Copy of the Terrier of the Parish of Hilmarton 3 Wilts. 125 



IV. — That they belong to the "Stone Age " ; no weapons or objects 

 of metal of any kind having ever been found in long barrows \ im- 

 plements of bone and stone, and leaf-shaped arrow-heads, delicately 

 formed of flint, occasionally occur. The pottery made by these 

 people is of the rudest kind, and devoid of ornament. 



V. — That they usually buried the dead entire, almost always 

 without cremation. " That some of their customs were barbarous 

 in the extreme ; and in particular that, if not addicted to anthro- 

 pophagy, they, at least, sacrificed many human victims, whose 

 cleft skulls and half-charred bones are found in their tombs. 3-5 



Cojjg of % %mux of % f)arajr of 

 Pilmartott, Milt*, 



©ateti 3amtarg 17tf), 1704. 



[Communicated by the Rev. Canon Goddabd, Vicar of Hilmarton, who 

 copied it from the original document, supplied by Canon Jackson 

 in March, 1866.] 



HE original of this terrier is amongst the deeds of His Grace 

 the Duke of Beaufort, whose ancestor was proprietor of the 

 manor of Hilmarton at a later period. 



The terrier shows the situation of the old vicarage house, long 

 since pulled down ; the several portions of the vicarage glebe, then 

 scattered in many places, now consolidated near the site of the new 

 vicarage; the rights of tbe vicar to depasture cattle on several 

 farms — which must have been extremely vexatious to the tenant ; 

 the tithes, great and small, of Clevancey hamlet, the small tithes 

 payable upon " white " (milk) calves, sheep, lambs, poultry, and 

 gardens, with some moduses, or payments in lieu of tithes — all of 

 which, with one or two exceptions, were commuted for money pay- 

 ments by the Tithe Commissioners in the year 184$. 



Terrier. 



"Imp. A mansion house of three bays of building and something more, 

 with a barn and stable in a piece of ground of about f of an acre. 



