180 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
I passed over Avon river, and so by a village caullid Manifordes,! by 
the which Avon rennythe; and so to Newton? village a 2 myles 
and more from Peusey, where also Avon rennythe leeving it on his 
lefte rype; and thens 2 myles of, passyd by Uphaven, a good 
village 2 myles lower. There comythe a little broke into Avon 
from northe west at the est ende of Newton churche. The course 
of it is latly changed to the great comoditie of the village lyinge 
lowe, and afore sore troubled with water in wynter. 
From Newton to Hilcote an hamlet of the same paroche halfe a 
myle. 
Thence a 7 miles to The Vyes? by champayne ground. I passyd, 
or I came nere The Vyes,by a broke the whiche goythe in to Avon 
ryver by Uphavon village. 
DEVIZES. [vit. 85]. 
The toune of Vies standithe on a ground sumwhat clyvinge, 
and most occupied by clothiars. 
The beauty of it is all in one streete. 
The market is very celebrate. 
There is a castell on the southe west syde of the toune stately 
avauncyd upon an highe ground, defendyd partly by nature, and 
partly with dykes, the yeret wherof is cast up a slope, and that of a 
greate height to defence of the waulle. 
1 There are 3 hamlets close together, Manningford Abbot’s, Manningford Braose 
(now called Bruce), and Manningford Bohun. 
2 North Newnton or Newton; the prebend which (as mentioned above in the 
preface 1o Leland’s journey) he held at this time. 
3 “The Vies.” A well known corruption of “ Devizes.” Towards determining the 
real origin of the name of this town, the following testimony, drawn from other 
counties, may be useful. “Thence he (Sir Thomas Fairfax) passed to Thorne 
(in Yorkshire), and then across the devises of Hatfield to Crowle.” This,” says 
Mr. Hunter, “is the single instance in which I have found the word devises applied 
to these lands. It means no more than border lands, and is, in fact, the Latin 
word “ Divisas” with an English form given to it.”” [South Yorkshire, I. 174.] 
In the book of the priory of Bath [Linc. Inn Library, No. xuiv., Art. 4] is 
mention of lands between the “ divisas de Corston” (near Bath) “ and Wansdyke.” 
4“Yere.” The Wiltshire way of pronouncing eare, or earth. To ear, * to 
plough.” “There shall be neither earing nor harvest.” [Gen. 45, 6.] 
