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Horton, a clothiar, of Bradeforde, builded of late dayes dyvers 
fair houses in this toun.! 
Old Bayllie2 buildid also of late yn this toun, he was a rich 
clothiar. Bailie’s son now drapeth yn the toun, and also a 2 miles 
out of it at a place? yn the way to Furley-Castel, one Alexandre is 
now a great clothier yn the toun. 
The church of Through-bridge is lightsum and fair. 
One Molines is parson ther, a man well lernid.4 
The castelle stoode on the south side of the toune. It is now 
clene down. Ther was in it a 7 gret toures, whereof peaces of 2 
yet stande. f 
The river rennith hard by the castelle.é 
This brooke risith about a mile and an half from Warminster 
by south-east ; and so cummith to Through-bridge toune, and thens 
about a mile to S(t)averton an hemlet belonging to Through-bridg, 
and there metith with Avon river: and at this confluence there is 
a stone bridge over Avon. 
S(t)averton stondith on the same side of the brooke that 
Through-bridg dothe. 
1 A John Horton was Rector of Trowbridge, 1441. 
2 “ Bayllie.” The arms of this family (3 horses heads) are over the door of 
the principal house in Hilperton, close to Trowbridge. The same coat was also, 
a few years ago, on the ceiling of Philip’s Norton Church, about 6 miles off. 
The Bayleys intermarried with the Hortons above mentioned. Sce Wilts 
Visit., 1565. 
3 Stowford Mill, in Winkfield ; where till within these 4 or 5 years, men con- 
tinued to ‘‘ drape.” It has lately been turned into a flour mill. Some Bayleys 
are buried in Winkfield Church. 
4 Thomas Molyns, appointed Rector of Trowbridge in 1528, seems to have 
resigned in 1541. 
5 “‘Castelle.” The site of the Castle, called ‘‘Courthill,”’ has long since 
been covered with factories. An old painting on panel, sufficiently corresponding 
with Leland’s description, was found some years ago within a wall in the house 
of the late Mr. Samuel Salter. It has been engraved as Trowbridge Castle, in 
a book called ‘“‘ The Church Restored,” by the Rev. J. D. Hastings, Rector of 
Trowbridge, published 1848. Some part of the towers appear to have remained 
till 1670. The principal street of Trowbridge forms a curve, which it is said to 
have taken from following the line of the wall round the ancient castle. 
