92 Some Account of the Parish of Monhton Farleigh. 



In 1595 Henry Brittaine again presents to the rectory, but in 

 1606 the Lady Catharine Cornwallis so presents, by permission of 

 Henry Brittaine and by assignment of George Brittaine, gi'andsons 

 of the first Henry, 



The family perhaps originally had a settlement in the parish of 

 Batheaston, or else migrated thei'e. 



There was a strip of land called " Briton's land under Banner- 

 down," in 1605; one Thomas Britton is recorded as customary 

 tenant of thirty- three acres in Bathford Manor in the same year ; 

 one George Britton, temp. Elizabeth, sued W. Cavel for surrender 

 of part of the manors of Shockerwick and Batheaston, and CoUinson 

 records that the manor of Shockerwick descended to the Briens 

 (Brittons ?) , and that they were also lords of Batheaston. 



If " William Bromfeld, late of Lewisham, in the county of Kent, 

 Esquire, who deceased — as his tablet in the chancel of our Church 

 records — "the* twentie day of November, 1585J," was their sub- 

 tenant, they must have left the manor house before that date, and 

 perhaps it was because the Cornwallises had succeeded Bromfeld as 

 sub-tenants that they presented to the living in 1606. 



The next lessee of whom I have any record is " Mr. William 

 Watson, Esquire,'' and the following is the account of the family, 

 as given in the parish registers : — 



William Watson, d. 1695. 



Mr. Eowland,=Mrs. Elizabeth, Francis, 



b. 1654 I d. 27 Feb., 1700. b. 1656. 



WilUam, b. 1682. 



The tenancy died out with William, the Elder, and Mrs. Elizabeth, 

 his son's wife, died at Whitcomb, in Somerset. 



To him succeeded Daniel Webb, described as of Seend, in the 

 county of Wilts, gentleman. He it was who is said to have planted 

 the manor generally, and especially that avenue in front of the house, 

 a mile-and-a-quarter in length, which is the chief beauty of the 

 place. 



