182 The History of the Parish of All Cannings. 



shillings annually in the time of peace, and in the time of 

 war he is bound to be in the said Castle for forty days at his 

 own proper cost, and then he will be free from payment of the 

 aforesaid ten shillings." — In the enquiry made some twenty years 

 later, 3 Edw. I., (1275), the Jurors then report, that " Richard le 

 Blund held a certain tenement in Hechilhampton and was wont to 

 do suit at the Hundred Court, but that for three years last past he 

 had withdrawn such service,"' to the damage of the King as Lord 

 of the Hundred of Stodfald.— In the Testa de Nevill (fol. 162 b.) 

 of the date probably of the early part of the reign of Edw. I., 

 (1272-1280), we have some particulars of sundry sub-infeudations, 

 — " Richard Blundel holds in Ethelhampton half a Knights fee of 

 Ralph de Wilitou, and he of Henry le V and he of the King." 



We are not able to trace this estate in the direct line of the 

 family of Blund ^ or Blunt, but as late as the 20 Rich. II., (1397), 

 " John, brother and heir of Ralph de Willington," evidently of 

 the same family as the mesne Lords under whom, according to 

 some of the above extracts, the Blunt family held, died siezed of 

 " half a Knight's fee at Hechilhampton." ^ 



So far then concerning the separate descent of these two estates. 

 It would seem that in 1316, according to the Nomina Villarum, 

 John Malwyn was lord of the manor of Etchilhampton. Nominally 

 there were chief Lords over him, but for all practical purposes he 

 was Lord of the Manor, compensating by a money payment the real 



registered as the owner of Laventone (WestLaviDgton), and the name remained 

 connected with that estate for some centuries. Thus in Test, de Nev. pp. 141- 

 153, we have one Knight's fee recorded as held (c. 1275) at " Laventon of 

 "William Blund by Roger Gernon." And in the Inquis. Nonar. (1340) we read 

 of ' Galfridus le Blount ' among the jurors in the account of the prebends of 

 Potterne and Lavington Episcopi. 



1 Hundred Rolls, ii., 273. 

 2 This family however, would seem to have been connected with this neigh- 

 bourhood from very early times. The name of " Blund of Echelhampton " 

 occurs in documents relating to the time of Richard I. (c. 11 96). Abbrev. 

 Placit., p. 18. The same may be said also of the family of Malwyn. "William 

 Malewain" is named in the record just quoted. In Hundred Rolls, 3 Edw. I., 

 (ii., 273,) "Walter Malwayn, Roger Lovel, and Bartholomew le Blund," are 

 named among the Jurors for the Hundred of Stodfald. 



^ Inquis. post Mortem, 20 Rich. II. 



