Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 193 
From Welles to Nunney Delamere, a 2 miles partely by hilly and 
enclosed ground. 
Thens aboute a mile by like soyle unto Tut... .1 a longe village, 
where the paroch chirche is unto Nunney Delamere. 
Then half a mile farther, and so into the mayne foreste of 
Selwood. And so passing half a mile farther I lefte on the righte 
hand Witham the late priorie of Cartusians, not in the forest but 
joining hard on the edge of it. 
MAIDEN BRADLEY. [IVv. part 2, p. 105]. 
[ Kidderminster town in tymes past longid to the Bisetts, ancient 
gentlemen. After, it came to the 3 heires generall of Bisett, 
wherof one beinge a Lazar (leper) builded an hospitall at Maiden 
Bradley in Wilts, to a priory of chanons. She gave her part here 
in pios usus, and the Personage of Kidderminster was impropriate to 
Maiden-Bradley |. 
Thence (i. e., from Witham Friary) partly by forest ground and 
partly by champayne a 4 miles unto 
stourton. [vu. 107.] 
The village of Stourton stondith in the bottom of an hille on the 
left ripe of Stur. 
The Lord Stowrton’s? place stondith on a meane hille, the soyle 
1“Tut.... .’ The name which Leland vainly attempted to remember, or 
his Editor Hearne to copy, was ‘‘ Truttokeshull,” now called Truddoxhill, a 
hamlet between Nunney and Witham Friary, in the parish of Nunney, county 
Somerset. The church or chapel alluded to has long been destroyed. 
2 “Stourton.” There cannot be a stronger instance of the long neglect of 
Wiltshire topography than the confession of the author of the History of the 
Hundred of Mere [p. 42] that of this mansion, which for many centuries had 
belonged to one of the most ancient families formerly in this county, there was 
no published account whatever, except these passing notes by Leland. After 
the publication of the volume which contains Mere, some further description of 
Old Stourton House, with a very rude pen and ink drawing of it, taken about 
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