By the Rev, Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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there may have been for the elder sister Alice Pavely's representatives 

 I cannot say: but of Joan's representatives we know that Brook 

 House (which stood where Brook House Farm now stands) was 

 theirs. Of that house we have some account. Leland visited it in 

 his tour, in the reign of Henry VIII. He says, " From Steple 

 Ashton to Brook Haule by woody ground. There was of very 

 auncient tyme an old Manor Place where Brook Haule now is, and 

 part of it yet apperith. But the new building that is there is of 

 the creating of the Lord Steward unto K. Hen. VII, [the first Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke, I believe] . The windows be full of rudders 

 (device) . I* er adventure it was his badge or token of the Admiral. 

 There is a fayr Park but no great thing. In it be a great number 

 of very fair and fine grand okes apt to sele houses." John Aubrey, 

 a hundred years after Leland, saw and describes it as " a very great 

 and stately old house. The Hall great and open with very old 

 windows — but only one coat of Pavely was left." In the parlour, 

 chapel and canopy chamber, he found and copied twenty coats of 

 arms. " The rudders everywhere." These have been drawn and 

 published in the volume called " Wiltshire Collections." The ship's 

 rudder, so frequent as a device, does not, however, appear to have 

 been as Leland " peradventured " peculiar to the Willoughby family, 

 but rather to their predecessors the Cheyneys ; for it is found in 

 Edington Church on a little chantry chapel, of a date many years 

 before the Willoughbys succeeded to Brook. Of the Cheney family 

 of Brook little is left except the chantry just mentioned, which 



original property of Pavely became ultimately subdivided. Suppose it, when 

 entire, to be represented by 20. 



Arundel 1. 

 2*. 6d. 



St. Lo. 

 10*. 



Chedyok. 

 bs. 



Parely 20s. 



Stourton. 

 2». 6d. 



St. Maur. 

 5f. 

 I 



Drury. 

 1#. 8d. 



Stowell. 

 la. 8d. 



Cheney. 



108. 



I 



I 



Willoughby. 

 5s. 



Bampfield. 

 Is. 8d. 



Blount. 

 5». 



Paulett. 



08. 



Three co-heiresses sold to Webb. 



