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receipt of 200 marks, transferred to Lord Hungerford the manor and 

 advowson of Rowle}^. The deeds completing the transaction are 

 dated " at Rowlegh alias Witnam," the Feast of the Nativity of 

 St. John, 7 Hen. VI., and six years afterwards, viz., in 13 Hen. VI., 

 John de St. Manx Esq. (nearest of kin to the old owners) released 

 in the usual way, any rights he might have in the Manor of Wytnam, 

 "otherwise called" the Manor of Rowlegh. Lord Hungerford at 

 the same time obtained a few acres in " Rowley Field near Yforde " 

 (Iford), held of the Prior and Convent of St. Swithhr's, Winchester 

 (this would be part of Westwood) ; and a small portion of land, also 

 in the same field, held under the Prior of Henton Charterhouse. 



This purchase was all-important to Lord Hungerford, then busy 

 in finishing, at Farley, the castle which his father, Sir Thomas, had 

 begun. For his own parish (Farley) being behind the castle, on the 

 western side, the principal view from his new windows would be 

 over the lands of Wittenham and Rowley. The castle park also 

 lay that way extending for about a mile as far as Iford, and divided 

 into two by the river. Part of Rowley alias Wittenham and the 

 lands obtained from the two Priors above- mentioned, formed the 

 Wiltshire side : and these (it is believed) are the lands which are 

 now known as the " Wiltshire Park Farm." 



In 1555 (2 and 3 Phil, and Mary), Sir Walter Hungerford (a de- 

 scendant) and Agnes, his wife, leased Rowley Farm to Christopher 

 Bayly, for 40 years ensuing after the death of Elizabeth Lady 

 Throckmorton, then wife of Sir Robert Throckmorton, widow of a 

 former Sir Walter Hungerford. Christopher Bayly married Matilda, 

 daughter of Thomas Horton, Esq., of Iford, and after his decease 

 she re-married Walter Bush who was occupier of Rowley Farm in 

 1583. It is described as lying in Rowley, Stowford, Westwood, 

 Iford and the Moors (believed to be between Midway Farm and 

 Trowle Common). Rebecca Bayly, granddaughter of Christopher 

 by his wife Matilda Horton, was an heiress. She married, first 

 Henry Long, Esq., of Whaddon, who died 1G12 : secondly, Henry 

 Sherfield, of Salisbury, M.P. 1 There are some fields (titheable to 



1 The celebrated Recorder of that city, who in order to show his dislike of the 

 architectural decorations countenanced by Archbishop Laud, and on the plea 



