Brongkton Gifford^Vopy uf Deed. 41 



being walled off — it is a pity that the foundations should not be 

 strengthened so as to admit of the removal of the filling and of the 

 fine archway being opened out. 



The yew tree on the west side of the tower is probably older than 

 the fabric — the trunk measures 18ft. 6in. round at a height of 6ft. 

 from the ground; it is hollow for some 9ft or 10ft. high, and in the 

 centre is the distinct stem of a smaller tree which has become merged 

 into the main trunk. 



Note. — The Illustrations. — For the drawing of the remarkable Norman font 

 at Siddington, in Gloucestershire, the Society is indebted to the kindness of the 

 Eev. W. Bagnall Oakley. The other illustrations are from drawings in the 

 Society's possession made years ago by Mr. St. Aubyn. 



^rottg^tott (Sifforir. 



Coig of ie^b, belangtiig to tlje |Ub. <^. ^. feiibk, 



rdatiiiQ to t^^ %\\\i$ ot llonhton |ann, iit t^e faris^ of 



§ro»g|ton difforb. 



Communicated by the Rev. E. W. Watson ; translated by the Rev. Alan 



Beodeick.i 



^Anno ab incarnacione Mo CCo tri- In the year of our Incai-nate Lord, 



cesimo secundo. Cum inter dominam 1232, when, between the Lady Abbess 



Abbatissam et Conuentum sancti Ed- and Convent of S. Edward, on the one 



wardi ex una parte et Priorem et Cen- part and the Prior and Convent of Far- 



uentum Farlegh ex altera super inre leigh on the other part, a dispute arose, 



* Monkton Manor in Domesday was held by the Saxon Eainburgis — then by 

 Ilbertus de Chat, whose tomb found at Farleigb and transferred to Lacock records 

 that he gave (Little) Broughton to Farleigh Priory. Hence Little Broughton 

 came to be called " Monkton," the name which it now bears. At the Dissolution 

 it was given to the Earl of Hertford. In 1615 it was sold to Edward Long ; in 

 1669 it was sold again to Sir James Thynne, of Longleat. From him it passed 

 to John Hall, whose granddaughter and sole heiress married the first Duke o£ 

 Kingston. The second Duke sold it to his steward, Samuel Shering, whose 

 brother left it to John Keddle, Esq., of Fordington, Dorset, in whose family the 

 property still remains (see Wilts Magazine, vol. v., p. 326). The fine old 

 gabled house — now a farm — is of various dates, and still retains a vaulted 

 chamber known as the priest's chamber. 



^ The Abbey of Shaftesbury, founded by King Alfred about 888 A.D., was at 

 first dedicated to the Virgin Mary— but after the burial there of S. Edward, 

 King and Martyr, it was called also by his name commonly in records, &c. The 

 Lady Abbess of Shaftesbury was patroness of the Rectory of Broughton GifEord. 



