222 Thomas Stevens, " Primus in Lidis." 



Bushton, Hame, "Westwoode, Little Hinton, Easte Overton, Fififilde, 

 Wroughton, Everleighe, Collingborne Ducis, Stocketon, Alton & 

 Stowell, Netherhaven, Patney, Fittellton. 



Bushton, in which the missionary's father lived, I identify with 

 the place still called by that name, in the parish of Clyffe Pypard, 

 Wilts. A family named Spackman formerly resided in this 

 Bushton. (See Aubrey's Collections for Wiltshire, by Jackson, 

 p. 166.) The name occurs constantly in the registers of Clyffe 

 Pypard from 1582 down to the present day. Two charities left 

 by persons of the name are still enjoyed by the inhabitants, and 

 the name still exists in the parish. 



I was puzzled by finding Bushton placed in the assessment rolls 

 of 1571 under the hundred of Elstub and Everley. No Bushton 

 is mentioned in the section of Hoare's Modern Wiltshire devoted to 

 that hundred ; and according to Jones's Domesday for Wiltshire, 

 p. 207, the manor of Bushton, in Clyffe Pypard parish, is in the 

 hundred of Kingsbridge, the hundred in which Clyffe Pypard is 

 placed in the same assessment rolls. I am indebted to Mr. 

 Anthony Story-Maskelyne for the following elucidation of the point: 



" In the Wilts Arch, and Nat. Hist. Society's Magazine, xix., 259, 

 there is a list of freeholders in the county in the years 1607-8, 

 arranged by hundreds. Under Elstub and Everley is entered 

 ' Eichard Hunton, of Bushton, Esq.' A pedigree of Hunton is 

 entered in the Visitations of Wilts for 1565 and 1623. The 

 ' Bushton ' where this family resided (after removing from Knoyle, 

 in South Wilts) was certainly Bushton in Clyffe Pypard, and there 

 was formerly a monument in Clyffe Church to Eichard Hunton, of 

 Bushton, gent., who died in 1604-5. Apparently, the hundred of 

 Elstub, called by Jackson ' one of the ragged hundreds,' consisted 

 originally of the possessions, wherever situate in the county, of the 

 monastery of St. Swithun, of Winchester, and the prior was lord of 

 the hundred. Thus Bushton, though only a hamlet, and situate 

 locally in the hundred of Kingsbridge, was included in the hundred 

 of Elstub, as it was owned by St. Swithun's." 



In the assessment roll (4gj-) ^^r the subsidy of 18 Eliz. (1576), 

 the list for Bushton includes the name of "Thomas Stephens," 



