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heiresses (useful creatures) reverted to the Longs of Whaddon, 

 from whom it has passed to the present owner, Richard Penruddocke 

 Long, Esq., of Rood Ashton. A very interesting sketch of the old 

 Court of Southwick is given in the Collections of Aubrey and 

 J ackson. Some part of Southwick belonging to Edington Monastery 

 was held after the dissolution under Sir Thomas Seymour, Lord 

 Sudeley, by Ambrose Dauntsey. The mortuary chapel appertaining 

 to Southwick will repay an inspection. It contains the tomb of the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury's mother, Emma, sometimes called the 

 second wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford,sen.,and the interesting inscrip- 

 tion to her memory still remains. At Coteridge in the ty thing of South- 

 wick lived J ohn Trenchard, who died in 1723, and who was the author 

 of the " Independent Whig." Brook House Farm, two miles north- 

 west of Westbury, is built on the site of an old house of the 

 Paveleys called Brook Hall, which successively passed into the hands 

 of the Cheneys, Willoughby de Broke, and Blount, Lord Mountjoy 

 and others, and now finally remains in the hands of Mr. Phipps of 

 Leighton. Dugdale says that Lord Willoughby de Broke took his 

 title from his residence at Broke, near Westbury, called from the 

 little " torrent" running there. From Aubrey's description of Brook 

 Hall, it must have been a place of some note, and Leland says it had 

 a fair park with a number of oak trees of good quality growing in 

 it. But on to Westbury— -Placed near the site, or rather on the 

 west of an old Roman site, it appears to have obtained the name of 

 West-bury. Westbury is mentioned in Domesday Book, and held 

 a most respectable position. It is curious to find in the record that 

 there were nine honey gatherers especially named as then being 

 among the inhabitants of the town. At that time, as I believe it is 

 now, the honey made by bees who gather their store in the vicinity 

 of and upon the Wiltshire Downs must have been in special request. 

 Till Henry the First gave land to the church at St. Mary's at Sarum, 

 the whole of the manor and hundred of Westbury was in the hands 

 of the king, and with scanty exception remained in possession of 

 the Crown till King Henry III. gave all the remainder to Reginald 

 de Paveley. His descendants held it for a long time, but at present 

 the parish appears to be divided into six manors. The church is 



