Cadnam.. 389 



son, with remainder in default to [his elder brother] Sir John 

 Hungerford and his heirs in fee. 



Robert, the son, inherited these manors accordingly, which, at 

 his death, were found to be worth, Cadnam 16/., Studley 14/., or 

 30/. together, whereas the manor of Durnford was worth only 10/., 

 and the manor of Staunton but 40.s. It was, in fact, the possession 

 of the Cadnam and Studley estate which made Edward Hungerford 

 the younger son of a younger son, and his children and their 

 descendants after him, persons of consideration in the county. 

 Thus it is not without interest to endeavour to ascertain in what 

 fashion the property was acquired. 



In order to understand this it is necessary to refer to the rather 

 difficult genealogy of an entirely distinct group of families. It 

 appears that there was formerly resident in Cricklade a family, 

 not largely estated, not holding by knight-service, and accordingly 

 not finding place in Books of Aids and Inquisitions after Death, 

 but possessed none the less of a very respectable position, educated 

 at Winchester, returned from time to time as burgesses to parlia- 

 ment and marrying well, who took their surname from the town 

 of Cricklade itself. Two men of this race, Nicholas and Thomas 

 Cricklade, were cotemporaries, possibly brothers. Nicholas 

 Cricklade appears to have married an heiress, Agnes by name 

 and to have left issue, represented in 1514 by Joan, wife of George 

 Gilbert, who was seised in her right of a messuage called Marsh 

 Place, in Bishop's Lavington. Thomas Cricklade undoubtedly 

 married Alice, daughter of John de Stodlegh by Joan (married 

 before 1362) daughter of Eobert Walsh, of Langridge, co. Somerset, 

 and Landough, co. Glamorgan. 



Neither Alice de Stodlegh, nor Joan Walsh, her mothei-, were 

 heiresses at the time of their respective marriages. At some date, 

 however, before the year 1430, when Alice cannot have been much 

 under sixty years of age, she found herself sole heiress, not only 

 to the Wiltshire estates of her paternal family, but to the Walsh 

 manors in Somerset and Glamorganshire, subject to various life 

 interests originating in a variety of ways. 



References to a quantity of documents illustrative of the above 



