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other part, for levying a fine of the manors of Kintbury and the Rectory. It 

 recites that Robert and Henry Cheyney were sons of Thomas Cheyney, late of 

 West Woodhay, Esq. deceased, and that Thomas Daiell was brother and heir of 

 William Darell, late of Littlecote, Esq. deceased; that the Cheyneys did on 

 the 3rd of Dec, 31 Elizabeth, sell to William Darell, deceased, and to one 

 Reynold Seriven, gent., the manors of West Woodhay and of Kintbury Ames- 

 bury, and the Rectory and advowson, also lands in East Woodhay, called 

 Woodlocks and Hitchens. His name occurs in the survey of the manor of 

 Aldbourne, Duchy of Lancaster Office, as holding the farm of Wanborough, 

 33 Elizabeth. 



24. The Chokes were a family of some repute, and whose pedigree is recorded 

 in the Visitations. There is a fine monument of Sir Francis Choke, who 

 died in 1561, at Shalbourne. Their residence at Avington no longer exists, 

 but portions of it are still visible in the farm house, and the walling, and ter- 

 race of the garden are distinctly traceable. The earlier Registers of this 

 parish have been, long since, lost. 



25. In a deed dated April 1, 21 James 1. he is described as of West Woodhay, 

 in conjunction with Sir Ale.xander Choke of Shallbourne, and Edmund Hunger- 

 ford of Chisbury. In another deed dated Jan. 1, 11 C. 1. he is designated as of 

 Barton, the other parties being Francis Choke, senior, and Francis Choke, 

 junior, of Avington. In the marriage settlement of his daughter, Constance, 

 with Six- John Elwes, then described as "John Elwes of Gray's Inn,,' he is 

 styled of Barton Court. The date is May 12, 24 C. 1. The parties, besides 

 himself, are Lady Anne, his wife ; Edward Keate, son and heir of Francis 

 Keate of East Lockinge, Es(^uire, and Cicely his wife ; and Edmund Hun- 

 gerford of Chisbury, and Elizabeth his wife. A BUI was filed by Charles and 

 John Gunter, gents., against Sir John Darell, Bart., concerning his right to 

 the manor of Kintbury Amesbury. The reply states that a " great sum of 

 money was paid by William Darell his uncle," for the said manor, &c., 

 that it had been assured by one Cheyney "in trust for William Darell his 

 uncle," and then to W. D. and his heirs for ever. That W. D. entered and 

 " died seized thereof about 40 years since, after whose decease the manor and 

 premises descended to Thomas Darell, Esq., the defertdant's father, as brother 

 and next heir to W. Darell, and that the defendant's father being so seized 

 thereof about 40 years past, died thereof so seized, at whose decease the said 

 premises came to the defendant, as son and heir of the said Thomas Darell." 

 These deeds are in the possession of Vice-Admiral Sir J. Deans Dundas, who 

 kindly permitted me to inspect them, and whose first wife's ancestor, Philip 

 Jemmett, purchased the estate, about 1G70, of the heirs of Sir John Elwes, 

 Symonds, in his Diary, so frequently alluded to, says, " Sir John Darell's 

 estate is £.'{00 per annum." In speaking afterwards of Wanborough, he 

 notes the Darell arms as being in that Church, and says, "Sir Humphrey 

 Forster is now lord of the manor, who bought it of Sir John Darell of* 

 Kintbury, by Ilungerford, in whose name it was ever since Richard the 

 Third's time." This Sir Humphrey was the owner of Aldermaston in Berk- 

 shire, a curious old house, though by EvcljTi spoken of as " built d la 

 moderne" lately pulled down, in a fine park with many aged oaks, and, until 

 within the last 20 years, never alienated since the Conquest. Sir John Darell's 



