| Description | manors of Little Cheverell, Stanton St Quintin, Seagry, Whitchurch and Milbourne in Malmesbury, Corston, Patney, Littleton Pannell, Lavington Dauntsey and Lavington Rector, East Harnham, Coombe Bissett, Odstock, Homington, Longford, Whaddon in Downton, Alderbury, West Grimstead, Easthorpe [Eastrop] in Highworth, Downton and borough and rectory, Netton; Widhill in Cricklade; land in Great Cheverell; Little Park in Wootton Bassett, Lyneham Court, Longford farm in Britford, Bodenham and Nunton; manors of Coleshill, Great and Little Coxwell, Bourton, Shrivenham rectory, Watchfield in Berkshire; Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire. Wood accounts. Enclosures pasted in include: detailed letter about the conditions on a lease of the Candown and Wick estates, Market Lavington; letter from the master of Hungerford almshouses, Corsham about repairs to it (see Stanton section); report on work in Braydon wood (see Milbourne section); estimate with sketch of repairs of the roof at Lyneham Court farm; note about exchange of land with map of fields at Farley showing old footpath (see Alderbury section); receipt of gift towards the cost of a gallery in Nunton church; account of Recognition or Knowledge money due from the tithings in the manor of Downton at the change of each bishop [of Winchester], 1630; letters about the water supply in Coleshill diverted for the Wilts and Berks canal. Enclosure interleaved include: estimates for a barn at Perry's farm, Homington, Drew's and Peek's farms, Coleshill, and Crew's farm, Watchfield; depositions of farm workers, a shepherd and a gamekeeper about the boundaries between Whaddon and Witherington farms, Downton (reference to Austin's cross). (vol 64) |