ROUNbCHIMNEYS. 2I 



Blackmore, to Simon de Monteacute (from whence a name for 

 the Manor, Newton Monteacute), at the rent of los. per annum. 



1 320. King Edward II. granted a tract of waste land of about 

 140 acres, with all the rights, privileges, and advantages, to 

 William de Monteacute. 



1350. Catherine, his wife, had as dower this hamlet (or 

 tything) from King Edward III. confirmed. 



1377. This aforesaid William de Monteacute (Earl of Sarum) 

 died seized of this Manor of Blackmore, otherwise called Newton 

 Monteacute. 



1379. King Henry IV. confirmed the same to John, Earl 

 of Sarum. 



1429. King Henry VI. to Thomas, Eail of Sarum. 



1430. Granted by patent for life to Alice (the Countess), his 

 wife, and, secondly, to Margaret, his daughter, wife of Sir 

 Richard Pole, and Countess of Sarum. For some disaffection, 

 whether real or imaginary, she was tried, committed, and 

 executed, and afterwards buried at Christchurch. The Manor, 

 which was then valued at 13 los. id., again reverted to the 

 Crown. 



I 553- Queen Mary granted anew this said Manor to Francis 

 Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, and Catherine, his wife (he died 

 in 1561), eldest daughter and co-heir of Henry Pole, Lord 

 Monteacute, son and heir of Margaret, Countess of Sarum, and 

 Sir Richard Pole, her husband. 



1581. Queen Elizabeth confirmed the above Royal Grant to 

 Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, who died in 1595, and was 

 succeeded by his brother George, Earl of Huntingdon. 



1596. It appears to have passed through the hands of 

 Gamage to the Churchills. John Churchill, of Mintern, was an 

 eminent counsellor, who greatly increased his property. He 

 compounded for assisting the King's forces at ,440. His son, 

 Winston, born at Roundchimneys, 1620, and admitted at St. 

 John's College, Oxford, in 1636, at the age of 16, quitted the 

 University on the death of his father without taking any degree. 

 He adhered to the Royal Cause, for which he suffered severely, 



