By the Rev. C. Soames. 81 
Dat die et A° sup*dict. Et nre Trans Given on the day and year above-men- 
A° vicesimo. tioned, and in the 20th year of our 
translation. 
Ae postmod dei executores viz. xilij™° And the said executors, afterwards, 
die Mens Novembris Anno dni M° viz.,on the fourteenth day of the month 
~ ecce™? xxxv'? in man’io dnide Lamehith of November, A.D. 1435, rendering in 
‘de et super_ admist*coe bonoru hmoi the court of the Lord of Lambeth a 
 fidele copotu Dno reddentes ab officio faithful account of and concerning the 
sunt dimissi. administration of the property hereof 
‘ to the Lord, are discharged from their 
duties. 
One would like to know what was the amount of property which 
the Bishop Jeft, but there seems to be no means of discovering it— 
nor are there any directions as to the sale of his stock or personal 
- effects—nor any means of learning whether the one hundred and 
_ twenty ewe or other sheep were to be provided out of his own flocks, 
He is said to have given his manor at Easton to his nephew, George, 
before setting out for Rome. 
- he knight’s fees held by the family at Poulton would, I presume, 
descend by inheritance. Great and Little Poulton were held together 
‘by the Lyddiards, for several generations, in the seventeenth and 
eighteenth centuries, and also by subsequent tenants. At present, 
they both belong to the Ailesbury estate, the last purchase—that of 
Little Poulton—having been made in 1819, of Lord Bolingbroke’s 
trustees. 
What became of the Poulton family I cannot say. The name 
seems almost to have disappeared out of the county. The name of 
the husband of his niece—Tarrant—is very common. 
‘Amongst those thought fit to lend money to the King’s majesty 
by way of Privy Seal in 1611 were William Poulton, of South 
Damerham, £10; Christopher Polden, of Imber, Gent., £20; and 
Edward Powton, of Kingston Deveril, £10. In the Pewsey Muster 
‘Rolls, 1538, we find the name of Robert Poulton, and in 1568 that 
of Thomas Poulton. In 1711 Thomas Poulton was fined 10s. for 
illegal tippling. See Facts concerning Pewsey, by B. P. Bouverie, 
MA. 
~ In a modern directory the only names I can find are, Joseph 
| Poulton, of Haydon Wick, Swindon, and A. Polden, of Chitterne. 
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