316 Customs of Wishford and Barford in Grovely Forest. 



Adam Atteford et Johannes de Bonham are named as occupants 

 of Wishford, in Brenchesborowe Hundred, in the Nomina Villariim 

 of 1316, holding their tenure under the Abbess of Wilton. 



An iron-bound Church chest, or coffer of Spanish oak, at Wish- 

 ford Church is mentioned in Wilts Arch. Mag., xxx., 155, as having 

 been represented in the Art Journal, Oct. 1898. 



In his serviceable Notes on St. Martin's Church, Salisbury, 8vo, 

 1906, Mr. T. H. Baker has printed in latin (pp. 139—40) and 

 English (pp. 163 — 4) some memoranda relating to Grovely and 

 Wishford and preserved in the parish chest of St. Martin's. 



In Groveling (or Grovely) forest : the custody of le North Bayley moiety, 

 as Grymesditch divides it (rents, &c. after the decease of W. Quintyn ; Esc. 

 •25 Edw. iii. n. 61 ; A.D. 1351) belongs to the manor of W^-cheford and has 

 house bote &c. ' and pasture for animals. 



Eo. Brent holds the manor, as of the Eoyal duchy of Lancaster, in socage, 

 by service unknown. Esc. 9 Hen. v. n. 25 (1421-2). 



W. Ruyntyn [? Quentin] of Wishford held 1 messuage, 60 acres of land, 

 3 acres of meadow, and 8s. rent in Great Wishford, in chief, by serjeanty to 

 be the King's forester in Grovely, and by service of payment of 2s. yearly at 

 Sarum Castle. Esc. 15 Edw. iii. n. 17 (1341). Ten years later, at his death 

 about 1851, his tenure in fee of his demesne is described as 1 messuage, 1 

 hide of land, 10s. rent, paying by service (besides the 2s. to the king) 20s. to 

 the prior and convent of Maiden Bradley. Esc. 25 Edw. iii. n. 61. 



In 1355, Nicholas Bonham established his claim to the stream and fishing 

 of the Wily, within the moiety of the manor of Great Wishford. Roll 19, 

 inter Placila cheminoriirn, 29 Edw. iii. Tally Office. 



About 1404-5 (Pat. 6, Hen. iv.) the King granted the Keepership of Grovely 

 forest, Clarendon park, &c., to John de Beaufort Earl of Somerset, and (after 

 his death in 1410) to Prince Humphrey (Pat. 11 Hen. iv.) 



Exemplification of Pat. 3 Ric. ii. (1379-80) ^os< mortem Eliz. Stubbere, as 

 to the custody of lands in the vill of Bereford St. Martin, and the bailywick 

 there, called le North bayley. Esc. 7 Hen. v. 1419-20. 



Other records have been noted by Sir R. Hoare, Modern Wilts, 

 {Branch and Dole), 209 ; {Dunworth), 226-7. 



*^* The word " parish " is a mistake for " diocese " in line seven from 

 the top of p. 292, above. 



' Dr. C. R. Straton remarks that this record at St. Martin's, Sarum, sup- 

 ports the supposition that the loads of wood brought back were really 

 house-hole (xxxii. 302) for the repair of the early wattle houses in the village, 

 quite apart from the boughs for the dance and the religious ceremony of 

 "bough-day." 



