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two closes called New-liayes, with all rights and privileges whatsoever : All ia 

 Kilmington and late belonging to the Monastery of Shaftesbury : To hold of us 

 and our heirs : Witness, &e., at Westminster 26th January." • 



Being held of the Crown, the manor could not be alienated 

 without this License : but a conveyance from William Lord 

 Stourton would also be required. Presuming the License to have 

 been followed up by the conveyance, it would then seem from this 

 evidence that the manor was never in the possession of Charles 

 Lord Stourton. But it is certain that on succeeding to his father's 

 Estates at the end of the year 1548, he had some lands of his own 

 in Kilmington, and also the separate manor of Norton Ferrers in 

 that parish : and that he held Manor Courts for both. This 

 appears from the original parchment Court Roll, dated 8th April 

 1549 (a few months after his father's death), now among the 

 Marquis of Bath's Deeds at Longleat. 



(No. 13.) KiLMiNGTOS. The First Court of the Manor of the Right Honour- 

 able Charles Stourton, Knight, Lord Stourton, held there on the 8th day of 

 April in the 3rd year of Edw. vi., &c. 



At this Court the Homage present that William Hartgill is cited to show at 

 the next Court by what right he claims common of pasture for 100 sheep upon 

 the Rectory. 



And at the Court held the 9th April for the Manor of Norton Ferrers in the 

 parish of Kilmington the Homage present that William Hartgill is one of the 

 Freeholders there. But he is cited to show by what right he claims to hold 

 one acre called the Black Acre under Knoll Hill and Ten Acres there which the 

 Homage say he holds unjustly. (From the Latin.) 



About this Manor they certainly quarrelled. Whether it was 

 that Charles Stourton suspected some flaw in Hartgill's title, or 

 that he conceived himself to have been injured by Hartgill's having 

 used some undue influence in obtaining the said Manor from his 

 (Charles's) father, we have no means of knowing. But it will 

 appear from the documents connected with this story that, in the 

 lifetime of William Lord Stourton, Hartgill had been entrusted 

 with the absolute management of the estates, without even ever 

 being called to account for the same (see No. 19), also with pur- 

 chases and sales thereof : that several of the Stourton estates were 

 sold during his stewardship and that he obtained for himself from 



♦ Pat. Roll, 18th part, 35 Henry VIU., Memb. 48. 



