548 Tropenell Memoranda. 



that estate, it seems tolerably certain that Mr. Eobert Neale must 

 be added to the list of the former possessors of the volume, and 

 his possession of it in some way explained. 



Sixty years later, when the Youtig MSS. had come to the hands 

 of Sir Eichard Colt Hoare and his coadjutors, application was 

 made to Sir Harry Burrard (then Admiral Sir Harry Neale) and 

 the result of his enquiries is embodied in tlie following letter, the 

 last document copied into Major Benefct-Stanford's MS., apparently 

 by Sir Thomas Phillips' own hand : — 



"Extract from a letter to Geo. Matcham, Esq., of Newhouse. 



" My dear Sir 



" I have deferred my reply to your kind invitation to Newhouse, 

 untill I had seen Sir Harry Neale. He informs me that at the death 

 of the Grandfather of Lady Neale (nearly 50 years ago) there was a 

 sale of his books &c. k that she understood they were bought by an 

 Attorney, whose name or residence she has not been able to learn, tho' 

 enquiry has been made. Would it not be worth while to insert a 

 paragraph in the Salisbury papers, mentioning the circumstance of the 

 Ledger Book of Tropenell having been so disposed of 1 It might meet 

 the eye of the present possessor or at least lead to the discovery of that 

 curious document. 



" &c. &c. 



"Chas. St. Barbe. 

 " Lymington, 14 Sep. 1830." 



Keferences to the Tropenell deeds contained in this (Young) 

 collection are scattered over the history of South Wilts. Thus in the 

 " History of the Hundred of Mere, p. 112, under the heading of the 

 Manor of Bradley, Sir Eichard Hoare writes : — " On referring to 

 ancient documents I find that tliis manor was in the possession of 

 several other lords before it became the property of the Seymour 

 family; for by a deed dated 8th July, 14 Henry VII. (Anno 1523) 

 Thomas Tropenell, Armiger, granted to Thomas Englefield and 

 others several manors in Wilts, amongst which was that of 

 Maiden Bradley " — the fact, of course, being that Tropenell's 

 manor of Maiden Bradley was a small affair, subordinate to the 

 abbot's manor which came to the Seymours after the Dissolution — 

 and proceeds to cite, in haphazard fashion, four other charters, all 

 of them occurring in Major Benett-Stanford's MS. and duly entered 

 in the Cartulary, relating to this Tropenell estate. 



