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In 1525, it had passed to J. Parker, on the decease of John Clerke. 

 In 1573, Walter of Lushill owed service for the same. 



15. Wertune, "Wroughton. — Held by Robertus, temp. Domesday, 

 under Humphrey de Insula. 



A narrative entered in the chartulary of Castle Combe at a very 

 early date, records that Reginald de Dunstanville with his wife, 

 Atheliza, and Reginald their son and heir, quitclaimed to the 

 monks of Tewksbury a knight's fee in " Warston," and after her 

 husband's death confirmed this grant in the Chapter before the 

 monks and " her knights" This last expression shows that the 

 lady in question must have held the barony in her own right, 

 being no doubt Adeliza de Insula, heiress of Humphrey. 



In the Liber Feodorum mention is made of one knight's fee, held 

 of Walter de Dunstanville, in " Wer'weston," (Over Wroughton), 

 by the Abbot of Tewksbury. The Abbot of Stanley also held four 

 parts of a knight's fee, in "Costowe," (in the parish of Wroughton), 

 of Walter de Dunstanville. This latter estate was bestowed on the 

 Abbey of St. Mary, of Stanley, near Chippenham, by the third Walter 

 de Dunstanville, by a charter of which an early copy is in the 

 Castle Combe chartulary. 1 



The Partition Roll values these two fees — the first at 10/., the 

 latter at 61. 13s. 4d. The chartulary of Castle Combe has an 

 indenture, in Norman French, whereby John, Abbot of Tewksbury, 

 in the year 1342, acknowledged and attorned his homage and fealty 

 which he owed for the town of Werston, to Sir John Tibetot, and 

 Margaret, his wife, one of the heirs of Giles Lord Badlesmere, 

 The two Abbots owed and paid yearly service to the Court of Castle 

 Combe for these fees, up to the dissolution. The Manor of Over 

 Wroughton is, in the year 1537, entered in the rolls as still held 

 by the Abbot of Tewksbury, but another entry charges it to "the 

 tenants of Philip de Combwell, now Prior of St. Swithin, at Win- 

 chester," from the year 1523 to 1547. The Abbot of Stanley held 



1 The witnesses to this grant are 1 1 John and Robert Dunstanville, my brothers ; 

 A. De la Mare ; Henry de Hertham ; Henry Croke ; Walter de Kembryngton ; 

 Herbert de Groundwell, my Steward; Nicholas Wass; William de Legh; and 

 others. 



