72 Kington St. Michael. [^Huston Percy. 



Eleanor married Thomas Lyte of Easton Piers, and was great 

 grandmotlier to Joliu Aubrey. In 1628 it was sold by Jobn Taylor 

 to Thomas Tyndale Esq., (then late of Eastwood Park near Thorn- 

 bury), and Dorothy (Stafford) his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Tyndale 

 lived here and were buried at Kington Church.^ In 1677 Mr. 

 Thomas Tyndale third son of the pui'chaser, sold the Priory to Mr. 

 Richard Sherwin, who had bought Aubrey's Estate at Lower Easton 

 Piers a few years before. In the middle of the last century the 

 Priory belonged to the family of Hale of Locksley, Co. Herts. ; and 

 in 1796, at the sale of Mr. Wm. Hale's Wiltshire Estates it was 

 bought by the present owner, Mr. Sutton. 



The Chartulary or Register Book of this Priory is missing. In 

 1620 it was in the possession of Sir Wm. Pole.^ Sir Robert Long 

 had it in Aubrey's time 1670.^ Tarmer refers to Sir Robert's 

 volume as in the hands, first of John Aubrey, then 1695 of his 

 brother William, and afterwards, of Mr. Rogers of Chippenham. 



Easton Piers, or Percy. 



This is a small hamlet of four detached farms, forming the North- 

 western division of the Parish of Kington St. Michael. The tyth- 

 ing is not in the Hundred of North Damerham, but of Malmsbury ; 

 the reason of which is, that Easton Percy was not held under the 

 Abbey of Glastonbury. The principal house is the " Manor Farm." 

 The others are " Upper Easton Percy," a little further west. Be- 

 yond that and nearer Yatton Keynell, " Cromwells " : and on the 

 southern slope below the Manor House, and nearest to Kington, 

 " Lower Easton Percy." 



The Tything occupies a well wooded grassy ridge, running east 

 and west between Kington St. Michael and Yatton Kaynell : par- 

 allel with the Parish of Leigh Delamere on the north. The soil is 

 chiefly such as belongs to the siliceous sandstones of the Forest 

 Marble, yielding healthy dry pasture. It is on as high ground as 



1 An elaborate Pedigree of this Family was privately printed by their descen- 

 dant the late George Booth Tj-ndale Esq., of Lincoln's Inn Fields. 



2 Collect. Top. et Gen. I. 207. 



3 Note on back of Title page of Aubrey's original MS. Coll. for N. Wilts, 

 Ashm. Mub. 



