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History of the Wiltshire Manors 



as appears from the Partition Roll, in which they are valued at 

 13/. 6s. 8d. yearly. 



The subsequent Rolls of the Knight's Court of Castle Combe, 

 show that in 1365 Broughton was still held by Sir John Strange 

 and Sir James Audeley, "together with John Spigurnall." In 1386, 

 it was in custody of the king during the minority of the heir. In 

 1389, Nicholas Audeley and John le Strange were summoned as 

 tenants under the barony. In 1396, the Lady Audeley, widow of 

 Nicholas. In 1417, both knight's fees are said to be held by Lord 

 Roos of Hamlake (as intermediate superior), and Lord Talbot and 

 John Hulse, probably as feoffees. In 1523, the tenants of James 

 Audeley, and in 1547 the names of James Audeley, (probably re- 

 tained there as representing their respective heirs, the Tuchets, Lords 

 Audeley, and Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury), and John le Strange 

 are still on the Roll, as owing suit and service for Broughton. 



2. Sterte. — The Liber Feodorum makes mention of Sterte as a 

 knight's fee, held of the king by Walter de Dunstanville, and 

 belonging to his Barony of Combe (et pertinet ad Baroniam suam 

 de Combe). The service for Sterte due to the king was forty days 

 at the Castle of Devizes in time of war, and twenty shillings in 

 time of peace. 



Sir John De la Mare and Petronilla, his wife, heiress of the De 

 Dunstanvilles, obtained grant of free warren for the Manor of Sterte, 

 11 Edward I. It appears from the Patent Rolls (3 Edward III., 

 1331) that Bartholomew Lord Badlesmere, who had purchased the 

 Barony of Combe, exchanged the fee of the Manor of Sterte, and 

 those of Heytesbury and Colerne, with King Edward II. for the 

 Castle and Manor of Chilham and others in Kent, where his 

 baronial residence, Leedes Castle, was situated. 1 And these estates 

 were bestowed by the young King Edward III., shortly after his 

 accession, on his chancellor and treasurer, Henry de Burghersh, 

 Bishop of Lincoln, who was also cousin and guardian of the minor, 

 Giles Lord Badlesmere, the heir of Bartholomew. 



The bishop, in the year 1335, paid a fine of one hundred shillings 



i Rot. Pat., 3 Edward III. Renewed 7 Edward III. 



