Copy of the Terrier of the Parish of Hilmarton, Wilts. 125 
IV.—That they belong to the “Stone Age” ; no weapons or objects 
of metal of any kind having ever been found in long barrows; im- 
plements of bone and stone, and leaf-shaped arrow-heads, delicately 
formed of flint, occasionally occur. The pottery made by these 
people is of the rudest kind, and devoid of ornament. 
V.—That they usually buried the dead entire, almost always 
without cremation. “That some of their customs were barbarous 
in the extreme; and in particular that, if not addicted to anthro- 
pophagy, they, at least, sacrificed many human victims, whose 
~ eleft skulls and half-charred bones are found in their tombs.” 
Copy of the Cervier of the Parish of 
Hilmarton, Wilts, 
Bated January 17th, 1704. 
[Communicated by the Rev. Canon Gopparp, Vicar of Hilmarton, who 
copied it from the original document, supplied by Canon Jackson 
in March, 1866.] 
= HE original of this terrier is amongst the deeds of His Grace 
the Duke of Beaufort, whose ancestor was proprietor of the 
manor of Hilmarton at a later period. 
The terrier shows the situation of the old vicarage house, long 
‘since pulled down; the several portions of the vicarage glebe, then 
scattered in many places, now consolidated near the site of the new 
vicarage; the rights of tbe vicar to depasture cattle on several 
farms—which must have been extremely vexatious to the tenant ; 
the tithes, great and small, of Clevancey hamlet, the small tithes 
payable upon “white” (milk) calves, sheep, lambs, poultry, and 
: gardens, with some moduses, or payments in lieu of tithes—all of 
hich, with one or two exceptions, were commuted for money pay- 
ments by the Tithe Commissioners in the year 1842, 
; TERRIER. 
“Imp. A mansion house of three bays of building and something more, 
with a barn and stable in a piece of ground of about ¢ of an acre. 
