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£3000. The mortgage was assigned to Sir Richard Kent (mentioned 
before as the purchaser of Sheldon,) sometime M.P. for Chippenham. 
When Sir Richard Kent’s property was sold by order of the 
Court of Chancery in 1698, Rowdon was bought by Mr. Thomas 
Long of Monkton, near Melksham, from whom it has descended to 
the present owner, Walter Long, Esq., of Rood Ashton. 
3. Lowpon, West of Chippenham. 
This was granted by the Crown, first to the Pavely family of 
Westbury; afterwards to the family of Turbervile or Turvile. 
Whilst in their hands, King John granted to Roger de Turbervile 
a market at Chippenham every week on Wednesday, and one fair 
every year, viz.—that which is now held on the 29th October. In 
1258, King Henry III. gave the property to William de Valence 
Earl of Pembroke, his half-brother, a foreigner, and a very trou- 
blesome gentleman. He took part against the king at the battle 
of Evesham, and so lost Lowdon, which was restored to the Pavelys. 
In 1272 they sold it to the Gascelyns of Sheldon. 
From this period, i.e. from the union of the Lowdon and Sheldon 
estates under the Gascelyns, the Manor of Chippenham came to be 
called (as it still continues to be) the Manor of Chippenham, 
Sheldon, and Lowdon. Christina Gascelyn and her husband 
Edward Hales, Esq., sold Lowdon with Sheldon to the Hungerfords. 
It is now broken up into various smaller holdings. The Knights 
of St. John of Jerusalem had some land in Chippenham, I do not 
exactly know where, but probably in this part of the parish. 
4, CHIPPENHAM AND PEwsHAM ForEsT. 
This portion of the royal manor continued in the hands of the 
Crown many hundred years after all the rest had been granted 
away. From the dimensions given to Chippenham Forest in 
- Domesday Book, where it is called six miles square, it would seem 
_ probable that the Forest extended originally much farther than 
what in later times was Chippenham and Pewsham Forest proper. 
The Forest proper lay towards the South, extending from the town 
to Derry Hill. The western side of it lay towards Lackham. It 
formed what may be called the home park of the king’s hunting 
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