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Jittletoit anlr Paclileston: 



NOTES OF MANORIAL DESCENT. 



^j^ITTLETON is a parish in the vale of the Avon, a few 

 ^1^ miles north of Amesbury : and Hakeneston (corrupted first 

 V to Hackleston, then to Haxton, and Haxon) is a tything in 

 the parish of Fittleton. 



Sir R. C. Hoare in his History of the Hundred of Elstub and 

 Everley, pp. 24 and 172, has collected some particulars of the early 

 history of these manors, the chief portion of which had become, by 

 the year 1431, the property of the Darells of Littlecote. [See Wilts 

 Mag. iv., 226.] 



For the following particulars of their subsequent descent, we 

 are indebted to Richard S. MuUings, Esq., of Stratton, near 

 Cirencester, one of the members of our Society. 



It appears from ancient deeds that in 1553, temp. KingEdw. VI. 

 William Darell, Esq., of Littlecote (Wild Darell), was the pro- 

 prietor of the Manor, Capital Messuage, Farm, and Estate of 

 Fittleton, and that he then sold some portion of the estate to 

 George Fettiplace of the Middle Temple, London, Esq., in whose 

 family it continued until 1650, in which year John Fettiplace of 

 Coin St. Aldwyn's, in Gloucestershire, Esq., conveyed the same to 

 William Adlam of Crockerton, Gentleman, subject to the yearly 

 payment of a fee farm or Crown rent of £12. Mr. Adlam in 1665 

 resold to William Beach, Esq. 



It also appears that in 1599 another portion of the estate and 

 also the advowson of the parish church, which were formerly part 

 of the possessions of Sir Edward Darell, Kt., were sold by William 

 Stubbes of Watchfield, Berks, Esq., to the Rev. Thomas Jay of 

 Fittleton, Clerk, and in the 7th year of James I. the capital farm 

 of Haxton otherwise Hacklestone, and the Free Chapel of Fittle- 

 ton, and the Tithes of Corn and two parts of Wool and Lamb of the 



