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ing what we call Mill Farm, Broadmead, and various smaller 
pieces, with the house at Wotton, and 25 acres of wood, was selected 
by Richard Brereton. Mill Farm is now the property of Walter 
Long, Esq. Lot 3, the Gloucestershire property, was selected by 
William Blanche. The value of the whole was £24,405 6s. 5d. 
This was the property owned by Sir John Horton, but he had 
more: he had conveyed to his son William a house and some lands 
which afterwards came into the hands of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse 
by purchase from the Williamses of Neath. Nor was it the whole 
property originally attached to the manor. The freeholders were 
up to the middle of the 17th century, very few, four or five, and 
those owning little: but the Longs then sold off considerable por- 
tions to the Hardings. 
By Indenture 29th and 80th Dec. 1789, the Rev. William Hay- 
ward Roberts, D.D., Provost of Eton, (nephew of the last Thomas 
. Horton), the Rev. John Hallam, D.D., Dean of Bristol and Eleanor 
his wife (sister to the Provost), and Elizabeth Roberts, spinster 
(another sister), conveyed Lot 1 to Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq., a 
Baronet in 1812, for £11500. 1792, Mr. Hobhouse made another 
small purchase from the Williamses of Neath (descendants of Sir 
John Horton through his son William), and this completed the 
property held by Sir Benjamin in this parish. Sir Benjamin after- 
“wards resided at Cottles House near Broughton. His name is even 
_ -now held in grateful remembrance by some of the aged poor here, 
for his personal attention to their tales of distress, for his alms 
and good deeds among them, and, what was more valued, for his 
kind word of sympathy, in those times of difficulty and scarcity. 
His son, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart., took his 
title of Baron Broughton from his manor here in 1851. 
Monkton Manor. 
At the time of the Domesday survey, we have already seen that 
this Manor, then known by no distinctive name, was in the hands 
(as I conjecture) of the ancient Saxon proprietor, Rainburgis. 
We soon find it owned by Mbertus de Chat. Who was he? 
The second Humphrey de Bohun, surnamed the great, the son 
