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Hawkins' trustees about twelve years later and resided in the 

 " Culverhouse," the house now owned by Mrs. Belcher and occupied 

 by Mr. C. Dee. In 1714 the son, Henry Pike, then living at 

 Westweeke, in Pusey, was married to Elizabeth Marshall, of 

 Euckley, in Ogbourne St. Andrew. By .his <will of 1763 Henry 

 Pike left his " Culverhouse " property to his eldest son, John, 

 This John Pike greatly enlarged the family estate. Before his 

 death in 1778 he had purchased the " Grinfield Estate," Mill's 

 Farm, The Grove Farm, and Gibbon's — the last two being at 

 Startley. The " Grinfield Estate," which I have mentioned 

 before, consisted of about three hundred and thirty acres of land 

 and the house near Somerford Bridge. Some of this land, with 

 the house, William Grinfield, Esq., of Marlborough, M.P. for that 

 borough, 1 had purchased from the Brunings in 1670 and the rest in 

 1692 from Thomas Petty, clerk, of Langley Burrell, and Ann, his wife, 

 the widow of Nathaniel Aske. Edward Grinfeld, Esq., of Ogbourne 

 St. George, came into possession on his father's death intestate, and 

 himself dying in 1759 left to Steddy Grinfield, his eldest son, "All 

 that manor or reputed manor, farm land hereditaments at Broad 

 Somerford, and all his lands and hereditaments at Little 

 Somerford." In 1773 John Pyke bought this estate from Steddy 

 Grinfield, Esq., for £4,2000. Mill's Farm was part of the Jason 

 property and then in the tenure of Richard Winckworth, whose 

 only daughter Sarah, bought it in 1698 from Sir Eichard Hawkins' 

 trustees. She married, in 1699, John Miles, of Cleverton, wool- 

 stapler, who sold it eight years after, saddled with a mortgage of 

 £320, to Thomas Pike, of St. James', Middlesex, gentleman, for 

 £125 10s. Qd. His granddaughter, Mary Leet, sold it in 1767, for 

 £960 to Mr. John Pyke. It consisted of something over twenty 

 acres of land with four beastes leazes in New Lease. This 

 messuage, which was situated at the back of the Culverhouse, has 

 now disappeared. The Grove Farm at Startley had been pur- 

 chased from the Brunings, in 1693, by Thomas Evans, of 

 Malmesbury, mercer, for £390. In 1720 Ann Evans, widow, sold 



1 The connection of this family with the Goddards of Hartham is given in 

 Burke's Hist, of Comm. of Grt. Br., vol. iv. 



