306 Notes on the History of Great Somerford. 



" Imprimis a dwelling-house with garden and orchard and other ground 

 butting upon the streatway on the east, the Church lying on the west, a close 

 of John Winckworth's on the south, and the Havon running upon the north, 

 by estimacion one acre of ground or thereabout." " One tenement at Startley, 

 with a close adjoining the same, by estimation two acres or thereabout, 

 formerly called and known by the name of the Parson's ground." 



Then the boundaries are given of forty-three parcels of ground 

 in different parts of the parish, amounting altogether to about fifty 

 acres. The strips are mostly half-acre and one-acre pieces, des- 

 cribed as lying in certain furlongs between lands belonging to other 

 holders. There is also pasture for nine beasts and a bull in New 

 Leaze and ten beastes leazes in Lammas Ground. 



The second is headed : — 



" A Terrier, or true and perfect account of all the Glebe Lands belonging 

 to the Kectory of Somerford Magna, in the County of Wilts and Diocese of 

 Sarum, taken by the Hector, Churchwardens, and Sidesmen of the said 

 parish, the sixth of November, anno dom., 1671," 



and signed "John Knapp, Samuel Knapp," churchwardens; "William 



Knowles and John Leonard," sidesmen. It begins with a rather 



full description of the rectory buildings, thus : — 



" Imprimis. A dwelling-house containing as followeth, viz. : — Below staires 

 five rooms and a cellar, above staires, one story high, six roomes and a closet ; 

 up another paire of staires, two story high, one study and an apple loft, built 

 by ye present Incumbent. Outhouses as followeth, viz. : — One brewhouse or 

 bakehouse by itself on the south side of the house ; on the west side a bay of 

 buildings containing — one stable, a cow-house, and a hogstye ; on the south 

 side of the house, a barne, containing ten fields, one whereof is taken up in 

 yt by an oxhouse on the west end and a waine-house on the east, and also a 

 new waine-house built by the present incumbent ; on the north side whereof, 

 near which is a pigeon-house, and on the east end thereof also an hen-house 

 adjoining to the brewhouse, built by the present incumbent. Item gardens 

 and pasture grounds about the said dwelling-house, containing by estimacion 

 one acre or thereabouts, that is to say, one flower garden on the north side of 

 the house bounded with a stone wall, on the south side, one court between 

 the house and the brewhouse ; also one small court adjoining to the aforesaid 

 flower garden, bounded with a stone wall, also one plot of ground pailed 

 round and for Coleworts and such like necessaries." 



This is followed by a description as before of the various parcels 



of ground and the beastes leazes belonging to the rectory. 



The third terrier, 1 made in 1677, and signed " Richard Browne, 



1 At the end of this terrier the " St. Mary Lands " property is included as 

 " being Church Land." 



