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heiresses (useful creatures) reverted to the Longs of Whaddon, 
from whom it has passed to the present owner, Richard Penruddocke 
Long, Esq., of Rood Ashton. A very interesting sketch of the old 
Court of Southwick is given in the Collections of Aubrey and 
Jackson. Some part of Southwick belonging to Edington Monastery 
_was held after the dissolution under Sir Thomas Seymour, Lord 
‘Sudeley, by Ambrose Dauntsey. The mortuary chapel appertaining 
to Southwick will repay an inspection. It contains the tomb of the 
Archbishop of Canterbury’s mother, Emma, sometimes called the 
~ gecond wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford,sen., and the interesting inserip- 
tion to hermemory still remains. At Coteridge in the tything of South- 
wick lived John Trenchard, who died in 1728, and who was the author 
of the “ Independent Whig.” Brook House Farm, two miles north- 
west of Westbury, is built on the site of an old house of the 
Paveleys called Brook Hall, which successively passed into the hands 
of the Cheneys, Willoughby de Broke, and Blount, Lord Mountjoy 
and others, and now finally remains in the hands of Mr. Phipps of 
Leighton. Dugdale says that Lord Willoughby de Broke took his 
title from his residence at Broke, near Westbury, called from the 
little “torrent” running there. From Aubrey’s description of Brook 
Hall, it must have been a place of some note, and Leland says it had 
a fair park with a number of oak trees of good quality growing in 
it. But on to Westbury—Placed near the site, or rather on the 
west of an old Roman site, it appears to have obtained the name of 
West-bury. Westbury is mentioned in Domesday Book, and held 
a most respectable position. It is curious to find in the record that 
there were nine honey gatherers especially named as then being 
among the inhabitants of the town. At that time, as T believe it is 
now, the honey made by bees who gather their store in the vicinity 
of and upon the Wiltshire Downs must have been in special request. 
Till Henry the First gave land to the church at St. Mary’s at Sarum, 
the whole of the manor and hundred of Westbury was in the hands 
of the king, and with scanty exception remained in possession of 
the Crown till King Henry III. gave all the remainder to Reginald 
de Paveley. His descendants held it for a long time, but at present 
the parish appears to be divided into six manors. The church is 
