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of the house of the Baynards, of Essex, whose name is now ther 
obscured. The lands of the Blweths entaylid to heyre male of that 
name yet remayning in Devonshere. Leccham (Lackham) longgid 
NED a ack e t0 Gf <piin ag ns «0, 0 arde as his principale how...... 1 
Ther is a feld by Zacok wher men find much Romaine mony: it 
is called “ Silverfeeld.’’2 
From Haselbyri to Monkton-Farley a mile dim. where by the 
village there was a priore stonding on a litle hille, sumtyme having 
blak monkes, a prior, and a convent of 12. 
Monketon-Farley among other thynges was a late gyven to 
th Erle of Hertford.3 ' 
From Haselbyri to Monkton the countre beginnith to wax woddy ; 
and so forth lyke to Bradeford about a 2 miles from Munketon- 
Farley; and also to part into hilles and valeys. 
Sir Henry Long hath a litle maner about a mile from Monketon- 
Farley at Wrexley.4 
The original setting up of the house of the Zonges cam, as I 
lernid of Mr. Bonehom, by this means: 
One Long Thomas, a stoute felow, was sette up by one of the olde 
Lordes Hungrefordes. And after by cause this Thomas was 
1 The defective words probably were that Lackham was used by Baynarde as 
his principal house. 
2 The Roman Road from Bath to Marlborough ran about a mile south of 
Lacock. Near it is a place called Wick, at which traces of a Roman Villa have 
been found. 
3 “Hertford.” The Protector Somerset. The Manor was afterwards trans- 
ferred to the Bishopric of Salisbury. Between 1647 and 1651, in the days of 
confiscation, it was sold to Wm. and Nath. Brooke, and F. Bridges, for £2,499 
11s. 6d. It has since been held under the See of Salisbury by (amongst others) 
the families of Webb, Long, and now, Wade Browne. The editors of the new 
Monasticon mention that no seal of the priory had been met with. In 1841 a 
circular silver seal, of about the size of a sovereign, was found by the late Mr. 
Wade Browne in clearing part of the site of the priory. On it is the head of 
St. Mary Magdalene, exceedingly well cut; with the Legend ‘‘} Carur Marre 
Maeparene.” At the same time was discovered an effigy of a Dunstanville of 
Castle Combe. 
4° Wrexley.” South Wraxhall: which at this time had not been severed 
from the Draycote property, but belonged to one and the same owner, Sir Henry 
Long, above-mentioned. Of this interesting old manor-house, now the property 
of Walter Long, Esq., M.P. of Rood-Ashton, the greater part is still left. In 
Aubrey’s MS, Collections for North Wilts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, 
drawings are preserved of the numerous armorial shields in stained glass, which 
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