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stronger when Col. Lloyd, for the King, interrupted him, and writes 

 word to Prince Rupert, in 1644, that "he has made Blake's house 

 uninhabitable, and has drained the moat." 



Norborne. 



Studley was in 1633 a place of the Norborne family, who seem 

 to have come from Bremhill. Walter Norborne, a royalist, was 

 fined £380 for his loyalty, during his life : and after his death 

 appears, for that or some other reason, to have been insulted on the 

 way to his grave, by the mob of Calne : for the inscription on his 

 monumental tablet in the Church records some violent outbreak of 

 the " fury of Satan " ; but consoles the reader with the assurance 

 that nevertheless Walter Norborne's reputation would be wide as 

 the world, for it applies to him the memorable words put into the 

 mouth of Pericles by the Greek historian, " All the earth is the sepul- 

 chre of noble men." The epitaph was written by Dr. Pierce, Presi- 

 dent of Magdalene College, Oxford, a native of Devizes. This Mr. 

 Walter Norborne married one of the Chivers family, of Quemerford, 

 and lived at the Castle House, where, in an upper room, there is a 

 handsome mantelpiece bearing his and his wife's coat of arms. 

 Whether he built the whole of the present house, or only part of it, 

 I cannot say. 



His only son, of the same name, was killed in a quarrel ending 

 in a duel in the Middle Temple Gardens in the year 1684. A 

 large part of his landed estate passed to one of his two sisters, 

 Viscountess Hereford. She married a second husband, Mr. 

 Berkeley, of Stoke Gifford, near Bristol. A daughter of this 

 marriage married one of the Dukes of Beaufort, whose estate about 

 Hilmarton was bought some years ago by Mr. Thomas Poynder (see 

 Appendix, No. VII.). 



HlJNGERFORD. 



Studley was bought from the Norbornes by one of the Hunger- 

 fords of Cadenham, a junior branch of that widely-spread family, 

 whose coat of arms (says Aubrey), like the plant parietaria, grew 

 on every wall. At Studley, however, there is not a wall of their 



