42 Westbury under the Plain. 
history is rather curious. It is a formal deed in Latin, a sort of 
letters patent, proclaiming (as such documents begin) to all the 
faithful in Christ that Walter Pavely binds himself to supply Roger 
Marmion every Christmas as long as he (Marmion) lives with a 
furred robe after the pattern of that worn by the other Esquires in 
attendance upon him. In consideration of which dignity Marmion 
was to give up any claim he might have to a certain one hundred 
acres of land, and pay one mark of silver every year. A train of 
young Marmions in furred robes in attendance upon him gives one 
an idea of the dignity of the chief esquire of Westbury in those 
days. The formal grant of an annual dress, secured by a solemn 
document, was quite a common custom then. In many of what are 
called the wardrobe accounts of the Royal household we find legal 
documents regularly drawn up in Latin and registered, in which 
are prescribed most carefully how many yards of cloth or silk, fur, 
ermine or rabbit skins, as the case might be, were to be used for such 
and such an officer. The last male heir of the Pavely family died in 
1361, and left two coheiresses, Alice and Joan: and here begins the 
splitting up of estates which I alluded to before: with which, 
however, we must deal very briefly. Alice married, and left three 
daughters co-heiresses of her share; and one of those daughters 
married and left two more co-heiresses: so that in course of time 
Alice’s original half of the Brooke House cake got cut up into very 
thin slices indeed. The story of the descent from her is simply a 
labyrinth of pedigree. It is enough to say that to Alice Pavely’s 
original moiety belonged whatever lands in Westbury were after- 
wards found belonging to, or bearing the names of St. Loe, 
Chedyock, St. Maur, Arundell, Stowell or Drury. Joan, the other 
co-heiress of Pavely, married a Cheyney, and her moiety was not 
subjected to so many subdivisions. It was divided only once, 
between a Willoughby and a Paulet, Marquis of Winchester. 
The Willoughby share passed by marriage to Blount, Lord Mountjoy, 
so that ultimately half the original Pavely property belonged to the 
two families of Blount and Paulett.! What house of residence 
1The following table will explain, better than a long verbal detail, how the 
