Subordinate to the Barony of Castle Combe. 289 



At the late date of 1620, on the decease of Edward James, Esquire, 

 of Broadfield, in the parish of Hullavington, leaving an only son 

 and heir, Richmond James, an infant of six years of age, the widow, 

 Margaret James, and her agent, George Bullock of Alderton, con- 

 tracted with John Scrope, Esquire, for the wardship and marriage 

 of the minor, on the ground that the Manor of Broadfield and 

 certain lands in Hullavington were held of the lordship of Castle 

 Combe, and agreed to pay Mr. Scrope the sum of 90/. in consider- 

 ation thereof. Walter Long, of South Wraxall, was joined with 

 Bullock in the bond. On this, in 1622, Sir Walter Pye, Attorney 

 of the Court of Wards and Liveries, filed an information against 

 John Scrope, disputing his right to dispose of the minor, and 

 claiming it for the king. In answer to this information it was 

 stated, on the part of Mr. Scrope, that on the death of Edward 

 Chatter ton, Esquire, in the first year of Edward VI., an office 

 found that he was seised of the Manor of Broadfield, held of 

 Richard Scrope, Esquire, as of the Manor of Castle Combe; and 

 also another office on the death of Symon James, in the fourteenth 

 year of Henry VIII., found that the same was held of John Scrope, 

 as a knight's fee of the Barony of Combe. I have, however, found 

 no other trace of this dependency. 1 



[In a future paper I propose to give an account of the internal 

 or municipal government of the Manor of Castle Combe through 

 its Courts Baron and the Leet, the Rolls of which are in good 

 preservation from an early date.] 



1 Addendum. — In p. 270 it is mentioned that the Church of Winterborne was 

 granted temp. Henry I. to the Monks of Lewes in Sussex, by Reginald de 

 Dunstanville. The lands granted with it probably comprised the estate of 

 Winterborne Monkton adjoining to Winterborne Basset. 



