144 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
state manumittid them for mony, and gave them the lordship of 
Cosham in copiehold to paie a chiefe rente. 
From Coseham to Haselbyri about a 2 miles. 
I left on the lift hand on the toppe of a litle hille an heremitage! 
withyn a litle as I turnid doun to Hasilbyri. 
The manor place of Haselbyry stondith in a litle vale, and was a 
thing of a simple building afore that old Mr. Bonehom father did 
build there. The Bonehomes® afore that tyme dwellid by Lacok 
upon Avon. 
[Plumber’s lands (a manor in Lidlinch, hund. of Sherborn, co. 
Dorset? ) be com unto the Bonhomes of Hasilbyri. v1. 50]. 
[Of the Blwets and their successors the Baynards, of Lackham 
near Lacock, Leland says:— vol. vi., p. 53}. 
Silchester lordship (in Hants) after the conquest came to one 
Blueth, and then one of the Blueths leavyng no sons, the land not 
Generale 
entaylid to the heire ma[/e] came by mariage to one Peter de 
Cusance, Knight, and after to one Edmunde Baynard, cumming out 
1 ‘‘Heremitage.” The building called ‘‘Chapel Plaster”: by tradition, a way- 
side chapel for pilgrims travelling from Malmsbury to Glastonbury. Aubrey 
calls it ‘‘the Chapel of Playsters.” The meaning of the name is uncertain; 
but it has nothing to do with the material of plaster; being built of stone. It 
may either have been built by some one of the name of Plaister: or playster 
may be an old word for pilgrim: or it may mean the chapel built on the 
‘Plegstow,” play place or village green: as the ‘‘ Plestor Oak” in White’s 
Selborne. 
2‘ Bonhome.” Bonham. The principal Wiltshire family of this name lived 
at Great Wishford, hund. of Branch and Dole, a.p. 1315-1637. 
Haselbury is in the parish of Box. It is now a farm-house with very spacious 
premises, the remains of its former importance. It had a church, of which 
there is no trace: but there is still a payment by the lord of the manor of £10 
a-year toa rector. Out of the freestone quarries of Haselbury, which belonged 
to the Prior of Bradenstoke, Malmsbury Abbey is said to have been built. The 
vicarage of Box had belonged to the priory of Monkton Farley: John Bonham, 
of Haselbury, Leland’s host, was patron in 1541. The Haselbury estate 
belonged about 1660 to a branch of the family of Speke (Bart., extinct 1682), of 
Whitelackington, co, Som.: and the house, which the Bonhams appear to have 
built, was probably enlarged by the Spekes. The coat of arms of Speke is still 
to be seen on the pillars at the garden entrance. It now belongs to the Northey 
family. 
3 See Hutchins’ Dorset, 1. 357. 
