Bjf Harold Brahspcar, F.S.A. 577 



as far as the ancient ditch and as far as the old road.^ This was 

 followed by two grants of two acres of quarry adjoining, from 

 Henry Crok, and two grants from Samson Bigod, of Box, of other 

 quarry land."- In 1241, on the day of St. John ante portam 

 Latinam " Kobert Abbot of Stanley in Wiltshire, and the Convent 

 of the same place give to the said Convent (of Lacock) one part of 

 their quarry of Haslebury, being in length seventy six feet and in 

 width that which was theirs, that they may take as much stone 

 as they can from that place in exchange for the other quarry that 

 tlie Convent bought of Henry Crok." ^ The exchange was doubtless 

 due to some convenience of access or division of the lands of the 

 two convents. 



These early quarries were tunnelled into the sides of the hills, 

 with surface adits, but are all now worked out and have given 



' Hail. MS. 84-85. (Richard I.'s confirmation charter). Tide Wilf.i 

 Arch. Mag. XV. 2QQ. Ex dono Walteri Crock totam quarrariam suam de 

 Haselberga a terra Sansonis Bigot usque ad antiquum fossatum et usque ad 

 veterem viam. 



- Harl. MS. 6716. (List of lands of Stanley.) Vide Wilts Arch. Mag., 

 XV. 261. 



Heselbiri. Samsonis bigod de la boxe de Quarraria de Heselbiri. 



Samsoni bigod de una acra terrse et quitaclamantia botarum 

 pro una lessa. 

 Heselbiri. Samsonis bigod de quadam alia Quarraria apud Heselbiri pro 



.i. pari botarum annuatim. 

 Heselbiri. Walteri Crok de tota Quarraria sua. 



Heselbiri. Henrici Crok de quadam area ad faciendum Quarrarium quae 



continet in longitudine . . . latitudinem ij. acrarum. 



Heselbiri. Henrici Crok de Duabus acris quae jacent ex australi parte 



Quarriariffi nostras. 

 Heselbiri. Abbatissae et Conventus de Lacoc de escambio cujusdam 

 Quarrariae. 



^ Lacock Cartulary , fol. 30 b. " Eobertus Abbas de Stanlega in Wiltesire 

 et conventus ejusdem loci dederunt eisdem Monialibus unam partem quarrariae 

 suae de Haselbyria, habentem in longitudine sexaginta et sexdecim pedes, et 

 in latitudine quicquid eorum fuit, ad eapiendam petram quantam inde capere 

 poterant, in escambium illius quarrariae quam Moniales emerunt de Henrico 

 Crok. Dat. anno gratis M°cc° quadragesimo primo die Sancti Johannis ante 

 portam Latinam." This quarry of Henry Crok is referred to in an earlier 

 deed in the same cartulary (fol. 30 h.) " Henricus Crok dedit eisdem inter 

 terrain domini Sampsonis de la Boxe et Walteri Campedene, cumlibero 

 ingressu et egressu quamdiu ipsa durare poterit." 



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