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Charles, Lord Stourton, fyc. 



Hartgill was cited to show his right of feeding 100 sheep on that 

 ground, and in the course of the history we shall find a forcible 

 entry and assault by Lord Stourton to get possession of the House. 

 (See No. 35 " Star-Chamber proceedings.") 



From the evidences in the Record Office it is to be inferred that they 

 had also a dispute about a Right of Way. Hartgill lived in the vil- 

 lage of Kilmington but had the farm called Beckington a little way 

 off. In order to reach it he claimed a right of crossing some fields 

 belonging to Lord Stourton. This Lord Stourton appears to have 

 stopped, and by force : for immediately after his execution, Cuthbert 

 Hartgill, grandson of William, again exercised his pretended 

 right to the great annoyance of Sutton then tenant, who preferred 

 his Bill of complaint in the Court of Requests. 



Among the documents at Longleat relating to this quarrel, are 

 a few pages of Accounts, the first leaf of which, had it not unluckily 

 been missing, would have explained, when, by whom and for what 

 purpose they were drawn out ; but it seems to consist of Extracts 

 from old Accounts, made by some third party for the purpose of 

 discovering how matters had stood at the death of William Lord 

 Stourton. The MS. (too long and confused to be printed) contains 

 a schedule of monies received by Hartgill as Steward, for rents, 

 sales of wood, &c, during a few years ending 1548 (2 Edward VI.) 

 when that nobleman died ; and shows Hartgill to have received 

 £2073 2s. There is also a memorandum of such estates of the 

 Stourton family as had been lately " sold by Hartgill : " viz., " To 

 Thomas Long of Trowbridge, Lands in Maddington, Alton, Steeple 

 Ashton, 1 Hilperton and Poulshot, all in Wilts, for the sum of 

 £2100. Others in Dorsetshire to Gerrard Browne and Fisher for 

 £480. In Essex to Sir Ralph Warren for £700. Estates at 

 Shipton Moigne 2 co. Glouc, and at Easton Grey co. Wilts ; prices 

 not named." 



1 The farm still called " Stourton Farm" in West Ashton, parish of Steeple 

 Ashton. 



2 The Rt. Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron Estcourt, from title-deeds in his possession 

 as owner of the estate, has kindly informed the writer that, under a License 

 from the Crown, the Manor of Shipton Moigne and Advowson of the Church were 

 sold to John Hodges, Esq., by William Lord Stourton (father of Charles) in 



