By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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The house in which he lived at Purton is still standing. On one 

 of the chimney-pieces is a curious coat of arms — a Tyger regardant 

 or looking backwards, in a mirror. It is the arms of the Chancel- 

 lor's grandmother, who was of the Sibell family. It is also in the 

 church of Tisbury, not far from Dinton. 



Purton church has two towers, on one of which is a spire. A 

 good many years ago there was some fine glass in the windows ; 

 among the rest, two coats of arms of Keynes and Paynell. These 

 were leaseholders under the Abbey of Malmesbury. Keynes was a 

 family once widely spread in North "Wilts ; and the name is still 

 preserved in Ashton Keynes, Pool Keynes, and Somerford Keynes. 

 They were hereditary keepers of Bradew forest. Keynes-place is, 

 I believe, still the name of a house at Purton. Paynell's (if it 

 exists) was corrupted into Neel's-place. 



Lydiard. 



Our tour ends with two parishes, with difficult names — Lydiard 

 Milicent and Lydiard Tregoz. For a long time they had but one 

 name in common — Lydiard, and under that one they are mentioned 

 separately in Domesday Book. In other old records the name 

 occurs spelled in a very great variety of ways. The spelling near- 

 est to the right one would be Led-yard, as it appears to be a pure 

 Anglo-Saxon compound word — leod, people, and yeard, enclosure ; 

 the people's enclosure or dwelling — a natural name for a large 

 clearing in the ancient forest. They lie in two different hundreds, 

 and belonged at the Conquest to two different lords ; North Lydi- 

 ard or Milicent to the Crown, which held it in its own hands ; the 

 other to Alured of Marlborough. 



The custom of giving second names to parishes was first intro- 

 duced by the great Norman families, and was greatly in fashion in 

 the reigns of Henry III., and the Edwards. In this county the 

 instances are very numerous. The second name so given is, in 

 the majority of cases, that of the family to whom it belonged about 

 that period. It is a very convenient and pretty mode of dis- 

 tinguishing parishes that had originally one common Saxon name, 

 as in the case of Stanton St. Quintin, Stanton Fitzwarren, Stanton 



