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By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S8.A. 165 
of Lancaster, was sold to the Hydes, Earls of Clarendon. This was 
the present hamlet, or tything, of Braden, six or seven farms now 
belonging to Sir John Neeld. There were adjoining it two or three 
long narrow strips of land, which went by the elegant name of 
Rags. One, from its owner, was called Poucher’s Rag; another 
and the name still survives, was called Duchy Rag, because it was 
the strip that belonged to Duchy of Lancaster. The name is so 
odd that I thought it worth while to give this explanation of it.! 
GaRsDEN. 
The records of the Court of Chancery preserve for us the various 
suits that have been brought before the Court from very old times; 
and occasionally they give the particular circumstances that gave 
rise to a suit. Among them is a story the scene of which lay at 
- Garsden, which was jnst within or upon the very border of Braden. 
About the year 1580 Charlton Park, near Malmesbury (now Lord 
Suffolk’s), belonged to one of his ancestors, Sir Henry Knyvett. 
Adjoining to that estate is Garsden, then the property of the Moody 
family ; and near Garsden is Lea, which belonged to the Hungerford 
family. A quarrel arose about some Jand between Charlton and 
Garsden, and, without going to law, Sir Henry Knyvett and Mr. 
Moody took upon them to settle it in a way of their own—a way 
not uncommon in those days, when gentlemen walked about with 
swords by their sides instead of umbrellas or walking sticks. I 
give you the narrative in the words of the Record :— By reason of 
mortal and cruel hatred there was a duel, or single combat, in 
Garsden Marsh, in which fight Mr. Richard Moody did grievously 
and, as was supposed, mortally wound Sir Henry Knyvett, who, 
being so wounded, the place of the fight being near the house of 
Antony Hungerford, Sir Henry Knyvett was brought thither by 
Richard Moody and others. Moody did lead Sir Henry Knyvett 
1Tt should be observed that the present Duchy Rag Farm is not the original 
one so called. The lands of the forest had been leased by the Crown for very 
long terms of years. When the leases expired it was found that things and names 
had become so much confused as to make any attempt at identifying the old 
lands impossible. An equal quantity was accordingly assigned, outside Braden 
hamlet: and the old name was preserved. 
