104 Notes from the Register Books of the Parish of Preshute 



against whom, at the Michaelmas County Quarter Sessions held at 

 Marlborough 5th October 11th James I. a writ of venire facias was 

 ordered 



"pro illicita venationi in parco praenobilis Edwardi Comitis Hertford vocato 

 Savernacke Parke, existente parco impalato .... et illicita captioni 

 occisioni et asportationi unius damae Anglice a Bucke cum quodam cani 

 leoparareo Anglice a Greyhound." 



For some account of unlawful deer killing by persons of a better 

 class than the ordinary poacher see Canon Jackson's article on 

 Cranborne Chase in Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii., p. 148. 



He was succeeded by his son Jeffry Daniell baptised 29th June, 

 1626, buried 25th April, 1681. 



Jeffry Daniell was M.P. for Marlborough from 1660 to 1679. 

 He left a son, William, baptised 29th January, 1664-5, and buried 

 3rd May, 1698, who was M.P. for Marlborough from 1696 to 1698. 



Appended to the entry on the 10th September, 1627, of the 

 burial of a Mary Daniell is the following note : — " 2 Sam : 18, 33. 

 Gr.M.R." — apparently the text of the funeral sermon and the initials 

 of the preacher. 



There is a monument in Preshute Church with the following 

 inscription : — 



" Here lie the bodies of Jeffrey Daniell and William his son the last of the 

 antient fatuity of Daresbury in Cheshire which came into Wilts in King Henry 

 VIII's time, of St. Margaret's Esquires ; both members of parliament of 

 Marlborough : the father of the first parliament after King Charles IPs resto- 

 ration who was also of the Convention for the restoring of the said King ; the 

 son of the first triennial parliament begun the 7th of King William III. 

 Jefferey died 22d April 1681. William died 25th April 1697." 



Query — should not 1697 be 1698 ? See the reference to the 

 entry in the register above, 



Waylen (Hist, of Mar lb., p. 500) says that Jeffrey Daniell had a 

 daughter named Eachel who on the death in 1698 of William Daniell 

 without issue inherited the family estates. The birth and baptism 

 of this Rachel are not recorded in the register. She married 

 Thomas Fettiplace, of Fernham, Berks, and her son, Daniel 

 Fettiplace, sold the property in St. Margaret's in 1714, probably to 

 the then owner of the Savernake estate, as it remained in the 



