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have derived his impression that Albemarle had ever held it pre- 

 viously? Or putting the opposite case, and supposing that 

 Albemarle had nothing to do with it till the date of his grant, how 

 could a Diary written in 1664, come to contain the notice of an 

 event, long subsequent ? Or lastly ; did Albemarle sell Clarendon 

 park to Chancellor Hyde, and yet recover it by royal bounty ? 



J. W. 



Upper Upham. — To the statement (p. 128 above) that John of 

 Gaunt lived in the ancient house at Upper Upham, it ought to be 

 added that it is very doubtful whether any part of the present house 

 existed in the time of John of Gaunt. If it did, the house was 

 evidently modernized to a great extent by the Goddard family, in 

 the reign of Queen Elizabeth, or rather earlier. 



On the front of the house in raised letters there are the initials 

 T : G : A : G : 



and below there is engraved in gilt letters surrounded by a border line 



E G 

 1599 

 E G 



I was informed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., that the initials 

 T. G. and A. G., are those of Thomas Goddard, of Upham, who 

 bought the Swindon property in 1562 ; and of Anne, sister of Sir 

 George Giffard, his wife : the initials R. G. and E. G. being those 

 of Richard Goddard, (the son of Thomas), and Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Thomas Waldron, of Aldbourne, his wife : the will of this 

 Richard Goddard being dated in 1614. F. A. Carrington. 



The "Word Ale." — In the paper on "Ancient Ales," 1 the Word 

 Ale at Midgehall, a moated house about midway between Wootton 

 Basset and Lydiard Tregoze, is not mentioned. It is noticed by 

 Aubrey in his Collections for North Wilts, 2 in the following terms. 



"Midge-hall." 



"Mem. — The custome of Worde Ale." 



"This was the Grange of the Abbey of Stanley, the Demesnes thereto belonging 

 with some other smaller tenements of the same tenure, are in value above a 



i p. 191. 



2 Part 2., p. 89. 



3 f 2 



