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Che Society's MSS. 
Chiseldon, «Kc. 
(Continued from Vol. xxxi., p. 68.) 
ESIDES original MSS. the Society possesses a few 
memoranda, draft pedigrees, &c., collected to illustrate 
_ the history of Chiseldon and the families settled there; and the 
question arises whether the reproduction of this additional matter 
is to be indefinitely deferred, till each and every item of it can be 
_ checked, or whether it can be permitted to find a place in these 
pages, with such amount of comment and embellishment only as 
the Editors’ lack of leisure permits. The substantial accuracy of 
it all there is no reason whatever to doubt, and the facts recorded 
are by no means uninteresting. It is only the form of much of it 
which may be considered unsatisfactory—copies of wills which do 
do not adhere, letter for letter, to the spelling of their originals, a 
lack of proper references, and so forth. Subject to these patent 
defects, the Society, it is hoped—for it has been decided to give the 
notes for what they are worth—will not consider the space thus 
occupied as out of proportion to the value of the material. 
In collections of Welsh pedigrees it is not unusual to find them 
grouped in two divisions. First of all there are the genealogies of 
those families who have the happiness of possessing true Welsh 
descents, while penned apart in the other are the Advene, or 
descendants of Normans who arrived in Wales Anno Domini 1099, 
or thereabouts, and who ever since have been regarded as intruders. 
In Wiltshire we are Advene to a man. A table of precedence 
might be framed for us, as for New England families, by the dates 
hen we “came over,’ or “came in.’”’ Now, in the case of the 
tincipal family at Chiseldon, which possesses a well-ascertained 
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