Subordinate to the Barony of Castle Combe. 287 



with the advowson of the chapel of St. Leonard's. On the partition 

 of the Badlesmere estates it was held by John d'Engles, valued 

 at 51., and assigned to the Earl and Countess of Oxford as lords 

 paramount. In 1350, John Bocland and John Engleys held it 

 together; Robert Gilbert in 1366. In 1369, " Philip Dauntesey 

 proffered his homage and fealty for it," which was respited until 

 the return of the lord (Robert Lord Tiptoft, then owning the 

 Barony of Castle Combe) to England. Philip Dauntesey had 

 acquired it by marriage with Margaret Engleys, who survived him, 

 and held it in her own right in 1404. In 1442, Thomas, son and 

 heir of Thomas Ringwood, Esquire, paid seventy-five shillings for 

 relief of his fee in Whelpeley. In 1454, he still held it. In 1476, 

 his son Thomas; and in 1547, Thomas Ringwood's name still 

 appears as tenant under the barony of this estate. 



Mr. Matcham in his Hundred of Frustfield, 1 (in which Whelpeley 

 lies) satisfactorily, as I think, accounts for the subinfeudation of 

 "Whelpeley to the Barony of Combe in this manner. Brickworth 

 is parcel of the Manor of Whelpeley, and formerly synonymous 

 with it. In old deeds it is occasionally spelt "Brecore," and in 

 Wyndham's Domesday it is supposed to be intended by Brecheorde. 

 But it has been shown by good evidence that the description of 

 this vill in Domesday applies to Brinkworth in North Wilts. It 

 is presumable, therefore, that the "Brenchwrde" of Domesday, 

 applied by Wyndham to Brinkworth, really was intended for Brick- 

 worth, that is, for Whelpeley. But the " Brenchwrde' ' of Domesday 

 was held by Hunfridus, not of the king but of Milo Crispin, under 

 the king; it would therefore be inherited with his other Wiltshire 

 estates by the De Dunstanvilles. And we may account very 

 reasonably for the superiority of Milo Crispin being lost, by 

 supposing it to have been exchanged with him by one of the Dun- 

 stanvilles for that of Burbeche, dissevered in the thirteenth century 

 from the Castle of Combe and attached to that of Wallingford, 

 which belonged to Milo Crispin, as husband of Maud de Walling- 

 ford. This conjecture appears so well supported on all sides that it 

 is difficult not to believe it to be warranted. 



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