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date of this doorway is pretty evilent from its archi- 
tectural details, which are late third-pointed or 
perpendicular, and cannot be earlier than the close 
of the 15th century. It bears all the characters of 
the principal entrance to a manor house of that 
period. 
Now the manor of “Cayford” is repeatedly 
alluded to in various records, and among the Par- 
liamentary Rolls of Edward IV is a curious petition 
from the family ofa lady of distinction, “ Ankerette, 
late the wife of William Twynyho, of Cayford, in 
the county of Somerset,” addressed to the “ Com- 
munes in the present parliament assembled,” praying 
them to repeal and annul a certain indietment 
and judgment, whereby the said lady Ankerette 
had been condemned and executed at Warwick, 
having been previously dragged from her manor 
house at “ Cayford,” at mid-day, by certain followers 
of the Duke of Clarence, and conveyed to Warwick, 
where she was charged with having administered 
poison to Isabel, Duchess of Clarence, while being 
in attendance on the Duchess at Warwick. 
The petition is set forth at length in Collinson’s 
History of Somerset, and is very interesting. This 
attack on the manor house at “ Cayford,” took place 
in the 17th Edward IV, a.o. 1478:—and I cannot 
help thinking, in the absence of all testimony, that 
there could not have been two houses of great size, 
in the village of Kayford at that time; and if, as I 
believe, it was not a religious house at all, the in- 
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