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was wanted of the Manor House, as a feature of old English life ; 
and I must ask your forbearance, while I speak of the Manor 
history of Colerne, to make it more life-like. 
Turning to our earliest records, we find in the Doomsday 
Survey for Wilts, edited by Canon Jones, that Humfrey de Insula, 
or de L’Isle, owned it. ‘‘ Humfrey himself holds Colerne, Levanet 
held it in the time of King Edward. (What became of him ?) 
It paid geld for 10 hides. 
The land is 12 currucates. 
It was, and is worth, £10,” 
There are 3,855 acres in the parish. 
(Together with 26 other vills or manors in Wilts) it formed 
part of the Barony of Castle Combe, and was held in capite by 
Humfrey, who was one of the Norman followers of William, and 
was rewarded by a big slice of the booty. He was most likely 
the Liele of the Battle Abbey Roll. 
The entire Seignory descended by the marriage of Adeliza, 
Humfrey’s daughter and heiress, to the Dunstanvilles. One of 
them, in the reign of Henry I., built the Castle at Combe, Whets 
its site and ruins may still be seen in the park. 
A useful phrase in Mr. Scrope’s account of the Barony tides 
over the first century after the Conquest; he says :—“Some 
obscurity, however, envelopes the descent of the Barony in the 
first century after the Conquest.” It belonged to Reginald, Earl 
of Cornwall. He is called de Dunstanville by Ordericus Vitalis, 
a contemporary writer, and his mother may have been the above- 
named Adeliza. 
In 1194 Walter de Dunstanville died, leaving an infant heir, 
Walter. An aid was assessed in 1176 cn the towns of Wilts, and 
 Colerne contributed as one of those belonging to the Earl of 
- Cornwall, Reginald Fitzroy, alias de Dunstanville. His daughter, 
Ursula, married Walter de Dunstanville, his nephew (?), who 
theld the advowson of the living of Colerne and others i in 1190, 
‘the 2nd of Richard I. 
