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The reversion of the Manor of Colerne was, as has been said, 

 sold in 1300, together with those of Heytesbury, Stert, Hurdicot, 

 and the other fees of the Honor of Castle Combe, to Bartholomew 

 Lord Badlesmere, by William de Montfort, son and heir of Petro- 

 nilla de Dunstanville, bnt was still held for life by the second 

 husband of Petronilla, Sir John De la Mare of Bradwell, by the 

 customary law styled "the Courtesy of England." During the 

 minority of Giles Lord Badlesmere, son and heir to Bartholomew, 

 it passed by exchange with and subsequent grant from the King 

 (Edward III.) to Henry de Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, then 

 Lord Treasurer, together with Stert, and Heytesbury, as has been 

 already mentioned, and was thus with them dissevered finally from 

 the Barony of Castle Combe. 



6. Wintreburne. — This, no doubt, represents the Manor of 

 Winterbourne Basset, which certainly belonged very early in the 

 twelfth century to Reginald de Dunstanville, since its church was, 

 in the reign of Henry I., granted by him to the Monks of Lewes. 1 

 And the manor first came to the Bassets by grant from Walter de 

 Dunstanville, temp. Richard I., to his nephew Alan Basset. This 

 grant was confirmed by King Richard, a.d. 1197, in a charter, 

 dated Chinon. A postscript states that the first grant being lost 

 while King Richard was a prisoner in Germany, it was renewed 

 from "Rupes Auroe Vallis," 2 22nd August, 9 Richard I. 3 It appears 

 from the Hundred Rolls (1 Edward I.) that in 1274 Earl Marshall 

 held this Manor of "Winterborne Basset in right of his wife/' 

 It is stated in the Rolls of the Court of Castle Combe to have 

 been held by Simon Basset in 1344, under the Barony of Combe, 

 and repeatedly distrained upon about the year 1335 by the bailiff 

 of the court, for non-payment of the usual fines. Queen Isabella 

 is named as tenant in 1355. In 1367, William Byde held it, pro- 

 bably as feoffee; in 1389, Simon Best; in 1404, John Lypiate owed 

 suit and service for it to the Knight's Court of Castle Combe; in 

 1454, the widow of Robert Best then the wife of John Wallop. 



1 Dugdale Monast., Lewes. 2 Probably Goldcliffe in Monmouthshire. 



3 Foedera. p. 67. 



