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Alotes on Alaces bisited bp the Society in 1890. 
By H. E. Mep.icort. 
" NOTICEABLE point in the country covered by the ex- 
if cursions made by the Society from Devizes is the paucity 
of old country houses in the district. Here, as elsewhere, in the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were far more resident 
gentry than there are at present. The number began to dwindle in 
the eighteenth century, and in this particular district the number 
of representatives of old county families still occupying country 
mansions has dwindled to almost nothing. There are, however, 
here and there traces of the former occupants, and it would be a 
matter of regret to the local historian and the genealogist if these 
were altogether lost. 
The following short notes are made with a view of recording in 
the pages of our Magazine the names of a few of the old people and 
places which have not been mentioned in earlier volumes. 
Passing by Potterne—which has had as Lords of the manor for 
centuries the Bishops of Salisbury, with an ancient crenellated 
mansion destroyed at the time of the Commonwealth—and Eastwell 
—where the family of Hunt Grubbe has been located for four 
hundred years—we arrived in Market Lavington. Here, at Cleeve 
(now Clyffe) Hall, lived in the last century Henry Chivers Vince, 
Esq., whose son married into the Long family in 1792; and there 
seems to have been a residence of some kind at “ Feddenton” 
Common, occupied by a Dr. Batters. 
In consequence of a letter from Mr. Watson Taylor attention was 
called during the excursion to the “ Three Graves” on “ Wickham 
Green,” or “ Workforth Common.” ‘These are situated in the 
middle of a large open field about a mile west of Erchfont Manor 
House, and are fenced in and carefully preserved by the owner of 
the property. It is said they are the graves of John, Jacob and 
Humphrey Giddings, who all died of the Plague in 1644, and that 
the Rev. Peter Glassbrook, his son, and four grandchildren, were 
interred at the same place, having been all buried by their servant 
maid, the only survivor of the household. 
