42 Bradford-upon-Avon. 
queen granted the reversion of the manor to Sir Francis Walsing- 
ham, one of the principal Secretaries of State. Sir F. Walsing- 
ham had one only daughter, Frances, who was married to Richard, 
fourth Earl of Clanricarde,! of the kingdom of Ireland, (afterwards 
Lord St. Alban’s), and their daughter, Honora de Burgh, in 1633, 
married John Powlett, Marquis of Winchester. The Earl, before 
the marriage, settled the Manor of Bradford upon the Marquis of 
Winchester and his heirs by Honora de Burgh. There were born 
to them, in course of time, four sons and three daughters. The 
Lord Francis Powlett, second son of the said Marquis, by surviving 
his elder brother, became entitled to the manor and premises, as 
well as by a settlement of the manor and lands made on him and 
the heirs of his body, by the Marquis of Winchester in his life-time. 
The Lord Francis Powlett’s daughter was married to the Rey. 
Nathan Wright, of Englefield, county Berks, second son of Sir 
Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper, and through her he obtained the 
Manor of Bradford. From him it descended to his son, Mr. Pow- 
lett Wright, of Englefield. In the year 1774, Mr. Powlett Wright 
sold the same, except the farms called Barton Farm and Lady- 
Down Farm, sundry houses and dispersed lands, and a right of 
fishing, to Paul Methuen, Esq., of Corsham, the ancestor of the 
present Lord Methuen, free from a Crown rent of £13 16s 83d, 
with which it was chargeable, but subject to an annual payment of 
38s, out of the said manor to the old alms-house. From the Methuen 
family, it was obtained through purchase by the Hobhouse family, 
the representative of whom, the present Lord Broughton, still holds 
it. It is still subject as before to the annual payment of £1 18s. 
to the alms-house. 
It is not generally known that out of the proceeds from Bradford 
there was left a sum of £10 12s. 7d. per annum (equal to at least 
£100 now) for the establishment of a school for the education of 
our youth. The fate of thisendowment is curious. Together with 
the Trowbridge fund, of still greater amount, it was coaxed out of 
Queen Elizabeth by the City of Salisbury, in 1559, the Mayor and 
1 This lady had been twice previously married, first, to Sir Philip Sidney, and 
secondly, to Elizabeth’s unfortunate favourite, the Earl of Essex. Burke’s Peer- 
age, under, ‘Clanricarde.’ 
