Wiltshire Notes and Queries. 249 
Audley the son, Roger Clifford of Brimsfeld, Maurice Berkeley, 
Henry Tyeis, and John Mautravers, with their adherents, came, on 
a certain occasion, with force and arms, to the Manor of Fasterne, 
belonging to the said Hugh le Despencer the elder, and notoriously 
entered upon not only this manor, but all these following in Wilts: 
Wotton Basset, Tockenham, Brotetoune (Braden), Compton, Win- 
terbourne, Berwick, Send-Uphaven, Nether-Uphaven, Mershton, 
Chelesworth, Marden, Somerford, Hampton, Eton Beaumys (now 
in Berks), with their members and appurtenances; the said persons 
possessing themselves of the entire live and dead stock there found; 
taking from the houses furniture, arms, armour, and lead; rifling 
and pillaging the inmates; taking the rents and debts of the tenants; 
destroying the parks, hedges, and fishponds, and hunting the deer: 
and at Compton and some other places, even burning the houses, 
to the damage to the said Hugh (including ravages in other parts), 
of at least £30,000. On the same occasion the said persons entered 
the Abbey of Stanley in Wilts, and there breaking open the said 
Hugh’s coffers, carried off one thousand pounds in money, together 
with his charters and other muniments, letters obligatory, cups of 
gold and silver, a vessel of silver, and other jewels, to the value of 
one thousand pounds. They then entered into our lord the King’s 
Castle of Marlborough with force and arms, and there possessed 
themselves of the following articles belonging to the said Hugh ; 
that is to say, thirty-six sacks of wool, six pair of rich vestments, 
a library, a cup of gold for containing the body of our Lord (the 
Host), a cross of gold, a cross of ivory and ebony, and other 
ornaments appendant to his chapel there: to wit, cloth of gold, 
tapestry, coverlids, and other articles of the wardrobe, altogether 
amounting to £6,000. . J. WAYLEN. 
Wiltshire Motes and Queries. 
NOTE ON “CARDUUS TUBEROSUS.”—Linn. 
By Tuomas Bruaus Frower, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., &e. 
At the General Meeting of the Wiltshire Archeological and 
Natural History Society, held at Warminster in August last, a 
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