By the Rev. F. H. Manley. 289 
Richard Yewe sells a small property to the clergyman of that date. 
The last two of the family mentioned in the registers are Jane 
Yew, who died in 1727, and her husband William, in 1730. 
Tue Momprssons. 
The Mompesson family held a good deal of property in Somerford 
at the end of the 16th century, also “one moyetye or half part of 
the Manor of Somerford Magna.” 1 think the property here 
referred to must be part of the Manor of Somerford Maltravers. 
The pedigree of these Mompessons, of Corton, is given in the Wilts 
Visitation of 1565, ending there with Thomas Mompesson, who 
‘married Jane, daughter of Edward Mayo, of Fonthill. He was 
the father of the Thomas Mompesson mentioned below, who 
married Constance, daughter of Sir John Thorneborough. The 
family of Mompesson of Bathampton, Wilts, had long held much 
property in Seagry, through marriage with the Godwin and Drew 
families. A junior branch purchased the manor of Corton early 
in the reign of Elizabeth. Thomas Mompesson, of Corton, who 
died in 1582, obtained the Somerford property, probably by 
purchase, either directly from the Earl of Arundel or from John 
eowe. From a deed of 1609 we learn that the principal 
fe was ‘“Cockerell’s,” and the other farms were called 
‘Fletchers” or “ The Church House,” “all that messuage 
late in tenure of Thomas Hoskyns, all that messuage which 
sometimes was one Barne called Lucas, two messuages called 
“Culverhouse Place,’ and ‘ Blewette,’ and one tenement in 
Qecupation of Alice, widow of Thomas Poleridge.” Thomas 
Mompesson, of Corton, sold most of this property in 1609 to 
Nicholas Barrett, Esq., of Tytherton Lucas. His son, Kdward, 
gold “‘Cockerels”’ in 1627 to Mr. John Wells; in 1654 it passed 
) o Henry Grail, of Malmesbury, gent., who, in 1621, had married 
Mary Yewe, a niece of John Yewe, of Bradford, and was thus 
nterested in Somerford. By him “ Cockerells”’ was charged with 
i rent of £10 a year for apprenticing poor children at Malmesbury, 
nd from his grandson, Thomas Davys, gent., of The Bourne, Stroud, 
assed by purchase in 1687 to William Alexander. Mr. William 
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