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9. The Morehampton Estate was sold by the late Sir Hungerford Hoskyni, 

 Bart., to the late Mr. Hamp, and is now again in the market. 



Appendix III.— The Possessors of Whitfield. —In the 17th century 

 "Whitfield was in possession of the Pye family of the Mynde, and was sold in 

 1754-5 to Mr. Booth, a conveyancer of eminence, and a friend of Lord Mansfield 

 (see Campbells Lives.) He first made Whitfield into a residence, hved there for 

 some time, quarrelled with his neighbours — and especially with Scudamore of 

 Kentehurch— about roads, and eventually sold the place in 1775 to Lady Catherine 

 Stanhope, daughter of the last Duke of Chandos, and grandmother of Sir Edwyn 

 F. S. Stanhope, and of the late Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, Bart., of Harewood. 

 In 1798 the late B. B. Clive, Esq., bought it, and at once removed there. 



The estate of Wormbridge came into the possessioii of the Clive family 

 by the marriage of George Clive, of Stych (Salop), in 1656 with the heiress of 

 Martin Husband. He was grandfather of Judge Clive and great grandfather of 

 the first Lord Clive. Wormbridge House was pulled down in 1798. A part of 

 the offices only remain, and are now made into a school and school-house. The 

 stables on the opposite side of the turnpike road — (now happily just freed from 

 turnpikes !) — have been converted into a farm-house. The church at Wormbridge 

 contains the monuments of most of the possessors of the property. It was cased 

 with stone, the tower rebuilt, and the inside repaired between the years 1860 

 Mid 1860 as recorded on a painted window in the vestry. 



