270 Notes on Durrington. 
Lordshyppe, Messuage, lands, heaths, and marshes for 99 years : 
paying £10 10s. 1d. for Duryngton; £5 for Knighton: Grene to 
discharge all duties to the king. 
The description umphes the old heathy condition of the down, 
and the marshes that preceded the water meadows. 
In the Durrington register there is a memorandum signed by 
William White, Minister of Durrington :— 
“The viii day of February 1605 after the [calendar] of the Church of 
England, but by the Almen{ac| 1606 was the possession of Knighton and 
Durrington given up by Robert Martin! farmer of the same unto Philipp 
Poore of the same Durrington gentelman to the use of Mr. Edward Poore 
his son in the presence of Henry Kingsbirie gent, Thomas Coopper of 
Knighton, and Thomas Martin w"* others.” 
In 1639 Edward Poore surrendered the lease of 99 years granted 
to Grene, and paying £150 he obtained a lease for 21 years on the 
same conditions. 
A survey of the manor in 1649 by the Parliamentary Com- 
missioners, Walter Foy, Jo. Squibb, Chr. Weare, and Geo. Fairley, 
shows its condition in detail. They report that eleven years are 
unexpired of the lease: that there is a court leet: and that the 
fines are arbitrary. The lord, or lessee for the time being, may 
fill up all copyhold estates during his term. The tenants are 
stated as follows :— 
William Reade, his wife, and Hannah Reade. Bad meadow and 
a little island, eight acres, now in possession of lessee. 
This holding can be identified: it was on the Avon near Milston 
Mill, just after the bend of the river towards Bulford. 
Philip Burges, by lease 11 Charles I., late in the tenure of Joan 
Lewis. 
No extent is given. It was probably a cottage and garden in 
the village which had the name of Burgess’. But none of the 
name remain here. 
Richard Graly, one-third of a cottage. 
Thos. Bennett a/s. Hooper, lease 7 James: cottage and land. 
Jeffery Glasse, and Hen. and Nic. Howard four acres. 

1 There were tenants named Martin in Henry Highth’s reign and onward. 
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