By C. R. Straton. 



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(Dorset), Sutton Mandeville, Staunton, Pewsey, and Mildenhall. 



In the second roll there is an excellent bird's-eye view of Wilton 

 in the sixteenth century, showing two of the Churches, the Shire 

 Hall, Eectory of St. Mary, Market Cross, Monastery Mill, St. 

 Michael's Bridge, the Pound and the Stocks. There are etchings 

 of the manors of East Overton, Knyghton, and Damerham ; and of 

 the Churches of Dinton, Patney, Winterbourne Bassett, Berwick 

 St. John. Wylye, Bishopstone, and Damerham. 



In the third roll there is a bird's-eye view of the town of Paignton, 

 in Devon, showing the Palace of the Bishop of Exeter, one of the 

 Churches, and ships in the port. There are small etchings, also, of 

 Paignton Church, and of the Churches of Stoke Gabriel, Stoke 

 Trister, Cucklington, Donyett, and Chedsye, with etchings of the 

 manors and deer-parks of Stoke Trister and Donyett and the Abbey 

 of Shaftesbury, then in ruins, with one of the Churches there. 



To pass from the lord to the manor. A manor was a district, 

 usually a parish, which was granted by the Crown to a lord in 

 return for military services and other renders. When war became a 

 science, and a standing army was maintained, these knights' services 

 were commuted for a fixed payment, every manor according to its 

 size being assessed at so many knight's fees, and in this survey we 

 have a scutage roll showing how the Abbess of Wilton assessed her 

 various manors for the war in Wales in the time of Edward I. — 

 1281. Each manor was at once a farm and a jurisdiction. Within 

 this jurisdiction the lord of the manor had the powers of a little 

 prince, and held his court-baron for punishing misdemeanours and 

 redressing wrongs. The law that prevailed within a manor was 

 the law of immemorial custom, and a written custumal was kept 

 by the lord's steward and from time to time presentments of the 

 customs were made by the homage to the court if they thought 

 their rights were being infringed. These old custumals are often 

 referred to and quoted in the survey, and some of them date from 

 1314. 



When the lord was the lord of several manors, then in addition 

 to each manor having its own local court, there was also a court 

 belonging to the whole lordship, and in the case of the Barony of 



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