By the Rev. G. 8. Master. 269 



Grimstead. " Thomas Byndoure, a serf of the lord by birth 

 — 'nativus donrini '—holds the moiety of nine acres of arable 

 and half an acre of meadow and one close in Estgremstede, 

 arising by escheat by reason of his birth, as in right of 

 Agnes, his mother, one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas 

 Dodde, of Estgremestede, at the rent of 8d., and not more 

 during his life/' 1 

 1584. Henry GyfFord, Esq., had land in East Dean, West Dean, 



and Grymstead, late the property of William Huland. 8 

 1607-8. Edward Dennys was a freeholder at Dean. 3 

 1733. Thomas Cromp, Esq., sues Peniston Lamb, Esq., for 

 manorial rights in East Dean, West Dean, Dean All Saints, 

 &c. 4 



1740. The Duke of Queensborough owns Bentley Wood, Barns- 

 hill, and part of Dean Wood. Mr. Whithed and Mr. 

 Thistlethwayte hold property here. 5 

 1782. The Earl of Clarendon owns Howe and Dean Farms. 6 



A short pedigree of a family named Ashley is given in the " Wilts 

 Visitation," and in Hoare's " Wilts," under the heading of West 

 Dean, but I am inclined to transfer it to East Dean, at which place, 

 and at East Tytherley, are numerous entries of the name (which is 

 not found at West Dean) in the parochial registers. 



Manor House. 



The manor house 7 of West Dean, which, from its archititectural 

 style, I conjecture to have been erected— on the site, perhaps, of an 

 older mansion— by the first Evelyn proprietor of the estate, temp. 



1 Terrier of Abbot Beere. Hoare's " Wilts," Hundred of Alderbury, p. 68. 

 2 " Ch. Pro.," G.G. ii., 26 Eliz., Publ. Rec. Office. 

 3 " Wilts Freeholders, 1607-8." See vol. xix. of this journal, p. 254. 

 4 " Recovery Roll, 388," AD. 1733, 7 George II. 

 s « Land Tax Assessments." Purchased in 1827 by C. Baring Wall, Esq., M.P. 

 6 " Land Tax Assessments." Purchased about 1865 by Thomas Baring, Esq., 

 M.P. 



' Engraved in Hoare's " Modern Wilts," Hundred of Alderbury, p. 24, and 

 in the " Gentleman's Magazine" for 1826, p. 297. 



