410 Notes on the History of Wroughton. 



Dun, or hill fort of Ella, which also includes the Church, church- 

 yard, Vicarage, boys' school, and Wroughton House and grounds, 

 and is situated on an outlying spur of the lower chalk downs 

 overlooking Elcombe and the valley of the Thames. 



The history of the manor of Elcombe, of which this land formed 

 a part, shows that it belonged for two hundred years to the family 

 of the Lovels of Ivry, from the time of the marriage of John Lovel 

 with Aliva Basset, daughter and heiress of Alan Lord Basset ; so 

 that there is a good reason for attributing the derivation of " The 

 Ivery " to the name of its ancient owners. 



The history of the Lovel family is found in Collins' Peerage, 

 vol. III., and also in a rare volume called A genealogical history 

 of the house of Yvery in its different "branches of Yvery, Luvel, 

 Fercival, and Gourney, hy Anderson. London : 'printed for H. Wood.- 

 falljun., 1742, a copy of which exists at Longleat ; another copy 

 presented by Queen Caroline is at the Bodlean Library. 



The family is said to have descended from the Barons of Ivery 

 in Normandy, taking the name Luvel in the twelfth century. 



The first Lovel of especial interest to us as a Wiltshire landowner 

 was John^ a minor at his father's death, who was placed in the 

 custody of Alan Lord Bassett, the great landowner, whose name 

 is commemorated in so many places in Wiltshire. John Lovel 

 married Lord Basset's daughter and heiress Aliva, and thus became 

 possessed of his large Wiltshire estates, and he dowered her^ with 

 his Oxfordshire manor of Minster Lovel. 



It was this man's grandmother Maud, wife of William Lovel, who 

 had granted a charter and presentation of the Church of Minster 

 to the " Abbot and Monks of Ivry in perpetual Alms " ; " one half 

 of the profits of the Church of Minster being appropriated to the 

 Convent of Ivry ; the other moiety being the endowment of the 

 parochial priest." 



John, the second Lord Lovel, was Sheriff of Hunts and Cam- 

 bridge in 1261 ; Governor of Northampton Castle in 1264, and of 



^ His father, William Luvel de Ivery, was one of the Barons at King 

 John's coronation, 1199 A.D. 

 ^ See also Rennet's Parochial Antiquities^ IV and 18 John, 1 Hen. III. 



