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messuages, three and a half virgates of land, meadow and pasture, 
in East Codford. (9) Four messuages, twenty-six acres of land, 
meadow and pasture, in East Codford. (10) Three roods of land in 
East Codford. (11) Twelve acres of meadow in East Codford, called 
Red Meade and Rushes. (12) Two aeres of land, covered with 
water, called Comptwell Streame, in East Codford. (18) Piece of 
land covered with water, part of the running stream, between 
Stockton and East Codford, on which stood “ Kidellos anglice a 
weare,” lately erected by John Toppe, his father. 
II. Lands of which he was seized for life with remainder to 
Elizabeth, his wife, in lieu of dower, with remainder to his own 
right heirs :—(14) Several pieces of land, meadow and pasture, in 
Hast Codford, amounting to eight virgates, called Smithes Landes 
and Eyres Landes. - (15) The farm of Codford, alias Codford Mary, 
in East Codford, containing two hundred acres of land, twenty acres 
of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, and two hundred acres of 
heather and gorse. 
III. Lands of which he was seized in fee simple:—(16) The 
manor of Grandon, in Cos. Somerset and Wilts, with common of 
pasture for ten cows and a heifer in Rodden Downe and Thickthorne, 
and common of pasture for all beasts in the forest of Froome Selwood 
and East Woodlandes, lately purchased of James Sparke, gent. 
[Chancery, I.P.M., Miscellaneous, Elizabeth to: Charles II., 29th 
Part. No. 23.] 
John Toppe (VI.) made his will January 21st, 1654-5, with 
several codicils, of which the last is dated December 19th, 1659. 
He desires to be buried near his dear wife in the churchyard of 
- Stockton. The list of his legacies is a long one. He gives £200 
to his niece, Anne Mervyn, and £100 apiece to her sisters, Honour, 
Margaret, Jane, and Frances Mervyn, and to his nephews, Edward 
and John Mervyn, all“his land in Hindon equally between them. 
His sister, Elizabeth, wife of William Kent, of Boscombe, Co. 
Wilts, is to have a freehold in Stert, with remainder to John Kent, 
her son. The testator, as appears from his brother’s will, had him- 
self lived at Stert, where he enjoyed a copyhold of £50 per annum, 
before his succession to Stockton. His cousin, Mr. William Creed, 
