468 The Society's MSS. Clyffe Pypard, Button. 



is, or was, the reason in both cases being the same, viz., the rights 

 there of the bishop of Salisbury, though these rights originated 

 apparently at very different dates, at Bupton in the very earliest, 

 at Highway, in comparatively recent (A.D. 1220) times. 



That Bupton was at a very early period administratively in the 

 bishop's hundred of Cannings is in reality an inference only so far 

 as the available evidence extends. It is assessed to a subsidy, 

 as we shall shortly see, as part of Cannings hundred, in 1428, and 

 this is the earliest definite mention of it as i\\ that hundred which 

 I can for the present produce. As to the inference, it has already 

 been excellently stated by Archdeacon Macdonald in this Magazine 

 (vol. vi., p. 127), in the following words : — 



" At the Court of Cannings, the Farm of Bupton (in the parish of Cliff 

 Pypard, but Hundred of Potterne) used formerly to render an annual payment, 

 as holding of the Bishop. Bupton belonged for a great many years to an 

 old family of the name of Quintin : so far back, it would seem, as the Domesday 

 Survey : for in the extract from that Record relating to the Bishop's manor 

 of Cannings (or Kainingham) given above, among the landowners under the 

 See, appears the name of 'Quintin, 3 hides.' The payment of Is. 6d. 

 ' Lawday silver,' for Bupton continued to be made so late as 1661." 



In this same article by Archdeacon Macdonald the story of 

 Devizes Castle is also told, how it was built by tlie bishop and 

 was parcel of Cannings, how it was taken by Stephen, offered to 

 be restored by Maud, and actually retained (A.D. 1149) by Henry, 

 together with, and this is the point that interests us, the services 

 of the knights of the bishop's manor of Cannings. The matter 

 obviously was not fully settled a hundred years later, as appears 

 by the inquisitions made at Wylton, Saturday after St. Peter ad 

 Vincula, 39 Henry III. (7th August, 1255), printed in the 

 " Himdrcd Rolls:' Thus (vol. ii., p. 236) the twelve jurors from 

 the Borough of Devizes present the tenants of fees in Bishops 

 Lavington, Pottern, Cotes, Horton, &c. — tenants, that is to say, of 

 the bishop of Salisbury, for default of castle guard of Devizes 

 during thirty years past, and, last on the list, very naturally, for 

 it was an outlying holding, " Willelmus Quyntin et Willelmus 

 Bubbe de feodo unius militis in Ciyve" — the entry we relied on, 

 above, for emending the passage in the " Testa^ In the same 



