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Rowley alias Wittenham. 



dated, but from the witnesses' names apparently of about Edw. I.) 

 Roger de St. Lo was then owner. He parted with a small portion in 

 " Rueleia," viz., a manse, a virgate of land, and pannage for swine 

 in Wittenham Wood/' to one Walter Brutun of Henton Charterhouse 

 whose son, John Brutun, settled it on his daughter Katharine upon 

 her marriage with Roger Hamund, of Shoekerwick, near Bath. 

 Thomas Hamund his son was owner in 1306. About the year 1427 

 it was purchased, under the name of " Hamund's lands/' by Walter 

 Lord Hungerford, K.G., of Farley Castle. 



The manor and advowson passed out of the St. Lo family to 

 George Cantilupe, Baron of Bergavenny, who, dying 1272 without 

 issue, left it to one of his sisters, Milicent, wife of Eudo de Zouche. 

 Elena, daughter of Alan de Zouche, married Nicholas St. Maur, 

 who presented to the Church of Wyttenham alias Rowley in A.D. 

 1299. He was of the elder House of St. Maur, and owner of the 

 manor of Road, Co. Somerset, a few miles off. Under the manor 

 of Rowley were held several small outlying properties in various 

 parishes, paying chief or quit rents : as at Ashley and Rudlow in 

 Box, the town of Bradford, Bradford Lye, Woolley, and AvonclifF, 

 in Wilts : and at Tellisford and Road in Somerset. In the last 

 mentioned parish the name of Wittenham survived longer than any 

 where else, slightly corrupted into " Little Wigen/iam/ 3 or " Road 

 Wygnam by the water- side.-" At Shawford Mill, near Wolverton 

 and Road, there was also land called " Wolverton's Wygnam. 33 

 These grounds are so named in 1562 in an old rent roll of the 

 Hungerford family, as copyholds of the manor of Rowley alias 

 Wittenham, granted by George Lord Zouche, St. Maur, and Can- 

 tilupe. At Tellisford there were admissions by the steward of the 

 same manor so late as 1704. This explains why Rowley manor is 

 sometimes described as u in the counties of Somerset and Wilts." 



Rowley remained in the St. Maur family from 1299 to 1410, 

 when it came back to the Zouches, by the marriage of Alice St. 

 Maur, an heiress, with Sir William Zouche, afterwards fifth Baron 

 Zouche of Harringworth. 



In 1427 Lord Zouche being indebted to Walter Lord Hungerford, 

 K.G., in a sum of 250 marks for "merchandize/' on a further 



