330 Broughton Gifford. 
gift, which he does not appear to have held, as Rainburgis before 
him, under the King in chief, but under Humphrey de Bohbun, 
whose feudatory by some means he became. But whence the 
connection with the Earl of Sarum and the honour of Trowbridge? 
Edward of Salisbury, Vice Comes of Wilts and the owner of 38 
manors there at the time of Domesday, had a daughter Matilda, 
who conveyed to her husband, Humfrey de Bohun, the founder 
together with herself of Farleigh, several manors, and Trowbridge 
among them.! When therefore Ilbertus de Chat gave to the same 
establishment his Little Broughton property, the military obliga- 
tions under which he held it of Matilda’s son were transferred to 
the Prior, and were discharged by the latter under the Earl of 
Sarum as mesne lord. 
The long and peaceful rule of the Farleigh monks at Little 
Broughton affords few topics for our narrative. Though they were 
decidedly not poor, their annals are short and simple. “Happy are 
the people whose history is a vacancy.” They soon so identified 
themselves with the spot, that it came to be called after them 
Monkton (the Monks’ residence), which name they also gave to 
their principal seat at Farleigh, and to another good estate they 
had higher up on the banks of the Avon near Chippenham. Still, 
in this uneventful halcyon period, we have notices of them in the 
two following valuations, the first of the land, the second of the 
live and dead stock. ‘Full survey of the Manor of the Prior of 
Farley of Brotton, taken the Friday next after the Feast of the 
Nativity of the B. V. Mary, 22 Edward I. [10th September 1294] 
by a Jury of 12: viz., William Atteworth, Stephen Atte Slade’? 
and others, who say that the profits of the court [meaning probably 
the farm premises, the court-yard], with garden and dovehouse, are 
worth 1 mark per annum. Item, rents of assize 14s. Pleas, fees, 
and fines of land half a mark per annum. Item, in customary 
labour of villains [hawling, haymaking, &c., in lieu of money pay- 
1 Ex chronicis Abb. de Lanthoni, Dugdale’s Monasticon. Vol, ii. p. 67. 
2 These, like so many other sirnames, are derived from residence, William 
Atteworth (Wm. at the Worth or farm), Stephen Atte Slade (Stephen at the 
Slade, or valley). Similarly we have Wm. and John Attegrene (at the Green), 
Thos. Atte Halle, John Atte Brigge, Wm. de la Mareys (of the Marsh). 
