By the Rev. J. Silvester Davies. 



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The whole case is contained in a parchment folio in the Salisbury 



muniment room, which is really the brief of the counsel engaged on 



the part of the Bishop. And the first eleven leaves contain the 



documents in the Tropenell cartulary precisely in the same order ; 



and at the foot of the eleventh leaf is a memorandum referring to 



the Tropenell cartulary : — 



"Memorandum, that al that which ys wry ten in thys booke from the 

 bygynnyng hither vict, yt ys Also regestryd in an auhcyent booke of parchment 

 which sumtyme was Mr. Trapnell's boke and now ys Mr. John Eyer's, of 

 Chalfeld, wherein ys regestryd also all Mr. Trapnell's lands whereof the 

 greatest 'part ys dyscendyd to the saide Mr. Eyers' wyfe as one of the co- 

 parceners and coheirs of the saide Mr. Trapnell ; which booke was sene by 

 me, John Hooper, and hyt agreythe with thys boke." 



I am indebted to Mr. Maiden for this most interesting infor- 

 mation. (The note must have been written about 1550.) 



We now pass to the Tropenell property in-New Sarum — tenements 

 and shops in Minster Street, in which John le Hatter is concerned 

 (and, of course, many others). 



The will at length of Agnes Cammel, &c, and much about the 

 family of Cammels. These deeds go on for several pages. The 

 wills of Agnes Byrkyn and Henry Berwyk. 



Needless to say that the names of many families and places 

 occur ; e.g., Chipperislane, in New Sarum, which has several deeds 

 devoted to it. 



We next come to a section of great interest, which deals with 

 the succession to the Great Chalfield property (pp. 329 — 473), 

 And in this we have included in English an account of the " in- 

 heritors, purchasers, and occupiers of the manor of East Chalfield, 

 with the office of constablewick of the castle of Trowbridge from 

 the time of Henry III., and before from the time that no mind 

 renneth, unto annum quintum Edwardi quarti declared, understood, 

 and clearly determined by the counsel learned of Thomas Tropenell, 

 Squire, and by himself" (pp. 341 — 364). That is to say, we have 

 an account of the Percys of Great Chalfield, the Parshays of Little 

 Chalfield, the Fitz Waryns, the Beverley s, the Rous family, the 

 Beaushyns, Tropenells, and very many others, together with the 

 history of the vast and intricate litigations, extending over one 



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