480 The Societt/s MSS. Clyffe Pypard, Button. 



whole manor of Bupton, or possibly more correctly Great Bupton, 

 was once more re-united in one man's hand. 



In the previous year, 1600, as appears by the " schedule," Gabriel 

 Pile had acquired the ancient Quintin inheritance, or what re- 

 mained of it, in Bupton, or more correctly, Lower Bupton. Nos. 

 22 — 27, and 3-4 — 35, record what it is impossible not to consider 

 as a melancholy transaction. " All the mannor house and denieasnes 

 of Bubton " (No. 22) which from an age apparently so remote had 

 been the home of his ancestors, were sold by Henry Quintin. The 

 memory and the pity of it were still fresh when John Aubrey wrote. 

 It was a small matter so far as acreage is concerned. In the 

 Pile inquisitions printed below it figures as a messuage, garden, 

 orchard, and about l^^a. In tlie inquisition taken after the death 

 of Michael Quintin, in 1576, it is described as " a capital messuage, 

 wherein he was dwelling at the time of his death, in Bupton within 

 the parisli of Cleve Peperd, co. Wilts, 50«. arable, 50ft. pasture, 

 and 30«. meadow in Bubton aforesaid." 



Of the estate acquired in Bupton by Sir Gabriel Pile, whether 

 by inheritance or purchase, there is a detailed account in the in- 

 quisition taken after his death ; but before considering this docu- 

 ment we may as well dispose of one or two other, and earlier 

 notices of separate holdings in Bupton. Thus last on a list of 

 thirteen freeholders in the hundred of Cannings Episcopi,in 1607-8, 

 printed in this Marjazinc, (vol. xix„ p. 256), is entered "William 

 Harrold of Bupton gen'." Highway, which, as we have seen 

 aV)Ove, was also included in the bishop's hundred, occurs — and still 

 in Cannings hundred, in the same list. " Ralph HoUowaye of 

 Highway " is the freeholder, a curious blunder on the part of the 

 editor (Canon Jackson), the printer, or the MS., since beyond 

 doubt " Ealph Calley of Highway " is the person meant. How 

 William Harrold came by his qualification here does not appear. 

 Possibly by purchase from Pile, or possibly we have met here with a 

 trace of that (half) fee of William Bubbe, which confessedly we 

 have not accounted for : but exactitude in such cases is impossible j 

 it is enough if we recognise that there were acres to spare in 



