34 Sonihwick Court, Cjitteridge, and Brook House. 



Though it has never been fully proved who was the author of 

 these fires, or who kept up this cannonade of stones, it seems pretty 

 clear that a servant girl was the cause of all these troubles. She 

 was servant at Southwick Court when the fire took place there, and 

 also at Pole's Hole, when both the fires broke out there ; this at 

 least is certain that after she left, no more fires occurred, and Mr. 

 Perrett could safely visit his premises after dusk without being 

 pelted with stones. 



CuTTEEiDGE. About a mile to the S.W. of North Bradley Church 

 are the remains of the fine old mansion of Cutteridge : it is still 

 conspicuous in the Ordnance Map — its three fine avenues of limes, 

 and string of fish-ponds being shown thereon. A note in Canon 

 Jackson's Aubrey gives us this information respecting Cutteridge , 

 "The owners have been, Edington Monastery; John Blanchard, 

 1395; Francis Townsend, Esq., 1604; the Trenchard family of 

 Wolverton (in Charminser, Dorset) from about 1655.'' The pro- 

 perty ultimately came into the hands of John Ashfordby Trenchard, 

 of Stanton, and Walter Long of Preshaw, whose mother was the 

 heiress of Hippisley Trenchard, the latter of whom took Overcourt 

 Farm, and the former Cutteridge : and both were purchased by Mr. 

 John Whittaker (the grandfather of Frank Whittaker Bush) in 

 1807. The titles of two surveys relating to Cutteridge have kindly 

 been shown me by T. B. Saunders, Esq., who, as trustee holds the 

 Cutteridge title deeds ; the first reads thus, " The view or Survey of 

 the site and manor of Cutteridge, Honeybridge, Bradley, Southwick, 

 Broker's Wood and Rudge in the County of Wilts, taken by G. 

 Curtis, Surveyor of the said manor, appointed for the same by 

 Thomas Champneys, Esq., Lord of the said manor, given by the 

 others of the hole homage and customary Tennants of the same 

 manor at a Court holden there the vii. day of Marche in the xxxviii. 

 yere of the raigne of our Soveraign Lord King Henry Eight " (N.B. 

 1547, the year of the King's death) . The other title reads thus : 

 " A survey taken of the mor of Cutteridge, Wm. Trenchard, Esq., 

 the xxvi. day of January in the xx.fyear of the Raigne of our 

 Sovereign Ladie Elizabeth, the Queen's Majestic that now is." 

 (1578.) 



