6 Wilis hire 



Hugh Speake, Sir John Moreley, knt., Edward Morhy, and James 

 Kirton, esquires, were seised in their demesne as of fee of the 

 manor of Box, Wilts, lately belonging to Edivard Earl of Hertford, 

 deceased, and on the 26th May, 7 James I [1609], by indenture for the 

 sum of ^300 paid by the said Hugh Speke, they sold the said manor 

 of Box to William Wullascott, esq., Thomas Wollascolt, gent., and to 

 the said Hugh Speke, to hold to them and their heirs for ever. 

 Afterwards, in the lifetime of the said Hugh Speke, the said Thomas 

 Wollascott died, and the said William and Hugh survived and were 

 seised, etc. 



The jurors also say that the said William Wollascott and one Henry 

 Samhorne, and Anthony Elmes, esq., were seised of the manors of 

 Box, Agard and Haselbury, in Wilts, and the rectory of Box and 

 Haselbury, and the advowson of the vicarage of Box, and levied 

 a fine on the feast of Ascension, 11 James I [1613J, between 

 Humphrey Hawes and Thomas Purcell, gent., plaintiffs, and the said 

 William Wollascott, Henry Samborne, and Anthony Elmes, deforciants, 

 of the last-mentioned premises, by the names of the manors of 

 Haselbury and Box alias Bocks, alias Books, and zo messuages, 

 20 cottages, 2 dovecotes, 40 gardens, 40 orchards, 1300 acres of 

 land, 140 acres of meadow, 800 acres of pasture, 200 acres of 

 wood, and /^6 rent in Box, Haselbury, Wadsick aZ/aj' Waddeswicke, 

 and Ditcheridge, and the free fishery in the water of Box, the 

 rectory of Box and Haselbury, and the advowson of the vicarage 

 of the church of Box ; by which same fine, the premises were 

 acknowledged to be the right of the said Humphrey, as that which 

 he, and the said Thomas, had of the gift of the said plaintiffs, to the 

 use of the said Hugh Speke, from Michaelmas, 10 James I [16 12], 

 for 80 years, if the said Hugh should so long live, with reversion to 

 George Speke, son and heir apparent of the said Hugh, and to 

 Elizabeth then wife of the said Hugh, and the heirs male of the 

 body of the said George: for default of such issue, to the use 

 successively of Henry Speke, the second son, and Fraitcis Speke the 

 third son of the said Hugh, with divers other remainders. By virtue 

 of which fine, etc., the said Hugh Speke was seised of the manors 

 of Box, Agard, and Haselbury, and other the premises mentioned. 



And the jurors also say that one William Horton, esq., was 

 seised of a tenement, arable lands, meadow, feeding and pasture, 

 woods, underwoods, common of pasture, and heredits in Box, late 

 in the tenure of William Rawly ns, the inheritance oi Edward Horton, 

 esq., deceased, uncle of the said William Horton ; and the said 

 William Horton, being so seised, on the 30th January, 7 James I 

 £1609-10], he, together with Tobia Horton, his daughter and heir 



