214 Early Annals of Trowbridge. 
being in the possession of Edward of Salisbury, a great Norman noble, 
who was Vice Comes, or Sheriff of Wiltshire, and had no less than 38 
manors in this county. How he acquired ¢4zs manor, whether by grant 
from the crown, or by purchase, I have not been able to ascertain. 
In a document of the date A.D. 1120—11380 it is enumerated 
amongst those estates which were of hs own acquisition in contra- 
distinction to those which he enjoyed by inheritance, and this looks 
rather as though he had purchased it. 
Edward of Salisbury left two children,a son, WALTER OF SALISBURY, 
who founded the Priory of Bradenstoke and subsequently himself 
assumed the tonsure and habit of the canons there,—and a daughter, 
Matitpa, who married Humphrey de Bohun, and with her husband, 
in the year 1125, founded the Priory of Monkton Farleigh. Through . 
this marriage the Bohun family became possessed of considerable 
property at Trowbridge and elsewhere in Wilts. The Lordship of 
the manor however still vested in the family of Edward of Salisbury.1 
The descent of the manor from that time to the present can be 
easily traced. The lordship of the manor has been held by not a 
few distinguished personages. After three or tour immediate de- 
scendants of Edward of Salisbury, it came to the celebrated Ena, 
in her own right Countess of Salisbury, the foundress in one day of 
the abbeys of Lacock and Hinton Charterhouse. By her marriage 
with William de Longespée, son of King Henry II. by Rosamond 
Clifford, it came ultimately to Margaret de Longespée, who, by her 
marriage with Henry Earl of Lincoln, took the manor into her 
husband’s family. Their only daughter Alice Lacy married Thomas 
Earl of Lancaster, and he became consequently possessed of the 
manor of Trowbridge. This Earl was beheaded at Pontefract 
in 1521, and all his honors forfeited. After some temporary grants 

1 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 to the Priory of 
Monkton Farleigh. The Manor of Bishopstrow, which was one of those be- 
longing 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. 
