180 77ie History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



of the Lordship of the Manor. It by no means necessarily followed 

 that land originally belonging to the chief Lord should not 

 be alienated from the Manor, and become the property of others, 

 whilst the rights appertaining to the Lordship of the same were 

 retained by the original owner or his descendants.^ The tenant 

 by degrees came to exercise all the rights of the chief Lord, 

 compensating the latter by some annual payments. This seems to 



sole heiress of Ela, Countess of Salisbmy. The foUowiug extracts from the 

 pedigree of Edward of Salisbury, will shew this clearly. 



EDWARD of SALISBURY, 

 Skeriff of WUtshire. 



Waltrk of SAi,i8BUBY=SibiUa de Chaworth. 

 Founder of Bradenstoke I 

 Priory, A.D. 1142. 



Fatbick, I Earl of Salisbury, d. 1167. 



= (1) Matilda 



= (2) Ela, Widow of William, Earl Warren. 



William, II Earl of SaUsbury, Sheriff, 1190, d. 1195. 

 =Alianore de Vitrt^e, her second husband. 

 She married (1) William Paynell, and, 

 after the death of the Earl of Salisbury, 

 (3) Gilbert de Malesmains. 



ELA, Countess of SaUsbury,=WILLIAM LONGESPEE, 



Foundress of the Abbeys of 

 Lacock and Hinton Charter- 

 house, 1229, d. 1261. 



Earl of Salisbury, 



(Son of Hem-y II., by 



Kosamond Clifford.) 



William Longespfe II. 

 Slain at Massoura, 1250. 



William Longesp^e III. 

 Boiled in a tournament 1256, 



HENRY DE LACY,=MARGARET LONGESPEE. 

 Earl of Lincoln, and 

 (in right of his wife) 

 of Salisbury, d. 1312. 



THOMAS PLANTAGENET,= ALICE LACY, 

 Earl of Lancaster, d. ».^, 1348. 



' We have a similar instance of the Lordship of the Manor being retained in 

 the family of Edward of Salisbury, though much of the property originally 

 appertaining to it was alienated, in the case of " Bishopstrow." The Church at 

 Bishopstrow and a hide of land in that village, together with other property, is 

 particularly specified among the gifts of Matilda de Bohun, daughter of Edward 

 of Salisbury, to the Priory of Monkton Fai-leigh. The 3Ianor of Bishopstrow, 

 which was one of those belonging to Edward of Salisbury at the Domesday 

 Survey, descended in the male line to the Countess Ela, and was employed by 

 her in the foundation of the nunnery of Lacock. 



