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^jj^ESIDES original MSS. the Society possesses a few 

 SJSjc! memoranda, draft pedigrees, &c, collected to illustrate 

 the history of Chiseldon and the families settled there ; and the 

 question arises whether the reproduction of this additional matter 

 is to be indefinitely deferred, till each and every item of it can be 

 checked, or whether it can be permitted to find a place in these 

 pages, with such amount of comment and embellishment only as 

 the Editors' lack of leisure permits. The substantial accuracy of 

 it all there is no reason whatever to doubt, and the facts recorded 

 are by no means uninteresting. It is only the foim of much of it 

 which may be considered unsatisfactory — copies of wills which do 

 do not adhere, letter for letter, to the spelling of their originals, a 

 lack of proper references, and so forth. Subject to these patent 

 defects, the Society, it is hoped — for it has been decided to give the 

 notes for what they are worth — will not consider the space thus 

 occupied as out of proportion to the value of the material. 



In collections of Welsh pedigrees it is not unusual to find them 

 grouped in two divisions. First of all there are the genealogies of 

 those families who have the happiness of possessing true Welsh 

 descents, while penned apart in the other are the Advence, or 

 descendants of Normans who arrived in Wales Anno Domini 1099, 

 or thereabouts, and who ever since have been regarded as intruders. 

 In Wiltshire we are Advenoe to a man. A table of precedence 

 might be framed for us, as for New England families, by the dates 

 when we " came over," or " came in." Now, in the case of the 

 principal family at Chiseldon, which possesses a well-ascertained 



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