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on decease of the former was admitted. In 1547, Sir Henry Long, 

 Knight, and John Monpesson, heir. In 1573, William Franklene. 

 In 1600, "the heire of Mr. Brown of Powlton," stands on the Roll 

 as tenant under the barony. The Abbots of Tewksbury continued 

 to hold their estate in Polton, and to acknowledge service for it at 

 Castle Combe up to the period of the dissolution of the abbeys. 



8. Hardicote. — Hurdcott in the Vale of Noddre. A knight's 

 fee and a half was held, when the Liber Feodoram was drawn up, 

 by Walter de Dunstanville of the king, in Hurdecote, " belonging 

 to his Barony of Combe." And for this manor, among many others, 

 the Lord Badlesmere obtained a grant of free warren in 1310. 

 On the partition of his estates, 1340, among his four daughters, 

 coheiresses of his son Giles, who died without issue, Hurdcott was 

 held, one part by Richard Chesdene, as the eighth of a knight's fee, 

 valued at 6/. 13s. 4d. ; and another, being one-fourth of a fee, by 

 the Prior of St. John of Wilton, worth 61. 8s. 4d. In 1523-1537, 

 these two portions of the manor (probably of West Hurdcott) were 

 still severally held by the Abbess or Prior of Wilton, and Richard 

 Chesdene. Another moiety of this manor (East Hurdcott) had 

 been assigned in the partition of the Badlesmere property to De 

 Vere, Earl of Oxford, in right of his wife, who sold it for forty 

 marks to Henry de Haversham, by whom it was conveyed to John 

 Gowayn or Gawen, whose descendants possessed it for many gene- 

 rations. 1 



9. Fistesberie. — I believe this to be a clerical error, and intended 

 for Heytesberie. The Feoda represents Walter de Dunstanville as 

 possessing a knight's fee in "Heytredburie." It is true that this 

 may appear the subject of the grant to his father, Robert de Dun- 

 stanville, by Henry II., 1155. 2 But as that is mentioned in the 

 Pipe Rolls as the lordship of the Hundred of Heytesbury, it is 

 not unreasonable to suppose that the Manor, or one at least of 

 the Manors of Heytesbury — for there were three, East Court, 

 West Court, and South Court — belonged previously to Robert de 



1 See Lord Arundel's Hundred of Dunworth, and Vale of Noddre, p. 99. 



2 Rot. Pip. 2 Henry II. Heytesbury, p. 84. 



