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Colebrook and James Ruck, and they sold it to John 

 Walker. The manor subsequently became the property of 

 St. Barbe Sydenham, Esq., whose daughter and heiress 

 married Lewis Dymoke Grosvenor Tregonwell, of Cran- 

 bourne, Dorset, Esq. 



It was aftervvards purchased by Thomas Lockyer, of 

 Maperton, Esq. ; he left it to his daughter Elizabeth, 

 who was married to Edward Phelips, of Montacute, Esq., 

 sometime M.P. for Somerset, and after his decease, to 

 Samuel Rodbard, of Evercreech, Esq. At her decease it 

 came to her sister Mary, who was married to Samuel 

 Smith, of Aklermanbury, London, Esq., M.P. for Wor- 

 cester, and after his decease, to Robert William Bretting- 

 ham, of London, Esq. By the marriage of Elizabeth 

 Smith, eldest daughter and only surviving child of Mary 

 Smith, with George Thomas Williams, Esq., barrister-at- 

 law, the manor of Limington is vested in Mi% and Mrs. 

 Williams, who reside in a new house built by them on 

 the site, and partly consisting of, the old manor house.* 



The advowson of Limington was, by an indenture made 

 the 4th of May, 1695, " betwcene James Tazewell, of 

 Limington, in the county of Somersett, gentleman, and 

 William Tazewell, Student of Christ Church in the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford," conveyed by the said James Tazewell, 

 to his brother William ;f who proceeded to the degree 



* Since writing the above, Mrs. "Williams departed this life, at Lim- 

 ington, on the 14th March, 1857. 



f This gentleman (who became Rector of St. Mary, Newington Butts, 

 Surrey, where he died in 1731) used the orthography of Tasioell ; his 

 grandfather's baptism is thus entered at Buckland Newton, co. Dorset: — 

 "Julii, 1588, vicessimo quinto die mensis predicti baptizatus faitJacobvs 

 Tanswell filius WilPmi Tamswell de Buckland." This name, like those of 

 Oascoigne, Raleigh, and othcrs, has undergone various mutations; that of 

 Gascoigne no less tlan nineteen, and Raleigh about six. In the parish 

 regioter' of Limington, are four variations from the original at Buckland 

 Newton, and on other registers a greater numbrr. 



