Subordinate to the Barony of Castle Combe. 269 



held of the Barony of Combe by John Mautravers. In 1366, 

 Ashton, called repeatedly in the Rolls of the Court " Ash ton Dun- 

 stanville," was held by John Croucheton; in 1396, by Nicholas 

 Temyse; in 1404, by Nicholas Gervase. Between 1417 and 1434, 

 two fees in " Ashton and Croucheston" were held by Robert Salmon. 

 From 1523 to 1547, John " Crockington" paid suit and service as 

 tenant of the Manor of Ashton Dunstanville. In some of the Rolls 

 of the sixteenth century, however, e. g. of 1525 and 1547, Eleston 

 and Ayston are both mentioned as held by the Earl of Arundel, 

 and mortuary, "muntura," and relief were paid in the former of 

 these years by Earl Thomas on his admission to these manors. 

 From this it would seem that there were two Manors of Ashton 

 held under Castle Combe, Ashton GifFard and Ashton Dunstanville, 

 which last was perhaps Orcheston, the adjoining manor to Eleston, 

 and included in the same parish. 



5. Colerne. — In the 23rd of Henry II. (1176) an Aid being 

 assessed on the towns of Wiltshire, "Colerne" contributed as one 

 of those belonging with "Combe" to the Earl of Cornwall, Reginald 

 Fitzroy alias De Dunstanville. 1 And on the marriage of Ursula, 

 daughter of this earl, with Walter de Dunstanville, his nephew as 

 I believe, he conveyed to him one half of the lordship of Colerne, 

 by a charter recited in the chartulary of Castle Combe, where the 

 seal to this document is described as bearing "the Earl of Corn- 

 wall mounted on a horse and armed, with a shield on his breast 

 emblazoned with the arms of Cornwall." Walter de Dunstanville 

 had livery of his Manors of Colerne, Combe, and Wily in the 2nd 

 year of Richard I. (1190), on which occasion he paid one hundred 

 marks, the sum afterwards fixed in the great charter as the proper 

 relief of a barony. His grandson, the 3rd Walter de Dunstanville, 

 obtained from King Henry III. the grant of a market on Thursdays 

 for his Manor of Colerne. 2 Walter had two brothers, John and 

 Robert. The son of the first, Robert by name, married Grace de 

 Bohun, sister to the Earl of Northampton, on which occasion her 

 uncle settled a yearly rent of 50/. upon this lady, in name of dower, 

 from his Manors of Colerne and Heytesbury. 3 



1 Madox's Exchequer. 2 Castle Combe Chartulary, p. 14. 3 Idem, p. 40. 



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