,  185,  537,  545;  Wyke,  24 

Manton  [in  Preshute],  manor,  322 

Manyngtord  &  Bounces  [Manning- 
ford  Bohune  ?],  2-57 

Marden,  82,  191,  536 

Markeden,  558 

Marlborough,  Marlynsborough, 
Merleburgh,  3,  20,  80  81,  90,  126, 
171,  192,  231,  232,  252,  253,  257, 
3!7,  3l8,  36l>  3^9,  4!9,  423,  424, 
461,  464,  513,  514,  548-  549,  558; 
St.  Mary,  537,  Vicarage,  179;  St. 
Peter,  537;  Castle,  146,  562; 
Town  and  Barton,  562;  House 
[now  part  of  College],  377 

Marnhull  [co.  Dors.?],  120 

Marston,  126 

Marston    [in    Potterne],    125,   328. 

See  also  Merston,  Waiston 
Marwell  [co.  Hants],  361 
Melbury  Sampford  [co.  Dors.],  201 


.., 

Mylksham,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  22, 
39,  79,  80,  81,  82  83,  89,  119,  120, 
121,  122,  126,  127,  128,  190,  230, 
233,  256,  257,  278,  321,  372,  378, 
380,  423,  457,  463-  465-  5i2,  530, 
543,  544,  547  ;  manor  and  hundred, 
146,  147,  260,  265;  Forest,  222, 
459;  Park,  18,  19;  The  Acre,  457; 
Avonfield,  458;  Beanacre,  457, 
459  ;  Boatmead,  458  ;  Bowerhill, 
457,  459  !  Broadmead,  458  ;  Bury- 
field,  Bereghfield,  457,  458  ;  Cad- 
ley,  378  ;  The  Conigre,  378,  457  ; 
Corn  Close,  457  ;  Gothart's,  458  ; 
The  Grove,  378,  457  ;  The  Ham, 


6i8 


Index  of  Places. 


457  ;  Holbrookfield,  458 ;  Home 
Ground,  457,  458;  Islay,  I  ley, 
Highley,  Mead,  459 ;  The  Ladies 
Ford,  380;  The  Ladies  Pond,  380; 
The  Lagger,  457  ;  Left  Croft,  457, 
458;  Lippiatts,  Lypyates,  378; 
Long  Conigre,  457  ;  Long  Leigh, 
457i  458;  Northmead,  457,  458; 
Outmarsh,  457  ;  Perry  Hay,  457  : 
Queenfield,  459;  Queenmoor, 
457,  458,  4591  Rowleys,  458; 
Scotlands,  457;  Sexwell,  458; 
Shepherds,  Sheephouse,  Leaze, 
457,  458 ;  Upper  Grove,  457 ; 
Wicky  Ham,  457  ;  Woolmerfield, 
458 

Meon  Stoke  [co.  Hants],  215 
Mere,  Meere,  80,  257,  373,  460,  523, 
525;     Church,    chancel    of,    523, 
525  ;  Registers,  extracts  from,  45, 
46;  Park,  524;  "Adamante,"  525 
Meriet  [co.  Som.J,  manor,  194 
Mersea,  East  [co.  Essex],  491,  494, 

495 

Mershbaldinton  [co.  Oxon.],  413; 
manor,  415,  416;  advowson,  416 

Merston,  Merlon  [Marston,  in  Pot- 
terne],  234,  422 

Middleton  [co.  Lane.],  19 

Middleton  Cheney  [co.  Oxon], 
church  of,  218 

Midelton,  322 

Midghall,  Mudge  Hall  [in  Lydiard 
Tregoze],  175,  192 

Milborne,  Melbourne,  Muleburne 
[in  Bratton],  6,  9,  10,  11,  72,  73. 
74,  77,  106,  107,  108,  112,  251,  316, 
348,  407,  500 ;  Nether,  75  ;  Stoke, 
451,  454;  Mulbourne  Court, 
manor,  125 

Milbourn,  Mylburne  [in  Malmes- 
buryl  1 66,  320 

Mildennall,  253,  537 

Milston,  Myldeston  [near  Ames- 
bury],  42,  43,  140,  186,  187,  188, 
192,  237,  238,  239,  240,  260,  286, 
287,  288,  537 ;  manor,  42,  236 ; 
church,  43,  237,  238 ;  patrons  and 
rectors,  237 ;  parish  register, 
mutilated,  42,  43,  236-240 

Milston  and  Brigmarston,  Bryght- 
merston,  manor  and  advowson, 
123,  124,  1 66,  233 

Milton  Lislebonne,  or  Abbots  [near 
Pewsey],  132,  361,  537 

Milton  [co.  Dors.],  261 

Minchinhampton  [co.  Glouc.],  413, 
416 


Minety,  68 

Minley  [Minety  ?],  536 

Minster  Lovel  [co.  Oxon],  331 

Mistley  [co.  Essex],  493 

Monckton,  West  [co.  Som.],  347 

Monkhampton  [co.  Devon]^  413 

Monkton  [in  Broughton  Gifford],  40, 

95,  96 
Monkton,  Mounckton  [in  Chippen- 

ham],  29,  175 
Monkton  Farley,  536;  House,  438  ; 

Priory,  292 
Mordon,  86 

Motcombe  [co.  Dors.],  church,  524 
Motueka  [N.  Zealand],  496 
Mounkton,  20 
Muchelney  [co.  Som.],  202;  Abbey, 

293 

Myhenden,  24 
Mylford,  125 
Mylton,  233,  322 


N 


Nailhom,  463 

Nelson  [N.  Zealand],  496 

Neston  House,  55 

Nethercote   [in    Swindon],   manor, 

270 
Netheravon,  24,   384;    House,  236; 

Prebend  of,  215 
Netley  [co.  Hants],  360,  361 
Nettleton,    Nettylton,    318,      536; 

manor  and  advowson,  322 
Netton,  461 

Newark  Park  [co.  Sussex],  437 
Newbury  [co.  Berks],  270,  271 
Newcastle-on-Tyne,  225 
Newhouse  [in  Downton  ?],  235,  282 
Newnton,  Newington,  North,  297, 

536;  manor  and  advowson,  372 
Newnton,    Long    [near    Tetbury], 

192,  536 

Newton  Kyme  [co.  York],  199 
Newton,  South,  322,  461,  538 
Newton  Tony,  474,  537,  539 
Nind,  80 

Northampton,  116,  160 
Northleach  [co.  Glouc.],  57 
Northstoke  [co.  Som.],  manor,  208, 

210,  211,  306 

Norton  Bavant,  373,  378,  423,  537 
Norton.     See  Bremilham 
Notton  [in  Lacock],  19,  82,  120,  122, 

167,  171,  319 

Nunney  [co.  Som.],  278,  410 
Nurstead,  Nursteed  [near  Devizes], 

18,  120,  165,  181 


Index  of  Places. 


619 


O 


Oakesey,  536 

Oare.     See  Woore 

Odstock,   Odestoke,   503,  505,  538 ; 

manor  and  advowson,2i,  124,  126 
Offley,    Offlegh  [co.    Herts],    194; 

manor,  413,  415 
Ogborne,  163,  318 
Olveston  [co.  Glouc.],  17,  83,  122, 

123 
Orcheston    St.    George,   260,    333, 

334,    537;    St.    Mary,    125,    537, 

manor    and    advowson,    23,   24 ; 

Vowell,  24 
Osen,  523 

Ottery  [co.  Devon],  293 
Over  Kentcombe  [co.  Dors.],  manor, 

194 

Overton,  67,  68,  536 ;  West,  68 
Overwroughton,  233 
Oxenwodd,  421 
Oxford,    501  ;     Bodleian    Library, 

515;    Broadgates   Hall,  45;    St. 

Edmund   Hall,  388,  496;  Balliol 

College,    1 68;     Brasenose,    428; 

Exeter,     188,    523 ;     Jesus,    493 ; 

Magdalen,  64,  66,  363,  428  ;  New, 

59,  144;  Pembroke,  494  ;  Queen's, 

539 


Pambere  forest  [co.  Hants],  53 

Patney,  219,  536 

Pencherd,  86 

Penley,   Penleigh   [in   Westbury], 

245,  247,  314,  316;  manor,  106 
Pennard,  Penyard  [co.  Som.],  East, 

347 ;  West,  120 
Pertwood,  Peertwode,  Peertworth, 

124,  537 
Petersfield,  26 
Peter's  Port  [Guernsey],  17 
Pewsey,  Pusey,  132,  537 
Pewisnam,  Pewsham,  forest,  2,  50, 

52,  53,  1 68 
Pickwick  [in   Corsham],   17,  79,  83, 

120,  122,  318 
Pinhill  [in  Calne],  59 
Pitminster     [co.     Som.],      Barton 

Grange  in,  388,  389 
Poole  [co.  Dors.],  18,  536 
Portishead  [co.  Som.],  17,  122 
Potterne,  Pattern,  Potern,  125,  234, 

327,  328,  412,  422,  461,  536,  557  ; 

manor  and  rectory,  261  ;   Pottern 

and  Cannings,  hundred  of,  412 


Poughley  Priory  [co.  Berks],  advow- 
son of,  150 

Poulshot,  Pollesholte,  Powlesholte, 
79,  87,  94,  127,  179,  180,  517,  519, 
536;  manor,  234,  422;  church, 
127,  179  ;  mill,  284 

Poulton  [near  Cricklade],  535 

Powderham  [co.  Devon]  235,  338 

Powlett  [co.  Som.],  339 

Preshute,  Presshat,  322,  537 

Preston  [co.  LancJ,  120 

Purton,  Pirton,  Pyrton,  19,  25,  86, 
119,  122,  126,  270,  271,  369,  370, 
424,  425,  462,  464,  480,  513,  514; 
Purton  Stoke,  18,  79,  119,  120, 
121,  122 

Pythouse  [in  Hindon],  378 

Q 

Quemerford,  280,  520 
R 

Rabson  [in  Winterbourne  Basset], 

260 
Ramsbury,    Rammesbury,    Remes- 

bury,  165,  501 ;  manor,  383 
Rangoon  [Burmah],  493 
Redenhall  [co.  Norf.],  496 
Redlinch  [near  Bruton],  354 
Repton,  493 
Revedon,  123 
Reybridge  [in  Lacock],  171 
Richmond,  [co.  Surrey],  436 
Ringwood  [co.  Hants],  120 
Risborough  [in  Wroughton  ?],  456 
River,  Rivers,  256,  423 
Road  [co.  Som.],  278,  380 
Rodbourne,   Radborne,  26,  41,  62, 

63,  557 ;  manor  [Cowfold],  63 
Rodborne  Cheyney,  Chayneive,  123, 

460,  535 

Rodborough  [co.  Glouc.],  399 
Rodney  Stoke  [co.  Som.],  357,  363 
Roeberrow  [co.  Som.],  278 
Rollestone,  Rolston,   84,    184,   279, 

374,  375,  537 ;  church,  375 
Roman  Road  [Bath  to  Marlboro],  3 
Romney,  335 
Romsey  Abbey   [co.   Hants],    155, 

217,442 
Rothfenne  [Radfyn,  in  Amesbury  ?], 

260 

Rotterdam  [Holland],  389 
Rouen,  146,  147 
Rough  Earthcott  [in  Olveston,  co. 

Glouc.],  80,  122,  123 


620 


Index  of  Places. 


Roundvvay  [in  Bishop's  Cannings], 
506,  507,  508,  509,  510,  540.   544, 

545.  546 
Rovvde,   37,  60,   123,   164,    166,  228, 

321,  412,  424,  461,  503,  536,    548, 

549;    manor,   419;    Foxhangers, 

Foxaunders,\nt  123,461  ;  Rowde- 

ford,  509,  519 
Rowden,  Rowdon  [inChippenham], 

133.    '34,    136,    175,  225;    manor, 

&c.,  87,  125,  233,  321 
Rubergh,  old  Hundred  of,  412 
Rudge,  462 
Rudloe,  Redelawe,  Rydloo  [in  Box], 

24,  78,  89 

Rugby,  Bilton  Hall  in,  43 
Rugeley  [co.  Staft.],  493 
Russhall,  Rusteshall  nungerford, 

manor  and  advowson,  421,  460 
Ruscomb,  Ruscome,  461 
Rutherdowne  [near  Kingston  Dev- 

enll?],  461 
Rydge,    Rygge    [near    Bedwyn  ?], 

233,  459 
Rye  House  [Plot],  390 


St.  Alban's  [co.  Herts],  188 
St.  Brelade's  [Jersey],  491,  493,  494 
St.  Budeaux  [co.  Devon],  493 
St.  Heliers  Mersey],  491,  493,  494 
Salisbury,    Sarum,    New    Sarum, 
7,  21,  23,  24,  73,  75,  76.  83,  84,  85, 

87,  112,  119,  l66,  190,  192,  194, 
225,  232,  233,  234,  256,  26c,  275, 
287,  296.  297,  316.  321,  322,  323, 

324,  325,  326,  327,  357,  372,  373, 
377,  420,  421,  438,  453  460,  461, 

5°3,  505.  521,  529,  53',  533.  54°, 
542,  566;  CathedraJ,  28,  37,  139, 
M3.  191,  243,  361,  377,  448,  501, 
502,  521,  522,  524,  567,  568  ;  Hun- 
gerford  Chapel  (destroyed),  224, 
226;  tomb  of  William  Longespee, 
441  ;  shrine  of  St.  Osmond,  418  ; 
Chapter  House,  441  ;  Close,  360; 
See,  arms  of,  473  ;  Earldom  of, 
268,  419;  Plain,  278,  358;  St. 
Edmund's  parish,  557,  558 ;  St. 
Martin's,  423,  461  ;  St.  Thomas, 
320,  372,  503,  Church,  55  ;  Brown, 
Broune,  Street,  86,  257  ;  Castle 
Street,  232,  The  Falcon,  in,  85  ; 
High  Street,  257,  320,  422,  old 
house  in,  92,  139;  New  Street, 
322,  422  ;  Winchester  Street,  86, 
257 ;  Tann  [St.  Anne's]  Gate,  240, 


335 '.  Close  Gate,  503 ;  "  le  WThele 
Rewe,"  372  ;  Antelope  Inn,  438  ; 
Bell  Inn,  240;  "Blew  Bore,"  232; 
"George  Inn,"  139;  King's  Arms, 
185 ;  Hall  of  John  Halle,  561  ; 
Woolstapler's  Guild,  429  ;  Town 
Ditch,  257 

Salterton,  manor  and  free  fishery, 
461 

Salwarpe  [co.  Wore.],  168 

Sambourne  [in  Warminster],  man- 
or, 142 

Sandford  Orcas  [co.  Som.],  59 

Sands  [in  Calne],  16,  79,  80 

Sapperton  [co.  Glouc.],  60 

Sarum,  Old,   73 ;    Kettle,  379,  429, 

Savernake,  372  ;  Forest,  478 ;  Park, 
the  Lodge  in,  361 

Schypryge  [Sheepridge],  Magna,  87 

Seaborough  [co.  Som.j,  341 

Seagry,  Segary,  Segrey,  27,  33,  395, 
536 ;  manor,  27 ;  Nether,  121 ; 
Cockerel's,  27 

Seales  [Zeals,  in  Mere],  Nether, 
257 ;  Over,  257  ;  Sealesaylesbury 
manor,  87,  321  ;  Sealyscleu'don 
[Clevedon],  manor,  257 

Sedghill,  Sedghull,  521,  524,  525  ; 
Chapel  oi  St.  Katherine,  521,  522, 
523 ;  Church,  522,  524,  525 ;  Rec- 
tory, 524  ;  Blynd  laine,  522,  523  ; 
Hayes,  524;  Mathew's  Close, 
524 ;  Newe  Yeat  [Gate] ,  524 ; 
Westmarshe,  522,  523 ;  Wood- 
house,  523,  524 

Sedgemoor.  battle  of,  390 

Selewode  Priory,  218 

Seend,  Sende,  89,  126,  127,  176,  192, 
233,  260,  296,  517,  519,  541,  543, 
544;  manor,  126;  Church,  383; 
Great  House,  383;  Seendrow, 
Sendrewe,  88,  126,  180,  233,  260, 
518,  544;  Seendhead,  88,  127, 
old  house  at,  517,  518  ;  Baldenam, 
88,  89  ;  Broods,  88  ;  Churchfield, 
518;  Dunham's,  88;  Honyes,  88  ; 
the  Lyntch,  88  ;  Little  Sandfield, 
88;  Northcroft,  88,  517;  Pittwell, 
88;  Pudleigh,  518;  Reding's 
Mead,  88,  517;  Rowhamme,  88; 
Ryeditch,  88;  Thorneham,  88; 
Westfield,  89,  518 

Semington,  Semyngton,  24,  322,  373, 
404,  405,  537 ;  inscription  on 
Church  porch,  475 

Semley,  Semly,  460,  538 ;  manor, 
132 


Index  of  Places. 


621 


Sevenhampton  [in  Highworth],  60 
Sevenoaks  [co  Kent],  198 
Shaftesbury,  43,  238;  Abbey,  258 
Shalborne  [co.  Berks],  323  ;  Church 
of  St.  Margaret,   256  ;  advowson 
oi  rectory,  256;  Eastcourt,  manor, 
&c.,  421  ;  Westcourt,  manor,  &c., 
320,  423 
Shalke   [Shawe,  near  Melksham], 

256 
Shaw,    Shawe    [near    Melksham], 

233;  manor,  257,  321 
Shaw  •'  next  Chuyte  "  [Chute],  422 
Sheldon    [near   Chippenham],    58, 

545 

Shene  Priory  [co.  Surrey],  293 
Sherborne,  482 
Sherncott,  535 

Sherrington,  Sheryngton,  84,  537 
Sherston  124;  manor,  419 
Sherston  Magna,  63,  385-92,  395- 
400;  manor,  146,  151,  153;  Court 
Rolls,  386  ;  church,  403  ;  Easton 
Town,  389,  395,  403  ;  Hankie  Hill, 
402  ;  Holford's  Ham,  403  ;  North- 
field,  388;  "  Rattlebones"  Inn, 
385;  Rice's  Mill,  402;  the  "  Toll- 
sey,"  401;  Tweenvvoods,  403; 
Wilsley,  63 

Sherston  Pinckney,  390,  399,  400 
Shillmglord  [co.   Devon],  337,  341, 
342;  manor  and  advowson,  341, 
345 ;    church    (St.   George),   342, 
345  ;  carved  panels  on  tower,  345 
Shinrield  [co.  Berks],  192 
Shortestreet,  313,  316 
Shorwell  [I.W.],  manor,  147 
Shrewsbury,  Earldom  of,  565 
Shrewton,  Shreveton,  279,  378,  537; 
church  (St.  Mary),  137,   138;  rec- 
tory and  advowson,  321 ;  sculp- 
ture at  village  inn,  234  ;  yardlands 
in,  137,  189,  190 
Shute  [co.  Devon],  200 
Siddington  [co.  Glouc.],  520 
Sidmouth  [co.  Devon],  286 
Silchester  [co.  Hants],  59  ;  lordship 
or  manor,  4,   50,   52,  53 ;  church, 
51  ;  advowson  of,  53 
Silton  [co.  Dors.],   199 
Sion    Nunnery   [co.    Middx.J,   293, 

368 

Slaughterford,   18,  81,  82,  83,    120, 
122,    163,    164,   229,   230,   254,    319, 

320,  423, 511, 512, 548 

Slogrobe  [near  Steeple  Ashton  ?], 

232 
Slughe  [near  Farley  Castle  ?],  233 


Smalbroke      [near      Warminster], 

459  ;  manor,  423 
Snape,    Snappe    [in    Aldbourne], 

126,  167,  270,  273 
Sodbury,  Old  [co.  Glouc.],  17 
Somerford,  Great  or  Broad,   notes 
on,  25-34,  62-9,  389,  536 ;  moiety 
of  manor,  27,  30,  33,  34 ;  church, 
28,  69  ;  Bolles,  lordship  or  manor, 
25,  26,  27  ;  Blewette,  30  ;  Bolsey 
meadow,  26;  Cotterill's,  CockrelCs, 
27"3°i  33>   34i   65 ;     Culverhouse 
Place,  30  ;  Fletcher's,  or  Church 
house,  28,  29,  30,  33 ;  The  Grove, 
27;      Hoskyns'     Messuage,     33; 
Lee's  tarme,  27  ;  Lucas  Barne,  29, 
31,    33;     Marshe,  26;     Mauditt's 
Park,    64 ;     Mayo's    farme,    27 ; 
Rumming's  farme,  27;  Serjeant's 
farme,   27 ;    Starkley  grove,  28 ; 
Velver,  or  Ffernfeild,  Great,  27  ; 
the  Yewes,  28 
Somerford  Keynes,  535 
Somerford,  Little,  27,  536 
Somerset,  Dukedom  of,  364 
Sopworth  [co.  Glouc.],  536 
Southampton,  Hampton,  117,  297 
Southbroom,  Southbrome,  [in  Bis- 
hop's Cannings],  35,  36,  49,  50 ; 
Church   of  St.   James,  288,  508, 

509,     5'0,    539,    54°,     544,     545; 

"Belle  Inne,"36 
Southwark,  South  Wark,  220,  335  ; 

Church  of  St.   Mary  Overie  [St. 

Saviour's],  200 
Southwick,"  Southwyke  [in   North 

Bradley],  71,    193,    194,   196,    198, 

202,    257,  406,  463 ;    manor,    194, 

422 ;    Court,    416 ;     Chapel    [St. 

John   Bapt.j,  advowson  of,    194, 

422 

Spatchley  [co.  Wore.],  507,  509 
Speen  [co.  Berks],  80;  Mill,  121 
Spencer  Combe  [co.  Devon],  197 
Spetisbury  [co.  Dors.],  438 
Spirthill  [nearCalne],  321 
Spye  Park,  63,  132,  175 
Stafford,   Christ  Church,  493 ;  Salt 

Library,  534,  535 
Stalbridge  [co.  Dors.],  524 
Standlynche  [in  Downton],  moiety 

of  manor,  &c.,  126,  166 
Stanley,  63,    174,  176;  manor,  &c., 

!76,  177,  321  ;    Abbey,  5,  102,  132, 

133,  174;  Bean  Close,  63 ;  Home 

Close,  63  ;  the  More,  5 
Stanton  St.  Bernard,  536 ;  Church, 

[All  Saints'],  189 


622 


Index  of  Places. 


Stanton  St.  Quintin,  536;  Knab- 
well,  manor  in,  413,  415,  417 

Stapelford  [co.  Dors.],  manor,  194 

Stapleford,  297,  537,  558 

Starkly,  123 

Staunton,  25,  255 ;  Fitz  Herbart, 
manor,  advowson,  &c.,  126;  Fitz 
Warren,  535 

Stepelham  [in  Domerham  Hun- 
dred], 12,  13 

Stert,  509 

Stinsford  [co.  Dors.],  200 

Stockley  [near  Calne],  24,  82,  321, 

463 

Stockton,  25,  537 
Stockwell  [co.  Surrey],  102,  467 
Stoford  [in  Wishford],  124 
Stoke,  547,  548 
Stoke,  or  Little  Stoke  [in  Bratton], 

9,  10,  73,   108,   154,249,  316,448; 

Church  of,  206,  207 
Stoke  [in  Calne],  23 
Stoke  Gifford  [co.  Glouc.],  83,  120, 

123 

Stokeleigh,  348 
Stokeley,  55 
Stonehenge,  92,   115,  279,358,377, 

435 
Stoodelegh     [Studley,     in     Trow- 

bridge],  232 
Stoppe,  22 
Stourton,   537 ;    Old    House,   354 ; 

Chapel,  175 
Stowell   [in  Wilcote],  manor,  &c., 

556 ;  Lodge,  296 
Stovven  Maish,  463 
Stowey  [co.  Som.j,  339 
Stratford  Tony,  538 
Stratford-under-Castell,  124 
Stratton  [co.  Som.],  281 ;  manor,  194 
Stratton  St.  Margaret,  165,  535 
Street,     Streat    [co.    Som.J,    142 ; 

manor,  161 

Stroud  [co.  Glouc.],  34 
Struggs  [in  West  Knoyle  ?],  manor, 

320 
Studley,    Studhill  [in   Calne],   23, 

321 

Surrenden  [in  Hullavington],  402 
Sutton   Benger,   18,    19,  24,  26,  35, 


Sutton  Coldfield   [co.  Warw.J,  493, 

494 
Sutton,      Lettell,     423 ;       Mochell 

[Great],  423 
Sutton    Mandeville,   Maundefelds, 

Mawndfyld,      124,     460,      538 ; 

manor,  165,  256  ;  advowson,  256 


Sutton  Valence  [co.  Kent],  338 
Sutton  Veny,  Venny,  537.    See  also 

Fenny  Sutton 

Swainton  [I.W.],  152;  manor,  151 
Swallowcliffe,  Swaleclyffe,  134,  136; 

manor,  &c.,  165 
Swallowfield,  81 
Swanborough,  Hundred  of,  412 
Swindon,  Swyndon,  270,  271,  318, 

328,   333,  474,   5351    Even,    123; 

High,  24,  manor,  &c.,  124;  West, 

24,  124 
Swinley  [in  Kington  St.  Michael], 

68 

Sydenham  [co.  Devon],  341 
Symondsbury  [co.  Dors.],  237 
Syrescourte    [in    Castle    Eaton  ?], 

manor,  167 


Tamworth  Grammar  School,  495 

Tangier,  140 

Tan  Hill  [in  All   Cannings],    188, 

240,  335 

Taunton  [co.  Som.],  56,  220,  278 
Tedbury  [Tetbury,  co.  Glouc. J,  17, 

121 

Teffont,    77 ;     Evias,   Eivyas,  384, 

538 

Temple  Sutton  [co.  Essex],  50 
Terouenne  [in  Picardy],  342 
Tewkesbury,    131,    199;    battle  of, 

34i 

Thornbury  [co.  Glouc.],  18,  119 
Thornhill,     Thornehyll   [in    Cliffe 

Pypard],  24,  166,  320,  557 
Tidcombe,  537 
Tidworth,    Tedworth,     Tudwortk, 

North,    24,    86,     190,    260,   537 ; 

manor,  &c.,  557 
Tilshead,    Tyleshedde,    Tyleshyde, 

125,  255,  412,  537  ;  manor,  352 
Tinhead,  Tynehede,  Tynhyde,  9,  i.i, 

315,  526;  manor,  155,  156,212,346 
Tisbury,    Tesbury,    Tysbury,  22,  25, 

165,  538 

Titherton,  Telherton,  Tytherton, 
230,  424,  425 ;  Kelways,  Gallo- 
way, 32,  95,  464,  536 ;  Lucas,  or 
West,  29,  32,  33 ;  Church,  32 

Tockenham  [in  Lyneham],  Court, 
384;  Wick,  501,  536 

Tockington  [co.  Glouc.],  17 

Tollard,  23  ;  manor,  22 

Tollard  Royal,  192,  538 

Toomer  [in  Henstridge,  co.  Som.], 
199 


Index  of  Places. 


623 


Tottenham  Park,  359,  433 
Tottenham  [co.  Middx.],  39 
Tottenho  [co.  Wore.  ?],  194 
Troscut,  230 

Trowbridge,  Throwbyrge,  83,  232, 
278,  281,  321,  322,  327,  363,  372, 
423,  480,  537;  manor,  413;  rec- 
tory, 363  ;  Grammar  School,  363, 

474 

Turners  Piddle  [co.  Dors.],  59,  199 
Turnworth  [co.  Dors.J,  200 
Turpin's  Stone,  45 
Tymerygge  [near  Bedwyn  ?],  233, 

459 
Tyterydge  [near  Bedwyn],  233,  459 


U 


Uley  [co.  Glouc.],  278 

Upham  [in  Aldbourne],  126,  167, 
270,  271,  272;  manor,  270;  Pratts, 
273,  Rounts,  273 ;  Upper  Upham, 
old  house  at,  269,  271 

Uphaven,  Upaven,  86,  537 

Upton  Knoyle,  manor,  &c.,  233 

Upton  Lovel,  288,  537 

Upton  Scudamore,  Skidmores, 
Skudmoor's,  172,  313,  316,  428, 
499,  S27,  537.  5571  Chalcots  in, 
527 

Upton  on  Severn,  79 

Urchfont,  Urchefount,  Urchent, 
285,  297,  350,  351,  352,  3  S3,  537; 
manor,  415;  Escott  manor,  350, 
353  !  Northcombe  manor,  352 ; 
Bassett's,  352  ;  Beane  lands,  350; 
the  Crofts,  351  ;  Eastfield,  351 ; 
East  Fore  Deane,  or  Hill,  351  ; 
Escott  Common,  350;  Frankiyns, 
351  ;  Long  Haven,  351  ;  Long 
Lawne,  351;  Marsh  Cliff,  350; 
Marsh  Field,  350  ;  Maggot  mead, 
350;  Maggot  wood,  350 ;  Middle 
field,  351;  Noyses  Croft,  352; 
Redlands,  351;  Reeveland,  352; 
Stable  Mead,  350 ;  Swellis  Farm, 
352 ;  the  Thoungs,  350 ;  Town 
acres,  351  ;  West  field,  351 ; 
West  Fore  Deane,  or  Hill,  351  ; 
West  heath,  351;  Westham 
Wood,  350 


Van,  the  [co.  Glamorgan],  362 


W 

Waiston  [Maistpn?].   See  Marston 
Walcote  [in  Svvindon  ?],  24 
Wales,    Marches   of,    St.   Briavel's 

Castle,  Dynevor  Castle,  149 
Walford  [co.  Hereford],  120 
Wallingtord,  honour  of,  415,  416 
Waltham  Holy  Cross  [co.  Essex], 

Abbey,  117 

Waltham,  South,  manor,  221 
Wanborough,  Wandburogh,  66,  67, 

167,   260,   330,    535;    manor,   66; 

Church,  266;  Chapel  of  St.  Kath- 

erine,   411;     "le   Eastfield,"  66; 

Milne     mead,     273;     Wilkinses 

land,  67;    East,  461 ;    West,  461  ; 

free  fishery  in,  461 
Wandsworth  [co.  Middx.],  545 
Wanstead    [co.     Essex],     Tylney, 

House  at,  438 
Wanstrow  [co.  Som.],  59 
Wappenham  [co.  North.],  chantry 

at,  216 
Wardour,  Warder,  manor,  &c.,  85, 

373 ;    Castle  and  park,  373,  377, 

479 

Wards  and  Liveries,  Court  of,  130 
Ware  [co.  Herts],  198 
Warminster,  Weremensttr,  War- 
myster,  17,  23,  25,  75,  80,  81,  82, 
85,  86,  121,  157,  172,  275,  308,  313, 
322,  333-  349,  373,  423,  452  459, 
499,  5°°>  512,  5371  manor,  85, 
408 ;  advowson,  85  ;  hundred,  349, 
408;  Amicable  Society,  476  ;  But- 
cher's grounds,  499 ;  Morelyfield, 
499 ;  Topps,  499 ;  White  Hart 
Inn,  499 

Warwick,  Earldom  of,  419 
Watford  House  [co.  Herts],  436 
Watton  [co.  York],  Priory,  551 
Wedhampton,  Wadhampton,  Wed- 
dington  [in  Urchfont],  181,  285, 

35°,  353,  526,  529,  53i 

Wellesley  [co.  Som.l,  565 

Wells,  196,  363;  Cathedral,  142 

Wenelsford,  Welnesford  [Wils- 
ford],  and  Lake,  321 

Wenny  [co.  Glamorgan],  264 

Wertune,  457 

Wervetone,  457 

Westbury,  Westbyry,  Westerbury, 
6,  13,  14,  17,  23,  35,  36,  37,  59,  71, 
77,  78,  106,  107,  108,  109,  113,  168, 
184,  185,  247,  249,  251,  278,  281, 

3°7,  3°8-  3°9>  3IO>  3",  312,  314, 
316,  348,  349,  350,  353,  354,   384, 


624 


Index  of  Places. 


404,  405,  406,  407,  408,  409,  410, 

448,  449,  453,  497,  499,  503,    504, 
526,  528,  529,  557  ;    hundred,  73, 
74,  75,  76,  114,   154,  155,  160,  184, 
245,  246,  247,  248,  252,  309,  313, 

3*41  3'5,  3i6.  31?.  450,  45',  452. 
453,460,  500;  manor,  10,316,448, 

449,  450,  451,  452,  453  ;  "under  the 
Playne,"   38,    124,    155,   203,  204, 
205,  206,  313.  406,  461  ;  Arundell, 
manor,  316;  St.  Maure,  Seymour, 
313  ;  manor  and  farm,  316  ;  Vicar- 
age, 113;    Church  plate,  44;  "le 
Holte,"  453;    "Shamelhous"  in, 
451 ;  Shotestret  [Shortstreet],  71 

Westbury  Leigh,  Lygh,  Lye,  17,  71, 
77,  78,  245,  308,309,  310,311,312, 
3!3.  3M,  3l6,  409,  410,  451.  454, 
5°3-  5°4,  5°5,  5571  manor,  314, 
406 

West  cote,  Westcott  [in  Swindon], 
24,  124;  manor,  270 

West  Deane,  537 

West  Hacche  [in  Tisbury],  manor, 
86 

Westhrop  [in  Highworth],  77 

Westminster,  146,  148,  196,  197, 
249,346,  353-  362,364-  543  I  Abbey, 
148,  363,  435,  480 ;  Chapel  of  St. 
Edward  in,  148,  358  ;  Whitehall, 

'31 

Weston  Banfield  [co.  Som  ],  17 

Westport  [in  Malmesbury],  536 

Westwood,  80,  280 

Wexcombe  [in  Great  Bedwyn], 
manor,  146 

Whaddon,  Whadon  [near  Melk- 
sham],  84,  232,  537  ;  manor  and 
advowson,  321 ;  Church,  418 

Wherwell  Nunnery  [co,  Hants],  115 

Whetham  House  [in  Calne],  354 

Whichnor  [co.  Staff.],  193 

Whistley  Mill  [in  Potterne],  283 

Whitbourne,  85 

Whitby  [co.  Worc.l,  349 

White  Parish,   Whyt  Parysshe,  24, 

53.8 

Whitston  [co.  Devon],  80 
Whitley,     Whitly,      Whytley     [in 

Melksham],     19,    231,   233,   260  ; 

manor,  321 
Whorewaldowne    [Wherwells- 

down],  Hundred,  460 
Wick  [in  Bishop's  Cannings],  18 
Wick  [ near  Pewsey],  362 
Widecombe  [co.  Som.l  19,  120 
Wighill,    Wighall  [co.  York],  142, 

1 68,  170 


Wilcot,  Wilcote  [near  Pewsey],  384, 
537;  manor  and  advowson,  295, 
556;  Church,  295;  Vicarage,  276 
Williamstrip  [co.  Glouc.],  384 
Willesford  [near  Pewsey],  537 
Wilton,  9,  24,  250,  322,  323,  328, 
329,373.  377,  4!2,  567;  parish  of 
St.  Mary,  142,  421,  422;  St.  Nicho- 
las, 422 ;  Abbey,  290,  Chartulary, 
of,  1 88;  South  Street,  86 
Wiltshire  briefs,  90  ;  early  census 
of,  533-9;  description  of  376-7; 
family  arms,  471-3;  Feast,  48; 
Field  and  place  names,  334,  378- 
9,  380,  457-9 ;  Fines,  20-25,  84-7, 
123-6,  165-7,  231-4,  255-8,  320-3, 
372-4,  420-3,  459-62,  556-8  ;  Flem- 
ish names  in,  381  ;  Members  of 
Parliament,  428;  Quaker  Records, 
1 6-20,  79-83,  119-23,  162-4,  228-31, 
252-5,  317-20,  368-71,  423-6.  462-5, 
511-14,  546-9;  rivers,  376;  Roman 
remains  found  in,  278-9  ;  village 
and  wayside  crosses,  474  ;  vill- 
ages, collapse  of  spinning  indus- 
try in,  277-8 ;  Wives,  323-8 ; 
Wizard,  276-7 
Wimborne  Monastery  [co.  Dors.], 

293 
Winchester,   396,  437 ;   Church   of, 

454;  Cathedral,  97,  214,   215,216, 

217,  220;    See   of,   215;  College 

Rolls,  144,  archives  of  215  ;  House 

of  St.  Elizabeth,  219 
Wincolton,    523,    525;    Chalnham, 

525;  Witham-acre,  525 
Winkfield,    Wynfeld,  [near  Trow- 

bridge],  233,  537 
Winscomb  fco.  Som.],  120 
Winsley.    See  Wyneslegh 
Winterbourne,   260,   297 ;    Bassett, 

536;    Daimtsey,  47;    Earls,    125, 

506,  519,  538;  Gunner,  538,  manor, 

411;   Monkton,   231,  536;  Stoke, 

277,  279,  537,  Asserton  in,  374 
Winterslow,  260,  297,  538 ;  manor, 

321 ;  East,  322,421,  manor,  256; 

Roche    Court    in,   421 ;    Middle, 

421  ;  West,  322,  421 
Wish  [Wishford?],  502 
Wishtord,    Wyckfotd,    manor,   76; 

Great,  537  ;  Little,  124 
Witchampton,  manor,  34 
Wodebury  [co.  Devon],  manor,  194 
Wokingham,  166,  257 
Wolfhall,    Ulphall    [in    Burbage], 

3,  292,  354,  357 
Wolly  [in  Bradford],  121 


Index  of  Places. 


625 


Woiverton,    Wolveton  [co.   Dors.], 

201,  257 

Wolvesley  [near  Winchester],  219 
Woodborowe,  536  ;  manor,  &c.,  257 
Woodcott  [co.  Hants],  26 
Woodfalls  [in  Downton],  428 
Woodford,  86,  428 
Woodhay,  East  [co.  Berks],  191 
Woodland  [in  Mere],  373 
Wodlondyslelyes    ["le     lyes",    in 

Woodlands  ?],  in  Calne,  23 
Woodrovv,     Wodrewe    [in     Melk- 

sham],  233,  260;  manor,  &c.,  21, 

372,  423 
Woolmore,     Wolmcre    [in     Melk- 

shaml,  126,  233,  260 
Woore  [Oare],  372 
Worle.     See  Worton 
Worton  [in  Potterne],  124,  234,  328, 

412,  422,  557;  manor,  461 
Wootton    Basset,    16,   65,    66,    79, 

126,  352,  383,403,  536 
Wotton  Rivers,  537 
Wootten  under  Edge  [co.   Glouc.], 

388 

Worcester,  146 
Wraxhall,  81,  264,  466  ;  North,  536  ; 

South,   81,    184,   290,   old  manor 

house,  4 
Wrentham,  482 
Wroughton,  Worston,  142,  328,  329, 

330,    333.   43'.  454J   manor,  321, 


373-  456  ;  Church,  332 ;  Elyngdon 
in,  50;  Netherwroghton,  24;  the 
Ivory,  331 

Wycombe,  West  [co.  Kent],  219 
Wyke  [near  Tisbury?],  manor,  &c., 

25 

Wyllford,  24 
Wyllyngford  Wyke,  24 
Wylye,    Welye,    Weyley,   25,    501 ; 

manor     and      advovvson,      372 ; 

Church,  501 
Wymondham   Priory    [co.     Norf.], 

473 

Wyneslegh  [Winsley,  near  Brad- 
ford], 71 

Wytteney  [Wintenye,  co.  Hants  ?], 
church  oJ,  22 1 


Yarnbrook.    See  Yondebrok 
Yarnbury  Castle,  279 
Yatesbury,  71,  536,  557 
Yatton      Kennell     [Keynell],    536 ; 

Down,  459 
Yondebrok   [Yarnbrook,   in    North 

Bradley],  71 
Youghal  [co.  Cork],  398 


Zurich,  Lake  [Switz.],  488 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 


The  Genealogist,  edited  by  H.  W. 

Forsyth  Harvvood,  141-44 
Winchester    Long    Rolls,    C.    W. 

Holgate",  144 
Miscellanea   Genealogica   et    Her- 

aldica,    edited   by   Dr.    Howard, 

190-92 
Complete  Baronetage,  edited  by  G. 

E.  C.,  382-4 


Pedigree  Work,  W.  P.  W.  Philli- 

more,  384 
Alfred   in    the    Chroniclers,    Edw. 

Conybeare,  430-2 
Complete    Peerage,  edited  by    G. 

E.  C.,  477-80,  565-8 
The  Earldom  of  Wilts,  J.  H.  Met- 

calfe,  562-5 


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E.  K.  del. 
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