The Society's MSS. Clyffe Pypard, Bupton. 467 



ill 1610, the young man is described as " son and heir apparent of 

 Gabriel Pile of Dington, Wilts, Knight." Frankly, 1 do not un- 

 derstand the matter. I know nothing of the history of Bapton. 

 I can affirm that all that follows refers to Bupton in Clyffe. I 

 presume that there is a confusion. But why, after all, does an 

 entry in the schedule mention " the manner of Bobbeton which he 

 had in Fisherton " ? 



In the printed " Testa de Nevill (p. 1526) occurs the entry : — 



Willelmus et Willelmus Quintin tenent in Olive feodum unius militig de 

 herede de Muleples et ipse de episcopo Sarisburiensi et episcopus de rege. 



On comparison of this passage with the original it appears that 

 it is printed correctly; bub that the entry is itself incorrect, and 

 moreover that it can with certainty be emended from another and 

 a contemporary return, there can be little doubt. A long list of 

 persons are "presented" in 1255 as witholding services due in 

 respect of tlieir fees and among them William Quyntin and William 

 Biibbe in respect of a knight's fee in Clyve. 



In the Eed Book of the Exchequer, as printed (Rolls Series) 

 p. 236, occurs the entry : — 



Wiltescira. Carta episcopi Sarrisburiensis. Hii sunt inilites de episcopo 

 Sarrisbiriensi tenentes et antiquitus feffati : — . . . 



Johannes de Mellepeis ij milites. 



From tliese entries we learn that the Muleples or Mellepeis 

 holding consisted of two fees, whereof William Bubbe and William 

 Quintin held one between them in Cleve or Clyve. We may 

 incline to the belief that the other Mellepeis fee is to be looked 

 for in the same place, but upon this point we have no further 

 information. That the " Cleve" or "Clyve" in question was the 

 " Cleve " now distinguished from others as " Clyffe Pypard " may 

 confidently be asserted. The " schedule " is there to inform us 

 that the family of Quintin had for many generations held land in 

 Bupton, which lies in Clyffe Pypard, and we know that whereas 

 Clyffe Pypard was locally and for the most part administratively 

 (Bushton is another exception) in Kingsbridge hundred, Bupton 

 was administratively in the hundred of Cannings, as also Highway 



