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Notes on Durrington. 



Philip, was born 1610. The second, Abraham, from whom the 

 present head of the family is descended, in 1612. Edward Poore 

 was fined £17 10s. for refusing knighthood on the accession of 

 Charles I. He died in 1656, leaving his books " in my chamber at 

 the Temple " to Philip, who was also of the Inner Temple, and a 

 barrister, who succeeded him at Durrington : Abraham going to 

 Milston, Edward to his father's property at Ilton ; and Thomas 

 who was then at Oxford, in due time to a Somersetshire rectory. 



This Philip, the barrister, married Mary, daughter of Walter 

 South, of Swallowcliffe, and died soon after his father in 1661 ; 

 leaving another Philip, his only son, to succeed him. He married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of J. Codrington, of Didmarton ; and when he 

 died at the age of 54 he left two sons and eight daughters. His 

 sons were Philip, who married Mary Harrison, of Amesbury : but 

 she died 1716 and he in 1719. John never held the manor. 

 Indeed Philip's tenure of this West-end Manor ceased the years 

 before he died, and with him the long-continued lease to the Poores 

 came to an end. His immediate successors for about twenty years 

 were William Peeves, a Bulford yeoman, and his executors : then 

 Thomas Gatehouse, a yeoman of Lower Wallop, and Thomas 

 Dummers, of Cranbury. In 1755 Thomas Cabott, a merchant of 

 Southampton, renewed the lease ; but he was perhaps an agent for 

 William Fovvle of Jamaica, who re-built the manor house, in which 

 different members of the Fowle Family have lived until now. But 

 for several years past Winchester College has ceased to renew 

 leases. 



So long as the lords held a court there was a" View of Frankpledge." 



1st. We present our customs: one life in possession, and two 

 lives in reversion, and no more ; a widow in possession and two 

 lives in reversion, and no more. 



2nd. We present executors to hold the executors' year from the 

 death of the tenant until the Michaelmas following. 



3rd. We present that it has been and now is customary in this 

 manor after the death of a tenant in possession for the next life in 

 reversion to have the preference of filling up the last life. • 



4th. We present the death of . 



