THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE 



MULTOEUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUE ONUS." — Ovid. 



June, 1911. 



THE SOCIETY'S MSS.i 



(Continued from Vol. xxxvi., p. 447.) 



Bradford. 



It was foiuid by inquisitions taken after the deaths of Thomas 

 Westley (1561) and Leonard Westley (1562) that they were pos- 

 sessed of land, &c., in Bradford, more particularly described in the 

 inquisition taken after the death of another Thomas Westley (1622) 

 as a messuage, garden and 8«. land, held as of the manor of Bradford 

 by 17^/. rent and of the clear yearly value of 6s. 8<i. 



To this small property doubtless the following deeds refer. It 

 was acquired apparently by William de Wyteclyve in marriage 

 with Agnes, his wife, daughter, as it would seem, of Beatrice, 

 daughter of William Sulleve. In the abstracts printed in vol. i. of 

 the Mafjazine of " Documents found at Kingston House," relating 

 to Bradford, there is one (No. 30, p. 285) dated 1371, described as 

 a charter by John Solne son and heir of Stephen Solne, of land in 

 Bradford. Possibly then the name " Sulleue," or " Sulleve," should 

 be read " Sullene," to agree better with the " Solne " of the later 

 document, — for of the identity of the names there can be little 

 doul)t, or tlint, failing an etymology, " Solene " sounds preferable to 

 " Soleve " ; it is •■ u," however, not " n," which seems to be written 

 in the documents. 



' N.B. The iiumhors at the top of each deed are for convenience of 

 reference in this article, the nuni])ers in italics at the l)ottoni of each ih'cd 

 are those l>y which the ^\w(\ is (listinguishod among the Society's MSS. 



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