By the Rev. Chr. Wordstvortli. 315 



« N.B.—Th\B presentment I hadi from a paper I found all in my 

 father's own handwriting. 



" I found another presentment of the same nature under Mr. 

 Dennett's hand said to be taken at a Court Baron and Court of 

 Survey holden for Barford, 29 March 1632. 



" iV.^.— There was paid from the Earls of Pembroke before the 

 manor was purchased 13s., called, I think, Law Day Silver, as I 

 find in old rentals." [The use of this term may be illustrated from 

 St. Nicholas' Hospital rentals. See its Chartnlary, p. 293.] 



Mr. Wyndham adds from some record (not yet identified by us) 

 the following " item " relating to the pistrina communia, where, 

 presumably, the bakemeats were made ready for the village feasts 

 in connexion with the " scotales " and " clmrcli-houscs " as well as for 

 the general convenience of the neighbours, in days long gone by :— 



[x ] " Item. The Lords and the freeholders of Wishford and Barford for 

 themselves and all their tenants have an ancient custom always to fetch 

 wood from the Trench to the common ovens one in Wishford the other m 

 Barford as occasion is given to the neighbours to bake there and they always 

 did until Mr. Hoo's time'-^ at which time he began to spoil the wood of the 

 said Trench and ever since it hath been yearly spoiled more and more to the 

 great loss of the Inhabitants of the said parishes, and in the present year 

 Mr Hu-h Davis one of the Woodwards hath caused wrongfully to be cut 

 down the woods of the said Trench and sold the same away to strangers." 



There are at the British Museum Wishford Court Kolls of the 

 years 1391, 1392, 1454, 1457. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Modern 

 Wilts, Hundred of Dunworth, pp. 183—5, mentions two Stowe 

 MSS. relating to "Groveling," a Perambulation of 7 Edw. I. (1279)^ 

 and another of 28 Edw. I. (1299, or 1300), which in 33 Eliz. (1591) 

 was held to be the authoritative document. There is also one of 

 3 Charles I. (1627). 



1 The transcriber was Mr. H. Penruddocke Wyndham, M.A., M.P., F.S.A., 

 F.R.S. He was born in 1736 and died in 1819. He was SherifB of Wilts m 

 1772. 



2 Joan (sister of Sir Ric. Grobham, who d. in 1628) married J. Sowe, of 

 Compton, CO. Glouc, and succeeded to the Wishford estates in 1596. (Hoare, 

 Branch and Dole, 46). George Howe, a "servant" of the late Sir Ric. 

 Grobham, occurs in 1630, and there were Grobham-Howes with the 

 Chedworth title. 



