384 Bradford-on-Avon. [ Old Families & Worthies. 
father as a Clothier, and his name very often occurs in the inden- 
tures of various apprentices from time to time. He inherited his 
father’s estate at Bradford, and also his manors of Cheddar, Withy, 
Beckington and Freshford in Somerset. He married Gertrude 
daughter and co-heir of Thomas Moore of Spargrove, Co. Somerset, 
and their son Thomas Methuen (who married Ann daughter of 
Isaac Selfe, of Beanacre, Co. Wilts) was the father of the Paul, to 
whom we have just alluded as the inheritor of the pictures and 
other property of Sir Paul Methuen. Paul, of Corsham House, 
was for some years M.P. for Warwick. It was he that purchased 
the Lordship of the Manor of Bradford from Mr. Poulett Wright 
in 1774. His grandson, also Paul Methuen, was for some years 
M.P. for Wilts, and was elevated to the peerage, in 1838, as Baron 
Methuen of Corsham, Co. Wilts. The present peer succeeded to 
the title, as second Baron Methuen, on the demise of his father in 
1849. . 
We must return now to AnrHony,—the second son of Anthony 
the Vicar of Frome. Together with his brother Paul he seems to 
have settled in Bradford where he died in 1684. His descendants 
remained in the town, and, in the beginning of the eighteenth 
century, were represented by Pau, Mrruugn, who, in the year 1697, 
married Sarah daughter of William Gould, of Upway and Fleet, 
Co. Dorset. They had three sons (one only of whom grew to 
man’s estate) and eight daughters. Henry, their son, married 
Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Farmer, Esq. of Bromsgrove, and 
had issue Paul, afterwards called to the Bar, and a member of the 
Society at Lincoln’s Inn. Pavur—‘“ the Counsellor,” as he is com- 
monly termed,—is described as “ of Holt,” and died unmarried in 
1792. On his decease, the daughters of Paul and Sarah Methuen, 
(the aunts of Paul ‘the Counsellor,’) became the representatives of 
this branch of the Methuen family, and co-heiresses of their Father. 
Of these,—Barzara, married, in 1727, Edward Poore, Esq. of Rushall, 
and their second son, ‘John Methuen’ was created a Baronet in 
1795 ;—EtizaBerH, married, in 1737, the Rev. Thomas Leir, of 
Ditcheat ;—Grattana, married, in 1747, the Rev. J. Rogers, Vicar 
of Warminster ;—and Mary, the youngest, married, in 1754, W. 
