152 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
There is a fair standing place! for market men to stond yn, in 
the hart of the toune, and this is made viij square, and a piller in 
the midle, as there is one made in Malmesbyri far fairer than this. 
The Erles of Sarwm were Lordes of Through-bridg: then the 
Duke of Lancaster ; now th Erle of Hertford.? 
FARLEY CASTLE. [Itin. 1. 58]. 
From Through-bridge to Castelle-Farley about a 3 miles by good 
corne, pasture, and nere Furley self plenty of wood. Or I cam to 
the castelle I passid over Frome water, passing by there yn a rokky 
valey and botom, where the water brekith into armelettes and 
makith Islettes, but soon meting agayn with the principale streame, 
wherby there be in the causey divers smaul bridges. 
This water rennith hard under the botom of this castelle, and 
there driveth a mylle. The castelle is set on a rokky hill.? 
1 ‘Standing place’—a Market Cross, resembling that of Salisbury. It was 
opposite the George Inn, and was taken down about 1784. 
2 The lordship of Trowbridge belonged, a.p. 1100, to Edward D’eureux, 
commonly called ‘‘ Edward of Sarisburie.” [His daughter, Matilda, married 
Humphrey de Bohun, whose family had some interest in it]. By marriage of 
Ela, heiress of D’eureux, it passed to Longespee, Earlof Sarum. By Margaret, 
heiress of Longespee, to Lacy, Earl of Lincoln (Edw. 1). By Alice de Lacy 
(1311) to Thos. Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, who presented to 
Trowbridge Rectory, 1313, and was beheaded at Pontefract, 1321. On his 
death it wads granted, for their lives, to John de Warren (Plantagenet) last Earl 
of Surrey, and Joan de Bars his wife, (who presented 1317-1348); with reversion 
to William de Montacute, Earl of Sarum (who was patron 1362). Afterwards 
the manor came to John of Gaunt (patron 1378); and by King Henry VIII. 
was granted to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, his brother-in-law (after- 
wards the Protector Duke of Somerset), who is named as patron in 1561, 
3 Farleigh Castle ctse/f is in Somersetshire, and when Leland crossed the river 
Frome, at the little mill shown in the annexed woodcut, he entered that county. 
But a large part of the parish of Farleigh (including all the foreground in the 
view) is in Wilts : and its owners, the Hungerfords, were much more connected 
with Wilts, than they were even with Somerset. The castle consisted of 2 
courts: the inner one, or dwelling house, was a quadrangle, formed by the four 
towers: the outer court, which L. calls the ‘‘ utter ward,” lay between the gate- 
house and the 2 towers nearest it. The gable of the chapel is just visible in the 
print over the priest’s (now the castle farm) house. The ‘‘ new chapel annexed 
to it” of which Leland speaks, is a smaller chantry or mausoleum on the north 
side. 
