130 BisJtop's Cannings. 



Lewis, and after his death the trustees, under his will, sold it to 

 George Skeate Ruddle the present possessor. The other proprietors 

 in Bourton are Mr. Thomas Brown, Mr. Thomas Giddings, and 

 the GtfflMaissi o no ra o f— tke-Lnland— Revenue, to whom (as already 

 mentioned) the Rt. Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron Estcourt has recently- 

 disposed of his interest as Lessee under the Bishop of Salisbury. 



In Bourton and Easton, Sir Edward Nicholas, Sir Robert Hen- 

 le3 T , Mr. Hayward, Sir William Turner, and William Sloper were 

 owners in 1660. 



Tything of Cote (now Coate.) 



In 9 Edward II. (1319) this was shared by two owners, William 

 de Cotes, and John Mautravers. The latter portion had belonged 

 (Richard I. and Henry III.) to Sir Walter Mautravers. His de- 

 scendant John Lord Maltravers, one of the cruel keepers of the 

 unfortunate Edward II., obtained in the 12th year of that reign, 

 a charter of Free warren for this and his other demesne lands in 

 this county. He died in 1365 leaving no male issue surviving : and 

 this estate passed by the marriage of his grand-daughter Eleanor to 

 Reginald Lord Cobham of Sterborough. His son Reginald, dying 

 in his father's lifetime, left a daughter Margaret who married 

 Ralph Nevill Earl of Westmoreland (who died 1485) and carried 

 with her these and other estates into his family. 1 



In the beginning of the 16th century, we find an estate here in 

 the possession of the Ernley family, from whom it passed in the 

 following manner to its present possessors. 



Sir Edward Ernley married a daughter of General Thomas Erie, 

 by whom he had two daughters. One of these died unmarried; 

 the other was the wife of Henry Drax, Esq., by whom she had a son 

 Thomas Erie Drax, Esq. To this gentleman his maternal grandfather 

 Sir Edward bequeathed his estates at Cote and Echilhampton. 

 Thomas Erie Drax dying without issue, was succeeded by his bro- 

 ther Edward Drax, Esq., whose daughter married Richard Grosve- 

 nor, Esq., by whom she had a daughter, who married J. Wanley 



1 "Canynge Marsh" belonged to Edward Nevill Lord Bergavenny, who died 

 16 Edward IV. (1476) I. p. m. 



