128 Bishop's Cannings. 



and a valuation of their estates for sale, was ordered. The annual 

 value of the Bishop's estate here was found to be £218 8s., capable 

 of improvement to the amount of £469 13s. 2d. per annum, in 

 addition. Between a.d. 1647 and 1651 it was sold to Samuel 

 Wightwick, Esq. for £6065 15s. 7d. But in 1660, on the return 

 of Charles II., the Bishop's lands were restored: and Sir Robert 

 Henley accordingly continued as Lessee. 



About this time a small portion was alienated, as will be described 

 under "Chittoe" Tything. Sir Edward Nicholas, Kt. was at this 

 time the principal landowner in the parish. (Subsidy Boll.) On 

 6th January 1661, Sir Robert Henley sold the rest of his interest 

 in the lease to Sir William Turner, merchant tailor and Alderman 

 of London, for £8700. 2 The next Lessee was Mr. Paul Methuen, 

 mentioned by Aubrey, as "of Bradford and Bishop's Cannings." 

 He died 1667. His son inherited, and died 1725: having in Sep- 

 tember 1720 sold it to Benjamin Haskins Styles, Esq. On his 

 death it descended to Sir Francis Haskins Eyles Styles, who sold 

 it in Chancery. Mr. Willy the purchaser, was succeeded by his 

 nephew, son of his sister the wife of Mr. Prince Sutton, in 1762. 

 Mr. Sutton's daughter and heiress was Eleanor, wife of Thomas 

 Grimston Estcourt, Esq. In a.d. 1856, his son, the Rt. Hon. 

 Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Estcourt, having experienced diffi- 

 culties as to the renewal of his lease under the Bishop of Salisbury, 

 (occasioned by a rule of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to allow 

 of no renewal of leases in which they have a reversionary interest,) 

 determined to dispose of his interest in the episcopal manor, and 

 accordingly in 1858 sold this with other property in the parish to 

 the Commissioners of Land Revenue, that is, to the Crown. 



Tything of Bourton and Easton (Consolidated). 

 Bourton was one of the seats of the ancient family of Ernie, 3 



2 Sir Wm. Turner, Lord Mayor of London in 1669, was the munificent Founder 

 of a Hospital and Free School at Kirk-Leathain in Yorkshire, where he was 

 buried. His nephew and heir was Cholniley Turner, Esq. 



3 Originally from Co. Sussex. The Attorney-General to King Henry VIII. 

 (1516) spelled his name John Erneley. 



