272 Notes on Durrington: 
In 1659 a lease of the manor was granted to Thomas Nevill, of 
the City of London, woollen-draper. 
This lease Nevill. transferred to Edward Poore in 1661, and re- 
ceived £150; but in 1663 E. Poore, then of Bulford, surrendered 
Nevill’s lease and obtained a new one. 
1672. Edward Poore died at Ilton, Somerset, and left the manor 
to his nephew, Philip Poore, of Durrington. 
1673. Philip Poore took out a new lease for twenty-one years. 
It included power of holding courts leet, and views of frankpledge ; 
and required the same rent as before to be paid at the great west 
door of the Cathedral. This lease was renewed to Philip Poore in 
1682 and 1693: but he died 1693. His widow, Elizabeth, living’ 
in Salisbury, 1700, and at Stratford-sub-Castle, 1707 and 1714, 
took out a fresh lease or made renewal each time; and again in 
the year in which she died, 1728. Then it came to one of her 
unmarried daughters, Venetia. She spelt her name Venecia, but 
her gravestone gives it as Phoenicia. She surrendered the lease 
of 1728, and had a fresh one for twenty-one years in 1735. “On 
her death, 1741, it came to her cousin, Edward Poore, of New 
Sarum. He repeatedly obtained a renewal till 1777: and was 
followed, in 1784, by Sir John Methuen Poore, who died unmarried 
in 1820. His executors renewed in 1820 and 1827. In 1834 
Sir E. Poore, of Rushall, became lessee for twenty-one years: and 
it passed from his son to his grandson, Sir Richard Poore, who 
enfranchised the manor; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners having 
become over-lords by the surrender of the Capitular estates to 
them by the Dean and Chapter. There are among the papers of 
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners a fragment of a court-roll of the 
16th century, and records of courts held at intervals from 1714 to 
1785, but they contain nothing of public interest. 
THE CHURCH. 
It has already been shown that on Edward I. making a claim to 
the advowson the Prioress of Amesbury produced a charter of 
King Henry (Third ?) granting it to her and her successors. When 
Amesbury was dissolved, Henry VIII. gave the rectory to the 
