By the Ven. Archdeacon Macdonald. 



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Sawbridge, Esq. In addition to his own paternal name, he assumed 

 that of Erie Drax : and the descendants of this marriage are now 

 the joint proprietors of this estate. 



Mr. George Elgar Sloper, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Thomas Brown, and 

 Mr. Harris are the other proprietors at Cote. To the last named 

 gentleman belongs the farm of Cold-cote; sometimes miscalled 

 Calcot, or Cold croft. 



"Cold-cotes in Cote" belonged in 49 Edward III. (a.d. 1375), 

 and in 13 Richard II. (a.d. 1389) to the family of Hastings, Earl 

 of Pembroke. (I. p. m.) 



In later times, it belonged to Mr. Weston ; from whom it was 

 bought by Mr. William Salmon. He sold it to Mr. Samuel Adlam 

 who left it to his daughter, the wife of the Rev. Henry Baynton. 

 From him it was purchased by Mr. Line, whose trustees disposed 

 of it to Mr. Harris. 



Tything of Hotiton. 



Among the landowners in the manor of Cannings who used to 

 be charged, temp. John and Henry III., with an annual pa} r ment 

 towards the expenses of guarding Devizes Castle, are mentioned 

 Alan de St. George, William de Derham, and Owayn de Inemane, 

 for their lands in Horton. 



Horton is mentioned in the Inquis. post mortem as held of the 

 manor of Canynges in 17 Richard II. (1393) by Cicely wife of Sir 

 Nicholas Berkeley. In 2 Henry IV. (1400) Sir John Roche, kt., 

 died owner. His estate passed to the Bayntons of Eallersdon, and 

 was their's in 1465 and 1475. In 1517 John Vinor was principal 

 landowner here. ( Subsidy Roll.) In temp. Charles I. Thomas Wes- 

 ton, gent. In 41 Elizabeth (1597) some part of this Tything bore 

 the name of Horton Quarles. 1 



The landowners in Horton, about 1665, were Sir Edward Nicho- 

 las, Sir William Turner, Benjamin Gifford, Esq. of Boreham, Thomas 

 Weston, and John Unwyn, Esqs. of Yabington, Hants. Mr. Un- 

 wyn was the largest proprietor. Part of his estate passed to Mr. 



1 In 1315 Quarle was owner of half the manor of Luckington in North Wilts. 

 Quarles is a name found at Salisbury in 1597. 



