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Notes on the History of Mere. 



Parke, with all other the app' of the same, and all that the Manor of Meere, 

 with its rights, rents, and app' with several grants which were possession 

 of K. Charles." 



" 29th December, 1657, Order to prepare a grant to Col. Robert Phelipps of 

 all our houses and lands, called the demesnes of the Manor of Meere, in Wilts, 

 and the barton there, and the sheep pasture there, called the Cuppey Warren of 

 Swaynecumbe, within the said Manor, and the park called Mere Park and all the 

 houses and lands within the same, for thirty-one years from Lady Day next, and 

 the residue of the said manor, rents of assize, perquisites of courts from Lady 

 Day next, for thirty years and a half, rendering the rents formerly reserved on 

 lease to Mr. Thomas Carey. This is in consideration of his many faithful 

 services done to our royal Father of blessed memory, and to ourselfs against our 

 Rebels of England, especially in his late concealing us, and helping us to escape 

 out of their hands ; and also in consideration of the continual unwearied 

 endeavours of him, and also of his wife Agneta Phelipps, to doe us service with 

 the utmost hazard of their lives and fortunes. Given at our court at Bruges, 

 29th December, 1657." 



"To our trusty and well beloved, our Attorney or Solicitor General, or in 

 their absence to any other of our Counsel learned at law." 



1602, Mere Park was valued at £100. 



1640, Sir John Zouche was charged by rate £5 per annum for 

 the herbage of Mere Park. 



A. Zouche, whose family had been lords of Castle Cary, was 

 holder of Mere Park, under the crown, in the time of Qtueen 

 Elizabeth. 



1670, the demesne, barton, park, etc., were granted to Henry 

 North, Esquire. 



1694, the demesnes, Deverill Long-wood, Knoll-wood, etc., were 

 granted to Sir Matthew Andrews, Knight, and continued in his 

 hands, together with the manor, hundred, and bailiwick, except the 

 woods and demesnes, till 28th March, 1735, when they were granted 

 to Augustus Seliutz, Esq., till 1775, when the hundred, bailiwick, 

 and demesnes were granted to Greorge Schutz, Esq., and so continued 

 till the present century. 



1716, John Nuttall and Eobert Pitman took the whole of Mere 

 Park from Henry Andrews, Esq., and it was sub-let — Higher Park 

 to Deborah Morrice, and Lower Park to Thomas Butler. 



1723, Thomas Butler gave up the occupation of Mere Park and 



