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( Dorset), Sutton Mandeville, Staunton, Pewsey, and Mildenhall. 



In the second roll there is an excellent bird's-eye view of Wilton 

 in the sixteenth century, showing two of the Churches, the Shire 

 Hall, Rectory of St. Mary, Market Cross, Monastery Mill, St. 

 Michael's Bridge, tlie Pound and the Stocks. There are etchings 

 uf the manors of East Overton, Kuyghton, and Danierhani ; and of 

 the Churches of Dinton, Patney, AVinterbourne Kassett, Berwick 

 St. John. Wylye, Bisliopstone, and Danierhani. 



In the third roll there is a bird's-eye view of the town of Paignton, 

 in Devon, showing the Palace of the Bishop of Exeter, one of the 

 < hurches, and ships in the port. There are small etchings, also, of 

 Paignton Cliurch, and of tlie Churclies of Stoke Gabriel, Stoke 

 Trister, Cucklington, Donyett, and Chedsye, with etchings of the 

 manors and deer-parks of Stoke Trister and Donyett and the Abbey 

 uf Shaftesbury, then in ruins, with one of the Churches there. 



To pass from the lord to the manor. A manor was a district, 

 usually a parish, which was granted ]\y the Crown to a lord in 

 return for military services and other renders. When war Ijecame a 

 siience, and a standing army was main tahied, these knights' services 

 were commuted for a fixed payment, every manor according to its 

 .size being assessed at so many knight's fees, and in this survey we 

 have a scutage roll showing how the Abliess of Wilton assessed her 

 various manors for the war in Wales in the time of Edward I. — 

 1281. Each manor was at once a farm and a jurisdiction. Within 

 this jurisdiction the lord of the manor had the powers of a little 

 prince, and held his court-lmron for punishing misdemeanours and 

 redressing wrongs. The law that prevailed within a manor was 

 the law of immemorial custom, and a written custumal was kept 

 by the lord's steward and from time to time presentments of the 

 customs were made l»y the homage to the court if they tliought 

 tlicir rights were l)eing infringed. These old eustumals are often 

 referred to and quoted in the survey, and some of them date from 

 1314. 



Wlien the lord was the lord of several manors, then in addition 

 to each manor having its own local court, there was also a court 

 belonging to the whole lordship, and in the case of the Barony of 



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