By Sir Charles Hobhouse, Bart. 83 



Assuming the community at the Priory to be perhaps twenty 

 souls in all, and the thirty families in the village to be made up of 

 about five souls to each family, I take the population in 1535 to 

 have been about two hundred and seventy souls, and the cottages 

 to have been about thirty in number, or one to each family. 



We now make another leap of two hundred and fifty years and 



find ourselves in the present day. 



The parish is now made up as follows :— 



A. B. p. 



Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, the manor house, &c. 685 3 21 



Henry Spackman, Esq., lands and quarries 602 1 26 



Henry Hancock, Esq., lands 549 1 26 



Glebe of the Rector (The Rev. T. H. Tooke) 22 8 



H. D. Skrine, Esq. (Warleigh, Somerset) 6 22 



H. Batten, Esq. 4 3 24 



Messrs, Antrobus, & Co., brewers 3 29 



Mr. James Cottle, yeoman, of Farley Wick 2 3 27 



Mrs. Whyatt Cottle, widow of Whyatt 1 15 



Life-renters under H. Hancock, Esq. 2 26 



Total acreage 1877 3 24 



Whether the lands which in 1535 were situated in (the then hamlet 

 of) South Wraxall became permanently attached to that or to our 

 own parish respectively, I do not know ; but it is noteworthy, that, 

 whereas in 1535 there were one thousand and forty-nine acres which 

 were in dominio (in demesne) of the Priory in that year, there is 



Hay 



3 7 8 



38 6 



Total valuation of " Bonis et Catallis " £ 79 18 



iS s. d. 



•Chestnut 1 10 



Bay 10 



Black 13 4 



White 5 



N.B.— The mark was 6s. Sd., and was evidently the standard of valuation in large transactions. 



I imagine that the novices, at least, and some of the monks, and all the villagers, 



assisted in the manual labor, and the total number of laborers would therefore be 



about forty. 



