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the Demesnes about my Lord's grace's house at the Broyle End. We have en- 

 larged the whole grownde as ye shall perceive. Fyrst, the meadow on the other 

 side of the poude towards Grafton is enlarged so high as the furlong goeth 

 leaving space for a way which the Tenants of Wilton* shall have from theire 

 village to theire common where we apoynted the other pond to be made betwene 

 both the fields in the bottom : so that the meadow shall rise as high as the hedge 

 where I would had it gone at the first, saving the way aforsaid: so that nowe 

 my Lord's Grace shall stand at the place where his house shal be and have the 

 whole medowe in his eye, where before he should scarcely have seen it, but have 

 looked over it. I doute not his Grace shall like it well in that point. 



Furder, we have taken in the Felde, Ryver, and medowe ground from 

 Bushell's mylne unto the very back of the mylne at Bedwyne, which I have in 

 lease of the Close of Sarum, and so from thens compassing over the field 

 towards Bushell's close where our fyrst stakes were set, and so taking in that 

 close and so straight through the wood and copice to the corner of the wood, 

 beneath the great pit which was dygged within the wood at th' upper corner of 

 the Broyle, beyond the springs, and so forth in the falling of the hill on the 

 farther syde towards Ramphreis house as ye and we appointed. Saving we have 

 taken in a gretter com pas at the corner where the chief spring is, I meane 

 where the conduit-house shall stand ; and from thence straight over that felde 

 to the close corner at Wilton's-town's end viz. to the nether end of the lane 

 which descendeth from the broke and from thence to the pond head next to 

 Wiltou where the pale standeth, and so on the other side up the close to the 

 upper ende of the medowe where we beganne, which is in compass 3 miles 

 saving 110 lug. 



And there is of woode ground within the compass 109 acres, 8 lug; and of 

 medowe and other ground 476 acres, 3 yerds and 27 lug: as shall appeare by a 

 mesure thereof sent by Bryan and mesured by Dowlte, John Androes and 

 others, the best mesurers in these parts; but for lack of tyme they could not 

 nombre or devide the medowe grounde, for that will aske leisure, for there will 

 ryse a great nombre of acres of medowe more upon the water between Bushell's 

 mill and the mylne at Bedwyn town's end. Things cannot be perfectly certified 

 upon such post haste. It is now bounden and compassid in myne opynyon very 

 well ; trusting that my Lord's Grace shall lyke the same. And whereas I per- 

 ceive by Bryan that my Lord's Grace would have had the whole Broyle taken 

 in, and so have compassed by the bottom next Ramphries house, that could not 

 have been, for then the Tenants of Wilton should have no maner of common 

 for their Rudder beastsf in that side which would have been to their utter 

 undoing. They kept before this tyme in their commen as they say 180 Rudder 

 beasts with the help of the Broyle for which they paid to the Q,uene and to the 

 farmer of Harden a very small rent; as I remember it is under a Noble : and 

 if the whole wood and bottom aforesaid should be taken from them then they 



• Wilton. This is a hamlet near Burbage. It is. called in the Inquis, p.m. Wolton. The wood 

 of" Wolton" is mentioned in the Perambulation of Savernake, a,d. 1300 (Wilts Arch. Mag., iv., 

 204). L Query, is not this the correct name, and a corruption of Wulph-town! See Hutchins's 

 Dorset, i., 453.] 



t Rudder beasts; a corruption from the Anglo-Saxon "hryther " or f< hruther," horned cattle. 

 Rother beasts," in Jacob's Law Dictionary. 



