334 The Society's MSS.—Chtse/don. 



with the parish of Chisledon, and to this connexion may reasonably! 

 be attributed the subsequent residence there of his son-in-law. I 

 William Buckeridge, and the birth there — 01, rather, in thei 

 annexed parish of Draycot — of John Buckeridge, his grandson, 

 sometime President of St. John's College, and Bishop successively! 

 of Rochester and of Ely. Besides his daughter Elizabeth married f 

 to William Buckeridge, Thomas Kibblewhite it will be seen had I 

 issue living at the date of his will a son John, a married man and J 

 with children, and yet another son-in-law, by name Arthur ? 

 Redfern. The wife, Elizabeth, mentioned in his will, and whom, 

 jointly with John his son, he constitutes his residuary legatee and j 

 executrix, was evidently not the mother of his children. She was I 

 the widow, as he states, of one William Curtise, identical, it may 1 

 be supposed, with a testator of those names, whose will as " of \ 

 Bassildon," was proved in 1576 in the Archdeacon's Court. , 



That Thomas Kibblewhite held his "farm of Badbury " under 

 the Crown, and that the Crown lease came subsequently to the • 

 hands of Arthur Redfern, above mentioned, his son-in-law, may t 

 safely be inferred from a document in the collection presented to 

 the Society by Mr. Mullings. The document in question is a copy | 

 of the Letters Patent by which King James the First " exemplified " j 

 (15 June, 1607) to "Arthur Redferne, gentleman, now farmer of 1 

 the manor of Baddebury, aforesaid," certain Letters Patent of his > 

 predecessors in favour of Glastonbury, to which religious house 

 Badbury had up to the Dissolution belonged. The volume of 

 " Inquisitiones Post Mortem " now being issued to Members 

 enables us to trace yet a further development in the history of this 

 hamlet. In the reign of King Charles the First, it appears, a class 

 of small freeholders, Gribbes, Lambourne, Harding, and Harding 

 alias North, by name, had come into existence at Badbury. In 

 the case of Robert Harding alias North, who died 12 May, 1631, 

 we find proof that, as we should have expected, these small freeholds 

 represented the break-up of a manorial estate. He died seised of 

 the reversion, expectant on the death of Margaret Fox, of 34 acres, 

 parcel of the demesne lands of the manor of Badbury, lately 

 purchased of Thomas Redferne, gent. Similarly Nicholas Harding 



