334 The Society’s MSS.—Chiseldon. 
with the parish of Chisledon, and to this connexion may reasonably 
be attributed the subsequent residence there of his son-in-law, 
William Buckeridge, and the birth there—or, rather, in the 
annexed parish of Draycot—of John Buckeridge, his grandson, 
sometime President of St. John’s College, and Bishop successively 
of Rochester and of Ely. Besides his daughter Elizabeth married 
to William Buckeridge, Thomas Kibblewhite it will be seen had 
issue living at the date of his will a son John, a married man and 
with children, and yet another son-in-law, by name Arthur 
Redfern. The wife, Elizabeth, mentioned in his will, and whom, 
jointly with John his son, he constitutes his residuary legatee and 
executrix, was evidently not the mother of his children. She was 
the widow, as he states, of one William Curtise, identical, it may 
be supposed, with a testator of those names, whose will as “ of 
Bassildon,” was proved in 1576 in the Archdeacon’s Court. 
That Thomas Kibblewhite held his ‘‘farm of Badbury ”’ under 
the Crown, and that the Crown lease came subsequently to the 
hands of Arthur Redfern, above mentioned, his son-in-law, may 
safely be inferred from a document in the collection presented to 
the Society by Mr. Mullings. The document in question isa copy 
of the Letters Patent by which King James the First ‘‘ exemplified ” 
(15 June, 1607) to “ Arthur Redferne, gentleman, now farmer of 
the manor of Baddebury, aforesaid,”’ certain Letters Patent of his 
predecessors in favour of Glastonbury, to which religious house 
Badbury had up to the Dissolution belonged. The volume of 
“Tnquisitiones Post Mortem” now being issued to Members 
enables us to trace yet a further development in the history of this 
hamlet. In the reign of King Charles the First, it appears, a class 
of small freeholders, Gibbes, Lambourne, Harding, and Harding 
alias North, by name, had come into existence at Badbury. In 
the case of Robert Harding alias North, who died 12 May, 1631, 
we find proof that, as we should have expected, these small freeholds 
represented the break-up of a manorial estate. He died seised of 
the reversion, expectant on the death of Margaret Fox, of 34 acres, 
parcel of the demesne lands of the manor of Badbury, lately 
purchased of Thomas Redferne, gent. Similarly Nicholas Harding 
