544 Tro'penell Memoranda. 



that all these documents must have been placed at the disposal 

 of Sir Richard Hoare and of Mr. Matcham, and one can only 

 marvel at the singularly poor use they made of them. 



The whole number of entries in the MS. total, apparently, 

 ninety-three. Out of this number no less than sixty-nine are 

 title-deeds of the estates in Salisbury, East Harnham, Little 

 Durnford and Maiden Bradley, which came to the family of 

 Young by marriage with Mary, the youngest of the four sisters 

 and coheirs of Giles Tropenell and daughter of Thomas Tropenell, 

 grandson of the compiler of the Cartulary; and every one of these 

 sixty-nine documents is duly entered in the Cartulary, not in 

 English abstracts, as in the MS., but the full text in Latin, and in 

 its proper place with the other documents upon which it depends : 

 a better certificate of the value and accuracy of the Cartulary 

 could not be devised! Of the remaining twenty-four entries in 

 the MS. (1) one entry indicates the existence of " several court-rolls 

 of the manor of East Harnham," 15-16 Edward lY. — which are 

 within the date but without the scope of the Cartulary ; (2) five 

 entries belong to Christopher and Thomas Tropenell, the son 

 and grandson of the compiler of the Cartulary ; (3) fifteen 

 entries (of which three, as mentioned above, are printed in full in 

 the Historif of Caicden Hundred) relate to the ancient estate in 

 Britford and West Harnham of the family of Young; and (4) 

 three entries are copies of a comparatively modern correspondence 

 as to the whereabouts of the Cartulary and certain of its contents. 

 One or two questions of considerable interest are raised by this 

 correspondence and with these it may be well to deal first. 



In his admirable preface to the Cartulary Mr. Silvester Davies 

 has told us {Introduction, vol. L, p. 1,) that the Cartulary passed 

 with the Great Chalfield and Monks estates to Mr. John Eyre, 

 who had married Anne Tropenell, the senior of the Tropenell 

 coheirs. This must have been shortly after 6th September, 1553, 

 on which day Giles Tropenell, Anne's brother, died. He tell us 

 {ibid) that "The book then continued with the Eyres till the 

 Monks estate was sold by Sir William Eyre — apparently in 1699 

 — to the Danvers family, when the book passed to them with the 



