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Hawkins’ trustees about twelve years later and resided in the 
“ Culverhouse,” the house now owned by Mrs. Belcher and occupied 
by Mr. C. Dee. In 1714 the son, Henry Pike, then living at 
Westweeke, in Pusey, was married to Elizabeth Marshall, of 
Ruckley, in Ogbourne St. Andrew. By his will of 1763 Henry 
} Pike left his “Culverhouse” property to his eldest son, John, 
This John Pike greatly enlarged the family estate. Before his 
death in 1778 he had purchased the “Grinfield Estate,” Mill’s 
Farm, The Grove Farm, and Gibbon’s—the last two being at 
Startley. The “Grinfield Estate,” which I have mentioned 
before, consisted of about three hundred and thirty acres of land 
and the house near Somerford Bridge. Some of this land, with 
the house, William Grinfield, Esq., of Marlborough, M.P. for that 
borough,! had purchased from the Brunings in 1670 and the rest in 
1692 from Thomas Petty, clerk, of Langley Burrell, and Ann, his wife, 
the widow of Nathaniel Aske. Edward Grinfeld, Esq., of Ogbourne 
St. George, came into possession on his father’s death intestate, and 
himself dying in 1759 left to Steddy Grinfield, his eldest son, “ All 
that manor or reputed manor, farm land hereditaments at Broad 
Somerford, and all his lands and hereditaments at Little 
Somerford.” In 1773 John Pyke bought this estate from Steddy 
 Grinfield, Esq., for £4,2000. Mill’s Farm was part of the Jason 
property and then in the tenure of Richard Winckworth, whose 
only daughter Sarah, bought it in 1698 from Sir Richard Hawkins’ 
trustees. She married, in 1699, John Miles, of Cleverton, wool- 
stapler, who sold it eight years after, saddled with a mortgage of 
£320, to Thomas Pike, of St. James’, Middlesex, gentleman, for 
£125 10s. 6d. His granddaughter, Mary Leet, sold it in 1767, for 
£960 to Mr. John Pyke. It consisted of something over twenty 
acres of land with four beastes leazes in New Lease. This 
messuage, which was situated at the back of the Culverhouse, has 
now disappeared. The Grove Farm at Startley had been pur- 
’ The connection of this family with the Goddards of Hartham is given in 
Burke’s Hist. of Comm. of Grt. Br., vol. iv. 
