248 The Fifth General Meeting. 



all his other estates, in a.d. 1686. In the sale were included the 

 manors of Farleigh, Tellisford, Iford, Rowley, Wellow, Tload, and 

 Langham, with lands elsewhere in the neighbourhood. The whole 

 was bought by Mr. Henry Baynton, of Spye Park. Ho and Lady 

 Anne Wilmot (sister of the Earl of Rochester) his wife, resided 

 here : and they seem to have been the last occupants. In 1702, 

 soon after his death, the estates were sold again. The manorial 

 lands at Farleigh were then bought by Mr. J. Houlton, ancestor of 

 the present proprietor ; but the castle itself, being first bought by 

 Mr. Cooper, of Trowbridge, did not come into the possession of the 

 Houltons until purchased by them from Mr. Cooper's family in a.d. 

 1730, by which time it had begun to fall to decay, and the materials 

 had been used for other purposes. Sir Edward Hungerford, the 

 last owner of Farleigh, was a handsome, extravagant man, in the 

 reign of King Charles II. He died in London in 1711, and was buried, 

 not at Farleigh, but in the old church of St. Martin's in the Fields. 

 It has often been said that he reached the extraordinary age of 

 115; but this is an entire mistake. He was bom in a.d. 1632; 

 and, consequently, was 79 years old at his death, instead of 115. 

 He had by his first wife, Jane Hele, of Devonshire, a son Edward, 

 and a daughter Rachel, afterwards Lady Massarene. The son, after 

 the fashion of his family, married one of the greatest heiresses of 

 the day, the Lady Alethea Compton, who, had she lived, would 

 have inherited a moiety of the Dorset and Clifford estates; but 

 both she and her husband died young. Sir Edward had by his 

 third wife another son, who died at Black Bourton, in Oxfordshire, 

 in 1748, and who appears to have been the last male representative 

 of this branch of the family in England. 



At the close of the paper a vote of thanks was awarded to the 

 Rev. Mr. Griffith, on the motion of Sir John Awdry, and the com- 

 pany then started for Westwood Church, which has been recently 

 judiciously restored, the greatest pains having been taken to preserve 

 its orio-inal character. An interesting paper, drawn up by the Rev. 

 W. H. Jones, explanatory of the building, was read by Mr. T. 

 B. Saunders; and here terminated the meeting of the Society. 

 Immediately after leaving the church, a heavy storm came on : and 



