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can point out the place where it stood ; namely, in what is now an 

 orchard, to the north of the Pewsey road. In the dry summer of 

 1847 the outlines of the foundations were distinctly traceable 

 through the turf. It was a small building, consisting only of a 

 Nave and Chancel. 



Old Families. 



There is but one family named, in the Heralds' Visitations for 

 Wilts, as belonging to AUington, — that of Provender. Of their 

 history we know no more, than of those we have mentioned, a few 

 pages back, as holding lands in this part of the Parish of All 

 Cannings in early times. The pedigree, which is given, as well in. 

 the Visitation for 1565 as in that for 1623, carries the family back 

 to the time of Edward III. The name, under the form " Proban- 

 der," occurs in the All Cannings Registers at the end of the 16th 

 century. [See above, p. 32.] One of their number, who was 

 married to a daughter of John Burdon, already spoken of (p. 11), 

 as Lessee of the Manor of All Cannings at the end of the 16th 

 century, was the first who is described as of AUington. The family 

 would seem to have remained there, or at all events have been con- 

 nected with the place, for three generations, when the name 

 became extinct by the marriage of Grace, the daughter and heiress 

 of George Provender, early in the 17th century, to Richard 

 Franklyn, of Woodborough. 



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