292 An English Manor in the time of Elizabeth. 



They then visited Paignton in Devon, taking on their way back 

 Stoke Trister, Cucklington, Chedsye, South Brent, and Huish, in 

 Somerset. Next year (the year began at Lady-day) they visited 

 Patney, Stanton, North Newnton, Hidcote, Wylye, Eidge, East 

 Overton, Fifield, Winterbourne Bassett, Eamsbury, East Eidge, 

 Whittenditch, Axford, Parktown, Baydon, Wilton, Broyle, The 

 Earldoms, Even Swindon, the Eorest of Groveley, Damerham, 

 Bollesborough, Alyngford, Twoyde, Tytpit, East Martin, Bishop- 

 stone, Knighton, Ebbesborne Wake, Netton, Croucheston, Throope, 

 and Stockton. A few years later they visited Shaftesbury. This 

 survey, closely written on one hundred and twenty-two skins, is 

 still in excellent preservation, and is in the muniment room at 

 Wilton House. It is written for the most part in the contracted 

 Latin of the period, and gives an accurate description of every 

 manor in the Seignory as it existed in 1562. At the beginning of 

 each roll is a pen-and-ink etching (9-^in. x 14in.), showing the 

 Earl sitting in a high-backed chair, dressed in fur robe and cap. 

 The commissioners, grave looking men in gowns, stand in front 

 with hat in hand, while the Earl gives them their commission. 

 Behind the Earl stands his son Henry, in wide trunk hose, and a 

 little dog is at his feet. This is the same little dog that is shown in 

 the portrait of the Earl in the library at Wilton House, said to be by 

 Holbein. Of this picture Aubrey says " This William (the founder 

 of his failiily) had a little cur-dog which loved him and the Earl 

 loved the dog. When the Earl died the dog would not go from his 

 master's dead body, but pined away and died under his hearse." 

 It is uncertain how long cur-dogs live, luit this dog must have lived, 

 to a great age if Holbein painted it, for Holliein died of the plague 

 sixteen years before the dog. This etching has a border with the 

 Earl's arms at the top, quartering those of Herbert, Gamm, and 

 Craddock. At each corner are the crests of Pembroke, Parr, and 

 Gwynn, and the Herbert badge — a bascule or Watergate. 



There are many other etchings within the rolls, among which are, 

 in the first roll, the east front of Wilton House with the old court- 

 yard and porch ; etchings of Eamsbury and Wardour Castle, and 

 the Churches of Wilton, South Newton, Foughleston, Chalbury 





