292 An English Manor in the time of Elizabeth. 



They then visited Paignton in Devon, taking on their way back 

 Stoke Trister, Cucklington, Chedsye, South Brent, and Huish, in 

 Somerset. Next year (the year began at Lady-day) they visited 

 Patney, Stanton, North Newnton, Hulcote, Wylye, Ridge, East 

 Overton, Fitield, Winterbourne Rassett, Ramsbury, Kast Ridge. 

 Whittenditch, Axford, Parktown, Raydon, Wilton. Rroyle, The 

 Earldoms, Even Swindon, the Forest of Groveley, Dainerham, 

 Bollesborough, Alyngford, Twoyde, Tytpit, Kast Martin, Bishop- 

 Btone, Knight on. Ebbesborne Wake, Net-ton, Croucheston, Throo})e, 

 and Stockton. A few years later they visited Shaftesbury. This 

 survey, closely written on one hundred and twenty-two skins, is 

 still in excellent preservation, and is in the muniment room at 

 Wilton House. It is written for the most part in the contracted 

 Latin of the period, and gives an accurate description of every 

 manor in the Seignory as it existed in 1562. At the beginning of 

 each roll is a pen-and-ink etching (9]in. x 14in.), showing the 

 Earl sitting in a high-backed chair, dressed in fur robe and cap. 

 The commissioners, grave looking men in gowns, stand in front 

 with hat in hand, while the Earl gives them their commission. 

 Behind the Earl stands his son Henry, in wide trunk hose, and a 

 little dog is at his feet. This is the same little dog thai is shown in 

 the portrait of the Karl in the library at Wilton House, said to be by 

 Holbein. Of this picture Aubrey says • This William (the founder 



of his family) had a little cur-dog which loved him and the Ear] 

 loved the dog. When the Earl died the dog would not go from his 

 master's dead body, but pined away and died under his hearse." 

 It is uncertain how long cur-dogs live, but this dog must have lived 

 to a great age if Holbein painted it, for Holbein died of the plague 

 sixteen years before the dog. This etching lias a border with the 

 Karl's arms at the top, quartering those of Herbert, Camm, and 

 (Taddock. At each corner are the crests of Pembroke. Parr, and 

 Cwynn, and the Herbert badge — a bascule or Watergate. 



There are many other etchings wit bin t be rolls, among which are. 

 in the first roll, the east front of Wilton House with the nl<] court- 

 yard and porch; etchings of Uamsbury and Wardour Castle, and 

 tin- Churches of Wilton, South Newton, Koughleston, Cbalburv 



