50 Westbury under the Plain. 
Herywoop. 
This place, on the northern side of the parish, is more connected 
than the rest of it with the names of men of eminence who have 
filled high public offices, more especially as distinguished members 
of the legal profession, for it has been the home of three judges, 
besides a Governor of the Province of Bombay. In early days, 
before family names were settled, men, especially the clergy, were 
known by their Christian name with that of the place of which 
they were natives. By degrees the name of the place became the 
family name. This was the case with William of Wickham, and 
William of Edington, both Bishops of Winchester; and here of 
William of Westbury. He was of a family possessed of property 
in this and neighbouring parishes, and he rose to be Chief Justice 
of the Common Pleas in the reign of Henry 1V. He and his 
father built a chantry chapel on the north side of the Church, which 
he endowed with lands, and then desired to be buried in it. In the 
inquisition taken upon his death Heywood is mentioned as part of 
his estates. The second judge, owner and occupier of Heywood, 
was James Ley Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1620, created 
by Charles I., Earl of Marlborough. His biography is given 
succinctly on his monument in the Church, and some account of him 
and his family is to be the subject of a paper from one of our col- 
leagues. The third, whom, indeed, I need hardly name where he 
is so well known, and known to be not less distinguished than any 
of his predecessors, is the Right Hon. Lord Justice Lopes. Another 
eminent lawyer, the late Lord Chancellor Bethel, paid your town 
the compliment of taking it for his title, but he was not a native, 
for he was born at Bradford, son of Dr. Bethel, a well-known physician 
there at the beginning of this century : nor am I aware that Lord 
Westbury had any kind of connection with this town, but Bradford 
being already the title of one of the peers of the realm, he adopted 
Westbury as the nearest to it in the same county. Before Heywood 
became the property of the family of Ludlow, from which the 
present owner derived it, it belonged to and was the residence of 
William Phipps, Governor of Bombay, who died in 1748. An in- 
teresting relic is preserved at the house, the identical tablet of wood 
