262 Charles, Lord Stourton, Sfc. 



accurate. Instead of " advancing " Hartgill to be Ms steward, the 



case seems rather to have been that Charles Stourton dismissed 



him from the Stewardship as soon as he had the power to do so : 



and therefore if there was any fraudulent transaction it must have 



occurred in the lifetime of Charles's father, William Stourton. 



But with this reservation, there can be no doubt that the Manor of 



Kilmington was a primary cause of the feud between them. 



From Official documents we learn that the Manor belonged to 



the Abbess and Convent of Shaftesbury, William Hartgill being 



their Tenant in possession. At the Dissolution he wished to 



purchase it, and being at that time Steward to the neighbouring 



property of William Lord Stourton, through his influence Hartgill 



obtained what he wanted. William Lord Stourton applied to the 



Crown. Kilmington Manor was granted to him, and he obtained 



a License to transfer it to Hartgill. So far the matter is clear, as 



proved by the following Documents. 



Grant from the Crown to William Lord Stourton, 7th July 1543. 



(35 Henry VIII) \ 



(No. 11.) " The King to all, &c., greeting. Know ye that for the sum of £1264 

 2s. 6|d. of legal money of England paid into the hands of our Treasurer of the 

 Court of Augmentation of the Revenues of our down, for our use, by our beloved 

 William Stourton Knt., Lord Stourton, for which we admit ourselves fully 

 satisiied, &c. We by these presents, &c., have given and granted to the 

 aforesaid Wm. Lord Stourton, all that our Manor of Culmington alias Kylmyng- 

 ton with all its members and appurtenances in our County of Somerset. W^itness 

 ourselves, &c. at Westminster the 18th day of January." 



Two days afterwards he (William Stourton) had a License from 



the Crown to pass it on to Hartgill. 



(No. 12.) "The King to all, &c., greeting. Know ye that of our special 

 grace and for 13s. 4d. paid into the hanaper we have given licence to Wm. 

 Lord Stourton to alienate sell and confirm to William Hartgill To have and to 

 hold to him his heir and assigns for ever, all that his Capital Messuage and 

 Farm now in the tenure of the said Wm. Hartgill : the Barton, 2 closes : 

 pasture for 40 sheep on Kylmington Heath, " ac aliam coiam suiam" (««c) 

 wheresoever in Kylmington : a messuage and one close called " Medowes," two 

 called Hullyns-Heyes, late in occupation of John Modon: a pasture called 

 Dynys Calfe-hayes and Woldhayes, a wood called Church-grove late in the 

 tenure of Henry More : a messuage newly built by John More called Dynys : 



' Pat. Roll, 18th part, 35 Henry VIII., Memb. 36. William Lord Stourton 

 was a large purchaser of dissolved Monastery lands. 



