By the Rev. F. H. Manley. 



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Richard Ye we sells a small property to the clergyman of that date. 

 The last two of the family mentioned in the registers are Jane 

 Yew, who died in 1727, and her husband William, in 1730. 



The Mompessons/ 



The Mompesson family held a good deal of property in Somerf ord 

 at the end of the 16th oentury, also " one moyetye or half part of 

 the Manor of Somerf ord Magna. " 1 think the property here 

 referred to must be part of the Manor of Somerford Maltravers. 

 The pedigree of these Mompessons, of Corton, is given in the Wilts 

 Yisitation of 1565, ending there with Thomas Mompesson, who 

 married Jane, daughter of Edward Mayo, of Fonthill. He was 

 the father of the Thomas Mompesson mentioned below, who 

 married Constance, daughter of Sir John Thorneborough. The 

 family of Mompesson of Bathampton, Wilts, had long held much 

 property in Seagry, through marriage with the Godwin and Drew 

 families. A junior branch purchased the manor of Corton early 

 in the reign of Elizabeth. Thomas Mompesson, of Corton, who 

 died in 1582, obtained the Somerford property, probably by 

 purchase, either directly from the Earl of Arundel or from John 

 Yeowe. From a deed of 1609 we learn that the principal 

 farm was " Cockerell's/' and the other farms were called 

 " Fletchers " or " The Church House," " all that messuage 

 late in tenure of Thomas Hoskyns, all that messuage which 

 sometimes was one Barne called Lucas, two messuages called 

 " Culverhouse Place/' and " Blewette/ J and one tenement in 

 occupation of Alice, widow of Thomas Poleridge." Thomas 

 Mompesson, of Corton, sold most of this property in 1609 to 

 Nicholas Barrett, Esq., of Tytherton Lucas. His son, Edward, 

 sold ''Cockerels" in 1627 to Mr. John Wells; in 1654 it passed 

 to Henry Grail, of Malmesbury, gent., who, in 1621, had married 

 Mary Yewe, a niece of John Yewe, of Bradford, and was thus 

 interested in Somerford. By him " Cockerells " was charged with 

 a rent of £10 a year for apprenticing poor children at Malmesbury, 

 and from his grandson, Thomas Davys, gent., of The Bourne, Stroud, 

 passed by purchase in 1687 to William Alexander. Mr. William 



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