By the Rev. H. K. Anketeli, Vicar. 79 
Matmrspury Appry. 
The Abbey of Malmesbury was endowed with large possessions 
in the immediate neighbourhood but does not appear to have ac- 
quired much, if any, in Seagry: but sundry landowners adjoining 
the town were bound to do their part in keeping the “ King’s Wall.” 
Among these are named John de Segre and the Heirs of Cokerell. 
The Abbot also received, of ‘ Out-hundred silver,” “ From Segre 
xii* at St. Martin’s Day and xii? at Hock-day.” 
The Abbey Register preserves the names of two other ancient 
inhabitants of Seagry, Robert Sturmi and William de Wotton ; the 
latter being owner of Barrow Farm, near Chippenham. 
Present FREEHOLDERS AND TENANTS. 
These are the names of the present freeholders and voters :—Earl 
Cowley, Rev. Henry Kennedy Anketell, James Bond, John Edward 
Bond, Charles Croker, James Godwin, John Godwin, J oseph Hull, 
Richard Hull, Lewin Marsh, Alfred Parsloe; Alfred Baker, Charles 
Barrington, Meredith Brown, T. Candy, Charles Carey, John Carey, 
Moses Carey, Nathan Clark, Arthur S. H. Cotes, Charles Day, 
William Hayward, Robert Hickson, Charles May, William Minty, 
George Elliott, George Perrett, Albert Pullen, John Pullen, Alfred 
Teagle, Isaac Teagle, George Tyler, John Tyler, jun., Mark Tyler. 
Late THE Earn or Rapnor’s Lanps. 
_ William Leversage and Grace, his wife, were owners of Jand at 
Seagry in 1566 (9 Eliz.). Soon after this the Hungerfords are 
found here. Aubrey appears to be in error when he says that they 
came in by marriage with one of the heiresses of Mompesson: at 
least no such match appears in any Hungerford pedigree. In 1582 
(24 Elz.) Sir Edward Hungerford, of Farley Castle (who died in 
1607), and Dame Jane, his wife, leased to William Adie the manor 
and farm of Over (i.e., Upper) Seagry, altogether one hundred and 
q eighty-five acres. Sir Edward married, secondly, Cicely Tufton, 
daughter of the Earl of Thanet. After Sir Edward’s death she 
-re-married Francis, Earl of Rutland, who, in her right, held the 
