By the Rev. C. S. Ruddle. 341 
Margaret West, widow, dies 1557: she leaves to her daughter 
Agnes 2 acres wheat, 1 acre barley, one brass pot, one potenger, one 
saucer, one salt cellar, my wearing gear saving two kerchiefs, and 
one coffer. 
Ann Gardyng leaves to the high altar of Durrington four ells of 
bockeram ; to a friend one bockeram kerchief, and to various women 
a kerchief. She must have been a village milliner. 
William Gilbert dies 1571. His whole property bequeathed is 
valued at £8. He leaves to Mary Sweet a bee-stall: and the 
residue to his wife Johan, who is his executrix. 
But it is time to sing of greater things. In 1575 Philip Poore, 
Esq., became chief tenant of Winchester College, and his descendants 
held the West-end Manor till 1718. At the end of Elizabeth’s 
reign they took a lease of glebe and tithe, and at the beginning of 
James the First’s reign they took the East-end Manor also; so that 
for a short time all Durrington belonged to them. 
_ From the will of Philip Poore, of Amesbury, July, 1585, it seems 
probable that he bought the lease under the college for his son 
Philip, to whom he left the remainder of his goods and lands, and 
made him his sole executor. To his other son Nicholas he left the 
lease of a mill called “ Pavye’s hould and “South Mill,” growing 
crops, one thousand sheep, six horses, one cart, nine kine, five 
feather beds, and other domestic furniture, to his wife, besides 
other things £100 promised on their day of marriage. Provision 
was made for his daughters. Altogether he was a wealthy man. 
The Philip who lived in Durrington married Anna, daughter of 
Anthony (Richmond) Webb, of Manningford. She died 1613; but 
Philip lived to be 82, and died 1640. A stone with their joint 
initials, taken out of a pigeon-house pulled down in the last 
_ generation, is in the garden wall of Durrington House. 
His son Edward, of the Inner Temple, in 1609 married Margaret, 
daughter of Abraham Conham, Rector of Bishopstone and Canon 
of Salisbury, and Hester his wife, a granddaughter of T. Higbed, ° 
burned at Horndon, under Queen Mary. They had eight children: 
_ the youngest: died when three years old, as a brass—the only one 
in the Church for any of the family—records, The eldest son, 
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