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will be seen a monument to the memory of Lady Barbara 

 Montague, fifth daughter of the Earl of Halifax, who died in 

 1765, and another to Sarah Fielding, sister of the novelist. 

 Englishcombe, or Inglishcombe. 2^ miles, S.W. 

 — This village is within the Hundred of Wellow, and is 

 recorded in Domesday Book as " Engliscoi;ne ; " but the 

 etymology is uncertain. Collinson suggests that it may be 

 derived from the Saxon Inga, and Lamb., signifying the Pas- 

 tures in the Valley ; or from Ingla and Lamb., the Valley of 

 the English, in reference to some victory obtained by the 

 inhabitants of the country over the Danes, or some other 

 hostile race — or it may have been so named from the 

 fact of the Wansdyke passing through this parish. The 

 Manor of Englishcombe was, at the Conquest, given to the 

 Bishop of Coutance. In King John's reign the estate passed 

 to Thomas da Harptree, whose son Robert assumed the 

 name of De Gournay, and in this family it continued till 

 about 1330, when Sir Thomas de Gournay was attainted for 

 the murder of Edward II. ; he was afterwards beheaded, 

 and his estate confiscated to the Crown, and this manor 

 then passed to the Duchy of Cornwall, the present owners 

 of it. The Gournays appear to have had large territorial 

 possessions in this county, as well as in Wilts and Dorset, and 

 to have erected in this parish a baronial castle, surrounded 

 by a deep fosse, which, as well as a small portion of the wall 

 work, was to be seen about the end of the last century, but 

 no traces of the building are now left, though the site of the 

 Castle is known to have been in a field called Culverhayes. 

 The materials of the building were used in erecting the old 

 rectorial barn near the Church, which belonged to the 

 Abbey of Bath, and is well worth inspecting. The advowson 

 of the Church was in King John's reign given to the Monas- 



