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THE SOCIETY'S MSS. 



(Continued from Vol. xxxv. p. 496.J 



QUIDHAMPTON. 



East of Clyffe Pypard and Broad Town on the same northern 

 escarpment of the Marlborough downs we come to Quidhampton. 

 Some account of the place will be found in Wiltshire Notes and 

 Queries, vol. i., pp. 311 — 314, and of successive holders here in the 

 History of Castle Combe. It came into the possession of the Benet 

 family in 1648, and the title deeds relating to it, and to certain 

 adjoining lands in Can Court and Costowe, are set out in the 

 "abstract " already referred to (vol. xxxv., p. 460). Both "schedule" 

 and " abstract " are in this instance intact, and by the gift of Mr. 

 Mullings the Society is also in possession of some forty of the 

 original documents from which the "abstract" was compiled. 

 These are printed below, in nearly every instance in extcnso. 

 Where the original is wanting, the summary of it, given in the 

 " abstract," is included. Even thus the account is by no means 

 complete. At every stage of this long history there is matter for 

 comment and for explanation. For the present, however, it will 

 be more convenient to hold such notes over, so as not to over-weight 

 what, as here set down, is an unusually complete title. 



The first entry in the " abstract " is as follows : — 



52 H. 3, 1268. By lease de Heyweye demises to the Abbott & 



Covent of All the lands in Quidhampton for 12 years. 



The full text of this chirograph is appended : — 



(1) 

 12 March. Hec. est conuencio facta Anno Domini M° C°C° LX° 

 A.D. 1268-9. octauo. die beati Gregorii. pape. inter Abbatem et Con- 

 ventual de Stanlegh ex parte una et Bicarduni de 

 Hyweye ex altera, videlicet quod. Bicardus predictus concessit et 

 tradidit ad firmam. dictis Abbati et Conventui totam terrain de Qued- 

 hampton quam habet in eadem. cum domibus redditibus seruiciis 





