Reference2057/S/1
LevelItem
TitleSurvey book of Wiltshire estates.
On internal evidence this appears to predate the 1566 survey (2057S/3), and postdate 1555.
DescriptionRefers to Wilton barony (i.e. those who hold land in Wiltshire by parts of a knight’s fee); Wilton suburbs (actually including the principal streets of the town); Washerne and Netherhampton; Fugglestone and Avon in Stratford sub Castle and Bemerton; Burcombe; North Ugford; West Overton; South Newton and Stoford, Chilhampton and Little Wishford; prebend of South Newton, Chalke and Broad Chalke; “foreign” receipts from property in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall; Alvediston; Bridmore in Berwick St John; Chilmark and Ridge with a survey of the woods; the hundred of Chalke; Stanton (St. Bernard); North Newnton and Hilcott; Wylye; Berwick St. John; Dinton and Teffont; Ditchampton; Knighton in Broad Chalke; Burdensball in Wilton; Borough of Wilton, i.e. property of which the rent is collected by the portreeve; property of the friars in Wilton; East Overton and Fyfield; Patney; Stockton; Ramsbury and Baydon and the hundred of Ramsbury; Even Swindon, with a copy of two deeds relating to it dated 1547 and 1528; woods in Ramsbury and Baydon; woods called le Broyle in Great Bedwyn and Sowthegrove in Burbage; Kinwardstone; woods in the Earldoms, near Landford; Winterbourne Bassett; East Kennett; Monkton and Yatesbury; Manton, Clatford in Preshute.

Each property is described in detail, with the name of the tenant, the amount of his fine and rent and the nature of his service.
Datec1560
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