By the Rev. A. C. Smith, 31. A. 



841 



As to the much-vexed question of the extent of a hide of land, 

 and of the carucate, I cannot here enter an opinion, but refer those 

 who desire enlightenment on these points to the valuable introduction 

 to the Domesday for Wiltshire, by Canon Jones. Enough that our 

 village possessed seven Bordarii, whose business it was to supply 

 the lord of the manor with provisions of some kind or other, and 

 one soldier " miles " — or esquire as understood in olden time — who 

 had to render services to a feudal lord, and through him to the king, 

 and so obtained rank in proportion to the service rendered. 



In the reign of John, A.D. 1205, Barville and Fitz Everard were 

 ; landowners in the parish. 1 



In the time of Henry III., A.D. 1240, Reginald of Calne and 

 Fitz-Matthew. 



In the second year of Edward II., A.D. 1309, Walrond held in 

 right of an heiress of Longespee. Her property — not a large one — 

 passed by another marriage to Sir Baldwin Freville, of Warwickshire, 

 I whose family in 1 Richard II. contested with the Dymocks the 

 i championship of England. 



In the ninth year of Edward II., A.D. 1316, it is mentioned 

 j among the manors or townships of the county which were ordered 

 ' each to supply one soldier towards the military levies granted to the 

 1 king for the wars in Scotland, and at that time Yatesbury was 

 owned by Henry de Wyleton, Radulf de Botiller, and the Dean and 

 Chapter of Sarum. 2 



In A.D. 1330 Edmund, Earl of Kent, was lord of the manor in 

 right of his wife Margery Wake. 



In A.D. 1331, Sir Peter Doygnel, in right of Agnes Bourdon, 

 his wife : he became High Sheriff of the county in 1337, and served 

 ; in Parliament as Knight of the Shire, A.D. 1338. 3 



1 Much of this information is gathered from Canon Jackson's notes to Aubrey, 

 j page 46. 



2 Extract from the Nomina Villarum for Wiltshire, or the Return made to 

 f , writs addressed to all the sheriffs throughout England as to what Hundreds and 

 , Wapentakes, and how many and what cities, boroughs, and townships there were 



in each Hundred or Wapentake. Printed by Rev. W. H. Jones in Magazine> 

 vol. xii., p. 24. 



3 Magazine, vol. iii., p. 198. 



