By John U. Powell, 31. A. 



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in alphabetical order for convenience of reference, is being prepared 

 under the direction of the writer. 



There is one charity in the parish, the interest of £100, to be 

 applied by the Vicar and churchwardens to buy bread and coal for 

 eight of the oldest men and women, residents in and natives of the 

 parish. It was left in 1875 by John Hale Clifford, to be distributed 

 on Good Friday. 



4. — History of the Land. 



The early history of the Manor is obscure, but there is no ground 

 for disputing the conclusions of Hoare in his account of the parish. 1 



We find that there were three holders in Domesday, Osbern 

 Griffard, Edward of Salisbury, and the Earl of Gloucester. Putting 

 together what Hoare says in his notices of the families of Giffard 

 (Heytesbury Hundred, pp. 201 and 238) and Matravers (pp. 181 

 and 221), we find that what the Giffards possessed continued with 

 them till 1319, when their estates were forfeited to the Crown ; then 

 it passed to the Spencers ; was forfeited again to the Crown, who 

 gave it in 1331 to Sir John Matravers, who died 1368 ; a descendant 

 of his, Eleanor, married Sir John Arundel, who died at sea, 1380. 

 He is apparently the person who was drowned off the coast of 

 Brittany, and who is quaintly described as having lost " not only his 

 life, but all his body-apparel, to the amount of two and fifty suits 

 of cloth of gold " {Social England, ii., p. 389). His widow married 

 Sir Eoger Cobham, who died seised of the manor in 1405. 2 



From this point there is at present a gap in our notices of it till 

 we find William Ludlow the owner at his death in 1478. The 



1 Hoare identifies the Deverel which in Domesday is put down to Edward of 

 Salisbury as Hill ; but Canon Jones {Wilts Domesday, p. 212), as Kingston; 

 Hoare identifies the Deverel which is put down to Urso, as Kingston ; Jones as 

 Hill. I believe Hoare to be right, for the Urso property has a mill attributed to 

 it now, Hill Deverill already had its mill in Osberns property, while Kingston 

 is the only Deverill which appears to have had none ; the conclusion is therefore 

 almost irresistible that Urso's land with its mill is part of Kingston. Eachiplace 

 then has its mill. Jones, however, seems right in identifying Edgar's Devrel 

 {Domesday) as a part of Hill Deverill. 



2 This may be inferred from a comparison of Hoare, pp. 221 and 301. 



