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His grandson, the 3rd Walter de Dunstanville, obtained from 
Henry III. a grant of a market to be held on Thursdays for his 
Manor of Colerne. This Walter had livery of his father’s lands, 
at his death in 1240. He was one of the rebel barons taken 
prisoner at Lewes, and dying in 1270, left an only daughter, 
Petronilla, who married Sir Robert de Montfort, and had one son, 
William. She married 2ndly Sir John Delamere, or de la Mare, who 
held the lands as his wife’s till his death in 1313. Petronilla’s. 
son, William, seems to have thought that he was having to wait 
too long, for he sold the reversionary right to them to. 
Bartholomew Ld. Baddlesmere in 1300 or 1309, I do not know 
which, and so the Barony of Castle Combe, and Manor of Colerne 
with it, passed out of the line of the de Dunstanvilles, who had 
held it since time of Henry I. Ld. Baddlesmere was taken 
prisoner at Borough Bridge, and was executed at Canterbury, 
when his estates were confiscated and granted to Despenser in 
1322. The attainder, however, was reversed in 1326, and his. 
widow was reinstated pending the minority of her children. 
During the minority of her son, Giles, Colerne passed by 
exchange with and subsequent grant from Edward III. to Henry 
de Burghesh, Bishop of Lincoln, who was Lord Treasurer, and 
was finally dissevered from the Barony of Castle Combe. Colerne 
passed from him to his nephew, Bartholomew de Burghesh, who. 
married as his second wife Margaret, sister of Bartholomew Ld. 
Baddlesmere, and William of Wykeham bought the reversion. 
of the estate from his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward le 
Despenser, in the 11th year of Richard II., for 700 marks, and 
conveyed it to New College the next year, and the Manor has 
remained in their hands ever since. King Henry VI., in 1447, 
granted to the Warden and Scholars of New a market at Colerne 
every Friday, and a fair for three days on the Vigil, Day and 
Morrow of the decollation of S. John the Baptist, Aug. 28, 29, 30. 
Whether the Thursday market had dropped or not, I do not know. 
I have been told by an elderly man, Osberne, now living, that he 

