Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 155 
Ther is a parke by Farley Castelle. Ther is also a litle above 
the castelle a village. 
From a book of antiquities in Tewkesbury Monastery :— 
“Tsabella Neville” (one of the daughters and coheiresses of 
Richard Neville Earl of Warwick) “married George Duke of 
Clarence, son of Richard Duke of York, and brother of Edward 
IY. King of England; by whom she gaye birth to Margaret 
(Countess of Salisbury! ) at the Castle of Ferley, 14th August 
A.D, 1473.”  [Itin, vi. 87]. 
FARLEY CASTLE TO BATH. [1 60]. 
From Furley I ridde a mile off by wooddy ground to a graunge 
greate and well builded that longid to Henton-Priorie of Ohartu- 
sians. This priory standith not far off from this graunge on the 
brow of an hille about a quarter of a mile from the farther ripe of 
Frome, and not far from this place Frome goith ynto Avon. 
I rodde by the space of a mile or more by woods and mountain 
ground to a place, where I saw a rude stone waulle hard on the 
right hand by a great length as it had been a park waulle. One - 
since told me that Henton Priory first stode there. If it be so, it 
is the lordship of Hethorpe that was gyven to them for their first 
habitation. And about a mile farther I cam to a village, and passid 
over a ston bridge wher ranne a litle broke there they caullid 
Mitford-water. This brooke risith in the rootes of Mendip-hills a 
7 miles or more by west-south-west from this bridge, and goith 
about a mile lower into Avon. 
From this bridge to Bath 2 good miles al by mountayne ground 
and quarre, and litle wood in syte.? 
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1 The Mother of Cardinal Pole: beheaded at the Tower in a barbarous way, 
on a charge of treason, in A.p, 1541. 
2 At Farley Castle, Leland crossed from Wilts on the eastern bank of the river 
Frome to Somerseton the western. Hinton Abbey, which henext mentions, isalsoon 
the western side; but, as he seems to describe its situation on the brow of a 
hill, as if he had seen it from the Wiltshire side, it has been stated in a note to 
the History of Lacock (p. 174), that on leaving Farley he took the lower road 
to Freshford. If so, then he must haye gone over into Wilts again at Iford, 
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