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observe that Awbrey was by his grandmother a near kinsman of 

 Mr. Danvers, of Monks, whence ifc is the less likely that he should 

 (in the most absent of moments) liave attributed to Col. Eyre rather 

 than his cousin Danvers the possession of what he regarded as so 

 great a treasure ; it would be easier to suppose that these notes, 

 with the implied regard for the house of Danvers, are the handiwork 

 of John Awbrey himself. 



According to the second of these notes Great Chalfield was, in 

 1695, in the possession of Mr. John Hall, of Bradford, Neston 

 apparently of Lady Hanham. This does not seem to agree, as 

 mentioned above, qud dates with Mr. Davies' account (Summary 

 of Contents^ vol. I., pp. xxvi. and Iv.), but inasmuch as Lady 

 Hanham was the heiress of Neston and her husband the owner by 

 purchase of Great Chalfield, it is to be supposed that the Cartulary, 

 which Aubrey saw at Neston, had in some way or another returned 

 to Great Chalfield before the purchase of that estate by Mr. John 

 Hall ; for it is certain that when next the volume emerges into 

 sight it was again in tlie possession of an owner of Great Chalfield ; 

 and it is here that the evidence of Major Benett-Stanford's MS. 

 comes in. 



After the copies and abstracts of charters there is an account in 

 Major Benett-Stanford's MS. which begins " The underwritten Ex- 

 tracts of the Pedigree of tlie Family of the Tropenells was given 

 me (Mr. Young, of Durnford, lineally descended from Thomas 

 Tropenell) by Mr. Neale at the desire of Mr. Hungerford of Studley, 

 being the latter part of a large Folio wrote upon Vellum, of that 

 Family's existence before the Conquest," and so on for over six 

 pages, the whole of which, with all its misuse of terms, &c., but 

 with some alteration of its spellings, is printed in the Appendix to 

 Mr. Geoige Matcham's History of the Hundred of Frustfield, p. 116, 

 down to the words " King John " on p. 118. Following immediately 

 on this, but omitted by Mr, Matcham, comes the following gem of 

 a letter : — 



" Copy of a Letter from Robert Neale, Esq., given me by Mr. Hungerford 

 of Studley. 



