96 Some Account of tlie Paris/i of Monhton Farleigh, 



the Italian Garden from the Conigree. The carriage-drive from 

 Kingsdown in those days entered just below Ford's Farm from the 

 Bath and Melksham road. It then passed by the stone stile above 

 the Kingsdown Plantation, along the present drive, through the 

 gates by the gardener's cottage, turned thence to the left, and passed 

 round to the front of the house by the Rockery, the Italian Garden 

 and the Wilderness. The fountain stood under the group of trees 

 south of the house and north of the orchard. 



The Long family, like that of the Seymours, were connected with 

 our manor centuries before they came to live here. South Wraxall, 

 where the family originally set up, was, we have seen, originally a 

 hamlet of our parish, and up to the dissolution of the Priory was a 

 part of its home farm. 



The first Sir Henry Long, 1st May, 1490, bequeathed certain 

 money legacies to our prior and each priest and novice of the Priory. 

 The second Sir Henry, 1520, presented Ludovick Brecknock, Prior 

 of Farleigh, to the living of Biddeston St. Peter's, " per concess' 

 Prioris de Farleigh " (an awkward-looking transaction), and this 

 same Sir Henry is recorded as senior steward of the Priory in 1535, 

 at a fee of 40$. a year, 



To the Longs succeeded the late Mr. Wade Browne. The family 

 was originally of Chapel Allerton, Co. York, and Mr. Wade Browne 

 was grandson of John Browne by the heiress of Wade of Moor Town, 

 and son of Wade Browne by Rhoda, daughter and sole heiress of 

 Jacob Smith, of Horsington, Co. Worcester. 



The tablet to him in the aisle, for once in a way truthful, des- 

 cribes his life as one " of active benevolence and conscientious dis- 

 charge of Christian duty."" 



He improved the parish roads, making especially the straight 

 road by Farley Wick Green to the villa. He utilized for the 

 villagers the bountiful supply of spring water, which, issuing out 

 of Ash Well, above the King's Arms inn, is conducted by pipes to 

 the village pump, and thence from one end of the street to the 

 other. He built (1848) the observatory on Farleigh Down. He 

 established a school and left, under conditions which have since un- 

 fortunaely lapsed, an endowment for it. He presented in 1841 to 



