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Notes on Durrington. 



In 1659 a lease of the manor was granted to Thomas Nevill, of 

 the City of London, woollen-draper. 



This lease Nevill transferred to Edward Poore in 1661, and re- 

 ceived £150; but in 1663 E. Poore, then of Bulford, surrendered 

 Nevill's lease and obtained a new one. 



1672. Edward Poore died at Ilton, Somerset, and left the manor 

 to his nephew, Philip Poore, of Durrington. 



1673. Philip Poore took out a new lease for twenty-one years. 

 It included power of holding courts leet, and views of frankpledge ; 

 and required the same rent as before to be paid at the great west 

 door of the Cathedral. This lease was renewed to Philip Poore in 

 1682 and 1693 : but he died 1693. His widow, Elizabeth, living 

 in Salisbury, 1700, and at Stratford-sub-Castle, 1707 and 1714, 

 took out a fresh lease or made renewal each time ; and again in 

 the year in which she died, 1728. Then it came to one of her 

 unmarried daughters, Venetia. She spelt her name Venecia, but 

 her gravestone gives it as Phoenicia. She surrendered the lease 

 of 1728, and had a fresh one for twenty-one years in 1735. On 

 her death, 1741, it came to her cousin, Edward Poore, of New 

 Sarum. He repeatedly obtained a renewal till 1777 : and was 

 followed, in 1784, by Sir John Methuen Poore, who died unmarried 

 in 1820. His executors renewed in 1820 and 1827. In 1834 

 Sir E. Poore, of Eushall, became lessee for twenty-one years : and 

 it passed from his son to his grandson, Sir Eichard Poore, who 

 enfranchised the manor ; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners having 

 become over-lords by the surrender of the Capitular estates to 

 them by the Dean and Chapter. There are among the papers of 

 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners a fragment of a court-roll of the 

 16th century, and records of courts held at intervals from 1714 to 

 1785, but they contain nothing of public interest. 



The Church. 



It has already been shown that on Edward I. making a claim to 

 the advowson the Prioress of Amesbury produced a charter of 

 King Henry (Third ?) granting it to her and her successors. When 

 Amesbury was dissolved, Henry VIII. gave the rectory to the 



