184 Swindon, its History and Antiquities. 



the present vicarage (Mr. Baily's) . The walls of Mr. Baily's house 

 are very thick, and when a portion was removed the interstices were 

 found to be full of oat-hulls and corn-chaff, carried there by the mice 

 in the granary. Behind the house are the remains of a dove-cot, or 

 columbarium. The nearest approach of the Civil War to Swindon 

 appears to have been the march of the Royalist Major Dowett to 

 Lydiard Tregooze. Cromwell issued a decree for the enclosure of 

 Eastcott, in 1657. Up to that time there appears to have been 

 common land at Eastcott, extending over about 600 acres. The 

 deed is of immense length, and gives minute instructions as to the 

 disposal of the property. Those who had manured their commonable 

 land since March, 1654, "and had since that time received no profit 

 thereby, either by sowing the same with grass, or feeding, and 

 cutting the same," were to receive 65. 8d per acre compensation for 

 those unexhausted improvements — an early instance of a principle 

 now recognised by agriculturists. Forty-six acres were given to the 

 lay-rectors (the Vilets) as compensation for tithes : freeing all from 

 tithe except three grounds. The deed is signed Lenthall (Speaker 

 of the House of Commons), and W. Martin. The name of Goddard 

 is so closely interwoven with the history of this place that it is 

 impossible to pass it over without reference, though I have only 

 recently issued a work upon that family. I will now only make a 

 few addenda, which have come to my knowledge since that publica- 

 tion. Notes and Queries, in a review, gives three other etymologies 

 of the name : God- ward, a god-like disposition. From Goddard, 

 the name of a mountain in Switzerland; and from God-red, good-in- 

 council. I find from a pedigree, forwarded to me by the Rev. F. 

 Goddard, that through Fettiplace, the family are descended from 

 the Royal House of Portugal. Thomas Fettiplace married Beatrix, 

 a natural daughter of King John of Portugal. Some time between 

 1646 and 1652 a cavalry regiment was raised in the Marlborough 

 division : and among those who contributed horses are many names 

 from this neighbourhood. Duke of Marlborough for Liddington, 

 Barbury, and Cote, one horse ; Mr. Oliver Calley, of Burderope, 

 one; Mr. Goddard, of Ogbourne, one; Mr. John Goddard, of 

 Ogbourne, one ; Mr. Goddard, of Purton, one ; Mr. Francis 



