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Longe and Mary May) all his right in Broughton 7c. one twenty- 
fourth of the manor and divers lands. John Horton’s figures then 
come out thus,eleven twenty-fourths, plus one half, plus one twenty- 
fourth, equal to one. He reunited under one head the scattered frag- 
ments of the manor, severed for 328 years. So remarkable a result 
in our manorial history deserves a few words concerning its author, 
and the estate thus reunited. 
The Hortons, originally a Cheshire family, settled at Catton in 
Derbyshire; but that branch of them with which we have to do, 
seems to have been attracted to the West of England by the rise of 
manufactures. They can be traced at the principal seats of the 
clothing trade in this neighbourhood. They had property in the 
earlier part of the 16th century at Trowbridge, North Bradley, 
Southwick, Westbury, Rode, Frome-Selwood, Wolvertone, Brad- 
ford, Westwood, Iford, Farleigh, Hinton, Chippenham, Foxham, 
Sevington, Tilshead, Cheverill Magna, Cricklade, Corsley, Tellis- 
ford, and Freshford. They came in for some of the Monastic spoils 
from Henry VIII., but their real property was for the most part 
acquired in the old way—money made in trade was invested in 
land. John Horton in 1500 resided at Lullington near Frome. 
His second son Thomas seems to have been a successful manufac- 
turer. He is styled “of Iford, clothier,” but his inquisition expressly 
says he died at Westwood. To his memory and to that of his wife 
there is a curious brass in the floor of the North Aisle of Bradford 
Church—curious from the omission of the dates. 
subdued, small. The army demanded the payment of their arrears, and a 
* settlement of the peace of the kingdom and of the liberties of the subject” ac- 
cording to their interpretation. They accused, 16 June, eleven members of treason, 
z.e. of opposing their desires, and required they should be put on their trial and 
prevented from voting in the interim. These are the famous eleven members— 
Denzil Holles, Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir William Waller, Sir William Lewis, 
Sir John Clotworthy, Recorder Glyn, Mr. Anthony Nichols, (all o/d members,) 
Major-General Massey, Colonel Walter Long (Ludgershall), Colonel Edward 
Harley, Sir John Maynard, (these four recruiters, elected since 1645). They 
asked leave of the house ‘‘ to retire for six months.” Retired to France. Walter 
Long sat in room of William Ashburnham, expelled for being concerned in the 
army plots of 1641, when the King vainly endeavoured to tamper with the 
officers of the army. 
