46 Kingtm St. Michael. 



descended (1857) to his son-in-law, TVilliam Peel, Esq., of Swindon 

 Lodge, near Manchester. 



The youngest of Sir Charles Snell's sisters, Mary the wife of 

 Nicholas Gastrell, was living at the time of the partition in 1656. 

 Her third share descended entire to her great grandson Jonathan 

 Power, Esq., of Kington St. Michael, who died unmarried in 1748. 

 Mr. Power's estate was apportioned under an Act of Parliament in 

 1783 amongst his four sisters. Haywood farm, the share of his 

 eldest sister Margaret (wife of Wm. Clifford), is now the property 

 of her descendants the Misses Mascall of Allington. The share of 

 his second sister Elizabeth, Mrs. Gilpin, has since passed into 

 various hands. The share of his third sister Eebecca wife of John 

 Knott, was purchased by the late Joseph Neeld Esq., of Grittleton. 

 And that of the fourth sister, Mrs. Sarah Coleman, including the 

 old Grange or Manor House north of the Church, now forms a 

 further part of the property of Mr. "Walter Coleman of Kington 

 Langley. 



All the above were included La the estate formerly belonging 

 to Glastonbury Abbey. The House La which Captain Clutterbuck 

 lives is said by a doubtful tradition to have been a summer residence 

 of the Abbot : and the hill near it, south of the Church, is still 

 called " the Tor Hill," after the more celebrated one of that name 

 at Glastonbury. 



S\^aNLEY. (Swine-lea.) 



Is a Farm on the N.E. side of the parish, divided from Stanton 

 St. Quintin's by a grassy hollow called Stanton Dene, along which 

 runs the boundary brook. It was held imder Glastonbury by the 

 Fitzurse family. A William "Westbury, Hen. YL, had land here 

 as also at a neighbouring farm called Whitman's (now Whitelands). 

 Some Estcourts "of Swinley" were buried in Kington Church, 1706. 

 The property was purchased by the late Mr. Neeld of Grittleton. 



MORESHALL. 



A smaller farm than the last, between Swinley and Leigh Dela- 

 mere : probably takes its name from some ancient owner. An 



