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Early Annals of Trowbridge. 



well-to-do merchants and others here who were not only able 

 but willing to make sacrifices for building the present beautiful 

 parish church. There is in the parish chest an original deed which 

 has been printed in a previous number of this Magazine, 1 executed 

 by James Terumber, dated 1483, in which he founds a chantry 

 in the parish church, then " newly bielded" and directs special prayers 

 to be offered for the souls of those who had been the principal bene- 

 factors. Amongst these are Sir Robert Willoughby, Sir Richard 

 Beauchamp, Sir Roger Tocotes, Maister John Stokes, Parson of 

 Trowbridge, Henry Longe and Margaret and Johanne his wives, 

 John Dauntsey, Thomas Halle and Agnes his wife. We recognize 

 some of these names as those of benefactors of other churches, notably 

 perhaps of Steeple Ashton and Bradford-on-Avon. 



And here we pause in an account of the early annals of Trowbridge. 

 To go further would bring us to modern times, and overstep the 

 limits proposed for the present paper. In concluding it we place 

 before our readers two documents of some little interest, the one a 

 copy of a terrier relating to the lands, &c, appertaining to the 

 Rectory of Trowbridge in the year 1671, copied from the original 

 in the registry of the Bishop of Sarum, and the other a list from 

 earliest times to the present of the Rectors of Trowbridge, and of 

 those who from time to time have been the Patrons of the Living. 



The Terrier is as follows : — 



" A true and perfect Terrear of all the Houseing, Glebe Lands, 

 Comons, Tythes, Offerings & other customary Dues belonging to the 

 Rectory of Trowbridge in the diocese of Sarum taken by the Church- 

 wardens of the said parish on y e 25th daye of November A.D. 1671. 



In Trowbridge ^ Imprimis the Chancell of the Mother Church of Trow- 

 Studley and > bridge which is to be kept in repair by the Rector of Trow- 

 Trowle Parva. J bridge. 



The Parsonage House with the Gardens and Orchards 

 Houseing. thereto belonging. A Cottage and Garden thereto adjoining 



now in the possesson of Robert Lansdown. 



One Tiled Barn with a stall at the end of it, a Dove house 

 and Pigsty adjoining. 



One Thatch't Barne with a Stable at the end of it, — 

 Another Pigsty and an Henhouse. 



1 Wilts Magazine, ix., 282. 



