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here, so these inquisitions show the task completed, the exact 

 number of acres, and by what purchases, acquired. The parcels 

 are enumerated separately, according to the source from which 

 they were respectively derived. The difficulty is, after allowing 

 for the lands bought from one man or another, to discover the 

 residue which, upon our theory, and upon the evidence of the 

 pedigree, is to represent what came by inheritance from Home. 



Inquisition taken at Reading, co. Berks, 5th April, 3 Charles (1627) before 

 Ambrose Sheppard, esq., escheator in the said county, by virtue of a writ of 

 diem clausit (12 Feb., 2 Charles, 1626-7) after the death of Gabriel Pile, knt. 



The said Gabriel Pile, knt., long before his decease was seised in fee of: — 



The manor and advowson of Compton alias Compton Beauchamp, co. 

 Berks ; 



The manor of Knightington alias Knighton, co. Berks ; 



The manor of Axford, co. Wilts; 



The whole prebend of Axford, in the parish of Ramesbury, co. Wilts, a 

 messuage, two cottages, three gardens, an orchard, 80a. land, 40a. meadow, 

 and 60a. pasture in Axford and Ramesbury, co. Wilts ; 



A messuage, a garden, an orchard, 50a. land, 40a. meadow, 70a. pasture, 

 and 6a. wood, in Lower Bubpton alias Bubbeton, Woodhill and Corston 

 alias Corton, co. Wilts, lately bought by the said Gabriel Pile of Henry 

 Quintyne, esq. ; 



A messuage, a cottage, two gardens, 19a. land, 3a. meadow, 16a. pasture, 

 and 10a. furze and heath, in Cleve, co. Wilts, lately in the tenure of one 

 Hooper and one Short ; 



A messuage, a garden, an orchard, 23a. land, 4a. meadow, and 12a. pasture, 

 in Yeatsebury, co. Wilts, late in the tenure of one Stephens ; 



A cottage, and 5a. land in Cleeve aforesaid, late in the tenure of one 

 Short ; 



A cottage, 8a. land, 3a. meadow, 11a. pasture, in Titcombe and Colling- 

 borne Kingston, co. Wilts ; 



and being so thereof seised, by his last will dated 12th April, 1623, 21 

 James, bequeathed the same to Francis Pile, Thomas Pile, William Pile, 

 and Gabriel Pile, his sons, successively, in tail male, with remainder in 

 default to the said Francis and his heirs. 



The said Gabriel Pile, Knt., long before his decease was seised in fee of: 



A messuage, a garden, 36a., land, 12a. meadow, 80a. pasture, 10a. furze 

 and heath, in Brodtowne, commonly called " Brodtowne Farme," co. Wilts, 

 late in the tenure of Roger Spackman ; 



Two messuages, two tofts, two gardens, two orchards, 100a. land, 20a. 

 meadow, 100a. pasture, 10a. wood, and 10a. furze and heath, in Bubpton 

 alias Bobeton, Woodhill, Corston alias Corton and Cleve, co. Wilts, lately 

 purchased by the said Gabriel Pile, knt., from Thomas Goddard, gentleman ; 



A messuage, a garden, 86a. land, 10a. meadow, 110a. pasture, 10a. wood 

 and 100a. furze and heath, in Bubton and Cleve, commonly called Great 

 Bubpton, CO. Wilts, late in the occupation of John Kingston; 



