Early Annals of Trowbridge. 



In Tydolfeshide [Tilshead], one tenth of a Knight's Fee, by Walter de 

 Bointon. 



In Sumerford, one Knight's Fee, by Reginald Fitz-William. 

 In the same, one tenth of a Knight's Fee by John Walrond. 

 In Swallowcliff, one half of a Knight's Fee by James de Lie. 

 In Tockenham, one half of a Knight's Fee by "Walter de Bointon. 

 In Britford, one half of a Knight's Fee by Henry le Dun, 

 In Trole, one half of a Knight's Fee by Richard Walwain, 



The last entry on this list is the only one on which a remark need 



be made. It is an interesting one, because it enables us to trace the 



land, which it evidently alludes to, for a period of some seven 



hundred years, the name of the owner being still retained at the 



commencement of the present century. In the Domesday Survey, 



as we have seen in a previous page, Staverton and Trole were 



both held by Brictric. Very many of the lands possessed by Brictric 



came afterwards into the possession of the Bohun family. Amongst 



them were Coulston, Swallowcliffe, Farley [Monkton], Oaksey, and 



Trole. For a century and a half after the date of the entry above 



given from the " Testa de Nevil/'' we find in various deeds the name 



{i Walwayn" as connected with Trowle. In 1425, William Besyle 



granted to Roger Trewbody, " lands lately Richard Walwayne's in 



Trole." About 1450 the two daughters and co-heiresses of William 



Besil, of Bradford, married respectively Nicholas Hall and Thomas 



Rogers. The property at Little Trowle seems (as we may fairly 



conclude) by the former of these marriages, to have come to the 



" Hall " family, in whose hands it continued for two hundred and 



fifty years. Pursuant to the will of John Hall, of Bradford-on- 



Avon, the last of his family, it passed on his death in 1711, to 



Bach el Baynton, wbo was married to William Pierrepont, Esq., 



commonly called Lord Kingston. Prom the last Duke of Kingston, 



who died in 1773, it passed to his sister's son, Charles Meadows, 



who assumed by sign-manual the surname and arms of Pierrepont, 



and was created Earl Man vers in 1806. His son, the present Earl 



Manvers, is now the possessor of Little Trowle. Bodman tells us 



that, when he wrote (1813), the house standing on the farm was 



still called " Walwaynard's Court." 



No records, either public or private, have as yet come to light 



from which we are able to glean any information worth speaking 



