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( Continued.) 



Lg^INCE the appearance of the last instalment of these notes, 

 the Society's collection has been further enriched by a 

 packet of original deeds, one of them of great length and extra- 

 ordinary interest, relating to Draycot. Leaving these deeds for 

 the present aside, the following documents, set out and numbered 

 in order of date, represent — with the exception of a mass of notes 

 illustrative of the history of families resident in the parish — the 

 whole of the remaining material in the Society's possession relating 

 to Chisledon. All of it, we may again remind the Society, has been 

 at various dates, presented by Mr. John Mullings, of Cirencester. 



The first document, presented too late for its insertion in its 

 proper place, is a copy (ancient) of the Particulars of the Grant 

 made to Sir John Brydges out of the Court of Augmentations of 

 the manors of Chisledon and Burderop, and of what is here described 

 as the " Grangia Becimalis " of Monkebaron. Similarly, in his will 

 dated 1 June, 1638, William Applegarth, gent., bequeaths his 

 " Rectory or Decimall Graunge of Kopley, co. Southampton." Of 

 the precise meaning of the description we are ignorant. The copy 

 does not appear to be wholly satisfactory, but is, we trust, correctly 

 " extended " as follows : — 



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