Leland’s Journey through Wiitshire. 173 
FISHERTON DELAMERE. [Itin. vi. 36]. 
Peter Delamar, a man of about 1,200 marks of land by the yere, 
died without issue male in Edwarde 3 dayes; but he had 3 
doughters maryed to these gentilmen; S. John (Pawlet); St. 
Amande; and William de la Roche; the which 3 divided the landes 
of Delamare. The castelle of Nunney Delamar in Somersetshire, 
and the lordship of Fisherton in Wyleshire cam to St. John, in 
partition. St. Amande had...... William de la Roche had...... 
But Mr. Bainton told me that there were but 2 that divided 
Delamay’s landes, and that St. Amand had by heire generale of 
William De la Roche such lands as the said Roche had by Delamare: 
and that land is now cum to Mr. Bainton. Syr Edward Baynton’s 
father had to wife the last Lord St. Amande’s sister, and heire; 
because he (that is, Lord St. Amande) had no legitime child.! 
[Leland also mentions, m1. 98]. 
Clarington park and maner place about a mile by S. Est from 
Saresbyri. The parke is a very large thyng and hath many kepers 
in it. 
Ther was at Clarington a priory called Ivy Chirch. 
Popham Dene, 3 wiles from Clarendon and 3 miles from Mot- 
tisham, as in the middle way betwene, was sometyme the chief 
lordship or maner place of the Pophams. [v1. 38]. 
From Saresbyri to Thomas Beket’s Bridge? of 2 stone arches, a 
mile al by champayn. Under this bridge rennith a praty broke 
1 There is so much difficulty in adjusting the pedigree of Delamere, Roche, 
Beauchamp, and Baynton, that Leland’s conflicting statements as to the number 
of the coheiresses of Delamere must be for the present passed over. The 
attempt to reconcile them would require genealogical details too minute to be 
interesting to the general reader. The case appears to be that Beauchamp and 
Baynton married the coheiresses of one branch of Delamere, which two proper- 
ties ultimately merged in the Baynton family: and that Pawlet married the 
heiress of another line, by which Fisherton Delamere and Nunney came to the 
family of the Duke of Bolton. 
2 “St. Thomas Becket’s Bridge.’ Two miles on the old London road, beyond 
Bishop’s Down: generally called St. Thomas’s Bridge. 
