134 Bishop's Cannings. 



About 1680 Southbroom was purchased by Sir John Eyles, of a 

 Devizes family, a Lord Mayor of London, and elder brother of Sir 

 Francis Eyles created baronet 1714. The baronetcy in the j'ounger 

 branch expired 1768 The last of the elder branch who resided at 

 Southbroom was Edward Eyles, Esq. 1770. His eldest sister 

 Maria was wife of George Heathcote of London, whose son was 

 Josiah Eyles Heathcote. This gentleman's executors sold it to 

 William Salmon, Esq.: who sold it to the trustees of Mr. Watson 

 Taylor, father of the present owner. It is now the residence of 

 R. P. Nisbet, Esq. 



Tything of Roundway. 



This is a small hamlet about two miles north of Devizes. In the 

 oldest documents it is most frequently spelled Rynd-way : perhaps 

 from Ryne, in Saxon a spring. 



The principal estate here, now called Roundwa3 r Park, was till 

 lately called New Park, to distinguish it from the Old or Castle 

 Park. It is probable that originally the whole tything, as well as 

 the vill, was held under the See of Salisbury; but that some part 1 

 passed to the Crown with Devizes Castle ; as in a.d. 1327 (1 Edw. 

 III.) Henry Estmond and others were found to hold 120 acres of 

 arable, &c, at Divises in a place called the New Park — " loco voo' 

 Novo Parco" — doing suit and service at Devizes Castle. (I. p. m.) 

 In later times the Bishop's estate was dispersed about the tything : 

 but hy an arrangement in Mr. James Sutton's time, New Park be- 

 came independent of the See. 



Bradenstoke Priory had a small portion of land here called 

 "Holdcroft, under Coffe-grove :" and the College de Valle Schola- 

 rum (Vaux) at Salisbury received 10s. per annum rents from 

 " Ronway " in 1534. [Val. Ecc] 



For 500 years (with only a brief tempoi-ary interruption,) 

 " Rvndway" was the property of one of the oldest Wiltshire fami- 



found in juxta-position so early as 1398, as fellow-commissioners sent to attend 

 a Convention. (Rymer, viii. -54.) 



1 Perhaps the 2 hides, printed Rinclevcra.n, in Mr. Waylen's " Chronicles of 

 Devizes." p. 68. 



