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Thomas Stevens, "Primus in Indis." 



Bushton, Hame, Westwoode, Little Hinton, Easte Overton, Fiftllde, 

 Wroughton, Everleighe, Collingborne Ducis, Stocketon, Alton & 

 Stowell, Netherhaven, Patney, Fittellton. 



Bushton, in which the missionary's father lived. 1 identify with 

 the place still called hy that name, in the parish of Civile Pypard, 

 Wilts. A family named Spacknian formerly resided in tins 

 Bushton. (See Aubrey's Collect ions for Wiltshire, by Jackson, 

 p. 160.) The name occurs constantly in the registers of Civile 

 Pypard from 1582 down to the present day. Two charities left 

 hy persons of the name are still enjoyed hy the inhahitants, and 

 the name still exists in the parish. 



I was puzzled by rinding Bushton placed in the assessment rolls 

 of 1571 under the hundred of Elstuh and Everley. Xo Bushton 

 is mentioned in the section of Hoare's Modern Wiltshire devoted to 

 that hundred ; and according to Jones's Domesday for Wiltshire, 

 p. 207, the manor of Bushton, in Clytl'e Pypard parish, is in the 

 hundred of Kingshridge, the hundred in which Civile Pypard is 

 placed in the same assessment rolls. I am indebted to Mr. 

 Anthony Story-Maskelyne for the following elucidation of the point : 



" In the Wilts Arch, and Nat. Hist. Society's M<n//<:i,i<\ xix., 2f>9, 

 there is a list of freeholders in the county in the years 1(507-8, 

 arranged by hundreds. Under Elstuh and Everley is entered 

 ' Richard Hun ton, of Bushton, Esq.' A pedigree of Hun ton is 

 entered in the Visitations of Wilts for 1565 and 1623. The 

 ■ Bushton ' where this family resided (after removing from Knoyle, 



in Smith Wilts) was certainly BushtOE in Clyffe Pypard, and there 



was formerly a monument in Clyffe Church to Richard Hunton, of 

 Bushton, ^'ent., who died in 1004-5. Apparently, the hundred of 

 Elstuh, called hy Jackson 'one of the ragged hundreds/ consisted 

 originally of the possessions, wherever situate in the county, of the 

 monaster}' of St. Swithun, of Winchester, and the prior was lord of 

 the hundred. Thus Bushton, though only a hamlet, and situate 

 locally in the hundred of Kingshridge, was included in the hundred 

 of Elstuh, as it was owned hy St. Swithun's." 



In the assessment roll ( '.l,'; ) fur the suhsidy of 18 Eliz. (1570), 



the list for Bushton includes the name of "Thomas Stephens, 



