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By E. 0. Pleydell-Bouverie. 



I found the two appended documents among papers that were 

 disinterred from the Manor House, Market Lavington, such 

 resurrection being due to the final closing down of the Bouverie 

 interestin that house and its furniture, &c.,and the consequent de- 

 sirability of divesting the receptacles of papers which had a 

 family or other interest. I venture to think both have interest, 

 local and historical. 



The first document is endorsed '•' The King v. Williams on the 

 prosec" of Axford. Case." And on the packet containing both 

 documents, in my father's (the late Et. Hon. Edward P. Bouverie) 

 handwriting is written "These papers were given to me by Mr. 

 Benjamin Hay ward, of Easterton, 1876." This Mr. Hayward, who 

 lived to a great age, and died shortly after this date, was a yeoman 

 farmer and resided in a charming little seventeenth or early 

 eighteenth century house, which still exists with its architectural 

 attractions, on the west side of the lane running north alono-side 

 of the Royal Oak Inn, at Easterton. The taste of the later 

 Victorian period has, I think, done the house some injustice by 

 calling it " The Kestrels," though it may be that the ornithological 

 researches of the then proprietor justified him in this nomenclature, 

 and I believe the present occupier — Mr. Selfe — adheres to the 

 name which he found recently attached to the house ; but there 

 are perhaps few houses of so small a size in the South of Encrland 

 where the architect has been allowed to exercise the style which 

 is associated with Inigo Jones and his successors. Mr. Hayward, 

 who was well over 80 years of age, no doubt had frequently talked 



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