126 Copy of the Terrier of the Parish of Hilmarton, Wilts. 
“A close of pasture called Priest’s close lying in the Hamlet of Pen of about 
8 acres of ground with a house at the further end thereof, built by one Adam 
Wiltshire lab'. by the allowance of Mr. Rousewell Vicar. Which house has been 
ever since allowed by sufferance of the succeeding vicars to be the property of 
the said Wiltshire and his descendants ; they paying rent for the standing thereof 
and for their garden plot. 
‘‘Two acres of arable, of large measure, in Pen field lying together and 
bounded by meres on both sides. 
‘Three acres of grass in a mead commonly called Whitcombe Mead, lying one 
acre by itself and two acres together, being each parcel bounded by mere stones 
and to be hayned by the farmer at Candlemas and carried by the vicar at Lammas- 
The Churchyard being about 3 an acre of ground to be mounded partly by the 
manor, partly by the parish and parsonage except only one gate to be maintained 
by the vicar. 
‘*A custom upon two farms called Beversbrook at present held by John 
Tomson yeoman and John Angell yeoman of feeding six oxen through the full 
range of all the summer ground belonging to the hither Beversbrook of John 
Tomson, being the Home Close, the Middle Marsh, the Course Marsh, the Upper 
Lease, and Brewers Lease; through the full range likewise of such summer 
grounds as belong to the yonder Beversbrook or John Angell. as lye by hither 
Burfurlong Corner—viz., Little Marsh, the Great Marsh and the Lane. To be 
put in at Mortimers Gate and to feed to Burfurlong Corner, through all the 
afore mentioned grounds from the third of May te Michaelmas. 
“From a Farm of Lady Button’s lying at Littlecott at present held by Thomas 
Bathe, yeoman, a modus of 14s. 4d. to be paid at Lammas. 
“ From a close adjoining the said Farm of Lady Buttons, but lying in Lyneham 
Parish, called Athersell or Trow Mead, a like modus of one shilling. 
“ From another Bargain in Littlecote at present held by John Bernard, yeoman, 
a like modus of ten shillings. 
‘From a Bargain of Mr. Foremans of Calne at present held by Thomas James, 
yeoman, and called Lower Beversbrook a like modus of ten shillings. 
“ From a farm called Cowage Farm at present held by Richard Broom yeoman, 
a like modus of three shillings and 4 pence. 
‘* From a Farm called Corton Farm at present held by John Parsons, alias 
Seager, yeoman, a modus of one shilling to be paid at Easter. 
“ All the tithes great and small throughout the Hamlet of Clevancy. 
* All the small tithes such as wool and lamb, cow white and calf &c. throughout 
all parts of the Parish unexpressed in the several foregoing particulars. The 
usnal rates at present being four pence a cow white—six pence a calf; ninepence 
a fatting beast ; three pence a sheep for the whole year, unless the wool be tithed 
in kind, otherwise a farthing a month and three pence a lamb, if the lambs or 
calves be of sufficient number to be tithed in kind—the sheep, lambs and calves 
are due at St. Mark’s tide—the cow white, and fatting cattle at Lammas, when 
also the lambs that are kept begin to pay as sheep. 
‘‘Two pence a person for offerings and one penny a house for eggs where 
poultry are kept and one penny a garden.” 
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