The Societifs MSS. Chjffe Pypard. Bupton. 477 



111 the following year he added to his estate by the purchase of 

 a third of the manor of Bupton, bought in tlie name of Ambrose 

 Dauntesay and others of Robert and Margaret Edge : — 



3 Feb. 1526-7. Final concord, the morrow of the Purification, 18 Henry 8, 

 between Ambrose Dawncy, William Willyngton, Edmund Marvyn, and 

 Michael Dormer, querents, and Robert Edge and Margaret his wife, defor- 

 ciants, of a third pari of the manor of Bobeton, with appurtenances and of a 

 third part of three uaessuages, 200«. land 40«. meadow, 300a. pasture and BO.s. 

 rent, in Cleve Pypard alias Pypard Cleve. Robert and Margaret acknowledged 

 the aforesaid third parts to be the right of the said Ambrose, as those which the 

 «ame Ambrose, William, Edmund and Michael have by the gift of the said 

 Robert and Margaret, and released and quitclaimed them from them, Robert 

 and Margaret and the heirs of Margaret to the aforesaid Ambrose, William, 

 Edmund, and Michael, and the heirs of Ambrose, for ever ; and besides the said 

 Robert and Margaret granted for themselves and the heirs of Margaret that they 

 will warrant the aforesaid third parts with appurtenances to the aforesaid 

 Ambrose, William, Edmund and Michael and the heirs of Ambrose, against 

 all men for ever; for this, &c. Ambrose, William, &c. have given them 80^. 

 Feet of Fines, Wilts. File 13—20 Hen. 8, JSo. 27. 



It is clear from the above tliat the third was held by Eobert 

 and Margaret Edge in her right, and it is to be presumed, ac- 

 cordingly, that she was sister, or niece, of Elizabeth Pile. 



Eor some reason which does not appear the Dauntesays did not 

 long hold their purchases at Clyfte. On 26th April, 1530, according 

 to a note by Canon Jackson to Aubrey, William Dauntesay sold 

 the manor of Clyffe to John Goddard, of Aldbourn, gentleman. 

 On 21st October, 1531, as appears by the " schedule " (Xos. 17 and 

 18), he sold his third of the manor of Bupton, bought of " Eiehd." 

 Edge, to the same purchaser. 



Leaving this third, for the time, in the possession of John 

 Goddard and his representatives, and supposing another third to 

 be descending in the family, of Pile, we are concerned to discover 

 what was happening to the remainder. 



In the curious work entitled " Buchetiana," printed for that 

 indefatigable antiquary, the late Sir George Ducket, occurs (p. 240) 

 the following passage : — 



. . . S'. Lionel Duckett and his nephew Stephen were the first of the 

 Hartham branch who settled in Wilts. Still it is somewhat remarkable that 

 the name was known in that county before the coming of the Hartham and 

 Calstone line. In testimony of this we quote an extract from a letter of the 



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