By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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I believe, quite extinct, that they could ride on their own land 

 all the way from Farley Castle to Salisbury, a good thirty miles. 

 That this saying is literally correct I cannot exactly admit, because 

 in that line of country they certainly would have encountered in 

 their ride some large properties with which they never had any- 

 thing to do, as, for example, the territory of the Lady Abbesses of 

 Wilton. Still, in one sense, the saying is so far true, that during 

 the period of their existence in the county, (about three hundred 

 years), there really are very few parishes between those two points 

 with which they had not, at some period or other, some connexion ; 

 and it is also the case, that in their best days, they actually were 

 owners of a very considerable portion of that tract of country. 

 Indeed the same may be said of many other parts of Wiltshire. 

 The number of places with which their name is associated, either 

 by ownership to a greater or less extent, or by some memorial or 

 other, is very extraordinary, and almost sufficient to fill a map of 

 of itself. 



In the city of Salisbury they do not appear to have remained 

 long or to have possessed much, and, with the exception of the 

 " Novel- street" tenements already mentioned, I have not met with 

 much notice of them here. Their coat of arms on the ceiling of 

 an aisle in St. Thomas's Church implies a benefaction to that part 

 of the building. The shield of some younger member of the 

 family is (or lately was) on a window in the Cathedral library. 

 Sir Thomas, just spoken of above, was in a.d. 1370, Special Attorney 

 for the See of Sarum when its property was held for a little while 

 by the Crown. 



The great man of the family was son of Sir Thomas the Speaker, 

 viz., Walter, Lord Hungerford and Heytesbury, Lord High Treasurer 

 of England in the reign of Henry VI. He had been a supporter 

 of Henry IV. upon his seizure of the throne, and under that pa- 

 tronage passed through many public situations, civil and military, 

 and made a vast addition to the property of his family. He served 

 at Agincourt under Henry V., and got a good share of prize-money : 

 amongst other things a grant of the Barony of Hornet, in Nor- 

 mandy, which he held under the Crown, by the somewhat singular 



