The Societi/s MSS. Chj_ffe Pypard, Bupton. 



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volume of the "Hundred Rolls" (p. 238) are printed lists of the 

 jurors for various hundreds. In that for Kingsbridge hundred we 

 find -Michael Bernard and William Parys (both landowners in 

 Broad Town), while their near neighbours at home, as we suppose, 

 William Quintyn and William Bubbe, figure instead in the list of 

 jurors for the hundred of Caninges, which, as this same record 

 tells us (p. 231), was " the free hundred of the bishop of Salisbury 

 belonging to his church of Salisbury of the antient feoftment." 



Kecapi tula ting these facts, we know that one John de Mellepeis 

 was tenant of the bishop of Salisbury for two knight's fees, whereof 

 one fee was held of Mellepeis' heirs by William Bubbe and William 

 Quintin in Clive. We know that a family of Quintin had lands 

 in Bupton which is in Clive, and we know that Bupton was from 

 some distant period included in the humlred of Cannings, which 

 was the bishop's hundred by service inter alia of ward of the castle 

 of Devizes, which castle, originally the bishop's, had been taken 

 out of the bishop's hands in Stephen's time and appropriated to 

 the Crown. We do not know, on the other hand, where the other 

 Mellepeis' fee lay. 



The evidence of tlie " schedule," with the illustrative documents 

 which follow, points to the existence of an estate in Bupton, held 

 of the bishop and by the service of one knight's fee, which was 

 certainly not Quintin's, and our working theory will be that the 

 second Mellepeis' fee was situate in Bupton, and that this is it. We 

 assume that whatever Quintin held in Bupton he held by service 

 of half a knight's fee, and that it descended from father to son, 

 being known as Lower Bupton, until its sale by Henry Quintin in 

 1600 to Gabriel Pile. Various settlements, &c., dealing with it 

 are summarized in the " schedule," of great value for the Quintin 

 pedigree, with which for the present we do not propose to deal. 



Of the lands held in 1255 by William Bubbe, presumably by 

 service of half a knight's fee, we have no further account. This 

 fraction of a fee is represented perhaps by various small parcels 

 of land in Bupton of which we find incidental mention. It 

 remains to be seen if we can put together any consecutive account 

 of what, by assumption, was the second Mellepeis' fee. 



