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receipt of 200 marks, transferred to Lord Hungerford the manor and 
advowson of Rowley. The deeds completing the transaction are 
dated “at Rowlegh a/ids Witnam,” the Feast of the Nativity of 
St. John, 7 Hen. VI., and six years afterwards, viz., in 13 Hen. VL, 
John de St. Maur Esq. (nearest of kin to the old owners) released 
in the usual way, any rights he might have in the Manor of Wytnam, 
« otherwise called” the Manor of Rowlegh. Lord Hungerford at 
the same time obtained a few acres in “ Rowley Field near Yforde ( 
_ (Iford), held of the Prior and Convent of St. Swithin’s, Winchester 
(this would be part of Westwood) ; and a small portion of land, also 
in the same field, held under the Prior of Henton Charterhouse. 
. This purchase was all-important to Lord Hungerford, then busy 
in finishing, at Farley, the castle which his father, Sir Thomas, had 
begun. For his own parish (Farley) being behind the castle, on the 
western side, the principal view from his new windows would be 
over the lands of Wittenham and Rowley. The castle park also 
lay that way extending for about a mile as far as Iford, and divided 
into two by the river. Part of Rowley alias Wittenham and the 
lands obtained from the two Priors above-mentioned, formed the 
Wiltshire side: and these (it is believed) are the lands which are 
now known as the “ Wiltshire Park Farm.” 
Tn 1555 (2 and 3 Phil. and Mary), Sir Walter Hungerford (a de- 
scendant) and Agnes, his wife, leased Rowley Farm to Christopher 
Bayly, for 40 years ensuing after the death of Elizabeth Lady 
Throckmorton, then wife of Sir Robert Throckmorton, widow of a 
former Sir Walter Hungerford. Christopher Bayly married Matilda, 
daughter of Thomas Horton, Esq., of Iford, and after his decease 
she re-married Walter Bush who was occupier of Rowley Farm in 
1583. It is described as lying in Rowley, Stowford, Westwood, 
_ Iford and the Moors (believed to be between Midway Farm and 
Trowle Common). Rebecca Bayly, granddaughter of Christopher 
by his wife Matilda Horton, was an heiress. She married, first 
Henry Long, Esq., of Whaddon, who died 1612: secondly, Henry 
Sherfield, of Salisbury, M.P.1. There are some fields (titheable to 
1 The celebrated Recorder of that city, who in order to show his dislike of the 
architectural decorations countenanced by Archbishop Laud, and on the plea 
